The First Immortal of Destiny

Chapter 1007: Chapter 1007: Heavenly Demon Disintegration, Accompanying Demon Soul

”If Chunyang Zi can devour its kind to elevate its realm, with the nature of the Heavenly Demon, I’m afraid it would have devoured billions of Heavenly Demons by now!”

”In this case, even if it cannot step into the Eighth Realm, at least it can rise to the peak of Class VII, comparable to a Heavenly Immortal. If the Heavenly Immortal guarding the Heavenly Gateway doesn’t return, who in the Immortal Realm could be its match? Earthly Immortals like me might escape with our lives, but other creatures within the universe, even Human Immortals, would be swallowed by it in one gulp.”

”After devouring all creatures within the universe, its cultivation, its strength, would likely rise to an unimaginable level, perhaps even stronger than the Heavenly Demon Ancestor! By then, not only would Earthly Immortals like us be devoured, but even Heavenly Immortals could be swallowed in a single bite...”

”The subsequent development of the situation also confirmed our speculations. Chunyang Zi only swallowed part of the demonic ocean and three Seventh-Rank Heavenly Demons, but its power showed signs of losing control, unable to swallow a fourth Great Heavenly Demon!”

Jade Spring Fairy and the other four Earthly Immortals were initially taken aback when they saw the Great Heavenly Demon Chunyang Zi continuously soaring in power and realm by absorbing demonic primal intent and devouring Seventh-Rank Heavenly Demons.

Later, realizing that Chunyang Zi had ultimately not advanced to the late stage of Class VII, and noticing over time that its soaring cultivation was gradually dissipating, they concluded it was cultivating a kind of heavenly demon secret magic to forcibly accommodate the origin power of other Heavenly Demons, determining its peak state wouldn’t last long!

Moreover, Chunyang Zi had always kept things under wraps, likely due to cultivating such a secret magic.

The Earth Yuan Array’s prototype was completed, with each additional Immortal Mountain enhancing its power. For Chunyang Zi and other Great Heavenly Demons, the best strategy was to attack with all their strength while the number of Immortal Mountains in the array was low and the formation’s power was weak, ending the battle in one decisive move; however, they launched their final offensive only when the Seventy-two Earth Fiends Magic had nearly completed, clearly waiting for something!

Most likely, it was because Chunyang Zi’s demonic skills had reached a critical moment, waiting for its skills to come to fruition.

If it could devour another Seventh-Rank Heavenly Demon, it would certainly raise its realm briefly to the late stage of Class VII, with the combined advantages of geographical advantage if not celestial timing, its strength would rival a Heavenly Immortal.

Even with Jade Spring Fairy and others relying on the Earth Yuan Array, they would by no means be its match, easily breaking the great array and swallowing the five Earthly Immortals whole...

Even if it never stepped into the late stage of Class VII, Chunyang Zi leveraged this secret magic to reach an extremely terrifying level of strength, with every move carrying great world-shaking might, quickly destroying more than half of the Earth Yuan Array, the forty-plus Lower Grade Immortal Mountains within being obliterated during the most intense part of the Magic Duel.

If the Earth Yuan Array were broken, even the not weak Jade Spring Fairy and the five Earthly Immortals would stand no chance against Chunyang Zi, facing potential death and eternal disappearance with any misstep!

At this critical juncture of life and death,

Master Jinguang took out an immortal artifact named ’Fuyao Ruler.’ Like many top-grade spiritual treasures and celestial artifacts, it held a trace of the nature of Dao’s principles. Using this ruler to measure the formation’s height could forcibly elevate the formation’s grade and power by one level!

For example, a Class V formation capable of resisting the Divine Bridge Realm could be raised to Class VI, and a Class VI formation capable of resisting the Formless Realm could be raised to Class VII.

However, formations in the world cap at Class VII; there are no Class VIII formations capable of resisting the Empyrean. The Earth Yuan Array itself was already a top-tier Class VII formation, and even with the Fuyao Ruler’s Dao principles and power, it couldn’t elevate to Class VIII, only raising it to the utmost level within Class VII;

Even so, forcibly elevating a Class VII formation harmed the Fuyao Ruler’s origin and immortal charm, causing it to directly drop a large realm from a middle-grade celestial artifact to a spiritual treasure level magical artifact!

If Master Jinguang hadn’t urgently needed heavenly and earthly achievements to help him break through the Divine Immortal shackles, he would have preferred to perform the Sacrificial Magic to escape the Dongjie Continent rather than damage the Fuyao Ruler, as once an immortal artifact’s grade drops, restoring it is extremely difficult, possibly taking tens of thousands of years.

Regardless, with the Fuyao Ruler’s Dao principles augmentation, the Earth Yuan Array became strong enough to contend with a Heavenly Immortal!

Even if Chunyang Zi had devoured countless Heavenly Demons and the origin power of three Seventh-Order Great Demons, without breaking through to the late stage of Class VII, it could no longer shake the great array. Instead, the deadly power of the array battered it to the brink of destruction, while the remaining two Seventh-Order Great Demons were smashed to pieces by the formation!

”Chunyang Zi was slain?”

Shen Mo witnessed Jade Spring Fairy finishing a jar of spiritual wine, immediately retrieving another jar from the Sword Zone, opening it, and handing it to her.

”Not at all!”

Jade Spring Fairy’s face briefly showed regret as she drank with Shen Mo, narrating the continuation of the battle.

The Great Heavenly Demon Chunyang Zi, seeing the tide turn, unleashed the heavenly demon’s body-severing technique, exploding with the battle’s strongest killing power. Fearing it might shake the Earth Yuan Array again, Jade Spring Fairy and others pushed the array to its extreme. The final clash was the earth-shattering explosion Shen Mo heard on Yinsu Mountain, even causing the mountain to collapse!

The outcome was completely unexpected for Jade Spring Fairy and the others...

Chunyang Zi used the terrifying force of the two sides’ clash to forcibly separate the Demon Nest—the core where countless Heavenly Demons were gestated—from the Universal Realm; yet under such horrendous forces, the Demon Nest shattered into billions of fragments. The Chunyang Zi who performed the heavenly demon’s body-severing technique transformed into nine hundred eighty million strands of primal Essence and Qi and Heavenly Demon souls, each soul wrapped in a piece of the Demon Nest fragment, escaping in all directions.

Though in the final moments the Earth Yuan Array intercepted seven hundred million demon souls, around three hundred million demon souls with Demon Nest fragments scattered across the Immortal Realm!

”These demon souls will seek out capable creatures to serve as parasitic hosts!”

”They will use various forms to deceive their hosts into believing these are heavenly blessings bestowing immortal fate, continuously guiding hosts towards higher realms, growing with them...”

”If the host’s Talent is extraordinary, cultivating to grow, eventually achieving the True Immortal Dao Fruit, this wisp of demon soul will reveal its true form, using Demon Dyed Divine Power to seize the Dao Fruit. At that moment, the Heavenly Demon Chunyang Zi will be fully resurrected, and with the Demon Nest fragment, it can cultivate a new Demon Nest, reigniting the magical catastrophe!”

”Pitiable those parasitized, thinking they’ve gained supreme opportunities, not knowing that the figures appearing within their soul as their mentor, lover, even parents’ lingering souls, are actually merely a demon soul seeking rebirth through their body.”

Hearing this, Shen Mo’s expression changed slightly, but soon returned to normal.

As an Earthly Immortal, Jade Spring Fairy’s five senses and sense were exceptionally strong and sensitive, so she naturally noticed Shen Mo’s abnormality and asked with concern, ”What’s wrong? Do you have relatives or friends bearing an Accompanying Demon Soul?”

”No worries!”

Shen Mo shook his head, then recalled the reincarnated form of Fulong Immortal Master, the Silver-haired Child. It’s quite possible the Accompanying Demon Soul within his soul came about this way.