The First Immortal of Destiny

Chapter 1118: Chapter 1100: Demon-corrupted Human-faced Willow, Arrival of the Heavenly Demon Realm

The Red-tailed Carp is the largest group in the Jinlu River, with individual abilities that are not very strong, making it rare to produce any fish demon strong enough above Class III.

Because of this, many aquatic creatures in the river feed on them. If Yang Jinlu, the Water God of this river, were to protect the Red-tailed Carp by massively killing other aquatic creatures, she would naturally not receive offerings from other species beyond the Red-tailed Carp, nor would she respond to the prayers of these alien tribes.

As a result, the wish power Yang Jinlu could absorb would be limited to the Red-tailed Carp tribe, restricting her growth.

In the future, when the Red-tailed Carp grows too large, the original ecology within the river area will inevitably start to collapse, affecting the Red-tailed Carp as well, leading them to begin decline. By then, Yang Jinlu might even fall due to the reverse backlash of the wish power!

Jiang Yingying, wanting to become the deity of Lingshi Mountain, faced a similar dilemma to Yang Jinlu...

The knowledgeable creatures on the mountain prayed and wished for nothing more than ”survival” and ”growth”;

The most convenient way to absorb wish power is naturally to become the protective deity of one kind, but this would ultimately constrain her cultivation in the God Path!

Only by being impartial and protecting all creatures as much as possible can she absorb more wish power and have the opportunity to become the deity of Lingshi Mountain.

But fulfilling the wishes of all creatures on the mountain is not easy.

Weak creatures wish not to be eaten by strong creatures, while strong creatures wish to capture more food.

Helping one group too much will lead to the extinction of other groups; using one’s methods to forcefully influence some developed creatures might cause their enmity... Such contradictions are countless!

The complex relationship of interests, gains and losses, and cause and effect is incredibly tangled, leaving Jiang Yingying momentarily at a loss where to start.

After a long time of contemplation, she gradually felt a sense of clarity.

”The Way Follows Nature!”

Jiang Yingying hesitated to speak, but finally uttered four words, then without further hesitation, she used the sect’s Teleportation Array to go directly to Lingshi Mountain.

After leaving the sect’s stronghold on Lingshi Mountain, she first used the god’s scroll within her to contact the six deities granted god’s scroll on the mountain, announcing her arrival to them, then she moved between the wild lands and swamps, using her own knowledge to calm as much of the disharmony on Lingshi Mountain as possible.

Some places had no grass growing, so she adjusted the earth’s energy; in places where poisonous fog often appeared, she dissipated the fog;

Where there were frequent floods, she dredged the river; where evil spirits hovered, she set up warnings...

”Senior Sister Jiang seems to have found a path suitable for her. If her journey succeeds, the cultivators of our sect’s God Path could emulate her method as well.”

Shen Mo’s face showed a satisfied expression, then he retracted his five senses focused on Jiang Yingying, and returned to his cultivation state of perfecting his Dharma Phase and raising his cultivation level.

...

On this day, Shen Mo had just added a magical ability onto his Chaotic Yuan Dharma Phase and abruptly opened his eyes.

At the relic of the Hollow Venerable’s cave, a streak of demonic light and aura came from afar, appearing in a flash before the Gecko False Body and the Soul Refining Flag.

The intruder was a Seventh-Order Great Demon, resembling a willow tree in the human world, with an elder’s face on its trunk, and not leaves but a series of fleshy lumps growing from its willow branches, a clearly Demon-corrupted Human-faced Willow!

From the perspective of human cultivators, the Human-faced Willow tribe is also classified as demons, while the Heavenly Demon does not distinguish between human race or foreign tribes. All living creatures in the world can be Demon-corrupted, with corruption seizing all to turn them into mutated Heavenly Demons, thus breaking through the constraint of the peak Class II Realm.

Swish, swish!

The Demon-corrupted Human-faced Willow waved its branches, attacking Shen Mo’s false body.

On the branches, an eerie light flickered, this being the Innate Divine Ability of the Human-faced Willow tribe, anything struck by it would instantly turn into a lump of pus and blood, absorbed into the fleshy lumps to become its ”fertilizer” for growth!

The mana contained within Shen Mo’s false body was insufficient to fully activate the Soul Refining Flag or establish the God Slaying Array, but calling out the Seventh Rank Demon Soul General Banzhi Jiajun was more than enough.

Immediately, he formed a seal with his hands, injecting a sliver of mana into the flag.

Amidst a surge of blood light, the one-footed female Yaksha Banzhi Jiajun coalesced, expressionlessly striking at the Demon-corrupted Human-faced Willow.

However, Shen Mo underestimated this Seventh-Order Great Demon. In the blink of an eye, half of its willow branches danced, dispelling all of Banzhi Jiajun’s magical abilities, then tightly entangled her with its branches.

With the surge of eerie radiance, Banzhi Jiajun was swiftly dissolved into a mass of pus-like demonic primal intent, absorbed into several fleshy lumps... For an ordinary Demon Soul General, even if it was a Sixth Order Peak entity, under the Innate Divine Ability of the Demon-corrupted Human-faced Willow, it would be difficult to maintain its indestructible nature, its soul would dissipate and even the mark left on the flag surface would vanish.

However, Banzhi Jiajun was different.

After cultivating the [No-self Demon Sutra] to the Seventh Rank and merging the body with the Dao, it imprinted its Dao Mark onto the Soul Refining Flag. By consuming some demonic primal intent, it could regroup its Soul Body;

Unless attacked by methods like the Dao-slashing Sword from a higher dimension to cut away its Dao Mark, it was difficult to completely annihilate it!

”Rumble!”

The Demon-corrupted Human-faced Willow ”killed” Banzhi Jiajun without any pause, each willow branch covered with fleshy lumps surged towards Shen Mo’s false body like ocean waves.

Shen Mo did not waste mana to remold the Soul Body of the Seventh Rank Demon Soul General, as Banzhi Jiajun had held off the Demon-corrupted Human-faced Willow in the blink of an eye, buying him precious time... Above his false body, a subtle spirit light flickered, with a faintly discernible interwoven pattern of Yin and Yang Qi forming a Tai Chi Diagram. In the next instant, its aura became boundlessly vast and profound, as he performed the [Reverse Yin and Yang] skill to switch over his real body.