The Demon Tribulation this time was many times stronger than the one we faced at Gupo Ridge.

The Demon Clouds were a dark red, lower and more oppressive than the previous tribulation clouds, resembling a vast blood sea vortex, looming just above everyone's heads.

Even Shi Feiyang felt a bit of confusion and irritation, thinking to himself that this Demon Tribulation was somewhat formidable, and he had to be particularly cautious to not allow any openings to be exploited.

The prior Fire Tribulation and Heavenly Tribulation principally targeted the Heavenly Demon Immortal Slaying Sword, but this Demon Tribulation targeted both the sword and the sword refiner!

As Shi Feiyang was refining nine Demon Swords at once, the bulk of the Demon Tribulation was directed at him. Red Demon Light began to descend from the sky. He continued to hold the Hunyuan Umbrella over his head, and then came the flashing of the Secret Demon Divine Thunders. They didn't seem too powerful, and the booming sounds weren't too intense, yet each sound could stir one's heartbeat, making one's blood surge.

The White Bone God and Xu Wan had now also recovered their strength. Their cultivation of various Evil Path spells also involved aspects of Demon Refinement.

The White Bone God raised the White Bone Heart-locking Ring and used the bones of his disciples to set up a White Bone Demon Prison Array around himself. This array could imprison Divine Demons, preventing them from escaping. He decided to use it in reverse this time, confining himself within to block the entry of any Demons.

He sat cross-legged inside, a White Bone Banner stood behind him, nine bone rings whirling around him, and from between those disciple bones spouted wisps of green flames.

Xu Wan was even more skilled in this area, placing many talismans throughout the dilapidated Ghost City. He sat upright in the center, with six lamps in front of him, seven lamps behind, and a Ghost Banner standing on each side. He chanted under his breath as cold winds blew through, creating an atmosphere similar to the Netherworld.

Between heaven and earth, the red Demon Fog began to billow, so dense that anyone within it would find themselves bloodied in an instant.

Within the fog, many human shapes and ghostly figures appeared, crying and laughing, some far and some near, tugging at one's heartstrings.

At this moment, the fortress of Shi Feiyang was the most intact. He used the Hunyuan Umbrella to protect the area above him and released the Hongmeng Purple Qi from the Nine Heavens Yuan Yang Ruler to protect his surroundings, forcibly pushing the Demon Fog away.

Suddenly, he heard a very familiar voice, "Shi Feiyang!"

Shi Feiyang shuddered and turned to look, seeing a girl standing in the Demon Fog behind him, dressed in a school uniform, with a long braid, standing gracefully, and waving at him.

"Bao Yan!" Shi Feiyang blurted out.

She was his deskmate throughout three years of high school!

Shi Feiyang suspected he was in a Demon Realm, but no matter how hard he tried to discern, he couldn't find a single trace of falsehood.

Bao Yan had already lost her physical body and stood in the Demon Fog as a soul. Looking at Shi Feiyang with tears streaming down her face, she reached out a hand, "Shi Feiyang, save me please, they said only you can save me."

Shi Feiyang asked, "What happened? How come you're here?"

Bao Yan, crying, said, "I don't know what happened, I... I was admitted to the University of Finance, Economics, and Law of the North, South, East, and West. These days, when I was in class suddenly the sky outside turned red, like it was dyed with blood. Then a blood aura descended, filling the whole school.

The professor thought it might be an accident involving a nearby vehicle transporting toxic gas and told us to block the cracks in the doors and windows quickly, but it was impossible to stop it. The blood fog still seeped in, and then... all the students went mad, biting and attacking each other, sobbing... Later on, we all died... sob...

First, we were taken to a very empty world, that place was Hell, the notorious tortures like tongue-ripping, skin-flaying, and eye-gouging... we experienced all eighteen kinds of cruel punishments... In the end, we swore allegiance to a mighty Demon King, and only then he let us go, putting us into a mirror.

That mirror could change into all sorts of worlds, and the Demon King had us play all kinds of roles to deceive those who entered..."

"Are you trying to deceive me now?" Although using all his senses, Shi Feiyang couldn't find any flaw in the situation, he was still clear-headed enough to believe that this was an illusion created by the Heavenly Demon. He had witnessed part of the Dao and achieved Pure Yang, maintaining a heart free from thoughts while numerous ideas sprang forth; it was impossible for the Heavenly Demon to read his memories. How it could create this illusion of Bao Yan, he couldn't figure it out for the moment.

"No! I'm not deceiving you..." Bao Yan sobbed, "Today, the Demon King, a Demon Lord surnamed Deng found him, specifically asking for me to come see you, to say some good things about him, to persuade you to help him out of his current predicament, and if you agree, he would rescue me from that mighty Demon King..."

Holy shit!

Shi Feiyang almost lost his composure!

This Heavenly Demon really knew how to play, even involving Deng Yin in this illusion!

As this thought crossed his mind, Deng Yin's clear and smooth voice rang in his ears, "She is not deceiving you; everything she says is true. This girl was brought out by me from another world..."

"Another world? What kind of world is that? And who is that mighty Demon King?"

Deng Yin's words carried a lighthearted chuckle, "It's a demon domain within a minor celestial world, populated entirely by heavenly demons. That great and constant Demon King was originally from this girl's world, wholeheartedly cultivating the Demon Path and entering the Demon Realm; he commanded a demon palace and three thousand demon followers."

Shi Feiyang hadn't expected that Deng Yin could communicate with otherworldly heavenly demons to such an extent, "You have that much clout? You can fish someone out from the hands of an otherworldly Demon King?"

Deng Yin laughed proudly, "He may be a Demon King in the eyes of others, but in my eyes, he's nothing more than a maggot. Don't look at me as incapable of leaving the Star Constellations Sea; that's because the Liangyi Dust Formation of my senior brother is truly ingenious. A Demon King from a minor celestial demon domain is nothing but a speck of dust on the Liangyi Dust, I could just conjure an array and drag him down into a dung pit!"

Bao Yan knelt down to Shi Feiyang while crying, "Shi Feiyang, I beg you, please agree to Demon Lord Deng's terms! Otherwise, I will be taken back by that great constant Demon King, and I don't want to return to that mirrored world again."

Shi Feiyang asked her, "You don't want to go back, so where do you want to go?"

Bao Yan wailed loudly, "I want to go home! I want to find my mom, find my dad!"

The reason Shi Feiyang asked such was to make a judgment; if she said she wanted to be with Shi Feiyang, then it would assuredly be a Heavenly Demon Illusion, but wanting to go home to find her parents made it difficult to judge.

Unable to discern the truth, he gave up trying to judge. Now was the time of the Demon Tribulation, and he could not afford the slightest error.

He no longer paid attention to Bao Yan or Deng Yin, but turned to the Nine Child Mother Sky Demon, "The celestial demon gods have already arrived; it's all up to you now!"

Shi Feiyang let his own blood again, more than before, feeding each demon fully. Then, clasping his fingers to cast spells while exhaling essence energy, the demons turned into nine streaks of blood energy that soared into the sky, directly entering the clouds of tribulation.

The Nine Demons manifested like clouds, each performing the Great Sky Demon Dance, a dance typically used to lure humans. Now, soaked with the True Dragon's warm blood, which also contained True Immortal essence energy cultivated by Shi Feiyang, it instead had an immense allure for demon-kind.

Within the tribulation clouds, there were numerous heavenly demons, immediately attracted by them in droves. The Nine Demons incited them to fight each other, eventually selecting the most formidable one who pounced and attached to one of the demons. The two tangled together, divine energy intermingling, mutually rewarding each other, copulating in unison.

To have Nine Child Mother Sky Demons meant having both children and mothers. Shi Feiyang only possessed the mother demons and was contemplating having them produce offspring.

The usual method involved using them to seduce nine cultivators; the higher the mana, the stronger the demon embryo born. After conception, the cultivator would be killed and their blood used to nourish the offspring.

With Demon Path Magical Treasures, some were more powerful when forged with more ferocious people, while others drew strength from being forged by those of the Righteous Sect. Shi Feiyang was not willing to trap the lives of nine Righteous Sword Immortals.

The second method involved taking part himself, a practice also used by others in refining demons that involved rewarding the refiner and the forged demon. The most representative individual was the Yin Yang Elder.

The Yin Yang Elder was a hermaphrodite, more accurately a gender-switching being, male in the first half of the month and female in the second half, never coexisting, but instead constantly switching with the waxing and waning of the moon.

This elder habitually cultivated in the Mystics Yin Cave at the peak of Wushan Mountain's Goddess Ridge, calling it the Mystics Yin Palace, a place of splendor and magnificence.

He descended from the mountain once every three years, buying teenage boys and girls with gold and silver, and used spells to transport them back, replenishing his yang with yin in the first half of the lunar month and vice versa in the second half, enjoying both female and male company night after night. When the three years were up, depending on the mutual feelings and wishes of the boys and girls, he arranged for them to marry each other, gave them an abundance of gold, silver, and treasure, and three days after the wedding, he would utilize spells to send the people back to their hometowns, with the condition that they never disclose what occurred in the mountains.

Eventually, he cultivated a Yin Yang Nascent Soul. After achieving the Dao, he disdained the sexual activities of mere mortals. As a senior cultivator of several hundreds of years, he could not stoop to looking for other Sword Immortals to initiate lascivious acts in the woods, so he refined seven Yin Yang Divine Demons, keeping them in a gourd and carrying them around, releasing them whenever he wished. They would become a girl for the first half of the month and a boy for the second, playing as he pleased, reveling in joy.

Shi Feiyang did not share this predilection, nor did he wish for the Nine Demons to use his essence to gestate demon embryos. If that were to happen, the issue would be his sons…

These demons would eventually require some arrangement by him, either to be converted and let to reincarnate normally, suppressed in some place for others to deal with, or completely eradicated.

Once related to him, Shi Feiyang would not be able to dispose of them casually; not even a beast would harm its own offspring. If they were unrepentant and evil, refusing conversion, they might drag him down, potentially leading to a delay of hundreds or even thousands of years.

What horrified him most was the mere thought of the little demon growing up and having its own descendants, devil's child and grandchild, making him a genuine patriarch of the Demon Path!

Just the thought was terrifying!

This brought Shi Feiyang to another method, also one of the reasons he had agreed to this sword refining: to take advantage of the Heavenly Tribulation and set up a grand matchmaking session for the Nine Demons.

Last time at Gupo Ridge, they had attracted over a thousand heavenly demons, but this time not even ten thousand could stem the tide. Picking out nine suitable ones was far too easy amidst the chaos; the only worry was that the Nine Demons would be spoiled for choice!

These Nine Demons, originally divided from the Primordial Spirit of the lecherous and profligate Myriad Cold Centipede, had cultivated the Great Sky Demon Dance, which made them a hundred times stronger than other demons. Soon enough, they lured nine victorious heavenly demons from their fights with their kin, getting entangled together.

During this process, Shi Feiyang kept the Nine Demons under control with his left-hand spell gestures, maintaining constant contact with them, while simultaneously fending off attacks from other heavenly demons. The number of thoughts pouring into his mind was many times more than what he had experienced at Gupo Ridge!

At the same time, the Nine Heavenly Demon Slaying Immortal Swords also grew restless. They themselves were heavenly demons, more easily swayed by their demonic kin, and all wanted to fly back and turn on their master, to strike Shi Feiyang down!

Shi Feiyang connected with the thoughts of both the nine swords and the nine demons above, while also under the assault of tens of thousands of heavenly demons' divine thoughts. With even his high Dao Level, he dared not act recklessly, sitting upright within the altar city without any further movement.

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