Around the cavernous dwelling of Grandmaster Ha Ha, there were forty-eight arch-shaped doors carved into the encircling wall.

Above each door, a relief sculpture of a monster loomed:

Some had the bodies of humans with numerous octopus tentacles.

Others had multiple avian wings sprouting from human torsos.

Yet another was a meatball adorned with hundreds of human heads.

...

Every face was vividly lifelike, especially the eyes, which all stared directly at Shi Feiyang, sending chills down his spine and even making him gasp in cold breath!

What on Earth was Grandmaster Ha Ha up to, creating such terrifying things!

What could possibly be behind these doors?

Shi Feiyang was a bit curious, yet he had a feeling that if he opened the doors, he would see something very unpleasant, potentially leaving him with psychological trauma and bringing catastrophe upon the world.

He immediately concentrated on divination and, according to the Gua Xiang, Grandmaster Ha Ha had sealed many terrifying things inside. He must have been conducting some experiment - this old fellow would soon face a calamity of one thousand three hundred years, and this was his last hope.

If Shi Feiyang didn't open it, and today Grandmaster Ha Ha was defeated, the disciples of the Emei Sect would do so instead.

Unless Shi Feiyang ensured Grandmaster Ha Ha's victory, once the Earth Immortal calamity arrived, Grandmaster Ha Ha would release the things inside regardless.

If he opened it now, the variables were too numerous and too great. Aside from him and the Emei Sect, the Xuanyuan Dharma King and Bai Mei Zen Master would soon arrive one after another.

These two could not end their battle yet, and more experts would be drawn here after them.

Too complicated to calculate in the short term...

After pondering for a moment and weighing the pros and cons, Shi Feiyang thought that by opening it himself, he could hold a slight advantage. Otherwise, as time passed, it would be increasingly disadvantageous to him, and he might even lose the Xuanyuan Nine Swords to someone else, not managing to claim the Heavenly Demon Immortal Slaying Sword from the Taiyin Hunyuan Ancestor.

He inhaled deeply and, using the numbers associated with the Circulation and the flow direction of the Heavenly Gang Earth Qi, calculated an auspicious time and place to finally choose a door to open, casting a spell to do so.

Strong prohibitions sealed the door, which Shi Feiyang broke through.

The stone door behind it weighed tens of thousands of pounds but was forcibly pushed open by him.

Inside was a vast cavern so dark that one couldn't see their own hand in front of their face, filled with a uniquely black mist, so dense that even the keenest eyesight was obscured.

Hidden within the mist were Demon Path Techniques that constrained the Primordial Spirit.

An average person entering would see nothing before poisonous fog entered their body through the eyes, ears, and pores. Soon thereafter, their Primordial Spirit would be restrained.

With the stone door yet to close again, the room's space-time began to warp.

Shi Feiyang felt as if he were in the endless cosmos, his Divine Sense reaching out in all directions finding no boundaries; and higher up in front of him, there was a monstrous creature that towered over a hundred zhang taller than himself!

Suddenly invisible chains flew out of the void, aiming to entangle him.

Like a giant octopus, it extended its tentacles to wrap around him, intent on plucking him from the air to devour.

Three Purple And Blue Divine Flames appeared above Shi Feiyang's head, illuminating with their glow and forming a purple and blue glow below that cocooned him within.

The tentacles and chains that emerged from the darkness, upon encountering the Divine Flames, immediately hissed and started to burn.

"Purple and Blue Douluo Fire!"

An ancient and distant voice echoed, articulating the grand name of the Purple And Blue Divine Flames.

Shi Feiyang formed a Spiritual Formula with his hands and pointed upwards, causing the three Purple And Blue Divine Flames to crackle simultaneously, igniting three fireworks.

The brightness of the fire remained unchanged, but the light it emitted pierced through the entire cavern, cutting through all the black mist.

The cavern was vast, spanning over an acre and more than ten zhang in height, with a circular Dharma Platform at its center, on which was carved a stone lotus, similar to the ones in the outer hall.

Atop the lotus platform was a strangely shaped creature. Overall, it was a massive octopus with tentacles numbering far more than eight, easily a few hundred in a dense array.

Among these tentacles were human bodies, only torsos, as the limbs were the tentacles themselves. The creature's skin was unlike human skin, dotted with many round eyes that continuously blinked open and closed, casting light in red, yellow, blue, and white - harshly striking to the eyes.

The being had no hair or eyebrows, no nose or ears, only a head that was a flesh orb with facial features and a mouth full of sharp teeth.

Shi Feiyang thought he was a high-ranking elder since he recognized the Purple And Blue Divine Flames, only to find a monstrosity that was neither fully human nor demon.

As he concentrated intently to discern whether the creature was human, demon, or a hybrid descendant of both, he knew that even on the Outer Heaven Divine Mountain there were many demon hybrids, but none were so bizarre as this one.

"You possess the Purple and Blue Douluo Fire, and have come here to meet me - you must be fated for this matter. May I inquire as to your esteemed name?"

Though the creature looked neither human nor demon, it spoke with grave seriousness and an air of aged superiority.

Shi Feiyang, still disguised as Grandmaster Ha Ha's disciple, responded, "My master is the Red Flame Arhat; who might you be?"

The other party's voice held a hint of amusement, "You are not a disciple of Grandmaster Ha Ha, for even his own disciples and grandchildren do not dare to come here, and they certainly couldn't obtain the Purple and Blue Douluo Fire!"

"Why is that?"

"Why? Because Grandmaster Ha Ha would never allow anyone to know of our existence, not even his most beloved disciple. Once they see us,

no, as soon as they reach the outer Underground Palace, he would execute them. There is only one outcome for them, and that is body and soul are destroyed!"

"As for the Purple and Blue Douluo Fire, well, even Grandmaster Ha Ha himself doesn't have it, so how could his disciples have any? Even if they did, he would take it from them!"

That indeed made sense.

Shi Feiyang then asked, "And who might you be? What is your relationship with Grandmaster Ha Ha?"

"Ha ha ha." The creature burst into loud laughter.

After laughing for a while, he stopped and asked Shi Feiyang, "Young man, have you ever heard of the Sky Lusting Sect Leader?"

The Sky Lusting Sect Leader!

Shi Feiyang certainly knew of him; he was the master of Evil Corpse Gu Chen. Gu Chen had roamed around in a group with the old demon of Snow Mountain since a thousand years ago and later established the Mystics Yin Sect.

Strictly speaking, Gu Chen belonged to the same generation as Grandmaster Ha Ha and the Cosmic Six Strange, but the Sky Lusting Sect Leader was from an even earlier generation than them.

However, it was clearly written in the original text that the Sky Lusting Sect Leader had already suffered Heavenly Punishment.

Shi Feiyang, puzzled, asked the creature, "Are you the Sky Lusting Sect Leader?"

The creature smiled and denied, "I am not the Sky Lusting Sect Leader, but I am a part of him."

Shi Feiyang asked, "What do you mean by that?"

The creature patiently explained, "When the Sky Lusting Sect Leader was subjected to Heavenly Punishment back then, Grandmaster Ha Ha lurked nearby and at the last moment took away the remnants of the sect leader's soul to refine and aided it through several reincarnations..."

"Grandmaster Ha Ha is strangely kind, isn't he?" Shi Feiyang, well aware of Grandmaster Ha Ha's cunning and cruelty, made the comment deliberately to see the creature's reaction.

The creature laughed again, "How could he have any good intentions? He simply forced the Sky Lusting Sect Leader to practice alchemy as he dictated. He found many female cultivators from the Three Sects of Buddhism, Daoism, and the Demon Path, including those of Yin Yang unity, and forced the Sky Lusting Sect Leader to practice the Great Technique of Yin Yang Jiao Tai with them to produce offspring. The males were killed, the females with good root bones were selected, fed elixirs daily, and taught to cultivate special Cultivation Techniques. After seven or fourteen years of cultivation, they would then combine with the Sky Lusting Sect Leader to produce more offspring, and this was repeated over and over. Later, many thousand-year-old creatures were also sought..."

Although Shi Feiyang had some foreboding, he was still shocked when the creature revealed this, "What exactly is this old monster trying to do?"

"To comprehend the Creation Path!" said the creature. "Yin Yang Jiao Tai, the essence of the father and the blood of the mother, generating offspring, creating an endless cycle of life. Do you think the Sky Lusting Sect Leader simply practiced the cultivation of stealing from the feminine to supplement the masculine? He had already touched upon the edge of the Creation Path. Unfortunately, his wrongdoings were too egregious, leading to Heavenly Punishment. Grandmaster Ha Ha saw through this and took his remnant soul to comprehend the path using him."

"So, you... there should be a creature in each of these forty-eight caves. Are you all offspring of the Sky Lusting Sect Leader?"

"Yes and no... Our bodies also contain the bloodline of Grandmaster Ha Ha."

"Incredible," Shi Feiyang marveled. In fact, the Three Emperors Dao he cultivated aimed to establish the Heavenly Dao to define humanity, observe heaven and earth, and also comprehend the enduring Creation Path of Yin Yang Jiao Tai, but what he comprehended was Heaven and Earth Harmony, while what the Sky Lusting Sect Leader and Grandmaster Ha Ha comprehended involved male and female coupling. Theoretically, these two could converge at the same end, but actually putting it into practice meant walking two completely different paths, with only experimentation revealing if they could ultimately converge.

"Then you being trapped here means that Grandmaster Ha Ha hasn't yet succeeded in comprehending the Creation Path?"

"Of course, but he's getting close..." The creature fell silent for a moment, then continued, "Actually, every one of us is connected to another world, a world that Grandmaster Ha Ha and we have opened together. The creatures inside are the offspring bred by us and Grandmaster Ha Ha... Do you want to take a look at that world?"

"Really? To be honest, I'm quite curious about this Creation Path of yours and want to see the world you've created and what its creatures are like."

"Then come, I'll take you inside..."

After the creature spoke, the ground beneath Shi Feiyang suddenly became an abyss, opening up a realm as if he stood atop the high sky above, with an endless sea below him.

Within the sea, numerous bizarre creatures swam, none of which Shi Feiyang had ever seen, not even in the Outer Heaven Divine Mountain. Especially conspicuous were the groups of soft-bodied creatures covered with tentacles.

Looking down from the high sky, those creatures still appeared large, and they must be comparable in size to mountains; there were scores of them, all raising their tentacles out of the water towards him, preparing to tear him to shreds and devour him the moment he touched the water!

As the world below opened, more shadows appeared above, thicker than a human arm, interweaving into a giant net, falling over Shi Feiyang's head.

Knowing the power of the Purple and Blue Divine Flames, the creature took out a water droplet-shaped Treasure Bead. It was made by combining Yin Material from generations of Yin Yang offspring with a great amount of Mystics Yin Earth Evil, extremely filthy and cold, and specifically designed to counter various types of Pure Yang Immortal Fire. It first sprayed a large amount of sticky and cold liquid onto the net of shadows to ensure that the shadows weren't burned away by the Immortal Fire, then it dove down towards Shi Feiyang's head along with them!

Shi Feiyang had been on guard against this creature the entire time, well aware of every move of the creature's myriad tentacles.

At that moment, he summoned the Heavenly Treasure Mirror, shining it downward.

Pangu's act of creating the world marked the boundary between the Pre-Heavenly and Post-Heavenly. Everything before creation belonged to the realm of the pre-Heaven, and all things created after belonged to the post-Heaven.

The Heavenly Mirror, born at the time of the world's creation, thus possessed the power to control the transformation between the pre- and post-Heaven.

A world, before its creation, belonged to the Pre-Heaven; after creation, it belonged to the Post-Heaven.

The reason the Heavenly Mirror could control the Chaos Core within the Nine Suspicions Tripod was because it could fix and even reverse its transformation from pre-Heaven to post-Heaven, that is, whether a world could be successfully created or not.

The world created by the creature below and Grandmaster Ha Ha was similar; although it had become a world, once enveloped by the misty light of the Heavenly Treasure Mirror, it immediately began to blur and all its splendid functions failed. It seemed to exist, yet as if it never existed, and naturally, Shi Feiyang would not fall into it.

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