Ever since learning that Zen Master Xiao Yue was coming, Shi Feiyang had been weighing the pros and cons.

Logically speaking, Shi Feiyang had released Deng Yin all those years ago to protect himself, so he had continuously strengthened Deng Yin's power.

Now that he was fully capable of protecting himself and no longer needed Deng Yin to attract firepower for him, it was time to continuously weaken Deng Yin to keep this Blood God Child restrained, ensuring he wouldn't cause trouble in the future.

Therefore, the Heavenly Demon Immortal Slaying Sword should not be given to Zen Master Xiao Yue to take away.

But the Eight Diagrams also revealed many hidden signs, intricate and complicated, pulling one thread would move the whole body.

The most important thing was the inexplicable connection between the "Good Volume of the Blood God Scripture" in Shi Feiyang's hands and the "Evil Volume of the Blood God Scripture" in Deng Yin's hands.

If the two books were to meet, Deng Yin would surely go mad, and bad and unpredictable things would happen; if they didn't meet, another calamity would be triggered.

The Heavenly Demon Immortal Slaying Sword was the same—according to the Eight Diagrams, if not given to Deng Yin, the Taiyin Hunyuan Ancestor would successfully attain the remaining third of Chi You's Primordial Spirit.

If it was given to Deng Yin, he would obtain that part of Chi You's Primordial Spirit and veer towards another extreme.

This was troubling, but in such cases, one could only choose the lesser of two evils.

He said to Zen Master Xiao Yue, "The Chuanxin Monk has already been blown to bits by me, not even a hair remains, so you can't take the Heavenly Demon Immortal Slaying Sword away either. You said it should belong to your master, so let him come to me for it."

Zen Master Xiao Yue brought his palms together, "Amitabha Buddha! Then, dear friend, you must forgive this poor monk's impudence!"

Shi Feiyang held his bamboo staff, "You dare to fight me?"

Zen Master Xiao Yue stared at him, then suddenly said, "My master mentioned that the dear friend has a Treasure Bead, which is the crystallization of the essence of Yimu from the Southeast Xun Land, a rare treasure of the world for millions of years. I wonder if the dear friend would be willing to show it to this little monk to broaden my horizons?"

He was still trying to confirm Shi Feiyang's identity, as the Green Spirit Bamboo alone was not enough.

Shi Feiyang took out the Gentle Wind Pearl, holding it in his hand, "What you want to see is this, right? Even if I just let you look at it like this, you sure won't believe, so let me demonstrate its power!"

He sucked in a breath towards the Southeast Xun Land and mixed it with a large amount of True Yuan in his Dantian, then fiercely blew towards the Gentle Wind Pearl.

In the Acquired Eight Diagrams, the Xun trigram is located in the Southeast, receiving the Eastern Vitality Qi, symbolizing wind. Once cast, a fierce gale would immediately whip up between heaven and earth!

The small breath that Shi Feiyang exhaled, once passing through the Gentle Wind Pearl, immediately expanded drastically, stirring up a storm atop Tiandu Peak, first blowing away all the mist and the remaining blood evil from before, and then, the howling gales grew fiercer and fiercer, sweeping away everything in front.

Zen Master Xiao Yue and his two companions bore the brunt of it, as if struck head-on by a substantial hammer, their clothing fluttered violently backward, crackling in the wind.

The Dragon Girl, with the lowest Daoist power among them, was blown back repeatedly. After retreating over a dozen yards, she still couldn't stabilize her figure and was swept off her feet by the wind, carried away into the distant clouds.

Next was Jiugei, who with hand symbols and twinkling eyes, resisted a moment longer, but eventually was lifted from the ground like a bundle of straw and tossed into the air.

Shi Feiyang stirred his True Yuan and blew two more mouthfuls of Immortal Energy towards the Gentle Wind Pearl. Zen Master Xiao Yue could not withstand it any longer. Lifted off the ground, he was swept into the high sky.

He managed to stabilize his figure above, catching the two juniors, but with Shi Feiyang's Divine Sense locked on him, all the wind converged on him. Although he could stand upright and steady, he was still battered by the raging wind, sent a thousand miles away.

Everybody knew that Elder Kuzhu had two signature items: the Green Spirit Bamboo and the Gentle Wind Pearl.

Having experienced both, Zen Master Xiao Yue thoroughly confirmed Elder Kuzhu's identity and knew that this senior was domineering and possessed high mana. Since he said he wouldn't give it, Zen Master Xiao Yue dared not press too hard and had to return to West Kunlun with the Dragon Girl and Jiugei to see Deng Yin.

Upon relaying the incident to Deng Yin at the Seven Evil Palace, Deng Yin didn't seem to care much. He wasn't particularly eager for the Heavenly Demon Immortal Slaying Sword; it was all Grandmaster Ha Ha convincing him of the sword's formidable power and sending him to fetch it.

Since he was in a critical phase of cultivating the Blood God Scripture, he couldn't leave, so he sent Xiao Yue.

But Zen Master Xiao Yue was a step behind, chasing all the way to Yellow Mountain, and the sword had already been trapped underground by Shi Feiyang. As he couldn't demand it in person, he let it be.

However, Grandmaster Ha Ha greatly regretted this and enticed Zen Master Xiao Yue, helping him plan to strengthen his "Heavenly Dragon Eight Divisions," which involved draining people's blood and seizing their souls.

Grandmaster Ha Ha knew this was something Shi Feiyang couldn't tolerate. If Deng Yin's sect continued this way, they would inevitably turn against Shi Feiyang, and Grandmaster Ha Ha would then profit as the fisherman.

Aside from Deng Yin, he also incited the Jiulei God by reminding him of the Annihilation Gate that had decimated his family years ago, suggesting he take revenge on Deng Bagu nearby...

Grandmaster Ha Ha actually couldn't influence Deng Yin. Though a millennium ago, Grandmaster Ha Ha was considered Deng Yin's elder, now their Daoist power was roughly the same, with Deng Yin perhaps even slightly superior.

Deng Yin received a Flying Sword Transmission from Shi Feiyang and wanted to set a trap to give Grandmaster Ha Ha a harsh lesson. However, these years he had been diligently cultivating the Evil Volume of the Blood God Scripture, and each time he did so, it affected his mind, casting a darker shadow within.

In his Evil Volume of the Blood God Scripture, there also lived a woman, lying amidst many blood-red petals, wearing nothing at all.

This person was none other than the daughter of the Old Demon of Iron City Mountain, the Red Flower Princess!

Back then, Deng Yin had a legitimate wife, Shen Wugou, and two confidantes—one was the Princess of Stone God and the other, the Red Flower Princess.

These two witches had endless, intricate karmic entanglements with Deng Yin, and in the end, they both died; one was killed by Master Changmei, and the latter forced Deng Yin to kill the other.

Eventually, the Primordial Spirit of the Princess of Stone God entered the Good Volume, while that of the Red Flower Princess entered the Evil Volume.

Shi Feiyang had expended great effort to disguise himself as Yue Yun to infiltrate Emei and obtain the Good Volume of the Blood God Scripture, intending to teach it to Deng Yin. He wanted Deng Yin to balance good and evil without neglecting either. But he never expected the Princess of Stone God to reside within it.

At that time, the Gua Xiang indicated that if he sent the Good Volume to Deng Yin, it would trigger a disaster of horrific consequences, as great as the calamity of Chi You's resurrection.

He couldn't deduce that the Red Flower Princess was haunting the Evil Volume and didn't know the reason, but since the Gua Xiang revealed it so, he didn't offer it to Deng Yin.

Over the years, Deng Yin painstakingly practiced the Evil Volume, his Primordial Spirit often meeting with the Red Flower Princess within the scripture, jointly cultivating the evil tome.

The Good Volume contained mostly Dual Cultivation Techniques, whereas the Evil Volume was filled with various horrific and brutal magic, such as skin flaying practices, which were recorded in this book, utterly bloody and cruel.

The Red Flower Princess was a renowned demon famous throughout the world a thousand years ago. After her death, in order to continue her relationship with Deng Yin, she willingly merged herself with the Demon Scripture to become its Guardian Divine Demon. Her temperament became even more perverse and violent. Every time they practiced cultivation together, she infused Deng Yin with a heavy dose of negative energy.

Since the scripture was intended for couples' practice, the Red Flower Princess was privy to many things Deng Yin did. She never missed a chance to speak ill of Shi Feiyang.

Sometimes, when Deng Yin's Divine Sense was clear and lucid, he could rationally analyze the pros and cons, knowing that Shi Feiyang was good for him. However, once inside the Demon Scripture, under the influence of the Red Flower Princess, he not only believed that Shi Feiyang had always been exploiting him, harboring ill intentions, but even felt that everyone in the world was evil, deserving to be slain—all to be crafted into Blood God Children using their Primordial Spirits and flesh!

The Red Flower Princess kept telling him, "You practice cultivation by flaying skin, neither human nor ghost. Everyone in the world sees you as an outlier! They say you're a demon that harms all beings, and you have passed the point of no return. Do you think you can repent and turn to good? It's laughable! Do you think you're living like a person now? Do you really believe that Shi Feiyang wishes you well? How about Ren Shou back then..."

"Shut up!" Deng Yin roared in anger.

However, the Red Flower Princess was in tune with his heart; these things weren't expressed verbally but were directly infused into his mind through her consciousness.

Such is the fearsome power of demons!

Elsewhere, Shi Feiyang, beneath Yellow Mountain, trapped the Demon Sword with the Jade Lotus.

The Demon Sword, finding no escape, transformed into the bloody figure of the Chuanxin Monk and detonated the Heavenly Demon Disintegration Great Technique. The powerful explosion caused a tumult of the Five Elements and chaotic energy.

The light of the Nine Grades Green Lotus immediately dimmed, but the sword forcibly burst a gap in its containment, attempting to flee.

Shi Feiyang promptly pressed down the Green Spirit Bamboo into the ground and, with an overhead strike, hit the Sword Peak, knocking it back into the Lotus.

The Green Lotus, symbolizing the Eastern Vitality Qi, temporarily contracted its energy due to the Heavenly Demon Disintegration Great Technique, then once more shone brightly. Nine streams of green qi firmly captured the Chuanxin Monk, and with a thousand petals moving in unison, he was trapped without his physical body. The blade revealed its true form, scurrying across the Lotus Platform, yet unable to escape.

A Hua Bi Pearl was also locked onto the Lotus Platform. Suddenly, the pearl emitted a brilliant red light, and a slender, fair hand reached out, its fingers long and delicate. The hand, larger than the Demon Sword itself, grasped the hilt and directly absorbed the blade.

Shi Feiyang, using the Gentle Wind Pearl, brutally blew away the Chuanxin Monk. This force was due to him sensing an anomaly within the Green Lotus.

After dispatching the Chuanxin Monk and his disciples, Shi Feiyang quivered his form and vanished into thin air, appearing underground on the Lotus Platform.

Before he could communicate with the Princess of Stone God, a sword tip sliced from within and effortlessly divided the Hua Bi Pearl in two.

Then, the snow-white figure of the Princess of Stone God appeared before Shi Feiyang.

She held the Heavenly Demon Immortal Slaying Sword in her right hand and in her left, the blood-glazed Demon Scripture. Her gaze was gentle, tinged with eternal sorrow.

Shi Feiyang was no Saint, not capable of anticipating every little detail.

In the realms of the heavenly cosmos, aside from harmonized Saints, no one could achieve such foresight!

What Shi Feiyang did not anticipate was the manner in which the Princess of Stone God would emerge from the Demon Scripture.

Luckily, she remained within the Nine Grades Lotus Platform; it wasn't as if she could just run off and wreak havoc.

The eyes of the Princess of Stone God grew more sorrowful. She glanced at him and sighed softly, "Fellow Daoist, why do you think I, upon leaving, would stir up storms and bring calamity to the Human World? You too practice the Demon Skill and have reached a profound realm. Do you also look down upon those of the Demon Path, deeming all who cultivate the Demon ways as fierce and merciless, destined to harm the Human World?"

Shi Feiyang hastened to clarify his state of mind, replying to her, "I just dislike things going beyond my control. That sword, you still have to give it to me."

The Princess of Stone God looked at the Demon Sword in her hand, nodding slowly in acknowledgement, "The Heavenly Demon Immortal Slaying Sword, countless sought to forge it a thousand years ago. It truly lives up to its reputation."

After she finished speaking, she suddenly flipped the sword around, directing the tip towards her face, opened her mouth, and swallowed the sword whole.

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