The Ancestor of All Demons

Wei Fengniang stood at the peak, waiting for a moment. Seeing that the Black Dragon was not chasing after her, she grew agitated. Although she had sealed the area with the Immortal Array, and the Evil Dragon certainly couldn't escape, if it hid at the bottom of the lake and refused to come out, she really had no way to deal with it.

She thought that her own powers were more than enough to deal with the Demon Dragon at the bottom of the lake, but the Golden Seal below was troublesome, preventing her from using her potent spells. The Demon Dragon was despicable as well, using tricks to severely injure Brooyinca right from the start. If he had been around, the two of them, together, would have already skinned and dismembered the Demon Dragon and cleaned up!

As she was thinking of ways to deal with the Demon Dragon, she suddenly saw a dark shadow rise from below. She was overjoyed, hoping the figure would fly out of the thick fog and into the range of the Yellow Sand Formation.

But the dragon shadow only swirled and swam in the fog below, refusing to rise even half a zhang further.

Wei Fengniang, growing impatient, gritted her teeth and finally could not hold back anymore. She leaped into the air and shouted loudly, "Nine Heavens Flying Snow combined with ten thousand li of yellow sand, today I will skin and muscle this beast, teaching it to die without a burial place!"

Hanging upside down in the air, head down and feet up, she formed hand seals and started casting, and snow began to drift down from the sky. First, she released her Immortal Sword, turning it into a stream of green-yellow light over ten zhang long that swept downwards. Then, she formed the Vajra Divine Palm from her right hand and smashed it down like a falling meteorite.

She didn't stop there either. With her hand seals, she conjured a cold wind from Xun Land, driving the snowflakes into the ice cave below. Amidst the swirling snowflakes, flaming red Demonic Flames suddenly ignited, blossoming like flowers, burning and dispersing the fog.

As soon as she cast her spell, the shadow of the Black Dragon below immediately sank, the Immortal Sword and Vajra Divine Palm piercing through three hundred zhang of thick fog, attacking directly on the Coiled Dragon Stone at the bottom of the lake, once again causing an explosion of golden light and ten thousand streaks of red dawn.

Thousands of snowflakes, carrying the Demonic Flames, spiraled down, dispersing much of the fog and making it much thinner.

Wei Fengniang concentrated and looked below, only to see lying on the Coiled Dragon Stone a Black Dragon that had been severed into two parts. At the break, there lay a Jade Box emitting flickering light, filling the cave with blinding golden light.

The Heavenly Book! Wei Fengniang was overjoyed. She had coveted the Heavenly Book for a long time, fearing her master might seek revenge at any time. She had dreamed of obtaining the Heavenly Book, for with the Immortal Law passed down by Guang Chengzi mastered, not to mention Guang Ming Shi Tai, she wouldn't fear even if she were to confront the entire world!

She was also cautious. First, she recalled her Flying Sword, then combined with her sword, and descended again into the lake.

Arriving at the Coiled Dragon Stone, she found that what was broken was merely the shell of the Black Dragon. Shocked, she felt something was wrong. She then remembered how powerful the two inner cores of the Demon Dragon were and that it hadn't used them to fight against her, allowing herself to kill it with a single sword strike and palm hit. It seemed likely to be a ruse, but seeing the Jade Box was undoubtedly a divine object, she grabbed the Jade Box into her palm without hesitation. Without pausing to take a closer look, she combined with her sword once more and sprang upwards, intending to quickly leave the area.

The sword light was incredibly fast, reaching the mid-mountain in an instant when suddenly the sky above darkened. A scaleless white dragon emerged from the ice wall beside her, blocking her way home, first spewing a True Water Primordial Pill, then with the surrounding ice walls booming and collapsing, within a breath, they dissolved into water, smashing down in thousands and ten thousands of tons.

"Bang!" The Flying Sword was hit by the True Water Inner Core. The lights of both dimmed instantly, and then the lake water fell, filling all around. Wei Fengniang still tried to force her way out with the Vajra Divine Palm.

The giant palm struck, creating huge waves and bubbles, and the sword light surged forward, unstoppable!

She dashed crazily for a while and finally reached the end. Her heart lightened, contemplating that once she reached the peak with the Yellow Sand Formation, she would stand on invincible ground, slaying the Demon Dragon would be nothing at all.

She soared forward with her sword, penetrating the water curtain to enter a waterless space, only to suddenly see not blue sky and white clouds ahead but that Coiled Dragon Stone!

Wei Fengniang was taken aback, feeling all her body hair stand on end as a chill rose from the depths of her heart, enveloping her entire being in an instant.

She had clearly charged upward; the interior of Dinghu Peak was a straight tube with no other branches, so logically, the way out should have been at the peak, yet now it appeared to be the bottom of a lake!

Having cultivated Immortal Cultivation from a young age and learned Demon Cult Techniques, she had roamed the world for many years and was quite experienced, and she immediately knew that her opponent was using the Inverting Five Elements, twisting space.

By inverting up and down, she flew upward with all her might, only to end up at the bottom of the lake!

This sort of technique was relatively high-level. Although not a rarity, it certainly wasn't something any Tom, Dick, or Harry could master.

Wei Fengniang had practiced it too, but executing Inverting Five Elements required a mastery of magical numeric calculations, and her skills were not refined; she could only make minor spatial changes within a small area. Inverting a mountain peak as huge as this was beyond her capabilities.

A Demon Dragon with rudimentary understanding of human nature would definitely not grasp such a technique!

Wei Fengniang understood the power of this spell; once trapped within it, escape was nearly impossible unless someone on the outside intervened. The only alternative was to master the same spell, with a deeper understanding than the caster—an unlikely feat if one were already trapped.

Daring not to linger at the bottom of the lake, Wei Fengniang once again combined with her sword, surging outwards while swiftly ascending, feverishly unleashing Vajra Divine Palm, hurling Yellow Cloud Nails and Demon Fire Bombs forward; she attempted to break the opponent's prohibition and escape to safety.

Covering the thousand feet in a flash of sword light, the expected happened—she returned to the bottom of the lake, with all her attacks hitting the reclining dragon stone, causing a wild burst of golden light and a chaotic flow of red glow.

A fear gripped Wei Fengniang's heart; she wanted to say something but didn't know what, when she suddenly remembered she had obtained the Heavenly Book. Convinced that the Demon Dragon could not have developed such capability, she surmised that it must be an array left by the Yellow Emperor at work, and that the Heavenly Book, also left by him, surely contained a way out.

She reassured herself: The Demon Dragon's mana is limited; though it can temporarily trap me here, it cannot harm me at all. By studying the Heavenly Book, I will be able to break the prohibition; even if I cannot, as time passes, Brooyinca will arrive to rescue me. Together, from the inside and the outside, we could break the array.

Taking a reassuring pill, she reached for the Jade Box and tried to cast a spell to open its lid.

Unbeknownst to her, Shi Feiyang had cursed this Jade Box.

The Vice Volume of the Heavenly Book contained many malevolent spells. To overcome this tribulation, Shi Feiyang had selected a few to master, including the Myriad Poison Corrosive Immortal Technique.

This technique began with taking eight types of Poison Stone, crushing them into powder to layer the bottom of a cauldron, then placing eight types of poisonous grass on top, dripping fresh blood over them, and igniting them with Heart Fire to first create a fiercely poisonous Evil Fire. Subsequently, adding eight types of Poison Insects to let them absorb the Poison Fire into their stomachs, then forcing them to devour each other like raising gu—ultimately resulting in one survivor.

This process was repeated eight times, producing eight Poison Kings. They were fed on flesh and blood for eight days, then during the most yin time on a yin day, half a basin of fresh blood was taken, placing the Poison Insects into the blood before casting spells to ignite them... Finally, when all had burned to ash, eight blooms of Evil Fire were obtained.

This was merely the basics—the complete version required human blood and souls to cultivate, and the luxurious version needed the killing of ten thousand people. Once mastered, one could, with a simple gesture, annihilate all living things within a thousand miles!