Immortality begins with meditation puppets

Demons are inherently without intention or thought; driven by their instinctive destructive desires, they wreak havoc on the world, causing immense suffering to all living beings.

However, the world is a great dyeing vat. No one who comes to this world can expect to be pure and innocent. In particular, the human race has the most complex emotions and the most intense desires. While evil spirits want to corrupt others, they are also corrupted by the human heart.

Originally, the demons were still able to control their desires and emotions, knowing that the root of the suffering of living beings lay in the fact that their own abilities could not keep up with their ever-expanding desires. They were constantly vigilant, maintaining a superior perspective, and while engaging with people's emotions, they also maintained a certain distance to ensure that they were not influenced by the dregs of living beings.

However, in ancient times, a Buddha entered the game himself, at the cost of shattering his Dao fruit, to ignite the seven emotions and six desires that he and his Buddhist disciples had suppressed for countless years. He forcibly enhanced the power of the Dao pattern of desire, which was not yet the Dao pattern of the Five Elders at the time, so that the desires of heaven and earth would flow freely, and that evil spirits would find it difficult to avoid the influence of desires, and would be unable to detach themselves from the emotions of living beings and maintain absolutely calm and restrained judgment.

Even now, without the constraints of the three paths of Heaven, Earth, and Man, the desires of living beings have swelled to the point that the Dao patterns of desire have reached the level of the Four Emperors, thus becoming one of the mainstream Daos influencing the world.

The most popular Taoist tradition in ancient times, the school of thought that emphasized purity of mind and few desires, no longer has a place to thrive in the modern world.

For practitioners in the present world, intense desires can be both good and bad.

Although their personal desires are difficult to control, they often experience chaotic emotional relationships, illicit affairs that break racial barriers, fierce battles for territory, and malicious competition for the market.

Love can be passionate and intense, and ruthlessness can be so extreme that it leads to life-or-death struggles. These extreme emotions trigger all sorts of extreme events, causing endless conflicts and chaos in the Tianyuan Realm and all the other realms over the years.

On the other hand, intense emotions and expanding desires have also made the myriad realms vibrant with life in recent years.

Cultivators are driven by desire, constantly improving their strength, and their ambition is unparalleled in ancient times.

To satisfy the ever-expanding desires of cultivators, various forces and artisans must continuously create more and better artifacts that better meet the current needs of cultivators, so that the modern art industry can continue to flourish and that modern artifacts, in terms of both variety and technical content, are several levels higher than those of the ancient times.

For living beings, lust is a double-edged sword.

However, for evil spirits, the disadvantages outweigh the advantages.

When the ancient demons were first born, they found that the hearts of living beings were easy to manipulate because they rarely experienced the test of desire. So they lit a fire for them, and they ignited themselves.

After being unsealed, the demons of the present world discovered that the world was changing too fast and people's hearts were too unpredictable. Some people's desires were so strong that even the demons would cover their eyes. There were some ways that the demons dared not even think of. The increased threshold of desires of living beings greatly enhanced their ability to manipulate people's hearts. Some newly born demons were even more difficult to deal with than humans. Those who were manipulated by living beings were taken into the Ten Thousand Souls Banner and the Demon Suppression Altar to become the demon babies of living beings.

This is also why, after the spiritual energy in the present world has been revived, it has been difficult for evil spirits to launch an overwhelming offensive like those in ancient times after they were unsealed.

This time, the Demon Buddha took advantage of the high-level power of the Tianyuan Realm going to the Abyss Secret Realm to plan this demonic invasion. It seems that the demons have regained the ability to instantly corrupt living beings, which is why they caught the living beings off guard.

Within the abyss, the old Taoist priest Tong looked at the crystal ball with a worried expression. With his Taoist master abilities, he could deduce the reason for the sudden change in the demons.

It's the power that resides within the evil markings!

The Demon Buddha may have discovered early on the weakening effect of the erotic runes on their evil nature.

Therefore, they countered each move with a counter-move, using the power of the evil runes to enhance the demons' ability to corrupt others.

This evil rune that resides within should originally be the demonic origin of this reincarnation demon. It was probably the condition that the demon Buddha offered it to him in exchange for helping him master the complete reincarnation rune.

Even so, this possessed evil mark is only at the level of the Five Elders, and should not have the effect it has now.

According to Tong Chang's speculation, the demons may have used some means to elevate this evil rune to the fourth level, so that the demons could display the power of the ancient demons at their peak in this battle.

He was corrupted by demons, his nature and essence were transformed!
By possessing a being and corrupting it, the demon alters its thoughts and distorts its personality without the creature's knowledge, leading it down a path of destruction and depravity.

"The four emperors, possessed by demonic beings tainted with evil markings, will inevitably give birth to a Heavenly Demon General. However, in the current Tianyuan Realm, the Demon Buddha is entangled with the Pale King, and other powerful demons from various factions are wreaking havoc in various places, but there is still no trace of this newly born Heavenly Demon General."

But where did it land, and where did it fix its gaze?

Tong Chang muttered to himself with a worried expression, but he wasn't worried about Su Qing's battle with the Reincarnation Demon, which was right next to him.

Because he understood Su Qing, he knew that with his personality, he would never gamble his life against this demon without a certain degree of certainty. Since he dared to gamble with his own life, and even his women and friends were sent to the gambling table, he obviously had a sure chance of winning.

His only concern was the Tianyuan Realm and the myriad realms. The Demon Buddha was clearly using the Abyss Secret Realm as a smokescreen to attract their attention. In his plan, the Reincarnation Demon might have been a sacrifice all along!
Not only this reincarnation demon, but also the demonic invasions currently occurring in the Tianyuan Realm are all illusions created by the Demon Buddha.

If these two schemes succeed, all the better; if they fail, it doesn't matter much to the Demon Buddha, for he desires something else entirely.

It is comparable to the Dao patterns of reincarnation, a part of the authority of the ancient underworld, and an important interest in encroaching on the four realms of Tianyuan to cause suffering to all living beings.

What could it be?

Tong Chang frantically calculated, but even with his divine calculations, he could not find the future that could truly change the world's order under the influence of the Demon Buddha who controlled the Dao of Time, in the series of false future lines carefully woven by the Demon Buddha.

He can't figure it out!

But now, whether it's counted or not seems to have no impact.

Because on the crystal ball, the scene suddenly shifted from the vicinity of the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom in the Western Sea of ​​Tianyuan to the myriad realms of the heavens.

However, in a certain realm of the void, countless demons gathered in one place, possessing the bodies of various void creatures, launching an unprecedented invasion against the Burial Immortal Realm, which was of utmost importance to all the heavens and myriad realms. In this battle alone, the thirteen demon realms of the heavens dispatched two Heavenly Demon Generals and more than a hundred high-ranking demons leading their armies, almost half of the demon forces of the heavens, which was completely beyond the power of the Burial Immortal Realm to resist.

Upon seeing this, the powerful sects of the heavens, who had been paying close attention to the movements of the Tianyuan Realm, instantly shifted their focus to this direction.

Because the burial in the Immortal Realm is the biggest bomb buried by all the heavens and myriad realms over the past countless years.

It contains not only the dead souls that the myriad realms have been unable to deal with over the years, but also the remains of immortals who fell since ancient times, along with their lingering remnants and delusions.

If this realm is breached by demons, their power will surely expand a hundredfold, and all the heavens and myriad realms will be engulfed in chaos. In the future, let alone supporting the construction of the Tianyuan Realm, they will be unable to protect themselves. Therefore, no sect stands idly by and all rush to its aid.

"The Twelve Golden Immortals of the Primordial Sect, follow me to vanquish demons and monsters!"

"Rise, spirit of the Immortal Slayer Sword, and with my three thousand sword cultivator disciples, slay all demons and evil spirits!"

"My Tushita Palace has activated the Taiji Diagram. Fellow Daoists of the heavens can go there with peace of mind. This treasure will protect you from being tainted by evil spirits!"

The three major sects of the Dao lineage, led by the seventh-level Dao Lord, mobilized all their disciples and rushed to the battlefield first. The other sects followed suit, also mobilizing all their resources.

When the great battle broke out in the Burial Immortal Realm, Tong Chang still felt that something was wrong.

He didn't think that the Demon Buddha's plan was aimed at the Burial Immortal Realm, because he could attack it at any time. It also wouldn't be able to coordinate with the wars in the Heavenly Origin Realm and the Abyss Secret Realm. The forces restraining these two realms mainly fell on the cultivators in the Heavenly Origin Realm, and had little impact on the war in the Burial Immortal Realm.

The scene inside the crystal ball shifted again, this time landing within the northern border of Tianyuan.

The northern border of Tianyuan is blocked by endless mist, making it inconvenient for cultivators to travel between them. As a result, the various forces in this border have very little contact with the other three borders. Since the revival of spiritual energy, this border has also rarely participated in the many affairs of the Tianyuan Realm.

Only a handful of forces, such as the Lion Camel Kingdom, represented the Northern Territory in events like the Heroes' Assembly, the Anti-Demon Alliance, and the Abyss Secret Realm.

In fact, within the Northern Territory, the Lion Camel Kingdom has always been a minor player. Its status in the Northern Territory is not only inferior to that of the Myriad Demon Kingdom in the cultivation world of the Central Plains and the Western Sea, but it is also inferior to that of the Fire Phoenix Immortal Kingdom in the cultivation world of the Western Sea.

It's not that the Lion Camel Kingdom, with its one Nascent Soul Great Demon and two Core Formation Great Demons, is weak; it's just that the other forces in the Northern Territory are too strong.

It possesses the Tower of Babel, and is one of the five undisputed hegemonic forces in the Tianyuan Realm over the past countless years.

It is even more revered than the Penglai Immortal Kingdom in the Western Sea cultivation world.

Because they truly possess overwhelming power, this Tower of Babel has 99,999 floors, and each floor is guarded by a person of outstanding cultivation.

These cultivators were selected from countless practitioners in the Northern Territory. Generation after generation of the most outstanding cultivators in the Northern Territory considered it an honor to enter this tower. One can imagine how powerful the power accumulated in this tower must be.

As far as Tong Chang knew, before the spiritual energy of the Tianyuan Realm was restored, there were already an unknown number of Nascent Soul True Monarchs in this Tower of Heaven, but definitely more than two hands' worth. The number of Nascent Soul cultivators in it was also more than the number of cultivators in the other three realms combined.

After the spiritual energy of the Tianyuan Realm was restored, countless cultivators from all over the world broke through to the upper realm, and high-level cultivators emerged in an explosive manner. It is expected that there will be even more cultivators in the Tongtian Tower who have advanced to the Nascent Soul stage. However, no one can be sure how many high-level cultivators are in this tower now.

The reason why the Tower of Babel has such a destiny is that it stands at the root of the earth veins in the Northern Realm, devouring the spiritual energy of the entire Northern Realm and rising to the heavens to absorb the spiritual energy of the other three realms. Only in this way can it support the cultivation needs of the 99,999 high-level cultivators within it during the Dharma-ending Age.

No faction within the Tianyuan Realm has expressed dissatisfaction with this, because they have received great fortune but have also paid a heavy price for it.

According to ancient Taoist texts, in ancient times there were several supreme treasures whose power was no less than that of an eighth-level Taoist ancestor.

Among those well-known to the world are the Four Swords of Zhuxian from the Lingbao Sect, the Zhutian Qingyun from the Yuanshi Sect, and the Tiandi Xuanhuang Linglong Pagoda from the Taishang Sect.

When the ancient great beings collapsed and temporarily halted the demonic calamity, these supreme treasures, like those Dao Ancestor-level beings, also disintegrated and fell to various places in Tianyuan to suppress all kinds of great evils and demons.

The yellow pagoda fragments that were used to suppress demons and other evil spirits in the cultivation world of the Western Sea were a fragment of the collapsed Heaven and Earth Xuanhuang Exquisite Pagoda.

This towering structure is the main body of the Linglong Tower.

The fact that such a precious treasure is located in the Northern Territory, and that none of the disciples of the Supreme Sect have had any intention of regaining control of the tower since they entered the Tianyuan Realm, is because the tower is of great importance and cannot be moved easily.

This tower suppresses the Great Abyss of Demons within the Tianyuan Realm, which is even more crucial than the Eye of Guixu!
The Eye of Guixu only contains the spirits and vengeful souls of the Tianyuan Realm, mainly within the cultivation world of the Western Sea. Although there are many of them, these spirits and vengeful souls are generally weak due to their limited strength in life. They are of such low quality that even Su Qing would find them too low-quality to use as exorcism dolls. Even if they are corrupted by evil spirits, the evil spirits can only devour them as supplies to promote the recovery of their strength, and they are not worth corrupting into evil.

However, the Great Abyss of Demons is different. It contains many beings from ancient times who were corrupted by evil spirits and transformed into demons under their command. There are witch demons, monster demons, god demons, immortal demons, and dragon demons. Before being corrupted by evil spirits, these beings already possessed the power to summon wind and rain and roam the world. After being transformed into demons, they became the strongest henchmen of evil spirits. In ancient times, the main trouble that powerful clans and sects had to deal with was the evil army that the evil spirits built by using these demons.

Because the demons suppressed within the Great Abyss were so powerful, the Tower of Babel was built to suppress them there. During the Dharma-ending Age, all parts of Tianyuan conserved their spiritual energy for the Tower of Babel. When there was a shortage of talented cultivators in the Northern Territory, talents were selected from the Western Sea, the Central Plains, the Southern Frontier, and the Eastern Wilderness to join the Tower of Babel and make up for the lack of defensive power in the tower.

Thus, any cultivator who enters the Tower of Babel, while enjoying spiritual blessings unavailable to others, also bears a heavy burden of responsibility that is difficult for others to bear. Once inside the tower, they are never allowed to leave, and for the rest of their lives, they can only be tower guardians until the Great Abyss of Demons is properly dealt with, at which point the Tower of Babel can be freed, and they, the tower guardians, can be freed.

All forces in the Northern Territory serve the Tower of Babel, and its talent and resources also flow into it. The Tower's position as the overlord of the five directions in the Tianyuan Realm will not be shaken. Now, the demons have obviously set their sights on this place.

On the crystal ball, Tong Chang saw that the bodies of six-winged golden locusts, white bone bodhisattvas, dragon heads and tiger bodies, which possessed powerful and mysterious abilities, had been possessed by evil spirits and thus launched an attack on the Tower of Babel.

These powerful demonic bodies were likely the most treasured possessions of ancient evil spirits, and their simultaneous use against the Tower of Babel meant no one suspected they were bluffing. (End of Chapter)