Destiny is ashes

Chapter 1095 The Great Abyss Seal
It is no coincidence.

It wasn't just the Xi Yu Immortal of the Tianyuan Realm who had an instinctive wariness and anxiety towards the Great Wilderness Realm.

Even in the Realm of Emptiness, many Celestial Venerables share the same idea.

Southern Wilderness Hongzhou, Eastern Plain Taishan.

Mount Tai is a massive, almost star-like, suspended mountain, floating above a bottomless, enormous rift. The rift is said to be the site of an ancient war where a Celestial Venerable who followed the path of life perished, his body becoming demonized and transforming into a demonic ecosystem that devoured everything. This caused widespread suffering and endless calamities, almost transforming the entire Southern Continent into a terrifying new form.

Ultimately, it was the founding ancestor of the Taishan Qianyuan Sect, a 'Zu Fei' born from the primordial chaos, who triggered natural disasters. With the power of thunderstorms, hurricanes, earthquakes, and even the power to destroy the void, he forcibly tore this vast domain apart and sealed the corpse of the Heavenly Venerable, which had become the source of the calamity, along with all the demonic creatures it had spawned, underground.

The rift valley is now the only passage to that endless seal—the Great Abyss.

At that moment, a figure was descending rapidly towards the deep abyss without hesitation.

It was Xie Mingfei, who had just returned from Jin Yuan Tian.

He was surrounded by thick, tangible blood-red flames, forming a massive array that prevented living beings from entering and leaving the abyss.

Fei, a ferocious beast born in ancient times, is naturally capable of causing everything to perish. Its understanding of the principle of 'ending' has long been ingrained in its bloodline. However, if the way of destruction is combined with life, it is the best way to protect life!

Especially when working as a jailer.

As Xie Mingfei continued to delve deeper, the scenery of Dayuan unfolded before his eyes.

Legends are legends precisely because they differ from reality. In ancient legends, Zu Fei of Mount Tai suppressed the demonized corpse of the Celestial Venerable of All Spirits. However, in reality, it was the Celestial Venerable of All Spirits who sealed the Heavenly Demon with his own body, locking it within his Myriad Spirits Dao Form, thus creating a seal. Zu Fei, on the other hand, suppressed and sealed his former best friend along with the Heavenly Demon, transforming his own power into the second shackle of this endless abyss.

Xie Mingfei continued to delve deeper... Any sect that is old enough and powerful enough will study the Heavenly Demon. Although people have repeated time and again that while the Demon Abyss is watching people, the Demon Abyss is also watching people, and the result of studying the Heavenly Demon will inevitably be accompanied by demonic corruption, some things cannot be accomplished without paying a price.

Some people got what they deserved, while others became part of the people confined to this place.

Xie Mingfei's figure fell like a meteor, passing through the abyss, which resembled geological strata, layer upon layer of 'prison cells' like independent worlds.

The abyss seemed endless, each cell suppressed by a thick, stagnant barrier of time and space, bearing ancient runes that shimmered faintly, marking the forbidden objects sealed away.

【Golden Branch on a Forked Road】

Deep within the void, there grows a strange plant with an ancient and rustic form, its branches resembling dark gold. Wherever its shade reaches, the space twists and turns, like branches. Here, the shortest distance between two points is no longer a straight line; space itself becomes a chaotic thicket. The concept of geometry ceases to exist. Once you step into it, you will be trapped in an eternal wandering, lost in a complex and winding maze of paths, never to return.

【Three Poisons Bewitching Demons】

Three shimmering lights, orange-yellow, red-purple, and cyan-green, evoke a sense of hunger, emptiness, ignorance, rage, and insatiable desire. These are called the Starving Corpse, Karmic Wrath, and Mirage Plague. Seeing them will cause one to feel perpetual thirst, craving blood and frenzied battle, ultimately sinking into a delusional mind like a mirage.

These are three emotional entities originating from the primal desires of living beings, formless and intangible yet capable of spreading infinitely. They are deadly poisons that erode the human heart, demonic thoughts that shake the foundations of all things. Once they are released, they intensify, and if allowed to manifest in the world, they will eventually engulf all intelligence.

【Gloomy Day】

Like a black sun, with a red blood shadow in the center like a pupil, wherever its light covers, the laws of the world collapse, the pure air stagnates, the turbid air rises, the air pressure changes drastically without warning, the light moves slowly as if trapped in a swamp, and even the primordial magnetic force within all things becomes chaotic and unpredictable.

【Tai Su Yuan Crawfish】

An invisible, slowly writhing, seemingly harmless gel floats silently. It can devour all matter and living beings it comes into contact with, perfectly analyzing and replicating their power, intelligence, and even memories, ultimately simulating and unifying all life into a single, absolute collective of will.

If it were an ordinary person, they might think that this was just an ordinary demon, but those who have studied the Heavenly Demon for a long time will know that this was obtained by the Heavenly Venerable of All Spirits through his own body as the Dao and by analyzing the Heavenly Demon.

The forked path and golden branches mark the footsteps of the demon.

The Three Poisons Bewitching Demons are the thoughts of the Heavenly Demon.

The Dark Sun Demon Eye is the will of the Heavenly Demon.

The Primordial Primordial Cicada is the form of a Heavenly Demon. It distorts everything, erodes everything, changes everything, and devours everything... These are the four powers that the Heavenly Venerable of All Spirits analyzed as the most superficial aspect of the Heavenly Demon, which all Heavenly Demons possess to varying degrees.

However, this is just the beginning.

Next, Xie Mingfei continued to fall, at an even faster speed, and the surrounding spacetime became increasingly viscous.

[Forget to Return]

Here... there is nothing.

Everything was empty; no matter how one observed, nothing could be seen. However, whoever 'looked' would be startled awake the moment they did so. Their mind would begin to doubt whether they had forgotten something, whether they had forgotten to contain the monster, whether they had forgotten all the crucial things that allowed the sealed-off monster to escape, whether they had forgotten...

Forget where you came from, forget your beginnings, forget the past, forget your destination...

Forget your original aspirations and dreams.

Therefore, they are eternally lost, and subsequently fall into depravity.

Forgetting.

A power of the Heavenly Demon was extracted and sealed here.

Seeing this, Xie Mingfei shook his head and quickly descended.

This is a kind of power, and also a kind of insurance, ensuring that once you delve deeper into the next area, you can forget everything here that you shouldn't remember.

The next items to be sealed were not so peaceful.

【Niyi Wood】

A dead tree trunk continues to 'grow'. It takes root by 'bearing fruit', withers by 'sprouting', and eventually becomes leaves, which are then replanted in the soil.

[Heterodox Wedge]

A crystal that constantly changes shape will subtly alter anyone who possesses it, or even just observes it over a long period. What appears to be the same entity will actually be replaced by a completely different being from an unknown parallel universe.

And finally...

[Miracle Gu]

A group of translucent, faintly glowing, tiny creatures, like ants.

They must not be allowed to spread; once they do, everything in the world will become unpredictable. Whether it's alchemy or weapon crafting, magic cultivation or spiritual practice, nothing will be able to proceed smoothly anymore.

Good and bad things may happen at the same time, and there will be no longer a clear line between success and failure.

Finally, having passed through these numerous seals that would have made it difficult even for ordinary Heavenly Lords to advance, Xie Mingfei reached the bottom layer.

There are no prison cells, no Dao patterns, and no grand formations here.

There was only a vast, desolate space, as if even time had frozen.

[The Limitless Realm]

And right in the very center of this realm of nothingness, a colossal, jet-black beast lay slumbering peacefully.

That was an ancient, genuine Taishan Fei.

(End of this chapter)