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Chapter 867 Sacrifice
Decades have passed in the blink of an eye.

During this period, numerous skirmishes and wars broke out between the two neighboring demon kingdoms, resulting in losses on both sides.

Following the instructions of the Bai Ze Demon Emperor, Qin Ming erected a long defensive line in the western waters and also guarded against and resisted several large-scale invasions by the Holy Feather Demon Kingdom.

This earned him considerable military achievements, gradually making him stand out among the major demon generals.

He became one of the three strong candidates to go to the Spirit Realm as a demon general.

This was exactly what he wanted, since he still needed it to return to the spirit world.

Most of the time, the Devouring Sky Rat and the Mystic Water Crocodile took the lead, which could be considered as Qin Ming giving them experience.

Even with powerful bloodline cultivation, one still needs to continuously stimulate and grow stronger in battle.

Having fought several powerful battles, the Xuan Shui Crocodile's strength is now vastly different from what it once was.

During this time, the little silver fox finally broke through to the early stage of the sixth rank through dedicated cultivation, transforming into a graceful young girl.

Six silver-white fox tails grew from behind her, which excited her for quite some time.

Qin Ming also gave her some encouragement.

When Devouring Sky Rat heard that Little Silver Fox had broken through, he was overjoyed and even ran back from the front lines. He didn't care about fighting and celebrated for her for three days.

The group then spent some time celebrating the little silver fox within the territory of Xiaoling.

Subsequently.

Qin Ming, on the other hand, devoted himself entirely to weapon crafting.

Inside the weapon-refining hall of the Lesser Spirit Realm.

With the assistance of the Golden Crow Fire Spirit, Qin Ming manipulated the seventh-order Primordial Poison Flame to refine the weapon.

After a long period of refining and inscribing restrictive runes.

A black jade bottle, about an inch in size, appeared in the refining furnace, radiating an eerie, demonic light.

A series of mysterious restrictions formed on the surface of the bottle, and then disappeared into them.

In an instant, a chilling gray light emanated from the bottle's mouth.

According to the old demon Qingyang, this light is the 'Demon-Devouring Nether Light' that can cause immense devouring of the demon race.

Above the Demon Refining Bottle, a layer of seven-colored radiant clouds suddenly condensed, causing the surrounding天地元气 (heaven and earth energy) to resonate and linger for a long time.

"A seventh-tier demon-refining treasure bottle!"

With a single gesture, Qin Ming sent the black jade bottle spinning in mid-air before landing in his palm.

This treasure, which specializes in targeting the souls of demons, according to the old demon Qingyang, can ignore the powerful physical bodies that demons are so proud of, directly absorb their souls, and refine them.

After decades of crafting, Qin Ming's crafting skills have unknowingly advanced to the seventh level.

In addition to receiving guidance from the Old Demon Qingyang, he also thoroughly grasped the essence of the half of "Fire God's Heavenly Craft" by the Fire God Child.

The difficulty in crafting this Demon Refining Bottle lies primarily in the scarcity of its material, 'Demon-Devouring Nether Jade,' which is one of the reasons why Qin Ming was able to succeed.

Qin Ming was in high spirits after successfully crafting this treasure specifically designed to subdue the demon race.

A seventh-order demon-refining bottle can pose a threat even to powerful demons at the Fusion stage if caught off guard.

From then on, they had acquired another trump card treasure.

Qin Ming's primary purpose in creating this bottle was not to slaughter the demon race.

After all, he loved peace and disliked killing.

The purpose of crafting this treasure bottle is primarily to collect demon souls, offer them as sacrifices to the Candlelight Path in exchange for incense offerings and vows, and to cultivate the fruit of the Seven Emotions and Six Desires Tree to maturity.

Just do it.

Qin Ming's figure disappeared completely, and soon he arrived near the Bull Demon Mountain.

A great battle once broke out here, and countless demons perished. The three demons who once occupied this place have long been relocated elsewhere by Qin Ming.

Therefore, Mount Niumo became a forbidden place.

Qin Ming stood in mid-air, looking down, and with a flick of his hand, the Demon Refining Bottle appeared.

He activated the Treasure Refining Technique and pointed it at the Demon Refining Bottle. A large patch of gray light burst forth from the bottle's mouth, shining towards Bull Demon Mountain.

Suddenly.

Wherever the mystical light passed, countless unseen remnant souls of the demon race were involuntarily drawn into the bottle by a powerful suction force.

In no time at all, it absorbed all the remaining demon souls within Bull Demon Mountain, demonstrating its incredible power.

"These demon souls aren't very fresh, and most of them are incomplete, but they should still be usable."

Qin Ming took the Demon Refining Bottle and entered the Lesser Spirit Realm.

They then entered the room where the black statue of the Candlelight God was placed.

Following the sacrificial secret method taught by the old demon Qingyang, he placed the demon-refining bottle, which had just collected a large number of demon remnants, on the black statue altar.

He then used his magic to open the bottle, chanting incantations, and began to offer sacrifices to the living souls in accordance with the law.

Strands of gray demonic souls flowed out from the Demon Refining Bottle and continuously poured into the black statue of the Fire Pit Path.

Suddenly.

On the statue of the Candlelight Path, dense and strange patterns appeared, and a dark light shone brightly, actually emanating a ball of eerie demonic energy.

Immediately afterwards, a blurry figure emerged from behind the black statue and began to absorb the remnants of these demon souls.

In just a few breaths, it absorbed all the remnants of the demon race souls that Qin Ming had just collected, revealing an expression that showed it was still not satisfied.

at the same time.

In the Ancient Demon Realm, which is separated from the Ancient Demon Realm by an unknown number of realms.

In a hidden space within a sacred demon realm.

A black-robed woman with an extremely terrifying aura sat on the throne, her eyes closed in meditation. She was none other than the Six Paths Saint Ancestor, who had a grudge against Qin Ming in the mortal realm.

At this moment, her cultivation level was clearly above the Mahayana stage.

Suddenly, as if sensing something, she opened her deep, dark eyes, which seemed to be from the depths of the underworld, on her pale face.

"Hmm? That's weird."

"How could someone in the ancient demon realm offer a demon soul as a sacrifice to my Candlelight Path?"

"Could it be that some incense and statues have fallen into the demon realm? But apart from a very few old guys, no one knows my Holy Ancestor's secret method of spirit communication and sacrifice."

"Never mind, they're just insignificant remnant souls."

After pondering for a while, the Six Paths Saint Ancestor stopped paying attention to the matter. After all, while low-level demon souls below the seventh rank were somewhat useful to her Candlelight Dao, they weren't very significant.

And the other side.

After Qin Ming completed the sacrificial ceremony, he waited for the black statue's reaction.

After a long time.

After absorbing the remnant soul, the black phantom of the Candlelight Path, resembling a deity, asked Qin Ming in a superior tone:

What reward do you desire?

Even through the barriers of countless realms, the Fiery Dao within the Six Paths Saint Ancestor's avatars could not recognize the person before him as the ascended cultivator he had been searching for with all his might. Even an existence like the Six Paths Saint Ancestor could only discern that he was a believer who possessed a divine statue.

Seeing this, Qin Ming pretended to be a devout believer and quickly replied, "Reporting to the Holy Venerable Candlelight, I wish to exchange this for some incense offerings and prayers."

"The power of incense offerings?" The black-clad figure seemed somewhat surprised, but agreed, "Since you know the art of sacrifice, so be it."

"If you obtain a high-level soul in the future, you can exchange it with me for an equivalent one."

After the figure on the black statue finished speaking, it flicked its finger, and wisps of pure incense power emerged, gradually solidifying in mid-air and transforming into three crystalline sticks of incense.

Having done all this, the dark figure in the path of the burning embers said nothing more and vanished in an instant.

The room returned to calm.

Qin Ming reached out and put away the Demon Refining Bottle. Then he took the three incense sticks formed from the power of incense offerings and began to examine them.

He sensed it only slightly and was extremely surprised, saying:
"The combined power of the incense and prayers of all living beings in this stick of incense is several times greater than what I experienced at the Golden Lotus Temple and Cold Mountain Temple in Duchenwu."

"To exchange the remnants of the Bull Demon Mountain for the wishes of so many living beings, the Six Paths Saint Ancestor is truly magnanimous."

Qin Ming immediately went to the Immortal's Lost Field and placed one of the sticks of incense and spiritual energy in front of the seventh-tier Seven Emotions and Six Desires Tree.

He then used his magic to ignite and release it.

Suddenly.

Strands of the will of all living beings, filled with immense desires and worship of the Six Paths Ancestor, transformed into wisps of gray smoke and disappeared into the Tree of Seven Emotions and Six Desires.

This immortal tree, brought from the Linglong Immortal Abode, began to grow again after absorbing all the incense and prayers within it.

The spirit fruits growing on the tree have grown larger at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The incense offerings and prayers, imbued with the desires of all living beings, have been completely transformed into fertilizer for this sacred tree before us.

"It really works!"

Upon seeing this, Qin Ming's spirits lifted, and he revealed a look of joy. He immediately lit the other two incense sticks with his own power.

After the Seven Emotions and Six Desires Tree absorbed all the incense and prayers, the entire immortal tree grew three inches taller, and the green spiritual fruit also grew considerably larger.

The only pity is that no new entries appeared on the single spirit fruit.

After all, this is a seventh-tier immortal tree, and it's still in its juvenile stage.

After tending to the Tree of Seven Emotions and Six Desires, Qin Ming asked the Old Demon Qingyang with some curiosity:

"Old ghost, how do you know the sacrificial method of the Six Paths Holy Ancestor's Fire Path?"

"Judging from the tone of the person who manifested the idol, it seems that only a few people have mastered this kind of sacrificial secret."

When asked this question, the Old Demon Qingyang immediately became quite uneasy and stammered an explanation:
"Uh, well..."

“I shouldn’t be telling you this now, but since you’ve already come into contact with this matter and have obtained the complete inheritance of the Azure Emperor, it’s alright to tell you.”

Qin Ming frowned upon hearing this: "How is this related to Senior Qingdi again?"

Logically speaking, although the Azure Emperor Venerable had once resealed and suppressed the divided soul of the Six Paths Saint Ancestor in the ancient times of the human realm,

However, the sacrificial secrets of the Candlelight Path are in the hands of the original Six Paths Saint Ancestor of the Ancient Demon Realm.

That person was truly a top-tier individual whose cultivation level was above the Mahayana stage.

Although the Azure Emperor cultivated to the Integration Stage using a secret technique that took three hundred years to achieve this, he had also interacted with the Soul-Crying Rhinoceros that had existed for countless millennia on Bull Demon Mountain.

All signs indicate that this person is not an ascended cultivator from the mortal realm, but rather a powerful figure from the lower realms of the spirit realm or even the true immortal realm.

Qingyang Old Demon seemed to know that Qin Ming had this question, and immediately said: "As the founder of Qingyuan Sect, the Azure Emperor Venerable is indeed unprecedented and unparalleled. He is undoubtedly a top expert who came out of the human world."

"Even I, an old man, have to admire his extraordinary talent and vision."

"The Azure Emperor's fortune was also incredibly profound. After ascending to the Spirit Realm, he not only cultivated to the Integration Stage in a short period of time, but later even advanced to the Great Ascension Loose Immortal Realm. However, this matter is a secret, and very few people know about it after he disappeared."

"Furthermore, by sheer chance, the Azure Emperor also successfully grasped a wisp of the power of the laws of time, enabling him to travel through the past, present, and future in the river of time and interact with the things within them."

"Therefore, it's not surprising that he had seen that rhinoceros."

"I also stumbled upon this secret technique for sacrificing living souls in the ancestral hall of the Qingyuan Sect."

"It's likely that the Azure Emperor also entered the Ancient Demon Realm."

Qin Ming was greatly surprised when he heard what Qingyang Old Demon said. He never expected that someone who had cultivated to such a level could travel through time and space.
However, in the entire Spirit Realm, it is estimated that only the Azure Emperor could have accomplished this.

After understanding the situation, Qin Ming was fairly satisfied with the answer.

Subsequently.

He pondered for a long time. Collecting the souls of demons was quite simple for him. Right now, the two demon emperors were waging a war in the ancient demon realm to fight to the death for the right to speak in the spirit world.

The fresh souls on the battlefield were countless, and their quality was many times better than the remnant souls from Bull Demon Mountain.

It is conceivable that one can offer sacrifices in exchange for a considerable amount of incense and prayer power.

"In this way, I can make the fruits of the seven emotions and six desires fully ripen without the need for tens of thousands of years."

"At that time, we will be able to obtain a rare opportunity when we break through to the Fusion Stage."

With this thought in mind, Qin Ming sent a telepathic message to the Devouring Sky Rat.

Half a day later.

The Sky-Devouring Rat, weary from its journey from the front lines, entered the Lesser Spirit Realm and couldn't help but ask Qin Ming:

"Master, why did you call me back so urgently? The fighting on the front lines is truly fierce right now."

"Those mad dogs from the Holy Feather Demon Kingdom are like they've been injected with chicken blood, charging towards the border recklessly. My second brother and I are starting to struggle to hold them off."

Qin Ming saw that the Devouring Sky Rat had indeed grown a lot over the years through its experiences in the Ancient Demon Realm.

The field mice that used to follow him around all day, eating, drinking, digging, and farming have undergone a tremendous change.

At least he has become much more stable and less impetuous than before.

Qin Ming patted the Devouring Rat on the shoulder and then said, "The reason I summoned you here is precisely to resolve this matter."

"I have successfully forged a powerful weapon against the demon race, which is perfect for this occasion. I intend to give it to you to use."

After saying that, Qin Ming took out the Demon Refining Bottle and handed it to the Devouring Sky Rat.

Filled with curiosity, the Devouring Rat took the Demon Refining Bottle and examined it closely, even bringing its eyes close to the bottle opening to peer inside.

At first glance, it looks like an ordinary bottle, with no clues whatsoever.

However, the Devouring Rat's innate sensitivity to treasures allowed it to sense that this bottle was an extremely powerful treasure, though its specific purpose remained unknown.

I don't know what Qin Ming's intention was in giving me this.

Qin Ming immediately explained, "This item is called the Demon Refining Bottle. It is a seventh-tier fusion treasure that I have poured decades of effort into refining using special Nether Jade spiritual materials and secret techniques."

"A seventh-tier spiritual treasure." The Devouring Rat was playing with the Demon Refining Bottle when it heard Qin Ming's words. Its little hand trembled, and it almost dropped the bottle to the ground.

With quick reflexes, it swiftly and firmly embraced it.

Immediately, the Sky-Devouring Rat was overjoyed, thinking to itself, "Is this incredible opportunity finally going to fall into my lap?"
Having obtained that black wolf-tooth club, the Xuan Shui Crocodile is now extremely powerful even in the Ancient Demon Realm.

If the master bestows this seventh-tier demon-refining bottle upon me, isn't it actually to suppress all the demons?

After all, just hearing the name of this seventh-tier treasure is already incredibly impressive.

(End of this chapter)