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Chapter 199, Section 198: [The Invasion of the Heavenly Demons]

The Gate to Mending the Heavens.

Deep within the small gate, which is several miles in diameter, two large, colorful gates at the front and back have been closed, forming an open space that stretches for dozens of miles.

At this moment, the Dharma body of the Blissful Demon King, who was both Buddha and demon, stood there. Seven layers of golden light and black light appeared behind the heads of the Buddha and demon images respectively, while demonic flames and Buddhist fire rose around his body, burning the space into twisted ripples.

A huge, clear mirror, as smooth as water, appeared out of thin air above the head of the Demon King of Bliss, clearly reflecting his image.

Beside the Dharma body, appearing as a beautiful, fair-skinned nun, she played with a vajra in one hand and grasped the primordial spirit of a cultivator in the other. Suddenly, she looked up at the mirror and smiled with a bright, Zen-like smile.

"This Buddhist ritual artifact was forged by Hayagriva, the King of the Horse-Headed King, in the Central Great World—the Eastern Pure Land of Lapis Lazuli. It is most effective at restraining the Heavenly Demon Clan."

In order to deal with me, your Patching Heaven Sect sent an elder who went through countless hardships and spent the wealth of an entire realm to purchase this item from the Horse-Headed King.

Who would have thought that this was a trap set specifically for me?

I captured your elder halfway through, confirmed that his memory was intact, and then disappeared into the Vajra Pestle, using Buddhist power to conceal my existence. I tried to sneak into the Northern Path World, but I was trapped inside your Gate of Mending Heaven.

The Heaven-Mending Sect, what impressive methods they employ!

It's just a pity for this elder who risked his life to travel to the Central Great World to purchase the treasure; he always believed that the Vajra was the only hope for saving the Northern Path World!

The image of the Blissful Heavenly Demon was reflected in the Demon-Suppressing Mirror.

In His hands, a trace of sorrow appeared on the elder's still-living spirit, and He spoke with a grief-stricken yet resolute tone.

"Although the sect deceived me, it's all worth it to be able to trap you, the world-destroying demon."

For the sake of the billions of beings in the Bei Ke world, and for the sake of the sect's legacy, every member of our sect is prepared to sacrifice their life.

"To be able to sacrifice myself for the greater good today is a wonderful thing that I could never have imagined."

"With such lofty awareness, it's no wonder that he was collectively deceived by his own sect members and pushed out to his death."

The Demon King of Bliss chuckled and casually stuffed the primordial spirit into her body, which was capable of bearing countless children and grandchildren.

A satisfied, Zen-like smile spread across His face. In just a moment, He dissolved a dignified sixth-level cultivator into the original form of life and absorbed him with His Dharma Body.

Throughout the entire process of devouring, the spirit of the Gate of Heaven Mending remained silent, as did the person behind the Heaven Mending Sect who was controlling it.

There was silence.

The Heavenly Demons are a race that is extremely adept at invading other people's minds. Just now, as long as they exchanged even a single word with the people of the Heaven-Mending Sect, they were able to take the opportunity to invade the other party's mind.

When his plan failed, the Demon King of Bliss could only hold the vajra in his Buddha form and feign distress.

His other half, which resembled a burly, dark-skinned man, roared with a furious expression.

"Since we can't infiltrate, we'll have to fight our way in."

As soon as he finished speaking, he threw a punch at the colorful gate in front of him.

boom!
This punch, powerful enough to destroy the world, was blocked by the Demon-Suppressing Mirror that suddenly appeared on the door.

The giant fist covered in black hair sank deeply into the mirror, causing violent ripples to spread around it.

The ripples quickly spread beyond the edge of the mirror, continuing to expand outwards, causing the multicolored steel behind the mirror to vibrate violently, cracking with dense fissures amidst a piercing metallic groan.

But as a five-colored light flashed, these cracks were restored to their original state in the blink of an eye.

The Gate to Mending Heaven is forged from five-colored steel with a material strength exceeding that of the celestial membrane, making it not so easily damaged.

However, the aftershocks of the battle continued to spread into the world, causing persistent tremors that astonished countless creatures within the fruit.

"This mirror is indeed of good quality, as it was able to withstand my attack."

However, controlling a seventh-tier magic weapon beyond one's level should leave all sixth-tier cultivators in the Northern Ke World overwhelmed.

"Hehehe, then let's have a contest to see who can outlast whom."

The Buddha-like form of the demon of the Blissful Heaven smiled, while the demon-like form roared, stretching out its four arms and attacking in all directions with its most unadorned fists.

At the same moment, the Demon-Suppressing Mirror was also rapidly replicated inside the Gate of Heaven Mending, instantly filling the surrounding area with smooth mirror surfaces and sealing most of the destructive power of the attack within the Gate of Heaven Mending.

Only a small amount of the battle's aftershocks lingered within the fruit, creating a series of continuous tremors.

Meanwhile, in the void outside the Northern Ke World, as the Blissful Heavenly Demon fell, six sixth-order Heavenly Demons and hundreds of fifth-order Heavenly Demons suddenly appeared.

They floated scattered outside the membrane of heaven and earth, wantonly displaying their power, silently attaching their demonic bodies to the surface of the membrane, transforming into colorful demonic energy that rapidly expanded in all directions.

From the air, the fruit looked like colorful pancakes spread out on the ground, or like moldy spots growing on them, seemingly rotting from the outside in.

Once these demons had expanded to their limit, they released numerous corpses that had been magically refined from their demonic bodies.

It pressed down on the corpses, forcing them into contact with the membrane of heaven and earth, and slowly seeped in like water and milk blending together.

[Extinction of All Living Beings and Breaking Boundaries: The Supreme Secret Technique of the Heavenly Demon Clan for Invading Fruits]: The membrane of heaven and earth is extremely strict in screening living beings, but it is not so strict in guarding against inanimate objects. After realizing this, the ancestors of the Heavenly Demon Clan created this secret technique for breaking boundaries by sacrificing corpses, in order to cultivate Heavenly Demons inside and conquer the target fruit.

The demon king of bliss, leading this group of celestial demons, had been preparing on the side branch of the Ren character for thousands of years, destroying countless fruits and accumulating trillions of corpses.

Although they had used up some corpses in the previous conquest of other fruits, and although the Bei Ke world was extremely large, they could still cause enormous destruction after using most of the corpses in this world.

According to the world-destroying experience recorded in their racial heritage memories, given the quality and quantity of corpses they throw into the Bei Ke world, they will definitely be able to cultivate a sixth-order Heavenly Demon within the fruit in just a few thousand years.

With their combined efforts from within and without, they successfully captured this third-grade fruit.

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The Celestial Realm, the Land of Reincarnation.

Amidst the continuous tremors, Chen Sheng looked up at the overcast sky, and the next moment, he saw a corpse fall from it.

His gaze sharpened, and a white somersault cloud appeared out of thin air beneath the corpse, lifting it up and flying it to his side.

Chen Sheng scanned the corpse with his fiery eyes and saw that it had a human body and a snake tail, smooth skin, and a beautiful appearance, like an alluring snake demon.

The traces of magical power remaining in the other party's body contained an unprecedented and exquisite logic, and the cells also contained a considerable amount of demonic energy, which made his heart sink.

"He possesses demonic energy, and judging from his race, he is from another realm. Coupled with the sense of turmoil in the world, and these familiar methods, it seems that the Heavenly Demons' attack has already begun."

hiss--

Under Chen Sheng's watchful gaze, the demonic energy within the corpse quickly began to circulate spontaneously, activating the dead cells.

It came to life right in front of him, opened its dark eyes, and took a bite out of him.

To the attack of such a minor character, Chen Sheng simply removed the somersault cloud beneath the opponent's feet, and the demonic corpse fell straight into the Yellow Springs below, instantly having all its demonic energy washed away, turning it into a true corpse.

Chen Sheng sighed, raised his head again, and saw a large number of corpses raining down from the dense dark clouds of the Reincarnation Land. Most of these corpses fell into the Yellow Springs and were quickly cleansed and purified, while a small number fell onto the Wheel of Reincarnation, where their souls were directly extracted by the enormous wheel.

They didn't cause any trouble.

But Chen Sheng, with his fiery eyes, could see that in the distant heavens, corpses were falling, reviving, and then fighting with the heavenly soldiers, causing massive chaos.

In the vast celestial realm, there were only a few hundred fifth-order cultivators scattered about, and they were simply unable to suppress the sudden chaos.

At this moment, the Goddess of the Underworld also flew out of her palace and landed beside Chen Sheng, speaking softly and weakly.

"Ah Kui, what happened?"

"It must be the Heavenly Demons attacking our fruit. Sister, go to the Celestial Palace to take refuge. It's the center of the Heavenly Realm, and we have more people there, so we'll be safer."

"I have a divine duty, how can I leave the Yellow Springs so easily? You should go to the Celestial Palace to take refuge."

Just as they finished speaking, the two of them suddenly looked up at the sky at the same time.

Two exceptionally large corpses fell from the dark clouds.

One of them fell into the Yellow Springs, but instead of being purified by the spring water, it wriggled and absorbed the turbid Yellow Springs around it, turning into a beautiful snake demon whose whole body was covered in yellow soup.

The other landed on top of the wheel, radiating a torrent of demonic energy, and corrupted a large piece of stone from the wheel, transforming it into a terrifying snake demon covered in holes.

As soon as they came back to life, they began to use their own methods to destroy the Yellow Springs and the Wheel of Reincarnation. Judging from the intensity of their attacks, they were clearly two fifth-tier Heavenly Demons.

The corpses that the demons threw into the world of Beike were also divided into different levels.

The lowest level of cultivation consists of weak mortals, while the highest level includes fifth-tier powerhouses who once lorded it over other fruits in their previous lives.

Those who had been trained by the Heavenly Demon were the main force in this campaign.

The Land of Reincarnation is a crucial location in the Northern Path World; its destruction would be a severe blow to its very essence.

Chen Sheng, being a god of the underworld, had a duty to uphold; how could he sit idly by and watch such a thing happen?

"Sister, hold off that demon in the Yellow Springs for now, I'll be there to help you soon."

While transmitting his thoughts, Chen Sheng leaped into the sky above the Wheel of Reincarnation. The moment he saw the Stone Serpent Demon, he pointed his right index and middle fingers together like a sword, raised his hand, and unleashed a dazzling sword aura of immortal slaying.

blah-

The sword energy of the Immortal Slaughtering Sword, no more than an inch thick, shone with a bright white light, shattering the space along its path.

It pierced through space, creating gaps that appeared and disappeared intermittently, firmly locking onto the snake demon's figure, which had teleported several times in an instant by some unknown means, and struck the snake demon's body to the snake demon's horrified gaze.

Click!

With a crisp sound, the fifth-tier serpent demon's body was cleaved in two by the Immortal Slaughtering Sword Qi.

The remaining sword energy transformed into an all-pervasive river of light, moving in and out of the demon's porous body, cutting it into tiny stone chips.

Only when the sword energy was completely exhausted did it fall into calm.

With Chen Sheng's cultivation at the mid-fifth rank, coupled with the terrifying attack power of the Immortal Slaughtering Sword Qi, his combat ability is comparable to most cultivators at the late fifth rank.

Killing a fifth-tier initial-stage Heavenly Demon is that clean and efficient.

However, instead of immediately flying to help the God of the Underworld exorcise the demon, he once again unleashed a short burst of sword energy at his fingertips, keeping it contained and not released, and looked at the stone fragments in front of him.

"Ouch, that hurts! That sword energy is so powerful!"

A gust of cold wind blew by, and the stone dust in front of him flew around wildly, then reformed into a demonic body, which laughed loudly at Chen Sheng in an extremely exaggerated manner.

"If all the cultivators inside this fruit are of this kind, then this fruit should be destroyed by my Heavenly Demon Clan."

Chen Sheng remained calm, his eyes flashing with golden-red light as he observed all the changes in the snake demon before nodding in agreement.

"I have figured out your method of resurrection."

blah-

Chen Sheng raised his hand and slashed, unleashing the Zhuxian Sword Qi from his fingertips, piercing through layers of space and shattering the snake demon into fragments once more.

Before the other party could be resurrected, he used his divine authority to gently tremble the huge wheel of reincarnation beneath his feet, drawing out a large number of tiny fragments of the soul from a pile of stone chips.

"Do not……"

The fragments of souls screamed, desperately trying to merge back into the stone chips, but were pulled into the dense holes of the wheel of reincarnation.

After being slowly ground once, it is then released as even finer particles.

call!
Chen Sheng spewed out a stream of crimson Samadhi Fire from his mouth, scorching the particles that still had consciousness and wanted to gather together, burning them to ashes.

After swiftly slaying one enemy, he flew without stopping to another nearby battlefield, looking at the God of the Underworld and another snake demon locked in a fierce battle, neither gaining the upper hand.

He watched the two fight for a while, and guessed that the Zhuxian Sword Qi would be relatively ineffective against this demon, so he pursed his lips and blew lightly.

This time, they used the Samadhi Divine Wind, which blew the land of reincarnation into darkness, with sand and stones flying everywhere, like a cruel torture of being cut into a thousand pieces. The wind blades and stone chips blew the Heavenly Demon into countless flying water droplets.

Then, the Soul-Catching Wheel of Reincarnation is used to retrieve the soul, and the Samadhi Fire is used to burn it, causing the opponent to follow in the footsteps of their predecessor.

After his opponent died, the God of the Underworld immediately flew excitedly to Chen Sheng's side.

"As expected of A-Kui, you are truly amazing."

"My sister is blindly worshipping me again. I just know a lot of magic."

Everyone knows their own situation. Don't be fooled by how easily Chen Sheng kills; it's only because he has a lot of tricks up his sleeve.

Most fifth-tier cultivators in the Northern Ke World don't possess his abilities, and the fifth-tier corpses sent in by the Heavenly Demon will be extremely troublesome opponents.

The situation in the Bei Ke world is likely to be very difficult in the future.

Just as Chen Sheng was about to repair the damage to the Wheel of Reincarnation, a majestic voice suddenly came from the sky.

The edict of the Butian Sect reads:

Our lineage inherits the legacy of the Holy Maiden who mended the heavens, ruling over the three realms and ten directions, governing the laws of yin and yang, and managing the order of all living beings.

However, now a celestial demon has invaded, causing chaos in the three realms and widespread suffering. Therefore, an edict to slay the demon is hereby issued to uphold the righteous spirit of heaven and earth.

Whether they are from our sect or cultivators from other minor sects, anyone who slays a Heavenly Demon will receive merit…

(End of this chapter)