Immortal Dao is dead, I am the mastermind behind it all.

"These are the materials your company needs. Please check and fill in any gaps."

Shen Er handed the materials for the Heavenly Demon Ritual to Shen Yi.

Of course, this was merely a facade, meant to impress the Cen family and the Construction Bureau who were monitoring the area.

Shen Yi then selected from a pile of rare and precious materials that Shen Moyan needed, stored them in his storage ring, and secretly transferred them to Shen Moyan himself in the academy.

"The Heavenly Demon Ritual..."

The academy, at this moment, the furnishings inside the cave have been completely cleared out.

Shen Moyan used peach wood that had been rotten for a thousand years to coat it with incense ash imbued with the spirit of death, and carved strange array patterns on the ground of the cave.

An abandoned infant, whose resentment had condensed into yin water, stood at the center of the array's patterns, serving as the array's core.

Before the great battle, Shen Moyan had to complete the Heavenly Demon Ritual. Once he entered the Dao and mastered the "Heavenly Demon Transformation Technique," he could be reborn and bring it back with him after death.

"The Heavenly Demon Ritual has three key points, which are three steps: attracting resentment, sacrificing life, and receiving blessings."

Driven by resentment, Shen Moyan used an abandoned baby.

A newborn life is born with resentment towards this world, and such resentment is enough to attract the attention of the Heavenly Demon.

A human sacrifice, on the other hand, uses a living, breathing life, preferably one that is about to be born.

Shen Moyan prepared a bird egg, a quail's egg.

He placed the bird eggs in the nest and positioned them at the core of the sacrificial array.

He himself stood at the very core of the formation that had been bestowed upon him.

Shen Moyan took a deep breath and recited with his fingers:

"The Tao dwells in emptiness, which is the sixth heaven of the Desire Realm. The Heaven of Other Transformation descends and looks upon the ten directions of the world, and what it sees is the Tao."

"Discarding the wall and carrying the infant, eliminating resentment and bringing new life."

The first array eye where the abandoned baby was located was lit up, and the resentment instantly dissipated, absorbed by the unspeakable being. The baby's loud cries echoed throughout the cave, but Shen Moyan had already taken soundproofing measures.

"The nest is overturned, but the eggs remain intact; decaying grass turns into fireflies."

The decaying grass that made up the bird's nest turned into scattered specks of firefly light and disappeared. At the same time, the bird's eggs made a soft, crackling sound, as if something inside was about to hatch.

"A dying ember is rekindled, a withered tree is brought back to life."

At his words, the rotten peach wood stuck in the array pattern sprouted tender green branches, and the incense ash on the array pattern reignited, displaying an eerie purple flame that reflected in Shen Moyan's calm and unwavering eyes.

Everything in the ritual appeared so peaceful, and all things were coming back to life.

Shen Moyan remained silent, simply opening his arms. According to Ni Gaoyuan's memory, what followed was no longer his responsibility.

During the ritual, the newly sprouted green leaves of the peach tree lifted up the crying baby, and scattered fireflies enveloped him.

A short while later, the fleshy infant turned into piles of white bones, which then quickly vanished, turning into a vortex like the incense ash on the array patterns, and were absorbed by the bird egg as provisions.

This is similar to the original creation of the Dharma Body, except that the vortex is even more captivating. Shen Moyan stared at the bird egg, completely absorbed, and his consciousness sank into a trance.

The next moment, a crack appeared in the sparrow's egg.

puff-

At this moment, all the cultivators in the entire Langya Prefecture stopped what they were doing in confusion, and a soft sound reached their ears.

The sound came from a distant shore, like the heartbeat of some dead thing in a graveyard.

…………

"What's that noise?"

Xu Mingxuan suddenly clutched his chest, put away the blueprints beside him, and looked around nervously as if he had done something wrong.

Could it be that I've been discovered?

"That scared me to death, it was so inexplicable."

After repeatedly confirming that no one outside the boat was paying attention to him, Xu Mingxuan sighed deeply.

…………

Tens of thousands of miles away from Kongsang County, lies the Demon Suppression Division of Langya Prefecture.

Beside the dim candlelight, the man who was grading files suddenly looked up, his white hair fluttering without wind, and a chilling murderous intent flashing in his narrow eyes:

"Something unclean has entered the mountains and seas again; is it a celestial demon's wrath?"

…………

Langya Prefecture, the Ten Thousand Mountains.

"Plans changed, action was brought forward."

Suddenly, thousands of scarlet eyes lit up in the deep, secluded mountains.

…………

"wrong!"

Upon receiving the blessing from the array eye, Shen Moyan bit his tongue and quickly activated the "Scripture of Detachment from All Forms" to eliminate the feeling of being immersed.

"He is tempting me!"

Shen Moyan realized this too late, feeling as if he had fallen into an ice cave.

During the initial soul search, Ni Gaoyuan had no memory of this process at all!

Ni Gaoyuan's memory of when he performed the ritual is flawed! Ni Gaoyuan's past memories have been reshaped by some being!

Shen Moyan naively believed the information he had obtained and ended up in the same predicament as Ni Gaoyuan.

Looking at the bird egg, Shen Moyan's pupils trembled.

A small piece of the cracked eggshell detached automatically, revealing a dark and deep eye.

Shen Moyan swore he had never seen such a strange look in his eyes.

He actually huddled inside the eggshell, using the chick's body to look at Shen Moyan through the crack in the shell.

When darkness falls and light is not seen, heaven and earth are shrouded in darkness.

One glance, just one glance, was enough for Shen Moyan, who was practicing the "Scripture of Detachment from All Forms," ​​to feel the absolute difference in the dimensions of life.

He did not seduce Shen Moyan, but the slight fluctuations emanating from Him were enough to almost cause the resolute Shen Moyan to fall into depravity.

Three seconds later, inside the broken eggshell, the eyes slowly closed.

He left.

[Hint: You have mastered the basics of the Heavenly Demon Transformation Technique]

The sound of a bookmark being pulled could be heard in my ears.

Shen Moyan finally recovered from his shock.

He tried touching his entire body, and found that not a single part of him was missing.

Shen Moyan collapsed to the ground, covered in sweat.

Looking at the bookmark titled "Heavenly Demon Transformation Technique," he could now understand all the steps in the technique.

It seemed as if the administrator had granted Shen Moyan access to the cultivation techniques related to the [Heavenly Demon].

It's truly unbelievable that just a simple glance from Him was enough to complete the introductory stage of a cultivation technique.

Shen Moyan sat blankly in the cave, the memory of what had just happened receding like a tide, and the glimpse he had just seen began to fade from his mind.

"Forgetting? Is He erasing cause and effect?"

Shen Moyan thought to himself, "This is for the best. I don't want to have anything to do with this kind of thing anymore."

[Visitor from Another World: Can adapt to new things quickly, has a photographic memory, and is inclusive and adaptable, drawing on the strengths of many.]

But that one glance was like a ghost ship left on the shore by the tide, appearing and disappearing, something Shen Moyan could never forget.

The achievement, "Visitor from Another World," made Shen Moyan remember that one glance forever.

Shen Moyan looked at the bird egg warily, afraid that the other party would know that he still remembered this memory.

But after a quarter of an hour of standoff, the bird egg showed no reaction whatsoever, so Shen Moyan finally felt relieved and threw the egg out of the cave.

…………

"What was that sound just now?"

Jiang Qingshui, who was about to go to the Construction Department to check the accounts, stopped and looked up at the sky.

"It's like the heartbeat of a corpse in the deepest hell... No, that's not the right way to describe it." Jiang Qingshui savored the memory.

"It's as if some powerful being has landed on the branch of a large tree, causing the branch to creak under its own weight. But just as it's about to break, that person quietly departs, drifting away like a cloud, leaving the branch intact..."

Jiang Qingshui remained silent for a long time before coming to her senses.

"Never mind, business is more important."