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Chapter 508: 507. Demonic Qi Transforms into Heavenly Energy
Chapter 508: 507. Demonic Qi Transforms into Heavenly Energy
Under the purification of the Universe Radiance, the Celestial Peng's life was coming to an end.
After Lei Jun's Mystic Barrier disappeared, he saw his fellow disciple Chu Kun waiting by the side.
Chu Kun was in a daze, staring at Lei Jun's disappearing Mystic Barrier, and sighed, "Your abilities, Senior Brother, are truly awe-inspiring."
Lei Jun replied, "With my own Mystic Barrier, I can manage. Otherwise, it wouldn't be convenient to use this method in Guizang."
Chu Kun nodded.
Indeed, if they fought without restraint, Guizang would have been destroyed by you long ago.
"Then the Dragon Demon hasn't forced you to use all your abilities yet," Lei Jun said.
Chu Kun smiled awkwardly, "Step by step, step by step."
He suddenly remembered something, "Senior Brother, has Senior Sister Tang returned from the other Great Thousand World?"
Lei Jun nodded, "Yes, she's not in a good mood. The Celestial Peng and his group ruined her plan, so she needs more time over there."
Chu Kun sighed, "The Celestial Peng... In ancient times, I heard that he had a connection with our Daoist sect, but this Celestial Peng cultivates Demonic Qi instead of Heavenly Energy."
Lei Jun said, "This Celestial Peng is not the same as the one from the past. In the future, there might be new connections, so we shouldn't be bound by the past or the present."
Chu Kun asked, "Then, what about the Primordial Abyss?"
Lei Jun replied, "I have some clues about dealing with the Celestial Peng's world. Combined with Elder Master Luo Yuan's capture of the Great Abyss Tortoise in the past, it's not difficult to find the Primordial Abyss in the near future. But we shouldn't rush it for now.
The Celestial Peng's world has fallen here, and few know about it. Let's keep this information to ourselves for a while and not spread it yet.
As long as the Primordial Abyss remains sealed, and the Sea Covering Dragon King and other powerful demons don't enter the human realm to cause chaos, we can ignore it for now."
Chu Kun agreed, "Yes, Senior Brother."
He glanced at the Time Abyss and then looked at Lei Jun, "Senior Brother, what about the demon you just captured?"
Lei Jun said, "It might be quite useful."
He took out the Heaven's Demon Vines and the Reversal Core Fruit together and sat cross-legged in Guizang.
Under Lei Jun's control, the Heaven's Demon Vines were pulled and directly spread to the Reversal Core Fruit.
The Reversal Core Fruit pulsated like a real heart, constantly throbbing.
The attraction it generated caused the Heaven's Demon Vines to tremble as if they had come to life.
The vines didn't spread into the Time Abyss, but they turned transparent and extended into the air, disappearing without a trace, as if they had directly crossed the boundaries of time and space.
Chu Kun immediately felt the rich, powerful, and demonic Qi being drawn by the Heaven's Demon Vines through the Time Abyss into the Great Thousand World where Guizang was located.
The source of this Qi was the Great Thousand World of Demons where the Heaven's Demon Vines originated.
The demonic Qi, like blood flowing through veins, was continuously supplied to the Reversal Core Fruit.
The pulsation of this "heart" became stronger and stronger.
Its surface began to glow faintly, and there was a trend of further expansion.
Lei Jun didn't stop it but instead used his own cultivation to condense a black and white Taiji Diagram, which he then engraved onto the "heart."
As the heart pulsated, the demonic Qi surged outward, affecting the surrounding Heavenly Energy in Guizang.
But under Lei Jun's control, the demonic Qi drawn from the Great Thousand World of Demons through the Heaven's Demon Vines began to change.
It started to become more complex.
Surprisingly, Heavenly Energy began to mix with the demonic Qi.
Chu Kun stared in shock, not wanting to miss any details.
After a while, he suddenly turned to Lei Jun.
Before Chu Kun could speak, Lei Jun said, "It's not as simple as you think. The stability of Heaven and Earth means that it's impossible to completely transform the demonic Qi of an entire Great Thousand World into Heavenly Energy and eliminate all demonic Qi at this moment."
Chu Kun calmed down upon hearing this, "The Demon World across the Time Abyss is in chaos, but it's just that the demonic Qi has overwhelmed the Heavenly Energy, not that the Heavenly Energy has been completely swept away, leaving only demonic Qi."
Lei Jun slightly nodded, "Exactly."
For now, he was just conducting experiments using the Heaven's Demon Vines and the Reversal Core Fruit.
Compared to the entire Great Thousand World, the scale of these experiments was incomparable.
However, these experiments gave him new ideas.
"Next, we'll carefully plan and strategize. Although we can't change the flow of Heavenly Energy in the entire Great Thousand World, the scale will be much larger than it is now."
As Lei Jun spoke, he stopped the connection between the Reversal Core Fruit and the Heaven's Demon Vines, sealing them separately:
"The current challenge is that we don't know if we have enough time to prepare. Let's give it a try first. If it succeeds, the scale will be even greater, and the impact will be more significant."
Chu Kun: "Senior Brother, haven't you been preparing for this all these years in the mortal realm and the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths?"
Lei Jun: "Indeed, with the things indirectly sent back by Junior Sister this time, everything has a chance to proceed faster."
He hoped that she, Emperor Tang, and Zhao Daoyou would all return safely soon.
A great battle had taken place in Guizang, and the Celestial Peng Demon Saint had fallen.
However, since the cultivators and common people in Guizang had been evacuated and relocated beforehand, the incident did not cause too much of a stir.
People in the outside world could only vaguely sense that Guizang had experienced a violent upheaval before.
Due to the circumstances of the Time Abyss, everyone's speculations were difficult to confirm.
Aside from informing a few people, including Wang Guiyuan, Lei Jun kept everything as usual in the following days, continuing his routine life and cultivation.
Compared to Guizang, the Ming Dynasty realm was attracting more attention from all sides.
The capital of the Ming Dynasty was in chaos.
This once-prominent dynasty was just one step away from its final demise.
Some of the royal family members had scattered and established their own territories, but their progress was arduous.
Different members of the royal family began to seek their own paths.
Some ventured out to the southeast and retreated overseas, while others changed their strategies and tried to contact the Daoist sects in the southwest. There were also those who turned north and improved relations with the original mortal enemies, the northern ethnic groups.
In the midst of despair, confusion, and bewilderment, various means were attempted.
The renowned Confucian scholars of the time also sought their own paths.
The Ming Dynasty's reign was coming to an end, and the fate of the Divine State was changing.
Some of the rebel armies had developed to a certain extent and gradually reestablished connections with some Confucian scholars.
Although there had been many conflicts between the martial artists and the Confucian scholars in the past, with the mediation of the former and the redistribution of interests and status on both sides, exchanges and compromises gradually increased.
In the post-Ming era, the mortal realm became a stage for fierce competition among various powers.
The Daoist sect continued to make steady progress.
For Lei Jun, he himself no longer paid much attention to the Ming Dynasty realm.
In the eastern part of the northern border, there were occasional activities by the ethnic groups and the Buddhist Kamma sect in the Western Regions, but as long as they did not involve the Dark Expanse, Lei Jun did not inquire further.
The affairs of the Dragon Tiger Mountain Celestial Master Mansion in that area were mostly handed over to his disciples, Zhuo Baojie and Han Xiao Fei, to manage.
In the following years, the younger generation gradually gained prominence.
Aside from his quiet cultivation, Lei Jun paid relatively more attention to teaching Feng Ting and others.
On the New Year's Day after the Celestial Master turned 112 years old, the Dragon Tiger Mountain Celestial Master Mansion held a new ceremony for bestowing talismans.
The Celestial Master's third disciple, Feng Ting, officially passed the ceremony and became a disciple of the Celestial Master Mansion who had received talismans.
Due to the timing of his entry into the sect, it had taken him a full seven years from his initiation to the bestowal of talismans.
For other disciples in the mansion, seven years was not a long time, and it was even shorter than the average time it took for disciples to advance from the Second Heaven to the Third Heaven.
But for Feng Ting, Han Xiao Fei, and others, seven years was already a very long time.
Even though Feng Ting adhered to the principle of mastering many skills, involving himself in various talisman techniques, his cultivation realm still progressed rapidly. Not only had he reached the required Third Heaven realm for the bestowal of talismans, but he had also long since attained the third layer of the Third Heaven's perfection.
Therefore, after receiving the talismans and with further guidance from Lei Jun, the young Feng Daozhang quickly reached the Fourth Heaven realm of the Daoist Talisman Sect's Yuan Fu.
Later, when his senior brother, Zhuo Baojie, returned to the mountain, the young Feng Daozhang was handed over to him by his master.
"Hua Jie has gradually accumulated some experience in the fourth layer of the Eighth Heaven, but he still needs further polishing."
Lei Jun instructed, "Guide Hua Ting, and it will benefit you to summarize your previous studies and organize them clearly, which will help you advance. Hua Ting has a broad range of interests, so he can interact more with Hua Jie and Hua Rong, my junior apprentice."
Both Zhuo Baojie and Feng Ting replied, "Disciple will follow the master's teachings."
Later, after instructing Feng Ting, Zhuo Baojie reported to Lei Jun, "Master, the situation in the Ming Dynasty realm where the previous Ming Dynasty was located is gradually becoming clearer."
Amidst the chaos, the number of separatist forces decreased as they fought and annexed each other, leaving only four major and two minor powers.
Among the four, one was directly related to the Daoist sect, one was the ethnic groups in the northern border and the Buddhist sects in the Western Regions, one was the newly established Ming Emperor who had lost the world and could only barely survive in the southeast, and the last one was secretly supported by the White Lotus Sect.
The two minor powers were unique, not as high-profile as the four major powers, but they still managed to hold their ground in this chaotic world.
One of them was the sacred ground of the Ming Dynasty's Buddhist sect.
They neither continued to follow the Ming Dynasty's royal family nor cooperated with other forces. They insisted on standing alone, but they constantly faced threats from the White Lotus Sect, making their situation difficult.
The second was the rebel army led by Luo Hai.
Luo Hai's rise to prominence was swift, making him an anomaly in the Ming Dynasty Realm. He appeared like a comet in everyone's field of vision, causing many to speculate about his origins.
However, the Eighth Heaven Realm was still insufficient to dominate a region in the current Ming Dynasty Realm.
But with the support of the Pi Xiu Demon Saint, Kong, secretly backing him, he could continue to maneuver, and few knew the extent of his strength.
Therefore, those who were unaware of the situation dared not act rashly.
Lei Jun and his disciples, who were aware of the circumstances, remained inactive and did not make a fuss. Instead, they quietly observed the changes.
Lei Jun focused more on cultivating himself.
As time passed, his First Level Profound Dao Realm, the Heavenly Market Barrier's Dharmic Vision Mystic City, became increasingly complete and vast, laying the foundation for further advancement.
The Daoist Talisman Sect's immortal, having achieved the Second Level Profound Dao Realm, created the Grand Dipper Barrier, known as the Dharmic Vision Mystic City.
The Heavenly Market Barrier maintained balance and facilitated exchanges.
The Grand Dipper Barrier governed and coordinated.
With the establishment of the Grand Dipper Barrier, Lei Jun's Dharmic Vision Mystic City would further expand and improve.
According to previous expectations, Lei Jun estimated that after the human realm's merger, he would be prepared to challenge the heavenly tribulation between the First Level Profound Dao and the Second Level Profound Dao.
However, with the attainment of the Taiji Dao Body, all of this would be expedited.
Combining considerations such as the Time Knife Soul and other factors, Lei Jun predicted that he would break through the Second Level Profound Dao at a time point that could be just in time before the human realm's merger.
Currently, in this world, the person who took the shortest time to advance from the First Immortal Realm to the Second Immortal Realm was Emperor Zhang Wan Tong of the Tang Dynasty.
However, her situation was relatively special, as half of her realm advancement was a recovery.
If it weren't for the concern about possibly causing the Pure Sky to reopen prematurely, her initial ascension to sainthood would have been much faster than it is now.
By now, she is almost certain to be the fastest person to advance from the Second Immortal Realm to the Third Immortal Realm.
The Pure Sky has reopened, and Zhang Wan Tong no longer has any reservations.
However, although she will be faster than others, it won't be an overnight success, especially with the added complications of falling into the Time Abyss, making the outcome unpredictable.
Aside from Zhang Wan Tong, Zhao Chanyang of the Kunwu Sect took approximately twenty-one years to advance from the First Taoist Alchemy Primordial Soul Realm to the Second Primordial Soul Realm.
Lei Jun achieved the Taiji Dao Body after his ascension to immortality.
Under normal circumstances, he would take longer than Zhao Chanyang to advance from the First Immortal Realm to the Second Immortal Realm.
However, in terms of other aspects of life's journey, Lei Jun had far more accumulated experience than his counterpart, and he could make up for some time with the help of Xu Yuanzhen, Tang Xiaotang, and other cultivation partners.
As his cultivation deepened and time passed, Lei Jun's heart gradually became more certain.
He estimated that at the age of two cycles of sixty years, around one hundred and twenty years old, he would have the confidence to challenge the heavenly tribulation between the First Immortal Realm and the Second Immortal Realm.
Lei Jun remained calm and composed, quietly cultivating.
Time passed quickly in the mountains, and seasons flew by...
Inside the Pure Sky.
Ruan Qiao, dressed in a green robe, had stars constantly floating and sinking around her body, as if she were in a vast starry river.
Beside her, there stood a three-tiered altar of the Daoist Talisman Sect, emitting a faint glow of purple, gold, and cyan.
At the top of the altar, a massive talisman was enshrined, resembling a huge wooden board.
Suddenly, the surface of the enormous talisman was engulfed in verdant true fire, which burned on its own, quickly consuming the entire talisman.
Ruan Qiao, who had been meditating with her eyes closed, suddenly opened her eyes and stopped her cultivation, turning to look at the burning talisman on the three-tiered altar.
On the surface of the talisman, Daoist patterns seemed to appear.
Soon, the verdant flames extinguished on their own, and the massive talisman returned to its original state, continuing to flicker with a faint light as it hung above the tall three-tiered altar.
Ruan Qiao's face showed surprise.
Soon, Wang Dian Chen arrived: "Did the High Heaven Lord send a message?"
Ruan Qiao nodded silently.
Wang Dian Chen was also surprised by this.
After so long, the High Heaven Lord still hadn't retrieved the other half of the Universe Map from Zhang Wan Tong or He Ying, the Heavenly Scholar?
"I remember the High Heaven Lord mentioned in his last message that the other world is different from ours and the Demon World," Ruan Qiao said thoughtfully. "There, Confucianism is thriving, and He Ying's entry might not be a disaster..."
Wang Dian Chen frowned: "No wonder Zheng Baiyu is so concerned."
He spoke in a deep voice: "The human realm's merger is only a few years away."
Ruan Qiao said: "The High Heaven Lord instructed us to remain calm and not to worry. Regardless of the outcome on the other side, he will return to this world at the latest by the time of the human realm's merger."
(End of Chapter)
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