I Accumulate Spirit Roots for My Next Life

Chapter 429 - 278: The Origin of Demon Dao

The always gentle and courteous Wanshu Daoist Venerable, who treated Li Jizhou, the Jiuli Dynasty’s Prince Qing, with great respect, suddenly heard Li Jizhou inquire about the Spirit Vein Corpse Nourishment matter, and his expression immediately grew solemn.

"Prince Qing actually knows about this matter?"

"Is there something wrong with this matter?"

Wanshu Daoist Venerable pondered for a moment, then raised his somewhat profound eyes to look at him. "Does Prince Qing know that the Spirit Vein Corpse Nourishment in Eastern Desolation actually originated a thousand years ago?"

"Hmm, I’ve heard a bit!" Li Jizhou nodded. The matter of Thunder Flame Sect from a thousand years ago had caused disruptions in the early phase of his past life.

Upon hearing this, Wanshu Daoist Venerable looked at him with surprise. "Prince Qing actually knows such a secret from a thousand years ago? Can you tell me why you are so familiar with this?"

"Just because of an old acquaintance."

"An old acquaintance?"

"He comes from Thunder Flame Sect in the Eastern Desolate Southern Domain," Li Jizhou said casually.

"Thunder Flame Sect... Prince Qing actually has connections with Daoist Venerable Mo Li?" Wanshu Daoist Venerable was visibly astonished.

The fact that the other party immediately thought of Daoist Venerable Mo Li was not out of Li Jizhou’s expectations.

As the Seventh Prince of the Jiuli Dynasty in Central State, only twenty years old, the only person possibly connected to Thunder Flame Sect was probably Daoist Venerable Mo Li, as everyone else related to Thunder Flame Sect from that era should have reached the end of their lifespan and passed away.

However, Li Jizhou did not provide an exact answer, because he did not actually know Daoist Venerable Mo Li.

If the other party had a Communication Talisman with Daoist Venerable Mo Li, he would be exposed.

He wasn’t sure who exactly, and if it was revealed in the future, he would still have leeway, especially with Liu Hongling in his grasp, who had old ties with An Liuli, and An Liuli in turn had old ties with Yu Ziyu.

Yu Ziyu could at least be considered as an old acquaintance of Thunder Flame Sect.

"How much does City Lord Wanshu know?" Li Jizhou changed the topic.

City Lord Wanshu slightly tilted his head skyward, seeming lost in memory: "A thousand years ago, I was stuck at the Late Stage of Nascent Soul for three hundred years without progress, so I traveled the world, seeking opportunities for Divinity Transformation.

On the day I was flying over the Eastern Desolate Southern Domain’s Qi Kingdom, the lifeblood Gu inside me—a four-turn bookworm—became interested in something below, so I took a glance.

It turned out to be a Tier Three Spirit Beast, the Manggu Zhuhe, about to break through to Tier Four, cooperating with its master in a battle.

Its master was a woman in red, with cultivation at the Late Stage of Core Formation, while the opponents included one at the Early Stage of Golden Core and three at the Late Stage of Core Formation. The woman and the Spirit Beast found it hard to cope.

My bookworm somehow felt a fondness for that Spirit Beast and surreptitiously helped it out, so the woman in red and the Spirit Beast eventually escaped the predicament."

Upon hearing this, Li Jizhou’s heart paused slightly. Unexpectedly, he encountered an actual participant from a thousand years ago.

In his past life, Yu Ziyu had once told him about how, years ago, a group came from Eastern Desolation Central Domain to the Qi Kingdom, behaving recklessly, and were stopped by a frog from Thunder Flame Sect, which got injured, and then the Shangguan family came and annihilated Thunder Flame Sect.

"Basically just passing by and not knowing the cause, I took no notice and continued traveling to comprehend the Dao.

Until a month later, I suddenly sensed the might of Divinity Transformation descending upon the small country of Qi Kingdom, then my bookworm sensed a crisis.

It turned out the Shangguan family from Central Domain had arrived, tracing my tracks due to the assistance my bookworm rendered that day.

However, I was already perfect in the Late Stage of Nascent Soul by then, with the Tier Four lifeblood Gu bookworm, and didn’t fear ordinary Divinity Transformation Daoists.

As expected, I fought briefly with the Shangguan family’s Divinity Transformation Daoist, who acknowledged my foundations, and it ended there.

Afterward, the bookworm sensed that the Manggu Zhuhe was in dire condition, and when I arrived at Thunder Flame Sect, it was already destroyed.

Coincidentally, when I arrived, Daoist Venerable Mo Li was furiously eliminating the remnants of the Shangguan family.

Then we both sensed that the Shangguan family ancestor seemed to take action, and fled in opposite directions.

It was at that moment that my bookworm sensed the Shangguan family’s setup deep within the Tier Four Spirit Vein at Thunder Flame Sect, seeing the Golden Core cultivator’s sealed corpse, not similar to the Yin Corpse Dao in the swamp," Wanshu Daoist Venerable narrated slowly.

"Such depth of connection."

"Afterward, I returned to the swamp to focus on reaching the Divinity Transformation Realm, and didn’t pay further attention, but later, I happened to hear that the technique of Spirit Vein Corpse Nourishment originated from three thousand years ago Demon Dao."

"Three thousand years ago Demon Dao? Was Demon Dao always present?" Li Jizhou asked with curiosity.

In his past life, Ye Jingyu had told Li Jizhou that Ye Jingyu acquired profound knowledge from Purple Sky True Monarch at the enigmatic secret realm of Thunder Flame Sect, learning about the events of the past.

He said that three thousand years ago, the Demon Dao suddenly emerged in the Yan Kingdom of the Eastern Desolate Southern Domain, then rapidly grew, leading to a Demon Dao war that almost occupied Yan Kingdom, and finally the Sacred Land in Central Domain intervened to eliminate the Demon Sect.

In fact, the Demon Sect was not completely destroyed back then, but relocated to the nearby Chu Kingdom.

Alongside the Thunder Flame Sect matter, the destructive confrontation between Daoist Venerable Mo Li and the Shangguan family’s Divinity Transformation Daoist led to Central Domain’s major family decision to set the rule that Divinity Transformation couldn’t enter the Southern Domain.

Since then, the Nine Demon Cults in Chu Kingdom have been raising cultivators to practice Demon Skill and secretly nurturing Golden Corpses throughout the main veins in the Southern Domain.

"Not quite, not quite, to my knowledge, there was never any demon across the entire Celestial Profound Continent since Ancient Times.

During Ancient Times, Barbaric Beasts were prevalent, their bloodlines and physical bodies were unrivaled, dominating an entire era.

Until the Chaotic Ancient Period, when a towering tree unexpectedly fell from the sky, its origins unknown, yet bringing endless Spiritual Qi, the Demon Race with inherited Barbaric Beast bodies and newfound wisdom gradually became the rulers of this realm.

During the Immortal Ancient Period, the Human Race finally found suitable cultivation methods from Ancient Barbaric Beasts and the Demon Race, rising strongly, ascending countless Immortal Monarchs, becoming the uncrowned king.

Even during the Archaic Period, ascending to the Immortal Realm was exceedingly difficult, countless top beings researched various methods, yet such Demon Cultivators never appeared, at most, one like us practicing Spiritual Qi viewed as Evil Cultivators.

Until three thousand years ago, when Demon Dao appeared, only then did true Demon Cultivators exist in the world.

Evil Cultivators like us merely use external objects for self-cultivation; regardless of the cultivation, the self remains.

My Ten Thousand Poison Sect’s former Sect Leader once researched the methods of Demon Cultivators.

Eventually, he discovered that unlike cultivating Golden Core Primordial Spirit, Demon Cultivators practice through various extreme means to cultivate genuine Demonic Qi, ultimately losing the self, no longer human, truly becoming demons, holding only destruction in their hearts!

And the key point lies in that those Demon Cultivators should not retain humanity and rationality by the end, but strangely, I found that the Demon Cultivators hiding in Chu Kingdom all obeyed unified commands, completely beyond my understanding of Demon Cultivators.

I also tried to investigate, but all clues led to the Shangguan family, so I dared not delve deeper."

After Wanshu Daoist Venerable finished his words, Li Jizhou’s doubts not only did not decrease but plunged into deeper mysteries.

The Shangguan family had an Immortal Monarch who ascended during the Archaic Period, and their family was also protected by a Quasi-Immortal Artifact.

Why would they raise Demon Cultivators?

And even possess secret techniques controlling Demon Cultivators?

With Immortal Scripture at hand, how could they delve into magic and truly create such rapid Demon Dao methods?

What are they ultimately aiming for?

Thinking of this, Li Jizhou recalled hearing strange stories during his travels across the world years ago when in Liangzhou. In his past life, Shangguan Liuyun, the divine body of the Shangguan family, was slain personally by him, the Quasi-Immortal Artifact Guanghan Seal caused their Divine Soul to be utterly destroyed, yet in this life, their family has another naturally divine body born again.

Many secrets surround the Shangguan family!