Chapter 577 9: Unable to Act Personally, Slaying the Enemy with Sword Control

"The Hidden Demon Sect has reappeared?"

Fang Cheng was slightly surprised to hear the name of the Hidden Demon Sect.

This Demon Dao sect was founded three thousand years ago by the Night Queen, the Demon Buddha's consort.

However, the Night Queen had been suppressed by the Dragon Elephant Wanderer many years ago. Fang Cheng had even met her when he'd visited the Heaven Crossing Hall.

The Shengshou Scholar was one of the most outstanding second-generation disciples of the Hidden Demon Sect. If not for his painstaking, solitary schemes over many years, the Demon Lord's incarnation would never have appeared.

Now that the Hidden Demon Sect had reappeared with four Tribulation Realm Great Powers as its Guardians, it was most likely the work of the Demon Lord's incarnation.

With the Demon Lord for a backer, how could the Hidden Demon Sect possibly keep a low profile?

Fang Cheng temporarily set the matter aside. He focused on chatting with his partners, concubines, children, and grandchildren, describing the layout of the heavens and the affairs of the Spiritual Sky Realm. He would occasionally offer guidance on their Cultivation and impart Daoist techniques.

The next day, his children and grandchildren all dispersed, leaving Fang Cheng to engage in amorous Dual Cultivation with his women and enjoy the greatest pleasures of the Mortal World.

He spent over ten days in Yongchang Hall before his pleasant days were inevitably disturbed.

「This day.」

West of the Primordial Qi Celestial Island, a heaven-shaking surge of Demonic Qi abruptly appeared, stretching across the void.

The Demonic Qi swirled into a massive vortex. At its center was a hideous, six-horned demonic beast with three eyes and five feet. Dark horned-dragons coiled around its arms, and it trod upon black smoke. Its body was wreathed in crimson-purple flames, its aura surging like a tide and shaking the void.

Atop this demonic beast sat a handsome Daoist, looking utterly at ease. He had a heroic bearing, his eyes glittered with spiritual light, and his skin held a pearlescent glow. Auspicious mists and clouds surrounded him, making him look as if sculpted from snow and jade. His ethereal, divine appearance formed a stark contrast to the beast beneath him.

This Daoist was none other than Ascendant Celestial Evil, one of the four Great Guardians of the Hidden Demon Sect.

He had been in seclusion in a temporary palace within the Wilderness Domain, working to dispel the sealing power Fang Wu Xie had placed on him. Unexpectedly, the Soul Lamps of the seven disciples he had sent to the Fang Family's Primordial Qi Celestial Island were all extinguished!

Furious, he had forced himself to wait for over ten days. Once his Cultivation had recovered to about seventy or eighty percent, he rushed here, unable to wait any longer.

He had been careless before, blocked by the Tier Five All Heaven Stars Formation and the Sealed Demon Insects, and had been forced to retreat empty-handed.

He had come today for two reasons. First, to identify the enemy who killed his disciples.

Second, to vent the hatred in his heart.

Ascendant Celestial Evil was quite a cautious man. Before coming this time, he not only borrowed a powerful Magical Artifact from a fellow Great Guardian of the Hidden Demon Sect, Ascendant Blood Lotus, but also secretly observed the Primordial Qi Celestial Island from afar.

In the end, he confirmed one thing.

There were now a full nine more auras at the Peak of Dharma Form on the Primordial Qi Celestial Island than when he had first visited.

These nine auras, of course, belonged to Mo Liushang.

As for Feng Yan and Fang Cheng, their Cultivation Realms were so far beyond his that, combined with their habit of concealing their auras, he failed to detect their presence.

Ascendant Celestial Evil assumed the Fang Family had found allies to launch a pincer attack, eliminating his seven nominal disciples one by one.

Although he was curious about these nine new Dharma Cultivators, he felt no fear.

After all, the gap between the Dharma Aspect Realm and the Tribulation Realm was as wide as a celestial chasm.

He pointed a finger at the Primordial Qi Celestial Island. A pillar of Demonic Qi instantly shot toward the heavens. Within it, a large Demon Brush with a blood-red shaft and silver bristles, shrouded in demonic clouds, danced amid the inky haze, emitting a terrifying, heart-stopping fluctuation.

A Tier Five Breaking Forbidden Magical Artifact.

The Demon Brush danced across the sky like a dragon, painting thirty-three streaks of Demonic Light that stretched across the firmament. As if about to bring the very heavens crashing down, they instantly descended upon the Primordial Qi Celestial Island.

Just then, a beam of sword light shot up from the Primordial Qi Celestial Island and circled its perimeter. A tyrannical, Heaven-Slaying Earth-Cracking Sword Intent radiated outward, causing the thirty-three streaks of Demonic Light to continuously splinter, unable to approach the Celestial Island.

A flicker of astonishment crossed Ascendant Celestial Evil's face. He immediately channeled his Demon Skill, causing the hideous beast beneath him to instantly expand its vast demonic form and throw a heavy punch toward the Primordial Qi Celestial Island.

The void fractured as an unparalleled, tyrannical Magic Power erupted!

Endless sword light blossomed like a lotus in the sky above the Primordial Qi Celestial Island.

The sword light collided with the demonic beast's giant fist, and the fist disintegrated without warning.

Ascendant Celestial Evil was stunned, his face a mask of disbelief.

The next moment, a world-shaking beam of sword light appeared, flashing past the beast's enormous demonic body and splitting the very heavens in two.

Atop the demonic beast's head, Ascendant Celestial Evil's body went rigid. A thin line of blood traced its way straight down from the center of his brow.

Blinding Demonic Light erupted from the beast's body. The light flared, and with a thunderous BOOM, its vast demonic form exploded into a sky-filling black fog.

From beginning to end, Ascendant Celestial Evil never knew who had killed him.

On the Primordial Qi Celestial Island, the Fang Family Members watched the sky-spanning Demon Fog slowly dissipate, all of them feeling an inexpressible shock.

Legend said their Ancestor was peerlessly powerful, but they had never imagined he had reached such a terrifying level.

They hadn't even seen their Ancestor make a move. With a single Flying Sword, he had slain the invading One-Tribulation Great Power in midair.

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Yongchang Hall.

Inside the magnificent, luxurious bedchamber.

Fang Cheng rose from the Jade Couch, walked to the window, and gazed into the distance.

Ye Yan, clad in light gauze, came up behind him and draped a robe over his shoulders.

On the wide Jade Couch, a titillating scene unfolded. Several of his beautiful wives and concubines were sprawled languidly, their naked forms exuding an air of languid exhaustion.

"What happened outside?"

Ye Yan asked softly, her beautiful eyes fixed on the black Demon Fog stretching across the sky outside.

The mood in the hall had been amorous just moments before. Fang Cheng had set up a barrier to isolate them from the outside world, so the women were completely unaware of what had transpired.

Fang Cheng chuckled. "It was nothing. Ascendant Celestial Evil came calling, and my sword light has already slain him."

He had been too preoccupied to leave, so he had simply divided his attention, sending out a beam of sword light to easily deal with the Fang Family's great enemy.

'It seems this Ascendant Celestial Evil was just a Demon Cultivator subdued by the Demon Lord's incarnation,' he thought. 'His actual strength was quite unremarkable.'

'Once I've settled matters at home, I'll make a trip to the Heaven Crossing Hall to see the Dragon Elephant Wanderer.

I wonder how his refinement of that Sixth-rank Magical Artifact is coming along?'

He looked out from the Primordial Qi Celestial Island and saw Mo Liushang helping Fang Jingyuan suppress the Tier Five Demon Brush and bring it back.

'It's also time I refined a few Tier Five Feather Divine Soldiers for Jingyuan, Jingxuan, and the others.'

He had collected many treasures during his travels through Extreme Jade Heaven and Qianyu Heaven. With the addition of the hoard from the Nine Heavens Spiritual Palace City in the Profound Nether Domain, he had more than enough to forge several Tier Five Feather Divine Soldiers.

Doing so would significantly increase the family's strength.

Mo Liushang, in particular, was proficient in the Artifact Refining Dao and possessed nine incarnations at the Peak of Dharma Form. He would only need to teach her the method for refining the Feather Divine Soldiers.

As for Fang Cheng himself, he planned to integrate three Spirit Immortal inheritances—the Feather Divine Soldiers, the Primordial Celestial Demon Strategy, and the Celestial Craft Creation Scripture—to refine an unprecedented Spiritual Mechanism Incarnation.

The main body of this Spiritual Mechanism Incarnation would be a Feather Divine Soldier. After being tempered by a heavenly tribulation, its form would be thoroughly refined, making it no less powerful than a Tier Five Middle Grade Magical Artifact.

Its "Qi Sea" would be built upon the Feather Divine Soldier's Thunder Pool and the Mystic City Jade Talisman, combined with the Void Demon Embryo to form an Artificial Qi Sea.

Its "Dharma Aspect" would be primarily based on the Divine Techniques from the Primordial Celestial Demon Strategy, refined into an artificial "Primordial Celestial Demon Dharma Aspect"!

Then, once Fang Cheng cultivated the *Sutra of the Buddha's Hidden Talisman* and divided his divine soul, he would be able to completely control this Spiritual Mechanism Incarnation, turning it into an external avatar.