Chapter 461: Demon Dao’s Tribulation

What kind of tribulation was this?

Or was this simply what the heavenly tribulation of the demon race was like?

Come to think of it, was the ruler of the Demon Realm’s laws also the Heavenly Dao?

Xiao Shou suddenly became aware of this question.

He had originally thought that the Demon Abyss Realm and the Heaven Origin Realm both existed under the Heavenly Dao.

However, in the Heaven Origin Realm, regardless of whether it was a tribulation faced by cultivators or one directed at the sins contained within those Karma Gourds, various kinds of lightning tribulations would always appear.

If one lightning tribulation was not enough, there would be two.

If two were not enough, the type of tribulation lightning would change.

In short, most of them were lightning tribulations.

After cultivators endured the lightning tribulation, cultivators who practiced ordinary cultivation techniques would still have to face the Heart Demon Tribulation.

Xiao Shou’s own cultivation technique, the Ninety Nine Calamities Cycles Art, did not have this ordeal.

But the tribulation here was completely different.

From the very beginning, there had been no trace of tribulation lightning. Instead, it seemed completely unrelated to the Heavenly Dao’s system of power in the Heaven Origin Realm, as though it operated according to an entirely different set of tribulation laws.

Xiao Shou seemed to remember that the setting of a certain novel was that the cultivation world had a Heavenly Dao belonging to cultivators, while the Demon Realm had a Demon Dao belonging to the demon race.

Could the force currently releasing these tribulations against the Star Demon Mother Tree be the Demon Dao, the embodiment of the Demon Realm’s laws?

Xiao Shou, completely unaware that the protagonist of the novel called Against the World was his beloved disciple, could only make this guess.

Just as Xiao Shou discovered this point and began to piece together the truth, the black clouds in the sky suddenly underwent a strange transformation.

An extremely pure white color suddenly appeared in the center of the black clouds and rapidly expanded outward.

By the time the entire sky above the Star Demon Mother Tree was covered by pure-white clouds, a vast beam of white light descended from the heavens and struck directly against the Star Demon Mother Tree’s defensive barrier.

"Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle..."

The faint purple defensive barrier, which had remained completely unharmed under the attacks of the black substance, instantly produced a sound like cold water being poured onto a red-hot iron pan.

The barrier rapidly melted away, revealing patches of gaps.

Seeing that the pure-white light was about to descend through the barrier, all the leaves of the Star Demon Mother Tree suddenly began shaking simultaneously.

In an instant, every gap was repaired.

But even after the gaps were restored, Xiao Shou had already sensed something clearly the moment they appeared.

The pure-white light was actually filled with particles of light-attribute spiritual energy.

At that moment, Xiao Shou could not help thinking that the demon race’s heavenly tribulation was actually composed of light-attribute power.

How incredible!

Then another thought occurred to him.

Perhaps this was precisely what conformed to the laws of Heaven and Earth. ℴ

After all, the attributes that naturally countered the demon race were light, righteous and virtuous energy, Buddhist aura, and other forms of positive energy.

Just like the attribute-based tribulation lightning cultivators encountered when undergoing tribulations, such as wind lightning, fire lightning, ice lightning, and demonic lightning, the Heavenly Dao would often deliberately use the attribute that countered the cultivator being tested.

For example, when a cultivator with a Water Spiritual Root underwent tribulation, the Heavenly Dao would specifically use fire lightning, which naturally countered Water Spiritual Roots. For a cultivator with a Fire Spiritual Root, it would use ice and water.

In short, whatever attribute countered the person undergoing the tribulation was what it would use.

Therefore, when targeting the demon race, releasing light-attribute power that countered the demons’ attributes was perfectly normal.

The Star Demon Mother Tree had indeed been created by Xiao Shou, but its fusion materials consisted of the Demon Realm’s purple moonlight, its soil, a large number of Demon Abyss soldiers and Demon Generals, and a small amount of his own blood.

Since most of the materials came from the Demon Abyss Realm, it was perfectly normal for the resulting creation to be filled with demonic attributes.

It seemed that whether it was the Heavenly Dao or the Demon Dao, they were exactly the same. When testing their own subordinates, neither of them showed the slightest mercy.

At this moment, Xiao Shou had no idea that being capable of creating demons and understanding most of the principles that countless cultivators and demons could never comprehend throughout their entire lives made him an extraordinarily special existence under the tribulation of the demon race.

Yet he never thought in that direction.

He simply believed that the ultimate stage of his supernatural ability after upgrading was the ability to create objects and living beings. It was merely the nature of his supernatural ability.

The Demon Dao in the sky did not care how foolish Xiao Shou was.

It simply did not want that golden-purple fruit to mature and descend into the world.

If it were born, it would inevitably cause the current situation, in which "Negative" had gained the upper hand, to once again turn into a victory for "Positive."

It hated that outcome.

It did not want to end up like last time, when "Positive" suppressed it so completely that it could barely breathe.

Therefore, "it" absolutely would not allow the fruit to be born.

"It" would completely erase this possibility within the rules.

The white light in the sky became even more intense.

The surrounding black clouds rapidly transformed into white clouds as well. Then the white clouds compressed, condensed, and twisted, forming eighty-one enormous white pythons, each stretching for tens of thousands of meters.

They simultaneously twisted their bodies, each several thousand meters thick, and lunged toward the Star Demon Mother Tree with pure light and purification attributes.