Chapter 302 Going Down the Mountain _2
The Demon Sect ranks at the bottom of the four major Immortal Sects, constantly besieged by the other three Immortal Sects, enduring several near-extinction calamities.
However, the path of demons originates from the human heart and cannot be eradicated completely.
As the demonic path shattered and was rebuilt, its cultivation techniques spread throughout the world, and countless cultivators by chance came upon them. After repairs, augmentations, and modifications, they spawned innumerable branches, with demon cults and schools numbering hundreds of times more than the Sect of Patched Heaven.
The Black Wind Demon Monarch, after cultivating to the Golden Core within the Endless Faction, slaughtered all the members of his faction to purchase the Spiritual Objects for Nascent Soul condensation, even selling the divine souls and essence blood of his faction to the marketplace.
When the memoir recorded this event, the Black Wind Demon Monarch's tone was very much self-satisfied.
Not to mention regret, he probably thought he sold them for too little and wished he could find his former sect members reincarnated just to kill them once more.
"This..."
Zhou Yi couldn't help but feel fortunate to be born in an orthodox sect and to live in Xuanmen, as truly apprenticing in the demonic path would not be sustained by a hundred Longevity Dao Fruits.
"No wonder this scoundrel could get along so well with Wu Ming; the two of them have exterminated all their sect members just for the sake of cultivation!"
By slaughtering the Endless Faction, the Black Wind Demon Monarch also offended Supreme Sect's Skyfall Island and even the Demon Sect could not tolerate him. He could only flee everywhere across Dongsheng Divine Continent. It was only by great fortune that he discovered relics of an ancient great sect.
"Great Profound Sect!"
Zhou Yi's mind trembled upon seeing this name, as the main cultivation technique he now practiced was indeed the Great Profound Scripture.
The Black Wind Demon Monarch found the Innate Destructive Divine Wind in the relics, but his own cultivation technique did not align with it, and he couldn't cultivate it at all. He could only patiently comprehend and modify it, eventually turning the Divine Wind into the Black Wind.
A divine skill that originally belonged to the orthodox Xuanmen was transformed into a gaping maw emitting billowing black smoke and surging with demonic qi.
"The Innate Destructive Divine Wind actually originates from the Great Profound Sect; this technique should be suitable for my cultivation..."
Zhou Yi's face showed delight, and as he continued to read the memoirs, he learned about the Demon Head's acquaintance with Bai Suixin, who provided shelter under the Severing Heaven Sect, allowing him to finally live peacefully, until he ultimately died at Bai Suixin's hands.
"That Demon Head carried the divine skill for cultivation with him, and it was annihilated during the spell battle, but the ancient technique was originally left in the Scripture Pavilion of Black Wind Cave!"
The Black Wind Demon Monarch managed the cave for a hundred years, and although he did not formally establish his own sect and become its founder, the arrangements inside Black Wind Cave were not much different from those of a sect.
He found the Scripture Pavilion.
Zhou Yi broke through the Formation and Prohibition and took down a jade slip with an antique design. When his Divine Sense probed into it, it was indeed the divine skill for cultivation.
After reciting the entire scripture, he found many similarities with the Great Profound Scripture.
"The Great Profound Sect bases its practice on Qi Refinement, and the One Qi Sect carries on its philosophy—this divine skill is precisely for cultivating a breath of Innate Divine Wind!"
Zhou Yi stored the jade slip into Kunlun Cave Heaven and then cleaned out Black Wind Cave, sending all the Little Demons to the Myriad Souls Banner to be refined into malevolent souls and fierce ghosts for his command.
As the souls and spirits vied for dominance in the Myriad Souls Banner, its power grew stronger day by day.
After eliminating demons and exorcising fiends, Zhou Yi always captured their souls and refined them into the banner.
One today, ten tomorrow, it might seem like a small number, but accumulated over hundreds or thousands of years, the Myriad Souls Banner could transform into a banner of a million souls, its might in no way inferior to that of a Spiritual Treasure.
At that time, with a mere wave of the black banner, a million malevolent souls and fierce ghosts would surge like a tidal wave.
Zhou Yi did not have to lift a finger; the enemy would be consumed by malevolent souls or, should he encounter a much stronger foe, releasing a million malevolent souls to block the way was also an excellent strategy.
"These are all evil Little Demons, and dying directly would make it too easy on them. I'm merely meting out punishment for their wickedness!"
Several months later.
The demon heads of Black Wind Mountain either died or fled, and the name was changed to Divine Wind Mountain.
Zhou Yi presided over the Divine Wind Cave, calling himself the Mountain God, governing the lives of millions of his subjects.
"Divine Wind Mountain is even larger than Qingyun Mountain, yet the population is less than a fifth. The Black Wind Demon Monarch was so rampant in abducting living souls that he truly deserved death!"
The news traveled back to Heavenly Mountain, and soon enough his sect sent family members over.
With new gods presiding over the mountains and rivers under Divine Wind Mountain, the mortal residents suddenly found life getting better, at least no longer fearing strange winds sweeping away the populace.
...
Divine Wind Cave.
Zhou Yi sat cross-legged upon a cloud bed, his eyes tightly closed, breath emitting a mysterious green light from his mouth.
"Huff!"
With a breath, he blew out a breath of air, turning into a ferocious wind that became invisible and circled within the cave.
The cave walls crumbled, and dust filled the air.
Zhou Yi slowly reined in his mana, and the wild wind finally ceased as his eyes gleamed with joy.
"I have finally cultivated the first breath of Divine Wind, its power already not inferior to a Lightning Method that's been bitterly cultivated for a thousand years. It is indeed worthy of being an Innate Divine Skill. Moreover, this divine skill commands the power of the wind and can augment any Escape Skill, easily increasing the speed by forty or fifty percent!"
As he spoke, his figure dissipated, turned into breezes, and flowed out of the cave with the wind.
The breezes gathered again and condensed into Zhou Yi's physical form.
"Truly a great divine skill for preserving life. If it weren't for the Primordial Array sealing all directions that day, even if twelve Daoist Lords joined forces, they might not have been able to slay the Black Wind Demon Monarch. Now that I have cultivated the Void Escape Technique and added this technique for dispersing in the Clear Wind, there's nowhere in the world I cannot go!"
Zhou Yi calculated with his fingers, and in just a short period of seclusion, another ten years had passed.
Winds and clouds gathered beneath his feet as he rose into the air and surveyed his surroundings.
His eyes gleamed with a spiritual light that could see for a thousand miles, and the once barren and desolate mountain ranges had turned lush green. Cultivators used spells to plant trees, and in a short time, the environment had changed.
"First, I'll collect the incense and Wish Power Beads and then distribute them back at the sect."
Zhou Yi formed a spell with his hands and sent a message to the Mountain Gods and River Lords in all directions, reporting up the incense collected over ten years.
Divine Wind Mountain had been established for less than ten years, yet as the territory it occupied expanded, it was necessary to centralize the collection and distribution, otherwise Zhou Yi would need to travel all over the place every year.
"Tsk tsk! Such behavior of mine is becoming less and less like that of the Xuanmen Orthodoxy…"
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Heavenly Mountain.
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Zhou Yi had just returned not long ago when he received a message from his fellow disciples, inviting him to a banquet to discuss the Dao.
This was merely a pretext, after all, as Nascent Soul Daoists, they couldn't shamelessly ask when the Wish Power Beads would be distributed; the people of Heaven's Gate are very concerned about saving face!
It's precisely because the Xuanmen Orthodoxy cares about saving face that they didn't descend the mountain in secret to occupy rivers and mountain streams. Instead, they left the matter to Zhou Yi to handle, and they only had to sit and wait for their share of the Wish Power Beads.
"Fellow senior disciples, the Wish Power Beads have been collected…"
"The number from Qi Wu Mountain has surged by fifty percent…"
"Divine Wind Mountain's numbers are smaller, and they are working hard to gather more people. However, this time, with relics from the Black Wind Demon Monarch sold off, we managed to convert them into Wish Power Beads…"
Zhou Yi sent out dozens of messages in a row, scheduling a gathering of the Wine Immortals at the Golden Light Hall for the next day.
In addition to tasting Spiritual Wine, the Wish Power Beads would be distributed proportionally, gaining benefits in a process both beneficial and elegant!
The next day.
The Golden Light Hall was packed, with four Celestial Beings from the sect gathered together.
It wasn't just the invited Daoists who came; other fellow disciples who didn't stand to gain also heard the news and came uninvited.
Their request went without saying, and Zhou Yi naturally would not refuse.
Zhou Yi sat at the head of the great hall, originally intending to yield the seat to a fellow generational sect leader, a direct disciple, but the crowd's insistence left him no choice but to take the place of honor.
"Fellow senior disciples, cheers to the feast!"
"Junior brother will certainly not let us down, seizing more mountain ranges. With the worship of billions of living beings, our paths in the Dao will surely be smooth!"
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That day.
The wind was light, and the clouds were thin.
Heavenly Mountain was filled with joy.
Zhou Yi was practicing the True Dragon Nine Transformations, contemplating which inconsequential 'top secret' to trade in exchange for territory from demonic beings and monsters.
Bai Suixin, alone, occupied the benefits of two mountains and had become a nouveau riche of the Severing Heaven Sect in just twenty or thirty years. Rumor had it that he spent liberally to make friends with fellow disciples and brothers, and became the leader of the third generation of disciples.
For this reason, Bai Suixin became even more dedicated to demon extermination.
"Should I choose the Heartless Demon Lord or the four demons of White Tiger Ridge…"
Suddenly.
The talisman in his sleeve trembled, and the Iron Crown Immortal sent a message.
"Come to the Mystic Iron Observatory."
Zhou Yi received the message and didn't dare to delay, transforming into a Clear Wind and scattering, and moments later, he reformed outside of the Mystic Iron Observatory. His Innate Divine Wind was far superior in speed to the Void Escape Technique.
"I pay my respects to my master."
"Come in."
The Iron Crown Immortal called Zhou Yi in, sizing him up for a moment before nodding slightly and saying, "Your cultivation is not bad; you've achieved something in the Nascent Soul Realm!"
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For this reason, Bai Suixin became even more dedicated to demon extermination.
"Should I choose the Heartless Demon Lord or the four demons of White Tiger Ridge…"
Suddenly.
The talisman in his sleeve trembled, and the Iron Crown Immortal sent a message.
"Come to the Mystic Iron Observatory."
Zhou Yi received the message and didn't dare to delay, transforming into a Clear Wind and scattering, and moments later, he reformed outside of the Mystic Iron Observatory. His Innate Divine Wind was far superior in speed to the Void Escape Technique.
"I pay my respects to my master."
"Come in."
The Iron Crown Immortal called Zhou Yi in, sizing him up for a moment before nodding slightly and saying, "Your cultivation is not bad; you've achieved something in the Nascent Soul Realm!"