The Demonic Path Really Is Full of Fools

Why was heaven and earth in their current state?

Jiang Chuan pondered for a moment before answering, "They evolved from the Great Dao?"

"Correct. They evolved from the laws of the Great Dao."

Lu Chenling paused, then continued, "Heaven and earth evolved from the Great Dao, so the laws of the Great Dao themselves are also a part of heaven and earth."

"Under normal circumstances, cultivators only begin comprehending the workings of the Great Dao and the mysteries of its laws upon reaching the fifth realm, the Dao Inscription Realm."

"Yet there are always some cultivators who become exceptions, comprehending the mysteries of Great Dao laws before reaching the fourth realm."

"I am one of them. I comprehended the Sword Dao, and when I formed my Inner Scenery Map, I inscribed the laws of the Sword Dao into it."

"If I fully activated my Inner Scenery Map, I could draw upon the blessing of the Sword Dao laws. Its power would be several times greater than the Inner Scenery Maps of ordinary fourth-realm cultivators, enough to rival a High-grade Treasure Artifact."

A High-grade Treasure Artifact!

Jiang Chuan was startled.

He himself possessed the High-grade Treasure Artifact Flame Sun Needle, so he knew perfectly well the gap in power between High-grade and Low-grade Treasure Artifacts.

It was no exaggeration to say that when fully activated, a High-grade Treasure Artifact was at least five times more powerful than a Low-grade Treasure Artifact!

Jiang Chuan sighed sincerely. "Miss Lu truly deserves to be called the foremost prodigy among the younger generation of the Seven Kill Demonic Sect!"

Lu Chenling put away her Inner Scenery Map, regret appearing on her face.

"Unfortunately, I still failed to create a Heavenly Diagram."

"What is a Heavenly Diagram?"

"Legend has it that peerless prodigies can stir heaven and earth while creating their Inner Scenery Maps, causing the Great Dao to descend with strange phenomena. Thus, they are called Heavenly Diagrams."

Lu Chenling explained, "The might of a Heavenly Diagram is enough to rival a Top-grade Treasure Artifact."

"A Top-grade Treasure Artifact!"

Jiang Chuan looked wistful. "I wonder whether I can create a Heavenly Diagram when I form my Inner Scenery Map."

"Although no cultivator has created a Heavenly Diagram in nearly a thousand years, I believe that Fellow Daoist Jiang will certainly be able to do it." Lu Chenling's voice was full of confidence.

"I'll borrow Miss Lu's auspicious words." Jiang Chuan gave an awkward laugh.

He knew his own limits.

Jiang Chuan knew very well that he had never been some peerless genius. At most, his aptitude and talent could be considered above average.

Not to mention compared to Lu Chenling, even compared to his senior brother Jing Hui, he was clearly inferior.

Therefore, Jiang Chuan held little obsession over creating a Heavenly Diagram.

He had only mentioned it casually just now.

You and Lu Chenling continued on your way, arriving at Ant Mountain after half a day.

Ant Mountain stretched for thousands of miles and was occupied by the ant demons among the earth demons.

Ant demons had copper skin and iron bones, and their numbers were immense. Among all earth demons, they were considered one of the more troublesome kinds.

Splat!

Jiang Chuan swung his blade and cleaved the ant demon before him in two, dark green blood spraying everywhere.

"Miss Lu, what are you doing at Ant Mountain?"

"I arranged to meet my mother at Ant Mountain," Lu Chenling answered.

Your mother?

Gong Suxin, Vice Palace Mistress of Taixu Immortal Palace!

Jiang Chuan instantly felt as if he had fallen into an ice cellar.

He could already imagine the Vice Palace Mistress of Taixu Immortal Palace flying into a towering rage upon learning that a yellow bald head had been pestering her daughter and wanted to root up her precious cabbage.

Jiang Chuan forced out a smile. "Miss Lu, you aren't joking with me, are you? I remember you saying before that your honored mother had not come to the Underground Abyss!"

"Fellow Daoist Jiang, you remembered wrongly."

Lu Chenling corrected him, "I said my father had not come."

Jiang Chuan's heart immediately sank to the bottom.

"Chen'er."

At that moment, a soft and gentle voice rang out.

The next instant, a beautiful woman dressed in magnificent palace robes appeared out of thin air before Jiang Chuan.

She was tall and slender, her skin crystalline and lustrous like mutton-fat jade, her black hair falling to her waist.

Though her face was veiled by a light gauze, her exposed eyes shone like stars.

From afar, she looked like a fairy maiden from the Jade Pool descending into the mortal world.

"Mother!"

Lu Chenling excitedly threw herself into Gong Suxin's embrace.

Gong Suxin held Lu Chenling and whispered a few words to her. Then she turned toward Jiang Chuan, her brows immediately knitting slightly.

Not good!

Jiang Chuan inwardly cried that things were bad.

He was a cultivator of demonic arts.

Although the Void Devouring Scripture was grand and majestic, directly pointing toward the essence of the Great Dao, it was ultimately still a demonic art and retained a trace of demonic aura.

Otherwise, Ghost Rain Sword would not have mistaken Jiang Chuan for a demonic cultivator back at Treasure Mountain.

Gong Suxin had borne a daughter with the sect master of the Seven Kill Demonic Sect, so she must have cultivated jointly with him. Her understanding of demonic arts was likely even deeper than Abbot Kong Ming's.

Sure enough, Gong Suxin's next words confirmed Jiang Chuan's thoughts.

"Who told you to approach my daughter? Tell me, and I will spare your life."

"Mother, what are you doing? Fellow Daoist Jiang kindly guided me here. Why do you want to kill him?" Lu Chenling was deeply displeased.

Gong Suxin explained, "This boy is one of the demonic path. He disguised himself as a monk and approached you; he surely has some ulterior motive."

"One of the demonic path? Impossible. If Fellow Daoist Jiang cultivated a demonic art, he could not possibly have hidden it from me." Lu Chenling did not believe her.

"Chen'er, it is normal that you cannot tell."

Gong Suxin stroked Lu Chenling's head.

"If your father had not shown me every scripture and manual of the Seven Kill Demonic Sect, I nearly would not have noticed that this boy actually cultivates a demonic art."

Jiang Chuan: "..."

He suddenly felt that Ghost Rain Sword had been right.

The demonic path really was full of fools!

The sect master of the Seven Kill Demonic Sect had actually shown his wife every scripture and manual of the Seven Kill Demonic Sect because of a pretty face.

If Jiang Chuan had been one of the Seven Kill Demonic Sect's ancestors, he would surely have been angered back to life just to strangle Lu Jinglin to death!

"Fellow Daoist Jiang, do you truly cultivate a demonic art?" Lu Chenling still found it hard to believe.

Under Lu Chenling's gaze, Jiang Chuan hesitated for a moment, then nodded.

A flash of surprise surfaced in Lu Chenling's beautiful eyes. "You really do cultivate a demonic art!"

"What was your purpose in approaching my daughter?" Gong Suxin narrowed her eyes, a trace of chill entering her voice.

"I wanted your daughter to become my Dao companion!"

Jiang Chuan felt that if he said that aloud, this simulation would most likely end right here.

"I'll treat a dead horse as though it were alive!"

Gritting his teeth, Jiang Chuan immediately began making things up.

"Senior Gong, after I left Bodhi Temple, an expert cast two divinations for me. That was why I came to the Underground Abyss to seek out Miss Lu."

"The first divination said that I had an affinity with the demonic path. If I abandoned Buddhism and entered the demonic path, I would become a giant of the demonic path. Then, following the divination, I found a demonic art."

As Jiang Chuan spoke, he took out the Ruyi Heart Sutra from his Storage Bag.

"If Senior does not believe me, a sweep with your Divine Sense over this scripture will reveal the truth."

"This scripture!"

Gong Suxin's eyes widened sharply, and even her calm voice carried a trace of undisguisable astonishment.

"What an exceptional demonic art! This demonic art is not inferior to the Seven Kill Sword Canon, and compared to the Taixu Immortal Scripture of my Taixu Immortal Palace, it is at most one level weaker!"

"For someone to guide you to such a demonic art, they must be an extraordinary great expert. Did he leave behind his name?"

"That senior only said that he was called Divine Calculator." Jiang Chuan once again brought out Divine Calculator.

"Divine Calculator?! Senior Divine Calculator of the Chiming Realm?!"

Gong Suxin let out a cry of alarm.

"Why would he come to the Qingyuan Realm? I see—the rumors say that he obtained part of Kun Tian Immortal Venerable's inheritance. He must be trying to open Kun Tian Immortal Mansion."

"There really is someone called Divine Calculator?!!"

Jiang Chuan was somewhat dumbfounded as well.

He had merely made up a person off the top of his head, yet such a person really existed.

Moreover, judging from Gong Suxin's words, this Divine Calculator was most likely an extraordinary figure.

After all, Gong Suxin was the Vice Palace Mistress of Taixu Immortal Palace. If the Palace Mistress were to perish unexpectedly, she would become the new Palace Mistress.

Even if her strength was weaker than Abbot Kong Ming's, it would not be by much. She was most likely an Eighth Realm cultivator as well.

Yet she addressed him as Senior.

This Divine Calculator was very likely a Tenth Realm existence, perhaps even beyond the Tenth Realm!

"You little monk are quite fortunate, to have encountered Senior Divine Calculator by such a twist of fate!"

Gong Suxin's face was full of envy as she immediately pressed on, "What did Senior Divine Calculator's second divination reveal?"