The power that surged into me out of nowhere brought me to an abrupt halt and left me utterly baffled. After taking demon essence for so long, I had grown used to the feeling of having it in my belly. I had almost never been completely without it!
So when a power other than demon essence suddenly entered the Demon Transformation Pill to fill its energy shortage, it nearly made me jump. I thought the Ancestral Dragon's power, or my wife's power, had suddenly surged into it, but I soon realized I was wrong!
This power came from nowhere else but my Dao lineages—and specifically the True Demon lineage! I had always treated this lineage with caution, doing everything I could to maintain its balance with the other nine. It was the strangest of them all. Not only did it grow by devouring immortal energy, it also flourished whenever I underwent demonic transformation. It could even erupt and devour and infect my other lineages.
That was why, ever since integrating it, I had been so wary of this demonic lineage. I tried not to provoke it, instead using it to attack and consume its demonic nature.
But drawing upon ten Dao lineages clearly required synchronization and equal amounts. I could not use significantly more or less of any one of them, because that would throw the lineages out of sync and cause an accidental eruption.
For that reason, even with ten Dao lineages, I still could not match the strength of Yun Bingxin's ten attributes. Each unit of the tenfold multiplier had to use my weakest lineage as its baseline, and among my ten lineages, the Four Lesser Immortals was undoubtedly the weakest. Expecting ten times the power of that lineage to withstand Yun Bingxin's ten almost equally powerful attributes