Chapter 48

Tai Ming's methods were endless, directly extracting his memories and casting him into reincarnation to be scoured clean.

After undergoing eighty-four million baptisms within the cycle of reincarnation, the imprint of the Limitless Demon God had been completely erased.

Faced with this sight, the Limitless Demon God was both enraged and terrified. He could not comprehend Tai Ming's bizarre techniques of stripping memories and washing away the marks of the Great Dao.

This was not merely the power of the Reincarnation Law from the Reincarnation Demon God, but also the binding force of the Oblivion River Soul-Entrusting Tree. Even a being like the Limitless Demon God, whose memories originated from a Chaos Demon God, found it impossible to escape.

Under similar circumstances, many Grand Unity experts would have long lost their sanity, and the Limitless Demon God, who managed to retain his consciousness, was already an exceptional case.

Now, the Limitless Demon God was utterly powerless to resist Tai Ming's attacks.

In the distance, the Heart of the Earthly Path observed Tai Ming and found his behavior somewhat unusual.

Since returning from the depths of the Netherworld, Tai Ming's methods had become extraordinarily peculiar—so much so that even the Heart of the Earthly Path struggled to describe them.

If it were itself stripped of memories, broken down into scattered components, and even denied the chance to return from annihilation, it would choose to simply abandon life.

Yet Tai Ming's handling of the Limitless Demon God sent chills down its spine.

Although the Limitless Demon God could not even enter annihilation, Tai Ming had found a way to permanently resolve a Grand Unity existence, and this pleased him greatly.

Suddenly, a look of delight appeared on Tai Ming's face, for he had discovered something crucial—the Primordial Chaos Creation Primordial Embryo! In an instant, Tai Ming successfully located and extracted it from the Limitless Demon God's memories.

This mysterious embryo revealed itself as a dull gray, appearing before Tai Ming.

The memory body of the Limitless Demon God writhed frantically on the Oblivion River Soul-Entrusting Tree.

Seeing this, the Heart of the Earthly Path and the others all turned their gazes over with curiosity.

Tai Ming began to explain everything.

Through the Oblivion River Soul-Entrusting Tree, he had fully absorbed the Limitless Demon God's memories, and in the process, he successfully branded the Limitless Great Dao with his own imprint.

In truth, he had evolved a vast number of timelines in a short span, using the unconsciously leaked Ghost Dao Profundity to lure the Limitless Demon God into appearing.

From the moment the Limitless Demon God first emerged and Tai Ming sensed his Limitless Great Dao, Tai Ming had already planned how to use this vessel for the transformation of Gods and Devils.

He had kept a constant watch on the Limitless Demon God's every move, so even when the Limitless Demon God roamed the Primordial World as a remnant soul of a Chaos Demon God, Tai Ming had always regarded him as his target.

The other party had always hidden a crucial trump card, allowing the Limitless Demon God to cleverly evade the will of the Primordial World and helping him reshape his identity as a Chaos Demon God.

While using the Underworld Emperor to continuously probe the Limitless Demon God, Tai Ming was also conducting deductions.

At one point, when the Power of the Earthly Dao nearly sent the Limitless Demon God into annihilation, Tai Ming seized a key flash of insight, revealing the Limitless Demon God's trump card.

Thus, Tai Ming acted decisively, breaking the Limitless Demon God down into three parts: the memory body, the demon god soul, and the Great Dao origin.

Through the Limitless Demon God's memories, Tai Ming, after countless attempts across timelines, finally grasped the origin of the Limitless Great Dao.

The Primordial Chaos Creation Primordial Embryo—the initial gestation state of a Chaos Great Dao Demon God—had been obtained by the Limitless Demon God.

This was an extremely precious treasure among the Three Thousand Chaos Great Dao Demon Gods.

Under normal circumstances, Chaos Demon Gods could not find these gestating embryos.

Chaos Demon Gods emerged at different times, some early and some late. Among them, the Chaos Limitless Great Dao Demon God was one of the early-emerging and powerful existences.

By a twist of fate, the Limitless Demon God encountered the embryo of another Chaos Demon God—the Demon God of Nothingness.

The Great Dao Laws represented by the Demon God of Nothingness complemented the Limitless Great Dao, so the Limitless Demon God decisively plundered its gestating Great Dao origin.

Deprived of its Great Dao origin, the Primordial Chaos Creation Primordial Embryo could no longer complete its gestation.

During the Great Tribulation when the Primordial Heavenly King, the Pangu Clan, opened up the Primordial World, the Limitless Demon God suffered severe injuries.

The Pangu Clan paid no attention to the gravely wounded Limitless Demon God and merely mixed him into the Primordial World.

Afterward, the Limitless Demon God's body gestated the Limitless Demon God Grotto-Heaven World within the Primordial World.

Although under normal circumstances the Limitless Demon God would have reincarnated as an Innate Demon God, because he possessed the Primordial Chaos Creation Primordial Embryo, he had been striving for an opportunity to become a Chaos Demon God once more.

Unfortunately, the other Chaos Demon God Grotto-Heaven Worlds of this era had not emerged in the Primordial World, and the Limitless Demon God himself failed to reincarnate as an Innate Demon God, remaining trapped within his grotto-heaven world.

Since the last transition of the Heavenly Dao, when the Primordial World's control was at its weakest, he sensed the world's suppression weakening and attempted to delve deep into the Primordial World.

Along the way, he nearly became lost in the endless world barriers.

Fortunately, Tai Ming's Diagram of Three Thousand Demon God Great Dao appeared, guiding the Limitless Demon God's path, and he eventually entered the Primordial World smoothly.

After that came the Limitless Demon God's various experiences in the Primordial World.

Tai Ming reflected on this—Chaos Demon Gods who abandoned part of their foundation to reincarnate in the Primordial World could still make a name for themselves.

Such was the case with Ancestor Yang Mei and others in the Primordial World.

Yet some Chaos Demon Gods clung to their former glory, yearning to reclaim their status as Chaos Demon Gods, and found it difficult to integrate into the Primordial World.

Abandoned by the world, most of them met unfortunate fates.

Several Chaos Demon Gods had already perished because of Tai Ming.

If the Primordial World, opened by the Pangu Clan, could be easily overturned by beings obsessed with being Chaos Demon Gods, would it not be unworthy of its name? But all of this had nothing to do with Tai Ming. He was content in the Primordial World and had no intention of overturning it.

Tai Ming knew his own position and responsibilities well, and he had no time to concern himself with others.

Now, Tai Ming had surpassed the Limitless Demon God, mastering the origin of the Limitless Great Dao and the Primordial Chaos Creation Primordial Embryo.

His only thought was to gestate the second incarnation of the Nine Transformations of Ghost Dao Origin, and then stir up storms in the Primordial World.

No one knew of this except Tai Ming.

The Heart of the Earthly Path had only witnessed a mysterious embryo falling into Tai Ming's hands.

With the embryo's appearance, the Limitless Demon God, who had been fiercely resisting, seemed to lose its will to fight.

Under the influence of the Oblivion River Soul-Entrusting Tree, its memory body gradually lost its resistance and ultimately became nourishment.

Just one memory body of a Chaos Demon God was enough to satiate the Oblivion River Soul-Entrusting Tree, sending it into slumber and spawning countless Innate Spiritual Root Dao Restrictions.

In the blink of an eye, Tai Ming grew to the Mid-grade Innate Spiritual Root realm, surpassing the Twelve Dao Innate Spiritual Root Dao Restrictions.

In the remaining time, aside from focusing on the Heart of the Earthly Path, the Yin-Yang Ghost Clan and the Ghost Soldiers and Ghost Gods gradually recovered their strength through the Netherworld Ghost Seal.

The Ghost Clan and Ghost Gods, having regained their power, began rebuilding the first layer of the Netherworld.

However, Tai Ming did not immediately begin his second cultivation of the Primordial Chaos Nine Slashes God-Demon Incarnation Book here.

He had long chosen a location to prepare for nurturing his second Ghost Dao origin incarnation.

That place was the Limitless Demon God Grotto-Heaven, which was exceptionally suitable.

Then, Tai Ming used the energy of the Netherworld to launch his first large-scale transformation.

In the future, the Eighteen Layers of Netherworld would gradually open, and the Yin-Yang Ghost Clan and Ghost Gods would no longer be confined to the first layer.

Previously, the seventeenth and eighteenth layers of the Netherworld had been sealed off due to the lingering thoughts of the Chaos Demon God.

Now that those lingering thoughts had dissipated, there was no need to keep the lower Netherworld tightly locked.

With Tai Ming's assistance, Ming He and Huang Quan delved deeper into the Netherworld, flowing through its depths.

The Bridge of Helplessness branched into countless bridges, starting from the Three Lives Stone. After Ming He and Huang Quan, the mysterious Oblivion River also began to appear throughout the Eighteen Layers of Netherworld.

On both banks of the Oblivion River stretched vast seas of Shore Flowers.

These seas of flowers were nurtured from the spiritual root gifted to Tai Ming by the Yellow Old Lord long ago, providing an excellent vessel for the Ghost Soldiers and Ghost Gods.

Their existence meant that Ghost Gods were no longer limited to the world of the Netherworld Ghost Seal; they could grow anywhere in the Netherworld.

When You Hun fell into the Oblivion River, along with the Oblivion River Soul-Entrusting Tree, their memories would vanish, transforming into memory fruits.

After having their memories washed away, the Ghost Clan, Ghost Gods, and You Hun were reborn like a phoenix rising from the ashes, purer and no longer tainted by other powers.

Finally, the newly born You Hun were drawn to the Samsara Rebirth Banner, transforming into the Yin-Yang Ghost Clan or an entirely new, pure Netherworld Ghost Clan.

The birth of the Netherworld Ghost Clan gave Tai Ming's Ghost Dao its most suitable foundation.

They were pure Ghost Dao lifeforms, possessing an utterly pure spiritual intelligence from the moment of birth.

The Netherworld Ghost Clan were a unique existence. Like newborns, they inherited Tai Ming's teachings and gained the ability to cultivate on their own.

Unlike the Yin-Yang Ghost Clan and the Ghost Soldiers and Ghost Gods, they did not have such severe reproductive restrictions or the trait of immortality and indestructibility.

At first, they were merely ordinary beings, but their growth potential far surpassed that of other races.

Like the Five-Colored Human Race in the Primordial Wilderness, the Netherworld Ghost Clan possessed powerful growth and adaptability.

Though they might lack deep heritage, talent, luck, or merit, they could, in the process of cultivation, master the power of the Yin-Yang Ghost Clan, learn the abilities of the Ghost Soldiers and Ghost Gods, and even explore the Innate Great Dao and countless Postnatal Great Daos beyond the Ghost Dao.

What was even more valuable was that the Netherworld Ghost Clan had the ability to reproduce on their own—a monumental breakthrough.

Their emergence allowed the Yin-Yang Ghost Clan and the Ghost Soldiers and Ghost Generals in the Netherworld to integrate into their ranks.

With the rise of the Netherworld Ghost Clan, the Netherworld began to manifest a concept called "civilization."

Civilization was a concept both simple and complex.

So simple that a single person could constitute a civilization, yet so complex that it encompassed countless things, laws, concepts, and beings.

Watching the Ghost Clan in the Netherworld engage in various activities like ordinary mortals—creating tools, forming families, reproducing and passing down knowledge, inventing language and writing—Tai Ming couldn't help but feel deeply moved.

Under Tai Ming's guidance, the civilization of the Netherworld developed at an astonishing, almost cheated pace.

In just one Yuan Hui, all sorts of novel things appeared in the Netherworld: towering buildings, gourmet food and entertainment, transportation tools, national divisions, and so on.

At the same time, the Ghost Dao Cultivation System had fully integrated into the civilization, ranging from the most basic Ghost Spirit to Ghost Gods, corresponding to the seven major realms of the Divine Path in the Primordial Wilderness.

Although in one Yuan Hui, the strongest realm among Ghost Dao cultivators was only the Ghost Emperor, equivalent to a Heavenly God, the Netherworld Ghost Clan had a low starting point but an extremely high ceiling.

Through relentless effort and exploration, they possessed limitless growth potential.

Of course, only the most gifted Ghost Clan members could hope to match the Yin-Yang Ghost Clan and the Ghost Soldiers and Ghost Generals.

The Netherworld Ghost Clan inherited an orderly Ghost Dao Cultivation System, distinct from the enfeoffment system of the Ghost Dao Deities.

From now on, whether the Yin-Yang Ghost Clan or the Ghost Soldiers and Ghost Gods, all could be included under the Netherworld Ghost Clan.

They were merely two special components within the Netherworld Ghost Clan.

With the rise of the Ghost Dao civilization system in the Netherworld, the realm grew increasingly prosperous.

When the Heart of the Earthly Path and Yue Jianshi traveled through myriad worlds, they had witnessed similar scenes.

From the Yin-Yang Ghost Clan to the Ghost Soldiers and Ghost Generals, and then to the Netherworld Ghost Clan, the Netherworld's completeness improved year by year, displaying the vitality of a true world.

Unlike the transcendent otherworldliness of the Realm of the Nine Heavens, the Netherworld was far more grounded.

The first layer is inhabited by ordinary Netherworld Ghost Clan. As one goes deeper, the strength of the ghost clan gradually increases.

Below the thirteenth layer of the Netherworld, no ordinary Netherworld Ghost Clan can be found.

Further down, most are Netherworld Ghost Clan devoted to cultivation.

The seventeenth layer is the Dao Field of Grand Unity Ghost Gods, with occasional appearances by Tai Yi Ghost Emperors.

As for the eighteenth layer of the Netherworld, it is the Dao Field of Tai Ming. No one but Tai Ming may enter.

The perfection of the Netherworld system has given rise to various power divisions, such as Innate Divine Beings, the Myriad Races of the Primordial Era, and groups of ordinary Primordial Beings.