Immortal Demon God

Sect Master Tongtian reached out and grabbed. The void tore like a piece of rag, revealing an Outer Realm World on the other side. It seemed to lie beyond the heavens. Savage Beasts, giant monsters, and heavenly demons charged across its barren, primitive landscape, as if the world had only just been born.

"My disciple needs to cultivate his physical body, which requires a great deal of vital essence. This Outer Realm World has a decent amount of origin essence. It should be just what he needs."

Boom!

The entire Great Thousand World trembled. The sky faded, and the vitality of the land rapidly vanished. All the Savage Beasts and giant monsters were instantly reduced to ash.

Vital essence gathered in specks and trickled into streams. The streams joined into mighty rivers, until the essence of the whole world flowed into Sect Master Tongtian's hand like countless rivers returning to the sea, transforming into a jade-green bead.

Sect Master Tongtian said, "Excellent. With this Azure Origin Bead, my disciple won't need to spend any effort refining pills while cultivating his physical body."

Sect Master Tongtian withdrew his hand from the spatial rift. With a flick of his finger, he sent the vital essence of an entire Great Thousand World into Fang Yang's body.

Fang Yang had been cultivating when he sensed an unimaginable amount of vital essence surge into his body.

He thought, This is bad. His mana was already far beyond what his cultivation level should allow, and his body could barely withstand it. Now he had all this True Qi flooding in, and he hadn't cultivated a Physical Body Spirit. Who could help him bear the burden?

At that critical moment, Sect Master Tongtian's voice entered his mind. "I will now teach you a divine art for cultivating the physical body—the Immortal Demon God Art. Use its methods to refine this vital essence and temper your body. Not only will you strengthen your physical body, you'll also be able to fully absorb your surging mana."

Thud!

The next moment, Fang Yang felt like Xi Yangyang, because Sect Master Tongtian had tossed him into a massive cauldron.

Divine Firmament Dao Fire roared beneath the cauldron, while inside it brimmed with boiling oil. The divine oil was dark gold, and the phantom forms of Chaos Beings roared within it.

This wasn't the Indian Divine Oil from the Western Sect. It was Chaos Divine Oil, extracted by Sect Master Tongtian from the bodies of Outer Realm Demon Gods he had slain.

Chaos Divine Oil contained an immense amount of Origin Power. Even a Golden Immortal who swallowed a single drop might explode. Even a Great Luo Golden Immortal could gain enormous benefits by refining it.

Using Chaos Divine Oil to temper Fang Yang's body was extravagantly generous.

"Outer Realm Demon Gods are becoming rarer near the Primordial World. I'll have to use this oil sparingly."

Sect Master Tongtian watched Fang Yang sit in the pot of oil without a word, using sheer willpower to suppress the pain, and thought to himself.

"My young disciple's cultivation is still shallow, after all. He can't use much divine oil. Once he's done tempering his body, Duobao can use the rest."

You never knew the value of firewood and rice until you ran a household. Though Sect Master Tongtian was a Saint, he had too many disciples to support. Sometimes, he had to be frugal.

Meanwhile, Fang Yang was suffering and enjoying it at the same time.

The Immortal Demon God Art Sect Master Tongtian had created was a profound technique of extraordinary vision. It combined the mysteries of the Eight-Nine Arcane Art and the Chaos Demon God True Body.

The Chaos Demon Gods' physical bodies had been tempered by countless calamities in the environment of Chaos. Sect Master Tongtian had preserved this trait while adding the Eight-Nine Arcane Art's quality of endless transformation.

The General Program of the Immortal Demon God Art read: "To cultivate this art, let Myriad Calamities Become Empty. Temper Bones with Calamity, Shape Body with Transformation. Become Immortal and Undying, Invulnerable to All Laws."

Even more remarkable, every time the divine art advanced a level, it raised the physical body's potential ninefold.

Take Jiang Ziya as an example. Suppose he was destined to reach the Golden Immortal Realm. If we set his maximum mana after reaching Peak Golden Immortal at one, then after mastering the first level of the Immortal Demon God Art, his maximum mana would rise to nine. After mastering the second level, it would rise to eighty-one.

And so on. The higher the level of the Immortal Demon God Art, the more mana the physical body could withstand. The divine art could be cultivated up to the ninth level.

Of course, once cultivators reached the Great Luo Golden Immortal Realm, they would open a Destiny World. The mana that a Destiny World could contain was beyond comparison with the physical body.

Sect Master Tongtian had created this divine art only to solve Fang Yang's current problem. He had always hoped Fang Yang would forge his own path, and had no intention of creating a method to Prove Dao through the physical body.

So Fang Yang would have to perfect the Immortal Demon God Art himself, so that the divine art could keep pace with his cultivation.

Fang Yang was immersed in the boiling Chaos Divine Oil. It bubbled and popped, like countless tiny knives stabbing into his body all at once.

But a tremendous amount of vital essence within him kept repairing his body.

At every moment, his physical body cycled between destruction and rebirth.

Pain worse than castration swept through Fang Yang's entire body, making his breathing grow ragged. If not for his iron will, he would have been groaning in agony.

He circulated the Immortal Demon God Art with all his might, digesting the two forces within and without.

He swore that once he finished cultivating this time, he would revise the Immortal Demon God Art. At the very least, he would find a way to block out the pain in his body.

Look at him now. Cultivating made it feel like he was castrating himself. But he didn't have the energy to think about that. First, he had to make it through this ordeal.

Fang Yang gritted his teeth and dug his fingernails deep into his flesh. Blood flowed, but he felt nothing. All his attention was focused on circulating the profound art.

The power of the Immortal Demon God Art was too overbearing. As soon as he circulated it, his pain turned into power. The birth of that power made his pain multiply, and the multiplied pain became even more power.

Power surged through him without end, and so did the pain. Fang Yang was like a snake, constantly shedding its skin and being reborn.

His physical strength continued to rise, and with it came the birth of Law Power.

Previously, his physical body had been too weak to withstand Law Power. As it grew stronger, the Lightning Law finally emerged.

Crackle, crackle, crackle!

His Lightning Law had been born from Divine Firmament Heavenly Thunder.

Divine Firmament Heavenly Thunder was a branch of Supreme Purity Divine Thunder, the most Supreme Yang thunder between heaven and earth. It carried abundant Righteous Qi and suppressed all Demonic Evils.

Golden divine thunder exploded above Fang Yang's head, banishing all darkness from the world and sweeping away every demon and evil.

Next came the Speed Law.

The Speed Law had no concrete manifestation, but Fang Yang's cultivation speed increased dramatically. Sect Master Tongtian hadn't even granted him Time Acceleration, yet he circulated his cultivation art more than ten times faster.

Soon after, the Space Law was born as well.

In the Chaos Era, the Space Law had been difficult to cultivate. But times changed, and the world progressed.

When Great God Pangu opened heaven and earth, he slew all Three Thousand Demon Gods. The origin of the Space Demon God fell into the Primordial Wilderness, becoming nourishment for the Primordial World. All beings born in the Primordial World gained the ability to comprehend the Space Law.

The Space Law Fang Yang was now comprehending was the common version, whose power was nowhere near that of Great Immortal Yang Mei's version. Even so, he had still taken his first steps in cultivating it.

After the Space Law came the Creation Law.

With four kinds of Law Power appearing in Fang Yang, the Creation Law in particular caused his Immortal Demon God Art to break through all at once, advancing to the third level.

Boom!

Sect Master Tongtian was overjoyed. This cultivation art was simple for him, but it was no small feat for Fang Yang, a mere Golden Immortal, to advance straight to the third level.

He had met Fang Yang far too late. If Fang Yang had been born earlier, appearing during the Witch-Demon Tribulation, Sect Master Tongtian would have raised him from the start.

Teaching Fang Yang to cultivate was far easier than teaching his other disciples.

His other disciples learned heterodox techniques like the Great Plague Art, the Netherworld White Bone Scripture, and the Blood Transformation Demonic Scripture in an instant, mastered them as soon as they used them, and could draw inferences from a single example after just one try. But teach them orthodox Xuanmen arts, and they wouldn't make a peep.

Even Daoist Duobao's talents didn't seem to lie in the Mystic Gate Orthodox Law. He learned the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation a thousand times faster than the Heaven Intercepting Seven Swords.

When Sect Master Tongtian obtained the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation, he was already a Quasi-Saint. It had taken him a great deal of effort to refine the formation and turn it into the Refine Demons into Dao method. But when Daoist Duobao learned the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation 2.0, he had somehow, without instruction, turned it back into the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation 1.0.

Sometimes, Sect Master Tongtian even felt he had held Daoist Duobao back. Daoist Duobao should have taken Luohu as his master; that would have let him make better use of his talents.

Only Fang Yang truly resembled his heir, someone who could fully inherit his legacy.

Still, Fang Yang hadn't started too late. Now that he was Sect Master Tongtian's disciple, Sect Master Tongtian would bring him up even if it meant selling everything he owned.