The two realms spurned by the world were exactly what their names suggested.
The so-called virtuous would never appear in a place like this.
Void Space contained both the wretchedness of the Animal Path and the darkness of Hell Path. Rather than call it an in-between realm, it would be more accurate to say it was the product of the two realms merging.
I was born into this dim world, and before I turned eighteen, I had never seen the sun or known what warmth felt like. This place offered nothing but the distortion of human nature and endless darkness. At first, I thought I might spend my entire life in this godforsaken place, meeting my lowly end. But fate had other plans. Heaven took pity on our people, and by chance, I obtained a cultivation manual. I imagine you've seen it too—the one inside your mind." The Demon Seed spoke softly to Ye Chen, then tapped his head with a finger.
"You mean the Nine Revolutions Buddha Demon Technique?"
"Not quite. What I obtained back then was only the Sacred Buddha Scripture. I didn't understand much about Buddhist scriptures at first, but that didn't stop me. I knew that Buddha and demon had been enemies since ancient times. If I took the scripture to the clan chief, I'd surely be severely punished. But that wasn't going to stop me either. I divided the scripture into hundreds of passages and sought out different elders each day to ask them about them. In the end, I thoroughly studied this great Buddhist classic. From it, I realized that beyond this dim Void Space, there were other places—and surely, just as the scripture described, they were filled with birdsong and fragrant flowers.
"Once I began longing for the world outside, I made up