The Demonic Calamity of the Endless Hells

Like the goat cubs born from beast mothers and the Beast's Child transformed from the Ruler of Xun Country, the body of the Tai Su Celestial Devil Emperor could not be forged in one fell swoop.

After all, the current environment is far from sufficient. Although it is said that the Great Primordial Opening Heaven and the False Moon Shining High, neither the quantity of the evil energy nor the Grand Tutor's understanding of the Tai Su Dao can achieve instantaneous ascension to demonhood.

What's below right now can only be considered the Celestial Devil Emperor's Infant. It still needs a process of building up flesh and blood, growing stronger, and finally breaking through its limits.

Of course, the Grand Tutor and the company had obviously made many preparations, such as assembling so many demonic soldiers and generals, and collecting the heads of the entire Wang Jing to simulate the starry sky, which made up for the lack of environment to some extent, and carefully prepared a uterus and birthing room for the Celestial Devil Emperor's infant to nurture the Dao Ancestor.

At the same time, with the research data collected by the Immortal Palace —no, the company—through the Hetu over the years on various primordial Non-Thing, and with the Grand Tutor's extraordinary talent and ability, the chances of him ascending to become the Celestial Devil Emperor are indeed not small.

Undoubtedly, this is the most vulnerable and dangerous state for a newborn baby in the delivery room. If the demonic infant were to attack with the Xuanmen before he breaks through to the Dao, or even before he breaks through to a higher realm and his combat power surpasses that of Feather Transformation Immortal, then this demonic infant would surely die young.

The risks and rewards of this ordeal are immeasurable; success or failure is a 50/50 chance.

But the Grand Tutor still rolled the dice.

Knowing the risks of this ordeal, knowing that even if things succeed, I still have to be the company's dog; knowing that being the company's dog will not end well, I still have to do it.

It's not that the Grand Tutor is particularly despicable, but after all these years, he should have a general idea of what level this company, this "Sky," is.

It's hard to defy fate.

When Taifu refused to betray the company, Li Fan had no other choice.

Of course, it seems, and indeed it is, that Li Fan still has the ability to intervene and prevent this calamity.

He wouldn't even need to risk his own demonic ascension by personally taking action. He could simply summon the Kun, use the Kun ray cannon and the Kun vacuum cleaner to bombard and suck up the demonic infant below. Although it might not destroy the core or kill the demonic infant, it would definitely slow down the Celestial Devil Emperor's breakthrough process and buy time for the manifestation side.

Alternatively, he could skip dealing with the Grand Tutor and simply eliminate the laughing 'Moon' beside him. Hou Gu's head would provide a large amount of False Moon radiation, enough to destroy the core of the formation. Just disrupting the arrangement of this nursery would be enough to cause considerable trouble for the Heavenly Demon Infant.

But Li Fan did not do that.

Because he now understands that tricking the Grand Tutor and destroying a Celestial Devil Emperor will not cause the company any damage whatsoever.

Yes, among the transmigrators in the system, Li Fan has the highest cultivation level and the fastest exploration progress. Those company managers, customer service representatives, junk collectors, and sergeants are completely incomparable.

However, the company system's exploration, research, and deployment in this world didn't rely on the transmigrated GM, but rather on this world's own Grand Tutor, a supremely ambitious native apostle. He wasn't even truly an apostle; the Grand Tutor hadn't even received any authority from the company system, only limited information and technical support from the 'River Map,' yet he had almost unified the Twelve Countries and brought the situation to this point. Could that guy in the Ziwei Yuan, playing harem romance games, have accomplished this?

And in this world, there are far too many ambitious geniuses like the Grand Tutor: Wei Gao, Lu Chai, Lu Qi, Li Hongxian, Li Wenrao, Yang Si'an...

They simply lack an opportunity—a chance to be chosen by the 'River Chart,' a chance to be noticed by 'Heaven's Will,' and to realize their ambitions.

Even if Li Fan manages to avert this calamity, the company can easily throw out another 'River Diagram,' find another 'Grand Tutor,' and create another Demon Emperor.

It's a complete loss for the company, but it's by no means without impact on humanity.

Li Fan raised his head, looking at the endless rain of blood seeping from the earth's crust. This 'sweet rain' that nourished the newborn Heavenly Demon Infant probably required the sacrifice of all the noble families of the Three Realms to summon. Moreover, how many people were selected from among all the Fiend Corpse Demon Generals here? Li Fan couldn't even calculate how many people had died just from setting up this scheme.

Once is enough, right? The company's plan is already out; they won't stop until they meet their business targets and create a Demon Emperor instance.

Is Li Fan really going to abandon his important business and just keep obstructing the company, forcing it to repeatedly prepare for this calamity of the descent of a celestial demon? Even if Li Fan had the time to confront the company head-on, no one in the world could withstand such a drain, right?

At the very least, the company's plans still include a human faction and city outpost safe zones, don't they?

There's no way around it. Even those at the Enlightenment Stage like Taifu and Zhang Dali, whether they resist or compromise, can't escape the company's control. Li Fan's aquaculture, mining, and emotional counseling companies are still too weak and powerless. They can only hide in the shadows, like those garbage-collecting armies, carefully avoiding interfering with the company's plans, preventing increases in 'deviation values,' and avoiding triggering firewalls and antivirus programs, just to eke out a living in this marginal world.

Weakness is the original sin.

However, Li Fan was alright. After all, his mood could only drop a little. Once he calmed down and thought about it, he realized that it was impossible for him, who had transmigrated to another world penniless and cultivated immortality for over ten or twenty years, to compete with a company whose assets spanned multiple universes.

Moreover, it's not entirely hopeless, as there are still external forces available.

Now that the world has been opened up by the Great Plains, the Thousand-Faced Immortal won't be planning amusement park tours like those from a shady company. Once those non- Material Dao Ancestors emerge one by one, chaos will surely ensue.

From this perspective, Li Fan was actually quite looking forward to it.

The current Grand Tutor has indeed lost his courage and dares not rebel, but would he still dare not after becoming the Celestial Devil Emperor? Would the first Tai Su Dao Ancestor be willing to enter the realm of the Supreme Being?

Moreover, is the company truly confident that it can control a Tai Su Heavenly Celestial Devil Emperor who has surpassed the Enlightenment Stage? The company shouldn't easily abandon the Celestial Devil Emperor project and eliminate it like a pest. After all, this is the Tai Su Dao Ancestor, created through the company's own technological research and development. Now that the technology for mass-producing Divine Transformation Realm cultivators is complete, isn't the next step to try mass-producing Dao Ancestors?

So Li Fan unleashed his Divine Sense, relying on his system to comprehensively collect and analyze the data on the growth and changes of the Heavenly Demon Infant. After all, if the Heavenly Celestial Devil Emperor's method of cultivating the Primordial Essence could truly succeed, it would be a path for the Human Race, and much simpler and safer than his route of transforming into the sun and exploding into a black hole. He also happened to have a Demon General Pill given to him by Xiao Qingzhi; he could analyze it and give it to Lin Xiang, who might one day have the opportunity to become an empress!

To be fair, the Grand Tutor's Tai Su Dao, or rather the company's biotechnology, is indeed quite impressive.

For humans, mechanical ascension is actually a simpler route, since it involves a complete overhaul from head to toe: chip systems, prosthetic bodies, mechanical containers, consciousness uploading, low cost, energy efficiency, and the ability to ascend the core mechanism, making them invincible.

If it weren't for the Skynet-like rebellion that occurred on the other side of the gate, completely derailing the technology path and causing various system plans to still require approval and decisions from higher-ups, the company's efficiency would definitely be much more complicated than it is now.

In comparison, biotechnology, especially genetic coding, is the most damn troublesome thing. To put it bluntly, humans are just a mountain of meat that produces shit. There are all sorts of redundant and incorrect records in the genetic code. If you're not careful, you'll get a hereditary disease. Humans are brittle, smelly, and rotten. A little medicine and they'll ulcerate. A little radiation and they'll become cancerous. Pointing the human body towards evolutionary mutations is less likely than pointing to winning the lottery.

Even the immortals of this world, for various reasons, can refine their Qi and bodies, control their own Dao bodies, and greatly increase the success rate of biological evolution. The Tai Su evil Qi can also greatly increase the rate of evolution, but the success rate is still not high. Most of the followers of the Black Lotus Sect have become as disgusting as aliens. Even beings like Purple Void Dao Lord have many eyes and feet and are not human-like.

However, observing the evolution of this demonic infant, Li Fan had to admit that with the Grand Tutor's aptitude and the technical assistance of the company's system, it was indeed extraordinary.

While Li Fan was lost in thought, in this underground Wang Jing, within the Demon Emperor's forging array, the city walls were visibly transforming into human form. The city walls became flesh and bone, the Weak Water became blood, and the baleful energy poured into his Qi Sea. The mud and blood churned and transformed into a giant infant, which then gradually shrank and condensed. The infant, which had been rolling and crawling, gradually stood up and became upright. Its Dao body condensed, becoming more and more refined and clear.

Finally, the countless stars fell like rain upon the infant, and even Hou Gu, the head beside Li Fan, laughed maniacally, crashing into the royal city with raging moonlight.

In an instant, flames soared into the sky, thick smoke billowed, and amidst the soaring malevolent aura, the mournful cries of an infant could be heard. Finally, the malevolent aura receded, leaving behind only pitch blackness and deathly silence.

Li Fan stood in the darkness, looking through the eyes of Blind Person. He saw that the once vast underground Wang Jing was now just a deep crater, as if struck by a meteorite. There was no longer a single house, tile, soldier, or general in the crater, only a seventeen or eighteen-year-old boy bathed in moonlight and blood rain.

This was clearly a younger version of the Grand Tutor. He looked no different from a normal person, without any extra eyes or arms, and his cultivation was around the Nascent Transformation Stage, with his strength clearly still rapidly increasing. At this moment, he opened his arms to receive the baptism of the drizzling rain, accepting his rebirth head-on.

Li Fan couldn't help but swallow hard. Damn, those were tens of thousands of Fiend Corpse Demon Generals! And they absorbed them all so easily and smoothly? The company's technology is really strong. Speaking of which, he relied entirely on his own cultivation to break through; those two fish were practically useless in terms of cultivation.

Suddenly, the young tutor—no, the young demon emperor—opened his eyes, revealing a pair of pitch-black, abyss-like pupils, and glanced at Li Fan.

He disappeared in the next instant.

They completely disappeared from the blind's field of vision.

Damn, that's strong. One punch from him can unleash the power of his second stage...

Li Fan swallowed hard, only calming down after confirming he hadn't been instantly killed by a single punch. Just then, a loud bang rang in his ears. Turning his head, he saw that the Yellow Springs River in the dome had stopped flowing. It turned out that the Demon Emperor had seemingly crashed through the Yellow Springs River, causing the surrounding rock walls to be shattered by the monstrous force, losing their support and collapsing down like the sky falling.

Li Fan quickly chased after him to avoid being buried underground.

The tribulation has only just begun. The Demon Emperor has certainly not yet evolved to his strongest state. With his current strength, he is probably not strong enough to defeat the manifested form.

However, it's hard to say against other cultivators who have attained enlightenment. The power of tens of thousands of demon gods is not to be underestimated. If he can digest it all, he can quickly break through to enlightenment and even reach a higher realm. He might even be able to shatter the void with his physical body, just like the Immortal Venerable of yesteryear. However, it turns out that the Grand Tutor was not a martial arts cultivator. His body training still seems to be in the style of a demon corpse, so it's hard to say how much power he can actually unleash.

Following closely behind, Li Fan was also surprised that he couldn't even see the Demon Emperor's shadow. This wasn't even at his peak; his sprinting speed was faster than any escape technique. How many people in the world could dodge his punch? Moreover, even his Gu Guan Method couldn't catch a trace of him. It's no wonder he's the version boss of Destiny; he's already this terrifying even in just the first stage!

Even after rushing to the surface, Li Fan couldn't find any trace of the Celestial Devil Emperor. However, he no longer recognized the landscape. This place should have been the center of the Three Palaces of the Immortal Palace and the Twelve Countries, but it had now become a dead zone.

A complete and utter dead zone.

Since the time when the Immortal Venerable established his rule, the kings, nobles, and powerful clans that had ruled this land had all perished overnight.

At this moment, a violent earthquake was raging, and the entire city was gradually collapsing and sinking. The area around the Grand Tutor Manor had long since disappeared underground, and it was expected to collapse and crumble outwards on a large scale. However, there was still a little time. Li Fan randomly used his escape technique, flying over the mansions of various powerful families and entering each courtyard to check. He clearly saw that the old and young members of these families were all dead inside their houses.

These powerful clansmen from the Three Realms, these noblemen and officials who had attained the Nascent Soul Stage by consuming Divine Infant Pill, were now dressed in official robes, sitting upright in grand chairs, with only their skin covering their bones. Their eyes had two bloody holes, and there were clear blood streaks in their mouths and noses, making it look as if all the flesh inside had turned into pus and blood, gushing out of their seven orifices on its own.

Looking at the others, well, there were no others left. Only the corpses of those who had taken pills or refined their bodies to the Nascent Soul Realm could barely maintain a framework. The rest of the men, women, children, and even their dogs in Sanyuan City, who had not yet reached the Nascent Soul Stage realm, would probably only have a reddish-brown quilt or a blood-soaked robe scattered on the ground.

Amidst the deafening roar, the entire center of the royal city was buried in the earth. Palaces and towers collapsed, like an endless sea of ships sinking into fierce waves, leaving only a sea of blood.

The Divine Cult's Ten Deadly Blood Transformation Array.

With such a scale, the entire core area of the inner city was covered. As expected, they were well-prepared. Once they started, they would not leave a single survivor. The Demon Emperor didn't care either; he even turned the tables on them, taking as much of the best blood essence as they killed.

Those who enter this calamity deserve to die!

Li Fan took a deep breath and looked up at the sky, but dark clouds covered the sun, and he couldn't see the cold moon hanging high in the sky. He rubbed his head vigorously for a while and it took him a while to calm down before he flew into the sky.

The three underground palaces were destroyed, but the three celestial palaces remained intact. Whether it was due to some secret protection, the celestial palaces seemed unaffected. The Ziwei Yuan still stood amidst the clouds, and the Taiwei Yuan was still surrounded by stars. However, this did not mean that the celestial immortals in the temples could escape this calamity by hiding in the heavens.

When Li Fan flew up, he saw that the sky seemed to be ablaze.

A wildfire broke out in the clouds, setting the Taiwei Immortal Palace ablaze.

Countless warships and giant ships of the Imperial Guards are attacking the palaces of powerful clans one by one, bombarding them with talismans, cannons, crossbows, lightning, and fire. They break through the restrictions, and the Imperial Guards rush in, beating the guards to pieces with a few punches and kicks. Ignoring their cries and pleas for mercy, they drag the court officials and nobles out of their rooms and kill them all.

Of course, the celestial army was not all on one side; there were also two battalions of soldiers, tens of thousands of heavenly soldiers and generals, who were fighting fiercely in the clouds, flying boats, and Immortal Palace, causing rivers of blood to flow.

Li Fan was a little confused. The Jingji was firmly in the hands of the Grand Tutor's men, who had driven the Northern Palace clan to hide and flee, and even the Chariot and Cavalry General had been killed. So where did this powerful army come from?

So he flew directly into the battle and casually grabbed two Nascent Soul General from both sides to take a look.

Okay, one was on drugs, and the other was possessed by an evil spirit.

Even when held in Li Fan's hands, the corpse-colored demonic soldier, shrouded in murderous aura, and the blood soldier with bloodshot eyes and possessed by a blood soul, continued to punch and kick, fighting with abandon.

The Demon Army and the Blood Army are like two great dragons, one black and one red, locked in a fierce battle on a chessboard, each trying to devour the other until only one remains. Of course, regardless of whether the Demon Army or the Blood Army wins, the Immortal Palace in the heavens cannot escape this predicament.

Amidst flickering flames, bathed in moonlight, and billowing smoke, countless palaces were shattered, and countless lives, both in heaven and on earth, were brutally slaughtered.

For a moment, Li Fan couldn't even tell whether he was in the sky or still underground.

The scene around the Fourth Department was exactly the same as the one in the underground Wang Jing formation they had just witnessed: flesh and blood churning, and demonic energy blotting out the sky.

It's as if he was in the eighteenth level of hell just now, and now he's climbed up one level, but he still hasn't returned to the human world; he's just fallen into the seventeenth level of hell.

Or perhaps this world is an endless hell, where slaughter never ceases.

For a moment, Li Fan almost felt breathless, so he gritted his teeth and charged past the two fighting dragons, soaring into the sky and breaking through the clouds to the top of the clouds.

Above, the cold, False Moon still shone; below, blood and fire still raged.

The Ziwei Immortal Palace, not far away, was shrouded in a thick bloody wind.

It's probably some kind of Ten Ultimate Formation again.

It was as if countless wronged souls, their blood flowing endlessly, shrouded the palace, staining the city walls with thick layers of blood, turning the talisman-protected, golden and magnificent Zǐwēigōng a crimson hue. Layer upon layer of weathering and erosion eroded away the last vestiges of protection for the imperial palace.

Countless blood demons and blood gods lurked in the wind, gazing wistfully at the palace maids and eunuchs within the city walls who remained loyal to the Immortal Emperor.

These elderly, weak, sick, and disabled people seem to be trying to hold off the attack or waiting for reinforcements.

But where can we find reinforcements?

Not to mention that the Demon Emperor, for the sake of his own path, abandoned so many years of hard work and has now vanished without a trace. Guardian General and his army guarding Ziwei have also disappeared without a trace. It is unknown whether they withdrew immediately or were all killed. And the company's security system will no longer care about the lives of these people who have lost the protection of destiny.

The will of Heaven is hard to defy.

Tonight,

The Purple Star is about to fall.

... At the hour of Hai (9-11 PM), a great earthquake struck, causing three rivers to dry up, Mount Mang to collapse, blood to flow from the ground, thunder to rumble in the sky, and the earth to split open like abyss. Government offices were overturned, palaces were destroyed, and more than 830,000 officials, soldiers, and civilians were crushed to death...

That year, Mars entered the constellation of stars, and the divine sect destroyed the Immortal Palace.