The Heavenly Demon's Scheme (46)

[Controlling Heavenly Demons—does that count as the New Law, a new Dao?]

The Zhulong Battle Armor and Heavenly Demon Mangyi churned and grappled within the Nether Sea. The Zhulong Battle Armor possessed greater strength, shattering the Heavenly Demon's arm and forcing it to release its hold. But Heavenly Demon Mangyi had a hundred arms and did not fear death or injury. It merely silently entangled Xi Yi, preventing him from breaking free.

[Merely turning ghost gods to my own use. Since Heavenly Demons are already part of the Heavenly Dao's cycle, they too are ghost gods that can be controlled!]

Heavenly Monarch Yinze did not hesitate in the slightest. Seeing Heavenly Demon Mangyi entangle the Zhulong Battle Armor, he immediately prepared to leave the Netherworld and return to the Mingjing Sect, continuing his campaign to seize the Haotian Mirror Fragments.

For a time, the situation reversed again and again.

Heavenly Monarchs Xi Yi and Chengguang were indeed immensely powerful, but they faced Heavenly Monarch Yinze and his avatars, the Three Lives Mirror, and the enslaved Great Heavenly Demon's true body. That was equivalent to more than three Heavenly Monarchs. And with the Xiuming Yulun—who might merge into Heavenly Monarch Demon Fallen at any moment, only held back by Yepo and the others—the Mingjing Sect was effectively fighting four Heavenly Monarch-level entities at once!

Above the heavens, the consciousness of the Three Lives Mirror was also awakening. Boundless radiance illuminated heaven, earth, and Netherworld, reversing the time of Myriad Phenomena and the cosmos. It was correcting all laws of life and death in heaven and earth, bestowing divine power upon the Taiming Sect cultivators and drawing all their Supernatural Abilities and techniques toward their strongest forms across their past cycles of reincarnation.

The self of this Lingxiao Dao Soldier had slumbered