Palm Buddha Kingdom Kills Inner Demon

Yuwen Tai's body was torn apart like rotten wood, splitting in half instantly. Flesh and bone were no match for the ultimate sharpness, exploding and scattering with a roar. Just then. A pitch-black oddity, about the size of an egg, suddenly appeared from his shattered chest. It was perfectly round, so deep it seemed to swallow all light, its surface flowing with viscous, ink-like patterns that constantly twisted and shifted. A terrifying demonic energy, a hundred times more potent and a hundred times purer than that of the "Yuwen Tai" before, erupted like a volcano dormant for millennia, sweeping through the entire ruined palace. This demonic energy carried the most primal, soul-twisting evil will. Just its aura caused Ye Chen, who was fighting amidst the blood far away, to stagger, nearly losing his mind. It also made Venerable Monk Huineng's golden Buddhist light flicker violently, like a candle in the wind. "This is the moment!" Venerable Monk Huineng's eyes blazed with unprecedented resolve. This was the instant he had been waiting for, the moment the true body was exposed! He formed a hand seal, and his chanting resonated like a great bell, shaking the void. The sacred Buddhist light, accumulated to its peak around him, no longer radiated outward for protection. Instead, it transformed into a pure, blinding golden torrent, striking the hovering black oddity with pinpoint accuracy! "Buzz—!" The torrent of Buddhist light was not an attack, but instantly constructed an incredibly complex, three-dimensional formation around the oddity, composed of countless golden Sanskrit characters. Each Sanskrit character contained the immense power of the Great Sun Demonic Art to purify all evil. Layer upon layer, like a golden cage, it tightly bound the true body of the Inner Demon. "Ssssss..." A sharp corrosive sound rang out. The Buddhist light and demonic energy clashed fiercely, gold and black intertwining and annihilating each other. The golden formation blazed, attempting to completely purify and seal the demonic stone. However, the demonic nature contained within the true body of the Inner Demon was too vast and boundless, like an endless sea of filth. "Monk, I told you, your Great Sun Demonic Art isn't mature enough," A contemptuous voice from the Inner Demon echoed from within the surging demonic energy. Immediately, Even more terrifying demonic energy surged out. The Buddhist light was eroded, blackened, and dissolved at a visible rate, fading rapidly like snow under a scorching sun. Yuwen Tai's already shattered body instantly sealed itself. Venerable Monk Huineng's face turned as pale as paper. "Hmph!" Gu Mo let out a cold snort and stepped forward, casually unleashing a palm strike. This palm strike didn't seem to possess immense power. But in that instant, Where the palm wind passed, space collapsed inch by inch. Yuwen Tai's remaining body, along with the surrounding demonic energy, bricks, stones, and even the distorted air, were utterly pulverized into the finest dust by this palm strike, completely erased by the violent force. Only the black demonic stone, struggling to be contained by the golden formation, remained, trembling violently in the residual force of Gu Mo's palm strike. But, It only trembled slightly. This demonic stone, the true body of the Inner Demon, appeared to be a stone, but in reality, it was merely its manifested form. Its true existence was a substance beyond the Ascension Realm, a materialized form of Origin Qi, much like the Ancestral Fire left behind after the Fire Kirin was killed. Such an existence could not be destroyed, only sealed. "Amitabha!" Venerable Monk Huineng said calmly, his eyes serene. "Great Hero Gu, this is the true body of the Inner Demon. I have suppressed this object in Feilai Temple for thirty years. Even the Great Sun Demonic Art could not destroy it, only purify it!" Gu Mo said, "But, it seems purification won't work now." Venerable Monk Huineng clasped his hands together and said, "Amitabha, if I do not descend into hell, who will!" He let out a low cry, filled with supreme compassion and a willingness to sacrifice. His entire being transformed into a stream of light burning with golden Buddhist flames, instantly crossing space. He actually swallowed the black demonic stone, encased in the Buddhist formation, into his own abdomen! Gu Mo's heart leaped in shock. In that very instant, Venerable Monk Huineng's gaunt body suddenly swelled, as if countless black pythons were writhing and crashing wildly beneath his skin! He circulated his power, and a vast Buddhist light erupted. The Inner Demon said calmly, "Monk, you could have lived. But you insisted on seeking death. You couldn't seal me for thirty years, and you think you can seal me by eating me? What is your physical body worth..." Venerable Monk Huineng completely ignored the Inner Demon. He sat cross-legged on the ground. In that moment, the surging golden Buddhist light suddenly vanished, instantly transforming into a violent, repulsive demonic energy. This demonic energy was not external; it was different from the Inner Demon's lustful demonic energy. It was a demonic energy carrying the aura of destruction. Just as Venerable Monk Huineng's Buddhist light had been sacred before, this demonic energy was now filthy. Just as his Buddhist light had been compassionate, this demonic energy was now violent. It instantly took over, transforming into a black cage countless times stronger and more solid than the previous Buddhist formation, and began to invade the stone that was the true body of the Inner Demon. This was not purification, but a cruel, same-source confinement, using himself as a furnace and the "demonic" essence from the deeper layers of the Great Sun Demonic Art, now fully ignited by the Inner Demon's true body, as chains! This reversal of roles greatly surprised Gu Mo. Not only Gu Mo, but even the Inner Demon was surprised. After all, the Buddhist light cultivated by Venerable Monk Huineng was so sacred it didn't seem like an earthly power. Who could have imagined that such a sacred monk's body would contain such demonic nature, a demonic nature so strong it could rival the Inner Demon's demonic power? Venerable Monk Huineng, exuding demonic energy all over, said gravely, "Many years ago, I discovered that the power cultivated by the Great Sun Demonic Art has two sides, positive and negative. The fact that I mastered the world's most sacred Buddhist power meant that, correspondingly, I would also become the world's most deeply demonic fiend. For many years, the reason I had my disciples assist in sealing the Inner Demon's true body was because I dared not go all out, fearing that when my Buddhist light was exhausted, even if I sealed the Inner Demon, a second fiend would be born. Only now do I realize I was wrong all these years. This Great Sun Demonic Art of mine was created to seal the Inner Demon's true body. This means everything was generated for the purpose of sealing the Inner Demon. Cultivating both Buddha and Demon is the true Great Dao. It's a pity I awakened too late, but today, I ascend and suppress the Inner Demon!" In that instant, Sacred Buddhist light once again surged from Venerable Monk Huineng's body, transforming into a state of both Buddha and Demon, one side Buddha, one side Demon, existing simultaneously. At the same instant, Vast Nascent Soul power, coexisting as Buddha and Demon, surged outwards. The energy of the Ascension Realm appeared. Venerable Monk Huineng broke through to the Ascension Realm! Not a forced ascension through a secret technique, but a true breakthrough in realm! "Roar—!" A howl filled with unwillingness, rage, and a trace of astonishment erupted. It did not come from Venerable Monk Huineng's body, but from the void! "Monk Huineng, well done!" A phantom, distorted, and ethereal black shadow shot up from the Baihui acupoint on Venerable Monk Huineng's head! Without hesitation, it tore through space, transforming into an ultimate black line, and fled towards the heavens! This was the Inner Demon's divine sense. It had abandoned its physical body, or rather, it realized that the power erupting from Venerable Monk Huineng's body had temporarily trapped its true form. It had to seize this opportunity to escape this dangerous battlefield! "Trying to leave?!" Gu Mo reacted with extreme speed. The moment the divine sense left the body, his figure vanished from his original spot. In the next instant, he appeared high in the sky, instantly teleporting in pursuit of the black line, space parting before him like ripples on water. However, just as he was about to catch up to the Inner Demon's divine sense, the dense demonic energy gathered from the entire Wutong City and even wider regions below, like a vast ocean, seemed to receive a final command and suddenly boiled! "Rumble—!" The demonic energy filling the sky no longer ascended but descended and condensed with the force of Mount Tai crushing down! They transformed into billions of thick, black chains inscribed with bizarre demonic patterns. Each chain contained terrifying power that could seal space, defile Nascent Souls, and erode flesh. Like a celestial net, they instantly sealed off all space within a hundred feet of Gu Mo, densely packed and layered, coiling and strangling towards him. "Is this all you've got?" Gu Mo let out a cold snort, about to draw the Grand Void Sword to sever these annoying shackles. But in that flash of lightning and flint, another change occurred! The void above Gu Mo's head cracked open with a massive fissure without any warning! A shimmering, dark golden thin piece, about a zhang square with incredibly sharp edges, protruded from the void. Revealed in its entirety, it was a scale. The moment this scale appeared, Gu Mo's heart inexplicably trembled, as he felt a sense of familiarity. Immediately, he felt a vast dragon's might emanating from the scale, causing the very space to ripple under the pressure, like a blade of heavenly punishment, it slashed down! Its target was precisely Gu Mo, whose movement was slightly delayed by the demonic energy chains! "Dragon scale?" Gu Mo blurted out, sensing the scale's aura. The Inner Demon, transforming into a wisp of demonic energy, instantly covered the dragon scale and said gravely, "Gu Mo, the true body has never been important to me. I gathered so much demonic energy not to control my true body, but to kill you here! This is a scale left behind when the Azure Dragon was slain. Although it doesn't possess the world-splitting power of the Reverse Scale Blade, it can kill any living being in this world, including you, a physical Ascension Realm cultivator!" While the Inner Demon spoke, attempting to shake Gu Mo's mind, it had already activated the dragon scale, which crashed down, tearing a rift in the void. It was an irresistible killing force. But in Gu Mo's eyes, there was no fear, only inexplicable excitement and a smile. In an instant, the Dragon God Skill within his body circulated to its extreme! "Roar—!" A dragon's roar, shaking the nine heavens and ten earths, majestic and divine, erupted! "What is this?" At this moment, the Inner Demon was greatly alarmed, for it felt an even more immense dragon's might. And now, Gu Mo's body, bathed in dazzling white light, rapidly transformed. In the blink of an eye, a colossal dragon, covered in translucent dark scales, with formidable horns, sharp claws, and exuding boundless majesty and power, stretched across the firmament! Its massive dragon eyes were like two burning golden suns, coldly staring at the descending giant blade of the dragon scale. A huge dragon claw extended, appearing slow but actually moving faster than lightning, precisely grasping towards the dragon scale imbued with terrifying power. White light flowed over the dragon claw, containing the supreme dragon's might to suppress all heavens and control all scales! "Clang—!" A deafening clang, piercing metal and stone, causing ripples of space to surge wildly! That massive dragon scale, in this moment, fell into the dragon's claw, as if grasping an ordinary piece of rubble, and was casually held in its grasp! No matter how the dragon scale trembled or unleashed its space-cutting sharpness, it could not shake the dragon's claw in the slightest. "Using a dragon scale to kill a dragon, Inner Demon, you are truly a genius!" Gu Mo's icy voice issued from the dragon's mouth. If it were the Dragon God Skill of before, perhaps this Azure Dragon scale could have had some effect on him. But now, strengthened by the God of War Catalog, the Dragon God Skill had allowed Gu Mo to shed the situation of having only the spirit without the form, becoming a dragon with both form and spirit. A mere dragon scale was meaningless to him. The Inner Demon's divine sense retreated at this moment. Within the black mist, its blood-red eyes showed a human-like bewilderment, then it cursed, "Master Chen, Master Qiu, those two lowly slaves have betrayed me!" In that instant, the colossal dragon body flicked its tail, its dragon claw holding the dragon scale like a sky-splitting axe, and with ten times the speed and power of its arrival, it slammed down fiercely towards the black shadow of the Inner Demon's divine sense, which was about to escape into the spatial rift! "Lowly slaves have betrayed me!" The black shadow, transformed from the Inner Demon's divine sense, let out a terrifying shriek. It did not know Gu Mo could transform into a dragon. It now hated Master Chen and Master Qiu immensely because, being in the heavens, one day on earth was like a year, and it was impossible for it to pay attention to earthly matters. How could it know Gu Mo could transform into a dragon? Of course, even if it knew, it wouldn't have taken it seriously. After all, many martial arts in the human world could project dragon-shaped energy, and with mental illusions, they would be even more realistic. But it didn't know, which was normal. However, Master Chen and Master Qiu controlled the Chu Kingdom. They were in the human world and could not possibly not know the truth. They had suddenly contacted it some time ago and had even kindly gifted it a dragon scale. "Lowly slaves, lowly slaves!" At this moment, the Inner Demon was certain that those two were deliberately trying to harm it. Its heart was filled with hatred. But there was no time to think now, as the giant dragon was breaking through the sky. The Inner Demon hastily condensed its strongest demonic energy shield. "Boom—!!!" The giant dragon tore through space and arrived in an instant. There was no stalemate, only crushing destruction! The shield formed by the demonic energy domain shattered like paper. The dragon's might was vast, the divine dragon's power surged, and the dragon claw's might, without reservation, poured onto the Inner Demon's divine sense! "Pfft!" A muffled sound like tearing silk. That condensed black shadow of the Inner Demon's divine sense was actually torn apart and scattered by this collision and claw strike! It transformed into countless fine black wisps, scattering like ink dispersed by a strong wind! "Ah—!! Lowly slaves have betrayed me!!" The Inner Demon's divine sense let out a painful and venomous shriek, its voice seeming to come from the deepest abyss, filled with endless hatred. But it was not completely destroyed. The scattered black wisps instantly sensed something and, like a hundred rivers returning to the sea, madly plunged towards the Northern Zhou Imperial Palace below, which had already turned into ruins and was filled with the densest demonic energy. At the same time, the Imperial City's protective formation activated. The Inner Demon, using the demonic energy of the entire city, instantly concealed itself. "Trying to escape!" Gu Mo let out a cold snort. His dragon body swayed, and he swooped down, instantly transforming back into human form. He immediately activated the Dao Heart Seed Demon Great Technique. An invisible yet vast and boundless domain power instantly expanded outwards from him, enveloping the entire ruined Imperial City! This was precisely the enhanced Demon Immortal domain he had comprehended by combining it with the God of War Catalog. Now, unleashed with full force, it turned the entire Imperial City into a massive cage of spirit and energy. Within the domain, the circulation of demonic energy was greatly suppressed, space was reinforced and sealed, and even the slightest fluctuation of demonic thought could not escape. Gu Mo's vast divine sense, like a precise net, instantly sank into every corner of the ruins, madly scanning and searching for every trace of the Inner Demon's divine sense after its dispersal. Meanwhile, in a corner of the Imperial Palace ruins. Ye Chen leaned on his two swords, breathing heavily. He was covered in blood, both his enemy's and his own. The earth-shattering collisions between Gu Mo and the Inner Demon just now had caused energy turbulence and spatial distortions that made him, the "Third Expert of Chu Kingdom," feel like a small boat in a raging storm, having to exert all his strength just to protect himself from the aftermath. "Oh, my mother... Gods fighting, mortals suffering... I'm exhausted, I'm parched. This title of Third Expert of Chu Kingdom really has no prestige..." "Forget it, forget it. I can't afford to offend them, but I can afford to hide!" Ye Chen wiped the blood and sweat from his face, feeling his throat dry as if it were on fire. He quickly slipped away, afraid of being caught up in another incident. He looked around. Everywhere were ruins and corpses shrouded in demonic energy. He couldn't find a clean water source. Suddenly, he spotted a relatively intact ancient well not far away. "Water!" Ye Chen's eyes lit up, and he dragged his exhausted body over. The well was deep and emitted a faint chill. He unfastened the leather water skin hanging from his waist and found it was torn. Helplessly, he found a half-broken wooden bucket near the well, tied it to a nearby scattered rope, and laboriously lowered it down. "Plop!" The water bucket seemed to hit the water surface. Ye Chen shook the winch with all his might, pulling the bucket up. The wooden bucket was heavy, and it seemed to have held a lot of water. Ye Chen panted as he lifted the bucket to the well's edge. He eagerly peered in, wanting to scoop up a handful of water to quench his thirst. However, what met his eyes was not clear well water. Floating on the surface of the murky water in the bucket was a bloated, pale human head. The head's eyes were tightly closed, its face contorted, clearly having been dead for a long time. Looking at the head, Ye Chen was speechless. Knowing he couldn't drink the water from this well, he became angry and said, "Brother, you're preventing me from drinking water. It's only fair that I kick your head around like a ball, right?" "Of course, it's fair," the head replied. "Hahaha, you said it yourself. Don't blame me..." Before he could finish speaking, Ye Chen's face froze. He slowly retracted his hand and looked at the head with difficulty. The head's tightly closed eyes suddenly opened! They were hollow, dead eyes, yet a flicker of a strange black light flashed within them! On the bloated, pale face of the head, the corners of its mouth stiffly, bit by bit, stretched upwards, forming a chilling, inhuman smile. Ye Chen's blood seemed to freeze instantly, his scalp tingling! A chill shot up from the soles of his feet to the crown of his head. His stiff smile became even more unsightly than a cry, and he said with tragic despair, "Why is it me again..." Just then, The Inner Demon within the head sensed Gu Mo's divine sense covering the area. It immediately withdrew from the head and surged towards Ye Chen. In the next moment, a cold, evil, boundless, and desire-filled mental torrent, like the waters of the Styx breaking through a dam, violently rushed towards the dam of Ye Chen's sea of consciousness. Then, It suddenly felt two strange "Qi" above Ye Chen's head pressing down on it like two mountains. "What the hell is this?" Although everything in the human world could not touch it, these two "Qi" were like two great mountains colliding with it. The Inner Demon, already scattered by Gu Mo, was once again impacted, directly knocked out of Ye Chen's sea of consciousness. And in that instant, Gu Mo's divine sense covered the area and instantly detected the Inner Demon. "Buzz—!" Above the ruined Imperial City, enveloped by the Demon Immortal Domain, a sword cry that pierced the soul and tore through the heavens suddenly rang out! A beam of sword light, indescribable in its vastness and sharpness, slashed down from the heavens! This was not simple Sword Qi, but the ultimate power of Gu Mo's current physical Ascension Realm, infused with the peerless sharpness of the Grand Void Sword, and further integrated with the God of War Catalog's understanding of spatial laws! It was not a simple slash, but more like the sky itself cracking open, a waterfall of pure light condensed from the will of destruction pouring down! Where the sword light passed, space did not shatter, but was directly "annihilated"! It was not cut, but completely erased from the level of existence by the unparalleled Sword Intent, leaving behind a deep, void-like, black trajectory as if leading to the end of the world, directly targeting the Inner Demon's core divine sense, which had just condensed amidst the demonic energy! "Roar—!!!" The Inner Demon let out a roar of mixed rage and astonishment, its demonic shadow becoming unprecedentedly dense. The viscous demonic energy pervading heaven and earth, along with the Northern Zhou national destiny Dragon Qi, which had been eroded and distorted by the Inner Demon for many years, and the negative thoughts of fear, despair, and violence hidden in the hearts of countless Northern Zhou citizens tainted by demonic energy, all surged and converged like a hundred rivers returning to the sea! Moreover, a deep, heavy "human world power," carrying the faint thoughts of billions of living beings and the luck of the nation, was forcibly extracted and ignited! "Rumble—!" The endless demonic energy, mixed with distorted national destiny and the wishes of all beings, churned and converged violently like oil in a boiling pot! At the core of the Inner Demon's divine sense, a colossal black Dharma Image, unimaginably vast, suddenly took shape! This Dharma Image towered into the sky, its face indistinct, yet it carried the majesty of the Northern Zhou royal family and the distorted faces of billions of demon-tainted beings. Its palms suddenly pushed upwards, densely covered with demonic patterns, spewing forth a tidal wave of filth. This torrent contained phantom images of shattered mountains and rivers, and the residual regrets of wailing beings, forming a giant pair of hands mixed with national destiny, demonic energy, and human resentment! "Clang—" A deafening roar, as if splitting the heavens and earth, erupted! The peerless sharpness of the Grand Void Sword fiercely slashed into these giant hands. The sound of metal striking metal echoed through the universe, and tangible shockwaves instantly swept across the surroundings. The Imperial City, already reduced to ruins, under the aftermath of this collision, was as if fiercely plowed again by an invisible giant plow. The surface was scraped away by several more feet! The distant remaining city walls silently turned to dust! Gu Mo's sword strike was actually held up by the Inner Demon! The two forces clashed and annihilated each other fiercely, emitting a grating "sizzling" sound of corrosion. Golden-black energy乱流 splattered wildly, tearing the sky to shreds. From within the demonic manifestation, the Inner Demon's hoarse, venomous, yet crazed and triumphant roar echoed: "Gu Mo! Today was my miscalculation. I underestimated you and wrongly trusted those two lowly slaves! I truly cannot kill you! But—" The demonic manifestation's arms trembled violently under the sword pressure, covered in cracks, yet it stubbornly held on. "You, also, cannot completely kill me. The entire Northern Zhou Kingdom, countless people can be my clones! Can you kill all the people of this nation? Can you destroy this demonic kingdom formed by national destiny and human resentment?!" As the Inner Demon roared, the entire Northern Zhou territory seemed to respond! "Woooo— woooo— woooo—" In the sky, the wind and clouds changed color. Countless thick, black demonic energy tornadoes rose from all over Northern Zhou, madly converging towards the sky above Wutong City. Each tornado carried countless twisted fragments of consciousness, shattered national destiny, and human world power. This converging demonic energy and human world power were no longer just energy; they formed a vast, filthy, distorted domain around the demonic manifestation. Within the domain, faint phantom images of countless miniature cities could be seen, and countless numb or ferocious human figures writhed and wailed within them, exuding a nauseating aura of depravity. The sky was completely dyed a dark red, like a giant, inverted blood-red demonic bowl, enveloping Gu Mo! The Demonic Kingdom descended. Using a nation as its demonic source, and all beings as fuel! The Inner Demon's voice echoed throughout the Demonic Kingdom domain: "This is—the Northern Zhou Demonic Kingdom! Gu Mo, this is the Demonic Kingdom I have prepared for you for over a year. In seven hundred years, you are the only one who has made me so serious. Yet, even so, I cannot kill you. But you also cannot kill me. Let our grievances end here. I will let you ascend today, and in the Heavenly Realm, we can still be colleagues, how about it?" Gu Mo's expression remained indifferent, but his eyes were as sharp as the rising sun, piercing through the heavy demonic atmosphere. He said softly, "Inner Demon, you are afraid!" The Inner Demon said coldly, "What am I afraid of? What can I fear in this human world? In this human world, I am undying and unperishing. No one can kill me, and you are no exception. I simply don't need to fight you anymore. Losing one Nascent Soul like you has no impact on me!" Gu Mo said calmly, "What cannot be killed is your true body's Origin Qi, not you. You are merely the Inner Demon. Strictly speaking, the true body's Origin Qi is the true body's Origin Qi, and the Inner Demon is the Inner Demon. Origin Qi cannot be killed, but you are merely the consciousness of Origin Qi. You will die!" "How can you kill me within the Demonic Kingdom!" "Then I'll try." Gu Mo said calmly, his voice not loud, but clearly penetrating the clamor within the demonic energy. Before his voice even fell, Gu Mo made a move that instantly stunned the Inner Demon—he released the Grand Void Sword in his hand! The Grand Void Sword had a spirit and let out a reluctant hum, but it still obediently hovered beside Gu Mo. Then, Gu Mo slowly brought his hands together in front of his chest. A gesture that was extremely simple, yet contained great enlightenment and majesty! "Om mani