In the distance, the Heavenly Demon Evolution Method revealed the boundless splendor of a celestial palace, its aura of the Dao towering so majestically that anyone might have mistaken it for the descent of a True Immortal.
But to those with eyes like Su Che and Ye Hu, boundless danger brewed within.
Among the Nine Heavenly Human Arts was a fundamental principle called "Transcendence." It represented a cultivator's "attainment"—the distance he had traveled beyond the mortal world.
This art could be called the foundation on which the Devil Sect stood, and it also lay at the heart of every cultivator's greatest Heart Demon.
Who did not wish to become a Buddha or patriarch, command a realm, and roam free without end?
Within that splendid celestial palace lurked inexhaustible demonic intent, waiting amid its immortal dwellings to turn a cultivator's drive to advance into a realm of delusion.
Once someone entered, the Heavenly Demons would quietly withdraw. The cultivator might even feel his power growing by leaps and bounds, as though he could destroy those demons with a wave of his hand.
That was the Heavenly Demons' trick. Pride would rise; under the provocation of External Demons, the Heart Demon would surge, and desire would burst forth like floodwaters breaching a dam. Countless demons of the Outer Dao would then ride the tide of vital essence into him.
In the end, they would devour every drop of his vital essence and cultivated power, using another's cultivation to gain freedom for themselves.
Therein lay the method of Self-Transformation Freedom.
Now, Heavenly Demons beyond counting surrounded the exit of the Void Rift. Su Che could even sense the icy Demonic Sense of several powerful demons sweeping over him and Ye Hu.
"Brother Zuo, what do you think?"
Ye Hu looked toward Su Che.