Sealed inside the Pure Bottle Shi Feiyang had given Jiang Shu was Iron Umbrella Daoist.
Years ago, when Iron Umbrella Daoist underwent his tribulation, the heavenly tribulation, demon tribulation, and mortal tribulation had descended together. In the end, Great Strength Dharma King Haganibu had captured his Primordial Spirit and taken him back to the West to refine him into a god-demon.
Not long before, when Shi Feiyang retrieved the treasures from the Yuan River, Hagenibu had released his demons. Xiong Manniang had taken the four Formless Gods-Demons, while Iron Umbrella Daoist had been among the formed gods-demons. Shi Feiyang had recognized him and captured him.
Shi Feiyang had no personal grudge against Iron Umbrella Daoist; it was entirely Geng Kun who had been his enemy. Shi Feiyang had taken his Iron Umbrella, and now that they had met again, he wanted to help him find deliverance.
Iron Umbrella Daoist also came from an unorthodox, heterodox tradition. His cultivation methods included many techniques of the Demon Cult, and his extreme temperament and contempt for others had earned him several formidable mortal enemies.
He did not kill indiscriminately, however, and seldom bullied the weak. After Hagenibu captured him, he had repeatedly tortured him with powerful Spells of the Western Demon Cult. Tormented by Soul Refining, he had gradually lost his true nature and become a bloodthirsty demon who knew nothing but slaughter.
But he had cultivated for several hundred years, after all. Unlike ordinary people, he would not lose himself completely after Soul Refining. Cultivators such as Iron Umbrella Daoist had sturdy Primordial Spirits and steadfast wills. If an ordinary person's soul was shattered and scattered, that was truly the end of it; when their souls were broken, they could gather them together again within a short time.
Shi Feiyang had cleansed