Demonic cultivation methods offered rapid progress and tremendous power, but their side effects were naturally tremendous as well.
Back then, Shi Feiyang's understanding of the Dao had far outstripped his mastery of techniques, allowing him to escape the side effects of demonic methods. Combined with his urgent need to grow stronger, this had led him to cultivate those demonic arts.
Later, as time passed, his Mystic Sect techniques became entirely sufficient to defeat his enemies. As the Dao waxed and the demonic waned, he stopped cultivating those arts.
Whether refined god-demons, the Demon Sword, or demonic treasures, all required constant sacrificial nourishment through blood, souls, and lives.
Had he devoted himself to nurturing the nine-child mother heavenly demon, along with the Heavenly Demon Immortal-Slaying Sword and the All-Heavens Mystic-Demon Divine Lamp, raising them all to an extremely high level, he could still have put up a fight against Red Lotus Old Demon.
But now, they were all underdeveloped. Using them to bully weaklings would naturally be as easy as chopping melons and slicing vegetables, but against a supreme expert like Red Lotus Old Demon, their inadequacy became glaring.
Since they could not stop Red Lotus Old Demon, Shi Feiyang did not force the matter. He picked up the All-Heavens Mystic-Demon Divine Lamp and gently shook it. Revered One Yideng returned to the lamp flame, while the nine witches flew back and settled on the lamp.
Holding the lamp, he flew backward and said, "Fellow Daoist Red Lotus, would you care to come outside and fight me?"
Red Lotus Old Demon wanted to investigate what had happened to his grotto-heaven, so naturally he pursued him relentlessly.
The old demon's primordial spirit was outside his body. He had long since refined it into his life-bound Demon God, making him a mighty Demon