Grandmaster Taiyi Hunyuan's calculations were sound. His first step had already succeeded, and the second was proceeding smoothly.
Under the sustained onslaught of so many Immortal-Buddhist Divine Weapons from the Emei Sect, the Heavenly Demon Immortal-Slaying Sword had expended an enormous amount of vital energy. The blood essence and remnant souls it had devoured over the years continually leaked out, drifting across the sky.
"What is he doing?" No one present could understand why he was acting this way.
The Three Immortals of Emei had the broadest knowledge and could vaguely discern a few clues, but prejudice clouded their minds. They neither believed that Grandmaster Taiyi Hunyuan could abandon evil for good and willingly sever his ties with Chiyou, nor credited him with such wisdom and ability.
Everyone knew that Grandmaster Taiyi Hunyuan had already achieved unity with the Human Demon Chiyou. Their minds and breaths were linked; whatever either thought, the other knew.
From the perspective of the Mystic Sect's righteous path, a practitioner of the demonic path still had a chance to turn back as long as he had not fused his primordial spirit with a god-demon's. Once they merged, however, the human was the demon, and the demon was the human. With no distinction remaining, he could essentially be regarded as beyond redemption.
Even Blood God Son Deng Yin, for all his vicious rampages back then, had never achieved unity with the Human Demon. Of course, he cultivated the Blood God Scripture, turning himself into a demon through a different method. Precisely because of that, Elder Longbrow had given him chance after chance.
Someone like Grandmaster Taiyi Hunyuan, however, had already fallen completely into the demonic path and had virtually no chance of turning back. With the god-demon aware of his every thought, he had no way