"Big Brother..." Demon Venerable Slayer hurriedly explained, "You surely know that Netherworld power is the power of death, while the True Qi tempered by Confucian cultivators is the qi of life. Absorbing the qi of life can naturally stimulate the power of death, benefiting the cultivation of the Underworld Judge's substitute! But Vast Righteous Qi is a surging aura of justice, innately incompatible with the devilish qi of our Devil Race. That is entirely different from how life and death complement one another! Your little brother cannot use Vast Righteous Qi to cultivate our Devil Race's techniques, so naturally I cannot activate innate True Qi. Of course, I previously thought as Big Brother did—that since I condensed a body from an upper realm Demon Formation Demon Spirit, I could completely suppress this innate True Qi with my higher innate rank, then control it. But when I just gave it a slight try... it was nothing of the sort!"
"Fellow Daoist has overlooked something," Wu Daoist echoed. "The Nine Provinces Ding is used to suppress the fortune of the human race. How could it possibly be activated by the Devil Race?"
Xiao Hua's brows knitted into the shape of a "river." Wu Daoist said he had been careless, but Xiao Hua had truly been wronged, for in his heart, he had never regarded Demon Venerable Slayer as a true Demon Venerable! Xiao Hua had cultivated Five Qi Ascending to the Origin in his five viscera and six bowels, and Demonic Cultivation Techniques within his bloodline. Later, when he achieved his clones, he had handed all those techniques over for the clones to cultivate. Whenever he himself activated Demonic Cultivation Techniques or Confucian cultivator techniques, nothing had ever felt amiss, so he had always assumed Demon Venerable Slayer could activate Confucian cultivator