The Shadow of Inner Demon Appears Before One's Eyes

Upon discovering that a demonic-path Heavenly Sovereign cultivating the Great Inner Demon Technique had appeared near Three Xiaos Palace and practiced there, Shi Xuan developed considerable doubts. Such cultivators were exceedingly rare in the Void Universe; it was simply impossible to encounter them everywhere. Why, then, had they chosen to cultivate near a super sect guarded by three Half-step Golden Immortals? With cultivation nearly at the Fourth Tribulation, even if they sought tempering, they could have found a Great Thousand World with a Fourth Tribulation Heavenly Sovereign. Why risk such extraordinary peril here? Tempering was not the same as courting death!

Once this doubt arose, Shi Xuan could not help but let his imagination run wild. Could it have been some secret business of Three Xiaos Gate itself? As for what benefits it brought them, that remained unknown for the moment.

It was precisely because such thoughts and ideas had arisen in his heart that the power of Inner Demon had deceived his Dao Heart and slipped through the gap in the Taiji Diagram. Thus, when Zong Sufi later self-destructed her Primordial Spirit in the Inner Demon Illusion Realm and Three Xiaos Palace took the chance to falsely accuse and pursue him, he felt it was only natural, perfectly logical—one of several possibilities he had inferred. Little did he know that cleverness had backfired upon cleverness. Because he subjectively believed it, he had overlooked the slight differences between the Heaven Measuring Ruler striking him, the force of the Primordial Spirit's self-destruction striking him, and genuine attacks.

Fortunately, the Immortal-Slaying Flying Dagger had remained coldly watching within Shi Xuan's Primordial Spirit. Over these eight hundred years, its cultivation had recovered to the Three Tribulation peak. Moreover, when its mind was not clouded by the Meaning of Slaughter, its temperament was no