Innate Demonic Fire Profound Gas, Crimson Heaven Demon King, Twelve Years
The three hells digested the arm of the Purgatory Ghost King with remarkable ease.
In less than three days, the laws governing the arm's interior were dismantled.
Immediately afterwards, a rich source of energy was poured into the three layers of hell.
The outermost layer of Thunder Hell, in addition to the original Netherworld Yin Lightning, has evolved into Demon-Slaying Fire Lightning specifically targeting those with deep demonic nature.
Beyond the Yin Soul Evil Fire Blazing Fire Hell, the Demon-Refining Yin Fire, which refines demonic energy, is born. The Frost Hell, on the other hand, directly generates a type of Hell Black Ice with icy attributes, which has the ability to freeze and kill demonic souls and turn them into basic nourishment.
Seeing this, Wang An seemed to realize something. With a thought, he used his Golden Nature to connect with the Yellow Springs Heavenly River and gather the ghost blood spilled by the Purgatory Ghost King.
In no time at all, a patch of gray-black, transparent demonic fire rose from the ground, gathering innate energy of extremely high rank.
This was achieved by using his years of understanding of the method of refining Profound Gas with the Golden Nature, and by using the Golden Nature position to refine a Innate Profound Gas containing the rudiments of laws.
"This Profound Gas could be called Innate Demonic Fire Profound Gas, it's just a pity there's so little of it."
As soon as this Profound Gas was born, Wang An immediately sensed that in the extremely high-dimensional space, the Transcendent Dao Tree had branched out another branch, which was filled with demonic energy.
Upon closer inspection, he understood what was going on.
"After the rudimentary form of the Law of Demonic Fire appears, perhaps something like the Foundation Establishment the Demonic Path will emerge in the future."
"But this is for the best. Having an open and legitimate demonic path is better than internal infighting."
As more and more Beginner Transcendent Stage beings are born within the Human Federation, various factions naturally emerge due to their differing interests and ideologies.
"Currently, the Federation openly has Cultivator System, Martial Dao System, and the three religions' Transcendent System. Other systems include mages, wizards, esoteric Buddhism, and various faith systems, each with its own distinct schools and sects."
Not to mention that within the largest cultivation system, there is the Heavenly River Dao Lineage School, as well as other self-cultivation schools. For example, the Heavenly River imagery has now formed its own school.
The saying goes, "Without factions within the party, all sorts of strange things will arise." Such a powerful force will naturally breed various factions.
"Although as long as I'm still around, nothing can really happen, the existence of this demonic path is a good thing, as it reduces the internal strife among the various factions."
Once he understood these things, he knew what to do next.
With a flick of his finger, a Second Tier authority descended upon the Innate Demonic Fire Profound Gas.
This demonic fire immediately transformed, gathering numerous soul energies to form the figure of a demon king whose body spewed crimson flames, carried a volcano on his shoulder, and was surrounded by raging flames.
Immediately following, the [Lord of the Netherworld] and [Source of Primordial Qi] positions manifested, their words becoming law. "Today I hereby confer upon you the title of Crimson Heaven Demon King. When you ascend to the Transcendent Realm, you shall be tested in the boundless Blazing Fire illusion to temper the cultivator's heart in their Seeking the Dao. If the heart is agitated, the flames will consume your body and spirit; if the heart is calm, the flames will naturally subside."
From this point on, anyone practicing the Primordial Qi Transcendent System will, during their ordinary practice, experience mental agitation and demonic fire entering their heart if Impermanence and pure mind; in severe cases, their spirit will suffer the pain of being burned, and their cultivation will regress.
If one undergoes a trial by demons when ascending to the extraordinary realm, the one who passes it will naturally have a more resilient soul and spirit, and will experience tranquility and mystery in future meditation, enlightenment, cultivation, and practice; the one who fails to pass it will find it difficult to transcend the extraordinary realm and achieve anything significant.
Upon hearing this, the Crimson Heaven Demon King immediately bowed and accepted the order, "I obey the Daoist Master's decree."
Immediately following, the Netherworld Domain Realm responded.
It evolved into a demonic volcano, which manifests as mountain fire, earth fire, and inner fire, making it an excellent place for cultivating fire-related spiritual concepts.
The Crimson Heaven Demon King flew in and took control, his declaration resounding. "From this day forward, this place shall be the Crimson Heaven Demon Domain."
With the issuance of this imperial decree, the atmosphere of the Netherworld Domain, which had been gradually becoming restless and chaotic, was immediately calmed down.
Wang An nodded in satisfaction, then looked at the dark crack again.
Knowing that the Purgatory Ghost King probably wouldn't be coming back anytime soon, he said with a regretful expression, "That Purgatory Ghost King was a good person... uh, no, a good ghost."
"However, the fact that I can be granted a corresponding rank means that I have almost fully comprehended this method of gathering and refining Profound Gas."
With such a long period of accumulation, the method of gathering and refining has advanced further from the previous method of collecting the Heaven and Earth Qi to refine the innate wondrous Qi.
With deeper cultivation and stronger Divine Ability, one naturally acquires methods that consume resources to quickly gather corresponding Profound Gas.
However, this method is somewhat wasteful. Even a single strand of Innate Profound Gas requires severing the arm of this Hell Demon King and absorbing its spilled demonic blood. Not to mention Innate Profound Qi that truly possesses faint laws, or even higher-quality mid-grade or high-grade energy.
Even with the Profound Gas that Wang An has generated over the years using his Heavenly River Water Golden Nature, he has only produced three streams.
However, he wouldn't bestow this Profound Gas upon a specific individual to imbue them with Spirituality, as he had done with the Crimson Heaven Demon King.
The Crimson Heaven Demon King's essence was at the First-Tier High Grade, but the rank bestowed upon him was only barely at the Second-Tier Low Grade.
This guidance is not of much help to Wang An's current cultivation. In addition to verifying the effectiveness of the Refining Profound Method, it is also to complete the entire Body Refinement.
Cultivating peacefully and steadily is too slow, not to mention that in the future, apart from his Shelter, humanity will be in constant contact with the Chaos emotional energy emanating from the Chaos evil gods in the Great Void and beyond the universe. How can one succeed without a firm Dao heart?
After refining the Xuan, the Yellow Springs Heavenly River was returned to its original course.
Ignoring the chaotic situation in Fengdu City caused by the appearance of a large demonic realm, Wang An returned directly to his mortal body.
Now that the method of refining the profound has been successfully mastered, in addition to comprehending the laws related to the Five Elements Dao Foundation, the next step is to increase the training of talents for the Human Federation and cultivate the Qi Destiny related to the Great Forest Wood.
Otherwise, it would be an unknown amount of time before the five laws belonging to the Great Forest Wood grow to the level of weak Dharma Nature.
Time flies, and twelve years have passed.
Since initiating its galactic expansion, human civilization has successively occupied five planetary systems within a twenty-light-year radius, colonizing a total population of tens of millions.
The imagery of the Great Forest Wood in Wang An's practice differs from that of the towering pine trees of the Wuchen Jia wood, which mainly block out the sky. The Jisi Yin wood emphasizes soft leaves and abundant branches, which are continuous and unbroken.
Therefore, under his influence, every disciple of the Heavenly River Dao Lineage who was directly under him had more or less disciples who were his disciples.
In this way, disciples pass on their knowledge to their grand-disciples, generation after generation, in an unbroken lineage.
Now, in the 88th year of the new era, the first sixth-generation disciple has emerged.
Similarly, the major colony planetary systems are gradually opening up interconnected pathways with the Solar System as the central hub.
It still uses the Heavenly River Water to connect other planetary systems, but unlike the [Six Laws Heavenly River] in the Solar System, it is a real river with abundant forests and water sources.
Other roads connecting the major systems are formed by a series of large and small, cold, asteroid planets along the way.
This is to help spaceships traveling among the planets find their way, as First-Tier High Grade [Supreme Yin Heavenly Moonlight Lamp] illuminates the area every one or two light-years.