Walking the Dao with a Lamp into the Desire Realm

The crowd stared at one another wide-eyed. At last, Fu Xuanxing asked weakly, "Is now really the right time to discuss this? Shouldn't we first guard against Youxuan attacking?"

That was right. Young Lord Youxuan was the true enemy. Could the two of them not put off their clash of ideals for now?

"No need to worry about him. He cannot act at this moment."

Dongfang Yunqi raised her hand and gathered moonlight, unfolding a screen of light.

At the center of the endless Black Tide, an ink-black lotus, nearly identical in color to its surroundings, was slowly growing.

Through the light screen, everyone sensed a boundless terror, a vast and baleful evil.

Though they had not witnessed it with their own eyes, every one of them felt an immense crisis.

Once the black lotus bloomed, Youxuan would surely destroy the world!

"He is currently absorbing the demonic nature of the Southern Continent to seek ascension into the Heavenly Demon True Form."

Ascension!

Within the demonic path, advancing to Demon Emperor generally meant proceeding toward the Ten Earths. Only the Heavenly Demon Lineage ascended toward the realms beyond. That was why the Heavenly Demon Lineage, like the immortal path, used the term "ascension."

Yet for a Heavenly Demon, ascension meant transforming into a true Outer Heavenly Demon, equal in standing to a True Immortal.

"Youxuan's progress is this fast? Didn't he only recently become a Devil Lord?"

"On his own, of course he could not. But absorbing the demonic nature of the Southern Continent is enough. Forty thousand years of accumulation—more than ten Demon Emperors, over a hundred Devil Lords, and even the lingering demonic nature of True Immortals and Tribulation Immortals must be counted."

"B-but how can he control such mixed and chaotic demonic nature?"

"Exactly. Why should he