Chapter 1 神魔七杀咒？

*Shenmo Qisha Zhou*? (Gods and Devils Seven Kill Curse?)

An Qisheng's heart stirred. He didn't know what kind of impact the great demon under the Buddha tower had suffered, but he recognized the *Shenmo Qisha Zhou*.

In the Yuanshen imprint of the Night-Wandering God, he had seen this divine power display its sharpness more than once.

This divine power was extremely fierce, leaving a very deep impression on the Night-Wandering God.

So, the great demon suppressed under this Buddha tower...

Listening to the roar coming from under the Buddha tower, An Qisheng remained unmoved. Although the *Shenmo Qisha Zhou* was powerful, it was not enough to attract him to put himself in danger.

Yes, put himself in danger.

This great demon was not the most dangerous thing here. The most dangerous thing here was the Buddha tower itself.

"The Kong Lao Er you mentioned, is that the number one demon under heaven?"

An Qisheng lightly shook the void and asked the question.

Compared to the *Shenmo Qisha Zhou* divine power, he was more concerned about the memories in the great demon's mind.

What exactly happened in the Feng Huang's campaign against Heaven? What role did his Yuanshen fragment play in it, and where was it now?

This was what An Qisheng cared about the most.

"Hmm?!"

The great demon under the Buddha tower seemed extremely surprised, and then a great surge of anger rose up: "Good! You don't know who this great one is, but you know that Kong Lao Er?"

The Buddha tower shook again. The great demon suppressed beneath it felt quite resentful. Finally, it calmed down, and a rare trace of decadence appeared in its voice:

"This great one is still far behind him, far behind him..."

Human cultivation was difficult, and it was even more difficult for demons to achieve spirituality. Those who could cultivate into great demons naturally had their arrogance, but some people or demons exceeded everyone's imagination.

They were destined to be incomparable.

Recalling the peerless elegance of the peacock in his memory, the great demon under the Buddha tower suddenly felt a little dejected.

He had been suppressed here for who knew how many years. What realm had that peacock reached?

An Qisheng listened quietly, constantly trying to capture the great demon's Yuanshen imprint under the tower. Unfortunately, this Buddha tower was quite magical, even higher in level than his current dream-entering divine power, and the attempt failed.

"You know Kong Lao Er, how can you not know the name 'Yuanmou Man'?"

The great demon under the Buddha tower, calling himself 'Yuanmou Man', recovered from his silence and seemed to be peering at An Qisheng through the Buddha tower. He muttered to himself, "Could it be that someone has erased the existence of some people?"

As he murmured, he seemed to have some kind of guess, and his emotions slowly calmed down.

"Yuanmou Man?"

Thoughts arose in An Qisheng's heart. This name did not appear in the Night-Wandering God's memory.

It seemed that a truly invisible hand had erased some things.

"It seems you really don't know... No wonder, after all, we lost in the battle back then. Since we lost, we are naturally at the mercy of others..."

The great demon calling himself 'Yuanmou Man' seemed to have regained his composure. His voice was firm and powerful: "You're afraid I'll plot against you and seize your body? Is that right?"

"Naturally not."

An Qisheng's divine intent fluctuated, and with a light touch forward, a Buddha light interwoven with countless runes had already appeared, enveloping the entire giant tower.

"This Buddha light is not to prevent you from leaving, but to prevent others from approaching. Guess what will happen if I touch this Buddha light?"

An Qisheng's tone was calm.

His Yuanshen was weak, but his vision was still there, and his spiritual perception was even more acute than the half-crippled great demon in the tower.

As early as when he entered this sealed place, he had sensed danger.

The Da Dao Ji (Record of the Great Dao) called this place the 'Great Demon's Graveyard.' In other words, in the original trajectory without him, this great demon had not been able to escape until his death.

This, of course, was not something that the externally manifested Buddha tower could accomplish alone. Once someone touched this Buddha light restriction, what would happen was hard to say.

A *Shenmo Qisha Zhou* was naturally not worth the risk.

"Those thieving bald donkeys are so ruthless, so ruthless."

The Yuanmou Man, suppressed by the Buddha tower and unable to sense the external restrictions, gnashed his teeth. There was immense unwillingness in his voice:

"Dismembering the body into ninety-nine pieces is still not enough to put their minds at ease. As expected of that old thing's successor..."

Despite endless unwillingness and resentment, Yuanmou Man's voice became almost inaudible at the end, as if he had great fear.

"If you want to escape, it's absolutely not enough to rely on yourself. There must be external force..."

An Qisheng landed on the square. The surrounding spiritual energy was captured by him, surrounding his divine intent and outlining a body.

"External force?"

Under the Buddha tower, Yuanmou Man didn't seem to hear it. He stared at An Qisheng through the Buddha tower: "Who exactly are you?!"

At first, Yuanmou Man thought this was a descendant of his Broken Sky Army from back then. Later, he thought it was a small demon who had strayed into this place.

But now it seemed that this person was definitely not as simple as he had imagined.

He was too calm.

Ordinary people or demons, if they suddenly encountered such a thing, encountered a great demon like himself, how could they be so calm?

An ant daring to talk eloquently in front of a true dragon could only be because it had not seen the true face of the dragon. If it knew and still dared to do so, it was obviously not an ant.

"Who I am, you probably don't know either."

An Qisheng looked directly at the Buddha tower, concentrating and sensing. Vaguely, he could glimpse the claws of the great demon suppressed under the Buddha tower.

What was suppressed under this Buddha tower was only a claw.

Clearly, the Yuanmou Man's statement of being dismembered into ninety-nine pieces was not empty talk, and his body must have been cultivated to a realm of near immortality.

Otherwise, those who could defeat him could have easily killed him.

"No matter who you are, it's fate that you came here. My great limit is approaching, and I have no power to turn the tide. You and I are destined, so I will pass on this Shenmo Qisha Zhou to you!"

Since An Qisheng didn't say anything, Yuanmou Man didn't ask any further. He just transmitted his voice again as the Buddha tower trembled and hummed:

"Remember, my demon race and the human race are one and the same. If you obtain this method and want to pass it on, you can only pass it on among the human and demon races. Never leak this method to the gods and Buddhas!

Otherwise, there will be great disaster."

Yuanmou Man spoke these words with extreme gravity, as if this divine power contained other things within it.

"The human race and the demon race are one and the same?"

An Qisheng was a little surprised by this. In what he had seen and heard since coming to this world, where was there any harmony between the human and demon races?

"At the beginning of creation, when heaven and earth were in chaos, gods and demons were born from the chaos. After who knows how many tens of thousands of years, all things came into being. The gods and demons ruled the world, and all living beings were at their mercy.

For countless more years, who knows how many sages traveled and died before we had a place to survive among the ten thousand races. This was hard-won and must not be destroyed."

The Buddha light on the Buddha tower trembled and hummed. The Buddha shadow on the tower body gradually became clear, as if it had sensed Yuanmou Man's purpose and wanted to stop him.

"In the Feng Huang's campaign against Heaven, it seems that human and demon experts joined forces to fight against the enemy..."

Listening to Yuanmou Man's narrative, An Qisheng's heart suddenly became heavy.

But if the Feng Huang's campaign against Heaven involved humans and demons working together to resist the gods and demons, then what happened in these short tens of thousands of years that made the comrades who once fought side by side kill each other and regard each other as mortal enemies?

"Gods are the masters of heaven and earth, born with great divine powers. Neither the human race, the demon race, nor even the dragon race can compare with them at all. Without working together, it is impossible to contend."

Amidst the trembling of the Buddha light, Yuanmou Man emitted a low voice: "You have strange thoughts. Could it be that something has happened outside?"

"That's right..."

An Qisheng was curious, so he told everything he had seen and heard.

"How could this be?"

Yuanmou Man's words stopped abruptly, with suspicion and uncertainty: "Impossible! Feng Huang used great magic power to dissolve the separation between humans and demons, ordering the human and demon races not to kill each other. Who could, who would dare to break Feng Huang's decree..."

"Who could?!"

"Who would dare!!"

Yuanmou Man's heart shook, and a tyrannical aura suddenly arose.

That battle was the result of countless people fighting to the death. He could tolerate his own defeat and death, but he would never allow anyone to trample on everything they had once done!

Rumble!

The tremors under the Buddha tower became more and more intense. The demon claw that had protruded halfway from the Buddha tower was firmly clasped on the ground, and an incomparably powerful demon aura surged up again.

This time, it was countless times more intense than before.

In an instant, a corner of the Buddha tower was lifted, and the Buddha light became even brighter. Within the vast Buddha light, the Buddha shadows on the tower body seemed to have truly revived.

They walked down from the reliefs carved on the tower body!

Buzz~

It was a three-zhang tall, majestic Buddha cast like red gold. While rebuking, he stepped down from afar:

"Monster! You still dare to struggle, defying the Buddha's will!"

"Who dares to violate Feng Huang's decree?! This great one will never allow it!"

The great demon roared, shaking this sealed place. The Buddha tower shook, and the earth trembled: "Heaven, earth, Buddha, demon, god, immortal, ghost, kill one, and kill all seven!"

Wuwuwawa~

Before his voice fell, countless miserable groans like ghosts crying and gods howling came from the surrounding void.

In a daze, it seemed that countless demons and ghosts crawled out from every tiny place in the void, rushing towards the Buddha tower shrouded in Buddha light with endless terrifying postures.

The countless demons and ghosts seemed to have substance. Their facial features were twisted, their bodies were distorted, and although they seemed to be disordered, they were actually connected to each other, forming a vast array of demons and ghosts.

Wherever they passed, it seemed that even the void itself was swallowed clean.

And An Qisheng watched carefully. Everything swallowed by the countless demons and ghosts did not disappear completely, but was transmitted towards the great demon's claw under the Buddha tower along some unknown trajectory.

In an instant, the demon claw was covered in a scarlet color, which looked extremely shocking.

"What if it's *Shenmo Qisha*? Your divine power has already been broken by my Buddha!"

The golden-bodied Buddha was startled at first, then sneered, and stepped down from the sky. His hands slowly came together:

"Amitabha!"

Boom!

The Buddha light was as blazing as fire, more than ten times brighter than before. It contained an unknown amount of Buddha power, and even Buddha sounds were transmitted.

No matter how many demons and ghosts charged, just opening and closing, they dissipated like grease being burned by a raging fire.

Rumble!

Amidst the endless cries of ghosts and howls of gods, Yuanmou Man let out a roar that shook the heavens and earth, almost shattering this sealed place:

"Breaking my *Shenmo Qisha*, you are daydreaming!"

The claw and the foot collided on the square.

Time seemed to stand still at this moment. Demons, ghosts, Buddha shadows, demon aura, Buddha power, the golden body's step, the great demon's claw...

Everything seemed to be frozen in an instant.

An Qisheng, who had already withdrawn from this sealed place at the moment the two started fighting, felt a sinking heart. He felt that the sealed place in front of him was like a huge bubble.

It was expanding uncontrollably, expanding, and expanding again!

It seemed that in the next instant, it would explode.

"Good, good..."

Just then, An Qisheng heard a faint sigh coming from within, followed by Yuanmou Man's roar that shook the heavens and earth:

"Kong Lao Er, so it was you who broke my *Shenmo Qisha Zhou*?!"

Bang!

In an extremely dull sound, the trembling Buddha tower stopped trembling, and the sealed place that had expanded to the limit slowly receded.

The boiling demon aura within slowly returned to calm.

And such a huge conflict between the two did not even spread out of the sealed place. The outer manifest palace did not tremble in the slightest.

Even the dust inside did not fly up.

"Buddhism..."

An Qisheng had a hint of fear in his heart.

He had seen the destiny trajectory of Gautama, that supreme enlightened one. With Gautama's talent that surpassed the past and present, he had not been able to break out of the Buddhist fence.

Otherwise, he should not have entered Nirvana so simply.

Clearly, the water in the Sumeru Buddhist sect was deeper than he had imagined. As the last great force to close its mountain gate in the Feng Huang's campaign against Heaven.

Its strength was probably not inferior to that of the Imperial Heaven Emperor Court?

Whoosh~

An Qisheng thought in his heart, but waited for a long time until the sealed place no longer trembled at all before he fell into the sealed place again.

Unlike the outside world, where there was no change at all, this sealed place was completely overturned.

Except for the Buddha tower itself, which was not affected, the entire square had been completely shattered, and countless sands filled the entire sealed place like smoke.

And the reliefs carved with Buddha shadows on the Buddha tower had also become dim, as if they were about to disappear.

"Haha, hahaha."

Under the Buddha tower filled with smoke, Yuanmou Man's self-deprecating laughter spread out: "So it was really you who broke my *Shenmo Qisha*, so it was really you."

Yuanmou Man was not a demon with a calm mind to begin with. After being dismembered and suppressed, he was even more flammable and explosive. At this time, his voice was extremely desolate.

An Qisheng watched quietly, and also guessed something.

This Yuanmou Man should be considered a great demon in the Feng Huang's campaign against Heaven. After being defeated, he was dismembered and suppressed. It seemed that it was precisely because his divine power was broken.

"Ridiculous me, to be so easily deceived by you..."

Yuanmou Man's aura was swaying like a flame in a storm, and he was even muttering to himself on the verge of death: "You said that the day of my great limit is the beginning of my escape, but it's ridiculous that I actually believed it..."

Kaka~

Amidst a burst of teeth-aching groans, a long nail was thrown over and landed in front of An Qisheng's divine intent.

"The *Shenmo Qisha Zhou* is what I have cultivated throughout my life. It may not be an invincible divine power, but it is enough for you to hold it and run rampant in the world."

Yuanmou Man's aura gradually weakened, as if he might die at any time:

"We met on the day of our great limit. You and I can be considered destined, right? Hey kid, what's your name?"

"I will help you pass on your divine power. As for me..."

After glancing at the pitted nail in front of him, An Qisheng shook his head slightly:

"Just call me Bodhi."

Yuanmou Man's aura was originally weakening, but when he heard this, he was suddenly stunned:

"Bo, Bodhi?!"