The name of the Northern Emperor Demon Exterminator Great King appeared in Prince Lu's eyes, and a chill surged from the crown of his head to his soles!
"The Northern Emperor Demon Exterminator Great King, transformed from the Xuan Yuan Two Energies, presides over the thirty-two heavens and manages the registers of all heavens. The Heavenly Emperor bows his head, all gods in the world come to pay homage, and all ghosts and spirits are subdued..."
"I am truly honored to have this one descend!"
The Lord of the Demon Kings personally descending, along with the Five Heavens Great Demons, meant this was far more than just the Black Heaven Demon King's failed demon trial!
At this moment, within the Demon King's Dharma Realm, waves of radiant light emerged from the dark void. The first to appear were four gilded characters, emitting billions of rays of light in the dim Demon King's Dharma Realm!
"The Great Demon Black Law!"
This was a divine law practiced by Demon Kings and could not be learned by mortal cultivators. Furthermore, most of it consisted of laws and statutes. Only those with the bodies of the thirty-eight thousand heavenly demons could glimpse the minor path within the laws and then cultivate towards becoming a Demon King.
However, since ancient times, very few had cultivated to the level of Demon King. The Five Heavens Eight Emperors and the Three Heavens Six Grotto Demon Kings were all born inherently, their divine positions fixed. Post-heavenly demons almost never achieved the status of Demon King!
At this moment, beneath the Black Law, the radiant light gradually condensed into text!
"You have registered your name in the Heavenly Mansion, your name is on the immortal ranks. You shall not recite Buddhist scriptures or demonic teachings, nor shall you spread false and obscure writings! You shall pay respects to the Buddha and revere monks, worship gods and invoke spirits, and incite good citizens, causing unemployment among the four classes in the country. You shall confuse with evil winds. Those who violate this will be decreed by the Heavenly Emperor, their assigned duties will be removed, they will die and enter Fengdu, fall into becoming rampant ghosts, and forever lose their human form!"
Prince Lu was greatly shocked: "The Northern Emperor's Black Law? But I am not a cultivator of the Northern Emperor's techniques, why do you..."
Boom!
Suddenly, thunder rumbled, and stars rotated in the dim demonic realm. Two more characters appeared below the Great Demon Black Law: "Heavenly Edict"!
Prince Lu was struck as if by a thunderous blow, and instantly understood everything!
If there were problems during the demon trial, it would attract the attention of the Northern Emperor Demon Exterminator Great King. The current situation applied to the "Great Demon Black Law," not the "Northern Emperor's Black Law"!
The Northern Emperor's Black Law targeted cultivators who studied the Northern Emperor's arts.
The Great Demon Black Law, however, only targeted those who cheated in the demon trial!
Prince Lu dared not speak. The three great heavenly protective powers had already disappeared. How could he dare to face the trial of the Northern Emperor Demon Exterminator Great King? At this moment, a black pill turned in his hand, and he swallowed it in one gulp. In an instant, the light of the Fire Bodhi blazed fiercely on his body!
The power of the Huiji Vajra appeared from the void!
"The Fire Bodhi that I had suppressed, I thought I could abandon it forever. I never expected that at this moment of danger, I would have to rely on the curse of the Huiji Vajra to escape!"
Prince Lu's internal organs were burning with flames, yet he dared not use the thousand nature aspects to resolve this pain. At this moment, he cried out in agony. The curse of the Huiji Vajra was meant to interfere with Prince Lu's ascension to immortality, but now not only was ascension hopeless, but he also had to face the trial of the Ancestor of Ten Thousand Demons. Prince Lu could only lift the suppression of the Fire Bodhi and use this self-harming method to fall out of the Demon King's Dharma Realm!
"Those who harm me with poisonous arts have now become my lifeline! Being poisoned by the power of the Huiji Vajra only means I cannot become an immortal. I only need to eat pills refined from a virgin's heart to maintain a good state. But if I am captured by the Northern Emperor Demon Exterminator Great King, I will truly fall into Fengdu and become a rampant ghost!"
The Black Heaven Demon King's Dharma Realm was torn apart by the power of the Huiji Vajra!
The fierce Buddhist flames released by the Fire Bodhi illuminated the three thousand worlds, capable of transforming defiled land into pure soil. This Wisdom Buddhist Flame was the source of power for the Buddhist artifact Samadhi Fire Wheel, the root of the Mani fierce flame that burns defilement!
"The endless, like a lion's gaze!"
"Supreme Nirvana... Ah!"
In order to escape as quickly as possible, Prince Lu even recited the Supreme Mantra of the Huiji Vajra. The result was naturally a scream, his body enveloped by the Wisdom Buddhist Flame. Even his almost-immortal body could not resist. In an instant, his flesh and skin turned charred black, and he was about to break free from this dark world!
However, the Northern Emperor Demon Exterminator Great King would not let Prince Lu leave so easily!
Rumble rumble rumble!
The divine tablets of the Five Heavens Demon Kings moved. The Azure Heaven Demon King descended a Dharma Realm, and Prince Lu saw his heart being seized by the Azure Heaven Demon King, his seven emotions being extracted. The power of the Wisdom Buddhist Flame immediately weakened, and the gap that burned through the Dharma Realm gradually shrank!
Following this, the Black Heaven Demon King shook his divine tablet, and the power of the six desires also left that heart.
The burning material for the Wisdom Buddhist Flame was precisely the seven emotions and six desires in the human heart, all sorts of love, hate, anger, arrogance, and impetuosity. These mixed emotions transformed into the fuel of wisdom. Therefore, the purer a person's disposition, the less likely they were to be ignited by the Wisdom Buddhist Flame, while the more complex a person's disposition, the more easily they were burned by the Wisdom Buddhist Flame!
The Yellow Heaven Demon King shook, and various illnesses, incurable by medicine, suddenly appeared on Prince Lu. The root of the illness originated in his heart, causing his body, spirit, and soul to vibrate violently, almost separating from each other!
The Yellow Heaven Demon King manifested illness and demonic obstacles, and poisonous arts!
The White Heaven Demon King shook, and countless soul hands extended from his heart, pulling Prince Lu tightly within the Dharma Realm.
The White Heaven Demon King manifested the thought of greed and the feeling of attachment!
Prince Lu wanted to resist, but he suddenly found that he could no longer muster the thought of resistance or escape. A great sense of passivity and laziness swept over him. He saw the last Great Demon King shake his divine tablet!
The Crimson Heaven Demon King depleted the human spirit, causing people to become agitated and lazy, dispirited and indolent, leading them to sink into Fengdu and never be reborn!
Finally, it was the Northern Emperor Demon Exterminator Great King!
The gates of Fengdu Ghost City rose from the Demon King's Dharma Realm. Prince Lu was burdened by heavy and vast vows, and his form was transforming from human to rampant ghost. His limbs became elongated, his body emaciated, and the face of a rampant ghost gradually appeared on his face. He was losing his form and spirit, transforming into a new state!
But at this critical moment, Prince Lu shouted!
"Dayan Zun!"
"With a great thunderous sound, chant the Demon Spirit Chapter, and with a single thought, break all demonic grudges!"
A powerful force descended immediately as Prince Lu finished chanting the sacred name. After a brief moment of stagnation, it modified the reality here!
The rampant ghost form and spirit on Prince Lu dissolved, and he returned to human form, vanishing from the Demon King's Dharma Realm in an instant!
Yuan Huang sensed the state of his proxy. Using the sacred name, he interfered briefly. The Heavenly Heart realm reversed cause and effect, changing the result of Prince Lu's failure in the demon trial to the initial cause.
It was because he came to the Demon King's Dharma Realm for the trial that he failed.
Therefore, the assessment was now over, and Prince Lu should naturally not be in the Demon King's Dharma Realm, thus he vanished instantly and fell back to the human world!
In terms of level, Yuan Huang could not compare to the Four Great Heavenly Hearts like Huiji Vajra, nor could he achieve the world-shattering feat of entering the world with a single thought. However, he was still a master of the Lesser Vehicle of the Heavenly Heart realm. Reversing cause and effect within the Dharma Realm to save his proxy was something he could do.
Moreover, as the Lord of the Underworld, Yuan Huang naturally sensed it when the gates of the Fengdu Dharma Realm opened. Although Fengdu did not fall under his jurisdiction, he could still transmit some power through the Fengdu Dharma Realm.
The Dharma Realm was empty, and the Fengdu Ghost Gate closed with a roar.
The Five Heavens Great Demon Kings were simultaneously enraged.
The divine tablet of the Northern Emperor Demon Exterminator Great King also emitted vast thunderous sounds!
This was utter fury!
And from then on, Prince Lu would be marked by the Demon Kings!
This was the same situation as when Ji Xiang was marked by the Jade Emperor. From then on, whenever Prince Lu underwent a demon trial, he would face the terrifying scene of three Demon Kings descending simultaneously!
Ji Xiang saw all of this in the Great Fuli Land. The sudden change had happened in an instant, as if Prince Lu had never existed in the Demon King's Dharma Realm from the beginning.
"It was Yuan Huang who acted. That sacred name was the one Wu Baoyi once chanted."
Within the Inner Scenery Divine Tablet, the situation that had just occurred appeared.
[Reversing Cause and Effect: A divine technique possessed by the seventeenth stage of cultivation, the Heavenly Heart realm, capable of reversing the original order of events to alter the current outcome.]
[Heavenly Heart Sacred Name: Those who are specially noticed by the Heavenly Heart realm are called proxies. When they chant the sacred name, they can attract the attention of the Heavenly Heart realm, thereby displaying some of the Heavenly Heart realm's power through their bodies. They cannot directly perform magical attacks, but can use techniques similar to reversing cause and effect. They can only use it once within a period of time, the specific duration depending on the Heavenly Heart realm's own cultivation status.]
[Yuan Huang (Lord of the Underworld, Great Sovereign of the Divine Dao): Heavenly Heart Lesser Vehicle, comprehended the Great Luo Dao Fruit. He can use Reversing Cause and Effect on a proxy once every three months.]
[He controls the Yin Cao Dharma Realm, the Underworld Dharma Realm, the Spiritual City Dharma Realm, and the Yin Mountain Dharma Realm (half, the remaining half was taken by the Biyou Palace). The lords of the Dharma Realms have disappeared. Lord of the Yin Cao Dharma Realm, Bei Dou Jun Zhou Wu Wang; Lords of the Underworld Dharma Realm, the Ten Yama Kings (with the third Yama King destroyed); Lord of the Spiritual City Dharma Realm, Heavenly Master Zhong Kui; Lord of the Yin Mountain Dharma Realm, Old Ancestor Yin Shan.]
[The Buddhist Wisdom Dharma Realm is in his hands, and its lord has disappeared. The lord of the Dharma Realm is Manjushri Bodhisattva.]
[The Buddhist Six Paths Dharma Realm is in his hands, and its lord has gone missing. The lord of the Dharma Realm is Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva.]
[The eight hells of the twenty-four Fengdu hells, namely Wuliang Hell, Taizhen Hell, Xuandu Hell, Forty-nine Hell, Tianyi North Hell, Hebo Mo, Leijie Hell, and Nvzhen Hell. The lords of these hells have disappeared. The lord of the hells is the Taiyin Divine Lord.]
[All thirty-six Nvqing hells are in his hands, and their lords have disappeared. The lord of the hells is Tianlü Nvqing.]
[The eighteen layers of Taishan Hell, the lower nine layers are all in his hands, and their lords have disappeared. The lord of the hells is the Great Emperor Dongyue.]
[He also controls the Dharma Realms of the Xianding Jifeng Heavenly Emperor, Shihuai Xiaomang Heavenly Emperor, and Shangtan Ruanle Heavenly Emperor among the thirty-two Heavenly Emperors, who respectively manage the records of good souls in the world, the sins of the long night of the nine netherworlds, and the salvation of immortals.]
[As well as the Three Yama Kings (Laihe Tianzun, Tianluo Wang, Guangyao Shousheng Tianzun).]
[Only by finding the divine tablet of the "Nine Nether Sin-Removing Heavenly Venerable (Lord of the Netherworld)" in the hells can the dominance of the various hells be regained!]
This vast control over Dharma Realms made Ji Xiang's heart tremble with fear.
It seemed that, although it was only a fleeting glimpse, nearly half of the underworld was in his hands. He was truly worthy of the title "Lord of the Underworld"!
"However, no matter how strong he is, the Heavenly Heart cannot enter the mortal world!"
"The technique of reversing cause and effect has already been used!"
Ji Xiang sneered, and the Chandala Black Finger in his hand was thrown out from Fuli, pointing directly at Prince Lu!
.......
"Waa!"
Prince Lu wailed and returned to the human world from the Demon King's Dharma Realm. His body was burned by the Wisdom Buddhist Flame, and he was almost dead. Mr. Yao and "Ji Xiang" were both greatly shocked to see Prince Lu in this state!
"How did His Highness get into this state!"
"Did the ascension fail? How is this possible? Did the Christ's Law not work, and the million vows did not exert their effect? Or was the merit auspicious cloud not as powerful as expected?"
Mr. Yao's face was filled with panic, and he quickly took out pills. Prince Lu swallowed them all in one gulp, and the Wisdom Buddhist Flame of the Fire Bodhi on his back gradually subsided. However, Prince Lu's flesh and blood were all burned to a charred mess, and he was in great pain, uttering low moans:
"I don't know what happened. Some missionary, or someone else, suddenly invaded the demon trial with the vows of the masses... That was the Christ's Law, exactly the same as how I used it!"
"The demon trial was interrupted, and thus... the demon trial failed! My cheating seemed to have been discovered, the Five Heavens Great Demons descended simultaneously, and even the Northern Emperor Demon Exterminator Great King came down!"
Mr. Yao's face could be described as terrified at this moment!
"The Northern Emperor Demon Exterminator Great King descended?!"
"I have never heard of such a thing!"
Prince Lu's mouth was spewing black blood, which he could not stop: "Not only have I never heard of it, but I cannot find such a thing even by searching ancient texts! If it weren't for the Huiji Buddhist Flame and the Heavenly Heart power of Mr. Yuan Huang, I would have died on the path of ascension."
"Failed to ascend to immortality... cough... cough! Ugh!"
As Prince Lu spoke, his internal injuries could no longer be suppressed, and he vomited a mouthful of pus and blood from his seven orifices. He almost collapsed from the clouds and turned into a meat paste. He barely supported himself. At this moment, Qin Nvxiu seemed to have noticed Prince Lu's condition. If the immortal aura did not appear, it naturally meant failure!
"Cough! True Person of the North Pole, please lend me your assistance!"
Prince Lu felt that Ji Xiang was a trustworthy person. That female immortal looked this way, clearly with killing intent. He didn't know how long the monks like Yixing could hold her back, but defeating her was definitely impossible, so he could only ask Ji Xiang, this crippled immortal, to act!
A crippled immortal is still an immortal!
"Ah, then this poor monk shall act."
Ji Xiang took a few steps forward.
He extended his index finger, which suddenly turned black, and placed it on Prince Lu's shoulder.
Prince Lu immediately noticed this blackened finger!
He let out a roar and suddenly surged up. Now that he had returned to the human world, the vows of the millions of people in Ying Tian Prefecture had gathered again!
"No...!"
Prince Lu tried to use the Christ's Law to resist, but in the next moment, his Dao heart had regressed!
"This is no ordinary poisoning."
"Dao heart regression, even immortals will become exiled immortals."
Prince Lu suddenly felt the vast vows rushing towards him. The once docile vows of millions of people were now like ferocious tigers and angry dragons, terrifying like landslides and tsunamis!
The Dao heart regressed and then shattered, and the vows naturally lost their place of support. How could a broken-hearted person have vows!
And the vows of millions of living beings, how vast they were!
"This is bad, very bad! Stop sacrificing to me!"
Prince Lu severed Ji Xiang's hand, but Prince Lu was also vomiting blood, with smoke and dust spewing from his seven orifices. He fell from the clouds and landed by the Qinhuai River!
Meanwhile, Mr. Yao launched a fierce attack on Ji Xiang, but Ji Xiang's figure twisted in the next moment, transforming into a black, faceless being!
Mr. Yao was immediately filled with terror:
"What are you!"
The black shadow spirit did not respond, but gradually faded and returned to Ji Xiang's main body. Immediately after, the thirty-six guards of Ying Tian were mobilized. Although Prince Lu was impacted by the million vows and almost scattered his soul, he still had a part of the vows to control. Now that many demons had been slain, he could only mobilize the thirty-six guards of Ying Tian to rescue him!
He had to leave Ying Tian Prefecture immediately!
Furthermore, as long as he survived, he would definitely search the mountains and seas to capture that scoundrel Ji Xiang!
"Go, take me to Ming Xiao Mausoleum!"
Now, only the mausoleum of the Ming Taizu was a forbidden area for immortals, the safest place!
However, the soldiers and cultivators of the thirty-six guards encountered unexpected obstruction from unidentified individuals in various parts of the streets.
A great cultivator of the Southern Right Jinwu Guard looked at the "army" that appeared before him with a dumbfounded expression!
Buzz!
Incense condensed and took shape. On this road, there were workshops selling divine statues. Now, many small divine statues holding them hopped onto the street. These small divine statues were all holding long sabers, had red faces, long beards, and wore green hats.
This was a workshop, a production line workshop.
The small divine statues spun three times on the ground and immediately changed their forms!
Ji Xiang had traveled all over Ying Tian, arranging many of his own "armies." These divine statues were all endowed with form and spirit by Ji Xiang, empowered by incense, and could be commanded and dispatched through the art of spirit driving.
Dozens of shadow soldiers transformed into Ji Xiang's appearance, acting as a relay station for the spirit driving technique, expanding its range to cover the entire Ying Tian.
At this moment, before the many soldiers of the Southern Right Jinwu Guard appeared eight hundred Green Dragon Crescent Blades!
Emitting a buzzing vibration!
"I never thought in my life..."
"I would see eight hundred Guan Yu!"
On this street.
The divine statues of Guan Yu sold the best.