Time flows quietly amidst the Cloud Sea of the Great Wilderness Demon Court, and in the blink of an eye, decades have passed.
The Roc Imperial Palace is filled with joyous events. Following his previous plan, Chen Sheng successively married Shi Yao of the Nine Spirits Lion Race and Ao Lin of the Demon Flood Dragon Race.
On the day Shi Yao entered the palace, the entire Nine Spirits Lion Race accompanied her, and the Great Demon Emperor of the Lion Race, riding on a seven-colored auspicious cloud, escorted Shi Yao to the outside of the Roc Imperial Palace.
Chen Sheng personally welcomed them outside the palace gates.
When Ao Lin entered the palace, the Demon Flood Dragon Race held an even grander event. Ten flood dragons pulled the Crystal Palace Vehicle, flying all the way from the North Sea to the Great Wilderness Demon Court, the vehicle's body inlaid with Luminous Beads that sparkled brilliantly under the sunlight.
Ao Lin wore a light blue dragon-pattern long skirt, her jet-black hair tied up with a pearl hair crown, revealing her slender and fair neck.
As she got off the vehicle, she slightly curtsied towards Chen Sheng, her voice clear like a spring: "This concubine Ao Lin, pays respects to the Roc Emperor."
With the entrance of the two new Imperial Consorts into the palace, the Roc Imperial Palace became even more lively.
As time passed, Shi Yao and Ao Lin both gave birth to offspring.
Shi Yao's son, Peng Lin, bore a Celestial Grade top bloodline, was born as a Tier Three Demon King, and inherited the Nine Spirits Lion Race's power over the nine great attribute magical control.
Ao Lin's son, Peng Long, inherited the Demon Flood Dragon Race's Sea Overturning Divine Techniques, with boundless potential ahead.
The birth of these two Celestial Grade top bloodline princes again shook the Great Wilderness Demon Court. The various races became more supportive of Chen Sheng, leading to another wave of offering consorts.
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On this day, Chen Sheng was handling affairs in the study when suddenly, a surge of golden radiance came from outside the window.
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He walked out of the study and saw the Golden Feather Demon Venerable standing in the courtyard, his body emanating a profound Power of the Yin-Yang Dao Principle.
Seeing Chen Sheng coming out, the Golden Feather Demon Venerable smiled and beckoned: "Huan'er, come with me."
Chen Sheng quickly walked over to the Golden Feather Demon Venerable, filled with confusion.
Without saying more, the Golden Feather Demon Venerable lightly waved his robe, causing the Yin Yang Qi around him to instantly gather into a golden light gate.
On the light gate were engraved complex Yin-Yang patterns, with a faint Power of the Yin-Yang Dao Principle flowing between the lines, evoking awe in those who beheld it.
"Follow me inside."
The Golden Feather Demon Venerable was the first to step through the light gate, with Chen Sheng following closely behind.
Upon passing through the light gate, Chen Sheng immediately felt the Yin-Yang Power surrounding him undergo an earth-shattering change.
The Yin-Yang Power here was far denser than that of the Yin Yang Grotto Heaven, with an extremely mystical mode of operation, sometimes merging, sometimes repelling each other, creating a unique balance.
He looked around and found himself in a void space, with countless golden light spots floating, flowing with Yin Yang Qi.
At that moment, an elder in an ink-colored robe quietly appeared, with white hair and beard, his face lined with wrinkles yet vigorous, exuding a presence that harmonized with this space.
The elder paid respectful homage to the Golden Feather Demon Venerable, his voice steady and husky: "Greetings, Demon Venerable."
The Golden Feather Demon Venerable smiled, stepped forward, and helped the elder up:
"Elder Ping, no need for formalities. This here is the Roc Emperor, I reckon no introduction is needed."
Elder Ping, as he was called, turned around, his gaze falling upon Chen Sheng, with a hint of admiration flashing in his eyes, and he spoke with a smile:
"As entrusted by the Demon Venerable back then, this old one personally witnessed the entire process of the Roc Emperor's birth and growth at Peng Demon Cliff. His Highness's talent and wisdom are rare even among the Golden-winged Roc Race in the Spirit Realm."
Hearing this, Chen Sheng was moved. He hadn't expected that Elder Ping had witnessed his growth, and judging by Elder Ping's presence, his strength must be unfathomable.
Seeing the surprise on Chen Sheng's face, the Golden Feather Demon Venerable smiled and said: "Huan'er, quickly pay your respects to Elder Ping."
Chen Sheng snapped back to reality and respectfully saluted Elder Ping: "Greetings, Elder Ping."
During the salute, he could clearly feel the harmony between Elder Ping's presence and the Yin-Yang Power of this space, as if Elder Ping were the master of this realm.
Elder Ping kindly lifted Chen Sheng, speaking with a tone of gratification:
"No need for excessive courtesy. The Demon Venerable bringing you here signifies his recognition of you as the next Demon Venerable. In a few years, once you formally inherit the title of Demon Venerable, this old one will have to bow to you."
After exchanging some pleasantries in the void, the Golden Feather Demon Venerable shifted the conversation towards Elder Ping:
"In the days to come, I wish for Peng Huan to stay here and comprehend the Yin-Yang Power, and hope Elder Ping can offer much guidance."
Elder Ping nodded with a smile: "Rest assured, Demon Venerable, with the Roc Emperor's extraordinary talent, it shouldn't take long for him to grasp the mysteries of the Yin-Yang Power here."
After talking a bit more, the Golden Feather Demon Venerable took Chen Sheng out of this space.
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Back in the Golden Feather Hall, the Golden Feather Demon Venerable looked at Chen Sheng and smiled, asking: "Inside there, I suppose you had some guesses, didn't you?"
Chen Sheng slightly nodded, with a hint of uncertainty in his voice: "Great-grandfather, might Elder Ping be an Artifact Spirit?"
Upon hearing this, the Golden Feather Demon Venerable showed an appreciative smile, went to sit beside the throne inside the hall, and spoke slowly:
"Indeed, Elder Ping's true form is a quasi-Tier Six Dao Artifact known as the 'Yin Yang Treasure Bottle', gifted from an ancestor of the Spirit Realm during ancient times."
"This 'Yin Yang Treasure Bottle' contains an endless power of Yin and Yang. If not for the restrictions of the Small Thousand World, it could fully advance to a Tier Six Dao Artifact."
He paused and then continued:
"Over the years, successive ancestors of the Demon Venerable have interconnected the 'Yin Yang Treasure Bottle', the Tier Five Spiritual Vein, Earth Veins of the Demon Court's core region, and various Tier Five Restrictions, and the Yin Yang Grotto Heaven, forming an enormous energy network."
"Currently, within the Demon Court, the strength that Elder Ping can exhibit surpasses even mine. This is the greatest foundation of our Great Wilderness Demon Court."
"The place we just visited is the inner space of the 'Yin Yang Treasure Bottle.' The Yin-Yang Power there greatly aids in your comprehension of the Path of Yin Yang."
"In the coming days, you should go there often to cultivate, striving to comprehend the true essence of Yin-Yang Power as soon as possible."
Chen Sheng listened to the words of the Golden Feather Demon Venerable, his heart full of shock. He hadn't expected the Great Wilderness Demon Court to possess such immense foundation and understood the painstaking intentions of the Golden Feather Demon Venerable in bringing him here.
He respectfully bowed to the Golden Feather Demon Venerable: "Thank you, ancestor, for your guidance. I will not disappoint your expectations."
The Golden Feather Demon Venerable nodded with a smile:
"It's good that you understand. Now, the power of the Demon Court is becoming more stable. All clans are increasingly supportive of you. You must not slack off; only by comprehending the Yin Yang Dao Principle and becoming a Divinity Transformation can you become a true Demon Venerable."
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Meanwhile, in a secluded valley in the eastern Great Wilderness, within a hidden cave dwelling.
The rich Spiritual Qi roiled like boiling clouds and mist, nourishing the Luminous Beads embedded in the stone walls of the cave dwelling, making them even more brilliant.
In the center of the cave dwelling, Chen Sheng's human Yang Soul sat cross-legged. The mana halo surrounding him had condensed from a faint layer into a substantial cyan cocoon of light.
Tiny patterns flowed on the surface of the light cocoon, each pulse causing the Spiritual Qi within the cave to tremble violently.
He had been in closed-door cultivation here for over a century and had finally reached the moment of breaking through.
In the corner of the cave, dozens of empty jade boxes were piled like a mountain, alongside small heaps of remnants of rare minerals and herbs stacked beside the jade boxes.
These were the cultivation resources kindly offered by the True Monarchs of the Eastern Domain Demon Countries' Demon Sect.
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Over the century, Chen Sheng consumed these resources without sparing any cost, completely refining and integrating them into his own mana, wasting not a single bit.
Chen Sheng slowly opened his eyes, and two beams of cyan light burst from them, shooting straight toward the roof of the cave dwelling, illuminating the thick stone wall.
The mana cocoon around him shattered with a "crack," like glass breaking, transforming into countless cyan particles that merged into his body.
An aura far surpassing that of an ordinary Mid-stage Nascent Soul Cultivator erupted with a roar, causing the Spiritual Qi within the cave to instantly swirl into a vortex, rapidly rotating around him, the Luminous Beads on the stone walls dimmed slightly under the pressure of this aura.
Feeling the torrent-like mana within him, he was quite satisfied, thinking to himself:
"Over a hundred years, accomplished Mid-stage Nascent Soul, and on this path, I've covered two-thirds of the journey. Such progress is not slow."
He waved his hand, his Divine Sense probing into the Storage Ring. Moments later, his brows furrowed slightly, his expression turning somber:
"At the current pace, accumulating enough mana to break through to Late-stage Nascent Soul will take at least another thirty to fifty years."
"Unfortunately, resources are almost depleted, able to last only a little over a decade. It seems I need to 'borrow' another batch of resources from the Demon Dao."
Thinking this way, Chen Sheng flicked his fingers, and the Cyan Nether Sword hanging at his waist suddenly emitted a dragon-like sword hum.
The sword tassel swayed without wind, the sword body trembled, breaking free from the scabbard's restraints, transforming into a glaring cyan stream of light spiraling within the cave dwelling.
Where the sword light passed, the void was no longer etched with tiny cracks but directly torn into black fissures, the edges of which flickered with unstable spatial energy fluctuations.
Soon after, an extreme Void Sword Domain centered on the Cyan Nether Sword unfolded with a roar, the cyan sword domain covering the entire cave dwelling as if solidified.
The Spiritual Qi within the cave was instantly sliced into countless fine cyan particles by the sword domain!
A trace of satisfaction flashed in Chen Sheng's eyes. The original source of several demonic Spiritual Treasures had been extracted, bringing this Flying Sword to Tier Four High Grade!
At this moment, he reached out to grasp the Cyan Nether Sword. Immediately, he felt the weighty power transmitted from the sword body, as if he were holding a Divine Weapon capable of cleaving Heaven and Earth.
He roughly estimated in his mind:
"With the Lifebound Flying Sword refined to Tier Four High Grade, combined with my comprehension of the Penetration Dao Principle Prototype, my current strength has already surpassed the peak of my past life."
Over these years, Chen Sheng had never ceased perfecting the technique "Life-Annihilating Sword," and as his understanding of Swordsmanship deepened, his comprehension of the Penetration Dao Rhyme never stopped either.
Sometimes, when practicing Swordsmanship, he could even clearly sense the pulsation of the Dao Principle Prototype, as if he were just one step away from fully comprehending its true essence, transforming the prototype into a genuine Heaven and Earth Dao Principle.
Chen Sheng put down the Cyan Nether Sword, calculating his age, secretly sighing with some regret:
"Two hundred and fifty-one years old, although reaching Mid-stage Nascent Soul, comprehending the Dao Principle Prototype, far surpassing cultivators of the same generation, if I hadn't wasted those decades on the Path of Emotion Destruction back then, my cultivation speed could have been a tenth faster."
His gaze turned to the void outside the cave dwelling, a sharpness as piercing as a sword flashed briefly in his eyes. The resources left behind by the Demon Monarchs could still support him for over a decade.
The reason he chose to end his seclusion at this moment was not because his cultivation could advance no further, but because—the Four Seas Bead, which he had hidden away for three hundred years in his previous life with a manipulated restriction, was about to emerge.
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Time silently slipped away during cultivation.
Months later, Chen Sheng stood in the center of the cave dwelling, holding the Cyan Nether Sword. The sword continuously sliced through the void, each strike accompanied by a sharp sound of rupturing air.
The Sword Techniques grew increasingly fast, eventually forming a cyan veil of light, within which lay the power of the Penetration Dao Principle Prototype.
Where it passed, the void no longer rippled but was directly torn into fine spatial passages, within which dangerous void fluctuations emanated.
At that moment, an unimaginably strong gravitational force suddenly emerged from the void, instantly drawing away the Spiritual Qi within the cave, even causing the Sword Light of the Cyan Nether Sword to momentarily halt.
Chen Sheng's heart tightened, and his movements abruptly stopped.
The Cyan Nether Sword let out a "buzz," hovering in front of him, its body trembling violently as if forewarning of danger.
He looked up towards the void, only to see that the Spiritual Qi there was no longer fluctuating violently but was instead being compressed into a solid blue liquid, emitting an aura that made his Divine Soul tremble.
In the next moment, a fist-sized azure Treasure Bead manifested from the void, emitting a bowl-thick blue Spirit Light towards Chen Sheng.
"Not good!"
Chen Sheng's heart sank suddenly, his face turned exceedingly serious, and his Divine Soul was tensed to the extreme.
He vividly remembered his experiences from the past life and naturally recognized this Treasure Bead as the Four Seas Bead. The Spirit Light was a forced transmission passage to the Four Seas Grotto Heaven.
Once hit by this fetching Spirit Light, one would be forcibly drawn into the Four Seas Grotto Heaven, and without breaking through to the Divinity Transformation Realm, it would be impossible to fully assert ownership and escape the constraints of the Grotto Heaven.
More importantly, he had already experienced the environment of the Four Seas Grotto Heaven in the previous life, which offered little help to his Enlightenment of the Primordial Spirit Transformation—he absolutely could not repeat the past!
"Sword, come!"
Chen Sheng's entire Mana surged to the extreme, erupting like a volcano from every pore, pouring into the Cyan Nether Sword.
The green light erupting from the sword's body was no longer just hundreds of miles but condensed into an ultimate form of green Sword Qi, finally forming a minute light point.
Wherever it passed, the void was directly severed, Spiritual Qi evaporated completely, and this Sword Qi, carrying the momentum to cut through everything, fiercely lashed towards the fetching Spirit Light.
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*"Sizzle——"*
The moment the light point collided with the fetching Spirit Light, an energy shockwave spread in all directions, the stone walls of the cave instantly fractured into countless fissures, the Luminous Beads shattered, and the mountain of stacked Jade Boxes came crashing down.
The fetching Spirit Light fluctuated violently, the surface no longer merely rippling but forming wave-like energy folds, yet it tenaciously resisted the piercing by the light point.
Chen Sheng's expression remained unchanged, a flash of ruthlessness crossed his eyes, and he once again activated his internal Mana, instantly merging it into the Cyan Nether Sword. The sword body trembled slightly, slashing three more times, fiercely charging towards the fetching Spirit Light.
*"Boom!"*
The three light points simultaneously struck the fetching Spirit Light, and the azure Spirit Light finally could not sustain itself.
A "crack" opened a huge fissure, from which the sound of space shattering emanated, instantly weakening the light's gravitational pull.
Seizing this fleeting opportunity, Chen Sheng avoided the last entanglement of the Spirit Light.
With the fetching Spirit Light broken, the azure Treasure Bead's glow dimmed rapidly, pausing slightly in mid-air, and the blue light on its surface receded like a tide, transforming instantly in appearance.
The once radiant azure Treasure Bead turned into an ordinary-looking gray Stone Bead, resembling a common stone found by the roadside, falling with a "thud" onto the cave floor, stirring up a cloud of dust.
Looking at the Stone Bead on the ground, Chen Sheng couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. In the previous life, the first time he saw the Four Seas Bead, it was in such a Stone Bead form.
"I never thought, now that I'm at the mid-stage Nascent Soul, the Four Seas Bead would still be willing to fetch me. It seems, in the Four Seas Bead's assessment system, my talent in this life exceeds that of the previous one."
In the previous life, he cultivated the Nascent Soul, but only by sacrificing a hundred years through blood rituals was he barely fetched.
Chen Sheng walked slowly to the Stone Bead, raised his hand to absorb it, and realized with a start:
"To comprehend the rudiment of Dao Principle at the mid-stage Nascent Soul indeed holds the potential for Divinity Transformation, no wonder the Four Seas Bead took the initiative to fetch me."
"The previous Sword strike was an act to sever my affinity with the Four Seas Grotto Heaven. The Treasure Bead, on its own, became dusty and reverted to its Stone Bead form."
Just then, an insight flashed through Chen Sheng's mind—what was once the inexorable nature of the fetching Spirit Light in the last life now became clear.
"In essence, the fetching Spirit Light is also a form of the Heaven and Earth Dao Principle, with a force as majestic as the Tidal Dao Principle, yet more complex and infused with the Space Dao Principle's power of transmission."
"The intertwining of the two Dao Principles forms the force of the forced transmission, no wonder it could forcibly drag individuals into the Grotto Heaven."
Having understood this, Chen Sheng felt increasingly at ease. He stored the Stone Bead into the Storage Pouch and looked towards the depths of the Great Wilderness, a flash of anticipation and sharpness in his eyes:
"With the Four Seas Bead in hand, next, I should seek out new resources. Over at the Demon Dao, they would likely be very willing to 'lend' me some resources again."
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