The Heavens: A Qing, the Yue Girl at the beginning

As for the possibility of the Twelve Earthly Evil Golden Men being destroyed by Yuanwu, according to Zhao Qing's judgment, these two series of golden men are almost equivalent to the pseudo-eighth realm with true essence, extremely high body strength and outrageous recovery ability. Their individual combat power may not be much worse than that of Yuanwu who has just broken through the eighth realm, so it is impossible to destroy them silently.

In general, obtaining the Gushan Sword Collection from Yuanwu and the Twelve Witch God Heads from Zheng Xiu are one of her next important goals.

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The next day, the Chudu Divine Craftsman Workshop built several huge radar-like devices around the Neighboring Star Tower. They were actually a radio telescope array designed by Zhao Qing. They were used to receive a wide range of weak radio waves and monitor the movements of "Feitian" and the situation in the directions of the demon planet.

On the 32nd floor of the Linxing Tower, under the leadership of the abbot Ji Tianxue, a group of practitioners and elite craftsmen took over the liaison and maintenance work of the ground control center, and based on the data transmitted from the sky, they began to try to explore relevant improvement plans.

Considering that there is nothing urgent to do in the near future, Zhao Xiangfei, Gongshu Zhi and others plan to stay in the sky for a few more days, comprehending the changes in the vital energy of the stars and experiencing the panoramic effect of overlooking the planets below, in order to achieve spiritual sublimation and become independent from the world.

During this process, most things did not require Zhao Qing's real-time guidance. Some simple food substitutes, drinking water, and oxygen supply equipment were all prepared before takeoff. Therefore, these people relied on the craftsmanship support of the Divine Craftsman Workshop and lived a comfortable and worry-free life.

Going up one level, to Zhao Qing's temporary residence, after she had some free time, she also took out the Tai Sui contained in the jade box, recalled the memory fragments of Zheng Canghai and other successive sword masters analyzed from the whale tooth sword's vitality imprint, and began to analyze and study this object.

"The rise of Jiaodong County was largely due to the discovery of an overseas tomb by the Zheng family... The scapegoat gold talisman, the seal of the Sea King, the Heavenly Demon Tai Sui, the "Spark Sword Scripture" and other cultivation classics were just burial objects in the coffin of the You Emperor's suspected tomb."

She secretly sighed in her heart, knowing that the most advanced power of this era was basically inseparable from the Eight Realms Great Powers of the past. Even just some burial objects from Emperor You and one of his subordinates, the Burial Patrol Kings, could create a mysterious and powerful force after hundreds of years.

In the final battle to overthrow the You Dynasty, Emperor You's body was chopped into dozens of pieces by several rebel leaders. After his death, the guards and relatives who were still loyal to Emperor You collected his flesh and blood and buried them separately in various places in the world.

This was not for the so-called psychological comfort and sense of ritual, but because most people at that time believed that Emperor You could be resurrected from the dead, and that his soul might be revived in part of his flesh and blood, so they built many suspicious tombs to prevent future generations from discovering them.

In Zhao Qing's analysis, many ancient books record that there seemed to be several emperors in the You Dynasty, but they were often written as the same person, with no distinction between them and they were always confused together.

The most reasonable explanation is that Emperor You had transformed many times and lived out his second and third lives. The second, third, and fourth emperors of the You Dynasty were just the reincarnations of the first Emperor You.

More than five hundred years ago, the ancestors of the Zheng family were pursuing some suspicious clues and accidentally discovered one of the suspected tombs of Emperor You on the Donglai Island overseas. The tomb should have contained fragments of Emperor You's internal organs and the body of the Western Patrol King, but there was no sign of the remains of these two people inside the coffin.

The first head of the family only found a mass of strange gelatinous creature in the coffin. This thing was like jade and meat. After many experiments, it was confirmed that it could absorb fresh blood and flesh to grow, parasitize and corrode all kinds of life, just like the legendary evil demon from outside the domain, so he named it "Tianmo Tai Sui".

Some jade slips buried with the dead also recorded the usage of this life form: use it as a medicine, mix it with some rare elixirs and crystal powder, swallow it, and use it for daily practice. It can stimulate the power of the medicine at critical moments to launch the "Netherworld Demonic Transformation".

"Demonic Transformation" is a powerful technique that only the attendants of Emperor You could practice. Once performed, physical strength, true energy, and spiritual perception can all increase several times. At the same time, the innate vitality he exudes can also make the practitioners around forget their fear and pain, fight fearlessly, and become more powerful.

In essence, this is equivalent to letting go of the body and allowing the power of the demon Tai Sui to parasitically invade, temporarily borrowing the opponent's special abilities to greatly increase one's attributes except for reason, and having incredibly amazing resistance to injury and recovery capabilities. The price will not be paid until the end of the battle.

When a practitioner at the peak of the sixth realm triggers a demonic transformation, he will possess combat power close to that of a lower seventh realm cultivator, and with his strong body and fearless will, he can drag a true seventh realm master to death with him.

If the enemy encounters this method for the first time and is caught off guard, he may even suffer injuries and lose his life, which will greatly reduce his lifespan and bring his body close to collapse.

As an extraterrestrial life form suspected to be related to the Nine Realms, Tianmo Tai Sui would naturally not be so kind as to help its host. Once its internal stored energy is drained away, normally, it should have completed parasitic control as soon as it was swallowed, transforming it into a walking zombie.

The reason why he is so obedient and cooperative is because of the means left by Emperor You, which erased the self-consciousness of the Demon Tai Sui and used the "Dao Dharma Pattern" to seal and transform him specially, so that he can only exist in a form similar to "Gu", like a slave, and is shackled.

For the cultivators in the world, the methods of witches and witches are still before the practice of Qi refining.

Nowadays, there are many people in the northern border and southern Vietnam who are skilled in the art of controlling poisons. There is also a similar method of cultivating "insect slaves" as strongmen, in which many slaves are implanted with specially cultivated corpse worms from an early age to stimulate their potential, making the flesh and blood of these strongmen very different from ordinary people.

At the same time, the internal organs of these strong men will also become diseased. If stimulated by some special drugs, they will be able to instantly burst out with several times the usual strength, but they can easily die suddenly. They are usually only used among practitioners of the fourth realm and below, serving as cannon fodder in battle.

In comparison, "Netherworld Demonic Transformation" is undoubtedly a more advanced version. Not only does it still have some amplification effects even at the Eighth Realm of Enlightenment, but it also has no side effects before it is activated for the first time. Even after the demonic transformation, it can be recovered with a large amount of elixirs.

Theoretically, there will only be a negligible erosion of consciousness, and the rest is reversible damage.

Things like the Demonic Tai Sui can slowly multiply by simply soaking in water, just like mushrooms. With a mother plant, you can continuously cultivate thousands of pounds of "Tai Sui meat" for human consumption.

Moreover, because consciousness has been erased, there is no danger without relevant drug stimulation, and the ability to parasitize is also greatly reduced.

However, according to the speculation of the ancestors of the Zheng family, if there is a unique law of energy that can seal the magic power of Tai Sui, there will naturally be another corresponding law of energy that can awaken Tai Sui's consciousness and aggressiveness.

Perhaps, the magical instruments buried with the dead in a suspected tomb of the Ghost Emperor could provide us with further insight into their activities.

In order to avoid being controlled by others, and because the "Netherworld Demonic Transformation" technique recorded in the jade slips contained some secret codes that only the top leaders of the Netherworld Dynasty knew, which were difficult to decipher and could not be correct, the Zheng family chose another simpler and more direct method of use after discovering the existence and characteristics of the Heavenly Demon Tai Sui.

That is to cultivate medicine men, use Tai Sui's parasitism to transform living humans into elixir-like food, and greatly increase their physical recovery ability so that they can be harvested repeatedly.

The individual Heavenly Demon Tai Sui is not as spiritual and nutritious as spiritual plants and medicines that can assist practitioners to quickly recover their true essence, improve their cultivation, heal injuries, etc. There is not even much vitality of heaven and earth inside it. It must parasitize and devour other life forms to produce a nourishing effect.

Under the control of the Zheng family, these demon Tai Sui are like some kind of catalyst, which makes the speed of human cell division and proliferation increase hundreds of times, while absorbing a large amount of nutrients and growing flesh and blood. Then, some addictive powder is added to provide food for the monsters raised in Jiaodong County. The reason why human practitioners are not allowed to eat them is not only because of the basic bottom line of resisting cannibalism, but also because once they are infected with Tai Sui, their consciousness will gradually be eroded and become similar to that of wild beasts. Although it can be used as a panacea, it does more harm than good.

But the monsters don't have such concerns when eating. Those dragons, which originally had considerable intelligence, would be easier to tame, control and harness if they became stupid and dumb. And monsters like the Night Demon Ape, which likes to eat humans, can only be bred in large numbers with the help of medicine men.

Of course, even monsters cannot endlessly consume human flesh catalyzed by Tai Sui, otherwise there is still a certain chance of going berserk, or even giving birth to some deformed creatures that should not exist in the world. In order to avoid unnecessary losses and leaking secrets, the Zheng family also strictly controls this.

At present, it seems that the Heavenly Demon Tai Sui will only parasitize creatures with a certain potential for cultivation. Perhaps its judgment criteria are different, but this also rules out the possibility of replacing livestock such as chickens, ducks, pigs, dogs, cows, sheep, etc. However, compared with spiritual beasts that can breathe in the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, humans are still cheaper.

In order to prevent the medicine people who were confined in the overseas island farms from engaging in acts of resistance such as hunger strike and suicide, and to allow them to reproduce more offspring, the Zheng family did not make the harvesting too bloody and brutal.

All they had to do was cut off a few tumors and drain a few bowls of blood every day, all while they were in a fainting state. At the same time, they were provided with a more comfortable living environment and sufficient food.

When necessary, there will be special doctors to nurse the bodies of these medicine men and treat their wounds to ensure their long-term survival, just like leeks, which grow again after being cut.

In order to make the food converted by medicine men more valuable, even those who already have cultivation skills will be allowed to practice during the time of relaxation. However, every time their true energy increases, it will be absorbed by Tai Sui, and they will never be able to break through their current realm.

In such an environment, although these medicine men lived like animals, their lives were actually quite improved compared to their previous lives as hard laborers as serious criminals, or as orphans of wars between dynasties and their lives of hunger. However, they had lost their freedom, dignity and future forever.

According to Zheng Canghai's memory, today, most of the old medicine men have no choice but to accept their fate. Only a dozen or so fourth-level practitioners still have other intentions. Unfortunately, they are too weak after all, and they are bleeding and cutting their flesh every day. They don't even have the strength to leave the island and swim a hundred miles across the sea.

"This is such a shameless crime, it's unforgivable!"

After learning about these secrets, Zhao Qing couldn't help but feel a chill down his spine, thinking that the ancestors of the Zheng family were really good at this. They could actually come up with such a method to exploit people's value to the extreme, and they were able to hide it until now, and the news has not leaked out for hundreds of years.

However, this also made her more determined to eliminate the Zheng family as soon as possible.

There is almost no good person in such an evil family. As long as they exist, they are a poison to the world. They are capable of doing anti-human activities. Even though they have been strictly trained and brainwashed since childhood, they cannot escape the blame and can only die.

"Speaking of which, as a person whose status in the Nether Dynasty can be ranked among the top fifteen, the incomplete memory of the Death God General Li Nian does contain a translation method that can be used to analyze this kind of secret code. The 'Netherworld Demon Transformation' that the Zheng family has been seeking for hundreds of years has fallen into my hands...

"It seems that Li Nian's corpse was transformed into a 'flesh bodhi'. This should be related to the fact that he swallowed Tai Sui and practiced a technique similar to the magic transformation when he was alive?"

"The way of demon transformation has nine turns in total...Using the Heavenly Demon Tai Sui and the Nether Worm as bait, it can draw the power of the Nine Netherworlds and smelt forty trillion flesh and blood particles..." Zhao Qing's mind moved slightly, and soon he compared them with each other and obtained a section of cultivation formula. Combining it with the real object of the Heavenly Demon Tai Sui, he understood the specific usage of this method:

Basically, every rotation will deepen the "demonization" level of the flesh and blood particles, that is, the cells, allowing the Heavenly Demon Tai Sui and another important medicine "Nether Worm" to merge into one's body, indistinguishable from each other. On weekdays, it will act as a second body, feeding it with the life energy, just like a special magic weapon or life object;

At the critical moment, Tai Sui's consciousness is activated, and the demon body is summoned to descend and merge. The body expands by more than twice, and the strength also increases greatly. The specific degree of increase is mainly related to the number of layers of demon transformation and the total amount of true energy consumed in feeding Tai Sui. In theory, when one reaches the eighth level, as long as the state is stable, its corrosive effect can be ignored.

"It sounds pretty good, but without the material of 'Netherworld Worm', the highest it can be cultivated to is only the eighth level, which is a nearly 70% improvement over the lower level of the eighth level... However, the newly added magical power will be difficult to match the changes in one's own true essence without special techniques."

She was not surprised at all when she immediately discovered the flaws in this secret fighting technique. After all, this "Netherworld Demonic Transformation" was originally created for the guards under the You Emperor, just to make them more resistant and capable of fighting, so as to share the pressure with the You Emperor himself. Naturally, there was no need to think too much about it, as long as it could be mastered quickly.

What is worth noting is that Tai Sui can be quickly cultivated to generate an eighth-level demon body. Does this mean that for a true ninth-level immortal life, even if it is just an insignificant small part of the body, after absorbing high-quality energy, it can develop into an eighth-level clone?

The so-called "Netherworld Worm", although never circulated in the outside world, inexplicably makes people think of the "Nine-Death Silkworm". Could it be that this kind of worm is the seed of the clone that was derived when the Nether Emperor planned to break through to the ninth realm?
Or maybe, this special skill of "Netherworld Demonic Transformation" is actually an experiment conducted by the Nether Emperor to figure out a special stage of his future promotion to the Ninth Realm?
Only in this way can we explain why this method has such amazing potential, allowing practitioners to increase their strength several times in a short period of time.

When it comes to the ninth transformation, the Netherworld Worm must be added to complete it, which is probably a kind of check and restriction on Tai Sui.

Thinking of this, Zhao Qing couldn't help but have an epiphany: the Nine Realms of Immortality may not only refer to endless lifespan, but also represent the transformation of life form, from "finite" to "infinite", just like cells have the potential for infinite division, as long as there is enough energy, they can continue to proliferate.

Considering that Emperor You might have a secret method to control his attendants, and that it was buried in other suspicious tombs, and the possibility of it being discovered and cultivated by someone could not be ruled out, she did not intend to practice "Netherworld Demonic Transformation" directly, but was prepared to analyze it in detail and reversely deduce the explosive secret technique contained therein.

While it is not appropriate to use the Netherworld Demon Body on one's own body, it is an excellent choice to use it as a method to quickly improve the combat power of one's clone.

"Putting Tai Sui aside, I have gained too much metal energy recently. I can try to cultivate the secret technique of the soul-inducing stage in the 'Heavenly Soldiers' Form-Refining and Qi-Inducing Method'."

An idea flashed through Zhao Qing's mind, and she casually grabbed a long jade box beside the table and took out a sword with gorgeous color and rainbow light. The sword light was like a curtain or mist, and just as it was about to dissipate, it seemed to encounter an extremely cold barrier and was completely frozen between the five fingers of her right hand.

This was a long-unused master's sword that she had someone take from the treasury of the Chu Imperial Palace. It had been owned by a swordsman from the Chongming Sword Academy in Qinjing. It has been sealed for more than sixty years. Because the sword spirit cultivated by the previous sword master was quite niche and rare, it has never been able to find a second owner.

"When my spirit contains my thoughts, my blood contains my soul, my flesh contains my spirit, my veins contain my energy, and my bones contain my sharp edge, the sword of my heart penetrates the acupoint of the Zhoutian Yuan, and is filled with the golden energy of the Qiantian. It is equivalent to a divine sword unsheathed."

"If I can use the 'Wanxiang Haoxu Gong' and the Taiyi Hunming phase to transform into a state exactly like this sword, I can try to make the opponent's divine imprint contained in the sword body 'misjudge' that I am also a part of the sword body."

"Then, I will let the 'spirit' in the sword move to my body and my spirit will enter the sword. This means that the sword has changed its owner in an instant, just like it has been refined... This is what is called 'seizing the spirit of the other sword and nourishing the spirit of my own sword', 'refining the sword with the sword, refining the spirit with the spirit.'"

...(End of chapter)