94: Chapter 95 The Cause and Effect of the Killing Tribulation

"Leaving All Forms! Damned heavenly demon, get out of my Sea of Consciousness!"

Shen Moyan closed his eyes, stripping all desire related to the 'power of the heavenly demon' from himself.

After successfully suppressing the heavenly demon's intent, Shen Moyan's Dao Heart returned to clarity.

The path of the future had to be built on the foundation of thoroughly understanding and controlling this power.

Shen Moyan took a deep breath, cleared his mind of stray thoughts, and sank his consciousness into the volume of the Primordial Demon Heavenly Book he had studied repeatedly.

"The heavenly demon chapter contained in the Primordial Demon Heavenly Book, the Heavenly Demon Transformation Art... this incomplete Cultivation Technique really has problems."

This path, which was closely linked to the Origin of the heavenly demon, had been temporarily discarded by him.

Trading with a heavenly demon might seem like a shortcut, but in reality, it was a dead end leading straight to enslavement.

The Opportunity Ni Gaoyuan obtained back then was indeed a scheme by others.

Shen Moyan practiced Leaving All Forms, deliberately bypassing the core chapters that recorded the Heavenly Demon Transformation Art while circulating his energy.

"Severing Forms!"

The words of the heavenly demon chapter's technique seemed to be covered by a layer of frost in his consciousness; they were actively isolated and shielded, frozen and buried in the deep sea of his mind.

If his cultivation became high enough in the future, he would unseal this memory then.

After finishing all this, Shen Moyan's intent locked onto the "Yin Mo Chapter," which had been compiled and reconstructed by Immortal Master Xu Cheng based on his own insights and philosophies.

"Fortunately, I have the Accumulated Demon Dao Transformation Art. The Divine Abilities and Spells in it originate from oneself and won't be influenced by the heavenly demon."

Shen Moyan's five aggregates—form, sensation, perception, mental formation, and consciousness—transformed into a steady stream of Yin Mo Devilish Qi, blessing his own body.

"Form Aggregate: Demonic Essence Spirit Convergence."

Circulating the Yin Mo technique, Shen Moyan fully restored the wounds that had just been blasted open.

"Right, there's also..."

A pair of wind demon wings covered in eerie demonic patterns, and a heavenly demon sword with an ominous black-red aura swirling around its blade and a throbbing demonic eye embedded in the guard, were summoned by him without hesitation, floating before him.

These two Magic Treasures had once provided him with great assistance, but at this moment, they faintly emitted a sense of beguilement, their dim treasure light revealing a sinister vitality.

Since he was to rid himself of the heavenly demon's influence, he would do it thoroughly.

"Leaving All Forms, all dharmas are void!"

Shen Moyan gave a low shout, operating the Scripture of Severing All Manifestations with full strength.

Immediately after, his hands formed hand seals, and pure clear light lit up at his fingertips, sketching runes in the air.

The runes wrapped around the wind demon wings and the heavenly demon sword like chains.

"Strip!"

He held his fingers like a blade and made a phantom slash!

The clear light runes suddenly tightened, piercing into the cores of the two Magic Treasures.

Sizzle—!

Immediately, a piercing sound of corrosion rang out.

The demonic patterns on the wind demon wings distorted violently, and traces of viscous dark purple blood were forcibly squeezed out from the wing bones and feather veins.

The throbbing demonic eye on the heavenly demon sword let out a silent shriek as the blade trembled, and strands of even purer true blood of the heavenly demon, almost condensed into tiny demonic shadows, were extracted.

This true blood was unwilling to be stripped away; it twisted and struggled in the air, emitting a polluting power that eroded the mind, even attempting to lunge back at Shen Moyan.

Shen Moyan's gaze was cold.

He slapped the yi mo gourd at his waist with one hand, and the mouth of the gourd opened automatically.

"Collect!"

All the stripped true blood of the heavenly demon, whether from the wind demon wings or the heavenly demon sword, was caught by the suction of the yi mo gourd; struggling and wailing, it was forcibly dragged into the gourd's mouth.

The body of the gourd vibrated slightly, a few obscure glimmers of light flashing across its surface before it returned to calm, though a muffled thunder-like sound could be heard from within.

The wind demon wings and heavenly demon sword floating in front of him lost the true blood of the heavenly demon.

Instantly, their spiritual light vanished, and the demonic patterns dimmed.

They were like two dead objects that only possessed the outward form, their vitality having been drained by the removal of the true blood of the heavenly demon.

"As expected, true blood of the heavenly demon is no good thing."

Shen Moyan's eyes narrowed.

Fortunately, he had resisted the urge to directly absorb this true blood of the heavenly demon into his body to increase his cultivation back then; otherwise, after stripping it, he would have ended up in the same state.

"Let me check my Physical Body again to see if it has been affected by this heavenly demon power."

Shen Moyan felt a lightness throughout his body.

That obscure Dao Ryhme that had been like a maggot in his bones, attempting to erode his Dao Heart, was significantly weakened following the stripping of the true blood.

He waved his hand to put away the remains of the two now-useless Magic Treasures, then turned his gaze back toward the distance where Devilish Qi surged toward the sky, already having a new plan in mind.

"I don't know what the outcome of the battle between those two is now, but that's completely not for me to worry about."

Shen Moyan noticed that in the red and black interlaced sky, there were still faint specks of starlight.

Some of the demonic seeds scattered from the sky had not fully taken effect; otherwise, everyone on the land would have turned into Demonic Fiends.

It must be that the Star River Brightening Fate Controller did something to prevent Feiguang Prefecture from completely turning into a demonic hell on earth.

Now, the Demon Venerable and the Fate Controller were still in a great battle, and Langya Prefecture was likely their main battlefield.

From the previous conversation between Zheng Quan and the Demon Venerable, it could be judged that this Six Hells Demon Venerable was an extremely conceited and proud individual.

As long as he cared about his reputation, he wouldn't come looking for a minor Mortal Transformation like himself in Feiguang Prefecture.

After confirming that no Demonic Fiends were paying attention to his existence, Shen Moyan fled a hundred miles away, hiding in a mountain cave to avoid the gathering places of Cultivators where Devilish Qi surged, and checked his body over and over again.

"There shouldn't be any major problems now."

Only after several hours did Shen Moyan breathe a sigh of relief.

"The gains in this life are many, first and foremost being the perception of karma lines."

As the saying goes, the cicada senses the coming of the autumn wind before it moves; Cultivators also have a sense of spiritual awareness.

This spiritual awareness is like a Mortal's sixth sense, providing a hazy premonition of approaching crises and events in the future.

Now, having perceived the karma lines through Seeing Xiyi, Shen Moyan finally learned that this was the Origin of spiritual awareness.

"Let me see what my Karma in this world is like."

In the Xiyi Perspective, he looked inward at his own existence, gazing at that interlaced and complex web of Karma that spanned the past and future.

Most of it, just as the Star River Brightening Fate Controller had settled, began to become dim and thin.

After leaving the form of the heavenly demon, his Karma connection with the heavenly demon also grew fainter and fainter.

His entanglements with Wild Goose Formation True Monarch, Ni Gaoyuan, Luo Changting, and many other people and events were weakening.

Even the parts concerning the Great Qǐ Lower Realm plane had already snapped and dissipated.

As the Karma faded, a sense of freedom and lightness arose spontaneously.

"The various types of Karma are truly wondrous."

Shen Moyan looked at these illusory lines and picked out several thick ones.

These lines that were gradually solidifying meant closely connected Karma with deep entanglement, such as the Biyang Sword Sect, since Shen Moyan practiced the Biyang First Rising Art.

However, within this great web of Karma, an unusual karma line suddenly grabbed his attention.

"Hmm?"

This line was newly born, and the speed at which it solidified was eerily fast.

It was as if it had sprouted out of thin air, or perhaps had been forcibly grafted on by some powerful external force.

Its color was different from ordinary Karma; it was an extremely piercing and heart-palpitating dark red.

Like clotted blood.

In the sensation of the Dao Ryhme, its texture was filled with negative stimuli such as 'deathly stillness,' 'calamity,' and 'irreconcilable enmity.'

Just looking at it made him feel like there were thorns in his back.

"This is..."

Shen Moyan was startled, somewhat unable to believe it.

A Karma Killing Calamity!

Someone wants to kill me?