501: Chapter 501 Confusion

One year later.

Small matters were constant, but no major events occurred; Liu Xuan lived a disciplined yet boring life.

It was quite dull. Low-level Cultivators have their troubles, and high-level Cultivators have theirs. The poor have their worries, and the rich have theirs; everyone has troubles just the same!

There wasn't much difference!

[Ding! Congratulations to the Host on the birth of your 900th descendant. Third-grade Spiritual Root. You have gained experience as a Rank 4 Low Grade Formation Master.]

[Ding! Congratulations to the Host for reaching 900 descendants. You have obtained a special talent: Six Desires Sky Demon Heart.]

[Six Desires Sky Demon Heart: The Qi of the six desires of all living beings in heaven and earth is born within the Void Realm and Chaos, evolved from the dark side of the Heavenly Dao Laws. After a Cultivator refines it, they can obtain top-tier Demonic Path talent, allowing them to control their own desires as well as manipulate those of others, silently polluting them from the level of the Divine Soul.]

"Hiss!"

Liu Xuan immediately stopped feeling bored. The System's gift this time was even more sinister!

The child's mother was the charming, long-black-haired beauty Cheng Nian. After looking at the mother and son for a while, Liu Xuan named his 822nd child: Liu Jingchun.

The total number of descendants had reached nine hundred, but there were seventy-eight grandchildren. Liu Jingchun's true rank was 822nd, in the Jing generation.

Keeping the System rewards in mind, Liu Xuan didn't stay long with Cheng Nian. After comforting her with a few words and recording a trace of the child's Divine Soul into the Family genealogy, he impatiently headed to the Pill Refining Tower.

The top floor of the Pill Refining Tower.

His Incarnation, Wang Qiao, was still refining pills. Liu Xuan sat cross-legged on a nearby futon, sinking his Divine Thought into his Sea of Consciousness to first receive the Legacy of Rank 4 Low Grade Formation Master experience.

Currently, Liu Xuan possessed the top-tier Rank 4 Alchemist and Artifact Refiner Legacies, while his Talisman and Formation skills were only at the top of Rank 3.

Raising his Formation level to Rank 4 Low Grade was extremely helpful for setting up the Family's Formations; it was exactly what he needed.

*Boom!*

"Such powerful force!"

A surge of Formation knowledge forcibly merged into Liu Xuan's Divine Soul. He felt his head fill with flickering numbers and lines, with multicolored lights shifting and changing, making his consciousness dizzy.

"As expected of the most difficult among the Four Arts of Cultivation. The intensity is almost as high as when I received the top-tier Rank 4 Alchemy and Artifact Refining Legacies!"

After a full half-day, Liu Xuan waited until the grogginess in his Divine Soul vanished. Once his comprehension of Formations became clear, he calmed his mind and looked at another reward in his Sea of Consciousness.

With a light touch of his Divine Sense, a mass of deep black mist turned from ethereal to solid and merged into Liu Xuan's body.

In his chest, Liu Xuan had no heart, only a Golden Core connecting his entire Bloodline.

The black mist enveloped the Golden Core, slowly transforming into the shape of a black heart, connected to his blood vessels and meridians.

*Buzz!*

Black mist surged around Liu Xuan, then ignited into eerie demonic flames. Tides of desire welled up; the Qi of the six desires—sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch, and thought—crashed wildly. Greed, love, and hate all exploded, and his eyes were consumed by madness.

The Six Desires Sky Demon Heart was neither physical nor ethereal. Normally, it was not something a Golden Core True Person could refine. Even for a Demonic Path giant in the Cultivation World, refining it would carry immense risk; a single slip-up would turn them into a puddle of Devilish Qi, dissipating into the world.

Liu Xuan had never practiced any Demonic Technique, nor was he a natural-born demon. Logically, attempting to refine this thing was no different from seeking death.

And indeed, it was so. Liu Xuan felt his Divine Thought being pulled by the evil thoughts of all living beings. Fragrances, illusory sounds, delusions... they all flooded in. He could only maintain a tiny spark of clarity in his Divine Sense.

*Buzz!*

A phantom of a Kunpeng and a phantom of a True Dragon circled within Liu Xuan's body. Relying on his powerful Physical Body and Divine Soul, he slowly fused with the Sky Demon Qi.

*Crack!*

Unfortunately, a lack of compatibility is just that. Many things cannot be changed by will alone. Liu Xuan's Divine Soul began to show signs of cracking.

Suddenly!

Just as Liu Xuan's Divine Soul was about to suffer heavy damage, the originally violent Sky Demon Qi, full of destruction and madness, suddenly became silent and submissive.

Liu Xuan's face flushed one moment and turned cold the next; his aura was eerie then ethereal, but his eyes grew increasingly clear.

The Qi of the six desires formed a multicolored halo behind his head, and a mysterious, holy aura spread out.

His eyes saw illusory colors, his ears heard heart-songs, his nose smelled exotic fragrances, his mouth watered, his body felt light as a feather, and his thoughts were clear, with all distractions vanished.

Not a trace of Devilish Qi could be seen on Liu Xuan anymore. Instead, he appeared as gentle as jade, possessing a profound attraction.

His brow carried an indescribable temperament; anyone who saw him would involuntarily feel a sense of goodwill, or even obsession and madness.

"Six Desires Sky Demon!"

Liu Xuan had clearly felt unable to refine the Sky Demon Qi just moments ago, but at the limit of his Divine Soul, he had suddenly fused with the Sky Demon Body. He didn't know if he had just met the refinement requirements or if the System had intervened.

Without overthinking, Liu Xuan carefully sensed the abilities he had gained after refining the Six Desires Sky Demon Heart.

Passive effect: Innate Charm. Most creatures would develop a degree of goodwill toward him, unconsciously wanting to do things for him. Those with low cultivation Realms could be driven at will with a single word.

Active Divine Ability: Beguilement. It can trigger a Cultivator's desires and use those desires to control their Divine Soul. At the very least, it can weaken the opponent's strength, preventing them from utilizing their full combat power. Furthermore, it can continuously influence the opponent, leading to the growth of Heart Demons and resulting in Qi Deviation.

Feeding on the desires of all living beings, it has the effect of assisting cultivation. Moreover, he is naturally immune to illusions and has no tribulation of Heart Demons.

"Badass!"

"Others view desire as a tribulation in their cultivation, but I use it as nourishment!"

"What Heart Demon? I am the Heart Demon myself!!"

The benefits of the Six Desires Sky Demon Heart to Liu Xuan were extraordinary; it could be said to have resolved a major concern of his.

All the cultivation of his descendants was stacked onto Liu Xuan, so his own cultivation Realm increasing was only a matter of time.

Previously, his only worry was that his cultivation would rise too quickly, leading to an unstable Dao Heart and the emergence of Heart Demons.

Now that he had refined the Six Desires Sky Demon Heart, issues like Dao Heart and Heart Demons were no longer problems. The path of immortal cultivation was now a smooth road.

"The Beguilement Divine Ability can trigger others' desires. If I use it during Dual Cultivation..."

The Love Gu had the effect of increasing Liu Xuan's attraction to females, and the Six Desires Sky Demon Body also enhanced his charm.

"To think that I, Liu Xuan, a dignified man, have now become a top-tier incubus. It is truly not what I wished for!"

Sighing, Liu Xuan straightened his robes, planning to find Bai Jie to test the effects of the Sky Demon Beguilement.

"In the future, I'll use Sky Demon Beguilement against Righteous Path Cultivators and the Hunyuan Righteous Method against Demonic Path Cultivators. Simply perfect!"

Just as he was about to leave, a surge of Foundation Establishment Dharmic power was born out of thin air within his Golden Core, and a cracking sound of a breaking Bottleneck rang out.

Late Golden Core Stage! He was about to have a Breakthrough.

Liu Xuan was overjoyed. He sat back down on the futon and took out a large number of demon blood beast pills to consume.

*Thump-thump!*

*Thump-thump!*

A rhythmic heartbeat sounded from within the crimson Golden Core, and the 'Demonic Heart' condensed from the black Sky Demon Qi enveloping the Golden Core also began to beat.

The two sounds overlapped, and with every beat, the aura on Liu Xuan's body grew a bit stronger.