Chapter 240: Chapter 239 Celestial Demon Dao Body, Celestial Demoness (Third Update, Please Subscribe)
Destiny serves as a warning, a mysterious protection from the Heavenly Dao.
It’s akin to how Cultivators, before encountering danger, experience a sudden premonition, a hidden unease.
For those bearing great Destiny, before facing calamities, the Heavenly Dao gives a mysterious warning, allowing them to avoid disaster.
The Golden Core Ninth Transformation signifies not only formidable combat power at the same Realm but also a sliver of hope for becoming an Immortal. It can be said to be the Heavenly Dao’s favorite, and even it wouldn’t want such a prodigy to fall.
"In the Life Tribulation, everything that occurs isn’t illusory but merely a glimpse of the future...However, once I understand it all, the tribulation might not be a tribulation at all!" Jin Xi pondered, "No, something’s wrong! In the Illusion Realm, there was no appearance of the Chaos Hall. With the Chaos Hall, even if pursued by Divinity Transformation, I could escape away!"
At this moment, she discovered some irrational points and overlooked parts.
"Daoist Monarch Feiyu is an Immortal, having Ascended to the Immortal Realm, transcending this world and the Heavenly Dao’s grasp. In the Heavenly Dao’s calculations, it is difficult to capture a trace of her; within its cause and effect, her traces are hard to appear!" Lu Xuanji remarked calmly, "In the Illusion Realm, the absence of the Chaos Hall was actually normal."
"At this moment, if I were to initiate the Celestial Tribulation to achieve Nascent Soul, a Divinity Transformation would certainly attack... That would be dangerous!" Jin Xi expressed unease. "Those old enemies once spared the surviving lineage of my Jin Family, and I didn’t realize anything, who would have thought the bloodline harbored a curse, preventing Jin Family Cultivators from advancing to Nascent Soul."
Afterward, she recounted the past events.
Back then, the Jin Family was at its peak, with three Divinity Transformation overseeing, around three hundred Nascent Souls, thousands of Golden Cores, a hundred thousand Purple Mansion Cultivators, a million Foundation Establishment Cultivators, and ten million Qi Refining Cultivators. As for ordinary mortals, there were three billion.
Those enemies joined forces to extinguish the Jin Family, killing its Divinity Transformation Cultivators, Nascent Soul Cultivators, the majority of Golden Core Cultivators, and a few prodigies. The lower-tier Purple Mansion Cultivators, Foundation Establishment Cultivators, Qi Refining Cultivators, and mortals remained unharmed. It wasn’t a matter of mercy from those enemies, but rather the unwritten rules of the Human Race.
If killing and extermination for profit only claimed a few thousand Cultivators, the high-ranking Human Race would remain silent, as the Cultivation Immortality Realm is inherently a world of slaughter, a little killing doesn’t alarm anyone;
But massacring tens of thousands or millions of humans would disturb some Human Race ancestors, drawing ancestral intervention.
Those enemies could only aim for the higher-ups, wiping out the senior Cultivators of the Jin Family, killing some of the lower-tier Cultivators, while dispersing the rest.
At that time, Jin Xi could escape from the destruction of the clan due to this unspoken rule.
Back then, Jin Xi was merely at the Foundation Establishment Cultivation, quite unremarkable.
At that time, it didn’t seem significant, but who would have thought those enemies would use the Jin Family bloodline as a lure to place a ruthless curse.
"This curse is named the Infant Slaying Curse, deeply rooted in the bloodline, and whenever a Jin Family Cultivator attempts to break through to Nascent Soul, the curse triggers, enveloped by tribulation fire, leading to immediate destruction!" Jin Xi spoke, her heart somewhat desolate.
Eradicating the roots, indeed, those enemies spared no loose ends.
"Wait a minute, something seems off! I remember in the Illusion Realm, achieving Nascent Soul didn’t trigger the Infant Slaying Curse!"
Lu Xuanji stated.
"It’s not that the Infant Slaying Curse didn’t trigger, but rather the curse couldn’t harm me," Jin Xi remarked, "The Nine Transformation Golden Core, also known as the Indestructible Golden Core, the Immortal Golden Core, can avoid curse calculations. If I were merely at the Golden Core Seventh Transformation or Eighth Transformation, breaking through to Nascent Soul, I would surely perish under the Infant Slaying Curse, turning to tribulation ash; but by forming the Golden Core Ninth Transformation, the curse can’t touch me in the slightest."
"The Infant Slaying Curse couldn’t kill me, but it did alarm that Divinity Transformation, who then directly came to eliminate me. At merely a single-layer Nascent Soul, I drew the pursuit of a first-layer Divinity Transformation Cultivator... I am quite something."
Thinking about it made her head ache somewhat.
Predicting future situations from current ones is challenging.
However, knowing certain future circumstances allows for reverse deductions, yielding accurate conclusions.
Those enemies, to prevent the Jin Family’s resurgence, set up the Infant Slaying Curse to prevent any Jin Family Cultivator from stepping into Nascent Soul. Without reaching Nascent Soul, being mere Golden Core Cultivators isn’t worth tracking down. But if someone breaks the Infant Slaying Curse, Divinity Transformation Cultivators would come to hunt, wiping them out completely.
It’s almost unsolvable.
Unless Jin Xi doesn’t plan to break through to Nascent Soul.
"Could it be that the Infant Slaying Curse is impossible to break?" Lu Xuanji asked.
"It’s not unsolvable, the Infant Slaying Curse at most lasts five thousand years before dissipating. If a top-tier Curse Master intervenes, the curse could also be broken!" Jin Xi pondered, "Breaking through to Nascent Soul isn’t difficult, nor is breaking the curse, but how to avoid the Divinity Transformation’s pursuit is the hardest part!"
"How to confuse the Celestial Secret, deceiving their perception! I certainly don’t want a Divinity Transformation Cultivator chasing me all over the world!"
"Chaotic Celestial Secret!"
Lu Xuanji suddenly recalled something and said, "I do have a way to evade the Celestial Secret’s detection?"
"What place?"
Jin Xi asked.
"Sword Island!"
Lu Xuanji replied, "Sword Island, one of the Ancient Sacred Lands, after countless ages, many Arrays have severely deteriorated, but some remaining Arrays still possess the capacity to annihilate Divinity Transformation. There, the Celestial Secret is in chaos, cause and effect are scrambled, making calculations and insights difficult!"
"Crossing tribulation there ensures that Jin Family enemies won’t sense anything."
"That is the only safe place, if it’s not safe there, I can’t find any place safer!"
"Great, let’s choose Sword Island, but how do we land on Sword Island?" Jin Xi posed another question.
"That’s not difficult, I know how to enter Sword Island!"
Lu Xuanji stated, "There’s just one question, what exactly is the Celestial Demon Dao Body?"
"I didn’t intend to say, but since you want to know, I’ll divulge a bit!" Jin Xi hesitated, but eventually began, "In the Ancient Era, Celestial Demons invaded this world, engaging in great battles with Ancient Cultivators. Ultimately, they were repelled by the Ancient Cultivators, but they left behind Demon Dao legacies in this world!"
"Some peerless prodigies, following the Demon Dao techniques left by Celestial Demons along with Immortal Dao techniques, embarked on the path of Unity of Immortal and Demon, establishing the seven branches of the Demon Dao."
"Moreover, Celestial Demons left behind the Celestial Demon bloodline in this world. Many Human Cultivators carry this bloodline, though for most, it’s too thin to have any effect.
Back when I proved the Dao of the Golden Core, a Celestial Demon attacked, but it was consumed and refined by me. Shortly after, the Celestial Demon bloodline within me was activated, transforming into the Celestial Demon Dao Body."
"After awakening the Celestial Demon Dao Body, I was uncertain about this physique, and searching through various books provided no records. The fragmented memory inheritances even mentioned absorbing human negative emotions to enhance oneself and improve Cultivation, but I felt uneasy about it!"
"By invoking the Immortal Sword Body, I suppressed and sealed the Celestial Demon essence, yet I felt that after achieving Nascent Soul, it would be hard to restrain, leading to the seal breaking, Demonic Qi contamination, and ultimately turning into a Celestial Demoness..."
"Until later, when you gave me the Seventh Grade Pure Lotus. A sudden idea struck me, that blocking might not be as effective as diverting. Using a technique within the Yin Yang Sword Technique, the Yin Yang Illusionary Body, I cleaved out the Cyan Lotus Avatar."