Chapter 98 - 97: Celestial Demon Strategy! 4 Great Divine Spirits!

Chapter 98: Chapter 97: Celestial Demon Strategy! 4 Great Divine Spirits!

In the Sect Leader’s Hall, Yun Shouxuan sat upright in the seat of honor opposite the Sect Leader’s throne. She had laid out her purpose for coming to Dao Yi Mountain, having already explained the better half of it.

"Sha’Er..."

Yun Shouxuan looked deeply into Chen Sha’s face and said, "I truly want to make it up to you. As long as you return to the Celestial Demon Sect with me, I will step down immediately and let you become the Celestial Demon Sect Master."

Chen Sha was still pondering the Holy Blood within his body.

Hearing Yun Shouxuan’s words, he couldn’t help but shake his head and sigh. "I appreciate the kind gesture, but since I am already in charge of a Major Sect and have taken the position of Dao Yi Sect Leader, what would happen to Dao Yi Mountain if I went to the Demon Sect with you? Not only would I be letting down my father, but I would also be betraying the foundation passed down to me by our ancestors."

Yun Shouxuan’s tone faltered slightly. "This truly is the place where you have lived for twenty years."

Asking Chen Sha to let go of everything on Dao Yi Mountain was clearly impossible. But Yun Shouxuan shook her head and said, "Sha’Er, your vision is simply not far-reaching enough. I am not asking you to resign as the Dao Yi Sect Leader. You just need to broaden your horizons. You can be the Dao Yi Sect Leader, and you can also be the Celestial Demon Sect Master. When you unify the Martial Arts world in the future and become the Venerable, this entire Martial Arts world will be yours. Why should you care about the distinction between one sect and another?"

Chen Sha looked up at his mother.

He thought, "As expected of the First Demon Queen who rampaged across the world, to be able to say such things."

Yun Shouxuan watched as Chen Sha fell into deep thought. She was in no rush and said, "You don’t need to give me an answer right away. I am not in a hurry to leave in two or three days on this trip up the mountain. Aside from visiting you and your father’s ’grave,’ there is one last thing..."

She pondered for a moment and had Mo Ziming place the Asura Treasure Box on the table. "For this matter, I actually have a favor to ask of you."

Chen Sha first looked at the treasure box on the table. It was purplish-black, seemingly crafted from Yin Wood of an unknown age, and a faint metallic luster flowed across its surface.

"What is this? Why do you say you have a favor to ask of me?"

Yun Shouxuan also focused her gaze on the treasure box. Her eyes seemed to reflect memories triggered by the object as she explained, "Speaking of the origins of this box... it belongs to my master, who can also be considered your Grandmaster Anx, Sha’Er. During a bloody battle among the Six Demonic Paths, she was besieged by several other major Demon Sects. They almost slaughtered their way into the depths of our Celestial Destiny Palace. At that time, your Grandmaster Anx feared that the Celestial Demon Sect’s two great treasures—the ’last two volumes of the Celestial Demon Strategy Heart Method’ and the ’Preaching Demon Gall’—would be snatched away by the other Demon Sects, so she hid them inside this Asura Treasure Box early on.

"Now, decades have passed. Under my leadership, the Celestial Demon Sect has gradually restored its status to its peak. However, we still cannot suppress the Six Paths and reclaim orthodoxy as our Ancestral Masters of previous generations did."

"The reason for this..." She looked deeply at the treasure box, "...is that I lack the final two volumes of the Celestial Demon Strategy Heart Method, making me unable to push my Martial Arts to the realm of Perfection."

Chen Sha asked thoughtfully, "Does the method to open this box have something to do with me?"

Yun Shouxuan nodded slowly.

Heaven’s Artisan Mo Ziming, who was standing to the side, said, "Let me explain it to Sect Leader Chen. Currently, the nineteen outer layers of intricate mechanisms on this box have been unlocked. Only the final layer remains. It involves..."

As he spoke, he detailed the final conditions to open the final First Layer of the Asura Treasure Box: it required Miaojiang Blood Worms and a certain precious Holy Blood in the world.

Chen Sha looked at Yun Shouxuan, then at the Asura Treasure Box, and pondered.

"Drawing blood?"

Yun Shouxuan looked at Chen Sha, her heart filled with complex emotions. Before she could even speak, she heard Chen Sha say, "I accept."

She looked at him in astonishment. She hadn’t expected Chen Sha to agree so readily.

Chen Sha chuckled softly. "If it were anything else, I might need to consider it. But if it’s just helping you open the treasure box to retrieve the Demon Sect inheritance inside, it’s just drawing a little blood. What’s so difficult about that?"

This did not violate his bottom line. Moreover, as a son, the blood flowing in his veins came from the person in front of him. Even Nezha had carved his own flesh and bones to return them to his parents. Since it was a request from his biological mother, this was truly not difficult at all.

Mo Ziming was overjoyed. "It doesn’t take much, just a few drops will do. We only need the Palace Master to use the Blood Worm she brought from the Southern Border to awaken the one inside the box with its ’bug cry.’ After that, you just need to drip a few drops of blood on the exterior of the box. Once that bug smells one of the most precious types of blood in the world, it will find it unbearable and will push open the box’s mechanism to crawl out by itself, thus opening the box."

Chen Sha nodded, indicating that he understood.

Mo Ziming immediately limped toward the table with his cane. The reason he was so excited was that once he helped Yun Shouxuan open this box, he would finally be free. He wouldn’t have to stay by this First Demon Queen’s side every day, worrying that she would murder his family in a fit of rage because she couldn’t open the box.

CLICK CLACK CLACK.

Mo Ziming’s hands moved as fast as weaving through flowers, pressing down on the box in rapid succession.

"What a peculiar Mechanical Skill."

Chen Sha watched the fist-sized box unfold before him, First Layer after First Layer, like a blooming flower. It was magnificent and beautiful, simply a work of art.

CLICK.

The box had opened to the final First Layer. The outer mechanisms had expanded to a height of two feet, but the mechanism of the remaining final First Layer still retained the size of a fist. It was extremely bizarre. Even though those mechanisms had expanded outward by over a foot, the volume of the box itself surprisingly had not shrunk.

Seeing that Chen Sha was ready, Mo Ziming pointed to a spot on the box and said, "If my guess is correct, this should be the place where the bug pushes out. You only need to drip a few drops of blood on this spot. You can leave the rest to me."

Without suspicion, Chen Sha slowly extended the hand resting behind his back. Pushing with his True Qi, he forced several drops of exceptionally bright red blood to seep from his fingertip.

Looking at the color of his blood, Chen Sha realized he usually didn’t pay much attention to it. Now, having heard about the Holy Blood within him, he noticed that his blood was unnaturally scarlet.

DRIP DROP.

Four drops of blood fell in succession. Chen Sha withdrew his fingertip and looked at Yun Shouxuan and Mo Ziming.

Yun Shouxuan shot a glance at Mo Ziming, signaling him to act quickly so as not to waste Chen Sha’s blood by letting it coagulate on the box.

Mo Ziming certainly didn’t dare to delay. He took out a small box from his sleeve. Blood seeped from this small box, and inside it was a live Blood Worm. He simply knocked on it.

KNOCK KNOCK.

Immediately, a buzzing sound, like that of a bee, echoed from the box.

BUZZ BUZZ.

Chen Sha and Yun Shouxuan both stared intently at Mo Ziming’s actions.

BUZZ.

BUZZ.

The bug’s cry inside the small box persisted, but there was still no response from within the Asura Treasure Box. Slowly, the time of over a dozen breaths passed.

Sweat broke out on Mo Ziming’s forehead as he thought, "Could the Blood Worm inside the Asura Treasure Box have died long ago? If so, no one will ever be able to open this box."

However, just as he felt Yun Shouxuan’s gaze on him growing increasingly freezing...

CLACK CLACK.

In the silent Sect Leader’s Hall, the faint sound of a springing mechanism suddenly echoed.

"Is it open?"

Yun Shouxuan looked back at the Asura Treasure Box. Chen Sha also looked over curiously.

On the upper surface of the Asura Treasure Box, a pinhole-sized opening had surprisingly appeared at some unknown point. Then, a blood-colored thread, almost invisible to the naked eye, crawled out from that pinhole. Wriggling bit by bit, it plunged its head into the few drops of Chen Sha’s scarlet blood on the box’s surface.

CLACK CLACK CLACK CLACK CLACK CLACK.

Almost at the exact same moment the bug crawled out, the final First Layer of the box split into eight parts. Each part bore the symbols of the Eight Gates and Eight Trigrams, ultimately revealing what lay inside:

A folded piece of white silk with writing on it.

There was also a piece of cyan jade, the size of an egg, gleaming like a cobblestone. It looked exactly like a human gallbladder.

These were precisely the Celestial Demon Sect’s two highest treasures: the Celestial Demon Strategy and the Preaching Demon Gall.

BUZZ!!

And as soon as the Preaching Demon Gall was exposed to the air, an extremely sinister light immediately spawned around it. Hallucinations instantly arose in Chen Sha’s eyes.

"Hmm?"

His heart sank slightly, and the Great Yellow Court Heart Method began to circulate, instantly clearing his mind. Frowning, he looked at the other two people in the hall.

He saw that Mo Ziming, whose eyes were closest to the box, had already become unfocused and vacant. As if having lost his consciousness, his lips moved, emitting strange, muttered sounds.

"Mine, it’s mine..."

"Hmph!"

A cold, indifferent snort abruptly rang out in the hall, striking directly into Mo Ziming’s brain. Immediately after, Yun Shouxuan’s jade-like hand gently grasped the Demon Gall, covering its light.

With the light concealed and his mind rattled by the cold snort, Mo Ziming suddenly threw his head back and spat out a mouthful of blood.

Then came Yun Shouxuan’s indifferent voice. "I told you long ago that the Demon Gall can tempt all living beings. When you opened the box, I warned you not to stare at the contents inside. You were courting death."

After spitting blood, Mo Ziming hurriedly turned his head away. With a trembling voice, he said, "It was I, Mo, who forgot the Sect Leader’s warning."

Chen Sha looked curiously at Yun Shouxuan, who was holding the Demon Gall.

He felt that with the Demon Gall in hand, this mother’s charm and aura had been magnified several times over—building upon a foundation that was already breathtakingly beautiful and capable of making heaven and earth revolve around her. Had he not cultivated the Great Yellow Court, and if his heart was not rooted in the Dao and free of false idols, he feared that just one glance would have brought him to his knees, unable to withstand such a powerful aura.

Yun Shouxuan spoke to Chen Sha, "The one I am holding is the Celestial Demon Sect’s Preaching Sacred Object, the ’Demon Gall.’ It inherently possesses a powerful aura. For those who cultivate the Celestial Demon Strategy, it is an irreplaceable treasure unmatched by anything under the heavens. Having it on me not only amplifies the power of the Celestial Demon Aura but also accelerates my True Qi cultivation."

Saying so, she picked up the piece of silk and unfolded it. After reading through it once, she muttered to herself, "So this is the path of the final two First Layers of the Cultivation Technique. No wonder I couldn’t grasp the crucial point while exploring it alone. The wisdom of our first Ancestral Master is truly far beyond that of ordinary people."

After finishing it, she unexpectedly turned and handed the Celestial Demon Strategy’s final two First Layers of Supreme Heart Method to Chen Sha.

"Sha’Er, take a look as well."

Chen Sha raised an eyebrow and said, "You’re actually willing to let me see a Cultivation Technique like the Celestial Demon Strategy?"

Yun Shouxuan replied, "We are mother and son. What need is there to draw clear boundaries? What is mine is yours. The contents of this box were originally prepared for you."

If Chen Sha awakened the Holy Blood, cultivated the complete Celestial Demon Strategy, and had the augmentation of the Preaching Demon Gall, unifying the Demon Sects would absolutely be no problem.

The Holy Blood was a bloodline that had almost gone extinct within the Demon Sects. After becoming pregnant, Yun Shouxuan had done everything in her power to ensure her offspring possessed the most noble bloodline of the Demon Sects. It took her three long years to snatch this bloodline back from the hands of the major Demon Sects.

Chen Sha didn’t stand on ceremony either. Since she was letting him read it, there was no reason not to. The Great Yellow Court inherently required the Fusion of Divine Skills from various sects to advance further.

As soon as he read it, he was immediately filled with boundless astonishment.

"The thoughts within the final two First Layers of the Celestial Demon Strategy are actually even more ingenious than those of the Jade Emperor Tower..."

To put it another way.

"The final two First Layers of the Celestial Demon Strategy actually contain four types of Dharma Sects that can match the ’Four Divine Spirits’ within the Twenty-four Gods of the Great Yellow Court."

After reading this Celestial Demon Strategy, Chen Sha grasped it with a simple turn of his thoughts.

"The so-called Celestial Demon Strategy cultivates the Celestial Demon Aura to make a person’s outward appearance increasingly flawless, gradually allowing them to draw closer to the natural world. Therefore, those who cultivate the Celestial Demon Aura are all handsome men and beautiful women with outstanding temperaments. And the most crucial aspects of a person’s image are nothing more than the skin, eyes, nose, and other facial features."

These corresponded exactly to a few Divine Spirits in the Great Yellow Court.

Hair God: named Xuanfu Hua, courtesy name Daofeng, color black.

Skin God: named Tongzhong Zhong, courtesy name Dao Lian, color yellow.

Eye God: named Spiritual Firmness, courtesy name Daoist Child, five colors.

Tongue God: named Shi Liangzhi, courtesy name Dao Qi, color red.

The final two First Layers of the Celestial Demon Strategy’s Supreme Heart Method were actually equivalent to four First-Grade Martial Scriptures like the ’Jade Emperor Tower’!!