The flesh on the Grand Wine Sacrificer's neck rapidly squirmed, stitching together, becoming one. He laughed, "Feng, my friend, this time things are not in your favor!"

Feng Ruotong didn't hesitate, flying away, transforming into a stream of Immortal Light and breaking through the sky!

Though the Grand Wine Sacrificer only borrowed strength from Chen Shi's dojo, making him a bit stronger than usual, this slightest difference was enough to decide victory or defeat between the two.

His injuries were more severe, so he fled immediately.

The Grand Wine Sacrificer laughed heartily, transforming himself into a green light following closely behind, his voice echoed from afar, "Feng, my friend, don't run. I'll see you off, until we meet again in the next life!"

Having rarely gained the upper hand, he would seize this opportunity to eliminate the formidable rival Feng Ruotong!

The two departed, one before the other, vanishing beyond the horizon.

In the sky, only the tea table and three chairs remained, along with the Black Pot sitting by the table.

The dog poured itself a cup of tea, brought it up to drink, but its paw was trembling so much it couldn't reach its lips.

"Boom!"

The distant sky shook violently, Immortal Light and demonic light erupted—it seemed the Grand Wine Sacrificer had caught up with Feng Ruotong, and the two clashed again!

This battle was a life-and-death duel between two immortals, bound to be extremely splendid.

The Black Pot trembled as it brought the teacup to its mouth, finally taking a sip of water.

The tea table and the dog began to fall, while below in the teahouse, Chen Shi's dojo grew stronger, its influence spreading ever wider.

At this moment, within Beilai City, not only did the people of the Divine Capital feel the evil transformation within themselves being affected, but the merchants and purchasers on Sheep Street, as well as the ghost monsters like Shen symbolically selling goods, all sensed a strange power enveloping and influencing them.

Those who were sickly and tormented by yin and evil energy suddenly felt refreshed, as if their ailments had left them.

Shen's body was also constantly twisting, the flesh wriggling beneath his skin gradually gathering and changing shape. He soon shifted from a ferocious giant into a large, silly Feng Xi, sitting dumbly on the ground, unaware of what had transpired.

This type of ghost monster was originally a Feng Xi subjected to an evil transformation. Back then, when the West Bull New Continent underwent a mutation, the sun and moon extinguished one after another, evil energy invaded, and the world underwent an evil change. The merchants and mutant beasts on this continent also gradually mutated for survival.

Currently, as Chen Shi's Demon Path Dojo unfolded, they were bathed in the purest demon path, aligning the evil energy within, reverting to their original forms.

The range of Chen Shi's dojo expanded further, spreading from Sheep Street, gradually enveloping Beilai City, even the entire Xia Family was within its influence.

At this moment, almost everyone noticed the change within themselves, mortals and cultivators alike.

In the study room of the Xia Family, the Xia family's ancestor, Xia Min, stared blankly at his own hands, lips trembling, murmuring, "Canghai, the evil energy within me is gradually settling..."

Xia Yihang was instead summoning his primordial spirit, inspecting his own state of evil transformation.

For any cultivator, as long as they cultivate, they will undergo an evil transformation—it is only a matter of depth. There is no escaping it.

From the first stage of cultivation, from refining essence into qi, the seeds of evil transformation have been planted within, silently taking root and sprouting.

Upon reaching the Divine Embryo Realm, the Outer Heaven True God grants a divine embryo, suppressing the evil energy and greatly slowing the pace of evil transformation.

However, with increasing realms and deeper cultivation, during the Unification Realm, one will undergo evil transformation due to opening connections between the physical body and the external world. Fortunately, before the Unification Realm, there are the Divine Descent Realm and the Void Refinement Realm. These realms allow the divine embryo to return to the Outer Heaven True God, drawing from its power to comprehend the Heaven and Earth Great Dao, once again suppressing evil transformation.

By the time one reaches the Mahayana Realm, the accumulated evil energy is challenging even for the divine embryo to contain. Fortunately, at this time, cultivators only have a lifespan of a hundred years, and beyond the Mahayana Realm, no further realms exist. Thus, they generally can live out their years peacefully, leaving the world in natural death.

However, the Xia Family Sect Master often relies on spiritual medicine for longevity, living two to three hundred years, causing signs of physical body evil transformation to become increasingly apparent.

This change constantly tormented them.

But now, this torment has ceased.

Chen Shi showed them another possibility—one that draws upon the evil energy of heaven and earth, transforming it into one's own Daoist practice!

This path, though considered a demon path, would not make one succumb to the demon path or become an evil spirit, but is actually a form of cultivation.

Outside the teahouse, Daochengzi was also among the crowd from the Divine Capital. Recently, he was the Taoist who, along with the Confucian and monk, had injured the Xia Family's elders.

At this moment, Daochengzi was looking down at his hands, sensing the surging demonic energy within his body, the joyful circulation of the demon path, a feeling different from the last time he stepped into Chen Shi's Yin Yang Change.

Last time when he entered Chen Shi's dojo, he felt his own evil energy completely disappear, returning to a Qi Refiner cultivating righteous qi—an immensely wonderful feeling that brought tears to his eyes.

Now, he felt he truly entered the demon path, cultivating it like a genuine demon cultivator, and evil transformation was merely a means rather than an end. This transformation left him deeply shaken.

Before, he had no choice, but now, he had two.

He could continue along the demon path, testing if this road could lead to immortality. Or he could return to the righteous path, becoming the Grand Patriarch of the Taihua Qingyang Palace.

"Is the Grand Wine Sacrificer truly so cunning?"

He silently pondered, "If the Grand Wine Sacrificer returns, will he take away the Divine Emperor? When faced with these two paths, which would he choose?"

Just then, the Confucian Emperor's Son, Song Yi, walked over to him, evidently moved, and said, "From today onwards, neither the Divine Capital nor Despair Slope needs to exist."

Daochengzi's heart trembled as he looked at Song Yi, meeting his gaze.

Both were of one mind, understanding each other's thoughts.

Despair Slope was born to uphold the orthodoxy of the Outer Heaven True God, while the Divine Capital existed to enact the world's evil transformation.

By adding the Demon Technique and comprehending the Yin Yang Change, Chen Shi made the righteous and demon paths into choices, rather than life-or-death struggles. Thus, neither the Divine Capital nor Despair Slope was necessary anymore.

"But concerning power, neither the Grand Wine Sacrificer nor the Heavenly Venerate of Despair Slope will let this go, " Daochengzi's monk companion, Dharma name Hui Kong, said. He was the monk among the Taoist, Confucian, and monk trio who had injured the Xia Family elders alongside them and was known as the Bodhi Venerable of the Bodhi Dojo.

"However, if Chen Shi reveals these two cultivation techniques, it is inevitable the Divine Capital will splinter!" declared the Confucian Emperor's Son, Song Yi.

Daochengzi said, "Thus, slaying the Divine Emperor becomes necessary!"

Bodhi Venerable Hui Kong remarked, "If the Divine Emperor returns, will he bring the True God away?"

The three fell silent.

Daochengzi remained quiet for a long time, then said slowly, "My heart is with the righteous path."

Hearing this, Hui Kong said from the side, "Dao friend, you have become attached, invaded by demonic nature."

Daochengzi laughed heartily, "Dao friend, you have become possessed, influenced by Demon Qi, and your demonic nature has taken over."

Hui Kong laughed and replied, "Dao friend, you are fixated, led astray by the demon path, controlled by demonic nature."

In the teahouse, Chen Shi still sat cross-legged, more memories from the past eight years continually unraveling.

"Great Sacrificial Wine, I've heard many people are looking for me, causing chaos in the Underworld. You should investigate who these people are and deal with them," he said, his face breaking into a broad grin.

The Grand Sacrificial Wine replied, "I have ordered it done. It is the Heavenly Dao Practitioners on Despair Slope trying to find and eradicate your whereabouts."

"That good, that is good indeed." Chen Shi beamed.

-- Today's birthday, the second chapter might come a little late.

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