This is somewhat similar to the Ruo Wood that Li Ye transformed into.

But it is far more domineering than Li Ye's "Night Curtain" — it forcibly puts all living beings to sleep, whether they are Hungry Ghosts, Celestial Beings, or those trapped in the Hell Path.

The gentle night curtain embraced them tightly, drawing them into dreams.

This includes even the arrays belonging to the Hell Path and various Tao Patterns of Divine Techniques that are constantly running.

This power is, of course, not just the power of the night curtain; it also includes the "Ritual Soul" from the supreme Dharma Method "Nine Songs" of the Four Seasons Sect.

That Dharma Method is inherently the power to send off deities after everything ends, possessing a special ability that makes all Divine Techniques and Magic impossible to perform, making it unbeatable when combined with the night curtain.

The combination of natural order and the power of "Ritual Soul" is tantamount to forcing sleep after the sunset, so much so that even monks cannot resist this power and fell asleep before Li Ye in an instant.

—From beginning to end, the Senior Brother never paid any attention to this Painting Spirit who barely advanced to Divinity Transformation by relying on the inheritance of his ancestors; what he aimed for was the entire Hell Transformation Diagram.

Li Ye: "..."

He cautiously took a closer look.

He found the monk staring with wide eyes, yet those eyes were completely devoid of spirit. Despite the Divine Sense still resisting, he couldn't defy such a natural order, and was forcibly put to sleep.

"Oh, so it's asleep."

"I thought it was dead. What a pity."

He shook his head, then quickly left his coordinates, and in just an instant opened a portal of space.

The first to come through was Spring Sun Taoist.

After him came his master and mistress, and even the long-unseen Second Senior Brother, True Man Youtian, Third Senior Brother Chen Mo, and Fifth Senior Brother Spiritual Mechanism Vine all arrived in great numbers.

It was indeed strange.

After so long, just where exactly had his Fourth Senior Brother been? It had been close to a hundred years now, and he had still not seen him. Truly bizarre.

"Eh, such heavy Demonic Qi."

Chen Mo, who had the best relationship with Li Ye, covered his nose and frowned as he circled Li Ye: "Your Demonic Qi has even seeped into other small spaces. If you don't quickly retrieve the demon seed, you're going to fall into the Demon Path!"

Li Ye first paid respects to the elders, then replied:

"This is my Great Divine Technique of the Heart Planting a Demon... sigh, never mind; it's indeed difficult to communicate with someone who hasn't studied such Divine Techniques like you."

He was in a particularly good mood at this time, and combined with the influence of Demonic Qi entering his body, naturally spoke with some arrogance.

But his demeanor was inherently transcendent, so this sudden arrogance in his speech caught the slight attention of his master and mistress, and even Spring Sun Taoist laughed and said:

"Now this is more like it."

"Usually, you are overly humble, but excessive humility isn't considered good. A young man should be high-spirited, and this is better."

His mistress also nodded in agreement: "It seems that there's still some benefit in you succumbing to the demon. Otherwise, doing away with your usual demeanor could be advantageous."

Neither his master nor Senior Brother Youtian spoke, as they, upon confirming Li Ye was unharmed, immediately flew off in a certain direction.

But unfortunately.

The space barrier in this place was still quite stable.

Even the two of them could not approach it for the time being, let alone with all the Demonic Qi, the gathering Celestial Tribulation, and the spiritual power of the Hell Path itself obstructing them.

So they returned without success.

His master rarely showed a somewhat melancholy expression:

"Little Qi, how could time pass so quickly? That child is already advancing to Nascent Soul, and it's such a unique Nascent Soul at that."

His mistress blushed, and if it weren't for the presence of close ones, she would truly have wanted to have a good fight, to spare these old folks from speaking such intimate things at their age.

Saying it aloud!

Li Ye and his two senior brothers simply pretended not to see it.

Moreover, he needed to quickly retrieve all of the Demonic Qi; otherwise, if the Celestial Tribulation struck, even the most powerful Demonic Qi would probably be dissipated by a Nascent Soul-level tribulation.

Then the demon seed he painstakingly nurtured would achieve nothing.

However.

When he sent the Demonic Qi into his body, he suddenly sensed the Demonic Qi inside his body was... seemingly overwhelmingly strong.

The forces within were extremely complex.

There was the power of Jianmu, moonlight, sunlight, flint fire, Yin Yang, Five Elements, life and death... exceedingly complex, like a paint shop; if managed, it would probably be a complex pie chart.

"What is happening?"

His face was full of confusion.

Checking it out by leveraging the array left on Ruoquan Island, he discovered that the various deities had descended their Divine Power, and that Divine Power was all integrated into the demon seed...

Isn't that overestimating me?

His first reaction was shock, the second was curiosity—because he felt that this strength, powerful and complex though it was, was something he could still manage.

Even the Jianmu rooted in his Dantian to control spiritual power divergence and as the first safeguard was... glowing with Spiritual Light?

Wait.

He extended his Divine Sense into the Jianmu.

He discovered the five-colored brilliance from the panel, originally hovering over the Heavenly Dome at the top of the Jianmu world, fell below and fused into the Water of Life produced by the Jianmu.

The originally emerald Vitality Water turned brilliantly lustrous.

Moreover, it circulated along with the spiritual power within the Jianmu, gradually permeating the entire Jianmu, whose vitality was rapidly growing, and was likely to enter a second growth soon.

This was certainly an unexpected joy.

This period, Li Ye had not slacked off in cultivating the Jianmu, but it was indeed difficult for the Jianmu to grow. Even with him diligently watering it with merit, its second growth required several hundred years.

Unexpectedly, it could grow now.

Was it the Demonic Qi, or was it the power of the panel?

He didn't know, but it was definitely a good thing, so he didn't dwell on it.

Because regardless, it's hard to replicate.

So he quickly aimed to properly plant the demon seed, as that was the urgent task.

As he calmed his mind.

More and more Demonic Qi, akin to a whale gulping down, was sent into his body's Dantian, and rotated with his Golden Core in a Tai Chi Eight Trigrams pattern.

Of course.

While absorbing the Demonic Qi, he did not forget to clandestinely acquire some Celestial Blessed Rice, for cultivating such unique Spirit Plants could be very special.

Meanwhile, the elders of the sect swiftly controlled the main Divine Thought of the monk, and began constructing an array from there that could truly control the Hell Path.

Everything seemed to be progressing in a favorable direction.

Yet.

As Li Ye completely absorbed the Demonic Qi into his body, an abnormal change occurred.

The demon seed, which had been circling obediently with the Golden Core, suddenly exuded an extremely intense consciousness—it had absorbed too much power, and even birthed fundamental spirituality due to this power.

And the first reaction of spirituality is a desire for freedom and an insatiable hunger, which is the initial reaction many beings have at birth.

So it naturally wanted to devour the Golden Core, which looked extremely delicious—the Demonic Qi surged toward the Golden Core.

It even instinctively understood how to utilize the Divine Power it had absorbed—dark moonlight, pitch-black sunlight, cold flint fire, contrary Five Elements...

These divine powers bestowed by deities were all utilized by it.

It could even mimic the Divine Techniques Li Ye knew using Demonic Qi, and did so with amazing lifelike precision.

Particularly the Emotion Song.

This Divine Technique directly sprouted countless dark willow branch Immortal Ribbons from Ruo Wood's body, dispersing its might freely to the outside world.

—This is the trial of the demon seed.

The Heart Planting a Demon technique transforms all one's Divine Techniques into Demon Path ones.

If Li Ye cannot overcome it and erase its spirituality to plant it as an ordinary seed, he will not die but will sink entirely into the Demon Path.

Yet Li Ye frowned and did not act.

He was a bit puzzled in his heart—is a demon seed considered a seed?

Why did the panel take effect?

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