This is the martial arts world, what are you cultivators interfering in?

Chapter 383 The Path of Demons

"Follow me,"

A disciple of the Zimu family led Li Lan inside. After walking through the winding corridors, they soon arrived at the family's back mountain. The place was beautiful with clear water and lush mountains, and a scripture library was built against the mountain.

Li Lan glanced around and saw that there were arrays binding the surrounding earth veins, suppressing the scripture library as if there were some demons or monsters inside.

On the four huge stone pillars of the scripture library, four statues of gods are carved. In front of the statues, there are offerings such as incense and candles. A large amount of faith and incense power surrounds the base of this scripture library.

This surprised Li Lan quite a bit.

The disciple led Li Lan directly into the Scripture Pavilion and found a middle-aged steward on the first floor. He said, "Reporting to Steward Zhou, this is a newly recruited handyman. He ranked first in the first round of the family assessment in terms of temperament, but he doesn't even have a pseudo-yellow-level talent. Elder Luo said that this person is suitable to work in the Scripture Pavilion."

The middle-aged deacon squinted, scrutinized Li Lan for a few moments, and sneered, "Character first? I understand, you may leave."

The disciple immediately left.

"Zhiping, you take this boy under your wing and let him get familiar with the Sutra Repository."

The middle-aged deacon spoke, and a woman walked over. The middle-aged deacon said, "Let him go to the third floor to see that thing and see if his reputation as the number one in temperament is truly deserved."

He waved his hand, and the woman immediately said, "Come with me."

Li Lan caught up with her.

The woman, dressed in a red fitted dress, appeared to be around thirty years old. She had a beautiful face and a graceful figure. Leading Li Lan past rows of bookshelves, she introduced the books as she spoke:

"The library has a total of five floors."

"The books stored on the first and second floors were copied by us and can be read and practiced by the family disciples. The third floor and above is where we mainly work."

Xin Zhiping said calmly:

Do you know what we mainly do?

Li Lan shook her head.

"Copying scriptures."

Li Lan was somewhat puzzled. Was that all?

"It's very simple, isn't it?"

Xin Zhiping smiled inexplicably and said, "Come up with me."

She went up the stairs first, and Li Lan followed. As soon as they entered the third floor, Li Lan was shocked by the scene before her.

—On the third floor, there were no bookshelves like on the first and second floors. Instead, there was a huge demon skeleton on the floor. At that moment, a dozen servants were kneeling around the demon skeleton, trembling, writing something.

"Do you know where the scriptures on the first and second floors came from?"

Xin Zhiping sighed softly and said, "This is the source of the Purple Wood Clan's scriptures—ancient demons!"

Ancient demons!

"These ancient demons once ruled the entire Eternal True Realm. During that time, the human race could not even control the essence of the five elements and became food for the demons. Later, the nine Eternal Kings led the heroes of the world to fight against the demons and wiped them out."

"And the various follower families all obtained countless demon corpses, and these demon corpses all contained powerful ancient techniques."

"However, the demonic energy of the demons is too heavy, and their resentment after death is even more astonishing. A single demon corpse can even turn all the living beings in a city into demons... Therefore, the Scripture Pavilion needs to be suppressed with array formations and protected with incense and the power of faith!"

"In order to obtain the various powerful techniques left behind by the demons, all the major families tried their best. Later, they discovered that the higher one's cultivation level, the easier it was for them to be infected and influenced when looking directly at these demons. They might even accidentally go into a state of demonic possession. On the contrary, those with low cultivation levels or no cultivation at all were less affected."

"Therefore, they would recruit a large number of menial laborers, and day by day, they would gradually decipher and extract the knowledge and information contained in the bodies of demons, and then copy it down to form scriptures that ordinary cultivators could also cultivate."

"You're the same; none of us have any cultivation."

Xin Zhiping said calmly, "Go, feel the remaining demonic resentment in this demon skeleton."

Li Lan calmly stepped forward, looking at the demon skeleton.

It is vaguely discernible that this demon must have had wings and an eagle-like head in its previous life, but it also had astonishing fangs.

At that moment, Li Lan suddenly sensed an astonishing aura of resentment. It was as if a dying demon had opened its eyes and was staring intently at Li Lan, like a demon emerging from the abyss, about to devour him!

But Li Lan simply looked at it calmly.

The demon seemed to have been provoked, and its blood-red eyes strained to open, a terrifying malice instantly emanating from them and descending upon Li Lan.

"Don't look directly into its eyes—"

Xin Zhiping exclaimed in surprise. She hadn't expected Li Lan to be so bold. She hurriedly tried to rush over, but as soon as she got close, she felt an astonishing chill, her whole body stiffened, and she could hardly move forward.

Li Lan, however, was overwhelmed by the tidal wave of malice!

"It's over!——"

Xin Zhiping spoke in a trembling voice, "A new handyman, is he going to die on his very first day?"

The group of servants who were engrossed in writing something around them were now utterly horrified, and they hurriedly retreated, staring in fear at the demonic skeleton.

But, one breath, two breaths... the air was deathly still, and no one knew how much time had passed. Finally, the chilling malice suddenly receded.

Li Lan remained standing before the demon's skeleton!

"Wu Heng...you?"

Xin Zhiping spoke, extremely nervous.

At that moment, Li Lan was deep in thought.

In that instant, that astonishing malice pierced through his eyes and entered his mind, as if it wanted to completely destroy him.

If an ordinary person were subjected to such an impact, their spirit would be completely torn apart, and they would go insane on the spot.

Even if not, their minds will be corrupted, and their personalities will change drastically, becoming increasingly eccentric.

However, after that demonic malice and ferocity entered his mind...

But it seemed as if it had seen something extremely terrifying, and it actually trembled!

Because it saw Li Lan's spiritual form—bound by primordial chains, like a king sitting on a throne.

That demonic malice actually knelt down before Li Lan's spiritual body.

At this moment, some malice still remained in his mind, but that malice had lost its dominance!

"He's not kneeling before me, he's kneeling before the Primordial..."

Li Lan suddenly understood.

The great god Pangu once said that in the days when humanity still relied on blood offerings, demons roamed the world. When Pangu, Nuwa, and other ancestors finally fought their way through and battled the demons, many of them mysteriously vanished.

Pangu said that those demons had returned to the "original path".

This means that those demons may have been one of the original creations.

The primordial matter that the nine Eternal Kings finally found on the Path of Origin, after countless hardships, ultimately transformed into a divine blade, severing it all from Li Lan's body.

Li Lan's body and soul were both bound by the primordial chains. No matter how strong the remaining malice of these demons was, how could it be stronger than the power of the primordial?

When they saw the primordial moment, even demons could only kneel down!

In the end, it even severed that part of malice, leaving it in Li Lan's sea of ​​consciousness, and retreated without hesitation—

"This malice has been left behind; it seems it can be used to my advantage?!"

The moment Li Lan had this thought, the malice in his mind suddenly stirred up, as if it could burst out at any moment!

Li Lan suddenly opened his eyes, and at that moment, a hint of excitement flashed in his eyes.

"This...is also a path!"

Now, Li Lan's dantian, bones, and primordial spirit are all trapped by the primordial chains, meaning he has lost all his power.

Even after arriving in the Eternal True Realm, he was still at his wit's end, because he could not cultivate normally like Wang Daniu, Lan Xin, and others.

It can be said that until a substance that can undo the primordial power is found, Li Lan will forever remain a cripple.

All his countless principles and insights have vanished into nothingness.

He also couldn't control any power.

Within the Eternal True Realm, it is extremely dangerous to be powerless. Even a nobody like Ling Shuixiong can pose a threat to Li Lan.

However, the malicious corruption that Li Lan had just suffered from led him to a path—

Turn the evil of demons into your own power!

The malice of demons is extremely terrifying to any cultivator in the world. It can pollute one's spirit, cause one to go astray and become neither human nor ghost. But Li Lan is different.

He once commanded the power of the heavens, roamed the endless sea of ​​suffering, transformed the grievances of the people into a sword, and used their wrath as a blade to slay hundreds of immortals...

No matter how strong the malice of demons is, how can it be stronger than the will of Heaven? The wrath of all living beings?

In the blink of an eye, the demonic malice within Li Lan's mind had transformed into a sword—

A sword of malice!

In Li Lan's eyes, the dark sword shadow flashed by, seemingly ready to be shot at any moment.

Li Lan estimated that even a cultivator at the Water-Clearing Realm would go insane on the spot if struck by his "Sword of Malice"!

This made him quite happy.

After all, he entered the Eternal Realm alone and indeed lacked the means and trump cards to protect himself.

Now, it's like finally finding a sharp blade to defend yourself in a dark forest.

"Hey, are you scared out of your wits?"

At that moment, Xin Zhiping walked over, put her hands on Li Lan's shoulders, and shook him. Her eyes were filled with tension and self-blame.

"what happened?"

Li Lan then realized what was happening.

"You...you're still alive? You're alright?"

Xin Zhiping was surprised when Li Lan suddenly spoke, and the servants around her also looked at him incredulously.

"How could someone survive being maliciously attacked by demons?"

"Be careful, he might have gone mad!"

"Yes, Sister Zhiping, be careful!"

They were all extremely vigilant and instinctively stepped back.

Xin Zhiping was also somewhat cautious, and asked, "Who are you, and where are you from?"

Li Lan couldn't help but laugh and said, "My name is Wu Heng. I just joined the Zimu Clan as a servant. Sister Zhiping, don't worry, I'm fine."

Upon hearing this, Xin Zhiping finally felt completely relieved. However, she then asked incredulously, "You're really alright? How is that possible... How did you do that just now?"

Li Lan hesitated for a moment, then said, "Just now, it seemed like a demon was trying to get into my eye. I only had one thought at the time: I couldn't let it in. After a long struggle, the demon retreated..."

Upon hearing this, Xin Zhiping's eyes widened instantly. "Huh?"

The servants nearby were also completely astonished.

"What kind of freak is this person, that he managed to block the evil invasion of demons?"

"That's outrageous..."

"This is impossible..."

They didn't believe it!

As scribes and scribes, they had to come into contact with the skeletons of demons every day to obtain information from them. They knew how terrifying these demons were. Not to mention the terrifying malicious fluctuations, just getting close to them on ordinary days was enough to make them tremble with fear.