Gu Jinlai stood in the inner courtyard of the Wang Family Mansion, his expression calm as he recovered his own condition.
The sky had darkened.
But that did not mean that the consumption of the Great Sun True Demon Body could not be recovered.
It was just that the efficiency of recovery had slowed down.
He had not used much Qi to crush the Wang Family just now, and if needed, he could deploy the Great Sun True Demon Body again.
"It’s time to add some points."
Gu Jinlai shifted his focus to the miniature consciousness in his spiritual world.
It had freshened up a bit, and the fourteenth layer was not far off.
Qing Lian seemed to have its own judgment mechanism for the increase or decrease of "Karma."
The massacre of the Wang Family had not left many dead by his hands—three Hugging Pill and a few Gang Condensation, the rest were killed by the explosives.
However, as the commander of this action, the one who gave the orders, he also needed to bear some of the Karma.
If Karma had an experience value system, killing a Light Red Name would add ten, a Yellow Name a hundred, a White Name a thousand, Light Purple ten thousand.
Indirectly causing their deaths or disabilities would increase the base value proportionally, from one percent to ninety percent depending on the extent.
"Just as measuring tribulations, if I had not delved deep into the tribulations, how could fate have let those whose time was up die in tribulation?"
The resolve of Gu Jinlai was not shaken by the vivid Karmic Fire.
Even so, the blazing Karmic Fire, red as blood, instead tempered his spirit and purified his heart, making his will firmer and purer.
"I am willing to become a prison for the body, transform the calamitous fire of all beings, slay the deceit of all beings, refine the evil of the world, seek the pure Havens and Earth, and protect the enduring righteousness."
Gu Jinlai’s expression remained serene.
Then, his consciousness turned to the orb of the Great Sun Demon God Body Refining Method.
The remaining Wang Family’s young masters were numerous, but their average level was too low, with only a few in the Qi Refining Realm.
Due to their limited cultivation, even if they had the intent to commit evil, they could not be utterly corrupt.
After all, this was a world with cultivators where a common man, enraged, could spill blood for up to five steps.
Therefore, by exterminating the Wang Family, he had gained two strands of Qingguang.
With a thought, two strands of Qingguang were infused into the orb of the Great Sun Demon God Body Refining Method.
His consciousness transformed.
He seemed to see a ten-zhang Demon God, walking under the bath of the Great Sun, towering with majesty, bathing in blood as he battled terrifying Great Demons.
Destroying armies and formations, slaughtering cities and nations.
Where his fist force reached, rivers stopped flowing.
Turning blood into sun, burning the sky and boiling the sea.
Such power swayed the spirit of Gu Jinlai.
If the strength of a Primordial Spirit Monarch equated to a high-mobility Combat Mecha, then at this moment, this Demon God...
Was akin to a Combat Mecha from a future era.
And that kind, ten stories tall, every movement could shake the earth, capable of reversing the outcomes of battles—a heavy-duty Mecha.
Great Sun Demon God Body Refining Method: Mahayana→Perfection.
It took a while before Gu Jinlai gathered his spirits and recovered from this miraculous realization.
The Perfect Realm of the Great Sun Demon God Body Refining Method utilized the blood of demons more effectively.
The founder of the Red Blood Demon God Body Refining Technique, Tianyuan Dao, was ultimately a cultivator.
In the later stages, they managed to shape this body refining technique back to its origin.
The Great Sun Demon God Body Refining Method inherited this trait and perfected it.
Thus, the Perfect Level of the Great Sun Demon God Body Refining Method had almost departed from the category of Demon Martial Artists.
In the continuous cultivation process, his body seemed to undergo changes, and the resonance with the Great Sun grew increasingly strong.
In times of need, he could use his spirituality to visualize the Great Sun, resonating with the Power of the Great Sun above the Sky Dome through the visualized Great Sun, using this power to stimulate his body, causing special reactions to occur, generating tremendous energy to strengthen his physique and support the consumption of the Great Sun True Demon Body.
Body and spirit, interacting under this cultivation technique.
Gu Jinlai muttered to himself.
All things have spirits.
What exactly is the nature of spirituality?
Countless Heavenly Masters, working day and night for thousands of years, have not yet come to an accurate conclusion.
But according to the experiences of the predecessors, comparing it with the secret technique derived from the Perfection of the Great Sun Demon God Body Refining Method, he had a guess.
Spirituality, similar to the activity of thought.
"Spirituality combined with the Great Sun Demon God Body Refining Method gives rise to the Perfect Level secret technique—Great Sun Divine Light, capable of damaging others’ spirituality, making their perceptions dull."
Perception slowed, which on some level can be understood as sluggish reaction and sluggish thinking.
It could further obscure a top cultivator’s ability to sense danger and cloud their Spirit Light.
"This ability is perfectly suited for an assassin’s assassination,"
However, having a ten-zhang tall Demon God sneakily hide and infiltrate to assassinate a target?
This scenario seemed somewhat bizarre.
Moreover, the range of the Great Sun Divine Light was small, only affecting targets at close range. How could one assassinate when that close?
Shaking his head, Gu Jinlai dismissed the thought.
"The greatest change in achieving Perfection in the Great Sun Demon God Body Refining Technique is that it eliminates dependency on Demon Blood Essence, allowing the refinement of the body through the power of the Great Sun... Of course, refining Demon Blood Essence and absorbing the power of the Great Sun are not conflicting; one is a private windfall, while the other is a consistent flow,"
Gu Jinlai was very satisfied with this.
Absorbing the essence of the sun and moon.
This is the real method of Immortal Cultivation.
"The Great Sun Demon God Body Refining Technique, supplemented by spiritual derivation of the Great Sun, resonates with the sky dome’s Great Sun, and absorbs the power of the Great Sun to refine oneself. Although it adds a step, it is not much different from co-spiriting with oneself, which confirms my suspicions."
Co-spiriting with oneself.
Just like when a Heavenly Master tames beasts, guiding wild beasts to evolve into spirit beasts and divine beasts, refining oneself and guiding one’s own evolution.
"All things have spirits, and humans are the spiritual leaders of all creatures... Due to humans’ strong spirituality, they cannot resonate, but this is not an absolute statement,"
If intelligent life is likened to a nation.
The more advanced the technology, the more automated and mechanized, the more rigid the social class structure becomes.
The power of an individual against highly automated and mechanized weapons is extremely trivial. The hopes for reform, or co-spiriting, are almost nil.
On the other hand, in those less developed civilizations, heavily dependent on manpower, corruption within a country can lead someone to rise and change the regime.
Compared to wild beasts and fierce beasts, humans are like a high-tech civilization with rigid class structure.
They seem very powerful, but because of the upper layers’ blockade of the lower layers, they lose the space for change and likewise lose the foundation for co-spiriting.
To co-spirit, to change the status quo, there is only one method.
Bring forth a power so strong it surpasses advanced civilizations.
He realized, historically, there were Heavenly Masters who had similar ideas, but...
They couldn’t achieve it.
The Great Sun they visualized was essentially just a big fireball. Even if they wanted to resonate with the brilliant Great Sun above the sky dome, how much could they resonate? How much power of the Great Sun could they absorb?
At most, it let people in the colder months enjoy the sunlight of the warmer months.
But he was different.
His visualization was of the real Sun.
"Spirituality! Spirituality! Spirituality!"
Gu Jinlai increasingly felt the profound intricacies of the Path of Heavenly Master.
This path is the real way to refine the heavens and earth, the sun and moon, and all celestial stars.
He shifted his focus to the Grand Sun Nine Refinement Visualization Method, and his thoughts suddenly became clear.
"Using the Grand Sun Nine Refinement Visualization Method to refine Qi and transform divinity, increasing Spiritual Sense, then using Spiritual Sense to derive the Great Sun, absorbing the power of the Great Sun to strengthen oneself... The two form a perfect cyclical system."
At this thought, he clearly felt the deep purple light orbs representing the "Grand Sun Nine Refinement Visualization Method" and the "Great Sun Demon God Body Refining Technique" drawing closer together, seemingly about to merge.
It was only because one was at Perfection, and the other was still at the third refinement level that a difference in balance existed, making it difficult for them to truly merge.
"Hence, the next focal point will be the Grand Sun Nine Refinement Visualization Method,"
At this time, Gu Chaoyang’s urgent voice came from outside: "Patriarch, the Fang and Zhao families have arrived. They... they have implemented a Trojan Horse strategy. Some are pretending to assemble, while the real elites are heading straight for the Wang Family Mansion to attack!"
Just then, a shrill cry came from outside the Wang Family Mansion, filled with righteous indignation: "You, to fulfill your vile ambitions, first slaughtered the city’s west Meteor Star Guards, then harmed our city’s garrison commander, and even more heinously broke into the Wang Family Mansion and slaughtered the entire Wang Family! Such crimes are beyond words! Today, our Fang and Zhao families will act as heaven’s agents, eliminating demons and slaying monsters!"
Having heard this, Gu Jinlai turned to Gu Chaoyang, "Are the explosives in place?"
"Then what are we waiting for? Follow the plan, retreat, set the time for ten breaths, and then detonate the explosives."
Gu Jinlai spoke calmly, standing up.
His stature gradually increased as he stood, and a wild and demonic energy surged wildly around him, like demon flames, shooting straight into the sky.
"Eliminate demons and monsters? Today, I will stand right here!"
The thunderous sound from his voice swept quickly outside the courtyard, striking terror into people’s hearts.
"Zhao Yi, Fang Zheng, come meet your deaths."