novelraw Chapter 96 : I Reflect Upon Myself Thrice a Day
Chapter 96 : I Reflect Upon Myself Thrice a Day
Chapter 96: I Reflect Upon Myself Thrice a Day
“Could it be because my Dao heart is immaculate, that these Heart Demons cannot affect me?”
“I truly am too powerful.”
Seeing the situation before him, Li Tianwei immediately understood what had happened to himself.
Clearly, his conclusion was correct—because his Dao heart was incomparably strong, these Heart Demons could not influence him in the slightest.
Within his divine soul, they had nowhere to hide—their impact was even weaker than that of the Extraterrestrial Demons.
“Otherwise, how could this Heart Demon Tribulation be even less formidable than the Heavenly Tribulation from earlier!”
Thinking so, Li Tianwei had already completed the reasoning for them.
Xu Yuqing and Ming Yin, witnessing this bizarre scene, could not simply sit and await death.
They immediately activated their divine souls.
In an instant, their forms twisted and transformed, radiating supreme brilliance that illuminated Li Tianwei’s sea of consciousness.
If it had not shone, it would have been fine—but once it did, everything changed.
Boom!
A thunderous roar resounded.
Li Tianwei’s divine soul was connected to the Resentment Force of Heaven and Earth through the Resentment Channeling Curse. Moreover, within the Forbidden Land of Taixu, he had absorbed and purified the distracting thoughts of those Celestial Souls.
What his sea of consciousness concealed could well be imagined.
As Li Tianwei understood, according to the Law of Conservation of Energy, when he cleansed and refined away those distracting thoughts and resentment, something must have remained within him.
And that remnant was rooted in his sea of consciousness, deep within his divine soul.
Under such countless influences, what kind of divine soul could Li Tianwei possibly possess?
When Xu Yuqing and Ming Yin’s divine souls shone upon him, both of them instinctively shuddered.
Compelled by instinct, they probed outward—and that single glance was enough.
Indistinct whispers, dense clouds of distracting thoughts—together with the remnants of those Celestial Souls from the Forbidden Land of Taixu and the resentment of Heaven and Earth from the Demonic Sect Territory—all sorts of bizarre and twisted visions manifested before their eyes.
Xu Yuqing and Ming Yin, cultivators who had lived thousands of years as Spirit Transformation Realm experts, were now witnessing phenomena they had never seen before.
Evil resentment, vile deformities, corrupted beings, half-human half-immortal abominations—all manner of grotesque amalgamations, condensed into endless, unfathomable darkness.
Across a vast starry sea, suffused with darkness, emanated the essence of ultimate evil and resentment. They beheld visions of the utmost wickedness—pure demonhood incarnate.
With just one glance, both of them felt tainted.
Yes—tainted.
Tiny specks appeared upon their divine souls, stains that could not be wiped away no matter how they tried.
“Ahh! What in the world is this? The King of Demons?!”
“How could there be such a vile divine soul!”
“Could it be that this Li Tianwei is a Demon himself—a powerful, terrifying Demon—who has taken on the form of a Heaven-Defying Genius just to infiltrate this world?!”
Ming Yin and Xu Yuqing, feeling their bodies and souls changing in disturbing ways, realized that something was gravely amiss and could not help but cry out.
Meanwhile, Li Tianwei—who had been calmly observing how this Heart Demon Tribulation would unfold—never expected that these Heart Demons would be so utterly foul-mouthed.
“King of Demons? I am filled with filth?”
“Damnable Heart Demons! Are you trying to inject such delusions into my heart?”
“Trying to corrupt my Dao heart through such means—you wretched things, damn you!”
Li Tianwei’s face suddenly darkened; faint flames flickered within his eyes.
“Damn it, it’s actually rather effective… I let a few words stir my emotions. It seems my cultivation of calmness isn’t yet sufficient.”
“As expected of Heart Demons.”
He soon calmed himself and sighed.
“Still, even Heart Demons cannot influence me so easily. My cultivation stems from the Sacred Land of Lingxu, founded upon the most righteous of methods—especially my Scripture of Supreme Virtue and Radiant Purity, which cleanses all defilement. How could I ever be evil or demonic?”
“Therefore, these Heart Demons must be flawed—broken even—incapable of performing the most basic functions of Heart Demons.”
“And besides, shouldn’t they strike at the weakest point within my heart?”
“To call me a Demon—who would ever lose composure over that? A righteous man like me may feel anger at such blasphemy, but that’s hardly my weakness.”
“Thus, these Heart Demons are surely defective.”
Countless thoughts raced through Li Tianwei’s mind as he glared coldly at the two Heart Demons.
“Damnable Heart Demons—break for me!”
With a single thought, Li Tianwei’s vast and boundless divine soul surged forth, descending upon Xu Yuqing and Ming Yin.
Faced with Li Tianwei’s eerie divine power—its subtle influence and twisted corruption—their Spirit Transformation Realm souls began to show prismatic hues, faintly tainted with ultimate evil.
“The Scripture of Supreme Virtue and Radiant Purity shall tell you this—you are the true Demons, the true Heart Demons.”
Li Tianwei muttered softly.
From the darkness and evil, a trace of pure, immaculate brilliance arose.
From the twisted energy, a layer of golden light emerged—boundless and sanctified.
Feeling this strange change, Xu Yuqing and Ming Yin could not comprehend what was happening.
This mingling of purity within corruption was an anomaly they could not understand, and instead, it stirred within them a desire to submit—to worship.
“No… what kind of heretical technique is this? So strange, far too strange!”
“This Li Tianwei must be a great Demon of this world!”
Even as they spoke, their words did not cease.
“How hateful! Such a Demon, yet still obstinate and unrepentant, still seeking to corrupt my Dao heart!”
“No… I mustn’t let them go unpunished. As it happens, my Saint Soul Banner still lacks a main soul—these two will do nicely. And since they are Heart Demons, if I refine them as the main souls of the Banner, they will surely contribute more merit to Heaven and the living beings of this world.”
“To kill or not to kill—I choose not to. I truly am too kind.”
Hearing their foul words, Li Tianwei felt ripples of emotion in his heart, but soon steadied himself again.
Li Tianwei was well-versed in the art of self-reflection. Just now, he had been angered by their filthy speech—he had even wanted to kill them—but he quickly reflected: he must not kill.
Killing solved nothing. To slay Demons was to grant them release; far better to refine them into the Saint Soul Banner, letting them serve temporarily as its main souls.
In this way, they could still contribute to the world and accumulate merit.
Such great benevolence. Such self-reflection.
Li Tianwei deemed himself a true Saint.
“To purify Heart Demons only I can.”
Li Tianwei sighed deeply. To undertake deeds that others could not that was precisely what a protagonist like him ought to do.
And Xu Yuqing and Ming Yin, tainted by the sanctified yet demonic aura of Li Tianwei’s soul, could no longer manifest the power befitting cultivators of the Spirit Transformation Realm.
Had they fought Li Tianwei outside using other means rather than their divine souls, their outcome might have been far less dire.
But alas who could have foreseen this?
Soon, golden light filled the sky, as holiness and wickedness intertwined, spreading a strange sense of mutation.
“I am a Demon… I am a Heart Demon…”
“No… no…”
At that moment, Xu Yuqing and Ming Yin began muttering to themselves.
Their divine souls were now marred with dense blotches, twisted beyond recognition.
They themselves did not even realize this transformation.
Meanwhile, Li Tianwei had already taken out the Saint Soul Banner.