He was filled with joy, barely able to conceal his excitement.

The citizens of Great Shang each have divine roles. Those responsible for farming will farm for generations, engraved in their bloodlines with the Farmer Witch Sacrificial Dao Pattern. Those who oversee fishing will fish for generations, engraved in their bloodlines with the Fisherman Witch Sacrificial Dao Pattern.

Life management is overseen by Fate, rain is managed by the Rain Master, fire by Zhu Rong, and rivers by Gonggong.

The various duties of people are predestined before birth, unchangeable.

"Everyone in this village should have the same divine role, since they share the same bloodline, meaning they all possess the same Witch Sacrificial Dao Pattern."

Chen Shi's eyes sparkled, "The Heavenly Venerate's Primordial Spirit shattered, and before his soul dispersed, he seized the body of a Shang citizen, meaning the Witch Sacrificial Dao Pattern in the Heavenly Venerate's bloodline is the same as the one in this corpse's bloodline!"

He let out a long breath.

The Heavenly Venerate's cultivation power is unfathomable; having ruled Despair Slope for so many years, he probably practiced all the Immortal Laws collected there, and his Immortal Divine Powers are likely devoid of flaws. Even if there are flaws, Chen Shi is unlikely to be able to exploit them.

It's effectively flawless!

However, now Chen Shi has found a fatal flaw!

Unable to break the Heavenly Venerate's Daoist Divine Powers, but he can unravel the Witch Sacrificial Dao Pattern of his Bloodline Power.

This Witch Sacrificial Dao Pattern must have a flaw!

The invincible Heavenly Venerate might perish due to this single flaw!

Recently, Chen Shi's outer body stayed in Heavenly Pond Country, assisting various tribes to decipher cultivation techniques left by their ancestors and organizing the Witch Sacrificial Dao Patterns. His understanding of Witch Sacrificial Dao Patterns has deepened. Finding a way to break the Heavenly Venerate's physical body's defenses from the Witch Sacrificial Dao Pattern on this corpse is no difficult task!

Chen Shi respectfully placed the corpse into his small temple; where once were Immortal Gods now lay a corpse.

"The Witch Sacrificial Dao Pattern on the corpse belongs to Divine Officer Jin Zheng Rushou, meaning the Heavenly Venerate's physical body is that of a descendant of Jin Zheng Rushou. Jin Zheng's cultivation technique is the Autumn Official's Celestial Punishment Technique. This technique needs Little Dun Fairy's help alongside mine to quickly find its flaw."

Chen Shi contemplated, "Another matter must also be taken care of promptly. With Black Pot now the king of this Demon Domain, Tianqing's arrival here poses no danger."

He surveyed the surroundings; the Demon Qi and Evil Qi in this Demon Domain were in a seventy-three ratio, and he needed Li Tianqing's eyes to identify the issue within.

Chen Shi immediately returned to the Mortal World, back to Huangpo Village, used the Heavenly Court Token to come to the Little Heavenly Realms, but found Li Tianqing wasn't there.

He arrived in Qing Province, only to see the citizens of Qingzhou City hosting a celebration to welcome the God of Wealth. They were carrying the divine statues of Emperor Guan, Zhao God of Wealth, Bi Gan God of Wealth, God of Prosperity, Fan God of Wealth, beating drums and praying for abundant crops, prosperous wealth, rising fortunes, and daily affluence.

Chen Shi saw Emperor Guan's thousand feet Primordial Spirit towering over Qing Province, eyes closed, stroking his beard, a knife held in reverse grip.

And in front of Emperor Guan, Li Tianqing stood there, breathing deeply, refining his Primordial Spirit.

Li Tianqing had also entered the God Refining Realm, but only its early stage, presumably due to his recent activities in the Little Heavenly Realms, causing delays in his cultivation progress, so he returned to Qing Province, focusing on his practice.

Li Tianqing, a year older than Chen Shi, turned eighteen this year. After surviving the catastrophe, he became much more mature, handsome as jade, calm and composed, with a steady Dao Heart, giving off an unflinching demeanor.

His face was handsome and delicate, his eyebrows slightly thicker, with a tuft of flying hair forming a cross at the turning point where they curve, resembling a stripe.

He was breathing deeply, his breath long and steady, surrounded by orbiting Sun and Moon undergoing refinement. In Yin Yang Dao, his accomplishments were quickly approaching those of Chen Yindou and others, progressing rapidly.

Chen Shi quietly waited until Li Tianqing awakened and noticed him, then flashed a smile and approached.

Li Tianqing descended from midair, laughed, "Little Ten, why have you come?"

Chen Shi laughed, "I've come to seek your Wisdom Eye, to assist me in making an assessment."

Li Tianqing was amazed, "A problem you can't judge? If you can't do it, it's unlikely I can either."

Chen Shi laughed, "If you feign modesty on this point, then you're being disingenuous."

Li Tianqing laughed, "In observation, Chen Zhenwang indeed falls short of me."

Chen Shi laughed aloud, extending an inviting hand.

A few days passed, and the two arrived at the Demon Domain.

Li Tianqing surveyed the surroundings, nodding gently, "Indeed, Demon Qi and Yin Energy are seventy-three parts, I need to walk around the area."

Chen Shi accompanied him, with a few Huo Dou secretly safeguarding their safety nearby.

Li Tianqing noticed and looked at these Huo Dou with astonishment.

He wandered through the Demon Domain, frequently pausing to observe something, while Chen Shi attentively examined the places he scrutinized, yet he couldn't perceive anything noteworthy.

Li Tianqing paused at over a hundred different sites, and every place he halted, he would take out a bean-shaped seed, plant it in the soil, without watering it.

Chen Shi followed him, spending over ten days traversing nearly the entirety of this Demon Domain, and Li Tianqing returned to the starting point, retrieving each sprouted bean one by one.

All the sprouts were placed together, some long, some short.

"This kind of bean is a type of pod bean from the underworld, which grows by absorbing the yin energy of the underworld."

Li Tianqing took out a bean sprout and explained to Chen Shi, "The proportion of yin energy and evil qi within it is always the same as the proportion of yin energy and evil qi in the world. In other places, it's seventy-three to twenty-seven."

He extracted the demon qi and evil qi from the bean sprout, and it instantly withered into ashes.

Holding a ball of demon qi and evil qi in each hand, Li Tianqing said, "Here, the yin energy is replaced by demon qi. The proportion of demon qi to evil qi in the Demon Domain can be measured with the pod bean, which is sixty-six to thirty-four. The collection point is where the fragments of the Heavenly Venerate's Primordial Spirit exploded and scattered. That is the place where the demon qi and yin energy conflict most intensely and also where they first merged, so measurements there are the most accurate."

Chen Shi smiled and said, "Sixty-six to thirty-four, this indicates that the Heavenly Venerate's Primordial Spirit contains demon qi, and also a certain amount of evil qi. It seems the blood and flesh that devour the sun and moon are also part of the Heavenly Venerate."

Li Tianqing shook his head and said, "Wrong."

Chen Shi was slightly taken aback: "What's wrong?"

Li Tianqing looked at the demon hound Huo Dou in the distance and said, "The mistake is in these Huo Dou knowing how to cultivate. They are incredibly powerful, absorbing the demon qi of the Demon Domain to make themselves stronger while unknowingly reducing the demon qi in the Demon Domain. Apart from them, there are other demons here. I observed along the way and roughly calculated their total number. Based on the proportion of evil qi in them, I can deduce that the actual proportion of demon qi to evil qi in the Demon Domain is seventy-three to twenty-seven."

Chen Shi's heart was greatly shaken: "You mean..."

Li Tianqing said, "The Heavenly Venerate and the blood and flesh that devours the sun and moon are not the same thing."

Chen Shi collected his thoughts and pondered, "If the Heavenly Venerate is not the blood and flesh that devours the sun and moon, then who is he? He can control this blood and flesh, use it to eliminate all the deities of the Da Shang Heavenly Court, chase after me, Yang Bi, Er Niu, and others, and even attach this blood and flesh to the dead to kill the Immortal of Despair Slope."

He furrowed his brow, wondering what the relationship is between the Heavenly Venerate and the blood and flesh that devours the sun, moon, and stars.

What benefit does the Heavenly Venerate gain from controlling Despair Slope and destroying the West Bull New Continent?

After bidding farewell to Li Tianqing, Chen Shi was still pondering this question with no answer.

The Black Pot has now become the ruler of the Demon Domain, staying there to cultivate, while Chen Shi returned to Huangpo Village with many unanswered questions.

Little Dun Fairy and Wu Qingyu were not home. When Chen Shi asked Chen Tang, Chen Tang replied, "The two of them went to Lady Houtu's palace to chat and relieve her boredom."

Chen Shi was surprised and thought, "Little Dun Fairy is usually not very talkative, how could she go to the Lady's palace to converse?"

He arrived at Yellow Earth Slope and as he walked up, he saw the high hill reaching into the clouds, half in the underworld and half in the mortal world, grand and majestic, with rosy clouds floating around like butterfly wings slowly dancing. A grand palace of thick virtue was built by the incense offerings of all gods in the backyard of the temple.

Entering the palace, Chen Shi heard the clear laughter of Little Dun Fairy.

Looking over, he saw his mother, Little Dun Fairy, and Lady Houtu talking and laughing, with Little Dun Fairy being the most talkative, making both his mother and the Lady laugh heartily from time to time.

"Could it be that Little Dun came out?" Chen Shi blinked.

Lady Houtu laughed and said, "Little Ten is here."

Chen Shi stepped forward to pay his respects, smiling, "How have you been finding staying here, Lady?"

Lady Houtu laughed and said, "What is there to adapt to? The divine office is here, so I cannot neglect my duties. However, nowadays in the West Bull New Continent, people only know the Outer Heaven True God and not Houtu. The order of the underworld is still chaotic and not yet established. Ghost gods occasionally invade the mortal world, and experts from the mortal world also sometimes infiltrate the underworld to refine souls into treasures. The world is still in chaos."

She gave Chen Shi a deep look and said, "When will the True King unify the West Bull New Continent and restore order to the Yin Yang Two Realms?"

She spoke with deep meaning.

Without sufficient faith, her power would remain confined at its current level, perhaps even lesser than during the True King Era.

Only if Chen Shi unifies the West Bull New Continent, eliminating the influence of the Twelve Families in the Yin Yang Two Realms, and makes the underworld ghost gods and mortal gods, along with the people, worship Lady Houtu, can her cultivation power greatly increase.

Although still unable to surpass the Heavenly Venerate, at least she would have the strength to fight.

Chen Shi smiled, "Sharpening the axe does not delay the cutting of firewood. Mother, rest assured, unifying the West Bull New Continent is not a difficult task."

Lady Houtu said happily, "Then I can rest assured."

After relaying Li Tianqing's findings, Chen Shi said, "According to Li Tianqing's speculation, the Heavenly Venerate and the blood and flesh that devours the sun and moon are not the same entity, but two different beings. Lady, in the Earth Immortal Realm or elsewhere, have you ever heard of similar occurrences?"

Lady Houtu recalled carefully and shook her head, "I have not."

Chen Shi was somewhat incredulous, "The devouring of the sun and moon, with the West Bull New Continent being devoid of even a single star, created such a commotion. How could the Earth Immortal Realm not know?"

Lady Houtu shook her head, "There is no information about this matter in the Earth Immortal Realm. The West Bull New Continent is remote, a place of exile, who would pay attention to here? If it weren't for the previous True King requesting a sculpture of me from the Huaxia Divine Continent, I wouldn't have come to such a place."

Even making a trip from the Earth Immortal Realm, albeit just a clone, was very taxing, costing power even greater than the clone's own strength, making it a lose-lose situation.

But for the sake of the people here, even if it was a disadvantage, she still sent a clone.

"Yet the devouring of the sun, moon, and stars is indeed a major event."

Lady Houtu's eyes twinkled as she said, "Since the blood and flesh is not the Heavenly Venerate, then its master must be another person. Perhaps this person is also preparing for the Opening Tribulation. The West Bull New Continent is likely not the first world he has destroyed."

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