Zhao Gongming held multiple positions; not only was he the Great Commander patrolling the heavens, but he was also the Main God of the Plague Department, acting as the God of Wealth and Gate God, holding the title "Heavenly Doctor Fire Cloud Dragon Commander" within the North Pole system, and "Support Heaven Broad Holy Exalted Mystic Cave True Monarch" within the Qingwei system, while also serving as the Five Thunder Talisman Envoy of the Thunder Department.

He possessed quite a number of magical treasures; the countless whip shadows split from the Golden Whip entangled with numerous lightning bolts, shattering Deng Yin's Blood Demon Divine Claw, and used the Nine Heavens Demon God Rope to capture Deng Yin.

Deng Yin noticed the danger, hurriedly launched a demon attack transformation, splitting into three, then three into nine, turning into nine Divine Demons; yet the divine rope also split into nine, piercing through the heart of each Divine Demon.

Zhao Gongming pierced through Deng Yin's demon heart with the divine rope, then raised the Golden Whip again with his right hand, transforming it into nine whip shadows, and with a loud shout, smashed them down towards Deng Yin.

With one whip strike, he directly broke Deng Yin into nine clusters of demon light, which were still bound by the rope, continually flowing and changing, unable to escape.

Zhao Gongming pointed with the whip again, the tip cast out nine clusters of lightning, enveloping the demon light within, continuously blasting with a snapping sound, breaking into nine giant lightning spheres, until it completely vanished!

He realized Deng Yin was not an ordinary evil demon, knowing the danger, he originally planned to capture him and hand him over to the North Pole Exorcism Institute, but unexpectedly eliminated him directly.

Amidst his amazement and doubt, the Black Tiger under him suddenly let out a roar, subsequently, with his Wisdom Eye, he saw a blood shadow appearing in front of each Heavenly Soldier under his command, lunging straight ahead.

"Not good!" Zhao Gongming sharply perceived Deng Yin's true form this time and directly swung out the Golden Whip.

Previously, he struck down from a superior position, the Golden Whip illusion attacking countless demon claws; this time it was the Golden Whip in its true form striking Deng Yin's true form.

Deng Yin himself targeted Zhao Gongming's deputy general, the right assistant Wide Thunder Heavenly Talisman Envoy Song Wei; Song Wei was also a very formidable Heavenly Immortal, seeing through Deng Yin's stealth technique amidst the tiger roar, and thrusting the lightning-wrapped spear in his hand towards the Blood Demon lunging at him.

Deng Yin was pierced through the heart by the iron spear, with lightning coiled around like a Spirit Snake, Deng Yin was hung on the spear, constantly struggling, immediately followed by Marshal Zhao's Golden Whip, dispersing Deng Yin into a cluster of demon light again.

The Heavenly Realm itself is condensed from Pure Qi, even though this is the lowest level, the pure heavenly soil is still ten thousand times stronger than the Lower Realm, most unwelcome by Heavenly Divine Demons; even if Deng Yin flew up here he would feel discomfort throughout his body, all kinds of demon path techniques would be greatly diminished in power.

The Heavenly Soldiers of the Immortal Realm are all Heavenly Immortals, even those like Lu Rongbo, whose Nascent Soul ascended up here, having cultivated in the heavenly soil for long, their Primordial Spirit gradually approaches Pure Yang, many magic spells have no effect on them.

This is the case with Deng Yin; if any other demon were to ascend, they would be obliterated with a single confrontation, body and soul destroed.

Deng Yin understood this disadvantage, appearing weak in the spell duel everywhere, twice actively being dispersed by Zhao Gongming into Qi, while secretly performing the newly refined Blood Buddha Great Method.

The "Blood Buddha Scripture" blends into the Absolute Venerable's "Demonic Destruction Treasure Record," containing many Buddhist orthodox demon-suppressing and demon-destroying great techniques, yet things taken to the extreme will inevitably rebound; when encountering demon path cultivators, regardless of their level or morality, it indiscriminately kills, thus giving rise to demonized thoughts from within the Buddha Realm, providing an opportunity to integrate with the "Blood God Scripture."

These Heavenly Soldiers and Generals first used the divine artifacts in their hands to fend against the approaching blood-colored human shadows, the Blood Shadow scattered with the wind, then they heard by their ears: "Namo Amitabha Buddha… Namo Shakyamuni Buddha… Namo Zhan Tan Merit Buddha… Namo Zhunti Buddha… Namo Achura Buddha… Namo Medicine Master Glazed Superior Buddha…"

Normal Buddhist chanting is clean and melodious, full of sanctity; however, what they heard carried a sobbing tone, as if demons from hell were chanting, not to plead the Buddha to save themselves, but rather to resent why the Buddha does not save them, maliciously wishing to drag the Buddha down.

"Such an evil demon!" Zhao Gongming shouted violently, pinching a hand seal with his left hand, swiftly chanting a few spells, raising his hand to launch a Dragon and Tiger Jade Ruyi, decorated with pearls and treasures, forming a dragon head on one side, bunching into a tiger head on the other, cast into the air, shining brightly, also emitting sounds of dragon chants and tiger roars.

The dragon chant soared, echoing through the skies, the tiger roar was deep, reverberating through the earth, sounding like thunder among the ears of the Heavenly Soldiers, preventing them from being led into the Demon Realm.

However, Deng Yin's demon skills were profound, the Buddhist chant surprisingly continued incessantly, persistently resounding into their ears amidst the dragon chants and tiger roars, forcibly penetrating from ear to heart.

While both sides engaged in the spell duel, they were momentarily locked in stalemate; those Heavenly Soldiers couldn't withstand the tugging between the two masters of opposing forces, each dizzy and disoriented, true qi scattered, limbs losing strength, eventually one by one vomiting white blood paste, collapsing unconscious… Even Zhao Gongming couldn't suppress these demon sounds, only prevented Deng Yin from controlling them, preventing them from transforming into Blood Buddha incarnations.

Having failed to achieve his goal, Deng Yin appeared again, this time no longer feigning weakness, unveiling a Blood Stained Treasure Crown Buddha.

This Treasure Crown Buddha was reputed for transforming beings across the Three Evil Paths, especially from the Beast Path.

Many portraits or statues of Treasure Crown Buddha are surrounded by small cats and dogs, fish and shrimp, even cattle, horses, monkeys, and pigs; many Buddhists chant his name and spells during rituals of releasing life.

Beside Deng Yin's transformed Blood-stained Treasure Crown Buddha, there was a large mass of blood mist enveloping him. Within the mist, numerous blood-colored shapes formed into chickens, ducks, geese, dogs, cats, and other domestic animals, as well as fish, turtles, crabs, shrimps, and clams, which surged like a storm toward Zhao Gongming.

All of the 1,200 Heavenly Soldiers commanded by Zhao Gongming today were already lying on the ground, leaving only two deputy generals by his side. The deputy generals were simultaneously wielding long spears, their spear tips shooting out a large amount of thunder and lightning, blasting forward, each also summoning a flying sword and blade to slash at Deng Yin.

Deng Yin released four groups of demon fire with a flick of his fingers. The viscous demon fire entangled the three divine weapons of sword, blade, and spear. His body expanded, transforming into four demons, and although they were cut to pieces by the sword and blade, pierced through by the long spear, they transformed from one into two, from two into four, entangling the four weapons.

Zhao Gongming then summoned his golden whip, Ruyi, and Treasure Bead. Above Deng Yin's head appeared three blood flames, within which manifested three blood-stained Buddhas. In the center was the blood-stained Shakyamuni Buddha, with the blood-stained Ancient Buddha of Burning Lamp on the left and the blood-stained Future Maitreya Buddha on the right. Each cast the "Demon-suppressing Great Technique," sending blood-colored Buddha Seals blasting forth, causing the golden whip to spin like a windmill in mid-air, unable to strike down, shattering the dragon and tiger forms of Ruyi's two-string qi, and making the Treasure Bead spin continuously, spewing out gold coins and ingots.

The gold coins came in various forms but were all round on the outside and square in the middle, with a cash hole in the center. While a single cash hole could capture several evil ghosts, Deng Yin had no love for money. The gold coins could not capture him, nor could the ingots strike him, scattering chaotically across the sky, unable to settle down.

Only at this moment did Zhao Gongming realize the true power of this demon!

He saw Deng Yin releasing a large amount of blood qi to cover the fallen Heavenly Soldiers, from which emerged numerous blood-drenched flying beasts and creatures. Realizing Deng Yin intended to devour the Heavenly Soldiers' essence energy, Zhao Gongming cast two Mystic Sky Talismans, then used spells to emit a vast amount of thunder light to temporarily push back the blood qi and move the Heavenly Soldiers behind him.

But Deng Yin used Divine Splitting, manifesting behind him a Blood-stained Baoji Buddha, capable of producing many treasures, various gold and silver treasures, and the Seven Treasures highly esteemed in Buddhism, including gold, silver, and glass, all blood-stained as if freshly retrieved from blood, raining down toward Zhao Gongming.

Zhao Gongming, along with two deputy generals, was beset on both sides by the two Blood Buddhas. Particularly, Deng Yin targeted the Heavenly Soldiers, sensing they were Zhao Gongming's "Achilles' heel," continuously using blood-stained treasures, or flying beasts and animals to attack. In desperation, Zhao Gongming took out his Golden Bowl that stores money and collected all 1,200 Heavenly Soldiers into it.

The battle continued back and forth for a while. Qi Shuming and others had already ascended to the heavens, witnessing the blood demon battling the God of Wealth, and joined the fray.

Having reached the Heavenly Realm, although they had not yet presented themselves to the Heavenly Emperor, even if they were slain or injured by the Blood Demon, the Heavenly Emperor could not ignore it.

The Emei Sect members had left their flying sword magical treasures in the Lower Realm, now mostly using Invisible Sword Qi. With a collective shout, they condensed hundreds of Invisible Immortal Swords to form a sword formation, entrapping the Blood-stained Treasure Crown Buddha inside, tearing towards the center. Li Yingqiong especially displayed the Top Three Flowers, unleashing ten thousand Purple and Blue Duoluo Fires.

The Dharma Body of the Treasure Crown Buddha was instantly shredded to pieces, scattered into streams of blood light, each caught by a Purple And Blue Divine Flame, burning with sizzling and shrieking sounds.

Each sound was a demon sound, piercing the eardrums and attacking the mind directly.

"This demon defies heaven, striking into the spiritual space, it's pure self-destruction!" Zhu Mei exclaimed in amazement.

The next moment, within the sword formation, appeared another blood-stained Vairocana Buddha. This Blood Buddha stood a thousand feet tall, with a thousand hands, each holding an "artifact" — not common magical treasures, but a skull, an eyeball, a severed hand, a heart, one even holding a human head.

The Emei Sect members again urged the sword formation, intending to shatter this Vairocana Buddha, but this Blood Buddha persistently waved the thousands of artifacts in its hands, forcibly drawing the Invisible Swords into itself, embedding them in heart, head, eyes, and intestines, proceeding to pollute and dissolve them swiftly.

At the same time, to the east appeared a blood-stained Achura Buddha, to the west a blood-stained Amitabha Buddha, to the south a blood-stained Baoji Buddha, and to the north a blood-stained Amoghasiddhi Buddha emerged.

Deng Yin used one to transform into five, each of the five Blood Buddhas, standing a thousand feet tall, formed a formation, encircling Zhao Gongming and the others. They either spat demonic flames from their mouths, shot demon light from their eyes, or raised multiple arms, directly hurling various blood-stained artifacts!

"Be careful, everyone!" Zhao Gongming slapped the tiger head, displaying the Heaven and Earth Dharma, also a thousand feet in stature, battling fiercely with the five Blood Buddhas wielding rope and whip.

One Zhi Fu Envoy, witnessing this scene, hurriedly went to report to Tongming Hall, where Xu Jingyang, one of the Four Great Heavenly Masters, was on duty. Upon hearing the report, he pondered: The Heavenly Emperor is still preaching in Taixu Heavenly Realm, not yet returned to his seat, nor leaving behind any talismanic edict. I cannot mobilize all departments in the Circulation to suppress demons. What's more, the last time the Xuan Dragon soared to the sky, it already caused quite a stir. Another occurrence, if we merely drive it back to the Lower Realm without capturing or dealing with it, could inevitably damage divine authority.

He quickly came up with a solution, personally signing a document, and handed it to the Zhi Fu Envoy: "You must swiftly go to Taiching Heaven and find Master Ren, telling him his junior has become demonized, and is now blocked by Marshal Zhao outside the South Heavenly Gate. Urge him to quickly deal with it."

The Zhi Fu Envoy, carrying the document, rushed to Taiching Heaven.

Taiching Heaven is the residence of Lord Lao Zi of the Great Monad, generated by the primal qi born from chaos, and its extent is vast.

Master Chang Mei had long entered the Qingwei system in the Lower Realm, cultivating only Taiqing Immortal Techniques, and had especially developed a connection with the Taiqing One Qi Divine Talisman left by Lord Lao Zi in the human world. After ascending, he held an idle position in Taiching Heaven.

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