Outside the Dao Bell, the White Emperor fell silent.
Li Mu looked at him and urged, "What's wrong with you? Say something..."
The White Emperor thought for a long time and said, "I am the Demon Emperor."
"No, you are not."
"No, I am."
...
Li Mu looked into his eyes and said seriously, "Logically speaking, you are just a corpse. You should have your own person... Living as a corpse, you are unique. You should not be held hostage by the White Emperor's memories. This will make you lose yourself. Oh, do you know what 'yourself' is?"
The White Emperor did not answer. After looking at Li Mu, he turned and left.
Talking to this human would make him frustrated and even cause him to doubt himself. He did not like this feeling.
He stopped talking to them and sat cross-legged at the entrance of the Demon Palace, closing his eyes to rest.
The White Emperor's demonic corpse avoided talking. Li Mu's plan to reason with him had failed.
Li Mu and the rest could only stay in the Dao Bell. After obtaining the White Emperor's memories and becoming the owner of the cave abode, this corpse was undefeatable here. At least to Li Mu and the rest, it was undefeatable.
Of course, he could not break through the Dao Bell's defense.
However, if this continued, Li Mu and the rest would still be at a disadvantage.
The other party was essentially a corpse. It could not eat, drink, or sleep for decades.
But Li Mu was different from the Elders of the Six Sects, Huan Ji, and the demons. Their physical bodies were living bodies. When cultivators reached their level, they could completely abstain from eating and drinking. However, the prerequisite was that there was Spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth.
Only by drawing Spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth into their bodies could they preserve their physical bodies. But there was nothing here. With the remaining spiritual power in their bodies, they could abstain from eating for months. After a few months, their physical bodies would die, leaving only their Primordial Spirits. He, Liu Hanyan, and Li Qing would truly be separated by yin and yang.
At that time, he would truly become one with Su He. Speaking of Su He, he did not know where she was now. If she knew that he had become a ghost, would she be sad or happy...
He could also possess another body and be reborn like the Thousand Illusions Venerable Master, but that was not the ending Li Mu wanted.
Li Mu scanned the area. There was still a bear and a snake left. If necessary, he could use the emergency measure and roast them. As for the snake demon, he could forget about it. If he roasted it, how could Li Mu face Brother Bai and his two nieces in the future? As for the bear, its body was riddled with scars and some parts had already turned black. It was obvious that it had been poisoned by corpse poison. There was a high chance that it wouldn't survive. Li Mu couldn't bring himself to eat the poisoned bear's paw …
I wonder if fox legs can be roasted … The moment Li Mu looked at Phantom Princess, Xiao Bai's pitiful face appeared in his mind. Only then did he immediately dispel this evil thought.
Li Mu glanced at the demon corpse that was sitting at the entrance of the Demon Imperial Palace, unmoving like a mountain. He sat down cross-legged and sighed. This corpse was going to burn them to death …
With the protection of the Dao Bell, everyone was temporarily at ease. They sat cross-legged on the ground, healing their wounds and resting.
Phantom Princess sat behind Li Mu. Occasionally, she would raise her head to look at him. The emotions in her eyes were very complicated.
Li Mu had already helped her twice, but there was also an irreconcilable enmity between them. She had been thinking for a long time about how to repay his kindness and take revenge, but she still couldn't figure it out.
When she was young, the elders in her clan had told her, "The troubles of a demon's life begin with a human form." At that time, she didn't understand the meaning of this sentence. Only now did she have some understanding.
How to repay kindness and take revenge at the same time. This was really a troublesome matter.
In front of Phantom Princess, Li Mu's eyes were closed, but he didn't stop thinking.
In this cave, the chances of winning against this demon corpse were infinitely close to zero.
Not to mention him, even if the slovenly Taoist priest came in, he might not be a match for this demon corpse.
Fighting with the White Emperor Demon Corpse here was equivalent to fighting with Xuan Jizi on Mount Baiyun or fighting with the Empress in the Immortal's Capital. It was even more serious. Two cultivators of similar strength could be evenly matched outside, but in one of them's Heavenly Flask Cave Abode, the other wouldn't even have the chance to beg for mercy.
Li Mu thought that he had been careful enough to get the Dao Page. Who would have thought that there would be such a big surprise waiting for him here?
He still had a few trump cards on him, but they weren't much stronger than the Golden Armor Talisman. As for the talisman, in this space, every time it wanted to get close to the demon corpse, it would be teleported far away. This repeated dozens of times. Just now, it had used up all its spiritual power and completely dissipated.
Along with it, the powerful demon soul that Phantom Princess had summoned also dissipated.
Li Mu tried to take out a Sound Transmission Talisman to contact Xuan Jizi, but there was no response.
He took out the Spirit Conch and sent a message to the Empress, but it was also in vain.
He put his hands in his sleeves and silently chanted the Nine Syllables Mantra, but there was no response.
He switched to the Demon Slayer Protection Art, but it still didn't work.
Even the Tao Te Ching, which had always been successful, failed for the first time.
There was no spiritual energy in this space, not even the power of heaven and earth. It was a completely dead place. None of the methods that he used to escape with his life would work.
Li Mu continued to think. Suddenly, there was a low roar in his ears.
He opened his eyes and saw the bear demon curled up on the ground in extreme pain.
Seeing the bear demon, many people from the Meizong and Mirage Sects immediately cried out in fear.
"He's been poisoned by corpse poison!"
"This corpse poison is very strong. It can't be dispelled with spiritual power. The Demon Sect was poisoned to death …"
"We have to get rid of him quickly before he turns into a zombie. Otherwise, all of us will be in trouble!"
…
All the demon corpses in the Demon Emperor Cave Abode were ancient corpses that were 3,000 years old. The corpse poison couldn't be compared to ordinary zombies. Even the Primordial Spirit and demon soul couldn't escape the attack.
If he was at the peak of his spiritual power, he might be able to dispel it with great effort.
However, after going through several battles, all the humans and demons here were on the verge of overdrawing their spiritual power. Once they were poisoned and couldn't get rid of it, they could only wait for death.
The bear demon's face was full of pain and his eyes were filled with despair.
Finally, he seemed to have made a decision. He stretched out his hand and slapped the bear demon's head.
However, his bear paw didn't fall.
Phantom Princess stopped him. With a cold face, she said in a deep voice, "Demon cultivation is so difficult. Are you going to give up just like that?"
The bear demon's body was already emitting a thick corpse aura. However, there was still a trace of rationality in his eyes. He gritted his teeth and said with difficulty, "I, I'm hopeless. Kill me. I don't want to become that kind of thing …"
Phantom Princess didn't say anything. She just channeled the spiritual power in her body into his body.
However, the corpse poison was too strong. Her spiritual power couldn't get rid of it.
Li Mu watched from afar. Although Phantom Princess wasn't very friendly to humans, she was really good to the demon race.
Seeing that her spiritual power was useless, Phantom Princess was silent for a moment. Her palm gradually emitted a golden light.
Li Mu was really shocked this time. She was a demon. She actually knew Buddhism?
He couldn't help but sigh in his heart. It was really good to have a seventh realm father. Phantom Princess had endless treasures. Many of them were precious things that even he didn't have. She could also cultivate both demon and Buddhism. This meant that the Buddhism that countered the demon race was useless against her. She had turned the demon race's weakness into her strength …
She was young, but her cultivation wasn't low. She also cultivated both demon and Buddhism. She had treasures one after another. This was a true demon's second generation.
Under the Buddha's light, the corpse aura on the bear demon's body was dispelled. However, it was only a little. It couldn't slow down the speed of his transformation.
If this continued, he would soon become a complete corpse and lose his consciousness.
Li Mu thought for a moment. He stood up and walked over slowly.
Seeing him walk over, Phantom Princess's expression changed. She picked up a short sword and pointed it at Li Mu. She said warily, "What do you want?!"
Li Mu said indifferently, "If you don't move, he really can't be saved."
While Phantom Princess was stunned, he had already squatted down and pressed his right hand on the bear demon's body.
Li Mu's hand also emitted a golden light.
However, the light on his hand was even brighter than the light on Huan Ji's hand. After the golden light entered the bear demon's body, countless grey gas was forced out of the bear demon's body. Li Mu's other hand shot out a bolt of lightning, completely destroying the grey gas.
After doing all this, he clapped his hands and stood up. He walked back to his seat and sat down cross-legged.
After the corpse aura was forced out of his body, the bear demon sat up. After feeling it, his face was filled with joy.
He kowtowed a few times to Li Mu from afar. Then, he sat cross-legged on the spot to heal his injuries.
Li Mu looked at the elders and consecrators of the six sects and asked, "Are any of you poisoned by the corpse poison?"
The elders and consecrators of the Fu-lu School were not injured. The other sects were also fine. Only a female disciple of the Pill Cauldron Sect had her arm scratched by the demon corpse. The corpse aura entered her body and she had been suppressing it with pills.
Li Mu placed his hand on her arm and helped her remove the corpse aura. The disciple bowed and said, "Thank you, martial uncle."
Li Mu waved his hand and said, "We're family. Don't be so polite."
After a while, Phantom Princess walked over and sat down beside Li Mu. She asked, "Why did you save it?"
Li Mu retorted, "In your mind, do you think that we humans only know how to kill demons and take their souls?"
Phantom Princess said sarcastically, "In the eyes of you humans, aren't we demons also a race that eats humans everywhere?"
In this world, demons eating humans and humans eating demons were common occurrences.
No matter if it was humans or demons, they all had a stereotype of each other. This was unavoidable.
Li Mu naturally would not kill all the demons. The little fox in his house was cuter than most humans.
The reason why he chose to save this bear demon was because the demon aura on its body was pure and clear. It was not an evil demon.
If the demons from the Demon Sect were poisoned, Li Mu would not have used the Buddha's light to save them. He would have taken the opportunity to send them to meet Buddha.
Li Mu's eyes inadvertently swept across Phantom Princess's chest. He found a wound on her left shoulder that was surrounded by a faint gray aura.
He glanced at Phantom Princess and asked, "You're poisoned too?"
Phantom Princess turned her head and said, "It's none of your business."
Li Mu curled his lips and said, "You think I want to care about you?"
Phantom Princess coldly snorted, "I won't accept your kindness anymore."
Li Mu pointed outside the bell and said, "Then you get out."
"…"
After a moment of silence, Phantom Princess stopped bickering with Li Mu and asked, "Do you have any other ways to get out?"
Li Mu shook his head and asked, "What about you?"
Phantom Princess also shook her head and said, "I've used everything I can. I can only hope that Father can find this place and break open the space to save us …"
Li Mu sighed. Just like Huan Ji, the only person he could rely on now was the Empress.
Although the owner of this cave was the White Emperor's demonic corpse, he could use 200% of his strength here.
However, if someone stronger than him was lured into the cave, it would not be like catching a turtle in a jar. It would be like luring a wolf into the house.
However, both of their hopes were very slim.
This was originally an independent space. After the White Emperor died, this space became ownerless and was fixed in one place.
However, it already had an owner now. It was unknown where the demonic corpse had moved it to. Before the White Emperor died, he was a Ninth Realm expert. How could the residence of such an expert be so easily found?
Instead of relying on the Ten Thousand Illusion Lord or the Empress, they might as well rely on themselves.
Li Mu thought for a while and a thought flashed across his mind. He suddenly looked at Phantom Princess and asked, "You cultivate both demonic and Buddhist techniques. What level of Buddhist techniques are you at?"
Phantom Princess sneered, "What does that have to do with you?"
Li Mu said calmly, "If you still want to get out, answer my question honestly."
"You have a way?"
"Hurry up and tell me. Otherwise, I'll throw you out now and feed you to that corpse."
"Fifth Realm."
…
Phantom Princess was originally a Five-Tailed Spiritual Fox. Even her Buddhist techniques were at the fifth level. She should be about the same age as Liu Hanyan. This meant that her wisdom was better than Xuandu's.
Li Mu suddenly had an idea.
Although Taoist techniques were more mysterious than Buddhist techniques, Buddhist techniques were obviously stronger than Taoist techniques when it came to restraining demons and ghosts.
At the start, although Li Mu also wanted to cultivate both Taoist and Buddhist techniques, he was not like Phantom Princess who had a seventh-level father. The end result was that he could not cultivate either.
Helplessly, he could only give up on Buddhist techniques.
Up till now, his Buddhist Dharmic powers were only at the first realm.
Using only the first level of Dharma power to chant the Heart Sutra was already very effective. If he used the fifth level of Dharma power, wouldn't it be even stronger?
Although this was the White Deity Cave Abode, and the demon corpse was at the peak of the Flying Zombie Realm, comparable to the Sixth Level, it would be countered by the Dharma. If Li Mu could use the Dharma powers of the Fifth Level, he might be able to defeat her.
Li Mu looked at Phantom Princess and asked, "Do you want to work together?"
Phantom Princess's eyes flashed and she asked, "How?"
Li Mu leaned over and whispered a few words into her ear.
Phantom Princess was stunned and then frowned, "You want my Primordial Spirit to possess your body?"
Li Mu was surprised, "You've cultivated your Primordial Spirit?"
Demons did not cultivate their Primordial Spirits as they had their own cultivation methods. They did not cultivate their souls or condense their souls. Since Phantom Princess managed to condense her demon soul into an Primordial Spirit, it meant that other than Demon Buddha, she also cultivated Taoist techniques.
Phantom Princess did not answer directly and only said, "Is there any other way?"
Li Mu nodded, "Yes."
Phantom Princess quickly asked, "What other way?"
Li Mu said, "Or I can possess your body."
Phantom Princess said decisively, "Don't even think about it!"
Li Mu looked at her and said, "If not for the fact that there is no other way, do you think I would want you to do it?"
Being possessed was a big taboo for cultivators.
Li Mu knew that Phantom Princess would not agree to him being possessed, so he did not even mention it.
As for himself, it was not the first time he was possessed, so he was not that against it.
In this kind of matter, he had given his first opportunity to Su He, and then he had given it to her a few more times. After that, he had given it to the Empress, but that was under the circumstances where Li Mu already had great trust in him and the others.
Li Mu naturally did not have much trust in Phantom Princess, but there was nothing he could do about it.
There were only three choices in front of him.
Either Phantom Princess possessed his body, or he possessed Phantom Princess. Or the two of them could continue to wait in the bell until the demon corpse changed its mind and let them out.
After making this decision, Li Mu struggled intensely in his heart before finally convincing himself. Anyway, it was not the first time. He had been possessed by ghosts and humans before, so it did not matter if there was a fox.
Although this kind of thinking was somewhat self-destructive and hopeless, there was really no better way at the moment.
Phantom Princess lowered her head and bit her lips, as if she was going through a decision in her heart.
Her Primordial Spirit entering someone else's body was something that she could not accept.
What's more, this person was her enemy.
But when she thought of Li Mu's Primordial Spirit entering her body, she instantly felt that this matter was not so difficult to accept.
She finally looked at Li Mu, gritted her teeth, and said, "Tell me your plan …"
Li Mu, "I need to borrow your Buddhist power …"
After a while, Phantom Princess asked, "Are you sure?"
Li Mu, "Let's try it first. If it doesn't work, we can hide in here again. Anyway, you won't lose anything."
Phantom Princess pondered for a long time and nodded, "Okay!"
Li Mu's right hand emitted a golden light, and said, "In order to show my sincerity, I will treat your injuries first."
Phantom Princess lowered her head and slowly reached out her hand to Li Mu.
In the Demon Emperor's cave, Li Mu and Phantom Princess reached an agreement about joining forces. When they began to discuss the details, outside the Demon Emperor's cave, a huge wave had already set off.
Previously, when they besieged Li Mu, they had lost a lot of Demon Dao experts. Even Soul Sect's First Elder, Nether Saint, had fallen.
This time, in order to obtain the Heavenly Book and the Demon Emperor's inheritance, Soul Sect, Demon Sect, Mirage Sect, and Meizong Sect had sent out dozens of experts, but none of them had returned.
Including the daughter of Illusion Lord, they were all trapped in the Demon Emperor's cave.
After receiving the news, Illusion Lord had already ended his seclusion in advance and left Meizong Sect. No one knew where he went.
At the same time, all the Demon Dao experts had received an order to immediately report to the sub-sect if there was any news about the Demon Emperor's cave.
North County, Baiyun Mountain.
The Fu-lu School's Master's disciple acceptance ceremony would be held soon. These days, many elders of other sects had already come to Baiyun Mountain to congratulate.
But at this time, the Fu-lu School's Master, Xuan Jizi, had not shown up. After asking, they found out that he was no longer in the mountain.
Shen 'du.
In Baichuan Academy, two middle-aged men who were playing chess suddenly raised their heads at the same time and looked at the sky in shock.
"What happened? His Majesty actually left Shen 'du?"
"The Emperor left the palace. What nonsense …"
…
In Changle Palace, Mr. Mei sighed and put away the worry on his face. He said, "Send an order to all the officials. His Majesty is in seclusion to cultivate. He doesn't need to attend tomorrow's morning court. When he needs to attend the court, let us know …"
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