Longevity Chronicles-Chapter 961 - 619: Blessing Rain, Ascension Dust (Cultivation)

"The Heart Soul gives birth to demons, seeking rebirth on its own for liberation. This is the Great Tribulation birthed by Heaven and Earth, unsolvable by gods and demons."

When this final annotation flashed through Tao Qian's mind.

Three breaths of time had quickly elapsed.

Even Tao Qian only had time to awaken the two, great and small, and, together with the female general Shi Beiniang, teleport above the Liang Country Imperial City.

In that instant, Tao Qian seemed to sense something, his expression suddenly changing.

Between heaven and earth, there seemed to be an intangible and insubstantial "strange tide," coming from an unknown place, sweeping across the entire Liang Country along with several surrounding regions. Then, about one-tenth of the life within these territories fell into a stupor at that moment.

Subsequently, it was a kind of desperate struggle, making their facial features twist into ugliness.

In the next instant, it turned into despair.

After that, there was a shocking upheaval that left Tao Qian terrified and pale.

These beings "caught in the tribulation," whether human or beast, or something else.

Without exception, they began to end themselves in various ways.

Right before Tao Qian's eyes, at that moment, he looked down from above the sky at the sudden outbreak below, chaotic beyond compare, a scene of human tragedy.

Just as the chaos arose, Great Demon Tao intervened to stop it.

Two-pronged attack!

First, borrowing the identity of the Peach Blossom God, he transmitted his voice into the Heart Souls of these believers, sternly commanding:

"My believers!"

"The Heart Demon comes attacking, recite with me the 'Peach Blossom Scripture' to exempt from this disaster."

Though it was called the Peach Blossom Scripture, what Tao Qian was actually chanting was a spell specifically targeting Heart Demons from the Secret Demon Sect.

So many reciting together, with the lead being Tao Qian, a Secret Demon Child with Perfect Ultimate Happiness, if it were truly a "Heart Demon" among the Outer Realm Heaven Demons, even if a Demon Lord came, it would be hard to fare well.

Unfortunately, this time, it was not so.

The power of the spell lasted less than three instants, leading to the chaotic disaster that filled even Tao Qian with despair.

No matter that he continued to intervene, using Great Divine Power to control the citizens who were about to commit suicide, it was still useless.

He cast immobilization spells, God Suppressing Techniques, Secret Demon Great Handprints, and such divine skills, able indeed to temporarily control hundreds of thousands of citizens, and even with some spare capacity.

But this only controlled their bodies; the changes deep in their Heart Souls, he could not manage.

Even when he used heavy-handed methods, knocking tens of thousands unconscious, the result remained unchanged.

What followed were all sorts of unexpected strange ways of death.

Such as "ending one's life in a dream," "dying with a single thought," "bleeding from all seven orifices"... Tao Qian might be able to stop one or two, but there was no way he could simultaneously stop hundreds of thousands.

No matter his flustered efforts, it was so.

"This can't be possible!"

"What kind of disaster exists in the world like this?"

At this moment, Tao Qian also looked disbelief written on his face.

With his knowledge, for a time, he could not at all comprehend the cause and origin of this disaster.

He frowned, quickly observing the citizens below, their bodies, Heart Souls, even all corners.

Muttering incessantly under his breath:

"Heart and soul without distractions, no technique can invade."

"These beings have clearly turned into corpse-like forms completely saturated by 'Suicide Obsession.'

"Even my Secret Demon Method, let alone, should a high monk of great virtue from the Buddhist Sect come, they might not be able to save a few."

These few words from Tao Buddha's son seemed to be a prophecy.

The second wave of the tide!

Came.

Another tens of thousands were caught in the tribulation.

Tao Qian had no choice but to try again, and this time he even took out some of his bottom-box means.

Such as wielding the Evil-slaying Sword, alternating with casting Slaying Strange, Evil Extermination, Evil Extinguishing sword moves, yet this strange disaster called Rebirth Heart Demon did not belong to these categories, and the Supreme Secret Demon Sword Technique was also useless.

Then he released the All Heavens Demon Net, trapping the citizens in the net, refining their obsessions with Demon Fire, letting Hunger Demons devour the Heart Demons, and still, it was useless.

Finally opening the Ten Thousand Demon Gourd, releasing a million demons, letting them employ various methods to prevent success for rewards.

The responses he received were as such:

"Master, this time we've seen a ghost, even with my Decree Technique, I can't move them."

"Master, master, I can't parasitize either, they are clearly ordinary people, why can they resist my Parasite method?"

"Master, this time I can't get the reward, my Demon Mirror can't reflect any distractions from their hearts, truly strange."

"What kind of tribulation is this? Even in the Heavenly Demon Great Realm, with countless disasters and tribulations, nothing like this has been seen."

"Master, master, these people seem to have no self, only the thought of their souls returning to heaven and earth, yet they are even gaining the protection of the Heavenly Dao... Unless there is a power to directly confront this realm's Heavenly Dao, it might not be stopped."

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Hearing these, Tao Qian finally also showed an expression of helplessness and fatigue.

His comprehensive means turned out to be all futile.

Previously fighting with the incarnations of the Seven Slaughter Bodhisattva, Emperor Heavenly Talisman, Red Rope God, and these Outer Realm Demons wasn't as powerless as this.

Thus, whether Tao Qian rested or not doesn't affect the upcoming tragedy of life withering within the realm of Liang Country.

Starting from this capital city, men and women, old and young spared none.

Men with scythes slit their throats, women with hemp ropes hang from beam pillars.

The elderly stagger into dry wells, young drink cold poisoned water.

Even birds and beasts, cattle, and sheep livestock, all went mad, lining up to seek death.

Several tens of breaths!

In this short hour, just within this Liang Country Imperial City, tens of thousands died.

Tao Qian couldn't imagine the situation in other county cities, how would it be at this time?

The Divination Worm, sensing the need, automatically conveyed those harsh scenes:

Because these waves of Heart Demon tides did not attack simultaneously, they came separately within an hour.

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