Celestial Demon, a presence that is elusive to the outside world. For the majority of people, this presence is unknown, and this is true even for demon cultivators.

However, for the Demon Lords, it is exceedingly familiar, even an existence summoned from the soul spirit.

Without the Celestial Demon, there would be no Demon Lords.

Just as literary spirit, incense fire god’s radiance, and other postnatal creation auras come from the Heavenly Dao, the demonic qi comes from the Celestial Demon. Some who are slightly knowledgeable are generally aware that the cultivation techniques practised by those of the Demon Dao originate from the True Demons in the Fallen Immortal Land. But why the abilities of True Demons evolved into demonic skills that humans can cultivate is not well understood.

But the Demon Lords understand well that it was the supreme Celestial Demon who created the Demon Dao:

Slaughter, Greed, Enchantment, Beast, Flesh, Corruption, Phantom, Wrath.

Eight kinds of Demon Dao, eight paths of the Demon Lord, eight Demon Lords.

Everything the demon cultivators have is bestowed by the Celestial Demon.

In their view, the Celestial Demon is a great existence. They are frenzied, commit countless wrongdoings, and are entangled in karmic fruits. They do not revere the great beings of this world, even daring to curse at the Heavenly Dao. But they absolutely do not dare to show a trace of defiance towards the Celestial Demon. The will of the Celestial Demon governs all that demon cultivators possess.

Fan Wubing stepped into the rift that Jiang Sha communicated with the Celestial Demon to open.

He embarked on the path of the Demon Lord that belongs to the Blood Demon Lord, where all he felt was void.

The Blood Demon Dao. For the eight Demon Lords, this is just the "legendary Demon Dao." From the birth of the Celestial Demon, who attracted demonic qi and created the Demon Dao, there have been the Nine Great Demon Dao, corresponding to the Nine Supreme Innate Dao.

But until now, no one has ever set foot on the path of the Blood Demon Lord.

Thus, the Blood Demon Dao became a legendary Demon Dao.

Fan Wubing didn’t quite understand why Jiang Sha said he was the Blood Demon Lord himself and that he just came to walk the Blood Demon Lord’s path again, for the other Demon Lords to see. But he indeed had no such impression at all. However, he vaguely understood that this is also what Jiang Sha wanted him to figure out, why he himself was the Blood Demon Lord.

"Blood... Could it be related to the ’Blood Calamity Deadly Immortal Skill’ I cultivated?"

Fan Wubing pondered this as he continued forward.

He felt like he crossed a peculiar barrier, with a sensation somewhat like a water surface.

Soon after, all the void was immediately filled with reality. Space, time, environment, everything in all things, appeared instantly in various perceptions. 𝚏𝕣𝐞𝗲𝐰𝕖𝐛𝐧𝕠𝕧𝚎𝚕.𝐜𝚘𝗺

It was a cold night.

Fan Wubing found himself floating in the air. He tried to let his soul sense everything around him, but as soon as he had this thought, he was stopped. Quickly, he discovered that neither his cultivation nor the Dao could be used.

"Oh well, turned into a ’perspective’ again."

Just like in the River of Time of the Celestial Snake back then, only a bit freer, able to move within a certain range. No, not right, this is the River of Time of the Celestial Snake! Because when he looked up through the sky, he immediately saw that silver Celestial Snake. The Celestial Snake was also watching him with those starry eyes.

"Is the path of the Blood Demon Lord within the River of Time?"

Fan Wubing was somewhat puzzled.

Soon, his attention was drawn to a spurt of energy. Following the direction the energy spread, he saw a white-haired old Daoist in a plain Daoist robe, riding a flying magical treasure, piercing through the sky from afar.

As he came closer, Fan Wubing was able to see his face.

With one glance, he recognized him as Daoist Yushan! His master, who had been in closed-door cultivation since he was taken under his tutelage.

Fan Wubing followed Daoist Yushan forward.

Soon, a city appeared in his perspective—Kuiyu City.

Fan Wubing immediately remembered what day it was. It was the day he was born in this world. Then, he looked up to the sky above Fan Family in Kuiyu City; the sky was clear without a cloud, the stars and moon visible.

This... isn’t right. Wasn’t it a stormy night with ominous light appearing?

He followed Daoist Yushan, landing in a certain area of the Fan Family Mansion.

"Daoist Yushan, you are here. It’s a boy, weighing six jin and eight liang. The name is chosen, Fan Wubing."

Fan Wubing saw his young father, Fan Qi, holding a wrapped infant, walking towards Daoist Yushan.

Daoist Yushan nodded and said, "Six jin and eight liang? A chubby boy, that’s good."

Hmm?

There’s definitely something wrong?

Fan Wubing remembered he was only four jin and two liang at birth.

Hurriedly, he zoomed in to look at himself as an infant. The moment he looked, he was stunned, because... the infant in the wrap had its eyes tightly closed. He distinctly remembered that he had opened his eyes right after being born, which had surprised Daoist Yushan.

This infant,

is not me!

Fan Wubing immediately became serious, no longer treating this encounter as a simple revisiting of the same place in the River of Time.

"Daoist, please look into this child’s destiny," Fan Qi said.

Daoist Yushan accepted the child, and his eyes emitted a faint glow. After a while, he smiled and said, "Hmm, very good. The star of destiny is firm, embracing origin and maintaining rectitude, born with good fortune, a promising material for cultivating immortality."

Fan Qi was immediately overjoyed, "Finally, our Fan Family has produced a seedling for cultivating immortality!"

Daoist Yushan chuckled, "Patriarch Fan should take good care of him. In five years, when his constitution is formed, I will come to take him."

"Thank you, Daoist Yushan!"

"No need to thank, future grace, present sentiment." After saying that, Daoist Yushan took his leave.

Fan Wubing was quite confused.

Could it be that this is a situation where I didn’t cross over? Or is this just a vivid illusion?

Fan Wubing continued to observe.