Chapter 655: Chapter 654: Clan Extermination (2)
A tragedy was unfolding within the once-solemn and divine Fuhai Palace.
One by one, the high-and-mighty Elders were lured before the Queen’s palace and effortlessly suppressed by Qin Feng.
In just a few short hours, the Sea Demon Queen watched helplessly as the very foundation of the Sea Demon Clan was bled dry.
The Sea Demon Queen felt as if a giant hand was squeezing her heart, making it difficult to breathe.
For millennia, the Sea Demon Clan had struggled. The foundation that countless generations of their experts had sacrificed everything to build was turned to ash in just a few short hours.
One Great Power after another was crushed to death, their vital essence nourishing the new Chaos Cave Heaven. The entire Chaos Cave Heaven surged with vitality, overflowing with an extremely abundant essence.
Six Elders. Among them, the Grand Elder and the Second Elder were Supreme Great Powers, while the other four were ordinary Martial Dao Great Powers.
Each one of them was an existence that could shake an entire region, yet all of them were silently schemed against and killed by Qin Feng!
After harvesting the six Elders, Qin Feng began to deal with the Sea Demons outside.
BOOM!
His figure transformed into a giant black hole. Like a tornado, Qin Feng swept through, pulling everyone in his path—whether they were noblewomen of the Sea Demon Clan or ordinary Maids—into his Grotto Heaven.
A Medium-sized Cave Heaven also needed to be managed. The more Mind Power Pearls there were, the faster the Medium-sized Cave Heaven would grow.
Qin Feng needed experts to pray to sustain the Grotto Heaven.
Every Grotto Heaven had its own method of management.
Qin Feng’s knowledge was unparalleled throughout history, and he had seen countless management methods.
The most famous was the method of Zen Buddhism, which gathered the power of all its disciples as they chanted sutras to empower it. It was believed that by reciting the name of the Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss, one’s soul would never fall back into the cycle of reincarnation.
In reality, this meant that the countless disciples of Zen Buddhism were using their own power to help the Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss consolidate its Grotto Heaven.
Then there was the sect model.
Masters passed it to disciples, who passed it to their own disciples, and so on for endless generations, with each generation tempering the Grotto Heaven with their Cultivation Technique.
Another method was to travel through countless nations and spread the fame of the Grotto Heaven, like the Nine Netherworld, which used the power of fear to temper its Grotto Heaven.
The power of fear was also a great power.
There were also special methods, like using Refinement to turn one’s Grotto Heaven into an illusory one to create a platform for martial combat.
In a later era, there was a sect called the War Demon Sect that transformed its sect’s Grotto Heaven into a vast, void-like battlefield. They used the iron-willed battle intent emitted by experts during their fights to temper the Grotto Heaven.
Or one could simply turn their Grotto Heaven into a giant gaming platform or a trading platform.
The most famous example was the Spirit Treasure Sect’s Spirit Treasure Cave Heaven. It was a trading platform that spanned countless distances, using a peculiar power generated by transactions to temper the Grotto Heaven and ultimately achieve the goal of advancing to a new realm.
However, the most common method nowadays was to establish Divine Temples. Some experts would occupy nations, declare themselves Divine Spirits, and absorb vast amounts of the Power of Faith.
But faith contained impurities. After being integrated into a Grotto Heaven, it could easily form various uncontrollable divine abominations. If mishandled, the Cave Mansion could collapse.
Another method was the elite route: capture Martial Arts Strongmen, use Supreme Divine Abilities to convert them all, and turn them into believers who would pray day and night.
The impurities produced this way were almost nonexistent. Moreover, the souls of Martial Arts Strongmen were exceptionally powerful, generating ten, dozens, or even up to a hundred times more power than an ordinary person.
Qin Feng intended to enslave the entire Sea Demon Clan.
As for the Dharma Gate for conversion, Qin Feng, as the former Ancestor of Heart Demons, had them in abundance.
Actually, there was another way to make a Grotto Heaven grow quickly: create a new race. In his previous life, Qin Feng had created numerous Demons and was revered as the Demon Lord of the Endless Abyss, also known as the Endless Demon Realm. That was how he was able to advance rapidly to the Half-Step God-Sealing Realm even during the End of Dharma Era.
Empowered by the Supreme Bodhisattva Golden Light Great Method, the captured Sea Demon experts, who had been cursing a moment ago, were now kowtowing piously in the next.
Golden Divine Light covered their entire bodies. Their expressions became serene, compassionate, and devout.
Like Dharma-Protecting Celestial Maidens!
"Cave Master, we have achieved great enlightenment and have finally escaped the Queen’s demonic clutches. From now on, we are willing to devote ourselves to you wholeheartedly!"
One by one, the charming and beautiful Sea Demon maidens knelt on the ground. Facing the Chaos Divine Mountain, they began to use all their True Power to help Qin Feng temper and build his Grotto Heaven.
Qin Feng chuckled coldly. ’This is not unexpected.’ The Supreme Bodhisattva Golden Light Great Method was an Ultimate Skill of the Ancient Zen Sect. The Divine Light cultivated from it possessed a strange, uncanny power of conversion.
It could erode the Spiritual nature of ordinary Martial Artists and twist their will. Unless one’s willpower was extraordinary, it was difficult to escape this bewitchment and conversion.
Watching her clansmen change one by one, the Sea Demon Queen’s face turned deathly pale.
"Qin Feng... How dare you enslave my people like this?" The Sea Demon Queen’s beautiful eyes were bloodshot.
Qin Feng sneered. "What wouldn’t I dare? You brought this upon yourself. I don’t bother those who don’t bother me, but if anyone provokes me, I will repay them a hundredfold!"
"I would rather die than let you succeed!"
Her aura erupted violently, climbing at an extreme speed. The surging power shook the Grotto Heaven. She intended to self-destruct and take the Grotto Heaven with her!
"You want to die? I can’t allow that. I told you, I would make you wish for death but be unable to die!"
A grim, sinister smile flashed across Qin Feng’s face.
The Grotto Heaven True Artifact nurtured by the Cave Heaven Origin Power appeared. A small wheel spun, and two shafts of incomparably brilliant light—one light, one dark—emerged from Qin Feng’s palm, instantly enveloping the Sea Demon Queen.
The Sea Demon Queen’s expression changed drastically. She could clearly feel an immense power converging, transforming the power within her into a massive and complex seal of light and darkness.
Even the power deep within her soul was sealed by this force.
The Chaos Light and Dark Seal!
In the blink of an eye, she realized she couldn’t even die!
This truly was a state of being unable to live yet forbidden to die!
The experts of the Sea Demon Clan walked right past her, seemingly not recognizing their former queen at all.
Some experts from the Sea Demon Clan even stepped forward to persuade her.
"Sea Demon Queen, you aided a tyrant and were unrepentant in your evil. I advise you to renounce darkness for light sooner rather than later, or you will never meet a good end!"
"Sea Demon Queen, the sea of bitterness is boundless; repent and the shore is at hand!"
"Sea Demon Queen, the Cave Master is merciful and magnanimous. As long as you confess everything to him, he will forgive your sins!"
"Queen, converting to the Cave Master is the righteous path!"
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It was as if the Sea Demon Queen before them was a heinous, unforgivable sinner. One Sea Demon Clan expert after another came forward to counsel her, attempting to save this soul who was drowning in a sea of suffering!
Looking at the familiar faces of her clansmen, now filled with compassion as they chattered endlessly, the Sea Demon Queen was so furious she nearly coughed up a mouthful of old blood.
She sat at the foot of Chaos Mountain, her face ashen, her heart filled with utter despair.
For hundreds of years, she had painstakingly managed the Sea Demon Clan, all for the sake of its legacy. Now, the entire Sea Demon Clan had been caught in Qin Feng’s net. A thousand years of the clan’s sacrifices and efforts had all gone down the drain.
"Qin Feng, your methods are so cruel... I hate you so much!" She stared at Qin Feng with blood-red eyes and gave a miserable smile.
PUFF!
Her state of mind shattered. Under the intense turmoil, she spat out a mouthful of fresh blood and fainted.
"I told you I’d make you pay the price!" The corners of Qin Feng’s mouth turned down in a grim line.
Qin Feng rounded up all the experts of the Sea Demon Clan. The twelve Sea Generals were all suppressed and converted with the Anomalous Power of the Supreme Prajna Golden Light Great Spell.
Qin Feng was an old hand at this kind of conversion. Righteousness and demonic paths were two sides of the same coin. The Supreme Prajna Golden Light Great Spell was, in fact, an aspect of the Primordial Heart Demon Scripture; the two were interconnected.
The Sea Demon Clan had nine princesses. Aside from a few who were out training or had married into other families, three of them were captured by Qin Feng.
They were the Fifth Princess, the Seventh Princess, and the Eighth Princess.
However, a major problem arose when he was preparing to kill the Sea Sacrifice Elder, who was in secluded cultivation.
BOOM!
The commotion outside had alerted this Elder. A beam of Divine Light shot out. If Qin Feng hadn’t dodged fast enough, he would have been killed in an instant!
"Vile villain! You impersonated the Queen and abducted my people! I, this Elder, will fight you to the death!"