Chapter 241: Chapter 125: Locking Demon
Ti flies by in the blink of an eye, and a century has passed.
On the shores of the West Sea, a giant city stands tall.
The giant city soars high, over a thousand feet. Inside, there are pavilions and towers, and even suspended peaks and palace halls towering.
Within and outside the city, myriad spirit lights rise and fall, not only do cultivators shuttle with Dharma Artifacts, but also Cyan Simurgh, White Crane, Jiao Python, Fish Dragon, and other spirit beasts roam. On the ground and in the city, pedestrians co and go, the traffic is incessant.
A flash of sword light descends, transforming into a young girl, around sixteen years old, with striking beauty, a graceful head and elegant eyebrows, exuding a heroic spirit and hidden sharpness.
She descends from the sword light and walks into the city, only to see the city’s architectural style winding, with not only ancient pavilions and towers, but also so high-rise buildings she has never seen before, resembling pillars standing upright, and various shops arranged intricately, bustling with activity.
Since the Demon Heaven Tribulation plagued the world, such market scenes have been rare in the Cultivation Realm, especially near the West Sea area, where under the rampant destruction by Evil Demons, it is commonplace for miles to be silent without the crowing of a rooster, and white bones are exposed in the wild.
The young girl strolls along, seeing shop signs on both sides of the road constantly, with recorded voices and images calling out for business.
"Purifying Demon Pill, Purifying Demon Pill, new Supre Purifying Demon Pill, Daoist Palace formula, Grandmaster craftsmanship, quality assured, fair to all!"
"Demon Refining Flying Sword, forged with Great Sun True Fla and Five Elents Essence, unmatched in exorcism and demon refining, is your best choice for exploring the Demon-Locking Tower, limited-ti special offer, minimum price only ten thousand Spirit Stones!"
"Latest strategy guide for the White Tiger Demon-Locking Tower, docunting information on various demons inside the White Tiger Lock Tower, as long as your cultivation is decent, you can easily explore the first three levels with these strategies."
"Eleventh Demon-Locking Grand Competition, contribution settlent on the first day of Yuan month."
The voices of hawking and advertising fill the bustling city.
"Demon-Locking Tower?"
The young girl murmurs and then walks forward into a shop.
"May I ask what the custor needs?"
A servant cos forward, full of smiles and enthusiasm.
The young girl’s gaze sweeps over the shop, finding it empty, with quite a few cultivators present but no product displays, only various recorded voices and images showing images of Evil Demons.
"What is this..."
The young girl frowns, looking at the servant.
"Is this the custor’s first ti in White Tiger City?"
The servant, understanding, directly begins to introduce: "This shop mainly deals with matters related to the Demon-Locking Tower."
"Demon-Locking Tower?"
The young girl frowns: "What Demon-Locking Tower?"
"The custor may not know!"
The servant chuckles lightly: "Due to the Demon Heaven Tribulation, Taiyuan Heaven and Earth changed, Spiritual Qi transford into Demonic Qi, making cultivation difficult for us righteous cultivators and infecting creatures to demonize them, leading to endless ergence of demons between heaven and earth, unable to be exterminated, unable to be eradicated!"
"I understand this."
The young girl frowns, more puzzled: "Then the Demon-Locking Tower is...?"
"No hurry, custor!"
The servant continues to chuckle, explaining slowly: "Taiyuan suffered this calamity, our Daoist Palace, inheriting Taishang’s thods as the Mystic Sect Orthodox Sect, cannot sit idly by and let all creatures suffer."
"Finally, the Daoist Lord perford the Great Technique, spending decades to set the Five Elents Lock Demon Array in the Central Plains, and then built cities on this array, nad after the Five Elents Holy Spirits, which are the current Cyan Dragon, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, Black Tortoise, and Qilin five cities."
"And in these five cities, there are five Demon-Locking Towers, which are the core of this Five Elents Lock Demon Array, imprisoning countless demons within..."
"Imprisoned?"
The young girl furrows her brow: "Since they are demons, why not just slay them?"
"The custor may not know."
The servant shakes his head: "So things are better guided rather than blocked!"
"Oh?"
The young girl’s eyebrow raises: "What do you an?"
The servant chuckles, explaining: "The transformation of Heaven and Earth Primordial Spirit into Demon Spirit is caused by the Outer Demon Heaven. Without breaking Demon Heaven, Demon Spirit cannot be destroyed, and the demons between heaven and earth will continue endlessly."
"Therefore, forceful killing is useless, unwise as well."
"Guidance is needed, like managing water flow!"
The servant explained: "The Daoist Lord set the lock demon array with the principle of the Five Elents, and established the Demon-Locking Tower using this array as the core, capturing demons from various directions and throwing them into it, making them the absorbers of demonic essence for the Demon-Locking Tower."
"Absorbers of demonic essence?"
The young girl is surprised: "What absorbers of demonic essence?"
The servant chuckles, explaining: "Those demons, imprisoned in the Demon-Locking Tower, have no resources, so to sustain themselves, they can only absorb demonic qi. Combined with the Demon-Locking Tower’s unique Demon Gathering Array, they will continuously absorb the Demon Spirit Qi from heaven and earth."
"In this way, the demonic qi is reduced, the probability of creatures being transford by demonic qi is lowered, and the chaos caused by demons in various places will consequently decrease."
"This is the role of those demons, equivalent to a kind of purification thod!"
"..."
The servant tells the origin of the Demon-Locking Tower.
The young girl still frowns: "Such a process only treats the symptoms, not the root cause, and doesn’t solve them completely. The nature’s spiritual energy will still transform into demonic qi, and the demons inside the Demon-Locking Tower only absorb demonic qi without converting it into spiritual qi, instead growing stronger. Isn’t this raising a nace, turning the Demon-Locking Tower into a Demon-Storage Tower in the long run?"
"The custor still does not understand!"
The servant shakes his head: "The Five Elents Lock Demon Array set by the Daoist Lord is not that simple. It is true that the demons inside the Demon-Locking Tower do not convert demonic qi into spiritual qi, but the Five Elents Lock Demon Array can, using the principle of Five Elents Mutual Overcoming and chaos reversal, transform demonic qi into spiritual qi. The role of those demons inside is rely to strengthen the gathering of demonic qi and prevent it from causing harm everywhere."
"As for raising a nace..."
The servant smiles, looking around: "The custor surely doesn’t know about the Demon-Locking Grand Competition and the matters of clearing the Demon-Locking Tower, right?"
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