The Main Deity Is Invincible

"How is this possible! Evil thoughts have no physical form—how could anyone in this world destroy mere thoughts!?"

The Abandoned Heavenly Emperor roared in disbelief.

Yet Gu Qingfeng couldn’t be bothered to entertain him. No matter how mighty the Abandoned Heavenly Emperor had once been, now that he was in Gu Qingfeng’s grasp, he was nothing more than prey to be devoured at will.

Bite by merciless bite, Gu Qingfeng consumed vast amounts of evil thoughts, swallowing them into his body. The system notifications rang incessantly—the collective evil thoughts of all living beings kept increasing, yet he felt no tangible benefits. He had no idea what purpose they served.

The Abandoned Heavenly Emperor thrashed wildly, lashing out at Gu Qingfeng in desperation, but it was all futile—each attack only hastened his own consumption.

Panic set in—real, unshakable panic.

When the Abandoned Heavenly Emperor had forsaken everything to become the Supreme Evil, he believed he had attained true immortality. But now, this man before him was voraciously devouring his very essence, each bite erasing a part of him permanently.

He would die. If this continued, he would truly die.

"Stop! I possess the secret of eternal life! Cease this madness, and I shall impart it to you!"

"Keh keh keh..." Gu Qingfeng grinned savagely at the terrified Abandoned Heavenly Emperor. "Once I devour you, that secret will be mine anyway!"

Chomp!

Another massive bite.

The Abandoned Heavenly Emperor grew increasingly frantic, alternating between threats and bribes—divine secrets of the Heavenly Dao, the truth that the Heavenly Emperor was not the pinnacle of cultivation, warnings that the collective evil thoughts would erode Gu Qingfeng’s sanity...

Gu Qingfeng remained unmoved, continuing his relentless feast.

Though the Abandoned Heavenly Emperor kept regenerating, his form grew visibly fainter, as though shifting from a solid being into a mere shadow.

Then, as the consumption deepened, Gu Qingfeng suddenly sensed a change.

His Indestructible Demon Soul was growing stronger!

Not in the way it did when absorbing heart demons—this was different. His very essence was undergoing a profound, inexplicable transformation.

This realization struck him like lightning. In a way, the Supreme Evil and the Heart Demon Lord shared uncanny similarities.

First, the Heart Demon Lord was immortal, and so was the Supreme Evil.

Heart demons were consciousnesses formed from the negative emotions of living beings.

The Supreme Evil was an amalgamation of the collective evil thoughts of all existence.

And negative emotions were, at their core, evil thoughts!

Yet the difference lay in their nature: evil thoughts were mere impulses, devoid of intelligence, while heart demons possessed it!

The two seemed to exist in a hierarchical relationship—like cells to a body.

Gu Qingfeng felt as though he had stumbled upon an earth-shattering secret, one that might reveal the origins of the Heart Demon Lord.

But he didn’t dwell on it. Once he fully consumed the Supreme Evil, all would become clear.

Through his relentless efforts, the Abandoned Heavenly Emperor’s demeanor shifted—from rage, to bargaining, to pleading, to hysteria, and finally, utter despair.

In the end, the Abandoned Heavenly Emperor was reduced to a barely visible wisp, so fragile that even a breeze might scatter him.

With one final, voracious inhale, Gu Qingfeng swallowed the Abandoned Heavenly Emperor whole, his form dissolving into a stream of black mist that vanished into Gu Qingfeng’s body.

At that very moment, the system’s notification changed.

Ding!

"Collective Evil Thoughts have reached their limit."

"Congratulations, Host. You have obtained the Supreme Evil."

Boom!

A torrent of knowledge exploded in Gu Qingfeng’s mind, countless world-shaking secrets flooding his consciousness.

When his vision cleared moments later, he couldn’t help but suck in a sharp breath.

Now, with the Abandoned Heavenly Emperor’s memories, he knew everything.

True immortality existed in this world.

He understood the connection between the Supreme Evil and the Heart Demon Lord—and why the Heavenly Dao had cast its curse.

As it turned out, the Abandoned Heavenly Emperor hadn’t been boasting. He truly had once been a Heavenly Emperor.

A Heavenly Emperor of the Primordial Era, no less—one whose power ranked among the greatest in history. The reason he had seemed so weak was that the true Abandoned Heavenly Emperor had died the moment he became the Supreme Evil. What remained was merely an entity formed from the collective evil thoughts of all living beings.

A mutated version of the Abandoned Heavenly Emperor.

"Abandoned Heavenly Emperor" wasn’t even his original title. It was a name he adopted later, when his lifespan neared its end and he descended into madness, obsessively researching the secrets of immortality.

Eventually, he uncovered the truth: the Heavenly Dao had placed restrictions within every living being—limits on lifespan. Even a Heavenly Emperor couldn’t break them.

The Heavenly Dao was the supreme ruler of the world, growing stronger as living beings grew stronger. Thus, it allowed cultivation.

Every path forged by living beings nourished the Heavenly Dao, making it ever more powerful.

In other words, Heavenly Emperors were seeds planted by the Heavenly Dao. Once they matured, developing their own paths, the Heavenly Dao would harvest them.

How?

Through the lifespan restriction. When a Heavenly Emperor’s time ran out and they perished, the path they had created would return to the Heavenly Dao.

Thus, the Heavenly Dao would never permit immortality. Eternal life meant infinite possibilities—it meant the Heavenly Dao could no longer harvest a Heavenly Emperor’s path. Worse, what if a Heavenly Emperor grew so powerful they rebelled against Heaven itself?

Realizing this, the Abandoned Heavenly Emperor abandoned his title.

"If the Heavenly Dao is merciless, treating all as expendable, then I shall abandon Heaven!"

Even after renaming himself, the Abandoned Heavenly Emperor continued his research, but no matter what he tried, he couldn’t circumvent the Heavenly Dao’s restrictions.

To achieve immortality, he would have to defeat the Heavenly Dao—a near-impossible feat. The Heavenly Dao had reaped Heavenly Emperors for countless epochs. Challenging it meant facing the combined might of every Heavenly Emperor throughout history!

With his path blocked, the Abandoned Heavenly Emperor spiraled into despair, his mind fracturing further. It was then that the Heart Demon Lord sensed the flaw in his Dao Heart and sought to exploit it, sending a heart demon to invade his consciousness.

But the Abandoned Heavenly Emperor was no ordinary man. Instead of being consumed, he glimpsed the secret behind the Heart Demon Lord’s immortality.

Thus, the Supreme Evil was born—the absolute opposite of supreme virtue.

The principle was simple: the Heavenly Dao grew stronger as living beings did, and while all things perished, the collective "living beings" never would.

The Heavenly Dao would never destroy its own foundation.

So the Abandoned Heavenly Emperor chose to become one with the collective—to achieve immortality by binding himself to all existence.

Using his insights into the Heart Demon Lord, he absorbed the evil thoughts of all living beings, forging the Supreme Evil.

The Supreme Evil was the source of these evil thoughts, inextricably linked to the masses. As long as evil thoughts existed, he could resurrect from them.

Thus, as long as living beings endured, so would he.

In truth, the Supreme Evil was the precursor to the Heart Demon Lord. Evil thoughts were the cells; the Heart Demon Lord was the body formed from them. The Supreme Evil was merely an unorganized mass of cells—if it evolved into a complete form, it would become the Heart Demon Lord.

Yet no matter how much the Abandoned Heavenly Emperor researched, he could never achieve that final step. Some crucial element eluded him.

Though the Supreme Evil was immortal, it had a fatal flaw: its existence depended on living beings. If the world were destroyed and all life extinguished, he too would perish. Unlike the Heart Demon Lord, he couldn’t transcend the Heavenly Dao or survive beyond this realm.

And because of this limitation, the moment the Abandoned Heavenly Emperor became the Supreme Evil, the Heavenly Dao suppressed him.

The Heavenly Dao is no pushover either. While it cannot annihilate all living beings to destroy the Sin of Extremes, it can suppress it, preventing you from absorbing the wicked thoughts of all beings to strengthen yourself, condemning you to an eternal prison.

Not only did it suppress the Abandoned Heavenly Emperor, but it also cast a Heavenly Dao curse, transforming all his clansmen into mindless barbarians and completely erasing his existence from history.

Thus, no one in history has ever heard of the Abandoned Heavenly Emperor.

This is the origin of the Primordial Forbidden Land.

Even someone as worldly-wise as Gu Qingfeng couldn’t help but gasp in shock upon hearing such a profound secret for the first time.

"Damn this Heavenly Dao! Denying me immortality is no different from killing me!

Fortunately, I, your honored one, am a benevolent soul who has forged countless bonds of goodwill. Even the Heart Demon Lord from the distant outer realms is my sworn friend. Now that I’m in trouble, my friend has traveled countless miles to lend a hand—otherwise, I’d be doomed!"

After grumbling for a while, Gu Qingfeng prepared to leave this place.

This time, his gains were substantial. With the Sin of Extremes—the source of all wicked thoughts—he would henceforth be like the Abandoned Heavenly Emperor, indestructible and immortal. As long as wicked thoughts existed among living beings, he could resurrect from them!

The only regret was that he failed to inherit the Abandoned Heavenly Emperor’s Dao, for the latter had long abandoned his own path upon becoming the Sin of Extremes.

But it didn’t matter. Once fully matured, the Sin of Extremes was no weaker than a Heavenly Emperor. In fact, the more wicked thoughts it absorbed, the stronger it became. Though it lacked direct offensive power, even a Heavenly Emperor couldn’t ignore the impact of billions of malicious thoughts.

In the past, Heavenly Emperors nearing the end of their lifespans had ventured into the Primordial Forbidden Land seeking immortality, only to have their consciousness erased by the Abandoned Heavenly Emperor, who then manipulated them to use their lives to shake the chains of divine law. Of course, the reason he could control them was because these dying Heavenly Emperors had flawed Dao hearts, consumed by an obsession with longevity, making them easy to exploit.

Otherwise, a Heavenly Emperor blessed by the Mandate of Heaven would be nearly invincible unless they revealed a weakness.

This was also why there were no Quasi-Emperors or Heavenly Emperors among the Dao Slaves—only those who had forged their own path as Emperors could shake the chains of law.

One could say Gu Qingfeng was now invincible. No sentient being below the level of a Heavenly Emperor could stand against him.

He couldn’t wait to go out and wreak havoc. He’d long held a grudge against the Queen Mother of the West of the Jade Pool—today, he would finally teach that wretch a lesson!

Tap, tap...

Gu Qingfeng strode outward with light, cheerful steps.

Clang, clang...

Behind him, the sound of divine chains rattling echoed.

His footsteps froze, and the joy on his face stiffened.