Is Jiang Che the Demon Ancestor

Jiang Che was momentarily dazed, staring at the punctured boundary barrier, lost in thought.

To be honest, this was the second time he had encountered his system's power being broken.

The first time was when Shen Yu was summoned for that so-called talk with the Demon-Subduing Immortal, and the subsystem Jiang Che had given Shen Yu failed to function.

This time, something capable of breaking through the boundary barrier constructed by the power of the System's Great Dao was definitely no small fry.

"ROAR!!!"

A black dragon suddenly shot out from the hole in the barrier, opening its massive maw to spew a breath attack towards Jiang Che. This was not an Eastern five-clawed golden dragon, but rather a Western-style lizard dragon, flapping enormous wings, its oppressive aura terrifying.

A Nirvana-stage eerie evil spirit!

Although Blue Star and the Nine Heavens were in a state of severed celestial connection, the Heavenly Dao of Blue Star had been scared into hiding by the eerie evil spirits long ago, its suppressive power gone. Once a large hole was torn in the boundary barrier, forget Nirvana-stage evil spirits—as long as they were small enough in size... even Emperor-level evil spirits could get through!

With the capabilities of the Nirvana stage, a single breath from such an evil spirit... was enough to turn a provincial-sized region into scorched earth. Even now, after the expansion of the spirit energy recovery zones... the destructive power of the Nirvana stage remained horrifying.

"Stop yapping in my ear."

Jiang Che frowned and raised a hand, slapping out.

"BANG—"

With one palm strike, he sent the colossal evil dragon flying, turning it into countless particles of dust mid-air.

Logically, these evil spirits were immortal beings. As long as the black mist existed... even the most severe injuries could heal, as the black mist was the source of all eerie beings' immortality.

But this time, the Nirvana-stage evil spirit Jiang Che had slapped to death did not dissipate into black mist... but instead completely turned to dust and vanished.

Truly dead!

"Young Master... you..."

An old man who had rushed over stared wide-eyed, looking at Jiang Che in disbelief.

He was that Jiang family expert who had severed his own cultivation and voluntarily descended to the mortal realm, originally at the Creation stage.

Honestly, he had descended intending to be Jiang Che's guardian. Although Jiang Che's talent was incredibly high, he still needed time to grow. Having severed his cultivation from the peak of the Creation stage to become a Nirvana-stage cultivator, the old man thought he could be invincible in the mortal realm for a few years and earn some goodwill by Jiang Che's side.

But he never dreamed that Jiang Che had already grown to such an extent!

Slapping a Nirvana-stage evil spirit to death???

Didn't that mean... the Young Master's combat power was greater than his own? Then his act of severing his cultivation and descending was utterly useless?

Had he become a clown?

[Ding! Host has caused 'Jiang Xiaochou' to suffer a loss, gaining 8 million points.]

Jiang Che glanced at the old man. Before the power of "Hearing All Truths"... all of the old man's thoughts were laid bare.

"Hahaha, Young Master's talent is peerless, truly unrivaled in the world. This old one admires you immensely..."

The old man changed his expression quickly. It seemed delivering aid in a snowstorm was impossible; he could only be a cheering squad adding icing to the cake, shouting "awesome" from the sidelines.

Of course, it wasn't just Jiang Xiaochou who thought this way. More and more figures gradually appeared near the boundary barrier.

After the teleportation channels were opened, the Nine Heavens would send down a large batch of cultivators to the mortal realm at regular intervals.

"Damn it all! These evil spirits are truly bizarre! They can even corrode this old man's life-bound magical artifact!"

An old man exclaimed in panic. Relying on his Martial God-stage cultivation, he had wanted to kill a few Divine Connection-stage evil spirits to show off. But with one sword strike... the evil spirit was split in two, only to quickly resurrect within the dense black mist. Even his life-bound artifact was tainted by the evil power, becoming riddled with holes from corrosion.

"This is the horror of the evil spirit's power! They cannot be killed... and they can corrupt a cultivator's mind! This black mist can even taint Great Emperors... and cause Immortals to fall!"

At the same time, people's gazes turned to Jiang Che.

"Young Master Jiang... that evil spirit you just killed seemed to die completely. Could it be you have a method to permanently eliminate them?"

Everyone looked at him expectantly, as Jiang Che's earlier move had thoroughly shocked them.

This Jiang family Young Master rarely made moves, but when he did, he instantly astonished everyone!

"My method is something you cannot learn," Jiang Che said plainly.

It wasn't that he was showing off; these people genuinely couldn't learn it.

He cultivated the Human Emperor Scripture, which possessed immense lethal power against these evil spirits, capable of killing them permanently!

After all, based on what Jiang Che knew, the Human Emperor who created the "Human Emperor Scripture" had once charged alone into the source of the extraterrestrial evil corruption. If she didn't have a way to permanently kill evil spirits... she definitely wouldn't have gone.

As Jiang Che suspected, the Human Emperor Scripture was a natural counter to evil spirits.

And now, with the many copies of the Human Emperor Scripture Jiang Che had disseminated, almost all cultivators in Dragon Country were practicing it!

"Against the power of evil spirits, unless your cultivation is extremely powerful and you can directly destroy the source of the evil spirit's Dao within the black mist... otherwise, as long as the black mist exists, the evil spirits cannot be killed!"

Jiang Che's words left many in silent contemplation.

If they couldn't kill the evil spirits, what was the point of them descending to the mortal realm?

"Get out of the way!!! Don't block me!"

A voice rang out. Countless vines once again spread from underground, followed by Lin Mu's massive tree form emerging from the ground, wielding its bizarre branches to fend off the continuously surging army of evil spirits.

But when Lin Mu spotted Jiang Che, he immediately changed his tune, "Hehe, Boss... you should head back home. It's not very safe here!"

It had to be said, Lin Mu was indeed a very dedicated worker.

"It's fine, I came to take a look."

Jiang Che paid them no mind and walked straight towards the shattered boundary barrier.

Although still far away, he could see a crimson hairpin hovering in the air. From within the hairpin, a constant stream of pink, eerie power emanated, preventing the boundary barrier from repairing itself.

Jiang Che took a step, shrinking the earth to an inch, making a thousand miles but a span!

Although he was only at the peak of the Martial God stage, he had fully mastered a law of space. Such minor techniques were simple and easy for him.

...

The boundary barrier was vast and boundless, like a protective dome enveloping the entire mortal realm.

And this hairpin was like a needle stuck into that dome, puncturing a hole roughly a hundred miles in diameter.

And it could not heal.

Jiang Che slowly approached the hairpin, squinting his eyes as he looked at it, a flicker of confusion passing through his gaze.

Such a small thing... could actually break the power of the Great Dao?

Jiang Che was a bit baffled, yet he couldn't shake the feeling that this hairpin seemed somewhat familiar.

"System, I'm not really the reincarnation of that so-called damned Demon Ancestor, am I?" Jiang Che rubbed his chin, wondering why he felt an inexplicable sense of familiarity with this hairpin he had never seen before.

[Yes.]

Jiang Che's mouth twitched. He took back his previous words; it shouldn't be "damned Demon Ancestor"...

[Host need not worry. To be precise, it should be: You are the Demon Ancestor, but the Demon Ancestor is not entirely you.]

"Stop being a damn riddler."

[Ding! The host tricked the system, gaining 600 million points...]