Immortal Cage - Chapter 38: Illuminating the Dao Heart
After returning from vanquishing evil, Yulie once again shut himself indoors. Due to insufficient vacation time, he deliberately entrusted tasks to Luo Botou and others to toil for him, allowing him to accumulate a full five days of vacation.
Within his stone house, he repeatedly examined his cultivation realm, even foregoing fishing for black snake fish, solely using the medicinal herbs already in his room to continue refining his physical body.
Yulie discovered that his sensations were genuine. On the day he returned from vanquishing evil, the demonic energy within him was completely digested, and his body was ready to prepare for the next transformation!
However, another interesting situation arose. Although the demonic energy had been digested, a demonic nature began to emerge in Yulie's heart, showing signs of taking root in his body. This forced him to calm his mind and meticulously examine himself to prevent demonic influences.
As he examined himself, Yulie gradually realized that he was not being influenced by demonic forces. On the contrary, it was the emergence of a trace of demonic nature from his beastly nature that assisted in digesting the last remnants of demonic energy, ending the transformation of being "wolf-like and tiger-strong."
Yulie pondered, "Could it be that without demonic nature, it is not enough to completely digest demonic energy?" He furrowed his brow.
Fortunately, Yulie was well-versed in Daoist scriptures and a certified ninth-grade Daoist disciple. During his enlightenment studies, he had encountered similar issues.
In the stone house, Yulie bathed in a poisonous solution, soaking in a large tub while holding a hard stone tablet in his hand. The tablet was inscribed with twisted symbols, meticulously carved by Yulie's own fingers, one by one.
While carving the symbols, there were no unusual changes in his body. Yulie's every movement could exert his full strength, with tough skin and strong vitality. Carving the symbols with his fingers was just a small method he used to test his physical control over his internal energy in recent days.
After finishing carving a whole scripture of "The Clear and Quiet Classic," Yulie found that his mind had indeed calmed down considerably. Various clues that he couldn't think of in the past few days emerged one after another in his mind.
Yulie looked at his arms and, with a thought, hair sprouted, transforming into a wolf's limb. At the same time, a fierce and brutal thought emerged in his mind.
Realizing that his demonic nature was just the final struggle and lament of the wolf demon, an attempt to influence his mind, Yulie knew he must not tolerate it. He should devour both the demonic energy and demonic nature within him without hesitation, treating them merely as food.
With this understanding, Yulie felt he had crossed a major threshold, with a clear and unobstructed internal state. He looked around and thought to himself, "After all, a Daoist is truly the greatest demon in the world."
The current Yulie had truly ended the transformation of being "wolf-like and tiger-strong" and could begin the next transformation.