Infinite Professions

By studying this, you became a grandmaster in the field of mathematics, perhaps even a god of mathematics.

At this moment, to carve out your own path, you must overturn all former understandings and perceptions, advancing ideas and results like "one plus one is not equal to two."

Even though you know this is the only way to further progress, your ingrained cognition and instincts still make you feel it’s absurd and utterly impossible to achieve.

This is the difficulty of creating new principles in the realms of immortals and demons; the way has been set, and overthrowing it is exceedingly difficult.

This is why some immortals and demons often go to extremes, like the Demon Buddha who created the Karma Fire Three Calamities Blade. He was once a benevolent figure, but to create his own path, he completely denied his former self, transforming his Buddha-heart into a demon-heart, compassion into slaughter, and ultimately created the Karma Fire Demon Saber, which destroys heavens and extinguishes the path.

If destruction leads to creation, and he can emerge from that destruction, achieving the Nirvana Dao Fruit, he might truly advance to a realm higher than True Buddha and True Demon.

But that if is very tenuous.

Hope is slim!

Shen Hex is different. He has not yet achieved immortality or demondom and hasn’t been restricted and solidified by the paths of predecessors. With enough capital support, creating a path will be far less challenging than for immortals and demons, and future achievements will far surpass them.

This is why, despite knowing the myriad problems of creating a new path, some who haven’t achieved immortality and demondom in the real world still attempt it.

They are the prodigies of major powers, for whom the Immortal Demon Realm is just a starting point, not an endpoint. For the Dao Fruit beyond immortality and demondom, they all make such attempts, supported by the powers behind them.

Shen Hex previously didn’t have such capital.

But now...

Path Founder!

Not only does it greatly enhance the effect of cultivation methods, but it also allows one to consume professional experience to integrate various cultivation techniques, facilitating inferential thinking and innovation, greatly aiding in creating new paths. His professional talent of Borrowing Illusion For Cultivation can transform impossibilities into possibilities.

Rather than Borrowing Illusion For Cultivation, it’s better to say Turning Illusion Into Reality. As long as the impact is great enough and recognition is ample, even a castle in the sky can become a dream come true.

Take the previous sword and saber decision as an example. It was orchestrated by Shen Hex, with no real breakthrough or insight. Both the Demon Saber and Dao Sword stopped at the Seven Forms Realm; the Eighth Form was never created.

If at that time, Shen Hex had switched to being a Path Founder with the talent of Borrowing Illusion For Cultivation, under everyone’s witness, he might have turned fiction into reality, creating the Eight Sword Forms.

This is the effect of Borrowing Illusion For Cultivation. As long as the influence is great and recognition is high, the impossible can become possible.

The benefits for creating new paths are self-evident.

"So, does that mean we have to perform such acts many more times?"

"No, just performing isn’t nearly enough!"

"To expand influence and deeply embed in people’s hearts, the best way is... spreading the methods to the world!"

"With Dao Sword as the orthodox, spreading the method isn’t difficult, but the Demon Saber requires quite a bit of effort."

Sitting cross-legged on the ground, Shen Hex contemplated the method to create a new path, quickly formulating a clear plan.

"Besides this..."

Deciding on the propagation of the method, Shen Hex looked up, his gaze piercing through the dome, straight to the outer realm.

Then, he closed his eyes, embarking on a spiritual journey.

"Chii!!!"

In the real world, inside a bedroom.

The life support pod opened, and Shen Hex sat up, immediately diving into research.

The affairs of the Taiyuan Realm were mostly settled; only the final Demon Heaven Tribulation remained to be addressed.

Truthfully, Shen Hex didn’t know much about this Demon Heaven Tribulation, only a few points had been discerned thus far.

Firstly, Mo Yunzi, with an Eighth Realm Returning Void cultivation in the Demon Dao, holds a Nine-Class Rank Demon Treasure, the Demon Heaven Banner, forming the Demon Heaven Array to seal the Taiyuan Heaven and Earth.

Secondly, the Demon Heaven Array, with the Demon Heaven Banner as its core, ranks at least as high as Tier Eight or Tier Nine. Combined with Mo Yunzi’s Returning Void power, the Seven Taiyuan Cultivators couldn’t break through, pinning their hopes on the Three Heroes and Two Talents with the Yin Yang Dust Array.

Lastly, there is the transformation of heaven and earth; under the influence of the Demon Heaven Array, the Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi of the Taiyuan Realm is being continuously altered, transforming Spiritual Qi into Demonic Qi, infecting all living beings. Thus, the demonic path flourishes while the Dao diminishes. In just several hundred years, the Taiyuan Realm will be wholly transformed into the Taiyuan Demon Realm.

By then, even if Mo Yunzi can’t enter, the living beings within the realm will still be corrupted by Demonic Qi, falling into the demonic path, never able to extricate themselves.

This is the information Shen Hex currently possesses.

Regarding these points of information, how can the situation be overturned?

The most direct method is to fight out of the realm, slay Mo Yunzi, and break the Demon Heaven.

But Shen Hex’s current strength cannot support this plan.

So, he must delay time to strengthen his own power?

How to delay?

For the average person, there’s really no method.

The Demon Heaven Array set by Mo Yunzi is evidently an "upgraded" version by an Upper Realm True Demon. The Mystic Sects led by Taihua Mountain have already tried to prevent or mitigate the Demon Heaven Array’s transformation of the Taiyuan Realm, but the results are negligible.

But just because the Taiyuan Realm has no solution doesn’t mean Shen Hex lacks one.

The Human Empire has extensive experience with the transformation by Evil Demons.

With the persistent emergence of Cosmic Evil Gods, the Human Empire, through long experience, naturally developed a multitude of methods to cope with transformation.

Shen Hex accesses the network of the Special Bureau, entering key information based on the characteristics of the Demon Heaven Array to search, quickly obtaining a massive number of results.

Indeed, truly a massive number!

The real world differs from the Taiyuan Realm, with a plethora of cultivation systems flourishing. There’s the Immortal Dao, Martial Dao, technology, magic, and all sorts of chaotic professions, offering numerous means to deal with various situations.

Although the Demon Heaven Array is a creation of Taiyuan’s Upper Realm great demon, the method of transforming the Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi isn’t particularly special in the real world, and is even somewhat common.

Those Cosmic Evil Gods—nine out of ten can do this kind of thing. Transforming a planet or even an entire star realm is quite a frequent occurrence. All systems within the Human Empire have produced various countermeasures.

For instance, the "Five Elements Heaven-locking Demon Sealing Array" was deduced by the Human Empire’s Cultivation Professionals and refined by multiple Tier Twelve "True Immortal" professionals. The system is already very mature, adept at dealing with most cases of Evil Demon transformation.

Although such methods require power to support them—without equivalent power, it’s hard to eradicate the transformation—no matter, Shen Hex isn’t seeking a cure, merely a way to delay, allowing himself time to develop.

As long as he transforms his Daoist Nascent Soul into the Purple Mansion Primordial Spirit, completes and innovates the Sword and Saber Darklight into Eighth or Ninth Realm, he’ll be confident enough to deal with Mo Yunzi.

He might not even need to, delaying for a few centuries until the Three Heroes and Two Talents mature sufficiently to break the Demon Heaven Array with the Yin Yang Dust Array.

"It’s you then!"

After some selection, Shen Hex chose the Five Elements Heaven-locking Demon Sealing Array.

Since it’s an array responding to Evil Demon transformation, in the Human Empire, it’s considered a widely available "off-the-shelf" product, without significant technological blockade, purchasable with Imperial Coins and no need for Special Bureau merits.

Although the standard civilian version isn’t as good as the premium military version, Shen Hex figured it would suffice.

Even if it doesn’t, there aren’t many options. Recently, he has been engrossed in Entering the Dream, focusing mostly on the affairs of the Taiyuan Realm, with little attention to the real world. The merits he accumulated can’t exchange for the "military version" of the Five Elements Heaven-locking Demon Sealing Array.

With the account balance swiftly depleted, the method to set up the Five Elements Heaven-locking Demon Sealing Array appeared before Shen Hex.

Much like the Sacrificial Demon-Slaying Sword, this array also has a Twelve-Class Rank, with Three Gates and One Celestial Layer, divided into four realms of size and order, known as the Small Five Elements Array, Great Five Elements Array, Acquired Five Elements Formation, and Innate Five Elements Array.

Exhausting his balance, Shen Hex only managed to purchase up to Tier Seven, which merely allows for the setup of an Acquired Five Elements Formation. Against the Tier Eight or Nine Class Rank Demon Heaven Array, it might only manage to delay.

But there’s no choice, wealth is limited, and conditions in the Taiyuan Realm are as they are. Even if he purchased a Tier Eight or Nine formation, without adequate resources to implement it, unless he seizes the five Tier Eight Flying Swords from the Three Heroes and Two Talents, or finds five other Tier Eight Class Rank Five Elements Treasures, it’s impractical.

Therefore, let’s make do, and think of other ways if necessary.