() "The 'Demon Lord' soared smoothly and passed on to the next Demon Lord, Xiao Tianhe. "This news has quickly swept through the entire Heavenly Flame Continent in recent days. In the streets and alleys, people are talking.

The name "Xiao Tianhe" was already quite famous in the Heavenly Flame Continent before, and almost all demon cultivators knew that the Nangong family had invited a demon cultivator, and later this person became the double cultivator of Master Du, the sword casting master, so his name had already spread in a boiling manner. Now people are curious about the fact that Xiao Tianhe did not win the Fengyun Conference, why was he chosen by the Demon Lord as his successor? Speaking of which, he is the only person from ancient times to the present who has ascended to the high position of the "Demon Lord" before entering the core.

Unlike the previous Demon Lords, this time the previous Demon Lord did not appear, but the new Demon Lord himself announced the news. However, no one in the Heavenly Flame Continent doubted the authenticity of the news, first, everyone thought that no one would dare to pretend to be the "Demon Lord", and secondly, because shortly after Xiao Tianhe announced his accession to the throne, he publicly displayed the six peerless demon swords that had been hidden in the core - Ming Hong, Miao Zu, Dragon Sparrow, Tiger Wing, Snow Drink, and Soul Slayer. This undoubtedly set off an uproar again. The six strongest swords that have never appeared since the ancient war of immortals and demons have finally reappeared in the rivers and lakes, and people have not forgotten to fill the last six pages of the "Magic Sword List" while adding a new page to the "Records of the Demon Masters of the Past Dynasties".

Xiao Tianhe, the thirteenth generation of demon lords, has carried out a series of drastic reforms to the rules that the Sky Flame Continent has always adhered to since he ascended the throne.

The first is the removal of the strict rules for access to the kernel. The original formation set by the Demon Lord has been broken, and the mysterious core area has finally revealed its true face. In fact, when the veil was lifted, people found that the core was nothing more than a few mountains, a few valleys, and a few rivers, no different from the outer mountains.

Although the rules have been abolished, the pattern has not changed. The periphery is still managed by the four major families, and the top six peerless magic swords are still in the core for use by excellent demon cultivators. The selection system of the Demon Treasure Conference - The Fengyun Conference is still maintained, but the competition method of the Fengyun Conference has been changed to a simple competition, and the grouping conditions have been changed from the number of years of demon cultivation to the realm level. This point was formulated by Xiao Tianhe with reference to the rules of the original Taiqing Martial Arts Association. Comparatively speaking, grouping by realm is more fair, which can not only motivate demon cultivators who are not very good to make up for their shortcomings with diligence, but also warn some talented demon cultivators that the strength and weakness in the real battle are regardless of the length of time spent cultivating, and the winner is king.

Immediately afterwards, Xiao Tianhe personally selected a group of people to enter the core, including Nangong Yan, Ximen Ding, Dongfang Ao and other four highly respected people, as well as many famous masters in the affiliated families. These people formed the "Council of Elders" of the Heavenly Flame Continent, which was responsible for managing the six peerless magic swords and accepting other qualified disciples into the core. It can be said that this group of people has taken on the heavy responsibility of inheriting the way of demon cultivation in the Heavenly Flame Continent.

In the end, Xiao Tianhe abolished the system of demon lord designation and succession, and instead voted for by the Council of Elders. He set this rule inspired by the way the four major families chose their patriarchs. The longevity of the four great families is mainly due to the wise leadership of the patriarchs of the past generations and the assistance of the elders of each family. The patriarch is the head of a family, and the demon lord is the leader of the entire Heavenly Flame Continent, and reform is imperative to revive the seemingly "prosperous" way of cultivating demons.

According to Xiao Tianhe's meaning, the past has passed, and the heinous demon lord has also died quietly, and it is not a good thing to reveal this shocking secret to the world at this time. Although the demon lord is evil, some of the systems he has set are conducive to the development of the path of demon cultivation. The stable rule of the four major families can maintain the stability of the Heavenly Flame Continent, and without the demon lord provoking it, I believe that the tragedy of the "Four Directions War in the World" will not be repeated. The selection system of the Demon Treasure Conference can make the outstanding people stand out as soon as possible, and the new system of the Fengyun Conference ensures the fairness of the distribution of demon cultivation resources.

In this way, the Demon Cultivation Pattern of the Heavenly Flame Continent has gradually converged to the Immortal Cultivation pattern of the Blue Dragon Continent. This is the most beneficial to the revitalization of the way of demon cultivation made by Xiao Tianhe after discussing with Shi Haoming and Chu Yuanhui, on the premise of trying not to cause a commotion in the Heavenly Flame Continent.

After the new demon lord Xiao Tianhe did all this, he quietly disappeared from people's field of vision. No one knew where he had gone, not even the few close friends he had made in the Nangong family.

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A few years later, the elders in the kernel suddenly received a message at the same time. The next day, the elders followed the instructions of the messenger and elected the fourteenth generation of demon masters. And the legendary deeds of the previous demon lord Xiao Tianhe have forever remained in the increasingly prosperous Heavenly Flame Continent. That's for later.

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After sending Chu Yuanhui back to the Qinglong Continent, Xiao Tianhe, under the guidance of Ao Jianhui, found Du Huairou, who was still weak. In order to allow her to recuperate, Xiao Tianhe took her into Meng Zhangjie, was taken care of by Li Cuiyan and others, and Shi Haoming treated her injuries. After that, Xiao Tianhe returned to the place where the red mengshi and the blue yuan stone gathered in the misty sea area.

This sea area, Xiao Tianhe named it "Mengyuan Sea". Instead of staying in the Heavenly Flame Continent, it is better to cultivate in this place that can be said to have changed Xiao Tianhe's fate. It is very secluded, no one disturbs it, anyway, the Xuan Qi in the Splitting Sky Knife is endless, and Xiao Tianhe does not need other demon cultivation resources. In addition, according to Shi Haoming, this large amount of red meng stone is very beneficial to the transformation of Xuan Li into Meng Li after the success of the tribulation. Therefore, until the catastrophe came, Xiao Tianhe never left Meng Yuanhai.

Day to night, day after day, spring to autumn, year after year.

In a trance, sixty years have passed. During this period, Xiao Tianhe's name was gradually forgotten by people in the Heavenly Flame Continent. Under the outstanding leadership of the Kernel Elders' Guild, the Heavenly Flame Continent's path of demon cultivation became more and more prosperous, and it was only when the word "Demon Lord" was occasionally mentioned that the demon cultivators remembered the legendary genius back then.

As for Xiao Tianhe, he thought he was just a passer-by in the Heavenly Flame Continent, and it didn't matter if people remembered him or not. In Meng Yuanhai, even Shi Haoming and the others couldn't come out of the Meng Zhang Realm, and this long and lonely retreat even exceeded all the demon cultivation time before Xiao Tianhe. But lonely but not lonely, in order to cope with the final tribulation test, Xiao Tianhe practiced hard every day. Ye Congyun's "Peng'an Sword Codex" has entered the final chapter of cultivation, "Yutian Sword Codex" is also about to end the content of the Great Red Collection, and "Dragon Swimming Body Method" has also reached its peak. Xiao Tianhe thought that the level of Ye Congyun was indistinguishable, and I believed that if Ye Congyun was still there at this time, he would definitely be able to help but praise it.

Finally, after Meng Yuanhai had been in seclusion for sixty-three years, Xiao Tianhe ushered in his own catastrophe.

Fate made Xiao Tianhe's life colorful, but he also played a big joke with him at the last moment.

Xiao Tianhe knew that he had a premonition before the Heavenly Tribulation came, so he planned to leave Meng Yuanhai in advance and go to the Heavenly Flame Continent to find an island with no one to meet the Heavenly Tribulation, and by the way, he could also ask Shi Haoming some information about the Heavenly Tribulation. But his Heavenly Tribulation didn't give him this ample time, and he didn't know if it was because the Qi of Heaven and Earth in the Misty Sea was different from the outside world, when Xiao Tianhe felt that the Heavenly Tribulation was coming, it was only half an hour.

For half an hour, Xiao Tianhe was a little dazed, it was difficult to even return to the Heavenly Flame Continent at this time, let alone find any islands. There is no choice but to cross the catastrophe in Meng Yuanhai. Shi Haoming can't be summoned from Meng Zhangjie to inquire here, everything can only rely on Xiao Tianhe to improvise.

The Heavenly Enemy Knife is on the back, the pill is on the chest, and there is only so much preparation that can be done in time. Since it was luck, Xiao Tianhe simply didn't think about it. He sat on the surface of the sea with his eyes closed, calmly and smoothly running the Xuanli Zhoutian, quietly waiting for what could be called the most important moment of his life.

Suddenly, a ray of light fell from the dense clouds in the sky, enveloping Xiao Tianhe. The light was so intense that even when I closed my eyes, I felt that my eyes were pierced and painful, and I couldn't open them at all.

"It's finally here!" Xiao Tianhe was about to get up, but he was pressed by a coercion that fell from the sky and knelt on his knees, and the sea surface became strangely hard, so smooth that there was not even a trace of ripples, like a huge dark blue iron plate. It was this sudden kneeling that made Xiao Tianhe's legs go to waste. The knee bones shattered, the leg bones broke and pierced through the muscles, and the blood flowed like a stream, but it only spread out on the surface of the sea, and did not dissolve in the sea.

Xiao Tianhe exclaimed in pain, at this moment, he had no time to care about the changes in the sea, and lost the support of his legs, and he fell on his back on the hard "sea surface". The pill bottle in his chest was crushed into pieces, and pieces were embedded in the flesh and skin, but Xiao Tianhe could no longer resist the huge pressure and roared. The aggressive coercion did not allow him the slightest chance to breathe, and even after exhaling a breath, the slightest drop in his chest could not be returned. Xiao Tianhe had to hold his luck and gritted his teeth and persisted.

That fierce coercion is undoubtedly the test of the Heavenly Tribulation. This feeling of being like a heavy mountain and unable to move is somewhat similar to the ordeal of the Jinwu Pass of the Dongqi Palace in the only Fengyun Conference that Xiao Tianhe participated in in the early years, but this time the coercion is far more important than that time.

In addition, the direction of the pressure is also different. In the Golden House Difficulty, the ceiling is pressed down and the floor is sucked downward, making people feel extremely heavy, but still able to stand. But the pressure of the catastrophe comes from the air at first glance, and when you feel it carefully, you will feel that there is pressure up and down, and the people who cross the catastrophe are fiercely sandwiched in it.

"If this continues, as soon as the sternum is broken, I will be crushed into meat sauce...... Xiao Tianhe stretched his arms with difficulty, returned from the side of his body, and gradually approached his ears, and then slowly moved his elbows down, and with great effort, he finally moved his palms to the position where it was convenient to push up on his shoulders. The sea was cold, but not as smooth as it seemed, and the sleeves were worn out as the arms were moved, followed by the skin, and by the time the palms were in place, the bare parts of the arms had lost a layer of skin.

"......" Xiao Tianhe struggled to spit out a word from between his clenched teeth, gathered his Xuan power to his two palms, and struggled to push up the invisible overpowering thing. The trembling forearms burst into green tendons, and the wound was opened wider, which greatly increased Xiao Tianhe's pain. Torrential blood splattered in the eyes, nose, and mouth. The vision was clouded with a layer of red, a bloody breath was added to the air, and a salty taste seeped into his mouth—it was the first time that Xiao Tianhe had "tasted" his own blood so carefully.

Of course, the pressure of the Heavenly Tribulation could not be lifted, but the pressure was relieved a lot under Xiao Tianhe's hard work. He continued to use his elbows as support, using the strength of his neck and waist to slowly lift his upper body. He wanted to sit up, though he didn't know what to do after sitting up.

Suddenly, the coercion of the Heavenly Tribulation changed again. Not in the dynamics, but in the direction. The pressure that originally came from the upper and lower sides suddenly surged from all directions, left, right, front, and back, and the pressure seemed to come from every place outside the body, and all pointed to the center - Xiao Tianhe.

The pain he suffered was even greater, but it was easier to sit up than before. Now every minute and every inch of his body is really under great pressure. The muscles of the whole body have long been swollen to the limit, and the twitching and trembling of the muscles can still be seen through the skin. "No wonder they say that refining the body is so important...... Xiao Tianhe thought to himself, "It seems that cultivating too fast is not completely beneficial, and the time for refining the body is much less than others...... On the other hand, he is also very fortunate that in the limited hundred years of cultivation, he has never relaxed the cultivation of the body, and even put in several times the effort of others. All of this is thanks to the strict supervision and teaching of Yu Ruijiang, Lu Hailong, and Ye Congyun, and even the heinous Huang Tianyuan did not urge Xiao Tianhe to refine his body during the more than thirty years of cultivation in the Breaking Heaven Mountain.

Xiao Tianhe endured the severe pain, used his hands to put the broken injured leg into an upright sitting position, and took out the pill that had already been pressed into a cake from his chest and stuffed it into his mouth. Xuan power gushed out from the dantian and ran rapidly in the body meridians. Xiao Tianhe used his Xuan Force to form a layer of "shield" on the surface of his body, and at the same time, he continuously drew out the endless Xuan Qi in the Splitting Sky Knife in his body, enveloping the surrounding area.

But Xiao Tianhe soon discovered that every time he strengthened his Xuan power to resist coercion, the pressure would also suddenly increase by one point to offset it. Thinking of the meaning of the Heavenly Tribulation, Xiao Tianhe boldly collected the Xuanli shield, reduced the speed of Xuanli's operation, and completely endured the pressure of the Heavenly Tribulation. Sure enough, without the protection of Xuan Li, the feeling of heavy pressure on the body did not suddenly intensify.

When Xiao Tianhe felt that he was about to lose his support, the pressure seemed to stagnate. He thought to himself: "It seems that now is the limit of the coercion of the Heavenly Tribulation!" Just when he had this idea, the coercion in all directions suddenly changed back to the original top-down direction, and the hard sea surface instantly returned to its original state, and Xiao Tianhe, who had no time to react, was pressed into the sea with a "poof", and continued to fall rapidly into the depths.

Although Leng Buding was stirred by the seawater, Xiao Tianhe felt extremely comfortable, because the terrifying power of the Heavenly Tribulation disappeared at the moment of falling into the water, and the coolness of the sea water also greatly relieved the pain of the wounds on his body. Maybe it's because of the previous exhaustion

Because of the force, a strong sense of sleepiness accompanied by a comfortable sense of satisfaction filled the whole mind. Even though you're in the water, you're still able to breathe freely. The soft light shines into the squinted eyes, the misty sky gradually blurs as it sinks, the surrounding light gets darker and darker, and the body becomes more and more relaxed.

In the hazy space of half-asleep, all kinds of memories of the past flashed in my mind, and when I thought about it, I derived many different thoughts. Life is like a long picture, you never know what the next scene will be, but everything you have experienced will always remain on the unfolding picture, whether it is happy, angry, sad, fearful, liked, hateful, every scene is mixed with all kinds of complex human emotions. Sometimes the direction of life's path is in a thought.

Time seems to rewind to the night of a long time ago, and the lively Cloud Dusk Villa ushered in the young master's 100-day wedding banquet. On this day, the owner of the farm, He Yundu, happened to pick up another baby as big as his young son outside the villa. He Yundui and his wife regarded the child they picked up as their own, giving warm fatherly and maternal love, and under the gentle care and careful care, the two children thrived, and followed the instructions of their grandfather, who was the sect master of Taiqing, from the age of five, under the guidance of their father, to start exercising their bodies to prepare for their future career in cultivating immortals.

The children's physique is still very immature, so how can they afford the arduous exercise? The two children do not understand the importance of exercise, and they complain about hardship all day long. In fact, in the final analysis, it is because of the preparation for cultivating immortals. If you don't go to cultivate immortals, you can be a happy mortal in the world and enjoy a relaxed and comfortable life for a hundred years, which is not bad, why bother to take the bumpy road of pure penance?

Sure enough, the child who picked it up couldn't bear the daily hard work, and proposed to his father that he planned to give up cultivating immortals. When the father saw the child crying and complaining about his pity, he could not bear to force him any longer. He Yundui himself also did not cultivate immortals, didn't he also live half his life in a chic manner? Besides, cultivating immortals means separating flesh and blood in the future, and He Yundui was reluctant after all.

But the other child insisted on practicing every day, and although he didn't know the meaning of cultivating immortals, he believed that the demands of his parents and grandfather would always be beneficial to him. In this way, at the age of twelve, the two brothers parted ways, one went to the Taiqing Sect of Tiandao Mountain, and the other continued to stay in Yundu Villa.

The ordinary life lasted not long, and the cloudy mountain villa ushered in that bloody night. A group of immortal cultivators who didn't know the origin broke into the Cloud Dusk Villa and killed everyone they saw, even the old and weak, women and children. After witnessing the tragic deaths of his father and mother, the child was stunned. Death should be the final destination of all souls, but it came much earlier than expected.

"No, they are my enemies! I hate them! I will kill them!" A strong anger suddenly erupted from the bottom of the child's heart, he hated those immortal cultivators who killed innocents indiscriminately, and he hated himself even more for being too weak to avenge his parents. "How nice it would have been if I had gone to cultivate immortals with my younger brother at that time......" The child closed his eyes in remorse as he saw the shining fairy sword swinging towards him.

"Brush", the sound of waving a sword crossed his ears, but he did not wait for the final sharp pain. When I opened my eyes, I was in the valley of wind and flowers. The younger brother and the younger sister were learning from each other, but they were lazily leaning on the stone and taking a nap. It turned out that everything just now was just a dream.

"Brother Tianxiao, you really have the ability to fall asleep. If it's a bad guy, you don't know how you're going to die. The junior sister smiled like a flower, and put away the fairy sword on his shoulder.

"It's getting late, let's go back. "Tianyao said.

So, the three of them returned to the bamboo garden and began to meditate at night.

Tian Xiao, who had originally planned to go to the Wind Law Valley to practice sword techniques at night, suddenly felt that this kind of futile practice was really boring. "There are thousands of predecessors who have explored other ways of cultivation, but none of them have succeeded. It can be seen that in this world, the 'sword' has been given a special meaning, and only the sword weapon is the basic blade of cultivation. Why should I bother to explore the futile path of sword technique? Anyway, my roots are not bad, and I should be able to achieve something in cultivating immortals. Once such an idea came to mind, Tianxiao gave up the way of cultivating demons from then on.

However, the sword, after all, was not his favorite. As a result, his enthusiasm for cultivation also weakened a lot. In addition, his fellow disciples all called him a 'genius of cultivating immortals', since he was a genius, why should he work so hard like others? As long as he practiced his swordsmanship a little, wouldn't he be able to reach the level of others?

The swordsmanship and body technique are all used in and out. 'The master leads the door, and the cultivation is in the individual', he is not willing to work hard, and the elders of the master are naturally too lazy to care. After a hundred and fifty years of staggering like this, although he barely advanced to the third level, he still failed to survive the tribulation before the deadline came. On the verge of dying, Tianxiao silently looked at the ceiling, and there was no one around. A diligent friend has already risen through the ranks, so how can anyone else want to be in the company of someone who doesn't want to be motivated?

"Alas......" With a long sigh, Tianxiao closed his cloudy eyes, and his consciousness gradually dissipated. Suddenly, a strong feeling of remorse arose from the bottom of his heart, how could he waste time like this? He was not reconciled! He struggled to use the last of his strength to clench his fists and pound on the bed to express his unwillingness.

Unexpectedly, this knock woke him up from the bed, opened his tired eyes, and saw Huang Tianyuan sitting aside, shaking his shoulders happily: "Congratulations, you and I have succeeded in seizing the house! We will be brothers in the future, the Heavenly Flame Continent belongs to you, the Qinglong Continent belongs to me, and we will share the world of this Great Red Realm together forever!"

"No, it shouldn't be like this, I don't want to take away other people's sacrifices, I don't want to call you brothers! You, you are extremely evil, I want to slash you and save the Heavenly Flame Continent!" Although Xiao Tianhe was weak, a divine power gushed out of nowhere, and he used the Heavenly Enemy Knife, full of anger and pride, and stabbed to death the heinous villain with a knife.

"Whew", the scene in front of him disappeared like the wind, and Xiao Tianhe was still sitting on the blue sea. All the injuries on his body have healed, and the spiritual platform is extremely clear, and his body is full of vitality. Everything around him was clearly imprinted in his mind, and he even felt that he was the master of the sea.

The light that shrouded him gradually closed overhead and disappeared.

It turned out that all the confused memories before were just a dream of Nan Ke who was tested by the Heavenly Tribulation Heart Demon.

Xiao Tianhe clenched his fists in disbelief: "I...... Did the raid succeed?"