Beast Taming: I Have an Immortal Mansion

"My den!!"

A mournful cry echoed from dozens of miles away. It was Bear Wind, wailing in despair.

Once the chaos subsided and dust settled, a massive, perfectly round hole could be seen where Bear Wind’s thousand-zhang-deep cave once was. It pierced the earth from the surface all the way to its core, and at its origin was Fang Qingyuan.

The surrounding hundred-li of the Land Realm had sunk a full three feet, and in that instant, countless creatures had perished in the Thunder Fire.

The Black Tortoise Star Aspect had vanished. Only Fang Qingyuan remained, standing naked in the void. Beneath his feet, layers of flame bloomed like flowers, a sight of breathtaking beauty.

However, hidden within these flames was something else—the Demon Tribulation!

Fang Qingyuan had used the Black Tortoise Star Aspect to withstand the Thunder Fire sent down by the Laws of Heaven and Earth, but this did not mean he had passed the Celestial Tribulation.

The Thunder Fire was merely the tribulation’s most ferocious aspect. The Celestial Tribulation was often accompanied by other calamities, and just as expected, the Demon Tribulation had now arrived in secret.

The flames beneath his feet, magnificent as they were, were merely a small leak. The true fire was raging within Fang Qingyuan’s sea of consciousness.

It was a burning ocean. Although the towering flames often obscured his vision, he could still sense the boundless, majestic expanse of this place through the gaps in the swaying inferno.

Every drop of seawater here was a fragment of Fang Qingyuan’s life, and every flicker of flame was a fire manifested by the Demon Tribulation, set to burn it all away.

Fang Qingyuan’s soul manifested within this world. He watched as the once-tranquil space was consumed by towering flames. With every flicker, the fire reflected fragments of his life. As they burned, the flames twisted and contorted, gradually taking on sinister shapes.

This was the Demon Tribulation, absorbing the various emotions from Fang Qingyuan’s life and cultivation to create true Demons. Absorbing jealousy created an Envy Demon. Absorbing greed created a Greed Demon.

In the very center of the ocean, a Five-Colored Tree shimmered with five hues, its branches heavy with leaves. It shook its foliage, each tremor unleashing Divine Techniques as potent as Thunder Fire against the forming Demons. But the Demons were endless, destroyed as quickly as they were born. They were spawned from Fang Qingyuan’s own sea of consciousness; unless their very root was destroyed, they would never stop coming as long as his consciousness and soul remained.

This tree was the Lifebound Spiritual Object he had awakened during his Foundation Establishment. Over the years, nourished by his cultivation, it had grown lush and verdant. Yet, in the face of this Demon Tribulation, it seemed powerless.

’More Demons are forming, feeding on the emotions in my sea of consciousness,’ he thought. ’If I let them fully hatch... forget how desperate the situation would become; even if I manage to survive this Demon Tribulation, will I still be the same person with my memories so twisted?’

This Demon Tribulation far exceeded Fang Qingyuan’s expectations. At this stage, an ordinary Cultivator would at most attract some ghosts or demonic creatures. No one else would have it escalate directly into a full-blown Demon Tribulation like this.

But nothing about Fang Qingyuan’s Core Formation could be measured by common standards. Forging a void and manifesting a world was an act that would surely incur Heaven’s envy. Since the Thunder Fire of Heaven and Earth had failed to stop him, this Demon Tribulation was the last hope of the Heaven and Earth Law Will.

At this moment, within the Immortal Mansion, the five Star Realms were fading one after another. In the instant of collision with the tribulation’s celestial thunder, the Black Tortoise Star Aspect had been grievously wounded, and the other four Star Realms had suffered as a consequence.

Therefore, his plan to mobilize the White Tiger Star Aspect and use its stellar killing power to annihilate the Demon Tribulation was no longer viable.

Even a Nascent Soul Cultivator would find it difficult to face this Demon Tribulation. But the tribulation was unaware that within Fang Qingyuan’s sea of consciousness, aside from his life’s memories and soul cultivation, existed something far beyond comprehension: the gateway to the Immortal Mansion.

The gateway to the Immortal Mansion was already wide open. It had been madly absorbing the area’s Earth Spiritual Power—an act that hadn’t paused even when the Celestial Thunder descended—but now, its function suddenly reversed.

In the next instant, a full moon appeared, hanging high above Fang Qingyuan’s sea of consciousness. Its cold, brilliant light scattered downward, illuminating every corner of the spiritual ocean.

This was a result of Fang Qingyuan’s Soul Dao cultivation—the Extreme Yin Power he had manifested after undergoing the high-altitude "enthronement" ceremony within the Immortal Mansion.

It was just as Fang Qingyuan had once declared: "Only in the waxing and waning of the moon is the soul’s Netherworld revealed." Under the splendor of its rays, no Demon, no matter how cunning or treacherous, could hide from this all-illuminating Divine Technique.

The countless Demons seemed to sense their impending doom. Though the light had yet to harm them, it exposed their exact locations and origins. With their greatest secret laid bare, the signs of their defeat were already showing.

Indeed, before the Demons could react or transform further, Fang Qingyuan’s divine sense softly chanted from within the sea of consciousness:

"Slay gods and annihilate immortals, shatter every law of this world;

Subtle and transformative, its profound purpose remains unseen."

As the words were spoken, the Sun, Moon, and Star Three Lights Essence Qi covering Fang Qingyuan’s body was instantly depleted. This drastic change altered the very nature of the Bright Moon’s radiance. Each ray of light transformed into a Godslaying Needle. Subtle and transformative, embodying the pinnacle of change, they shone down upon every Demon and demonic thought in the sea of consciousness.

Every Demon within the sea of consciousness stiffened, then dissipated into nothingness.

Or rather, they did not simply vanish. After the demonic thoughts within them were extinguished, their demonic bodies, which appeared to be dissipating, were actually being swept up by the Godslaying Needles and absorbed back into the full moon.