Volume 1: Entering the Dao through Martial Arts Chapter 27: What is a Heart Demon (Seeking Collection and Recommendations)
The heart demon, originally a test that cultivators must go through when their cultivation is advancing, those who have not been tempered by the heart demon will almost certainly die when the heart demon arrives during the tribulation. Song Lingzi said in the Jade Sutra that every time one's cultivation advances, they will be disturbed by the heart demon. But Yu Feng didn't encounter any heart demons from the beginning of his cultivation to the realm of refining Qi and becoming a god, so he didn't take this matter to heart and didn't prepare any protective measures for his mind. This time, being invaded by the heart demon made his injuries worse. If he hadn't reacted in time and killed the heart demon, the consequences would have been unthinkable. Yu Feng thought to himself.
After cutting off the heart demon, Yu Feng's injuries were even more severe than before, but his primordial spirit was even more condensed, and the range of his divine sense could also search for a larger area. With his mid-term divine thought, he can scan an area of over 300 miles in an instant, and now it has reached an area of over 350 miles. This kind of growth in divine thought can be said to be very large.
There are actually two kinds of heart demons. One is the confusion in one's own mind about a matter, yet unable to find an answer, it is a kind of doubt that the whole person has towards the path they have walked. Once this doubt arises and cannot be resolved, it will hide deep within the heart. When the person falls into a desperate situation, the heart demon will jump out to compete for control over the body. The other kind is when an external demon takes advantage of a cultivator's confusion about the Tao, or during cultivation, refining magical instruments, or crossing tribulations, and uses their intention to transcend space and descend upon this world to seize control. In any case, these two kinds of heart demons are tests for cultivators, although extremely dangerous, but after passing through the calamity of the heart demon, one's cultivation will have some progress.
After the demon in my heart was destroyed this time, I no longer felt puzzled by those killings. It was originally your intention to spread the teachings of the Eastern Orthodox Church, but your method of spreading the teachings was incorrect, with too much bloodshed involved, causing great harm to the Chinese people. To stop you from continuing to harm the Chinese people, I had to come and stop you. If I couldn't stop you, then I had to delay time, so I had to kill people. Some of these deaths were unrelated to what they did, but because they were also involved in the karma of the Church of Light, their deaths would be used to repay the karma of the Church of Light. Repaying karma is a just principle.
After figuring out these things, Yu Feng's injury healed particularly quickly. On his way to Germany and France, the main reason he went there was that he didn't dare confirm whether the Vatican would really be affected by him and temporarily stop the Eastern Expedition. Since it is closer to Rome, he believed that the information he gathered would be more reliable. Yu Feng did not dare entrust all intelligence to the Dark Church Castle; at least he had to verify it himself before he dared to return.
While making some trouble over there, I believe the Temple will soon receive news. Firstly, it will weaken the Temple's strength, and secondly, the Church of Light must have a greater influence there. On the contrary, the people's will in that place is something the Temple dare not lightly oppose. If he can make the Temple suffer losses over there, it will inevitably form a strong force opposing the Temple's expedition to the east, because if they cannot even protect their own hometown, what reason do they have to send troops to the east?
After making up his mind, Yu Feng didn't even bother to pay attention to some small temples along the way. These places could be cleaned up when he came back, and now time was of the essence. Yu Feng didn't want to spend too much time on these small temples on the road, only to find out that the temple had already been occupied by others when he arrived.
In St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican, Pope Paul VI was furious at the people below because he had been receiving news of attacks on major cathedrals around the world: Westminster Cathedral in England, Notre Dame de Paris and Chartres Cathedral in France, Speyer Cathedral in Germany, and even Milan Cathedral in Italy were all attacked. These actions almost always occurred just before dawn when someone snuck in. Many smaller churches were also destroyed after St. Paul's was destroyed.
In the past ten days or so, nine red-robed high priests who had served as high priests have died in battle, four holy knights, more than 40 white-robed bishops, and over a dozen regional bishops. The number of low- to mid-level clergy killed or wounded is countless. Now believers from all countries are constantly asking the Church of Light why they suffered so many attacks, demanding that the church court explain this.
"At this time, I don't want to pursue the responsibility of some people. What needs to be solved now is how to handle these things properly. The dark cultists are getting more and more rampant. It seems that our Eastern Expedition plan must be postponed. Before that, we must make the Dark Church behave itself a bit. If not, such things will continue to happen. I don't know who leaked our Eastern Expedition plan, letting all the followers below know about it. Now, rumors are circulating outside that the God of Light has abandoned us. If this matter is not handled properly, I'm sure everyone knows what the consequences will be."
"I will send out the reclusive elders to various churches to calm the faithful of light in each place, but you must resolve all other matters. I hope that from now on, I will no longer receive news about any dark cultist attacks on us. I want the Dark Church to pay a heavy price for these things, I want them all to regret it, and I want those heretics to know that the God of Light will illuminate the entire land. They have forgotten the power of our Church of Light, so now you must tell them with blood what awaits them - battle." The Pope said, his face iron-cold as he looked at the bishops below him.
Yu Feng was currently hiding in a mountain cave to recover from his injuries. The constant attacks on the Grand Cathedral had worsened his condition, and he hadn't fully recovered yet. He hadn't rested properly either, spending every day either riding his flying sword or killing people. Now that he finally had a chance to rest, he felt like collapsing. In both Notre Dame in Paris and the Milan Cathedral, those red-robed bishops and holy knights were using their lives as sacrifices or self-destructing, and Yu Feng had underestimated them - he hadn't expected them to resist so stubbornly.
One of the red-robed archbishops' self-detonation injured him the most, at that time Shura's flag was entangling a holy knight, without protecting himself, and in the end still relying on the Extinguishing Thunder to kill that holy knight. If he had known earlier, he would have used it directly, but instead harmed himself by having to silence everyone in the Milan Cathedral. The Extinguishing Thunder's residual wind was not used many times, but each time it was used, all the people present were silenced, and even the corpses were taken away by Shura's flag for cremation. Yufeng did not want the church to know that he had this kind of weapon that could instantly kill red-robed archbishops and holy knights, and the only Mother Yin Thunder was his last trump card to save his life, so he dared not use it lightly.
