My Inner Demon Has the Potential to Become a Great Emperor

Others cultivate immortality by slaying their inner demons, banishing distractions, and focusing wholeheartedly on the Dao. Lu Zhao cultivates immortality by making promises to his inner demons, negotiating profit-sharing, and trying to get them to earn their own keep. During his initiation, his inner demon tries to tempt him with a mountain of spirit stones. He offers it a single genuine spirit stone and lures it away instead. From then on, his path to immortality becomes a whole lot livelier. The greedy inner demon sees a God of Wealth in everyone. Before an enemy has even breathed their last, it has already divided up the inheritance. The cowardly inner demon wants to turn their cave dwelling into a tortoiseshell, and prepares an eight-hundred-mile escape route for a trip just three miles from home. The competitive inner demon can't stand hearing “You can't do it.” One taunt from someone else, and it signs Lu Zhao up for a duel to the death in the middle of the night. Lu Zhao: “Can't we talk this over?” The three inner demons: “We already did. Three votes in favor, one against.” Years later, a giant of the Immortal Dao asks him how he subdued these three peerless fiends. Lu Zhao falls silent for a long time. “I didn't subdue them. I'm the one with the least say at home.” My inner demons have the makings of great emperors. Three of them!