Chapter 793 - 48: The Path of Immortals, Co-Proving Da Luo

Chapter 793: Chapter 48: The Path of Immortals, Co-Proving Da Luo

The Celestial Realm, the pinnacle of Shanjian City.

"Heaven and earth separate into clear and turbid, all things divide into Yin and Yang."

"A lone Yin does not endure, a lone Yang does not give birth; only when Yin and Yang aid each other can it be called the Great Dao."

"These are all things you once preached in the Purple Cloud Palace..."

"The flaws of the ’Pure Yang Path’ are far too obvious. It can indeed prove the Daluo True Immortal, but it absolutely cannot achieve the Daluo Golden Immortal."

"Unless you’re willing to give up on the idea of letting the ’Path of Immortals’ cover all living beings..."

Gaze piercing through the Three Realms, Di Shitian·Indra... or rather, Zhuang Zhou, looked at the Emperor Donghua who was in the midst of proving the Dao, his expression complex, clearly unable to understand the other party’s actions and intentions.

Different from that idiot Emperor Ziwei, who had become a chess piece without even knowing it.

Zhuang Zhou had actually noticed the game between Taiyi and the Tao Ancestor very early on; he could even guess why the Eastern Monarch would guard the Three Immortals Island.

Nothing more than preventing the Taiyi Star from making a comeback, and in addition, keeping Emperor Donghua stationed in the Celestial Realm as he was now.

From Zhuang Zhou’s point of view, this was actually very reasonable.

—Since you, Taiyi, are determined to interfere with the human world, even taking the initiative to break the tacit understanding between the two sides.

—Then don’t blame me for doing the opposite, and branding my mark on your turf.

At the very least, the whole sequence of operations where Emperor Donghua first evolved the [Azure Yang Qi], and then proved the [Pure Yang Path], all fell into this category.

However, when Emperor Donghua began attempting to prove the [Path of Immortals], Zhuang Zhou fell into a prolonged state of "stunned confusion."

Obviously, as long as things proceeded step by step, even if Emperor Donghua could not prove the [Pure Yang Path] today, his eventual success in proving the Dao would only be a matter of course.

By contrast, right now Zhuang Zhou simply could not see even the slightest possibility of the other party’s success.

Even though the other side had already gained the support of these three Daluo Golden Immortals—the Tao Ancestor, Taiyi, and the Lord of the Netherworld—the scope covered by the [Path of Immortals] was still far too vast, far too complex.

Without exaggeration, the [Path of Immortals] even encompassed a broader range than the [Path of the Divine Spirit].

The [Path of the Divine Spirit] at least still limited its scope to the domain of the Gods.

But this [Path of Immortals] was meant to include all future Cultivators.

Given the Tao Ancestor’s ideal of widely spreading myriad paths and making everyone a dragon, this was roughly equivalent to saying that all living beings had the potential to become "Immortals."

Referencing that scene when Xiluo proved the Dao back then, being besieged by all the Pathfinders, one could immediately understand just how outrageous Emperor Donghua’s current operation was.

[Unless... He has another plan!]

A thought flashed through his mind, and Zhuang Zhou immediately fell silent.

Ever since the Tao Ancestor proved the Dao, every move he made had been earth-shattering and deeply influential.

Now that his three incarnations were proving the Dao simultaneously, it was absolutely impossible that this was merely to broaden the horizons of the Pathfinders.

As things stood, if Emperor Donghua wanted to successfully prove the Dao, there was only the method of "Yin and Yang aiding each other" to make up for his own deficiencies.

In that case, even if in the end the [Path of Immortals] could not cover all future Cultivators, it would still be enough to achieve a true Daluo Golden Immortal.

Theoretically speaking, Emperor Donghua now was the symbol of "Pure Yang."

So if he wanted to take one step further, he would have to find a power whose strength was on par with these three incarnations and which happened to symbolize "Pure Yin."

In fact, after such a filtering, there were very few entities that fully met this requirement.

Combining that with certain things Li Boyang had once said, Zhuang Zhou’s heart already faintly had its own speculation.

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"So you did this on purpose?"

Baring her teeth and glaring at Li Boyang, Xiluo figured it out even earlier than Zhuang Zhou.

Li Boyang had begun paving the way for the [Path of Immortals] a long time ago.

Its origins could even be traced back to when Xiluo proved the [Path of the Divine Spirit].

And last time in the Purple Cloud Palace, when Li Boyang deliberately subdivided the "Transformed Taoist" realm into three levels—Loose Immortal, True Immortal, and Golden Immortal—it was also for the same purpose.

It was just that, due to various objective reasons, and once you added Li Boyang’s ambition and grand vow on top of that, this [Path of Immortals] was destined to be a path with limitless prospects, yet equally unimaginably difficult.

Think about Emperor Hao back then—even he had never thought of making himself the "Ancestor of Immortals." One can imagine just how difficult this path was.

At the very least, in Taiyi’s eyes, restructuring the order and rules of an existing world was far more difficult than creating a new world from zero to one.

"I’m just going with the flow, that’s all."

"After all, Taiyi is different from the Lord of the Mansion; he rarely makes mistakes, and is also very hard to persuade."

"This time I just happened to take advantage of him being in the wrong, so I won’t have to go knocking on his door in the future when I want to prove the Dao."

A rare slyness appeared on his face as Li Boyang likewise turned to look at Xiluo on his shoulder and explained.

"As for now?"

"You’ll help me anyway, won’t you?"

Listening to this righteous-sounding speech, Xiluo immediately rolled her eyes in anger.

"You really need to fix this habit of cutting first and reporting later..."

"I’m seriously suspecting now that Taiyi’s idiocy absolutely has something to do with you."

At this point, Xiluo’s voice paused slightly, and her tone involuntarily became more solemn.

"Wang Shu’s ’Path of the Stars’ is a path formed by countless coincidences."

"Besides, that ’Path of the Stars’ hasn’t been completely walked through yet; Wang Shu has not truly become the Doumu Primordial Monarch."

"Otherwise she would be the fourth Daluo Golden Immortal, not that ’unified multitude’ Houtu."

Locking her gaze onto Li Boyang’s eyes, Xiluo spoke with utmost seriousness.

"But the path you have in mind is even more outrageous than Wang Shu’s ’Path of the Stars’..."

"Wang Shu borrowed the power of the myriad stars to achieve the Dao. In essence, she is the Pathfinder, the only Mother of All Stars."

"Yet you want to forge the ’Path of Immortals’ into an open path, to be shared with others..."

With the corners of his mouth slightly raised, Li Boyang calmly explained.

"Enjoying alone is not as good as enjoying together; one person’s planning is short, the crowd’s planning is long—that’s been my view all along, hasn’t it?"

"Taking ten thousand steps back, it’s not like you don’t know my attitude toward paths."

"I’m not attached to any particular path; what I seek is true transcendence."

"Since that’s the case, why not set another precedent and try something new?"

Before Xiluo could retort, Li Boyang had already started laughing again.

"Besides, you don’t exactly fall under the category of ’others.’"

"I told you from the very beginning: now that you’re already the ’Chief of the Gods,’ why can’t you conveniently become the ’Head of All Immortals’ as well?"

"You and I will jointly oversee the Immortal Dao—I’ll manage the Yang Immortals, you manage the Yin Immortals—and together we’ll prove the Daluo Golden Immortal."

"If you feel you’re really taking advantage of me, then after we prove the Dao just take on more work, so I can slack off a bit!"

Xiluo immediately raked a claw across Li Boyang’s face, rebuking him in a fit of anger.

"Who’s taking advantage of you! You’re clearly the one taking advantage of me!"

"You think I don’t know you’re trying to slack off?"

"Do you even remember who was running errands for you last time when you were slacking off..."

Watching Xiluo start dredging up old accounts, Li Boyang still appeared utterly calm and at ease.

Because based on their many years of dealing with each other, Li Boyang knew this was a sign of Xiluo’s impending compromise.

Or rather, although Xiluo was a bit slow and somewhat lazy, she had never been lacking in the sense of responsibility.

By comparison, it was Li Boyang, who was used to being a hands-off shopkeeper, that sometimes came across as rather careless and heartless.

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