Cultivation: When you take things to the extreme - Chapter 1202: 721: Unveiling the Mystery
Chapter 1202: Chapter 721: Unveiling the Mystery
Time flies swiftly, with a thousand years in the present world, ten thousand years as if in a dream.
Three hundred thousand years later, in the Earth Immortal’s Domain.
In the East Victorious Divine Continent, the Nine Heavens Immortal Court.
Within the Taihuang Emperor Palace, Xu Yang with a flick of his horsetail whisk, the Supreme Pure Immortal Light flows, lifting the heavy seals, a pagoda emerges.
The pagoda stood nine levels tall, each level shackled, and protected above and below by arrays that harmonize with the Principle of Yin and Yang, forming the power of Heaven, Earth, Mysterious, Yellow.
Even so, its body is still riddled with cracks, streams of Demonic Qi seeping out. With the Supreme Pure Immortal Light breaking the seals, it even begins to condense and take form.
“Taoist Master!”
“Emperor Venerable!”
The assembled immortals behind, seeing such a scene, grew tense. True immortals of Phoenix Song and other Scholar’s Palaces could not help but speak up, wanting to dissuade, yet unsure what words to say.
“Stick to your duties, no need for worry!”
Xu Yang did not turn back, but left behind these words, and then swung the horsetail whisk in his hand, a beam of immortal light shooting out, breaking the shackle seals of the pagoda’s portal.
“Bang!!!”
The shackles shattered, the portal opened, inside was pitch-blackness, with the hand not seen when stretched out, only Demonic Qi surged like a forest, momentarily taking shape but subdued by the Supreme Pure Immortal Light, forced only to scratch and claw helplessly, unable to break free from the prison.
Xu Yang, without a word, stepped forward and went straight into it, then the Tai Chi twisted, and became another seal, reclosing the portal.
“Taoist Master!”
Seeing this, the immortals were even more worried, but there was nothing they could do but suppress their anxieties and return to their positions within the array, waiting for the final outcome.
Decades passed, many people, many things, are no longer as they were before.
The Earth Immortal Realm was no exception. Under the management and influence of Wandao School, the evolution of things, if not revolutionary, was still day by day dramatically changing. At this moment, the group of True Immortals present are proof of this.
Originally, in the Earth Immortal Realm, the Eight Great Dao Lineages including Immortals, Buddhas, Demons, Monsters, Dragons, and Phoenix Deities, had no more than sixteen True Immortals.
But now, within this Taihuang Emperor Palace, the number of True Immortals has exceeded fifty, coming from various Dao Lineages of the four states within the Earth Immortal Realm.
On one side, from the Eastern Victory Heavenly Court, aside from the original Four Auxiliary Imperial Lords, there were other true immortals including Jade Emperor Venerate Xuanqiong, Jade Pool Palace Master Yaoji, and the Old Taoist Liuyang.
From the West Bovine He Continent side, there were the Four Great Bodhisattvas of Great Wisdom, Great Virtue, Great Mercy, and Great Compassion, standing after the two greatest figures of Buddhism.
And the last, with the Fengdu Underworld, Four Seas Dragon Palace, and some Dao Lineages of the Earth Immortal’s four states, also adding one or two True Immortals.
But these paled in comparison to the South Observance Continent, led by Phoenix Song and other friends including True Person Ziyang, Pure Jun Sword Lord, Great Roc Heavenly King, and Peony Fairy, a total close to thirty True Immortals, more than half the total number.
From this, one can see the Earth Immortal’s transformation, as well as the world-governing, Ten Thousand Dao spread by the Scholar’s Palace.
Today these scores of True Immortals, gathered here in the Taihuang Emperor Palace, stood around the crack-filled Mystic Yellow Pagoda, aligning themselves with the thousands of Void Immortals outside the palace, forming a grand array.
Wandao and Ten Thousand Immortals Formation!
Ten Thousand Immortals in formation, firmly on guard.
Back to the pagoda…
“Whoosh!!!”
Xu Yang paced forward, the Supreme Pure Immortal Light illuminating broadly, making the darkness retreat like a tide.
The Demonic Qi, raging back, revealing the figure of a person seated atop the Bagua of Tai Chi.
A middle-aged man in plain white clothing, not striking in appearance, yet carrying an aura of dignity, revealing his former status.
It was the former Heavenly Court Master — Heavenly Venerate Taihuang!
But that was in the past.
Now he…
Xu Yang stepped closer, and he too opened his eyes, their gazes met tranquilly, as if this had all been foreseen.
“Supreme Elder!”
He sat, unmoving, merely lifted his head, his gaze shot towards Xu Yang, stating the astonishing: “You have returned?”
Xu Yang remained expressionless, unfazed by these words, calmly stepping forward, sitting down opposite him: “I have come!”
Words gentle and firm, coming not returning, not only announcing his stance but also striking back.
“Ha!”
With such words, the one who should be called Primordial Heavenly Demon laughed aloud: “I knew back then you had more than one move. Now seeing it, as expected!”
His words hinted at something deeper.
Yet Xu Yang remained stoic, not taking to heart this insinuation, holding the horsetail whisk, he spoke softly: “These years I roamed the Earth Immortal Realm, probing the old, searching the new, seeking the heavens and questioning the Dao, finally making sense of it all. Today I come to remove the root of the calamity. If all you have are these verbal skills, I’m afraid your doom is inescapable today!”
“Oh?”
The Primordial Heavenly Demon chuckled, his tone suddenly cold: “Then this master is curious to hear, what have you figured out?”
“The Earth Immortal Realm, originally called the Demon Realm, within contains a Demon, born before heaven and earth, born from heaven and earth, that is you, the Primordial Heavenly Demon!”
Xu Yang held a horsetail whisk in his hand and spoke in a calm voice: “After the Ancestor of Tao rose with a group of immortals, they suppressed you, transforming the demon with Daoism, thus creating this Earth Immortal’s Domain.”
The words were calm, revealing the other party’s origins — he was actually the Ancestor of Earth Immortals!
The Primordial Heavenly Demon remained unfazed: “Since you know the reasons, you should also know who is right and who is wrong. Back then, we were both lords of one realm, not infringing on each other’s territory. Yet he suddenly came, invaded my dominion, took my foundation, destroyed my fruits of labor, committing the utmost acts of a robber, and still dared to call himself righteous?”
“And you, the successor, come here today to talk about removing a scourge; who is the demon and who is the calamity? Such twisting of truth and falsehood, is this the righteousness you hold?”
The words were sharp, as if executing judgment with a sword!
“The killer, shall always be killed by others!”
Xu Yang remained expressionless: “Slaying demons and eradicating evil, how is that not righteous? It is the cycle of heavenly principles, the retribution of causality.”
The present body has already proven the Dao and become an Earth Immortal, not to mention the various incarnations in worlds where time flows at ten or a hundred times the speed, had already stepped into the realm of Extreme Dao of Earth Immortals long before.
In the World of Dao and Law, after achieving the status of Earth Immortal, Xu Yang began to study the legacy of the Supreme Taoist Ancestor on using the fake to repair the real, and also sought the secrets behind the disappearance of the Ancient Immortal Gods of the Earth Immortal Realm and the mysteries left in the Heavenly Secret Realm.
For this purpose, he not only traversed the Earth Immortal Realm but also roamed the Chaotic Void, exploring the surrounding realms in search of relevant clues.
Diligence rewards the dedicated, and after tens of thousands of years, he finally found the answers and clarified the cause and effect.
It turns out that this Earth Immortal Realm was not originally an Earth Immortal Realm; its predecessor, similar to the Desire Realm where Moluo Boxun resided, was also a world of the Demon Path, and its demon lord was this Primordial Heavenly Demon.
As a Demon Dao Realm Master, the actions of this Primordial Heavenly Demon were very similar to Moluo Boxun, often invading other realms to strengthen the power of the Demon Path.
But, as the saying goes, the shooter often gets shot; the ever-expanding Primordial Demon Realm suddenly came into contact with the World of Dao and Law.
Even though he retreated immediately upon realizing that the other realm might have a Golden Immortal and stopped the invasion, it did not change anything.
The Supreme Elder of the World of Dao and Law was not one to be trifled with. He retaliated at once, eventually crossing over to use his Golden Immortal Power to suppress him.
Yet, for some unknown reason, the World of Dao and Law was damaged in that great battle, its prime spirit went silent, and heaven and earth declined.
For some unknown reason too, the Golden Immortal Supreme Elder did not choose to repair the World of Dao and Law but instead led the immortals in Ascension, transforming the Primordial Demon Realm into an Earth Immortal Realm, becoming the second world for the Daoist lineage.
Then followed the Ascension of the Supreme Elder. The Three Pure Ones united and went to the Daluo Realm, leaving a vacuum in the Earth Immortal Realm, allowing the rebirth of the Primordial Heavenly Demon.
There was no helping it; although the Supreme Elder was a Golden Immortal, being a ‘Half Innate’ sacred being like Moluo Boxun, this Primordial Heavenly Demon also had a mechanism of Golden Immortal Power. Although he was no match for the Supreme Elder, he could still preserve a sliver of life force without being detected.
Thus, after the Supreme Elder left, he came back to life like a centipede that doesn’t die easily.
Although it was only a remnant soul that was revived and could not return to its original near-Golden Immortal level as a Demon Dao Realm Master, it was enough for him to cause trouble.
Relying on that mechanism of Golden Immortal Power, along with various methods of the Demon Path, he began to transform the Daoist Immortal Gods remaining in the Earth Immortal Realm, preparing to convert the Dao back into the Primordial World of demons.
But the Daoist Immortal Gods were not mere fish on the chopping block; once they noticed his deeds to a certain extent, the Supreme Elder had foreseen today and had specifically left behind a contingency for him.
The final outcome was an Immortal Demon War that swept across the entire Earth Immortal Realm, ending with both immortals and demons destroyed, ancient Immortal Gods perished, and the resurrected Primordial Heavenly Demon also died once again. Even the opportunity for Golden Immortal power was lost, leaving only traces of Demon Origin entwined amidst the battlefield of Immortal Demons.
This was the root cause of the “civilization fault” in the Earth Immortal Realm.
That Immortal Demon War impacted the entire Earth Immortal Realm, especially the clash of Golden Immortal powers at the end, which almost led to the extinction of all beings within the realm. The heavens and the earth weakened as a result and entered a period of Silent Extinction, similar to that of the World of Dao and Law.
Yet the Great Thousand World is, after all, the Great Thousand World. After an extremely long period, the Heavenly Earth Prime Spirit began to gradually recover, and the world slowly gave birth to new life, becoming the present-day Earth Immortal Realm.
This was the conclusion Xu Yang reached after traveling through the Earth Immortal and numerous other realms, investigating the past and present. There might be some minor inaccuracies in the details, but the overall direction should be correct.
Therefore, he came, to eradicate the roots!
Even a centipede dies hard, to say nothing of these innate sacred beings holding the opportunity for Golden Immortal power?
Xu Yang had a profound understanding of this, as the main troubles he faced at the moment were caused by these persisting beings.
In the current world, there is a Netherworld Sect Supreme.
In the Earth Immortal Realm, there is a Primordial Heavenly Demon.
In the Blue Star Realm, there exists Bodhi’s Remnant Soul entwined with the Brahma Three-Phases God and Moluo’s Demon Fruit.
Each one, still clinging to life, and some even poised for a miraculous comeback!
Xu Yang was pressured by them to the point where he had no choice but to pick the softest persimmon among them as a breakthrough to change the overall situation.
So, who is the softest persimmon?
The Netherworld Sect Supreme in the current world?
No, that won’t do. In the real world, without the help of a hundredfold accelerated time flow to accumulate power, Xu Yang’s current potentiality, even if he could pacify the Six Forbidden Zones and kill the remaining Netherworld Venerable, would not stand against the Five Religions’ Masters and Ten Heavenly Immortals after the world’s integration.
How about Moluo Boxun of the Blue Star Realm?
Similarly unworkable. Boxun, with the Golden Immortal Demonic Fruit, has altered the Brahma Sect’s Three Forms God, which are akin to the Three Pure Ones and Three Buddhas of the Mystic Yellow Realm—half innate sacred beings from the same origin. Each not only possesses the combat power of a Heavenly Immortal Peak but also has ultimate techniques that transcend heavenly limits, such as Returning to the Origin and Triad Union.
Not to mention Boxun’s Golden Immortal Demon Fruit, just the Three Forms God itself is enough to cause a disastrous defeat.
Therefore, it must be the Earth Immortal Realm; it has to be this Primordial Heavenly Demon.
Although he is also an innate sacred being and holds a Golden Immortal opportunity that can transcend heavenly limits, he was first suppressed by the Supreme Taoist Ancestor, a true Golden Immortal, and after a difficult resurrection, he fought a great battle with Immortal Gods of Dao and Law, ultimately destroyed along with his Golden Immortal opportunity in a self-sacrificing move by the Supreme Taoist Ancestor’s contingency plan.
In this manner, twice obliterated, he has suffered irreparable damage and is likely in a worse state than the Netherworld Sect Supreme, who was struck down from the Divine Land by the founders of the Five Religions.
Furthermore, the one he possessed is the Heavenly Court Taihuang, whose name may sound impressive but is merely a Human Immortal. Even with the remnant soul of this Demon Lord, it would not surpass the Earth Immortal Realm’s World.
Thus, he is the softest persimmon to squeeze, especially for Xu Yang. After all, due to the difference in time flow between the Earth Immortal Realm and the real world, the accumulation of the Dao body is much more substantial than in the real world. Squeezing him in this soft realm is much safer than fighting to the death against that Netherworld Venerable in the real world.
With that…
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