Chapter 559: Celestial Way Merges With Me

More and more Celestial Venerables formed from flesh were flying toward the gap in the sky.

Around the gap, flesh writhed and spawned, forming tentacles that transformed into scimitars, swords, circular axes, massive hammers, and other weapons, extending madly to slash at the charging Chen Shi.

Beneath the grey clouds of flesh, the Celestial Venerable's enormous face emerged, staring at Chen Shi.

Above the grey clouds of flesh, bizarre eyes sprouted one after another, each connected to a tentacle behind it, dancing above the cloud layer like the hair of a peerless giant.

Many of the bizarre eyes extended toward the gap, peering downward.

Among the eye pupils, some were Celestial Way Divine Eyes, penetrating all changes, while others were Fog Moon eyes of the Nine Heavens, radiating sinister demonic energy.

Chen Shi charged upward, his speed increasing with every moment.

At the gap in the grey clouds of flesh, countless blades danced through the air, slashing toward him!

Though Chen Shi held no sword in his hands, he unleashed his sword intent to the fullest at this moment, channeling the madness and demonic nature of the Tianluo Blood-Transforming Divine Blade. Sword light descended as if Chen Shi had struck countless slashes at once, layers of blade light converging into a torrent, unstoppable and invincible, meeting the dancing swords head-on!

"Shhh!"

The blood-red sword light cut through thorns and brambles, breaking through layers of obstruction, soaring up from the blood clouds as a rainbow of sword light.

Chen Shi stepped onto the rainbow of sword light and sprinted forward, about to pass through the gap. Around him, Celestial Way Divine Eyes and Fog Moon eyes each gathered their vision, beams of light bursting forth. The divine ability hidden within the Celestial Way Divine Eye was called Celestial Punishment, while the Fog Moon eye harbored a divine ability called Netherworld Arrow, both exceedingly formidable.

Even more terrifying was the sheer number of Celestial Way Divine Eyes and Fog Moon eyes - hundreds of them, impossible to defend against!

Just as these divine abilities were about to engulf Chen Shi, a purple vine suddenly shot up from below, growing at such a breakneck speed that it seemed to spin as it rose.

Its tendrils stabbed into the void, tearing it open. Huge vine leaves, each the size of a hundred acres of land, wrapped around Chen Shi in layers upon layers.

The divine abilities fired by the Celestial Way Divine Eyes and Fog Moon eyes were blocked by the vine leaves. Chen Shi sprinted upward along the purple vine and burst through the gap.

Behind him, countless Celestial Venerables leaped onto the vine, climbing up like agile apes, charging toward Chen Shi along the vine.

Above the blood clouds, blood dragons soared and roared furiously, charging at the vine.

Chen Shi leaped with flying speed. With a fierce bound, he turned midair, activated the Purple Heaven Vine, and the vine suddenly twisted like a venomous serpent or massive python, coiling and entangling the Celestial Venerables on it, crushing and squeezing until their flesh shattered!

High above, the swarm of dragons descended. Chen Shi ignored them completely, continuing to fly toward the Celestial True God.

Behind him, the Purple Heaven Vine weaved through the clouds, its branches growing wildly, wrapping around blood dragons one by one and shredding them apart.

Can'er carried the skeletal Chen Shi flying toward the heavens, five-colored divine light sweeping out, slaying Celestial Venerable after Celestial Venerable.

Below, the grey clouds of flesh roared, a furious Celestial Venerable face emerging, then rapidly growing outward - the head, the neck, the body - a colossal ten-thousand-zhang giant rising from the blood clouds!

At the same time, on the blood moon beyond the heavens, countless flesh writhed and shot toward Chen Shi like lightning!

Chen Shi paid it no heed, his speed increasing steadily as he hurtled straight for the Celestial True God!

The ten-thousand-zhang Celestial Venerable crouched, then launched himself skyward.

The Purple Heaven Vine climbed up his body even as it continued growing upward. The ten-thousand-zhang Celestial Venerable suddenly exerted his strength, and the vine's tendrils, which had anchored themselves in the void, were ripped out one by one.

With nothing to support it in the air, the Purple Heaven Vine toppled and plummeted downward.

Above the blood clouds, tentacles of flesh lashed out, trying to capture the vine. Chen Shi split his attention, activating the Purple Heaven Vine. As it fell, its tendrils anchored themselves back into the void, finally halting the treasure's enormous body.

Up above, the skeletal Chen Shi stood on Can'er's back, looking back. The ten-thousand-zhang Celestial Venerable's speed was far greater than Can'er's. He shouted urgently, "Can'er, send me up!"

Can'er beat her wings with all her might, her speed increasing considerably, but the ten-thousand-zhang Celestial Venerable was even faster, closing the distance between them.

The Celestial Venerable reached out with his enormous palm, grabbing at them. Layers of magical power condensed around the lines of his palm, forming a supreme hand seal!

The skeletal Chen Shi leaped up from Can'er's back, flying toward Chen Shi, while Can'er was pushed downward by his kick, dodging the Celestial Venerable's hand.

Just as the ten-thousand-zhang Celestial Venerable was about to seize both the skeletal Chen Shi and Chen Shi's true body, the skeletal Chen Shi turned around, channeling all his cultivation to unleash the seventh move of the Blood-Transforming Divine Blade - Sun Illuminates a Thousand Rivers.

"Boom!"

A thousand rivers shattered. The Celestial Venerable's supreme power struck, blasting the skeletal Chen Shi into pieces!

But with this avatar's obstruction, Chen Shi finally arrived before the Celestial True God.

The ten-thousand-zhang Celestial Venerable charged up from below. At the same moment, the flesh attack from the moon had also arrived nearby!

Chen Shi surged his blood and qi, activating the Profound Yin Nine Heaven Art. With a resounding hum, behind the Celestial True God's head, beyond the eight Dao Realms, the ninth Dao Realm finally materialized!

Chen Shi faced the ten-thousand-zhang Celestial Venerable and struck with a Five Thunder Seal. Behind him, the Celestial True God also unleashed the Five Thunder Seal, striking at the Celestial Venerable.

Though it was an extremely simple seal, this single strike carried the divine might of the Celestial Way. Majestic divine thunder descended from the heavens, slamming into the ten-thousand-zhang Celestial Venerable, blasting his colossal body into charred remains.

Chen Shi formed a Sword Seal with his hand, facing the flesh attack from the moon. He gathered qi into swords, sending sword qi flying one after another.

Behind him, the Celestial True God channeled the might of the Celestial Way, and sword qi a thousand times grander met the surging flesh. In an instant, flesh flew everywhere, and tentacles connecting heaven and earth were severed!

Chen Shi withdrew his stance, standing before the Celestial True God.

Above the moon, flesh still danced. In the blood clouds, new Celestial Venerables were forming.

His Purple Heaven Vine had also been covered by the primordial insect's flesh. Both the primordial insect and the Purple Heaven Vine were supreme treasures used by immortals to survive the Opening the Calamity. Each was filled with vast spiritual energy and inconceivable power. If either could absorb the other, it would surely be greatly enhanced.

Both the Purple Heaven Vine and the primordial insect wanted to devour the other.

The Purple Heaven Vine's roots had already pierced into the blood clouds, drawing power from them, while the tentacles spawned by the blood clouds wrapped around the vine, dragging it down from the sky, trying to absorb it.

The Purple Heaven Vine was still far inferior to the primordial insect, its situation growing increasingly perilous.

Chen Shi turned a blind eye to all this, turning around to face the Celestial True God.

This was the first time he had been so close to the Celestial True God. Even after this Shang King's Primordial Spirit had merged with the Celestial Way of the Western Ox New Continent, he retained his original solemnity and inherent authority.

Within him still lingered the aura of the True King.

Two generations of leaders of the Western Ox New Continent had sacrificed themselves to the Celestial Way in times of crisis, trying to buy temporary peace for their land.

Unfortunately, it was only temporary.

Chen Shi studied the Celestial True God. This true deity was too magnificent, too colossal.

His eyes burned with blazing solar true fire, like twin great suns, so dazzling that it was difficult to make out the details of his features.

The vertical eye on his forehead was half-open, half-closed, emanating cold moonlight and waves of sinister demonic energy.

His body exuded an unimaginably dense energy of incense offerings - extraordinary power formed from the worship of humans and ghost gods over countless millennia.

The Celestial Way of the Western Ox New Continent had also been polluted, which was why demonic energy permeated it.

His power was nearly exhausted as well. For sixteen thousand years, he had radiated light and heat, illuminating the mortal world with his power, making crops grow, letting the common people live in peace, preventing evil spirits and demonic beasts from running rampant. But he was already at the end of his strength.

During the sun's extinction six thousand years ago, had the True King not sacrificed himself, the Celestial True God would likely have truly died.

Several years ago, had Chen Yindu not sacrificed all the suns and moons of the Upper Realm, he would have fallen into death once more.

However, the power of all those suns and moons in the Upper Realm was also nearly spent.

Chen Shi sensed the aura of twilight emanating from him. After converting his power into the Innate Dao Embryo, this Celestial True God had essentially exhausted his lifespan, enduring only a few more years to allow the owner of the Innate Dao Embryo to grow.

"Back then, was it you who chose me, or was it the True King?" Chen Shi murmured, his mind drifting.

When the Celestial True God bestowed the Innate Dao Embryo, it was a choice for Chen Shi to become the next Celestial True God.

In the Celestial Way's plan, one day in the future, Chen Shi would sacrifice himself and become the new Celestial True God. No one could have predicted this would bring catastrophe upon Chen Shi. The visitor from Despair Slope killed him, cut out his Innate Dao Embryo, and transplanted it into Zhong Wuwang's body.

This burden should never have fallen on Chen Shi, but who could have anticipated that Chen Yindu would spend a lifetime of wisdom and power to save Chen Shi, and that Chen Shi would become the True King of the Western Ox New Continent?

After all the twists and turns, this burden had returned to Chen Shi once more.

"But you did not choose wrongly."

A smile spread across Chen Shi's face as he murmured, "Even without the Innate Dao Embryo, I am more than capable of changing the world!"

He turned around, channeling the Profound Yin Nine Heaven Art to its fullest, mobilizing the boundless power of the Celestial True God!

"Today, I will accomplish what you could not - change the world!"

"Today, you will serve as my Innate Dao Embryo!"

"Today, the Celestial Way of the Western Ox New Continent will merge with my Dao! The Western Ox New Continent will become my small world! My Dao Realm! My heaven!"

"Today, I will become an immortal!"

With this earth-shaking declaration, the Celestial True God's power was mobilized by the layers of Dao Realms behind Chen Shi's head, and his fusion with heaven and earth began.

Chen Shi's blood and qi surged, yet his mind was calmer than ever before. As he elevated the Celestial True God, he felt his five senses and six consciousnesses extend beyond anything he had ever experienced. Both realms of yin and yang in the Western Ox New Continent lay before him in vivid clarity, seen as clearly as fire.

All his persistence and forbearance over these past days had been for this moment.

During this time, he had focused without distraction, ignoring the battles outside, dedicating himself wholly to refining the Grand Supreme Purple Qi and cultivating the Great Wilderness Ming Dao Collection, finally elevating his cultivation and Dao attainment to the level of Dao Unification.

The so-called Dao Unification meant merging with the great Dao of heaven and earth, mutually confirming each other.

Whether one cultivated the new method to the Great Completion Realm or the old method to the Ascension Realm, both allowed one to unify with the Dao of heaven and earth.

Every cultivator aspired to Dao Unification, for only by merging with the great Dao of heaven and earth could one verify whether one's comprehension of Dao techniques was perfect, and only then could one live as long as heaven and earth.

To live as long as heaven and earth - that was to be an immortal.

Though cultivators were numerous, reaching this step was no easy feat. In the True King's Era, many achieved Dao Unification, but because they were polluted and demonized by the Demonic Energy in the world, they became evil spirits, and thus no one became an immortal. The True King abolished the old method and established the new method, hoping to forge a new path that would allow aspirants to ascend.

However, since the True King's time, over six thousand years, countless talented individuals had cultivated the new method, yet none had managed Dao Unification through it. Only when Zhong Wuwang used the Innate Dao Embryo as his foundation, internally refining a small world and unifying the Dao within himself, was the path of the new method finally walked through.

Zhong Wuwang's new-method Dao Unification was extraordinarily difficult, doomed to have no successors. His cultivation method meant that only one new-method immortal could exist in an era - the one who possessed the Innate Dao Embryo.

Only if Zhong Wuwang passed the Innate Dao Embryo to someone else could another walk his path.

As for Chen Shi's Four Disciples - Long You the Freeholder, Mu Daozi, and others - they walked the same path as Du Yiran, Granny Sha, and the rest: after the Great Completion Realm, they returned to the old method, continuing along the path of crossing tribulation, ascending, and unifying with the Dao.

The true method of unification for the new path had yet to appear.

The path Chen Shi walked was twofold. One was to verify the old method - crossing tribulation and ascending. The second was the new method - Great Completion and Dao Unification.

But his Dao Unification was an entirely new path, unlike anyone else's.

Making the great Dao of heaven and earth merge with him.

That was his path.

Using his own great Dao to change the great Dao of heaven and earth. Achieving this was extraordinarily difficult.

He first comprehended Yin-Yang Variation, then comprehended the Yin-Yang Dao Field, and further realized the demonic Dao Field, but it was still far from enough.

Even with the Grand Supreme Purple Qi elevating him to a level sufficient for Dao Unification, all he could change was a small world of ten thousand li.

Far too small to encompass the entire Western Ox New Continent.

But fortunately, there was still the Celestial True God.

"Hum!"

Chen Shi's Realm of Emptiness began to spread outward, covering ten thousand li, drawing him and the Celestial True God into the Dao Field.

"Hum!"

An even more powerful tremor resounded. Under his command, the Celestial True God activated his Realm of Emptiness.

This Yin-Yang Dao Field expanded outward with wild abandon, instantly infecting a hundred thousand li, transforming into a Dao Realm great world. Within the Dao Realm, gentle winds blew, celestial phenomena followed fixed patterns, the light of the netherworld's path shone, forming a road of life and death. With rumbling vibrations, a great gate of calamity rose from the ground.

Various Great Dao Phenomena continuously materialized - these were the phenomena of Tai Huang Huang Zeng Heaven!

Below, the blood clouds had already formed new ten-thousand-zhang Celestial Venerables, over a dozen of them, all leaping into the air and charging over.

But the moment they stepped into Tai Huang Huang Zeng Heaven, their demonic energy dissipated, all their magical power vanished, and they plummeted from the sky. Before they even landed on the blood clouds, they melted into clear water, raining down from above!

The Dao Realm continued to expand outward, another thirty thousand li, and new Great Dao Phenomena formed - rolling wheels in the sky, Xuan Du Mountain, feathered men, and below, the Calamity Earth, Nine Nethers, Eastern Well, and other phenomena. The Dao Realm transformed from Tai Huang Huang Zeng Heaven into Tai Ming Yu Wan Heaven.

The Dao Realm expanded another thirty thousand li, and new phenomena took shape - in the sky were Jade Capital, Yellow Clouds, Purple Forests, and the Heavenly River; below were the Demon-Subduing Battlefield, Yellow Banners, and Northern Camps. This corresponded to the third Dao Realm, Qing Ming He Tong Heaven.

By the time it expanded to the seventh heaven, the true deity's Dao Realm had already reached three hundred thousand li.

At this point, Chen Shi's true deity Dao Realm had extended to the moon itself, enveloping the blood moon. The flesh covering the moon's surface was stricken with terror, desperately trying to flee along the flesh tentacles connecting through space, but it was already too late.

The demonic energy within it was continuously transformed by Chen Shi's true deity Dao Realm, turning from sinister qi into righteous energy of heaven and earth.

"Splash!"

The mountain of flesh covering the moon's surface melted as well, becoming clear water. Soon, vast waters spread across the moon, gathering in low-lying areas, forming lunar seas.

Waves rippled across the lunar seas. For the first time in sixteen thousand years, the moon appeared in the sky above the Western Ox New Continent, shining with radiant light!