Donghuang Ziji

Chapter 849: Taiyi Enters the New Underworld
"Have mercy, Immortal Lord!"

Shen Gongbao bowed to Chu Tai, and Chu Tai looked towards the human world. The Tao fruit of [Taiyi] took shape behind his head, and the divine wheel moved the heaven and earth. The brilliant light covered the sky, evolving thousands of methods and finally converged into one.

From it, there are wisps of supreme, true, and pure light rippling out, gradually replacing the laws of heaven, regulating the changes of all things, and sorting out the operation of the universe, making anyone who watches it feel like bowing down in worship.

But it is this supreme power that gives people an inexplicable sense of separation.

It seems that it is not a whole, but countless individuals, and countless futures emerge from it and become independent individuals.

Chu Tai looked at Tai Yi and said, "If you can walk your own path, it will be a brand new beginning for me, a new [one], born from within myself."

"me?"

Taiyi Zhenren pointed at himself, as if he couldn't believe that Chu Tai was talking about him.

He stared at the divine wheel behind Chu Tai's head, touched the back of his head and said: "Although I also think I am very powerful, how can I put it..."

When Taiyi Zhenren was halfway through his speech, he seemed to remember that Chu Tai's cultivation was far superior to his own, and he was a typical senior master. He thought that his words were not solemn enough. He flicked his whisk and was about to speak. Nezha beside him couldn't stand it, kicked him and said, "Can you do it? Uncle Shen has fought for this for you. If you still can't do it, you are too weak!"

Facing Nezha's words, Taiyi Zhenren's accent, which he had suppressed with great difficulty, popped out again: "Do you think this is cool? Ahem..."

After coughing twice to calm himself down, Taiyi Zhenren waved his whisk and said, "Since the Immortal Venerable thinks highly of me, I am naturally willing to work hard, but this kind of thing should be left to fate."

"So... so... you don't care about your own life or death?"

Shen Gongbao was so angry that he was about to reveal his true form. Taiyi Zhenren touched his head and said, "But can I achieve this by just working hard?"

"Things like emotions and memories can only be accumulated slowly through our interactions. As for the connection between heaven and earth, that is something that will naturally improve during the practice. Since these things have always existed, why should we care so much about them?"

"If I can't eat well, wear warm clothes, or sleep well because of this, can I expect things to go faster or further?"

"In that case, why don't we just have a relaxing hotpot meal? Hey, Junior Brother Shen, let me tell you, the soup base I prepared this time is really great. I guarantee you'll enjoy it very much!"

As he spoke, Taiyi Zhenren seemed to have thought of the delicious food that was about to come, and his eyes lit up.

Seeing this scene, Shen Gongbao suddenly felt relieved. He smiled and said softly: "It seems that I am indeed not as good as you!"

"You are not inferior to him."

Chu Tai interrupted Shen Gongbao's thoughts, saw what he was thinking, and pointed out the key.

"His way of living is only suitable for him. You can't learn it with your strong personality. The more you learn, the worse it will become, and you will be trapped in it."

"This is just like the question I asked you before, how to judge a person's existence. Everyone has his or her own uniqueness, so everyone has his or her own way of living and path."

"Just because everyone thinks a road is good doesn't mean it's necessarily good. It only means that the road is suitable for the public, not that the road is absolutely correct."

"Even if that path is absolutely correct, it's just like you judging whether a person is your father or not, just like Taiyi can judge who you are. This is something that you and Taiyi can decide subjectively, and it has nothing to do with outsiders."

“As long as you think a certain path is right for you and does not affect others, then that path is absolutely right for you.”

After saying that, Chu Tai reached out and lightly tapped Shen Gongbao's forehead.

He only felt his body sink, and then fell rapidly back into his own body.

At the same time, the Immortal Master Yuanshi, the Immortal Master Tongtian and the Immortal Master Daode, who were fighting each other in the dark, suddenly jumped up and tried to increase Chu Tai's connection with this time period.

In response, Chu Tai simply chuckled, stretched out his hand and pointed at the void. The Donghuang Bell shook gently, ripples continued to appear, and many causes and conditions emerged one by one. As his thoughts fell, they gathered on Taiyi Zhenren.

Taiyi Zhenren, who was happily preparing hot pot ingredients, suddenly felt something extra in his head, and the Kunlun magic was inexplicably upgraded to a higher level.

"What's going on? Did I forget something?"

Taiyi Zhenren scratched his head, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he trotted to the hot pot, raised his fat hand, rubbed his thumb back and forth between his index and middle fingers, sprinkled some white salt, and said cheerfully: "I forgot to add salt before, luckily I remembered, otherwise it would taste wrong later."

Then, Taiyi Zhenren hummed a little tune while fiddling with the remaining ingredients.

Seeing this move, Tong Tian Xian Zun laughed out loud: "Good Taoist, good attitude, Senior Brother, why don't you give this disciple to me? He is not suitable to learn the methods of your Kunlun lineage, but is suitable to learn the immortal methods of Jiejiao from me!"

Although Tongtian Immortal Venerable was joking, his hands were not slow at all.

The four sword lights changed back and forth, sweeping across the sky, setting off a four-fold sword light torrent, sweeping across the sky, defeating the third-grade Dao Fruit [Taibai (Dashui)] of the Hebo system and the third-grade Dao Fruit [Changsheng] of the Donghuang system, and easily suppressed the newly promoted second-grade Dao Fruit [Siming] of the Xiangjun and Xiangfuren system.

At the same time, hundreds of billions of sword lights continued to emerge in the void.

As soon as one wave subsided, another one rose. Between the waves, countless sword lights flew back and forth, cutting the connection between [Si Ming] and the heaven and earth.

This seemed to be an action to help Tian Siming's power, but in fact it was forcing Chu Tai to use his own power.

"I think this kid is quite suitable for my moral immortal method."

When Chu Tai activated the Donghuang Bell, the Immortal Venerable Daode raised his hand and shot out a ray of immortal light, which crossed up and down and differentiated into yin and yang.

The third-grade Dao Fruit [Sichun] of the Dongjun system was suppressed in an instant, and the third-grade Dao Fruit [Zhiren] of the Yunzhongjun system showed a peculiar artistic conception of perfection, all-inclusiveness, and combination of all differences. It tried to resist, but was suppressed by the Tai Chi Golden Bridge formed by the fusion of Yin and Yang.

Then the golden bridge connected the two yin and yang, blending the yin and yang, and integrating the concepts and power cut off by Tongtian Immortal Venerable into Chu Tai's body.

At the same time, the immortal light on Yuanshi Immortal Venerable's body was blazing, and his voice echoed around: "Taiyi is my disciple, so he will learn my method! If the two Taoist friends are willing to teach, I will not stop you."

The Kunlun lineage's luck surged up and turned into a precious orb suspended in the void, emitting eighty-one colors of light. It spun in the air and turned into a treasure that looked like a flag and an axe, which it swung violently towards the sky.

A ray of light containing boundless power of creation emerged, and the way of life and death cycle that suppressed Yuanshi Immortal Venerable was instantly separated.

The originally integrated forces of [Qinghua of Forgiveness (Emperor Fengdu)] and [Resurrection (Shao Siming)] also separated in an instant. These two second-grade Dao fruits originated from the systems of Da Siming and Shao Siming merged in mid-air, wanting to converge again to form reincarnation, but at the moment of formation, they were blocked by a ray of light and could not be gathered together.

The changes of life and death that separated stretched the power of Tian Siming, and the shaken Taiyi Dao Fruit reappeared, leaving more power vacancies, and with the power of the Immortal Lord of Morality, he contacted Chu Tai.

Obviously, the three immortals were planning to bind Chu Tai's power to the current time period. In response, Chu Tai simply waved the golden jade Ruyi in his hand and gently tapped the Donghuang Bell.

As the bell rang, the shadow of the second-grade Dao Fruit [Zhu Shi (Earthly Immortal)] of the Donghuang system emerged, and all the power that had returned to him gathered towards the pure and clear light that unified all things.

In an instant, the position of Taitian Emperor of Shangqing Ziwei Jade Palace, the position of Dongyue Siming Fengdu Emperor and the position of Qinghua Sect Leader of the Netherworld All converged on him.

Moreover, as Chu Tai waved the Ruyi in his hand, the Tai Chi Golden Bridge of the Immortal Lord of Morality suddenly changed position, and one of the two ends of the connection actually fell on the body of Taiyi Zhenren.

In an instant, layers of auspicious clouds and auspicious air rose up around him. Taiyi Zhenren, who had already prepared the hot pot, immediately discovered that many of the ingredients and utensils around him had become spiritual.

The radish opened its eyes, lotus leaves grew on the white lotus root, elves appeared on the lotus, and even the boiling hot pot itself became intelligent and kowtowed to Taiyi Zhenren.

Ao Bing and Nezha, who came in with Shen Gongbao, were stunned when they saw these things.

Then Nezha, with a wooden face, grabbed a three-inch white radish that ran to his side, looked at Taiyi Zhenren and said, "Shall we eat this?"

As soon as these words were spoken, all the newly born monsters screamed and kowtowed to Nezha and others.

Some of them even pointed at themselves and shook their heads, and it was unclear whether they were saying that they couldn't eat it or that it didn't taste good.

The noise made Nezha's head hurt, and he couldn't help but yelled, "Stop arguing!"

The next moment, hundreds of pairs of tearful eyes appeared, which made Ao Bing feel a little embarrassed and asked Nezha if he was too fierce.

Shen Gongbao was the first to notice something was wrong and asked Taiyi Zhenren if there was any change in his body.

Upon hearing this, Taiyi Zhenren was stunned for a moment, and then he felt it carefully and said, "I seem to feel that there is something below that wants to come up, and these little things are the things that want to come up. After breaking through the ban, they came alive with the ingredients and hot pot."

"under?"

Shen Gongbao looked at the land that Taiyi Zhenren pointed at and asked, "The underworld? Should we go down and take a look?"

"now?"

Taiyi Zhenren looked at the little monster beside him who was so scared that he was about to cry, and said with some difficulty: "If we go down, what will happen to them?"

Shen Gongbao felt a little embarrassed when he looked at these little guys. Once they left, these little guys would be discovered and most likely sent into the alchemy furnace.

"Just leave this to me."

Jade Ding Zhenren suddenly walked in from outside, glanced at Taiyi, then looked at Shen Gongbao, and said with emotion: "I had a dream before. I dreamed that Junior Brother Shen Gongbao was in front of a certain immortal and asked Junior Brother Taiyi for the truth. I thought it was just a dream, but now it seems to be true."

"As for the scene in front of us, I think it was caused by the power of that Immortal Venerable. Junior Brother Taiyi, you might as well go to the underworld and take a look."

Before Taiyi Zhenren could say a few words, Shen Gongbao, who had sensed something was wrong, pulled Taiyi Zhenren without hesitation and used the earth escape technique to escape downwards.

At the moment when the two of them left, Wuliang Xianweng walked in from outside. Seeing the cave full of monsters and Jade Ding Zhenren sitting on it, his face changed slightly and he asked, "Where did Taiyi go?"

Jade Ding Zhenren did not answer, and when Immortal Wuliang wanted to press the issue, Taoist Cihang, Taoist Manjusri, Taoist Guangcheng and Taoist Chijing arrived one after another.

They stood beside Jade Ding Zhenren, their auras blending together, and began to discuss the Dao directly. Immortal Wuliang was so angry that he raised the wooden staff in his hand and tried to drop it several times.

Taoist Huang Long, who arrived later, saw this scene and said hurriedly: "Big Brother, why do you have to do this? We all know that you have devoted all your efforts to our sect, but Junior Brother Taiyi is one of the Twelve Supreme Immortals and one of the faces of our Kunlun Sect. His position cannot be shaken until our Master speaks. We will wait a little longer, wait a little longer..."

Faced with the step given by Taoist Huanglong, Immortal Wuliang snorted coldly and turned away.

On the other side, Shen Gongbao, after bringing Taiyi Zhenren into the underworld, saw a scene completely different from the past.

The underworld, which was supposed to be vast and boundless yet somewhat illusory, has now become extremely thick. Looking down, one can see layer upon layer of underworld piled up together.

With just one glance, the two saw dozens of layers of the underworld, and each layer of the underworld was vast and boundless.

But the two also discovered that the higher the level of the underworld, the better the environment, the purer the atmosphere, and the clearer the concepts.

The deeper you go, the vaguer the concept of the underworld becomes. Starting from the tenth floor, the faces of many ghosts become extremely blurry.

Starting from the 30th floor, many buildings are reduced to just an outline, and further down, everything becomes blurry and nothing substantial can be seen.

Shen Gongbao's eyes widened: "What happened here?"

"It should be the manifestation of the power of that Immortal Venerable. He has recovered the aura of the dead souls from the last cycle, the last cycle before that, and even countless cycles ago."

Taiyi Zhenren couldn't help but put his hand on his chest. He looked at the dead souls below and inexplicably felt that they were somewhat similar to himself.

They seemed to be just like himself, without any innate spiritual power, and were just imaginary individuals existing in other people's memories.

It’s just that some people still remember me now, but no one remembers the ghosts below, so their faces are blurry.

When the day comes when they can't even remember themselves, these souls will probably fall below the 30th floor and become part of that vague area.

Upon discovering this, Taiyi Zhenren suddenly felt uncomfortable. He didn't know where this discomfort came from, but his heart was very painful, and there was a hint of desire.

"what happened to you?"

Shen Gongbao noticed that something was wrong with Taiyi Zhenren at the first moment and hurriedly asked about his condition.

After Taiyi told Shen Gongbao about his changes, Shen Gongbao's face turned pale instantly. He began to understand the problem that he had sensed earlier.

He shouldn't have brought Taiyi Zhenren down with him.

"Quick! Let's go!"

(End of this chapter)