Donghuang Ziji

Chapter 932 Eastern Emperor, Lord of Ten Thousand Demons

"The separation of Heaven and Man is ultimately not a long-term solution. My original plan was that as the Taiyi of Man continuously expands, it can gradually gain control over the Taiyi of Heaven, eventually evolving to a point where nothing can change, at which point the two will naturally unite."

As Chu Tai looked at the incomplete [Sun Wukong (Heart Monkey Golden Master)] in his palm, the images of the Heavenly Taiyi Treasure Wheel and the Human Taiyi Treasure Wheel appeared in his mind. The Heavenly Taiyi contained the Human Taiyi, while the Human Taiyi was constantly expanding outward.

However, it is clear that the Taiyi of Man currently occupies too little of the Taiyi of Heaven, and even the Taiyi of Heaven itself is expanding along with the expansion of the Taiyi of Man.

Normally, this would be a slow and painstaking process, or it might require other high-level beings to share their insights with Chu Tai, rapidly expanding the scope of the concept of "Human Taiyi" to speed up the process.

This is also why the Heavenly Emperor suggested that he absorb the power of Taiyi Zhenjun. Taiyi Zhenjun's Dao Fruit is all-encompassing and is perfect for helping to perfect Chu Tai's Dao Fruit. Logically speaking, if Chu Tai absorbs part of Taiyi Zhenjun's power, it is possible for him to quickly achieve the first-grade true Dao and complete the re-merger of Heaven and Man.

But now, Sun Wukong (the Monkey King) has offered another possibility.

Sun Wukong combines freedom, mind, perception, and flow, allowing individuals to transform from the finite to the infinite, which is precisely the kind of transformation that suits the Taiyi (Great Unity) of humanity.

【Heart Monkey Golden Master】 takes 【freedom】 and 【mind】 as its core, making it independent of all things, and then wandering among all things with 【flow】, communicating with 【heart】, so that the heart never dies, the spirit never perishes, and freedom is eternal.

From a certain perspective, some of the operational logic of the "Heart Monkey Golden Duke" coincides with some of the principles of the Great Unity of Heaven.

The appearance of these two not only expanded Chu Tai's power, but also pointed him to a different path than the original method of grinding water.

The two illusory treasure wheels in Chu Tai's palm changed, and the Taiyi of Man continued to expand and split, transforming from its original substance into illusion, existing between reality and illusion, constantly changing between existence and non-existence, like mist rising and falling, sometimes visible, sometimes hard to find.

Then the mist changed, precipitated into particles, and the particles continued to grow larger, eventually transforming into an illusory treasure wheel.

These treasure wheels are different from the original Taiyi of man. They vary in size and duration of existence, but inside they are all filled with flowing light and shadow, reflecting each unique individual.

These individuals are not merely sentient beings; there are also many who have not yet developed intelligence or possess wisdom but lack innate spiritual light.

For example, mountains, rocks, plants, trees, and trees; for example, the illusory images constructed from memories; and for example, the emotions conveyed in paintings.

These individuals themselves recorded or carried certain information. After becoming the Taiyi of Man in Chu Tai's palm, they broke through the boundaries and expanded upon the original Taiyi of Man.

There is an expansion from the finite to the infinite, and there is also the transformation of the impossible into the possible originating from the Heavenly Demon.

The ultimate diffusion of the Great One of Man allowed the power and information corresponding to those individuals to converge in Chu Tai's heart.

In an instant, Chu Tai felt an endless stream of information, information that was completely different from the senses of the previous Taiyi.

However, this information quickly stimulates the emergence of more human beings and drives the expansion of the celestial beings.

It can be said that Chu Tai instantly felt a power that transcended his original understanding and control. As his power continued to increase, he would gain more information, and this information would in turn drive Chu Tai's power to increase, and so on in an endless cycle.

This endless acquisition of information and enhancement of power led to a dramatic transformation in Chu Tai's power, which expanded infinitely—a metamorphosis from the finite to the infinite.

Generally speaking, this endless increase in power will lead practitioners into a vicious cycle of self-improvement and advancement.

Because as an individual being born after birth, it is difficult for them to maintain their complete self after infinite differentiation and the infinite carrying of information. The vast majority of them will be covered and diluted by the infinitely expanding knowledge and power, and eventually become mere carriers of information, just like when Chu Tai evolved some ineffable power.

But Chu Tai is different. With the separation of Heaven and Man, even if there is a problem with the Man Taiyi, there is the Heaven Taiyi as an anchor point to stabilize his core through top-down order and observation, ensuring that his self will not be disintegrated in the process of infinite expansion.

This gave Chu Tai a sliver of hope to transcend the boundaries between reality and illusion, and between the finite and the infinite, and to see a glimmer of an opportunity to achieve his own unique path.

But the closer one gets to the Dao, the further one gets from humanity. Under the observation of the Heavenly One, Chu Tai's Human One can maintain his self, but it is only maintaining it. His seven emotions and six desires, as well as many other emotions, gradually fade away under the observation.

His eyes gradually turned icy cold, as if devoid of any emotion, like a high and mighty God coldly looking down upon all living beings.

He was aloof and arrogant, and wherever his eyes swept, everything around him, and even the entire world around him, would automatically appear in his eyes.

Standing next to Chu Tai, Sun Wukong was startled. He noticed that after Chu Tai condensed the [Sun Wukong (Heart Monkey Golden Duke)], his aura became somewhat terrifying, and the pressure in his gaze also appeared out of nowhere.

Under Chu Tai's watchful eye, Sun Wukong inexplicably felt as if he had been seen through.

A sudden surge of anger arose in Chu Tai's heart. As Sun Wukong's aura changed, layers of precious light appeared in Chu Tai's eyes. He kept observing Sun Wukong's subsequent changes, but slowly, a faint bell rang in Chu Tai's heart.

He lowered his head, his gaze piercing through layers of earth veins, passing through the netherworld, seeing through the underworld, and reaching the endless spiritual energy in the deepest part of reincarnation, where he saw the true form playing with the Eastern Emperor Bell.

“It’s time to wake up!”

The voice of the true self startled Chu Tai. The emotions of the human Taiyi began to recover, while the transformation of the heavenly Taiyi stalled. When he looked around again, the sense of clarity was gone, and what he saw was an extremely beautiful world.

This kind of beauty is not simply a beauty constructed from appearance and color, but a harmonious beauty that originates from the underlying order and the principles and laws governing the universe.

In Chu Tai's eyes, every mountain, river, stone, tree, flower, and blade of grass around him was filled with endless mysteries and was a vessel for the Taiyi of humanity.

They are growing, they are changing, and they are also products of the countless exquisite primordial energies created by the universe.

Even the most ordinary blade of grass contains countless principles and laws that are hard for ordinary people to imagine.

These principles are layered and overlapping within the grass, influencing and interfering with each other, ultimately forming a unique structure of internal harmony and external stability, although this structure contains a great deal of unnecessary...

Chu Tai reached out and gently stroked a blade of grass. This green grass, growing beside the Five Elements Mountain, had its internal laws and principles eroded by the power of the Five Elements Mountain and Sun Wukong.

Previously, it was affected by his aura and was in a state of chaos, but many of the Dao principles and laws and the laws of the circulation of Yuan Qi that Chu Tai originally thought were bloated and superfluous began to play a role, buffering and resisting layer by layer, so that the internal operation would not collapse.

"That's truly amazing."

Chu Tai sighed softly, and Sun Wukong asked, "Your Majesty, are you alright?"

"I'm doing pretty well right now," Chu Tai replied, then apologized for his earlier offense.

"I apologize. I previously gained some insights by using the power of the Dao Fruits [Sun Wukong] and [Heart Monkey Golden Master]. My spirit resonated with all things and spirits, and I saw many things that I hadn't paid much attention to before. This caused the Dao Fruits to transform, which had a negative impact on you. I am truly sorry."

After probing him a couple of times and confirming that he was in good condition, Sun Wukong became curious about what Chu Tai had actually comprehended.

Chu Tai picked up the grass he had been carrying and looked at Sun Wukong, saying, "Fellow Daoist, why don't you take a look at this grass?"

As Sun Wukong looked, he saw a wealth of information about the grass's past, present, and future, and he could clearly see the circulation of its internal energy and the changes in its energy during its growth.

But he didn't see anything wrong with it; it was just a simple thing, created from primordial energy.

Chu Tai noticed Sun Wukong's confusion and laughed, "We usually live in this world created by primordial energy. Although we have some understanding of the things that make up this world, we have never deeply felt their essence. For example, this little grass..."

The wondrous Qi of Taiyi Qingtong, belonging to Chu Tai himself at this moment, emerged. This was a derivative of Chu Tai's fundamental Dao Qi, and also a wondrous Qi blessed by the status of this heaven and earth.

Based on its rank, it was roughly around the third rank. Although it could attract Sun Wukong's attention, it wasn't particularly remarkable.

But when Chu Tai placed it on the grass, Sun Wukong's eyes widened: "This is..."

Numerous fine lines appeared on the grass, representing the principles and laws governing its internal operation. These lines were also a collection of countless data accumulated by the grass through generations of growth and evolution. Countless pieces of information from the past were recorded by each generation of grass, becoming an integral part of its core structure.

At this moment, the auras of the Five Elements Mountain, Sun Wukong, and Chu Tai were also recorded within it. If this grass continues to multiply, this information will also become part of its internal structure and be passed down from generation to generation.

In this process, some information may be mixed with others, some may be gradually covered up, and some may gradually disappear. But it is undeniable that the grass transmits countless pieces of information in this way, allowing the finite individuals to have a slight tendency to spread towards infinite possibilities.

When Chu Tai's Taiyi Qing Tong Miao Qi merged into it, the information inside the green grass began to transform.

As a multitude of information began to converge, its desire to grow intensified. Under the nurturing of the wondrous Qi of the Taiyi Qingtong, it began to transform in a positive direction, gradually developing a faint spirituality.

After spirituality emerges, past accumulations begin to converge, becoming the foundation for self-improvement. In this process, Chu Tai also guides the causes and conditions, helping to continuously improve oneself and strengthen spirituality.

Finally, a faint consciousness appeared in the grass. The Eastern Emperor Bell rang again, and the power of the Cloud Lord Dao Fruit system descended, continuously strengthening its spirituality and enhancing its consciousness. It even allowed a faint aura of immortality to emerge. A weak demon immortal, whose essence belonged to the demon realm but whose vital energy leaned towards the immortal realm, was born before Sun Wukong.

Sun Wukong looked at Chu Tai and asked, "Are you enlightening a demon immortal?"

"It's not just immortal demons; it can include spirit demons, monsters, and fairies."

Chu Tai opened his hands, and under the sound of the Eastern Emperor Bell, countless spiritual energies surged. Countless plants, trees, bamboos, and rocks in the world, countless remnants of memories in the world, and countless ruthless beings in the world all felt a faint, wondrous power.

'Since relying solely on my power and that of all sentient beings, we cannot quickly achieve the overlay of the Heavenly One by the Human One, nor can we achieve the unity of Heaven and humanity, then why can't I regard all things as part of the One? After all, everything that exists between Heaven and Earth inherently carries and records certain information…'

'As the earth's veins move, they continuously accumulate, recording certain past events on the land.'

The traces left by flowing water on the earth are themselves a form of information...

'When I gather all this information, the Celestial Unity will be perfected from another perspective, and the Human Unity will gain another angle for observation and exploration.'

'And the carriers of information in all things can themselves become part of the unified whole of humanity; they too embody information from the natural order, and perhaps even emotions?'

In the end, Chu Tai was somewhat uncertain, but he was willing to believe it and push for this possibility to come to pass.

This was his ambition: to elevate the Taiyi Dao Fruit to an even higher position.

'The spirituality of all sentient beings has already been returned to the Supreme One. If I were to seek enlightenment through this, the difficulty would be immense, and I would face numerous and extraordinary competitors. However, I can take a different path, choosing to become the vital energy that transforms all things into sentient beings. From a certain perspective, I am also the primordial source of spirituality. The Supreme One of Heaven encompasses and anchors all phenomena; the Supreme One of Earth bears and records all phenomena; the Supreme One of Man stands independently over all phenomena and recreates them…'

'From this point on, the many principles originally encompassed by the Way of Taiyi will be reorganized once again, and the unity of Heaven and Man will not need to be specifically re-unified, because Taiyi inherently contains the changes of Heaven, Earth, and Man, and is originally a complete whole, requiring no reorganization. Its current changes are merely an expansion from the finite to the infinite…'

As Chu Tai made up his mind, the Eastern Emperor Bell in his hand was immediately covered by three treasure wheels. These three treasure wheels were very interesting. The largest treasure wheel, corresponding to the heaven, contained the earth and man, but the earth and man transformed into each other and occasionally expanded the boundaries of the heaven.

Beyond the three treasure wheels, there is another phantom of a treasure wheel, which re-establishes the three into a unified whole.

As for the various Dao Fruits on the Eastern Emperor Bell, whether it is the Dao Fruit system of the Nine Songs Gods, the Dao Fruit system of the Three Buddhas, or the Dao Fruit systems of Yuanjun, Sun Wukong, Dao Soldiers, etc., they all become treasure rings of various sizes, serving as buffer zones between the three treasure wheels, driving the changes of the three treasure wheels, and also driving their own changes.

It's like an incredibly vast and exquisitely crafted mechanical creation in operation. The difference is that in this enormous mechanical creation, none of the components are indispensable. Any ring or precious ring has the potential to replace other rings, precious rings, or even precious wheels.

Seeing this, the Heavenly Emperor, who manifested the Dao and transformed into the Great Heaven, smiled and said, "Congratulations, your First-Rank True Dao has been revealed. The next step is to perfect yourself. Is there anything you wish to do?"

Chu Tai toyed with the Eastern Emperor Bell, which he had further refined, and looked at the many worlds of the Three Pure Realms, laughing, "Of course, we'll make a big scene!"

As he spoke, the sound of the Eastern Emperor Bell echoed throughout the many realms of the Three Pure Ones, activating the information and emotions of countless heartless beings, whose spirituality gradually grew and manifested as numerous demons and monsters.

Of course, there are also many more who originally had no innate spiritual light, but were purely illusory shadows interwoven with generations of memories and spiritual energy, and have gained a bit more vitality, with the possibility of going further.

These beings are further subdivided into attributes such as immortals, demons, spirits, monsters, monsters, spirits, ghosts, and humans.

Furthermore, with their appearance, many of the operating principles of the Three Pure Ones' world were disrupted, and many concepts were torn apart.

The life and spirit of the Creator Mother, the spirituality and order of the Heavenly Emperor, the immortal path and pure energy of the Three Pure Ones, the Buddhist path of the Tathagata Buddha, and the mind of the Bodhi Patriarch—they mostly let these parts go unchecked. However, the fate of the Acquired Destiny Master was directly taken away by Chu Tai, and the demonic path of the Heavenly Demon was also torn apart in a small way.

These torn forces converged on Chu Tai, and based on the Taiyi Dao Fruit, they gradually reformed.

Instantly, countless streams of light and color spread outwards, and countless beings that received its blessings worshipped in its direction.

"Honoring the Supreme Sage of the Eastern Emperor, the Lord of All Demons of the Taiyi Spirit Sect!"

(End of this chapter)