Donghuang Ziji

Chapter 934 The Heavenly Emperor is Taiyi

"good chance!"

The Heavenly Demon's form changed, and the power of the [Transformation] Dao Fruit manifested.

The tearing apart of the essence of the Dao Fruit signifies a change in power, and this change in power naturally leads to a change in the rhythm of suppression in the surrounding area.

The control originally brought about by the unexpected intervention of Heaven, as well as the blockade brought about by the Heavenly Emperor who manifested the Dao, the Heavenly Emperor of the Journey to the West period, the Three Pure Ones, the Buddha, and the Bodhi Patriarch, have created gaps.

Such gaps are almost non-existent below the first-grade realm, and for those at the first-grade realm, the cooperation between them is seamless.

No matter how flawless it may seem, there will always be a tiny, fleeting crack.

And this one ten-thousandth of a second is the moment when the Heavenly Demon's [Transformation] Dao Fruit is targeted.

The incredible change allowed it to break free from the constraints of the crowd, and even to some extent from the constraints of the Three Pure Ones Heaven, and escape outwards.

"You want to leave now? Isn't it too late!"

Chu Tai, carrying the Eastern Emperor Bell, chased after them, each step treading upon the wrath of the Heavenly Demon.

The Dao of Taiyi revolves around the Eastern Emperor Bell, evolving into many principles such as existence and non-existence, yin and yang, life and death, movement and stillness, change and constancy, beginning and end.

These various forces also emerged on the Eastern Emperor Bell. Although each one was not particularly profound, they were indeed all-encompassing.

Then, by using the divine power of the Eastern Emperor Bell, he anchored himself before the starting point and before the finish line, always one step ahead of the Heavenly Demon, attempting to appear before the Heavenly Demon's landing point and starting point.

Of course, this method is also a kind of change. The Heavenly Demon cannot shake the changes of the Eastern Emperor Bell, but it can change itself by taking advantage of Chu Tai's changes.

The void coordinates where they landed began to change, and the departure timeline changed. The Heavenly Demon was always able to change his starting point and landing point before Chu Tai appeared.

The Dao fruits of the two are like a spear and a shield, constantly colliding and creating countless branches, choices, conflicts, and changes. Then, before each branch, choice, conflict, or change, they decisively cut off a branch, make a choice, eliminate a conflict, and extinguish a change, and then twist and intertwine with each other.

The demon was getting increasingly anxious, while Chu Tai was becoming increasingly composed.

In a normal confrontation, the Heavenly Demon would have stopped long ago and given Chu Tai a good beating, but now that the Heavenly Demon has stopped, he is very likely to be suppressed.

However, the Heavenly Demon's [changes], [separations], and [chaos] are equally terrifying. Even though some of the essence of the Dao Fruit was torn apart, he still managed to twist the cosmic light and the void into a twisted rope through repeated changes, forming a cycle without beginning or end.

These changes naturally attracted the attention of the Heavenly Emperor of the Immortal Manifestation and Transformation, the Heavenly Emperor of the Journey to the West period, the Three Pure Ones, the Buddha Tathagata, and the Bodhi Patriarch.

The Bodhi Patriarch, whose cultivation level was the lowest, wanted to step forward to help, but was pulled back by the Tathagata Buddha.

The Heavenly Emperor, who had manifested the Dao, looked at the Heavenly Emperor from the Journey to the West timeline and asked, "Fellow Daoist, what do you think? Perhaps we could go in and take a look?"

"It's possible, but the cosmic light and the void have been distorted beyond recognition by their combined power. Even if I wanted to enter, it would take some time. And given the current level of distortion, our brief moments are equivalent to hundreds, even thousands of years for Chu Tai. His cultivation time is too short; he might not be able to hold out until then. The best way is still to enter from the outside..."

"No."

Suddenly, Tian spoke, and the expressions of the Three Pure Ones, the Buddha, and the Bodhi Patriarch changed slightly. They all stood in front of Tian.

Three streams of pure energy manifested, intertwining and dispersing. Countless pavilions, towers, golden palaces, jade palaces, immortals and celestial maidens, and rare and exotic beasts appeared one after another. Numerous immortal principles intertwined to create immortal light that permeated all directions, and countless runes floated and sank within the immortal light.

One by one, the deepest, most wondrous, and highest principles of the immortal path manifested, constructing a small universe in an attempt to trap the heavens.

"The Three Pure Ones? You think you can trap me without his help? If we're talking about restraint, you're the ones I restrain the most."

Tian chuckled lightly, glanced at the Heavenly Emperor of the Immortal Manifestation Dao Transformation, and with a sweep of his gaze, countless immortal lights vanished, countless runes shattered, and he easily forced the three streams of pure energy back.

In the next instant, countless rays of Buddha light descended, revealing countless supreme clouds of light, including the Great Perfection, Great Compassion, Great Wisdom, Great Prajna, and Great Samadhi, which permeated the surrounding void and transformed it into a magnificent Buddhist Pure Land of ultimate enlightenment.

"Buddha? You're just like the Three Pure Ones. Without his help, what can you use to fight me?"

The heavens glanced at the Buddha sitting serenely in the center of the Pure Land, chuckled softly, and then saw that within the boundless, dazzling, pure-colored clouds of light, cracks appeared, each containing an illusory shadow.

These shadows initially appeared as mere illusions, but soon countless Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, Arhats, Vajras, and Vidyarajas from different heavens, times, and Pure Lands gathered and merged into the shadows, transforming into Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, Arhats, Vajras, and Vidyarajas with perfect Dharma light flowing between their brows and Prajna light rising from behind their heads, sitting upright on clouds of light, bestowing blessings upon the Tathagata Buddha.

A phantom Mount Sumeru emerged from the void, filling the heavens and earth, covering the universe, and attempting to block the sky.

"Interesting. Since the sky can't contain me, you think you can use Mount Sumeru to support me? If you were in your prime, with the unity of all Buddhas, mutual blessing and the accumulation of power and methods, you might have a sliver of hope. But now, forget it."

As the heavens moved forward, the golden body of the Buddha shattered, countless clouds of light dimmed, and the golden bodies of Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, Arhats, Vajras, and Vidyarajas also turned to dust.

But amidst the countless golden dusts, a Bodhi tree grows, blocking the way to the sky.

"Bodhi mind? You still have a part of your true nature in my hands, yet you dare to contend with me?"

Before Tian could finish speaking, three streams of pure energy appeared again, surrounding him. The three streams of pure energy intertwined, giving rise to 129,600 kinds of primordial energy, which entangled with each other and together supported the ancient Heavenly Court of the Thirty-Three Heavens.

The voice of the Three Pure Ones slowly came: "We are indeed restrained by you, but over the years, through countless time and space, we have also discovered some of your characteristics. You are the embodiment of Heaven, Heaven is you, but you also have a very high imperial status, which is why you can easily seize the positions of many Heavenly Emperors. But because of this, you are very susceptible to the influence of the Heavenly Court. We may not be able to hold you back, but we can keep you in the Heavenly Court."

Within the Heavenly Court, countless primordial energies intertwined. The Buddha stepped forward once more, his boundless cloud of light merging into the Heavenly Court, cooperating with the primordial energies to give birth to countless gods and demons, who simultaneously paid homage to the heavens. Bodhi Patriarch, hidden within, mobilized his mind, constructed order, and temporarily bound them to the center of the Heavenly Court.

"You are seeking death!"

The heavens spat out a sentence through gritted teeth, unleashing a terrifying pressure upon them. The many palaces of the Heavenly Court began to collapse, but in the process, new realms of heaven and earth were created, constantly evolving and changing, gradually diluting and disintegrating the heavens' power. Then, the phantoms of the gods paid homage, anchoring themselves within these smaller realms.

"Ha ha ha ha……"

Tian suddenly burst into laughter, looking around almost maniacally: "Do you think you can trap me like this?"

The concepts of different heavens began to overlap, and the power of heaven began to expand wildly through those smaller heavens and earths, while also encroaching on the concept of the Three Pure Heavens.

The Heavenly Emperor from the Journey to the West timeline looked at the Heavenly Emperor of the Immortal Manifestation Realm beside him and said, "Fellow Daoist, aren't you going to help?"

The Heavenly Emperor, Xianxian Daohua, shook his head and looked at the distorted spacetime between Chu Tai and the Heavenly Demon, saying, "The Heavenly Demon has already sensed the changes in the heavens. If I leave now, Chu Tai will surely be suppressed by him. You alone may not be able to stop the Heavenly Demon. Go and help the others."

"Have you found a way in?"

The Heavenly Emperor during the Journey to the West period asked a question, and the Heavenly Emperor of the Immortal Manifestation shook his head and said, "I don't need to search. I have always been able to keep up with Chu Tai's actions. Now I just need an opportunity."

Upon hearing this, the Heavenly Emperor of the Journey to the West period glanced back at the gradually collapsing Three Pure Ones Heaven, nodded, and walked towards the Three Pure Ones Heaven.

The Celestial Emperor, who was entangled with Chu Tai, raised his hand, causing the Heavenly Demon to feel a sudden unease.

His previously relaxed state of mind tensed up again. He stared at Chu Tai and continued to mock him: "You're just a tiny creature relying on the power of an innate spiritual treasure, yet you dare to confront me head-on. How long have you been cultivating? How long can you hold out?"

"Is it just because of the power of an innate spiritual treasure?"

Chu Tai had a very good attitude and mocked without hesitation: "I was clearly relying on the Eastern Emperor Bell and the Emperor's prestige outside. Speaking of which, some people are pitiful! They didn't have many friends to begin with, and when they finally had one, he stabbed them in the back and even tore off a small part of their Dao Fruit."

"Oh, by the way, you probably don't know why I've been able to hold on for so long."

The Eastern Emperor Bell swayed gently, and a fragment of a Dao Fruit appeared on it. As the two continued to twist, the fragment gradually broke apart and was absorbed and assimilated by the other Dao Fruits around it.

"It was your Dao Fruit that helped me a lot. This power of [Transformation], [Separation], and [Chaos] is truly amazing, and it has greatly promoted my Dao Fruit."

As Chu Tai's voice faded, the second-grade Dao Fruit [Si Shi (Si Ming)] under the Xiang Jun Xiang Fu Ren system shone brightly, even showing some signs of further advancement and upward transformation.

Although the Heavenly Demon wanted to stabilize his emotions, seeing Chu Tai's progress now was even more painful for him than when his own Dao Fruit had just been torn apart.

He understood that this was the effect of separation on himself after the Dao Fruit had a flaw. Although this action was an improvement for him, allowing him to continuously obtain new power from the emotions and power in separation, and then blur it with chaos and integrate it with change.

But the anger was also real; the Heavenly Demon roared, and the distorted time and space immediately shattered.

The surrounding void and cosmic light were divided into segments, with one segment of void and one segment of cosmic light jumping around.

The countless fragments of cosmic light and void separate from each other, recombine under chaos, and twist in change.

Interfering with each other and exerting their forces simultaneously, they pulled Chu Tai and the Heavenly Demon into an even more distorted and fragmented cosmic transformation.

At this moment, Chu Tai, apart from the hand holding the Eastern Emperor Bell, also began to collapse, breaking into countless fragments. Various Taiyi Daos changed continuously in the fragments of the void and time.

His reasoning and the reasoning of the Heavenly Demon were extinguished in fragments, and fragments were extinguished one after another.

The two began to intertwine wildly, but Chu Tai's hand holding the Eastern Emperor Bell remained steady, with only the bell's soft sound echoing around.

Each toll of the bell allows some of the shattered Taiyi Dao to be reassembled, and then absorbs some of the Dao Fruit information of the Heavenly Demons.

During this period, although the Heavenly Demon also absorbed part of the Taiyi Dao, his anger and emotions became increasingly apparent.

[Chaos] The Dao Fruit manifested further, the concept of cosmic light became blurred, the concept of void became blurred, the concept of existence became blurred, the boundaries began to disappear, and countless broken fragments gathered together again. Endless silt emerged around the Heavenly Demon and began to assimilate the Dao of Taiyi.

Just when the concept of the Heavenly Demon was at its most chaotic, a faint trace of willpower suddenly appeared on Chu Tai's body and violently struck the Eastern Emperor Bell.

An ancient bell rang out; it was not a power that Chu Tai could unleash, but a full-force attack from a cultivator who was infinitely close to the innate state.

The numerous Dao Fruits surrounding the Eastern Emperor Bell manifested their power, completely suppressing all concepts of void, cosmic light, existence and non-existence, yin and yang, etc. Even the Heavenly Demon's [Transformation] Dao Fruit was stagnant, and the [Separation] Dao Fruit could not operate, leaving him in a state of [chaos] for the time being.

A portal appeared above the Eastern Emperor Bell, and the Heavenly Emperor, who manifested the Dao and transformed the Great Heaven, stepped out from it. He pressed down with his backhand, and an endless ocean of spiritual energy surged, with layer upon layer of illusory heaven and earth appearing.

But these are all illusions. In reality, it is pure power, pure primordial energy, a terrifying pressure that is completely integrated without any gaps, directly suppressing the Heavenly Demon on the spot.

The moment these heavens and earths came into contact with the chaos, just as Chu Tai had previously reshaped all things, they sorted and reorganized these chaotic sludges, transforming them into layers of real heavens and earths, attempting to further differentiate the Dao fruit of the Heavenly Demon.

On the other side, after the Heavenly Emperor of the Journey to the West era left, with each step he took, a nearly perfect treasure wheel would appear behind him, with countless laws and principles intertwined within it, endless runes generated, stabilizing the Three Pure Ones Heaven, condensing the phantoms of the gods, and working with the Buddha and Bodhi Patriarch to suppress the pressure of the heavens.

Facing the Heavenly Emperor from the Journey to the West era, Tian Yuan was far more cautious than when facing the Buddha, the Three Pure Ones, and the Bodhi Patriarch. He silently accumulated power while observing the battle between Chu Tai and the Heavenly Demon. When the Heavenly Demon showed a serious flaw, he couldn't help but step forward.

After all, he only wanted the Heavenly Demon to help Chu Tai improve, and he did not want the Heavenly Demon to be completely destroyed for the time being. At least before Chu Tai fought him, and before he was sure of Chu Tai's abilities, the Heavenly Demon could not die.

However, the Heavenly Emperor during the Journey to the West period would obviously not let him do as he pleased. He stepped forward and looked at the Heavenly Dao: "Should I address you as Imperial Brother or Imperial Younger Brother? This road is temporarily blocked, please stay."

"Taiyi? Do you think that just because you obtained a portion of his true qi, you are qualified to call me brother?"

(End of this chapter)