Donghuang Ziji

Chapter 935 The Hidden Secrets of Heaven Revealed

The heavens stared down at the Heavenly Emperor, or rather, the Taiyi Zhenjun, during the Journey to the West period. An even more terrifying heavenly pressure poured down like a waterfall. The supreme and irresistible power pressed down on the Taiyi Zhenjun, and all concepts around him were corrupted by the heavens.

This is the Dao fruit of Heaven, the simple [Heaven], pure and singular, without any change.

But this very purity can cause an inward collapse, causing all Dao fruits related to or connected with Heaven to be corrupted and assimilated by the Heavenly Dao fruits when facing Heaven.

To this day, only the Heavenly Emperor, who manifests the Dao and transforms the Great Heaven, can stop this kind of invasion and assimilation.

In fact, even at the beginning, the Heavenly Emperor could not stop it. He was affected to some extent, which forced him to divert some of his power to create three post-saint emperors by using the Three Pure Heavens Immortal Realm constructed by the immortal destiny. On the one hand, this was to dilute the influence on himself, and on the other hand, it was to use the power of the Three Pure Heavens to restrain the heavens in reverse.

Therefore, the Heavenly Emperor was so indifferent when facing the Three Pure Ones. In his eyes, the Three Pure Ones, without the Heavenly Emperor's assistance, were no match for him.
Unless some overlapping concepts within the Great Luo Heaven secretly intervene to strengthen the concept of the Three Pure Ones Immortal Path, he would not need to be wary.

Similarly, when facing Taiyi Zhenjun, who became the Heavenly Emperor during the Journey to the West period, Heaven's approach was simple: it directly used pure Heaven to assimilate the Heaven-related parts of Taiyi Zhenjun's Dao Fruit, and then suppressed him in one fell swoop.

Facing the sky, it exudes an aura of boundless vastness and lofty superiority.

Taiyi Zhenjun simply smiled. His aura became ethereal, constantly resonating with the surrounding heaven and earth, and also became unfathomable and eternally supreme.

Under these two supreme auras that embody the Dao of Heaven, the power of the Heavenly Fate Master gradually emerges, becoming the core of the confrontation between the two sides.

The phantoms of gods, immortals, and Buddhas previously depicted by the Three Pure Ones, Bodhi Patriarch, and Tathagata Buddha have become pawns in the game between the two sides.

In fact, Taiyi Zhenjun alone could not defy Heaven, but his Dao Fruit was too special. The core concepts were Qiankun and Wanxiang. The former contained the concepts of Heaven and Earth, Country, Country and Mountains, as well as some of the concepts of Civilization and Yin and Yang. The latter was all things and phenomena inside and outside the universe.

The combined [Universe of Heaven and Earth] may seem to define a certain range, but it also enhances its control.

This allowed Taiyi Zhenjun to better integrate his own power, encompassing the power of the Three Pure Ones, the Buddha, and the Bodhi Patriarch under his own power, and even incorporating some of the power of the Heavenly Emperor who manifested the Dao into himself, thus gaining the power to contend with the heavens.

Of course, Taiyi Zhenjun also knew that even with such combined advantages, his chances of defeating him were not high, so he did not mind using some underhanded tactics.

"Since you are unwilling to answer my question, then I will address you as Imperial Brother, based on the time when we ascended to the throne of the Heavenly Emperor..."

Before Taiyi Zhenjun could finish speaking, the oppressive force of the heavens descended once more, this time accompanied by a sky full of thunder.

Instead of retreating, Zhenjun stepped forward, and the earth beneath his feet manifested as a square, while the clear air above surged and appeared as a circle.

Under the shape of a round heaven and a square earth, all things in the universe are stable, and no matter how powerful the heavens are, they cannot enter this round heaven and square earth.

"Heaven is round and earth is square, the principle of Qian and Kun? No, you also have the meaning of using squareness to represent the earth and roundness to represent the heaven, implying the way of humanity. It means that one should take [squareness] as the foundation of one's character and [roundness] as the way of dealing with the world. Therefore, squareness is below roundness, and roundness is above squareness. The two blend together, which is the embodiment of the three powers of heaven, earth and humanity, and also a manifestation of the state of unity between heaven and humanity..."

Tian's tone was slightly praising, but the next second he sneered, "But if we remove the Heavenly Emperor of this Great Heaven, who else would dare to substitute their own heart for the Heavenly Heart?"

As the vast will descended, the perfectly round circle shattered instantly, but Taiyi Zhenjun was not injured. Only the earth beneath his feet trembled, and the universe underwent changes. But the next second, three streams of pure energy filled the gap and repaired the sky. At the same time, the Buddha Tathagata stood on the earth, manifesting Mount Sumeru to stabilize the foundation of the earth. Bodhi Patriarch wandered through the illusion, inspiring people and stabilizing the three realms, firmly blocking the might of heaven.

Even though the heavens were temporarily trapped, it was during this brief siege that Chu Tai raised the Eastern Emperor Bell high, placing it before the Heavenly Emperor of the Immortal Manifestation Dao Transformation.

The Heavenly Emperor spread his five fingers and slammed them together, and the vast and ancient sound of the bell echoed throughout the ten directions of heaven and earth, shaking the universe.

Centered on the Eastern Emperor Bell, folds appeared in the void and the light of the universe, and then ripples spread out in all directions. Each of these ripples was perfectly regular, containing the will of the Heavenly Emperor and carrying the aura of his Dao Fruit.

The phantoms of gods, immortals, and Buddhas gradually emerged from the ripples, spreading outwards from the Eastern Emperor Bell to the many realms of the Three Pure Ones, suppressing countless turbid energies, suppressing numerous demonic thoughts, and shaking the will of Heaven.

Taiyi Zhenjun stepped forward to further control Tian's actions. Tianmo, who had just recovered some power from the previous stagnation, had no time to activate the [Transformation] and was once again trapped in amber, unable to move. He could only let the power of the Heavenly Emperor transform him into the foundation of layers of illusory worlds.

Furthermore, this time, all the backup plans and powers he had left in various worlds were also frozen, sealed, and suppressed.

Whether it's the black silt with its twisted vegetation, the foul-smelling river, or the abyss of nightmares filled with despair, anguish, and suffocation, all of it is frozen, sealed, and reassembled beneath the ripples.

However, the Heavenly Demon's [Transformation] Dao Fruit remained firm under these circumstances, unwilling to be bound.

"Don't...don't...think..."

Hearing the two words squeezed out by the Heavenly Demon through his teeth, Chu Tai could feel that under the power of the Eastern Emperor Bell, there were new changes in the silt, rivers, and nightmares.

A large amount of flowing turbid air condensed into clusters of embryonic eggs that resembled pustules. These eggs wriggled and squeezed against each other, eventually transforming into human-faced worms that emerged from their cocoons. These worms possessed a slight spirituality and will, which connected with the Dao of Taiyi and even with the part of the Heavenly Demon essence that Chu Tai had digested.

"Don't pay attention to those creatures; we can save them later..."

Before the Heavenly Emperor could finish speaking, Chu Tai flicked his finger, and the Eastern Emperor Bell shook gently, creating ripples that revealed numerous phantom images of wild beasts and spirits—the manifestation of the three Great Dao Fruit systems of Demon Immortals, Demons, and Demon Saints.

Chu Tai's voice drifted over: "Will Your Majesty abandon those illusory memories that lack innate spiritual light?"

The Heavenly Emperor instantly understood Chu Tai's meaning and remained silent for a moment. Chu Tai continued, "I am different from you. My Dao Fruit has just taken another step forward. Whether from my own heart or to make my Dao Fruit more stable, I cannot allow those souls to dissipate again."

"I suppose you've noticed it too. This human-faced worm that the Heavenly Demon has split off from is essentially a product of fallen beings from the past. We really have no choice in the matter."

As he spoke, the phantom images of wild beasts and spirits surrounding the Eastern Emperor Bell, following the connection, separated a few rays of spiritual light and merged into the bodies of those worms, stimulating them to transform again, from originally corrupted, twisted creatures with little consciousness, into the legendary spirits and monsters.

It was precisely these changes that stimulated the power left behind by the Heavenly Demons, causing them to continuously mutate.

Thus, Chu Tai's power began to twist and spiral with the power dispersed by the Heavenly Demon, causing the worms to mutate continuously, giving rise to a new and more complete order in countless worlds that had been completely mutated by the Heavenly Demon.

Even though the main controller of this order is the power of the Heavenly Demon, which contains a lot of sin, darkness, evil, chaos and destruction, it is still better than the original world that has been completely alienated into a world without order, only chaos, depravity and distortion.

Furthermore, the continuous transformation of these beings also drives the improvement of the Dao Fruit system of the three major demon races of Chu Tai: demon immortals, demons, and demon saints.

In some mysterious way, it was also perfecting the title of Lord of Ten Thousand Demons that Chu Tai had just acquired.

Furthermore, the demon immortals, demon saints, monsters, demon spirits, demons, and demons born in the normal world can also reflect each other well with those distorted beings, further expanding the foundation of the three Dao Fruit systems and gradually strengthening their power from the basics.

At the same time, along with countless twisted sins and terrifying negative emotions, as well as many corrupt and evil forces beginning to shift in the right direction, the Great Fate Dao Fruit system on the Eastern Emperor Bell also showed a faint glow, sending out a few rays of azure light into those fallen worlds.

At the same time, in Taiqing Heaven and Yuqing Heaven, a point of light appeared, one holding a green light lamp, and the other sitting on a nine-headed green lion, holding a green feather branch and a glass bottle. One illuminated the ten directions, and the other saved and liberated.

The brilliance of the two is not particularly strong, but the demons and monsters influenced by Chu Tai's power will help the two's power. Some of them even obtained fragments of the Dao Fruit of the Great Fate System under the guidance and redemption of the two, and gained more power to fight against the Heavenly Demon.

With their arrival, countless distorted worlds filled with filth and turbidity gradually coalesced into one after another, completely black, with lotus patterns on the surface and flowing flames, forming iron chains that sealed off the void, creating the formation of iron chains surrounding the mountains.

The majestic mountains suppressed the turbidity of the region, either trapping countless uncontrollable demons and monsters beneath the mountains or imprisoning them within their bodies. As they gradually merged into the dark rocks, they were constantly burned by flames, and lotus flowers rose above them.

The lotus patterns gradually emitted a faint light, slowly coalescing into lotus buds. The petals bloomed, forming a lotus platform, upon which the rescued beings sat, protecting the mountain, chanting scriptures, and accelerating the conversion of other demons and monsters.

Some of the rescued beings, clad in armor, prayed to Chu Tai, received fragments of Daoist soldiers and warriors' Dao fruits, cultivated the paths of demon immortals and demon saints, manifested supernatural powers, went out to fight demons and monsters, suppressed them in the mountains, bound them to the mountain bodies, and repeated their past lives.

In this way, wisps of destiny and willpower continuously gathered around Chu Tai, strengthening his status as the Lord of Ten Thousand Demons and the Grandmaster of Ten Thousand Spirits, making this title, which was originally just a praise from all living beings, show signs of solidifying into a substantial position.

In an instant, the world was transformed. The Black Iron Yin Mountains rose up in succession, and iron chains, flames, and lotuses appeared in various places. The world gradually shifted from the direction of alienation back to the direction of normalcy. The power of Shangqing Heaven was also able to be divided more, in order to cooperate with Taiyi Zhenjun to resist the pressure of heaven.

"This Heavenly Demon is truly patient." The Eastern Emperor Bell in Chu Tai's palm kept spinning, and the power of many Dao Fruit fragments was constantly being released. Then, the power of will and magic power fed back, maintaining the normal operation of these Dao Fruit fragments. Together with Chu Tai's Taiyi Dao, they fought against the divided Heavenly Demon.

Chu Tai could sense that the Heavenly Demon himself, under the [Separation] Dao Fruit, had completely split into countless fragments, each of which was real and true, but none of them were complete.

One of them needs to escape, and the rest can use [Chaos] and [Change] to exchange most of their power.

Therefore, while saving those worlds, he was also constantly probing the whereabouts of the Heavenly Demon's power.

"Wait a little longer. The Heavenly Demon is cunning. He suffered a great loss this time, so he will not expose himself as easily as before. Moreover, he should be waiting for the Heavenly Demon's reaction."

As the Heavenly Emperor spoke, he looked at the Heaven that was entangled with Taiyi Zhenjun. At this moment, the Heaven seemed to be suppressed by Taiyi Zhenjun, but in reality, the Heaven had given up resisting and allowed Taiyi Zhenjun to build up the formation. However, no matter how Taiyi Zhenjun's power changed, it could not suppress the Heaven's connection with the other Heavens.

Seeing this, the Heavenly Emperor explained to Chu Tai: "The essence of this guy Tian is very strange. At first glance, he seems to be a manifestation of Tian, ​​which is why his [Tian] Dao Fruit is so condensed and pure. But after many years of struggle, I have roughly understood the essence of this guy. He is not a manifestation of Tian, ​​but rather it is as if Tian is a manifestation of him. I suspect that he is the incarnation of a certain innate true saint."

"Over the years, in my struggle with him, he has been exploring how to separate himself from the concept of Heaven, or to open a gap between the concepts of Heaven and Heaven. I suspected from the beginning that his cooperation with the Heavenly Demon was so tacit, allowing the Heavenly Demon to use its own power to transform countless projections in the world into all kinds of strange creatures, just in order to divide himself."

"Clearly, the Heavenly Demon has failed."

Chu Tai pointed out the key point, and then said: "So when Tian saw my abilities, he betrayed Tianmo and took action against Tianmo. But he also wouldn't watch Tianmo be completely suppressed, because he alone shouldn't be able to contend with Your Majesty and the other fellow Daoists?"

When he mentioned fellow Daoist, Chu Tai hesitated for a moment, after all, according to what Tian had said before, the Heavenly Emperor during the Journey to the West period was the Taiyi Patriarch.

Seemingly noticing Chu Tai's unease, the Heavenly Emperor explained again: "He cannot be considered a complete Taiyi True Lord. You can only see the true Taiyi True Lord after that world comes to an end."

Is it because of your power?

Chu Tai asked a question and received an affirmative answer. Just as he was about to ask again, Tian made his move.

Many of the Heavens who had fallen into the mortal realm were once again entangled with the power of the Heavenly Demons. Even with the obstruction of Taiyi Zhenjun, the purity of the Heavens rendered him, the Three Pure Ones, the Buddha Tathagata, and the Bodhi Patriarch powerless to stop them.

Chu Tai and the Heavenly Emperor also knew that the next wave of counterattacks was the final one.

(End of this chapter)