Donghuang Ziji

Chapter 938 The Great One Myriad Phenomena Dao

"How long can you seal me away?"

Tian's tone turned icy, and countless lightning bolts and ice and snow appeared in the surrounding illusory sky, revealing his emotions.

However, his power can only operate in the heavens and cannot interfere with other phenomena.

The Heavenly Emperor held up the Eastern Emperor Bell, and layer upon layer of gates continuously manifested, standing around the heavens. The gates closed, corresponding to concepts such as [sealing], [severing], and [blocking], completely suppressing the voice of the heavens within them.

Chu Tai, inside the Eastern Emperor Bell, looked at [Gouchen (Dunyi)] and [Chengtian] with a hint of doubt.

Chu Tai was not surprised that the first-grade Dao Fruit of the River God system, 【Gouchen (Dunyi)】, was not yet perfect. However, the Dao Fruit of 【Chengtian】 was obviously already very perfect. In addition, the offering of Heaven to it this time far exceeded the requirements of the normal ritual.

Chu Tai could also sense the immense power contained within, which surpassed that of a normal second-grade Dao Fruit, and even fell short of the [Sinful] Dao Fruit that the Heavenly Emperor had previously given him.

But Chu Tai did not feel a qualitative change, just as the Dao Fruit of [Cheng Tian] was still not perfect.

'The power within...'

After careful consideration, Chu Tai discovered the problem.

'The concepts and power of the sky, the firmament, and the void surpass those of the earth, civilization, and order. What appears now as a perfect Dao fruit is actually the result of the concept of the state barely supporting the heavens; the primary and secondary elements have been reversed.'

Understanding this, Chu Tai couldn't help but sigh, and activated the power of [Gouchen (Escape One)] to sever the unnecessary concept of Heaven within the [Chengtian] Dao Fruit.

Strands of spiritual light fell and were absorbed by the Eastern Emperor Dao Fruit system, causing the corresponding first-grade Dao Fruit to appear and disappear, named [Celestial God (Celestial Immortal)].

Among them, the [Celestial Immortal] also stimulates the [Divine Immortal] Dao Fruit, and the two promote each other.

From then on, Chu Tai initially mastered the following first-grade Dao fruits: [Gouchen (Dunyi)] from the River God system, [Immortal] from the Cloud Lord system, [Chengtian] from the Mountain Spirit system, and [Heavenly God (Heavenly Immortal)] from the Eastern Emperor system.

The most perfect one is Chengtian, which is close to perfection. It only requires a meticulous approach to balance the relationship between heaven and earth.

Next are [Gouchen] and [Dunyi]. Compared to [Chengtian], [Gouchen] is about 60% complete, less than 70%, while [Dunyi] is less than 60%.

Next is [Immortal], the earliest prototype of the first-grade Dao Fruit that Chu Tai mastered. Compared to [Heavenly Blessing], it is about 40% perfected and is still slowly improving.

The lowest level, [Celestial Gods (Celestial Immortals)], accounts for less than 10%, and they are all slowly improving by absorbing the concepts of Immortal Path and Divine Path.

At first glance, Chu Tai only possessed incomplete powers, but a first-grade Dao Fruit is still a first-grade Dao Fruit. The continuous condensation of these Dao Fruits was also constantly promoting the improvement of Chu Tai's power.

Most importantly, the formation of these Dao Fruits further propelled Chu Tai's mastery of the Eastern Emperor Bell.

At this moment, many traces of Chu Tai's past have appeared on the surface of the Eastern Emperor Bell.

When he finally gained complete control and stepped out of the Eastern Emperor Bell, the Heavenly Emperor looked at him with a slight smile in his eyes.

"It seems you've gained a lot."

"It's not small; I've gained some new insights into the first-grade realm."

The Buddha stepped forward and said with a smile, "Fellow Daoist, your body is surrounded by radiant light and auspicious energy, which means your cultivation has greatly improved. It shouldn't be long before you enter the First Grade True Realm."

"You flatter me, World Honored One. The First Grade Realm is extraordinary. Even the Victorious Fighting Buddha, who cultivated diligently for millions of years, did not achieve perfection. What merit or ability do I have to attain such a result?"

"That's not what you just said."

Chu Tai shook his head and said, "Although I have some potential, I am still quite far from truly crossing that threshold. I can only say that I have seen the threshold, like the frog that jumped out of the dry well and realized how vast the world is."

The Buddha smiled and said, "Since you know the vastness of heaven and earth and have a ladder to ascend to heaven, it is only a matter of time before you attain the highest rank."

After saying that, Buddha thought for a moment and added, "Although Wukong has natural talent and comprehension, he lacks external help and his environment is not good. He is not as good as you, fellow Daoist, who has a supreme treasure and follows the will of Heaven and the people. Otherwise, we would not be able to suppress Heaven and the Heavenly Demon today."

"After these two are suppressed, you should be able to relax a bit. I wonder..."

Chu Tai looked at Taiyi Zhenjun, who had stayed here like the Buddha, and heard him say, "If you want to see Taiyi Zhenjun who has not been affected by the many experiences of the Three Pure Ones, you will have to wait until the Journey to the West ends. I need to maintain the operation of many worlds and cannot be separated for the time being."

Upon hearing this, Chu Tai knew what he needed to do next.

He first returned to the cycle of reincarnation in the Three Pure Ones world with the Heavenly Emperor, continuing to transport and circulate countless spiritual energies between countless heavens and earths. Through this cycle, he pulled each heaven and earth back from the brink of depravity, distortion, and collapse, and saved each living being who had fallen under the power of the Heavenly Demon.

During this time, the Three Pure Ones and Bodhi Patriarch were busy with various tasks, and they didn't have a moment to rest.

After all, the Three Pure Ones Heaven is the core of the sealed heaven, while Patriarch Bodhi is the main force supervising the Heavenly Demons.

Secondly, they also had to try to reverse the distorted and unrecognizable Tian Siming back to its original form. This original form of Bodhi Patriarch had almost collapsed in terms of its Dao fruit, essence, and inherent spirituality after a long struggle.

According to Bodhi Patriarch himself, if he had a choice, he would want to destroy his past self, the Heavenly Master of Fate, and replace it with a new one.

Unfortunately, the Heavenly Fate is too special. Although it is not at the level of Heaven, the cost of destroying and rebuilding it is too high. Everyone can only sort it out slowly.

"In fact, the Heavenly Master's sorting out is also a way of saving those in heaven and earth."

Chu Tai casually rescued countless fragmented spirits and collections of memories from a nearly collapsed world. He looked at the Heavenly Emperor beside him, who was currently using spiritual energy to repair these tormented and pitiful beings.

The subtle spiritual energy transformed into a bright radiance that shone upon these distorted individuals.

Countless malicious and filthy evil spirits hidden beneath those broken bodies were gradually pulled out, and then those dark, evil, and filthy things, under the influence of spiritual energy, melted away as quickly as snow under the blazing sun.

A child slowly opened his eyes, looked at himself, and felt a warm glow all over his body, as relaxed as basking in the spring sun. His previously twisted and numb heart was healed, and the memories of pain and despair were covered by light. Although painful, it was not enough to break him. After a while, the child recovered and then burst into tears.

The Heavenly Emperor lowered his head, and a goddess with a faint morning glow flew out from behind him, holding the child in her arms and singing softly.

During this time, the Heavenly Emperor also answered Chu Tai's previous question.

"The process of Tian Si Ming being distorted is actually the process of countless heavens and earths falling and being distorted. He played a good buffer role for me in the past, but now he has naturally become the biggest obstacle to saving heaven and earth. The power of the inertia of fate makes it much more troublesome for us to save heaven and earth."

As he spoke, the goddess he created gently lulled the child to sleep, casting a thin mist over his memories.

Chu Tai immediately recognized that this technique was somewhat similar to the [Youyi Daoren (Yunzhongjun)] he possessed.

He presented his idea, and the Heavenly Emperor smiled and said, "This is the power I learned from the Eastern Emperor Bell. Although I have similar methods, I must say that your method is gentler and will not harm the hearts of these children."

"Your Majesty flatters me. You bury the light in your heart and veil the pain with mist. When your mind matures and you break through the mist to face the pain, the light will still guide you with hope. You protect the child's heart while giving him the opportunity to break free from his fate. It is Your Majesty's own ability to do this, not something my mere fragments of Dao Fruit can achieve."

The Heavenly Emperor laughed and said, "For someone of my level, all the changes in the world have been exhausted. The only things that can surprise us are the innate things."

As he spoke, the Heavenly Emperor looked at the sealed land and said, "The same applies to Heaven and the Heavenly Demon. Without your help, I would not have been able to seal them in the Three Pure Ones world as I am now."

"But they seem to be waiting for an opportunity to break free?"

Chu Tai countered with a question, and the Heavenly Emperor nodded, saying, "At our level of cultivation, there is basically no power that can erase us after birth, and even if we are innate, it is difficult to do so without compatibility."

"Furthermore, these two guys are manifesting based on my calamity, so as long as my problems are not over, they will be even harder to kill."

"What are Your Majesty's plans to do next?"

Chu Tai asked a question, and the Heavenly Emperor looked towards the Three Pure Heavens and said, "Just like the Heavenly Master of Fate, the Three Pure Heavens were the cage I used to isolate the two of them from the influence of the Pure and Blessed Great Heaven, and now they have also become my cage."

"Back then, those two guys turned the Pure and Blessed Great Heaven into a complete mess. Many deities who received my power were also affected, combining with each other and transforming into deities that were not suitable for the normal world, making the Pure and Blessed Great Heaven even more chaotic."

"This chaos has now become one of the sources of their two external forces. I need to slowly sort out the problems of the Three Pure Realms, and then, when many heavens and earths are coming to an end, send those normal spiritual beings and consciousnesses out of the Three Pure Realms to dilute and purify the errors and chaos in the Pure and Eternal Blessing Great Heaven, so that all the emperors can return to normal."

“Once the gods return to their rightful place, those two will be the rootless ones, making them much easier to deal with.”

Upon hearing this, Chu Tai revealed an expression of understanding.

"So, the reason why the Taiyi Patriarch has been constantly increasing the intensity of Sun Wukong's cultivation and adding tribulations to Sun Wukong in various worlds is that he hopes that Sun Wukong can improve his cultivation as soon as possible and enter the first rank, so that the operation of the Three Pure Realms will not be disrupted after he leaves?"

Chu Tai's words made the Heavenly Emperor shake his head: "I don't know what your ancestor was thinking either. The only thing I'm sure of is that he must have seen something in these years that I don't know either."

"You don't know either?"

Having sensed the power of the Heavenly Emperor, Chu Tai was very clear about how far this emperor had progressed on the path of the acquired world.

If there are 10,000 steps between the first-grade realm and the innate realm, then this emperor has taken at least 9,999 steps. It wouldn't be surprising if Chu Tai even crossed half of the threshold between the innate and acquired realms.

This can be seen from the fact that the power he differentiated was able to support the Three Pure Ones Heaven and many subsequent Sage Emperors.

The Three Pure Ones have countless worlds under heaven, which can be considered their training grounds, and things that even they do not know can happen there.

The Heavenly Emperor saw Chu Tai's confusion and explained, "Don't think too highly of me. If I were truly omniscient and omnipotent, I wouldn't have been suppressed by those two guys for so long."

"Your ancestor was ultimately a first-grade cultivator. What he didn't want me to know, I naturally wouldn't know."

"Then what does Your Majesty think my ancestor wants to do?"

Upon hearing this, the Heavenly Emperor sighed, "I can't say for sure, but I can tell you one thing: the time he came into contact with me is probably different from what you understand."

"What do you mean?"

"You might as well think about the time it took him to attain enlightenment, the two days it took for me to clash with him, and finally think about the time it took for my Pure and Eternal Blessing Great Heaven to fall into calamity."

The Heavenly Emperor looked at Taiyi Zhenjun in the Journey to the West world and said with some emotion, "He is a compassionate person and a person who is strict with himself. He has always believed that the collision between the two days was his sin and has always hoped to make amends."

"I suppose that's why he wants you to absorb some of his power and quickly achieve the first rank."

Upon hearing this, Chu Tai sighed, "But can simply absorbing it solve the problem? Even if I barely reach the first rank and can control the Eastern Emperor Bell, can I really suppress the Heavenly Demon and the Heavenly Emperor?"

"Speaking of which, the Heavenly Demon's abilities are so bizarre that I doubt how many people in our Eastern Celestial Empire are truly unaffected."

The Heavenly Emperor did not answer the subsequent questions; he only gave a strange reply to Chu Tai's earlier words.

"What if absorbing that power could truly bring your Dao fruit to near perfection, reaching a level close to that of a single Three Pure Ones Heaven?"

Upon hearing this, Chu Tai turned around abruptly and looked at the Heavenly Emperor. He had a guess in his mind, but he dared not think too much about it and could only laugh it off, saying, "To achieve that level, I'm afraid I would have to eat the Ancestor. How could I possibly do such a thing?"

"Actually, there's no need to eat it. When I took control of the Eastern Emperor Bell, you should have felt it too. The all-encompassing Dao Fruit and your Three Ones Taiyi Dao are actually very complementary. Taiyi gives any phenomenon the opportunity to form a new phenomenon, while any phenomenon also gives Taiyi more starting points and ending points..."

“I understand, but my path is Taiyi, and Sanyi is only a supplement. It is not the way of Taiyi and Sanyi, much less the way of Taiyi and myriad phenomena.”

"I'm just suggesting this possibility, hoping you'll pay attention to it. After all, it's a very feasible path to salvation, and it doesn't require sacrificing anyone's life; it only requires one person's Dao fruition."

The Heavenly Emperor's words silenced Chu Tai.

(End of this chapter)