Destiny is ashes

Chapter 868: Demonic Hidden Hand (5000)

"It's actually the Holy Demon?"

After hearing the warning from Patriarch Haotian, without any hesitation, Yin Yuelan directly activated Yinshandu and began to approach the Zaotian Palace. An Jing raised his head and looked at the top of the sky: "Fuxie, can you sense it?"

"Just now, I did have this feeling. The Haotian Mirror will not lie to me."

Fu Xie said in a deep voice, and Yin Yuelan obviously knew this, not to mention that he had already suspected it. When Yinshandu roared forward, he sighed: [If not, how could Tianyuan Realm be like this? ]

[But... if they are all holy demons, then logically speaking, we shouldn't be in such a good situation, and the Tianyuan human race shouldn't be in such a bad situation either...]

Obviously, Yin Yuelan felt a little conflicted: if the four Heavenly Lords of Tianyuan were all holy demons, then they would not give them any face at all. Even if the entire Cave Heaven Realm was hidden, as long as the four Heavenly Lords tried their best, they would definitely be able to find it in a few decades.

In fact, the Heavenly Lords have sealed themselves in the Cave Heavens, while the Daotai Yuanying and many Jindan Zhenjun are all in charge of the Netdao. Most of those who invade the Cave Heavens are those who have established their foundation in the Purple Mansions. This gives the Cave Heavens a chance to resist and breathe.

Now let’s look at it…the act of the Heavenly Lords sealing themselves in caves and heavens may not be a retreat or a way of ignoring worldly affairs?

But are they really only able to sit in the cave and unable to get up? Once they use their power in Tianyuan, will they really turn into holy demons?
“Perhaps, Tianyuan Tianzun, at least his heart and soul are still human. Before, Zhiyang Immortal defeated Taisui Dasheng with three moves, and then he had to return to the cave heaven. This may be the limit of their survival.”

An Jing looked at the 'Demon Zhou Changhe' on the side thoughtfully.

Although his body is that of a demon, his inner soul relies on slaying demons and monsters to maintain his humanity.

Very dangerous, but not impossible.

If Zhou Changhe wants to return to the immortal path in the future, he may only be able to rely on the path of Yuhua to reshape his body.

Tianyuan Tianzun sealed himself with the cave to drive the power... The core of the true spirit, perhaps it is also a way of ascension? It's just that the cave is the body. That's why the Tianyuan world vigorously develops the way of ascension, and even allows chaos to make it flourish...

If the Tianyuan Tianzun are really like this...

In fact, I have missed quite a lot of branches and clues.

An Jing recalled carefully and found that he had indeed discovered many clues in the past. The first was the small field inside the armor of Fengdu Wei. It was obvious that the armor was used to simulate a cave heaven, to seal people up and use them as weapons, and to isolate the inner and outer worlds. This was actually a kind of simulated martial arts, and it had a very high resistance to demonic energy.

The second is the entire Yuhua Dao, which is designed to provide spiritual monks who have lost their physical bodies and need a new body. Ordinary people are not useless, but if it is not required by the company or the position, no one has to replace their original body.

In addition, the overall goal of the Way of Immortality is not to popularize it among the general public, but to enable "higher-level" cultivators to possess an immortal body. This goal did not seem like a big deal at first, but now it seems that the four Heavenly Lords are using the entire Tianyuan human race as the alchemy furnace and all living beings and the country as carbon to smelt the Way of Immortality in preparation for their own future?

"If I had followed this path to pursue the path of Yuhua earlier, I might have discovered some clues in advance."

An Jing just suddenly realized and didn't think there was anything wrong with his past choice. He believed that what he did was the best solution. After all, now, although he didn't see it, didn't the ancestor of Haotian Jing see it?

However, it is still difficult to deal with. Even though the four Tianzuns of Tianyuan Realm are not completely demonized, but are only in a semi-saintly demon state, they cannot be regarded as "neutral forces" that can be seriously communicated with, and must be guarded against.

On the other side, although the nine great saints of the Demon Kingdom were in strange conditions, they were definitely in their prime.

An Jing even speculated that if both sides were saints and demons, and were engaging in a tug-of-war according to the Way of Heaven... then perhaps as long as the four Heavenly Lords did not attack with all their strength, the saints and demons would have to sit obediently on the abyss throne of its endless abyss and be unable to move, just like the four Heavenly Lords could only sit on the throne of the cave heaven and be half paralyzed.

At this moment, the Silver Mountain was slowly connecting with the equally huge Heaven-Creating Palace.

In the void, the image of the Heavenly Palace is almost like a huge silver sphere with countless convex and concave modular grid structures on its surface. Its whole body is constantly moving, like a heart that is constantly pumping and contracting.

The giant ship docked with the Colossus Assembly Center, and parts of both sides merged into one.

Inside Yinshandu.

An Jing and others immediately used the Taixu magical power and brought the true spirit core to the interior of the "Zaotian Palace".

The gravity of the Heavenly Palace is very strange, and at its center is an extremely huge void.

It was like a planet that had been hollowed out, with all people being sucked to the inner wall of the planet by gravity, and the center of the planet being an empty void. Inside the planet were a large number of giant steel tower structures. They had been sealed for a long time, and some had been damaged and abandoned, broken in half, while the intact ones were mostly aged, with their surface structures showing some changes caused by the erosion of the power of the void.

When it was intact, there should have been millions of kilometers of steel towers standing, with their tops pointing directly to the core of the Heavenly Palace.

An Jing was familiar with these towers. There were similar towers in Tianyuan Realm, but they were the core control centers of the Purple Mansion-level city defense formation. If these towers were really the same thing, then it meant that when the colossus was assembled in the Beitian Dock Cave Heaven, at least a million Purple Mansion-level cultivators were needed to contribute.

"Were there actually a million Purple Mansion cultivators at the Beitian Dockyard back then?"

【Not that exaggerated】

An Jing sighed, and although Yin Yuelan looked proud, he couldn't help but exaggerate. He shook his head and explained: [The Dao Court emphasizes eugenics. If it were a large world, a million purple mansions would be easy, but our small world of Dongtian, the reproduction of the people of the Pure Land is different from that of the Dao Court. In the heyday of a Dongtian, there are not even a million people.]

"So few people?" An Jing was a little surprised. Yin Yuelan nodded slightly: [We mostly rely on the assistance of cave spirits and weapon spirits, and assembling the colossus is definitely not just a cave-heaven thing. There will be fellow Taoists from other cave-heaven coming to support us.]

[The situation is urgent, we will activate the Guixu-level Tiangong Platform first]

Although it sounds complicated, it is actually very simple - the real difficulty is to find the Heavenly Palace, the energy furnace Gan Yuanhai, and to create the True Spirit Core. These three things have already been completed. Now all that needs to be done is to go to the control center and start the equipment.

Yin Yuelan went to activate the Tiangongtai, while An Jing watched the silver-green true spirit core fly towards the center of the Zaotian Palace under the control of the two ancestors.

Soon, as Gan Yuanhai's endless energy flowed along the Taixu Corridor, all the equipment in the Zaotian Palace began to charge. The originally pitch-black inner wall of the planet was lit up with large patches of light blue light patterns, and layer after layer of light patterns converged towards the 108 tallest and most solid towers.

[Warning! The Guixu-level Tiangong platform is being activated! Warning! The Guixu-level Tiangong platform is being activated! Unrelated personnel please leave the Taixu distortion area as soon as possible]

A huge warning sounded in everyone's ears, and as the energy was charged level by level, the crystal lattices on the surface of the tower lit up one by one, bursting out light blue light patterns, and then extremely bright balls of light in various colors condensed on the top of the tower.

Tiangang and Disha, earth, water, fire and wind, yin and yang, five elements, nine palaces and eight trigrams... each tower has condensed the purest "innate spiritual evil" in the endless gathering of energy, and these spiritual evils that are so pure that they only appear for a period of time at the beginning of creation are now constantly accumulating, releasing light and heat at the top of the tower.

The giant structure, magnificent enough to control the stars, manipulated the immortal array patterns that used to control the giant celestial bodies, suppressing and compressing the innate spiritual evil at the beginning of creation, and finally condensed it into beams of invisible and intangible qi light that could not be seen in any shape at all.

And then... it's time to launch.

One hundred and eight high heavens fired at the same time, and suddenly all the innate spiritual evil spirits at the beginning of creation collided with each other. The extremely balanced divine power exploded into an extremely huge ball of clear and turbid light in an instant, and then suddenly shrank until it almost completely "disappeared"!
'Chaos' appeared.

Beyond the passage of time, an indescribable and ineffable chaotic realm was created. Here, there was no definable law, which could be completely equivalent to the chaos at the beginning of the creation of the Beitian Dock Cave.

As long as the true spirit core is put into it, it is equivalent to that they have always been the spirit of the cave heaven since the creation of the cave heaven!
Without any hesitation, Patriarch Chengguang and Chen Yinzi signaled to An Jing, and then rushed into the chaos with their true spirit core, like a silver-blue flying star falling into the ocean of chaos.

Then, endless light overflowed from the chaos, illuminating the entire Zaotian Palace, and then began to spread continuously, spreading to the entire cave heaven!

Light comes from chaos, illuminating the infinite void.

Upon seeing this scene, the Four Great Cave Heavens and the Demonic Kingdom moved slightly, intending to press forward with their entire formation - but Haotian Zhulong Battle Armor, holding the magic sword, drew an arc of light and blocked them.

The core of the true spirit is integrated with the cave heaven.

This will take some time.

Yin Yuelan presided over the whole process. Even though he was blessed with the power of the cave heaven, which gave him temporary power of the Heavenly Venerate, it was only pure power. It was enough for self-protection but not enough for magical powers. Controlling the entire Creation Palace was really beyond his ability. He was exhausted after barely completing it.

But even so, he smiled and said to An Jing: [We have fulfilled our mission, everything is done. Next, as long as we wait for the two seniors to achieve the true spirit of the cave heaven, we can control the entire cave heaven and leave the Tianyuan world with the cave heaven! ]

"I always feel something is not right. Things shouldn't be so easy." An Jing muttered to himself. Fu Xie was a little surprised: "You are really calm. The four Tianzuns of Tianyuan Realm are all holy demons. Now they are just short of joining forces with the Demon Kingdom to attack Dongtian. It's ok for you not to be nervous, but you feel relaxed?"

"is not what it means."

An Jing shook his head slightly: "We have been through many storms. Let alone the fact that the Tianzuns of Tianyuan Realm are holy demons, I would not be surprised even if you told me now that all the people in Tianyuan Realm are celestial demons transformed into humans. What I find strange is, what is the real purpose of the four Tianzuns of Tianyuan Realm?"

"Whether it's a battle or a war, the most important thing is to understand the other party's purpose. As the saying goes, knowing yourself and knowing your enemy means you will win every battle. Our goal is very clear. We want to obtain the Yuhua Dao technique and extend the lifespan of the two ancestors. Although the methods are a little different, we have accomplished it."

"We have done everything we can. The only thing we need to be vigilant about next is the enemy's purpose... Do you think that the Tianzun of Tianyuan Realm is really trying to seize control of the cave heaven?"

The last part of An Jing's words was said to Yin Yuelan. Facing the warrior's question, the Lord of the Cave Heaven could not help but hesitate for a moment, and then slowly said: [This... does not feel like it.]

[They do want to gain control of the Cave Heaven, but if I have to say that their goal is to gain control of the Cave Heaven, I don’t think that’s possible, because when we signed the contract, if the four Heavenly Lords took action, there is a high possibility that they could capture me directly.]

[Although I am only a leader elected by everyone, I know a lot of secrets of the Cave Heaven. My real strength is only that of a True Lord. If I am captured by the Heavenly Lord, I will definitely not be able to protect the secrets. By then, although the means are despicable, the Tianyuan Realm can indeed gain most of the control of the Cave Heaven.]

[But they didn't do that. Instead, they continued to search patiently, trying to seize some control. This didn't feel to me like they wanted it, but rather that they were trying to avoid...]

"Prevent the Demonic Kingdom from obtaining it."

An Jing took over Yin Yuelan's words, and now he had a reasonable guess in his mind: "I originally guessed that Tianyuan Tianzun came to seize the cave heaven in order to use the cave heaven as a shelter, take the Tianyuan human race away, and stay away from the Tianyuan world. They themselves also used the way of Yuhua to transform into the spirit of the cave heaven and abandon the demonic body."

"But if that's the case, why don't you explain the cause and effect directly to you? We are all from the Dao Court. If I explain it clearly and prove that I am indeed a human demon, you shouldn't refuse."

[I really won't refuse] Yin Yuelan thought for a while and said with a wry smile: [If the four Heavenly Lords tell the truth, what else can I do except believe it? They chose to negotiate when they could have achieved the result with violence. I don't think my resistance will cause any waves]

[On the other hand, it was Tianyuan Tianzun who didn’t want to expose their purpose]

"Perhaps it is because of the limitations of the demonized bodies that the Heavenly Lords are unable to do certain things, or even reveal certain information."

An Jing also nodded: "For example, the four Heavenly Lords and the Holy Demons may be half of each other. Only by staying in the cave can they isolate themselves from each other's perception. Once the information is exposed, the Holy Demons will also know..."

and many more.

There seemed to be a flash of lightning in An Jing's mind.

Something suddenly occurred to him.

If the Heavenly Lords and the Holy Demons confront each other and fight for the authority over the Great Dao, then no matter who wins or loses, the end of the Tianyuan Heavenly Dao will definitely not be good.

It can even be said that if the Holy Demon wins, the Tianyuan Realm will be doomed. If Tianyuan Tianzun wins, they will probably completely transform into Holy Demons, and the Tianyuan Realm will also be doomed.

Tianyuan Tianzun planned to use Yuhuadao as a fallback, and even An Jing had guessed a little about the fallback of the human race: if the Ten Thousand Immortals and Ten Thousand Ships Formation went all out, it might really be able to load the entire human race into the fleet and take it away.

The resources consumed can also be compared with the resources consumed by the Tianyuan human race over the years: because the entire Tianyuan human race has long been prepared to escape, and all resources are for the "survival of the human race."

But here is the problem.

Since they have decided to run away, why would the Tianyuan human race let the Demon Kingdom win?

The world-destroying formation.

The scattered twelve true symbols.

Although the Tianxuan True Talisman was valued, it was not the only one, so it was not pursued to the end... The Tianyuan human race definitely had other true talismans in their hands.

"No way……"

An Jing muttered to himself: "Are the Tianyuan people so crazy? They don't want to die together, but they want to escape, so they just blow up their hometown?"

——Is this the reason why Tianyuan Tiandao supports me and wants to wake up the Tianyuan human race? 'Huai Xu's foul language, then I really have to fight him. When I meet such a rebellious son who is determined to blow me up, I really have to give him a big slap in the face!

But on the other hand, what about the Demonic Kingdom?
An Jing would never underestimate the Heavenly Demon, even though in the entire Tianyuan Realm, there is probably only one true Heavenly Demon, the Holy Demon.

It is impossible that the Holy Demon did not notice the plan of the Tianyuan human race. What is their trump card?
An Jing couldn't think of this possibility for a while.

However, the cause and effect of the past has borne fruit at this moment.

buzzing.

Yin Yuelan, the Lord of the Cave Heaven, suddenly received a communication.

【Who? Why is there a communication? 】

He was a little confused and frowned, wanting to refuse - at this moment, at the critical moment of the fusion of the true spirit core, the message might be a means of interference by some party. There are many magical powers that can be performed by relying on communication.

But An Jing felt something and asked, "See who the sender claims to be."

Yin Yuelan sensed it a little, and then was a little surprised: "Hey, it's Gan Yuanhai - is it the maintenance personnel of Gan Yuanhai's energy core?"

No.

No.

An Jing thought of the three "spots of light" that controlled the body of Yan Kui and finally turned into spots of light and returned to their homeland in Dongtian.

It’s them!
"Connect!" An Jing spoke briefly and to the point, and Yin Yuelan also believed in An Jing's judgment, so she handed the authority to An Jing and connected the communication.

Then, they all heard loud cries and requests for help.

[Help, save us! ]

[Lord of the Cave Heaven, Senior Daoting, no matter who it is, please save us! ]

[Kun Yao, these thousand machines that maintained the great formation of world destruction have captured us! ]

"Don't worry!"

The thought of "as expected" flashed through An Jing's mind, and he answered decisively: "Where are you now, and what's the situation?"

Hearing An Jing's voice, Gan Yuanhai and his three companions were slightly startled. They had never expected that it was An Jing who was replying to them. However, the situation was urgent and it was not the time to reminisce and explain. Therefore, they immediately replied: [We are now in the Divine Weapon Realm. We originally wanted to find our bodies, but there are Kun monsters everywhere! They are about to eat us. Come and save us! ]

After hearing these words, both An Jing and Yin Yuelan looked at each other, and after looking at each other, they took a deep breath.

They finally knew what the purpose of the Demonic Kingdom was.

Because the Divine Weapon Realm only represents one thing.

That is where Dongtian’s ultimate weapon, [Burning Heaven Divine Weapon·Dongxu Destruction Hongguang Cannon] is located!
(End of this chapter)