The Supreme Being of the World, Starting from the Heaven-shattering Fuxi

Chapter 533 The Final Chapter of the Dao Struggle: A Resolute Self-Sacrifice, the Eternal Dao Master of the Firmament

When Feng Xi and the others entered the "Great Dao Contention" world, the Dao techniques that Nuwa and the Flower Powder Empress had left in this world immediately changed.

Originally, their Daoist techniques were merely comparable to those of ordinary virtuous masters, but in an instant, thanks to their Great Dao, they were elevated to a level comparable to those of Ancestor Shaoqing Honghe, Ancestor Yuxiao Yaohan, Ancestor Mingquan Lingyou, Lord of the Demon Treasury Yichong, and the Ascended Lord of the Hun Tian Prison Realm Wuming.

In truth, in terms of their own Taoist practices, the only ones who could surpass them were Ancestor Mingcang, Daoist Taiming, and Zhang Yan.

These two have reached the true pinnacle of the Great Dao in their cultivation, nearly becoming masters of the Great Dao, and are only one step away from transcending the Great Dao.

Of course, to take this step, one must defeat the Spirit of Creation and incorporate the Great Dao of all worlds into one's own power.

Today, their many virtuous deeds are playing chess with the spirit of creation in the desolate land, all for this purpose.

If the spirit of creation does not suppress it, cultivators throughout the world will find it difficult to find their way to the Great Dao.

As Nuwa and the Pollen Empress's Taoist arts were elevated, a new Taoist art naturally appeared in all worlds.

This method of practice is naturally Feng Xi's Great Dao Method.

It uses "all things" to connect the past, present, and future, but transcends "all things," being nothing in the past, a sacrifice in the present, and turning the future into emptiness.

In the blink of an eye, Feng Xi reached the Refining Spirit Great Virtue realm of the "Great Dao Contention" system.

However, his Dao was different from that of Nuwa and the Pollen Empress, and it did not fall into the hands of Xuji Zhang Yan to fight against the Spirit of Creation.

Zhang Yan is destined to defeat the Spirit of Creation. With the help of Nuwa and the Pollen Empress's magic, this situation will be much easier.

As for Feng Xi, he needs to use his own Dao to temporarily suppress the divine thoughts of the "sick person" in this world, while waiting for Zhang Yan and Tai Ming Dao Ren to transcend.

Therefore, after entering this realm, Feng Xi dispersed the Great Dao Treasure Wheel and used his own Great Dao to forcefully resist the divine thoughts of the "sick person".

To prevent the divine thoughts of the "sick" from mixing with the spirit of creation and causing unforeseen changes in their lives, they appeared in the Nine Provinces Realm.

The Nine Provinces are the most unique place in this vast world of "the Great Dao contending for supremacy".

This place is a place where the Dao is lacking, where the Great Dao of Creation can never be touched, and it is also the key to victory or defeat for all the virtuous ones and Zhang Yan.

Feng Xihe's divine thought of "the sick" descended into this place, and all living beings in the Nine Provinces, cultivators from all ages, and even many virtuous people were completely unaware of it.

Only a few of the strongest virtuous men who had been to the Nine Provinces in the desolate lands had some awareness of this.

Zhang Yan looked at Nuwa and the Pollen Empress, who had left behind only their Daoist teachings but had disappeared for many years, and asked in surprise, "Fellow Daoists, what kind of expert has Brother Feng attracted that has caused him to be in such a sorry state?"

When he entered the second level of the Refining Spirit Realm, he obtained the information that Feng Xi had left him back then and learned a lot about the past.

As a transmigrator, the world he transmigrated to was interfered with by powerful external beings such as "Infinity," "God," and "System," forcing these supreme beings to push that world into the end of Dharma.

On Earth in that world, there are countless time-spaces, as numerous as the sands of the Ganges. Above these time-spaces, the Taoist sect has the Spirit Realm of the Void, and the Buddhist sect has the Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss.

His origins in the "Great Dao Contest" Nine Provinces Realm lie within the Spirit Void Heaven Realm.

This entire world was created by the Venerable Ones of the Spirit Void Heaven Realm, and his "golden finger" fragment of jade was also left by the Venerable Ones, hoping that he could transcend the Great Dao.

Once he reaches that stage in his cultivation, he can return and eliminate the powerful enemies there.

Zhang Yan didn't know much about Feng Xi and the others, but from the words of several ancestors of the Nine Provinces, he knew that Feng Xi and the others possessed supreme treasures of the Great Dao, enabling them to traverse the Great Chaos and travel between the worlds.

It was obvious that his return this time brought with him a powerful enemy from somewhere, who was struggling to hold him off in the Nine Provinces Realm.

Zhang Yan was able to see Feng Xi's Great Dao, and the Dao he carried was definitely above all the patriarchs. Perhaps only the Tai Ming Patriarch, who had never appeared, could be compared to him.

However, his opponent was clearly stronger.

Even though it was just a fleeting glimpse, Zhang Yan had already noticed the man's unusual nature.

The Great Dao he possesses is virtually identical to one aspect of Feng Xi's Great Dao.

However, this person has cultivated this aspect of the Great Dao to its ultimate level, completely surpassing even the Spirit of Creation.

If there is any difference, it is the difference of the world. The foundation of this world is more in line with the spirit of creation, and not so much in line with the Great Dao that is constantly decaying, transforming, and being sacrificed.

It was precisely because of this slight incompatibility that Feng Xi was able to barely keep his opponent occupied and keep fighting with his cultivation at the third level of the Refining Spirit Realm.

"I'm afraid this won't last long. We need to decide the outcome soon so we can help Brother Feng."

Zhang Yan muttered to himself, no longer hesitating, and began to place his pieces, defeating the Spirit of Creation.

This battle of righteousness, deliberately manifested by Zhang Yan, was visible to all contemporary cultivators in Buxu Heaven.

Countless cultivators, through what Zhang Yan saw, witnessed a blurry scene: the great virtuous beings and the spirit of creation locked in a stalemate on the chessboard of the Great Dao.

They could not see the specific appearances of the great virtuous ones and the spirits of creation, but they could sense the great Dao within them and know the supernatural powers of the higher realms.

The spirit of creation, having previously absorbed much of the great virtue and Dao, transformed it into a chess piece, which was then placed down.

Beside Zhang Yan, the venerable ones also regarded themselves as their children, disregarding their own safety, transforming into the Great Dao, and falling into true emptiness.

If Zhang Yan wins, he can bring them back; if Zhang Yan loses, they will probably truly "perish".

After all, given the nature of the Creator Spirit, if it wants to occupy all the Great Daos, it will never allow them to return.

The Great Virtue and the Dao encompass all the worlds and realms; every move made can be said to influence the entire world from its very foundation.

From a high vantage point, one scorns all existence and looks down upon all things; in close proximity, things naturally change and evolve endlessly.

In fact, apart from cultivators at the Refining Spirit Realm, other cultivators are completely unable to understand even a fraction of what is going on.

For cultivators below the True Yang Realm, it can only be described as broadening their horizons; the opportunities they can gain are not numerous.

There is the pervasive presence of the Great Dao, and the soaring sword energy; what appears to be an ordinary game of chess is in reality a matter of life and death.

This is no longer a battle of virtue and defeat, but a battle for the survival of all living beings in the human world.

As one virtuous person after another became a chess piece, forcing out the remaining Daoist techniques obtained by the Spirit of Creation, in the end, only the Spirit of Creation, Zhang Yan, Nuwa, the Flower Powder Empress, and the Tai Ming Daoist who had not fallen into the void remained on the entire Great Dao chessboard.

Nuwa and the Pollen Empress exchanged a glance and said, "Fellow Daoist, we are worried about our brother, so we can only give you one Dao technique to leave you with an advantage. The remaining Dao technique needs to be attached to our brother."

Upon hearing this, Zhang Yan smiled and said, "One Dao technique is enough. Fellow Daoist, please wait for a while. After the Great Dao competition is over, I will go to assist Brother Feng."

At first, Zhang Yan didn't even expect that these two virtuous men who had already left would be able to come back and help him.

In other words, their path to enlightenment was an unexpected surprise.

The two goddesses nodded simultaneously, and began to transform themselves, just as they had done in the Void years ago, sitting together on a precious lotus. Their forms disappeared, but two different kinds of Taoist arts were born.

One of the Daoist methods is the other shore method within the "Supreme Being of an Era". When Nuwa and the Pollen Empress reached their level, they had already made all the preparations to achieve the Dao fruit, and were just waiting for the refinement of an era.

It is said to be the other shore, but in fact it is already close to the fruition of enlightenment.

This great path encompasses the past, controls the present, and occupies the future. It includes every aspect of the great path, is omniscient, omnipresent, and omnipotent. Any contradictory things can be simultaneously established within them.

After obtaining this chess piece, Zhang Yan praised it, saying, "What a wonderful Dao Fruit of the Other Shore! It reveals the truth within the illusion and the universe within the truth."

After casually placing the chess piece, he felt that he had more room to maneuver. At this point in the battle, victory was practically assured.

The ensuing struggle was nothing more than a formality.

Zhang Yan even had time to glance at the location of Kyushu.

Another method of Nuwa and the Pollen Empress, namely the Immortal Emperor's Method in "Covering the Sky", has fallen into Feng Xi's hands.

The Sacrifice Path, this special realm of Immortal Emperors, was something that both the Pollen Empress and Nuwa had long ago entered.

Sacrificing the supreme path, burning away rules and order, and destroying the past, present, and future is completely different from the "Other Shore" method. It is a domineering method of "do or die".

You haven't hurt anyone else, but you've already hurt yourself.

Feng Xi's four incarnations—the Jade Emperor, the Lord of Mount Tai, the Boundless Heavenly Venerable, and the Buddha Fuxi—have all taken this step between the plateau and the heavens.

Now, it is his turn to take this step in this vast world, under the pressure of the "sick person's" divine will.

Because the opponent was too strong, Nuwa and the Pollen Empress were worried that Feng Xi could be sacrificed but not released, so they decided to sacrifice together with him to try to give Feng Xi a better chance of reviving in the future.

Both of them had placed their foundation on Feng Xi when they performed the rituals in their early years.

Among them, Nuwa's foundation lies within Feng Xi's true spirit, achieving the yin-yang symbol of dragons and snakes intertwining; the foundation of the Pollen Empress lies upon Feng Xi's physical body, with enchanting lotus totems blooming all over her body.

When the Pollen Empress performed the ritual again, she even played a piece called "The Fallen Song of All Worlds" on a stone zither, hoping that this piece could awaken a trace of the "sick person's" true nature.

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Sacrificial rites were not unfamiliar to Feng Xi.

However, his true self never took that step.

After all, for him, the real body is much more important than the clone.

Since his transformation from the mortal realm, Feng Xi has rarely ventured into such perilous situations.

A series of thoughts flashed through his mind, and he gave a self-deprecating laugh: "Does the higher my cultivation level, the more afraid I am of death? The core of the 'Covering the Sky' technique is to recover in desperate situations and rise from ruin. How can I be timid and hesitant?"

Feng Xi no longer hesitated and directly covered the "patient's" true form, resolutely embarking on his path of sacrifice.

In the past, when the Pollen Empress performed the Dao sacrifice, she single-handedly fought against many ancestors and immortal emperors of the plateau, going with a fearless determination to die at any cost.

The Desolate Heaven Emperor's sacrificial ceremony was also a solitary battle on the plateau, where he faced not only the same formidable enemies but also the great compassion to revive the heavens and all living beings.

After Feng Xi understood this, he temporarily set aside the many systems of cultivation he had built, and only sought the Immortal Emperor's Law, sacrificing all his supreme Daos, burning away the rules and order of his true spirit and physical body, and destroying all the past, present, and future that he had cultivated since then.

Within the realm of mountains and seas, there is a sect called the "Emei Sect".

This was established by Master Lianshan, Chen Ziqin, Xin Ruyu, Saintess Jiayin, Elder Blood God, Qi Xia'er, and the Three Heroes and Two Clouds after Feng Xi brought some cultivators from "Emei" to this world.

The Shushan Sect takes Feng Xihe and Luo Tianxian as its founders.

But in the blink of an eye during Feng Xi's sacrificial ceremony, the founder of the Emei Sect changed.

Feng Xi and Luo Tianxian seemed to have never existed, and had transformed into Master Lianshan and others.

Originally, many cultivators from the Nine Provinces, especially the Mingcang and Shaoqing sects, knew about some of their deeds.

At this moment, these events seemed to have been erased from the minds of these cultivators.

Not to mention others, even Qin Mobai, the leader of the Mingcang Sect who had already achieved the True Yang Realm, felt the same way, and didn't even feel anything was wrong in his mind.

"The way of sacrifice, the way of offering sacrifices, the way of sacrificing oneself—is this really how it ends?"

In the desolate land, given Zhang Yan's level of cultivation, it was natural that Feng Xi's sacrificial ceremony would not erase the things in his mind.

He and the Tai Ming Ancestor outside the void exchanged a glance, both finding this Dao very interesting.

However, this is not the time to study such profound methods; the spirit of creation has made its move again.

This time, the Spirit of Creation descended upon all worlds and universes in His own way, encompassing everything and being omnipresent.

The Great Dao is fifty, and the Heavenly Evolution is forty-nine; he has occupied almost all the places of Heavenly Evolution.

Neither Zhang Yan nor the Grandmaster Taiming felt that in the vast universe and even in the desolate places, there was no place for them to find refuge.

Their path seemed to be driven away by the galaxy of the Great Dao, and even the traces of their existence were to be erased.

If Feng Xi's sacrificial ceremony was about erasing his own traces, then the Spirit of Creation's actions were about using external force to erase the traces of Zhang Yan and all the other virtuous ones.

The methods are different, but the underlying principles are similar.

"It's up to you."

Like the other virtuous ones before him, Daoist Taiming sacrificed himself to stop everything and wait for Zhang Yan to reverse the situation.

Throughout history, the most powerful among all the virtuous masters, the Grand Ancestor Taiming, merged with the energy of creation when creation shattered, preventing the spirit of creation from devouring the virtuous masters and securing a sliver of hope for survival.

But in this final battle, this glimmer of hope fell on Zhang Yan.

The Spirit of Creation can occupy the number 49 of the Heavenly Evolution under the Great Dao, as well as the number one that escapes.

The location of the Nine Provinces is one of these places of escape, a place where the Dao is deficient.

The broken jade in Zhang Yan's hand was the most incomplete piece left behind when the Venerable Ones created this world.

Zhang Yan already knew that the key to breaking the deadlock lay in Kyushu.

By addressing the imperfections of the Great Way, we can transform the ruthless Way into a compassionate Way, thereby creating all living beings and paving the way for immortality for all creatures.

This is the breakthrough, and also the key to Zhang Yan's attainment of the Dao, confirming the Dao mind he had when he broke through to the ultimate Dharma of Form and Image in his early years—

Opening and closing the secrets of Heaven utilizes the deficiencies of the Dao; relinquishing the order of the Dao, one enters into the unity of all things. May all beings attain longevity, and may the cosmos eternally uphold the Dao!

(End of this chapter)