The author of the book "The Book of the Dead"

Chapter 245 The End of Dharma: Corpse Dissolution, Ancient Gods

"He who seizes the opportunity of Heaven is capable of anything."

Upon hearing this, Emperor Yao immediately became interested in this unknown Immortal of Corpse Dissolution.

The status of Corpse-Dissolving Immortals was very low in ancient times. Even within the human race, Corpse-Dissolving Immortals were ranked low among the immortal paths.

The reason is simple: the Corpse-Dissolving Immortal's cultivation method was too opportunistic. He abandoned his physical body, leaving his soul without any protection, making him inherently weaker than others.

Of course, the paths to the Great Dao are all the same. When one cultivates to a higher level, the paths are not much different. Because the soul of the Corpse Immortal is stronger than others and there is no physical body to hold him back, his soul path is more extreme, and his combat power will be specially enhanced, no less than that of someone with innate supernatural powers.

However, since one has the ability to cultivate to the highest level, it means that one can cultivate to a high level no matter what one cultivates.

So here's the question: if that's the case, why bother cultivating the Corpse Dissolution Immortal technique?

Therefore, the vast majority of people who cultivate the Corpse-Dissolving Immortal Path are those with low physical aptitude who have no other choice but to cultivate the Corpse-Dissolving Immortal Path.

Of course, Emperor Yao changed his opinion after seeing Lü Dongbin's confidence in Liang Yue.

This person, possessing the Golden Wood Immortal Body, was regarded by Emperor Yao as the next Guang Chengzi, and his vision must have been unique.

"Chunyang, does Liang Yue have a Daoist name?"

"The patriarch's Taoist name is Lingbao, and some people also call him Jade Emperor or Xuantian."

"What an imposing title." Emperor Yao gazed into the depths of the Ruins of Return. "In that case, let this old man see just what makes this Corpse-Dissolving Immortal of the Dharma-Ending Era so extraordinary."

Now that this human genius has entered, we can only pin our hopes on an even more powerful genius.

boom!
No sooner had the words left his mouth than a deafening roar came from afar, as if the entire Guixu was boiling over.

The scents of the outside world reached this area.

Emperor Yao suddenly stood up, his face solemn.

"Emperor Yao, what's going on?" Lü Dongbin asked hurriedly, standing beside Emperor Yao and following his gaze to the void.

There was only emptiness and nothingness.

“There are people outside engaging in a power struggle.”

Emperor Yao closed his eyes and pondered deeply, carefully sensing the nature of the external atmosphere.

"The power of Yin, the essence of the sun and moon, the vital energy of the earth, the essence of clouds and thunder... there should be celestial beings of the sun and moon, three-eyed winged beings, the Kuafu and Pangu clan, cloud gods... and innate life force... Oh no, the one coming is the Queen Mother of the West!!!"

"The Queen Mother of the West?"

"The Queen Mother of the West, the ruler of the Kunlun pantheon, who controls punishment and life and death."

The Kingdom of the Queen Mother of the West was also one of humanity's greatest enemies. Back then, Guang Chengzi and Zhuanxu set out to deal with the Queen Mother of the West, but it is unknown what happened afterward.

Judging from today's performance, the Kingdom of the Queen Mother of the West has the ability to make a comeback.

A desolate starry sky, a great city stands.

Yuan Tiangang, Liang Changming, Liang Changyun, Einstein, Yao Guangxiao, Da Vinci, and other ancient and near-ancient figures reside in this puppet city.

The group sat inside a spotless silver palace. The silver mechanical figures moving back and forth exuded a high-tech feel, but the fiery red spirit stones on their foreheads added a touch of fantasy.

Liang Changming reported to everyone: "There are eighteen thousand-foot Mount Tai-level puppet beasts in total. After being equipped with the third-generation spirit stone gathering reactor, their strength has reached about the sixth level of the Golden Core stage."

The so-called Spirit Gathering Reactor refers to the crimson black iron heart on Liang Changming's right, also known as the artificial golden core. The surface of the heart is covered with restrictions, and it flashes a dazzling crimson light as it beats, filling the entire room with rich spiritual energy.

As everyone pondered the uses of artificial golden pills, Yuan Tiangang suddenly asked, "Could artificial golden pills be transplanted into humans?"

Wouldn't this allow us to mass-produce Golden Core experts?

Liang Changming shook his head with a wry smile and said, "No, only a body cultivator at least at the third level of the Golden Core stage can withstand the power of an artificial Golden Core."

Since body cultivators already have the Golden Core level, why use such a powerful cheat with so many side effects?
Only inanimate objects made of metal and gold can withstand this.

"The advantage of this artificial golden pill is that it can be used as the core of an array. Master Yuan's Innate Yin-Yang Array has been completely replaced with this type of core. In the next twenty years, all the cores of the Mechanized City will be completely replaced."

Liang Changming spoke calmly about his vision for the future.

"Twenty years?" Everyone wondered. The city wasn't very big, so why would it take so long to upgrade?

It wasn't that everyone was idle; it was just that under the modern cultivation system, there was a clear division of labor. Some people were responsible for materials, some for refining, and others for exploration and design.

Only Liang Changming and Yuan Tiangang had overall control.

"Because there are more than 10,000 steps involved in creating artificial elixirs, the number of people in the Mechanical City is too small to form an industrial scale. If there were more people, the upgrade could be completed in less than three years."

Liang Changming sounded regretful.

Modern cultivators hate that there are too few people; they wish the whole world were full of cultivators. The larger the scale, the cheaper the industrial products of cultivation, and the higher the level of technological achievements.

In feudal times, those who cultivated immortality feared there weren't enough people. Once they obtained divine skills and secret techniques, they wanted to destroy all written records, fearing that outsiders would get their hands on them.

Liang Changming once concluded that modern cultivation of immortality is a win-win situation, while feudal cultivation of immortality is a zero-sum game.

"Ah, if only there were more talented people," everyone sighed.

"Where can we find such a place? We can't go back to Earth."

Ten years of trees, a hundred years of trees.

Back then, they missed the opportunity to reform their thinking; where can they find so many talented people now?
Feudal monks are simply not suitable for training. Given their self-important nature, they would certainly not want to be cogs in a machine.

If the secret of artificial golden pills were to spread, it would only cause a frenzy among feudal cultivators.

boom!
As everyone was chatting, a loud bang came from above, and dust fell from the hall.

Waaaaah...

The piercing alarm sounded in all directions.

"not good!!"

The group quickly walked out of the hall.

A golden curtain, hundreds of feet high, rose above the city, rippled with waves as it withstood a barrage of heavenly fire, lightning, boulders, storms, and frost.

The majestic sky is filled with overlapping white clouds, above which dwell giants three thousand feet tall, a blue phoenix that spews forth the Southern Bright Fire, celestial beings who control the essence of the sun and moon, and giant serpents that cause earthquakes.

"The people from the Western Queen Mother's Kingdom have finally found their way here." Yuan Tiangang smiled coldly, his eyes flashing with golden light, faintly revealing the ever-rotating Eight Trigrams of the Primordial Chaos.

Under Yuan Tiangang's influence, the Innate Yin-Yang Formation began to unleash the power of the Innate Taiji, with Yin and Yang clashing against spells and spiritual energy, and the formation finally stabilized.

"The Queen Mother of the West has mobilized all its forces this time. Simply defending is not a viable solution. We should launch a counterattack," Yuan Tiangang ordered the crowd.

"Yes!!"

Boom boom boom! !

The ground cracked open, and a thousand-foot-tall mechanical figure emerged from the earth, transforming into a palace as its body and roads as its arms.

In the instant it appeared, thunder and fire filled the sky and the earth, and a dazzling array of colors appeared.

In addition, there are countless mechanical birds, beasts, and mechanical figures.

These low-level mechanical puppets sacrificed all their capabilities, pursuing only speed. As soon as they reached the vicinity of the Queen Mother of the West's army camp, they exploded.

Boom boom boom! ! !
Spells and flames poured out in an instant, shattering the once orderly ranks into pieces, and the sky was dyed with colorful essences.

"on!"

Yuan Tiangang activated the Nine-Turn Golden Elixir within his body, manifesting his Dharma form. His body swelled to a hundred feet in size, with golden Five Elements and Eight Trigrams swirling around his body and behind his head, resembling a wheel of divine merit.

Clap your hands together and open them.

Wow!
The Eight Trigrams of the Primordial Era emitted countless golden rays.

There are two powerful types of magic in the world. One is golden light, which is extremely fast and arrives almost instantly; the common example is the Golden Light Spell. The other is lightning magic, which has great destructive power and special abilities against evil spirits.

boom!
The golden light descended upon the people of the Queen Mother of the West's Kingdom with lightning speed, and hundreds of innate beings were reduced to ashes.

Yuan Tiangang flew out of the formation, followed closely by the others.

Disciples of the Jie Sect are skilled at killing enemies with lightning speed and extremely dense firepower.

It's either you get killed, or someone else kills you. On the human side, top expert Yuan Tiangang charges forward relentlessly, unstoppable, with innate gods and demons retreating in defeat.

The Nine-Turn Golden Elixir cultivation path creates a self-contained microcosm within. Once mastered, internal energy arises spontaneously, allowing one to control their own destiny rather than the heavens, and granting combat power comparable to innate gods and demons.

Wow!
Suddenly, the clouds parted, and the crimson lightning, like a crack in the sky, split the entire firmament and fell down.

Then came the scorching sun.

The Cloud God and the Grand Commander of the Sun and Moon Heavenly Beings acted simultaneously in an attempt to restrain Yuan Tiangang.

Because they lacked the Primordial Peach Tree and the Jade Pool to restore their strength, the two gods' cultivation levels were roughly the same as Yuan Tiangang's.

Each person found their own opponent.

In an instant, the fighting turned the world upside down.

The strength of the disciples of the Jie Sect varied depending on the length of time they were frozen.

Yuan Tiangang was the oldest among the crowd to have been frozen in ice, and thus absorbed more of the essence of the sun and moon, making him the strongest after his resurrection.

He fought against two gods in the void, and the energy rippled outwards for hundreds of miles.

"Damn it, if Chunfeng and Xuanzang were here, we would never let the demon be so smug."

Back then, the group went their separate ways to explore this endless world, and they had agreed to keep in touch, but they lost contact with each other for the last two hundred years.

With the innate gods and demons having just been resurrected, coupled with the reputation of their ancestor as the Great Thief of the End of Dharma, everyone was not living comfortably and was even hunted down by many forces.

The people of the Western Queen Mother's Kingdom before us may have come from this.

The battle was raging. The Queen Mother of the West's kingdom had a large population and many experts, while the human race had only a few individuals who couldn't cause any trouble.

But this is, after all, the human race's home ground. Mechanical puppets and formations are as numerous as clouds, and a hundred years of accumulation is enough for them to hold out for a very long time.

In the boundless clouds, a two-wheeled white jade compass chariot stands tall in the void.

Inside the Cloud Chariot Cave, jade trees stretch endlessly, and strange rocks abound.

A woman dressed in azure palace attire sat by the emerald-green water.

The woman had eyes like misty waves, an extremely beautiful face, a faint crescent moon pattern between her eyebrows, and skin so white it was without a trace of blemish, like a perfect creation made by the heavens.

This woman is Changxi, the Moon Goddess, a primordial deity born in the moon, and the strongest person currently existing in the Western Queen Mother's Kingdom.

According to Liang Yue's strength classification, this woman's cultivation level should be Yang Shen.

The Moon Goddess looked into the void, where clouds gathered to form the face of a majestic woman.

"Queen Mother, our people seem unable to advance. If this stalemate continues, we fear we will suffer heavy losses. Please allow me to take action."

"allow."

The Moon Goddess is a trump card for the Queen Mother of the West. With the spiritual energy just beginning to recover and many gods and demons not in the open, the Queen Mother of the West doesn't even know who has been resurrected. Therefore, revealing the Moon Goddess too early would not be a good thing.

However, apart from humans, there shouldn't be anyone else here.

"Remember, Chief, do not kill him. I have something to ask him."

The Queen Mother of the West thought of a certain faceless, degenerate thief of the end times, and she gritted her teeth in hatred, wishing she could skin him alive, dig out his bones, and tear him to pieces.

This great thief of the end times has squandered all his millennia-long schemes.

If the original plan had gone smoothly, then at this very moment, the Queen Mother of the West should have awakened from the solar system that Kunlun had transformed into, crossed the void to come here, and then unified the other shore.

"Yes!"

Wow!
The Moon Goddess transformed into clouds and disappeared into the Cloud Chariot Cave.

Outside the cave, the two sides fought in utter chaos, with golden light and lightning flying everywhere, making it impossible to distinguish friend from foe.

Even Yuan Tiangang wasn't sure if his magic would affect his allies.

At that moment, a silhouette appeared in the chaotic crowd.

In an instant, everything in the world lost its color, except for this silhouette that stole the color from everything else.

Surrounded by stars, the bright moon hangs high in the sky.

For a moment, the same thought crossed everyone's mind.

The outer robe of the Moon Goddess, which moved without wind, slowly drifted down.

The deep blue, cold color instantly filled the world.

This is a coldness that freezes even the soul, spirit, and thoughts.

The deathly stillness of all things.

This is the innate Ice Soul, the divine path comprehended by the Taiyin Star Lord.

Yang Shen, Shenxian, Xingjun... these realms are collectively referred to as Shenxian, and the characteristic of this realm is that one comprehends one's own Dao.

Liang Yue comprehended the Great Dao of Yang Shen transforming all things with a single thought; other minor paths were secondary.

When the Moon Goddess appeared, both sides, including the flames floating in the air, came to a standstill.

Chang Xi's eyes were as still as a deep well, as if she had no emotions.

She stretched out her finger and gently touched it, and Yuan Tiangang, frozen into an ice block, slowly flew over.

At this moment.

Click! !
The ice shattered, and Yuan Tiangang was freed.

He did not fight back, but instead swept away the members of the Jie Sect in mid-air.

His form transformed into golden light and disappeared into the black hole.

Another human face materialized beside the Moon Goddess.

"So this is where the aura of Mount Buzhou is." Only now did the Queen Mother of the West notice the finance department.

If the innate peach tree cannot be found, Mount Buzhou is actually quite good. The place where the Eight Lords reside is Mount Buzhou. It is said that the Golden Bell of the Universe of Emperor Jun, the Lord of the Sun, has the ability to freeze time and space and recall things.

"Go in," the Queen Mother of the West commanded.

The Moon Goddess was somewhat troubled; it wasn't that she couldn't see how terrifying this place was.

Once you can't find a way out, you'll basically never be able to get out.

"I have no fear. If I cannot find the inheritance of Buzhou Mountain and complete the Heaven-Stealing Change this time, I would rather be stuck here forever."

The Kingdom of the Queen Mother of the West is now almost reduced to being inhabited by humans. Before long, it will be assimilated by a large number of humans. Future innate beings may truly believe that they are innate holy bodies of humans.

Moreover, the great thief of the end times might be hiding here.

Once this person is captured, the innate peaches and Mount Buzhou will both be his, and the benefits will outweigh all the risks.

Soon, the Queen Mother of the West led a group of elites inside.

Inside the Ruins of Return, a small constellation.

Lü Dongbin, Emperor Yao, and the others stared at each other blankly.

"Why are you here? I was hoping you could find a way to get us out of here," Lü Dongbin said with a wry smile.

"It's a long story..." Yuan Tiangang briefly explained the critical situation outside.

Everyone looked at Emperor Yao.

Now only this ancient god can save me.

"Don't count on me, I have no power right now." Emperor Yao looked at the vast night sky. "Fortunately, this place is boundless, I hope they won't come looking for us."

As soon as he finished speaking, a mysterious light shone in the dim night sky.

(End of this chapter)