Hyperdimensional Player

Chapter 369 Ascending to the Heavens, Slaying the Jade Emperor! (Part Three)

This is my ultimate move!
As the laws governing the Jade Emperor's divine realm shattered, Duncan's human form roared and smashed the Big Dipper Star Lord to death with a single blow.

At this time, the Jade Emperor was not at his strongest. If he were to truly seize the throne of the Heavenly Emperor, transform the divine kingdom of the Lingxiao Palace into the Heavenly Court, and then use folk tales and other stories to deeply penetrate people's hearts and become the sovereign of the Heavenly Court in the eyes of the common people, then his power would be far greater than it is now.

The power of faith is a very subtle thing.

Some people are worshipped and believed in because of their strength, while others are strong because they are worshipped.

This cause-and-effect relationship can be switched back and forth!

After Duncan's primordial spirit pierced the divine laws of the Lingxiao Palace with a single finger, the Jade Emperor's expression instantly turned one of shock and rage. The divine forms of the Heavenly Court that He had summoned could no longer be resurrected, and it was almost impossible to suppress Duncan's Dharma of Heaven and Earth by relying on sheer numbers and the incense and faith accumulated by the Taoist sect over thousands of years.

His confidence to fight Duncan stemmed from the Heavenly Court mythology system that Taoism had been gradually perfecting since the Northern and Southern Dynasties. Even the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors held a far lower status than this unknown Jade Emperor in Taoist mythology.

However, Chinese mythology is passed down in an orderly manner, especially the existence of beings at the level of the Heavenly Emperor, which has a long history.

Suddenly, a person appeared claiming to be the Jade Emperor and becoming the ruler of heaven and earth. It can be said that many people do not recognize him, and his divine status is simply forcibly promoted by the Taoist sect.

Taoist sect.

Or rather, early Taoism did quite a few outrageous things. Many people confuse Taoism with Taoist thought, but in fact, there is a big difference between the two.

The difference between these two is like that between Lao Tzu and Taishang Laojun.

"Old Master, save me!"

Faced with Duncan's primordial spirit unleashing the Heaven-Supporting Finger, the Jade Emperor showed a hint of fear. Without hesitation, he channeled all his cultivation into a Dharma image outside the Lingxiao Palace. Immediately, an old Taoist riding a green ox rose into the air, his expression calm as if in harmony with the laws of heaven. With a flick of his whisk, he reached out and caught Duncan's giant middle finger as it descended from the sky, at least preventing it from shattering the Lingxiao Palace in front of him with a single finger.

—Laozi (Taoist Ancestor) (Heavenly Dharma Image) (Incarnation) (???).

Lao Tzu was a mortal.

Laozi is the mythological figure in Taoism.

Normally, Lao Tzu should have come first, followed by Taoist thought, then early Taoism, and subsequently, the image of 'Taishang Laojun' was formed under the Taoist belief.

However, in Taoist mythology, the order of cause and effect is reversed.

They believed that Laozi (Taishang Laojun) existed first, and then his mortal body, namely Laozi of the Spring and Autumn Period, came into existence. This is a case of reversing cause and effect in religious propagation, and under this premise, the Jade Emperor of Heaven also possessed the ability to command Laozi.

This is because Lao Tzu is not in this world. If Lao Tzu's original self were still in the real world, with his terrifying cultivation, he would surely have made the Jade Emperor in front of him spin around.

Duncan could say that.

In the planes derived from the origin, those appearances of Taishang Laojun may not actually be as powerful as Laozi himself. After all, Taishang Laojun is a fictional appearance created by Taoism, while Laozi himself actually wrote the Tao Te Ching.

How powerful I am depends solely on how high the ceiling of this world is.

It's like how later generations commented on Wang Yangming's enlightenment at Longchang. In any world with supernatural power, this would be an explosive event. It can be said that reaching this level is no longer considered cultivating immortality. In a plane where the laws are not so restrictive, it would be a step towards becoming a saint.

However, what was even more revolutionary was that Lao Tzu wrote the Tao Te Ching, which directly influenced the ideology of the entire Chinese civilization and infused the concept of 'Tao' into the Chinese civilization's consciousness.

The Dharma form of Laozi is like a rule card.

It depends not on His own strength, but on the upper limit of this world.

Duncan's original spirit, the Great Freedom Heavenly Demon Lord in the Daoist sect, is an existence that transcends the rules of the plane, to the point that it is impossible for him to enter reality. Even when he forcibly unleashes his ultimate move, he can only poke the Jade Emperor's Lingxiao Palace plane with a single finger.

His true form is like Sargeras from World of Warcraft; even though he is the size of a planet, his power to enter the real world is limited.

No matter how many can get in, Laozi or the Dharma Image of the Dao Ancestor can stop them.

This is the rule of the world.

At this moment, even the laws of Heaven could not help Duncan. However, at the instant the two collided, Duncan's consciousness was above the dimension and he did not feel anything at all. He just felt that he had met a tough opponent.

Lao Tzu is indeed terrifyingly powerful!
A single Dharma Image can block his ultimate attack.

However, inside the Lingxiao Palace, the Jade Emperor Daojun, who had summoned the Dharma image of the Supreme Lord Laozi with his supernatural powers, suddenly turned pale and spat out a mouthful of blood.

too strong!
The primordial spirit of the Great Free Heaven Demon Lord is too powerful, probably reaching a level close to that of the Three Pure Ones, and even that level must be that of the Three Pure Ones from an ancient mythological plane.

Duncan's advantage isn't how strong his human form is, nor is it his ability to steal other people's cultivation and supernatural powers.

Rather, from the very beginning, even when he woke up lying next to a pile of cow dung, he possessed a status close to that of a creator.

Even the Western God has to consider whether he will actually start a 'war in heaven'.

Although Duncan's primordial spirit failed to directly destroy the Lingxiao Palace in front of him, it did create a hole in this space that was close to the divine realm. The divine avatars that died at Duncan's hands could no longer be resurrected.

What shocked the Jade Emperor even more was that the souls of the 100,000 heavenly soldiers and generals he had summoned actually flew into the Emperor Banner in his hand after Duncan killed them!

The laws of nature are also feasting.

The heavenly soldiers and generals worshipped by Taoism are actually at the command of Taoist masters. The Jade Emperor has extremely high authority, and even the divine positions conferred by Taoism are under his control. With a single word, he can promote powerful guardian deities like 'Wang Lingguan'.

Now, with the Jade Emperor's laws shattered by Duncan himself, the Heavenly Dao is also reclaiming all the lost destiny.

Heavenly soldiers and generals!

One bite at a time, so crunchy!
The more Duncan killed, the more the Heavenly Dao Laws of this world consumed. Those Daoist protectors who were swallowed by the Human Emperor Banner had all their consciousness erased in an instant and were directly refined into Heavenly Court Dao Soldiers.

"not good!"

"The laws of Heaven are helping him steal my destiny!"

Even with Laozi blocking Duncan's primordial spirit's finger, the power of the laws on the Jade Emperor's body was gradually weakening. Initially, it was the 100,000 heavenly soldiers and generals from folk myths and legends, these soldiers and generals that the Taoist sect used to describe the strength of the Heavenly Court system. However, when Duncan charged in with his three heads and six arms, countless people were killed or injured.

Those heavenly soldiers and generals who died immediately found new masters.

Not only could the Jade Emperor no longer summon them, but he also watched helplessly as their souls were branded with the laws of Heaven and became Dao soldiers and protectors under the Human Emperor Banner (Investiture of the Gods).

We will feed the enemy!

Just as the Jade Emperor Daojun stole the destiny of the Heavenly Dao back then, the Heavenly Dao is now turning the tables, using the power of the Great Free Heaven Demon Lord to devour the law authority possessed by the Jade Emperor Daojun.

Click.

On the illusory image of the Jade Emperor, a golden mark shattered with a crash, revealing cracks.

—【With Heaven's Law in one's mouth】(Broken)!
As Heaven regained some of its destiny through Duncan's killings, a crucial affix on the Jade Emperor's persona was shattered: his words, once imbued with divine authority, became lawful, placing him on the same level as Duncan today.

The shattering of the Heavenly Constitution means that He has lost some of the laws of Heaven.

The Heavenly Dao Will attached to the Emperor's Banner became increasingly violent. After Duncan unleashed his three heads and six arms, he swung the towering white jade pillar and smashed the Seven Luminaries Star Lord in front of him to death.

In an instant!
The stars shifted and moved across the sky.

The constellation pattern above the Lingxiao Palace changed, and then the pattern of the Big Dipper was transferred to the Emperor's Banner. Immediately afterwards, the phantom of a deity in the Lingxiao Palace gradually disappeared, and the nearby constellation deities also vanished into thin air.

"Alarm! Alarm!"

"Transfer of divine laws detected."

"The will of Heaven in this world is seizing the divine laws! ... The divine laws of the Lingxiao Palace (Heavenly Court) in the god-like realm are being transferred into the Investiture of the Gods!..."

The Five Virtuous Star Lords, the Six Ding and Six Jia.

Twelve Yuan Chen.

The appearance of the Tiger summoned by the Jade Emperor Daojun bears a resemblance to Lu Shanjun, but they are not the same person. He summoned the Dharma form of the Tiger, while Lu Shanjun was the reincarnation of the Tiger in human form. However, after Duncan killed these divine Dharma forms, everything changed.

They were inscribed with a new mark of the Heavenly Way.

"This humble Taoist priest is here to lend you a hand!"

As Duncan's figure stormed into the Lingxiao Palace, the Great Sage Teacher, not far away, wielded a nine-section staff and used his supernatural powers to condense a Dao sword, instantly forcing back the Daoist Celestial Master before him. He then directly unleashed the Taiping Essential Technique to help the Pure Source Mystic Dao True Lord deal with Erlang Shen.

In the blink of an eye, the carbide sparked.

The battle between the two Erlang Shen figures was over. The Erlang Shen wielding the mountain-splitting axe was defeated and directly killed by Qingyuan Miaodao Zhenjun. Then their figures merged into one.

Ten thousand golden rays appeared on the Emperor's Banner.

next second.

Duncan summoned the Pure Source Mystic Dao True Lord, who conjured a mountain-splitting axe out of thin air, activated it with his supernatural cultivation, and transformed it into an axe hundreds of feet long, slashing towards the three great Taoist masters in front of him and the Lingxiao Palace behind him.

Even His expression changed.

The original Erlang Shen was full of loyalty and righteousness, as if he were the Jade Emperor's henchman. But now, the manifested form of Qingyuan Miaodao Zhenjun can be described as the number one traitor in Heaven.

This means that Erlang Shen's appearance, due to Duncan, is now closer to the later Erlang Shen, the True Lord of Manifestation of the Pure Source Mysterious Way, who is the one everyone knows.

This is what makes the gods unique.

Unless it is said that the mythological plane has a physical body and consciousness that continues until the Investiture of the Gods, forming a stable personality, otherwise the divine position is a fusion monster, in a constant process of change.

not good!

The original Heavenly Court, which evolved from the Lingxiao Palace, was almost completely stripped of its divine positions!

Holding the Emperor's Banner, Duncan devoured each divine being he killed, and with each kill, the Heavenly Laws were fed to their hearts' content. Once the Emperor's Banner was empty, a new divine position would be created.

Furthermore, the power of this Investiture of the Gods is becoming increasingly terrifying, even causing the Jade Emperor to feel a sense of fear.

Where is the Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King?

If Duncan keeps killing like this, the divine positions and dharma images in the Lingxiao Palace will soon be wiped out.

Seeing that Erlang Shen, whom he had summoned, could not defeat Qingyuan Miaodao Zhenjun, and that the three great celestial masters could not defeat the great virtuous teacher Zhang Jiao, the Jade Emperor, in a risky move, simply put his nearly century-old plan on the table and summoned a rather special divine form.

Li Jing, the Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King!

As soon as the phantom of the deity appeared, Duncan's expression changed slightly, because he had the God's perspective of a dimensional space and saw two completely different phantoms of the deity, which eventually merged into one.

The first is Li Jing, the military god of the Sui and Tang dynasties, who was also a grandmaster of military strategy. He was a skilled warrior who did not have many outstanding achievements. He was also known as Hong Fu Nu, Tang Xia Hu, and Kunlun Nu. Li Jing began to be deified in the late Tang Dynasty. By the Five Dynasties period, he had already been worshipped with incense and sacrifices, and the Taoist sect also worshipped him as a guardian deity.

The second deity is Vaisravana, also known as the King of the Sea of ​​Hearing, a deity whose worship originated in Gandhara under the rule of the Kushan Empire. He is a majestic guardian deity clad in dark blue armor adorned with seven precious stones, with a wrathful and fearful expression, and holding a pagoda in his hands.

Vaisravana is also a Buddhist god of war and wealth. After merging with Li Jing, he gradually replaced some of Zhao Gongming's functions.

This is the fusion of personality with the divine face.

After the Taoist sects gained dominance, they sought to absorb the faith of Vaishravana, thus assimilating and integrating it into their own culture, ultimately resulting in a folk-influenced monster like Li Jing (Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King). Nezha's prototype was the son of one of the Four Heavenly Kings, and the initial translation was close to Nezha.

The title "Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King" originated from the combination of the worship of the northwestern garrison during the Tang Dynasty and the local belief in military gods.

Buddhism, which was introduced to Japan during the Han and Tang dynasties, gave rise to the Bishamonten faith and the Bi-character flag of Uesugi Kenshin.

However, all of this was localized in China.

After the Song Dynasty, the story of Vaishravana and Li Jing, the military god of the Tang Dynasty, were integrated, and "Li Jing, the Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King" gradually became a household name and became an oriental god.

Buddhism guides Taoism.

The Taoist school guides the Buddhist school.

Nezha's entry into the Taoist system was a product of Taoism's dominance over Buddhism.

—Li Jing, the Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King (God of War) (Vaisravana, the Heavenly King) (Incarnation) (Eight Golden Stars)!
"Outrageous!"

"Can gods really merge like this?"

The one who spoke was not Duncan, but the three corpses in his sea of ​​consciousness. He suddenly manifested and said to Duncan's true form, "Give me an avatar, let me have a go at him!"

After the Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King's Dharma form was revealed, the surrounding heavenly soldiers and generals, as well as the countless stars in the sky, also changed.

"what?"

"Their attack has become methodical!"

"It's a military tactic of combined attack!"

Duncan looked surprised as he faced the Eastern military genius, the deified Li Jing.

The position of God of War.

As soon as His Dharma form appeared, He commanded and mobilized the heavenly soldiers and generals outside the Lingxiao Palace. At the same time, the Twenty-Eight Constellations, the Thirty-Six Heavenly Generals, and the Seventy-Two Earthly Fiends were all under His control. The combined power of the numerous divine Dharma forms was explosively enhanced, and even Duncan felt a bit of pressure.

But it was only a tiny bit.

As his three heads and six arms transformed, the face of King of Kings - Duncan - also appeared in the center, and said in a deep voice to the Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King before him: "Vaisravana!"

"Look who I am?!"

After merging with Li Jing, the Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King's consciousness was based on Li Jing, but his physical form resembled that of Vaishravana.

In an instant.

The phantom of Vaishravana looked up at the enemy in the distance, and when it saw the face of the King of Kings - Duncan, it almost dropped the pagoda in its hand.

"Your Majesty?!" The illusory image of Vaishravana trembled slightly.

His faith originated in Gandhara under the rule of the Kushan dynasty. All the gods who roamed in Central Asia and the West would have to think twice before meeting Duncan's face as the King of Kings.

At this moment.

Suddenly, a cheer as loud as a landslide and a tsunami resounded throughout the heavens and earth. Even the Jade Emperor in the Lingxiao Palace was shocked and looked at the seemingly endless tide of spirits surging out from the crack in the sky.

"Step into the heavens and slay the Jade Emperor!"

"kill!"

"Tear down the Heavenly Court first, then fight the war in Heaven!"

Duncan's number one fan.

Ever since He led all the spirits to sweep across the entire continent in the previous world, these little darlings have become incredibly arrogant. Coincidentally, the Eternal Heaven of this world is also a facet of the belief in all the spirits. The rise of the Mongols was their period of strength, so when they shouted the slogan of "crushing the heavens," it's not that they didn't know their own limitations.

However, there are also some strange creatures among the spirits, and their slogans are also strange.

"Charge to Mount Ling!"

“Let Shakyamuni rise, and we will sit.”

Endless streams of spirits transformed into streams of light and surged into the divine realm plane evolved from the Lingxiao Palace.

They are an ultimate fusion material.

As the tide of all beings surged into this space, it immediately merged with the laws of Heaven. They didn't care whether they conformed to the Dao or not; they were, in themselves, a vast aggregate of consciousness. When a law without self-awareness encounters a law possessing countless consciousnesses, they are essentially the same.

The vast collective consciousness of all beings immediately began to evolve. These ultimate fusion materials instantly transformed into a part of the Heavenly Emperor, which is the appearance of the 'Eternal Heaven' in later generations.

The Jade Emperor, right?

So you're acting like you have the emperor's will?

Are you ready to get beaten up?
As part of the concept of the heavens, the face of the Eternal Heaven condensed and immediately transformed into a stream of light that descended upon Duncan.

Didi Chuxing proxy service, the king of kings, online beating up!

What a load of bullshit, the Jade Emperor.

Even if the Central Plains dynasties accept it, we, the followers of the myriad spirits, are barbarians. The Eternal Heaven is the first to stand up and express its dissatisfaction.

Come and fight!

Come out and die!

Is being God so easy?

As the most beloved child of the concept of all spirits, the moment the face of the Eternal Heaven materialized, it immediately regarded Duncan as its human incarnation, and even took a portion of the destiny of the Mongols in later generations, infusing the destiny of the era of the rise of nomadic peoples into Duncan's body.

He was exalted!
The myriad spirits remained as irritable as ever. Their demands were simple: to demolish the Lingxiao Palace and revive the Jade Emperor before them.

Should we avoid his sharp edge?
Shit.

Today, the Eternal Heaven is here, possessing the destiny of the primordial world, and even the Jade Emperor and his ilk dare not touch it.

Myths are never about being able to boast or brag.

Otherwise, who can compare to India?

From the time humans entered the Stone Age, or even the more ancient Dark Ages, all spirits, regardless of whether they won or lost a fight, never lost in terms of momentum or backed down!
Moreover, they also have aliases in the Central Plains; the Wanling sect of primitive shamanism is one of their branches.

Whether they win or not is irrelevant; Wanling's seniority is definitely high enough.

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(End of this chapter)