There are no ancestors at all; I made them all up.

Chapter 245 Immortal Dao Fruit
"Boom!"

A sudden gust of wind arose over Yujing!
The light of the Zhou Tian Star Restriction, which covered the entire city, flickered wildly, about to engulf and block it!
Unexpectedly, the gale seemed unreal, passing directly through the great formation and sweeping across the entire city!

Majestic palaces, bustling streets, panicked crowds... everything was swept away by that gray-white dream storm!

"call--"

The wind, seemingly ethereal and dreamlike, pierced through the light curtain and swept silently!

"It's the power of dreams! A phenomenon of illusion and reality being reversed!"

Throughout the city, reclusive masters, hidden lords, and even ancient beings in several secret realms were all simultaneously alarmed!

Powerful divine thoughts surged into the sky, ready to join forces to suppress this inexplicable calamity.

However, the next moment——

"Mumbling... Ami... Tuofu..."

A strange Buddhist chant, distorted and overlapping, containing countless distracting thoughts, suddenly exploded deep within the hearts of all those who felt it!

"puff!"

Several Nascent Soul cultivators immediately turned pale, their blood and qi churning!

"The Demon Buddha! It's the aura of that Demon Buddha from beneath the hell!"

Deep within the Taiyi Palace lies the Sea of ​​Silent Extinction.

The old Taoist priest, with his white hair and beard, did some calculations with his fingers, and his expression suddenly changed.

"The entanglements of cause and effect, the heavy burden of karma! This calamity specifically erodes the mind and distorts cognition. Once tainted, the path of our disciples will be completely destroyed, and our lineage will be in danger of being usurped!"

At the headquarters of the Celestial Inspection Bureau, the "Mirror of All Things," which monitors the entire world, trembled violently, and the scene of the Jade Capital reflected in the mirror was now a chaotic mess.

As the commander looked at his subordinates in the mirror, their eyes gradually becoming vacant, he said in a deep voice, "Activate the Guardian Bell. From this moment on, all Sky Patrol Guards shall remain at their posts and shall not leave. Anyone who disobeys will be executed!"

the other side.

Deep within the imperial city, the Nine-Dragon Wall shone brightly, and a voice echoed throughout the inner court: "Close the palace gates and activate the Ancestral Dragon Barrier! All members of the Xu family must return to the ancestral shrine immediately without delay! Once tainted by this calamity, the consequences will be endless. Let us observe the unfolding events!"

at the same time.

"Activate the mountain protection formation!"

"All disciples, return to the mountain gate immediately and seal off the grotto!"

"This is a great tribulation caused by inner demons; it cannot be fought with force. It is best to guard your true nature!"

In an instant, light soared into the sky from all corners of Yujing!
At the Huanglong Sect's headquarters, dragon shadows coiled, enveloping the entire sect; at the Xuanpin Medicine Sect's detached courtyard, countless medicinal energies transformed into a cyan-green light shield; at the location of the Sword Washing Pool, soaring sword intent condensed into an invisible sword domain; at Liyang Palace, the Witch Ancestor Altar, the Tianji Alliance... wherever there were Dharma Aspects or even higher beings presiding over, decisions were made immediately.

They're not getting involved in this mess.

One after another, light curtains, barriers, and arrays, some magnificent, some ancient, and some solemn, rose up, like lighthouses struggling to be lit in a storm, protecting their own mountain gates, courtyards, important strongholds, and core disciples.

They chose to protect themselves, abandoning the ordinary people and low-level cultivators in the outside world.

However, many disciples from various sects felt sorry for them and said, "In this situation, if we only care about ourselves, wouldn't that go against our principles?"

Such remarks gradually began to circulate, but were quickly suppressed by the upper echelons of the major sects.

"Do you know the cause and effect involved, and that the royal family is implicated? This immortal dynasty is ultimately the Xu family's immortal dynasty. If the immortal emperor does not step forward to face such a calamity, why should we bear this calamity for him?"

His explanation overshadowed many other opinions.

After all, no matter how much the Immortal Emperor is in seclusion, the entire Jade Capital is now involved. This place is the foundation of the Xu family. If he still ignores it, how can others risk their lives for the Xu family?

Moreover, many people vaguely know that the Supreme Being of the Immortal Dynasty does not seem to be in seclusion!
In this way, "isolated islands" formed in various parts of Yujing. Inside the light screen, there was tense staring and vigilance; outside the light screen, there was a desperate clamor that was quickly swallowed up by the gray-white storm.

After the storm passed, there was no flying sand or stones; the houses remained standing, and the vegetation was as usual.

But pedestrians on the street, ordinary people at home, diners in restaurants, patrolling soldiers... regardless of their cultivation level or social status, anyone who failed to hide in the "isolated island" in time would suddenly have their eyes vacant and their movements frozen in place the instant the storm passed. Their consciousness had been forcibly pulled into a bizarre, chaotic dreamscape where reality and illusion were indistinguishable.

Soon, the entire city of Yujing seemed to be frozen in time, completely still, with only the isolated islands shimmering in the silence.

The bottom of hell, the layer of dreams, has been turned upside down!

That peaceful city is constantly expanding, twisting, and changing, like an ink droplet falling into clear water, wildly spreading and expanding.

Countless fragments of dreams, bizarre bubbles, are born everywhere, their existence uncertain, sometimes connected, sometimes separated, weaving together into a vast and chaotic dream world.

"Rumble..."

After a loud bang, the phantom of a majestic city slowly emerged in the sky above this dream, hanging upside down in the depths of the heavens!
Chen Qing stared intently and saw that the city was bustling with activity and people, which was none other than the Jade Capital, the central city of the Immortal Dynasty!
The city teemed with life, completely unaware that they had fallen into a mirage, merging into this boundless nightmare.

"Hula-"

A gust of wind blew by, and the enormous, indescribably distorted shadow of the Buddha, like an ancient, persistent dark cloud, shrouded the upside-down city, exuding an aura of decay and chaos.

The people in the city seemed completely oblivious to this!
Looking at this earth-shaking scene, Chen Qingxin was deeply shocked.

Jade Capital is so vast, containing countless sects and experts, yet it was completely captured in this dream world!
Why are those Nascent Soul cultivators and even Dharma Aspect masters, who usually exude powerful auras, completely silent?

Then, he looked at the person beside him and asked, "Was this your doing? To capture the entire Jade Capital into your dream?"

"It's not about absorbing the entire Jade Capital, but about placing it in the gap between reality and illusion, integrating it into this dream world, so that the Demon Buddha won't spread its thoughts throughout the world after it corrupts the Jade Capital! You should know that if the Buddha's and Demon's intentions are completely revealed, I'm afraid no one in this world can control them." Beside him, the man in blue still spoke indifferently, "Even I, if I cannot leave this place, cannot interfere in the human world."

"Is there no one in the world who can subdue him?" Chen Qing frowned and asked, "Could it be that the Demon Buddha's realm is unparalleled in the world?"

The man in blue said, "Even if he is not the most outstanding person in the world, even Taiyuan back then could only seal him away and slowly try to kill him using the Dream Transformation Technique. This greatly damaged his vitality, and his ascension was delayed for a long time. Do you think there is still such a person in the world today?"

Chen Qing was silent for a moment, then said, "Yujing is already like this, so why doesn't the Immortal Emperor Taijing show himself? Isn't he not truly in seclusion? If he makes a move..."

The man in blue gave him a deep look and said, "If he shows himself, the karma between you and him must be settled immediately. Are you ready?"

Chen Qing paused for a moment, then said, "If he were to sit idly by and watch the entire capital fall because of this, it would be nothing to fear."

The man in blue shook his head, then suddenly asked, "Where do you think he would be right now if he hadn't gone into seclusion?"

"How could I..." Chen Qingzheng was speaking when suddenly a thought flashed through his mind. He recalled what the incarnation of Daoist Taijing had said about the predicament of the Immortal Emperor, and his persistent questioning about whether he was the reincarnation of the Hidden Star True Monarch. A thought arose from the bottom of his heart, and he said, "He is trapped by himself and cannot reach the highest point, so he is seeking a way to transcend and change his Dao foundation. Could it be that he is planning a technique for reincarnation and rebirth? He no longer cares about worldly affairs?"

Upon hearing this, he was horrified to realize that if the Immortal Emperor was obsessed with reincarnation, or had already reincarnated, and the unfathomable blue-robed evil corpse before him was also bound by some kind of rule and unable to take direct action, and if the major sects did not step forward and watched the situation escalate, then perhaps no one could stop this calamity.

"So, this matter did indeed originate from me, and others have no obligation to clean it up. But with my level of cultivation, even if I wanted to, how could I possibly deal with it?" Chen Qing took a deep breath. "My previous victory over Tai Jing's avatar was entirely due to exploiting the rules of the dream world. If we're talking about my true cultivation, there were many other factors I relied on..."

Sensing the lingering imperial aura within him and noticing a faint connection with the person before him, he asked directly, "Since you've brought it up, you must know the key to it."

“You are the one who initiates this calamity, bound by karma. This is the key to breaking the deadlock. If everything in the world were truly determined by the size of one’s fist, how could things have developed to this point?” The man in blue spoke in a mysterious tone. “In fact, although this calamity may render Taiyuan’s thousands of years of planning futile, it also hides a glimmer of hope.”

As he spoke, he suddenly changed the subject and asked, "Do you know why Taiyuan was unable to completely destroy the Demon Buddha back then, and could only resort to this dream-dissolving strategy to wear him down?"

Chen Qing shook his head. How could he possibly know such ancient secrets?

The man in blue didn't wait for his reply and said, "It's because this demonic Buddha possesses a kind of 'Tao Fruit'!"

"A Dao Fruit? Another Dao Fruit!"

Chen Qing's heart pounded. He had heard this word many times, either in ancient books or from the mouths of people like Yu Yin and Can Xuan Gong, but he had never been able to grasp its true meaning, as if looking at flowers through a fog.

It seems to be related to the rise and fall of eras, to the realm of cultivation, and even to the root of all paths, connected with heaven and earth.

"Cultivators inquire about the heavens and earth, moving mountains and seas, seemingly possessing boundless supernatural powers, but in reality, they are merely revolving within the cage of 'heaven and earth' drawn by their predecessors. Only by overcoming heaven with human strength, using one's own wisdom to see through illusions, constructing one's own unique 'worldview,' and expounding the fundamental laws governing the myriad phenomena and the operation of the universe, can one be qualified to step into the highest hall!"

The man in blue seemed to see through his confusion and explained directly: "If this 'view of heaven and earth' can be perfect and self-consistent, and manifested in the world with supreme power, it can be condensed into a... Dao Fruit! With the Dao Fruit, one is almost immortal! Even if eras cycle and heaven and earth collapse, as long as the Dao is not destroyed and the Dao Fruit still exists, there will be a day when it is rekindled!"

He pointed to the enormous demonic shadow that shrouded the inverted Jade Capital: "This Demon Buddha possesses such a Dao Fruit! Within its Dao Fruit lies the ultimate truth of the Heavenly Dao, which aligns with its worldview! Because of this, even though Taiyuan was able to suppress it back then, he could not completely eradicate its very existence! He could only use this method of dream-dissolving to drag it into a dream world of illusion and reality, letting time slowly erode it, hoping to completely dissolve its spirituality into the dream bubble before its Dao Fruit revives! When it returns from the Dao Fruit again, it may be tens of thousands of years later!"

(End of this chapter)