Starting Immortal Cultivation from a White Dog

Guanzizai looked at him with extremely solemn eyes.

"I never expected that you would cultivate such a demonic art."

Her voice remained clear and cold, but it carried an unprecedented heaviness.

"When this method is practiced to its ultimate goal, the entire Three Realms will be swallowed up. The sun, moon, stars, mountains, rivers, immortals, Buddhas, saints, the netherworld, ghosts... everything will become your nourishment."

"The stronger your magical power and the deeper your cultivation, the greater the destruction you will cause to the human world, and in the end, you will reduce the entire Three Realms to nothingness."

She paused, her gaze sharp as a knife, "A demon like you must never remain in the Three Realms."

"Demon?"

Upon hearing this, Jinwu suddenly laughed.

The laughter was hoarse and low, echoing in the void like a sound from the abyss.

He looked down at his hands and saw that his ten fingers were long and strong, with distinct knuckles. His skin was so pale that it was almost transparent, and countless fine runes could be vaguely seen flowing beneath his skin. Each rune was like a miniature black hole, and even the light bent and disappeared at his fingertips.

But his body itself is stronger than ever.

Having reached the pinnacle of the Great Sun's Path of Light, he comprehended the true essence of the Devouring Heaven Demon Art from the imagery of a collapsing star. In the final moment of its life, a great sun released all the light and heat accumulated over billions of years at once, then collapsed and contracted inward, compressing all its mass into a singularity.

That singularity was both extremely small and extremely heavy, bearing the entire mass, energy, spiritual power, and laws of a great sun.

His body was that singularity.

He called it the Way of Devouring Heaven.

The simplest and most direct effect of the Devouring Heaven Path is that it grants one extremely terrifying devouring and distortion power. With a single thought, it can distort the land within a thousand miles, and even devour the void itself.

The higher one's cultivation of the Devouring Heaven Path, the heavier his Devouring Heaven Dharma Image becomes, with every move possessing immense power, capable of crushing everything, and remaining immortal even as heaven and earth perish.

The power to devour the heavens, the power to twist, the supreme divine power, and the indestructible body—these are the characteristics that come with cultivating the Path to Heaven.

Simple, domineering, and terrifying to the extreme.

If one day I were to truly be able to devour a world, I could probably fight powerful beings with my bare hands with just this Devouring Heaven Body.

Jinwu, or rather Wu Tian, ​​stood there quietly.

If he hadn't used the twisting power of his Devouring Heaven Body to support his body, the weight of that body alone would have been enough to crush the void and shatter the earth.

He remained perfectly calm in the face of Guan Zizai's verbal attacks.

"Demon?"

As Wu Tian spoke, a mocking expression even appeared on his face.

"You cultivate the Path of White Bones and Red Faces, using supreme heavenly fire to destroy the world and annihilate all living beings. Isn't that the demonic path?"

"You want to burn down the three realms, that's out of compassion. Then why can't my devouring of all things and recreating heaven and earth be the righteous path?"

Guanzizai shook her head, and an expression of almost pity appeared on her exquisite face.

"You do not understand."

She spoke softly, her voice distant, as if chanting a sutra, "I cultivate the Path of White Bones and Red Faces not for killing, but for redemption."

"This world is a vast sea of ​​suffering. Birth, old age, sickness, and death; separation from loved ones; encountering those you hate; not getting what you want; the five aggregates burning intensely... eighty-four thousand kinds of afflictions, eighty-four thousand kinds of suffering."

"All living beings are adrift in this sea of ​​suffering, life after life, unable to find liberation. Today they die from the wrath of the Kunpeng, tomorrow from the conflict between immortals and Buddhas, and the day after from natural disasters and man-made calamities. When will it end? When will they find peace?"

She withdrew her hand and her gaze fell on the golden crow.

"All I do is to turn all living beings in this world into nectar and let them sink into my jade bottle. In that bottle, they will have no pain, no worries, no fear, and no despair."

She raised her hand, making a loose grasp as if holding onto something invisible, "After this world is burned by heavenly fire, purifying all filth, all troubles, all sins, and all suffering..."

There was a light in her eyes.

That was a near-devout certainty that came after madness and fanaticism reached their extreme, a belief that had not wavered for eight thousand years.

“I will naturally use willow branches to sprinkle sweet dew, so that countless living beings may be reborn from death in the new paradise.”

"From then on, one can attain great freedom, free from hatred, greed, and attachment, with only eternal peace and joy."

She looked at the golden crow and said slowly and deliberately, "The path of beauty and bones that I cultivate is about killing to protect life, and every action is out of compassion."

Guan Zizai's gaze fell on Wu Tian.

"As for the demonic arts you cultivate, although I have only just begun to see the beginnings, I can already foresee the terrifying consequences they will bring. It will be a calamity for all immortals, Buddhas, and saints in the Three Realms."

"This is the true demonic path."

Wu Tian raised his eyes and looked directly at Guan Zizai.

Whether someone is a Buddha or a demon is not for you to decide.

"Those who walk different paths cannot make plans together. Enough with the nonsense."

He took a step forward, and the treasure bottle on his back suddenly trembled, emitting a deep hum. The hum was like the roar of an ancient god or demon, shaking the void and disrupting the laws of heaven and earth within a radius of a thousand feet.

With just this one buzzing sound, the surrounding space began to distort, and the distant clouds were torn apart by an invisible force.

"Today, let's not settle the score by fighting to the death..."

His figure transformed into a dark streak of light, sweeping towards Guanyin. Wherever he passed, the void groaned in agony, as if something extremely heavy had crushed him.

Wherever he went, the void collapsed, forming a huge gravitational vortex that pulled everything around him toward him.

"I will never let this go!"

Guan Zizai's expression hardened, and she immediately sensed the terrifying power that devoured the heavens. Even before the Golden Crow got close, she could feel her body involuntarily tilting towards him.

She dared not be negligent in the slightest, her hands rapidly forming hand seals in front of her, and the magical power accumulated within her over eight thousand years surged out like a bursting dam.

Boundless vitality burst forth from her entire body, so dense it almost solidified, like a milky white mist enveloping her layer by layer.

Within the light and mist, countless petals drifted and swirled, each petal containing the rhythm of the Great Dao of life and death, the principles and authority condensed from her cultivation of the White Bone and Red Beauty Path.

The petals gathered, intertwined, and coalesced at her feet, gradually transforming from blurry to clear, from faint to solid, into a white lotus.

The white lotus slowly unfolded petal by petal, and a vast life force surged forth like a tide. The laws of life and death began to intertwine on the white lotus. With each unfolding petal, the white lotus's aura became heavier and its power stronger.

As the ninth petal unfolded, a three-foot-tall white lotus was fully formed. The lotus was pure white and flawless, radiating a warm, jade-like glow, with dense, flowing incantations appearing on its petals.

Guanyin stands on a white lotus, her white robes fluttering, as if she has merged with the white lotus, which slowly rotates beneath her feet.

"Get in here!"

At this moment, Wu Tian pressed the Devouring Heaven Bottle on his back down towards Guan Zizai. This bottle was originally Guan Zizai's jade bottle, but during his breakthrough, it was destroyed by the Great Sun and transformed into the Devouring Heaven Demon Art, where all its imprints were washed away and it was integrated into the principles of the Devouring Heaven Dao.

In a sense, it can be called Wu Tian's treasure for proving his Dao, his companion treasure, containing the supreme mysteries of the Devouring Heaven Dao.

“Avalokitesvara, didn’t you want to suppress me in a jade bottle? Today I will let you taste what it’s like to be suppressed in a bottle.”

The Devouring Bottle spun in the void, its mouth pointing downwards towards Guanyin, and an incomparably terrifying Devouring Power fell like an abyss.

In that instant, all the light within a radius of a thousand miles vanished, plunging the world into darkness.

Especially where Avalokiteshvara was, everything became incredibly heavy. The void was collapsing, light was bending, and even time seemed to slow down.

Guan Zizai's expression changed completely. The terror of the opponent's demonic power far exceeded his imagination. Even the white lotus protecting him, which was cast with supreme divine power, was trembling at this moment, and the incantation on the lotus petals was flickering.

The white lotus beneath her feet bloomed to its fullest extent in that instant.

The white lotus, originally three feet in size, suddenly expanded, its petals unfolding layer upon layer, each petal like an independent little world, carrying supreme vitality and creation.

The white lotus, having reached its full bloom, suddenly began to burn.

The white lotus, formed from the condensation of supreme vitality and creation, began to burn with flames at this moment.

The flame was entirely crimson, yet it was formless and intangible.

Using the boundless vitality as fuel and the sins of all living beings as flames, this is the karmic fire between heaven and earth.

All living beings in the world have karmic obstacles. If these karmic obstacles are not eliminated, it is difficult to escape the burning of karmic fire, and in the end, they will turn into a handful of ashes in this flame.

This is the heavenly fire and pure fire that Avalokiteshvara practiced for the purpose of destroying the world.

May all the sins of the world be burned in this karmic fire.

At this moment, she held nothing back and unleashed her most powerful techniques. The crimson karmic fire ignored the twisting and devouring power of the Devouring Heaven Bottle and burned directly on Wu Tian's body according to the cause-and-effect connection.

Wu Tian was slightly stunned. In an instant, unimaginable pain came from every corner of his body, reaching the depths of his soul.

"Purifying Karmic Fire?!"

He recognized the supernatural power the other party was using. This was Avalokitesvara's most terrifying supernatural power, and the fundamental power that made immortals, Buddhas, demons and monsters in the Three Realms fear her like the plague.

It is precisely because of the existence of this karmic fire that Avalokiteshvara possesses an almost transcendent demeanor, even commanding respect from powerful Golden Immortals.

At this moment, the karmic fire is burning him, not only his body, but also his magical power and cultivation, trying to burn him to ashes from the very foundation of his existence.

However, Wu Tian's Devouring Heaven Body was too powerful. After the great sun was extinguished, the Devouring Heaven Body, which was formed from the infinite collapse, possessed a terrifying power that ordinary people could not even imagine when it was condensed to the extreme.

He simply activated the Devouring Heaven Body, causing the 480 million incantations that formed this body to roar, and then rotate like a black hole, as if a sleeping abyss had been awakened.

All light in the sky and on the ground was swallowed up, everything was silent, the world lost its color, the sun and moon ceased to exist, and the starlight dimmed.

All beings in the Three Realms were shrouded in darkness, and all living beings felt fear from the bottom of their hearts, as if there was an incomparably terrifying being that wanted to swallow the entire Three Realms whole.

hum!hum!
Rumble!
It looked like wheels were rolling, or like a whirlpool was twisting.

That inextinguishable karmic fire, which could only disappear by burning away all sins and life force and turning the enemy to ashes, was actually extinguished just like that.

Although Avalokitesvara did not witness this scene firsthand, she could clearly feel the karmic fire she had unleashed disappear.

She felt a chill run through her body and turned to run away without hesitation.

Even the karmic fire couldn't harm her; if the fight continued, she would only face certain death.

Just then, the darkness between heaven and earth gradually dissipated, and the light of the sun, moon, and stars shone down on the earth once more.

Wu Tian watched as Guan Zizai transformed into a beam of Buddhist light and fled westward, a cold smile appearing on his face. "Trying to escape now? Don't you think it's too late?"

With a single step, he distorted the void, covering millions of miles in an instant.

The Heaven-Devouring Bottle fell from the sky, like a small world crashing down.

The void around Guanzizai's body instantly became incredibly heavy, even distorted. Although he was clearly fleeing forward, he was turned back by the influence of the Devouring Heaven Bottle.

Her face turned deathly pale instantly.

Damn it!

Rumble!
As the Heaven-Swallowing Treasure Bottle descended, Guanyin's protective white lotus spun wildly, its countless petals intertwining to envelop her body.

boom!
The nine-petaled lotus platform suddenly exploded, and the supreme vitality and fortune it contained were directly swallowed up by the treasure bottle.

Guanzi's hair was disheveled, and her once beautiful face was now extremely disheveled. There was even a blood pool on her forehead where the Devouring Heaven Bottle had smashed into her, making her look incredibly terrifying.

What's even more terrifying is the man who slowly walked up to her.

"That's all!"

Wu Tian slowly opened his mouth, then reached out and grabbed the treasure bottle, pointing it downwards towards Guan Zizai.

This scene is strikingly similar to the one when Avalokiteshvara used the jade bottle to suppress him.

However, when faced with the suppression of the Devouring Bottle, Guanyin did not have the means of resistance that the Golden Crow Dharma Form had used before.

Having lost the Jade Bottle and the Willow Branch, and with her protective White Lotus shattered, she even disregarded the power and resources of the Karmic Fire. At this moment, she was extremely exhausted and had exhausted all means.

They could only watch helplessly as the Devouring Heaven Bottle fell.

Even though several divine powers were unleashed to block it, the Devouring Heaven Bottle cast a dark light that spun around and swallowed the divine powers.

hum!
The Devouring Bottle rotated slightly, emitting a power of devouring and twisting.

Avalokiteshvara's body was immediately drawn into the bottle.

"Great, great, a wonderful treasure!"

Wu Tian smiled, reached out and put away the treasure bottle, his gaze fixed on the Guanyin Bodhisattva sitting cross-legged inside, her whole body radiating brilliant Buddhist light, a relic rising from her back, frantically resisting the refinement of the Devouring Heaven Bottle.

"You woman, you have quite a deep understanding and experience."

"If I want to refine you, it will probably take thirteen days."

"Then you'll obediently turn into a pool of pus and blood..."

"This ending can be considered a form of karmic retribution."

He murmured to himself, then suddenly looked up at the sky.

Suddenly, a hand appeared in the heavens. (End of Chapter)