A Scroll of Infinite Glory

Chapter 653 The Cycle of Heaven and Earth, the Blooming of the Five Elements

The Golden-Eyed Demon King knew the Divine Armor Dao Lord inside and out.

The Immortal Spirit Clan does not possess the great divine power of tribulation response passed down by the Xuan Bird Dao Venerable. Furthermore, the path of the Divine Armor Dao Lord is vastly different from the cultivation path of the Immortal Spirit Clan in the past.

Therefore, she was certain that the strongest method of the Divine Armor Dao Lord was to use his true body along with the Holy Lord's armor to perform the Great Art of Borrowing Armor for cultivation and to set up an array for attack.

As for Guan Luoyang's methods such as the Eternal Divine Fire and the Primordial Golden List, they were mentioned in the letters from the four departments of the Heavenly Court, and she had long been on guard against them.

Unexpectedly, after seemingly exhausting all their methods, these two suddenly unleashed a powerful supernatural ability they had never encountered before.

The power unleashed by this great divine ability was even more terrifying than the Taoist techniques they had cultivated for a long time!

Above the pitch-black sky, eleven large stars, each with its own unique charm, suddenly appeared, radiating unparalleled and intense light.

The true form and avatars of the Wondrous Image Heavenly Demon King, relying on the uniqueness of the Wondrous Image Heavenly Demon Path, were about to break free from the suppression and find another opportunity to retreat and maneuver.

But now, illuminated by the starlight, even the Demon King's gaze froze completely.

Conversely, the magnificent and eternally beautiful world she created seemed to be overwhelmed and began to fluctuate violently under the starlight.

The ground, the void, the mountains and rivers, and the mythical beasts all rippled with layers upon layers of bubbles.

The Seven Luminaries and Four Auxiliary Stars, the Mysterious Arts of Destiny!

The Seven Luminaries refer to the seven celestial bodies: the Sun, the Moon, Venus, Jupiter, Mercury, Mars, and Saturn.

The Four Remainders refer to the four illusory stars: Zi Qi, Yue Bo, Rahu, and Ketu.

In the vast void of the Great Sea, after the creation of the world, all the great Daos are mainly divided into three parts. One part manifests as the Heavenly Dao, another part evolves into the Human Dao, both of which are within the world. The third part is outside the world, connected to the Chaos, and floats aimlessly.

Within the vast void and boundless sea, the reason why those world groups can naturally change their height according to their internal prosperity is because countless great Daos connect the inside and outside.

Changes in the internal Heavenly Way and Human Way will cause corresponding changes in the Great Way on the outside of the world. When the Great Way of the third part comes into contact with Chaos, it will generate buoyancy that causes the entire world group to rise or sink.

The Heavenly Mandate Mystic Arts created by the Mystic Bird Daoist are intended to unify all the Great Daos of the third part of the myriad realms and condense them into eleven supreme and profound stars.

By manipulating the movement, positional changes, and starlight combinations of the eleven stars, one can freely adjust the layout of all the myriad realms, bringing them under one's will, and then, from the outside in, further control all the destinies within the myriad realms.

In the predictions of the Xuan Niao Dao Zun, when the Heavenly Mandate Mystic Arts truly reached their peak, it would only take a gentle touch on any of the finest starlight lines to cause earth-shattering changes to the external paths, the Heavenly Path, and the Human Path in all the heavens and myriad realms.

A single thought can bring utter desolation or boundless prosperity. It can leave all realms desolate, devoid of any intelligent beings, or it can cause the Great Dao to flourish, unleash a burst of fortune, and produce countless celestial immortals, trillions of wondrous creatures, and millions of emperors, all of whom will eventually return to the realm of immortals.

When that time comes, all he needs to do to quell the great calamity is to reach out and move eleven stars to separate the karmic calamities of all the heavens and myriad realms.

Similarly, if he wanted to recreate the great calamity, he only needed to move the eleven stars closer together.

The Great Crimson Brightness, the great calamity that has troubled, inspired, and resisted countless sages throughout the ages, will become a small ripple that he can create at will, unprecedented in its magnificence, surpassing all the sacred calamities of the past.

Although his grand vision was shattered by Gonggong, and his career in the Mystic Arts of Destiny collapsed, the supreme Seven Luminaries and Four Auxiliary Stars also became empty talk.

However, because Gonggong was later suppressed by the Heavenly Emperor, the derivative concept of Xuan Niao Dao Zun was given a chance to breathe, leaving countless traces in the Great Void Sea, especially in the myriad realms, where the traces involving the Seven Luminaries and Four Auxiliary Stars were the most profound.

Guan Luoyang and Shenjia Daojun both have deep karmic connections with the Immortal Spirit Clan and Xuan Niao Daozun.

Together, they comprehended the Eternal Divine Fire and observed the time when the Mysterious Bird Daoist created and researched the Seven Luminaries and Four Pillars. Now, they joined forces to unleash this great divine power and manipulate the fortune of the Immortal Spirit Clan.

Throughout the myriad realms, all traces of cause and effect related to the Seven Luminaries and Four Auxiliary Stars were thus drawn in.

That deep, pure black sky, which could even temporarily obscure the light of the heavens and the colors of chaos, was an extraordinary phenomenon caused by an incredible amount of causal traces suddenly converging.

Those eleven great stars were shaped from this profound and weighty cause and effect.

Eleven stars burst forth in the sky, growing increasingly dazzling.

The sacred mountain is majestic, with caves within caves and caves outside caves, capable of containing billions of time and space and boundless territory. But under the starlight, countless mountain ranges surge like waves, and then lightly collapse and disintegrate, turning into dense and tiny bubbles that float upwards.

The earth is rapidly collapsing, ravaging vegetation. A single fruit, which takes the combined energy of multiple universes to form, is now scattered like colorful raindrops from the boundless orchard, all turning into tiny bubbles that rise in clusters.

As this eternal and beautiful landscape was destroyed one after another, the true form and avatars of the Demon King of Wonderful Images also underwent terrifying changes.

Huge, crystal-clear, and indestructible bubbles rose one after another from her body surface and expanded outwards.

It was an extremely long time, yet it felt like only a blink of an eye; the noble fairy and the beautiful Buddha were no more.

The original location was now filled with dazzling, crystalline, and all-encompassing wonders, like 840 trillion crystal balls gathered together, each of which was still expanding in size.

The Heavenly Mandate Mystic Arts are designed to rule all the heavens and myriad realms and control all destinies in the order of heretical paths, heavenly paths, and human paths. The first target is the "heretical paths" that exist on the surface of the world.

The Mysterious Demon King takes the manifestations of the Great Dao as his path of cultivation.

Within the same realm, although the Heavenly Fate Mystic Arts cannot break through this appearance of the Great Dao, as long as the amount of cause and effect is large enough, it can forcibly change its appearance by using that power that governs all heavens from the outside in.

Just as everything beneath this deep sky transformed into crystal spheres and tiny bubbles.

A large, broad hand with clear palm lines and a pale golden complexion broke through the void and arrived beneath the sky, reaching out to grab the crystal spheres.

Behind the void, the owner of this giant hand had a kind expression, lowered his eyes, and wore a golden-red kasaya draped diagonally, over which he wore a black silk robe with gold thread and Bagua patterns.

He had a full forehead, thick black hair, and many dark gemstones embedded in his hair. His long hair, after being coiled and twisted, fell down and still reached his waist.

It is the true form of the Buddha of the Fragrant Accumulation Treasure!

The surprise attack on the Seven Virtues and Adornments Buddha was noticed by everyone on both sides at the time, including many great Bodhisattvas from the Buddhist community who wanted to help alleviate the immediate crisis and prevent the situation from deteriorating into a major defeat.

However, the human race had already successfully outmaneuvered them. With the formation encircling them, how could they be allowed to easily come to their aid?

Only the Buddha of Xiangji Treasure, with his celestial avatar, held off the Divine Farmer, while his true form swiftly moved forward, managing to repel the Divine Farmer and defeat the Divine Farmer of Tang Yao, before finally arriving at his side.

With this grab, he intended to help the Seven Blessed Buddhas escape the oppression of starlight.

But before his magic could even touch those crystal spheres, the heavens were already enraged.

The entire dark sky crashed down with a deafening roar, and the eleven large stars merged and then split, transforming into two figures.

The Divine Armor Dao Lord descended at roughly the same speed as the sky, and was still controlling this deep sky and the countless bubbles below.

Guan Luoyang, however, took the initiative, turning his blade in a backhand strike to disintegrate himself, transforming into a raging torrent of blue-green energy that was infinitely faster, and crashed violently into the crystal spheres.

All the crystal balls were instantly stained with leaping, incessant blue flames.

"You are also a Heavenly Demon, so you should understand that for those who have cultivated the Heavenly Demon Path to our level, suppressing them is far more difficult than simply defeating them!"

The Buddha of the Fragrant Accumulation of Treasures lowered his gaze and spoke softly. He touched his forehead with his left hand, and a chaotic, mysterious light shot up from the top of his head, splitting into three parts and then into five.

Amidst the swirling of five-colored, five-elemental energies, countless golden lamps floated into the air, each octagonal and adorned with dragon and phoenix script, resembling both glazed pagodas and divine jade furnaces, temporarily supporting the deep sky.

His right hand changed into a hand seal, like lotus flowers blooming one after another, or perhaps like an eternal cycle, moving between his fingers and palms, the strange seal striking the crystal balls.

The bluish-green flames immediately began to flicker rapidly, their brightness fluctuating and their life cycle ending endlessly.

"By forcibly holding back Miaoxiang, you've made it difficult to use your various supernatural powers as you wish, only giving me an opportunity to injure you. How about we each take a step back?"

Although the Buddha Xiangji Baozang said this, he actually showed no intention of backing down, and his boundless magical power had already been unleashed.

Hundreds of millions of golden lamps in the sky exploded one after another, but the explosions were very regular, as if the lamps were bursting open and divine light was blooming, trying to burn through the deep sky.

The Divine Armor Dao Lord used the profound heavens to suppress it, but immediately sensed something was wrong; the power of the collision between the two was completely diverted away.

Just like when those lamps bloom, they have already ignited every bit of power that collided with each other, awakened their intelligence, and entered the cycle of reincarnation.

In this vast world, countless beings are reincarnated life after life, accumulating wisdom through spiritual practice.

This is the true essence of the cycle of reincarnation in the immortal path, and it is the expectation of the sages of the immortal path for reincarnation.

Reincarnation, reincarnation, is not about returning to the starting point, but about moving forward in the cycle, and this is the smoothest, fastest, and most comprehensive way to move forward!

Heaven and earth revolve, the five elements blossom, and the mortal world spans countless lifetimes, yet a single thought can bring us back!

The supreme supernatural power of the Buddha of the Fragrant Accumulation Treasure was activated. With a single seal, the extremely pure and delicate power, after countless lifetimes of reincarnation, was about to expel Guan Luoyang completely from the crystal sphere.

However, at this moment, the Holy Lord's armor, which was nailed to the twenty corners of the beautiful world, all flew up at the same time.

Guan Luoyang's phantom appeared above the numerous crystal spheres. With a long laugh, he waved his hands, and his sword light slashed wildly in all directions.

The sound of broken strings, a cacophony of noise, never ceased.

The cause and effect sequence of the beautiful world was severed like a silken thread, collapsing and becoming chaotic. The remaining mountains and lands finally turned into bubbles and flew away.

The Divine Armor Dao Lord, having already reached a tacit understanding, activated the Holy Lord Armor amidst the chaos, setting up the "Great and Small Heavenly Netherworld Form Absolute Array"!

The formation created by Gonggong was originally based on the turbulent and chaotic world.

Especially now that the residual effects of Xuan Niao Dao Zun's supernatural powers are still present, sensing the array intent of his mortal enemy, he immediately showed signs of losing control, further increasing the chaos.

The Buddha of the Fragrant Accumulation of Treasures suddenly opened his eyes. What he was facing with the great supernatural power of "the cycle of heaven and earth, the blossoming of the five elements" was no longer the fire of self-disintegration, but the crystal sphere.

Instead, it completely exceeded his perception range in an instant. Even with his mid-level Heavenly Venerable realm, he could not see even a corner of the chaotic crystal light surge.

boom!!!!!

Xia Yu Shengsi was engaged in a fierce battle with the Heavenly Dao avatar of the Subtle Sound Buddha, risking his life and covered in blood, when he suddenly felt the millions of world-destroying vortexes around him tremble violently and show signs of collapse.

He turned his head and saw that one side of the Chaos Dragon Nest was bursting with an intense light that was hard to look at directly.

The endless crystalline luster, which should have been spherical, changed shape during its rapid movement, like flying swords and divine light, weaving and intertwining, vibrating and exploding, forming a huge sphere that spun wildly, expanded and rose upwards.

With a series of booming sounds, the violent and howling divine light continued to spread outwards in concentric circles as the sphere rotated.

The entire Chaos Dragon Nest was forcibly opened up.

Originally, this dragon's nest was based on the sacred land of Lihen, forming a nest that was roughly funnel-shaped.

But now, the foundation of this dragon's nest is being stretched outward by the chaotic crystalline luster, completely separating it from the Sacred Land of Separation and Hatred.

At this moment, the Dragon Nest is like a chaotic, circular high wall, starting from the Sacred Land of Separation and pushing outwards, crushing the vast and boundless chaotic waves, crossing part of the Boundary Sea, and coming into contact with a new sacred land.

The next moment, the boundary of the Dragon's Nest encompassed the new holy land as well, and the boiling, chaotic crystalline luster swept across it, expanding further into the distance.

The sheer size of those holy lands is beyond description; the chaotic seas separating them are often much larger than the holy lands themselves.

But in the end, supported by that crystalline tidal wave, a total of nineteen holy lands, along with all the chaotic seas separating them, were all included within the boundaries of the Dragon's Nest.

Not to mention the expanding shimmering waves of crystalline light, even the original, violently rotating crystalline sphere is now far larger than the Sacred Land of Separation from Hatred.

Compared to the two, the entire Sacred Land of Separation and Hatred was like a small stone trampled under the foot of a luminous ancient giant.

All the human holy lords and great bodhisattvas who had fought within this area were shaken back.

Because of the changes in the formation and their supernatural powers, the boundless spacetime and the infinitely layered universes that were formed were all leveled and completely collapsed.

Just as this sphere was about to touch the extremely high battlefield between Mu Feng Tianzun and Miao Weisheng Buddha, under the shock from all directions, all the crystalline luster collapsed and disintegrated like a snowdrift.

Many powerful figures from both the human and Buddhist communities gazed up at that scene in awe.

They clearly saw that the divine powers unleashed by the two high-level Celestial Venerables in their battle had also been noticeably deflected by the impact of this giant crystalline sphere.

But amidst the countless crystalline glimmers that collapsed, a figure that had already fallen suddenly rose again.

The Buddha of Xiangji Treasure Trove!

When he was the Heavenly Demon King, his title was the Guangfu Weiyang Heavenly Demon King.

The vast and boundless palace, where one can enjoy endless treasures.

When Shenjia Daojun fought Guan Luoyang, he once used the Five Primordial Daos of the Primordial Era, but that was just a temporary Five Primordial Divine Power that he created using an array.

The Buddha of Xiangji Treasure was once considered a figure who could potentially achieve the status of a Xuanmen Celestial Venerable through the Five Tai Dao.

His Xuanmen Taoist methods are based on the Five Primordial Elements, and his practice, cultivation, transformation, collection, and concealment are all deeply rooted in the true essence of Xuanmen. His essence, energy, and spirit are perfectly complete and without leakage, the Three Flowers gather at the top of the head, and the Five Qi return to their origin.

However, no one expected that when he opened up his own Great Dao Realm while at the peak of Emperor status, he had a new insight and gave up on opening up the Great Dao Realm. He reversed the newly generated source of time and light, turning it into a chaotic mass that would no longer evolve.

He transformed the Five Tai Dao into the Unending Heavenly Demon Dao, directly stepping into the realm of the Heavenly Demon King.

The so-called Unending Heavenly Demon focuses on the word "collection," only taking in and not giving out. However, unlike the Taotie, it does not pursue outward devouring and violent plundering. The Unending Heavenly Demon's collection is simply something that comes along by chance. If it desires something, it will collect it and then brew it until it becomes mellow and rich.

Compared to the ancient Taotie gods and demons, the Way of the Unending Heavenly Demon is undoubtedly gentler and more unpredictable, and in terms of pure nourishment, it is far superior to the Way of Taotie.

Collecting treasures is collecting, saving energy is also collecting. Buddhism requires controlling one's thoughts, and Taoism requires purifying one's vital energy. All of these are about seeking to collect and prevent leakage, which is also a form of collecting.

The Dao Guang Wuji Disintegration Technique that Guan Luoyang just created was a combination of his own body, the Eternal Divine Fire, the Primordial Golden List, the Divine Armor Dao Lord, the armor of twenty Holy Lords, and the true body and clones of the Mysterious Image Heavenly Demon.

There is also the traces of cause and effect of the Mysterious Bird Daoist Venerable, the Seven Luminaries and Four Auxiliary Stars, which have flowed through the myriad realms over the past 5.6 billion years.

Such power undoubtedly completely overwhelmed the true form of the Buddha of the Fragrant Abundance, yet the damage it caused to him was only minor.

Only about one-tenth of his nascent Dao Fruit had lost its luster.

"If one's qi is not pure, one's strength is not unified, and one's excess is misdirected, one can unleash one's power but cannot conceal it, resulting in such chaos, how can one be worthy of praise?!"

The Buddha of Xiangji Treasures stood tall amidst the shimmering light, advancing instead of retreating, intending to seize this opportunity to severely damage Guan Luoyang.

He stomped his foot on the ground, and the surrounding collapsing crystalline light suddenly fell silent. Countless rays of light paused, and after returning to stillness from their flying sword-like divine light form, they revealed their original appearance: tiny bubble-like shapes.

"Heaven and earth cycle, the five elements flourish!"

All the slowed-down bubbles that collapsed from the front were rolled up by the Buddha of the Fragrant Accumulation Treasure, transforming into the six great cycles of rebirth, reenacting the imagery of countless lifetimes and endless cycles of return.

"Fengming Daoist, can you still withstand this transformation of my divine power?!"

As if in response to the Buddha's great shout at the Xiangji Treasure, the upper half of Guan Luoyang's phantom reappeared at the center of the frantically collapsing, crystalline light.

"Ha! It's precisely because I need an opponent like you that I can truly witness the new battle strategy I've devised!!"

Such a chaotic outbreak naturally had its drawbacks. Guan Luoyang's own magical power fluctuations had not yet recovered, and the suppression of the Myriad Manifestations Demon was almost gone, and the opponent was about to break free of control.

Even if Guan Luoyang were to die again, he wouldn't have enough power to involve other things and unleash the same power as before.

But at that very moment, just as those crystal balls emerged from their crystalline luster, about to break free of control and revert to their celestial demonic form.

Guan Luoyang flicked his sleeve and threw out a large pile of stones.

These pebbles formed a human shape, and then the cracked stone statue was struck by the light of Guan Luoyang's laughter as he disintegrated once again, scattering together and falling into the crystalline luster.

What to do when things are about to spiral out of control and weaken after the chaos?

Don't think about reducing anything to restore order. The Great Way is boundless, so why reduce anything?

By adding elements that you can control, and adding more of them, you can increase your control in the shortest time while ensuring power.

Buzz!

And so, the endless, collapsing crystalline luster begins to flow once more!

(End of this chapter)