Chapter 788

"And the source of Shushan lies in the Daoism of the Immortal World; to be precise, it is the three giants of Daoism, the Three Pure Ones, the Upper Pure Lingbao Heavenly Venerable..."

514. Fu Hua: Fine, fine, fine, the Honkai is solved, and now Heavenly Demons have arrived.

"Upper Pure... Lingbao Heavenly Venerable?"

Fu Hua looked at Himeko in shock, and after recalling, Kallen was even more astonished.

In the Daoist mythology of Shenzhou, this Upper Pure Lingbao Heavenly Venerable was one of the three supreme gods; strictly speaking, he was a Great Luo.

His status in Daoism was even higher than that of God in Christianity.

"Wait! You mean, this kind of Great Luo from mythology actually exists?"

Fu Hua looked at Himeko in astonishment, and the latter nodded.

"That's right. Strictly speaking, it is precisely because they exist that their myths have spread throughout the heavens and myriad worlds."

"A Great Luo whose own existence transcends the Great Dao and who is eternally free and unfettered."

"The Shenzhou myths you have heard are basically all true."

"Nüwa creating humans, Fuxi drawing the Eight Trigrams to open the heavens, the Haotian God monitoring the myriad Daos..."

"These beings are all real Great Luos."

"They are unfettered throughout the heavens and myriad worlds; even if the myriad worlds are destroyed, their own freedom remains unchanged."

"As one of the leaders of Daoism in the Immortal World, the Great Luo that Shushan follows is naturally the Lingbao Great Heavenly Venerable, one of the Three Pure Ones."

"Besides this, the original Shushan of the Immortal World had extremely broad connections. In addition to following the Lingbao Great Heavenly Venerable, it also possessed three ancestors at the Taiyi level."

"The names of these three ancestors are unknown, but according to the information we have obtained..."

"These three ancestors had broad friendships, and they had very good relationships with the Nine Heavens Responding to the Thunder Sound Manifestation Heavenly Venerable of the Thunder Department of the Heavenly Court, the Four Sovereigns and Five Emperors, the Ten Kings of the Underworld, the Four Sea Dragon Kings..."

"And even the Guanyin World-Honored One, Puxian World-Honored One, and the Merit Buddha of the Buddhist sect."

Kallen was silent for a moment, then said somewhat strangely:

"The Merit Buddha is... Tang Sanzang?"

Himeko smiled and nodded.

"There really is a Tang Sanzang, so doesn't that mean there's also a Sun Wukong?"

Kallen asked casually with some curiosity, and Kiana said in surprise:

"Sister Kallen, how did you know?"

"The cultivation technique I chose in the Shushan Library is a remnant of the Great Sage Equaling Heaven's Chaotic World Demon Ape Staff Technique. I am also a successor of the Great Sage Equaling Heaven!"

Kallen was silent.

She swore she really just asked casually.

"In fact, all the beings mentioned above are Taiyi, while Sun Wukong, Yang Jian, Zhu Bajie, Nezha, and so on, are all great beings at the Golden Immortal level."

"Coincidentally..."

Himeko smiled and spread her hands:

"These great gods are also friends of Shushan, and they have left behind quite a few inheritances in Shushan."

"For example, First Seat Zhongli's Clear Origin Wonderful Law Manifestation Curse, Kiana's Chaotic World Demon Ape Staff Technique, and so on."

"The immortals you are familiar with basically all have good relationships with Shushan."

"This is the source of Shushan: the Shushan Dao Sect of the Immortal World, one of the leaders of Daoism, and one of the greatest forces in the Immortal World."

"At the same time, it is precisely because of such a foundation that the Shushan of the lower realm can become the leader of the righteous path in the cultivation world."

Fu Hua was silent for a long time, then suddenly said:

"Teacher Himeko, you said before that this is the original Shushan, so now..."

Himeko and the others were silent for a moment, then shook their heads.

"It's all gone... No one knows what happened. All cultivators call that day the Day of Dharma Destruction."

"Within a single day, the entire heavens and myriad worlds, all the Chaos Seas, and all areas covered by the Dao collapsed."

"Only a Great Luo could do this, but... no one dared to think too much about it."

"A Great Luo is not an Immortal; they are beings that transcend the Dao. Cultivators spend their whole lives just chasing the end of the Dao."

"Even if they reach the end of the Dao and become Taiyi, they cannot obtain the regard of a Great Luo."

"In short, the past doesn't matter anymore. Shushan has accumulated a lot of foundation, and the Sect Leader is also a being with extremely strong talent. With him here, Shushan will soon be revived."

"Just like it is now."

Himeko smiled and said softly:

"The Sect Leader is a master at the late stage of Refining Void into Dao. In addition, there is First Seat Zhongli at the Refining Spirit into Void realm, and other First Seats and Elders at the peak of Refining Qi into Spirit."

"Shushan is also gradually recovering and becoming stronger. As long as one reaches the early stage of Refining Qi into Spirit, one can easily suppress the Honkai; reaching the peak of Refining Qi into Spirit, one can easily modify the Imaginary Tree."

"By then, not only can the Honkai in the Honkai world be solved, but the entire Tree and Sea universe will be free of Honkai."

"In short, as of now, cultivation is the most important thing."

"Moreover, the Honkai is no longer the most troublesome thing we face. Cultivators also have their own enemies."

Fu Hua and Kallen hadn't reacted yet, but after a moment of silence, they suddenly understood Himeko's words.

They looked at her in astonishment.

"So, a disaster even more terrifying than the Honkai has descended?"

"Yes."

Himeko nodded helplessly.

"This is a disaster that cannot be avoided; even if we don't cultivate, we can't escape it."

"This is a crisis that affects all the heavens and myriad worlds except for the Immortal World."

"Compared to the other side, the Honkai doesn't even compare to one of their ordinary soldiers."

Fu Hua pondered for a moment, her eyes lighting up. She vaguely remembered that in the cultivation novels she had read before, there was a type of existence called Demonic Cultivators...

"Is it... Demonic Cultivators?"

Himeko was stunned for a moment, nodded, then shook her head:

"Very close, but... Demonic Cultivators aren't considered very troublesome either."

"After the Day of Dharma Destruction, the entire cultivation world suffered a heavy blow."

"Even if they are Demonic Cultivators, they couldn't recover so quickly. They do indeed use extreme cultivation methods, and their cultivation speed is faster than ordinary cultivators."

"But whether it's devouring life to cultivate or harvesting cauldrons, where are there so many lives in the current cultivation world?"

"Shushan being able to possess a master at the Refining Void into Dao realm so quickly after the Day of Dharma Destruction is already the best in the entire cultivation world."

"According to the Sect Leader, the strongest human in the entire cultivation world right now is probably at the late stage of Refining Spirit into Void."

Fu Hua nodded slightly and asked again:

"Then is it the Demon Race?"

Himeko shook her head.

"The Demon Race also needs time to accumulate cultivation base. What's more, the Shushan world itself is now teeming with all kinds of spirits, and there are many demons."

"But these demons all have to rely on Shushan to survive. To put it bluntly, they are vassal races of Shushan."

Kiana nodded quickly.

"That's right, that's right! Mei and I followed Senior Sister Ganyu to notify the major demon races the day before yesterday."

"The strongest of those demon races are only at the peak of Refining Qi into Spirit, but... the demon races are indeed very interesting."

"We saw the Bi-Wing Bird clan, the Qingqiu Fox clan, the Golden Eagle clan, the Stone Spirit clan..."

"Those demon races were quite polite to Senior Sister Ganyu, and we even got some gifts."

Fu Hua nodded thoughtfully.

Since even Immortals existed, there was nothing unacceptable about having more demons.

"Then what kind of existence is it?"

Himeko sighed.

"Cultivators, besides the traditional enemies of demons, have the most troublesome enemy... the Heavenly Demons."

"Heavenly Demons! Extraterritorial Heavenly Demons?"

Fu Hua felt her scalp tingle. Himeko glanced at her; Fu Hua knew more than she had expected.

"Extraterritorial Heavenly Demons do indeed exist, but those are existences of the Immortal World."

"The Heavenly Demons of the cultivation world are a very special kind of life. Simply put..."

"They are Heavenly Demons of Desire."