Chapter 398: The Old Dragon is Executed and the Treasure is Obtained; The Monkey Takes Charge of the Flat Peach Garden

"Go!"

Fang Longye raised the Yu Emperor Stele and smashed it toward the old dragon Hun Yu, while his thoughts turned and he sacrificed the "Five-Colored Universe Flag" hanging above his head.

Instantly, a point of spiritual light appeared, and in a flash, the surging Aura expanded, transforming into five great flags—red, yellow, white, cyan, and black—their five colors distinct, with auspicious radiance rising.

The flagpole of each great flag was straight and slender, wrapped in mysterious patterns like coiling dragons and snakes, while on the flag surface, lotus flowers bloomed in layers upon layers, jumping with unique colors.

The five great flags submerged into the void, immediately forming an unbreakable formation that isolated the inside from the outside.

This was precisely his goal; it was not for defense, but to prevent this old dragon from escaping as much as possible, even though the True Spirit of this old dragon was surely already in the Source Sea, never having returned to its true body.

"Kill!"

Hun Yu knew in his heart that he would likely fall at the hands of the Yuanlong brat before him today, but he would never just sit still and wait for death.

He would rather risk everything to break a mouthful of teeth off this brat than be willing to just stretch out his neck to be slaughtered!

Roar—Hun Yu let out an angry roar, forcibly breaking free from the Panlong Spear stuck in his chest, transforming into a dragon tens of thousands of feet in size, and charged toward Fang Longye.

"Kill!"

Hun Yu ravaged his own body, raising a thick, intense demonic aura, roaring and bellowing, carrying a stern killing intent, charging forward toward Fang Longye without looking back.

At the same time, a lamp flame rose above his head, crystal clear and shining brightly.

Once this lamp flame appeared, Yin and Yang, life and death, dead silence and eternity, order and chaos, rotated back and forth.

The entire world became different.

"Cuiguang Two Instruments Lamp!"

Fang Longye's eyes narrowed slightly; as the saying goes, know yourself and know your enemy, and you will never be defeated. Before coming to seek this old dragon, he had already checked the relevant information regarding this top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure.

This Innate treasure lamp was originally obtained by Donghuang Taiyi while traveling through Honghuang; it possessed forty-two Innate Divine Prohibitions and was ranked among the top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasures, its power naturally peerless.

It was just that for Donghuang Taiyi, the Chaos Bell was enough, so this treasure lamp became a mere trifle, always used for lighting his sleeping quarters.

However,

This did not mean the treasure lamp's power was not strong; with forty-two Divine Prohibitions, one could say the power of this lamp was ranked highly even among Innate Spiritual Treasures.

Placed in the current Honghuang, it would be no exaggeration to call it a legendary spiritual treasure.

And in the later Lich War,

This old dragon, colluding with his eight brothers, stole many things, and this legendary Innate treasure lamp fell into the hands of this old dragon.

Unexpectedly, having possessed the Cuiguang Two Instruments Lamp for so many years, he had truly managed to make something of it.

This treasure lamp contained the Two-Forms Dao, originally representing the phase of Two-Forms rotation, but he had conversely comprehended the power of Two-Forms inversion.

And from this, he derived and comprehended the Chaos Dao.

Yin and Yang, life and death, order and chaos—this treasure lamp unexpectedly complemented him perfectly, and the attacks in his hands were more violent than the lamp itself.

In almost the same instant, the treasure lamp shook, and overwhelming flames were produced out of thin air, filling the area around Fang Longye, seemingly following his Aura as they burned fiercely.

The flames initially appeared in Yin and Yang colors, turning into a golden expanse a moment later, then immediately shifting to Yin and Yang inside and red-gold outside...

In the end, they seemed to transform into the color of Chaos, with all colors contained within.

Every streak of fire was incomparably dazzling, like dragons and snakes coiling back and forth, mouths biting the sun and moon, tails encircling the stars; wherever they passed, everything was annihilated, and even space was burned away and disappeared.

In an instant, this boundary of space, reinforced by ancient mighty figures, collapsed with a boom and was completely annihilated.

The two of them moved from the present world to the Outer Void.

What is the Outer Void?

The Outer Void is not Chaos, nor is it the starry sky, but the gaps between worlds.

As mentioned before, following the many great Calamities of the past, Honghuang had long since shattered, leaving behind many fragments that evolved into various worlds of all sizes.

Among these, some worlds dispersed directly into Chaos, equivalent to temporarily breaking away from Honghuang.

There were also many worlds that did not disperse into Chaos but were scattered around Honghuang, later, under the promotion of the First Emperor, forming the Zhou Tian Myriad Worlds with the current Three Realms.

Added to this were the Cave Heaven Blessed Lands and small worlds opened up by various immortals and mighty figures attached to the Three Realms.

It could be said that around the Three Realms, there were countless medium and small worlds, and even Great Thousand Worlds were not absent, dense and numerous, very plentiful.

And the intervals, or gaps, between these worlds are called the Outer Void.

Viewed another way, it could also be said that all worlds, large and small, including the Three Realms, are situated in the Outer Void.

Just like that Honghu Realm from before, it was actually within the Outer Void.

The flames were fierce, an indescribable sea of fire rising, circling and swirling, illuminating the deep Outer Void all around with unspeakable colors, flickering between light and dark.

"Hoo—"

Fang Longye, with the Profound Spirit Escaping Armor above his head, stepping on the Yuan Dragon Treasure Cauldron, and the Five-Colored Treasure Tree hanging like a canopy behind his back, stood in the sea of fire, looking completely unscathed.

"I was almost fooled by you old fellow!"

The fully armed Fang Longye looked at the old dragon in the distance who was planning to escape and sneered coldly.

He waved his large sleeve, and clear waves rippled, treasure shadows falling into the waves; in the void, five great flags were revealed, still forming a formation as before, firmly sealing time and space.

Peerless treasure light burst forth, brilliant and bright, illuminating the inside and outside, evolving into thousands of colorful clouds.

The five-colored rays of light formed lotus flowers of various colors blooming and falling from bottom to top, dripping with glazed colors, beautiful and magnificent.

"My 'Five-Colored Universe Flag' is modeled after the Innate Five Directions Five Colors Flags; each one has forty-two Post-Heaven Divine Prohibitions. Once the great formation is set, not only is the defense peerless, but it can also isolate the inside from the outside. Without the cultivation realm of a Daluo, no one can escape even with wings—"

Fang Longye looked at the old dragon who had turned around, smiled, and said leisurely: "Although the Cuiguang Two Instruments Lamp is an Innate Spiritual Treasure, its attack power is still a bit lacking. You just feinted, wanting to use it to break the seal of my formation; you've miscalculated."

Having said that, he was too lazy to talk nonsense with this old dragon anymore, reached out and summoned, the Panlong Spear returned to his hand, and various spiritual treasures were activated, bombarding him wildly.

Seeing that things had come to this, the old dragon hardened his heart, and all his power burst forth, all sacrificed to the Cuiguang Two Instruments Lamp.

For a time, dragon-like flames headed toward Fang Longye, endless and burning fiercely, impossible to dodge, evade, or block.

Unfortunately, for Fang Longye, having stacked his defenses to this level, even if this old dragon held a purely offensive treasure of the same grade as the Cuiguang Two Instruments Lamp, he could do nothing to him.

After a round of bombardment, the true form of Lao Jiao, which had not recovered for long, was extinguished once again.

And this time, Fang Longye would naturally not be like last time, giving him another chance to resurrect from the Source Sea.

This was also the reason why Lao Jiao had just feinted a move, intending to flee once more.

Because although as a Taiyi Golden Immortal, his True Spirit could be entrusted to the Source Sea and he could recover after his true form perished, it did not mean his opponent had no way to deal with him.

As the saying goes, the monk may run, but the temple cannot; as long as one has powerful Spirit Treasures and means in hand, one can naturally wipe his True Spirit out from the Source Sea.

By that time, he would be completely perished.

Fang Longye did not hesitate; with a thought, his True Spirit, carrying various Spirit Treasures, arrived within the Dao Source Sea.

A Great Dao long river lay across the void; it saw no sky above and touched no earth below, vast and boundless without cliffs or banks, deep and unfathomable in its bottom, flowing silently and without a sound.

At a glance, it seemed still and condensed, yet in reality, it was vast and mighty, inconceivable~

A dragon shadow with distinct scales, baring fangs and brandishing claws, wound for an unknown number of miles, swimming within the long river as if a Dragon King were patrolling his own territory.

This dragon shadow was precisely Fang Longye's Meta-Dragon Mark.

At this moment, a stream of brilliance flowed and descended into the dragon shadow within the Great Dao long river, with Dao essence swirling around it. Subsequently,

The Meta-Dragon Mark underwent a change, transforming into the figure of Fang Longye, with large sleeves fluttering, divine light shining brilliantly behind him, and a Dharma lotus beneath his feet, wandering within the long river.

Fang Longye stepped on the Dharma lotus, wandering in his own Great Dao long river, following the sensing in the void to search for the location of this Lao Jiao's mark.

The Profound Spirit Escape Armor descended with golden light of merit, continuously evolving Eight Trigrams phantoms, with seal characters flying across.

"Found it!"

Very quickly, Fang Longye confirmed his target.

Immediately, he beckoned with his hand, and the 'Zhanxian Gourd', which had not yet been returned to Lu Ya, landed in his palm, and he activated it toward the location of Lao Jiao's mark.

With a clanging sound, an unparalleled sharpness suddenly leaped out; in just an instant, it crossed an immeasurable distance and arrived at the location of Lao Jiao's mark.

At the same time, the Heavenly Fox Mirror was also activated, its mirror light illuminating the Great Thousand, reflecting Lao Jiao's mark onto the mirror surface, and he swiped his left hand upward.

"No!"

Where the mark was, there was the True Spirit.

The attacks of the two top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasures arrived as expected, naturally exceeding the protection limit of the Cuiguang Two Instruments Lamp; Lao Jiao only had time to let out a roar before he lost all sound.

Whether it was the Great Dao mark or the True Spirit, both were completely annihilated, disappearing from the world~

In the present world,

The fall of a Taiyi Golden Immortal naturally triggered changes in celestial phenomena; for a time, mournful music resonated through heaven and earth.

Across an unknown number of tens of thousands of miles, blood rain fell in torrents, pouring down in a scattered manner.

For a time, countless immortals and gods were astonished by this.

"What is going on?"

"What happened?"

"I don't know."

"Is this... a Taiyi Golden Immortal falling?"

Let alone those low-to-mid-level beings who were in the dark, even those who were also Taiyi Golden Immortals were incredulous, and subsequently began to feel fear.

A Taiyi Golden Immortal, a being below the Daluo, stands across the heavens, with a lifespan equal to the sky; their True Spirit can be entrusted to the Source Sea, which can be called immortal and indestructible, and they are not so easy to kill.

Since the First Emperor conquered the heavens, despite countless struggles, the situations where a Taiyi Golden Immortal suffered a Calamity could be counted on one's fingers~

Even in that battle of dismissing gods by the Han Court some time ago, despite so many cultivators dying back and forth, not a single Taiyi Golden Immortal fell.

Who is so ferocious?

And who is so unlucky?

However, no matter how these Taiyi Golden Immortals speculated, they could not investigate the truth; after all, Fang Longye was also a Taiyi Golden Immortal, which was enough to shield everything.

Only those great powers who had always been paying attention to Fang Longye were clear about the specific situation.

In the Outer Void,

Fang Longye's True Spirit returned to his true form, reached out his hand, and gathered all the belongings left behind by Lao Jiao, Hun Yu.

As for the Cuiguang Two Instruments Lamp, it had already fallen into Fang Longye's hands after Lao Jiao's True Spirit perished.

"Good treasure! It was worth all this effort~" Fang Longye's eyes held a smile as he stroked the ancient treasure lamp in his hand, examining it incessantly.

The lamp was over half a foot tall, with its whole body swirling with purple and green.

Two lamp wicks burned into two points of flame, intertwined together, shining brightly, as if they were coiling snakes, presenting a lamp flame that seemed to be a mixture of Yin and Yang.

This Cuiguang Two Instruments Lamp looked plain and unremarkable, yet it contained unimaginable power.

Of course,

He did not superstitiously believe that the power of this treasure lamp could be invincible; after all, that Lao Jiao possessed such a treasure and still died at his hands.

But regardless, this was a top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure; once he refined it, using it to face enemies in the future would surely increase his combat power by another notch.

Fang Longye stroked this Innate treasure lamp for a while, then put it away, stretched, retracted the 'Five-Colored Universe Flag', and looked around.

He saw worlds of various sizes in the distance, in the Outer Void, like islands in rivers, lakes, and seas, some shining brilliantly, some flickering like fireflies.

The tides of time and space were constant, vast and mighty, from time to time forming many indescribable whirlpools, revealing dangerous Aura.

He hadn't noticed it after advancing to Taiyi Golden Immortal before,

Also in the Outer Void, the scenery he could see at his current Taiyi Golden Immortal realm was vastly different from what he saw when he was a Taiyi True Immortal.

His field of vision was broader, and his perspectives were more numerous.

"Time to go!"

Fang Longye shook his head, cast aside these thoughts, returned to the present world, and headed back to his own dojo.

All of Lao Jiao's belongings now belonged to him, and it was time to go back and digest them properly.

At the very least,

he had to refine the Cuiguang Two Instruments Lamp, this top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure, as soon as possible.

……

Time drifted by, and in a flash, over a dozen years passed.

Since Fang Longye killed that Lao Jiao in the East Sea, he had not stirred up much trouble over these years.

He had been quietly staying in his Daoist temple, slowly digesting the various collections of that Lao Jiao.

On this day, the Divine Dao avatar of Fang Longye came to the Lingxiao Treasure Hall as usual to attend the morning court.

After some idle chatter about this and that,

Perfected Person Xu Jingyang bowed and memorialized:

"The Great Sage Equaling Heaven currently wanders idly every day, befriending all the stars in the heavens, regardless of their rank, calling them all friends. I fear he may cause trouble in his leisure. It would be better to give him a task to manage, so as to avoid any further complications."

"What you say makes sense, beloved minister."

The Jade Emperor sat on his throne, nodded slightly, and said:

"Yaochi is about to hold the Pan Tao Banquet, and the Flat Peach Garden currently has no one to look after it. Didn't that Monkey say before that he wanted to be the manager of the Flat Peach Garden? Let us grant his wish!"

"Let that demon monkey manage the Flat Peach Garden?"

In the great hall, the various Divine Immortals, whether they were aware of the schemes behind the Monkey or not, all had their lips twitch upon hearing this decree.

Letting a monkey manage the Flat Peach Garden?

Isn't this tempting him to steal from the very place he is guarding?

Fang Longye stood to the side, lowering his eyelids to hide an inexplicable expression, thinking to himself, the drama of the Monkey causing Havoc in Heaven has finally reached this step~

He had been planning all along to take advantage of the situation and reap some benefits along with Sun Wukong once the Flat Peach in the Flat Peach Garden ripened!

Given the relationship between his wife Yang Chan and Yaochi, Xiwangmu Niangniang should not mind.

Giving it to anyone is still giving it away! Letting him take a bit more back is better than letting the Monkey ruin it all.

(End of this chapter)