Chapter 1003: All Living Beings Xing Tian, The Ultimate of Power

In the Luomiao, Qian Chen suddenly opened his eyes and looked toward the east.

In the direction of Zhigu City, a fire-cloud filled the sky, bright red, like flames burning above the clouds, illuminating the east with brilliance.

Qian Chen couldn't help but walk out of the temple gate and turned to ask the crow that flew over and stopped to the side: "What time is it now?"

The crow lowered its head and said: "Reporting to the Sect Master, it is now the fourth quarter of the Chou hour."

Qian Chen pinched his fingers to calculate: "I remember that the Winter Solstice has just passed; Zhigu should have sunrise at the second quarter of the Chen hour, right! It's not dawn yet! Why is there a sunrise in the east?"

"Oh! It's the hour presided over by the Ding Mother... Then it's not strange!"

The crow tilted its head and answered respectfully: "Yes."

Qian Chen sighed: "The Ding Mother's heart to harm me will not die!"

While speaking, that fire-cloud in the east bloomed...

Calling it 'blooming' is not wrong at all, because the shape of the cloud was like a flower bud, a lotus bud.

It was as if a sun was contained within it, red light shining through, every petal seeming to be burning.

And when the flames jumped to their peak, the lotus bloomed, countless petals radiating in all directions, instantly blooming with ten thousand zhang of light, as if flames had ignited the entire sky.

Qian Chen faced that blooming 'lotus' head-on. At that moment, an indescribable hot wind rushed toward his face, instantly drying the moisture on his face. Qian Chen's lips cracked visibly, his face turned withered and yellow, and his hair hung down, becoming earth-gray due to the lack of moisture.

Almost in that instant, all the water vapor in the air was sucked dry.

The willow tree beside him turned withered and yellow in an instant, its leaves curling up...

It was not just Qian Chen, nor just the Luomiao; the entirety of Zhigu, the entirety of Hebei, and even the entirety of the North became parched in this instant. A sense of agitation seemed to drain the moisture from the bottom of everyone's hearts, making one's throat feel parched and the saliva in one's mouth run dry.

"Han Ba (Drought Demon)..."

Qian Chen didn't finish speaking before he denied it himself: "No, it's Nu Ba!"

"Chi You made weapons to attack the Huang Di, and the Huang Di ordered Ying Long to attack him in the wilderness of Jizhou. Ying Long stored water, and Chi You invited the Wind Master and Rain Master, unleashing great wind and rain. The Huang Di then sent down the Heavenly Woman named Ba; the rain stopped, and Chi You was killed. Ba could not return up, and where she lived, it did not rain... This is called: Nu Ba!"

Qian Chen looked up at the sky, a strange color appearing in his eyes: "Among the 18,000 world projections I have browsed, in this segment of the Three Gods fighting the Four Demons, it is always the White Lotus Sect using the Nine-Eyed Fire Ba to appear, plotting against the Gan Dynasty's dragon vein. Only this time, they brought out a Nu Ba."

"The Imperial Daughter of the Three Generations, bearing the burden of national disaster and calamity, carrying the resentment of the military disasters of the millions of people of three dynasties, and utilizing the corpse qi of the Nine-Eyed Fire Demon, she combines the old corpses of three generations to be born and transform into the Female Demon of Drought!"

"That's it!"

"What does the Nine-Eyed Fire Demon count for? The Drought Demon, the Drought Demon, was originally the daughter of the Huang Di, the Goddess of Drought. With the country suffering such calamity, if one does not use the body of the Imperial Daughter of the Three Generations to gather the resentment of the hundreds of millions who died in foreign invasions and were trampled by iron cavalry, how can one forge the Five Calamities of Xing Tian and kill the Saintly Son who has descended to the world?"

"It's just that in this, no matter how you look at it, you can't escape your shadow!"

Qian Chen sighed deeply: "Western Kunlun Mirror!"

With the Three-Forked River mouth as the center, waves of hot air swept in all directions. Wherever it passed, the earth cracked, rivers dried up, grass and trees withered, and the dim yellow earth qi was wrapped in wind and sand, rising up.

In the sky, the clouds gathered from water vapor were also swept away by the hot wind, and remnants of clouds, blooming like lotus flowers, trailed across the sky.

Looking down at the entire earth, one could see that the withered yellow was spreading across the North China Plain with Zhigu as the center, just like a blooming lotus...

In the center of the lotus platform, at the Three-Forked River mouth, a huge iron ship floated to the surface. The melted iron seemed to have been splashed out from the center, leaving a semi-solidified ruin cast into a blooming lotus.

Lin Heier sat in the center of this iron lotus, green clothes and white hair, the air around her slightly distorted, making it impossible to see her figure clearly.

Her hair and claws were long, her teeth turned over her lips. Just by opening her eyes, the vast Grand Canal connecting the north and south evaporated in an instant, and the countless water ghosts, river demons, and strange things hidden within also turned into zombies in an instant.

In the mass grave outside the White Bone Temple, the white hair on the purple-skinned Earth Immortal with towering horns flew, falling from its body one after another.

The Earth Immortal looked toward the east, and a few vague words were spat out from its stiff throat: "My... God..."

Its tone carried a kind of fear that even death qi could not conceal.

At this moment, behind it, in countless grave mounds, or in the desolate ground without grave heads, hands with withered and wrinkled skin, like leather armor, tore through the earth and grabbed onto the ground.

Inside Zhigu City, many newly dead corpses waiting for burial, and many people who had died in various fights during this period, suddenly stood up straight without bending their legs.

Nu Ba appears, the world is in great drought, and the group of corpses rises in ferocity!

In the Eunuch's Grave, Daoist Daoist Tongshen also saw that in the ghost opera sung by General Jiuyou, the Emperor's daughter flower, shedding blood-tears, suddenly let out a long howl toward the sky, but the world was silent. The parts of her body exposed were all extremely thin, and the shape of her bones could be seen through her skin, like a person with a wasting disease.

When looking up, her two eyes were on top, and her teeth were exposed.

In just an instant, the beautiful female corpse buried in the sedan coffin, wearing a phoenix crown and rosy cape, transformed into a Drought Demon with peerless ferocity!

Just hearing a thunderclap, the underground palace tomb actually collapsed.

The southeast corner of the tomb chamber collapsed completely, revealing a crack leading directly to the surface. Through the crack, the night sky illuminated by the fire clouds was like daylight.

The nine-headed bird flew up, and a broken head sprinkled spots of blood, falling on a nearby hilltop. Similarly, there was another thunderclap, and the hilltop collapsed with a roar. A woman dressed in Dangxiang attire, also dressed in red, but subjected to torture, with bones under her skin that didn't know how many were broken, walked out from a piece of red cloth.

That red cloth was stained with her blood, and the broken bones all over her body also collided and reorganized as she walked.

Finally, in a nearby valley, a low and long sound like a dragon's roar came from underground. A cliff shattered and slid down, revealing a golden coffin. As the golden coffin was exposed, the coffin lid slowly slid off, and among the countless precious burial goods piled inside, a woman with strangulation marks on her neck also opened her eyes.

The figures of the three women seemed to be slowly overlapping in front of Daoist Daoist Tongshen.

The old man's eyes widened, and finally, until two lines of blood flowed from his pupils, he did not close them.

"Nu Ba!"

No matter what, Daoist Daoist Tongshen could not have imagined that the Drought Demon raised by the three-life Emperor's daughter was even more ferocious and strange than he had thought. Relying on paper money sacrifices and the wisp of connection from the Dao of Connecting with Gods, he could perceive a kind of terrifying transformation happening on Nu Ba.

A Drought Demon is just a strange object of a corpse body becoming a demon, but Nu Ba is a god among corpses.

It is called a Demon God!

Daoist Daoist Tongshen suddenly realized that the three-life Ghost Grave was not just a Dao path, a cultivation, but also a terrifying secret ritual.

A so-called secret ritual is nothing more than borrowing the power of secret history, using symbols and imitation to repeat certain things that happened in history.

And the history happening before him was repeating the birth of Nu Ba.

In the past, the Huang Di fought the Weapon Master in the wilderness. The Weapon Master had the Wind Master and Rain Master unleash boundless wind and rain to help. The Huang Di could not help it, and ordered the Emperor's daughter Ba to sacrifice herself; the wind and rain stopped, and the Weapon Master of Nine Li was killed at Muye.

And after being sacrificed, Nu Ba's corpse transformed into a demon, which is the Drought God.

Wherever she went, not a drop of water fell. To prevent her from harming the human world, the Huang Di suppressed her corpse body north of the Red River.

Therefore, the secret ritual has several major elements—Emperor's daughter (symbolizing Nu Ba), Father orders her to sacrifice (key to the ritual), calamity of weapons (symbolizing the Weapon Master), suppressing the corpse body, north of the Red River (a place of extreme evil feng shui).

The tragedy of the three-dynasty military calamity finally refined this peerless fierce god Nu Ba.

Daoist Daoist Tongshen watched helplessly as Nu Ba opened her mouth, and two black feather-like tentacles on her lips trembled. Immediately, a moth that looked like a human face but was pale and blurred crawled onto her lips, seeming to outline a smile at the corner of her mouth.

Black Sky Moth Mother!

Daoist Daoist Tongshen almost groaned, the thing he had been searching for had finally appeared, but it was even more strange and terrifying than he had thought. It was born in Nu Ba's mouth, symbolizing a kind of unspeakable transformation and terror.

Daoist Daoist Tongshen was sure that the Black Sky Moth Mother was not hidden in the female corpse's mouth early on.

But only at the moment the female emperor's corpse transformed into Nu Ba, symbolizing a transformation from death to life, from human to god, infinitely taboo and infinitely terrifying, did it truly feather out.

The black ghost-faced moth suddenly flapped its wings and flew toward Daoist Daoist Tongshen.

The old man was stiff all over, watching it land on his palm. His right hand trembled slightly, subconsciously wanting to shake it off, but finally controlled himself.

"This game is infinitely terrifying!"

Daoist Daoist Tongshen trembled in his heart; the birth of Nu Ba was also laid out by someone.

The Black Sky Moth Mother, symbolizing the moth among the twelve Sichen, was such a demonic existence...

"In the past, the Wang Mu of the West presided over Heavenly Punishment, casting five weapons to hang in the world. Heavenly Punishment transformed into five demons running rampant, which are the Emperor's daughter Drought Demon, Ancient Plague Locust, Disaster Water Flood Demon, Earth-Shaking Divine Cow, and Weaponry Greedy Wolf..."

Qian Chen felt the vastness covering the world, the stars falling from the sky, the dragons and snakes rising on the ground, and the killing intent of all living things in the world, falling bit by bit onto his neck, and couldn't help but sigh faintly.

"This is the Dao of Heavenly Punishment derived from the Dao Fruit of Suffering, a terrifying Great Dao representing the terror of Heaven's Dao descending disasters upon the human world. Even if it is a Primordial Spirit True Immortal, even if it is a Heavenly God, it can be beheaded."

"But the reason why the Dao of Heavenly Punishment was born from the Dao Fruit of Suffering rather than the Dao Fruit of Disaster is because it not only represents the punishment descended by heaven and earth upon people, but also the suffering of people, the unwillingness of people, and a Great Dao condensed from the despair of people."

"Gods do not exist independently; it is the human heart that endows nature with gods! Therefore..."

"Heavenly Punishment is also Xing Tian!"

"The weapon of Heavenly Punishment is not only a magic tool used by heaven and earth to descend disasters upon all living beings! It is also a weapon forged by all living beings using their own pain, despair, and madness after feeling pain, resisting heaven and earth. They sacrifice disasters as gods and forge suffering as weapons."

"Therefore, the Drought Demon transformed into Nu Ba, the Plague Locust transformed into the Green Cow, the Flood Demon transformed into Ying Long, the Earth-Shaking Divine Cow transformed into the Heaven-Patching Divine Turtle, and the Weaponry Greedy Wolf transformed into the Sun-Eating Heavenly Dog!"

"They represent all living beings, imposing punishment to Xing Tian!"

"Now that the Five Gods are recast, Xing Tian is toward me. The suffering of all living beings in this world, the anger of all living beings, the resentment of all living beings, and the despair of all living beings have finally come toward me, asking me, the God of Creation, to judge me."

Qian Chen pressed his heart and asked himself, does the suffering of all living beings have anything to do with him?

"If this is the judgment of all living beings, then, I who manipulate fate, formulate history, and manipulate all living beings with my own will—am guilty!"

"If there exists a God of Creation who opens everything with his own will, judges everything, and arranges everything, then he should naturally bear all the sins. All the suffering, all the crimes, all the despair, anger, and resentment that happen in the world should have a part of his guilt."

"Therefore, the Heavenly Emperor is born with sin..."

"I seem to know what the Heavenly Emperor's position represented by the Great Supreme Supreme Tian Mo Honorific means!"

"It is domination, rule, violence! It is the ultimate of all 'power.' Now it has been cut off by Tai Shang, leaving only a part of the power derived from his own will, imposed on people, which is 'violence'! It created natural order. One person kills one person, one will erases one will, one will uses fear, pain, and other media to distort the power of another will!"

"Naked violence!"

"It represents the most essential order, rule, and domination. Everything between people, between people and things, between people and all living beings, and the relationship with nature is built upon it. It is also the most essential relationship in the myriad realms, a Dao Fruit!"

"Whether it is the 'class' naturally created by the Immortal Dao and Divine Dao, or the 'rule' of the human dynasty, or even the 'relationship' of all sentient beings, it is built upon it!"

"It really is the Heavenly Emperor's position, magnificent and peerless."

"No, it's not just that."

"In the world in my memory, violence is just like this. It can be imposed on all matter, but it cannot directly distort consciousness, truly controlling a person's will and thoughts. But in this world, divine abilities and spells are omnipotent. A person, or even everything that exists, including the Great Dao itself, can be changed by violence!"

"Then the ultimate power represented by the Heavenly Emperor is the power to control everything and change everything in a single thought!"

"All living beings sink, enslave everything, create everything, destroy everything, all in a single thought of the Heavenly Emperor. This is the ultimate of 'power'!"

"Because the essence of power is the power of consciousness acting to change objective existence. Newton's so-called first driving force of God in the previous life was to assume a great existence that exerted the first driving force on all forces in the world. And in this world, there really is such a great existence!"

"When consciousness was born, all objectivity did not exist. The Heavenly Emperor used power to carry out his will and used violence to create the world."

"Therefore, the operation of all things in heaven and earth, all power, carries the traces of the Heavenly Emperor's will. This is the ultimate of power!"

"I know!"

"The Heavenly Emperor's will rules everything. This is the ultimate of power, the position of power, and he rules the world with his own will, dominating everything, but he does not wantonly manipulate, destroy, or control everything. In all records, the Old Heaven was not a hell ruled by a tyrant, but an orderly universe."

"The Heavenly Emperor controls the universe with his own will. This is the Great Dao of power! But the Heavenly Emperor possesses ultimate power, yet does not act recklessly, but creates order according to his own will. This is 'virtue'!"

"Possessing all ultimate violent means, yet still ruling the universe with virtue, is this the Heavenly Emperor?"

"The Heavenly Emperor's Great Dao is virtue and power!"

"He bears everything, rules everything, controls everything, formulates everything. He bears the sins of all living beings, he creates the order of all things, he masters all fate, and he rules all living beings and all things with his own will."

"But the position of such a great existence has been broken!"

"The Wang Mu of the West casting the weapon of Xing Tian is the resistance of all living beings against the Heavenly Emperor?"

"The position of the ultimate of all power was finally cut off by Tai Shang's Primordial Spirit Dao Fruit, so that all spells and Great Daos can no longer directly distort, control, or change people's will."

"The ultimate power was cut off. The ultimate power that shrouded all living beings and changed everything was returned by Tai Shang to all living beings who possess self-consciousness, becoming 'violence' derived from their own will!"

"The position of power became the Dao Fruit of violence..."

"This is the Moral Great Dao of Tai Shang opening the Primordial Spirit Dao Fruit, cutting off the Heavenly Emperor's power, taking away the Heavenly Emperor's virtue, using the Dao to govern virtue, and re-formulating the order of the universe!"

"At the moment Tai Shang opened the Primordial Spirit Dao Fruit and gave all living beings free will, the sins, fate, resentment, despair, and anger of all living beings finally returned to themselves, cutting off the Dao of Xing Tian."

"Sure enough, all the secrets of the myriad realms cannot be hidden from the Western Kunlun Mirror. The Mirror must have known what the Great Supreme Supreme Tian Mo Honorific was!"

"Was this game set up by her?"

"It was also after the Great Supreme Supreme Tian Mo Honorific fell into this world that the taboo laws of the Old Heaven polluted this realm, giving her the opportunity to recast Xing Tian..."

"Being able to distort, dominate, control all consciousness, and being able to override everything with one's own will, is this the taboo power of the Great Supreme Supreme Tian Mo Honorific?"

Qian Chen took a deep breath: "Sure enough, it is the demon among demons—the Great Supreme Supreme Tian Mo!"

"This kind of taboo power cannot exist in the New Heaven, because every time it is used, it will touch the Primordial Spirit Dao Fruit left by Tai Shang, attracting Tai Shang's heart to move, and using the power of the universe to erase its traces. The Primordial Dao Ancestor used all demonic means such as fear, greed, pain, and desire to distort people's will to seal it, letting the taboo power of the Great Supreme Supreme Tian Mo Honorific be sealed to the edge of touching the Primordial Spirit Dao Fruit and offending the free will Tai Shang left to all living beings."

"The so-called Great Supreme Supreme Tian Mo Honorific is the greatest external force allowed by Tai Shang to distort people's will."

"No wonder the Great Supreme Supreme Tian Mo is the leader of the demonic path, the demon among demons! Possessing such power, of course, one can control everything, of course, one can manipulate the demonic path. Possessing the Great Supreme Supreme Tian Mo Honorific, one doesn't need to cultivate any spells to control, crush, destroy, and rule any existence whose power is inferior to one's own!"

Following the Dao of Xing Tian, hanging high in the sky, forcing the wisp of edge toward himself.

Qian Chen finally perceived the existence of that infinitely taboo wisp in the laws of this realm.

"Sacrificing the Five Disasters of Heavenly Punishment in the world as gods, gathering all the resentment, anger, unwillingness, and despair of this realm, using the taboo of the Great Supreme Supreme Tian Mo Honorific to forge Xing Tian..." Qian Chen looked up at the high sky: "Are you going to judge me?"

Qian Chen just wanted to suspect those lawless Lingbao, but his thoughts turned, and a faint doubt rose in his heart.

"No, the official history of the Primordial World has problems!"

"This thing has a huge conflict with the Dao of the Primordial Spirit..." ===== CHAPTER 1004 =====

"This thing has a huge conflict with the Dao of the Primordial Spirit..."