Chapter 1156: Yu Jiuyou Dao Fruit is Darkness

"That piece of jade!"

In Pei Erke's eyes, endless darkness surged; in that instant, one could not tell how many Yu Yu Jiuyou demon gods had squeezed in.

"Did the remnant soul of Shaohao come for the jade? Back then, the Heavenly Court wanted to appoint him as the White Emperor, but he ignored it, only transforming into a mysterious bird twice to descend and open up the Shang Dynasty and the Qin Dynasty. This third time he took action, was it actually just for that piece of jade?"

"What secret could possibly be hidden within it?"

"Fate—"

"The word 'fate' is extremely terrifying. On the path of cultivation, there is nature and there is fate; even a Dao Lord must strictly guard this word. But why would it provoke the Profound Heaven Supreme to intervene and interrupt?"

"This piece of jade seems inconspicuous, but it is tied to three major events: the death of the Qin Qin Shi Huang, the fall of Bodhisattva Guangfa, and the appearance of Shaohao."

"Furthermore, many great powers like the Primordial Dragon Emperor, the Qin Qin Shi Huang, Shaohao Jintian, and the Profound Heaven Supreme are all embroiled in it..."

"I am truly afraid that in the blink of an eye, the Qin Qin Shi Huang will jump up too!"

At this moment, the Ear Dao God vigilantly put away the jade, hugged a brush larger than himself, and pondered for a moment; unexpectedly, he raised the brush and dipped it into the thought of the Ghost Tiger that had been destroyed in the void.

Pitch-black, like the ink of the ultimate end of all chaos, it soaked through his brush.

Pei Erke's gaze froze—what is this?

Only then did he barely comprehend the strike just made by the Profound Heaven Supreme.

The Eye of Motion and Stillness takes absolute stillness as its own extreme. The "Dao Scripture" says: Reach the extreme of emptiness, hold fast to stillness; while all things flourish together, I observe their return!

Through ultimate stillness, one allows their own mind to return to the extreme of emptiness, and through this, externally sense the infinite motion within the Yu Yu Jiuyou darkness.

This is inherently incomparably chaotic, like primordial chaos, with infinite changes occurring every single moment.

It is like a pot of incomparably boiling, muddy water.

No eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, consciousness, seventh consciousness, or eighth consciousness can see through this darkness, let alone the fact that it hides the Fruit of Destruction, which is also the reason why the Ghost Tiger overturned the Yu Yu Jiuyou darkness to conceal its own actions.

Only the Dao Fruit of Motion and Stillness of the Profound Heaven Supreme can differentiate between the Yu Yu Jiuyou and the darkness.

This difference lies in the fact that demonic nature is motion.

Therefore, the source of the demonic path, the Yu Yu Jiuyou darkness, is infinite motion and chaos. But one must know that motion and stillness generate each other and depend on each other; this is the most authentic Dao of Primordial Taiji. Thus, all motion is relative, and there must be a reference point to set off the motion of an object.

This is the principle that motion and stillness generate each other, depend on each other, and are inseparable.

The infinite motion and endless chaos of the Yu Yu Jiuyou darkness require an existence of extreme stillness to contain and set them off.

The most chaotic, fastest "motion."

Must be set off by the most inclusive, most void "stillness."

This is the reason why Yu Yu Jiuyou demon gods must parasitize within the darkness.

Darkness is the most silent and inclusive place, and thus it can contain the infinite motion and chaos of the Yu Yu Jiuyou.

And only the Dao Fruit of Motion and Stillness of the Profound Heaven Supreme can differentiate the Yu Yu Jiuyou darkness, which is one entity, into the Yu Yu Jiuyou and the darkness.

The so-called "reaching the extreme of emptiness and holding fast to stillness" means falling into extreme stillness at that moment, merging into the darkness. At this time, the entire darkness is like a canvas or retina under the Eye of Motion and Stillness, and that boundless chaos and motion of the Yu Yu Jiuyou is an indescribable object on the retina, a blur of infinite colors and forms stirred together.

And if the Ghost Tiger wants to exist within the Yu Yu Jiuyou darkness, it must likewise make itself still.

Relative to the infinite chaos of the Yu Yu Jiuyou, only by guarding stillness can one think and exist, without being swallowed by that Yu Yu Jiuyou chaos!

Therefore, when the Eye of Motion and Stillness is activated, the darkness in Pei Erke's eyes completely swallows the whites of his eyes, symbolizing the extreme stillness of darkness, and thus the most chaotic motion—the Yu Yu Jiuyou—becomes his pupils.

That is a piece of primordial chaos!

At this moment, this Yu Yu Jiuyou darkness was refined by him into an eye.

It is the eye of the Yu Yu Jiuyou Demon Ancestor...

Yu Yu Jiuyou—nine is the extreme of numbers, representing the ultimate.

Nether represents light being swallowed by darkness.

Therefore, the Yu Yu Jiuyou Dao Fruit is the Great Darkness Dao Fruit, and also the Concealment Dao Fruit and the Stillness Dao Fruit.

It has a thousand hands and a thousand eyes precisely because the Darkness Dao Fruit is the destination of all light. All the secrets in the world will fall into the eyes of the Yu Yu Jiuyou Demon Ancestor along with the light, so it grows a thousand eyes.

In the Yu Yu Jiuyou demonic path, this thousand-eye dharma image represents the wisdom that observes all secrets.

And because of this, whether the Yu Yu Jiuyou Demon Ancestor wants to or not, he will see some eye-stinging things...

It can also be said that everything happening in the cosmic realms is being watched by the eyes of the Yu Yu Jiuyou Demon Ancestor.

Therefore, the demons of the Yu Yu Jiuyou demonic path can perform the magic eye technique, using these ubiquitous eyes to "observe" and "watch."

It is not because their minds communicate with demonic consciousness, connecting to the Alaya consciousness of the Yu Yu Jiuyou Demon Ancestor, to summon the eyes of the Yu Yu Jiuyou Demon Ancestor.

It is because the eyes of the Yu Yu Jiuyou Demon Ancestor were already there.

That is why the Demon Consciousness Sect communicates with the Alaya consciousness of the Yu Yu Jiuyou Demon Ancestor, allowing consciousness to enter those eyes and use them to "observe" and "watch."

The former Sect Master of the Demon Consciousness Sect did not understand this principle, which is why he was grabbed by the Yu Yu Jiuyou Demon Ancestor to fill the gaps.

The Demon Consciousness Sect prioritizes intent over form.

The eyes of the Yu Yu Jiuyou Demon Ancestor are ubiquitous, but because their essence is darkness and concealment, they cannot be seen or touched. And because the essence of the Yu Yu Jiuyou Demon Ancestor is the initial and ultimate darkness of the cosmic realms, He is incomparably inclusive.

Everything originates from darkness!

Everyone's soul and consciousness contain darkness and also originate from darkness.

And the Alaya consciousness is the cornerstone of the generation of all things in the universe; it contains all things, ensuring that all phenomena continue to exist, serving as the origin of all dharmas and the foundation of consciousness!

This is precisely the Great Darkness.

Therefore, it is not that the Demon Consciousness Sect was implanted with the fundamental demonic consciousness of the Demon Ancestor and became a part of the Yu Yu Jiuyou Demon Ancestor, but that the living beings of the cosmic realms originally originated from a part of the Yu Yu Jiuyou Demon Ancestor.

Even the Buddhist cultivation of the Alaya consciousness itself can only be classified into two types.

One type believes that light is the foundation of all things in the universe, containing all things, worshipping the Supreme Light King Buddha and Amitabha, and cultivating the Alaya consciousness.

The other type believes that darkness is what contains all things and can contain the seeds that give rise to all dharmas, and its Alaya consciousness naturally turns toward that endless darkness.

Of course, this endless darkness is extremely serene, compassionate, and inclusive; it is the Great Darkness of pure stillness and extinction.

The fundamental demonic consciousness implanted in the Demon Consciousness Sect is motion; because of this motion, they return to the Yu Yu Jiuyou and sink into the darkness.

One enters darkness from stillness, the other enters darkness from motion; this is the reason why they see the Great Darkness Heaven and the Yu Yu Jiuyou Demon Ancestor respectively...

The Profound Heaven Supreme opens the eyes of the Yu Yu Jiuyou Demon Ancestor and can naturally see through the darkness to see everything happening within.

Likewise, he can reverse motion and stillness.

The thought that Shaohao hid the deepest was "extreme stillness."

Because of extreme stillness, even the Eye of Motion and Stillness could not see it, but when Shaohao was about to speak of the existence of the Fate Dao Fruit, the Profound Heaven Supreme used the Dao Fruit of Motion and Stillness to reverse motion and stillness.

Motion and stillness are Primordial Taiji, and they exist relatively.

Taking the boundless chaos of the Yu Yu Jiuyou as extreme motion, Shaohao's thought was naturally extreme stillness.

Just like a person walking on a bridge; relative to the bridge, they are in motion, but if the reference frame is reversed, relative to the person, is the bridge also in motion?

The two serve as references for each other.

The Dao Fruit of Motion and Stillness reverses the extreme motion of the Yu Yu Jiuyou into the extreme stillness of darkness.

Viewed from the Yu Yu Jiuyou darkness, Shaohao's thought then moved infinitely relative to the darkness. At that moment, it was as if the infinite chaos and motion of the Yu Yu Jiuyou were all poured into that thought in an instant; this motion and chaos instantly destroyed the thought.

This is the true supreme great divine power—the Yu Yu Jiuyou Demon Ancestor opens his eyes.

Or rather, the supreme great divine power—the True Martial Void-Danger Demon-Slaying Sword!

Although Pei Erke could not sense the moment the Dao Fruit of Motion and Stillness reversed motion and stillness, the strike of the Great Chaos Technique, launched by the combined force of the Yu Yu Jiuyou Dao Fruit and the Dao Fruit of Motion and Stillness, easily erased the Ghost Tiger's thought.

But he sensed the terrifying demonic eye technique when the Yu Yu Jiuyou Demon Ancestor opened his eyes.

And the bit of "ink" that the Ear Dao God dipped up was refined from the Yu Yu Jiuyou by the Dao Fruit of Motion and Stillness, containing the extreme stillness of darkness and the extreme motion of demonic nature; it can be called the existence of Yu Yu Jiuyou True Water.

Pei Erke's eyes moved.

Unless one has an extremely strong understanding of the Yu Yu Jiuyou, an ordinary cultivator could never dip this trace of the Dao Fruit of Motion and Stillness from the darkness, but once this trace is obtained, it is a supreme treasure in the world.

The Ear Dao God, with his bean-sized body, raised his brush to dip into this heaven-and-earth supreme treasure, which can be called "Dao Traces"—traces of the Dao Fruit.

One must know that the nine longevity immortal medicines refined by Yan Shu (they are longevity immortal medicines, not immortality divine medicines) only contained a trace of the Immortality Dao Fruit, which is exactly the same as that "ink."

This scene is like a three-year-old child holding gold in a busy market...

But Pei Erke knew in his heart that this little spirit, who looked like a three-year-old child and held such monstrous fortune, was a genuine old monster, an existence he absolutely could not afford to provoke.

Therefore, he could only desperately suppress the impulse to snatch it, watching the Ear Dao God raise his brush and dip into the ink, wielding it like rain.

The tip of the brush moved like a swimming dragon or struck down heavily; with swimming strokes and splitting textures, soon a spirit snake appeared—wantonly agile, though coiled in a snake formation, its scales, bones, and muscles seemed ready to strike, its posture about to soar and shoot out, burying its head to burrow into the ground. Clearly, it was only a snake shadow of ink, yet it was a spirit snake with countless changing phantom images...

Coiled on the back of the Profound Turtle!

The Profound Turtle was as motionless as a mountain, containing an air of immutability, extreme stillness, and the depth of a bottomless abyss.

The turtle and snake coiled together, motion and stillness generating each other; it was precisely a map of the Black Tortoise...

In Pei Erke's eyes, a Yu Yu Jiuyou god and demon exclaimed: "What a brilliant painting technique!"

"This little spirit of the human world has reached the realm where painting intent enters reality, making it hard to distinguish between the virtual and the real! Although the Dao of Painting is an external path, two Dao Lords have entered the Dao through painting. This little spirit's realm is only one step behind them."

"Whether it is painted well or not doesn't matter..."

Another demon said: "There are three thousand Great Daos. Even if one walks to the end of an external path, it is merely a branch of the Great Dao."

"What truly moves demons is how it dares to touch the Dao Traces left by the Profound Heaven! To put it heavily, this is stealing the Dao Fruit of the Profound Heaven... I am very curious why this little monster hasn't been executed by a sword falling from the North Pole yet?"

"Wait, does that ink also have the aura of the Demon Ancestor himself? It's not entirely a wisp of the Dao Fruit of Motion and Stillness!"

The Ear Dao God ignored them completely, waved his brush, and the Black Tortoise map drifted toward the Yinhe.

It went up against the Yinhe and, right under Lilith's nose, stuck itself onto the Ten Thousand Longmen.

At that moment, the ink marks on the Black Tortoise map surged.

The turtle and snake of the Black Tortoise embraced, and countless dragon corpses on the entire Ten Thousand Longmen were twisted by a force, revolving around the gate.

Countless dragon corpses circled the Bodhisattva Guangfa Heavenly Dragon, each corpse coiling, drilling, and twisting, all strangling the Bodhisattva Guangfa Heavenly Dragon. With a wisp of the Dao Fruit of Motion and Stillness as the foundation, it drew upon the endless Yu Yu Jiuyou darkness behind the gate.

The Ear Dao God's painting accelerated the speed at which the Ten Thousand Longmen was refined into a spirit treasure, accelerating continuously.

In an instant, it accelerated by billions of years. This was not the Great Dao of manipulating time like the Western Kunlun Mirror, but rather moving from stillness to motion.

The power of motion and stillness generating each other.

Soon, the power of ten thousand dragons was kneaded into a ball, transforming into a Primordial Taiji diagram coiled by motion and stillness.

The body of the Bodhisattva Guangfa Heavenly Dragon coiled into a Profound Turtle, and the ten thousand dragons changed, exhausting the transformation Dao of the True Dragon clan, soaring into a spirit snake.

The entire portal was transformed into a Black Tortoise!

The spirit treasure Black Tortoise Gate... was complete.

During this period, the Profound Heaven Supreme, whose Dao Fruit power had been stolen, just watched quietly, never taking action to stop it.

At this time, south of the Qin Qin Shi Huang's Mausoleum, a fire light soared into the sky, transforming into a Zhu Que circling.

Only a mirror light was seen falling from the Heavenly Realm, striking a large gate and imprinting the trace of the Southern Heaven Zhu Que; it was precisely the Heaven-Monitoring Divine Mirror at the Southern Tianmen!

Accompanied by the terrifying power of the Southern Tianmen and the ever-deepening imprint of the Heaven-Monitoring Divine Mirror on that large gate.

Finally, that large gate slowly opened a crack.

"The Ten Thousand Crow Gate south of the Qin Qin Shi Huang's Mausoleum has been opened! This gate leads to the Heavenly Realm and is the most strictly guarded portal. It was cast from fire crows refined from the suns of many worlds destroyed by the Qin Dynasty's conquest of the cosmic realms, and its entire body is made of Great Sun Golden Essence, burning with the undying True Fire of the Sun."

"Ordinary ghosts and gods, let alone the gate, would be burned to ashes if they even slightly approached!"

The head of Xu Fu, left by the Ghost Tiger on the storied ship, suddenly opened its eyes and looked south, saying: "The Ten Thousand Crow Gate has been opened; the Qin terracotta army legion guarding this portal must have been annihilated..."

Xia Hou Xu's heart also jumped, and he looked at where the Zhu Que was circling, saying: "The nine gates of the outer city in the Qin Qin Shi Huang's Mausoleum are merely modeled after the four gates of the Heavenly Court. The true four gates of the Heavenly Court are the spirit treasures of the perfect level. With the power of the true Southern Tianmen descending and the Heaven-Monitoring Divine Mirror guiding the power of the Zhu Que of the Four Symbols of Heaven to forcibly refine this gate, working from the inside and outside, it is natural that the Ten Thousand Crow Gate would finally be opened!"

"No..." Xu Fu closed his eyes: "Do you think the Qin Dynasty didn't know about these things you mentioned?"

"You don't understand us great alchemists, nor do you understand the Qin Dynasty..."

As the Ten Thousand Crow Gate in the south slowly cracked open a seam.

A wisp of immortal light containing eternal, undying immortality instantly illuminated the Qin Qin Shi Huang's Mausoleum.

The mausoleum, comparable to a great world, was instantly illuminated by this wisp of light, and the endless Yu Yu Jiuyou, darkness, death, and nether power within were all suppressed in an instant.

"Eternal Immortal Light of Taihao!"

Xia Hou Xu and Xu Fu said in unison: "Which Dao Lord does the Jade Emperor want to resurrect?"

The Yu Yu Jiuyou is endless darkness, while the Heavenly Realm is endless light.

It has the sun and moon crossing the sky, eternal and never setting, with no alternation or darkness. The light of the sun and moon and the countless starlight of the starry sky intertwine at the highest point of the Heavenly Realm; since the creation of the world, this place has never fallen into darkness.

Even during several great tribulations, other parts of the Heavenly Realm have fallen into darkness, but this place has never fallen.

From this, a kind of eternal light was gestated, which is a supreme treasure of the Heavenly Realm.

Its most mysterious aspect is that it can illuminate everything and reveal eternity. By shining it on a Dao Fruit, one can penetrate time and space to pull the shadow of the Dao Fruit down from the River of Time, unimpeded by anything. Thus, a Dao Lord can use this immortal light to resurrect within the Dao Fruit!

Even for a Dao Fruit mired in destruction, this light can illuminate the Dao Lord out of the Dao Fruit.

Such a supreme treasure is equivalent to a Dao Lord in a single wisp. Even if the Jade Emperor dominates the Heavenly Realm, he may not have many wisps of Eternal Immortal Light.

Moreover, this object has a fixed number; since the creation of the world, only nine wisps have been gestated, which is the limit. Using one means one less. The Jade Emperor using it here truly shocked Xu Fu and Xia Hou Xu.

Under the Eternal Immortal Light, an invisible Dao Fruit, filling the Qin Qin Shi Huang's Mausoleum and entangled in destruction, suddenly appeared in the radiance.

Under the brilliance, the shadow of the Dao Fruit was clear, and the laws and Great Dao gathered into a figure.

He wore a crimson divine robe and an imperial crown, his appearance slightly young, but his brow was filled with infinite majesty. In the immortal light, he suddenly looked back at where Xu Fu and the others were.

"Heavenly Court..."

Xu Fu said eerily: "Red Emperor!"

The Ear Dao God wielded his brush, using the Dao Fruit of Motion and Stillness to refine the Black Tortoise Gate.

At this time, the fallen Demon Lord Lilith, under the Black Tortoise Gate, slapped the Supreme Stone Tablet with her palm.

As the stone tablet trembled, the phantom of the Dao Dust Pearl suddenly appeared, and at this time, the Black Tortoise Gate also trembled. Because of the connection between the two spirit treasures, the distant Ten Thousand Crow Gate also trembled, and countless seals intertwined, suddenly swallowing the Zhu Que imprint on it and transforming toward a spirit treasure.

The two spirit treasures resonated simultaneously, entangling on the Great Dao. The Zhu Que Gate, which had just opened a crack, suddenly closed, locking the group of heavenly soldiers and generals sent by the Southern Tianmen outside.

It was Lilith who had activated her backup plan, forcibly closing the Zhu Que Gate!

She used the Black Tortoise Gate to resonate with the Qin Dynasty's seals, forcibly swallowing the imprint left by the Heavenly Court in the gate to transform into a spirit treasure. At this time, the spirit treasure instinctively gathered its power and fell into deathly silence.

With the imprint held by the Heavenly Court, it could not be opened.

Forcibly interrupting the transformation of the spirit treasure would only lead to the destruction of the Ten Thousand Crow Gate. At that time, the Southern Gate would be destroyed, the spirit treasure would self-destruct, and the feng shui and formation of the Qin Qin Shi Huang's Mausoleum would be severely damaged. The Southern Tianmen, which the Heavenly Court had forcibly connected to this gate, would also be damaged, and the connection between the Heavenly Realm and the Qin Qin Shi Huang's Mausoleum would be completely severed. If one could no longer enter this place from the Heavenly Realm, then the Heavenly Court's plot against the Qin Qin Shi Huang's Mausoleum would have failed by seventy percent!

And at this moment, the Eternal Immortal Light replaced the Dao Fruit and was swallowed by endless destruction and darkness.

Resurrecting from the Dao Fruit, the Heavenly Court Red Emperor, who now filled the Qin Qin Shi Huang's Mausoleum and had transformed into Great Dao laws, suddenly collapsed and appeared on the Qin Qin Shi Huang's palace storied ship.

The little ones couldn't even withstand a wisp of his aura, as if a Great Dao deity had appeared before them, completely mired in the Great Dao laws revealed by the Dao Lord's true body.

The Red Emperor pointed casually at his brow, suppressing Xu Fu, who was about to use the Creation Dao Fruit.

Xia Hou Xu knelt down neatly, without a word.

"Creation Dao Fruit!"

The Red Emperor stood with his hands behind his back and said eerily: "Creation is the transformation of man. Without the support of the creation auras of the Qin Dynasty, Xu Fu, you are not a match for me in one round! And since you have already betrayed Ying Zheng, why did you come back?"