Chapter 1167

A golden Great Sun broke through the darkness, as if rising from the east, scattering golden scales.

The people present even felt a surge of yang-harmony qi rising; except for the lack of innate purple qi, it was as if a Great Sun had truly been born.

All who saw it were awestruck.

The radiance of the Great Sun scattered, carrying wisps of wish-power.

Yet a chicken crow was heard, and the Golden Rooster land suddenly split open. The object bathed in the golden light was extremely sacred.

Strands of golden light flowed over its body, and every feather emitted a dazzling brilliance.

A Golden Rooster, as if crafted from solar gold essence, leaped out and stretched its neck to crow toward the sun!

Anyone with a discerning eye knew that this was a rare treasure, a true heavenly material and earthly treasure.

How could there be a trace of demonic qi?

Under that brilliant solar golden light, all evil spirits and strange anomalies would be illuminated to death.

This strange treasure was just about to be born, bathed in human wish-power, with the three talents perfected.

If there was even a trace of impurity in the wish-power, it could pollute the Golden Rooster, causing its golden, unblemished feathers to be stained with the blackness of the human heart, and this strange treasure would be mostly ruined.

At this instant, Xia Yi hurriedly restrained the vicious curses in his eyes, nourishing it only with the purest human qi.

"With such brilliant color, could it be a supreme treasure condensed from the eternal immortal light remaining on the Black Emperor?"

Pei Erke's Yu Yu Jiuyou gods and demons only said one sentence, which stirred up people's hearts.

Many people's eyes revealed deep-seated darkness, especially Cui Dan, in whose eyes a darkness like a bottomless abyss seemed to flash.

Zheng Yin's eyes turned, and he said, "As expected of the Xia Hou bloodline, the Double-Pupiled One!"

"This person's Sun-Moon Golden Pupils have clearly improved again. If this rare treasure is truly a remnant of eternal radiance and is refined into his eyes, I fear he could refine true Sun-Moon Golden Pupils, with the ability to open up a Central Lands dynasty! The Great Sun origin of the Earth Immortal Realm is heavy, but if it were another world, I fear he could truly use this supernatural power to refine the sun and moon, becoming an Immortal Emperor or Immortal Sovereign who rules over the land illuminated by the sun and moon!"

Everyone cast sidelong glances—is this something that can be said?

There are so many spiritual treasures in the Earth Immortal Realm that even if a true Heavenly Court Emperor came down, they wouldn't get any benefits.

What kind of Immortal Emperor or Sovereign of a small world would dare to come to the Central Lands so brazenly? I fear they would be beaten into a dead dog by Central Lands people holding spiritual treasures in a righteous group beating in an instant!

Zheng Yin also knew that his provocation was a bit obvious, and he quickly reined it in.

"Of course, the Earth Immortal Realm is one of the cosmos, not a small world without heritage."

"But if one uses these pupils to observe the sun every time, absorbing solar primordial qi, perhaps one could refine a 'Sun God-Slaying Divine Light Ray' in the eyes. Below the Primordial Spirit, with one turn of the divine light, one would be nearly invincible..."

Lan Jiu, who was beside him, looked over upon hearing this, frowned slightly, and thought to himself, "Since it is the Xia Hou bloodline, has someone started setting a trap as soon as the threat is revealed?"

"The Sun God-Slaying Divine Light Ray is famous, known as one of the nine great divine lights in the universe, but its essence is a combat supernatural power, belonging to the two-yi category."

"It can only be cultivated by refining both Taiyin and Taiyang golden cores."

"The divine light magic seems swift and explosive, and the killing is extremely terrifying, and it is related to the eye aperture, but in reality, it is most damaging to the eyes."

"With Wang Rong's lesson of the divine eye peeking at the sun right before us, this person still wants to lead Xia Yi onto this path; he is truly deep in schemes and viciously ruthless."

Pei Erke also swept a cold glance over.

Although the people present were just ants in front of Xu Fu and the Black Emperor.

But their knowledge and abilities, placed in the cosmos, which one wasn't a seed of the Primordial Spirit? Immediately, seven or eight people heard these words and felt it was inappropriate.

Gao Zhao shook his head and said, "The Sun-Moon Golden Pupils are a great supernatural power of the Emperor containing the sun and moon to monitor the world. The sun and moon are just the manifestation; the Emperor's Dao is where its orthodoxy lies. Cultivating such an explosive supernatural power as the Sun God-Slaying is truly taking the wrong path."

He sighed, "If it were in my Jiang clan, one could cultivate that great supernatural power of the 'Monitoring Heaven Dharma Eye' passed down by the Heavenly Zhou."

Pei Erke sneered, "Sun-Moon Golden Pupils, the eyes of the Emperor, as the name implies, only that true Heavenly Emperor can have eyes containing the sun and moon. Only the son of that Heavenly Emperor can be called the Son of Heaven."

"Why don't you also invite the Heavenly Emperor's gaze into your eyes? Naturally, you would be able to achieve great supernatural power!"

As soon as these words fell, they immediately made everyone's hearts jump with fear.

As everyone knows, the Earth Immortal Realm is the number one traitor in the cosmos, and the thing it does most is backstabbing the Heavenly Emperor.

With this invitation of the Heavenly Emperor's gaze, everyone was not just feeling like they had thorns on their backs.

It was like having the Execution Platform hanging over their foreheads, with ten thousand divine weapons pressed against their hearts!

At this moment, I don't know how many people turned their heads and glared fiercely at Pei Erke, telling him how he dared to say that.

The gods and demons behind the Heavenly Heart Demon Eye became even more restless.

"Invite the Heavenly Emperor's gaze? That would indeed be true Sun-Moon Golden Pupils!"

"The Heavenly Emperor doesn't have the Sun-Moon Dao Fruit, so it doesn't count as true either!"

"Is it possible that what you two are talking about is actually one path? The Monitoring Heaven Divine Mirror is the Heavenly Emperor's eye, and the Heavenly Emperor's eye is the Monitoring Heaven Divine Mirror?"

"Inviting the Heavenly Emperor's eye might be able to refine Sun-Moon Golden Pupils, but refining Sun-Moon Golden Pupils is truly unlikely!"

At this time, Cui Dan said, "The Monitoring Heaven Dharma Eye originates from the Monitoring Heaven Divine Mirror outside the Heavenly Court's South Heaven Gate. Although the origin of the divine eye can all be transformed into a divine mirror, the path ultimately deviates..."

"The true path of the Sun-Moon Golden Pupils does not actually refer to the eyes of a Saint King or Emperor being like the sun and moon, shining on everyone, benefiting everyone, with power like the sun and moon, impartial; grace like the sun and moon, shining on the earth. That is the eye of an Emperor, the eye of one who thinks they are the Son of Heaven!"

"The true Sun-Moon Golden Pupils, the Emperor's Double Pupils, take the hearts of the people as the heart of heaven, and the eyes of all living beings as the eyes of the vast heaven, placing all one's own actions under the eyes of the vast heaven, allowing all living beings to penetrate everything about oneself, with nothing to hide."

"Therefore, the Sun-Moon Golden Pupils have two great supernatural powers: I see all living beings, and all living beings see me!"

"The latter is more important than the former."

"Sun-Moon Golden Pupils are not about letting one's own eyes be like the sun and moon, seeing everything and peeking at everyone, but about letting everyone peek at the real you through these eyes."

"It is not the Emperor's eyes containing the sun and moon, but the Emperor's heart being like the sun and moon, open and honest, without any secrets, and all living beings seeing it!"

"Sun-Moon Golden Pupils are not the Emperor's eyes!"

"But the Emperor's heart, open like the sun and moon, with eyes like windows of the heart, so all living beings can see the sun and moon!"

"The eye of the vast heaven is not the Emperor's eye!"

"But the eyes of the ten thousand people, the eyes of all living beings!"

"All living beings are like the will of heaven. They completely understand and see through the Emperor, without a trace of concealment or deception toward them. Only then can the will of all living beings truly examine the Emperor like the will of heaven, making him tremble with fear and feel sincere joy."

Once these words were spoken, the crowd was like a pot that had exploded.

Pei Erke frowned tightly, "Nonsense, what kind of dog-fart logic is this? The Emperor rules over the ten thousand people, monitoring and examining them..."

But as soon as he said it, he felt the gods and demons in his eyes become solemn.

The gods were not just solemn; they were truly awestruck, as if facing a great enemy. The relaxed eyes and the eyes that were watching the fun suddenly tightened.

The playfulness and the mentality of watching the fun of the Yu Yu Jiuyou Demon Gods were also broken in an instant.

Just a few words.

Just an ethereal path was enough to make gods and demons treat it this way. Pei Erke naturally knew that these words had hit the true crux of the eye of the vast heaven.

The Profound Heaven Emperor then spoke faintly, "The Emperor of old, heart like the sun and moon, examined by all living beings!"

"This is indeed where the true power of the Sun-Moon Golden Pupils lies. For the Emperor, no supernatural power or magic is meaningful; only 'virtue' and 'Dao' are meaningful."

"Sun-Moon Golden Pupils are the praise of all living beings for the Emperor's virtue, with eyes like the sun and moon, observing the finest details, pointing out the direction for all living beings. This is the Emperor's virtue; when virtue is achieved, the Dao arrives, and supernatural power is naturally formed! And the Emperor's virtue is not about how sharp the vision is, being able to see everything, miss nothing, see the future from afar, and see the human heart from near..."

"But about being open and selfless, so anyone can see through him at a glance and understand his true heart!"

"Therefore, Sun-Moon Golden Pupils are the path of utmost sincerity, knowing the past and the future, not as a supernatural ability, but naturally, as the Great Dao dictates..."

"My heart is like the sun and moon, and all living beings are heaven!"

"In this way, ghosts and gods dare not harm, Yu Yu Jiuyou Demon Gods must retreat three times upon seeing, and all existences that dare to harm him have no place to stay. Where his gaze reaches, darkness does not exist."

"This is the Emperor, this is the eye of Emperor Shun..."

Cui Dan felt the darkness in his heart become more evil and demonic. He said slowly, "Therefore, even the virtue of Emperor Yu failed to cultivate the eye of the vast heaven, because his actions ultimately left a trace of selfishness, a trace of selfishness regarding Qi, a trace of guilt as a father!"

"And the later Xia Hou clan was already a family-owned world, making it even more impossible to cultivate the eye of the vast heaven."

"Even if Jie of Xia truly refined his eyes into the sun and moon, proving a part of the Sun-Moon Dao Fruit, that sun ultimately perished, perishing under the curses of all living beings!"

"Therefore, the Xia Hou clan has been pursuing the eye of the vast heaven from beginning to end. They thought they had refined the supernatural power of the eye of the vast heaven many times, but that was always just the great supernatural power of the eye of the vast heaven, not the Great Dao of the eye of the vast heaven of the ancient Emperor." Cui Dan felt slightly ashamed and said decisively, "Therefore, the Xia Hou clan has been on the wrong path from beginning to end!"

This iron-like voice fell into Xia Yi's heart, causing that rising Great Sun to tremble slightly.

It was almost about to collapse!

Every word and sentence beat upon Xia Yi, as if carved into his bones, almost writing the word "shame" into his marrow on his face.

At that moment, Xia Yi's Dao heart was in chaos.

"Sun-Moon Golden Pupils are not the Emperor's eyes!"

"But the Emperor's heart..."

Xia Yi just examined his own heart: greed, arrogance, irritability, desire. The Dao heart he originally thought was incomparably firm was perfect when hidden in his own heart, hidden in the darkness.

But when exposed, even if just exposed to one person's eyes, it felt like being cut by a thousand knives.

It felt like it was riddled with holes.

The Sun-Moon Golden Pupils he cultivated were like someone pointing at fake gold and silver foil stuck on a window, covering the window of the heart that is the eyes, saying it was like the sun and moon.

It was just temporarily reflecting the light of the sun and moon for others to see.

Even that room was instead isolating the light of the sun and moon, becoming darker and more closed...

What kind of Sun-Moon Golden Pupils are these? The Emperor's heart is clearly silver-foil golden pupils, the heart of a lone man.

At this moment, under Cui Dan's blade-like pointing at his Dao heart and devil-like bewitchment, the seemingly powerful and brilliant sun-and-moon-like disguise on the surface of the Sun-Moon Golden Pupils was pierced.

That rising brilliant Great Sun suddenly revealed countless black spots, countless spots that seemed to be decaying...

A golden Great Sun became riddled with holes in the blink of an eye.

The Golden Rooster, which was absorbing the light of the Great Sun and enjoying the lamp sacrifice and light sacrifice, was caught off guard, and its feathers, which flowed like golden light and were unblemished, were also stained black in several places.

For a time, many people exclaimed, "Not good!"

"Cui Dan, do you want to destroy this strange treasure?"

"This is nine times out of ten a remnant of eternal immortal light, unable to withstand even a trace of dark pollution. This thing, which can be counted as an ancient treasure even in the Heavenly Realm, is just destroyed by you like this!"

"Daoist Cui's words are like knives, every word piercing the heart, but why destroy someone's opportunity like this?"

Zheng Yin flew forward, wanting to snatch the treasure in time before the Golden Rooster's feathers were completely stained black.

But at this time, Xia Yi suddenly made a move and repelled him.

His sleeves fluttered, and the phantom of the Hanhai Pearl, the national treasure of the Hanhai Kingdom, dropped a vast ocean, blocking the rolling Silent Divine Thunder Zheng Yin had unleashed!

Countless black spots appeared in Xia Yi's gold and silver pupils.

Even those black spots that looked like pupils were still expanding. The originally sacred and magnificent supernatural power, the Double Pupils, had already dimmed, and were ruined by more than half.

But he stood in place with a complex expression.

Xia Yi bowed deeply, "Thank you, Daoist Cui, for piercing the falsehood and letting me see the essence of the Sun-Moon Golden Pupils I cultivated."

After speaking, he turned back to look at the Golden Rooster, his expression even more complex.

"I thought the Sun-Moon Golden Pupils were like the sun and moon, piercing through all falsehoods and seeing through all illusions, but now that I think about it, I can't even see through my own heart, and I try every possible way to cover it up! How could I see through everything and observe everything?"

"No wonder I was deceived by this demonic creature!"

As soon as Xia Yi finished speaking, the black spots on the Golden Rooster's feathers squirmed and were sucked into the Golden Rooster's body.

One foot tall, with feathers as pure as solar gold essence, the beautiful Golden Rooster slowly turned its head. Its bean-sized eyes actually hid a needle-point-sized, incomparably deep darkness.

Under the Golden Rooster's skin, there was a squirming, as if its bones were breaking and reorganizing.

Accompanied by an aura that was bathed in golden light but became increasingly cold and eerie.

It squirmed under the Golden Rooster's skin.

Gradually, a human-like figure, like a thin, tall shadow wrapped under the Golden Rooster's skin, struggled and twisted, finally putting on the skin suit like a person, and stood up again.

Chicken head and human body, covered in countless feathers, with skin as stiff and purple as a corpse.

Pupils like a chicken, like a snake, vertical to a point, incomparably evil.

Gao Zhao recited its name like a groan, "Feathered Celestial Being!"

"No... it's the corpse of a Feathered Celestial Being..."

Pieces of armor fragments pierced from under the skin and flesh, crawling onto the surface of the Celestial Being.

A tattered, beast-swallowing mouth, cast entirely from heavenly fire purple copper, engraved with countless cloud patterns and thunder patterns, and even armor with heavenly scenes wrapped the corpse. A tattered cloak fluttered behind it like wings.

Those flat corpse feathers, like corpse hair, drifted down in a messy way like chicken feathers.

The eerie pupils of the Feathered Celestial Being swept over several people, flashing with cunning, coldness, cruelty, and tyranny...

Xia Yi sighed faintly, "The corpse of a Celestial Being!"

"I didn't expect that Xu Fu, the great Fangshi, would use great supernatural power to turn the world upside down and smash the Heavenly Realm down, not completely wiping out or extinguishing the one hundred thousand heavenly soldiers and generals outside the Zhu Que Gate, but instead..."

A flash of realization crossed Lan Jiu's face, "Driving in living piles!"

"I didn't expect that the sacred Emperor's Fengshan ritual would also require driving in living piles!"

At this moment, Lan Jiu truly doubted himself.

The Emperor's Fengshan, which casts the Five Sacred Mountains as an altar to receive the Emperor's Dao Fruit and is known as the first divine sacrificial art of the Earth Immortal Realm, actually required driving in living piles, using this kind of low-class evil art, this kind of heterodox path that even third-rate earth masters would disdain, to lay the foundation.

Qing Jiao also shook his head desperately, "Impossible, impossible! Does the ritual of the Five Sacred Mountains require driving in living piles to operate?"

"This kind of great sacrifice, which is countless times more solemn and sacred than ascending to immortality, known as the most serious in history, requires driving in living piles? Even if it's one hundred thousand heavenly soldiers and generals, even if it's heavenly celestial beings, they are not worthy... This is simply blasphemy, it is defilement!"

"What do you think the Emperor's Dao Fruit is?" Cui Dan said slowly, "The Emperor's Dao Fruit is cast from millions of bones; isn't that a matter of course?"

"That is the Son of Heaven, the Human Emperor..."

"The Son of Heaven and Human Emperor are meant to eat people!"

Xia Yi didn't care at all, slowly exhaling a breath of turbid air, "Xu Fu smashed the Heavenly Realm, burying I don't know how many heavenly soldiers and generals in the five sacred mountains, driving in one nail after another, living piles, thereby refining the Five Sacred Mountains into an altar. This was originally an incomparably normal, even very orthodox method in the Heavenly Xia and Heavenly Shang."

"The Juntan of my Heavenly Xia and the Lutai of the Heavenly Shang were all built by driving in living piles of I don't know how many slave shamans, buried in the foundation and subjected to shamanic methods!"

"This was originally the shamanic orthodoxy, and it was also because I was led astray by the benevolent and righteous moral theories prevalent after the Heavenly Zhou, that I could never see through this point!"

"Clearly, Xu Fu and the others were not led astray!"

"The Emperor's Fengshan great sacrifice, mixed with shamanic ways, although its power is unmatched and its achievements are incredible, can be called the pinnacle of the sacrificial path."

"But in essence, it is not sacred or moral at all; instead, it is incomparably bloody, barbaric, and primitive!"

Everyone looked around and saw that a layer of white mist was lingering on the many fragments of the sacred mountains scattered in the Yin River.

Thinking that I don't know how many corpses of heavenly soldiers and generals were alive and driven into the Primordial Divine Stone, and thinking that the seemingly sacred Five Sacred Mountains altar was actually a series of huge tomb mountains, made people shudder.

In Pei Erke's eyes, countless gods and demons of the cosmos had already cast a trace of their gaze, staring at all this.

"Unexpected, yet within reason!"

"I said, what kind of good magic could that group of Fangshi create? The Fengshan great sacrifice, why were the Five Sacred Mountain Lords so cooperative... So it was because they drove in living piles! This kind of method for creating the spirits of the Five Sacred Mountains is... simple and unadorned. It is full of the simplicity of the early days of humanity!"

"These Fangshi are more evil than us Yu Yu Jiuyou Demon Gods!"

"Driving in living piles, this Emperor's Fengshan achieving the Emperor's Dao Fruit, how is it the same as the low-class heterodox evil cultivation, the Lu Ban art!"

"Don't laugh, this might be a layout by the real Lu Ban..."

"You star gods, why are you laughing! Isn't the Investiture of the Gods also... Uh! Why are you covering my mouth?"

"You dare to say this, do you not want your life?"

Haha, it was finally rushed out.