Chapter 1172: Sacrificial Stone Person E-Pang Palace, Anchor of Falling Dao Emperor Fruit

"The Heavenly Human race believes in the gods incomparably piously, so their various spiritual emotions are born from faith."

"The gods want them to be happy, they are happy; want them to hate, they hate; want them to be benevolent and kind, they are benevolent and kind. In this way, the Heavenly Emperor no longer has to tolerate the human race's usurpation and disobedience, and truly began to set about destroying the human race!"

"The Heavenly Emperor wants the Heavenly Human race to be the perfect human race, and even the Heavenly Emperor calls the Heavenly Human race 'human'."

"On the contrary, the remnants of the human race who fled into the Nine Heavens with the Supreme Dao Ancestor are called the 'Demon' race by the ten thousand races of the cosmos, so my Demon Path is the orthodoxy of the human race!"

Moon Demon sighed.

When Brother Qian Chen heard this, his heart truly turned cold.

He developed an incomparably murderous intent toward the Heavenly Human race...

"The Heavenly Human race will never become 'human', because they will never have a self."

Moon Demon laughed hehe: "Self? If there were no Supreme Dao Ancestor, the self of the Heavenly Human race would be the self."

"The self of the human race is rebellion, evil roots, demonic nature, and filth!"

Brother Qian Chen sneered: "The Heavenly Human race is still living well in the Heavenly Realm now, multiplying. Can the Supreme Dao Ancestor tolerate them living?"

Moon Demon sighed: "Supreme... don't listen to some demons talking nonsense. Supreme is actually still very benevolent... of course, he doesn't lack decisiveness!"

"The Heavenly Human race is still alive because Supreme still has expectations for them, and they are still useful to the Primordial."

"The Heavenly Human possesses the virtue of 'Faith'!"

"So they are the best sacrificial offerings for the ancient Witch Path. The Immortal Qin obtained a part of the Witch

"When the Immortal Qin went to war with the Heavenly Court back then, there was an intention to plunder the population of the Celestial race."

"This provoked the Nine Ancestors of the Celestials to take action and battle the Great Alchemists!"

"Afterward, there was the Son of Heaven's Fengshan Grand Sacrifice, which pulled down the Emperor Dao Fruit. As for the secrets within! Hehe... your offer is not enough!"

After that, the Moon Demon fell silent!

No matter how Brother Qian Chen threatened or tempted him, he insisted Brother Qian Chen produce more items for the exchange. With no other choice, Brother Qian Chen had to reveal a flaw in the Painted Skin Dao, and the Moon Demon instantly vanished.

Brother Qian Chen did not find it wise to pursue him further, lest the Moon Demon Dao Lord perceive the Dao struggle between them.

"The Celestials possess the virtue of 'Faith'!"

"Are they natural anchor points?"

Brother Qian Chen held Xu Fu's head, shaking it slightly, and said in his ear: "You refined those hundred thousand Heavenly Soldiers and Generals into Dao-Sacrificial Stone Men; could it be that you used them as anchor points to pull down the Emperor Dao Fruit?"

Xu Fu suddenly opened his eyes: "Who told you about 'Dao-Sacrificial Stone Men'?"

Brother Qian Chen shook his head: "Don't worry about that. Let me think, the Celestial race possesses the virtue of 'Faith'."

"But if there is no name of a ghost or god, how do they 'believe'? If they are the perfect humans in the eyes of the Heavenly Emperor, it means their faith is nameless; without needing a name, they can direct their faith toward the gods!"

"If they believe, they must be sincere; they must believe wholeheartedly, offering everything."

"If they believe, it must be high; their faith must surely reach even the Heavenly Emperor, because if they don't even believe in the Heavenly Emperor who created them, then this faith is too illusory!"

"No wonder the Celestials are the best sacrificial offerings for the Witch Dao; they are simply natural anchors for the Fallen Dao, capable of pulling any god out of the Great Dao and bestowing humanity upon them."

"They can even directly hold onto the status of the Heavenly Emperor; they are treasures of the Divine Dao!"

Brother Qian Chen sighed in a low voice: "No wonder you have no apologies toward them, and were not shaken in the slightest by refining them into such cruel creations. It turns out you are the same as me; in our eyes, Celestials are not human! They aren't even as human-like as the Demon race!"

Xu Fu stared at Brother Qian Chen for a long time before saying gloomily: "If this were still the time of the Immortal Qin, you would certainly be one of the Great Alchemists!"

"You flatter me!" Brother Qian Chen said triumphantly: "Does my humble Dao of Creation catch the eye of a Great Great Great Fangshi?"

Xu Fu closed his eyes: "It does not, but you are ruthless enough!"

Brother Qian Chen shook his head: "Great Great Great Fangshi, why deceive yourself? If a heaven-sent genius of the Dao of Creation like me doesn't catch your eye, is there an eighth Great Great Great Fangshi left in the world?"

Xu Fu exhaled through his nostrils and suddenly said: "Refine a body for me. Being carried around and swung by you is truly annoying!"

Brother Qian Chen happened to arrive beside the Blood Sea at this moment. Hearing this, he paused and laughed: "Alright! But I have never created a human. I hear that the true method of creating humans requires mixing the Nine Springs with Breathing Soil to shape a perfect human body. You wouldn't want your own body to be a mess, would you?"

"Fine!" Xu Fu said: "I will pass on to you the technique of refining the Nine Springs and the 'Classic of Kneading Soil to Shape Humans' of the Creation Dao."

"The 'Classic of Kneading Soil to Shape Humans' is a scripture completed by the Creation Dao after we obtained the 'Classic of Transforming Soil into Clay Figures' of the Yellow Mud Dao, revised by us seven Great Alchemists, and exhausting the foundation of the Creation Dao. Except for His Majesty, only we seven Great Alchemists have the full text!"

Brother Qian Chen's eyes lit up instantly. He dug a hole beside the Blood Sea and listened to Xu Fu: "First, draw the water of the Blood Sea to refine the Nine Springs!"

Brother Qian Chen had once used a spiritual treasure to open the Nine Springs in the Return to Ruins.

But the method of the Creation Dao had its own mysteries, and he was willing to listen.

As for his disciples on the other side struggling for their lives, he had long since thrown that to the back of his mind!

In any case, he had helped them turn the Five Emperors Wheel, and had long ago planted the chess piece of the Myriad Heavens God-Demon Live-Stream Dao. With its support, the Five Emperors Wheel could suppress the Heaven-Sacrificial Stone Men for a time. If his disciples couldn't think of a way to break the situation during this time...

Then they could all go reincarnate and cultivate again...

In Xia Yi's eyes, the sun and moon merged, and the solar eclipse and lunar eclipse overlapped.

Through that overlapping darkness, his double pupils opened and closed, shooting out a black light that shone upon the Celestial stone body.

Countless witch scripts appeared on the blue-black stone body, densely packed like chains extending from the Celestial's limbs and bones, gathering into a single stream that extended toward the top of its head.

Through the fontanelle, that chain extended toward the high sky!

The human energy, wish power, and curses stolen by the Celestial flowed along this chain, thread by thread toward the sky, being drained by the chain on the stone man's body!

At this moment, Xia Yi lost his voice; his first thought was, where does this chain lead?

To the Emperor Dao Fruit?

Pei Erke's great divine ability of 'Separating Walls and Seeing Through' and his Heavenly Heart Demon Eye were fully opened, and he also saw this chain. His gaze even followed the chain, looking toward a place in the dark.

At this moment, the gods and demons in his eyes roared in unison, and the starlight and darkness surged like a tide.

Pei Erke covered his eyes, curled up, and knelt down...

"How dare you!"

"You truly have a death wish!"

"Daring to stare directly at the Great Dao, this is truly a huge joke!"

"The legend is actually true; the Celestial race is naturally linked to the Great Dao. Xu Fu used this ability of the Celestial race to secretly bind the Emperor Dao Fruit and pull it down!"

In the distance, Brother Qian Chen gloomily drew out the water of the Blood Sea, dividing it into nine strange springs: the Yellow Spring, Bitter Spring, Nether Spring, Feng Spring, Ya Spring, Cold Spring, Yin Spring, Lower Spring, and Ming Spring.

Then he dug some soil from his own yellow mud body and played with the mud beside the Blood Sea!

While mixing the mud, he said: "The Celestial race was created by the Heavenly Emperor, so their faith is also naturally linked to the Great Dao! The faith anchor of the human race is extremely unstable; not to mention that they believe in everything, the direction of their faith, wish power, and thought power is often blurred. Not to mention gods with names, statues, and scriptures, they can be shaped at will, backfiring into all sorts of desires and wants of the human race."

"If I were a god, looking at this..."

"I would also have to say—why is this human race so selfish! Their faith stems from their own desires, and they are always ready to strike, giving you a 'crack' at any moment!"

"But the Celestials are different."

"The Celestials don't need scriptures, don't need god names, don't need god statues; their natural faith leads to the Heavenly Emperor, leads to the Great Dao. And as long as there is any symbol, their faith can precisely anchor any god, even if that god is very ignorant, not clear, and still in the process of gestation."

"Because the Heavenly Emperor created them to do exactly this."

"But after the Heavenly Emperor fell, the Witch Dao must have been very pleasantly surprised; what excellent sacrificial offerings the Heavenly Emperor left behind!"

"Stable, accurate, they are simply the best anchor chains. Even a single Celestial can stably anchor a most primitive, unborn god—or rather, a 'Dao Fruit'!"

"And the Yuan Spirit Dao Fruit opened by the Supreme One protects humanity, making the spiritual emotions of the human race stable and powerful up to a limit."

"That is the best anchor!"

"The best anchor, plus the best anchor chain, is enough to create the most glorious path of cultivation in the Witch Dao to date—Dao-Sacrifice!"

"No wonder after the Supreme One opened the New Heaven, the Immortal Dao was slow to flourish."

"Even though several Dao Venerables had been born, and the path of the Immortal Dao was smooth."

"But the legacy of the Old Heaven's Heavenly Emperor and the corpses of the Old Heaven's Divine Dao hadn't been eaten yet; where would cultivators find the time to develop the Immortal Dao?"

"Using the method of sacrifice to anchor the corpses of the Old Heaven's gods through the Celestials!"

"Then gather the masses of the human race, hold a grand sacrifice, and use massive amounts of spiritual emotions to drag the corpses of the Old Heaven's gods over and transform them into positions of karma."

"Then refine the Yuan Spirit, stabilize the self, and take the nobles who possess the bloodline of the Old Heaven's Five Emperors as anchors, driving them into the positions of karma and shaping them into gods!"

"One new god after another rises, and one after another of the Five-Colored Divine Race returns to their divine positions."

"Where is the need for the difficulty of distorting the Great Dao and condensing a Dao Fruit oneself?"

"As the corpses of the Old Heaven's Divine Dao were gradually eaten away, the Witch Dao had the heart to take another step forward, creating various sacrificial methods. Because the corpses of the Old Heaven's gods had been divided up, if they wanted to confer divine positions again, they had to set their sights on those gods of the New Heaven that had not yet been gestated or born!"

"Therefore, they had to find those gestating gods and use more gentle, more ingenious methods to anchor, possess, and refine them!"

Speaking of this, even Brother Qian Chen couldn't help but be shocked by the horror and cruelty of the human race.

The era of the Witch Dao was indeed a barbaric, bloody era, an era bordering on the demonic...

To the innate gods, they were demons who were cruel to the extreme and insane beyond measure!

Xu Fu smiled bitterly: "It's not quite like that. Innate gods have no humanity; they are innate Dao Fruits. Witch Dao sacrifice is the method of 'Man and Heaven as One', sacrificing the Dao Fruit!"

Brother Qian Chen asked curiously: "I was just speaking roughly; I don't know the true subtleties of sacrificing to the Great Dao in the Witch Dao era."

"Could the Great Great Great Fangshi chat about it?"

Xu Fu said frankly: "The Witch Dao also has many schools. What we Great Alchemists studied most deeply was the Divine Palace school, which we later transformed into the Dao Palace Method and the Tiangong Method."

"Its essence is to use Heaven-Sacrificial Stone Men and human sacrificial piles to build an altar, anchor the innate Dao Fruit, and then hold a sacrifice to slowly pull the Dao Fruit out of the Great Dao."

"Finally, refine the nobles into human piles and drive them into the Dao Fruit for initial dyeing and transformation."

"We continue to hold sacrifices to help the nobles driven into the Dao Fruit stabilize themselves, cultivating divine statues with their Yuan Spirits. This is the first step: driving the Heavenly Pile; the second step: cultivating the Divine Statue."

"Then, each sacrifice has its own laws, equivalent to driving various building materials into the Dao Fruit. The Yuan Spirit uses these things driven in by the sacrifices as foundations, pillars, beams, brackets, etc., experiencing methods like building the Divine Platform, erecting the Four Pillars, and repairing the Tiangong!"

"Finally, build a Tiangong within the Dao Fruit!"

"With the Yuan Spirit sitting in the Tiangong, refining an incarnation from the Dao Fruit to descend is a Divine Dao Emperor! Even if the incarnation falls, as long as the Tiangong within the Dao Fruit is stable, it can continue to divide into incarnations."

"If one wants to thoroughly slay them, one must cut off the various anchor points that anchor them to the Dao Fruit, causing the Dao Fruit to return to Heaven."

"Then, within the Great Dao, the original body can only hide in the Tiangong to resist Dao-transformation."

"If they cannot find a way to pull out the Dao Fruit before the Dao-transformation is complete, that Divine Lord will transform into the Dao and die!"

Hearing about the Witch Dao Divine Palace Method transformed by the Immortal Qin, Brother Qian Chen couldn't help but sigh: "Immortal Qin truly loves building wonders! Even the art of Dao-sacrifice is about building palaces!"

"So, initially, the Qin Qin Shi Huang only wanted to pull out the Dao Fruits of the Five Emperors, build an unprecedented, magnificent Tiangong, and ascend the throne as Emperor!"

Brother Qian Chen asked curiously: "What made him change his mind?"

Xu Fu laughed: "Anchoring the Five Emperors' Dao Fruits and pulling them down is the Path of the Son of Heaven. It is a cultivation where the ancient Son of Heaven purely uses his own power to pull down the Five Emperors' Great Dao. After the Son of Heaven returns to Heaven, he himself will also merge into the Five Emperors' Great Dao and return to the Great Dao. This is a supreme sacrifice perfected during the time of the Xia and Shang dynasties, far more magnificent than the Tiangong Path I speak of by billions of times."

"But initially, the Qin Qin Shi Huang indeed only wanted to build a Tiangong matching the Five Emperors; that was the predecessor of the Epang Palace."

"So the Epang Palace was the supreme achievement of the Immortal Qin Witch Dao..." Brother Qian Chen felt it was a bit more reasonable again.

"At that time, the Investiture of the Gods monopolized the Divine Dao, encompassing all the divine positions left by the Old Heaven's Heavenly Court. Although it still left a glimmer of life for the Witch Dao, the path was becoming increasingly difficult!"

"The concept of the Epang Palace was to thoroughly pull the Five Emperors' Dao Fruits to the Earth Immortal Realm, not to the Heavenly Realm where the usual gods' palaces were located. It was to use the Five Sacred Mountains as nails and pillars, nailing them onto the territory of the Great Qin, transforming the Great Qin into a Divine Kingdom! All Qin people could step into the Five Emperors' Tiangong and become gods!"

"With the power of the Five Emperors' Dao Fruits, it was enough to transform the entire Earth Immortal Realm into another Heavenly Realm and transform the Great Qin into a Heavenly Court."

"And we and His Majesty could still seek the acquired Dao Fruit. His Majesty was only a line away from the Unified Dao Fruit at that time and could condense it at any moment."

"Unfortunately..."

"After his eastern tour, His Majesty changed his mind."

"Although he didn't say it, I could feel that it was related to the Dragon race and a extremely secret Heavenly Realm—the Heaven of Reincarnation!"

"From then on, the concept of the Epang Palace was revised into a plan to pull down all the Dao Fruits of the Five Emperors and Five Sovereigns of the primordial era and refine them into the Emperor Dao Fruit!"

"The Epang Palace was just a palace built by pulling the Ruling Dao Fruit down to the Earth Immortal Realm and forcibly refining it using the Immortal Qin Dragon Vein!"

"It never regained the glory of the original concept!"