Chapter 789

Seeing Yan Shu carried the green jade gourd, hesitating repeatedly in his heart.

He saw the old Daoist calculating again and again, using the compass and the Eight Trigrams cloth, kowtowing to beg the blood-stained bamboo tube, counting the thousand-year-old yarrow stalks one by one, seeking hexagrams other than Abundance and Prosperity.

He saw Little Yu sniffing the fragrance of the wood-grain bit by bit, placing a broken wing of a Primordial Plague Locust in front of his arm, desperately trying to seek the stench that would avoid the plague.

The big man's naked body was smeared with yin oil, letting yin qi enter his body, just to make himself look like a dead person.

But Seeing Yan Shu knew these were all useless.

Once the Primordial Plague Locusts appear, it is a world-ending disaster, like heavenly punishment; there is absolutely no way to calculate a path of survival.

The incense path can remove filth and avoid plague, but locusts are living creatures and fierce insects, and also one of the Five Heavenly Punishments held by the Queen Mother of the West; they can never be driven away by the mere incense path, and even the legendary Heavenly Fragrance qi would find it hard to repel them.

And the body of a dead person is even more useless—because locusts eat dead people!

Seeing Yan Shu sighed helplessly and could only ask the Demon Dao wisdom in his heart. This time, the wisdom pearls had been connected over a thousand times, and a familiar shadow turned around in Seeing Yan Shu's heart; looking at the features, it was his familiar Qian Shidi Brother Qian.

But at this moment, in Brother Qian Chen's eyes, the benevolence hidden beneath his usual laughter and cunning was gone, replaced by a vigorous vitality full of destructive desire.

Only when he saw Seeing Yan Shu did he smile and put down the book in his hand.

Looking at the familiar yet strange Qian Shidi in his heart, Seeing Yan Shu hesitated slightly...

"Actually, you shouldn't come to see me again! Because I can't be sure that the next time you ask, I will still be me."

"You should have already noticed that although this world-shaking wisdom was demonic before, it wasn't as cold as it is now! It is because there is less humanity in this wisdom. Next time, I cannot guarantee that this heart will still care about you, nor can I guarantee whether this wisdom will harm all living beings and stir up boundless killing kalpas..."

Seeing Yan Shu's mouth suddenly went dry, and he opened it to say: "Where is the opportunity?"

Brother Qian Chen thought for a moment and shook his head: "No rush, there is still time..."

"It's just that you need to think clearly: the wood-grain spirit seeds and the Primordial Plague Locusts coexist. The fact that it was sent here by someone is not because someone doesn't want to benefit the world, but because... the Great Dao has its own balance. Agriculture is taken from nature, and floods, droughts, and locust plagues are naturally accompanied by it."

"Once the spirit seeds are taken, when this species spreads across the world, once natural disasters spread and war breaks out, the Primordial Plague Locusts will naturally be born."

Brother Qian Chen warned solemnly: "Just because spirit grain takes creation from nature, there is a reverse creation born from it! This is the limit of heaven and man; even the Supreme..."

"Could it be that if we don't take this, there would be no floods, droughts, or locust plagues in the human world?"

Seeing Yan Shu asked solemnly.

Brother Qian Chen laughed dumbly: "That's right! In the human world, which year has no floods, droughts, or locust plagues? Even in the era when the gods ruled the world, there were many punishments to prevent mortals from recklessly tampering with nature. It's just that in the past, the disasters didn't fall on the high-and-mighty aristocratic families and immortals."

"The Primordial Plague Locusts, the Drought Demon, and the Flood Demon—once the spirit seeds are obtained, even the high-and-mighty Divine Court and immortals will not be able to avoid this disaster!"

"Only after the world is in chaos can there be the eternal demonic kalpa! The aristocratic families and immortal sects of the world, slaughtering them like dogs and pigs, driving them like mud and sand..."

"Then go and take it!"

"The benefits will be shared by the aristocratic families and commoners of the world, and when the disasters come, let them sink together!"

"The Primordial Plague Locusts were born from human resentment, hatred, hunger, and despair; they are the most tragic spiritual emotions transformed. Otherwise, how could such weak insects gnaw on those immortal gods who are immortal and indestructible? If not for this, how could the various sufferings of mortals move those existences that operate the Great Dao?"

"This is essentially a Dao Fruit, a bitter Dao Fruit transformed into Heavenly Punishment!"

Seeing Yan Shu raised his head, but Brother Qian Chen had already disappeared without a trace. He didn't even know if he was talking to the Qian Shidi he had imagined or if Brother Qian Chen's spirit had really been there.

But Qian Shidi Brother Qian was still that Qian Shidi Brother Qian.

Even if only a few threads of affection remained in his heart, he could still push his own small love to the great love of the world.

It's just that he didn't know if this great love was more about the compassion for all living beings or the excitement of hoping that those insects would all die together and the gods and Buddhas in the sky would sink together.

What is called—Great Love for the World! (Shouted!)

This world-shaking wisdom had deduced the root of the Primordial Plague Locusts.

It turned out that it wasn't the Primordial Plague Locusts that evolved the Weapon of Heavenly Punishment, but that the Primordial Plague Locusts themselves were one of the Heavenly Punishments.

Heaven has five punishments; those who see them die.

These five punishments are the evolution of the five elements of the Heavenly Dao, the reverse of the five virtues.

Among them, the wood virtue is the virtue of heaven giving birth to grass and trees; its name is Spring, saying it can nurture all things.

The reverse of wood virtue is greed, because the growth of grass and trees is the greediest, endlessly demanding from heaven and earth, therefore—grass and trees covet heaven, farmers covet earth, and immortal gods covet people.

Grass and trees covet heaven, demanding nutrients from heaven and earth and strangling other species. Farmers covet earth, demanding from nature without limit. Nobles and immortals covet people, demanding endlessly from the lower classes without end.

This greed violates the three talents, so killing intent is born, and heavenly punishment descends!

"So the Primordial Plague Locusts are extremely greedy; once they smell the spirit grain, they will never rest. Originally, I had already realized that the green jade gourd Qian Shidi left me was the key to obtaining the Immortal Medicine of the wood-grain."

"The nine-eared grain, eating it makes one old but not die."

"Using the scent of the immortal medicine remaining in the green jade gourd to disguise it as immature wood-grain to enter the green jade ridge, after picking the nine-eared grain, put it into the green jade gourd, then turn the gourd three times, and it will brew into spirit wine."

"Finally, open the gourd and walk out of the grain field."

"Let the flying Primordial Plague Locusts be greedy for the wine scent; when the flying locusts fall one after another and die instantly, one can obtain one-third of the spirit wine."

"This is the risky move that Qian Shidi had calculated beforehand, with ten-tenths of certainty."

Seeing Yan Shu thought clearly: "But now I also have greed in my heart, wanting to bring the spirit seeds back, so I am violating the Heavenly Punishment, and no matter how perfect the calculation, it is useless. In the past, the Red Emperor tasted a hundred herbs for the sake of all living beings and still suffered the calamity of death, let alone a mere me?"

"The righteous method is useless; I can only use the Demon Dao method..."

"Its root lies in using demons to control demons, using greed to control greed, so I must investigate the root of the Primordial Plague Locusts and understand their Weapon of Heavenly Punishment."

Heaven has five thieves; those who see them prosper!

The original meaning of this "Yin Fu Jing" refers to the five stars and five elements of heaven, where the generation, restriction, and transformation all harm the human body, causing people to fall into them and suffer the bitterness of birth, aging, sickness, and death, unable to be the masters of their own destiny.

And those who cultivate can recognize their thieving nature, explore the root of creation, make the five elements reverse, make creation go backward, and naturally be able to seize the creation of the five elements, making the "thief" turn into "prosperity," and instead promote the success of my Dao!

Among them, the wood thief is greed, so one must restrain the nature of greed, internally refine the greedy heart, and reverse the creation of the wood thief in the body, making the heart have less joy, the liver have less anger, the spleen have less worry...

Internally restrain the seven emotions, externally generate the five virtues.

Even more, have fewer thoughts, fewer desires, and eat less, so as to gradually restrain the wood thief, reverse the five elements, and reverse creation.

The Demon Dao wisdom reversed the Five-Element Great Escape and deduced this magic, but it emphasizes internally nurturing the five thieves and externally restraining the five virtues.

Following the human heart while reversing the principles of heaven, understanding the mysteries of the five elements, and exploring the root of creation, but taking the body as a thief and stealing the Heavenly Dao externally—without greed, one cannot achieve the Dao!

Although Seeing Yan Shu tried his best to restrain the Demon Dao wisdom and did not perfect this "Inner Nurturing of the Five Thieves and Stealing the Heaven Scripture."

After all, internally nurturing the five thieves and externally stealing creation to prolong life.

Stealing Heavenly Punishment to kill life!

Reversely restraining the five virtues and disasters are born; seeking externally from within, transferring the various disasters of the five thieves of heaven that harm me to others, ultimately reaching the realm of sharing kalpas with heaven, earth, and all living beings, and mastering the Great Dao of Disaster.

This was too contrary to Seeing Yan Shu's nature.

It was simply shocking.

But if so, the Primordial Plague Locusts were nothing more than a kind of Great Dao refined, and one could even usurp the locust swarm as an incarnation; it was a most fundamental solution.

"Qian Shidi... this is! Qian Shidi is this!"

Seeing Yan Shu couldn't say anything for a while; he absolutely refused to believe this was a Dao method he had deduced himself, and could only push the blame onto Brother Qian Chen!

Qian Shidi's demonic nature was still a bit restrained in the past; although he used to toss himself around, he didn't harm people... at least not too many people.

Now he only cares about harming others to benefit himself, and bringing disaster to heaven and earth.

As long as the disasters are shared equally among everyone, then I have no disasters!

Seeing Yan Shu used his heart sword to slash several times, but the "Inner Nurturing of the Five Thieves and Stealing the Heaven Scripture" was just lazy and dropped a few chapters. Finally, it seemed to be impatient with Seeing Yan Shu's dull sword light, so it rolled up and transformed into the "Heavenly Evolution of the Five Virtues Profound Scripture."

Then the profound scripture reversed and transformed into the "Heavenly Punishment Five Kalpas Secret Dao Book"!

Among them, a chapter was separated—"Method of Driving the Primordial Plague Locust Incarnation," which fell into Seeing Yan Shu's heart.

Seeing Yan Shu knew that this was the greatest degree of perfunctory effort the Demon Dao wisdom could give him; his heart sword could no longer slash such heaven-defying things!

He had to press down his sword light and silently comprehend this chapter.

He carried the green jade immortal gourd and walked down the green jade ridge, attracting everyone's gaze. Everyone saw him step over the black soil where the Primordial Plague Locusts were lurking, saw his footsteps kick out the five-colored, brightly-winged plague locusts, but the locusts just lazily flapped their wings and continued to burrow into the soil.

For a moment, everyone was watching.

Uncle Cao gripped his hands tightly, his nails digging into his palms.

"So it's Yan Yan Shixiong Yan!" The old Daoist looked up slightly and said with relief: "Yan Yan Shixiong Yan really has a way!"

"Why did that Shaoqing true inheritor get down there?"

"Should we interrogate him? If he doesn't speak, we'll make a move to disturb the Primordial Plague Locusts?" This was the greed of the samsara travelers.

"No rush, let's watch first!"

Seeing Yan Shu walked under the wood-grain, the fresh qi of grass and trees rushing toward his face; the wood-grain was indeed towering like trees.

He looked up, and the nine ears were still three feet above his head, but Seeing Yan Shu didn't come for the nine ears; he just plucked a leaf of the grain and retreated from the green jade ridge.

At this moment, the Primordial Plague Locusts that smelled the fresh qi of the grain were somewhat restless, but when they flapped their wings to rise, they sensed the wine scent surrounding Seeing Yan Shu's gourd, so they fell one after another, just because this wine scent hooked their greedy nature, making these locusts intoxicated for a moment.

Seeing Yan Shu knew this was only a temporary perfunctory effort; after hooking their greed, the fierce nature of these locusts would gradually revive, and the next time he came, it would be even more dangerous.

At this time, brewing the spirit grain into wine was useless...

Seeing Yan Shu rolled the grain leaf into a cup and headed straight to the west. He walked ten miles before finding a stream of red pill water flowing at the foot of the Immortal Tree. The stream was full of white jade, bright and flawless, but no one dared to pick it up.

Seeing Yan Shu used the grain leaf as a cup and scooped up a cup of pill water.

"Is he crazy?" The samsara travelers saw Seeing Yan Shu only take a grain leaf out and were puzzled; when they saw Seeing Yan Shu use it as a cup to scoop up the pill water, their eyes widened even more.

One must know that once the pill water leaves the stream, it immediately becomes a curse.

The life of the person taking the water will be returned to the stream in equal value, only exchanging for an equal amount of immortal medicinal property.

After Seeing Yan Shu took the pill water, his hair and beard instantly turned white, and hundreds of years of lifespan flowed away, only exchanging for the pill water in his hand to fade slightly. As his lifespan flowed away, Seeing Yan Shu couldn't stand steadily and sat down on the bank.

Ning Ning Qingchen saw Seeing Yan Shu's action and stood up abruptly, wanting to run over, but the old ox stopped her and shook his head slightly.

"Your Yan Yan Shixiong Yan is not a fool; he must have his own intentions for doing this. Concern leads to chaos! If you are chaotic, he will suffer the consequences! Now, the only person who can disturb his heart is you, so... don't panic!"

Ning Ning Qingchen stopped when she heard this and watched Seeing Yan Shu from afar with worry.

Dan Gu Chenzi also stood up in shock, staring at Seeing Yan Shu, muttering to himself: "Could it be that he also realized it? No, I didn't realize how to obtain the wood-grain, and Hong Xuesheng only got the blood of the Crimson Tree; how could he?"

Seeing Yan Shu felt his lifespan flowing away. At this moment, his heart sword had become dull with the fatigue of his body and the dizziness of his head. Now he only remembered that he had to obtain the 'Greed Spring'!

The Greed Spring is the Stealing Spring...

Now, as the law of the Immortal Demon Tree began to seize his vitality, his hair gradually withered and fell, his teeth loosened and thinned, wrinkles appeared on his skin, his spine gradually hunched, and a rancid smell emanated from his body, with sweat stains appearing under his arms.

It seemed as if there was truly a great thief of heaven and earth stealing his vitality, his youth, his best years, and his memories. At this moment, his peerless heart sword was dull, his proud wisdom was mediocre, his strong will was collapsing, and everything flowed away, leaving him empty.

A kind of sorrow surged into his heart...

"What do I have left?"

"What has heaven and earth left for me?"

Suddenly, a heartfelt greed arose uncontrollably from his heart, making Seeing Yan Shu want to grasp and retain all of this. From the very source of his flickering life, a desire for life was born.

He looked at the flowing pill water and suddenly felt a desire to gulp it down and drink back the life he had lost.

He wanted to kill everyone around him, everyone who was still alive, and sacrifice them to this spring to retrieve his lost life. That impulse was so intense that as soon as it appeared, it completely dominated Seeing Yan Shu's heart, and the various magics deduced by the Demon Dao wisdom surged into his heart.

Longevity Demon!

Seeing Yan Shu realized as the various secrets of the Demon Dao flowed through his heart that this was the Longevity Demon!

Many demonic thoughts surged up, and as his deadline approached, they became more and more intense, with only a thread of clarity guarding his original heart?

"What is that?"

Seeing Yan Shu's withered hand gripped the grain leaf cup tightly, not letting go even though it trembled.

"What is it that I am bitterly insisting on?"

Little Yu quietly came to Seeing Yan Shu's side and saw his Yan Yan Shixiong, who had turned into an old man and was only a dying corpse, and suddenly his eyes turned red. He knelt in front of Seeing Yan Shu and kowtowed hard, his forehead hitting the ground heavily, leaving a bloodstain.

Little Yu raised his head and saw the scattered light in Seeing Yan Shu's eyes, and regardless of the blood flowing down his forehead, he kowtowed again.

The old Daoist came to Little Yu and wanted to pull him up, but Little Yu struggled and broke free.

Watching Seeing Yan Shu gradually lose his breath of life.

The old Daoist suddenly threw his hand: "All mistakes are my fault! I shouldn't have delayed Yan Yan Shixiong Yan!"

After saying this, he also knelt down and kowtowed his aged head toward Seeing Yan Shu.

At this moment, the thumping sound finally startled Seeing Yan Shu, who was already drowsy. He looked up and saw the three people in front of him; although the big man didn't know why, he followed suit and kowtowed out of brotherly loyalty.

Seeing Yan Shu suddenly remembered.

"What I am bitterly insisting on is the trace of kindness I saw in them! I came to take the seeds for the sake of all living beings! What flowed through my heart was greed, greed rooted in nature, greed for survival. But what supported me to come here was not greed for survival, but greed for the goodness of all living beings, greed for that trace of kindness. The Sect Master often says that if a cultivator has a trace of greed in his heart, it should be greed for the well-being of all living beings."

"Greed for one's own life!"

"Greed for the life of all living beings!"

"Greed for the Great Dao ahead!"

A tear slid silently from the corner of Seeing Yan Shu's eye and dripped into the grain leaf cup in his palm.

The last trace of vitality flowed away and fell into the pill water. At this moment, the taboo Immortal Medicine in his arms suddenly erupted with a trace of bronze light.

Suddenly everything reversed, and the vitality in the pill water rolled back into Seeing Yan Shu's body.

His pale, withered hair suddenly returned to black, his wrinkled skin quickly filled with water, his crumbling teeth were as new as jade, and his lost years seemed to flow backward, returning to him.

Only in the grain leaf cup in his hand, the crimson pill water had turned colorless.

That was—the Stealing Spring.

Using one's own life as a bargaining chip, at the moment of near-death, due to the immense greed in one's heart, one steals creation from heaven and earth!

The Stealing Spring cannot bring the dead back to life; Seeing Yan Shu knew it was Brother Qian Chen who had saved him once again.

The dull heart sword in his heart was washed by a spring flowing from his heart, suddenly becoming new. The last bit of yin quality in his spirit also flowed out with this spring, turning into pure yang.

Stealing Spring Washes the Sword!

"Immortal Medicine!"

Dan Gu Chenzi exclaimed suddenly, and this shout awakened many Primordial Spirit True Persons watching from the dark.

The Primordial Spirit True Immortals of the Shenxiao Sect watched Seeing Yan Shu's resurrection from afar, desperately calculating with their fingers, but none could calculate where the lifespan that brought Seeing Yan Shu back to life came from.

Could this really be the Immortal Medicine?

What exactly did Seeing Yan Shu realize beside the pill water?

Not to mention the group of Primordial Spirit True Immortals, even Zhu Zhu Tanmo, who had followed Seeing Yan Shu all the way, was at a loss. He could naturally see that the water in the cup in Seeing Yan Shu's hand was not any Immortal Medicine, but if it wasn't the Immortal Medicine, how could he explain this terrifying change?

Entering death from life, then returning to life, proving the Yang Spirit, and finally taking a cup of clear water from the pill water.

If that wasn't the Immortal Medicine, what was?

Suddenly, the group of Primordial Spirits became restless. Hong Xuesheng Old Ancestor, regardless of the Crimson Tree blood he had just sent his disciples to take, incited: "This must be the Immortal Medicine! I wonder if any fellow Daoist who is familiar with Shaoqing is willing to ask what the secret of taking the medicine is?"

Dan Gu Chenzi's face darkened and he said: "Old Demon, what do you mean by this?"

"Just looking at the various things Junior Nephew Yan did before, we know that this must contain extreme danger, and the way to break the situation must be in the heart, medicine formed by the heart. What exactly do you mean by forcing him to ask?"

Sun En also snorted coldly: "I see that Junior Nephew Yan is also like this, only obtaining the medicine after passing through the mysterious gate of life and death."

"If you are greedy, you can go and take the medicine yourself; how dare you offend my Daoist Sect?"

Under the strong support of the two branches of the Daoist Sect, the various greeds of the Primordial Spirits were barely suppressed, but Seeing Yan Shu did not return to the Immortal Tree under the protection of the various Daoist Primordial Spirits as they had thought, but walked straight to the green jade ridge where the wood-grain was.

Seeing Yan Shu held the Stealing Spring, and the Primordial Plague Locusts around him were restless, with dense locusts crawling out of the black soil.

They landed at Seeing Yan Shu's feet, landed on the wood-grain, dense and numerous, with about tens of millions of them crawling all over the green jade ridge.

Seeing Yan Shu stepped on the Primordial Plague Locusts, making them creak, which made people's scalps tingle. The five-colored locust wings were even more brightly colored, which was a manifestation of their poisonous plague.

As the Primordial Plague Locusts flapped their wings, nine-colored miasma gradually rose, shrouding a group of colored qi on the green jade ridge, containing the five plagues; even if a Primordial Spirit True Immortal were stained with it, they would suffer a great illness.

But this miasma bypassed Seeing Yan Shu, as if the cup of spring water he held restrained all kinds of plagues.

Seeing Yan Shu came under the wood-grain and reached out to break off a nine-eared grain. He put the five-grain nine-ears into the green jade gourd in his hand, then poured the Stealing Spring water into it, then turned the gourd upside down, and then put the gourd upright.

After three turns, the qi of heaven and earth in the gourd turned three times.

The secret ritual left by Brother Qian Chen was activated, hooking the Primordial Taiji Gourd on the Immortal God Tree, only to see the Stealing Spring water and the five-grain nine-ears all refined into essence, and countless years of time flowed by, turning them into three mouthfuls of spirit wine.

Seeing Yan Shu raised his head, held a mouthful, and then sprayed it violently toward his side.

Heaven knows how much desire he endured not to swallow this supreme wine of heaven and earth!

The greedy wine turned into rolling cloud qi, suddenly shrouding the green jade ridge. Wherever it passed, the Primordial Plague Locusts fell one after another, as if dead, and for a time, the ground was covered with locust corpses.

Seeing Yan Shu secretly broke off a nine-eared grain and hid it at the bottom of the green jade gourd.

Then he ran wildly, turning into a streak of light, and escaped from the green jade ridge...

At this time, some people couldn't restrain their greed, looked at the locust corpses all over the ground, and rushed into the green jade ridge, going against Seeing Yan Shu, frantically picking the wood-grain ears.

But Seeing Yan Shu had just left the green jade ridge and ran another ten miles when he saw the locusts on the ground flicking their six legs and gradually waking up.

It turned out they weren't dead, but were intoxicated by the greedy wine brewed from the Stealing Spring and the five-grain essence, which triggered the terrifying greed in their nature.

Now that they were awake, their greed was already heaven-shaking, and in an instant, countless Primordial Plague Locusts swarmed, turning into a dense swarm of insects; in just one breath, they gnawed the cultivators on the green jade ridge clean.

But there were still people who knew how to restrain their greed and escaped faster...

A Primordial Spirit True Immortal was locked onto by the Primordial Plague Locusts because of the scent of the nine grain ears on his body. In an instant, those tens of millions of plague locusts gathered into a formation, and the qi of plague and punishment manifested into a flying knife, hanging in mid-air, emitting an aura that made all cultivators terrified, as if disaster was imminent.

As soon as the flying knife turned, hundreds of miles away, that Primordial Spirit True Immortal who was fleeing suddenly had his soul scattered.

In the fearful eyes of the many Primordial Spirit True Immortals.

A group of Primordial Plague Locusts separated, picked up the corpse, and then the locusts made a dense rustling sound, gnawing the bones clean in the blink of an eye!

The old Daoist said blankly: "Sure enough, these plague locusts can already evolve the Weapon of Heavenly Punishment!"

Seeing Yan Shu brought back that gourd of good wine, leaving the many Primordial Spirits still unable to figure out the details, but everyone knew that Seeing Yan Shu was now the person closest to the Immortal Divine Medicine...