Chapter 804

"Where has this even reached?"

The Western Kunlun Mirror suddenly popped out, looking at the Immortal Qin army waiting in strict formation below, and said nonchalantly: "It's just that Zhuzhu is still here, intending to temper them a little. Once the existence sealed within Zhuzhu's body emerges, it won't be such a gentle, drizzling test as this!"

Yan Shu was startled, looked up, and asked: "What do you mean by 'gentle, drizzling'?"

"The west wind is soft and warm, the fine rain is gentle..." the Western Kunlun Mirror explained, taking the words literally.

Yan Shu endured for a long time, but still did not ask the question of what "not soft and warm" or "not gentle" would be like.

Because he would see it sooner or later.

The snowflakes drifting from the sky suddenly changed; amidst the vast, clean white of the world, a touch of red suddenly appeared—bright as blood!

From the moment that piece of blood-flower fell, the entire clean, white world changed abruptly.

Countless "snow" and "blood," burning like ashes, fell from the sky in a flurry.

Yan Shu reached out to catch them, but only felt a light, airy texture like the embers left after burning...

Western Kunlun then said solemnly: "Do you see? This is the true Taiyi... what was just before was too gentle!"

The clean white of the world suddenly turned pitch black.

In an instant, the entire world was like a destruction after being thoroughly incinerated; where the ashes fell, crimson karmic fire was born. The vast earth and ocean that were clean just a moment ago were now ablaze everywhere.

Wang Li looked blankly at these embers; the pitch-black ashes still carried tiny, dark red sparks, dancing about.

He reached out to catch them, but saw the ashes land in his palm, suddenly burning a scar into it...

He shook his hand violently.

His formidable military cultivation tried to extinguish the fire in his palm, only to find it eternal and unceasing, just like karmic fire.

"Mere karmic fire?" Wang Li sneered: "When we conquered the Great World of the Incense-Accumulating Buddhist Kingdom, I don't know how many times we were burned!"

In his heart, a seed twisted from inexplicable things suddenly emerged; that seed had already taken root, blooming into three flowers, and one of them had even formed a tender, embryonic fruit.

"Do not manifest the Dao Fruit!"

Suddenly, Xu Fu's palm pressed onto his shoulder, shouting almost like a roar: "Do not manifest any merit fruit related to the Dao Seed!"

Wang Li turned his head in surprise, only to see the Zhou Tian Star Ship behind him had already turned into a hell. Under the shroud of the Creation Dao Fruit, everything became twisted, and any existence pinning its hopes on the Dao Fruit seemed to twist along with the Dao Fruit itself.

That one was approaching perfection, even if it had flaws and was incomplete.

Even the combined Dao Fruits of the seven great alchemists of Immortal Qin could only manifest one side of creation—the "Creation" Dao Fruit.

The Dao Fruit was originally a merit fruit formed by twisting the Great Dao; the Creation Dao Fruit was hammered out, blow by blow, by the great alchemists and craftsmen of Immortal Qin.

In the process of building the Zhou Tian Star Ship and smelting the gold of the world to cast the Golden Men.

Xu Fu, who presided over the project, perceived the change that humans exerted on nature and creation upon the Great Dao during this terrifying engineering process.

"Before the Yellow Emperor built boats and oars, where were the boats and oars?"

"No boats, yet the Great Dao of floating on water existed!"

"Before the Flame Emperor tasted the hundred herbs, where were the elixirs?"

"No medicine, yet the properties existed!"

Xu Fu perceived that this world was, after all, the result of mutual perception between humans and the universe. What remained eternal and unchanging was the Great Dao, but the perception of the Great Dao by all living beings could be twisted, and "Creation" was an important link in twisting all of this.

Based on the twisting of all beings' perception of the Great Dao through creation, Xu Fu condensed the Dao Seed.

And with the earth-shattering creation of a Great Wall cast across the cosmic sea and the river of time and space, exhausting the national strength of Immortal Qin, he made the Dao Seed bloom and bear fruit.

It could be said that the core of the Creation Dao Fruit was humanity, and its foundation was the four words Xu Fu shouted forward—Man can conquer Heaven!

But at this moment, the foundation of twisting the Great Dao—that initial Dao Seed—was twisting in reverse.

The entire world seemed to be re-twisting the existence that Xu Fu had twisted with his Dao Fruit in another direction. In the process of human creation, while it was indeed creating miracles that did not originally exist in nature, was the transformation of nature not also wearing away human nature?

In that instant, the process of transforming the world pinned within the Dao Fruit, the inscribed experience of creation.

How many times Xu Fu had repeated it, the boredom and numbness of the omitted thousand hammerings and hundred refinements, fell at this moment, smashing onto those craftsmen who pinned their hopes on the Dao Fruit.

Xu Fu knelt painfully on the deck of the star ship.

The Western Kunlun Mirror's voice was faint: "Enjoying the glory of creation, obtaining the profound mystery of creation, realizing the spiritual opportunity of creation, naturally brings endless glory. But likewise, creation covers up too many things that seem insignificant. This Dao Fruit is twisted like a circle, seemingly perfect, but in reality, the Great Dao around it is not smooth and natural, but contains a kind of identical twisting."

"In the process of you twisting the Great Dao and condensing the Dao Fruit, have you ever thought about where the twisting not included in your Dao Fruit is hidden?"

"It also exists on the Great Dao, hidden in the darkness around the Dao Fruit; just because you cannot see it does not mean it does not exist!"

"Until its opposite descends, the twisting outside the Dao Fruit also descends along with it!"

"Accept those things you have ignored while using the Dao Fruit for these millions of years..."

Xu Fu roared at the sky, but more terrifying than the pain presented by the roar was the silent wearing away.

Rather than saying Xu Fu was in pain, it was better to say he was resisting the wearing away with pain!

The Western Kunlun Mirror sighed: "The Creation Dao Fruit originates from humans transforming nature and creating brand-new things. But you only indulge in the creation that represents the Great Dao; what about the original humans? The human nature that is also constantly worn away by repetitive labor within the wonder of creation is also a part of the Creation Dao Fruit. You did not include it, and when the time is right, it will naturally descend."

"This is the Tribulation of the Dao Fruit's Twisting!"

"The more you twist the Great Dao, the more traces of twisting are contained around the Dao Fruit; over time, these traces will inevitably wear away your Dao Fruit in reverse!"

"Xu Fu is still too young, his Dao Fruit has not yet tasted the bitterness of wear; now that the Dao reversal has descended, the twisting has also turned into a fruit and followed..."

This was the first time Yan Shu had heard of the profound mystery of the Dao Fruit realm. One must know that among the Daoist scriptures of the world, chapters below the Primordial Spirit and even those proving the Primordial Spirit are as vast as the sea, but the few words involving realms above the Primordial Spirit are all peerless true transmissions that even major Daoist lineages only possess one or two sentences of.

Even a force like Immortal Qin, which shakes the heavens, did not know of the "Dao Fruit wear" in the Western Kunlun Mirror's words.

"The Dao Fruit is a fruit left behind by twisting the Great Dao with the Dao one has realized."

"Everything that is twisted must leave traces."

"If the Dao Fruit cannot encompass the traces of twisting and reach a balance of stress."

"Then the more the Dao Fruit is used, the more an opposite force will lurk within the Great Dao."

This was likely a principle that the seven great alchemists of Immortal Qin had never figured out from beginning to end.

"If one fruit is born, an opposite fruit must be hidden!"

"Unless you accommodate two opposite Dao Seeds, containing two opposite Great Daos within one fruit, just like the principle of Yin and Yang forming the Taiji. Otherwise, when the Dao reversal descends, the more powerful your Dao Fruit is, the more terrifying the twisting that follows will be!"

The Western Kunlun Mirror said lightly: "This mirror is untalented, but it is a Dao Fruit that fuses the two opposite Dao Seeds of time and space. Only the existence of our Taiji Dao Fruit can face the 'Dao reversal' directly!"

Yan Shu looked at Xu Fu, who had been completely crushed by the terrifying wear and twisting in an instant and was almost insane, and couldn't help but feel a chill: "What exactly is the opposite Dao Fruit of the Creation Dao Fruit?"

"What exactly is Xu Fu..."

"Sometimes, when facing certain things, a Dao Lord who has cultivated a Dao Fruit is even more powerless than a Primordial Spirit True Immortal."

The Western Kunlun Mirror sighed: "The opposite Dao Fruit of the Creation Dao Fruit? I haven't realized it either, but I guess that since all things in heaven and earth are created by humans, the other half of the opposite principle should be a part of the 'True Human' Dao Fruit!"

"The Creation Dao Fruit exhausts the changes between heaven and human."

"I don't know what kind of human principle allowed them to create such a magnificent Creation Dao Fruit, but I know that if one only indulges in 'Creation' and ignores the humans who create, the Dao Fruit will inevitably collapse due to the backlash of humanity!"

"At this moment, the opposite Dao Fruit turns into a tribulation, and all the parts of the creation changes they seized that lack humanity must be made up for by them!"

Yan Shu was stunned: "What does that mean?"

"It means that the 'things' that the Creation Dao Fruit once twisted all need Xu Fu and the Immortal Qin craftsmen who pinned their hopes on the Dao Fruit to repay the process they skipped over with their own labor. Otherwise, the things he twisted in the past will backlash against him!"

As soon as the Western Kunlun Mirror finished speaking, a Primordial Spirit master craftsman let out a hysterical scream.

At that moment, when the Creation Dao Fruit blessed his body, all the processes skipped over, the confusion, wear, and order/disorder within them were all added to his body.

His body twisted abruptly, but that master craftsman would rather endure the unbearable scene than escape the process of "labor."

He crawled to Wang Li and cried out miserably: "Young General, kill me! Kill me!"

Xu Fu said arduously: "Cannot kill! We are life, he is death; to kill him is to send our creation to him. If we all die, he will seize everything and be resurrected!"

"Great Great Great Fangshi!"

Every muscle and every bone in the master craftsman's body was in disorder, like the wear of a machine that had been running for too long, with slight offsets, but this wear and offset erupted in an instant, just like being sliced by a thousand knives.

"Great Great Great Fangshi, you know what it wants us to repay! Great Great Great Fangshi, I blessed the Creation Dao Fruit not for myself, but for Immortal Qin; I beg you, kill me! Kill me!"

The master craftsman was crushed in an instant.

Begging to be allowed to die...

The infinite power of the Primordial Spirit True Immortal, those endless changes, became the most terrifying torture.

Because in every change and future, he had to bear the labor owed by creation.

Yan Shu showed an expression of unbearable pity.

The Western Kunlun Mirror, however, realized suddenly: "Creation is formed from the essence of human nature; it is the creation of all things by human nature. But the tribulation turned into by its opposite Dao Fruit is actually the wearing away of human nature by labor?"

What kind of working hell did this industrial godhead create!

"No wonder, these great alchemists only care about enjoying the great merit and great joy of creation; how can they understand the pain suffered by the people who create for them? So everything he ignored when condensing the Creation Dao Fruit will come back to find him at this moment!"

The Western Kunlun Mirror wrote furiously on the mirror surface: "Wonderful, wonderful! I have understood another layer of the mystery of the Dao Fruit. No wonder the Tianhou Niangniang condensed the Time and Space Dao Fruit for me."

"Looking at it this way, Zhuzhu's Dao Dust is also very subtle!"

"The greatest Dao and the humblest dust are also a kind of Dao Fruit that perfectly accommodates two completely opposite forces when twisting the Great Dao."

"No wonder Tai Shang said when discussing the Dao with the Tianhou Niangniang—all Dao Fruits are Yin and Yang!"

"No wonder that thing, the Yin-Yang Fan, insists that its Yin-Yang Dao Fruit is the most perfect Dao Fruit in the world, the root of all Dao Fruits!"

At this moment, that Primordial Spirit master craftsman had gone insane; he burned everything he had, frantically destroying the Zhou Tian Star Ship, destroying everything he had created.

Those craftsmen had now become the most extreme and sharp existences destroying Immortal Qin's creations.

They simply regarded the great works they had created in the past as enemies.

At this moment, seeing their madness, Yan Shu suddenly remembered the collapse of Immortal Qin. Its greatness originated from the First Emperor's ambition and desire to conquer everything; its decline also originated from the twisting after the heat of conquering the heavens faded.

Those who destroyed Qin were not the six states, nor the Heavenly Court.

But the Qin people Liu Bang!

And the Chu person Xiang Yu!

Wang Li smiled bitterly; although his Dao Seed had not been sacrificed, that kind of twisting had already begun to descend.

Xu Fu's Primordial Spirit fell into an infinitely long repetition.

Although the magic power of a Dao Lord could move mountains and drain seas, Xu Fu had repaired the Zhou Tian Star Ship countless times in his life with his Dao Fruit. Even as a Dao Lord, facing such terrifying creation, he did not know how much time and human nature would be worn away.

Wang Li muttered to himself: "I wonder what kind of backlash my War Dao Seed will have?"

In the next instant, seemingly remembering his grandfather and father, and even his own end, he felt a sense of sorrow and laughed loudly: "Humans pursue Dao Fruits with their life's creation, and afterwards... the Dao Fruits also pursue humans!"

The opposite Dao Seed of the War Dao Seed descended.

In the next instant, Wang Li drew his sword to commit suicide...

Taiyi had never appeared; for Qian Chen's various ways of tempering Immortal Qin, the creation and counterattacks he sought were not worth mentioning in his eyes.

Merely everything he reflected as the opposite of the Great Dao was enough to cause the Immortal Qin army to collapse instantly.

Even in the heyday of Immortal Qin, if Taiyi's Dao reversal had fallen upon the Central Lands, it could have caused this arrogant power to perish.

Because he was the Dao reversal.

The opposite of all Great Daos, the reaction force of all forces, the movement of the Great Dao!

At this moment, even with so much confidence in Qian Chen, Yan Shu fell into despair.

"In the past, the Dao Seed that the Tianhou Niangniang proved in the world was the most incredible and wonderful—Creation! The more profound the Creation Dao Fruit she condensed, the more miserable Tai Shang's backlash was, so miserable that he condensed the most terrifying Dao Seed of Destruction. Destroying creation is likely the two most terrifying opposite Dao Fruits in the cosmic realms."

The Western Kunlun Mirror's voice revealed Tai Shang's dark history faintly: "This is a painful mistake that even Tai Shang made, and it is also a secret that only those great gods and sages who are closest to Tai Shang know... Seeing that you are Zhuzi's good brother, I told you these secrets."

"You had better not speak of it; apart from the step of condensing the Dao Fruit yourself, it is best not to mention it to others at all!"

"Why?" Yan Shu was puzzled.

"Because the opposite Dao Fruit has another name, called 'Dao reversal'; the thing Zhuzhu sealed might be the ultimate Dao reversal in the world!"

"All the twisting outside the Dao Fruits condensed by other Dao Lords will fall onto that thing. He is born to destroy everything! The Dao reversal left behind when other Dao Lords condense their Dao Fruits will faintly bless him; this is both a power and a pressure."

"A pressure that suppresses him from breaking free from the seal!"

"Once he breaks free from the seal, that is the arrival of the eternal demonic tribulation."

"All existences that have twisted the Great Dao will be restrained in front of him; unless they are Dao Venerables who have already broken free from this restriction, no matter what kind of Dao Fruit others have, they are like natural enemies when facing him!"

The Western Kunlun Mirror pointed from afar: "Do you see? That is a wisp of the eternal demonic tribulation; the arrogant Immortal Qin has no resistance in front of it. Zhuzhu also lacks insight in this regard, which is why he thought Immortal Qin could weaken him."

The Western Kunlun Mirror straightened its mirror light: "Little did he know, the only ones he can rely on are us old friends!"

Yan Shu looked up; all the incredible creations created by Immortal Qin, and the people who created them, ultimately became the culprits that destroyed them.

At this moment, even Xu Fu had gone insane; he laughed wildly and destroyed two Zhou Tian Star Ships with his own hands.

Three Golden Men collided violently and destroyed each other, because the divine spirits and magic spirits within them had also gone insane!

"Under creation, human pain will eventually be repaid to the person!"

"Under war, human fragmentation will also shatter one's own body!"

"All twisting will eventually have retribution; this retribution is you, it is the Dao reversal..."

Yan Shu muttered to himself: "No wonder Tai Shang's inner demon is so insane; on the road to proving the Dao, how much creation did Tai Shang create? He even destroyed the old heaven; the various things in this have been backlashing against him. Tai Shang merging with the Dao without being stained by dust; what fell down was Tai Shang's inner demon!"

"Junior brother, if you are really just an ordinary person, and your humanity comes from a wisp of attachment to us, then how will you defeat him when facing such twisting, facing the sin and punishment, evil and demon of Tai Shang Dao Ancestor?"

Accompanied by the ashes filling the sky, Immortal Qin destroyed itself; those soldiers who had been resurrected ultimately chose death.

That hole of chaos also gradually swallowed all creation, swallowed all life; the two poles of life and death were suddenly reversed between them.

Looking down at this world, one could see that the initial Taiji diagram of life and death had already reversed a full circle.

At this time, Xu Fu was insane, and his two hearts were completely crazy...

"Your Majesty, we will inevitably create an eternal divine dynasty, with human bodies, exhausting all the secrets of creation!"

"Hahaha... I just want to live! Ying Zheng... don't blame me, I just want to live!"

The Dao reversal twisted by the Creation Dao Fruit, the wearing away of all humanity, allowed him to miraculously resist it.

Perhaps, only madness can resist madness.

Only the twisting of two hearts can resist the wearing away of humans by creation in reverse...

Creation is a kind of reverse creation that violates nature; when humans create things, it also creates humans in reverse.

This absurd ending made all the Primordial Spirits under the Western Kunlun Ruins shudder; they didn't know what Dao reversal was, nor did they know about the twisting and wear of the Dao Fruit in the dark. They only saw that amidst the ashes filling the sky, all Immortal Qin existences had gone insane!

Those who committed suicide were already their best ending.

Accompanied by the operation of the life and death track, the creation of the God-Demon Immortality Medicine was finally swallowed by that hole of chaos, leaving only that wisp of Xu Fu still struggling.

He cried, laughed loudly, and held onto that wisp of his life tightly.

Making that hole of chaos unable to be perfect.

At this time, the humblest and most inconspicuous Primordial Spirit beside the star ship—Xin Hengping—suddenly died silently; the terrifying Dao reversal wore away all the variables of his Primordial Spirit, and the endless working hell caused all his countless "true selves" to collapse.

The infinite power of the Primordial Spirit True Immortal was ultimately difficult to resist the wearing away of this heaven and earth!

Yan Shu realized suddenly in his heart; no wonder only Primordial Spirit True Immortals could condense Dao Fruits; only that infinite power full of infinite variables could bear the backlash of twisting the Great Dao.

But even so, the true backlash still lurked in the dark, until the day the Dao Fruit encountered wear.

And the existence sealed in the Dao Dust Pearl was not what he thought, merely the terror of bearing Tai Shang's demonic nature, an existence comparable to a Dao Venerable.

Of course, he also didn't understand what kind of existence a Dao Venerable was.

But now he knew that the ultimate Dao reversal, Tai Shang Supreme Supreme Tian Mo, Taiyi Demon Ancestor, Qian Chen's demonic nature... was an existence whose mere aura was enough to destroy a Dao Lord. In front of him, all struggles, all wisdom, all prepared means were nothing but a delusion.

It was not that he didn't know about Qian Chen's various plans.

It was just that he didn't care...

The wisp of divine thought attached to Xin Hengping returned, allowing Xu Fu to finally struggle to regain a wisp of clarity. He stretched out his hand toward Yan Shu, who was watching all this from high above on the Western Kunlun Ruins, his lips moving, seemingly wanting to say something.

But in the end, his hand dropped powerlessly. Facing the descending wear and backlash, he finally broke free from the wear and opened his arms to welcome the backlash that was like being sliced to death.

In that instant, amidst the endless backlash and wearing away, the infinite light of the Primordial Spirit gradually extinguished...

Immortal Qin Da Great Great Fangshi—Xu Fu, entered extinction!

The last bit of life and death reversed, that hole of chaos finally fell, the God-Demon Immortality Medicine combined, and a figure Yan Shu was extremely familiar with walked out slowly from within.

Qian Chen scanned this world coldly, snapped his fingers, and endless karmic fire burned everything.

Within the Return to Ruins, that incredible Dao Fruit of Destruction descended slowly...

The cosmic realms all heard the endless cries from the Yu Yu Jiuyou; demonic language resounded through the heavens. In the heavenly realm, countless ghosts and gods felt panic and fear in their hearts, as if a great terror had descended.

The Yu Yu Jiuyou slowly arrived between the Earth Immortal Realm and the Heavenly Realm.

In the cosmic realms, the light suddenly dimmed at this moment; regardless of the sun or moon in the sky, a gap appeared, which was slowly expanding.

Solar and lunar eclipses shrouded the myriad great thousands.

The three realms were all dark, and the gods were terrified.

In the heavens, the Dao Venerables closed their eyes, unable to bear watching the common people suffer the tribulation.

Tai Shang Supreme Supreme Tian Mo, ultimate Dao reversal, Taiyi Demon Ancestor, Qian Chen's demonic nature... finally descended!