Chapter 806: Despair and Suffocation, True and Illusory Dao Fruit, Initial Dao Weakness
"Clang!"
Bronze and head collided, producing a long, lingering muffled sound.
The Creation Tripod pressed tightly against Brother Qian Chen's forehead, its inner divine brilliance erupting, pouring the divine radiance of the five-colored mud remaining in the tripod into Brother Qian Chen's brain!
"Brother Qian Chen!"
The Creation Tripod went mad: "I know you're awake; that sentence just now didn't sound like Xuanzhen Taiyi's style at all! He's always the most silent when killing; come out quickly. Otherwise, I'll just leave all this alone!"
Brother Qian Chen curled his lips helplessly: "How much was boasted beforehand? When things really happen, you guys are not good either!"
Xuanzhen Taiyi·Brother Qian Chen pinched the thread of distracting thoughts in his heart, and with a pinch of his hand, Brother Qian Chen stopped making a sound...
The Creation Tripod was furious: "You're dragging your feet in his heart, while we are outside... swarming up."
In the end, she couldn't bring herself to say what she had planned earlier: "Only then would there be a glimmer of a chance for victory. Right now, you don't exist in his heart at all. Are you trying to get us killed?"
"Western Kunlun Mirror..."
Brother Qian Chen's remaining thoughts were eerie.
"Western Kunlun Mirror!"
The Creation Tripod shouted at the outside, and a group of spiritual treasures hurriedly cast their Dao Fruits; the Ancestor Dragon Pearl's ancestral Dao Fruit emerged, searching through time and space, and the Heavenly Emperor's authority even questioned the heavenly secrets with its own divine authority.
A moment later, the Nine Heavens Great Heavenly Demon Stele shouted: "It's not working! Eldest Sister, I can't find where the Western Kunlun Mirror is sealed at all!"
"Time and Space Dao Reversal!"
The Creation Tripod was numb; she didn't know what kind of existence the Time and Space Dao Reversal was.
Xuanzhen Taiyi·Brother Qian Chen's Yin Yang Fan had already completely turned into a Primordial Taiji diagram.
He threw out the Primordial Taiji diagram in his hand, rolled up all the spiritual treasures, and casually pulled out a Primordial Taiji string that was neither Yin nor Yang, and all the spiritual treasures were scared out of their wits when they saw it.
This thing was transformed by the Dao Reversal of the Yin Yang Dao Fruit, the movement opportunity of the opening of the universe.
But all the spiritual treasures were rolled up by the Primordial Taiji diagram and hung in mid-air.
Then the Primordial Taiji string snapped down with a 'pop'. The birth and death of the universe seemed to be at the moment the string fell; movement was born, and the spiritual sense of all the spiritual treasures was almost pulled to before the opening of heaven and earth. The Nine Heavens Thunder God True Armor didn't make a sound and fainted.
Its thunder Dao Fruit was even pulled away bit by bit by the Primordial Taiji string.
Only the world-destroying grinding disc groaned, its cheeks flushed with rosy clouds; fortunately, it still had some loyalty and didn't immediately defect.
The spiritual treasures with complete Dao Fruits in the cosmos today could be considered the first-class existences below the Dao Venerable.
Yet they were—truly hung up and beaten—by the Xuanzhen Taiyi Dao Reversal!
At this moment of near collapse, a pill furnace opened a hole in the void, and a spiritual pill wrapped in the Western Kunlun Mirror fell down.
The Western Kunlun Mirror cast its mirror light mixed with the spiritual pill onto Brother Qian Chen. In that instant, countless Brother Qian Chens of time and space overlapped, from the moment he was reborn in Li Er's body, all Brother Qian Chens in countless time and spaces were pulled out and then all hit into the current Brother Qian Chen.
Countless spiritual senses of the past overlapped, and Brother Qian Chen was able to struggle out of the demonic nature.
The pill furnace opened a void hole, rolled up instantly, and disappeared without a trace.
The Creation Tripod was stunned for a moment, then cursed: "You three Tai Shang brothers are really not things! Dao Dust Bead, you don't deserve to form the Three Treasures of Creation with me and the Western Kunlun Mirror at all!"
Brother Qian Chen, who had just woken up, immediately retorted: "Of course I'm not a thing, you guys are things, I am a human!"
"Junior Sister Ning!"
Brother Qian Chen still remembered the important business and shouted at Yan Shu on the Western Kunlun Ruins. At this moment, the Dao Dust Bead exploded with all its strength, and a chaotic-colored spiritual bead emerged within Brother Qian Chen's body, clear light floating and sinking, seemingly suppressing something.
But below the Dao Dust Bead was a dark ocean.
The seal of clear light emitted by Brother Qian Chen's main body, which he had driven with all his might, was just a drop in the ocean in front of this dark ocean.
Ning Ning Qingchen unleashed her blade light, whipping up countless threads of emotion, and slashed all the true feelings tied to Brother Qian Chen into his heart.
At this moment, Brother Qian Chen's human nature finally suppressed the demonic nature by a thread.
The Creation Tripod also instantly sacrificed the Creation Dao Fruit, blessing it onto the Dao Dust Bead, intending to suppress that ocean of demonic nature.
"Finally there is a possibility of success, call the Bagua Furnace out quickly, and the Yin Yang Fan, you move quickly!"
"Universe Dao Fruit, Yin Yang Dao Fruit, Creation Dao Fruit, Time and Space Dao Fruit work together to create a universe and reseal the demonic nature into the Dao Dust Bead!"
The Creation Tripod instantly found a glimmer of victory!
Because she saw a tear in the corner of Brother Qian Chen's eye, secretly thinking: "Tai Shang's inner demon's weakness is indeed human nature; if I had known, I would have brought that one who proved the emotional Dao Fruit in the Buddhist sect."
But the Bagua Furnace never appeared again.
Instead, it was Brother Qian Chen who wiped away the tear in the corner of his eye slowly.
There was no longer any desire for destruction in his eyes, but infinite attachment and reluctance. The Creation Tripod and the Western Kunlun Mirror had just revealed a smile, but it instantly froze on their faces.
Because Brother Qian Chen spoke slowly, whispering—
"... Thinking of my relatives more than ever on festive days!"
He turned to look at everyone, his gaze infinitely gentle: "Tai Shang beheaded me in the past because of reluctance! Why would you think that human nature is my weakness? Why would you think that demonic nature is contrary to human nature?"
"In fact, I am the human nature in Tai Shang's heart!"
Yet, the Brother Qian Chen before her suddenly erupted with infinite threads of emotion; those threads tugged at the entire world—every blade of grass, every tree, every grain of sand, and every stone was connected by them.
And infinite love threads suddenly erupted from this Brother Qian Chen, those love threads pulling at everything in the cosmos, every blade of grass, every tree, every grain of sand, every stone were connected by love threads.
That is attachment, is longing, is the sadness of parting, is eternal reluctance.
And these love threads connecting all matter in the cosmos seemed to want to piece everything together into a completely different appearance.
"World?"
Yan Shu and the Green Ox had already soared into the sky. A sword light coiled around Ning Ning Qingchen's waist to save her, but she heard Ning Ning Qingchen whisper: "He loves a world deeply. When the Supreme One merged with the Dao in the past, the attachment he severed was—his hometown!"
The Ice Soul blade light in Brother Qian Chen's hand flipped, and a blade light, billions of times more ruthless than Ning Ning Qingchen's, struck everyone present.
At that moment, their threads of emotion tore apart, and everything they cared about dissolved into a form they could not comprehend at all.
At that moment, their love threads split, and everything they cared about disintegrated into a form they could not understand at all.
Yan Shu couldn't stand steadily and knelt down with a 'thud', only able to barely support himself with his flying sword, one knee propped up.
"Blade of severing emotion?"
Xuanzhen Taiyi whispered.
"This is the blade Tai Shang used to behead me in the past, you guys try it!"
The spiritual nature of all the spiritual treasures was completely slashed out, leaving their bodies ignorant and unconscious, everything indifferent.
The Creation Tripod's spiritual nature turned into a woman in a red dress, with gorgeous makeup.
The Twelve-Petaled Golden Lotus turned into a monk trembling with fear, his eyes full of madness and demonic nature; the Western Kunlun Mirror was still a little girl with double buns; the Yin Yang Fan was a handsome young man in Daoist robes, standing there as quiet as a quail.
The true spiritual sense of all the spiritual treasures was slashed out by one blade, completely turning into the appearance of Brother Qian Chen when he first seized the body.
Without half a bit of cultivation or magic power, even the connection with their own Dao Fruits had been isolated.
Xuanzhen Taiyi·Brother Qian Chen slashed himself, and the real Brother Qian Chen was grabbed by the neck and pulled out by him.
Being grabbed by the neck by 'his own' hand, Brother Qian Chen couldn't even turn his eyeballs; even as a thread of spiritual light, he felt suffocated.
"How is it, very strange?"
Brother Qian Chen couldn't open his mouth, but he did feel very strange; his inseparable state with Xuanzhen Taiyi was a very important part of his preparatory plan.
When he opened that door to prove the Primordial Spirit in the past, those selves that couldn't distinguish between demonic nature and others' hearts made him completely believe that demonic nature was a part of himself.
In this game, the most important thing was to defeat oneself.
As long as he could defeat himself, there was still a chance to win.
But Xuanzhen Taiyi turned around and slashed him out, dragging him by the neck and telling him—you guessed completely wrong!
Xuanzhen Taiyi said slowly: "You think you can't distinguish the true self, and I can't either? You think you are me, and I am a part of you?"
Xuanzhen Taiyi smiled very sarcastically and said calmly: "You have never been me, you are not that transmigrator, let alone some past dust, you are not Tai Shang, and you are not the Dao Dust Bead!"
Xuanzhen Taiyi slowly hooked a thread of spiritual light from Brother Qian Chen's forehead, and threads of colorful things were extracted bit by bit. At this moment, Brother Qian Chen suddenly struggled, even though he was powerless, he scratched Xuanzhen Taiyi's fingers to death, his desperate and fearful eyes instantly filled with an uncontrollable sadness.
"Let go..."
"Let go of me!"
Xuanzhen Taiyi was unmoved—My name is Brother Qian Chen, a graduate student in archaeology at a university in the capital, my hobbies are tomb raiding and the study of ancient tomb systems and burial culture, an only child, parents both alive, living in...
The memories in his brain were extracted bit by bit, and Brother Qian Chen was in tears.
Everything hidden in the deepest part of the Dao Dust Bead, regarded as a treasure, was extracted and destroyed by Xuanzhen Taiyi bit by bit.
My name is Brother Qian Chen, a graduate student in archaeology at a university in the capital, father, forgotten! Mother, forgotten! Living in... living in...
My name is...
What is my name?
What am I?
Where do I come from?
Huge emptiness instantly drowned him, and the last thread of memory was extracted from Brother Qian Chen's brain, condensing into an illusory Dao Fruit in Xuanzhen Taiyi's hand.
The Yin-Yang Fan said hoarsely, "An illusory Dao Fruit!"
The Yin Yang Fan said arduously: "Illusory Dao Fruit!"
Xuanzhen Taiyi held up the illusory Dao Fruit in his hand, and the Dao Dust Bead in his body was also sacrificed by him, turning into a spiritual bead with clear spiritual light, within which another Dao Fruit emerged against the backdrop of that illusory Dao Fruit, but it was the aura of everything most real.
Under the reflection of the spiritual light, everything real emerged, without any falsehood.
Except for that bead with illusion spinning.
The nameless person whose neck was held by him reached out toward that illusory Dao Fruit, saying arduously: "Give me, give my memories back to me!"
"Yours?
" Xuanzhen Taiyi opened his hand and pinched, and the two Dao Fruits of truth and illusion merged instantly.
"What yours, this bead clearly has my name written on it! Your memories are the Illusory Dao Fruit? What a coincidence, my memories are the Real Dao Fruit; the two combined are the True and Illusory Dao Fruit that Tai Shang finally slashed out. Dao Dust Bead? It should be called Tai Shang Dao True Bead!"
Xuanzhen Taiyi said slowly: "You are not a Dao Dust Bead at all, or rather, you are half a Dao Dust Bead. Just a fake person kneaded out by the Illusory Dao Fruit!"
"If your memories had a bit of truth, Tai Shang wouldn't be able to use them to entrust the Illusory Dao Fruit. What meaning does false things have for existence?"
Yan Shu looked at his Qian Shidi, who was still stubbornly hooking his fingers toward that Dao Fruit.
"Mine..."
"My past!"
"You have no past!" Xuanzhen Taiyi was still cold: "That is my past, I am the transmigrator, the person from another world, the old embers, I am Tai Shang's reluctance and human nature, his inner demon and obsession!"
His fingers did not hook that illusory Dao Fruit, but hooked a long blade that was as cold as ice from the void.
Holding the hilt, he slashed himself, and Xuanzhen Taiyi let go.
"So you are not left with nothing, but have remembered that blade Tai Shang used to behead me!"
Xuanzhen Taiyi looked at him coldly: "Past events, all turn into smoke!"
"You should disperse too!"
His brain was empty, and Brother Qian Chen, who had even been deprived of his name, knelt on the ground powerlessly.
Weak tears flowed out unceasingly, but he could no longer recall any memories that shaped himself; at this moment, the door to the Primordial Spirit finally opened for him.
The countless selves inside, however, were all hypocritical illusions.
Brother Qian Chen cried bitterly, and the Xuanzhen Taiyi Dao Fruit reflected his lonely self; his playfulness and mischief, his coldness and ruthlessness, his demonic nature and indulgence, those selves he thought were himself, all turned into Xuanzhen Taiyi's appearance.
Finally seeing himself clearly, he was just a residual shadow in a mirror reflected by Xuanzhen Taiyi.
Between heaven and earth, Xuanzhen Taiyi Myriad Phenomena, a piece of loneliness...
The empty self, the Primordial Spirit suddenly achieved, but without any fluctuation, without any blessing, from beginning to end, he was just one lonely person, even, not a person, a lonely shadow.
The Western Kunlun Mirror sighed and accused: "Too cruel! Brother Qian Zhuzhu is still just a child!"
He searched for memories lonely, trying to grab something that could support himself; at this moment, a thread of love fell quietly into his heart, and someone inside called him—Brother Qian Chen!
"So my name is Brother Qian Chen!"
He picked up his name.
'Qian Shidi'
A thread of Yan Shu's intention fell into his heart.
"Hmm! Daoist disciple!"
In a more distant place, other love threads fell: "Always strong, always resilient Senior Brother Brother Qian!"
"Peerless beauty!"
Sever all meaningless love threads! Brother Qian Chen said, but still accepted that strange thought.
"Strange Master."
The thoughts of the Ear Dao God contained a bunch of Brother Qian Chen's bad tastes.
"Tomb raiding enthusiast!"
This was a thread of the Green Ox's thoughts.
Brother Qian Chen gradually tightened the blade in his hand, but his Daoist methods, his foundation, the demonic thoughts he had realized, all went away with the Illusory Dao Fruit; as the many love threads fell, he even forgot the blade of severing emotion in his hand.
Originally there was nothing.
The empty Brother Qian Chen held the self that had just sprouted, like a child, bravely facing the person in front of him who had deprived him of all falsehood.
"Dao Dust Bead!"
Xuanzhen Taiyi held the spiritual bead, looked at Brother Qian Chen, his expression revealing a trace of pity: "Since you don't intend to grab my things anymore! Then this spiritual treasure will be returned to you! Remember, you are not me!"
Dao Dust Bead... no, the Dao Dust within was gone, leaving only an empty shell of a Dao True Bead deprived of the True and Illusory Dao Fruit, falling toward Brother Qian Chen.
At this time, the Primordial Taiji diagram also turned into a Yin Yang Fan and fell; Xuanzhen Taiyi magnanimously forgave all the spiritual treasures, bestowing upon them a little more time to possess themselves...
Next, these people and things could no longer stir up a ripple in him.
In the limited time expected, he would equally... destroy everything!
At this time, the Yin Yang Fan suddenly spoke: "Dao Dust Bead... no, Brother Qian Chen, you are not a completely illusory existence; he is the Dao, you are the dust! He is the final Dao Reversal, you are indeed the initial Dao Weakness! You are both parts of Tai Shang's Dao Fruit!"
"Reversal is the movement of the Dao."
"Weakness is the use of the Dao!"
"You only pursued strength, which is why you let the Dao Reversal break the seal; now that you have nothing, weak to the point of being unable to be weaker, can you discover what Tai Shang left on you?"
In a situation where everything fell into despair and Xuanzhen Taiyi was destined to start destroying the world, the Yin Yang Fan... Yin Yang Fan turned the tables!
"Hmm?"
Brother Qian Chen looked up confusedly; he had already planned to accept his fate!
Xuanzhen Taiyi still returned the Dao True Bead to him, didn't he? Being a newly created person was actually quite good, better than risking losing everything again and fighting with Xuanzhen Taiyi Demon Ancestor!
"What else do I have?"
Brother Qian Chen moved his brain slightly, only feeling empty in his head, all Daoist wisdom gone.
But he remembered the Daoist methods, but couldn't help but deviate slightly, 'Xuanzhen Taiyi is quite strong! And he has my memories, no, I am so like Xuanzhen Taiyi, why not refine me into him? Or... be bolder, refine him into me?'
"I seem to remember a bit of Tai Shang's blade technique of severing emotion... Only Tai Shang forgetting emotion can become everything!"
"Tai Shang Severing Emotion Transforming Demon Chapter?"
"Or—Tai Shang Forgetting Emotion Chapter?"
Xuanzhen Taiyi's eyebrows were deeply furrowed; he didn't think Brother Qian Chen was some 'Dao Weakness', nor did he think he was a part of himself.
But just as he took a step, preparing to behead Brother Qian Chen.
He found that a strange connection was happening in time and space, in cause and effect.
Brother Qian Chen stood up, clapped his hands, and said excitedly: "So it's not that the Dao Dust Bead has a problem, it's that I have a problem!"
"The foundation is gone, the memories are gone, but the demonic nature is still there? I know, I am nothing, he is something, I am the past, he is the future!"
"I know how to seal Xuanzhen Taiyi Demon Ancestor!"
"That is to cultivate myself into his past..."
Brother Qian Chen, who had been emptied of all existence, had no obstacles to turning himself into another person. He looked at Xuanzhen Taiyi silently, and heaven and earth suddenly turned upside down, the Dao Reversal of heaven and earth, Xuanzhen Taiyi's memories were infiltrating Brother Qian Chen in reverse.
Xuanzhen Taiyi's demonic nature was polluting Brother Qian Chen.
"I am infinite existence, I am Wu Ji! The one who cut away the past in the past, the one who is obsessed with everything is you, you are Tai Shang's past dust!"
"And I am also 'Brother Qian Chen'! It's just that when Tai Shang hadn't become Tai Shang, it was when Tai Shang was still nameless and formless, without any personality, without any characteristics, that earliest him, the him who possessed infinite possibilities!"
The seed of Dao Weakness sprouted silently in Brother Qian Chen's heart.
Tai Shang had already become Tai Shang, Xuanzhen Taiyi was still indulging in Xuanzhen Taiyi.
Only I, I can become anyone, I can become any existence.
"Carrying the soul and embracing the one, can you not separate? Focusing on qi and reaching softness, can you be like an infant?"
"Before everyone becomes themselves, they are that 'infant', so the infant is soft and weak but can become anyone. So, the me that Tai Shang cut away is not Tai Shang! I can be anyone!"
"Dao Weakness is the sprouting of the moment when nothing is born from something in Tai Shang's Dao Fruit, it is the infinite possibility within Tai Shang's Dao Fruit!"
"It is also the infinite possibility that Tai Shang will not become Tai Shang, will not become Xuanzhen Taiyi, and might become anyone, surpassing Tai Shang, surpassing you!"
"Of course, I can also be you, and, the simplest way to become you!"
"Walk the path I came from again, and I will become you!"
"I am all possibilities, I am the original appearance of the Dao, I am the original appearance of man."
"So Dao Weakness can be guarded but cannot be achieved; as I grow, as I know who I am, who I want to become, Dao Weakness will slowly disappear, because I no longer possess infinite possibilities. This is the inevitability of growth, unless I am always the weakest, the earliest existence!"
"But you are within me, Dao Weakness seals Dao Reversal, just like Wu Ji encompasses Primordial Taiji, because Dao Weakness contains all possibilities, Dao Reversal is just the most insignificant part of it, so when Dao Weakness is at its weakest, it is also at its most powerful, Dao Reversal cannot break through its possibilities at all to come to the world!"
"But when you break through Dao Weakness and come to this world, Dao Weakness is no longer weak, no longer infinite."
"The process of Dao Reversal breaking through is the process of your demonic nature infecting me. Only when the one who encompasses you shrinks to look more and more like you, can you break through the seal. But once you break through the seal. Then, I will become the existence most like you, and we both come from Tai Shang's Dao Fruit!"
"So, the backup left by Tai Shang will be triggered!"
"I will become you!"
In time, a structure like a Möbius strip twisted between Xuanzhen Taiyi and Brother Qian Chen, and the Dao Fruits of Dao Weakness and Dao Reversal gradually tended to merge.
The True and Illusory Dao Fruit in Xuanzhen Taiyi's hand gradually merged.
The boundary between reality and illusion was broken by the power of the two Dao Fruits overlapping... ===== CHAPTER 807 =====
End of Chapter
