Chapter 866: Chapter Fifty-Six: The Five Seals of the Embryo-Store Demon Fall

The human skin floating within the golden pagoda turned entirely golden, sacred and sublime, and the Embryo-Store Demon within finally realized that Brother Qian Chen's trap was utterly terrifying—every technique was among the pinnacle of Daoist and Buddhist methods.

First: the Supreme Lord of Fate, the Northern Dipper fixing the soul.

Second: the Five Seals of Shakyamuni, the Fruit of the Other Shore.

Little Murong Chui hadn't even opened his eyes before he was subjected to a furious barrage of blows—who wouldn't be stunned?

Little Murong Chui roared in fury.

"Asura!"

Brother Qian Chen replied casually:

"Great Demon Lord…"

Little Murong Chui knew Brother Qian Chen was not Asura; Brother Qian Chen knew Little Murong Chui knew he was not Asura—but Brother Qian Chen refused to reveal his identity, and Little Murong Chui could not admit he had been ambush by someone whose origins he didn't even know; for a Demon Lord, such a betrayal was even more humiliating.

He had been tricked so badly that he didn't even know who his enemy was.

He might as well stop living in this world!

So Little Murong Chui could only blame it all on "Asura!"

The real Asura fell silent for a moment, then suddenly spoke: "Ah! I am not actually Asura—none of you know, the true Asura has already departed to the Earth Immortal Realm; the one you see now is merely my impersonation… sigh! I, too, was tricked and forced to bear the blame. I never intended to challenge the two Demon Ancestors! I am Luo Suo, greetings, fellow Demon friends!"

A group of Yu Jiuyou Demon Lords chuckled and accepted him.

"Weapons!"

The Embryo-Store Demon clutched a seal shaped like a blade and spear, and the Demon Lords of Dao-Jun caliber were instantly transformed into weapons themselves; even the faint traces of their Dao fruits manifested within their demonic thoughts.

The Moon Demon Zangshan Laozu became a giant flag made of human skin…

The Elixir Demon Asura became a long spear.

Other Demon Lords transformed into swords, spears, arrows, halberds, axes, axes, hooks, and forks—each capable of delivering a strike equal to that of a Spirit Treasure.

Asura gasped in disbelief: "Impossible? You've already refined us—how can you forcibly wield our Dao fruits?"

"Beneath the Original Dao Seed, all things are proven mine—even your Dao fruits, once your demonic traces are conquered, can be used by me!" Little Murong Chui's expression was icy, utterly unmoved by the shock of the Yu Jiuyou Demon Lords.

Asura growled: "The Earth Immortal Realm is truly a den of monsters!"

"The Original Dao Seed—the most wondrous among all Dao seeds of its kind?" one Demon murmured in envy.

The Moon Demon Zangshan Laozu said coolly: "It's not merely the wonder of the Original Dao Seed—it's the power of the Great Demon Lord's title!"

His words carried undeniable weight, for he himself was an Original Dao Seed, forging an entirely new Dao fruit—not a weak, incomplete fruit grafted onto another's Dao branch, with no hope of perfection!

Little Murong Chui seized the spear formed from Asura's Elixir Fire Tribulation Dao Fruit, its flames burning with inverted creation, representing entropy—the chaotic Elixir Fire—and swept up the skin-flag formed from the Moon Demon Zangshan Laozu.

The iron-blooded spear shaft wrapped in the crimson banner, thrust forward with one strike!

At that moment, the terrifying aura pierced the skin, rupturing the newly formed Spirit Treasure human-skin Tang Ka; though this was only one part of the Spirit Treasure, the other part—the nine-tiered pagoda—also exerted crushing pressure downward.

But the spear shaft shattered them both.

The spearhead was chaotic, disordered flame—the Entropy Fire—just a single spark enough to destroy all order; even the structure of primordial qi was absent, the manifestation of the Elixir Fire Tribulation Dao Fruit. Elixir Fire Tribulation was only one part of the Elixir Tribulation Dao Fruit, and the Elixir Tribulation Dao Fruit itself was merely a branch extending from the Jin Dan Dao.

The Jin Dan Dao was the Supreme Elixir Scripture.

It was one aspect of the Dao represented jointly by the Eight Trigram Furnace, the Yin-Yang Fan, and the Dao Dust Pearl.

Thus Brother Qian Chen merely watched calmly as the Entropy Elixir Fire—the opposite of the ordered perfection of the Elixir—manifested.

Asura screamed in anguish; he didn't know how many Elixir Furnaces he'd have to destroy to gather even this much Entropy Elixir Fire, yet Little Murong Chui wasted it so easily to break the seal of the human-skin Tang Ka.

Brother Qian Chen pinched between his fingers the Emperor's Dragon Elixir, blocking the spear tip aimed at him.

The spear tip, burning with chaotic fire, sank into the Emperor's Dragon Elixir as if piercing into a universe.

The power of a Dao Fruit is the clash of Dao itself, unrelated to primordial qi or magic power; this Elixir, once having shattered Asura's Elixir Tribulation, effortlessly absorbed the Entropy Elixir Fire under the Jiachi of Brother Qian Chen's Supreme Elixir Scripture.

Even though this fire's level was countless times higher than the mere six-transformation Elixir.

The nine-tiered pagoda suppressed the power of their clash; otherwise, Cao Cao Xuanwei and Li Zhong might have survived, but the thousand armored cavalry would have been utterly obliterated by the flying Elixir Fire stars.

They were all stunned by the mere leakage of power from their battle.

It had been a long time since any force of Primordial Spirit level had clashed head-on!

In the battle between Brother Qian Chen and Little Murong Chui—both among the strongest of Primordial Spirits—the clash of Dao Fruit power slightly warped the Dao itself.

Swish!

The banners rolled wildly.

The human-skin flag surged toward Brother Qian Chen, its Moon Demon Dao Fruit strange and unfathomable; once caught, it would wrap him in a skin-sheath, concealing dangers even Brother Qian Chen had to treat with caution—no one knew what the Moon Demon Zangshan Laozu had hidden within.

Yet the first Moon Demon in history, the ageless demon who peeled skin to deceive heaven, must be an unimaginably terrifying figure.

So Brother Qian Chen casually snatched the Great Xia Dragon Sparrow Blade from Li Zhong's hand, seizing even the long-accumulated aura of his younger brother's Azure Dragon Severed Head technique.

He swung the broken blade, slicing through the human skin—but beneath it, layer upon layer of skin-sheaths surged upward.

"Four Spirits Form!"

Brother Qian Chen slashed horizontally; the force severing all things abruptly tore apart the Moon Demon Dao Fruit, and countless human skins suddenly lost connection.

The Moon Demon Zangshan Laozu chuckled: "Severing the Four Spirits—targeting the foundation of all existence! Such a demonic blade—I dare not provoke…"

He retracted that single trace of Dao Fruit and vanished instantly within the human-skin Tang Ka!

But having spent two traces of Dao Fruit, Little Murong Chui's Embryo-Store Demon still had over ten other Dao Fruits to wield; the banner fell, and an arrow shot like lightning, piercing Brother Qian Chen's chest—this arrow could not be blocked, for it first entered Brother Qian Chen's chest, then shot out again.

Grasping the arrowhead in his chest, Brother Qian Chen smiled faintly: "Inverting cause and effect?"

Seeing the yellow mud exposed by the wound on Brother Qian Chen's chest, Little Murong Chui's eyes glowed with demonic light: "Yellow Mud Dao? You're a demon too!"

"Cause and effect—I understand them better than you!"

Brother Qian Chen gently brushed away the wound, and the Embryo-Store Demon's entire body was suddenly pierced by countless arrow wounds.

At that moment, the stroke of the halberd, about to be swung, was abruptly interrupted.

Brother Qian Chen pressed his middle finger and thumb together in the flower-gesture; within the surrounding Buddhist pagodas, the thirty-six million faithful manifested from golden bricks suddenly spoke in unison: "Thus have I heard…"

Cao Cao Xuanwei, Tan Tan Wuchen, and Li Zhong all spoke, and the thousand others followed, sincerely chanting: "Thus have I heard!"

Even Little Murong Chui, incarnated as the Embryo-Store Demon, could not help but speak: "Thus have I heard!"

At the peak of Longcheng, within Yin Mountain!

The Qiongqi Demon Saint of the Northern Frontier Qiongqi Tribe, the Rouran Grand Priest, and countless demon troops, along with all the captives held within Longcheng, heard a solemn, reverent voice rise from above the black-and-white dragons and within the Dragon Palace.

It was Little Murong Chui, solemnly speaking: "Thus have I heard: Before the ancient demonic tribulation, the Buddha taught the Dharma in the northern frontier of the Central Lands, within the nine-tiered pagoda, to his bhikshu disciples… the Moon Demon and the Great Demon Lord were both present…"

The Qiongqi Demon Saint widened his eyes in disbelief: "Has Little Murong Chui lost his mind? A fine demon, reciting sutras?"

The Rouran Grand Priest frowned gravely: "But that sutra passage speaks of the Buddha teaching in the northern frontier? Little Murong Chui was listening? Where in the Central Lands is there a Buddha? And yet the five perfections—faith, hearing, time, master, place, assembly—are all complete; even the Great Demon Lord attests that the Buddha is teaching—could a Buddha truly have descended?"

The Embryo-Store Demon snapped his halberd in half and drove it through his own chest.

The Dharma-Teaching Seal!

With this seal, the Dharma draws near; "Thus have I heard"—all who hear the Dharma, see the Dharma, or behold this seal may testify that Brother Qian Chen is the Buddha!

The Embryo-Store Demon was not mad!

In truth, he must sever his own heart, for beneath the Dharma-Teaching Seal, even his heart is subdued; before him, Brother Qian Chen is the Buddha.

No matter how many Dao Fruits the Embryo-Store Demon retained, he could never defeat the Buddha.

So he could only sever his own heart—under the Dharma-Teaching Seal, the demonic heart submitted, and all traces of Dao Fruits vanished.

"Throughout heaven and earth, only I am supreme!"

After speaking these words, Brother Qian Chen sat cross-legged, right hand resting atop left, thumbs touching, eyes closed in meditation.

At this moment, the Five Seals of Shakyamuni—Subduing Demon, Granting Wish, Fearlessness, Dharma-Teaching, and Meditation—were all complete.

Upon the human-skin Tang Ka: the Yu Sansheng Ones of the Eastern Medicine Buddha, the Yu Sansheng Ones of the Western Amitabha Buddha, and the most mysterious Future Buddha at the center.

The Past Buddha, the Sun-Moon-Lamp Buddha, like a bright lamp; the Present Buddha, Brother Qian Chen, hands forming the Meditation Seal; the Future Buddha, who will open the Other Shore…

The Three Worlds Horizontal, the Three Worlds Vertical!

Five Buddhas each formed one seal, imprinted upon the human-skin Tang Ka.

The Embryo-Store Demon let out a wail; far away, atop Longcheng, Little Murong Chui suddenly shut his eyes, blood trickling down his face—blood tears.

Within the human-skin Tang Ka, the Embryo-Store Demon of all sentient beings had been destroyed, all evil roots severed.

Countless Demon Lords howled in anguish, rolling back into the Yu Jiuyou.

Only a hollow, empty skin remained, drifting down from midair; upon the pure-gold skin, five Buddha images were imprinted, encircling a scene of the Other Shore Pure Land.

Tan Tan Wuchen knelt, reverently holding his hands, waiting for the skin to land.

But the human skin did not fall—it floated, suspended in midair.

Brother Qian Chen stood before the human-skin Tang Ka, broken blade held horizontally: "Little Murong Chui manifested his demonic body within this skin and battled me; all his Dao traces, his techniques and spells, were imprinted upon this skin during our struggle."

"The front bears my Five Seals, proving I have become a Buddha!"

"And the inside of this skin holds all of Little Murong Chui's secrets…"

With that, Brother Qian Chen raised his blade and sliced open the human skin.