Chapter 981: Finally Seeing the Great Demon, Reversing the Six Roots

"Qian Chen!"

Daoist Daoist Tongshen staggered back a few steps, his soul visibly lost. He reached up and clawed at his hair bun, messing it up until his tangled white hair hung loose.

He only muttered: "Qian Chen!"

Immediately, the old Daoist's expression grew more ferocious. His eyes were bloodshot, his temples bulged high, and his veins throbbed as he shrieked: "Qian Chen!"

He roared toward the heavens, and a copper coin fell from his hand—it was the Treasure of Life-Communication that had condensed the Dao path of Fairy Bei.

Daoist Daoist Tongshen gripped the five copper coins tightly in his palm.

The Treasure of Brightness, the Treasure of the Jade Dragon, the Treasure of Vast Splendor, the Treasure of Leisure, and the Treasure of Life-Communication—the five copper coins stacked together. Finally, a head with complete facial features, resembling Daoist Daoist Tongshen in his youth by eighty percent, manifested.

But it was too late!

Everything was too late...

Or perhaps, was everything within someone's calculations, and the timing just right?

"True Eye of Illusion-Breaking, Divine Ear of Heavenly Sounds, Jade Nose of the Charging Dragon, Immortal Tongue of Tasting the Dao, Mysterious and Xuan Weimiao Fa..."

The demonic shadow behind Daoist Daoist Tongshen lowered its gaze, staring at the Treasure of Divine Communication in his palm. Its expression was indifferent, and to Daoist Daoist Tongshen, it was even full of contempt.

At the Sea-Watching Pavilion, Qian Chen stared at the copper coin he had tossed up and whispered: "Head of the Five Senses?"

"Perhaps? But that is only an incomplete name. You must add yourself—the Demonic Thought of Divine Communication—to form the seventh Dao path that truly commands the six Dao paths and constitutes the pillar of Khorne: The Reversal of the Six Roots!"

"Eye, ear, nose, tongue, hair? You think it's the five senses? Hair is the tip of the blood, and the Mysterious and Xuan Weimiao Fa is formed by emotion, representing the 'body.' Thus, it is named the five senses, but in reality, it is the six roots."

"Sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch..."

"Money can communicate with the divine! Your Demonic Dao of Divine Communication starts with the word 'communicate,' but its root is still demonic! Money is the root of desire and the scale to measure all things. 'Communicate' means using money to measure all things, connecting all things, communicating with ghosts and gods, and even using this to communicate the Dao path of one's own heart and the hearts of others."

"But using 'money' to communicate with all things, twisting and alienating them, is the essence of your Dao path."

"Therefore, when you twisted the five immortal bones of eye, ear, nose, tongue, and body with the Demonic Dao of Divine Communication, you also became the sixth immortal bone—consciousness!"

"Because twisting sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch already becomes consciousness. Twisting the five roots to form the sixth—all of this was a trap set for you..."

The head transformed by the Head of the Five Senses flew toward Daoist Daoist Tongshen, following Qian Chen's words.

Pressing tightly against his face, the two heads gradually merged. Daoist Daoist Tongshen, along with his Dao path, was being refined by Qian Chen bit by bit, almost irreversibly.

The five immortal bones that Daoist Daoist Tongshen had exhausted his efforts to seize were like swallows returning to the forest, planting themselves into Daoist Daoist Tongshen with extreme initiative.

But at this moment, Daoist Daoist Tongshen felt no joy, only a hatred so deep it seemed etched into his bones. He gritted his teeth and said: "Qian Chen! Qian Chen! It's you again? It's you again! Why won't you let me go? Why?"

"The one who harmed you was Miaokong; he has already fallen into your hands! Why do you still refuse to let me go?"

"So vengeful..."

"Despicable, shameless, sinister, and vicious. Are you worthy of being a True Lord of the Dao Sect, an ancestor of the righteous path?"

"You are the demon!"

"You are the true demon!"

Daoist Daoist Tongshen felt immense regret in his heart. He feared Qian Chen—not so much fearing this Dao Lord, but rather fearing fate itself.

Back then, when he and Miaokong destroyed the Profound Heaven Sect, how ignorant and fearless they were. He thought the Lord of Samsara already stood outside of fate, and by relying on their status as Samsara travelers, they were invincible, even daring to provoke fate.

Only when the truth was truly revealed did Daoist Daoist Tongshen feel such despair.

Because he discovered that their actions were far from escaping fate; in fact, they were part of fate itself.

He realized with horror that the high and mighty Lord of Samsara was one of those great beings who operated fate...

But when he struggled to escape fate, fate caused him to encounter the main protagonist, Qian Chen, unexpectedly.

And when truly facing Qian Chen's methods, he realized how ridiculous their previous thoughts were.

Two ants beneath the Nascent Soul realm provoking fate, wishing to seize the opportunities of Dao Lord Qian Chen—even after perceiving that terrifying fate, they remained ignorant enough to ignore that 'Dao Lord.'

Now, he finally knew what level of existence a 'Dao Lord' was!

Even though they did not know the full story, the scene of Daoist Daoist Tongshen being refined alive still made the three people nearby shudder with fear.

Although Daoist Daoist Tongshen's cultivation was only one level higher than theirs, as a Samsara traveler, his Great Dao of Divine Communication pointed directly to the root of humanity, even if its essence was twisted and fallen into the demonic path. Within the demonic path, it was still a superior achievement.

The three of them could be said to have been defeated in one blow before Daoist Daoist Tongshen, played with in the palm of his hand.

But such a terrifying Daoist Daoist Tongshen faced the true mastermind and met such a miserable end, even making one feel a sense of sympathy.

That Sect Master Xuanzhen acted without leaving a trace.

He merely cooked a dish of Immortal Meat, imprinting a supreme flavor of the human world into Fairy Bei's Dao path, and then things naturally developed to this point. There were no earth-shattering magical powers or spells; Daoist Daoist Tongshen didn't even get to see Sect Master Xuanzhen once.

His physical body, soul, and Dao path—his entire existence—had already been stripped away and sacrificed to manifest the Dao path known as the Reversal of the Six Roots.

At this moment, Daoist Daoist Tongshen's resentment, fear, anger, and madness surged toward the surroundings like a tide, and the Demonic Thought of Divine Communication, representing consciousness, gradually took shape.

"Kill me!"

Daoist Daoist Tongshen's voice was hoarse, his heart like dead ashes, as he spoke to Fairy Bei, Dou Dabiebao, and the others nearby.

Yang Shusheng gave a bitter smile and spread his hands, signaling to him: "Even an expert like you has been played to the point of wishing for death. Do you think we ants can reach you?"

Fairy Bei showed a bitter smile.

That Immortal Meat, which had fallen into the demonic path, pointed directly at the fundamental desires of man. It drowned the Demonic Dao of Divine Communication—which had twisted Daoist Daoist Tongshen's consciousness—with an endless gluttony of extreme desire, seized his Dao path, and then used the demonized Dao path to sacrifice Daoist Daoist Tongshen himself.

Such methods were terrifying to the extreme. Although Fairy Bei had only had her Dao path borrowed once by Qian Chen's methods, that lingering 'Immortal Meat' still caused serious damage to her Dao path.

Otherwise, based on Fairy Bei's original heart, she could not have fallen into the path of dark cuisine at the last moment.

In this way, how could she face the methods of that Sect Master Xuanzhen again?

Fairy Bei was still struggling to escape the influence of that Gluttonous Food Demon Dao...

Dou Dabiebao let out a heavy breath and sighed: "I didn't expect that Sect Master Xuanzhen would win in the end!"

He looked at Daoist Daoist Tongshen with sympathy: "Although this Daoist's methods were astonishing and his calculations profound, the Dao is one foot tall while the demon is ten feet tall. After all, there is always a stronger demon! In the end, he still drank the foot-washing water of the Xuanzhen Sect, and he himself, like us, was just prepared immortal bone material."

"Both being immortal bones..." Dou Dabiebao fumbled and grabbed the reins of the big green donkey beside him. His expression gradually stabilized, and he whispered: "I still have one last move. I originally intended to give you a surprise... I didn't expect that I would have to help you instead!"

"Hee hee... You all reached that last treasure, but I didn't find it."

"But in fact, I have been deceiving you right under your noses for twenty years!"

"Bray!"

The big green donkey let out a loud cry, its four hooves moving restlessly.

Dou Blindman touched the underside of the donkey's head, gripping its chin. Suddenly, he flipped his hand and lifted it, and a donkey skin the size of a millstone flew up. The huge donkey was lifted along with its skin, revealing what was wrapped inside.

It was a light!

A brilliance refracted from a mirror.

In the past, it was this mirror light that blinded Dou Dabiebao's Heaven-Peering Divine Eye. It was a mirror that the Mirror Lord, one of the Three Venerables of Creation, had hidden in the Return to Ruins of the South Sea.

In the past, the Three Venerables created the world, and the Mirror Lord forged the Mirror of the World as the foundation of the present world.

There were also the Sun and Moon mirrors, dividing day and night. When the Bright Venerable and the Cauldron Mother were molding humans and creating all things on the moon, the Mirror Lord traveled across the heavens, scattering countless broken mirror fragments, which turned into the stars filling the sky.

Among them, some precious mirrors remained. One fell into the Return to Ruins of the South Sea, named Yuebo, which was the star of the Dark Moon.

That Yuebo mirror light was unpredictable in its movement.

Dou Dabiebao used all his methods and exhausted his three treasures to preserve that mirror light with the Qin King's Bone-Illuminating Mirror. Then, he gathered a strand of ten-thousand-year-old vitality from the South Sea and transformed it into a green donkey, only then hiding the mirror light inside the big green donkey.

Over these years, the man and the donkey relied on each other. It was not that no one had suspected the big green donkey was a treasure, but through many stumbles, Dou Dabiebao had kept the secret until now.

The power, also originating from the Three Venerables of Creation, interrupted the process of the six roots gathering, tearing Daoist Daoist Tongshen's Dao path apart completely.

This unexpected joy allowed Daoist Daoist Tongshen to decisively sever his own Dao path. He let the five roots devour most of the Divine Communication Dao path, while he himself rolled up the remaining part, performed a self-severing strike, and transformed into a phantom, escaping the control of the demonic shadow behind him.

Qian Chen, who had transformed into the demonic shadow, merely raised an eyebrow, watching this scene with interest, his expression indifferent.

In the Medicine King Temple, a deacon of the Xuanzhen Sect raised his right hand. A 'Fix' talisman in his hand suddenly erupted with golden light, freezing space and time. In the distance, at the Zhigu City, the golden bell on the bell tower rang suddenly, causing Daoist Daoist Tongshen, who had transformed into a phantom to escape, to freeze in the void.

At this moment, in the side hall, the statue of the Yaksha King suddenly threw out a fork.

And a sharp shout was heard: "I have come to help you!"

The Medicine King statue's internal organs squirmed, and it walked down from the altar. With a wave of its hand, it unleashed a great divine ability—the Great Escape of the Five Elements.

The five-colored light transformed into a light wheel and slashed down, shattering the golden light that had frozen time and space.

The golden bell rang nine times, each sound more majestic and deep than the last, crushing the Yaksha King that stood before Daoist Daoist Tongshen.

Then, a Yin-Yang road covered in bloody footprints slowly approached, dividing Yin and Yang before the Medicine King Temple, causing the entire temple to fall into the netherworld.

"One quality pleases another, one quality restrains another, one quality dominates another!"

Drummond walked out from another side hall, holding a stone slab made of emerald. In his other hand, he clutched a beautiful crystal reflecting starlight.

"There isn't much Star Antimony left by Sir Newton! Only this kind of spiritual substance approaching sublimation can open the door to sublimation in the abyss!"

Drummond held the Emerald Tablet in his hand and recited the eighth article: "It can rapidly ascend to heaven, and then, it can descend to the abyss, to accumulate all the power of the upper and lower realms, spirituality and reality..."

"True Alchemy—The Gate of Ascension!"

That beautiful crystal reflecting starlight—Star Antimony—transformed into a beam of starlight and rushed into the sky, piercing through the power of the Yin-Yang road that isolated the two realms.

The starlight was like a beacon, projecting a long bridge, guiding Daoist Daoist Tongshen to escape outside the Yin-Yang road.

Here, Du Xiaoling had been waiting for a long time. He unbuttoned his chest, revealing the tattoos of the five tortured animals—fox, snake, rat, weasel, and hedgehog—on his chest.

The five types of penal qi transformed into a God-Slaying Blade and fell...

A hand finally reached out from the void and flicked lightly, shattering the falling penal blade.

Only then did Daoist Daoist Tongshen finally escape and flee into the void.

At the Sea-Watching Pavilion, Qian Chen stared at all this, a smile at the corner of his mouth growing more composed.

"The auxiliary medicine that was originally just an ingredient actually leaped up, turned the tables, and showed signs of becoming the main ingredient. That is truly—an unexpected joy!" ===== CHAPTER 982 =====