[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-dao-dust-pearl":3,"chapter-the-dao-dust-pearl-the-dao-dust-pearl-chapter-984":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","The Dao Dust Pearl",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2360485,4614,"Chapter 984: The Final Ghost Lawsuit","the-dao-dust-pearl-chapter-984",984,"\u003Cp>On Wanghai Tower, a crow landed before Qian Chen, holding a blue-pupiled eye in its beak.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Lord, that foreigner hid too deeply; I failed to notice him in time, and he rescued the old Daoist. But I pecked out one of his eyes… Should I use this eye as a lure to invoke the Heavenly Demon’s Eight Seals and curse him to death?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qian Chen looked down at the jiaoren corpse carried by Wu Ponu, then opened his hand and scattered six copper coins.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Besides the five copper coins forged by the Divine-Communicating Daoist, which covered the corpse’s five orifices, one more Divine-Communicating treasure—broken at a corner, shaped like a crescent moon—landed squarely on the corpse’s forehead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“That foreigner intends to raise the second pillar! ‘Truth’ grows ever more ‘false’ the closer one approaches it; the nearer one draws to ‘Truth,’ the closer one comes to ‘Ji Qi’… Ignore him.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qian Chen stepped before the jiaoren corpse, slashed his hand through the air, and the chest, thick with mucus and scales, split open to reveal its faintly pulsing internal organs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The Five Viscera Store is divided into two paths: the Yangcha King, whose perfected body transforms Xin metal into lungs, Ren water into kidneys, Yi wood into liver, Bing fire into heart, and Ji earth into spleen—this is the cycle of Yin metal, Yang water, Yin wood, Yang fire, Yin earth. Though it can still circulate the Five Phases and achieve immortality in the Jiazi year, this method has a massive backdoor.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The crow lifted its head: “I’ve heard this tale of the Yangcha King and Yecha King from you, Lord.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Thus, the Five Viscera Store path was split in two: the Yangcha King’s path stores the Five Phases within his own organs, transforming them into monstrous forms.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“That is the Yecha King’s portion of the Five Viscera Store!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Geng metal as lungs, Gui water as kidneys, Jia wood as liver, Ding fire as heart, Wu earth as spleen.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yin and Yang combine; the Five Phases generate each other. When rooted in the former, one’s ascension will inevitably be usurped by the latter—hence I forbade any of you from seizing this path, for it is incomplete…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The Yangcha King’s method of circulating the Five Viscera Store is to store the Five Phases within his own organs, transforming them into monstrous forms.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Thus, the Yangcha King’s five viscera manifest as the Ren water snake, Yi wood scorpion, Bing fire centipede, Xin metal toad, and Ji earth gecko—all of them alive.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“But the Yecha King encased his five viscera as divine statues, absorbing countless incense offerings and refining them into a deity.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“He intended to use this deity to usurp the path of the Six Ancestors of the Green Skin Sect and open the gate of ascension—but I severed his scheme mid-execution.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qian Chen had long foreseen the key to controlling the Six Paths, and it remains in the hands of the Tai Sui Alliance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the Tai Sui Alliance’s calculations, this Dao Seed is formed from the convergence of seven immortal paths: Golden Man Path, Yin-Yang Road, Five Viscera Store, Yin River Corpse, Criminal Remnant Ghost, Filthy Evil Bone, and Heavenly Calamity Spirit—among them, the Five Viscera Store is the lock that controls the six ritual paths.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the Gunchun path, which circulates the Five Yin, internally refines the five viscera, and ultimately extracts this world to forge the Heavenly Calamity Spirit through endless incense in the Realm of Rebirth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That is the key to unlock the lock and, at the critical moment, usurp the ritual.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet nothing that transpired in this world escaped Qian Chen’s notice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So he prepared a key of his own—inserted first into the lock, preventing the Heavenly Calamity Spirit from usurping it: the Reverse Six Roots.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The original Dao Seed should have been constructed as a demonic deity: Golden Man Path as skin, Yin-Yang Road as seal, Five Viscera Store as viscera, Yin River Corpse as flesh, Criminal Remnant Ghost as qi, Filthy Evil Bone as bone, and Heavenly Calamity Spirit as soul.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its path is decay, defilement, death—symbolizing the erosion of the eternal and the impermanence of change.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus: rusted Golden Man, dead Yin Road, rotted Five Viscera, decaying Yin Corpse, ashen Filthy Bone, cursed Criminal Qi, and finally, the Calamity Spirit ground to dust…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These paths, in essence, can be grouped as external causes of decline.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hence the Six Ancestors of the Green Skin Sect required various forms of ‘violent death.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The final Heavenly Calamity Spirit can be seen as the internal cause triggered by external forces during decline—the very essence of ‘decay.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rust—the inherent decay of matter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wear—the erosion of motion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rot—the internal disease of a system.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Putrefaction—the decay caused by external erosion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ash—the change brought by material exchange.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Punishment—the destruction of violence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This Dao Seed’s conception is lowly; its formation feels patched together, making it inferior among the myriad worlds. Even after the Heavenly Calamity Spirit devours the six paths and fuses them into one, the contradictions and conflicts remain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its Dao backlash is extremely fierce; encountering the Great Heavenly Demon Ancestor might doom it with merely a trace of qi.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet in this age, where the Dao paths grow ever harder to tread and predecessors’ achievements block the way, it appears exceedingly rare.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But such a Dao Seed holds no meaning for Qian Chen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The greatest value of this Dao Seed to Qian Chen is its capacity to seal the title of the Great Heavenly Demon Sovereign…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So Qian Chen replaced it with the twisted Divine-Demon thought of the Reverse Six Roots, warping the Dao Seed into the very force that alters the state of things—violence, Khorus!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Pulling out the five viscera and six bowels from the jiaoren corpse, Qian Chen nodded to Du Xiaoling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Du Xiaoling swiftly drew her blade and sliced open her chest and abdomen, revealing the corpses of the five demons curled within her Sanjiao cavity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qian Chen placed each of the Five Viscera Store organs back in position; the pulsing viscera, as if writhing to come alive, were cradled by the fierce, malevolent demons of fox, rat, snake, weasel, and hedgehog—and instantly calmed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“With these Five Heavenly Punishment Demons’ corpses as anchors, and my own written Moon Demon Skin Seals outside, the Five Viscera Store won’t cause trouble.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qian Chen then gave Du Xiaoling the six copper coins representing the Six Roots, instructing her to swallow them and place them within the gallbladder, stomach, small intestine, large intestine, bladder, and Sanjiao cavity…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…………\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In some gangster stronghold, Zhang Sanzhi, using only his two remaining left fingers, held his pipe and exhaled a cloud of smoke, glancing sidelong at the several unpredictable gang bosses before him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Suddenly he grinned: “What, scared?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He tapped his pipe against the stack of letters on the table.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Sanzhi laughed: “Even the foreigners have written to aid us in winning the final match! The Northeast Shaman Lord secretly helps us too—Tianli, Hongyang, Luo Sects—all these sects, openly or covertly, mean to back us!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Didn’t you all cheer at first?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Why are you afraid now?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Realizing you’ve become pawns in their magical duel? Realizing you’re the first nail sticking out?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Sanzhi chuckled: “I say, as long as we’re still useful, we’ve already been blessed!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yuan Laosan sighed bitterly: “So it seems we have no choice but to fight in the final round! Third Master, how should we compete?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Sanzhi sighed faintly: “The three rules of Dagukou—we lost the drum tower duel, lost the Grand Ritual on the Southern Canal—what’s left but this ghost lawsuit?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He tapped the letters with his pipe: “Let the foreigners fight this lawsuit for us.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“If we lose, we’ll just have bad luck for a few days—no one else will die, at least!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Sanzhi’s smile was mocking…\u003C\u002Fp>",1302,"2026-06-21T05:40:02.617Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","ec09207d8ff0bf4f1d6f80eadfe0c8a28198852fc793c4995b678e00a0bf8b6b","the-dao-dust-pearl-chapter-985","the-dao-dust-pearl-chapter-983",1000,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-dao-dust-pearl-cover.jpg"]