Killing Dao Fruit
Chapter 435 - 432: Helpless Despair at Naihe Bridge, Inscribing Three Lives on the Three-Life Stone

Chapter 435: Chapter 432: Helpless Despair at Naihe Bridge, Inscribing Three Lives on the Three-Life Stone

This battle, in which Wang Yuan directly intervened for the first time, was far more grand and imposing than any fight between Martial Saints.

Borrowing the power of Heaven and Earth, the mountains roared and the seas raged.

Once both sides’ true and solid "Inner Scene Heaven and Earth" unfolded, they each covered at least several miles of terrain.

One side was an ocean of white bones and ghost fires, while the other side would come back to life with just a drop of fresh blood, transforming into giant pythons tens of meters long, continuing to pounce and bite.

The "Demon Mages" under the command of the Demon Master Dao were largely driven out, ferociously fighting with the Ghost Taoists who had avoided the main battlefield.

Although the battle was still brutal, with the losers immediately having their souls scattered, turning into ghost medicine,

the eyes of those still alive held no fear, only greed!

Each side believed that they would be the "survivor" who would ultimately obtain everything in the "survival of the fittest."

This was particularly true for the Eight-Headed Giant Snake, which vowed to devour all of the Ghost Path.

Its massive body coiled in place, one head spouted rolling fierce flames, capable of incinerating all the resurrecting corpses within a vast fan-shaped area in a single breath.

Another head emitted a cloud of poison that corroded the ground into a foul-smelling bog, while its other six heads controlled frost, fierce winds, and sandstorms, each with their own intricacies.

Apart from directly resisting without taking a half step back, the Ancient Tomb Corpse King fought equally hard against it.

There was also the Eighteen Mud-Plow Ghost Kings, who unleashed the "Great Transformation Divine Spell," and with full firepower,

they moved as gently as floating fluff and as swiftly as lightning, tenaciously restraining the snake head where Old Black was.

The fight seemed fierce and intense on the surface, yet it was as meticulous as embroidery, ensuring not a blade of grass or tree near the palace was damaged.

They even exploited their status to prevent the Ancient Tomb Corpse King’s attacks from landing in that area.

The great battle lasted for fifteen minutes, and through Old Black’s intermittent reports, the mission was almost 80% complete, and the final wrap-up had begun.

This allowed Wang Yuan to finally relax the heart that had been hanging on edge.

Once he calmed his mind, he made an unexpected discovery.

As he fully took over the control of the "Fengdu Iron Enclosure" and the Eighteen Mud-Plow Ghost Kings, all the Daoist knowledge from the "Five Organs Temple" started to nourish him as well.

Although this Tao lineage had followed Emperor Mu in converting to West King Holy Mother,

their position in the "Peach God Tao Fresh Market" was actually just to provide the "internal organs," and the root of their Daoist techniques still lay in Yin Mountain Taoism.

Now, with all rivers returning to the sea, the integration was completely seamless.

Especially the "Dharma Domain: Eighteen Views of Hell," which allowed Wang Yuan’s already "Ghost Realm: Yama Palace," on the verge of the realms of "Earth Essence" and "Divine Transformation," to advance by leaps and bounds.

It was as if a central brain had finally gained a strong body.

The first layer, "Yama Palace," the second layer, "Heart Punishment Hell," the third layer, "Sword Mountain Hell," the fourth layer, "Oil Pot Hell,"...

Each layer unyieldingly aimed to complete the eighteen layers of Hell.

Within the realm of Yellow Seal, above the realm representing "man," the "Dharma Body," and the realm representing "earth," "Earth Essence," he gradually touched the boundary of "heaven!"

The "Yama Palace" began to transform from a fundamentally weak "Ghost Realm" into a superior "Dharma Domain."

"The Dharma Domain of the Divine Transformation Realm is the foundation of the Green Seal Sage’s ’Inner Scene Heaven and Earth.’

The more complete the Inner Scene Heaven and Earth, and the more it resembles the rules of the Great Thousand World, the stronger the power one possesses after becoming a Green Seal Sage.

Like the ’Two-faced Host’s’ extreme molten lava lake,

which may look impressive on the surface but is actually the lowest level and weakest potential among all Dharma Domains. Even if one eventually becomes a Green Seal, they’ll be at the bottom of the ranks.

Hence, although the Dharma Domain is the ultimate goal for a Mage, it is also the starting point for a higher realm!

This concerns the ultimate path of Dao, and it cannot be treated lightly."

For Wang Yuan, building a complete Yama Palace and the eighteen layers of Hell,

would far surpass those realms like "Lotus Court" or "Suspended Pot Small Realm," which only work within a small space. After becoming a Sage, his strength will definitely be greater than theirs.

But compared to "Three Yang Small Realm," which can reverse time, his efforts were just about neck and neck.

Even the original master of the "Three Yang Small Realm" failed to achieve immortality; how could Wang Yuan be satisfied with just this?

Although there are many objective reasons for the other party’s failure, the foundation of one’s own cultivation should naturally be as solid as possible.

After all, on the battlefield, the "Yin Morality" from each fallen individual amounting to his initiation enters his account, ready to be exchanged for "Heaven’s Favor" at any time.

And whether it’s the "high-yield crop projects," "Daoist Skill Industry Revolution," or the establishment of "modern medical systems,"

he has been the key pusher and investor behind them!

Whichever one is completed, there will be a considerable amount of "Heaven’s Favor" credited to Old Master Wang.

For a landlord like him, taking a gamble from bicycle to motorcycle was entirely within his means. Even if he failed, at worst he could just start over... go home and take over the Underworld.

Therefore.

With a thought from Wang Yuan and using the "Red Spider Lily Blooming Skill" as the bridge, the "Six Desires Red Dust Umbrella," representing the Mortal World of the Yang World, also descended into the Ghost Realm.

The next moment.

The transforming "Dharma Domain" suddenly let out a rumble, splitting into layers above and below once again.

Above the top layer of Yama Palace, a bustling scene emerged with busy streets, flourishing industries, and endless mortal life from the Yang World.

The Underworld and the Mortal World were evolving separately, yet they were influencing and promoting each other, gradually forming a small internal cycle.

Even though it had not been completed, its stability had already surpassed many "Dharma Domains."

Wang Yuan faintly realized that he seemed to have made an incredibly correct decision.

...

At the same time, in another corner of the battlefield.

Those who had their own calculations and chose to not exert themselves fully were not limited to just Wang Yuan himself.

The two Yellow Seal Strange Immortals, "Parasitic Shell" and "Wild Fox Zen," quietly gathered together.

Ghost Taoists also knew to pick the softer persimmons to squeeze, and they all avoided these two troublesome Strange Immortals, who naturally enjoyed the quiet.

Still posing as Shen Xiaoyu’s father’s meat body, the "Parasitic Shell" had an eye growing at the back of its head, which had been intently watching the Eight-Headed Giant Snake behind it.

"It’s uncertain if this ’Nine Phases Corpse God Dao,’ which we deliberately lured here, will be able to take care of the old ghost of Heavenly Prison.

It would be even better if they could mutually annihilate each other.

As long as he can be killed, no one else will be able to control our life and death.

And by relying on the same-origin Daoist Skill, there is not a complete loss of hope in contesting for that ’Hundred-Patched Coat.’

Wouldn’t it be pleasant to set up our own sect and become the ancestor?"

"Wild Fox Zen" slightly nodded in agreement, but in reality, it wanted more than "Parasitic Shell."

Not only did it hope to seize the "Hundred-Patched Coat," but it also intended to lead all disciples of "Demon Master Dao" spread across the Moluo four islands’ Daoist premises into deviating and decaying into weirdness.

With such a great contribution to the Killing Tree, it might happen to leap into becoming one of the few distinguished Green Seal Strange Immortals in the world.

But it was not blindly optimistic, as the cunning shine flickered in its narrow fox eyes.

"The only concern is whether the old one from Heavenly Prison holds aces in his hand that even we are unaware of?

His ecstatic and impatient demeanor back then indicated that he must have secrets behind him!"

The "Demon Master Dao" lineage is indeed peculiar; from bottom to top, everyone is a schemer unwilling to be controlled.

As the saying goes, life is like a siege where people outside want to get in and people inside want to get out just as desperately.

The Cultivation World is no different.

Those outside desperately want to get in, while those inside desperately want to get out.

A bunch of Yellow Seals and Strange Immortals are thinking about usurping the position of the Taoist Master and seize control over the "Taoist Inheritance Artifact" to issue commands.

On the contrary, the Taoist Heavenly Prison has been trying to abdicate but to no avail.

Both Strange Immortals and the Yellow Seal Mages were completely unaware that everything their Taoist Master had done was actually to rid himself of the "Hundred-Patched Coat" that had firmly grown onto him.

More precisely, to hide from that "Underground Master" behind the "Hundred-Patched Coat!"

"Not this one! This isn’t it either!

The "Three-Life Stone" vaguely sensed the object that the "Underground Master" claimed could free him from the precepts and taboo of Yin Department, allowing him to freely communicate between Yin and Yang.

But now that everyone had gathered here, on whom did that object reside?

Unless we kill them to make the object ownerless, there is no way to precisely identify it."

Although Taoist Heavenly Prison was fiercely battling with Thousand Phases Master and Wang Yuan, he still spared a portion of his attention to monitor those Ghost Taoists who were being killed on the battlefield.

In his hand, he held a black, white, and red stone with a clean-cut fracture, as if it had been carved from a larger stone.

On the top was inscribed a line of small characters:

"Red Spider Lilies bloom on the other shore, by Forget River’s banks, even the river is forgotten. Naihe Bridge in vain, upon the Three-Life Stone, three lives are written!"

It was indeed a fragment of the "Three-Life Stone," like the "Small Book of Life and Death," originating from the Underworld.

Three lives represent the past life, current life, and next life, while the stone signifies steadfastness.

Its ability locks in a fateful connection across three lives, ensuring inseparable ties of happiness and wedlock.

Watching the number of Ghost Taoists on the battlefield dwindle, Taoist Heavenly Prison grew increasingly anxious:

"Sixteen years ago, on the fifteenth of July during the Ghost Festival, the ’Corpse Dissection Relics’ suddenly began to speak.

All disciples thought this ’Taoist Inheritance Artifact’ had come alive just like the ’All Appearances Treasure Mirror’ of All Appearances Dao.

They didn’t know that its owner still isn’t completely dead to this day!"

"The Corpse Dissection Technique transforms from life to death, and then from death back to life. Many brilliant and resourceful seniors, geniuses with extraordinary talent, have sat and dissolved completely after transitioning from life to death, failing to revive.

But this ’Underground Master’ is different. Who knows what exactly happened to him, as he is trapped in the depths of the Underworld.

He requires my help to find a lost treasure in the Yang World, which would allow him to break through the precepts and taboo of the Yin Department Lower Soil: Without decree, Yin and Yang shall not interact (Chapter 79).

Now, as long as I can advance to Green Seal and obtain this treasure.

I will not only be able to rid myself of the parasitic ’Hundred-Patched Coat,’ but I will also be able to turn the tables and control the ’Underground Master,’ threatening to use this half-successful Demi Immortal for my own purposes!"