Killing Dao Fruit
Chapter 479 - 476 Change!

Chapter 479: Chapter 476 Change!

Boom——!

The ferocity of an imminent battle surged into the sky.

The greatest crisis in the history of the Dragon Elephant Taoism came suddenly, just when they thought the dust had settled.

The faces of the four sages from the Dragon and Tiger Temple had become extremely unsightly.

Yellow Dragon Sage was only disheartened because of his only son’s mishap, but his nearly five hundred years of wisdom had not been diminished much.

Seeing the reaction of the two from the Manxiang Palace, he immediately connected a series of recent events.

And understood the cause and effect.

His sharp gaze, like that of a blade’s edge, suddenly fell on Sage Yuxiang’s face, and with a trembling voice he asked,

"Yuxiang! Changlu! Was it you who acted against Suifeng?! Was this a trap you set from the very beginning?

We have been senior brothers for hundreds of years.

My unwavering trust in you, was it all so you could bitterly stab me in the back?

Why would you do such a thing? Don’t you know that if Dragon Elephant Taoism collapses like this, in the end, so many people will die?!

By then, we would all deserve to die a thousand deaths!"

Even in the face of undeniable facts,

Yellow Dragon still found it hard to believe that after almost two thousand years, the status quo could change so drastically.

The Manxiang Palace had so easily betrayed the sect, betrayed the Nine Soldiers, betrayed humanity?

His gaze then fell on the group of sages from the sect behind them:

"Which family has conspired with you? Yellow Heaven Righteous Dao? Qingtian Righteous Law Path?

But have you ever thought that in this world, traitors are far more hateful than enemies?

By joining the Heavenly Officials, you will also top the hit list of the Righteous Path.

Neither the Nine Soldiers’ Corpse Dissection Immortals, Taishang, Victorious Fighting King, nor your founding ancestor Lady Xiang will let you off.

Turn back now, I can forgive past actions, even pretend Suifeng’s incident never happened."

Amidst crisis, Yellow Dragon Sage did not let the hatred for losing his only son cloud his judgment and still attempted to fulfill his duty as Sect Master Marshal.

However.

Hearing the name "Lady Xiang," Sage Yuxiang, who had initially been mocking, suddenly erupted in anger:

"Lady Xiang? My founding ancestor?

Nonsense! All lies!

The Manxiang Saint Suppressing Seal and even the Saint Descent Power Alliance have exhausted their potential. There’s simply no way forward unless we start over from scratch—except for that damn lucky Six-Eared Macaque.

At the end of the Heavenly Department Dao Skill pathway, the Saint Descent Power Alliance, there is only room for one Corpse Dissection Immortal from the start to the end.

And that’s Taishang, who hails from your Dragon and Tiger Temple!

As long as Taishang lives, no descendants of Dragon Elephant Taoism, no matter how hard they try, can ever attain an Immortality Dao Fruit!"

"What are you saying?"

Seeing the shocked expression on Yellow Dragon Sage’s face, Yuxiang’s eyes turned from fury to deep pity:

"You honest man who has devoted all your life to Dragon Elephant Taoism and Taishang, you must have never known this secret, right?

You always thought it was because you didn’t have enough talent to advance further on the path established by our ancestor and create your own Heavenly Department Dao Skill.

Little did you know, it’s because your founding ancestor took his own path that left no path for others to follow!"

"Today, let me enlighten you before you die.

The essence of the Saint Descent Power Alliance is to serve as the ’Alliance’ in the system’s path, not ’Saint Descent.’

Whether it’s incarnating the spirits of the Yellow Dragon, Manxiang, Qilin... and so on, they are all fundamentally the same.

As long as you are within the structure of the one temple and one palace of Dragon Elephant Taoism, and its twenty-four branches, nobody can replace the Taoist Master, regardless of how high they rise.

Today, we from Manxiang Palace refuse to serve any longer!"

At these words, the remaining four grew even more restless.

Tiger Wing Sage, the youngest and most hopeful of glimpsing the Purple Seal Realm, stepped forward and pressed:

"Lady Xiang frequently appears as a manifestation.

Her avatar has been at Heavenly Gate ever since her ascension, but I have seen her avatar many times in the Nine Soldiers’ Xiang Bamboo Hall. How can you be sure she’s fake?"

Sage Yuxiang responded with a Weird smile:

"Of course, it’s from the real... ’Lady Xiang’ that I learned it!

Oh, after her ascension failed and she died and turned into a ghost, the Heavenly Department Divine Position of Lady Xiang was already automatically stripped away and taken by someone else.

Now she should be referred to as... Underground Master!"

Visibly, Yellow Dragon, Mrs. Jiao, Mrs. Hu, and Tiger Wing Sage all shook violently.

"Underground Master?"

With the "Yin Mountain Backside Development Plan" proposed by King Yanluo progressing vigorously,

The Underground Master, the biggest rival to the Yin Department, had already become well-known.

Many people speculated about the identity of this Demi Immortal, but no one could confirm it.

It never occurred to the people of the Dragon and Tiger Temple that this never-before-seen Demi Immortal could be their own Dragon Elephant Taoism’s "Lady Xiang"?

Because Yin and Yang are separated and unable to communicate, the small ploy used by the Corpse Dissection Immortals of the Nine Soldiers to maintain morale managed to maintain the facade internally for a thousand years.

Yuxiang, who had been suppressing his emotions for years, was very pleased with their expressions, as he himself hadn’t taken the news much better when he first heard it.

The Corpse Dissection Immortals’ numbers contained inconsistencies, which was an unspoken secret among the Nine Soldiers.

After hundreds and thousands of years of accumulation, more and more doubts emerged.

Manxiang Palace had long suspected that the Corpse Dissection Immortal posing as "Lady Xiang" was not really their founding ancestor.

But was the guise of some Corpse Dissection Immortal!

They naturally had lingering worries about their own futures, just like modern nations knowing that their ultimate weapons were actually paper tigers—how could they not feel panic?

It wasn’t until a certain day after the Ghost Festival sixteen years ago that a piece of human skin capable of communicating with the Underground Master appeared before him.

Yuxiang finally began to waver bit by bit.

Just recently, under the instigation of the Underground Master, he put into action this long-contemplated plan.

To a certain extent, he was also driven by King Yanluo of the Underworld—as an Earth-Bound Spirit, the Underground Master urgently needed to free himself from his current state.

"Junior Brother, have you forgotten the aspiration and oath we took when we first joined the Nine Soldiers?

The tiger’s bravado and the dragon’s troops majestic, amulets and armor donned in haste;

Arranging swords and spears, they dash like lightning, lining up banners and flags that fly swift as the wind.

Capturing the Three Corpses, incinerating Deceit Cave; seizing the Six Fiends, destroying Demon Palace;

With rivers clear and seas calm, Qiankun pure, living in peace through the ages, at one with Morality.

Do good deeds, but prioritize the greater good!"

The Yellow Dragon Sage understood their thoughts and tried to persuade them further, his words full of barely concealed pain.

He himself had lived for nearly five hundred years, and Sage Yuxiang was only a couple of decades younger than him.

Among contemporaries, aside from a few demons with naturally long lifespans, only a few of their Green Seal brotherhood remained.

Having been on the Righteous Path all their lives, naturally, they did not want to see their late years marred by disgrace.

Yuxiang was completely ungrateful and gestured dismissively:

"The greater good? What a ’greater good.’ Why should we sacrifice ourselves for it and not have him, the Taishang, step down?

Yellow Dragon senior brother, you may settle for dying when your time comes, but we do not believe in such nonsense.

The Way of Heaven is to take from what has in excess to supplement what lacks.

The Way of Man is to take from what lacks to serve what has in excess.

If you want to surpass others, you must compete, you must seize; once I sit in that position, it will be mine.

Now it’s time for the greater good to revolve around us.

Besides, senior brother, do you not also aspire to leave behind a Bloodline to inherit the Dao?

We are only choosing different paths, but the essence is the same."

The "Path to Immortality" in this world can roughly be divided into three categories.

One is personal eternal life, with the Corpse Dissection Immortals, Heavenly Officials, and Weird Immortals being the most typical representatives—what countless Magicians eagerly seek after.

Second-best to this, there are two other forms of "longevity."

The first is Bloodline longevity, which refers to passing on one’s genetic code through descendants for generations—the ’Descendants of Yan and Huang’ are a prime example of this.

The second is longevity through the inheritance of thoughts, academic pursuits, and Daoist lineage, termed "Dharma Inheritance."

With people constantly carrying forward one’s thoughts, scholarship, or even weaving themselves into the Green History of humanity, the epitome of which is Confucianism’s "Eternal Master."

In Yuxiang’s view, his unscrupulous pursuit of the first route and Yellow Dragon’s readiness to promote Yuan Suifeng, who embodies both "Bloodline" and "Dharma Inheritance," weren’t essentially different.

At first, when the Underground Master suddenly came out wanting to take over the Manxiang Palace again, Sage Yuxiang naturally resisted.

But he couldn’t resist the "Spirit and Body Unification" method that perfectly matched his own Daoist Skill...

Even if this method could help breakthrough to the realm of Purple Seal Immortal that the Magician sought after, like the "Saint Descent Power Alliance," there would ultimately only be one.

But others could also use it to transform from human to demon, at the very least extending their lives by a thousand years!

Loyalty is low when the stakes for betrayal are low, and righteousness is easy when the temptation is not strong enough.

Now a path that could surpass the Corpse Dissection Immortal was laid before him, requiring only a stab in the back of the Dragon and Tiger Temple to obtain—how could he not be tempted?

"Since kind words have been exhausted, then it seems we must settle this with a fight."

The Yellow Dragon Sage’s aura of the Dharma Image realm erupted around him.

Although the power of the Hutong Cave Heaven had drastically diminished and the number of real opponents was double that of his own side,

they were still no match for the Yellow Dragon Mace, the Taoist Inheritance Artifact.

The Taoist Inheritance Artifact of the righteous schools, although not as domineering as those of the Sects and Side Doors, was still easily capable of killing traitors within their ranks.

Facing the direction of the north gate, he bowed from afar and said with respect:

"Disciple invites the Yellow Dragon Mace to attend the altar!"

Whoosh—!

A splendid beam of light rose from his body like an arrow, seemingly in response to some presence.

One breath, two breaths, three breaths...

Yet, there was no response!

"Hahaha... Look to me instead!"

Sage Yuxiang, watching the Yellow Dragon Sage’s changing expression, laughed in triumph.

As they said before, the key to victory was not in White Dragon Mountain but elsewhere on the battlefield.

And that was the decisive minority!

With the same gesture and a loud shout, he too invoked:

"Disciple invites the Yellow Dragon Mace to attend the altar!"

The same beam of light soared into the sky from him, seemingly in accord with something else.

One breath, two breaths, three breaths...

The face of Sage Yuxiang shifted from triumph to disbelief, and then to sheer frustration.

Just like the traditional face-changing performances in Liangzhou, it was a sight to behold.

In the end, two columns of light continued to shine opposite each other and vie for dominance in the sky, neither daring to cease until hearing a response from their respective ancestors.

However, in the blue sky that their forces had opened in the thick clouds, not a single feather fell.

This caused both parties to stare at each other in bewilderment.

Completely clueless as to what unexpected event had unfolded.

Gua gua gua...

It wasn’t until a crow, driven by the forces of both sides, started cawing chaotically as it plummeted down.

Creating a moment that was exceedingly awkward.

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