Killing Dao Fruit
Chapter 517 - 505: Imminent Danger, Ascending to the Nine Heavens_3

Chapter 517: Chapter 505: Imminent Danger, Ascending to the Nine Heavens_3

Mist and clouds twined ethereally, as if the city walls constructed of pure gold extended towards the infinite horizon.

Jade tiles and emerald bricks were laid in orderly succession, with divine lights shimmering from the copper nails on the vermilion gates; even the most common pillars had the girth of a hundred men’s embrace.

Above the plaque larger than any palace in the Mortal World were three golden characters: East Heaven Gate!

On the white jade steps before the gate stood thousands of towering Heavenly Soldiers and Generals, arrayed in grim formation, their ferocious and deadly aura freely spreading about.

The Heavenly Gate was vast, with clouds steaming and mists billowing, troops of Heavenly Soldiers imposing, dominating all directions!

Yet Wang Yuan could tell from their dull eyes.

Most of these Heavenly Soldiers and Generals were like the clay and wood figurines in the City God temples, long devoid of their own consciousness.

They relied on the Incense Fire Vow Power from the Mortal World and the Formation here, each possessing Military Skill Cultivation that could rival the Dao Generals and battle-hardened bodies.

The two Golden Armored Celestial Generals guarding the East Heaven Gate were ten zhang tall with horns on their heads, akin to Giant Spirits; divine lights surged around them, faintly carrying the sound of wind and rain.

They were two Heavenly People of the same lineage as General Long Bo’s kingdom.

Upon seeing Wang Yuan and his companion arriving together, they dutifully activated the Bone Mirror hanging on the gate lintel for one last identity confirmation, then greeted them respectfully with a clasped fist,

"Holy Mother, Star Lord, please come in!"

They then turned to push open the great gate with combined effort.

Wang Yuan stepped on clouds, following behind the Great Fate, entering the East Heaven Gate and simultaneously the floating Nine Heavens Cloud Realm above the high skies.

Whoosh—!

The rushing mountain mist mingled with a distinct Heaven and Earth Spirit Mechanism hit him in the face.

Golden Light rolled across myriad rainbows, auspicious vapors spouted in purple mist, and before his eyes lay palaces and silent abodes of jade, golden platforms, Turquoise Pools, and forests of pearls and jade.

The Heavenly Consort gently waved her fan, the Jade Maiden held up the Immortal Cloth, enveloped by clouds and mists, with divine music echoing around the beams.

There was General Long Bo propping up the ceiling with pillars, wielding axes and banners; Golden Armored Celestials wielding halberds and whips, carrying swords and sabers...

Grand and opulent as if it were the True Immortal Realm, yet stern and severe, in reality a great military camp!

"Is this the Immortal Heaven of the Corpse Dissection Immortal? Holding the celestial decrees in the mouth, grasping the sun and moon, a hundred times more mystical than the Grotto Heavens of the Mortal World!"

Wang Yuan looked up into the sky, seeing through the crystal-clear Boundary Membrane on top of the Immortal Heaven, another layer of inverted realm overhead.

There, it seemed the gravity was opposite to here.

Buddhists chanted, golden dragons coiled around pillars, and the Huachi Golden Lotus was extraordinarily dazzling.

That was the first heaven out of thirty-three, closest to the Mortal World— "Residence of Good Law Hall Heaven," also the domain of the No-Life Buddha.

Beside the first heaven lay another realm of a completely different style.

Vibrant with color and teeming with life, with Golden Boy and Girl coming and going, it was the second heaven of the thirty-three: "Tai Ming Yu Wan Heaven."

Also, the Heavenly Palace where the West King Holy Mother nurtured life, also called the Grotto Heaven where the Turquoise Pool was located.

Behind them lay the increasingly indistinct third heaven, fourth heaven... already becoming less visible.

When Wang Yuan had last visited, he had seen that where the thirty-three heavens were situated was a disordered space-time; "thirty-three" was but a figurative number.

All heavens would occasionally move and blend into chaos, even becoming completely disordered.

Whether it was "Residence of Good Law Hall Heaven" or "Tai Ming Yu Wan Heaven," most of the time, they were the closest to the Heavenly Gate and also the front lines of confrontation with the Corpse Dissection Immortals.

This gave rise to the terms first and second heaven.

Following this, Wang Yuan saw the South Heavenly Gate at the other end of this Immortal Heaven.

A figure, slightly shorter in stature but with bright and gleaming Golden Armor, a shining golden crown on the head, draped in a big red cape, with eyes sparkling like stars, was sitting carelessly on the glazed tiles.

His presence burst forth like the blazing sun, giving one the illusion that his silhouette may rise to equal the Heavens.

It was the Victorious Fighting King, the Six-Eared Macaque.

His staff still had fresh blood and flesh on it, evidently having just fought with someone.

But seeing him, Wang Yuan couldn’t help but recall that nightmare of "stealing one’s elder brother’s wife," subconsciously shrinking his neck while trying to control his scattered thoughts.

To avoid having his innermost thoughts heard by the Corpse Dissection Immortal’s "six ears," capable of discerning logic, knowing past and future, seeing all things plainly, would be disastrous.

The Great Fate turned her head and glanced at him.

"What is it?"

"Haha, big sister, it’s nothing.

Just feeling a bit emotional. The Mortal World has three hundred years between each All Living Beings Tribulation, at least there’s time to recuperate.

But the ceaseless battles above the Heavenly Gate, from morning to night, after thousands of years of bloody wars to preserve a piece of pure land, it’s truly not easy."

Upon hearing this, the Great Fate playfully winked her beautiful eyes at him.

"Wrong! Now let big sister correct your first misconception; the battle here has never been between two sides, but four!"

Wang Yuan paused in his step, utterly taken aback.

"Four sides?!"