Killing Dao Fruit
Chapter 518 - 506: Corpses Dissection Three Realms

Chapter 518: Chapter 506: Corpses Dissection Three Realms

As soon as Wang Yuan’s voice fell, he saw the first heaven "Residence of Good Law Hall Heaven" and the second heaven "Tai Mingyu Wan Heaven" above his head suddenly shrink like bubbles.

What took their place were two other strange and vast heavenly realms.

One was covered in dreamlike colorful mists; looking as far as the eye can see, there were mountains of gold and silver, exquisite fabrics, delicacies from land and sea, and city-overturning beauties...

Every desire and illusion of the world manifesting one by one in this place.

But upon closer examination, one could see giant centipedes, spiders, cobwebs, and wriggling lumps of flesh and eyeballs intermittently hidden in shadow.

It made one understand that behind all the temptations of this place, there was another Qiankun.

The other heavenly realm was almost perfectly round, surrounded by a dark yellow band of light, embedded with thousands upon thousands of twinkling stars.

Being a Star Official himself, Wang Yuan recognized at a glance that this band of light was none other than—the Yellow Path.

The Yellow Path is the annual trajectory of the sun in the sky, appearing as a trail moving amongst the stars, opposed by the trajectory of the moon, known as the "White Path."

These two heavenly realms were none other than the fourth heaven "Mystical Embryo Nurturing Heaven" belonging to the Hundred-Eyed Spirit Official, and the twentieth heaven "Beginning Yellow Honorable Mang Heaven" belonging to Black Tai Sui.

Furthermore, their relationship seemed far less friendly and harmonious than that between the No-Life Buddha and West King Holy Mother.

Due to the random movement of the heavenly realms, as soon as they were forced closer together, a violent conflict immediately ensued.

Black Tai Sui took the initiative to strike.

One after another, meteors carrying filthy light leaped out from the Yellow Path.

They drew twisted, worm-like streaks in the sky above the realm before viciously smashing into the opposite fourth heaven "Mystical Embryo Nurturing Heaven."

The Hundred-Eyed Spirit Official was not to be outdone, with the black and red tail of a giant centipede waving in the sky above the realm like a massive flag, revealing the hundreds of differently colored eyes on its underside.

Fierce divine lights capable of scorching divine sense burst forth and shattered those meteors one by one.

At the same time, a sharp, cold voice echoed rolling between the heavenly realms:

"Last time I devoured your direct affiliate, Yellow Path Granny, this time I’ll consume you!

Of all the Purple Seal True Immortals pursuing ’the Dao of the Three Destinies and Five Stars,’ the one who ultimately achieves the Undying Primordial Spirit must be me!"

Wang Yuan was no longer a minor character who dared not face a Heavenly Official’s true body directly.

A ring of Dharma Light unfurled above his head, and a bright pearl as large as a fist floated up and down.

"Inner Scene Heaven and Earth·Other Shore of the Three Realms" easily protected him from the pollution of both sides’ knowledge.

However, most of the others in this Immortal Heaven couldn’t do the same.

As the battle between the two Heavenly Officials continued, auspicious clouds rolled in from all over Immortal Heaven, blocking everyone’s sight and isolating the dangerous pollution.

The Great Fate beside Wang Yuan immediately retracted his gaze—at once disdainful and covetous—towards the Hundred-Eyed Spirit Official and Black Tai Sui.

He turned his head and affirmed to Wang Yuan:

"That’s right, the ones battling are indeed the Four Directions!"

Clouds sprouted beneath their feet, and the two proceeded slowly through the vast Immortal Heaven, with Great Fate explaining the current situation above Heavenly Gate to Wang Yuan.

"On the surface, the conflict here indeed comes from the opposition between ’Heavenly Dao’ and the mutated Heavenly Dao ’Killing Tree.’

We ’Nine Soldiers’ and the opposing ’Heavenly Officials’ belong to two different Heavenly Daos, each attacking, defending, and killing each other.

In reality, just as you have just witnessed, the situation here is clearly more complicated.

At its root, aside from the main conflict of ’Heavenly Dao and Killing Tree being inherently opposed,’ it also involves a secondary conflict regarding ’the subsequent path of Purple Seal Immortals.’

"You possess a Martial Saint avatar; you must be quite aware that every minor military skill documented in the Mortal World, from ancient times till now, only extends to the fourth realm, ’Military Leader.’

Every ascendant to ’Martial Saint’ has made a further advance upon reaching the pinnacle, exceeding the blue from which it springs, creating their own path of military skill.

But what you may not know is that every achiever of ’Heavenly Department Dao Skill’ or merit-based ascension is the same.

Once becoming the ’Immortality Dao Fruit,’ there is no path of predecessors to follow..."

Wang Yuan knew the secrets Great Fate was revealing—secrets also related to his own future cultivation—and he immediately pricked up his ears to listen intently.

His brows would relax and then frown tightly.

The first realm of Purple Seal is ’Immortality Dao Fruit,’ the second is ’Undying Primordial Spirit,’ and the third is ’True Form of Great Dao.’ This is the same for both Corpse Dissection Immortals and Heavenly Officials.

Know that cultivators, in pursuit of immortality, are essentially chasing the ability to survive with the world.

Fire cannot burn them, water cannot soak them, edged weapons do not wound them, even knowing of malicious thoughts as they arise, until even cycles of time and reincarnation cannot wear them away.

What never changes in the world is change itself; mastering all laws and exploring the self is the embodiment of adjusting with the times, and never being outdated whether by era or time.

There’s also no such thing as older dao skills being mightier, or today’s methods being inferior to ancient ones.

"The Immortal Dao’s four realms and twelve stages—at the Purple Seal Immortal Realm, what they essentially compete against is their ability to survive."

In the early stages of the Killing Tree invasion.

At the beginning, there were very few beings that could reach the Purple Seal Realm. They could only assimilate Heaven and Earth’s Spirit Mechanism little by little, drawing knowledge from the Great Dao, and groping their way to slow progress.

Later, as time passed, factions from both sides gradually emerged with immortals following similar paths.

They soon discovered that once the "knowledge" of a similar path was occupied by someone else, they would never be able to ascend to the higher level of the [Undying Primordial Spirit].

But they immediately found a solution.

According to the principle of knowledge aggregation:

"Knowledge" attracts similar "knowledge" to continuously converge, thereby giving birth to new "knowledge".

When [Heavenly Officials] devour each other or consume a corresponding path’s [Corpse Dissection Immortal], concentrating resources to ensure they were the sole practitioner of their path, they could achieve a unique [Undying Primordial Spirit]!

After occupying an entire path, it’s akin to transforming themselves into a concept written into the world’s fundamental rules.

Fully stepping out of reincarnation, becoming one with the Dao, unique across all realms.

From then on, it’s not just longevity in terms of lifespan, but also immortality in the essence of life!

For the [Corpse Dissection Immortals], it’s more or less the same principle.

But instead of consuming [Heavenly Officials], it’s about killing them, liberating the corresponding "knowledge" and the source of the "Heavenly Spirit Qi" that was occupied.

The native Heavenly Dao would naturally bestow its favor, through the mutual balancing of the Heavenly Spirit Qi and Earth Spirit Qi, complementing their strengths and aiding in the ascension, also ascending to the [Undying Primordial Spirit].

And this cultivation mode, which seems like raising gu, where countless soldiers cross a narrow bridge,

also results in inherent, irreconcilable contradictions between [Heavenly Officials] and [Corpse Dissection Immortals], and among [Heavenly Officials] themselves.

The struggle above the Heavenly Gate is essentially also based on this point.

Great Fate summarized in the end:

"The reason I say there’s a four-way struggle is that although we, the [Nine Soldiers], are few in number, we don’t have immortals following similar paths, which ensures our internal unity.

In contrast, on the other side, the Heavenly Officials’ internal struggles are due to path issues, splitting themselves into three loose camps.

For example, the ’Plague Dao’ [Mud Saint] who spread the Rat Plague and the ’Nine Forms Corpse God Dao’ [Fangzhang Corpse King] competing for Beimang Mountain Blessed Land.

[Mud Saint]’s powers are pestilence, poison, corruption, disaster...; while [Fangzhang Corpse King]’s powers are corpse, emptiness, burial, Tongyou...

Although each path focuses on different things, they can form a powerful complementary relationship.

Whoever can consume the other will immediately be able to integrate the upstream and downstream, have complete self-sufficiency, and with one leap achieve the [Undying Primordial Spirit] (Chapter 334).

So, they are destined to belong to two utterly different camps."

He paused at this point.

"The recently begun battle between the [Hundred-Eyed Spirit Official] and [Black Taisui] is also due to this.

They each occupy a part of the ’Fate Calculation of Three Lives and Five Stars’, and they must reach a conclusion where one of them dies.

The most important thing is, I also follow the same Fate Calculation of Three Lives and Five Stars, and to ascend to the [Undying Primordial Spirit], I am destined to confront these two formidable opponents."

Wang Yuan, upon hearing this, was slightly taken aback.

In the Mortal World’s human sects, it’s common to find tragic fates like those of the "Peach God Tao self-service fresh market", used as reserve sustenance.

He had not expected that even after achieving the supreme state of [Corpse Dissection Immortal], one could not escape this fate of eater or eaten.

It’s just not known how many [Corpse Dissection Immortals] over the past thousand years have not died from the limits of their lifespan, but instead perished at the mouths of [Heavenly Officials].

After calming his agitated emotions, he quickly asked:

"So how many [Undying Primordial Spirits] are there on our side and on the Heavenly Officials’ side now?"

Great Fate deliberately glossed over the true status of the [Nine Soldiers] but did not conceal the situation of the Heavenly Officials:

"That’s exactly what I’m going to talk about next.

You need to change the second understanding, that the power hierarchy among human sects in the Mortal World does not strictly correspond to the strength of [Heavenly Officials] and their respective Heavenly Realms.

Human world has its ups and downs, but Heavenly Officials are eternal.

Although you have caused a significant setback for Langqiong’s Six Tribulations of Qingtian Righteous Law Path, their leader, [Green Sheep Taoist], just happens to be an [Undying Primordial Spirit]!

Not just him, all three Taoists of the Righteous Law Path are of this realm.

The good news is, these three Taoists each represent a different aspect of the Heavenly Dao, fundamentally they’re arch-enemies among arch-enemies!"

"Many Sages with ordinary talent or from major sects lived and died without piercing through this barrier to discover the truth of the Purple Seal Realm.

Allowing these immortals who were destined to never achieve immortality to harbor delusions is just adding to their troubles."

Great Fate looked at Wang Yuan with a particularly gentle gaze:

"But Taibai, you’re different from them!

If your Ghost Path reaches the Purple Seal Immortal Realm, you will inevitably have to face your destined arch-enemy, so you need to be very cautious from now on."