Killing Dao Fruit
Chapter 528 - 511: Major Collision, The Second Knocking Plan

Chapter 528: Chapter 511: Major Collision, The Second Knocking Plan

"Who is there?!"

With that low shout ringing in his ears—

Wang Yuan and Huang Wu suddenly found themselves transported across millions of miles, the mountains, lakes, and seas pulled right before their eyes.

In the next moment, they were standing atop a lofty peak that seemed capable of rivaling the sun and moon, with the vast starry sky lingering only beneath their feet.

The summit where they stood was extremely smooth, as if someone with great magic power had cleaved the mountain with a single sword strike, simultaneously severing the path to the Heavenly Realm.

A grey mist pressed down upon their heads, gradually dispersed by the bright silver "Taiyin Light" radiating from above Huang Wu’s head.

But the surroundings were filled with increasingly loud rustling noises, like countless insects.

In the dark horizon, the twinkling was not from millions of stars but the icy compound eyes of insects!

It seemed as if they had been dragged into a cold insect’s nest.

Yet neither Wang Yuan nor Huang Wu had time to pay attention to their current predicament.

For as the mist cleared, a vast, curtain-like luminous gate spanned just three feet above their heads, harshly separating heaven and earth.

Through the semi-transparent gate, one could faintly see a writhing, tumbling mass of abnormality on the other side, resembling an inflamed cyst.

Drip-drop of red and yellow pus on the gate, exteriorized rotten organs, intermittently visible eyeballs, tumors, teeth, tentacles...

This was indeed the most authentic appearance of the Thirty-Three Heavens once stripped of its splendid disguise.

As the Heavenly Realm rubbed and pressed against the gate—

The sound of corrosion "sizzled" constantly in their ears.

The two felt like they were looking through the bottom of a clear bowl at a thick, unwashed, chunky soup, feeling waves of nausea.

"This is... the Heavenly Gate!"

Wang Yuan raised his hand to the gate, and a rapid exchange of information confirmed that this was indeed the projection of the "Heavenly Gate" in the collective human dream.

The Heavenly Gate above dimensions provided full, seamless protection to the mortal world, including in dreams.

Unless the "Heavenly Gate" collapsed, the only place allowed for the passage of beings stronger than Red Seal abnormalities was the strictly safeguarded "South Heavenly Gate" by the Nine Soldiers!

His words had hardly faded.

Boom—!

Accompanied by a thunderous explosion.

From the adjacent Strange Heavenly Realm, a yellow one-eyed creature as large as a mountain suddenly leaped out and slammed hard against the Heavenly Gate.

Its upper and lower eyelids were rows of sharp canine teeth, surrounded by countless thousands of phantom eye stalks resembling centipedes, which occupied half of the Heavenly Gate.

It clung tightly to the gate, looking like a ghost all of a sudden pasted against the door.

It exerted so much force, contorting and deforming its body, that one might wonder if it would accidentally burst itself against the Heavenly Gate.

Barely inches away.

A pitch-black pupil, akin to the abyss, left no gaps as it stared rigidly at the eyes of Wang Yuan and Huang Wu.

Immediately, as if numerous information bombs exploded in their minds, secrets burst forth in this Lost Layer where secrets couldn’t be kept.

"On the Mountain of the Golden Gate is a person named ’Yellow Consort’s Corpse.’ Also called ’Wu Ju,’ a mountain god."

"In the vast wilderness, there is a mountain called Sun and Moon Mountain, also known as Tianshu. ’Wu Ju,’ the gate of Sun and Moon."

"The emperor heavily presented gifts to the heavens above and commanded the underworld below, governing the four seasons’ officials of heaven and earth, preventing disturbances between men and gods, maintaining order, nicknamed the absolute heavenly connection.

It states gods don’t descend to the earth, and the earthly deities don’t reach the skies, strictly unrelated!"

"..."

Through the memory in the collective unconscious of humans, they seemed to witness once again the ancient scene when Human Emperor Zhuangxu established the absolute heavenly connection.

Back then, the Killing Tree, just invading this world, was still a relatively weak sapling, yet it had already caused chaos among humans and a reactive response from the heavenly Dao.

In the great wilderness, Sun and Moon Mountain served as Tianshu, ’Wu Ju’ was originally the god of this mountain, managing the communication between deities and humans above and below, also one of the powerful gods at that time.

The Human Emperor, to establish the "Heavenly Gate," had to slay the mountain god ’Wu Ju.’

Unfortunately, much like the Holy Mother’s divine position being tainted and invaded by a foreign ’Heavenly Official,’—

The highly revered mountain god ’Wu Ju’ suffered contamination by the Killing Tree, and was ultimately revitalized into a powerful Heavenly Official—Hundred-Eyed Spirit Official—

And posed the greatest threat to the "Heavenly Gate."

In the earliest oracle bones, ’Gigantic’ was depicted as a vertical human eye.

This ’Heavenly Official’ appearing still in the form of a gigantic eye was a testament to his inheritance from ’Mountain God Wu Ju.’

It stands to reason that among the Ancient Twelve Corpses, ’Yellow Consort’s Corpse’ was once under his control and died because of him.

Also serving as the direct medium connecting reality with dreams for the Twelve Corpses.

Then, in a moment of eye contact, Wang Yuan and Huang Wu also jointly discerned the connections reflected in each other’s pupils.

On either side were the all-too-familiar ’Altair’ and ’Vega,’ and in between them was what separated them—the shimmering, vast... Heavenly River!

"A Human Dao Torrent, they are really trying to create a great flood?!"

The thin curtain of light between heaven and earth seemed like a dam holding back the waters.

With the persistent contamination of the Heavenly Dao by the Twelve Inner View Dirty Bombs, the dam grew increasingly fragile.

Soon it would, like other parts of the Lost Layer, completely blur the concepts of time and space and connect heaven and earth!

Tik-tok, tik-tok...

It seemed as if the weird giant eyeball was weeping, and gradually water seeped through the Heavenly Gate, dripping into the Lost Layer.

The situation had become extremely precarious.

At any moment, it could suddenly collapse, creating a flood that would sweep through the entire collective unconscious of humanity and destroy everything.

All natural disasters have an origin, just as earthquakes come from plate tectonics, volcanic eruptions from increased underground magma pressure, and thunderstorms from intense cold and hot convection.

Whether it was called "Heavenly River Inversion" or "Human Dao Torrent" didn’t matter.

The source of this "Daoism Transformation Disaster" was clearly the differential in water momentum between heaven and earth.

Moreover,

Deeply ingrained in the collective memory of humanity, both in the East and the West, the common fear was undoubtedly—great floods!

If it were to actually manifest, there might indeed be a momentum to reshape the land and reforge the universe.

In just an instant, Wang Yuan had figured out the cause and effect.

"In the ranks of the Heavenly Officials, who are not supposed to value wisdom over cunning, how could such a crafty breed exist?

They had carefully selected the appropriate Green Seal Strange Immortals since ancient times and methodically executed their plan.

This collective dream of the ancient twelve corpses had clearly been connected to the dream of the Hundred-Eyed Spirit Official atop the Heavenly Gate long ago.

The Daoism Transformation Disaster had not yet been born; it had been accumulating power for a long time.

Just waiting for the moment when the dam would break—it would be the time to reap the rewards."

Though Wang Yuan’s body was trapped above the Heavenly Gate, his consciousness was always in sync with his avatar and did not hesitate to inform the Great Fate beside him.

"Big sister! The medium is on the body of the Hundred-Eyed Spirit Official. We can’t let them succeed!"

The entire Yellow Heaven Divine System needed to cooperate—it was not a trouble a mere Inner Realm Sage like him could handle.

But at the moment the warning was issued,

The swishing noises in the surrounding starry sky suddenly intensified immensely.

A swarm of creatures resembling patterned ceramic pillows with a thousand legs and a single eye atop their heads surged towards them in a bug-tide.

Each bug was attached by a string resembling a puppet’s twine to the Hundred-Eyed Spirit Official above the Heavenly Gate.

They had also received a power boost from a Purple Seal Heavenly Official!

They spewed out a golden tide resembling yellow millet that was distinct in each grain, creating wave after titanic wave in the Lost Layer, sweeping towards the two of them.

Now, the gap corroded in the Heavenly Gate was still not big enough to allow a Heavenly Official through.

But his affiliate, the Yellow Millet Demon, could come and go without any obstacles.

Even being indirectly confronted by a Heavenly Official’s true body only through the Heavenly Gate put Wang Yuan and Huang Wu into an unprecedentedly perilous situation.

Watching the two, who had merged into one entity after initiating "Phoenix Flying, Harmonious Clang," desperately dodge around in the dream-tide,

They were gradually entangled under the suppression of their own power "Yellow Millet Dream."

"Gaga gaga..."

The Hundred-Eyed Spirit Official let out a sneering laugh that was piercing to one’s ears, as if nails scratching a glass, driving one mad.

"Even if you have uncovered the truth behind the ancient twelve corpses, what of it? Struggling is futile.

This Daoism Transformation Disaster, even more terrifying than the ’Little Ice Age,’ can’t be stopped by anyone!

The opportunity, the moment of the dam’s collapse, is coming soon.

In the ’All Living Beings Tribulation’ of the Human Dao vying for dragons, as long as there are enough significant and numerous Water Virtue Flood Dragons that perish,

It can internally and externally coordinate to completely detonate this great flood!

To generate yet another colossal collision between heaven and earth, trigger a Human Dao Torrent, and complete the second knocking plan outside of breaking the Earth Gate from the era of Mu King.

All the investments of the entire Yellow Heaven Divine System over the past thousands of years will receive a hundredfold return."

The yellow eyeball turned toward the direction of Yu State on land, a flicker of dissatisfaction flashing in its pupil.

"Humans have a saying: ’The older the rivers and lakes, the smaller the courage.’

No-Life is indeed regressing the older he gets.

This was a golden opportunity for revenge, allowing him to take revenge on that Yu State Flood Dragon while conveniently triggering a natural disaster.

Unexpectedly, after losing a Red Lotus Avatar to the Great Fate, he became even more timid.

He insists on us finding a way to separate the three avatars of Star Lord Taibai before he would act, causing us a lot of delays.

We must act immediately, completing the ’Second Knocking Plan’ by the end of the month, allowing for the renewal of the cosmos and the revival of all things.

If we miss these few days, we must wait another year.

That would add an endless amount of variables!"

...

At the same time,

In Red County Shenzhou, in the deep, pitch-black riverbed upstream of the Turbid River, the One-Eyed Stone Man, who had been waiting for a long time, suddenly opened his single eye.

With a wave of his hand:

"All troops heed my command, take action, march on Dengzhou Prefecture!"