Killing Dao Fruit
Chapter 639 - 562: Long Live the People, The Red Flag Flies High

Chapter 639: Chapter 562: Long Live the People, The Red Flag Flies High

Above their heads, the azure sky, clear with drifting white clouds, suddenly darkened as if day had turned to night in an instant.

Boom...

Sounds like a mountain collapse or a tidal wave echoed through the universe, as if the ground had sunk and the sky had toppled.

Dimly visible was a gargantuan, murky hand composed of countless human hands, resembling a vast cloud of darkness.

Some hands bore calluses of craftsmen; others, caked with dirt between fingers and on cracked skin, seemed to belong to farmers...

Some held iron, bamboo, or jade archer’s thumb rings, revealing their origins as skilled archers and prolific scholars...

They bloomed like flowers, in clusters and bunches.

In their palms, each had a blood-drenched mouth, gaping in hunger, drooling a foul stench, as if they could never be sated.

They roared incessantly:

"Hungry! Hungry!..."

"Give it to me! Give it to me!..."

It was enough to make one’s scalp tingle and body shudder uncontrollably.

Various creatures from the nearby sea began lining up, kneeling reverently on the water’s surface, as they offered their flesh and souls to them.

It was as if they were paying tribute... to their sovereign ruler!

The colossal hand that obscured the sky and sealed all directions seemed ready to obliterate Dushuo Mountain in a single blow.

Its approach was clearly filled with resentment.

Wang Yuan had never anticipated that retribution would come so swiftly. The cup of wine he was about to clink with his sister’s froze in place.

"What grudge? What resentment? Have I desecrated your ancestral graves?"

Although puzzled, his actions didn’t slow in the slightest.

In the core Daoist chamber of his own "Yin Mountain Taoism" in the mortal world, bolstered by the entire Dushuo Mountain and the Earth Gate, he, the Eastern Ghost Emperor, feared no one.

He casually set down the cup of just-warmed plum wine and asked Huang Wu to wait.

Wang Yuan formed a mantra with his hands and chanted urgently:

"Taiyin Transformation, Water Level Essence. Void Danger Upper Response, Stove Snake Formation. Cycle Six Union, Overpowering All Spirits. Cut down the demons at the end and start of calamities. Imperial decree, activate!"

The Red Snake Coiling Seal Formation that surrounded the entire island thunderously obeyed the command.

Mobilizing the overwhelming spirit mechanism of the Earth’s veins, it transformed into a crimson giant serpent with full scale armor, encircling Dushuo Mountain in protection.

Simultaneously, the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Mechanism resonated, and a colossal Dharma Image of an Emperor in a black robe materialized above the island, retaliating with a backhand palm strike.

One sought to cover the sky with a hand, while the other aimed to break through the clouds to see the sun.

Boom—!

In an instant, the clouds scattered for miles around as the clash of powers between the two hands pierced through the Gang Qi Layer.

It tore open a profound azure hole in the sky.

By the time the aftermath of the duel reached the island, it was as mild as a breeze, leaving not a blade of grass harmed.

It was evident.

The Five Techniques of Civilian Control from the highland in the western end of the continent, thousands of miles away, were no match for Wang Yuan on Dushuo Mountain in the East Sea, having yet to recover their original Dharma Image strength; they posed no threat to him.

The enormous hand was swatted away effortlessly.

The next moment.

A line of dull yellow divine light suddenly burst forth in the sky.

Two indifferent eyes, miles wide, slowly opened up high above.

Their owner seemed so exalted, as if everything seen was too insignificant to be worthy of attention—mere lowly ants.

The cold and merciless gaze then fixed fiercely on Wang Yuan.

Without needing to see his true form, merely through the high-level cultivator’s sense of the Dao and principle, it could be confirmed with absolute certainty that the initiator of the impending Human Dao Torrent that was shaking the very foundation of their existence was this man.

An imposing, chilly voice tinged with a trace of bloodlust echoed across the heavens:

"The West Queen Holy Mother was right. It is indeed you who is leading the next Human Dao Torrent.

You, the ruler of ’Peach God Tao’s Dushuo Mountain chamber,’ Eastern Ghost Emperor Wang Yuan!

In just over a month, you’ve turned all the deceitful nations upside down. Truly, you’re quite capable."

Even now, the Five Techniques of Civilian Control failed to realize that the Nine-Tailed Fox lurking near Wang Yuan had turned problematic.

This Human Dao Torrent was so sudden that it caught everyone, including the Corpse Dissection Immortals of the Nine Soldiers, off guard.

Keep in mind that the transition from a public world to a family world spanned the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors; the shift from a matriarchal to a patriarchal society took us through the Xia, Shang, and Zhou dynasties;

And the progression from a primitive feudal system to the supreme centralized authority alone crossed at least the several centuries of the Spring and Autumn and Warring States period...

Every subsequent shift in the Human Dao underwent a prolonged accumulation of time and was never an overnight affair.

But him? Even including the prior "Blood and Sweat Factory" and "Sewing Machine Hell," it took just a year or two at most.

In everyone’s understanding, each world-changing Human Dao Torrent had a great deal of randomness to it.

Even the initiators could only tentatively nudge it along step by step, unable to bypass the reality of material accumulation and foresee the development and cons of the future.

That was neither scientific, Daoist, nor in accordance with the objective laws of development!

No one would have imagined.

Thanks to a vast theoretical framework refined bit by bit by countless predecessors in his previous life, Wang Yuan’s understanding of the "Daoist Skill Industrial Revolution" was already centuries ahead of this era.

It came naturally.

In such a scenario.

The Five Techniques of Civilian Control merely thought that the Nine-Tailed Fox, who always managed to charm everyone by starting with the Opening Move of "Great King, I want to bear your child," hadn’t had the chance to act against Wang Yuan yet.

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