The heavens began from a small hell

Upon seeing the words 'Su Meng' on the Six Soul Banner, Gu Xiaosang's expression changed for a moment as she ascended to the other shore. She seemed to have weighed the gap between herself and the Golden Emperor, and she decisively headed to the Jade Void Palace.

Upon entering the Jade Void Palace, she saw the Jade Void disciples who had died in the Battle of the Other Shore. Even the Jade Void Palace itself was in ruins, with half of the Jade Purity Hall at its deepest part collapsing.

Her husband, Su Meng, sat listlessly in the lotus position, his dark and pale face weighing heavily on Gu Xiaosang's heart.

Yes, once she reaches the other shore, then 'Su Meng' will lose her value to the Golden Emperor.

The death of 'Su Meng' would be most in line with the current interests, as it would cause Yuanshi Tianzun's attempt to reduce emptiness to fail.

Gu Xiaosang is not good at healing, but she can use the "Finger of No Life" to devour and absorb the remaining injuries in Su Meng's body and transfer them out.

That's what she did. She came up to 'Su Meng' and pointed a finger at 'Su Meng's' forehead.

Su Meng naturally offered no resistance to his wife, but the next moment their expressions changed simultaneously.

“How did He do that?”

Gu Xiaosang's face was ashen. She tried her best but couldn't retract her finger that had touched Su Meng's forehead. She was frantically devouring everything about her husband.

Dark red lines covered her fair, jade-like skin, and deep within her eyes, inverted swastikas faintly appeared. The symbols were distorted and blurred, seemingly transforming into a frenzied figure with dozens of eyes and arms, wielding a human skin drum, a white bone bead, and a heart-gouging bell.

It was none other than the incarnation of the Demon Buddha in reverse Dharma.

But Gu Xiaosang knew that the Demon Buddha's fall was real, so why was she unable to control herself at this moment?
She naturally had no idea what Lin Yang and the Golden Emperor had done to her essence during their previous dual cultivation sessions, when their spirits soared to the heavens.

Gu Xiaosang would doubt anyone, but she would never doubt her husband who had supported her and accompanied her all the way. If it weren't for her husband's repeated rescues, she would have died long ago.

Since her husband reached the other shore, she naturally felt more relaxed when they talked, because no one could do anything under the watchful eye of someone from the other shore.

Therefore, Gu Xiaosang could no longer control herself today, and even a brief loss of control was enough.

Before she could even get her husband, Su Meng, to fight back desperately, she saw Su Meng, who had been severely injured from killing the Demon Buddha and weakened by the Six Soul Banner, suddenly become illusory under her Lifeless Finger.

puff!
Just like a bubble bursting, 'Yuanshi Tianzun Su Meng' disappeared before our eyes. His Dao Fruit, his Dharma Body, everything about him was devoured by Gu Xiaosang and melted into her own Dao Fruit.

At this moment, Gu Xiaosang's illusory Dao Fruit, symbolizing the beginning, and the illusory Dao Fruit, symbolizing the end, gradually intertwined under the nourishment of 'Su Meng,' from the beginning and the end, to deduce the myriad Daos of the world.

Gradually, the two intertwined illusory Dao Fruits completely merged, taking on the rudimentary form of a true Dao Fruit.

After devouring 'Su Meng', Gu Xiaosang, who was already very close to the rudimentary form of the Dao Fruit, took the final step and achieved the rudimentary form of the Dao Fruit.

The help also came from the Demon Buddha's Dao Fruit of Termination. Since Lin Yang and the Demon Buddha were not truly one, after the Demon Buddha's fall, he preserved the Demon Buddha's Dao Fruit until now, hiding it within his own Dharma body. Naturally, it was devoured by Gu Xiaosang, who also cultivated the Dao of Termination.

Due to the overlapping contradictions and logical anomalies caused by the final calamity, although 'Su Meng' has already perished and the chaotic myriad worlds have seen the phenomenon of the other shore's fall, he still looks as if he were still alive.

"why?"

With tears in her eyes, Gu Xiaosang looked at her seemingly illusory husband. The moment she achieved the initial form of the Dao Fruit, she was already able to sense the source of her abnormality, which was none other than her husband who had protected her for many years and sheltered her from the wind and rain until now.

No matter how unwilling she was to believe it, there was only one answer now...

Su Meng, the husband of Yuanshi Tianzun who sought emptiness through subtraction, was actually a man of the Golden Emperor. He was willing to sacrifice himself to delay Yuanshi Tianzun's transcendence. What exactly did the Golden Emperor promise that would make Su Meng, who had inherited the "cause of all fruits" and was now a new generation of Yuanshi Tianzun, go to such lengths?
When did he betray us?

Having been husband and wife for hundreds of years, with each other intertwined, Lin Yang naturally knew what Gu Xiaosang was thinking. Sitting cross-legged, he shed his usual soft-spoken pretense and said calmly, "From the very beginning."

His voice gradually faded, disappearing along with his figure: "When I reached the other shore, the Golden Emperor left out one sentence..."

“Even your husband Su Meng, who is by your side, was arranged by Him and has been His person from beginning to end.”

Staring at the empty ruins, Gu Xiaosang was speechless.

Since she became the prototype of the Dao Fruit, and the moment she made the Golden Emperor and Amitabha Buddha perform the subtraction and emptiness to achieve perfection, even if she falls in realm, it will no longer affect them.

Lost in thought, Gu Xiaosang looked outside and saw that the Golden Emperor was no longer there in front of the Six Soul Banner, which connected to the Void Homeland below and the infinite heights above.

In the blink of an eye, the Golden Emperor, free from cause and effect and imprints, had broken free from the shackles of logic and imagination, and truly transcended them.

The worlds of Investiture of the Gods and Journey to the West, blocked by the Heavenly Emperor, rumbled and trembled. Yuanshi Tianzun and Lingbao Tianzun, who had perished while making a sacrifice for the sake of emptiness, wanted to return regardless of everything.

Although he did not know why Su Meng had perished, the Heavenly Emperor smiled as he allowed his burning body and Dao Fruit to gradually turn into ashes. With the shimmering light, he disappeared into the world.

The era ends, the Heavenly Emperor falls, the Heavenly Emperor falls, the era ends.

These two can coexist.

Boom!

The fall of the Heavenly Emperor caused the final calamity to instantly engulf all the heavens and myriad realms. The Moral Celestial Venerable and Amitabha Buddha, who fought before the first era, were both affected, as if they were to be isolated from the present world.

With the Heavenly Emperor no longer blocking their way, Yuanshi Tianzun and Lingbao Tianzun, who should have been sitting comfortably, finally sacrificed themselves to return to the Journey to the West world and the Investiture of the Gods world.

But it was already too late.

"Mother Jin, what a brilliant move."

The Taoist priest, with a gaunt face and seemingly middle-aged, sighed softly. He stood in the void, as if bearing the cause and effect of all the myriad realms, being the cause of all effects, and the origin of everything.

He looked at the myriad realms that were collapsing and returning to nothingness under the shroud of the final calamity, and with a wave of his sleeve, he put away the Jade Void Palace.

Having left Yuxu Palace, Gu Xiaosang had regained her original composure and calmness. With a cool expression, she slightly raised her chin. The great vow to save the world that she inherited from refining Maitreya Buddha made her take the initiative to lend a helping hand to the remaining sentient beings.

At this moment, a faint celestial sound resounded throughout all the heavens and earth:

"The mortal world is like a prison, and all beings suffer. The cycle of reincarnation never ends, and sorrow never ceases. Pity us mortals, for a god descends from heaven, the Holy Mother of the White Lotus, to save us from this calamity and guide us to the end!"

Those who heard it were blessed with good fortune, and regardless of the scene of destruction, they devoutly bowed down and resonated in hushed tones.

Countless points of light joined together, appearing in the increasingly distorted and abstract heavens and earth.

(End of this chapter)