Daojun, start from Penglai foundation building

The heavens shine brightly, and the universe is filled with dazzling stars.

Within the celestial star sea of ​​the Nine Provinces Realm, amidst the vast sea of ​​clouds, the True Lords of the Eastern Heavenly Daoist School stood in orderly ranks, atop auspicious clouds and mythical beasts, bathed in auspicious light.

Penglai, Qinghua, Tianhe, Chixiao, Yaochi.

Huaguang Immortal Lord, Junxiao Immortal Lord, Xuanjing Immortal Lord, Chiyun Immortal Lord, Yuzhen Immortal Lord;
True Lord Yuanyi, True Lord Hongyi, True Lord Zhaozhen, True Lord Xiaoyuan, True Lord Quedi.
The Great Vehicle Immortal Lords, Five Tribulations True Lords, Integration True Lords, Refining Emptiness True Lords, and Dharma Aspect True Lords of the Eastern Heavenly Daoist School, from top to bottom, span millions of miles of heaven and earth. Under the protection of tens of thousands of Upper Three Realms Immortals and hundreds of millions of disciples and followers, a dazzling and mysterious pillar of light connects the heavens and earth of the Nine Provinces.

Within the dazzling celestial pillar, a towering figure emerges from the light of time, revealing its true form within this mysterious pillar of heavenly light.

Its aura is as vigorous as a pillar, condensing into auspicious clouds about an acre above the head, with golden cups, silver lamps, command arrows, and law flags hanging on it; its Daoist charm is as vast as a wheel, swirling and swirling three inches behind the head, transforming into azure, gold, and purple three layers of mysterious light to condense pure Yang merit.

Those with auspicious clouds above their heads and a Dao wheel suspended in their brains are considered to be of pure Yang.

The three flowers gather to form the five elements, transcending the three realms and not bound by the five elements. They endure countless eons without decay, aging and dying, existing even when heaven and earth perish.

In the realm of gods, he is bestowed with the title of Golden Purple, and is the Emperor of a realm; in Buddhism, he is worshipped as the Arhat or Bodhisattva; in Taoism, he is called Taiyi, the origin of all things, the Way of Chaos and the Way of All Directions, and is the Lord of the Way.

At this moment, the supreme being who revealed his true form within the Nine Provinces Realm was none other than: Taiyi Yuzhen Xuanfa Tongtian Kaiyuan Daojun.

In an instant, as the Kaiyuan Daojun manifested himself in the Nine Provinces, illuminating the four seas and eight directions, the remaining seven provinces of the Nine Provinces—Jun, Cang, Bian, Xuan, Hao, Zhu, and Yang—and countless living beings saw the myriad stars manifested in the bright blue sky, and saw the majestic being who commanded the bows of all immortals in the world.

Kaiyuan Daojun disdained to hide his existence. He announced his arrival in the most righteous and grand manner, proclaiming the powerful confidence of the Eastern Heaven Daoist School: the final victor of this great calamity of the Xuanmen that is sweeping across all the heavens and myriad realms will surely be the Eastern Heaven Daoist School!

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He's here in Kaiyuan!
In broad daylight, a thousand stars vie for brilliance, and ten thousand immortals bow their heads to welcome the new era.

Junzhou, Cangzhou, Bianzhou.

In the land of the three states, the Tianyu Daojun, Tianxuan Daojun, and Tianxing Daojun of the Tianyuan Holy Sect all stared indifferently at the Kaiyuan Daojun who descended from the sky, illuminating the heavens and earth.

Tianxuan Daojun said coldly, "Is he really a Kaiyuan? He is still so arrogant and conceited. He truly treats all the pure Yang realms of the heavens as nothing!"

Daoist Tianyu remained calm and said in a deep voice, "If it weren't for such a grand scale, Kaiyuan wouldn't be Kaiyuan."

"His cultivation and supernatural abilities are indeed worthy of such power."

"The profound laws connect to the heavens, upholding the Dao and ushering in the new era."

"Including the four who landed in the Nine Provinces Realm before, the Pure Yang of the Eastern Heaven Daoist School has gained an absolute advantage."

As Tianyu Daojun said, the first batch to enter the Nine Provinces Realm included Xuanjian Daojun, Xuanming Daojun, and Junming Daojun; the second batch included Yueheng Daojun, Dejing Daojun, Miaoyan Daojun, and Chixiao Daojun; the third batch included Jianglong Luohan and Chaoyin Bodhisattva; plus this batch of Five Elements Great Sage, Divine Wind Great Sage, Golden Cicada Bodhisattva, Laughing Lion Luohan, and Kaiyuan Daojun.

Within the Nine Provinces, the Eastern Heavenly Daoist School already has fourteen cultivators at the Pure Yang level.

Eight Pure Yang masters who uphold the Dao and six Pure Yang masters who have entered the Dao—such a large number of Pure Yang masters are enough to suppress several Great Thousand Worlds, yet they are all gathered in the Nine Provinces Realm at this moment.

The profound knowledge and power of the Eastern Heavenly Daoist School are truly terrifying!
However, Tianxuan Daojun was full of disdain: "Are we really weaker than the Eastern Heaven Dao Family? It's just that each family is scheming against each other and scattered throughout the Nine Provinces."

"If we concentrate our efforts now, we may not necessarily weaken the Eastern Heavenly Daoist School."

"Senior Brother Tianyu, if we cower and retreat now, our Tianyuan Holy Sect will truly be finished, and Tianjue and Tianzhi will have died in vain!"

Tianxuan Daojun's words made Tianxing Daojun nod: The power of the Eastern Heaven Dao Family is indeed strong, but are they weak?
The Nine Provinces Realm, the Hanging Pot Realm, the Huayang Realm, the Xuanhuang Realm, the Xiaoyun Realm, the Left God Realm, the Nine Chambers Realm, and the Great Wilderness Realm.
There are seven Xuanmen Dao Sects alone: ​​Qiankun Dao Sect, Huayun Dao Sect, Kongdong Dao Sect, Daoyi Palace, Yuanyang Dao Sect, Yinyang Zhengzong, and Zhenxiao Dao Sect. In addition, there are side sect holy lands in the Left Divine Realm and the Nine Chambers Realm, and three royal courts in the Great Wilderness Realm.
With so many forces united, their pure Yang power is enough to rival or even surpass that of the Eastern Heavenly Daoist School. What is there to fear?!

Upon hearing this, Daoist Tianyu sighed softly: "Contact Qian Tian and the others. This final battle is just around the corner."

Before Daoist Tianyu finished speaking, a dazzling crimson light suddenly tore through the universe in the chaotic star sea, bursting forth with an incomparably terrifying heat.

One after another, the laws of fire manifested in the heavens and earth, instantly covering the starry sky and enveloping the chaotic clouds of the entire Nine Provinces Realm. Then, endless fire descended from the sky, scorching through the void and burning the heavens and earth.

Before this Great Dao Fire, powerful enough to burn a vast world to ashes, even beings of pure Yang couldn't help but look up.

That is the magnificent power of the Great Dao that only those who have attained the Dao can possess; that is the terrifying power that erupts from the chaos of the heavens when one has mastered a Great Dao and uses it to their fullest extent.

Boundless Heavenly Fire tore apart the sky of the Nine Provinces Realm, scorched through the sea of ​​stars, and even caused the golden net that enveloped the Nine Provinces Realm to tremble.

Amidst this boundless flame, the figure of Daoist Feiyang was reflected from the long river of time.

The Dao Lord was enveloped in scorching crimson flames, with one great sun after another appearing beside him. In the blink of an eye, ten great suns hung in the air, scorching the chaotic starry sea and burning the time and space.

"Ten Suns - Fallen from the Sky!"

Feiyang Daojun's voice resonated like a great bell, and the entire Nine Provinces Realm trembled under Feiyang Daojun's pure Yang divine power.

The heavens and seas were burned to ashes, the four seas and oceans boiled, the rivers and lakes of the seven continents evaporated, the earth withered, and the starry sea dried up. In the vast天地 (heaven and earth), only the ten great suns shone through, annihilating the heavens and the earth. The ten great suns covered the sky and the earth, and even before they manifested within the Nine Provinces, they had already shaken the Nine Provinces to the point of collapse. Even if a pure Yang powerhouse of the Dao-holding realm exerted all his strength, even the Great Thousand Worlds would be shaken and shattered.

Within those ten days, the true form of Daoist Feiyang, reaching to the heavens and the earth, rose from the ground, revealing a pure Yang crimson body shrouded in Daoist marks and engraved with boundless Daoist laws.

"Red fire burns the heavens and earth, the great sun sweeps across the nine heavens."

"Chixiao, how can your insignificant Eight-Scenery Fire Technique compete with my Sunfire?!"

As Feiyang Daojun roared, ten great suns exploded, instantly turning the chaotic universe into a vast expanse of white flames.

This is the Dao of Feiyang Daojun, the Dao of Crimson Flame, the Dao of the Sun Wheel, which burns chaos, cleanses the universe, evaporates heaven and earth, and annihilates all evil.

As Feiyang Daojun unleashed his divine power, and as the vast flames swept across all directions, burning away the light and shadow of the starry sea, streams of purple heavenly fire, surging like a boundless ocean, spread out, instantly occupying half of the sky and rising up as purple fire lotuses.

In an instant, clusters of purple fire lotuses swayed, and countless Eight-Scenery Heavenly Flames soared into the sky, taking root in the space-time of time and burning amidst the chaos of the starry sea.

Amidst the clusters of dazzlingly blooming purple fire lotuses, the figure of Daoist Chixiao slowly emerged.

As the Crimson Heaven Dao Lord raised the Crimson Heaven Sword high, bundles of Eight Scenery Heavenly Flames swirled upwards, intertwining and condensing with the original Crimson Heaven Flame, transforming into vermilion and purple flames, and evolving the Dao of Crimson Heaven Fire Virtue.

"Eight-Scenery Fire Method?"

Daoist Chixiao said coldly, "My Dao is the Dao of Chixiao, the Dao of Fire!"

“Feiyang, your path is not the orthodox path of the Xuanmen, and your fire is not the grand fire of the Dao.”

"The mere changes of the sun are but the light of a firefly; how can they possibly rival the brilliance of the Great Dao's fiery virtue?!"

"Fire Virtue - Sever Karma!"

The voice of Daoist Chixiao reverberated throughout the Nine Provinces and the universe like thunder.

At this moment, all the immortals and true immortals of the Upper Three Realms in the seven states of the Nine Provinces changed color: they could see that the battle between Daoist Feiyang and Daoist Chixiao was not a cause and effect between the Eastern Heaven Daoist School and the Allied Forces of the Realms, but rather a struggle for the Great Dao between these two great Daoists who both held the Great Dao of Fire and controlled the Law of Fire!
Dao Lord Chixiao and Dao Lord Feiyang are both at the Dao-holding realm and both wield the Great Dao of Fire. The two were never on good terms, and taking advantage of the Xuanmen Great Tribulation as a stage, the two Dao-holding beings naturally had to settle their differences.

The victor will wield the Great Dao of Fire and may one day ascend to the realm of True Yang Mastery, based on the Great Dao of Fire. The loser, on the other hand, will have the power of the Great Dao of Fire seized by the victor. Even if the loser survives, he will likely be squeezed out of the Great Dao of Fire and fall from the realm of Mastery.

This is the struggle over the Dao!
The three Dao Lords of the Tianyuan Holy Sect, Tianyu Daojun, Tianxuan Daojun, and Tianxing Daojun, could tell at a glance how fierce this Dao battle was. This was a battle for the Great Dao that would not end in death, and no one knew what methods the two in the sky would use.

Therefore, the three Dao Lords acted together to cover up a corner of Junzhou, Bianzhou, and Cangzhou.

At the same time, Kaiyuan Daojun, along with the Five Elements Great Sage, Golden Cicada Bodhisattva, Divine Wind Great Sage, and Laughing Lion Arhat, respectively protected Xuan, Hao, Zhu, and Cang provinces. As for Yang province, it was subconsciously ignored by both sides.

In the central region of Cangzhou, Jiang Sheng stood beside Immortal Lord Huaguang, together with True Lord Yuanyi and other senior uncles from Penglai, gazing at the two flames raging across the heavens, distorting the chaos of time and space.

The flames surged and burned fiercely, almost incinerating the entire universe and consuming the chaotic past. The immense power of the Pure Yang Realm and the will to uphold the Dao were clearly manifested within.

Yuan Yi Zhenjun said in a deep voice, "Ling Yuan, did you see that?"

"This is the struggle for the Great Dao."

"Although both are about mastering the same Dao, the realm of holding the Dao and the realm of entering the Dao have completely different ways of wielding the power over the same Dao."

"Take the Dao of Fire as an example. Although my Xuanmen, Shendao, Yaozu, and Buddhist sects all have a grasp of the Dao of Fire, the three of them have the deepest grasp of it."

"The Chixiao Ancestor of the Chixiao Dao Sect is a master who controls the Eight Scenery Heavenly Fire."

"The Flying Sun Dao Lord of the Yuan Yang Dao Sect is also one, and he wields the Great Sun Crimson Flame."

"Besides these two, the remaining one is the Great Sage from the Southern Fire God Palace in the Zhu Ming Realm."

"That person possesses the Southern Ming Fire."

Listening to Yuan Yi Zhenjun's sigh, Jiang Sheng could understand the sense of powerlessness in Yuan Yi Zhenjun's words. After all, Yuan Yi Zhenjun was also practicing the Great Dao of Fire, and even if he ascended to the Pure Yang realm in the future, he would still have to face one of the two Dao Lords, Chi Xiao and Fei Yang.

This great path, already trodden by predecessors, is truly arduous to traverse, as difficult as ascending to heaven.
Gazing at the brilliant purple heavenly fire and crimson sun flames that illuminated the entire universe, Jiang Sheng sensed the joyful exuberance of the fire seed within his body, and involuntarily thought of his own Dao.

Are wind, thunder, water, and fire the way of oneself?

After pondering for a moment, Jiang Sheng shook his head: Wind, thunder, water, and fire are merely external paths. The method of self-cultivation is to use the four symbols to understand the three calamities and to transform the five difficulties to understand yin and yang.

The methods of the final cycle and the way of the final tribulation are the foundation of oneself; everything else is merely external appearance! (End of Chapter)