Daojun, start from Penglai foundation building

His appearance was exceptionally handsome, and his bearing was dignified and elegant.
Wearing a green crown and jade pendant, dressed in a lotus robe that gleams with a dark light.

In this attire, in this appearance, there is only one person like him in all the heavens.

The Heavenly Ruler of the Three Realms, the Mysterious Gate of Penglai Spiritual Abyss.

Although he had seen his appearance through some projected clips before, the strange man still felt a chill when the real person appeared in front of him: the entire space between reality and illusion was clearly within his own laws, and everything was clearly within his perception, yet Jiang Sheng just appeared so abruptly.

Without any warning, he appeared between the real and the unreal, and his flesh sprouts and vine eyes that covered the real and the unreal showed no warning, as if Jiang Sheng had just grown out of nowhere!
This means that the strange man is very clear that Jiang Sheng has not only surpassed him in both the level of divine perception and magical abilities, but has also suppressed him at the level of laws. As a result, even though this place between reality and illusion is his dojo, he has opened up his authority to Jiang Sheng.

He had clearly corrupted the laws between reality and illusion, and he had clearly corrupted this world, yet he was completely unaware of Jiang Sheng's arrival, and the laws and the Great Dao gave him no warning!
Divine perception, magical abilities, and the laws of the Great Dao—this is a comprehensive transcendence and suppression!
Gazing at the figure of a Taoist priest, no more than seven feet tall, thirty million miles away, the strange man couldn't help but hesitate.

"What are you afraid of?! You are 30 million miles apart. If you dare to make a move, he will at most kill you to vent his anger."

"That's right, no matter how powerful Ling Yuan is, he couldn't possibly kill you while protecting three others!"

"Go! Kill him, and you will be the leader of the Xuanmen!"

"What are you going to do? Run! We can't win!"

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A cacophony of noises rang in his ears, making the strange man feel an urge to gouge out his own ears!
No, my ears have been poked deaf long ago, but I can still hear that noisy sound. How is that possible?

The strange man thought hard for a moment and finally remembered: these voices were all his own voices, no wonder they were so familiar!
This isn't someone making noise in my ear; it's the self within my own Dao heart and sea of ​​consciousness arguing!

Since obtaining the supreme and wondrous method and cultivating the Yin-Yang Five Profound Scripture, I have multiplied. This is not a bad thing, after all, if one version of myself dies, many more will be reborn.
Shaking his head, the countless selves within his mind and consciousness finally reached a consensus: Run!
He is no match for Penglai Lingyuan right now, but given more time, he will surely be able to defeat him!

As all thoughts converged, the strange man began to slowly retreat, one step, two steps, three steps. Seeing that Jiang Sheng remained motionless, the strange man simply turned into a cloud of mist and disappeared without a trace.

Only then did Ye Wenshu and the other two react. Shen Yao, realizing what was happening, looked behind him, but saw nothing. The space between reality and illusion was empty, without any trace.
"I've already let those three go, why won't you let me go?!"

Within the void passage, the strange figure fluttered like a butterfly, deftly dodging the surging void currents and the occasional leaks of distorted spacetime, while simultaneously hurling beams of filthy light backward.

The filthy light, filled with corrosive and twisting power, fell into the void passage, corroding the turbulent void into a scarlet storm. The chaotic spacetime twisted and fell out of control. However, no matter how the filthy light filled the void passage, a figure always followed behind the strange man, like a shadow, unable to break free.

The strange man turned his head to look behind him, and saw that the figure in the blue crown and black robe was not fast or slow, but was five million miles away from him. The corroded void storm was shattered by the sword energy when it got within a million miles, and the distorted spacetime power was cleansed by the clear light before it could spread.

Jiang Sheng himself, however, never made a move, simply following the strange man as if he were chasing him to the ends of the earth.

"Penglai Lingyuan! Don't push your luck!"

"I could have turned those three into my servants before you made your move. I only spared them because of you. If you continue to be so aggressive, I can still influence the Hundred Fruit Realm with a single thought and kill them just the same!"

Faced with the blustering but cowardly man, Jiang Sheng remained calm: "Then give it a try."

Upon hearing this, the strange man finally couldn't hold back any longer. He suddenly turned around, tore off a piece of still-pulsating flesh from his own body, threw it out, and then turned and ran!

Jiang Sheng was about to give chase when he saw the piece of flesh torn off by the monster instantly swell and transform into the monster's appearance.

The strange creature, derived from the flesh and blood of the original, possessed the same aura, magical power fluctuations, and cultivation level as its original.

"A flesh and blood clone?"

"A puppet body?"

Jiang Sheng looked at the strange human clone derived from flesh and blood with a hint of surprise and a sense of inquiry.

The flesh and blood clone grinned maliciously and drew a filthy bone sword covered in flesh and blood, resembling a spine and filled with filth from its sleeve. It then slashed at Jiang Sheng.

In an instant, the corrupt and filthy sword light tore open the void passage, and surging chaotic lightning and fire began to rage. The distorted spacetime power, nourished by chaos, began to grow wildly and spread within the broken void passage.

And that filthy sword light slashed straight toward Jiang Sheng.

"You want me dead?"

"Then you can forget about living!"

The maniacal laughter grew closer and closer. The flesh and blood clone unleashed a series of filthy bone sword strikes, the filthy sword lights sweeping across the sky. Behind the impenetrable sword lights, the flesh and blood clone instantly traversed five million miles to reach Jiang Sheng, ready to self-destruct!
"Impossible."

Jiang Sheng's voice remained calm and composed. Neither the filthy sword light that could tear the heavens and earth apart and kill a fused cultivator, nor the self-destruction that could make a Five Tribulation True Monarch tremble, could move Jiang Sheng in the slightest.

Before he finished speaking, a sword flashed from Jiang Sheng's sleeve.

Four sword lights of different colors, blue, purple, red, and black, swept from Jiang Sheng's sleeve and split into four streaks of light, flying in all directions. The blue sword light instantly traversed thirty million miles and landed in front of the strange man, nailing down the void passage. The purple sword shadow landed behind Jiang Sheng, sealing off space and time. Then, the red and black sword lights fell to the left and right, severing the past and present, cutting off the flow of fate and cause and effect. A sword formation that sealed off the universe and time and cut off the flow of time was suddenly formed!

The moment the sword formation took shape, the flesh and blood clone that rushed in front of Jiang Sheng and tried to self-destruct felt the flow of time around it slowing down. Even though it was getting closer to Jiang Sheng, it was getting further and further away from him. Unbeknownst to it, the stagnant power of time and space froze it in the sword formation, turning it into a piece of amber of time.

The monster himself was trapped in the sword formation, his path blocked by the magnificent Zhuxian sword energy.

"I've come all this way in person. If I let you leave now, wouldn't that be embarrassing for me?"

Jiang Sheng's calm and composed voice reached his ears. The strange man turned his head to look, but Jiang Sheng had already disappeared. All he could see was a surging aura of calamity.

The aura of calamity was so intense that it blotted out the sky and covered the entire sword formation.

As the aura of calamity spread, the cyan magic sword was surrounded by fierce winds; the purple magic sword was crackling with purple lightning; the crimson magic sword was wrapped in scorching red flames; and the black magic sword shimmered with surging black water.
Four swords stand upright, forming a sword formation. The flow of fortune and karma is isolated outside the sword formation, while time and space within the formation are frozen, and no trace of chaotic primordial energy is visible, making it impossible to distinguish left from right and east from west.
The strange man gazed at the malevolent sword formation that encompassed the four elements of Yin and Yang, the three calamities and five tribulations. He watched as the surging power of the final calamity and the end of the world bound him like shackles, enveloping his mind. Unconsciously, the clamor in the strange man's mind subsided, as if it had been completely suppressed by the calamity energy.

Suddenly, a pair of azure-gold pupils appeared amidst the surging, boundless calamity, carrying the power of immeasurable disaster. They seemed to be able to see through time and space, past and future, and to sever all cause and effect, fate and destiny, and to slay evil spirits and demons.

Jiang Sheng cast his gaze from outside the sword formation: "Now that things have come to this, how about answering me a question?"

Where did you get this power from?

The strange man grinned upon hearing this: "You want my profound Dao techniques? Then guess!"

"Hahahaha! Hahahahaha!"

Jiang Sheng shook his head as he looked at the strange man laughing maniacally.

The next moment, the four swords of annihilation and annihilation hummed, and their sword energy clashed and slashed down!
Meanwhile, outside the realm of fruits.

A 100,000-mile-long Cave God-level magic ship stood silently outside the membrane of the Hundred Fruit Realm, like a giant whale in the starry sea; and to the left and right of the Cave God-level magic ship, a group of 10,000-mile-long Horizontal Void-level ships spread out like a shark swarm, protecting the main ship.

Ling Yu, the senior sister of the Ling generation from Penglai in the Eastern Heaven, was standing on the deck looking down at the Hundred Fruit Realm. The interior of the Hundred Fruit Realm was visible to the naked eye to be a scarlet color, with traces of corrosion and filth everywhere. The filthy power of the Great Dao was constantly eroding the last remaining source of the Hundred Fruit Realm, so that this world would fall into the depths of chaos.

"Senior sister, aren't we going to take action yet?"

Ling Xuan watched as the last remaining pure land of the Hundred Fruit Realm was gradually eroded, and he couldn't help but feel anxious. Although the Hundred Fruit Realm was a subordinate of the True Cloud Dao Sect, he had no prejudice against any sect. Especially when the Hundred Fruit Realm was facing corrosion and pollution, he couldn't bear to see a perfectly good world being corroded and broken like this.

Lingyu remained calm, raising her head, the purple thunder-gold hairpin in her hair trembling slightly: "It's not time yet, wait."

The word "wait" left Ling Xuan speechless. With her senior sister Ling Yu present, Ling Xuan had no right to object and could only wait anxiously.

Meanwhile, the plant spirits and humans within the Hundred Fruit Realm were struggling to resist the countless monsters surging out from between the real and the illusory. Those corrupted and distorted monsters of the laws and plant life had long lost their pure spirit. Although they still retained vitality, their exceptionally lush and chaotic vitality was so twisted that when one after another, monsters hundreds or thousands of feet tall emerged from between the real and the illusory, the Hundred Fruit Realm's remaining defenses finally could not hold on any longer.

"Senior Sister!"

Lingxuan was extremely anxious.

Lingyu remained unperturbed. She watched as the defenses of the Hundred Fruit Realm were gradually crumbled by the monsters emerging from between reality and illusion, and as the creatures of the Hundred Fruit Realm were driven to the brink of despair. Fortunately, at the critical moment, a beam of azure light shot into the sky and transformed into the shadow of a black bird.

Ye Wenshu, Xiao Gong, and Shen Yao emerged from between reality and illusion!
Seeing this, Ling Xuan breathed a sigh of relief, but was still somewhat puzzled: "Senior Sister, didn't Senior Brother Ling Yuan tell us to guard the Hundred Fruit Realm?"

Lingyu said calmly, "That was the previous mission. Our current mission is to wait here." "Wait?" Lingxuan asked, bewildered.

Lingyu stared intently at the Hundred Fruit Realm: "Yes, wait. We'll wait here until we get any news from Lingyuan."

Within the void passage, chaotic lightning and void storms raged in all directions. The originally narrow and rugged void passage was now wide and spacious, with huge sword marks that tore through the void visible everywhere.

Sword marks, some blue and some purple, crisscrossed the area, covering a radius of eighty million miles, turning this vast space into a desolate wasteland.

There was no primordial chaos, no spiritual energy, and no sense of past, present, or future; all that remained was the pervasive aura of calamity and the chilling atmosphere of impending doom.

Jiang Sheng stood with his hands behind his back, the four swords of slaying, killing, trapping, and annihilation hanging behind him. The strange man had already been beheaded, his body, soul, and life force all destroyed, leaving only his opened head hanging silently in front of Jiang Sheng.

However, the head remained empty.

Clearly, the Hundred Fruit Realm, which appears to be the most severely affected, is not the source of the corruption caused by the residual poison of Dao transformation.

However, Jiang Sheng didn't seem too disappointed. He put the head into his sleeve, then casually tore open the tattered void passage and sped towards the Hundred Fruit Realm.

Before long, on the deck of the Cave God-level magic ship, azure spiritual energy gathered, and Jiang Sheng's figure emerged from it: "How is the situation in the Hundred Fruit Realm?"

Lingyu said with a relaxed expression, "Although there was some danger, fortunately, Xuan Nu and the others held their ground."

After saying that, Lingyu asked, "How's the situation on your end?"

Jiang Sheng flicked his sleeve, and the empty head flew out of his sleeve and rolled onto the deck. Ling Yu and Ling Xuan looked over at the head, which was empty inside and only had a ring of molars left. They couldn't help but frown: This Daoist who has been corrupted by the Great Dao has lost more than just his brain. His soul and true spirit have been completely devoured!

"It's empty; there's no source of corruption in this Hundred Fruit Realm."

Hearing Jiang Sheng's words, Ling Xuan couldn't help but feel disappointed: "The situation in the Hundred Fruit Realm is so dire, yet it's not the source of corruption?!"

Jiang Sheng remained calm, showing no sign of anger: "I had actually anticipated this before I came to the Hundred Fruit Realm. I'm just here to verify my guess."

"That's why I told you not to enter the Hundred Fruit Realm for the time being."

A glint flashed in Lingyu's eyes: "Lingyuan, do you mean that the more stable a place is, the bigger the problem is?"

Jiang Sheng nodded: "That's right. Dongyang Realm and Baiguo Realm are both in extremely dangerous situations, to the point that they are out of control. Even our people are trapped, forcing us to come to these two places first."

"And these two worlds are indeed severely corrupted, looking like they are about to collapse. But it is precisely because of this that these two places are confirmed to be the pawns thrown out by the source of corruption."

"At this moment, the corruption of the world is not a big problem. After all, whether it is the Dongyang Realm or the Hundred Fruit Realm, the corruption is obvious. The omnipresent storm of corrosion and the rain of filth are as if telling you that there is a problem here."

"And those worlds without any warning are the most dangerous. All the anomalies are in the shadows, and various forms of erosion silently blend into the world. You can't see anything unusual at all. Even cultivators and living beings are unaware that they have been eroded and even corrupted into puppets. That is the most terrifying."

As he spoke, Jiang Sheng clenched the golden thread of cause and effect wrapped around his hand with his left hand hidden in his sleeve: "I personally entered both worlds and confirmed this."

"This means that the fifteen southern realms, including the Shaoyao Realm, Dongliu Realm, Haizhen Realm, Danming Realm, Nanfeng Realm, Qiling Realm, and the Hundred Fruit Realm, are merely pawns scattered by the corrupting source, intended to distract us and disrupt our thinking."

"All fifteen realms have been corrupted, each with its own source of decay. Each one is comparable to a Nascent Soul cultivator or even a Fifth Tribulation cultivator. This forces us to invest even more manpower and resources, and forces us to exhaust ourselves in each and every world."

"Using fifteen worlds and fifteen unified entities as chess pieces, this is truly the work of Chunyang. The one behind it all has a grand scheme."

After listening to Jiang Sheng's words, Ling Yu seemed to understand something: "So what you mean is..."

Jiang Sheng shook his head: "I don't mean anything. In any case, these fifteen realms cannot be allowed to run rampant. The three thousand worlds depend on the three realms. If we allow others to destroy them at will, what will become of the face of the three realms and the great world? What will become of the prestige of the Eastern Heaven or the Heavenly Court?"

"Lingxuan, immediately use the communication jade pendant on the magic boat to notify the four capitals of Chixiao, Yaochi, Qinghua, and Tianhe. Don't worry about anything else. All realms should immediately launch a full-scale counterattack. Those sources of corruption cannot stop the Fighting God Machine. Clean up the pollution in all realms as quickly as possible."

Lingyu reminded him, "Launching a counterattack in fourteen worlds at the same time will inevitably be beyond the power of the Judicial Heavenly Monarch's Palace. Moreover, the source of corruption will absolutely not sit idly by and watch your Judicial Heavenly Monarch's Palace clean up the various worlds. You will have to run around everywhere."

Jiang Sheng laughed and said, "That would be best. With all sectors launching a counterattack at the same time, I will certainly have to travel around, but the source of corruption will inevitably reveal some traces."

"I'm not afraid of him making a move, I'm afraid of him not making a move. As long as he reveals even the slightest trace, as long as he manipulates even the slightest cause and effect, I will be able to find his location and then kill him!"

As he spoke, Jiang Sheng gripped the golden thread of cause and effect tightly with his left hand. Points of golden light swirled around Jiang Sheng's left hand, weaving together a fragmented starry net. If someone familiar with the Southern Star Chart were here, they would surely recognize that the net manifested the various realms of the South, and the broken points on the starry net were the corrupted worlds such as the Eastern Flow Realm, the Southern Wind Realm, and the Peony Realm.

However, apart from these broken world nodes, there are also several flickering nodes that are teetering on the brink of collapse on this Southern Star River Net. These worlds are not on the list of fifteen worlds, and even the True Cloud Dao Sect cannot determine whether these worlds have been corrupted and polluted.

But the precarious shape of the starry net drawn by Jiang Sheng's left hand is enough to prove that these worlds, though seemingly normal, have actually been corrupted.

However, Jiang Sheng hid all of these things in his sleeves and never showed them to anyone.

Jiang Sheng casually extinguished the star map and looked at the vast sea of ​​stars in the distance of the Hundred Fruit Realm, and the worlds of varying sizes: "The mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind. He uses the various realms as bait to distract us, and I will use the various realms as bait to attract his cause and effect."

"Let's see who the qualified hunter is."

As Jiang Sheng's latest orders reached Zhu Yuzi, Su Jing, Ming Fang, and Xuan Xin, the forces deployed by the four capitals of Chi Xiao, Yao Chi, Tian He, and Qing Hua in the fourteen middle-thousand realms immediately launched a full-scale counterattack.

Jiang Sheng's initial order to everyone was to hold their ground, with the aim of drawing out the sources of corruption. Once it was confirmed through the Dongyang Realm and the Hundred Fruit Realm that these worlds did not contain the source of corruption, then everyone would not need to worry too much.

In an instant, flying Void-level magic ships from worlds such as Shaoyao Realm, Dongliu Realm, and Danming Realm ventured deep into the corrupted land.

In the Shaoyao Realm, ten Flying Void-class magic ships lined up and ventured deep into the corrupted land. Heavenly Mystery Puppets marched in formation, followed closely by Dao Soldiers, and further back were the cultivators of the Shaoyao Realm.

The cultivators followed behind the Heavenly Soldiers of the Heavenly Court, watching as the soldiers unleashed wave after wave of precious Demon-Slaying Arrows. Under the sky-covering rain of arrows, the corrupt monsters were all blasted into sieves and reduced to ashes.

The number of corrupted beings—spirits, demons, and human cultivators—was endless, surging in like a raging tide. Compared to that filthy wave of corruption, the million heavenly soldiers were but a tiny, insignificant boat, as if a single wave would wipe them out.

As the endless stream of corrupted creatures surged in, and as powerful and robust corrupted individuals emerged one after another from the filthy tide, Zhu Yuzi's disciple, the fleet commander Bai Song Zhenren, calmly ordered: "All ships, fire all cannons at once. After one volley, the Dao soldiers will cover the enemy with the Law-Breaking Arrows and Evil-Slaying Arrows. The Heavenly Mystery Puppets will slay those elite individuals."

As Master Baisong gave the order, ten Flying Void-class magic ships stretched across the sky, with their side cannons firing simultaneously. Thousands of rainbow beams shot out, piercing through the clouds and exploding on the corrupted earth. The earth trembled, and crimson flames soared into the sky. The rolling heavenly fire, along with the churning clouds, dyed the sky crimson.

With just one salvo of naval gunfire, the surging tide of filth, which was about to become a crashing torrent, was instantly halted. Tens of millions of corrupted monsters were evaporated in the salvo of naval gunfire, and those monsters that were lucky enough to survive were met with the magic-breaking arrows and evil-slaying arrows produced by the Heavenly Court's Crafts Institute.

As arrows meticulously crafted by the Heavenly Court to subdue demons and monsters, the engraved restrictions and spiritual patterns on the Magic-Breaking Arrow and the Evil-Slaying Arrow possess the power to slay evil and cleanse demonic filth. Throughout the Three Realms and the Great Thousand World, countless evil cultivators, demons, and monsters from the Four Seas and various continents have perished under the Heavenly Court's Magic-Breaking Arrow and Evil-Slaying Arrow.

The Magic-Breaking Arrow shatters magical spells and supernatural powers, while the Evil-Slaying Arrow slays evil spirits. When used together, the two are virtually invincible. At this moment, the corrupt creatures of the Shaoyao Realm tasted the most righteous attack from the Heavenly Court of the Three Realms.

The monsters that originally roamed the corrupted land were slaughtered in droves. Under the torrential rain of arrows, ordinary corrupted monsters had no chance of survival.

Even if those powerful and robust corrupted individuals withstood the rain of arrows, they were then met with the ruthless and vicious Demon-Slaying Spears of the Celestial Puppet.

Although the Heavenly Mystery Puppet is not as powerful as the Fighting Divine Machine, its three-zhang-tall stature, combined with its magical restrictions and magical weapons, allows it to kill any living being below the Void Refinement level when used in a team.

Under the command of Master Baisong, a million Dao soldiers were divided into teams of a hundred men each, equipped with demon-slaying bows and crossbows and demon-slaying spears and halberds, and dispersed to carry out their missions. The Heavenly Mystery Puppets accurately landed among the corrupted monsters to snipe the powerful corrupted individuals. Even those monsters that were as large as mountains and had bodies hundreds of feet tall and were at the Refinement of Emptiness level, Master Baisong was still fearless.

"All ships, charge your main guns and blast those mountains of flesh to pieces!"

"If you can't destroy it, then lower down the Fighting God Machine and clean up the battlefield!"

As the ten Flying Void-class magic ships slowly turned, lightning and fire light swirled around the main cannons deployed at the bow. Three breaths later, the world suddenly darkened, and only ten beams of light, each a thousand feet thick, pierced through the air, carrying the power to destroy everything as they bombarded the hesitant mountains of flesh, blasting them to shreds, but failing to completely destroy them.

Seeing this, Master Baisong decisively sent the five Battle God Machines left to him by Zhu Yuzi into the battlefield. As the Battle God Machines, which were thousands of feet tall, were clad in heavy armor and wielding spears and halberds, they crashed into the tide of corruption like meteors. Countless corrupted creatures were shattered into pieces, but the Battle God Machines paid no attention to those insignificant beings.

As the Divine Machine's Insight Array was activated, its spiritual patterns flowed through its body, and the magical restrictions burst forth with profound light. The five Fighting Divine Machines each rushed towards a mountain of flesh, and the spears and halberds in their hands slammed down heavily, smashing these mountains of flesh into a bloody mess. In just a few breaths, they collapsed with a bang.

The cultivators of the Shaoyao Realm cheered with joy and followed the Dao soldiers to clean up the battlefield.

The magic boat loomed overhead, the celestial puppets pinpointed and killed, the Taoist soldiers used their battle formation powers, and the fighting divine machine swept away all the great demons and evil spirits.

The corrupted earth trembled incessantly, the crimson storm dissipated again and again, and the tide of corruption receded again and again. (End of Chapter)