Daojun, start from Penglai foundation building

"Penglai?"

The shadow chuckled and slowly stretched out his hand.

At that moment, Jiang Sheng discovered that something seemed to have changed above the nine layers of clouds.

The flowing clouds, sky light, rainbows, even the spiritual energy between heaven and earth, and the stars lingering in the nine layers of clouds, all came to a standstill.

It was as if something invisible covered everything, cutting off all causes and effects and freezing the future of things.

Then, a group of entangled light and shadows rose from below and floated towards the ninth layer of clouds where Jiang Sheng and the black shadow were.

The light and shadow were half red and half black. The red and black were constantly entangled and eroded, but they were clearly separated, like a solidified yin and yang Tai Chi.

If you look closely, you will find that the black and red light and shadows are two figures, those of Luohou and Liyang.

However, the bodies of these two Mahayana and two half-step Pure Yang beings have been extremely distorted and connected together in a strange posture. Behind the heads of these two figures, the two Tao fruits have extinguished the brilliance that radiates the universe.

One red, one black, two Tao fruits hung quietly behind Li Yang and Luo Hou's heads, like the fish eyes embedded in the Tai Chi diagram.

The entangled light and shadow hung in front of the black shadow without any hindrance, as if time had frozen.

The black shadow chuckled: "I originally thought that they would fight to the point of bloodshed, completely destroying the three realms of mountain and sea and turning them into ruins."

"But I didn't expect that after they fought their way to the fetal membrane of heaven and earth, they would choose this method of mutual destruction."

"They have been fighting for 200,000 years since the last Yuanhui until this Yuanhui, but in the end they both fell into the Chaos Void Cave. If I hadn't taken the trouble to pull them out, they would have remained in this state for a million years, ten million years, or even longer, until the Chaos Void Cave was annihilated. They would have remained in this state forever."

"Their souls and true spirits, their true natures, were solidified the moment they fell into the Primal Chaos Void Cave. Even I can hardly make them recover."

"But it's not completely impossible."

As the black shadow spoke, he stretched out his hands and took off two Dao wheels from behind Luohou and Liyang’s heads. Those were Luohou and Liyang’s Dao fruits.

The two great masters who were at the Half-Step Pure Yang Realm had their time stopped so easily, and even their Dao Fruits were taken away. This was undoubtedly a great horror, a horror that horrified all the cultivators.

Tao fruit is the transformation of the life and nature of living beings, the union of spirit and truth. It is the great power that a cultivator has gained through hard practice. It is one with the cultivator himself and cannot be separated.

As long as the fruit of the Tao exists, the cultivator survives; when the fruit of the Tao collapses, the cultivator dies.

Even if a cultivator loses his physical body and only a trace of his true spirit remains, the Tao Fruit will still be attached to this trace of true spirit and maintain the cultivator's existence.

Tao Fruit manifests the chaotic universe. It is the chisel that living beings use to carve their own existence into the Great Dao of Chaos. It is the ferry that living beings use to cross the long river of time.

Tao fruit represents the true nature of living beings themselves and is another existence of living beings.

It can be said that Tao Fruit is the true self of a cultivator. However, now, the black shadow has taken away the true self of a cultivator.

This not only takes away the cultivator's soul, but also takes away all traces of the existence of this creature.

No matter from which angle you look at it, this is an extremely terrifying and frightening scene.

This means that the black shadow can easily take away the life and soul of others and replace their existence. To some extent, the black shadow is very similar to the devil.

The black shadow looked at the Taoist fruit in his hand, as if he was looking at two fruits just picked from a tree, so relaxed and casual.

Then, the black shadow put the two Taoist fruits in his hand into his mouth.

The Taiyin Xuanming Dao Fruit and the Taiyang Chiyan Dao Fruit were consumed by the black shadow as if they were real spiritual fruits. In a moment, an ancient and vast aura rose from the black shadow and quickly spread to the entire nine layers of the cloud.

In an instant, the ceiling danced, golden lotus emerged, and layers of glazed halos spread out from behind the black shadow. The layers of light seemed like rainbows illuminating the universe. At the same time, the black shadow's aura continued to rise.

It only took a breath to go from the initial stage of the Spiritualization to the perfection of the Yin Void and Yang Reality. Then the black shadow took a step forward, and a fragile barrier was broken. The black shadow's aura reached the Void Refining Realm. After that, every time the black shadow took a step, his aura was upgraded by one level.

Take one step and a wind disaster will occur; take two steps and a thunder disaster will strike; take three steps and a fire will start.

At the fourth step, the black shadow had already passed the three disasters, the wind dispersed, the thunder stopped, and the fire extinguished. Then three flowers appeared on the black shadow's head, lead flowers, silver flowers, and golden flowers appeared, and the power was finally integrated.

Fusion state!
This realm is difficult for ordinary creatures to reach even after thousands or tens of thousands of years of hard practice. The eighth realm among the nine realms of practice was achieved easily with just four steps of black shadow.

And this is just the beginning.

The black shadow took another step forward, and the Five Signs of Deterioration of Heaven and Man immediately descended.

Jiang Sheng watched with his own eyes as the black shadow successively went through the decline of his lifespan, the decline of his magic power, the decline of his soul, the decline of his lifespan and the decline of his heart for Taoism.

As the five difficulties were overcome, the liver, spleen, lungs and kidneys in the center of the black shadow's chest all emitted thousands of rays of light, and infinite energy gathered. The fire of the heart, the wood of the liver, the earth of the spleen, the gold of the lungs and the water of the kidneys, the five elements emerged and circulated, and then transformed into fire energy, wood energy, earth energy, gold energy and water energy.
With the Three Flowers Gathering at the Top of the Head and the Five Qis Returning to the Origin, the black shadow has successively overcome the three disasters and five difficulties, and his cultivation has reached the highest level of the Fusion Realm. The next step is the Mahayana Realm.

This step was extremely easy for Black Shadow, but he had no intention of taking that step at all.

The Taiyin Xuanming Dao Fruit and the Taiyang Chiyan Dao Fruit that were swallowed by the black shadow began to merge and combine, as if the two Dao Fruits were originally one.

The magic power of the Three Yuan Jade True Eternal Life Heyang Taiyi Jade Chapter Golden Scripture continuously circulated in the black shadow's body. The Taiyin Dao Fruit and the Taiyang Dao Fruit were connected by the mysterious spirituality in the black shadow's body, tightly combined into one, and transformed into a half-yin and half-yang life fruit.

"Neither the Taiyin Xuanming Dao Fruit nor the Taiyang Chiyan Dao Fruit are complete Dao Fruits."

"When they began to sublimate from the complete Mahayana Dao Fruit to the Pure Yang, they had already begun to transform from complete to flawless and immortal. And when they transformed, they were neither complete nor flawless."

"These two incomplete Dao fruits, two Dao fruits of half-step pure yang, are the limits of Luohou and Liyang. Even if they defeat each other, they cannot take on each other's karma and swallow each other's cultivation and Dao fruits."

“But I am different, because whether it is the Yongming Xuanming Senluo Guishen Yinjing or the Yuji Ruiming Heyang Tianyi Zhenjing, they were all given to them by me. They practice my skills and are following my path. They are connected to me causally and they walk behind me.”

As the black shadow spoke slowly, a Dao fruit of yin and yang appeared behind his head. A layer of chaotic color slowly spread out and gradually decomposed into three Dao wheels.

This means that the black shadow is moving towards Chunyang.

"They practice my Dharma, they follow my path, they are my shadows, including Shenshun."

"So, their Dao Fruits are nothing more than what I left with them."

The shadow murmured, taking a slight step forward.

For a moment, it seemed as if invisible shackles were shattered and endless causes and effects were broken.

The sky and earth were dark yellow and chaotic. The black shadow broke free from all existence. He became invisible and intangible. He was everywhere. He had jumped out of the Three Realms and was no longer within the Five Elements.

Pure Yang, it was easy for Black Shadow to do that.

However, at the moment when the black shadow broke through the Pure Yang realm, Jiang Sheng also moved.

The black shadow watched the talisman that had no taboos disappear in Jiang Sheng's hand, and then the black shadow suddenly realized that he and Jiang Sheng appeared in another world.

It is not a certain world, nor is it a chaotic universe.
This is a bizarre place covered by countless mottled lights, surrounded by a vast starry sky. The twisted galaxy seems like rings interweaving around it, and there are spots of light and shadows flickering and flowing, like countless living beings.

Between the rings of light and shadow, an invisible and unpredictable river flows through the past and the future, washing away the chaotic universe and all things.

The shadow's expression suddenly turned gloomy.

"The Long River of Time." (End of this chapter)