A journey of survival starting from Zhetian

Chapter 721 The Celestial Venerable Holding an Axe

There is only one question left.

How did this Xuanhuang Celestial Venerable maintain his consciousness for a long time and cultivate the Path of Dreams to the point of perfect creation when his own existence was close to "nothingness"?
Normally, a person with great supernatural powers, without the blessing of a place of near-path to the other shore, would only be able to maintain the power of the pseudo-other shore for a few hundred finger snaps at most in such a special state.

In such a short time, let alone pushing a illusory path to the pinnacle of creation, even gaining a slightly deeper understanding of a principle of heaven and earth is extremely difficult.

Without this crucial point, it would be impossible for a person with great supernatural powers to successfully imitate this "shortcut to cultivation."

Before the powerful beings who had sensed the problem could continue their deductions, the celestial being's figure, high above, reached out and waved his sleeve, causing a vast change to rise in the Six Desires Heaven.

One by one, legendary powerful beings who had entered were thrown out and repatriated to the Realm of Truth. Immediately afterwards, wisps of glass-like fragments condensed, spreading throughout the ethereal energy, extracting the laws within, and seizing the faint causality and destiny.

An invisible hand swept by, and like shards of glass, they began to coalesce. Purity vanished, etherealness disappeared, and lightness was gone. Only the real world and the surging desires remained, forming a structure completely opposite to the place close to the Tao.

An invisible hand gently flipped, bending and twisting the past, causing the entire shortcut to vaguely exude the meaning of the collapse of the universe and stars, the destruction of heaven and earth, the end of time and destiny, and the return of all things to the eternal "nothingness".

Existence and non-existence are like the ever-changing black and white of the Tai Chi symbol, intertwined, coexisting and perishing, inseparable, yet at this moment, they reveal the most extreme difference.

Suddenly, the aura of the Celestial Venerable Dao Shadow became slightly heavier. He reached out and struck directly at the black part of the Taiji diagram that symbolized "existence".

"Rumble"

The terrifying shock of the law resounded infinitely high in that instant. The darkness, which was formed by countless desires, countless worldly desires, and countless romantic desires, was instantly stripped away from this shortcut and sank into the almost boundless sea of ​​suffering.

At this moment, the Kitchen God's figure manifested in an abstract way, right within the concept of the six desires that were about to plunge into the sea of ​​suffering.

"Refining!"

The Kitchen God roared, fully activating his kitchen arts, imprinting his consciousness onto the separated, dark fragment, and using his power to create something from nothing to ignite a flame of creation, transforming it into a tangible bronze cauldron.

"crash"

The bronze cauldron plunged into the sea of ​​suffering, splashing up terrifying waves tens of thousands of feet high and raising a howling roar. This caused the expressions of hundreds of powerful beings who were watching this nearby path to change slightly. They immediately withdrew or dissipated their projections.

One of the great supernatural beings of this era, who had attained the level of creation, looked grim and muttered, "It's just a fragment of a shortcut to the sea of ​​suffering falling into the sea of ​​suffering, why has it stirred up such a terrifying wave?!"

Not far away, an ancient cultivator at the peak of the Creation Realm clapped his palm, casually wiping away the surging waves that rushed towards him, and in doing so, helped several nearby fellow cultivators of the same realm.

He explained calmly, “The Sea of ​​Bitterness is formed by the suffering of countless beings in all the heavens and myriad realms. And the fragments of the 'Six Desires,' which were just separated from the place of near-the-path by the Heavenly Venerable, are one of the sources of suffering for mortal beings.”

A powerful being with great creative abilities summarized, "This is the source of suffering, and it resonates with the manifestation of suffering."

However, the very top-tier group of powerful cultivators who had refined the near-path and possessed pseudo-other shore power frowned, puzzled, as they watched the actions of the Heavenly Venerable Dao Shadow.

If this Celestial Venerable had not distorted their perceptions and the laws of heaven and earth of all realms, then his actions just now would undoubtedly have been dismembering the Six Desires Heaven, a place close to the Dao.

Instead of occupying and refining the place of the Dao, nor handing it over to the Kitchen God to give it the power of the pseudo-other shore, it is stripped of the "six desires" and thrown into the sea of ​​suffering, where the Kitchen God ignites the fire of creation and refines it into a peerless being of creation.

The remaining six realms of desire are completely useless "empty shells".

What is the point of doing this?
The Golden Emperor stood on the Sea of ​​Bitterness, looking at the Heavenly Venerable's Dao Shadow, and muttered to himself, "Unless, what He wants is an 'empty shell' without any legal basis."

"This Celestial Venerable already possesses the basic and complete characteristics of the Other Shore Realm, but he is a weak Other Shore."

"His sole purpose in coming out of [Nanshan] must be to attain enlightenment and completely complete the leap from the realm of creation to the realm of the other shore."

"Therefore, this 'empty shell' is related to attaining enlightenment on the other side!"

The Golden Emperor continued to deduce, intending to use this brightly lit "empty shell" placed at an infinite height as a starting point to deduce the unknown that the Wood Emperor would encounter after proving the four otherworldly phenomena.

However, all the results point to the end of the era, to absolute "nothingness," a blank space.

Jin Huang was lost in thought. "Why is this happening? It's the same as all the previous predictions: a blank space where nothing exists."

The result of the deduction was a vast expanse of white, extremely empty, devoid of life, law, events, and things; it was absolute "nothingness."

Not only the Golden Emperor, but all the other powerful beings who used the pseudo-other shore power to deduce and calculate could only arrive at this result.

A being with ancient and profound supernatural powers stood within the nearby path he had occupied and refined, his expression dazed. "Based on the clues I have, I've calculated it again and again, but why is it still the same?"

"Does this mean I'm destined never to reach the other shore?"

At this moment, a resounding clang echoed throughout the entire Bitter Sea, drawing upon most of its power and converging it into one.

The bronze cauldron that the Kitchen God recently forged with the fire of creation passed through the Sea of ​​Bitterness and fell into the Realm of Truth. It floated above Mount Nan and, with the power of the Six Desires, shook the almost endless suffering within the Sea of ​​Bitterness of all the heavens and myriad worlds, integrating these abstract powers into the cauldron and making them his own.

The sound of the cauldron resounded once more, echoing within the long river of time and destiny, spreading along the past, connecting every "bronze cauldron" that exists in history into a line.

At the same time, the Kitchen God's figure also appeared on the bronze cauldron, sitting cross-legged, raising his own Taihe Cooking Clouds, activating his own kitchen arts, covering the entire bronze cauldron.

Suddenly, this newly crafted masterpiece merged with the symbol of the Great Dao of the Kitchen within the Taihe Cooking Cloud, shrinking down to the smallest detail and transforming into an incomparably hazy fruit with only a general shape.

The many powerful beings who were watching the Kitchen God's work instantly erupted in a frenzy.

"Is the Kitchen God condensing an illusory Dao fruit? Is He trying to attain the other shore of enlightenment?!"

"What's going on? Wasn't the Celestial Venerable planning to use the Six Desires Heaven, this convenient place, to do something?"

"Why is the Kitchen God suddenly going to attain enlightenment?"

"." Ordinary cultivators with great creative abilities were stunned, and even the ancient cultivators at the pinnacle of creative power were filled with disbelief.

This was truly unexpected, and even the top few of the most powerful beings with pseudo-otherworldly abilities showed astonishment.

Suddenly, a powerful being exclaimed in surprise, "Wait... I remember the enlightenment process of the Water Emperor and the Wood Emperor, it doesn't seem to be like this, does it?!"

"This is the process of attaining enlightenment on the other side of the world, what is the Kitchen God doing?"

"Is he trying to die?!"

The illusory Dao Fruit, which had begun to take shape, was pulled by the Kitchen God instead of being carried by its inherent spiritual light, which was at an infinite height, to the deepest part of the structure of all the heavens and myriad worlds. Instead, it was directly pulled into the Nanshan Mountain.

The vast and incomparable Other Shore Formation operated, directly enveloping all the heavens and myriad realms, tracing back to the very second after the creation of this era, and extending to the inevitable end of the era.

A terrifying force suddenly roared, using the "Sea of ​​Bitterness" at various historical landmarks as anchor points, distorting time and fate, forcibly binding every "Kitchen God" of the past and future, integrating them into the gradually forming illusory Dao Fruit, and collapsing them into this man-made "Site of Closer Path".

At the same time, the Taiji Diagram, which has been stabilizing the authenticity of this era in the long river of time and destiny, descended, casting down strands of black and white Dao light, spreading out a cyclical logic of flourishing, prosperity, and then decline, directly merging into the illusory Dao fruit that the Kitchen God is condensing with the Dao of the kitchen stove.

In an instant, the Kitchen God, who had cultivated the Taiji Way, the Yin-Yang Way, and the Way of Creation to perfection, responded and manifested three extremely similar diagrams, each with differences in details. At the same time, they began to shrink and move closer to the illusory Dao Fruit that was forming.

"Ong!"

As a wisp of Daoist sound rose, certain characteristics of all the heavens and myriad realms, even those of the past and future, converged wildly, forming a special symbol with regulatory, balancing, and suppressive functions.

"The characteristics of the other shore realm are basically complete."

The Kitchen God sighed softly, his expression calm.

He sensed his own extreme fragility, and the illusory Dao Fruit that could only be maintained within the near-path, actively manifested a flowing river of time, like a daydream, surrounding him.

"boom!"

The existence of the Kitchen God is like a cornerstone that stabilizes the foundation, pressing down within [Nanshan], further stabilizing the status of the [Real Realm] and balancing the order of all the heavens and myriad realms.

At the same time, the countless illusory Great Daos that originally suppressed the Realm of Truth, sorted out the laws of all the heavens and myriad worlds, and served as "half of the foundation for existence," which were projected by Xuanjun using the Dao of Dreams, began to slowly withdraw, dissipate into dreamlike bubbles, and all gathered at the infinite heights, returning to the Dao Shadow of the Heavenly Venerable.

In an instant, all the heavens and myriad realms became illusory for a moment, insignificant, and were immediately balanced by the Kitchen God's illusory Dao Fruit.

Yet the terror of all things being empty, all worlds being like dreams, and the Great Dao being like an illusion caused all those with great supernatural powers to turn pale. Even those ancient beings who occupied the closest place to the Dao and possessed the power of the pseudo-other shore, felt an indescribable fear and a joy at seeing a glimmer of hope ahead, deep in their hearts.

The Fire Emperor calmed the rising fear in his heart and murmured, "The Kitchen God cultivated an extremely fragile illusory Dao Fruit in this way, which basically possesses the complete characteristics of the Other Shore. He became a weak Other Shore that can only exist in the near-Dao realm, and replaced the 'half-piece of the foundation of existence' that the Xuanhuang Heavenly Venerable transformed with the Dao of Dreams."

"So there's another way to continue approaching the true other shore."

After only a few breaths of deduction using the power of the pseudo-Other Shore, the Fire Emperor's heart was instantly filled with bitterness. "Even with perfect creation and the power of the pseudo-Other Shore, it would be almost impossible to modify the place of the shortcut and set up such a great array at the level of the Other Shore."

"Next, we will use an array to simulate the environment for attaining the other shore of enlightenment, thereby enabling the great divine power of creation to possess a virtual Dao fruit with regional limitations. In this world, apart from this Heavenly Venerable who can artificially create a 'place close to the Dao,' there is simply no other being with such an understanding and perception of the 'Dao.'"

The other powerful beings who possessed pseudo-otherworldly abilities also shook their heads inwardly, their hearts filled with bitterness.

In a short period of time, two methods emerged that could become the weak other shore, but neither of them were replicable. There couldn't be anything worse than this.

However, they still held onto their expectations as they looked at the celestial being's figure, which seemed to embody all power.

All those with extraordinary abilities who can deduce the secrets of heaven can clearly see a ray of light from the river of time; their own destiny is about to appear!

The Celestial Venerable's figure moved, reaching into the river of time to grasp at past historical points, pulling out a chaotic banner shaped like an axe, extremely ancient and also extremely powerful.

"Why is the Pangu Banner, the divine weapon used by Yuanshi Tianzun to create heaven and earth, now in the hands of Xuanhuang Tianzun?!"

"Just now, the Kitchen God received the Wuji Apricot Yellow Banner, an unparalleled weapon from the other shore, from Him, and gained partial recognition from the Taiji Diagram of the Moral Celestial Venerable. Why is it that the Xuanhuang Celestial Venerable has a divine weapon from the other shore, and it is even the Pangu Banner of the Primordial Celestial Venerable?!"

"No, this doesn't seem like taking control; it's more like he's already refined the Pangu Banner. It feels like he's already acknowledged this Xuanhuang Heavenly Venerable as his master!"

"It is extremely difficult for us to obtain even a partial recognition from another self among the supreme treasures of the Other Shore, yet this one has already been destined to possess supreme treasures of the Other Shore from two different Celestial Venerables."

"."

Many powerful beings with extraordinary abilities looked shocked, as if they had witnessed something unbelievable.

According to their already illusory memories, Yuanshi Tianzun, Daode Tianzun, and Lingbao Tianzun were seemingly enemies and friends, but they were born from the other shore, originating from the other shore treasures of two different celestial beings. It is completely illogical that they would recognize one person at the same time.

Among those with extraordinary abilities, the Golden Emperor's pupils trembled.

He had come into contact with the projections of the [Immortal Slaughtering Sword Formation], and even tried to gain the approval of one of them in order to refine it. However, at the very beginning, the [Immortal Slaughtering Sword Formation] showed signs of disturbance, and all the projections of the [Immortal Slaughtering Sword Formation] belonging to this supreme treasure of the other shore in all the heavens and myriad realms disappeared without a trace.

He thought to himself, "Since I have already obtained two peerless treasures from the Other Shore, which is equivalent to gaining the approval of two Celestial Venerables, then obtaining another set of supreme treasures from the Other Shore and gaining the approval of another Celestial Venerable seems to make sense."

The Golden Emperor's gaze as he looked at the Heavenly Venerable's projection changed again and again.

At this moment, the Heavenly Venerable's Daoist figure, located at an infinitely high altitude, had a bright and clear halo behind his head, with strands of the intent of creation hanging down. He tightly grasped the long banner in his hand, which was surrounded by chaotic energy, and swayed it slightly, transforming it into a chaotic stone axe that was ancient and extremely heavy.

His movements were incredibly relaxed, as if this supreme treasure from the other shore was something he himself had crafted, and he understood all its mysteries.

The next moment, the Chaos Stone Axe was wielded by the Heavenly Venerable's Dao Shadow, and slashed down at the "empty shell".

(End of this chapter)