I am Jiang Ming, the Eternal Demon Emperor

Chapter 875 The Struggle for the Emperor's Path
And just like that, half a year passed quickly.

During this time, Jiang Ming lived on Three Immortals Island, where he cultivated his mind and spirit, played the zither, painted, played chess, and wrote calligraphy. Of course, spiritual practice was also something he enjoyed doing every day.

During this process, Yunxiao would heal his wounds once every seven days.

Yunxiao was serious. She used her own essence to help Jiang Ming nourish himself. However, in the process, inevitably, she was transformed by Jiang Ming into a healing method similar to dual cultivation.

In this process, the two need to merge their breaths, have no ill intentions towards each other, and be in perfect harmony. This is a dual cultivation method that combines the spiritual path with the fusion of one's own original breath.

The benefit of this method, created by both of them, is that Jiang Ming's injuries healed quickly. If Jiang Ming hadn't preferred this method and deliberately refused to heal on his own, he would have recovered completely long ago.

It was rare for Yunxiao to be willing to help him cultivate in this way, so Jiang Ming naturally cherished this opportunity, even if it wasn't true dual cultivation in the traditional sense. The two of them still cultivated.

During this process, Yunxiao did not come away empty-handed. She actually seized the opportunity to become a saint, which she obtained from Jiang Ming. It seemed that Jiang Ming could help her break through to the saint realm.

Currently, neither the power of merit nor the power of the Heavenly Dao allows for the emergence of more saints. However, there is another type of saint who, if powerful enough, can enter the Chaos and forcibly break through the Dao.

Yunxiao has this feeling right now; her opportunity to break through to the next level has arrived.

And at the same time.

Yunxiao was magnanimous; having gained this opportunity, she naturally wanted to help her two younger sisters. She suggested to Jiang Ming that her two sisters also cooperate with him in healing his injuries, to see if they would experience any unexpected surprises.

Although both women severed their good corpses and achieved the quasi-saint realm, the method of severing the three corpses is not without its flaws. If one's Dao heart is incomplete, the severed three corpses may not be in harmony with one's true self.

For example, Jiang Ming's previous incarnation was the Buddha Wutian. He failed in his first incarnation, and Jiang Ming's analysis was that he was tricked by his own benevolent self.

Especially the time when Sun Wukong was thrown into the alchemy furnace, if Wutian had not been influenced by the benevolent corpse and had personally watched over Sun Wukong, in the end, Sun Wukong would have been refined into a boneless relic and completely died.

At that time, Wutian will naturally gain another thirty-three years of heaven and earth's fortune. He will become the ruler of the Three Realms.

But the Buddha may never return.

After the two women killed the benevolent corpse, their conditions became unstable.

As for Zhao Gongming, during this time on the Three Immortals Island, he occasionally taught Nezha cultivation along with the Three Immortals.

Later, Lei Zhenzi and Yang Jian also came to the Three Immortals Island.

They were all Jiang Ming's disciples, sent here by Jiang Ming's clone.

Let the three of them cultivate together.

If Sun Wukong weren't yet of the age to be born, Jiang Ming would have wanted him to be born sooner.
However, Sun Wukong has some connection with the goddess Nuwa, and Jiang Ming is worried that touching him would attract Nuwa's direct attention.

Now that Nezha has been accepted as a disciple by Zhao Gongming, it has already attracted the attention of the Goddess Nuwa. Fortunately, at this time, Nuwa is unaware of the outcome of the Great Tribulation, and she will not concern herself with whether Nezha joins the Jie Sect or the Chan Sect.

The arrival of Yang Jian and Lei Zhenzi stunned the Three Immortals and Zhao Gongming.

Lei Zhenzi is alright. He was once the first wisp of innate lightning. After the innate beings perished, his true spirit was reincarnated. When he was reincarnated, there were extraordinary phenomena in the world. It was raining heavily. His birth scene was accompanied by thunder that "shaked the mountains and rivers" and the mysterious crying of an infant next to an ancient tomb.

Nezha's background is even more surprising; he is actually the son of Yao Ji, the Jade Emperor's sister.

Moreover, he has already lost his family and all his possessions, which appears to have been caused by direct intervention from the Jade Emperor.

At least, that's what Yang Jian thought.

His earthly father and brother both died under the Jade Emperor's orders. However, in this world, someone schemed against Yao Ji. Yao Ji did not marry willingly; her original memories were clouded, and she believed herself to be a mortal. Confused, she married Yang Tianyou and had three children.

If Yang Chan hadn't been taken in as a disciple by Nuwa, Jiang Ming would have brought her directly to the Three Immortal Islands.

When the Jade Emperor learned of this, he was furious and took his anger out on the others. Fortunately, at the critical moment, Yao Ji's memories were awakened, and she saved Yang Jian and Yang Chan.

However, someone deliberately allowed Yao Ji to break the Heavenly Laws. At this time, the Heavenly Court was in dire need of rebuilding, and the Heavenly Laws had just been established. As a result, someone deliberately made the Jade Emperor's only sister break the Heavenly Laws.

Such scheming is undeniably ruthless. It's an attempt to force the Jade Emperor to choose between the Heavenly Laws and his sister.

The Jade Emperor represents a portion of the Heavenly Dao's authority and order. Once the Heavenly Laws are violated, it triggers the Heavenly Dao, and he transforms into an emotionless force of order, wielding a butcher's knife and showing no mercy to his own family.

Fortunately, Yao Ji was eventually taken to Zixiao Palace by Hongjun and imprisoned, which can be considered a way of saving her.

After all, the Jade Emperor and the Queen Mother were originally a boy and a girl who came from the Zixiao Palace. This was part of the scheme of Hongjun Daozu.

Everyone expressed sympathy for Yang Jian's turbulent life and didn't say anything, after all, he was Jiang Ming's disciple.

Two more years passed after Jiang Ming began cultivating with the Three Immortals of Sanxiao.

Jiang Ming broke through directly.

He stepped into the Quasi-Saint realm on the Emperor's Path, and also severed his Three Corpses.

Yunxiao witnessed Jiang Ming's unique three corpses. He chose to slay the evil corpse, but the evil corpse he slew down was no different from the original in terms of personality, temperament, and other aspects.

Jiang Ming also had to disguise his evil corpse slightly, because he had once used a combination of Buddhist, Taoist and demonic methods to sever the three corpses.

I understood long ago that he had severed his three corpses, and the three corpses were very strange.

This time, the severing of the three corpses once again proved Jiang Ming's idea.

However, after Jiang Ming completed his breakthrough to Quasi-Saint, in the darkness, the Jade Emperor in the Lingxiao Palace opened his eyes.

He had sensed long ago that another being cultivating the Emperor's Path had appeared in the world. His Emperor's Path was bestowed by the Heavenly Dao, akin to an initiation; he possessed quasi-saint level laws, though his actual combat strength was quite ordinary.

And now, that feeling is even more pronounced.

This is a struggle for the Great Dao. In the darkness, his feeling about this great calamity was that no matter how others fought, the rise of the Heavenly Court was inevitable, and he was already sitting firmly on the fishing platform.

However, he now felt a sense of unease, as if someone were about to take half of his power away. This feeling was excruciating, like having his flesh cut out or his heart ripped out.

What happened? Could something have gone wrong during this tribulation, affecting him as well?

The Jade Emperor was furious about the scheme that his younger sister, Yao Ji, had been plotted against. He didn't know who was responsible, but he was certain it was at least the work of a sage.

Ordinary quasi-saints do not have such methods, so they can remain silent and deceive everyone without him noticing.

Haotian also knew that his crying at Zixiao Palace had ignited the fuse for the Great Tribulation.

The Investiture of the Gods is essentially a list of vacancies; to fill them, the souls or spirits of fallen deities must enter. Every name represents bloodshed.

Because a bloodless entry method has too little binding force, and no one is willing to voluntarily join the mess that is the Heavenly Court.

(End of this chapter)