Simultaneous travel: I am proving the great way in the heavens.

Chapter 560 Breakthrough to Great Luo Golden Immortal! I, Luo Fu, am the protagonist of this era! Favored by the revival of the Heavenly Dao!
The One-Horned Rhinoceros King was not stupid. In fact, among the eighty-one tribulations the westward journey team faced, the One-Horned Rhinoceros King's wisdom was among the top tier.

Seeing that his attack was so easily countered by the yin and yang energies that circulated and died around Luo Fu, he realized that his attack was actually being suppressed by them.

Knowing exactly what the goal of his mission was, the Unicorn King was not discouraged at all.

It manifested a three-headed, six-armed form and relentlessly attacked Luofu once more.

This time, he was much smarter, and in a flash, he created thirty-six clones.

Each clone wielded an electric steel spear, and not only that, but also possessed many magical treasures and supernatural powers that should not have appeared in this calamity.

Thirty-six incarnations, each employing their own methods.

Even Sun Wukong, who was standing to the side, was dumbfounded.

Although Sun Wukong was proud of his rampage in the Heavenly Palace more than 500 years ago, the many opponents he encountered on his journey to the West had long since shattered his arrogance.

Even so, he never expected that one of Laozi's mounts would display such astonishing abilities.

Sun Wukong fought against the One-Horned Rhinoceros King and even suffered losses several times.

Based solely on magical combat skills, Sun Wukong boasted that he and the One-Horned Rhinoceros King were evenly matched. However, once the One-Horned Rhinoceros King revealed his Vajra Bracelet, he could only obediently retreat.

But now, Sun Wukong realizes that even without the Vajra Bracelet, he might not be a match for the ever-changing and unpredictable One-Horned Rhinoceros King.

At least before, Sun Wukong had suffered countless losses, but he had only been hurt by the Vajra Bracelet. However, the One-Horned Rhinoceros King had never shown such comprehensive abilities before.

Among the techniques displayed by the thirty-six avatars, those that Sun Wukong could recognize at a glance included the ability to control size, master the Five Thunders, bloom flowers in an instant, push mountains and fill seas, subdue dragons and tigers, and escape by flying... and many other supernatural powers of the Thirty-Six Heavenly Divine Arts. There were also techniques from the Seventy-Two Earthly Fiend Arts, such as carrying mountains, controlling the wind, attaching a staff, walking on earth, and great strength.

It can be said that the profound heritage of the Green Ox with its horns, the mount of Laozi, the founder of Taoism, is absolutely incomparable to that of Sun Wukong, a mere monkey who became an immortal in just three years.

Although Sun Wukong was powerful, his methods were limited to only three basic moves.

The Unicorn King, however, possessed countless enviable and coveted inheritances.

Sun Wukong had seen these methods of inheritance to some extent. Things were different now. After being suppressed under the Five Fingers Mountain for more than 500 years, he was no longer the unruly Great Sage Equal to Heaven he once was.

It was precisely because he had broadened his horizons and realized his own limitations that he understood more clearly that when the Unicorn King fought him before, he didn't need the Vajra Bracelet's dimensional reduction attack at all. The Thirty-Six Heavenly Divine Techniques and Seventy-Two Earthly Fiend Techniques alone were enough to subdue him.

At this moment, in the contest between the Unicorn King and Luo Fu, putting aside everything else, just look at the methods displayed by the Unicorn King.

Even if the Journey to the West tribulation was an opportunity for the flourishing of Buddhism, no one would dare to underestimate Taoism.

The Taoist sect truly lives up to its reputation as the orthodox school of Taoism, and Laozi truly deserves the title of the Taoist ancestor.

Actually, the title of Laozi, the founder of Taoism, is not the same as that of Hongjun, who merged with Tao.

In the Three Realms, those who truly pioneered a path can be called Dao Ancestors. For example, the Buddha Tathagata, the ancestor of earth immortals Zhen Yuanzi, the ancestor of scattered immortals Donghua Dijun, and even the disciple of Taishang Laojun, Lü Dongbin Lü Chunyang, is also known as the ancestor of sword immortals.

The reason why Laozi is called the ancestor of Taoism is, to be precise, that he is the ancestor of alchemy.

This alchemy is not simply about Laozi being skilled in alchemy; it includes external alchemy, internal alchemy, and other orthodox Taoist practices.

As the leader of the Human Cult, Laozi had already spread the Golden Elixir Dao among the human race during the Great Tribulation of the Witch and Demon.

His title of Daoist Ancestor also comes from this.

As times changed and humanity became the dominant force in the world, Laozi, the ancestor of the Golden Elixir Dao, also became the Dao Ancestor.

Perhaps Sun Wukong never truly suffered an overwhelming defeat at the hands of Laozi.

This fueled his inner arrogance, causing him to subconsciously underestimate the seemingly kind and gentle Laozi.

But now, the sheer power displayed by his mount, the One-Horned Rhinoceros King, has made Sun Wukong truly feel the unfathomable depth of Taoism.

Luofu's Yin-Yang mirror image not only defended itself but also countered many of the attacks from the Unicorn King.

However, after the Unicorn King displayed his thirty-six incarnations, the Yin and Yang energies, which were only used in a rudimentary way, naturally failed to defend against the situation in time.

This also forced Luo Fu to reveal more of his trump cards.

The innate Qi and spiritual path of the Otherworld; the Five Elements Yin and Yang and energy methods of the Ninja World; the flesh and blood physique of the Demon World; the Yin spirits and souls of the Death God World; including the radiation martial arts of Joy of Life, and even the cluster concept of the Super God Universe.

As their cards are gradually revealed.

A stream of merit bestowed by Heaven began to fall continuously from the sky, converging towards Luofu.

The Dao presented in Luofu is like giving the Heavenly Dao more possibilities. Even if it cannot change the Heavenly Dao's inevitable entropy increase, which is like the heat death of the universe, these increased possibilities are enough to prolong the existence of the Three Realms for a longer period of time. If, under normal circumstances, the Heavenly Dao's general trend is a process of growth, strengthening, prosperity, decline, and extinction from the beginning of the creation of heaven and earth, then the appearance of these Daos and principles in Luofu, which are different from those in the Three Realms, is like reversing the general trend in the process of decline, adding a process of revival.

The merits of Heaven are a favor and reward bestowed upon those who promote the great trend of Heaven. Undoubtedly, the Dao and principles brought by Luofu will bring about the revival of Heaven and will surely reap unimaginable merits from Heaven.

In the eyes of the great beings of the Three Realms.

At this moment, Luo Fu was fighting against the Unicorn King. With the arrival of Heavenly Dao Merit, his cultivation level began to rise rapidly, at an unbelievable speed.

The Taiyi Golden Immortal realm reached its peak in just a few breaths, and then broke through it instantly, stepping into the Daluo Golden Immortal realm as if there were no bottlenecks at all.

In the current Three Realms, with no saints appearing, the Great Luo Golden Immortals are undoubtedly the beings standing at the very top of the pyramid of power.

Only a handful of beings can surpass even the Great Luo Golden Immortal. These include the Styx Ancestor of the Netherworld Blood Sea, the Buddha of the Western Paradise, and the Jade Emperor of Heaven.

It's as if they are making an equivalent exchange with the Way of Heaven.

As more and more principles and truths are revealed in Luofu, the merits bestowed by Heaven also rise accordingly.

In a short period of time, Luo Fu's cultivation not only broke through the upper limit of Taiyi Golden Immortal, directly reaching the level of Daluo Golden Immortal, but also continued to improve due to the increase in merit. This is quite frightening.

In the Three Realms, merit is actually seen as a bug-like existence.

This is a special concept that even the Dao Ancestor Hongjun, who merged with the Dao, could not grasp.

Yes.

In Luo Fu's view, the merits of Heaven's Way cannot even be considered a kind of power, but should be regarded as a concept similar to the World GM.

With sufficient blessings from Heavenly Dao, all aspects of a cultivator's cultivation level, realm, and magical power, as well as the power of magical treasures, can be improved without any side effects.

Sufficient merit is enough to transform a magical artifact crafted later into one that can kill without incurring karmic consequences.

Like the Vajra Bracelet in the hand of that green ox with its horns.

Although the magical treasures of the Three Realms can be either innate or acquired, the merit-based magical treasure is an exception.

Whether acquired or innate, as long as one accumulates enough merit, an acquired treasure can even unleash profound wonders comparable to those of an innate treasure.

Even more incredible is that merit has no side effects on the improvement of a cultivator's essence. Even the saint Nuwa in the past was transformed into a saint by the merit of creating humans.

At the same time, Nuwa is the only saint among all saints who did not cultivate to the quasi-saint stage, but directly attained the Primordial Chaos Realm from the Great Luo Golden Immortal.

Back then, Hongjun Dao was able to preach the Great Dao in Zixiao Palace, which led to the great prosperity of the Xuanmen sect. This established a system that no one in the Three Realms could escape from.

The system of refining essence into qi, refining qi into spirit, refining spirit into emptiness, and refining emptiness into the Dao is recognized by all three realms.

As for the specific realms, such as Xuanxian, Immortal Golden Immortal, Taiyi Golden Immortal, and Daluo Golden Immortal, these are merely a dual-track system within the entire system, or a more refined way of classifying the orthodox Xuanmen sect.

The so-called Quasi-Saint Realm, Quasi-Sect Leader Realm, etc., do not actually exist. They are special praises for cultivators who have surpassed the Great Luo Golden Immortal but have not yet attained the Primordial Saint Realm.

The Quasi-Saint realm itself is the process of progressing from the Great Luo Golden Immortal to the Primordial Saint who attained enlightenment through the Three Corpses system of Dao Ancestor Hongjun.

Whether one severs one corpse, two corpses, or three corpses, unless one achieves the unity of the three corpses and attains the Dao of Hunyuan, one is considered a Quasi-Saint, but at the same time, one is also a Great Luo Golden Immortal.

It can be said that, unless Luo Fu undergoes the process of severing his corpse or becomes a Primordial Saint in one step, no matter how much Heavenly Dao favors him or how much merit he accumulates, his realm will always remain at the level of a Great Luo Golden Immortal.

The Great Luo Golden Immortal is the ultimate goal of the cultivation system in the Three Realms.

The attainment of the Primordial Saint is equivalent to establishing a separate lineage within the orthodox Xuanmen sect and reaching its pinnacle. All those who claim to be revered as ancestors fall into this category. This includes the Styx Ancestor, the World Honored One Tathagata Buddha, and even Lü Chunyang, the ancestor of sword immortals and a disciple of the Taiqing Saint, who has also found his own path. However, none of these beings below the Saint level have truly brought their own path to its ultimate limit.

Luo Fu, at the level of a Great Luo Golden Immortal, has in fact already reached the true pinnacle of the current world.

But Luofu shares the Dao and principles of fifteen different worlds, so how could it be so simple to fully integrate with the Dao of Heaven?
Seeing that Luofu seemed to have no end, constantly displaying various Daos and principles that were completely different from the Dao of the Three Realms, even Laozi could no longer sit still.

After all, the one-horned rhinoceros king who is now fighting Luofu is his mount, the blue ox with flat horns.

More importantly, the green ox with the horn is also holding Laozi's Vajra Bracelet.

Given the seemingly endless Tao and principles of Luofu, who knows if the merit bestowed by Heaven might lead him to steal even his own Vajra Bracelet?

Laozi's purpose was not truly selfless to the point of making a huge sacrifice for the sake of testing Luofu by the powerful beings of the Three Realms.

Laozi quickly made a clandestine deal with the Buddha, which went unnoticed.

The principles and truths that Luofu has demonstrated so far are sufficient.

Continuing further would be counterproductive and might even shake the balance of the Heavenly Way, allowing Luofu to usurp the throne and replace the Journey to the West as the protagonist of the current era.

This is something that neither Taoism nor Buddhism can accept. They have planned countless schemes for the Journey to the West.

If Luofu were to truly take center stage and become the protagonist of the present moment, wouldn't that mean the great calamity of Journey to the West would be extended into the future? That would also mean the great flourishing of Buddhism would be postponed.

Although Luofu is also a Buddhist school, and even the place where the Middle Vehicle Buddhism of the True and Wonderful Dharma Heaven was established, and the Pratyekabuddha of the Pratyekabuddha Vehicle, the Pratyekabuddha Vehicle is not within the scope of Buddhism. It belongs to the system of external transmission outside the teachings and is even more deviated from the orthodox Buddhist Dharma.

Even among the Pratyekabuddhas of the Buddhist Pratyekabuddha school and the wandering immortals of the Three Islands and Ten Continents, there is no clear division between them. At any time, they may abandon Buddhism for Taoism or Taoism for Buddhism.

It lies in the ambiguous zone between Buddhism and Taoism.

In the past, the Taoist sect and the Heavenly Court assigned scattered immortals to the Eastern Emperor of the Three Islands and Ten Continents. Among the Buddhist sects, Pratyekabuddhas were also a very small minority, and there were not even many qualified to enter the Western Paradise to listen to the Tao.

If Luofu were to suddenly become the protagonist of the world, postponing the rise of Buddhism, who knows if the altered course of the heavens would allow Luofu to leap to become the ancestor of a path that unites scattered immortals and Pratyekabuddhas?
Even if Luo Fu cannot become a saint or prove the Primordial Saint, even if he becomes an existence like the Styx Ancestor, he will still be of great importance in this era where saints do not appear, and no one will underestimate him anymore.

Neither Buddhism nor Taoism wants to see this scene.

The negotiation between Laozi and Buddha happened in the blink of an eye, without a sound.

As a disciple of the Pratyekabuddha lineage, and even considered a member of the Mahayana and Hinayana Buddhist traditions, the dragon-riding Guanyin was specifically used to restrain the Pratyekabuddha.

I've been waiting for this for a long time.

Upon receiving the secret message from the Buddha, the dragon-riding Guanyin's beast-like mount roared, and then Guanyin herself declared, "Disciple will lend a helping hand to the reclining Buddha."

The moment the words left her lips, Guanyin riding a dragon immediately opened the golden gourd in her hand.

One after another, golden pills flew out of the gourd.

In an instant, it drifted away in the wind, turning into fine, powdery golden sand that blotted out the sky, like smoke and mist, spreading and scattering, and in just a moment, it enveloped the King of the Unicorn.

In the battle with Luo Fu, although the Unicorn King did expose Luo Fu's trump card, he himself was also in a bad way.

(End of this chapter)