Under One Person: I Opened the Age of Mythology

Chapter 586

Beiju Luzhou, deep within the earth's veins.

The erosion of chaotic evil energy and the resentment of the cold bones, like a malignant tumor, burrowed into Nezha's nearly shattered Dharma body, attempting to completely corrupt his newly born chaotic affinity and drag him into an eternal purgatory of ice and fire.

The weakness brought on by the depletion of his immortal essence washed over his collapsing consciousness like waves.

Just as consciousness was about to completely sink into the abyss, that wisp of pure spiritual energy, which pierced through the thick rock layers and originated from the core of the Eight Trigrams Furnace in the Tushita Palace, was like a faint candle flame lit in an endless cold night. Although it was not blazing, it contained supreme Daoist charm and vitality.

The moment the pure spiritual energy touched Nezha's broken body, it burrowed into his ruptured meridians like a dragon.

It did not directly expel the chaotic evil or resentment, but rather gently enveloped, purified, and... assimilated it in a mysterious way.

Under the stimulation of this pure Dao essence, the Chaotic Affinity is like a spring bud breaking through the soil. Not only is it not polluted, but it also shines with a more resilient light, actively absorbing and transforming the chaotic essence in those corrosive forces, turning poison into nourishment.

The chaotic consciousness, originating from the impact of the mournful cries of the void, strangely returned to a profound tranquility under the soothing influence of the pure spiritual energy.

Nezha's remaining will sensed a vast and powerful will—the pulse of the earth's veins in Beiju Luzhou, which had existed for billions of years. It was heavy, desolate, and bore ancient scars, yet it also contained the power of endless life.

His fragments of Dharma body no longer resisted, but melted away like ice and snow, actively merging into the scorching and icy torrent of earth veins beneath his feet.

A point of crimson-gold light shone from where he disappeared, then expanded, condensed, and took shape—transforming into a huge, pulsating "lotus heart" that existed between reality and illusion, deeply embedded in the core node of the Luzhou landform.

It is imprinted with the Daoist symbols of Taiqing and faint chaotic light, breathing and trembling with the entire earth. This is Nezha's new form - the Earth Fire Lotus Heart.

He temporarily lost his freedom of movement, and his consciousness fell into a half-awake slumber, but he became the "core" that maintained the stability of Luzhou's earth veins, isolated the remaining evil energy, and slowly repaired the earth's wounds.

Deep within the Lingyu jade vein in the Kunlun Mountains.

The figure of Laozi transformed into a purple streak of light, tearing through the purplish-black cold mist that shrouded the mine, and instantly appeared before the Spirit Jade Mother Mine.

The sight before him shook his Dao heart: the huge spiritual jade mother mine, which was originally warm and pure and full of vitality, was now covered with spider web-like dark purple patterns, and a mass of dark purple fleshy tumor-like evil fetus had condensed in the center area!

The dense evil energy surged out from this evil embryo, transforming into visible amethyst spores that spread throughout the mine like a plague.

The celestial soldiers and miners contaminated by the spores are crystallizing at an alarming rate, their flesh and bones being replaced by cold amethyst. They are emitting low, beast-like roars and attacking all living things in a frenzied manner.

From the depths of the mine came desperate resistance and the roars of evil creatures.

"evil creature!"

Laozi's hair and beard bristled, and his angry roar was like thunder from the heavens. With a flick of his whisk, ten thousand rays of purple light burst forth, instantly clearing away the evil spores within dozens of feet around him, temporarily protecting several heavenly soldiers who had not yet fully transformed.

His eyes shone brightly, discerning the core of the evil embryo—where a speck of glazed gold dew, tainted by the cold bones, was embedded, like the most venomous heart, constantly drawing pure energy from the spirit jade vein and transforming it into filthy rhomboid evil power.

Countless tiny blasphemous runes flowed across the surface of the evil embryo, emanating a nauseatingly evil aura that shared the same origin as the Dark Star Crystal Tablet of Beiju Luzhou.

"Suppress the evil fetus at all costs!"

Sun Wukong's words echoed in Laozi's heart.

A resolute glint flashed in his eyes, and there was no longer the slightest hesitation. His right hand formed a profound hand seal, and his mouth rapidly chanted incantations. Above his head, amidst the auspicious clouds, the illusory image of the Nine-Turn Purple Gold Eight Trigrams Furnace, the primordial treasure of the Tushita Palace, suddenly appeared. The furnace spewed forth Tushita purple fire that could incinerate all things, transforming into eight purple gold divine chains. With the power to shatter the void, they fiercely coiled around the throbbing evil embryo.

"Om-!"

Sensing a deadly threat, the evil fetus throbbed violently. The blasphemous runes on its surface suddenly shone with a blinding evil light, and an even colder and more filthy backlash surged out, transforming into countless dark purple ice spikes and poisonous thorns that frantically attacked the purple-gold divine chain, attempting to freeze, corrode, and break it!
The collision of the two forces unleashed a devastating shockwave at the core of the mine, causing the hard jade ore walls to peel away and crumble like crisp biscuits.

Lao Jun's beard and eyebrows were all purple, and his Taoist robe billowed as he used his vast magical power to resist the backlash. However, his heart sank: This evil fetus was rooted in the Spirit Jade Mother Mine and had absorbed an unimaginable amount of energy. Moreover, it was protected by the blasphemous runes. Simply sealing and suppressing it would be extremely difficult to achieve any effect, let alone completely "nailing" it down!

We must find an opportunity to destroy the rune core!
Heavenly Court, Qitian Palace.

At the heart of the raging inferno, Sun Wukong's cross-legged figure resembled a reef in a stormy sea.

The excruciating pain of the golden body being burned to ashes was beyond words; it was an immeasurable terror of being torn apart by a thousand cuts and having one's soul ripped apart.

Even more terrifying was the impact of the resentment of countless beings. Countless distorted and wailing faces, and countless desperate curses, converged into a catastrophic torrent, frantically assaulting his mental defenses, attempting to drag him into the abyss of boundless karma and assimilate him into a new chaotic demonic embryo.

The Purple Flame of Douluo, which Laozi had been maintaining with all his might, along with the nascent "Heart Furnace" that the Pure Lotus had painstakingly constructed, had now reached its limit.

After the karmic fire venomous insects burrowed into the veins of the Azure Lotus, they seemed to have found the most abundant nourishment, frantically devouring and polluting the origin of the Chaos Mother Core embryo.

On the surface of the lotus platform, the crack that Laozi had repaired with the Nine Revolutions Returning to Origin Seal reappeared and showed a tendency to continue to expand. The blackish-purple pollution eroded inward along the crack, and the light of the embryo that was originally full of infinite vitality became flickering and emitted an ominous fluctuation that made people feel uneasy.

The karmic fire in the entire Qitian Palace became even more violent due to the disturbance of the Azure Lotus. The heavenly soldiers and fairies guarding outside were all pale-faced and their souls were on the verge of collapse, barely holding on with the faint glow emitted by the Azure Lotus.

Just when he was on the verge of collapse from internal and external attacks, two faint but crucial streams of consciousness, like fireflies traversing time and space, were injected into Sun Wukong's spiritual sea of ​​consciousness, which was being refined by fireflies.

One of them was the last obsession of the embers before they merged into the core of the earth fire: their longing for their homeland, their anger at the Heavenly Court's "predatory repairs," and... the coordinates of that spatial rift hidden deep beneath the crust of Luzhou, radiating an extremely cold aura and regarded as the foundation of the Dark Star remnants' nest!
The scene is clearly presented—deep in the rift, a huge, eerie, dark purple crystal stele covered with blasphemous runes, like a greedy maw, is continuously drawing out the essence of Luzhou's earth veins!
The other was the final warning conveyed by the remnant soul of the ethereal being at the moment its true spirituality was awakened: "Demon fetus...karmic aggregation...runes...medium...core..."

"what--!"

In the midst of immense pain, Sun Wukong's fiery eyes suddenly burst forth with unprecedented golden light!
The warning from the Void, the coordinates of Ash, the scene of the corrupted Green Lotus before his eyes, the outbreak of the Kunlun Evil Embryo, the bewitching of the karmic spirits of the Southern Continent... countless clues and fragments were rapidly pieced together, deduced, and understood in his mind, which had been tempered by karmic fire!
"I see!!"

A thunderous shout rang out from the core of the karmic storm!
Karmic poisons and evil influences, dark star crystals, theft of ley lines... all seemingly independent disasters are ultimately rooted in that blasphemous rune!

It is the core medium through which the chaotic demonic embryo manipulates the karma of all beings, pollutes the pure spirit core, absorbs the essence of the earth's veins, and transforms evil energy! It is like a poisonous thorn rooted in the flesh and blood of the three realms; if it is not removed, the karmic fire will not be extinguished, and the demonic embryo will exist forever!
In the instant his mind cleared, a fearless and resolute will ignited from the depths of Sun Wukong's soul, overshadowing immeasurable suffering.

He was no longer passively enduring, but actively opening up his heart, which had been turned into a furnace!

"The furnace of the heart forges the enterprise; all calamities shall return to me!"

He no longer resisted any influx of karma, resentment, or evil energy. Instead, he used the combined power of Buddhism and Taoism as a guide to draw all the heart-burning and bone-corroding "fuel" into his heart furnace!
The raging firestorm paused for a moment, as if it had found its final resting place, and began to collapse madly towards its center.

Sun Wukong's body burst forth with dazzling golden-red light from within, and countless mysterious and intricate Buddhist and Taoist patterns appeared on his body surface. The outline of a karmic fire red lotus was faintly revealed between his eyebrows.

At the same time, he clearly sensed it!
He sensed the faint pulse of the newly born "Earth Fire Lotus Heart" deep within the earth veins of Beiju Luzhou, a flower that shared his responsibility of protection and resonated with the affinity of chaos!

I sensed the filthy power pulsating within the core of that evil embryo deep in the Kunlun Mountains, emanating the evil fluctuations of the same source of blasphemous runes!
Linkage! We must break down the barriers of space and achieve the linkage of the three energy lines!

"Nezha! I borrow your earth fire to cleanse my blue lotus!"

Sun Wukong's spirit transformed into a shout that transcended space, directly reaching the "Earth Fire Lotus Heart" that slumbered deep within the veins of Luzhou.

It was not an order, but a resonance of wills, a call to stand together through thick and thin!

The dormant "lotus heart" suddenly trembled!
It was not Nezha's voluntary awakening of consciousness, but rather the earth's own stress response to danger, as well as his purified chaotic affinity for the same karmic force burning in Sun Wukong's heart furnace and the instinctive resonance generated by the damage to the Pure World Lotus.

The essence of the earth's fire, accumulated deep within the land of Luzhou for hundreds of millions of years, was stirred by this resonant force and suddenly boiled over.

A mighty, fiery, crimson-gold torrent, brimming with the primal vitality of the earth, surged along the natural channels of the earth's veins, disregarding spatial distance, toward the Heavenly Court and toward the Pure World Lotus, which shared the same origin as the Chaos Pearl and was currently being polluted and eroded!

Boom——!
It's as if the Milky Way has reversed its flow!

A torrent of crimson-gold earth fire essence emerged from the ground of the Qitian Palace, as if it were alive, and precisely poured onto the foundation of the Pure World Lotus.

The karmic fire insects emitted sharp hisses, forced back by the sudden, extremely powerful and yang essence of earth fire.

The blue lotus trembled violently, and the crimson-gold patterns on the contaminated crack on the lotus platform spread, covered, and repaired rapidly like lava.

The lotus platform shone brightly with azure light, temporarily resisting the erosion of the poisonous insects, and even began to draw upon the power of the earth fire to replenish its own depleted essence.

The pulsation of the chaotic maternal embryo became stable and strong again.

The crisis has eased slightly, but the burning of karma in Sun Wukong's heart furnace is reaching an unprecedented peak!
His eyes flashed with golden-red light, locking onto the direction of Kunlun Mountain, sensing the evil coordinates of the blasphemous rune core.

"Laojun! Get out of the way!"

A loud shout pierced through the nine heavens and reached the depths of the Kunlun mine!

The Supreme Lord Laozi was locked in a stalemate with the evil embryo, and the purple-gold divine chain had already developed slight cracks due to the backlash of the evil power.

Upon hearing this sound, he instinctively used his superb agility to retreat rapidly.

Just as Laozi stepped back!
A strange thunderbolt formed by the pure refining and purification of immeasurable karma and the resentment of all living beings in Sun Wukong's heart furnace, and then fused with the original will of a Great Luo Golden Immortal and the great power of Buddhism and Taoism—the Karma-Refining Divine Thunder!
—It actually started directly from inside the Qitian Palace, following the karmic cause-and-effect line between Sun Wukong and the Kunlun Evil Embryo, ignoring the spatial barrier, tearing through the void with unparalleled precision, and crashing into the depths of the Kunlun mine!

This bolt of lightning was neither gold nor purple, but rather a chaotic dark golden color, with countless tiny karmic fire runes and swastika Buddhist seals leaping across its surface!

It does not target matter, but directly addresses the root of karmic obstacles. Its target is the contaminated glazed gold dew at the core of the evil fetus, and the blasphemous runes flowing on it!

Click——!
A crisp, heart-stopping cracking sound rang out!

The most core and complex blasphemous runes on the surface of the evil fetus shattered like glass under the bombardment of this thunder that had tempered immeasurable karma!

The filthy core of evil power was instantly exposed, the pulsation of the evil embryo suddenly stopped, and the backlash power was greatly reduced!

"it is good!!!"

Laozi's beard bristled with rage, and his eyes blazed with unprecedented brilliance. Seizing the opportunity, he poured all his life's cultivation into the illusory image of the Eight Trigrams Furnace above his head.

"Heavenly Furnace, Refining Evil to Nothingness! Suppress!"

The illusory image of the Nine-Turn Purple Gold Eight Trigrams Furnace instantly solidified into a tangible form. The Tushita Purple Flame transformed into a chain of Dao principles that could incinerate all things. Taking advantage of the moment when the core runes of the Evil Embryo shattered and its power became disordered, it completely enveloped and sealed the Evil Embryo along with that bit of polluted Glazed Gold Dew!
The furnace lid slammed shut!

Countless mysterious Bagua patterns lit up on the furnace wall, and layers of sealing restrictions were instantly generated!
"Ugh—!"

The evil embryo emitted inhuman screams within the furnace, raging wildly, yet it could no longer shake the sealing furnace constructed from the essence of Tushita.

The purplish-black evil energy was continuously refined by the purple fire, its volume rapidly collapsing until it finally transformed into a dark purple crystal, only the size of a fist, yet containing terrifying evil power, which was then sealed deep within the heart of the furnace.

The amethyst spores that filled the mine lost their source and turned into ashes and dissipated.

The partially transformed amethyst monsters became stiff and sluggish, and were quickly eliminated by the remaining heavenly soldiers.

Lao Jun's face was as pale as paper, and a wisp of purplish-gold Dao blood spilled from the corner of his mouth. Maintaining the sealing furnace had consumed almost all of his original power.

But his eyes were sharp, fixed on the dark purple crystal in the furnace, and he said in a deep voice:
"Great Sage! The true form of the evil embryo has been sealed within this crystal! However, this object is extremely malevolent and may be a vessel for the demonic embryo. It must be permanently sealed at the bottom of the Tushita Furnace!"

(End of this chapter)