Honghuang: The chat group is full of big shots

Chapter 359 Pangu Cuts Down the Tree
Fang Xun ignored Heng'e and instead used his divine perception of existence and non-existence to observe the changes in the Taiyin star.

For Heng'e now, the Taiyin star is no longer her magic weapon, but has become her true form.

Just like the original form of the Tree of Heaven to Fang Xun.

And the Taiyin Star itself is not so simple; it is the true manifestation of Pangu's Eye!
Now it has become a star, or even been completely refined by Chang'e.

It would be impossible without Pangu's consent.

"It's still a very early stage; she's only just embarked on the path of all living beings." Fang Xun judged Heng'e's current state.

"She can no longer even move freely among the myriad worlds; she can only remain in the worlds where she once left her mark?"

Fang Xun shook his head slightly. The world that Heng'e had been to was just a drop in the ocean of the myriad worlds. She still needed endless accumulation and to overcome countless hardships before she could become a being like him.

That's all his resources can help with; everything else depends on Heng'e's own destiny and fate.

"Thank you for your guidance, Teacher." At this moment, Heng'e had begun to adapt to the feeling of being washed by the Dao of the Heavens and maintained her balance.

She knelt down immediately and performed a deep bow.

"Thank you so much, teacher..."

“Alright,” Fang Xun interrupted Heng’e, “It is fortunate that you and I, master and disciple, can walk this path of the heavens together.”

"..." Heng'e remained silent, and bowed gently once more.

"Seclude yourself and experience this state. If you don't understand anything, come and ask me." Fang Xun didn't linger with Taiyin Xing, giving her a soft instruction before leaving.

"Ah, teacher..." Heng'e sat on the futon, gently resting her chin on her jade hand, and sighed softly.

……

For Fang Xun, Heng'e's ascension to the Great Dao Saint and her entry into the path of all living beings was an unexpected joy.

By observing her promotion, Fang Xun analyzed his own nature and saw his own path to selflessness.

In this way, Fang Xun will be able to directly comprehend the origins of those beings who are infinitely perfect!

Previously, he could rely on the protection of the Heavenly Dao Origin to forcibly comprehend it, but this time he was exposed to the influence of that Limitless Perfection Origin, and the feeling was completely different!

Of course, Fang Xun could not fully immerse himself in comprehending those infinitely perfect origins; he only captured a portion of time in the past.

What he needs to do most now is to guard against the mythological world's designs on Buzhou Mountain.

Mount Buzhou, the absolute central hub of the primordial world in terms of time, space, and the Great Dao, is connected to the primordial spiritual veins and must not be harmed.

Hongjun Daoist dared to use fate to push Gonggong to crash into it because he was following the path of weakening living beings to strengthen the primordial world.

The separation between immortals and mortals, and the severing of spiritual energy, are only the most basic requirements.

But Fang Xun is following the path of powerful prehistoric beings, and Mount Buzhou cannot be cut off!

Fang Xun is currently traveling in the Buzhou Mountains.

Mount Buzhou, known as the Pillar of Heaven, is itself vast and boundless, even beyond the definition of time and space, and possesses some of the Daoist charm of Pangu.

"This seems to be my first time walking around Buzhou Mountain." Fang Xun had a very strange feeling about him.

So he followed his heart and stopped.

"Is it Pangu?" Fang Xun asked softly. "Is it because of Heng'e?"

He reached out and gently manipulated the spacetime in front of him, revealing a hidden spacetime fold, one that was not even clear whether it existed in the past.

Fang Xun raised an eyebrow slightly; he knew this plot very well!
When Hou Tu traveled to Buzhou Mountain, he obtained a glimmer of hope for the Wu tribe here—the innate, indestructible spiritual light!
That was the opportunity that Pangu left for his children, and also the mission he bestowed upon Houtu.

"So, this is the same place?" Fang Xun was unsure whether this spacetime fold appeared after he gave Heng'e the origin of the Heavenly Dao Tree.

"It's not that simple after all." Fang Xun shook his head slightly and stepped inside.

"It depends on whether your payment is enough," Fang Xun muttered.

As he took a step, time and space shifted, and an ancient palace appeared before him.

It was exactly the same as the palace that Houtu had obtained, which he had seen before. There was no doubt that it was Pangu's arrangement for him!

"Hiss, what is this?!" Fang Xun's eyes widened suddenly, just like when Houtu found the palace that contained the innate immortal spiritual light.

There are very few things that can make Fang Xun lose his composure, and the most important of them all is the Tree of All Heavens!
"You little bastard, you were hiding this trick all along?!" Fang Xun's expression turned slightly unpleasant.

Because in front of him was a tree stump!
A complete stump of the Tree of All Heavens!

Of course it wasn't his; it belonged to the previous Heavenly Dao Tree!

Fang Xun suddenly felt a sense of shared sorrow, like a rabbit mourning the death of a fox, and took a step forward, arriving in front of the tree stump.

The once magnificent Tree of the Heavens, which spanned countless realms, had lost its branches, trunk, roots, and heartwood, leaving only an empty stump!

Confined to this place by time and space, it appears as a very ordinary tree stump, even showing some signs of decay.

Looking at the clean cut, Fang Xun felt as if a terrifying axe light was cleaving towards him!

In that instant, Fang Xun's eyes widened, and in the blink of an eye, the scene before him had changed drastically, becoming absolute nothingness.

What lay before them was no longer a rotten wooden stake, but a complete Tree of All Heavens.

Spanning endless time and space, connecting all the heavens and myriad realms... the most magnificent and supreme Heavenly Dao Tree!

This wasn't the first time Fang Xun had seen the previous Heavenly Dao Tree like this.

"Tree, why can't you take human form?" Suddenly, Fang Xun heard a gentle voice.

The voice was familiar; it was Pangu!
However, Fang Xun saw a Pangu who was not so supreme, and whose aura was not much different from his own!

Pangu, the Primordial Golden Immortal!
This is Pangu's memory, and even more so, the memory of the Tree of Heaven!
Fang Xun looked at the weak version of Pangu, whose cultivation was far less powerful than that of the Pangu in his prime. In front of the most powerful version of the Heavenly Dao Tree, Pangu was even suppressed to the point of not being able to lift his head.

Ah... Fang Xun looked puzzled.

But he soon stopped laughing, because the memories before him were fragmented.

He saw Pangu travel through the myriad realms via the Tree of Heavenly Dao, his cultivation level rising at an unimaginable speed, then severing himself, cultivating again, then severing himself again...

Pangu continued to advance in this state, eventually becoming a Primordial Golden Immortal who had reached the pinnacle of the path of nothingness and could not advance any further.

Until one day, a Pangu who was only slightly different from the Pangu that Fang Xun knew appeared. He returned from all the heavens and myriad worlds and sat under the Tree of Heavenly Dao, deep in thought.

Fang Xun didn't know how long this period of time was, and then he saw Pangu holding the Heaven-Opening Axe and walking towards the Tree of All Heavens.

"..." Fang Xun had already anticipated what was going to happen next.

He wanted to cover his face, but these memories had been directly implanted into his primordial spirit. "Fellow Daoist, I have a plan..."

As Pangu's voice entered his ears, Fang Xun stared intently at the man and the tree.

The Heavenly Trees naturally did not respond.

At this moment, the Tree of All Heavens truly did not develop sentience. Compared to a tree, it seemed more like a miracle existing in absolute nothingness, a natural phenomenon.

"The path of existence and non-existence has come to an end. My current state can be described as the ultimate of non-existence, but I am still lacking the ultimate of existence."

Pangu looked at the myriad Dao Trees before him and slowly spoke.

"However, there is no ultimate limit, but there is limitless and boundless existence, which cannot be described as ultimate."

"I wish to seek the ultimate in existence, therefore, I borrow your tree of mind for a moment."

Fang Xun clearly saw that Pangu at this moment already possessed a kind of madness that he had seen in many chaotic demons!
Long before the immeasurable eons, Pangu had already gone mad, so he decided to drag the entire universe down with him until the ultimate existence was born!

Without saying much, Pangu swung his axe and chopped fiercely at the Tree of Heavenly Dao!
hum!
An unimaginable axe light flashed, as if it had struck Fang Xun!
Fang Xun felt a chill in his waist and had the illusion that he had been cut in half, which made it impossible for him to tell whether it was the memory carried in the heart of the tree!

"Damn it, why did Pangu give me this memory!" Fang Xun thought to himself.

This memory was of no use to me whatsoever; instead, it made me remember the phantom pain of being cleaved in two by the axe that split the heavens open.

“It’s not useless…” Pangu’s voice faintly came, and Fang Xun was startled.

He instinctively resisted the scene of Pangu chopping down the tree, so he had already overlooked many things.

For example, the moment when the Heaven-Opening Divine Axe and the Tree of Heavenly Dao came into contact.

The size of the Heavenly Dao Tree itself is comparable to that of a perfected Primordial Golden Immortal, and it is at the same level as Pangu in the present day.

How could such a tree be cut down so easily?
What Fang Xun saw was the Heaven-Opening Divine Axe directly cleaving into the trunk of the Heavenly Dao Tree in an unimaginable way, but in reality, it was a life-or-death battle between two supreme beings at the peak of the Primordial Chaos!
The two completely opposite concepts of existence and non-existence shone with the most dazzling light at the moment the Heaven-Opening Divine Axe and the Heavenly Dao Tree collided, making everything Fang Xun had seen before seem pale in comparison.

This was even more incredible than the battle he had ever witnessed between Shiva, the god of destruction, and Pangu!

This scene will forever be etched in Fang Xun's memory; the realization of the collision between existence and non-existence is the most precious thing to him!
This is why Pangu left this tree stump to him.

He was guiding Fang Xun onto the path of nothingness!

He had already gained some understanding of the essence of the Tree of Heavens by analyzing himself and embarked on the Path of Selflessness. Now, Pangu has sent him the Path of Limitlessness!
Fang Xun's vision returned to that ancient palace, and he couldn't help but look down at the tree stump.

The tree stump was already beginning to rot.

It was certainly not ordinary decay, but rather a constant collision and clash between the presence and absence of Daoist principles beneath the tree stump, causing the stump itself to fall into a state of decay.

But that is the greatest value of this tree stump.

Above him, there was a collision of the two most extreme auras of existence and non-existence, but it still existed and was not crushed into dust.

"This is... the symbiosis of existence and non-existence."

Fang Xun knew that when he was able to restore the tree stump to life, that would be the day he would attain the Dao of Limitless Immortality.

"It is indeed a great gift." Fang Xun remained silent for a long time before accepting the gift.

"So what's the mission?" Fang Xun looked around the rest of the palace.

When Houtu obtained the innate, indestructible spiritual light suitable for the Ancestral Witches, which was the primordial spirit of Pangu, it was tasked with transforming into the Six Paths of Reincarnation.

The value of his gift is beyond description. To Fang Xun, it is even more valuable than the weapons left behind by those perfected Golden Immortals!
"..." Fang Xun waited, and even tried to leave the palace, but still did not receive any notification.

"Have I already paid the price? That I made Heng'e one of the heavenly beings?"

Fang Xun suddenly thought of Heng'e. Heng'e is now the Taiyin Star itself. She is one of all the living beings in the world, and the Taiyin Star is naturally one as well.

In the beginning, the Moon was Pangu's eye...

There may be some connection between them.

Fang Xun shook his head slightly, put away the palace, and returned to his original time and space.

[Hong Yi: "Where are you? Something's happened, come over here."]

When Fang Xun stepped out of this time fold, he discovered that his group chat messages had already exploded.

Hong Yi, Meng Qi, and others are all contacting him!
"I've been in that spacetime fold for a long time?" Fang Xun's expression changed slightly. In the Pangu spacetime fold, he had no sense of the passage of time and hadn't even paid attention to the chat group itself.

He took a step and appeared on the top of Buzhou Mountain, looking out over the vast and ancient world.

The next instant, Hong Yi appeared beside him and pointed directly to the outside of the prehistoric world.

Fang Xun looked up, and then his pupils contracted slightly.

The chaotic energy has now stopped flowing and has solidified.

It seems that an unimaginable force directly froze the entire chaos across the dimensions of time, space, causality, and even existence and non-existence!

Everything was still and stagnant. Even with Fang Xun's mysterious perception of existence and non-existence, he could not even stray too far from the chaos before being blocked by the frozen chaos!

The problem occurred in the Chaos, not in the Primordial Era.

“You disappeared around three hundred Yuan Hui, and then another one hundred Yuan Hui, and the chaos solidified.”

Hong Yi calmly and objectively described everything he knew.

Starting with the time of frozen chaos, we discussed its intensity, and then talked about the results of our exploration of the primordial world.

"Even a Primordial Golden Immortal would find it difficult to walk in this frozen chaos, but Qin Mu went in and found that the frozen area was extremely large, extending deep into the chaos."

"What are they doing?" Fang Xun frowned. This kind of method was extremely costly and could not even be done in a single mythological world.

“They are hunting down the rest of the Boundless World,” Hong Yi said softly.

Fang Xun raised an eyebrow, clearly surprised.

The Wuji World is the world created by those Primordial Golden Immortals.

Just like Yang Mei, Ying Guo, and others were pulled back to the primordial world, which contained a strange power of limitlessness. Quasi-Saints who obtained that power could use it to withstand the power of a Primordial Golden Immortal!

But there are people behind this kind of world!

Once the fifth tribulation of the Primordial World is completed, all the Primordial Golden Immortals from these worlds will return, and that will be the truly terrifying time!
Fang Xun had decided to go all out and start with the mythological world, so he didn't have time to deal with these other worlds.

But now, the mythical world is hunting down its own allies?!

(End of this chapter)