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Chapter 404 Radical!
The relationship between Fang Xun's current Heavenly Dao Tree and the previous Heavenly Dao Tree is very subtle.

Strictly speaking, they can't even be considered two individuals.

After all, Fang Xun's "tree heart" is the original product of the previous tree, so he can easily accept various legacies from the previous Tree of All Heavens.

It was for this reason that Fang Xun subconsciously avoided this place of misfortune.

Now he has no choice but to come here.

As Fang Xun and Heng'e walked through this void, their feelings were somewhat subtle and oppressive.

"This is it." Fang Xun suddenly stopped, halting in a void.

"What's here?" Heng'e couldn't help but ask, though she was ultimately separated by a layer and couldn't perceive it clearly.

"The origin of the Heavenly Dao Tree back then," Fang Xun replied, then stretched out his hand and gently wiped the void before him.

It was as if a curtain of reality had been lifted, and a certain truth hidden in nothingness began to appear before his eyes.

"Here?!" Heng'e couldn't help but exclaim in surprise, and Fang Xun's expression also changed slightly.

After the curtain of reality was lifted, what appeared before the two masters and their apprentices was a battlefield.

Axe marks, Daoist rhyme, myriad realms, Pangu's blood!

This is a region similar to the primordial wilderness, naturally formed yet deeply influenced by those two beings.

"Pangu's blood?" Fang Xun looked in a certain direction, where a blood-red shadow was floating silently.

But he quickly shook his head; Pangu had vanished, and only a shadow of blood remained.

Even this single shadow is still awe-inspiring, possessing a terrifying quality that shakes the soul.

Undoubtedly, Pangu was also injured in that battle, which may have been the most dangerous hurdle on Pangu's path to enlightenment.
Although the Battle of Creation was grand, the outcome was entirely predictable.

"But that battle was even more terrifying than I imagined." Fang Xun pondered the various Daoist auras left behind on this battlefield, becoming increasingly alarmed.

He had seen the tree stump countless times, but it could never withstand the first blow of the axe, so he naturally couldn't see the ones that followed.

Through the Taoist principles at this place, he was able to barely reconstruct the scene from that time.

Although the Tree of All Heavens has no intelligence, survival is its instinct, and it spares no effort in resisting Pangu's axe.

What Fang Xun could understand best was that the Tree of Heavenly Dao truly used the power of the heavens.

The power accumulated over countless ages by all the heavens and myriad realms erupted in an instant, even the mighty Pangu had to retreat!
Unfortunately, Pangu ultimately prevailed, severing the Tree of Heaven and destroying the system of heavens that the Tree of Heaven had built over countless years.

"This kind of destruction..." Fang Xun sensed a certain aura within it that made his heart tremble.

That was something that could really kill him.

Similarly, it was a destruction of a grand scale.

"The nothingness of all paths? This is the nothingness of all realms!"

In this battle, the power used by the Heavenly Dao Tree exceeded the total size of the primordial world, and countless worlds collapsed and were destroyed in this battle.

This is clearly acceptable for Fang Xun.

"But how do we utilize this destruction of the past?" That's the biggest question.

Ordinary past times are nothing to Fang Xun at this moment, but he can't go back to that point in time.

That was the beginning of the primordial world, the start of Pangu's scheme, or the battlefield of a terrifying war. Who dared to step forward?!

That is a past that can never be changed!
Anyone who dares to disrupt the cause and effect of that period will surely die!
Time's backlash can't kill you; Pangu himself will come to kill you!

In a fleeting moment, Fang Xun suddenly thought of something. He raised his hand, and the tree stump appeared on the battlefield, landing in the center.

hum!
A faint tremor emanated from the tree stump, which seemed to be radiating a genuine life force!

"Teacher?" Heng'e was shocked and puzzled. She seemed to sense a being just like them!

A third being among the myriad beings? Then the previous Tree of Heaven is still alive?!
Fang Xun shook his head slightly, rejecting Heng'e's idea, and looked at the tree stump with a somewhat complicated expression.

He probably understood why Pangu left this tree stump to him.

Pangu incurred many karmic debts during his path to enlightenment, including those owed to the Chaos Demons and Gods. Pangu gave them the opportunity to seize the supreme primordial Dao Fruit.

What about the Tree of Heaven? It owes even more.

"So, is this the place?"

Fang Xun stepped forward, stroked the stump of the Tree of All Heavens, and sensed the various changes within it.

"Are these the Gates of the Heavens from back then?" Fang Xun seemed to have merged with the tree stump at this moment, and he could vaguely see "gates" in the void. These were the traces left by the Tree of Heavens, and behind each gate was a world.

"Perhaps I really can try it." Fang Xun looked at the doors, found a world that was somewhat familiar to him, and opened the door directly.

hum!
The gates of the heavens opened wide, and the two Fang Xuns looked at each other across the gates.

The world opposite is the world of plants and trees, a world completely occupied by the spirits of plants and trees!
That world also contains the World Tree left behind by the Tree of Heavenly Dao.

"It really works!" Fang Xun's breathing became a little heavier.

He raised his hand and pressed it on the tree stump, which seemed to be reborn, extending branches and beginning to connect with the World Tree of the plant world.

boom!
Fang Xun's primordial spirit trembled slightly, and a certain rhythm of life essence gave him some strange sensations.

Similarly, far away in the primordial world, the very body of the Heavenly Dao Tree that supported the primordial world trembled slightly, and the swaying of its branches and leaves caused a cataclysmic upheaval!

"What's going on?" Nuwa erased all the effects, but she couldn't find the source of the tremor.

"So that's how it is! So that's how it is!" Fang Xun felt a sense of sudden enlightenment.

He now seems to have entered an extremely delicate situation, where some very profound changes are taking place, but they are being affected by another force and cannot be fully realized.

At this very moment, if Fang Xun had followed the pure path of the Heavenly Dao Tree, he could have achieved immortality!
He stood there, merging into the stump of the previous Tree of All Heavens, and began to accept the "property" it left behind.

This is the Dao Fruit of the Immortal Dao of the Heavens, belonging to the Dao Tree of the Heavens!
It's just a pity that it is not the previous Heavenly Dao Tree. Its Dao has changed, and it has gained the nothingness of all Dao.

"Perhaps I can take advantage of a time difference..."

Fang Xun looked at the battlefield, sensing the terrifying destruction from countless years ago. Various thoughts flashed through his mind, and then he went to the group to ask for the opinions of his fellow group members.

……

In a corner of the myriad realms, eleven god-kings descended simultaneously.

This is a world of myriad realms possessing Primordial Golden Immortals, yet it is utterly powerless against such power!
This entire world was randomly selected by God, who extracted certain "elements" or "characteristics" from it.

"Next," Allah said expressionlessly.

Odin opened the Rainbow Bridge once more. But then he suddenly stopped, abruptly looking up in a certain direction!
His eternal spear trembled, and the Rainbow Bridge itself crumbled!
"What's going on?!" Allah, who was about to step onto the Rainbow Bridge, stopped in his tracks upon seeing this and looked at Odin.

He saw Odin's expression of surprise, longing, and disbelief.

"What happened?!" The other god-kings also showed slight surprise. Odin's dramatic change in emotion naturally caught their attention.

"The Tree of the Gods!" Odin exclaimed excitedly, "The Tree of the Gods is reviving!"

The other god-kings all frowned.

"Is it that Xuan Su?" Shiva, the God of Destruction, frowned. "He dares to attack us? He's utterly audacious!"

The other god-kings shared the same thought, and their expressions darkened.

If Fang Xun were to attack them, it would undoubtedly slow down their recovery.

"No! No, it's the Tree of All Heavens that Pangu cut down. It seems to be showing signs of revival!" Odin's expression was solemn, but his eyes revealed undisguised joy.

"The severed Tree of Heaven? Reviving?" The other God-Kings vaguely understood what had happened.

"Does anyone dare to tamper with Pangu's karma?!" They naturally knew that the Tree of All Heavens was dead beyond any doubt.

Its revival now means only one thing: someone is messing with the cause and effect of the past!
They acknowledged that the Heavenly Dao Tree was a powerful being on the same level as them, but the Heavenly Dao Tree was different from them; its core had become another Heavenly Dao Tree, and it was impossible for it to return.

“It’s Xuan Su! Only he has the ability and the courage to do this!” Odin’s tone was very certain.

"The Dao of Selflessness!" Quetzalcoatl suddenly exclaimed at this moment.

"He's after the Dao Fruit of Selflessness; he wants to inherit it from the previous Dao Tree of All Heavens!"

It's like the Three Pure Ones of the Primordial Era inheriting Pangu's Dao of Selflessness, or like Hongjun inheriting the Dao of Limitless Fate from the God of Destiny!

It's essentially the same thing!

"His path of existence and non-existence cannot succeed." The God of Destruction knew this best.

"What if we're afraid he'll ruin the other half of his cultivation?" Quetzalcoatl raised another conjecture.

The other god-kings were all slightly taken aback.

"Then he can immediately achieve selflessness and merge with the primordial chaos..." The God King and God both changed their expressions.

Imagine what it would be like if someone no weaker than them obtained the Supreme Primordial Dao Fruit!

Now no one could sit still.

They didn't care about time because they believed no one could recover faster than them, and the primordial world would eventually be theirs; then the final victor could be decided.

But now, it seems there might actually be someone who is faster and stronger than them...

This is something they absolutely cannot tolerate!
"We must stop him from obtaining the Selfless Fruit of the Tree of All Gods." A tangible holy light seemed to flow in God's eyes.

They knew that Pangu would definitely not allow anyone to alter that period of time and cause and effect, but what if he did?
They cannot afford this risk.

"No rush. It has only just recovered. If Xuan Su wants to inherit the Dao Fruit of the Heavens Without Self, he still needs to get closer to it and become it." At this moment, the calmest and most excited person was obviously Odin God-King.

He stroked the trembling Eternal Spear in his hand, feeling the gradual emergence of life.

"What we need to do most now is to recover. Only with a sufficiently strong cultivation level can we stop this from happening."

Odin, the God-King, was already calculating Fang Xun's countermeasures. The strongest he could do was to pull those hundred Primordial Golden Immortals into the battlefield and find an opportunity in the chaos.

This is indeed a significant threat to God, the God-King. Without sufficient power to back them up, they might not be able to stop Fang Xun.

“Then let’s go!” The other gods and gods nodded and walked toward the rainbow bridge that Odin had reopened.

Influenced by the revival of the Tree of Heaven, the power of the Spear of Eternity has increased considerably.

It is itself made from the branches of the Heavenly Dao Tree, and is therefore most capable of sensing changes in the original body.

……

Meng Qi: "Is this the opportunity you found? Is this Pangu's compensation to you?"

Hong Yi: "I think it's more than just compensation; perhaps it's a choice Pangu is giving you."

[Hong Yi: "You can choose to abandon the Path of Nothingness and become a pure Tree of the Heavens."]

After Fang Xun described the situation of the battlefield in the group, the group members naturally deduced what Fang Xun could do.

He could directly advance to the Great Dao Selfless Saint by inheriting the Dao Fruit.

Fang Xun had never even considered this path.

He stated that he absolutely did not want to be cut a second time...

Ye Fan: "Since you've made up your mind, then go and prepare. If you need any help, just let us know, and we'll do our best to assist you."

Fang Xun: "First, help me find Gu Chensha and Yang Qi. I can provide them with better opponents."

When Odin sensed the revival of the Tree of Heaven, how could Fang Xun not feel it?

He even tried to sever the rainbow bridge of the Eternal Spear across all the heavens and worlds, but unfortunately, the Eternal Spear was directly connected to the origin of the God-King, and Fang Xun simply could not break through the defense of the origin of a God-King.

But he also knew what these god-kings were doing now, and what they would do in the future.

Therefore, he needs a group of beings of limitless power to target the God-King God in all the heavens and myriad realms, or at least to slow down their recovery.

And this number must be at least eleven people.

Ye Fan: "That's not a problem. I think they'd rather face those god-kings and gods."

Even though the cultivation level of the God-King and God is not significantly different from that of ordinary Primordial Golden Immortals, they have stood at a higher level and are different from other Primordial Golden Immortals.

Fang Xun nodded slightly. The matter was settled. They couldn't let those gods and deities recover too quickly.

"Now all that's left to do is this part of the work." Fang Xun looked at the stump of the Tree of All Heavens in front of him, pondered for a moment, and was quite undecided.

The quickest way is actually for him to put the other half of his heartwood into the tree stump, truly becoming it...

In that way, Fang Xun would be able to connect with those worlds that were once connected to the Tree of Heaven and Earth as quickly as possible and inherit its legacy.

However, this also has drawbacks, namely, it may have a certain impact on his path to nothingness, causing unknown effects.

"Teacher, let me help you!" At this moment, Heng'e suddenly understood what Fang Xun was thinking.

"I am also one of the many beings in the universe. I simply follow the path of existence and will not be affected!"

"My origin still comes from you, and I will not reject you!"

(End of this chapter)