I have a relic of heaven

Chapter 341 The Golden Emperor Appears, the Peacock Emerges, I Hold the Chessboard

(Second update, one more chapter before midnight)
Why should I see myself?

Shennong was pondering this sentence.

He faced the finger that encompassed all the heavens and myriad worlds, and his body began to crack, but he did not react in the slightest, only remaining silent.

This moment.

"Fellow Daoist Taishang!"

Zhu Jiuyin spoke, his eyes wide open, and the Nine Netherworlds were suddenly illuminated!
The eerie Nine Nether Candle transformed into a blazing sun, illuminating the entire Nine Netherworld. The Nine Yin Candle, with its tail whipping up Zhongshan Mountain, crashed into the reforged myriad realms, shattering them into countless fragments that scattered into the chaotic void beyond the heavens and earth.

All worlds and realms are objects that can be manipulated at will by the Great Luo, and even more so by those with great supernatural powers, they are nothing more than toys in the palm of one's hand, which can be destroyed or recreated with a single thought.

The root of everything is simply the universe, only the universe.

The myriad worlds that arose from the great universe are not worth mentioning.

This temple.

Zhu Jiuyin suddenly rose up, and the Central Ghost Emperor hesitated for a moment before following suit. The two top supreme beings formed a pincer movement, actually intending to hunt down the Supreme One!
The terrifying aura was like a billion sharp blades, slicing Zhou Mu's body, leaving him covered in wounds. Shennong sat down and raised his head:
"Fellow Daoist Taishang, you couldn't possibly be unaware of this. There's no reason to erase Shentu. Or perhaps..."

"Have you three Pure Ones already taken that step and become one?"

"Therefore, you are the Supreme Being, the Spiritual Treasure, and even the Primordial Beginning. No, that's not right, it doesn't make sense. Before the struggle for the Dao, you absolutely could not have done this, and none of you could have done this."

Shennong spoke very quickly, as if he were asking questions, but more so as to sort out his own thoughts, play chess, and see through the game!

His eyes lit up:

"Could it be...could it be...the new Three Pure Ones that appeared not long ago?"

Surrounded by two powerful beings, Zhou Mu's expression shifted. He temporarily halted his intention to have Peacock and the others make a move, and stared silently at Shennong without uttering a word.

With a flick of his sleeve, Shennong, the Earth God, observed all things from beginning to end. He embodied the weight and power of the earth and gathered the wisdom of all the spirits on earth to enrich himself!
He added:
"Indeed. Fellow Daoist Taishang made a brilliant move with his landing move."

Zhou Mu, intrigued, completely ignored the menacing Zhu Jiuyin and the Central Ghost Emperor Zhou Qi, and said with a smile:
"continue."

Shennong calmly raised his head and gazed at the Great Golden Immortal with two heads and four arms, who seemed like a lamb in a cage waiting to be slaughtered:
"The schemes of the Three Pure Ones are all contained in the so-called new Three Pure Ones. Your positions are too high, you are all supreme, and you are all extremely fierce. You are simply incompatible and cannot be united."

"Therefore, you create a new Three Pure Ones, let that chess piece unite you, make it become you, and you become it again. Take a different approach."

As he spoke, Shennong clapped his hands in praise and exclaimed:
"Subtract your own status, subtract your own weight in the great universe, so that you are close to the state of emptiness, and then reunite as one, breaking the result that the Three Pure Ones cannot meet. My dear friend, you have been tricked."

"Everything you do is becoming their wedding dress."

"Young friend, why aren't you awake?"

The great Luo and great supernatural beings on the field were all bewildered. How did the Supreme Fellow Daoist suddenly become the Supreme Junior Fellow Daoist?
What does "three become one" mean?
Amidst the bewilderment of many powerful figures, Zhou Mu allowed his own body to tear apart and shatter, gazing at Shennong, and calmly said:

"I see."

"However, it was expected."

Shennong was slightly taken aback.

Zhou Mu stretched and chuckled:
"Houtu, you only know one thing, not the other. I am determined to obtain the Six Paths of Reincarnation. It is time to change the Lord of the Nine Netherworlds."

Shennong laughed:

"Young friend, you have already merged your three bodies into one. Do you think that by erasing Shen Tu from the present, you can then use your past and future bodies to seek reincarnation in the six realms?"

He shook his head:
"Innocent."

Shennong, or rather Houtu, deduced the whole story from the single phrase "Why should I see myself?", and realized that the Supreme Being before her was not the true Supreme Being.
Or rather, he is the Supreme One, but not Laozi.

He saw the scheme of the Three Pure Ones.

He stroked the empty space before him, conjuring up an ancient, illusory chessboard. The chessboard was only a small square, yet it was infinitely vast and expansive.
A chess piece appeared in the Earth Emperor's hand, held in the air, about to fall but not yet, as he coldly said:
"Young friend, you are already struggling to overcome the current predicament. Why not submit to me? I promise you the throne of the Heavenly Emperor of the new era. What do you say?"

Zhou Mu smiled, ignored Zhu Jiuyin and the Central Ghost Emperor, walked to Shennong, and sat down leisurely.

The two sat cross-legged at opposite ends of the chessboard, just as they had sat cross-legged at opposite ends of the tea table before.

It is the Northern Emperor and Shennong, as well as Zhou Mu and Houtu.

Zhou Mu gazed at the vast and boundless chessboard. Thirteen positions were marked on the side of the board, with Shennong—or rather, Houtu—occupying one, while he himself sat in a position unknown to anyone else.

As for the countless pieces in the game, Zhou Mu observed them and felt his own [moral status] tremble, his status as the [most ancient] shook violently.

He saw the past and present in the game of chess, saw an ancient history that had been altered and rewritten countless times, and saw the great trends and calamities of the three great eras time and time again.

The chessboard contains all living beings, and the vast universe.

The thirteen positions outside the chessboard are the thirteen supreme beings.

From the Three Pure Ones to the Three Heavenly Emperors, from Houtu and Nuwa to the Five Great Buddhas.

"What kind of chess is this?"

Zhou Mu asked.

"The struggle for the Dao." Shennong spoke calmly: "You are not qualified to participate in the struggle for the Dao. Leave now. Whether you become a stepping stone for the Three Pure Ones or abandon darkness for light and work for me, it is up to you."

One after another, powerful cultivators and experts with great supernatural abilities watched the two figures at opposite ends of the chessboard. They could not hear their conversation, nor could they even see their figures clearly.
Whether it's Zhu Jiuyin, the Central Ghost Emperor, Zhen Yuanzi, the Lord of the Blood Sea, or the peacock that transforms into Bao Zheng, or the Golden Emperor who is supposed to be Zhong Kui.

They all had the illusion that they were actually watching two supreme masters play chess from the sidelines, that they were actually looking at the hazy chessboard from outside the game.

At the same time, it felt as if I was right there on the chessboard.

It is a chess piece, or half a piece.

"The struggle over the Dao."

Zhou Mu murmured, focusing his attention on the current situation on the chessboard. It was yet another small game within the larger game, a contest between him and Houtu.

The son of Houtu has already shown his murderous intent, and it seems there is no way to break through it.

Zhou Mu reached into the void and pulled out two particles from somewhere, which then fell to the ground.

"What do you think?"

he asked.

Shennong was taken aback, looking both at the game and at what was happening outside the game.

He saw Bao Zheng rise into the sky, let out a cry, and transform into a five-colored peacock. He saw Zhong Kui clasp his hands together, shed his skin, and become an unparalleled female immortal.

"Peacock!"

"Golden Emperor!"

Zhu Jiuyin and the Central Ghost Emperor cried out in alarm. The Peacock attacked Zhulong, and the Golden Emperor struck down Zhou Qi!

Two powerful beings, two chess pieces, landed on a small game on the chessboard of Dao Zheng, disrupting Hou Tu's killing moves!
“You’re right.” Zhou Mu spoke to Shennong, who was staring blankly at the chessboard across from him:
“I am not qualified to sit at this chessboard, but after I have taken the Six Paths of Reincarnation and become the Lord of the Nine Netherworlds, I should be qualified.”

"I am determined to attain the six realms of reincarnation."

Shennong chuckled:

"The shackles on the peacock have disappeared, and the karma of the Buddha Mother has also vanished—indeed, young friend, you have achieved the unity of your three bodies. Have you taken over the positions of the Three Pure Ones?"

Zhou Mu smiled but remained silent.

Shennong shook his head:

“Even if you are the Supreme One, the Spiritual Treasure, and the Primordial Beginning, you are ultimately not the Supreme One. I have said that you are not qualified to sit in the struggle for the Dao.”

As he finished speaking, his hand, which had been suspended in mid-air, fell, the piece in his hand dropped, and he exclaimed:

"Zhen Yuanzi, if you don't act now, when will you?"

Zhen Yuanzi rose, bowed, smiled bitterly, and remained motionless as a bell.

Zhou Mu reached into the chessboard and, to Shennong's bewildered gaze, caught the piece he had just placed, before placing it down again.

He turned his head and said with a smile:

"Antarctic Immortal Emperor, if you don't act now, when will you?"

The tribulations of the journey to the West: Master Yuxu put down his teacup and gazed intently at the Daoist before him:

"Go."

The Taoist priest bowed respectfully and then took his leave.

Now, they have died unjustly on the city wall.

Zhen Yuanzi performed the rites and bowed to Zhou Mu.

He stood up, holding the Earth Book in one hand and the Wuzhuang Temple in the other. He slapped the Earth Book on Zhu Jiuyin's forehead and pressed the Wuzhuang Temple against the spine of the Central Ghost Emperor.

The two powerful beings were severely injured. The peacock transformed, and five-colored light swept away the Nine Nether Candle. The Golden Emperor smiled and used the Calamity of Heaven in his hand to cut off Zhou Qi's position as the Central Ghost Emperor!

The supreme blood flowed freely, splashing onto half of the black bird's body.

"when?"

Shennong did not look at the betrayed Zhen Yuanzi, nor was he angry. He simply stared at Zhou Mu and asked a question.

Zhou Mu lowered his eyes, gazing at this grand game of chess called the Dao Struggle, and said:
"There are no fixed rules in chess, and no constant principles in the art of chess."

"Laozi is the Tao, and so am I."

Shennong's pupils contracted:
"Do you think you can beat Lao Sanqing?"

Zhou Mu smiled without saying a word, simply repeating what he had said before:
"I am determined to conquer the six realms of reincarnation."

Shennong shook his head and sighed softly:

"Confidence is a good thing, but young friend, do you know that you are still looking at the moon from the bottom of a well?"

"Only when you approach the realm of the supreme can you leap out of that narrow well—at that time, when you look at me again, I will be an ant peering at the blue sky."

Say it.

Shennong picked up another piece, placed it down, and laughed as he said:
“Some fellow Daoist, in the most ancient years, laid out a plan and created an ultimate ancient land, a sacred land of the Nine Netherworlds.”

“I didn’t stop it, I just went with the flow, but now it’s coming in handy.”

Zhou Mu raised his head and saw the Lord of the Blood Sea approaching, and saw the Lord of the Blood Sea and Shennong merge into one.

He saw Shennong calmly say:

"Thanks to the scheme of that unknown friend, the master of this sea of ​​blood was licked dry, losing the supreme characteristic of [immortality], so I killed him and became him."

"He is also the one who made me who I am."

Shennong's aura surged, and he entered the level of [Great Supernatural Being] in one step.

The Lord of the Blood Sea is also a transformation of Houtu.

But he didn't stop talking:

"However, that holy land is indeed somewhat special, and the two masters of the holy land are also quite extraordinary. They actually pointed directly to the Great Heaven and Earth, my Blood Sea Body. All these years of guarding the holy land have not been in vain."

As soon as he finished speaking, Shennong pointed towards the direction of the Ultimate Ancient Land. Half of the 'momentum' that the Ultimate Ancient Land had accumulated over countless years suddenly poured down and landed on Shennong's body!

Shennong took another step forward.

It is a level close to the highest, equivalent to the Chaotic Ones and the previous Northern Emperors.

He has done Him.

He said:

"Young friend, how do you intend to seize control of the Six Paths of Reincarnation?"

"Even if there were a hundred more peacocks and a hundred more golden emperors, what difference would it make?"

"Will you escape my grasp?"

Shennong stretched out his hand, revealing a peacock, a golden emperor, and Zhen Yuanzi in his palm.

Three top-tier supernatural beings could be suppressed by Him with a single hand.

This is the one who is close to the supreme.

The game was already one-sided, and Zhou Mu had reached his end. He saw glimpses of the past: Shennong stormed the Jade Void Palace, determined to expose the outward strength but inner weakness of the [Primordial Celestial Venerable].

Seeing the future, Shennong gazed at Lingbao Daozun, struck Lingbao Daojun with one palm, and then struck his own future with another.

Beside the chessboard, Zhou Mu picked up his teacup, took a sip, gazed at Shennong, and suddenly said:

Who is Shennong?

Shennong was taken aback, puzzled.

Zhou Mu looked into the depths of his own spirit, at the question on one of the three shackles—who was Shennong?
He replied:

"It's Zhou Mu."

Upside down.

(End of this chapter)