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Chapter 403 God is the law, the heaven, and the way!
Woo! Woo! Woo!
The creature surrounded by black mist slapped Jiangchuan with one palm, as if a world of death had descended, with millions of evil spirits wailing and flying out of it, trying to drag Jiangchuan into this world of death.

"Void Technique!"

Jiang Chuan formed seals with his hands and used the magical powers of the Emperor of Heaven given to him by the Bright Immortal Golden Puppet.

The void suddenly solidified, like a cage made of fairy gold, imprisoning the creatures shrouded in black mist.

Zheng! Zheng! Zheng!
At the same time, the clanging sound of swords rang out, and one divine sword after another, transformed from the power of the void, fell from the sky and slashed towards the creatures shrouded in black mist.

Boom! ! !
At the moment when the divine sword was about to fall, the creature surrounded by the black mist exploded.

It was as if a vast world exploded, releasing destructive force that shattered the void.

Many monks in the prison were also shocked when they saw this scene.

"Why did it explode directly?!"

"Even if you can't win, there's no need to commit suicide!"

"This is the first time I've seen a fellow Taoist self-destruct in the ring!"

"No! It's not a self-destruction!"

Jiang Chuan reacted quickly and realized that his opponent was not self-destructing.

The black mist surged towards him along with the destructive force, like thousands of ghosts pouring out from the ghost gate, all displaying their magical powers.

In an instant, many lost or even legendary magical powers from the underworld, such as the Nine Nether Ghost King Claw, the Underworld Burial Sky, the Soul-Destroying Soul Flying Sword that Kills Gods, Demons, Immortals, Buddhas and Magic Sword, poured down on him.

It was as if the gods of the underworld appeared and destroyed the universe. The horrifying scene made many monks in the prison gasp.

"Even if there are many incarnations, there must be a limit to the Dao Fruit!"

"No! Isn't this fellow Daoist's true form a living being?! But the legendary existence?!"

"Demon! There's no doubt about it! This is definitely a demon. Only a demon can transform into thousands of other demons!"

Hands that pick stars and embrace the moon!
Jiang Chuan stretched out his hand, and a large blue hand appeared out of thin air.

The azure hand seemed to be made up of millions of starlights, more dazzling than a single star.

With the appearance of the Hands that Pick Stars and Grab the Moon, time and space seemed to freeze, and many magical powers and the aftermath of destruction, such as the Nine Nether Ghost King Claw, the Underworld Burying the Sky, the Soul-Destroying Soul Flying Sword that Destroys Gods, Demons, Immortals, Buddhas, and Magic, all solidified in mid-air.

A big hand fell and slapped the black mist.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The black mist exploded directly, and the power of time and space surged out, erasing the black mist.

The remaining black mist slowly condensed and appeared again opposite Jiangchuan.

"Ghosts and demons? I never thought that such legendary things actually exist!" Jiang Chuan looked at the ghosts and demons in front of him.

When people die, they become ghosts. Ghosts and demons are actually strange creatures formed by the unwillingness and resentment left behind by ghosts when they die.

This kind of life is only recorded briefly in some ancient books. Even in the underworld, many gods do not believe that ghosts and demons really exist.

Jiang Chuan didn't expect that he would see such a strange life on the Creation Shenzhou.

The sound coming from the demon's body, which was composed of unwillingness and resentment, reached his ears.

"Kill him! Kill him quickly!"

"The Way of Time and Space! He is indeed the future successor of the Star King Buddha!"

"I wonder if the flesh and blood of the future descendants of the Constellation King Buddha will be different from those of ordinary cultivators?"

The demon stared at Jiangchuan with its emerald green eyes and made a sharp and piercing sound.

"What a powerful way of time and space! You are worthy of being the future heir of the Star King Buddha, but I still have one last magical power, the Yin-Yang Reversal Realm Refining Art!"

The demon's body exploded again, and his many residual thoughts turned into two huge yin and yang fish, one yin and one yang.

"It turned out to be the magical power of Liangyi Taoist."

Jiang Chuan was a little surprised, and then a long black rainbow gushed out from his tall body.

Like an erupting volcano, it roared and surged in all directions.

Dark universe!

Jiang Chuan used all his strength, activating the Dark Space Devouring Sutra to evolve the dark universe, as if a corner of the universe had descended.

Tiny specks of starlight twinkled in the dark sky, as if hundreds of divine beasts, Kunpeng, opened their huge mouths and directly swallowed the two yin and yang fish.

Feeling the vast and mighty energy coming from the dark universe, the monks in many prisons all looked shocked.

"Dark Universe! The legendary Dark Space Devouring Universe Sutra!"

"Dark Sky Devouring Universe Sutra, could he be the reincarnation of Dark Universe Demon Lord?!"

"How did the reincarnation of Demon Lord An Yu become the future successor of Buddha?!"

"stop!"

Seeing the dark universe swallowing the Yin-Yang fish, one of the puppets made of five elements fairy gold spoke hurriedly.

Seeing this, Jiang Chuan hurriedly stopped and released the demon.

[You defeat the demon, and after the Immortal Gold Puppet declares your victory, you return to your prison.]

[Next up were a Qilin-tiger and a strange monster with the body of a Kui Ox, wings of a phoenix, horns of a dragon, feet of a black tortoise, and a completely crimson body.]

[The Qilin Tiger is the offspring of a pure-blooded Qilin and a pure-blooded White Tiger, born from the fusion of the bloodlines of the two tribes.]

[A strange demon beast, calling itself the Beast God, is a unique creature that has devoured the blood of many mythical beasts and forcefully integrated them into its own body.]

[You have to admit, in this vast river of time with its infinite possibilities, there are simply too many unique lives and powerful monsters!]

[The Qilin Tiger and the Beast God were both extremely powerful. From the very beginning, the two monsters engaged in hand-to-hand combat, which was their forte.]

[The bodies of both monsters were extremely powerful, and the void was directly torn apart by their bodies.]

[The surging blood energy is even more vast than the stars, rising like a fairy fire.]

Even if you are in prison, you can feel the heat.

[The two sides fought for eight thousand moves, and the Beast God seized the opportunity and severely injured the Qilin Tiger with his Phoenix Wings, nearly tearing its body apart.]

[Although he persisted for another five thousand moves, he was ultimately defeated, allowing the Beast God to win.]

[Then you saw many strange creatures appear, such as a demon fairy transformed from dragon's breath grass.]

[Dragon Breath Grass originally grew at the entrance of dragon caves, absorbing the spiritual medicine of various dragon-born monsters such as golden dragons and silver dragons.]

After this dragon's breath grass developed intelligence and transformed, it specialized in consuming the blood of various dragons. Its bloodline power was no less than that of true dragons, immortal phoenixes, and other mythical beasts.

[There are also beings composed of vital energy, like Huang Yun whose true form is an elixir, the immortals who cultivate to become elixir, and the peerless martial immortals who master the martial arts and achieve enlightenment through martial arts.]

[After hundreds of battles, the first round of competition ended.]

[Not long after the second round began, you were called onto the stage by the Dark Immortal Gold Puppet.]

[This time, your opponent is a creature with a human body, six golden horns on its head, and eighteen divine wings on its back. The most peculiar thing about its body is that it is not entirely flesh and blood, but has a pair of silver-white metal arms.]

[You noticed your opponent in the first round.]

[According to the monks in the prison, your opponent should be a descendant of the gods in heaven.]

[These descendants intermarried, creating a being like him with many characteristics of gods and a powerful bloodline.]

[This descendant of the gods clearly knows how powerful you are, and with one strike he displayed the terrifying depth of a descendant of a celestial deity.]

[Using the Time Technique, the Supreme Sacred Method that Dominates Time, and the Void Technique, I disrupt time and space to prevent it from being frozen by your use of the Way of Time and Space.]

[Then he unleashes the ancient Heavenly Court Surge God's Surge Fist to engage in a fierce battle with you.]

[You cast the Return to Void Technique, using the power of nothingness to counter the Surge Divine Fist.]

[After fighting for thousands of moves, the descendant of the gods took the lead in changing his tactics, unleashing the Qi Dao Sword, hoping to severely injure you with the power of the Dao.]

[Facing the One Qi Dao Sword, you directly unleash the combined magical power of the Sun Swallowing Technique and the Nine Yin Transformation into the Moon Technique.]

[The chaotic energy filled the sky, like a vast ocean surging down, directly submerging the descendants of the gods.]

[The Bright Immortal Gold Puppet saw this and immediately took action, breaking through the Chaos Ocean and rescuing the descendant of the God.]

[After you defeat the Descendant of God, the Bright Immortal Gold Puppet will immediately declare you the winner.]

[The competition continues, and you encounter four powerful enemies one after another.]

[Among these powerful enemies, there are cultivators who practice the Dao of Intercepting, which can cut off everything and transform it into their own strength. They can intercept time and space, making your Dao of Time and Space useless.]

[There are also creatures born from the sun's core, whose intelligence and intelligence take shape, and whose blood is as blazing and dazzling as the sun.]

[The one who really puts pressure on you is one of the Suzaku Sky Demons who practices the demonic way.]

If the immortal way is to observe the way of heaven and act in accordance with heaven, then the demon way is the law of the jungle, where the fittest survive.

[Any magical power or Taoist magic can only cause damage to the Suzaku Sky Demon once; the second damage will be neutralized by the demon.]

[The Vermillion Bird Sky Demon has encountered cultivators who have learned the Fixed Void Seal and the Instant Divine Fist before. When you unleash your magical powers, they will be caught off guard, break free, and attack you fiercely.]

[You were caught off guard and suffered a minor loss, with one of your arms being torn off by the Suzaku Sky Demon.]

[But you know more than just the Way of Time and Space. In the end, you relied on the Way of Chaos and defeated the Suzaku Sky Demon with the Emperor's Falling Blade.]

After many rounds of bitter fighting, only sixteen monks, including you, remain.

[A new round of competition begins, and you are the first to appear.]

"Roar!"

With a loud roar, a silver-white monster, as big as a planet, with a body like a tiger and a head like a dragon, but with a pair of horns, which looked very strange, fell from the sky and landed on the ring.

"Pure-blooded star-eating beast!"

A trace of solemnity crossed Jiang Chuan's eyes. This tribe had been personally exterminated by the supreme being of the Fourteenth Realm, the Military Saint!
It is not difficult to see from here how powerful the Star-Eating Beast lineage is!

"Future Buddha's descendant, the avenue of chaos that I cultivate will fall into chaos if any law of order is used."

As the Star-Eating Beast opened its mouth, it transformed into a burly man with silver-white hair.

"Your way of time and space is useless to me. I advise you to admit defeat!"

"Give up? Are you worthy enough? Watch my fight!"

Jiang Chuan raised his eyebrows, clenched his five fingers, and punched the Star-Eating Beast.

Chaos Fist!

This is the peerless boxing technique he learned from the "Hunkong Divine Canon" and created by the Hunkong Divine Lord.

Jiang Chuan threw out a punch, as if a giant chaotic dragon rose from the chaotic ocean, carrying infinite divine power and heading straight for the star-eating beast.

"Well done!"

The big man transformed from the Star-Eating Beast roared and also swung his fist to meet the attack.

Boom!

It was like a star exploding, with chaotic energy and surging blood rising into the sky.

Jiangchuan and the Star-Eating Beast kept punching, and in just a few breaths, they had exchanged punches tens of thousands of times.

Feeling the huge power coming from the tiger's mouth, the Star-Eating Beast's face changed slightly.

"This human's body can actually rival mine?!"

Although the physical bodies of pure-blooded divine beasts are powerful, the physical bodies of many eleventh-level divine beasts are not weaker than immortal weapons.

Jiang Chuan practiced the "Supreme Yang Wuji Body" technique created by the Wuji Immortal King when he was still in the True Immortal stage.

Now that he has cultivated to the late stage of the Wuji Realm, his physical body has surpassed many immortal artifacts.

The body of the Star-Eating Beast is indeed powerful, but it is similar to Jiang Chuan's current body.

"Rebellion against the heavens!"

The Star-Eating Beast roared, and the Dao of Chaos burst into infinite light, flying all over the sky.

In an instant, the heaven and earth seemed to be changing, all the rules were changing, people should not live on the ground, the earth should be above, the sky should be below, water will burn, and flames can be frozen.

"Chaos God Thunder!"

Jiang Chuan let out a long roar, and the sky was filled with chaotic lightning, which rushed down towards the Star-Eating Beast like a divine waterfall.

The power of many rules changed by the law of chaos is like a big net, facing the chaotic divine thunder.

Rumble!
The Chaos Divine Thunder directly penetrated the huge net formed by the Way of Chaos and hit the Star-Eating Beast.

The body of the Star-Eating Beast exploded, and blood, flesh, and strange things flew everywhere.

Although the Star-Eating Beast is also a peak eleventh-level celestial demon, Jiang Chuan's way of chaos has taken him half a step towards the peak of the True Immortal.

There is a world of difference between the two!

What’s more, it’s only half a step away?
Seeing this, many monks also started discussing it.

"Even the Star-Eating Beast is no match for him!"

"Another win. It seems that this time the future Buddha's successor has a good chance of making it into the top three."

"It's hard to say. The remaining fourteen also have impressive backgrounds!"

[After you defeat the Star-Eating Beast, the Bright Immortal Gold Puppet declares you the winner.]

[Not long after returning to the prison, you appeared again, this time your opponent was a celestial demon.]

[The true form of this celestial demon is called the Dream Fish, a rare mythical beast born in dreams.]

[This mythical beast is born with the ability to travel through dreams and change them.]

[Because its birth method is so unique, it was once thought to not exist in the world at all.]

You've long heard of the Dream Dao, and have even visited the Immortal Stop, a place transformed from the Dao Fruit of the former Supreme Immortal King, Huanyou Xianwang. But you've never faced off against a being who practices the Dream Dao.

[This celestial demon, transformed from a dream fish, has been injured in the recent battle and will fight you in one move to determine the outcome.]

[Directly using the Dream Path, he transformed a supreme immortal formation created by the Immortal King of Ten Thousand Stars, where a multitude of stars descended upon the world to destroy the heavens and earth.]

You can't help but sigh, the myriad worlds are truly filled with powerful beings. You'd think it would be rare for a peak True Immortal like you to battle a cultivator just entering the Immortal King realm, but now you've encountered another one.

[Faced with this immortal formation created by the Ten Thousand Stars Immortal King, you directly unleash the Great Annihilation Meteor Shower.]

[The power of time and space transformed into an overwhelming meteor shower, smashing directly into the stars, destroying the heavens and the earth, creating an unparalleled and supreme immortal formation.]

[If it is a true immortal formation, even if you use all your strength, it will be difficult to break it.]

[But this is just a fairy formation evolved from the Dream Path after all, and you directly tore a corner of it.]

[Seeing you escape, the celestial demon transformed from the Dream Fish immediately admitted defeat.]

You know your victory was a fluke, your opponent was injured and couldn't give his all, but you don't care.

【After all, is there absolute fairness in this world? 】

[If you really had a father who was one of the Five Emperors like the Master of the Creation Divine Ship, you would be fighting the Ghost Axe Divine Lord right now!]

The remaining three matches also ended quickly, and you were soon on stage again.

"This is the first time I have met a future Buddha successor."

The man stepped onto the stage. He was wearing a golden imperial robe and was surrounded by golden stars. He was like a god traveling through the universe, with an indescribable loneliness in his majesty.

But the strange thing is that he was not wearing a flat crown, but a divine crown.

The divine crown is like a tower, and it seems that countless living beings live in it. The grand sound of chanting can be heard from it continuously.

"Great Liang Dynasty, Emperor Liang Xiao."

Jiang Chuan stared at Emperor Liang Xiao. In his perception, Emperor Liang Xiao was more like a moving kingdom of God than a person.

The extremely rich power of faith transformed into gods, like stars, surrounding Emperor Liangxiao, making him look as majestic as the king of gods.

"I have seen countless gods, deities, and underworld gods, but I never expected that the most powerful being practicing the divine way I have ever seen would be a cultivator of my human race."

"This emperor, with the help of the power of faith, has evolved the kingdom of God through the divine path. It is not a magic weapon but an evolution of the great way. However, it takes advantage of the rules."

Emperor Liang Xiao stood with his hands behind his back, looking down at Jiang Chuan: "Fellow Daoist Jiang, I once used the Divine Kingdom to defeat an Immortal King who had just entered the twelfth realm. Fellow Daoist's strength is not bad, but in my opinion, he is still half a level weaker than that Immortal King."

When the many cultivators in the prison heard what Emperor Liang Xiao said, they immediately took a deep breath.

"He actually defeated an Immortal King who had just entered the twelfth realm!"

"Emperor Liangxiao's divine way is truly terrifying!"

"The power of faith is difficult to gather. Emperor Liang Xiao was able to gather the power of faith to evolve the kingdom of God. It is probably more difficult than becoming an Immortal King!"

Jiang Chuan's thoughts were like a magic sword drawn from its sheath, and were not shaken at all by Emperor Liang Xiao's words.

"Whether you can win or not, you won't know until you fight."

"It seems that we have to fight after all. Gods, appear!"

Following an order from Emperor Liang Xiao, gods with three heads and eight arms, holding large conch shells, or with Kunpeng wings on their backs appeared around him in the golden light ball surrounding him.

The boundless divine power swept across the heavens and the earth, causing many monks in the prison to tremble in their hearts.

"There are many methods in Buddhism to use the power of faith to condense an incarnation, but to use the power of faith to such an extent, Fellow Daoist Liang Xiao is truly a genius of his generation." Jiang Chuan sighed as he looked at the gods in the sky.

"Although gods are born from the Great Dao, they may not be able to walk the path of the gods. They may not even understand what it means to be a god! Today, I will reveal the secrets of the way of the gods to you fellow Taoists. All gods become the Dao!"

Emperor Liang Xiao shouted loudly, and many sacred and extraordinary gods began to transform into the Tao, turning into the laws of the sky and merging into the void.

What is God?
In the beginning there was God, and God and Tao were the same.

God is the manifestation of the Tao.

God is the law, the heaven, and the Tao!
"Fellow Daoist Jiang, admit defeat!" Emperor Liang Xiao slapped out with his palm.

In an instant, the great way of heaven and earth seemed to be moved.

Endless avenues mixed with the power of the avenues descended from the sky.

Wind, rain, thunder and lightning, the five elements and four images, the eight trigrams and nine palaces, laws and punishments, etc. were all evolved.

Emperor Liang Xiao is like the king of the Great Dao who controls the Great Dao. He can create all things in a single thought, and it seems that he has everything.

powerful!
too strong!
Jiang Chuan has encountered countless cultivators in his life.

However, the gap in strength between some of these cultivators and him was too great, and they were blocked by other cultivators, such as the physical body of Immortal King Taihong.

Some cultivators' strength is completely different from his, such as the Great Wisdom Buddha who won the Dao Fruit of the Immortal King in history.

There are some whom he could call enemies.

Among these enemies, some had fought with him before, such as the incarnation of the Burial Immortal Emperor, and some had never met him, such as the Black Feather God and Emperor Yang.

Some of them have met before, but have not fought because of the huge gap in strength, such as the Red Moon Immortal King and the White-haired Demon King.

Those who had really fought against him were Emperor Gua, Emperor Qi who took over Qi Daoming's body, Emperor Zhen who was severely injured by Wensheng Avenue, and the underworld god Li Bai.

His strength is not as great as it is now when Emperor Liang Xiao is performing the divine way.

"kill!"

Facing the strongest enemy in his life, Jiang Chuan fought with all his strength.

　The company arranged for me to go on a business trip with a colleague on the 23rd. It took some time to communicate with my colleague about my ID information, booking air tickets and hotels, so I wrote a few hundred words less. Please forgive me!
　　
　
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