Druid Fairy

Chapter 228 All Living Beings
Deep within the void, a gaze filled with resentment and destructive intent clung to the destiny of the Great Yu Divine Capital like a leech.

It was cold and lifeless, devoid of any emotion, as if it were merely examining an object about to be decomposed.

"Immortal Alliance, Hall of Punishments."

Within the Daoist world, the azure dragon of the earth veins, which had just devoured the Sky-Patrolling Pagoda and was refining its laws, suddenly opened its crimson-gold eyes and let out a suppressed roar.

Unlike the domineering and flamboyant Lord of the Pill Tower, the owner of this gaze possessed a more restrained and dangerous power.

Li Pingcan did not choose to leave the seclusion immediately. The seeds had just been planted and needed time to take root and sprout. Before experiencing real storms, they needed to absorb as much sunshine as possible.

With a thought, the entire Druid dojo began to operate silently.

That pure power of faith from hundreds of millions of people was no longer merely nourishment for the temple, but transformed into an invisible golden veil that gently covered the entire territory of the Great Yu Dynasty.

This veil blocked the spying from the Central Plains and also made the fortune of the entire dynasty more restrained and harmonious. From the outside, it looked like a piece of unpolished jade covered in dust, with no trace of its previous soaring brilliance.

After finishing all this, Li Pingcan closed his eyes again, his mind completely immersed in the center of the dojo, in the forging of the nine-story divine tower that was based on the earth veins, contained in the heavenly lake, and topped with the Dao fire.

He knew that the next confrontation would inevitably be a clash between ideals and the Great Dao. He needed an artifact powerful enough to bear the will of his entire Daoist sect, to articulate his "reason" to the lofty Immortal Alliance.

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Seven days later.

Outside the east gate of the capital of the Great Yu Dynasty, on the official road, a figure slowly walked towards the city.

The man was dressed in a black Taoist robe, which was completely plain and without any decoration.

His face was ordinary, the kind of face that would blend into a crowd and be easily lost. Only his eyes were black as ink, as if they could devour any light that came near.

He didn't use any magic power; he was just like an ordinary ascetic, measuring the ground beneath his feet step by step.

However, wherever he went, the insects by the roadside fell silent instantly, and the fallen leaves dancing in the wind seemed to be frozen by an invisible force, stiffly falling to the ground. An invisible "order" was quietly replacing the original "nature" of this world with his footsteps.

This person was none other than Mo Yuan, the "Heavenly Law Envoy" of the Punishment Hall of the Immortal Alliance.

The moment he stepped through the gates of the capital, Li Mengze, who was lecturing at the Natural Academy, felt a sudden jolt in his heart. The originally smooth and unobstructed power of his Dao Fruit suddenly showed a slight, almost imperceptible stagnation. He looked up at the east of the city, his brows furrowing slightly.

At the camp on the outskirts of Beijing, Li Mengjin, who was practicing battle formations, let out a soft mournful cry from the ancient sword "Shadow Fang" in his hand.

He turned abruptly, his gaze sharp as lightning, shooting towards the source of the aura that made him extremely uncomfortable.

Inside the Hundred Herbs Hall, the rare and exotic flowers and herbs that Li Mengyue was tending to suddenly drooped their branches and leaves, as if they had encountered a natural enemy and were trembling.

"What a terrifying aura..."

For the first time, a solemn expression appeared on her usually cool and aloof face.

Mo Yuan ignored the three powerful divine thoughts directed at him. He walked into the capital city, which had been completely transformed by spiritual energy. The people on the streets were full of vitality and their faces were filled with happy smiles. The birds that built their nests under the eaves had also been imbued with a trace of spirituality.

There was no emotion in those lifeless eyes.

He walked into a teahouse and chose a seat by the window.

At the next table, several merchants from all over the country were talking excitedly.

"Brother Wang, you've come to the right place! The capital city is now a paradise on earth! Just smell the air here, one breath and you feel several years younger!"

"Who says otherwise! My old leg pain was cured without any medicine in just half a month after I came to the temple! It's all thanks to the guardian deity!"

"That's not all! I heard that the Natural Academy is going to open its doors to accept disciples again! My son was found to have spiritual roots a few days ago, and I'm planning to go bankrupt to send him to learn immortal arts! In the future, he can serve the guardian deity and bring glory to our ancestors!"

The teahouse was filled with gratitude and admiration for the Li family.

Mo Yuan picked up his teacup and took a small sip.

"To steal the essence of heaven and earth to feed mortal ants is to put the cart before the horse."

"To gather the faith of the people to serve the selfish desires of one person is to commit the crime of stealing from Heaven."

In his heart, he coldly pronounced guilt on Li Pingcan and on this entire thriving dynasty.

His trip was not for investigation, but for trial. The so-called investigation was merely to find a few plausible pieces of evidence to support a pre-written verdict.

He put down his teacup, and his figure slowly faded away until he disappeared without a trace.

The next moment, he appeared outside the mountain gate of the Natural Academy.

He looked at the mountain range, which appeared even more beautiful and spiritually vibrant under the nourishment of the spiritual energy, and at the young students coming and going, their eyes filled with thirst for knowledge and hope. A barely perceptible hint of mockery flashed in his eyes.

"Using 'nature' as a pretext, yet doing things that are actually about 'human beings conquering nature,' is laughable."

He didn't force his way in, but instead slowly walked up the stone steps leading up the mountain.

With each step he took, a plant within the academy withered silently. It wasn't that its vitality was stripped away, but rather that some higher-level law had directly declared its "death."

On the preaching platform, Li Mengze's face instantly turned extremely ugly. In a flash, he appeared at the mountain gate, blocking the black-clad man who was continuing to climb upwards.

"Who are you? Why have you damaged the plants and trees of my academy without cause?" Li Mengze asked in a deep voice, his body swirling with the Dao of Life and Death, extremely vigilant.

Mo Yuan stopped in his tracks, his dark eyes looking at him quietly: "Immortal Alliance, Mo Yuan."

He cut to the chase: "Do you know your crime?"

Li Mengze was taken aback upon hearing this, then said coldly, "What crime have I committed?"

"You used the power of the Dao Fruit to interfere with the life and death of mortals and disrupt the cycle of heaven and earth. This is a crime."

Mo Yuan's voice was devoid of any warmth or cynicism, "You established an academy and widely disseminated cultivation methods, causing the boundaries between mortals and cultivators to become blurred and shaking the foundation of the immortal path. This is your second crime."

"You have gathered students, only preaching the ways of your Li family, disregarding the laws of the Immortal Alliance, and establishing your own faction with ulterior motives. This is the third crime."

"He shall be punished for all three crimes, his cultivation shall be abolished, and he shall be imprisoned in the 'Avici Hell' for eternity."

These words enraged Li Mengze, who laughed in response: "This is utterly absurd! I preach and teach so that people may have the power to protect themselves; I balance life and death so that this land may be more harmonious! If the foundation of immortality is built on ignorance and isolation, then such a foundation is better off not being used at all!"

"Stubborn and unyielding".

Mo Yuan shook his head, seemingly losing interest in continuing the conversation. He slowly raised his right hand and gently pointed at Li Mengze.

This finger strike had no magical fluctuations, no earth-shattering aura.

But in Li Mengze's eyes, the whole world seemed to lose all its color under this one finger. All things in heaven and earth, spring, summer, autumn and winter, all the laws were forcibly erased at this moment, leaving only a cold, lifeless, and inviolable "reason".

"You shall be suppressed."

This is the "Heavenly Decree" from the Hall of Punishments!
"not good!"

Alarm bells rang in Li Mengze's mind, and he activated the Dao Fruit of Life and Death behind him without hesitation.

A giant black and white Tai Chi diagram emerged, with the forces of prosperity and decline flowing in a perfect cycle, attempting to obliterate the power of this "heavenly law".

An incredible scene happened.

That seemingly indestructible cycle of life and death, upon encountering that decree, was as if it had met its nemesis.

The emerald green light representing "life" quickly dimmed; the pitch-black Daoist aura representing "death" was also suppressed by another, purer form of "end".

"puff!"

Li Mengze was struck as if by lightning, and he spat out a mouthful of blood. The illusory image of the Dao Fruit behind him shook violently and almost collapsed!

With just one finger, he was severely injured!
"Big brother!"

"stop!"

Two loud shouts rang out simultaneously.

A sword light, sharper than any other, seemingly capable of cleaving mountains and rivers, pierced through the air from the direction of the main camp on the outskirts of the capital, aiming straight for Mo Yuan's back.

A holy, moon-like radiance, capable of purifying all things, descended from the direction of the Hundred Herbs Palace, enveloping Li Mengze and stabilizing his Dao Fruit, which was on the verge of shattering.

Li Mengjin and Li Mengyue made their move at the same time!
Mo Yuan, however, seemed to have eyes in the back of his head. He didn't even glance at the sword light, but simply flicked his sleeve.

"Qiang!"

With a deafening clang of metal clashing, Li Mengjin's supreme sword strike, powerful enough to sever a dragon's vein, was actually blocked by that seemingly light and airy sleeve, unable to advance an inch!

"You use your sword to protect, yet you don't realize that protection itself must also follow the rules. Your sword has gone awry."

Mo Yuan flicked his finger, and an invisible force rebounded along the sword. Li Mengjin groaned, his figure being thrown back a hundred feet in mid-air, his right hand holding the sword splitting open and bleeding profusely.

He couldn't even break through the opponent's protective magic!

At the same time, Li Mengyue's divine radiance of Taiyin, which could heal all things, was blocked by an invisible barrier just as it was about to fall on Li Mengze.

"The Taiyin Sacred Body is originally the purest body of heaven and earth, but you have used it to interfere with mortal illnesses, thus becoming tainted by too much karma. Your path has become corrupted."

Mo Yuan commented casually, as if a teacher were instructing three good-for-nothing students.

With every gesture, he suppressed the three prodigies of the Li family!

This is the terrifying power of the "Heavenly Law Envoy" of the Immortal Alliance!
He ignored the three young people who he considered "misguided," and instead looked up, his gaze piercing through the mists of the academy and landing directly on the seemingly ordinary Tingtao Pavilion.

"Li Pingcan, how much longer are we going to keep watching?"

For the first time, Mo Yuan's voice carried a hint of emotion, a kind of indifference that came from discovering an opponent of equal caliber.

“Your children have bought you enough time. Now, let me see just how solid the foundations of your ‘new order’ truly are.”

As soon as he finished speaking, there was finally a response from the direction of Tingtao Xiaozhu.

There was no earth-shattering pressure, no world-destroying momentum.

Only one gentle voice resonated in the heart of every living being in the capital.

"Order is never defined by lofty laws, but by every life living on this land."

As this sound rang out, the entire capital of the Great Yu Dynasty, and even the entire Great Yu Dynasty itself, underwent a wondrous transformation.

Inside the Natural Academy, the thousands of students sat cross-legged without prior arrangement and began practicing the breathing techniques taught by Li Mengze.

Although each of their individual strengths was weak, when combined, they formed a powerful and inexhaustible life force that empowered Li Mengze, rapidly restoring his weakened state.

At border passes, in cities and villages, countless "Mountain and River Guard" soldiers on patrol drew their swords simultaneously, blades pointing skyward. The collective will to protect them coalesced into invisible sword intent, traversing mountains and rivers, and merging entirely into the ancient sword "Shadow Fang" in Li Mengjin's hand!
"Buzz!"

The Shadow Fang Ancient Sword burst forth with an unprecedentedly brilliant light, and its weight of mountains and rivers seemed to have a tendency to contend with the power of Mo Yuan's "Heavenly Laws"!
Meanwhile, the Hundred Herbs Hall branches scattered throughout the dynasty, countless people saved by the Li family's elixirs, and countless spirits enlightened by Li Mengyue, at this moment, offered their most sincere prayers and blessings to the holy maiden under the moonlight from the bottom of their hearts.

This blessing power transformed into a sky full of holy light rain, breaking through Mo Yuan's law blockade and merging entirely into Li Mengyue's body, making the illusory osmanthus tree behind her incredibly solid, as if it were about to become real!

For the first time, a hint of emotion appeared in Mo Yuan's lifeless eyes.

This is neither magic nor supernatural power.

This is...the human heart!
It was the will of the entire dynasty that resonated with the three siblings of the Li family at this moment!
"Is this... your path?"

Mo Yuan muttered to himself, "To bear the hopes of an entire nation with your own body... you are courting death!"

"It doesn't matter what you say."

Li Pingcan's figure quietly appeared in front of the three children.

He was still dressed in a blue robe, with a gentle and refined demeanor, like a scholar who couldn't even kill a chicken.

But the moment he appeared, the laws of the entire world seemed to have found their anchor.

The wind was no longer still, the clouds began to move, and the plants that had been "killed" by Mo Yuan's laws were visibly rejuvenated!

Li Pingcan looked at Mo Yuan and calmly said, "You use the laws of the Immortal Alliance as heavenly rules to judge all living beings. Then I will use the wishes of millions of people as my basis to ask you whether these heavenly rules are fair!"

As soon as he finished speaking, he slowly raised his right hand.

Inside the Druid's dojo, the nine-story divine tower that had been completely forged shook violently!
The next moment, a colossal tower made entirely of crimson gold and glazed glass, with a dragon of earth veins coiled on its body, a vast celestial lake within its interior, and a blazing Dao fire burning at its top, appeared above the capital city!

The name of the tower is 'All Beings'.

Li Pingcan's voice resounded throughout the heavens.

"Please... take a look!"

(End of this chapter)