Cultivation: When you take things to the extreme-Chapter 1155 - 696: Black Lotus_2

The disciple was taken aback, then realized: "Yes!"

With that, he took the invitation and left, leaving Ren Baimei standing alone in the wind.

"Better late than never to mend the fold after the sheep are lost, right?"

Ren Baimei murmured to himself, gazing into the sky with a look in his eyes that was indescribable.

On the other side...

Within the Ten Thousand Dao Heavenly Palace, Xu Yang sat alone, the imposing presence of the Nine Rituals Heavenly Venerate had long been dismissed, leaving only Xuanyuan to relax both body and mind.

This battle had been exceedingly draining and burdensome for him.

After all, he was merely a Ninth Order Human Immortal who had mastered the Ten Thousand Techniques, and controlling the transformation of the Nine Forms had already exhausted much of his Mind Power. Then, taking on the commanding authority of heaven and earth, the burden was terrifyingly heavy.

Even he, after such expenditure, felt a serious damage to his Vital Energy and needed a good period of time to recuperate.

This was the downside of insufficient cultivation; external powers were ultimately external and could only serve as Dao Protection, not as the foundation for achieving true Taoism. One’s own strength was the real foundation.

Fortunately, this great battle had brought new insights; his understanding of Taoism was replenished. The Path to Heaven was already laid out at his feet, and the fundamental improvement was not a difficult task.

But before that...

Xu Yang waved his sleeve, and immediately, radiant light burst forth, condensing into a Five-Colored Lotus with a pitch-black rotation at its center.

A Black Lotus, placed within it, subjected to the Five Elements Prohibition, and refinement unto killing, yet remaining undamaged, only slowly rotating within, emitting an indescribable Demonic Nature.

Primordial Spirit Black Lotus!

This was Indra’s only legacy!

This Brahma Heavenly Emperor, whose strength was just above average among the Earth Immortals. Although he had taken back the authority of the Heavenly Emperor with the help of the Demon Path, it wasn’t truly taken back but merely the lifting of the Prohibitions imposed by the Three Forms God.

Despite this, it greatly increased his strength to the pinnacle of Earth Immortals, no less than the Ancient Great Emperors of the Divine Land. However, against the combined might of the authority of heaven and earth, and with the home-ground advantage of the Nine Rituals Heavenly Venerate, he was still no match. Xu Yang’s power limit and endurance limit, with the effects of the Skill Characteristics, far exceeded his expectations.

Thus, he was defeated as soon as he transformed into a demon!

While it is true that one’s faults can often arouse antipathy, his path to this point was inseparable from what the Three Forms God had done to him. But in such circumstances, Xu Yang had no time for consideration and could only suppress him and put all his efforts into refining him, to see if he could eradicate the Golden Immortal Demonic Fruit.

Indeed, the Golden Immortal Demonic Fruit. He also had a piece of it; otherwise, he would not have been able to break the Prohibition of the Three Forms God and take back the authority using the power of his transformation.

As for how he came by this Golden Immortal Demonic Fruit, Xu Yang wasn’t sure. But it must have been an accidental discovery. After all, with the great wars between the Divine Systems, and the shattering of the Golden Immortal Demonic Fruit, no one could be sure some fragments didn’t leak out to such a "lucky" individual.

Xu Yang had slain him, his head and corpse refined, and everything that belonged to "Indra" had been annihilated amidst the Five Colors Divine Light of the Nine Rituals Heavenly Venerate, leaving only the Primordial Spirit Black Lotus, which even the Nine Rituals Heavenly Venerate could not refine.

Therefore, Xu Yang was certain that this was the Golden Immortal Demonic Fruit once feigned by Moluo Boxun. In other words, what was known as the Golden Immortal Demonic Light, was actually Boxun’s Primordial Spirit Black Lotus.

As for why Boxun would cast his Primordial Spirit Black Lotus into this world, setting a trap to have all the Divine Systems vie for it, Xu Yang surmised two possibilities: one was to invade this world, the other was to preserve a contingency for the Xuanhuang predicament.

The former needs no explanation—it is the nature of the Demon Path: to devour other worlds to strengthen oneself.

As for the latter, it relates to the struggle for Xuanhuang.

The conflict over Xuanhuang grew more intense. The Xuanhuang Immortals of the Sky-reaching Tower applied unrelenting pressure, while the Desire Realm Demon Gods of the Ten Thousand Demon Abyss formed the "Three Heavens and Four Realms" to defensively preserve themselves.

It was plain to see that the Demon Abyss was losing ground, the Demon Gods’ power waning. Such delays could not reverse their inevitable defeat, even though they had the Three Heavens and Four Realms.

However, the Demon Abyss persisted in this way, suggesting they had something to rely on, needing time to turn defeat into victory and peril into safety.

The Primordial Spirit of the Demon Mara from the Azure Star Realm, the Bodhi Black Lotus, might be their reliance. They were delaying, waiting for the Taoist Masters and Immortals, Buddhas, and Divine Beings of the Azure Star Realm to get tainted by the Black Lotus, to bolster the power of Moluo Boxun, and then return to the Mystic Yellow Realm, leading the Demon Abyss’s army to breach the Sky-reaching Tower, to accomplish this turnaround.

This was the most reasonable explanation Xu Yang could think of and the most plausible scenario.

Of course, it was also possible that the Desire Realm had no hope of turning defeat into victory, and that Moluo Boxun had no chance of transforming the Taoist Masters and Immortals, Buddhas, and Divine Beings of Azure Star into different beings, and that the Demon Abyss’s defense of the Three Heavens and Four Realms was merely a desperate attempt to linger on.

This wasn’t impossible, but sometimes, one must prepare for the worst.

Therefore, whether it was true or not, Xu Yang had to treat it as if it were, to believe that the Divine Systems’ Taoist Masters, Immortals, Buddhas, and Divine Beings of the Azure Star Realm had all been tainted by the Primordial Spirit Black Lotus and would soon become part of Moluo Boxun, being a major aid in his counterattack on the Mystic Yellow Realm.

How to respond?

How to break the predicament?

Looking at the Primordial Spirit Black Lotus restricted by the Five Colors Divine Light, Xu Yang’s brow furrowed tightly, and he was speechless for a long time.

He had already attempted, yet even with the full force of the Nine Rituals Heavenly Venerate, he could not destroy the Black Lotus, not even damage it slightly.

He seemed to perceive a hint of "undying" presence upon this Black Lotus.

Human Immortal aspires to Dao, Earth Immortal achieves supreme Dao, Heavenly Immortal merges with Dao.

These are the three states of Immortal Gods.

But what about above the Heavenly Immortal, the Golden Immortal?

Golden Immortal creates Dao, immortal and indestructible!

Based on the information gathered from the Earth Immortal Realm, the current Supreme Mysterious Realm, and the Xuanhuang within the Great Thousand Worlds of the Azure Star Realm, Xu Yang has come to understand a little about the state of the Golden Immortal.