"Who is that?" Li Xiaoyao's eyes twitched as he pointed towards the outside of the Heavenly Gate.
It wasn't because in an environment filled with pure energy and Immortals and Gods, the demonic aura and dark-themed appearance of the demons, with the leader dressed in a white Daoist robe, was extremely conspicuous.
It wasn't like they were just watching a spectacle from outside the realm of gods or demons; there were no immortals or gods to interfere.
It was because of that face.
He clearly recognized it.
"He's probably the most famous demon in recent times," the Immortal Child said. "Whether he's a god or a demon, I mean the real kind, he's extremely rare compared to other races in the Six Realms."
"God chooses to guide immortals to godhood."
"The demons, on the other hand, open the door wide and welcome all who come. It is said that the Heavenly Demon Clan is a transformation of the gods."
"But even so, those who truly possess this talent and become gods or demons are few and far between."
"In recent years, I mean in terms of the Immortal Realm's timeline, apart from Taiqing of Shushan becoming a god, only Xuan Xiao of Qiong Hua became a demon."
"Most of the rest are demigods or demons."
The Immortal Child suddenly lowered his voice, "But there's no such saying on the surface. When you see someone who seems a bit 'Divine Aura,' just call High God.' Don't let it get out, and if it does, don't say it was me who said it."
"Ahem, let's continue with our previous topic."
"The demon then came up with a plan."
"Start with Li Shu Mountain."
"After tearing off a part of his soul and reincarnating as a human, he joined the Shu Mountain sect and eventually became its leader."
"You know the Demon Subjugation Scroll, right? He's the one who created it."
"He classified most of the methods and shortcuts to becoming an immortal as 'External Path' and 'Forbidden Technique,' and advocated not seeking immortality but focusing on entering the world to capture demons, do good deeds, and accumulate merit."
"This infuriated those Shu Mountain Sect immortals who considered themselves Heavenly Emperor's Disciple and looked down on others all day long, but they had no way to descend to the mortal realm."
The Immortal Child smiled smugly.
Li Xiaoyao's expression darkened. He was also from Mount Shu, the sect leader, and now an immortal.
The Immortal Child did not notice.
"Cutting off the supply of immortals to the divine realm is understandable, but Li Shu Mountain is isolated from the demon realm. Although demons are the precursors of demons, capturing demons and putting them in the tower will only strengthen the demons, and has nothing to do with demons."
Do you know why he did this?
"Why?" Li Xiaoyao asked.
"Because he discovered that truly powerful demons can shed their physical form in the [Demon Transformation Water] and become demons with a structure similar to that of gods," the Immortal Child said.
"So, he made a Dotty modifications to the Demon Locking Tower."
"The passage to Li Shu Mountain is now more concealed, and the [Demon Transformation Water] inside the tower has been increased."
"Didn't you say there were only Taiqing and Xuan Xiao?" Li Xiaoyao asked.
"Hey, this is a shortcut. Just like taking the Immortal Pill bestowed by the Heavenly Emperor," the Immortal Child said. "From powerful immortals and demons, they become nascent gods and demons."
"It takes most of the time to grow."
"This kind of god needs to stay outside the divine realm for a long time in order to mature as quickly as possible, and Shendu even as good as a demigod."
"But the Demon Realm is different. Everything there is chaotic, including time and space. Becoming a juvenile demon is a wiser choice."
"Using this trick, that demon cultivated no fewer than ten demons."
"Didn't the God Realm have a response?" Li Xiaoyao, the head of the Shu Mountain Sect, asked, unaware that the Demon Locking Tower had collapsed.
"A thousand years on Earth is seven days in the God Realm." The Immortal Child glared at Li Xiaoyao with the look of someone looking at an idiot. "Verification and going through the procedures all take time."
"It's just like the martial arts demonstration between the reincarnated Fei Peng God General and the Heavenly Emperor."
"Under their divine power, time within the Star Curtain is isolated from the outside world, and it is only now beginning."
"Look, they've finally moved!"
Inside the Star Curtain.
"Fei Peng, you have become so powerful in just ten days," Fuxi exclaimed.
As he spoke, he stood up, and the stringless zither on his lap rang out with a crisp sound, from which a divine sword appeared.
The sword's body was clear as autumn water, with black and white energy swirling around the blade like dragons locked in battle. The dark yin and the pure white yang were sometimes clearly distinct, and sometimes they merged into one.
The most peculiar thing is that the hilt and the blade always float half an inch in the air, seemingly broken yet connected, with a wisp of dark yellow cloud swirling around them, within which the Hetu and Luoshu diagrams and the Eight Trigrams of King Wen are faintly visible, before returning to chaos and transforming into a brilliant sea of stars, as if the entire Milky Way had been forged into a tenon and mortise joint.
"Ten days? I'm in the human realm," Jing Tian said.
"The realm of gods is a place close to the Dao, a pure and ethereal place where the Turbid Qi are expelled and the Dao is revealed," Fuxi said. "Ten days here are more precious than a thousand or ten thousand days in the human realm."
"And"
He raised the sword in his hand.
"I have lived in the human realm for just as long as you have, and I have a deeper understanding of human desires and passions than you have."
"Your Majesty, since you don't mind, I'm willing to help you achieve your goal." Jing Tian took out a crystal from his pocket and crushed it.
"Qing Leng, you admit defeat? You admit defeat?"
Along with the sound came a scene of Fuxi with a mouthful of black teeth and black blood gushing from his right eye.
At the same time, the Star Curtain became clear, and even if the Immortals and Gods withdrew their spiritual power, they could still see everything inside the Star Curtain in perfect detail.
Fuxi: You bastard!
The gods present were alright; at worst, they could use the Great Memory Modification Technique again, just like when Kui Yu defected.
But the group of Wutian demons outside the Heavenly Gate were laughing hysterically.
Even though Fuxi had only regained some of his humanity, his blood was rushing to his head, his ears were ringing, and he was somewhat unsteady on his feet.
He had never encountered such an opponent in his entire life.
Shennong was strong, but honest. He only thought of fighting back when he was bullied too much.
Nuwa was gentle and let him do as he pleased, only becoming strong when he wanted to destroy people, catching him off guard and causing his wife to die.
Chonglou, who had been stunned by Fuxi's sword strike and was about to erupt in anger, finally snapped out of it and raised his Chong Lou. "You didn't use your full strength before! Why didn't you use your sword before!"
Fuxi, already displeased, raised an eyebrow. "I am not a reckless man like you. I naturally have different ways of dealing with different opponents."
"You, who can return from nothingness in an instant and possess all kinds of extraordinary abilities, naturally need to use the zither, with my Dao Heart as the strings, to play the creation chapter and create a Pure Land in front of you."
"As for Fei Peng, who surpasses me on the path of cultivation but whose strength accumulation is not as good as Fei Peng, he should naturally follow the Way of the Sword Immortal."
"Humans are indeed a highly creative race."
The onlookers, including gods, demons, immortals, monsters, and beasts, were in an uproar.
The Heavenly Emperor Fuxi was also the progenitor of swords, and the Fuxi Sword was the first sword in the world.
The Way of the Sword Immortal that he praised was naturally extraordinary, but it originated from humans who lived at the bottom of the Six Realms.
This was even more shocking than the Heavenly Emperor admitting that Fei Peng had surpassed him on the path of cultivation.
The divine realm is rigid, with absolute order limiting all change.
The long period of peace has led most gods to not have the idea of tempering themselves.
Taiqing, who transformed from an immortal into a god, is among the most powerful gods.
Extrapolating from my own experience, it's quite normal that the Heavenly Emperor is not as good as Fei Peng was tempered in the mortal realm.
To admit that one is inferior to an immortal is a sign of the magnanimity and ease of a god.
"Use a sword against me?"
Where the Milky Way hangs upside down, Jing Tian steps forward through the shattered moonlight, and [Zhao Dan] appears out of thin air in his hand.
"I have a sword to extinguish all emotions."
The sword trembled slightly, its cold light cascading like a waterfall.
The sword of annihilation, aimed at all sentient beings, struck Fuxi.
Fuxi wielded his sword, and the two energies of black and white evolved into the stars, mountains, and rivers of the heavens.
A single sword can create a world!
Chong Lou's eyes shone brightly; he truly deserved to be called the ancestor of swordsmanship!
But then the cascading sword light turned ethereal, producing an even more mysterious change!
Fuxi flew away, revealing a Pure Land that Chong Lou could not fathom.
However, it was all in vain.
The sword light, as swift as a waterfall, pierced straight into the depths of his mind, into the humanity he had been striving to maintain and nurture.
The sun, moon, and stars on his black robe shone brightly; if he was merely a firefly before, he was now the great sun.
The unsuspecting Immortals and Gods all mistakenly believed that Fuxi had gained the upper hand.
Fuxi's brows furrowed with rage. Even though he was already close to becoming a Daoist and no longer felt anger, he still caused the Heavenly Pool to evaporate instantly.
Jing Tian took another step forward, and the sword in his hand transformed into the [Demonic Sword].
"I have a sword to shatter the calamity."
The audience outside the Star Curtain were filled with confusion; they hadn't seen any sword light.
Only those with eyes that can perceive the Dao saw the Chong Lou, intangible, and shapeless sword slashing towards the Dao.
The bewitching purple sword light multiplied from one into a thousand, then into ten thousand.
He suddenly noticed the dense bronze chains covering Fuxi's body.
A flicker of doubt crossed Fuxi's near-nothing self.
This sword was clearly aimed at the [Calamity of Dao Transformation] that had long trapped him, and his spiritual sense made him give up resistance, with the sword tip pointing downwards.
The sword shattered Fuxi's false form.
His figure began to disintegrate.
Its true form—another minor Six Realms manifest.
The sun, moon, and stars on that black robe were falling one by one, each one transforming into mountains and rivers in the Lesser Six Realms.
But that was completely different from the real Six Realms, and even from the Lesser Six Realms before Jing Tian.
All beings in the Six Realms are puppets, bound by cause and effect.
God believed He controlled everything, upholding the will of Heaven, and manipulated humans, demons, beasts, ghosts, and immortals by hanging threads from the clouds. But He Himself was also a part of this drama.
Demons believe themselves to be free and act recklessly, but their arrogance and unruliness are nothing more than a scene in the script of Heaven's Way.
The Ghost Realm is the central hub of reincarnation, yet it is also the most tightly controlled link in the Heavenly Dao's manipulation. Puppet Threads descend from the Divine Realm, passing through the Ghost Realm, weaving the cause and effect of reincarnation into a net.
Countless humans, like clay puppets, are repeatedly born, grow old, get sick, and die, pulled by Puppet Threads. Their joys and sorrows are precisely calculated, and even the trajectory of their falling tears follows the predetermined laws of nature.
The Immortal Realm borders the divine realm, with floating mountains suspended in the void, their slopes flowing with solidified Spiritual Spring. The immortals sit serenely on cloud platforms, their faces as perfect as jade carvings, yet devoid of any life.
Where the threads intertwine—the formless and intangible Dao of Heaven—a human form condensed from the Pangu's Essence, Qi, and Spirit is being reshaped within.
The Earth Vein beneath his feet was collapsing in reverse, the Mountains and Rivers were being reforged into Meteorite Divine Iron, and the plants, insects and fish were being transformed into the Pangu's Breath.
A [human], which Nuwa hoped to name her creations, a [human] like Jing Tian, is about to be born!
All beings in the Six Realms subconsciously looked up. Even the farmers tilling the yellow earth were filled with fear for this person who wanted to control everything and turn everything into a fixed Spiritual Wisdom.
In the realm of gods, Immortals and Gods, Demons and Monsters who witnessed Fuxi's Six Realms wanted to intervene.
Even Ao Xu, who was most loyal to Fuxi, had a slight doubt in his heart.
Chong Lou, who had prepared to observe from the sidelines and not join the battle, once again raised the [Shennong's Plow].
But he hesitated in the face of the confidence radiating from Jing Tian's face.
Jing Tian seemed to have anticipated this, and stepped forward again, his sword transforming into [Opening Heaven].
The Setsuna the Heaven- Sky-Opening Sword Human World, the Six Realms trembled simultaneously.
The sword has no sharp edge, yet it reflects the primordial chaos at the beginning of time.
"I have a sword that can split the heavens."
Jing Tian's sword strokes swept across the Human World and illusion, even the Dao evaporated before him, and even Chong Lou could not catch them.
Spiderweb-like cracks appeared on the humanoid's body.
"Oh, still not enough?"
He raised his hand, and the [Opening Heaven] transformed into a stream of light that entered his brow.
The next moment, [the person] transformed into Pangu once again.
His body began to swell, his skin became the Dadi, his blood became rivers, his bones became mountains, and his eyes became the sun and moon.
This is a purer form of Pangu than Fuxi, yet it retains the will of Jing Tian.
"Since you wish to transform into a human," his voice echoed in every corner of the Six Realms, "Then I will assist you in creating the heavens."
The phantom of the Sky-Opening Axe condensed in his palm, and wherever the axe blade swept across, the barrier of the Lesser Six Realms shattered with a deafening roar.
The human form that Fuxi had just condensed was split open by the axe light. The pure energy rose to become the sky, and the Turbid Qi sank to become the earth. The mountains and rivers were rearranged into a more perfect form.
In Chong Lou's all-seeing eyes, the two realms of the Six Realms were merging:
Cities in the human realm rose from the ground, connecting with the floating mountains of the Immortal Realm;
The lava from the demon realm flowed into the Wangchuan River in the Ghost Realm, transforming into a warm Spiritual Spring;
The roots of ancient trees from the Monster Realm penetrated the Heavenly Steps of the divine realm, blossoming into Seven-Colored Flower.
Fuxi's last vestige of consciousness wandered at the edge of the Six Realms.
He saw the Heavenly Dao, which he had transformed into, dissolving, and being replaced by a freer and more complete law.
Those Seven Emotions and Six Desires he had once deliberately suppressed, then cherished but which kept slipping away, are now transforming into spring rain to nourish all things.
He looked toward Shennong's return.
"Brother."
These words were not uttered before they could be spoken.
"This is the true Six Realms." Jing Tian's voice gradually faded away. "The Heaven's Evolution Forty-Nine; simply One Escapes. All Things Have Their Own Way."
"You cannot be destroyed, so let you return to the Six Realms to nourish all living beings."
In the original timeline, the fate of Xi Yao, who was stripped of her physical form and whose spirit nourished the divine tree, flashed through Jing Tian's mind, causing him to reveal a hint of pleasure in his words.
But no God became hostile because of this.
The Setsuna they saw the Pangu's Manifestation, they felt nothing but reverence.
Even the arrogant god who once spoke out against Pangu's lingering resentment in the original timeline understood what fear was and how terrifying Pangu's Power of Creation was.
Chong Lou reached out and caught a falling Starlight, which was Fuxi's last sigh.
The Starlight reflects the beings of the Six Realms: mortals embrace and weep, immortals play the zither and sing, Demons and Monsters drink together under the moon, and gods sing and dance.
They are no longer manipulated pawns, but the true rulers of the Six Realms.
Jing Tian walked towards the divine tree, and with each step he took, his figure shrank and became more and more ordinary.
At the top of the divine tree, Xi Yao, Xue Jian, Nine Heavens Xuannü, Kui Yu, Long Kui, Nu Ba, Zi Xuan, and Hua Ying, Hua Ying had transformed into human form, were all waiting for him.
"Heavenly Emperor!"
Suddenly, all the Immortals and Gods knelt down before Fei Peng.
"If you were to become the Heavenly Emperor, I believe you would be more suitable than Fuxi," Chong Lou said.
Jing Tian smiled and shook his head, then threw a sword behind him.
That was the beginning of creation.
After the creation of the world, he transformed into Fuxi once again.
The Fuxi Sword landed and took form, and an emperor dressed in Nine-Patterned Robes, wearing Twelve-Beaded Crown, with Heaven and Earth Jade hanging at his waist and Cloud-Patterned Shoes, walked toward the Immortals and Gods.
He has the same appearance as Jing Tian, but his every move carries an unchanging rhythm and boundless majesty.
He seems to be the embodiment of the term "Heavenly Emperor" and "Lord of the Six Realms".
"Heavenly Emperor!"
Immortals and Gods bowed down in submission.
Ao Xu, who was most loyal to Fuxi, was among them. He couldn't help but sigh in his heart, "This is a god, a true god, a perfect god!"