Great Freedom Heavenly Son!

After spreading the Dharma at Poison Wolf Ridge.

In the time that follows.

Zhou Yuan, with practiced ease, continued to promote the Earth Immortal Lineage throughout the Eastern Continent of the Primordial World.

One by one, the foundations were laid.

Immediately, strands of fortune gathered together.

He did some quick calculations.

A sigh escaped his lips:

"Spreading the Dharma eighty-one times."

"Too much of a good thing is bad."

Eighty-one times is the number of days in the universe.

Zhen Yuanzi spread the Dharma in the Western Continent for forty years, and Zhou Yuan promoted the true Orthodox Dharma of the Earth Immortals for forty-one years.

"Just one more time."

On this day, he descended from the clouds.

As before, he addressed the sentient beings who came to listen to his teachings, propagating the true Orthodox Dharma of the Earth Immortals.

This lecture spans another three thousand years.

Just as Zhou Yuan was about to finish his sermon.

Suddenly, a being in the audience spoke up and asked:

"May I ask, Dao Lord, that the path of immortal cultivation involves absorbing the pure and spiritual energy of heaven and earth?"

"Time nurtures immortals, and immortals breathe in spiritual energy, but the energy of the world will eventually run out."

"When that time comes, the Dharma's End will arrive, and the world will decline."

"What use is our cultivation?"

"What use are the wondrous arts of immortality?"

As he spoke.

The scene of the sermon was slowly fading away, and in an instant, the entire space and time seemed to be split apart.

Only Zhou Yuan and the Daoist being opposite him remained.

Zhou Yuan's heart sank, his gaze becoming incredibly deep.

He hadn't even noticed this person's arrival.

Even with the Heavenly Machine Chessboard in hand.

The causal threads within the Grand Void remained completely undisturbed.

'Quasi-Saint Heavenly Venerate'

The one ahead must be a Quasi -Quasi-Saint Heavenly Venerate.

Only Quasi-Saint Heavenly Venerate could seize a segment of spacetime without his knowledge, and only Quasi-Saint Heavenly Venerate could conceal the Heavenly Secrets right under his nose and make a silent move.

'Dragons? No, those old dragons wouldn't be so reckless.'

Moreover, they were plagued by Calamity Qi and were unwilling to take action against Zhou Yuan, the pioneer of the Acquired Merchant Dao, without absolute certainty.

After all, Zhou Yuan's merits were not to be underestimated.

'I have always been kind to others, and after many years of cultivating my virtue in this Primordial World, I have few enemies.'

Who exactly wants to harm me?

They rummaged through it, rummaged through it.

Zhou Yuan slowly began to have a guess.

That leaves only one possibility...

"Fellow Daoist, your words are erroneous!"

"The path to immortality is long and arduous, but it is all for the sake of seeking transcendence."

"This transcendence is not the transcendence of one person, but the transcendence of all beings, the transcendence of the world."

"If one day I transcend this world, this realm will naturally become immortal in the Boundless Chaos Sea."

"All living beings are investments of Heaven and Earth. If they do not cultivate themselves, make progress, or transcend, they will be going against the original intention of Heaven and Earth."

Zhou Yuan waved his Nine-Section Bamboo Staff, scattering a shower of clear light across the ground.

Amidst the endless divine light, he spoke softly:

"The Mystic Gate Immortal Path is the path for all living beings, the path for their progress."

"When all living beings progress, then heaven and earth progress."

"Why do you say that the path to immortality is useless? That cultivation is useless?"

Upon hearing this, the being opposite shook his head slightly and chuckled.

"Just like that old bastard on Kunlun Mountain, all he says is mysterious and absurd, not a single word of it is true."

He spoke softly, and rolling dark clouds and endless darkness swept Grand Void.

Kunlun Mountain, old bastard?

Is it Taiqing, Yuqing, or Shangqing?

Zhou Yuan's brow twitched.

He secretly became wary.

Could this being have once ascended Buzhou Mountain, discussed Dao with the Three Pure Ones, and then retreated unscathed?

Before he could think any further...

The person opposite him chuckled and said in a cold voice:

"Heaven creates all things to nourish all living beings, but all living beings only know how to take and not how to give back."

"If things continue like this, how can one talk about transcending worldly concerns?"

"I'm afraid that before any living being can transcend chaos, this world will face immeasurable calamity and return to nothingness."

The chill in his words seemed to freeze time and space.

Zhou Yuan's expression remained calm:

"According to what you have said, how can one attain liberation?"

How can one achieve transcendence?

The person opposite looked up and glanced at Zhou Yuan.

The sound seemed to contain endless twists and turns of the Dao:

"Then, of course, it's to kill."

"Kill! Kill! Kill!"

"Only by killing all living beings can one attain enlightenment."

A chilling murderous intent shook the universe, and an overwhelming evil swept through time and space.

Zhou Yuan felt wisps of energy rising up, and even his Dao Body felt a chilling cold.

What a powerful ominous aura!

But within Zhou Yuan's sight.

The being opposite also revealed its form.

He wore a white robe, had long black hair, and always had a smile on his lips, like a gentle and refined gentleman.

However, one is surrounded by suffering such as birth, old age, sickness, death, Not obtaining what one wants, Meeting those one dislikes, Parting from loved ones, and the Aggregates of existence.

All beings suffer, yet he alone sits upon the dark lotus throne, gentle and refined like jade.

"The Twelfth-Grade World -World-Destroying Black Lotus"

"So it was the Great Freedom Heavenly Son Imperial Carriage himself descending upon us."

Zhou Yuan sighed softly:

"This humble Daoist is merely a minor Innate Dao Lord."

"How can we trouble the Demon Ancestor's magic?"

The Great Freedom Heavenly Son Emperor scrutinized the Daoist priest before him and chuckled softly:

"Fellow Daoist, you underestimate your influence."

"In the primordial era, he manifested and contended with the Ancestor Dragon, establishing the Acquired Merchant Dao and pioneering the Earth Immortal Lineage of the Mystic Gate Immortal Path."

"If I hadn't come here in person, how could I have witnessed your brilliance?"

"How can that demonstrate the sincerity of our Devil Dao?"

Looking at the Great Freedom Heavenly Son before him, Zhou Yuan felt a slight pain in his forehead.

Seeing that Zhou Yuan did not speak.

The Great Freedom Heavenly Son gently rubbed his chin and continued:

"Fellow Daoist wishes to transcend, but this Worldly Heaven nurtures far too many beings."

"When the essence of the Worldly Heaven is depleted, it will face immeasurable calamities. After the immeasurable calamities, perhaps it will return to nothingness."

"At that time, let alone transcendence, even survival will be a concern."

"Why not join my Devil Dao and transcend with us?"

Zhou Yuan snorted coldly:

"Could it be that they want to kill all living beings?"

"All sentient beings perish; where then can liberation be found?"

The Great Freedom Heavenly Son chuckled:

"Naturally, it will lead to the destruction of the world."

A surge of fanaticism and madness rose in his eyes:

"World-Destroying Harvest"

"Let's emulate Pangu creating the world."

"Once the Worldly Heaven develops to a certain stage again, it will once again carry out the act of world destruction."

"After endless ages, we will surely find the Great Dao of Transcendence."

"And the last world, the last living beings, will also be immortal and eternal."

"This is Great Merit."

Zhou Yuan looked at the gentle-looking young man before him and felt a chill in his heart.

The Devil Dao.

It truly is the Devil Dao.

This is the path of sacrificing the world with blood and reaping the rewards of countless realms.

The path of immortality is one of gradual and subtle harvesting, seeking resources through development.

The Devil Dao is blatant, reaping lives through bloodshed.

It treats the world and all living beings as piglets to be raised.

"Fellow Daoist, do you believe that our Devil Dao can achieve transcendence through this action?"

The Great Freedom Heavenly Son looked at Zhou Yuan with a leisurely air.

Under the dangerous gaze of the Great Freedom Heavenly Son.

Zhou Yuan sighed softly:

"Those who walk different paths cannot make plans together!"