Great Battle with Eastern Emperor Taiyi

Eastern Emperor Taiyi's arrival jolted East King Gong from his joy.

Taiyi's coming shocked him, but after a moment's thought, though unexpected, it was within reason.

In all heaven and earth, perhaps only three beings could sense the Fusang Tree's emergence most keenly: Di Jun, Taiyi, and East King Gong.

In another's hands, the Fusang Tree was merely a top-tier Innate Spiritual Root.

But in these three hands, it could verify the Great Dao, allowing them to comprehend their own path through the tree and advance further in cultivation.

East King Gong, holding himself as the Head of Male Immortals, spoke first: "Taiyi, this tree already has an owner. Withdraw, please."

East King Gong was proud. Eastern Emperor Taiyi was prouder still.

He said directly: "Spiritual treasures and roots belong to those fated to obtain them. Not only have you not claimed the Fusang Tree yet, but even if you had, so what?"

Eastern Emperor Taiyi clasped his left hand behind his back, extended his right hand forward and upward, and an ancient bell of chaotic, dark yellow hue appeared in his palm.

Outside the bell, sun, moon, stars, Earth, Water, Fire, and Wind swirled around it. Inside, mountains, rivers, and the Myriad Races of the Primordial World seemed to flicker into view.

This bell was the Innate Supreme Treasure, the Chaos Bell, also called the Eastern Emperor Bell.

"I believe I am that fated one. Do you have an objection?"

His voice carried no emotion, as if he simply took it as fact.

As the saying goes, like repels like, opposites attract.

This could also apply to the Great Dao.

Both men's Daos were of the yang nature, both were Great Emperor sovereigns, both lords of their own domains.

Naturally, neither could stand the other.

East King Gong wasted no more words. The struggle for the Great Dao was no trivial matter. If words could settle it, there would have been no Immortal-Demon War, nor would Devil Ancestor Luohu have dissolved into the Dao.

In his right hand, the Pure Yang Sword appeared. Above his head, the Purple Sun Bell.

The Pure Yang Sword and Purple Sun Bell were East King Gong's companion spiritual treasures.

The Pure Yang Sword was a top-tier Innate Spiritual Treasure born from the Great Dao's pure yang law.

The Purple Sun Bell, also called the Purple Sun Dawn Bell or Creation Bell, was also known as the Jingyang Bell because East King Gong resided in Jingyang Palace. It was an Innate Spiritual Treasure conceived by the Great Dao from the purple rays of the Sun Star's first rising when the Primordial World first opened.

And now, battle between East King Gong and Eastern Emperor Taiyi was about to erupt!!!

East King Gong attacked first, knowing the Chaos Bell was an Innate Supreme Treasure with unmatched defensive power.

It possessed the might to suppress the "Primordial World," the force to overturn "the Heavens and Time," the power to evolve "Heavenly Dao mysteries," and the ability to refine "Earth, Water, Fire, and Wind."

The Chaos Bell was too all-encompassing—defense without peer, offense without peer, suppression without peer.

All who had witnessed the Chaos Bell could not help but sigh, wondering how such a treasure could exist in the world.

Such a treasure should not exist in the world at all.

East King Gong took a step forward, already leaping before Taiyi. He swung his sword, and the pure yang law swept up the world's spiritual energy, forming a massive beam of light that slashed toward Eastern Emperor Taiyi.

Where the sword light passed, space trembled.

The sword light pressed forward without hesitation, cutting through where Eastern Emperor Taiyi stood, yet it seemed to inflict no real damage.

Eastern Emperor Taiyi's figure gradually grew illusory.

The next moment, Eastern Emperor Taiyi struck directly from behind East King Gong.

This was the Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal realm: "Great" meant boundless, "Net" meant encompassing all. Great Net, boundless, embracing all existence. Stepping into the River of Time and Space, eternal and free in all times and spaces.

Just now, Eastern Emperor Taiyi had wrapped the sword light and stepped into the River of Time and Space. The sword light struck the river, stirring up waves, but the river smoothed them over.

Then he leaped out of the River of Time and Space and attacked from behind.

Eastern Emperor Taiyi vibrated the Chaos Bell in his hand with his magic power.

"Dong!"

The bell's sound carried boundless law-force, killing toward East King Gong.

Law-force mixed with Sun God Light, converging into a torrent.

The bell's roar was vast and mighty, its majestic power dimming heaven and earth, shaking the cosmos, shattering the void.

Yet the bell's sound also held the void in place, preventing collapse. For a moment, the space around the two was sealed.

The might of the Innate Supreme Treasure was fully revealed.

East King Gong swung the Pure Yang Sword in his hand, pushing the Purple Mansion Immortal Method to its limit. The Pure Yang Sword radiated ten thousand feet of light, forming countless Sword Qi laws that killed toward Taiyi.

The torrent of Sun God Light collided with the pure yang sword light.

It was as if another sun had appeared between heaven and earth.

"Boom"

Explosions thundered without cease.

Yang against yang—only one could live, and the other must die.

East King Gong's Purple Sun Bell fell into his left hand as he urged it, the bell's chime accompanied by a violet blazing sun that pierced the heavens, instantly sealing off the space around Eastern Emperor Taiyi.

The purple sun hung in the void, descending above Taiyi's head.

Taiyi hastily waved a single hand, True Sun Fire instantly gathering in his palm, coalescing into a Golden Crow with form but no spirit.

The Golden Crow collided with the purple sun; both dissipated.

Taiyi was shocked—was this a case of the hunter finally being hunted?

He himself was an Innate Deity born from the Sun Star within the Great Dao Law.

A master of fire, no, an ancestor of fire.

Yet today he had nearly been wounded by a purple sun.

Purple sun—was itself fire!!

In an instant, Taiyi erupted in fury, unleashing his full power.

He rose into the air, Dao resonance swirling around him, the domineering Sun God Light shrouding the sky above Tanggu Valley.

Behind him, the vast Golden Crow Dharma Image hovered, distantly connected to the Sun Star, Golden Crow Fire seeming to set the sky ablaze.

And this was merely the residual radiance of the Golden Crow Fire.

The Chaos Bell, driven by his Great Magical Power, began to expand, then hovered above Taiyi's head.

Outside the Chaos Bell, Earth, Water, Fire, and Wind evolved; within the bell, fluorescent light swirled as various Great Dao Laws manifested.

The time and space of Tanggu Valley were now completely sealed and suppressed by the Chaos Bell.

East King Gong no longer held back.

He put away the Purple Sun Bell, for against Taiyi it was of little use, completely countered by Taiyi and the Chaos Bell.

A Twelve-grade White Lotus appeared beneath his feet, lifting East King Gong to the same height as Taiyi.

In his right hand he held the Pure Yang Sword, while his left hand grasped a yellow-red golden staff, a dragon head holding a Treasure Pearl in its mouth.

The lotus platform was the Innate Spiritual Treasure Twelve-grade Pure World White Lotus, and the golden staff was the Innate Spiritual Treasure Dragon Head Golden Staff bestowed by the Dao Ancestor.

The Pure World White Lotus was born from the power of creation, able to purify the world's foul qi, calm the mind, and settle the spirit—a supreme treasure for cultivation, and also a defensive spiritual treasure.

To be precise, among the four great lotus platforms of the Primordial Wilderness, aside from their inherent functions, each was a top-tier Innate Spiritual Treasure in terms of defense.

The two began a great battle within Tanggu Valley.

Then they leaped from Tanggu Valley onto the River of Time and Space.

Unfortunately, the time and space around Tanggu Valley had already been suppressed by the Chaos Bell.

Even the River of Time and Space was suppressed.

Thus, East King Gong found it increasingly difficult and exhausting to leap and fight within the River of Time and Space.

Meanwhile, Eastern Emperor Taiyi moved freely, attacking East King Gong from any temporal or spatial dimension.

Both were Quasi-Saint Great Powers; normally, the River of Time and Space was where they would each display their techniques and Daos.

But now, East King Gong grew more and more frustrated as he fought.

The frustration of having countless methods yet being unable to use them.

East King Gong knew he could not continue like this, or he would not leave intact today.

He urged the Dragon Head Golden Staff in his hand; the Treasure Pearl in the dragon's mouth suddenly radiated brilliant light, shining across the River of Time and Space.

Eastern Emperor Taiyi suddenly felt dizzy, sharp pain stabbing into his Primordial Spirit—he had not expected the Treasure Pearl to attack his Primordial Spirit directly.

Ignoring the pain in his Primordial Spirit, he increased his magical power output to the Chaos Bell.

The Chaos Bell possessed the ability to rebound any treasure or divine weapon's attack and ignore all divine ability and spell damage.

The bell's toll echoed through the River of Time and Space.

"A good opportunity."

Seeing the Chaos Bell's power to suppress and seal time and space weaken, East King Gong threw the Dragon Head Golden Staff into the air and lightly patted the dragon head.

The dragon head transformed into a Golden Giant Dragon, carrying the Law-Breaking Light of imperial destruction, charging at the Chaos Bell.

The two collided.

The River of Time and Space churned, no longer stirring up ripples but surging waves.

The shockwave from the collision blasted both of them far away, tumbling through the River of Time and Space.

The rebound attack from the Chaos Bell followed swiftly, but East King Gong had no strength to intercept it and could only passively let the Twelve-grade White Lotus block it.

Another strike landed, and East King Gong was knocked over.

In terms of defense, the lotus platform was naturally no match for the Chaos Bell.

Now he felt pain in all his internal organs, the Five Qi in his Chest in turmoil.

Yet he could only endure the pain.

Because time waits for no one.

The River of Time, suppressed and sealed by the Chaos Bell, was finally breached.

Quickly reorienting himself, he returned to Tanggu Valley.

But Eastern Emperor Taiyi was nowhere to be found.

The two of them had fought earlier within the River of Time, and who knew where that clash had swept them off to.

He himself had left a mark on the Fusang Tree in Tanggu Valley, allowing him to arrive there in a single step.

Taiyi, however, had no such mark here, so after leaving the River of Time, he would not be in this place.

East King Gong swiftly approached the Fusang Tree, channeling his immense power to uproot it and move it back to the Purple Mansion.

But then a voice sounded behind him.

"Please turn around, treasure!"

East King Gong inwardly cried out in alarm, hastily offering up the Twelve Grades Pure World Lotus Throne as he turned to face the enemy.

The Dragon Head Golden Staff in his left hand rotated, and the Treasure Pearl once again shot forth a beam of light, shining upon Taiyi.

Taiyi saw that the Chaos Bell was entangled with the Golden Giant Dragon formed from the dragon head.

He could only endure the pain, urging the Golden Crow Dharma Image forward, starlight flickering all around his body as he resisted the light of the Treasure Pearl.

The Immortal Slaying Flying Knife transformed into a streak of white light, revealing an object with brows, wings, a head, and eyes. Its eyes shot forth white light, instantly fixing the Primordial Spirit within his Mud Pill Palace.

His Primordial Spirit's power was sealed, unable to break free for a moment, and he could only watch as a white light slashed toward him.

At the moment the white light struck, the white lotus finally purified the stasis rule carried by the Immortal Slaying Flying Knife.

East King Gong hastily awakened the Purple Sun Bell within his Mud Pill Palace to protect his Primordial Spirit.

Yet he was still cut by the Immortal Slaying Flying Knife across his Primordial Spirit.

Eastern Emperor Taiyi was not faring well either. He had no idea what kind of treasure that pearl was, but the light it emitted was truly difficult to withstand.

He had tried every means at his disposal but could not block it. He could only clash head-on with his Primordial Spirit.

By now, East King Gong was tottering, his Primordial Spirit severely wounded.

The Pure Yang Sword in his hand trembled, shooting forth a sky-shaking Sword Qi that split the Fusang Tree in two.

He withdrew the Golden Giant Dragon formed from the dragon head.

Taking the yang-natured half of the Fusang Tree, he departed.

Because he sensed another presence—it should be Di Jun arriving.