The Dao Venerable's Doubts Over the Ship of Disaster Fire, Laden with All Living Things!
Chen Dengming certainly didn't expect that every time he used the Heavenly Human Dharma Appearance, it would increase the Karma connection between him and the Bandit Cultivator Dharma Form.
This is a cause-and-effect relationship that cannot be severed; it will only deepen with repeated entanglements.
Whether this entangled Karma will bring fortune or misfortune in the future is something no one can say for sure.
Time flies, and more than forty years have passed in the blink of an eye.
Over the past forty years, both in the New Realm and the Ancient Realm, the calamity energy has been gradually increasing, and various natural disasters, calamities, and man-made calamities have been constantly unfolding due to the stimulation of the calamity energy.
As the calamity increases, natural disasters, calamities, and man-made calamities occur frequently. In turn, the calamity gradually expands, thus forming a vicious cycle that seems difficult to resolve.
On this day, in the Dao Domain that Chen Dengming had renamed the Heavenly Human Life and Death Realm.
At the entrance of the Heavenly Longevity Hall, Chen Dengming stood smiling and waiting.
Before long, Su Yan Yan and He Yingyu, a pair of impeccably beautiful women, walked out of the hall hand in hand.
Su Yan Yan was still dressed in white, wearing a veil, exuding a cool and aloof yet spirited air.
He Yingyu wore a pure white dress with a red floral and yellow vest, which accentuated her stunning figure. Her hair was tied into a low bun at the back of her head and secured with a comb-like hairpin. Her attire was elegant, noble, and charming.
Bathed in sunlight in the corridor outside the hall, the two women each possessed their own unique charm and radiant beauty. Upon seeing Chen Dengming waiting at the door, they both smiled sweetly.
He Yingyu quickly approached first, grabbed Chen Dengming's arm, and smiled with a slight frown.
"At least Old Deng, haven't forgotten us and knew we were leaving the pass today!"
Chen Dengming feigned a stern expression, "Of course I haven't forgotten, but how dare you talk like that? What do you mean by ' Old Deng 'Old Deng?"
He Yingyu immediately stuck out her tongue playfully, put on a pitiful look, and lowered her body, saying, "Yes, Husband lord, I know I was wrong. I shouldn't have made you sound so old."
"Speaking of age, I'm actually older than my Junior Brother," Su Yan Yan said with a smile as she walked gracefully, bringing with her a fragrant breeze.
Chen Dengming laughed heartily, looking at Su Yan Yan's bright and pretty face, "Senior sister, what are you saying? You are both in the prime of your youth and beauty, you can't be called old at all. Oh well, consider it a bargain for this Old Deng like me."
He instinctively reached out and put his arm around Su Yan Yan, who was approaching.
Su Yan Yan's shoulders stiffened, and two Red Cloud rose on her jade-like face. She then rolled her eyes at Chen Dengming, half-pushing and half-reluctantly moving closer, and snorted, "You Old Deng really got off easy."
Chen Dengming gave an awkward smile. With two women on his left and right, Chen Dengming could indeed be considered to be enjoying the blessings of having two wives.
"How do you two ladies feel about your progress in cultivating during this hundred years of Heavenly Timing?"
He Yingyu clung to Chen Dengming's side and laughed, "I feel like I haven't improved as quickly as when I practiced with you and Sister Su last time."
Upon hearing this, Su Yan Yan's pretty face flushed even more. She glared at He Yingyu with a hint of annoyance, but inwardly she was indeed quite looking forward to it.
Chen Dengming coughed and said, "Last time was after all, it was our long-awaited reunion, and it was also the first time I cultivated with you after breaking through to the Dao Integration stage. In addition, we were blessed by the Lucky Star, so the effect was naturally the best."
However, this effect will only diminish over time and is difficult to sustain.
He Yingyu glanced at Su Yan Yan, then winked at Chen Dengming and said, "Let's do it a few more times. I feel like I'm about to break through to the Nascent Soul Late Stage. This time it's really close. Sister Su must be close too."
Su Yan Yan smiled, a hint of annoyance in her voice, "If you like it, don't drag me into it anymore."
He Yingyu stretched out her long, slender, jade-like fingers and took Su Yan Yan's hand, teasingly saying, "Good sister, don't you want to break through to the mid-stage of the Spirit Transformation soon?"
Chen Dengming looked at the two girls playing in his arms with amusement, feeling that this was a rare and heartwarming moment to enjoy.
Since he successfully transformed the Eighteen Layers of Hell into the realm of death decades ago, connecting it with the Heavenly Immortal Realm, the Heavenly Human Life and Death Realm has been completely and firmly established.
With him managing and overseeing the Dao, the Life and Death Qi in the Heavenly Human Life and Death Realm formed a healthy cycle, and there was no longer any sign of collapse or disintegration.
As the Life Energy continued to increase, more Immortal Spiritual Energy gradually emerged within the Heavenly Human Life and Death Realm.
As resources began to increase, He Yingyu and other members of the sect also gained access to the resources needed for cultivation Heavenly Timing.
Over the past decade or so, Chen Dengming has successively sent the Longevity Dao Child Ling Ying, as well as Xing Huiguang, Qiao Zhaoxian of the Tiandao Sect, and others into the Heavenly Timing Environment for cultivation, and all of them have made great progress.
Now, He Yingyu and Su Yan Yan have also cultivated for a hundred years within the Heavenly Timing environment.
After inquiring about his grandson Chen Feilin from He Yingyu, Chen Dengming learned that Chen Feilin was unwilling to enter the Heavenly Timing Environment for cultivation, leaving him with no other choice.
Now that he is the Dao Master, he can cultivate Immortal Spiritual Energy with the Death Qi, so nurturing his grandson Chen Feilin is just a matter of lifting a finger.
However, Chen Feilin was unwilling to enter the Heavenly Timing Realm for cultivation and still planned to cultivate immortality within his Lineage until he reached the Nascent Soul Realm.
Chen Dengming will not force the issue.
Chen Feilin has been stuck in the Nascent Soul stage for decades. With the Infant Transformation Pill given to him, breaking through is actually a process of gradual accumulation and eventual breakthrough, without too many setbacks.
Therefore, it is indeed unnecessary to cultivate within the Heavenly Timing, since cultivating within the Heavenly Timing does indeed deplete one's lifespan.
However, in the past few decades, the calamities of heaven and earth have increased and the changes have been drastic. Chen Dengming wanted to help his grandson enter the Nascent Soul in a short period of time so that he could protect himself in the future.
After spending some time cultivating with his two sisters in his vast and boundless Dao Domain, Chen Dengming then arrived in the Realm of Death.
Within the Eighteen Layers of Death Realm, the Death Qi was thick, and a barrier formed by the power of Incense and Faith enveloped the death realm.
Each layer of the dead realm is filled with many ghosts praying and repenting.
These repentant ghosts are all surrounding a hundred-foot-tall stone tablet radiating calamity energy at the center of each level of the death realm. Each heartfelt repentance dissipates their resentment to some extent.
At this moment, the repentance of thousands upon thousands of ghosts is enough to form a powerful Incense and Fire Prayer Power and vows, which can gradually dissipate the calamity aura swirling around the Tribulation Stele.
Even though the calamity energy swirling around the Tribulation Stele increases year by year, it is at least enough to suppress it, and it is even more difficult to generate Karma.
Such magnificent scenes are playing out in every level of the Eighteen Layers of Death Realm.
The Incense Clone personally sits in the deepest part of the underworld, using its own power to influence all ghosts to form Incense and Faith, repent for the past, eliminate resentment, and form the great power of prayer for birth.
The entire realm of the dead seems to have been completely transformed into a kingdom of Incense and Faith.
Even though Chen Dengming had visited this place many times before, he still couldn't help but feel gratified when he saw this scene again.
Decades ago, he planned to use the power of Incense Clone to transform countless ghosts into Incense Believer, thereby eliminating their resentment and preventing the birth of calamity.
However, the final result of the plan far exceeded his expectations.
It turns out that even in the Incense Godhood Path can help them achieve divinity, and there is indeed a power that can counteract and suppress calamity. In fact, this power is relatively easier to create than the blessings of the Heavenly Immortal Way.
And this power is the power of aspiration.
When Incense Believer offer sincere prayers to the deity, a kind of aspiration arises. When this aspiration reaches a certain level, it forms the power of a grand vow.
This power of grand aspiration, if focused on one place, will unleash incredible force.
For example, when ten thousand people pray together that calamities will not befall them and bad luck will dissipate, the incense master can further mobilize the power of this great vow, and the bad luck will be dispersed by the power of the great vow, and calamities will not occur.
After Chen Dengming discovered this situation, he traveled back and forth between the two realms and the Outer Heaven, condensing some of the Mustard Seed Realm that had collapsed due to the ravages of the calamity energy into Tribulation Stele.
Or they could collect the calamity energy from the remaining fragments of the Mustard Seed Realm that hadn't yet collapsed and integrate it into some stone tablets.
After collecting the eighteen Calamity Tribulation Stele, the severe situation of many Mustard Seed Realm suffering calamities was effectively contained.
Then, Chen Dengming sent the eighteen Tribulation Stele into the Realm of Death.
The Incense Clone then proclaimed itself as the incense master, and the people who worshipped him believed that if they repented before the Tribulation Stele every day, they could resolve their sins, quell their resentment, and attain liberation.
Over the decades, the calamity energy between the many Tribulation Stele has indeed dissipated to some extent, and at the same time, it has curbed the trend of calamity energy giving rise to Karma.
At this moment, seeing the Death Realm developing steadily, as a large amount of Death Qi flows into the Living Realm through multiple exits, it will be transformed into vibrant life Life Energy by the Dao Domain's rules of life and death, forming a healthy Life and Death Cycle.
Chen Dengming nodded slightly, then turned and left.
He flew swiftly between the exits of the multiple realms of death and saw a large number of black and white Life and Death Two Flowers growing at each exit.
The black flowers face the realm of death, the white flowers face the realm of life, swaying in the wind.
These black and Life and Death Two Flowers and death, are symbols of the manifestation of the rules of life and death, representing the perfect Life and Death Dao Rhyme that he once integrated into the Daoist Inner Domain.
The Life Force emanating from the blooming flowers spread throughout the entire Heavenly Human Life and Death Realm, bringing New Life to this High Antiquity domain, nurturing new Spirit Vein, and giving birth to more Immortal Spiritual Energy.
Within the Heavenly Human Life and Death Realm, everything is developing well. Chen Dengming's cultivation has also greatly increased due to the birth of the Heavenly Human Life and Death Realm, and he is gradually approaching the mid-stage of the Dao Integration Realm.
However, in the Human World and the underworld beyond this realm, natural disasters, man-made calamities, and other calamities frequently occur.
Over these years, a vast amount of calamity energy has been generated at an incomprehensible speed.
Even though Chen Dengming has been acting as a calamity-eliminating messenger for many years, traveling around collecting calamity energy, the speed at which he collects it is nowhere near the speed at which calamity energy is generated.
Most importantly, when too much calamity energy is collected, there is a high probability that Karma will be generated from the massive accumulation of calamity energy.
Therefore, out of fear of harming others, Chen Dengming has rarely collected tribulation energy in the world in recent years. Instead, he gathers Tribulation Mist that seriously threaten the lives of many cultivators and sends them to some uninhabited areas.
This has led to many areas in the Human World and the underworld becoming completely forbidden zones for life.
As a result, the space available for all living beings to survive and inhabit is even smaller.
The Spiritual Qi between heaven and earth is also severely depleted and scarce, and resources are becoming increasingly tight.
Conflicts between individuals and between sects have become extremely acute.
Over the years, if it weren't for the three Dao Integration Great Power, Chen Dengming, Dongfang Huayuan, maintaining high pressure and ordering the top sects to stabilize the situation and never rashly start a war over resource issues, the entire Four Seas Four Regions would probably have been in complete chaos long ago.
Even so, the current situation Four Seas Four Regions is tense and on the verge of collapse.
The overall situation can be brought under control by force.
However, the fighting among low-level cultivators and mortals for survival in a resource-scarce environment is difficult to control.
Now, Chen Dengming felt as if he, Dongfang Huayuan, and Qu Shenzong were standing on the edge of a cliff, pulling on a large ship that was half-suspended on the cliff and filled with all the beings of the Ancient Realm.
Flames had already engulfed the ship, and it was filled with panicked people.
The ropes they were using to pull the boat were becoming increasingly taut, and were even set ablaze. The ropes snapped, and the inevitable destruction of the boat and loss of life seemed to be a foregone conclusion.
At that time, will the three of them, along with the Living Buddha Venerable who was not involved, be able to survive after the ship is destroyed?
Chen Dengming gazed at the Black and White Life and Death Flower scattered across the fields, feeling quite weary and lost.
I once only wanted to cultivate immortality and attain the path of immortality, but now that my cultivation is profound, I realize that the higher one's cultivation level, the more one must bear, and the deeper Karma entanglements become.
The Five Great True Immortals of High Antiquity, if their own Dao domains hadn't been within the Ancient Realm, might not have been able to survive the Eternal Great Tribulation.
However, he still doesn't know what that method is for the time being.
Another decade or so later.
In a desolate star Inner Domain somewhere in the New Realm Territories, the starry sky was so quiet it was almost frozen, and a cluster of broken meteorites of various shapes floated silently in the air.
These meteorite clusters have gathered countless tiny fragments of rock together, causing the tranquility of the starry sky to erupt with sudden, heart-wrenching cracking sounds at any moment.
Within the meteorite cluster, there is a vast expanse of gray, misty fog, both beautiful and melancholic.
In that gray-black mist, a lifeless Cultivation Star floats silently, welcoming the darkness and silence of the universe.
Its surface emanated a strange aura, like the shadow of calamity, that slowly flowed, gently brushing across every inch of the void and spreading outwards.
Whenever a trace of this aura escapes to the outer reaches of the planet, some meteorites inexplicably explode, creating even more of this eerie aura.
Suddenly, a beautiful, meteor-like streak of fire swept across the star field, blasting apart layers of cold meteorites. Each of the massive meteorites that was blasted apart was almost melted through, as if it had endured unimaginable high temperatures.
Boom!--
The moment the fire line approached the icy planet, a large swath of gray mist rapidly coalesced as if it possessed life, forming a gigantic black mist fist that slammed into the figure in the fire line!
With a deafening roar, the entire outer space of the planet trembled violently.
Endless shockwaves, mixed with terrifying flames, swept across numerous meteorite clusters, spreading in all directions, creating a scene resembling the end of the world.
The figure deep within the flames merely extended a slender, green finger to block the giant fist of black mist.
Then a scarlet flame emerged from his fingertip, transforming into an invisible yet intensely hot temperature that instantly spread.
The shockwave that was originally capable of destroying everything and the black mist that was capable of corroding everything were instantly burned and scattered in all directions, as if they had turned into gusts of wind.
"I've been searching for you for almost sixty Jiazi, and you've been hiding from me for just as Jiazi. Today, I'll see who exactly created you!"
Within the flames, which resembled a blazing halo, a woman clad in a vibrant crimson robe slowly floated out, her majestic phoenix eyes shining with a light like rubies.
Wherever the light swept, an incomparably domineering and fierce Dao power and high temperature spread out.
The vast expanse of calamity quickly dissipated, revealing the outline of a palace deep within the planet shrouded in black mist.
Inside the hall, a blurry figure covered in crimson, crazed blood, exuding overwhelming calamity, slowly raised its face, revealing crazed and cold eyes, within which suddenly appeared a dazzling array of colors.
"This hall."
Upon seeing the hall, Phoenix Cry Dao Venerable's phoenix eyes narrowed instantly. "The Immortal King Hall within the Ancient Realm Heavenly Immortal Realm?"
How could she forget the Immortal King Hall she saw when she made her move in the Shattered Heavenly Immortal Realm?
Although she already had some suspicions, seeing the Immortal King Hall still stirred something within her.
Upon closer inspection of the Blood-colored Figure radiating Ancient Tribulation Qi filled with Karma, a look of surprise and murderous intent gradually surfaced in her phoenix eyes.
"Who exactly are you? You brought calamity to the New Realm, is it revenge for the Ancient Realm?"