BOOK 2: CHAPTER 445: ASCENDING TO MAHAYANA, KARMA AND REINCARNATION

Vol 2 Chapter 445: Ascending to Mahayana, Karma and Reincarnation

Upon hearing the title "Lord Shuyu Dragon," the Cangming Dragon King finally realized the identity of the figure—Zheng Fa, the Sect Leader of Jiushan Sect.

His eyes immediately flashed with hostility.

The Cangming Dragon King had begun to grasp the situation;

the Dragon Lord knew from the start what he wanted to say—that the so-called two matters were merely excuses to refuse, still because of the Jiushan Sect.

He had never looked favorably upon the Jiushan Sect, and especially now, since the Lord Shuyu Dragon had rejected him on Jiushan Sect’s behalf, he naturally wore a dark expression upon seeing Zheng Fa.

Particularly recalling those two outrageous demands from the Lord Shuyu Dragon, he felt even more displeased. Even more absurd was that this Jiushan Zheng Fa could actually accomplish them?

With such a precedent, how could other factions still recruit disciples in the future?

It was simply breaking the rules!

"What is he doing?"

The hostility in the Cangming Dragon King's tone was clearly heard by the Lord Shuyu Dragon, but she paid no mind, keeping her gaze fixed on Zheng Fa.

The world had darkened, wild winds raged chaotically, the ground echoed with the howls of a hundred beasts, and tribulation clouds gathered in the sky.

The very air was thick with unrest and turmoil.

"Zheng Fa is about to advance?"

The Lord Shuyu Dragon frowned deeply.

This situation was very familiar to her, yet somehow also unfamiliar:

Zheng Fa’s advancement was much more dramatic than when she had done it back then.

Spiritual energy from countless miles around had gathered here.

Beside her, the Cangming Dragon King said, "Judging by this, it doesn’t look like a scattered immortal tribulation... is it Corpse Liberation or True Spirit?"

The Lord Shuyu Dragon shook her head, her expression puzzled.

"Such cultivation, yet so ostentatious. Does he not know that great powers in the Xuanyi Realm are hiding now? Who hasn't passed a tribulation like this?" The Cangming Dragon King muttered to himself, "Your eyes, Dragon Lord, aren’t very sharp."

The Lord Shuyu Dragon did not retort. Though the Dragon King's words were unpleasant, they were not without reason:

The Xuanyi Realm was currently complicated;

even True Immortals like the Cangming Dragon King were not easy to count.

A tree that stands out in the forest is sure to be struck by the wind. Zheng Fa’s tribulation would surely attract some ill-intentioned attention.

She was also a bit puzzled—wasn't Zheng Fa’s personality not so high-profile before?

...

Within the Jiushan Realm, Senior Sister Zhang and others looked at Zheng Fa outside the realm, their expressions equally confused.

"There’s no way around it," explained the Heavenly Emperor body, "The Jiushan Realm cannot withstand it."

Senior Sister Zhang asked, "Cannot withstand it? How come?"

"This time, while refining the Yellow Court Scripture, the tribulation seems more complicated than before." The Heavenly Emperor body’s expression was gloomy, "Its power is unpredictable. The original body might harm others in the sect."

Senior Sister Zhang’s face shifted slightly, pressing, "How is it more complicated?"

The Heavenly Emperor body shook his head, looking uncertain.

The people of Jiushan Sect looked more worried as they gazed at the self-radiance around Zheng Fa.

...

Zheng Fa stood in the void, gazing up at the tribulation clouds above, feeling speechless.

By his own reasoning, if he could avoid proving the Dao in the Great Ascension stage, he wouldn’t want to show off.

But just as he had triggered the tribulation and was preparing to advance, he sensed something. If he passed the tribulation within the Jiushan Realm, unexpected risks might arise.

He didn’t know if it was because the Yellow Court Scripture was too special or due to changes in the Xuanyi Realm’s world.

But since things had come this far, he had no time to ponder and had to leave the Jiushan Realm to pass the tribulation.

The faint self-radiance in the distance was no longer what he cared about.

His Great Ascension tribulation had already arrived!

The thunder dragon fell from the nine passes, the heavenly destruction rose from the bubbling spring, and at the same time, the yin wind blew in from the top gate.

Zheng Fa’s old friends—the three calamities that cultivators avoided and feared to speak of—burst forth on his body without order.

Ordinary cultivators would struggle to handle even one calamity, let alone all three at once.

Even the Lord Shuyu Dragon and the Cangming Dragon King, both True Immortals, showed slight changes in expression at this.

The Cangming Dragon King could not help but widen his eyes.

Such fierce tribulations—he really had never passed through them!

To be fair, if he had encountered such killing tribulations when he advanced, he would have turned to ashes long ago.

What had Zheng Fa done to anger even the Heavenly Dao?

Zheng Fa inwardly understood—it was because the Yellow Court Scripture had completely integrated the three methods into one, indistinguishable from each other.

The thunder corresponded to the Yang Spirit, aiding the cultivator's primordial spirit in shifting from yin to yang.

The yin wind naturally benefited the Dharmakaya’s growth.

The heavenly fire tribulation was especially beneficial to his life treasure.

The Heavenly Dao did not oppose him, but was giving a grand reward—though many would be overwhelmed by this reward.

But his appetite was always large.

Behind Zheng Fa, the shadow of the Fusang Wood stood tall, reaching to the sky. The yin wind struck its branches and leaves, but it was like a spring breeze caressing a giant tree—no bark was even scratched.

He lightly pushed his right hand forward;

five thunderbolts exploded in his palm, roaring toward the sky.

The heavenly thunder was fierce, but his thunder was even fiercer!

In a palm flip, the dark clouds within the square mile were struck and dispersed into smoke.

The thunderlight cloaked his entire body, making him look like a sovereign amid lightning.

As for the heavenly fire tribulation, it remained unknown to outsiders:

Within Zheng Fa’s sea of consciousness, a child sat on the Creation Jade, traversing the raging heavenly fire, refining treasures by harnessing the fire’s power.

This was the artifact spirit of the Creation Jade, named Creation Child. Though newly formed, its spiritual intelligence was already high, adeptly handling the heavenly fire with ease.

The patterns on the Creation Jade grew more complex and profound under the burning fire.

The Cangming Dragon King could not discern Zheng Fa’s true state but saw that the three calamities came swiftly and left even faster.

In less than half the time it takes to burn incense, the three calamities had already dissipated.

Zheng Fa’s spirit looked intact;

even the hem of his robe bore no crease. He seemed more like he was on a leisurely outing than having passed a major tribulation.

Though the Cangming Dragon King said nothing, he became instantly alert inside:

He had known Zheng Fa was formidable, but seeing is believing. Now that he saw for himself, he realized he had seriously underestimated the other.

Combat power could be supplemented by artifacts and other external objects.

But Zheng Fa passed the tribulation so effortlessly, clearly displaying profound cultivation and refined spell formation.

The Jiushan Sect still occupied the original Xuanyi sea area.

Such a talent stood directly in front of his path to Golden Immortal.

The Cangming Dragon King’s mind stirred. He glanced at the Lord Shuyu Dragon and considered whether, if he struck while Zheng Fa faced the Heart Demon Tribulation, the Lord Shuyu Dragon would interfere...

Interference was not impossible!

He was in the sea, sensing the extraordinary. Naturally, he could feel that besides himself, other True Immortals lurked nearby, hiding but unmistakably present—likely some with ill intent.

The more the Cangming Dragon King thought about it, the more feasible it seemed. Yet he still hesitated slightly due to the concealed presence.

The Lord Shuyu Dragon glanced at him, seemingly aware, but her gaze returned to Zheng Fa, frowning: "What is he waiting for?"

The Cangming Dragon King was momentarily stunned—waiting for what?

After the three calamities, shouldn’t it be the Heart Demon Tribulation?

He also looked at Zheng Fa, but saw him gazing at the sky, at... those meteors?

Since the Nine Nether Demon Ancestor proved the Dao, these meteors had fallen continuously, and the Xuanyi Realm had been expanding day by day.

They never ceased day or night, a spectacular sight. Many places in Xuanyi had nights as bright as daytime for years.

But now, at this moment, Zheng Fa was actually watching the meteor shower?

The next moment, he understood what Zheng Fa was looking at—those meteor lights slowly connected in the sky, outlining the silhouettes of great powers.

Dragons and phoenixes soared across the sky, immortals and gods soared above.

The imposing aura of these shadows seemed to lower the entire sky, suffocating the chest.

One figure caused the Cangming Dragon King to cry out in shock:

"Dragon Ancestor!"

He looked at the towering true dragon in the eastern sky and felt his mind tremble.

The pressure from his bloodline assured him this was no mistake—the Dragon Ancestor who had opened the Dragon Abyss Realm.

But hadn’t the Dragon Ancestor already fallen?

Upon closer inspection, he realized this was not the Dragon Ancestor resurrected but a shadow, whose cultivation was no longer as it had been in life—seemingly only at the True Spirit stage.

The dragon clan, the demon clan, and the Dharmakaya Method were closely related;

their realm names were similar. The last realm before Dao Fruit was called True Spirit, which matched Zheng Fa’s cultivation at this moment.

This was certainly not high, but the problem was the number—there were many!

Beneath the sky, the shadows of great powers were dense, numbering as many as seventy-two.

At this point, the Cangming Dragon King also understood—they were the fallen Golden Immortals.

The Lord Shuyu Dragon was more open-minded;

Zheng Fa was already not inferior to Dao Fruit. Facing these shadows who hadn’t reached Dao Fruit, he should have no problem.

No, wait!

She frowned, noticing these great power shadows suddenly change their cultivation.

No!

Could they still advance?

Zheng Fa was also confused. Just as he was about to mobilize the Fusang Wood, these shadows transformed into scattered immortal cultivation.

Surrounding and attacking was shameless enough.

You guys are even cheating?

Now Zheng Fa understood why passing the tribulation within the Jiushan Realm would be such a huge trouble.

The strength of these people was bound to his own!

If he hid within the Jiushan Realm, their strength might be comparable to that of the Jiushan Realm and the Heavenly Emperor body.

At that time, dozens of scattered immortals or even True Immortals would besiege the Jiushan Realm. It would be hard for the Jiushan Realm not to become ruins.

But why?

Suddenly, the Creation Jade trembled—it was a message from the Nine Nether Emperor:

"These appearances are the cause and effect of reincarnation."

"......."

"They fell with resentment, and moreover, your Dao method is somewhat special."

The Nine Nether Emperor was also watching his tribulation?

According to the Nine Nether Emperor,

On one hand, it was because the Path of Reincarnation had appeared, preventing these undead Golden Immortals from resurrecting, leaving only their resentment.

On the other hand, it was the Yellow Court Scripture;

this cultivation method had triggered changes in heaven and earth, awakening this group of fallen great powers.

"So, Emperor, how should this tribulation be passed?"

"Their resentment originates from the disappearance of their own Dao methods." The Nine Nether Emperor explained, "So they probably want to compete with you in Dao methods."

That explained their flexible cultivation.

The so-called competition in Dao methods naturally meant fighting with those of the same realm. So when Zheng Fa used the power of Fusang Wood, the cultivation of these people would rise correspondingly.

Looking at the great power shadows, Zheng Fa was furious, cursing silently:

"If you have grudges, go take them out on the Nine Nether Emperor! What’s it to do with me?"

After cursing, he came to understand:

Given the current situation, suppressing his strength below Dao Fruit was actually better—after all, his life treasure and Yang Spirit had not yet reached Dao Fruit. Fighting these people at scattered immortal level would reveal many weaknesses.

...

The Cangming Dragon King roughly understood and was overjoyed: no need to intervene himself!

It wasn’t that he didn’t trust Zheng Fa’s strength, but whoever it was, they would have to die!

These Golden Immortals—who among them had not been a prodigy?

It could even be said each had suppressed countless cultivators.

At the same realm, defeating even one of them was as difficult as reaching the heavens.

Not to mention so many attacking together.

"Zheng Fa, you truly are extraordinary."

At this moment, he began praising Zheng Fa instead.

But this praise made the Lord Shuyu Dragon’s expression even uglier, though she had no choice:

Not to mention that no one could participate in the tribulation, these shadows were really strange.

If they rashly attacked and made those great powers stronger, it would harm Zheng Fa.

...

The shadow of Fusang Wood behind Zheng Fa slowly dissipated, its momentum falling from scattered immortal below Dao Fruit.

The cultivations of those great powers in the air also returned to Corpse Liberation or True Spirit.

Above Zheng Fa’s head, an Auspicious Cloud flew out, with three lotus flowers floating on it.

Previously, the strength of the three flowers above him varied.

Now, their sizes were indistinguishable.

The Great Ascension stage Yellow Court Scripture had only one essence: primal unity.

Essence, energy, and spirit as one.

Dharmakaya, Yang Spirit, and life treasure as one.

Through the Heavenly River Method, Zheng Fa and all Jiushan disciples were vaguely connected as one.

The three glowing places on his body—Mud Pellet Palace, Yellow Court, and Qi Sea—overflowed with radiant light, their divine energies fused.

Yang Spirit and his Dharmakaya were mutually complementary, forging a perfect Dharma body.

Those great powers blocking his path seemed impatient, rushing toward Zheng Fa from all directions.

Throughout history, there had been only about a hundred Golden Immortals, but here alone were seventy-two.

With their pride, they had probably never cooperated to attack anyone, yet now Zheng Fa had to face their siege!

Even the Cangming Dragon King widened his eyes, unwilling to miss such a rare duel.

Zheng Fa moved extremely fast. Facing the siege, he did not defend but counterattacked, turning into rainbow light to charge directly at an ancient immortal shadow.

His speed was so fast that others couldn’t react. When he reappeared, his palm had already struck the ancient immortal’s chest.

A brilliant light shot forward from the void beside them.

When the light dissipated, the ancient immortal had vanished!

With one strike, Zheng Fa had directly taken the life of a great power of equal realm.

The Cangming Dragon King stared at Zheng Fa’s seemingly ordinary palm, eyes wide.

Zheng Fa had not used any external force, not even Dao Fruit artifacts or spirit roots—just his bare hands—and yet he chilled the Dragon King’s heart.

Even those seemingly ignorant, resentment-filled great powers froze in midair, their eyes on Zheng Fa...

They seemed afraid.

Zheng Fa raised his head, looking around calmly and fearlessly.

When he reached Nascent Soul, Zheng Fa had faced the three ancestors competing for Dao using a war of attrition.

At that time, he broke the Dao Venerable’s Taiji diagram with the Heavenly River Method, used his Dharmakaya to prevent the Tianhe Venerable from drawing his sword, and suppressed Lu Mo with the Taiji diagram.

It could be said his understanding of the three heavenly Dao methods was already on par with the three ancestors.

Now he had advanced further, finally uniting the three methods through the Yellow Court Scripture.

In that palm strike just now, there was the ultimate Dao of Yang Spirit, the great power of Dharmakaya, and the wondrous Heavenly River Method.

With the three heavenly Dao methods of Xuanyi, serving that single ancient immortal—if he did not die, who would?

Having scored a kill with one strike, Zheng Fa felt greatly assured and then sneered coldly.

He originally did not want to expose his hand too much, but being disturbed by these great powers, with a crowd of ill-intentioned onlookers surrounding him,

if he didn’t crush this group of bullies who prey on the weak, how could the world know that his Yellow Court Dao was unparalleled in the world?

Chapter 445: Ascending to Mahayana, Karma and Reincarnation