Chapter 959 100%, Awakening
As a Void Refinement Cultivator and the creator of the Dual Cultivation Obligation Law Edict, Venerable Serpent Lust, even as a suspect temporarily taken into custody, enjoyed treatment vastly different from that of ordinary suspects.
For example, he was still able to receive news from the outside world every day through the Spirit Realm and the Dharma Realm.
For another, he was not required to perform unpaid labor, and even had time to continue to cultivate, maintaining his cultivation, cultivation realm, and a certain amount of assets.
Venerable Serpent Lust knew that this was his privilege as a member of Kunxu’s ruling class.
As long as his Dual Cultivation Obligation was not completely banned, he still possessed extremely high value.
The place where Venerable Serpent Lust was detained was called the Managed Seclusion Minor Realm, a minor realm specifically used to imprison various cultivators with profound cultivation.
Originally, when he first arrived here, Venerable Serpent Lust’s heart was like dead ashes, feeling that he had no hope of ever reaching the peak of the Immortal Dao in this life.
But at this very moment, upon seeing the various chaotic phenomena in the outside world, Venerable Serpent Lust couldn’t help but laugh heartily, “The momentum of the new Dao Lineage is already set, and the upheaval in Kunxu is a foregone conclusion!”
In particular… watching the continuously skyrocketing breeding phenomena, as well as various abnormal transfers, infringements, asset shifts, and the crazy uplifting behaviors of various elders towards their juniors, Venerable Serpent Lust felt even more excited and expectant.
Simply because he… actually wasn’t affected in the slightest.
Not just him, but even Zhu Yan, who was taken into custody alongside him, similarly wasn’t affected at all.
Even though they had produced a large number of descendants, at this moment, they didn’t have any thoughts of transferring money to them, nurturing them, or uplifting their descendants, nor did they have the slightest urge to massively breed offspring.
At this moment, Venerable Serpent Lust and Zhu Yan felt as if they were standing in this gradually chaotic world like solitary beings isolated from the rest of the world, independent and clear-headed, their entire beings filled with a sense of transcendence.
“One by one, those cultivators with profound cultivation are either squeezing themselves dry to uplift their descendants, or indulging in breeding just to find a descendant to uplift.”
“What is this situation? This is exactly the intelligence of the whole world dropping by ten times, while ours remains unchanged!”
Venerable Serpent Lust said full of anticipation, “This shows that the higher-ups are still thinking of us, they still treat us as one of their own! In the future, in this new world, we will be the monsters above humans, and monsters above monsters!”
Zhu Yan also said with a look of deep emotion and excitement, “Right now, in the outside world, the common people are bitterly struggling, presenting a scene of vibrant vitality. This is exactly the perfect stage for us to fully display our abilities in the future, full of opportunities to climb the Immortal Dao.”
“Venerable Serpent Lust, we must cultivate properly here and maintain our condition. It won’t be long before the higher-ups… should extradite us to the Celestial Monster Sect.”
At this moment, Venerable Serpent Lust and Zhu Yan were both full of fighting spirit, brimming with anticipation for the new era that lay ahead.
But in the very next moment, Venerable Serpent Lust’s body suddenly trembled slightly. Strands of flesh and blood within him began to twist and undergo mutations.
Watching patches of fleshy sprouts growing out from Venerable Serpent Lust’s body surface, Zhu Yan exclaimed in shock, “What’s happening to you?!”
A trace of bewilderment appeared on Venerable Serpent Lust’s face. Soon… as the mutation of his body accelerated, scales, feathers, dorsal fins, and various other demon beast features began to appear all over him, as if his entire body was pieced together from different monsterfolk.
Faced with such an abnormal change, streaks of divine light suddenly descended, attempting to bind Venerable Serpent Lust for an examination.
At the same time, Zhu Yan, who was beside him, let out a muffled groan. Astonishingly, the exact same mutation phenomenon appeared on him, with organs of different demon beasts constantly growing inside and outside his flesh.
He let out a furious roar and was just about to suppress the mutations inside and outside his body when countless images suddenly surfaced in his mind.
It was a memory carried within his bloodline, firmly etched into his flesh, and passed down generation after generation even before his birth.
Faced with this vast sea of memories, Zhu Yan’s own memories and consciousness were like a small island in a boundless ocean, swallowed up completely in an instant.
A hint of clarity gradually surfaced in his eyes: “So that’s how it is.”
“I remember now…”
“The Saint is me, and I am the Saint.”
At the same time, Venerable Serpent Lust beside him also spoke, “The Ten Great Sects are all within the reach of my consciousness.”
Venerable Serpent Lust also recalled everything in his mind: “I am the First Monster Saint.”
Zhu Yan thought to himself, “With the assistance of the Supreme Truth Immortal Clan, I scattered my bloodline into the Ten Great Sects, climbed all the way up, broke through cultivation realms, and established Law Edicts…”
At this moment, Venerable Serpent Lust felt that he was no longer just himself, but an aggregation of countless monsterfolk.
These monsterfolk were scattered across every corner of Kunxu. Although they seemed separated by thousands of miles, they were a true, tangible whole.
They established different Law Edicts within different sects…
“Before awakening, our Law Edicts seemed to compete with one another, representing different sects.”
“After awakening today, we all return to be one monster, jointly uplifting the Dao Lineage!”
At this moment, a large number of monsterfolk inside and outside the Ten Great Sects simultaneously looked up at the sky.
At this moment, they were connected by the same thought and the same will, undergoing reorganization into the First Monster Saint. And under their gaze, a faintly beating mass of flesh and blood vaguely emerged in the sky.
Venerable Serpent Lust knew that this was All-Life Progenitor from the Celestial Monster Sect, and also their center at this moment.
Venerable Serpent Lust laughed, “The new Monster Saint will transform and emerge from All-Life Progenitor’s flesh and blood. The Eighth Monster Saint is about to be born…”
Zhu Yan muttered, “You are the mother of all living beings, the father of heaven and earth…”
Venerable Serpent Lust said with expectation, “You are the common people of the world, you are everything in Kunxu…”
The 17th layer of Kunxu.
Tai Yuebai looked at the mass of flesh and blood gradually emerging in the sky: “Are you the 11th Immortal Emperor?”
The 16th layer of Kunxu, inside the Immortal Grotto-Heaven.
Zhang Yu looked at the piece of flesh and blood emerging in the sky, his heart jumping in shock: “What the hell is this thing?”
“Why is this in the Immortal Grotto-Heaven?”
At first, Zhang Yu thought his Immortal Grotto-Heaven had been invaded, and he immediately mobilized all his power to defend it.
But soon, Zhang Yu discovered that this thing was not only in the Immortal Grotto-Heaven, but across all the major sects’ areas of the 16th layer, the entire sect layers 11 to 20, and even on Kunxu’s layers 1 to 10…
“Everyone can see this thing?”
Zhang Yu muttered in his heart, “This thing doesn’t truly exist there, or rather… it doesn’t really exist in the skies of the various layers, minor realms, and Grotto-Heavens, but is a kind of… sensation?”
Immortal Slayer spoke up, “This seems to be the legendary… Heavenly Dao Imagery. I’m afraid it’s not just with the layers 1 to 20 that we know of; even above the 20th layer and below the first layer, everyone can sense this Heavenly Dao Imagery.”
“Heavenly Dao Imagery?”
Zhang Yu looked at that mass of flesh and blood, feeling as if he were looking at a gradually forming fetus. With every pulsation of the flesh, it was as if a heartbeat was being transmitted.
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Thump, thump!
Thump, thump!
Every pulsation of the flesh seemed to carry his own heartbeat along with it, gradually linking their lives together.
“This Dao Lineage… is about to be established.”
At the same time, countless pieces of information surfaced before Zhang Yu’s eyes. This was his will continuously traversing the Spirit Realm, gathering intelligence to understand the situation.
It was precisely because of this that he was aware of the anomalies currently occurring across the various layers of Kunxu.
Especially after Zhang Yu paid a massive amount of Immortal Coins and projected his will across the Spirit Realm to log into the Heavenly Sword Sect’s Instant Sword Network, all sorts of frontline news swept over him like a hurricane.
“Shocking! All-Life Progenitor has been lurking in various sects for years, establishing a Supreme Dao Lineage! Vowing to break through to the Immortal Emperor realm!”
“Urgent! All-Life Progenitor transforms into the Celestial Monster Saint Fetus, seeking to have all living beings in the world be born from her alone!”
“Immortal Emperor-level crisis erupts! Negotiations between the Myriad Laws Immortal Emperor and the Celestial Monster Immortal Emperor break down! Closed-door meeting brutally interrupted!”
Looking at these earth-shattering headlines, Zhang Yu couldn’t help but feel stunned. “Did someone make this up? How could anyone know so much detail about matters concerning Immortal Emperors and Dao Lineages?”
However, when Zhang Yu saw the author of these news articles, he couldn’t help but fall into a momentary silence.
“The Heavenly Sword Immortal Emperor?”
After repeatedly confirming that this Heavenly Sword Immortal Emperor was indeed that Heavenly Sword Immortal Emperor — not an imposter or a name with similar characters, but the bona fide Immortal Emperor of the Heavenly Sword Sect—Zhang Yu couldn’t help but sigh emotionally.
Zhang Yu: “As expected of the Heavenly Sword Immortal Emperor, who always loves to post things; he is still publishing reports even at a time like this.”
Fu Ji: “There’s definitely a benefit to it. Who knows, maybe just by casually posting a few reports, his cultivation will grow even while he’s lying down.”
Immortal Slayer said, “Even if it isn’t a cultivation boost, just the traffic attracted and the public opinion manipulated amount to a massive profit.”
Although the news written by the Heavenly Sword Immortal Emperor might not all be true, it did give many cultivators a general understanding of the current situation and attracted more and more attention.
It could be said that in a very short time, he prompted countless cultivators to log onto the Instant Sword Network, gathering mountains and oceans of traffic for the Heavenly Sword Sect.
Following this maneuver by the Heavenly Sword Sect, as if to compete for this traffic, the major sects also began to broadcast news and relay the latest information.
“Urgent! In order to monopolize the new Dao Lineage, Myriad Laws and Celestial Monsters have disregarded the safety of Kunxu, severely impacting the interests of all sects…”
Joyous Union Immortal Emperor: “It’s just that Myriad Laws and Celestial Monsters couldn’t divide the spoils evenly, causing internal strife between the two sides. Now they have detonated the Dao Lineage, throwing the world into chaos…”
“Great sects such as Heavenly Demon, Netherworld, and White Bone have issued solemn protests, hoping the two Immortal Emperors will put the world first…”
“The new Dao Lineage belongs to the Celestial Monster Sect! This is an epic victory for the monsterfolk! It is an even greater victory for the Celestial Monster Immortal Emperor!”
“Who gets it? The Celestial Monster Immortal Emperor diverted the disaster to Myriad Laws, and the Myriad Laws Immortal Emperor was dumbfounded on the spot…”
Piece after piece of news continuously floated before Zhang Yu’s eyes. Under his powerful computing power, the various contradictory and chaotic messages were constantly summarized and sorted out.
Zhang Yu thought to himself, “The Ten Immortal Emperors are each pushing public opinion from different angles. The impact of public opinion on stock prices and traffic, on the economy, and on their assets… they are all pushing it in a direction favorable to themselves.”
“Moreover, it feels like they… are all intentionally or unintentionally competing for traffic with the Heavenly Sword Sect in the spread of public opinion.”
Zhang Yu had a feeling in his heart that the rest of the Immortal Emperors seemed to have been forced to take action to intervene, all to prevent the Heavenly Sword Immortal Emperor from profiting too much in the public opinion war.
At the same time, the mass of flesh and blood in the sky beat faster and faster, becoming increasingly fierce and powerful.
Amidst this beating, waves of intimacy surfaced in Zhang Yu’s heart, as if the bloodline contained within that mass of flesh and blood had an incredibly close connection to him.
And no matter where Zhang Yu hid, or even if he closed his eyes and shut off all his external senses, he could always see that mass of flesh and blood and hear the sound of its beating.
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At this moment, he increasingly understood that this so-called Heavenly Dao Imagery… was something that had surpassed all senses and was directly rooted deep within consciousness.
The next moment, a shadow gradually surfaced on the exterior of the flesh and blood.
New news also came from within the Heavenly Sword Sect.
“Shock! The Celestial Monster Immortal Emperor has taken action! With a single move of the Celestial Hound Devouring the Sun, All-Life Progenitor has been completely swallowed!”
As if to verify this report, the flesh and blood in the sky was continuously swallowed by the shadow, and the swallowed parts plunged into pitch-black darkness, as if completely disappearing.
The entire scene looked like a lunar eclipse, and the mass of flesh and blood that All-Life Progenitor had transformed into was like the moon during an eclipse, gradually disappearing bit by bit in the eyes of all living beings in the world.
At the same time, an email appeared in Zhang Yu’s eyes, an email sent by the Myriad Laws Immortal Emperor.
“Are the Law Edicts going to be completely banned?”
When Zhang Yu saw the contents, his heart skipped a beat.
In Zhang Yu’s Law Edict Expiration Date, the processing of Law Edicts was divided into two steps: freezing and banning.
Freezing was merely a temporary suspension of the Law Edict’s operation. Only if a Law Edict failed to pass the review during the freezing period and could not be renewed, would it face a complete ban.
To Zhang Yu, freezing merely temporarily suppressed the artificial embedding effects within the immortal aura and temporarily halted the Law Edict’s operation.
A ban was the true, complete erasure of the Immortal Dao Technology applied by the Law Edict within the immortal aura.
Back during the Law Establishment process, in order to ensure the smooth passage of the Law Edict Expiration Date, Zhang Yu chose to hand over the power of how to review a frozen Law Edict. The higher-ups would decide the final review result of the Law Edict, deciding whether it would be renewed or completely banned.
At this very moment, at the same time the Myriad Laws Immortal Emperor’s email arrived, Zhang Yu also received a notification from the Law Edict Review Committee. It informed him that the Dual Cultivation Obligation and the Procreation Obligation had completely failed the review, requiring an immediate ban.
“So… to stop the birth of this new Dao Lineage, what is needed is not just freezing, but a complete ban?” Looking at the terrifying anomaly in the sky, Zhang Yu shook his head again. “No, my ban might only create a slight flaw.”
Regarding this, Zhang Yu actually already had his guesses. It was just that without a review notice from above, his Law Edict Expiration Date had no authority to ban Law Edicts.
This was an interface, or limitation, that he had left behind when he designed and established the Law Edict Expiration Date. Only in this way would his Myriad Laws Divine Sword have a hilt, allowing him to be grasped in the hands of the Myriad Laws Immortal Emperor.
Looking at the ban notice, Fu Ji said, “The Myriad Laws Immortal Emperor probably wants to use this trace of a flaw you created, and then use this flaw to carry out a more effective suppression against this Dao Lineage? Or even destroy it?”
Immortal Slayer said, “It seems that this new Dao Lineage brings too little benefit to the Myriad Laws Immortal Emperor, while bringing too much benefit to the Celestial Monster Immortal Emperor instead.”
“Therefore, the Myriad Laws Immortal Emperor would rather eat one less bite and stop the birth of the new Dao Lineage, than see the Celestial Monster Immortal Emperor eat a piece of fat meat and harvest too much through this new Dao Lineage.”
Desolate Ox said, “Between Dao Lineages, there are also principles of mutual generation and restriction. Perhaps this new Dao Lineage is a mouthful of poison to the Myriad Laws Immortal Emperor, which is detrimental to the Dao Lineages he already holds in his hands…”
Fu Ji said, “Deliberately striking at the last moment, this is clearly a trap set for the Celestial Monster Immortal Emperor.”
All kinds of thoughts and guesses merely flashed through Zhang Yu’s mind for an instant.
At the same time, he had already circulated the Law Edict Expiration Date to completely erase the slight traces of the Dual Cultivation Obligation and Procreation Obligation left on the 16th layer.
Although it was only the relevant Law Edict Domain in the Myriad Laws District of the 16th layer that was completely erased, it was like an extra ink stain appearing on a blank sheet of paper. Following Zhang Yu’s operation, a gap imperceptible to the naked eye, an almost invisible flaw, seemed to appear in that lump of flesh and blood gradually shrouded in shadows.
When this slight flaw first appeared, it could not yet affect the continuous beating of the flesh and blood.
But right as this flaw was born, a large hand violently reached out and grabbed toward that piece of flesh. However, before the large hand could secure its grip, a streak of buddha light swept up, enveloping the flesh from the bottom up.
Then, sword light flickered and demon light surged, transforming into different forces that began fighting over it.
Meanwhile, the originally vigorously beating Saint Fetus began to beat slower and slower, gradually coming to a stop.
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“Did the Dao Lineage… stop?”
Zhang Yu’s expression shook as he said, “I feel like the progress of the world’s constant changing has stopped!”
Tai Yuebai watched this scene, his face constantly sinking. “The Ten Immortal Emperors… have started a war.”
As these bursts of power collided, cracks gradually split open in the sky…
Amidst the loud rumbling, everyone felt the heavens and earth shaking violently.
At the same time, Tai Yuebai sensed the encrypted messages continuously being released, and countless images of heaven collapse and earth shattering surged out from within, floating before his eyes.
In these images, a huge 0% first appeared before his eyes.
Then the 0% kept growing, becoming 10%… 50%… 100%.
As these numbers grew, scenes of the world’s changes emerged, shocking Tai Yuebai’s heart.
“Isn’t this what has been happening recently?”
Tai Yuebai’s gaze narrowed. “Could this 100% mean…”
Although Tai Yuebai had always been able to sense the world gradually being influenced by the Dao Lineage and sense the completion of the new Dao Lineage advancing step by step.
This sensation was just a vague feeling, a rough estimate, and no precise numbers would directly appear before him.
Therefore… he naturally had no way to directly see a 10% or 20% progress like viewing the loading screen of Spirit Realm Services or the parameter display of a bionic.
Thus, when Tai Yuebai saw the number 100% appear at this moment, he combined it with the actual situation and believed that this number represented the completion progress of the new Dao Lineage.
And as the number in the image reached 100%, Tai Yuebai saw in the scene transmitted by the encrypted message that the sky began to restore, power began to converge, everything was reversing, and everything was returning…
A sudden chill rose in Tai Yuebai’s heart: “Does Supreme Truth want to tell me… that after reaching 100%, the events described in the encrypted message will happen to the entire world?”
At the same time, the changes in the entire world were still continuing, and the battle between the Ten Immortal Emperors seemed to grow even more intense.
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Amidst the crackling explosions, the sky was continuously torn apart, revealing layer after layer of Kunxu’s upper levels, where even more terrifying powers could be seen colliding.
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At this moment, the scene before Tai Yuebai’s eyes seemed to gradually overlap with the partial scenes he had seen in the encrypted message.
Simultaneously, Zhang Yu’s heart jolted, and the received encrypted message had completely finished releasing.