Chapter 960 Proving the Dao in Kunxu, Ascending to Emperor
As Tai Yuebai watched the numbers in the encrypted message rise from 0% to 100%, accompanied by the increase in the numbers, scenes of the changing situations continuously emerged from the encrypted message, appearing right in front of him, and questions could not help but well up in his heart.
“Why… are there these scenes?”
According to Tai Yuebai’s understanding, he had obtained this encrypted message from Yun Taizhen’s hands over two months ago, during the process of liberating the ancestor’s corpse together with Zhang Yu.
“Logically speaking, the content of this encrypted message was written by the Yun Taizhen from at least over two months ago.”
Tai Yuebai thought to himself, “And the subsequent changes in the current situation throughout Kunxu, along with the outbreak of various events, only occurred… after I obtained this encrypted message.”
“But the scenes displayed in the encrypted message correspond almost exactly with many of the things that have happened over these past two months.”
Tai Yuebai’s mind raced as he already began to speculate, “The first possibility is that Supreme Truth had already predicted the upcoming changes in the situation. She accurately predicted what would happen over the next two months, and compiled the predicted scenes into the encrypted message.”
“But to accomplish this, even with Supreme Truth’s cultivation realm, it would be exceptionally difficult…. or perhaps during the time Senior Ying was away, Yun Taizhen achieved a qualitative leap in predictive Immortal Dao Technology, in abilities like divination and foresight.”
“Moreover, if it was a prediction, why did she encrypt the result and hand it to me? Yet only allowed me to verify it at this moment?”
Tai Yuebai felt completely unable to comprehend the behavioral logic behind this.
He continued to recall various information about Yun Taizhen, and a second answer emerged in his mind.
“The second possibility is that she designed some future scenes in advance, compiled them into the encrypted message, and over the subsequent two months… completed these scenes in reality to correspond with the content in the encrypted message, thus creating an effect that looked like advance foresight.”
“But then again… what exactly is the purpose of doing all this?”
Tai Yuebai couldn’t figure out Yun Taizhen’s goal, and a third answer surfaced in his mind: “The third possibility is that this encrypted message has been communicating with the outside world all along. Someone continuously compiled the events of the past two months into it, eventually allowing me to see it.”
Various thoughts flashed through his mind in an instant as Tai Yuebai continued reading the subsequent content.
However, the scenes he saw in the encrypted message both overlapped and differed greatly from what he currently observed in the physical world.
“The heaven and earth in the physical world, the battlefield, and the various environments altered by the battles of the Ten Immortal Emperors haven’t been completely restored like the scenes shown in the encrypted message.”
Tai Yuebai thought to himself, “So… did Yun Taizhen’s prediction, or perhaps her arrangement, ultimately fail?”
Tai Yuebai looked up at the sky in the physical world, where the Saint Fetus Imagery was gradually shattering.
It was as if it had been caught in the crossfire of the Ten Immortal Emperors’ battle and could no longer hold on.
Along with the shattering of the Saint Fetus, an earth-shattering cry of an infant rang out from within, echoing across the heaven and earth of all levels in Kunxu in the blink of an eye.
“Waaah!”
As Tai Yuebai continued to read the encrypted message that had finally finished being released, he stared fixedly at the humanoid figure born from the pulverized Saint Fetus: “Did it succeed? Or did it fail? …11th Immortal Emperor.”
It was a bloody and mangled body that had only just taken a humanoid shape.
It looked like a fetus that had been forcefully birthed before its development was complete, currently letting out cries of pain, fear, and anger.
Kuang Tianqing of the Heavenly Demon Sect had been watching this great battle the whole time. Upon seeing this scene, he couldn’t help but sigh, “Did it fail? All-Life Progenitor was interrupted by the battle of the Ten Immortal Emperors, so she failed to truly complete her breakthrough?”
His projected thoughts transmitted at high speed, allowing him to rapidly communicate with the person beside him.
Meanwhile, the giant corpse beside Kuang Tianqing narrowed his eyes. Staring intently at the premature infant, he responded, “Can you not tell who this infant looks like?”
“Looks like who?” Kuang Tianqing was slightly taken aback. Looking at the bloody and mangled premature infant, he could faintly see that the other party had a somewhat delicate face.
The feeling this face gave was also extremely strange. Instead of an infant, it looked more like an adult woman, as if an adult woman’s face had been forcibly imprinted onto an infant’s body.
The giant corpse laughed. “It really wasn’t that simple.”
“Old friend, long time no see. You truly are full of surprises.”
“To choose to break through at this moment, were you forced into a corner, or are you already absolutely certain of your success?”
“Supreme Truth.”
Fa Liuyuan’s heart skipped a beat when he saw this face.
“Shouldn’t this Saint Fetus be All-Life Progenitor? Why does it look like Supreme Truth?”
Based on what Fa Liuyuan knew, this time it should have been All-Life Progenitor of the Celestial Monster Sect, the Monster Immortal who proposed “all people in the world are born of me”, breaking through her cultivation realm to complete the Dao Lineage.
Especially according to the intelligence he had gathered, this was also the reason why the Celestial Monster Immortal Emperor had brought All-Life Progenitor to the Myriad Laws Sect to negotiate with the Myriad Laws Immortal Emperor.
“Wasn’t Yun Taizhen supposed to act as an intermediary, to bring the two sides together so that the Myriad Laws Immortal Emperor and the Celestial Monster Immortal Emperor could discuss the distribution of the Dao Lineage?”
While his mind processed these thoughts at lightning speed, Fa Liuyuan’s will had already crossed into the Spirit Realm, reaching out to communicate with the two Immortals of the Reformist Faction.
And very soon, he received the replies of the two Immortals.
Immortal Roujia: “Yun Taizhen is borrowing laws from All-Life Progenitor, using All-Life Progenitor to condense the Saint Fetus, and then being born from it to seize this new Dao Lineage.”
Immortal Yi Xuan said lightly, “To actually harbor the delusion of snatching away the new Dao Lineage right under the noses of the Ten Immortal Emperors? So what if she has All-Life Progenitor as bait? How could she possibly escape the discerning eyes of the Immortal Emperors?”
“I think Supreme Truth has been blinded by greed to commit such an unwise act…”
But in the very next moment, a hint of surprise flashed in this Immortal’s heart: “Hmm? No, there is another Dao Lineage?!”
Beside him, Immortal Roujia’s expression also changed: “So that’s how it is. Yun Taizhen used All-Life Progenitor to cover for herself. During these past few days, there was a second new Dao Lineage breaking through. All those phenomena were triggered by these two Dao Lineages together?”
“Yun Taizhen… how exactly did she do it? To actually be able to deceive the Ten Immortal Emperors? How is this possible?”
In the sky, surrounded by the power of the Ten Immortal Emperors, a woman seemed to walk out from nothingness, slowly appearing beside the baby.
Dressed in pure and plain clothing, she possessed a treasured and solemn appearance that was clear as jade, exuding an indescribable sense of holiness.
The young woman’s appearance was ninety percent similar to that of the infant, looking just like a mother and daughter.
Almost the instant they saw this woman appear, countless living beings across Kunxu felt a strong sense of intimacy well up in their hearts, an attraction originating from the depths of their bloodlines.
As the woman slowly gathered the crying infant into her embrace, the baby gradually stopped crying.
Zhang Yu stared intently at the scene before him, watching the woman holding the infant.
At the same time, he sensed the woman standing fearlessly under the gaze of the Ten Immortal Emperors, stating indifferently, “Today… the Myriad Laws disciple, Supreme Truth, proves her Dao in Kunxu, ascending to the Supreme Seat to become the 11th Immortal Emperor of the Ten Sects.”
In an instant, the woman fought the Ten Immortal Emperors all by herself. A massive amount of information rushed toward his face, making it impossible for Zhang Yu to process, understand, let alone see it in its entirety.
At this moment, the battle between the woman and the Ten Immortal Emperors seemed to have surpassed the scope of Zhang Yu’s understanding, leaving him completely clueless about the changing situation no matter how closely he stared.
And right at this moment, Zhang Yu saw a series of news headlines emerge once again.
“Revealed: According to insiders, All-Life Progenitor is actually the reincarnation of the First Monster Saint! The monsterfolk have once again ushered in an unprecedented great victory!”
“Deceiving the heavens to cross the sea! A secret breakthrough with a second Dao Lineage, could the mastermind behind the scenes be the Supreme Truth Immortal Clan?!”
Immortal Roujia: “This is one person split in two! Yun Taizhen refined a part of herself into the body of the First Monster Saint, using the Monster Saint as a foundation to prove her own Dao Lineage.”
A massive amount of reports continuously surfaced in front of Zhang Yu, all seemingly analyzing the current situation.
Zhang Yu looked at these scenes, an absurd feeling involuntarily rising in his heart: “An event that threatens the entirety of Kunxu has erupted, yet even Immortals, and even cultivators at the Immortal Venerable level stepping into the fray, are only thinking about grabbing a wave of traffic in this battle of the Ten Immortal Emperors.”
Zhang Yu helplessly watched the constantly refreshing news in front of him.
“Immortal Venerable Profound Wisdom leaks: The real Supreme Truth has already been refined into the First Monster Saint. The person proving the Dao right now is merely a clone of Supreme Truth, who can be called Demon Supreme Truth.”
Looking at these pieces of news, Immortal Slayer felt a jolt in his heart, recalling the scene in the ancestor’s corpse’s dream where Yun Taizhen used her own clone to replace herself in presiding over the experiment.
“Back then, Supreme Truth had a clone take her place in the experiment to prevent herself from turning into a demon, replacing the clone whenever something felt off. Could she have been devoured by the clone during this process? Did the host get usurped by the guest?” Immortal Slayer thought to himself.
Similar thoughts surged through Zhang Yu’s mind. “Supreme Truth’s clone… or rather, Demon Supreme Truth, refined the real Supreme Truth into the First Monster Saint, disguised as All-Life Progenitor and a group of monsterfolk, taking careful steps in the Ten Great Sects to climb upward?”
“Did she appear to be different people, but in reality, Supreme Truth was the one who completed the preparations for various Law Edicts and even the Dao Lineages? Which ultimately led to today’s situation?”
At the same time, although Zhang Yu couldn’t see any changes in Demon Supreme Truth in the sky, lines of descriptive text appeared around her.
“The imposing aura of Demon Supreme Truth in the sky is rising steadily, soaring higher and higher, filling the entire world!”
“At this moment, every transmission of bloodline information and bloodline power among the common people of the world cannot do without her influence!”
“Every projection and action of family affection and intent among the living beings in this world cannot be separated from her pushing!”
“At this moment, Demon Supreme Truth seems to become the spokesperson of all living beings, the connector of the common people, and the representative of the will of a trillion lives.”
“The descendants of the world’s common people all seem to gradually turn into her appearance, ultimately becoming a part of her.”
“From now on, the common people of the world will all hang upon her body.”
“Regardless of changing eras or a changing world, as long as she is here, all living beings will be here.”
Looking at these lines of text, Zhang Yu thought to himself, “Where is this report from?”
With a sweep of his gaze, he impressively saw the mark of the Heavenly Sword Immortal Emperor again.
At the same time, Immortal Slayer carefully analyzed the content of these lines of text and said, “Is this the chance to try again that Yun Taizhen spoke of in the dream of the Ancestor’s Corpse?”
“Letting the common people of the world merge into her and become a part of her…”
In the next moment, Zhang Yu saw more news reports.
He saw the founder of the Celestial Evolution Award (the Kunxu Nobel), Immortal Venerable Celestial Evolution, commenting in a video, “Senior Supreme Truth refined the First Monster Saint and recreated the Saint Fetus, meaning she gave birth to herself.”
“Feeding the people of the world, giving birth to the people of the world in her bloodline, yet also being born herself from the people of the world.”
“Now she is both the mother of all living beings and the daughter of all living beings.”
“It’s like ‘I alone give birth to all people in the world, and all people in the world give birth to me alone’.”
“The two Supreme Dao Lineages are already two sides of the same coin, forming a self-contained cycle, and have become an unsolvable and paradoxical heavenly principle…”
“The next Celestial Evolution Award should be given to you, Senior Supreme Truth.”
Another text report appeared.
“According to Heavenly Fortune Immortal Venerable, Immortal Emperor Supreme Truth reversely refined the Dao Lineage of the First Monster Saint, and is now one with all living beings in the world. Reincarnation and reproduction in the world cannot lack this link. If anyone tries to kill Immortal Emperor Supreme Truth, they will be killing all living beings in the world.”
“According to informed sources, the Immortal Emperor is unwilling to abandon all living beings in the world for a momentary dispute, unwilling to let all living beings lose their job opportunities and the chance to climb the Immortal Dao, and is willing to coexist peacefully and develop together with Immortal Emperor Supreme Truth…”
Looking at this text report, Immortal Slayer couldn’t help but sneer: “If this is true, I’m afraid it’s just that the Ten Immortal Emperors are unwilling to let the living beings of the world, who accumulate Immortal Dao resources for them day and night, wither away.”
At the same time, another report appeared.
“Full Attendance Immortal voiced his support for Immortal Emperor Supreme Truth, stating that it was precisely because of the insatiable greed of the Ten Immortal Emperors, who delusionally wished to divide and consume the new Dao Lineage, that they sat back and watched All-Life Progenitor give birth to the Saint Fetus step by step. But what the Ten Immortal Emperors did not expect was that although the Saint Fetus represented the new Dao Lineage, upon its completion… it harbored a poison that no Immortal Emperor wanted to be tainted by.”
“This poison… is sacrifice.” Immortal Yi Xuan of the Reformist Faction explained as he spoke, “To become a link in the cycle of life and death of the world’s living beings, driving the operation of all living things day and night — which Immortal Emperor would be willing to take up this position?”
Immortal Yi Xuan revealed a moved expression: “This is the caliber of Senior Sister Supreme Truth… no! This is the caliber of Immortal Emperor Supreme Truth! A Dao Lineage that shoulders the common people — even if she were to offer it up on a silver platter, who would dare to accept it?”
Watching all of this, Immortal Slayer thought to himself, “So… Yun Taizhen used the benefits contained within the new Dao Lineage to tempt the Ten Immortal Emperors into allowing the new Dao Lineage to be completed?”
Desolate Ox analyzed, “She is both the mother of all living beings and the daughter of all living beings. She must endure the uplifting of the common people, yet she must also give birth to the people of the world.”
“This Dao Lineage of Yun Taizhen transforms herself into an essential link in the world’s operation to maintain the long-lasting existence of heaven, earth, and all living beings.”
“As long as she is willing to continue cooperating with the Ten Immortal Emperors and the governance of Kunxu, driving the common people of the world to work so they can continue in an endless cycle of… being exploited by the Ten Immortal Emperors, then the Ten Immortal Emperors will not take the initiative to snatch this Dao Lineage.”
“Because if any Immortal Emperor were to take over this Dao Lineage and continue to operate the common people so they could be jointly exploited by the Ten Immortal Emperors, it would be equivalent to actively expending effort to maintain Kunxu, only for the benefits of that maintenance to be shared among the other Immortal Emperors. It would be tantamount to working for the other Immortal Emperors.”
“But if they took it over and did not do this, resulting in the common people no longer being continuously exploited by the Immortal Emperors, they would likely face a siege from the other Immortal Emperors.”
Immortal Slayer sighed, “Using her own bloodline and the bloodline of the First Monster Saint as the foundation, she used the gestation of the new Dao Lineage to secretly complete a second Dao Lineage. Then, she borrowed the power of the Immortal Emperors to suppress the Saint Fetus. Ultimately, by combining the two, she turned the new Dao Lineage into a hot potato that none of the Ten Immortal Emperors wanted to touch before it was even completed.”
“To be in charge of this Dao Lineage is simply to work for the other Immortal Emperors. As long as one takes on this Dao Lineage, it will be forever impossible to become the strongest among the Immortal Emperors. How could they, who wholeheartedly pursue the peak, tolerate this?”
“And if they kill Taizhen, Yun Taizhen has already become a part of the cycle of reincarnation and reproduction of the common people in the world. If this link is broken, it will cause the common people in the world to gradually perish. To the Ten Immortal Emperors, this means losing their own Immortal Dao resources.”
“But letting Yun Taizhen become the 11th Immortal Emperor will also divide the rights and interests of the Ten Immortal Emperors in governing Kunxu… How much is lost in this is no longer something we can estimate.”
Listening to the analysis of Immortal Slayer and Desolate Ox, at this moment… Zhang Yu only felt an unprecedented new way of thinking unfolding before him. “So that’s how it is… By completing a Supreme Dao Lineage that the Ten Immortal Emperors are unwilling to take over, unwilling to fight for, and unwilling to destroy, one can become an Immortal Emperor? It can actually be done like this?”
“As long as the loss brought about by Taizhen becoming the 11th Immortal Emperor is less than the loss of them killing Yun Taizhen, or taking the initiative to assume the new Dao Lineage… then Taizhen will succeed.”
At the same time, rounds of applause and congratulations were already ringing out in the sky.
“Congratulations, Immortal Emperor Supreme Truth.”
“With this, the 11th Immortal Emperor has been established.”
“Congratulations on ascending to the Supreme Seat today, looking down upon Kunxu.”
Listening to these congratulations and sensing those lofty intents, Zhang Yu felt a strong sense of doubt and weirdness rising in his heart.
“Why… is there not a single trace of killing intent in the intents of the Ten Immortal Emperors?”
“There isn’t even the slightest bit of hostility?”
“They’re just going to tolerate the birth of the 11th Immortal Emperor like this? They’re just going to easily tolerate a new Immortal Emperor sharing their authority over Kunxu?”
This feeling of calmness, like a bottomless ocean, made Zhang Yu feel an even deeper sense of apprehension.
Because even though he had only interacted with Myriad Laws Immortal Emperor from a great distance, Zhang Yu deeply understood what kind of profit-driven creatures the so-called Ten Immortal Emperors were.
They wanted this, wanted that, wanted more, and kept wanting… wanting until they couldn’t want anymore, snatching until they couldn’t snatch anymore.
Every Immortal Emperor was the ultimate Immortal Dao Tyrant, a profit-driven creature who would never easily tolerate anyone snatching their Immortal Dao resources or threatening their path of the Immortal Dao.
At this moment, Zhang Yu felt a strong sense that something was wrong.
“Even if they accepted Immortal Emperor Supreme Truth, they would definitely unite to impose all sorts of restrictions on her, right?”
“How could they accept her so easily?”
“Something is wrong… This is simply impossible!”
Zhang Yu abruptly raised his head, his entire consciousness having detached from the encrypted message.
It turned out that at the very moment the Saint Fetus gave birth to the infant, the contents of the encrypted message were wildly released, causing Zhang Yu to unknowingly become immersed in it.
He had even taken everything that happened within it, all the various news and reports that surfaced… as everything happening in the physical world.
“No, Demon Supreme Truth proving her Dao in Kunxu and becoming an Immortal Emperor, as well as the various news reports and the statements from the various Immortals and Immortal Venerables — those were all inside the encrypted message… Is this Yun Taizhen’s prediction and plan?”
“The true situation in the physical world is…”
When Zhang Yu looked up at the sky in the physical world once again, just as he thought an earth-shattering battle was about to break out, tiny cracks burst open on the bodies of the infant and the woman.
A tenfold halo emerged from within, as if born directly from Supreme Truth’s body, imprisoning and thoroughly suppressing her.
A trace of astonishment appeared on Yun Taizhen’s face; it seemed she hadn’t expected to be suppressed so easily.
Watching this scene, Zhang Yu’s heart was severely shaken: “She failed? She actually failed so easily… After preparing so much and brewing for so long, in the end… she had absolutely no power to fight back.”
“Is the gap between Supreme Truth and the Ten Immortal Emperors actually this huge?”
At this moment, the entire world fell completely silent. Every cultivator and every Immortal watched this scene in absolute terror, looking at the Immortal Venerable Supreme Truth — who had just caused such a massive disturbance — pinned down like a dead dog, unable to return even a single blow.
In this instant, the awe and reverence of the countless cultivators throughout Kunxu for the Ten Immortal Emperors was elevated to the absolute limit. They became existences in the hearts and minds of all living beings that could never be resisted, never be defied, and would forever stand at the apex of Kunxu.
In reality, the sky shattered; it was the scene of Demon Supreme Truth being suppressed.
In the encrypted message, Demon Supreme Truth achieved the status of an Immortal Emperor, standing proudly above the clouds while heaven and earth were continuously repaired and restored.
The two images appeared before Zhang Yu’s eyes simultaneously, forming completely opposing scenes.
Looking at all this, Zhang Yu rapidly pondered in his heart, “So… the encrypted message is full of Demon Supreme Truth’s predictions? Her predictions failed completely, and the course of events has escaped her control.”
Tai Yuebai also looked at the completely opposite scenes in reality and the encrypted message.
He thought to himself, “Supreme Truth, you’ve completely miscalculated.”
Recalling the contents of the encrypted message, Tai Yuebai sighed inwardly, “Sending your plans and predictions… to us? Were you simply too arrogant, or too blinded by greed?”
The thought of a newly ascended Immortal Emperor being devoured, and a powerful Supreme Dao Lineage being fought over by the Ten Immortal Emperors, left Tai Yuebai feeling an intense sense of helplessness.
“The Ultimate Doomsday of this world has taken another step forward.”
“Yun Taizhen, what exactly did you do?”
Just as Tai Yuebai was observing the changing situation, reading the encrypted message, and thinking rapidly…
In the encrypted message, Immortal Emperor Supreme Truth, who stood proudly between heaven and earth and had already successfully attained the Dao, suddenly spoke, “I don’t know if this message can be transmitted.”
“By the time you hear my words, I will probably have been thoroughly suppressed by the Ten Immortal Emperors, right?”