Becoming a Deity from Planting the Bodhi Tree-Chapter 988 - 358: The World Venerable and Shi Zun Discuss the Tao (Part 2)

"Has this person already found the path to transcendence and walked far along it? But he's only cultivated for a few years?!"

The saint from Dodd Palace asked in a deep voice, his tone full of disbelief and even resentment.

"If not so, how could he have so easily suppressed Wuzhou?" Another saint, carrying a longbow, suppressed the ripples in his heart and sighed lightly.

At the True Saint level, to continue advancing, one uses the Time River as a whetstone, summarizing one's own timeline.

But this path does not directly lead to transcendence.

Finding the path to transcendence for a True Saint makes a vast difference; it determines whether they stand still or infinitely approach transcendence.

This Mu Shitian, born merely ten thousand years ago, not only reached the True Saint level but also found the path to transcendence and walked further than Wuzhou?

This kind of "good fortune", who among those present dare say they don't have a hint of envy and jealousy?

At this moment, a youth holding a war halberd appeared calmly among the saints.

"Dao Yi!"

"Taoist Friend of Ten Thousand Tribulations, why have you been delayed for so long?"

Dao Yi's aura was profound, his entire being resembling a volcano about to erupt, carrying a chill, as he looked towards the Four Guardian Stars, coldly speaking:

"Mu Shitian, He Donghuang, at least one of them is still alive!"

The saints exchanged glances, somewhat speechless.

"Taoist friend, you arrived late." Someone tactfully indicated that on his way here, Mu Shitian of the Yanhuang Federation had already effortlessly killed Wuzhou.

As the situation stands now, this Red-haired Taoist fearlessly risks his life, only just within Mu Shitian's thought!

Dao Yi's eyes suddenly fixed on that Buddha's Golden Body which held the Great Universe within its palm.

"Mu Shitian!"

Upon hearing everyone's words, Dao Yi claimed firmly, even sneered:

"If Mu Shitian truly had such power, he could have acted earlier; why need depend on Death Demon's hand to disperse the path of Ke Qingxiu and others, then entangle the Death Demon?"

"There was no way Wuzhou could die so easily!"

"Furthermore, have you forgotten? Today's focus is on the 'Four Guardian Stars'! But the Yanhuang Federation proactively invited the Four Demons in, and the Death Demon even acted without hesitation, directly cleaving open the complete universe created by the Four Guardian Stars!"

Amidst the crowd, someone belatedly realized, their expression grave, for merely the matter of the Four Guardian Stars contained significant doubts.

Dao Yi surveyed around but did not find Shouzhen of the Heavenly Saint Lake, nor the old peacock of the Five Virtues Palace.

Among the ancient existences present today, besides himself, there was only Yin Yang Daoist Venerate and Xuan Chongyang of the Heaven and Earth Mystic Sect.

Amidst many supreme creatures starting to doubt due to Dao Yi's words...

That Buddha, who had crushed the true body of Wuzhou Heavenly Demon by hand, lowered his head and said indifferently:

"To come without reciprocating is impolite, Taoist Friend Wuzhou, why not reveal yourself?"

Heavenly Sound reverberated through the worlds.

In the void, someone smiled and asked:

"How did Taoist Friend Shitian guess?"

The Buddha replied with just eight words:

"The Heavenly Demon is dead, where is Shi Zun?"

Wuzhou laughed heartily: "The one who knows me is truly Taoist Friend Shitian! Dare to ask Taoist Friend Shitian, where have you hidden the real Four Guardian Stars?"

The Buddha replied plainly: "If I tell you, would you believe?"

"Taoist friend, just speak; I shall have my judgment. Moreover, this trap is truly crude; it shouldn't be laid by Taoist friend, should it?" Wuzhou teased.

"I knew you to be cautious and doubtful, merely didn't expect you would 'send' Taoist Friend Yan into it, and the latter actually fell for it, seemingly completely unguarded against you."

Mu Shitian sighed lightly in his heart.

To encircle and kill Wuzhou, engaging in unknown tribulation periods as a tyrannical Heavenly Demon, is no easier than transcendence.

Especially since Wuzhou's Dao fundamentally lies in turning one into myriad; no one knows when he is the true body, when he is a clone, the transformation between real and unreal occurring just in a thought, making it a hundredfold more thorny than the Undying and Indestructible.

To encircle and kill Wuzhou, in a certain sense, only by stepping into transcendence can one suppress with realm, then crush this beast without suspense.

Or...

make him fall into a "no escape" situation.

Stepping into transcendence is not something within their hope.

Fortunately, the Federation possesses the conditions to achieve the second option.

They learned from Hel's mouth that the reason the Four Demons initially targeted the Yanhuang Federation was because of Wuzhou.

Wuzhou could sense within the darkness that the Federation contained something aligning with his Dao needs, merely unclear what it truly was.

If he knew, he would never step foot within the Federation's borders.

Because it is—the All Worlds Suffering Sea!

The All Worlds Suffering Sea can indeed facilitate harmonizing with the Nether Sea, stepping into transcendence, but it is absolutely unsuited to Wuzhou's path.

Wuzhou's perception was still attributed to the "catalysis" of the Nether Sea.

Under this precondition, they naturally chose to set up a plot using the Four Guardian Stars.

Only, this beast is cautious and doubtful; without figuring out what secret is truly hidden within the Four Guardian Stars, he absolutely wouldn't risk himself.

Even if they openly displayed the Four Guardian Stars there, Wuzhou wouldn't enter with his true body.

What just transpired was a probing.

As anticipated, amid their real and illusive design, Wuzhou was too lazy even to tread with a clone; instead, he incited Death Demon to enter, affirmed Mu Shitian remained in the world, and further attempted with the true body of Heavenly Demon to forcibly assault the Reversed Ten Thousand Spirits Array, compelling Mu Shitian to appear. 𝒇𝓻𝓮𝓮𝙬𝙚𝒃𝒏𝓸𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝓬𝓸𝒎

The demise of the Heavenly Demon true body became a golden cicada shedding its shell, repaying Mu Shitian partially for "Enlightenment" karma.

Where is Enlightenment?

Naturally at "Shi Zun."

Long before ten thousand years, Wuzhou had already formed an agreement with two other Taoist friends to exchange with Hel's Divine Throne.

And Dao Yi and Yan agreed because this act could block Hel's potential return.