Taiyi Dao Fruit-Chapter 1178 - 398: Entangled Fates

The piercing wind howled, akin to countless God Demons wailing, boundless decay materialized into substance, converging into a long river, rushing turbulently.

This was a world seemingly without end, where Five Vile Qi merged into one with the world, indistinguishable from each other. Every inch of space, every speck of dust, contained decay and turbidity.

The Drought Demon Ba stood beside the river of decay, watching the majestic figure ahead slowly withdraw his hand.

"Jiang Li..."

He called out Jiang Li's name, but it did not trigger any cause and effect response or draw Jiang Li's attention.

The anomaly surrounding him slowly faded, returning to normal, with a hint of admiration, he remarked, "I have already done my utmost to overestimate his progress speed, yet I find I've underestimated it still. With such strength, it is no wonder he could defeat the Heavenly Monarch."

"Jiang Li, indeed impressive."

"As for potential, he is actually stronger than the Heavenly Monarch and more suitable to carry your will. Unfortunately, his progress is too swift." The Drought Demon Ba spoke with regret.

Though at present, the Heavenly Monarch's body was closer to Heaven than Jiang Li was, given some time, the Heavenly Monarch would fall behind Jiang Li, not to mention, the Heavenly Monarch had been so thoroughly defeated by Jiang Li that not even ashes remained. Even if the body was re-gathered, it couldn't reach its former peak.

"His progress is indeed fast, especially in Yi Dao..."

At this point, the man shook his head, "The Heavenly Monarch left a tail of the Six Soul Banner to him, and with that tail, he found me."

The Heavenly Monarch's body had been re-gathered, but the Primordial Spirit's soul and consciousness had been completely obliterated, unable to be restored at all.

Jiang Li always upheld a swift and clean approach to killing, rigorously preventing any resurrection attempts by enemies, leaving no trace of the Heavenly Monarch. Although these two had made arrangements in advance to re-gather the Heavenly Monarch's body, wanting to know the Heavenly Monarch's memories was impossible now.

This resulted in them failing to realize that Jiang Li, not only excelled in Yi Dao to such an extent, but could also establish a connection through the Six Soul Banner tail and find them.

"Back then, the Heavenly Monarch managed to find Great Sun Tathagata for cooperation by sensing with that tail of the Six Soul Banner, who would've thought he'd give the tail to Jiang Li..." The Drought Demon Ba's expression turned cold.

"This person truly has a penchant for betrayal."

Speaking thus, the Drought Demon Ba took out the fragment of the Six Soul Banner, glowing with a dim light; it was precisely the fragment used to plot against the Awakened and the True Spirit of Jade Emperor.

At that time, the Cave Heaven within the Heavenly Monarch collapsed, and the Great Sun Tathagata True Spirit, Tan Wuwei, Guanyin and others left using their skills, but the Six Soul Banner fragment was nowhere to be found. It was unknown whether it fell into a spatial crack or was taken by one of those present.

Unexpectedly, those two banner tails eventually fell into the hands of the Drought Demon Ba.

Later on, the Heavenly Monarch likely knew this through the tail he had, then he did what he was most adept at—betrayal.

He directly stabbed the Drought Demon Ba in the back, attempting to incite a fight between Jiang Li and the Drought Demon Ba.

One could only say, this was very much like the Heavenly Monarch.

Speaking thus, the Drought Demon Ba was about to discard this part of the Six Soul Banner when he was stopped by the man. "Having experienced this once, I won't give him another chance. This item is now difficult to serve as a medium for Jiang Li, put it away. However, Jiang Li is already aware of our presence, he cannot be allowed to disturb anything."

The Drought Demon Ba halted his actions, then furrowed his brow slightly, looking around, "The passage of time in Heaven flows much slower than in the Mortal World. The Mortal World has already passed over ten days, but not even half a day has passed in Heaven. If Emperor Jiang were to come to Heaven, discovering anomalies is not impossible."

"Then create some disturbances for him."

Gazing quietly ahead, through the murky wind of decay, Pure Light could be seen like a pillar, faint yet discernible, "Before I reach the source of End of Dharma, do not let him ascend to Heaven."

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While a remote exchange of techniques took place there, here, Primordial Lord Rain Master, Tianxuan, and Gongsun Qingyue, the master, the disciple, and the pupil, all opened their eyes on the bed, eyes moving across Jiang Li's body, exchanging glances and remaining silent.

It was Jiang Li's avatar who went to the Tianshu Palace to meet the crowd; his true body was still in Tianxuan's chambers, while the surroundings glowed with jade facets displayed.

Two days ago, a back-and-forth led to Heavenly Thunder clashing with Earth Fire. After Tianxuan's embarrassing campaign, Primordial Lord Rain Master held her hand, with the master and disciple's hearts united, fighting fiercely with the pupil, a scorn of the ancestor.

However, faced with Jiang Li's day-after-day fierce attack, Primordial Lord Rain Master and Tianxuan fell, unable to withstand them.

Soon after, Gongsun Qingyue entered the fray, the paper tiger now possessing the Sun God Body, was different from before, but still could not withstand the prowess imparted by the Master on the bed, defeated like a collapsing mountain.

Then Jiang Li directly executed One Qi to Three Pure Ones, splitting out another body, heading to Tianshu Palace, while he himself was still reclining in Tianxuan's chambers, taking a restful sleep. As a result of the Heavenly Monarch's remnants, Jiang Li focused entirely on tracing, while his true body was rarely relaxed, quietly sleeping.

Tianxuan's gaze first settled on Gongsun Qingyue to Jiang Li's left side, then shifted to Primordial Lord Rain Master who rested his head on Jiang Li's abdomen, his Dragon Horn held by Jiang Li, and suddenly let out a soft sigh.

"Celestial Stars Body, Yinglong True Body, Sun God Body, yet still cannot overpower... This evil disciple is simply a brute. Forget it, you and I as master and disciple will accompany him through life."

She seemingly finally found a suitable reason, fully reconciling with Primordial Lord Rain Master.

"What of Aunt Ling Guang," Gongsun Qingyue interjected.

If Ji Lingguang were to be included, perhaps there might be a chance to suppress Jiang Li.

"You mischievous disciple, do you wish for our relationship to be more chaotic?"

Tianxuan could not hold back giving the mischievous disciple a roll of eyes, then after pondering for a while, shook her head, "Ji Lingguang should be acting out of a desire for revenge, different from us. Let it be, as though we don't know."

Speaking thus, Tianxuan slowly rose, her long hair cascading down like a waterfall, pitch-black interspersed with silver-white.

Clearly appearing somewhat unseemly, yet still exuding regal beauty, making Gongsun Qingyue envious beyond compare.

In terms of temperament, Tianxuan was the pinnacle among their master-disciple triad, the eternally regal posture as if always at the center, even overshadowing Gongsun Qingyue, the legitimate spouse.

However...

Gongsun Qingyue glanced at Tianxuan's figure, silently rising, standing tall.

On the bed, the Old Demon cannot pull off any padding trick, among the three, she was the smallest.

Tianxuan sharply sensed the mischievous disciple's mindset, eye twitching slightly, "Your junior disciple, now esteemed as Emperor, if the harem has but one person, it might invite gossip. As Master, I shall perform Three-Phases Transformation to divide into another form and enter the palace as a concubine."

Gongsun Qingyue: "?"

Not good, the Old Demon wants to legitimately move into the palace.

"Isn't this bad?" Gongsun Qingyue's face stiffened, "If our similar appearances are discovered, revealing identity would not be good."

If Tianxuan were to enter the palace, certainly she could not go with someone else's face, perhaps only slightly dressed up, she would most definitely not change her appearance, that would be too stealthy.

Additionally, Gongsun Qingyue was sure Tianxuan would use a form to oversee the Sect, and send her true body to the palace. With such pickiness, how could she be willing to travel as a form.

With her pettiness, even if in form it's her consciousness controlling, it might still cause jealousy.

"No worries, Master is small-chested." Tianxuan softly replied.

Always resorting to padding tricks isn't without its benefits, at least one can distinguish a clear difference in physique.

At most, let Emperor Jiang's reputation suffer a bit and acquire a reputation for having a teacher's love.