The verdant wood that pierced through the Nine Nether brimmed with vitality, its form indistinct between reality and illusion. It had attained the wondrous state of True Emptiness and Mysterious Existence while embodying the virtue of the Dao’s natural spontaneity. In the briefest of moments, it caused all things along its path to flourish, demonic energy to dissipate, and filth to be purified. What was once the Nine Nether now resembled a celestial paradise or Buddhist Pure Land, seizing the majority of future possibilities. Han Guang suddenly felt an inescapable, predestined doom. The balance of his Five Elements was disrupted, his Inner World thrown into chaos, his vitality draining away, and his longevity extinguished. He was reduced to a state as feeble as an ant.
This was the terror of facing a figure of the Other Shore. Had he not spent years in the Nine Nether, with his past traces obscured by another great figure, the Green Emperor would have long since traced back the River of Time in the Real World and erased him before he ever entered the Nine Nether. Even the False Other Shore figures like the Nine Chaos Heavenly Venerable and the Black Heavenly Emperor would be powerless to intervene, denied even the chance to confront him.
Only an Other Shore being can oppose another Other Shore being.
Yet even so, when the illusory Dao Fruit condensed by the Green Emperor manifested its corresponding might, Han Guang found himself utterly defenseless!
Fortunately, this was the Nine Nether.
“Do you truly think the Nine Nether has no one to stand against you?” Xuanming Ghost Emperor roared. A massive ghostly claw, tinged with eerie green, emerged from one of the layers of the Nine Nether. Cold spread, deathly energy thickened, extinguishing life and freezing new sprouts as it slammed into the side of the verdant wood with a resounding *crack*.
Immediately after, countless phantom specters materialized, crawling upstream along the now-visible River of Time, clashing once more with the verdant wood that had abruptly reverted to its state moments prior.
The two exchanges shook the Nine Nether, dimming the deathly energy and leaving Xuanming Ghost Emperor straining. He could barely suppress the verdant wood, feeling it might break free at any moment.
And this was while a significant portion of the Green Emperor’s will was still focused on restraining the Heavenly Dao Monster!
The Black Heavenly Emperor made his move. He formed a sword with his fingers and thrust into the void, leaping through the River of Time to seal the verdant wood’s transformations alongside the spectral phantoms.
Moments earlier, when the Nine Nether had yet to stir, the verdant wood, ghostly phantoms, and finger-sword were already churning spacetime, locked in relentless collision.
Hours before, when dozens of demonic gods and fiends remained oblivious to the impending half-year deadline, the verdant wood swept past, ghostly phantoms soared, and the finger-sword guided the apocalypse, slaying them in the past and erasing them from the present.
Days, months, even years earlier, the clashes between the Other Shore being and the two False Other Shore figures altered many events in the past, reshaping the present—yet Han Guang remained unaffected!
Had the False Other Shore lacked such capabilities, the Nine Nether would have been conquered long ago in ancient times!
Han Guang took no pride in the Green Emperor being stalled—blocked from past to future. Seizing the moment, he dissolved the multicolored relic with a golden swastika and absorbed the demonic Bodhi seed with his Reverse Buddha Bloodlight.
Silently, Buddhist radiance blazed alongside inky demonic energy. Though seemingly contradictory, the two forces merged seamlessly, balanced like yin and yang.
Within the lustrous glaze, the Heavenly Emperor’s true form stepped forth, hands clasped behind his back, head held high, his aura dominating the world. Amidst the blood-black miasma, the Six Annihilation Nether Demon sat cross-legged, each finger representing a form of destruction and corruption. These gradually overlapped with Han Guang’s true self as he fused the Buddhist light and demonic energy, eliminating all conflict and rejection. The celestial projection of the Immortal Realm above and the descending Nine Nether patterns resonated in unison, as if about to influence the true Nine Heavens.
Unlike the Demon Sage, who entered the Nine Nether to attain Legend without manifesting phenomena in the Real World, Han Guang sought to seize a portion of the Heavenly Emperor’s authority. This required communion with the Immortal Realm, hence the darkened skies—layered heavens above, abyssal depths below, with clear qi rising and turbid qi sinking, a spectacle of grandeur.
At that moment, a golden figure plummeted into the Nine Nether, sending ripples through the void like a boulder crashing into the sea.
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It was a golden-furred Raging Ape, adorned with a Phoenix-Winged Purple Gold Crown, clad in Golden Chainmail, stepping on Lotus Fiber Cloud-Treading Boots, and wielding the Compliant Golden-Hooped Staff. His aura was overwhelmingly fierce, nearly capable of sweeping through this layer of the Nine Nether—none other than the Great Sage Equaling Heaven, Sun Wukong!
Upon entering the Nine Nether, he shook his form. His golden fur darkened, his face tinged with green as his acupoints opened, spewing serpentine, hand-like demonic energy that coiled around him. His already formidable aura surged further, resonating with the Nine Nether. With a single strike of his staff against the illusory River of Time, he sent waves of ripples that froze Han Guang’s process of fusing his multiple selves to attain singularity.
“In the Nine Nether, even I, Old Sun, am of the Other Shore!”
Qi intertwined as the Nine Chaos Heavenly Venerable lunged, destruction surging toward the Great Sage like tidal waves. Simultaneously, the Nine Nether Blood Demon transformed into a crimson figure, neither real nor illusory, darting along the River of Time.
They had no true desire to fight to the death, but this was the will of the Nine Nether!
The three instantly entangled, and even the Great Sage’s might struggled to suppress the combined force of two False Other Shore figures.
Surviving this crisis, Han Guang finally exhaled in relief. In the current era, aside from the Clear Origin Marvelous Dao True Monarch, there were likely no other powerhouses who could enter the Nine Nether as False Other Shore beings. With the Green Emperor restrained by the Heavenly Dao Monster and the Black Heavenly Emperor still holding reserves, who would dare challenge him?
*Crackle—*
The overlapping fusion of his Dharma Bodies emitted crisp sounds, as if countless barriers were shattered, finally merging into one.
A brilliant light erupted, and “water-like” waves flowed out—neither black nor white, yet embodying both clarity and turbidity. Then emerged Han Guang’s current Dharma Form: a towering, ethereal imperial figure, shrouded in darkness, crowned as an emperor, encircled by the River of Time, and treading upon two terrifying demonic dragons. His gaze was profound, concealing both Buddhist intent and demonic nature.
Ruling the heavens above and governing the Nine Nether below—this was the unprecedented “Sovereign Dao Body”!
*Hum—*
The void trembled as Han Guang’s Dao Body’s acupoints opened one by one, each condensing light into humanoid forms.
In the Real World, majestic and solemn deities materialized midair: a Star Lord drawing the gaze of the Purple Tenuity, an ancient Thunder God commanding lightning, a Mystic Lady wreathed in weapons, and a Primordial Monarch surrounded by myriad stars—truly, the imprints of the ancient Heavenly Court’s gods had all manifested. Below, hordes of demonic gods, ghost kings, and netherworld Asuras roamed, a scene of utter terror.
The second category of Legendary Phenomena: “Homage of Gods and Demons”!
A phenomenon previously only theorized!
Having long since comprehended the essence of “I am I,” Han Guang had accumulated strength over the years. Stepping into Legend now felt effortless, leaving him with energy to spare. He turned his gaze toward the Fengtian Terrace and Gao Lan, who wielded the Human Emperor’s Sword and the Fengshen Bang, subtly slowing the process of the Fengshen Bang’s full integration with the Fengtian Terrace.
His eyes were deep, devoid of anger or resentment.
In that exchanged glance, Han Guang sensed something he too possessed: unyielding ambition!
If total control or resistance proved impossible, leveraging a third party as a counterbalance was a masterstroke—one that left ample room for contingencies and variables.
Amidst dazzling radiance, the Fengshen Bang vanished into the Fengtian Terrace. The surrounding stone walls gleamed faintly gold, materializing deity after deity, inscribing their true names layer by layer until reaching the level of the Purple Tenuity Star Lord and the Nine Heavens Thunder God—though dim, as if barely sustainable. Higher still, the Five Directional Emperors and the supreme Three Pure Ones remained as stone carvings, far beyond the reach of the Fengshen Bang and Fengtian Terrace.
How could mere deification produce figures of the Other Shore or those nearing it?
Even at the Purple Tenuity Star Lord’s level, without Legendary strength, one could never endure the infusion of starlight and divine power. The limit for mortals ascending to divinity was but the rank of a Star Official.
As the Fengtian Terrace and Fengshen Bang fully merged and the “Homage of Gods and Demons” phenomenon emerged, the heavens and earth quaked. The nine layers of the shattered Immortal Realm trembled violently, as if transitioning from illusion to reality.
*Boom—*
A strange sound echoed from the skies as the nine heavenly layers lit up from bottom to top, revealing their ruinous states in stark clarity.
The light climbed to the third layer, exposing collapsed structures and a gray stone hall hidden in darkness.
Authority shifted, gains were made, and resonance was born!
Within the Jade Void Palace of Kunlun Mountain, Meng Qi’s eyes shot forth black-and-white beams as his figure vanished strangely. Beneath the auspicious clouds’ glow, he pierced through the ethereal, chaotic barriers and stepped into the third layer of the ancient Nine Heavens—the realm of the Peach Orchard.
Simultaneously, beams of light streaked across the void from Mount Jiuxian, Three Clouds Island, the Earthly Buddhist Kingdom, and the Vacuum Hometown—figures like Guangchengzi, Manjushri, and Maitreya Buddha, all great supernatural beings, were entering this realm!
Sensing these movements, Meng Qi sighed inwardly.
These were survivors from ancient times, likely participants in the fall of the Heavenly Court, witnesses to the Nine Heavens’ ruin. Now, they returned, re-entering this place. Would the secrets veiled by the mists of time finally unfold before him?
Two to three hundred thousand years ago, within the doomed Heavenly Court, what roles had they played?
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