Taiyi Dao Fruit

The King Shu is similarly a pawn to restrain the Emperor's divine skills, and also the son of Yellow Heaven arranged by the Heavenly Monarch to imitate Heaven.

For this reason, back at the Divine Capital, the Heavenly Monarch risked facing Jiang Li head-on and forcefully saved the King Shu.

It must be noted that at that time, Jiang Li could still confidently channel the power of the heavens, which involves considerable risk for the Heavenly Monarch in taking action.

So, for both emotional and logical reasons, Jiang Li must deal with the King Shu.

This way, it can eliminate an obstacle in restraining his own power and ensure Shen Hou has one less peer, allowing business progress under the Heavenly Monarch.

And the one to take action is Tianxuan.

The Heavenly Monarch, accompanied by Tan Wuwei, makes a surprise attack by Tianxuan successful seem quite unlikely. Since that's the case, change the direction and target the King Shu.

The two from Yuxu Temple arrived too early, and when Jiang Li saw them, he already thought this was because the Daoist Lord informed them earlier about the Awakened's promotion ceremony. The Daoist Lord had previously tried to stop the Awakened from ascending and also brought Karma Tathagata into the world, so there's no surprise he knew about the promotion ceremony of Tathagata Fruit.

Obviously, the Daoist Lord was not truly honestly guarding Kunxu Mountain but also made moves. It's not so easy to trap the Daoist Lord's steps.

Since that moment, Jiang Li anticipated that "Daoism Rules the World" was nearly upon us, and it indeed turned out to be so.

Thus, shortly after "Daoism Rules the World" descended, Tianxuan secretly found and attacked the King Shu to avoid detection by future prediction divine skills, then warned by the Heavenly Monarch.

Such a short distance, if the Heavenly Monarch wished to notify the King Shu, it would be a mere thought's effort.

In the previous situation, although Jiang Li hadn't anticipated the Heavenly Monarch would use his unique self to avoid "Daoism Rules the World," which led to his counterattack failing to achieve, Jiang Li also, like the Heavenly Monarch, utilized the opportunity when "Daoism Rules the World" appeared.

The King Shu, Jiang Li was determined.

Such distant commotion would certainly not escape everyone's ears and eyes, especially since the stars surrounding the moon was exceptional when Tianxuan made his move. The Heavenly Monarch, through Tan Wuwei, quickly foreseeing the King Shu's attack, yet unfortunately served no real purpose.

This brief moment only allows him to gain an advantage in battle but is not enough to let him exit the situation and go for rescue. Moreover, even if he had the time, there isn't an opportunity for it.

The Great Venerable manifested a phantom river behind him and solemnly said, "My virtuous brother is extremely right, together with our brotherhood united, we will fight you guys to the death today."

Since this involves the Emperor Dao Fruit, the King Shu cannot be left alive.

Here, the brotherhood unity may be somewhat superficial, but the other side is worse.

Though not all harbor ulterior motives, they aren't aligned, mostly sharing similar stances at present. Even Daoist Lord's disciple Taibai True Monarch isn't advancing and retreating with the Heavenly Monarch; they just have their respective needs.

The sole shared objective between the Daoist Lord and Heavenly Monarch now is to stop the Awakened's ascension.

However, the Awakened promotion ceremony requires seven days and nights, and it's far from over yet, so it's not urgent for them.

Therefore, the Heavenly Monarch wanting to rescue the King Shu isn't feasible.

Even though he isn't afraid of sieges, the Yellow Emperor's Four Faces isn't invincible. The Great Venerable and Jiang Li aren't novices, so he cannot leave.

"Fellow Daoist Gongsun, stay here."

The Daoist Lord chuckled, "If you leave, this old Taoist's bones will surely be torn by that vicious crowd over there."

It seems even the Daoist Lord wants the Heavenly Monarch to stay now.

No matter the Daoist Lord's true condition, he stated he feared being torn apart by that vicious crowd. Even if it's just to protect the elderly, Heavenly Monarch should stay.

"The Heavenly Monarch, King Shu cannot be saved." Tan Wuwei also spoke within his Cave Heaven.

In any future, the King Shu cannot be rescued. Even if the Heavenly Monarch lends power afar, the King Shu cannot defeat Tianxuan.

Unless another friend comes forward.

Unfortunately, that person is even less likely to expose themselves to save the King Shu.

Compared to King Shu, the Awakened is more crucial.

The King Shu's future leads only to a dead end.

For a moment, the sides that were fighting fiercely suddenly calmed. In contrast, a thousand miles away, the killing intent was growing stronger, surely resulting in life and death being distinguished.

Witnessing the Heavenly Monarch seeming to have given up on the King Shu, Jiang Li's perception quietly observed the surroundings, especially concentrating on the Drought Demon Ba.

The Heavenly Monarch didn't absorb the Drought Demon Ba into his body, possibly because she didn't encounter danger, or perhaps the Drought Demon Ba isn't subject to his command. If the Drought Demon Ba were under the control of the Heavenly Monarch, then when the Drought Demon Ba broke her seal before, it wouldn't have been so easily handled by Jiang Li.

After slaughtering Buddha Country's Monk Soldiers in Yong Province, the Drought Demon Ba suddenly halt her rampage, heading to Buddha Country and lurking, possibly because someone behind her is in Buddha Country.

'Could it be the secret person Elder Kaixiang mentioned?' Jiang Li pondered.

At this time, the Daoist Lord also looked at the Drought Demon Ba and remarked, "Long time no see, East Sun Princess. The last time I saw Prince Dongyang was eight hundred years ago. Back then, I was thinking of taking action against Daoist Ji Daoyang, but didn't even have the chance as Prince Dongyang went mad, causing Daoist Ji's promotion to fall short, sparing me from being the bad guy."

East Sun?

Daoyang?

Whether Heavenly Monarch, Jiang Li, or the Great Venerable, all of them reacted with subtle movements in their eyes.

They are all closely tied to the Ji Family, so how could they not know the Ji Family's history?

The original form of the Drought Demon Ba, her title was East Sun, the sister of the Grand Ancestor. As for Ji Daoyang, that is a name, being the founding Grand Ancestor of Great Zhou.

When these names are linked with "eight hundred years ago" and "deviation," everyone remembers the battle eight hundred years ago between the Ji and Jiang families attacking the Military God.

That battle was akin to re-enacting the war of Emperor Yan and Emperor Huang against Chi You, with the Military God attempting to ascend as Warlord Chi You, chasing deer, blood killing Yanhuang, while the two clans waged war, aiming to pacify this final enemy.

For the Military God, this battle meant ascension if succeeded, ruin like the Warlord if failed. It was truly pulling the ascension ceremony and Dao Fruit compatibility to the fullest.

But for the Ji and Jiang clans, it was equally true.

Especially the Great Zhou's Grand Ancestor, who could establish a dynasty and even shot dead the Sea God, a third-grade strong person of Dragon Palace. His strength was of course at the peak, third-grade perfection. Seeing such an opportunity, he naturally aimed to ascend to second grade as the Yellow Emperor.

Unfortunately, the result showed that neither the Military God nor the Great Zhou's Grand Ancestor succeeded.

This wasn't a great secret to Jiang Li and others, but the Daoist Lord's presence at the time is a bit unexpected.

If this saying is true, then wasn't the Daoist Lord already third-grade eight hundred years ago? Otherwise, how could he claim the Great Zhou's Grand Ancestor as a fellow daoist?

Everyone's gaze simultaneously fell upon the Drought Demon Ba, seemingly penetrating the blood-red flames to see her expression.

Yet, the Drought Demon Ba made no response, merely standing still on the burning scorched earth, entirely devoid of previous madness.

Right at this moment, the dragon's roar from a thousand miles away turned tragic and grievous.

Yellow Dragon ascended towards the sky, transforming into a majestic figure, raising mountain peaks, atop which stood three large cauldrons, emitting earthy divine light towards the skies.

In the sky dome, stars descended, billions of starlights fell, shattered the mountain peaks, and drove the large cauldrons into the ground. A goddess draped in a star robe wielded the murderous star to form a sword, which slashed through the majestic silhouette in the sky.

"Ah!"

The figure roared angrily.

"Roar——"

The figure transformed into a roaring Yellow Dragon.

Then, the Yellow Dragon was sliced in two, its blood spilled upon the ground, its body turned back into a human mid-air.

Thus, the King Shu is dead!