In fact, Chi Yao did not have to reach the top at the end of this era, seize the Tao Fruit and transcend the world.
To be honest, this is not very realistic.
With the advantage of understanding the plot, if he is willing, it may be more than enough to find opportunities to destroy other people's plans, but if he wants to do it himself, it will be extremely difficult.
After all, the elders on the other side can each go back in time, and their relationship with each other is complicated and not easy to calculate.
But he was never willing to be just an unknown pawn in such a turbulent era, being carried along and drifted with the tide. He was even beaten to death and resurrected over and over again, and his memory was constantly tampered with...
At least, you must have the ability to maintain yourself, and it would be better if you can also express your own voice.
But even if the requirements are lowered to this level, the minimum is to reach the other side.
Under the other shore, all are ants, and they can only passively bear the knife of God's will.
Now he is protected by the Chi You Banner. At this time when almost all the elders from the other side have not returned yet, he can barely protect himself. But when a large number of legends, creations, and beings from the other side return in dozens or hundreds of years at the latest and recreate the chaos of the mythical age, then even if Chi You Banner fully wakes up, it will not be enough to watch.
No matter how powerful the peerless magic weapon is, it is only a peerless magic weapon after all and cannot stand against the real beings from the other side.
So it is necessary to improve yourself as soon as possible.
In this era, if you don't seek to reach the top in the end, there are actually many ways to become stronger.
Because this era is the end of the era.
What is the end of the era?
After the world has developed for many epochs, it can no longer bear it and needs a great destruction to rebuild the earth, wind, water, and fire.
If this is all, then all people on the other side should work together to deal with the crisis.
But coincidentally, at this time, certain conditions have matured, and the conditions are met for the emergence of a person on the other side of the realm - the Tao Fruit.
As a result, those ancient ones who were also considered elders among the people on the other side started fighting over grabbing the Tao Fruit.
How to grab the Dao Fruit?
Do subtraction and find emptiness.
The realm of Tao and Fruit must transcend this world, so it can no longer have any causal entanglement with this world.
This is almost completely contrary to the previous practice concepts.
From the time a monk builds the foundation for a hundred days until he reaches the other shore and achieves ancient achievements, every step he takes is to strengthen his connection with the world, constantly comprehend the laws, and perfect his prototype of Taoism.
But when it comes to the last step, everything in front of me is required to be put aside, and I must leave the house with the most refreshing attitude.
I have to admit, this is indeed a bit counter-intuitive.
But there is no way, this path has been verified by Tao Zun personally, and it is the correct path.
So there was no choice but for the top bosses on the other side to start planning to reduce and short-sell one by one.
How can we do subtraction and emptiness?
It is to find ways to transfer the cause and effect on them to others, including skills, status, names and everything else.
There are actually two ways to do this. One is to train a successor from scratch, and when he reaches the other side, it will be considered a success.
Of course, based on the calculations of those on the other side, they will definitely not put all their eggs in one basket, and there will be countless deceptions.
The second method is relatively simple. Find someone to replace you and exercise all your authority, while you hide yourself and no longer appear in front of everyone. When everyone thinks that the person who replaces her is herself, it becomes empty.
However, if you want to replace an ancient person from the other side, then this person must at least be in the other side realm. There are so few people on the other side, and each one has a name. Becoming the product of someone else's deeds, not to mention whether that person is willing or not, it is extremely difficult to deceive others.
Unless there is an extremely coincidental situation, the person on the other side is already dead in the eyes of everyone, and the person himself is willing to achieve the second method.
Therefore, most of the ancients on the other side use the first method.
In other words, if you can be favored by an ancient person on the other side and regard it as your goal to reduce and seek emptiness, then there is a great chance that you will be escorted all the way to the other side.
Isn't this more exciting than some one-step fairy?
However, how to impress them to invest in themselves is a technical task.
Chi Yao secretly thought that at present, there are not many people who are qualified to reduce and seek emptiness. Sanqing, Wa Huang, Amitabha, Bodhi Ancient Buddha, Golden Emperor, Demon Buddha, and Emperor of Heaven are all qualified.
Among them, Sanqing is the oldest one who has gone the farthest and is closest to the Taoist Fruit.
Judging from the original work, Emperor Wa never really appeared from the beginning to the end. Although she succeeded in reducing and seeking nothing, she did not seem to have any intention of competing for the Dao Fruit at the end of the era.
The Golden Emperor and the Mo Buddha are the two most capable players.
Let’s talk about the Golden Emperor first, one of the Five Emperors of Ancient Heaven. She first took over the cause and effect of the Three Pure Ones and followed the trend to achieve the other side. But she is ambitious and not satisfied with this. She doesn't want to be regarded as the product of others, she also wants the Tao Fruit.
So he rushed all the way to the level of the ancients, and had the qualifications to do subtraction and emptiness to fight for the Tao Fruit. But she hid all this, changed her name to Wu Sheng Lao Mu, and disguised herself as a newly promoted person on the other side, ready to attack and steal the chicken at the last moment of Sanqing's enlightenment.
The background of Mo Buddha is even greater. He is simply the Lord of Heaven in the previous era - God Haotian. But later on, when the era ended, the Emperor of Heaven had to fall, so he faked his death and reincarnated, and became the God of Thunder in the Heaven of this era. After the fall of heaven in this era, he was reincarnated again and became Ananda, a disciple of Buddha. He even finally returned to the other side in the Middle Ages and started a chaos of demons and Buddhas, which almost brought the era to an early end.
Not to mention that these two people are almost madmen, just because they have already chosen the target of reducing the number, it is impossible for Chi Yao to defect to them.
Then, after excluding these people, there are much fewer options to choose from - Amitabha, Bodhi Buddha, and the Emperor of Heaven.
Among these three people, Chi Yao hesitated for a while and finally decided to talk to the Emperor of Heaven first.
It’s not for anything else, just because there are too many Buddhas and descendants under the command of Amitabha, and there is no shortage of legends and blessings. They have too many choices, and Chi Yao doesn't have anything special.
Even if he wants to take refuge, he has to choose a good buyer. Chi Yao won't get any good treatment from Amitabha.
The Emperor of Heaven was different. Although she also left a legacy, the Xuantian Sect didn't even have a Dharmakaya Immortal except the Time Sword, which was too weak.
The Emperor of Heaven can be said to be alone, and this can also be seen from his behavior in the original work.
The Emperor of Heaven hid in the Time Knife, and the biggest thing he did was to seize the opportunity to seize Fu Huang's remains in the melee on the other side, trying to prevent the return of the Sanqing. After failure, he resurrected the body-snatching magician Han Guang to seek a new era.
It can be seen that he does not seem to have an accurate target of action. Neither reducing and seeking emptiness, nor reviving early, only one action was taken to prevent the three pure states from achieving the Tao and Fruition. It felt a bit like a bastard stirring up troubled waters.
But Chi Yao knew that everything the Emperor of Heaven did had only one core purpose, and that was to get rid of the fate of "at the end of the era, the Emperor of Heaven must die."
Emperor of Heaven is not just a majestic title in this world, it really has the necessary value for its existence.
The Emperor of Heaven and the Heavenly Court are important pillars that maintain the existence of the Era. The fall of the Emperor of Heaven marked the complete end of the era. When the ancient demon lord attacked the sky, the heaven fell. Although the emperor of heaven killed the demon lord who was also a person from the other side, showing strength that was almost that of an ancient being, he was betrayed by the God of Thunder and almost fell.
But at that time, almost all the people on the other side did not agree with his death, or in other words, were unwilling to end this era at that moment - because they were not ready to compete for the Dao Fruit.
No one wants to waste an era or a Tao Fruit.
Therefore, with the tacit understanding of all those on the other side, the Emperor of Heaven was able to give up his imperial body and hide in the Time Knife, where he remains until now.
But things are different now. Now we have reached the real end of the era, which means that the threat of death is getting closer and closer to the Emperor of Heaven.
And this time, let alone whether those on the other side would work together to help him survive, even if they wanted to, they probably wouldn't have the ability.
Those on the other side can usually claim to be God's will, but under the true God's will of the end of the era and the destruction of the world, they can only barely protect themselves, and no one can resist.
And this is Chi Yao's opportunity.
If the fight for Dao Fruit fails, there is still a way out. At worst, we can wait until the next new era.
But the Emperor of Heaven has no way out. If he can't think of a way before the era is shattered, he will have no choice but to follow the old world and return to chaos.
"Let's go to Yuhuang Mountain."
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Yuhuang Mountain, the site where the ancient Heavenly Court fell, is now the mountain gate of Xuantian Sect, one of the three Taoist sects.
The founder of the Xuantian Sect excavated the Jade Emperor Mountain in the medieval period and found the peerless divine weapon the Time Sword and the three volumes of the "Jade Book of the Emperor of Heaven". This became the foundation of the sect and has been passed down to this day, making it the leading sect in the real world.
Even if their current leader, Shoujing, only has half a step of Dharmakaya cultivation and cannot cross the immortal barrier, no one dares to underestimate him with the Time Sword.
However, for Chi Yao, who possesses a divine weapon of the same level, such Xuantian Sect is somewhat empty.
Because the Emperor of Heaven has been hiding in it, the Time Knife is different from other peerless weapons that need to be slowly awakened. It has never fallen asleep at all, but only restrained its power on weekdays.
Therefore, Chi Yao did not need to step into Xuantian Sect at all. He quietly came to the foot of Jade Emperor Mountain, covered himself with Chi You's flag, and took out the Haotian Mirror fragments.
As the ultimate divine weapon of the other side of the universe, even though it was broken into pieces and only the remains remained, it was still easy to deal with Xuantian Sect's mountain-protecting formation, which had the highest Dharma body level.
With a mysterious flash of light, Chi Yao's figure had disappeared.
The next second, a majestic and sacred statue of the Emperor of Heaven broke into his field of vision. It looked forward, as if overlooking the heavens and the world, measuring every move of gods, Buddhas, immortals, saints, demons and monsters.
There is a turquoise box placed on the altar table in front of the statue. It has a warm luster and is carved from fairy jade. It can be vaguely seen that it contains an ancient long knife with convergent ripples.
In front of the altar table, there were several futons, and a black-haired Taoist priest sat under the statue of the Emperor of Heaven, with his back to the green jade box and his face to Chi Yao. The Taoist's temperament is gentle and quiet, which is in sharp contrast to the majestic and solemn hall, and there is a hint of the style of a true Taoist priest.
It was none other than Master Shou Jing, the head of Xuantian Sect.
But at this time, he knew nothing about Chi Yao's intrusion into the Heavenly Emperor's Palace, and was still meditating with his eyes closed.
Because not only the Haotian Mirror, but also the Time Knife took action at the same time, one after the other, tacitly isolating him from the two dimensions of time and space.
"Tsk, tsk, how pitiful."
Chi Yao shook his head slightly, then walked around Master Shou Jing and turned his gaze to the shining long knife hidden in the box.
Time knife! Emperor of Heaven!
He bowed his head and called out: "I am a late scholar and have met His Majesty the Emperor of Heaven."
The Time Knife did not respond and seemed to be sleeping, but its previous tacit and tacit action to deceive Shou Jing had made its attitude clear to Chi Yao.
'You can say whatever you want, if it impresses me, I will speak. If not, just pretend you never came. '
Chi Yao smiled slightly, confident.
"The ancient demon lord's battle against the sky caused the heaven to fall. It is not easy for the era that should have ended to be extended to the present. But manpower is limited, and the other side is no exception. How many more years can this era continue?"
"The end of the era and the fall of the Emperor of Heaven are inevitable. Look at this, you must recognize it based on your knowledge. The Lord of Heaven in the last era also killed the Haotian God who was a person from the other side. His divine weapon from the other side has become With a person like this, it goes without saying how he will end up."
"Is Your Majesty willing to accept such a fateful ending?"
"From the ancient war to the present day, are there any unanswered questions in Your Majesty's heart? Are there any unresolved grievances?"
"Your Majesty, I'm here to help you."
After saying that, Chi Yao was not in a hurry and gave the Time Knife enough time to think.
After a few moments, an obscure ripple emerged from the Time Knife, and the next second, Chi Yao found that everything around him had turned gray.
At the same time, a majestic voice sounded directly in his mind: "What do you know?"
Chi Yao did not panic, and still had that smiling face: "I know that when the era ends, the Emperor of Heaven will die. I also know that you are not willing to accept it."
"what can you do?"
Hearing this question, Chi Yao finally calmed down his expression and said seriously: "At the end of the era, the Emperor of Heaven must die, not you. You must also know this truth after spending so many years in the Time Knife. The question is, who is qualified to take over? Everyone who holds the position of Emperor of Heaven knows this sentence. Even if some people don't know it for a while, there is no guarantee that they will not regret it later. After all, you are not without enemies.
"But I am different. I know the fate of the Emperor of Heaven, and I am willing to take over this position. More importantly, I am also capable of taking on this cause and effect."
"So, you are asking for death?" There was finally a hint of ripples in the Emperor's voice.
"It's not really a death wish, but there are indeed things more important in my heart than personal life and death."
Chi Yao said calmly, "I won't hide it from Your Majesty. I want to secure a glimmer of future for the human race at the end of the era. So I need enough power."
"Do you want to imitate the Human Emperor?"
"It's what you wish for."
"Hmph, are all the human race mad?"
The Emperor sneered, "What do you need?"
"I know His Majesty's current state and don't want to attract too much attention. So I just want a way to enter the top of the Nine Heavens."
Chi Yao bowed his hands and expressed his request.
