Taiyi Dao Fruit-Chapter 1308 - 69: Back to the Source (Part 2)

The good news is that the power of the Great Zhou Country is rising quickly, and Jiang Li's realm is also advancing rapidly.

The bad news is that the promotion ceremony of the Great Heavenly Venerate can't be postponed any longer, and Jiang Li is also speeding towards the position of the Three Pure Ones.

"If things continue on this trajectory, if the Great Heavenly Venerate successfully ascends to the First Grade, I will embrace the Three Pure Dao Fruit; if the Great Heavenly Venerate fails, Emperor Xi is resurrected, and I embrace the Three Pure Dao Fruit. It's not a dead end, nor is it an absolute path, but it indeed is a road becoming ever narrower."

Jiang Li's brows were almost furrowing into the character for "river."

For the first time in his life, he encountered such a difficult predicament to handle.

Even though Jiang Li had thousands of strategies and countless methods, and possessed powerful attributes, he still found this situation troublesome. Jiang Li could not find a place to exert his force; no matter how great the power or how many methods he had, there was nowhere to apply them.

Surely, he cannot truly sever his own foundation.

The Great Heavenly Venerate, the Queen Mother of the West, and the Buddha, all these mighty beings are racing against time to recover, and Jiang Li himself is competing with his own progress and their recovery. If he were to cut himself a few times now, he would be overwhelmed immediately.

"Moreover, closing my eyes to enjoy it and embracing the Three Pure Dao Fruit would also stand against the Three Emperors."

Reflecting on his calculations in recent days, Jiang Li could not help but shake his head.

The actions of the Three Pure Ones during the End of Dharma were quite unscrupulous. Not only did they trap the two baldies of the Buddhist sect to death, but they also caused the death of the Wa Emperor.

Adding to this, they deliberately lured the power of the "End of Dharma," causing a catastrophe. Unless the Three Emperors were saints of vile bones, they would never let it pass.

"Difficult indeed."

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"Difficult indeed."

Within the Imperial City of the Divine Capital, beneath the ginseng fruit tree, another self of Jiang Li sighed.

"Fellow Daoist Jiang seems to have encountered a problem."

A voice drifted over, and an old Taoist with hoary hair slowly arrived at the scene.

With the comprehensive coverage of pure and impure transformation, now both Jiang Li and the Daoist Lord could walk freely within a certain range, as long as they didn't stray far from the Yin-Yang Eyes of the Tai Chi Diagram, it wouldn't affect the transformation of pure and impure.

But this was the first time the Daoist Lord had come beneath the ginseng fruit tree.

Last time, when the Great Heavenly Venerate attacked, the Daoist Lord came to support but was blocked by the Celestial Map, and after the war, he did not linger beneath the ginseng fruit tree.

With Jiang Li's keen insight, he guessed the Daoist Lord had some sort of taboo.

Sure enough, as the Daoist Lord approached, he bowed to Jiang Li and glanced at the Divine Farmer's Cauldron and the Ochre Whip placed across it.

This old Taoist had always been avoiding the True Spirit of Emperor Yan.

Seeing this, Jiang Li thought to himself and used the divine skill of Outer Object Transformation to directly visualize another layer of space overlapping with this one, and further used the Moluo Sword Manual to create another scene.

The two layers of space were like mirror images, with Jiang Li and the Daoist Lord becoming two individuals, one phantom, one real.

The Daoist Lord had once possessed the Zhuang Zhou Dao Fruit, being quite familiar with the divine powers of this Dao Fruit. With Jiang Li not deliberately hiding his means, he naturally detected the change immediately.

"Does the Daoist Lord know what's troubling me?"

Jiang Li looked at the Daoist Lord, calmly asking.

The promotion ceremony of the Great Heavenly Venerate was something Jiang Li had just verified. If the Daoist Lord knew, from what channel did he get this information?

The Daoist Lord, upon hearing this, smiled slightly and said, "This humble Daoist doesn't know exactly how many troubles Fellow Daoist Jiang has; this humble Daoist merely feels one of the Fellow Daoist's troubles is the recently changed spiritual mechanism."

"Three Pure Ones united, invincible in the universe. Yet, this refers to the Three Pure Ones, not the Three Pure Dao Fruit. To be like the Three Pure Ones is akin to a third-grade cultivator becoming a supreme; it requires thoroughly comprehending the essence of the Dao Fruit's divine power. Even so, there's always the constraint of boundless cause and effect."

The implication was, to reach the realm of the Three Pure Ones, one must become a supreme of the first grade.

To think that merely embracing the Dao Fruit would directly make one the unity of the Three Pure Ones is impossible.

"Indeed, the path of cultivation, though it may have shortcuts, still requires one's own blood and sweat, not something gained out of thin air."

Jiang Li's expression remained calm, seemingly unmoved, "But if one only seeks the First Grade, such consideration is unnecessary. And after advancing to the First Grade, time is long, eventually reaching its end one day. Ordinary people, when wishing to advance to the First Grade, find it pathless."

"Ordinary people cannot, but not you, Fellow Daoist," the Daoist Lord said, looking at Jiang Li, "I personally believe that you are not the type willing to be manipulated. Moreover, the Dao of the Three Pure Ones is the root of the Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi, it's fundamental, the Three Pure Ones are existences of the embodiment of the Great Dao, both immortal and innate gods and demons. Fellow Daoist thinks, how would we humans carrying the Dao of the Three Pure Ones fare? In the unfolding of Heaven and Earth, our lives are no different than mayflies to it."

Such lament pointed out a thought Jiang Li had not previously considered.

Compared to the vast Heaven and Earth, how transient Jiang Li's life is. If carrying the Dao of the Three Pure Ones means facing countless years of information from the past of Heaven and Earth, what would be Jiang Li's outcome?

The most likely result would be his consciousness being diluted, becoming a vessel for the Dao.

This kind of experience, Jiang Li had before, during the promotion of the Zhuang Zhou Dao Fruit, where he once wandered through the Heaven and Earth.

Confronting the past of Heaven and Earth, would be a million times more dangerous than the experiences from that time, even with the divine skills protecting his mind through the Zhuang Zhou Dao Fruit, may not suffice.

Jiang Li had already attained the realms of Supreme Person, Divine Person, and Saint; yet even with such accomplishments, bearing the boundless information is no easy task.

Even if not diluted, a single mistake could leave him overwhelmed, a significant calamity to endure. Suppose he encountered a rare opportunity to fully absorb and adapt, it may not be a beneficial outcome. 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝙚𝙬𝓮𝙗𝒏𝙤𝒗𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝒐𝓶

On this point, neither Jiang Li's mastery nor his talent had much of an advantage, his life too brief, far inferior compared to existences like the Great Heavenly Venerate, the Queen Mother of the West, with little foundation to withstand great risks.

The character of a forty-year-old Great Venerable and a four hundred-year-old one are not even of the same mind; thus, the current Jiang Li and the Jiang Li after absorbing limitless information likely would not retain the same disposition.

Reflecting here, Jiang Li silently acknowledged his fortune.

The possibility mentioned by the Daoist Lord, even if not certain, was undeniably a possible outcome, and the probability wasn't small.

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"Why does the Daoist Lord tell me this?" Jiang Li asked in return.

The Daoist Lord, having the capacity to embrace the Supreme Laojun Dao Fruit, must have close ties to the Daode Tianzun, likely someone who also wanted Jiang Li to embrace the Three Pure Dao Fruit.

Yet now, the Daoist Lord was warning Jiang Li, informing him of the risks of embracing the Three Pure Dao Fruit.

Could he also be interested in the Three Pure Dao Fruit?

The Daoist Lord did not directly respond, but continued to speak slowly, "To resist the Dao of the Three Pure Ones is indeed extremely challenging, yet to speak of a method, it is simple, the 'End of Dharma Venerable' has already demonstrated it to us. Using the power of 'End of Dharma' against the Dao of the Three Pure Ones, mastering the transformation of pure and impure, thus, while not ensuring success certainly, provides a conceivable solution."

This was the idea Jiang Li had been contemplating all along.

However, until now, Jiang Li had not truly comprehended the means to transform the Dao of the Three Pure Ones.

He was able to transform pure and impure at will, but could not transform the already awakened "active" state. The power of "End of Dharma," Jiang Li had not even reached the threshold.

He didn't even know what the power of the End of Dharma was.

Jiang Li thought for a moment and decided to continue along the Daoist Lord's line, saying, "'End of Dharma' power, how could that be easy? It is the force that led to the demise of the Three Pure Heavenly Venerates, how can any of us easily comprehend it?"

"Spontaneous comprehension is indeed difficult, but what if there were a method to rely on?" The Daoist Lord's voice carried a certain ethereal quality.

"Do you think, with this humble Daoist's realm, I can create a cultivation technique to reverse the 'End of Dharma'? The essence of the Five Vile Qi is the Three Pure Ones' Primordial Qi, both of the same origin, but changing the Three Pure Ones' Primordial Qi is not something ordinary existences can achieve. Likewise, the method to transform the Five Vile Qi into Pure Qi is not something ordinary beings can create. Because its essence is reversing the alterations of the 'End of Dharma' upon the Three Pure Ones' Primordial Qi."

"If Fellow Daoist feels there is no way forward, why not return to the starting point to see."

Where is the starting point?

Of course, it's at the Nine Heavens Demon Clearing True Technique.