Taiyi Dao Fruit-Chapter 1353 - 99: The Death of the Great Venerable

The mountain peak stood proudly in a sea of gold, a thousand-mile-long Candle Dragon lying on the water's surface, slowly transforming back into human form, landing on a massive rock atop the Heavenly Pillar Mountain Peak.

The Sun Wheel also descended beside the Great Venerable, revealing the figure of Emperor Yan. As soon as he appeared, he supported the Great Venerable, transforming Innate Qi into vitality and channeling it into the Great Venerable's body.

"Don't save me······"

Unexpectedly, the Great Venerable grasped Emperor Yan's wrist, refusing, "No need to save me."

His gaze fell on the hand holding the wrist, watching it gradually turn ethereal, forcing out a bitter smile, "His one finger pierced through my physical body and Primordial Spirit, now my form and spirit are both turning into nothingness, even my consciousness is about to obliterate."

In such a brief moment, the Great Venerable's vision was already darkening, and the arm in his sight began to blur.

His perception was gradually being erased, making it increasingly hard to see.

At the final moment, the Great Venerable no longer resisted but took that one finger and then brought Emperor Yan into the Heavenly Pillar domain. This move allowed the two to escape from Jiang Li's grip but also dealt the Great Venerable a fatal blow.

The Great Venerable was on the verge of form and spirit destruction, so severe was his injury that even Emperor Yan could not save him.

Emperor Yan, who had tasted the Hundred Herbs and was the Ancestor of Pharmacology, with his creation of Innate Qi, which could turn into Ten Thousand Qi and evolve All Things, was unparalleled in healing throughout history. Yet even Emperor Yan could not handle the Great Venerable's injury.

Even the Cosmic Light Divine Ability, which the Great Venerable had relied on all along, couldn't resolve the internal wounds.

No light or shadow in Tai Chu, the current Great Venerable could no longer reverse his own time.

As they spoke, Emperor Yan also sensed the Great Venerable's current injuries, he fell into a slight silence, then was about to place his palm on the Great Venerable's head, "Although his cultivation technique is based on the Three Tombs, it has already escaped beyond our confines, even I cannot halt your injuries, but at least, I can try to preserve your True Spirit."

At their level of power, even if the Primordial Spirit was extinguished, there would still be an undiminished spirit, and given the chance, revival was not impossible.

Just as the Great Heavenly Venerate and the Queen Mother of the West's Second Grade True Spirits were hidden within the Dao Fruit, as long as the True Spirit remains, there is always a slim chance of survival.

The Great Venerable's Daoist Realm was naturally not on par with the likes of the Great Heavenly Venerate or the Queen Mother of the West, and he also couldn't yet condense his own Dao Fruit, but he still had the qualification to seek vitality.

As long as before the physical body and Primordial Spirit completely turned into nothingness, the form and spirit were dismantled first, the destructive path of the Qi of Tai Chu could be severed. Like cutting off—

However——

"The success rate is only twenty percent, it's unnecessary. Perhaps just as the True Spirit departs, it would be turned into nothingness."

The Great Venerable was already weak all over, speaking was somewhat strained, but he still insisted, "Rather than ultimately failing, it's better to trade this life for a bit of hope. His 'Emperor's Pole Worldly Book' unified the mysteries of the Three Tombs and the Five Primordial Elements, especially the Dao of Tai Chu, it's too bizarre······"

"To rescue Emperor Xi, we must find a flaw in the 'Emperor's Pole Worldly Book'. At that time, I personally used the Cosmic Light Divine Ability to grant him time to unify the Three Tombs and create the 'Emperor's Pole Worldly Book'. Although he was wary, he was still secretly recorded by me with the Book of Luo River Map during his creation process, now, I will record that sinister finger's evolution with the Book of Luo River Map······"

There may still be vitality, but even if you seize that meager life force, what's the use of leaving the True Spirit?

Without using Yi Dao for divination, the Great Venerable could foresee a future filled with despair.

He saw no chance of victory.

Leaving the True Spirit could only be considered as lingering on borrowed time, and success in saving the True Spirit was uncertain.

Thus, it was better to take one last gamble.

The Great Venerable stopped Emperor Yan's help, allowing his body and Primordial Spirit to gradually disintegrate and turn into nothingness. He did not choose to fight for a sliver of vitality, nor did he directly end his suffering, but allowed his body, Primordial Spirit, and consciousness to gradually disappear, letting himself die.

This process would not have a trace of pain, but it was more unbearable than pain.

Everything was disappearing, even the six senses gradually sank into darkness. Then, after an unknown period, seemingly a thousand or ten thousand years, time seemed to stretch to infinity, the will bitterly waiting for a fall in the abyss of darkness, but the fall was slow to come.

Across the past years, the millennia experienced with the Cosmic Light Divine Ability flashed through his consciousness, eventually even these disappeared.

"I······"

The Great Venerable's Divine Thought seemed to want to convey something, but ultimately did not continue, instead saying, "Let Emperor Xi revive the clansmen."

After this thought resonated, the Great Venerable disappeared, sinking into endless darkness.

The Book of Luo River Map fell, carrying two streaks of flowing light, which were the Dao Fruits accommodated by the Great Venerable.

When the Great Venerable passed away, his cause and effect were also erased by the Dao of Tai Chu, so that the Dao Fruits did not need time to be revealed, and fell directly. Additionally, besides the Candle Yin Dao Fruit and the Wind Queen Dao Fruit, all of the Great Venerable's other Dao Fruits disappeared, no longer existing.

Emperor Yan picked up the Book of Luo River Map, now like a mundane object, sighed, and then slowly flew into the sky, gradually flying beyond a hundred miles.

The Sun Qi mixed with an aura of Thick Earth Carries Things covered the area within a hundred miles, guarding this region. And beyond a hundred miles, a figure stood with hands behind his back.

The bloodstains on Jiang Li's body had vanished, even the blood on his face was gone, only the sword scar remaining in his left eye indicated that his wounds had not yet healed.