Chapter 1107: Chapter 1105: Tianyou the Human Race 2

Dream Dao Attainment, Opening Scheme Against Cultivators

The Dream-Making Expert

Within the Third Gate.

Immortal qi drifted, auspicious colors streamed.

There were spirit springs and waterfalls, the sun and moon cycling in motion.

Immortal cranes offered blessings, spirit deer cried out, and vast quantities of rare and precious medicines seldom seen in the outside world grew among the mountain forests.

If she had not known this was a forbidden ground the Mahayana Court used to suppress Qing Yuanzi.

Gushe would almost have thought she had stumbled into some Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land.

"Gushe, you've come."

Sensing that someone had entered, a figure immediately flew over in the next second.

Seeing clearly that it was Gushe, he immediately smiled and beckoned.

"Tianyou."

When Gushe saw who it was, a trace of complexity flashed through her eyes, but she still smiled and went up to greet him.

"That old woman Longji won't let me take advantage."

"She insisted I come over and make the trip."

Gushe spoke with feigned complaint, then suddenly noticed something, and looked at Gao Tianyou with uncertainty and alarm.

To be precise, she was looking at Gao Tianyou's head full of white hair.

"When did you dye your hair white?"

"It's hideous. Change it back right now."

Gushe did not ask why Gao Tianyou had a head of white hair. She only scolded him with a hint of fondness, reaching out to dye Gao Tianyou's white hair back to black silk.

But Gao Tianyou smiled and dodged, saying.

"A change of color, a change of mood."

"Let's go."

"Big Brother and the others were just talking about you earlier."

"They said you'd finally clawed your way free of demonic corruption, and we should have a proper celebration for you."

"Unfortunately, I had matters here I couldn't step away from."

"Good thing you came on your own."

The two chatted as they walked.

Gao Tianyou did not hide the reason they were stationed behind this Third Gate.

It turned out they wanted to use a method similar to Return to Heaven and Earth.

To make Qing Yuanzi, this fellow who had fallen into a Heavenly Demon, spit back out everything he had previously devoured.

The effect seemed decent.

Although Qing Yuanzi had not yet spat out the Earth Emperor Book and the other remaining Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors' Legacy Treasures he had devoured.

He had at least begun cooperating with them.

The scene before them, in the Third Gate, already akin to a Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land, was Qing Yuanzi's handiwork after Return to Heaven and Earth.

"Come to think of it, we have you all to thank for successfully slaying Huo Yunzi in the outside world."

"After Huo Yunzi fell."

"Qing Yuanzi became much more cooperative."

"He knew the Dao of the Heavenly Demon was a wrong path. After all, even Huo Yunzi, that so-called Supreme, the first of the Supreme Heavenly Demons, fell completely."

"So Qing Yuanzi gradually developed a heart of repentance."

"But we can't let our guard down now either."

"This fellow probably still harbors some hope, and won't cooperate at full strength."

As Gao Tianyou spoke, his brows unconsciously furrowed.

Clearly, they had previously brought in the Holy Son of Qingyang, the acknowledged generational successor of the Five Emperors among the Five Emperors' Descendant Clans.

But wanting to fully reclaim the Earth Emperor Book and the other Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors' Legacy Treasures from Qing Yuanzi's mouth was still no easy matter.

The main issue was that Qing Yuanzi had only fallen into demonic corruption, not lost his mind.

Even though Huo Yunzi's fall had made Qing Yuanzi realize the Dao of the Heavenly Demon was a wrong path, stirring repentance in his heart.

Qing Yuanzi knew the crimes he had committed were too great.

And the Heavenly Immortal Macrocosm had no tradition of "put down the butcher's knife and become a Buddha on the spot."

So even if Qing Yuanzi cooperated wholeheartedly, in the end he would most likely only earn a trip to the Immortal-Slaying Platform, an execution at the Meridian Gate.

And once Qing Yuanzi possessed such an awareness.

Then to survive, he would certainly still hold something back, and would not easily return the Earth Emperor Book and the other Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors' Legacy Treasures he had thoroughly devoured and refined.

As for whether the Heavenly Immortal Macrocosm might grant clemency beyond the law.

Gao Tianyou had not tried, but he knew it should be impossible for now.

After all, Lin Qi and the others had only just broken through to Mahayana recently.

Even though the Peerless Young Master, due to cultivating in the Supreme Immortal Realm year-round, owed relatively little karmic merit to the Heavenly Immortal Macrocosm.

So his Return to Heaven and Earth process would inevitably be much faster than other Mahayana cultivators.

But it was still destined not to be completed in just three to five thousand years.

So the Heavenly Immortal Macrocosm would certainly not loosen its stance easily.

"It's fine."

"Haven't I come?"

"Dealing with Heavenly Demons, I'm an expert at that."

Gushe waved her hand with a smile.

She, the Mother of True Demons, was no pushover.

Even though she now had to return to the Heavenly Immortal Macrocosm and take up the Heavenly Immortal Dao again.

The many methods she had once used as a Demoness could no longer be employed.

But when it came to understanding the Dao of the Heavenly Demon, after Huo Yunzi's complete fall.

She, Gushe, dared to claim second place, and no one dared to claim first.

"Then I'll wait and see."

"But there's no rush for this moment."

"We haven't seen each other in so long. Let's drink and be merry first."

Gao Tianyou nodded with a smile, clearly also aware of the true reason Princess Longji had sent Gushe.

So the gloom between his brows receded, and he no longer brought up these troublesome matters.

Soon, in a temporary cave residence, they met Wang Huaigu and the others, as well as the Holy Son of Qingyang, who should be communicating with and persuading Qing Yuanzi.

Old friends reunited, and naturally there was drinking and merriment. No need to detail it.

Thus, several days passed.

The joy of reunion subsided, and it was time to attend to proper business.

Led by Gao Tianyou, Gushe met Qing Yuanzi, suppressed within a pitch-black pool.

Twelve bronze chains pierced through Qing Yuanzi's extraordinary meridians.

Qing Yuanzi's entire body was stretched into the shape of the character "大," firmly locked within the pool.

Vast quantities of visibly black aura leaked from every limb and bone of Qing Yuanzi's body, dyeing the entire pool black.

Then, through the transformation of a grand formation bearing a Taiji Diagram of Yin and Yang at the bottom of the pool.

It was converted into the purest spiritual matter, merging into and strengthening this increasingly ethereal Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land.

Seeming to sense the arrival of Gao Tianyou and the others.

Qing Yuanzi abruptly opened his eyes, and without wasting words, said lightly.

"This Venerable has already said."

"I am already doing my utmost to cooperate with you."

"But reversing the Dao of the Heavenly Demon is not easy."

"Moreover, back then, in order to devour and refine the possible remnants of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors' will within those Legacy Treasures."

"This Venerable pushed the Great Destruction to its very limit."

"Now, wanting to return them to their rightful owners is no easy matter."

"Rather than coming to urge This Venerable."

"You would do better to think of a way to reverse time and return to the past."

"To directly stop This Venerable from falling into demonic corruption."

"You've certainly done your sums."

Gushe sneered. "Reverse time? Directly stop you from falling? Then why not simply grant you another Heavenly Immortal position while we're at it?"

"Hm? Where did this junior come from, with no sense of seniority, daring to speak to This Venerable like that!"

Qing Yuanzi flew into a rage, looking as if his demonic nature had erupted fully.

"Gao Tianyou, Qingyang."

"This lowly wench dares to humiliate This Venerable."

"Ah, This Venerable's thoughts are not flowing smoothly. Hurry and make her kneel and apologize to This Venerable!"

"Tianyou, you've learned to lie too, have you? This counts as repentance? I'd say he's clearly stubborn and unrepentant."

Gushe's gaze turned cold. Without wasting words, she raised her hand.

The methods she had specifically researched and created back when she was the Mother of True Demons, to counter Heavenly Demons, were struck out by her.

Light as a feather, without a trace of fire or smoke, they landed on Qing Yuanzi's forehead.

Qing Yuanzi instantly convulsed all over, as if electrocuted.

A monstrous demonic qi instantly surged uncontrolled from Qing Yuanzi's body.

Matter flowed away, as if a Black Hole were spewing out cosmic matter.

Qing Yuanzi let out a wailing scream.

Large amounts of matter he had devoured back then were forcibly plundered out of him.

The Yin-Yang Taiji grand formation deep in the pool, used to convert demonic qi and break it down and reshape it into spiritual matter, suddenly blazed with light, as if about to burn itself out.

Just this light touch from Gushe, yet the matter forcibly plundered and returned from Qing Yuanzi's body was actually ten times more than what Qing Yuanzi had stingily spat out before.

Such methods, not to mention Qing Yuanzi.

Even Gao Tianyou and the others were left dumbfounded, deeply shocked.

"I said it."

"No one understands how to deal with Heavenly Demons better than I do."

"Leave him to me."

"A hundred years at most."

"The way he swallowed those Three Sovereigns' Legacy Treasures back then, I can make him spit them out the same way."

Gushe was full of confidence, not even deigning to banter with Qing Yuanzi.

She simply struck with overwhelming force, plundering with domineering might.

With the various methods once created by the Mother of True Demons, she played Qing Yuanzi in the palm of her hand.

After all, never mind that Qing Yuanzi had fallen into demonic corruption early.

He could even be called the second fallen Heavenly Demon after Huo Yunzi.

But Qing Yuanzi was weak.

Even at his peak, he could not take down Yuyao, who was then only at the Body Integration Realm, in a single move.

Now suppressed within this Third Gate, his strength was even less than before.

Facing Gushe, who had once exchanged blows with Huo Yunzi, at least a half-step Supreme Heavenly Demon.

The Qing Yuanzi before her was truly like encountering a natural nemesis.

If Gushe did not know she needed to completely restore and return the Earth Emperor Book and the other Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors' Legacy Treasures from within Qing Yuanzi's body.

Then three years, three years at most.

She could reduce Qing Yuanzi to a hydrogen atom.

Hm, no.

Perhaps I should go slower, better to drag it out, until they have no choice but to abandon their original idea, and thus change Tianyou's fate.

Just as this thought rose in Gushe's mind.

Gao Tianyou said softly.

"Can you go a bit faster? Time waits for no one. If we can reclaim the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors' Legacy Treasures, including the Earth Emperor Book, sooner."

"Then I should be more confident."

"Tianyou, are you insane?"

Gushe was furious at his failure to meet her expectations. "You really want to follow the fate they set for you, to go…"

"Someone has to do this."

Gao Tianyou smiled freely, cutting Gushe off, and said seriously.

"I know you want to save me."

"But there's no need."

"Because Lao Qi has already sent down the Seventh Commandment: the River of Time."

"So the descent of the Eighth Commandment, the Heavenly Dao, is already inevitable."

"If I don't go, then someone else will."

"I know I should hold to the thought of 'better a friend dies than me.'"

"But I also want to do one magnificent, earth-shaking thing."

"If we can grasp the Heavenly Dao in our hands, that's better than handing it to someone else."

"Besides, my name is Gao Tianyou."

"Tianyou. Heaven's blessing."

"Before, I didn't think much of it."

"But now they say the descending Heavenly Dao would best be one that blesses the human race."

"See? Isn't that a coincidence?"

"Gao Tianyou doing a thing that blesses the human race."

"Not bad."

"And I really have no way to watch Lao Qi alone, withering away in that Seventh Commandment."

"With me keeping him company, everyone can have a companion."

"So don't think about saving me."

"I have truly accepted this ending."

"Idiot!"

"You're a fucking idiot!"

Gushe was so furious she cursed, her eyes reddening, and she struck Qing Yuanzi with another palm.

It was all this damned Qing Yuanzi's fault.

Since you devoured the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors' Legacy Treasures, including the Earth Emperor Book back then.

Then why the hell didn't you just go die?

You had to get captured, had to leave a flaw where the treasures could be returned to their rightful owners.

Damn it, just die already!