Jin Chen faced calamity, his soul locked in a kowtow to the heavens.
Without hesitation, the twelve fairies of Zhenyan leaped into the air to follow their master.
However, between the Fourteen Strings and Feikong Mountain, two black and white mixed barriers forcefully blocked them back.
Xie Jinhui is a bastard. He's so far away from me, how could I just hand over the Soul Lock to him all at once?
He also told me not to pursue him and to stay true to the Tai Su Wu Nian Stone.
The immortals became agitated and asked me what had happened.
See for yourself what happened; those two in the sky are locked in a stalemate.
On the Tai Su Wu Nian Stone, pairs of eerie eyes, one compassionate and the other malevolent, appeared.
I did not answer the immortals' questions. Seeing that I was focused on the strange scene on the stone, they immediately split into two camps behind me.
"Yuan'e, what happened?"
My master stood guard beside me, along with the Divine Lord Muheng, the Twelve Fairies of True Beauty, Jianyuan, Qingting, and the soldiers from each palace…
Surround me at the core and protect me.
I whispered in my master's ear, "Master, all I can tell you now is that the Holy Emperor is a fake, and Xie Jinhui is trying to find very important clues from him."
But this clue…
The image of my master reflected on the Tai Su Wu Nian Stone shows him with a deeply furrowed brow. I am already very grateful that he believed me without hesitation.
He patted me on the shoulder and gave me some instructions.
"Let's treat this as a contest between two emperors for now, and observe the situation."
With a look of desperation in his eyes, the master turned to face the assembled immortals, acting as an insider.
He brushed past me, his voice entering my consciousness in a soft whisper.
“My disciple, I have had this suspicion for a long time.”
The master whispered to the Tongtang God, and the Tongtang God whispered to the other deities.
I don't know how the content of this whisper will eventually be passed down.
Looking directly into the pairs of eyes before me, I discerned the key information.
Especially in the Tai Su Wu Nian Stone, among the thousands of shimmering eyes, are the eyes of my son, the grasshopper.
These eyes are all spiritual beings created by the false Heavenly Emperor to replace the Holy Heavenly Emperor and capture their parents.
Unexpectedly, Xie Jinhui's mind was so bizarre that he used the past connection between the Holy Emperor and the Tai Su Wu Nian Stone.
This creates the consequence of forcing the fake Heavenly Emperor to also place his hand on it and bind it, thus revealing the spiritual object.
However, these spirits only revealed the eyes of different species, without showing their locations.
These eyes flickered between light and darkness, constantly shifting between turbidity and clarity.
Countless spiritual lines emerged around them, like their tails, but upon closer inspection, they had no connection to them at all.
I looked up at Xie Jinhui, and the immortals lifted their heads along with me.
Xie Jinhui's immortal robes fluttered, and his hidden current of immortal power enveloped the entire Fei Kong Mountain.
The fake Heavenly Emperor, dressed in purple as if in the night, stared intently, like a predator eyeing its prey.
For some reason, I could sense something from the changing expressions in the eyes of the stone and the confrontation between the two in the sky.
Xie Jinhui is tracing every inch of the land with his eyes.
The fake Heavenly Emperor, however, was eroding Xie Jinhui's immortal power traces, which were bound to the Tai Su Wu Nian Stone, line by line.
My palms were sweating. The fake Heavenly Emperor was insatiable and was actually devouring Xie Jinhui.
On the Tai Su Wu Nian Stone, the wide-open eyes sometimes revealed ecstatic joy, sometimes fear, sometimes anger at being discovered, and sometimes greed after being satisfied.
Some people have a disgusted look in their eyes, as if they've eaten something unclean and their eyes feel bitter and sour.
I know what happened; those tail-like lines are traces of Xie Jinhui's immortal power.
Some of them are true, some are false; they are Xie Jinhui's smokescreen for self-preservation.
The fake Heavenly Emperor couldn't tell the difference and chose to accept everything.
The tails on the stones are decreasing, while more of the eyes of the spirits are emerging.
Owls, sunflowers, the eyes of a stream, the pupils of a succubus.
Mermaids are crying, flames are raging, blades are sharp and piercing, and cotton has empty eyes...
All things in the world, whether born or not, are spiritual beings...
How many blinding spiritual threads are needed to match and feed the endless spiritual beings?
There are too many, so many that even if my fellow immortals created countless things to roam in their early years, I still couldn't count their number.
There are too many, too many.
Even though Xie Jinhui conjured up spiritual threads several times more numerous than any other species to exchange for clues with the fake Heavenly Emperor.
I cannot bear to see his immortal body being eroded and defiled in the slightest by that monster.
I don't want him to have foot pain, shoulder pain, or even back pain or pain in his pores.
My heart aches, my heart aches, it hurts so much.
Why risk your life? The goddess Yuan'e is willing to risk her life!
Ignoring everything else, I stretched out my hands and pressed them onto the Tai Su Wu Nian Stone.
This ancient divine object, the place where all the gods converged, now seems like a bewitched mirror.
It no longer reveals the Daoist heart that should be possessed by the ruler of the laws of heaven and earth; instead, it has become a tool for the combatants to rely on.
A strange indignation welled up in his heart, and he was filled with the courage to dedicate his immortal power to Xie Jinhui.
And the anger of resentment towards the Tai Su Wu Nian Shi (a stone associated with emptiness and confusion).
Tai Su Wu Nian Shi not only did not reject me, but was awakened by my scolding.
It shone brightly, outshining the light of every pair of eyes that floated upon it.
His eyes disappeared, and Xie Jinhui's spiritual threads transformed into streaks of white thorns, carrying the immortal power emanating from the Tai Su Wu Nian Stone as they soared upwards.
The white light of immortal energy pierced through the two layers of barriers, breaking through the layer of darkness and leaving behind the intact light.
I looked around and then jumped up.
I thought those spiritual threads would rush forward relentlessly, heading straight for Xie Jinhui, bestowing upon him all power, justice, and light.
Let him possess the sharp blade to purify the filth and preserve the purity, cutting away the false Heavenly Emperor's hypocritical entanglements with the masses.
Get rid of him, and release those puppet spirits and innocent creatures to freedom and peace.
However, the spiritual threads that were rushing to ascend to heaven from the Tai Su Wu Nian Stone suddenly split into two factions, just like the immortals within the Fourteen Strings.
Xie Jinhui had many friends in the celestial realm who supported him, while the fake Heavenly Emperor was protected by a small number of immortals from the Void Realm Mountain and guards performing their duties.
I was halfway through my flight when I was stopped by the Thunder Division on the grounds that they wanted to maintain impartiality and not be biased.
Enraged, I stamped my foot on the cloud and pointed at the two streams of immortal power that were equally impartial, split off in mid-air by the Tai Su Wu Nian Stone, and cursed them.
"You know nothing, yet you presume to speak of Zhongzheng!"
Get out of here!
Thunderous forces are undeniable; thunder roared in my Thursday.
Oh my god, Xie Jinhui.
The thunderbolts intercepted me, but they couldn't stop the soul lock that spontaneously emerged from my sea of consciousness.
The old men of Thunder were shocked by my actions, stopped their lightning strikes, and looked up.
The two streams of spiritual energy flew towards Xie Jinhui and the fake Heavenly Emperor respectively.
The fake Heavenly Emperor grinned, his hands moving swiftly as he unleashed his full magical power, transforming it into seven streaks of light. He decisively swung his hands, launching a fierce attack on Fei Kong Mountain.
It wasn't until the fake Heavenly Emperor attacked Fei Kong Mountain that I heard the cold, icy sighs of the immortals below me.
Then they swarmed forward, and the old men from Chiang Kai-shek's camp beside me whizzed past my ears.
I stared at Xie Jinhui. He moved the magic array protecting Feikong Mountain behind him to the front. The seven streams of light of different colors, which were attacking Feikong Mountain, turned their spearhead to wear down Xie Jinhui.
The seven-colored creatures, like bloodsucking leeches, entangled and fought against Xie Jinhui's immortal power barrier.
The fake Heavenly Emperor was closing his eyes and concentrating, and a powerful aura emanated from his forehead.
Then, two equally powerful streams of immortal energy were steadily approaching them.
I know they are all preparing to unleash their life's work and deliver a devastating blow to each other before the evenly matched immortal power arrives.
All that immortal power originally belonged to Xie Jinhui, but the Tai Su Wu Nian Stone inexplicably reduced Xie Jinhui's strength by half, instead giving the fake Heavenly Emperor more power.
Xie Jinhui has been extremely exhausted over the past ten days, so I fed him all the immortal energy pills I've saved up over the years.
I gave him half of all my magical power.
Why did I touch the Tai Su Wu Nian Stone, allowing it to see the truth and help Xie Jin Hui?
Is that how it helps?
What kind of truth did it see?
Isn't the law of nature supposed to be just?
Why do I feel that it wants to erase Xie Jinhui?
A rumbling sound echoed through the empty mountain; it was the horn signaling the collective formation of all the mountain spirits protecting it, as Xie Jinhui stood guard against the external enemies.
Boom boom boom, the immortals surrounding me, rising against the wind, still had many different opinions.
"The Tai Su Wu Nian Stone is an ancient artifact and is the most impartial. We must not rashly intervene in the conflict between the two Heavenly Emperors."
"This divine stone... it actually sees this as a struggle for the imperial throne?"
It wants a fair fight!
At this moment, is it still useful for me to reveal the truth that the Holy Emperor is a fake?
The truth? What I say is hardly the truth; it's just biased and self-serving personal feelings.
If you're not going to help Xie Jinhui, then don't swarm up here and block my path with your soul locks!
After all the Soul Locks were used up, my body felt a little weak, and I half-squatted on the cloud.
In order to ensure fairness, my fellow immortals not only deliberately hindered my soul lock, but also intentionally blocked my path.
"Xie Jinhui, I regret it. I shouldn't have listened to you and told you to consider the bigger picture and not involve the immortals."
I should tell them what we've been through, what happened, that the Holy Emperor is... gone!
"Mother, come with Jianyuan. Jianyuan will take you to Father's side." I looked up, my eyes brimming with tears, gazing at my hazy child.
Jianyuan grabbed my hand, turned his head away, and Guiwangyuan pointed his spear at the group of immortals, shouting, "Get out of the way! Make way for my mother!"
Where the black mist shot upwards from the tip of the spear, a road leading to the heavens opened up.
Just then, a divine seal emerged from between the False Heavenly Emperor's brows, followed by a golden Primordial Spirit Pill surging from his dantian.
Upon seeing the elixir, shock swept over them like a wave.
That was the divine consciousness of the Holy Emperor!
I caught a glimpse of Xie Jinhui's gloomy face, filled with disbelief.
The fake Heavenly Emperor's face was contorted, his eyes were dull, and he looked like a corpse with his withered skin floating around.
His voice was hoarse and excited.
"Xie Jinhui, how does it feel to be shrouded in the spider silk of the Tai Su Wu Nian Stone? You belong to me too!"
My hand, which was clasped with Jianyuan's, trembled slightly.
Xie Jinhui frowned and turned to look at me.
He said, "I'm sorry!"
I'm sorry? What do you mean, sorry? Are you saying you can't win and are going to die?
If you can't beat them, run away! Don't die!
"Where is my Soul Chain? Where is my Soul Chain?"
I propped myself up and looked around, searching for my hope.
Jianyuan hugged my swaying upper body, gritting his teeth in hatred, and said, "Mother, they say your soul lock should be used to save the world, not to interfere in the struggle for the throne."
Therefore, those immortals had been setting up arrays to control it for a long time.
Now... I'm letting go!
Letting go? No wonder I couldn't use my magic power and my legs were numb.
So they've used all their extraordinary abilities to uphold fairness!
I let go, I let go!
That was when they finally saw the fake Heavenly Emperor's broken skin, heard his evil and sinister words, and realized that all fairness was just an empty dream!
My Soul Chains broke free, and it rose quickly at first, but it hesitated after I became breathless and exhausted.
Isn't it just burning my life essence?
What are you afraid of? If you can't protect Xie Jinhui, do you think I'll even survive?
Charge! Don't worry about me!
Master and Lord Tongtang pulled aside the immortal wall, crying out in anguish, "Yuan'e, no!"
While pouring in immortal power to protect my life essence.
It's burning, it's burning so hard it's terrifying, but I'm not afraid.
But I'm afraid of what I'm about to see.
The fake Heavenly Emperor spat out a wisp of his spiritual consciousness, held it on his index fingertip, and uttered a spell that sounded like falling into an icy hell.
He was activating the divine sense of the Holy Emperor, and seven streams of light returned, embedding themselves around the golden sphere.
Just as the sphere of light completed a full rotation, the fake Heavenly Emperor unleashed a vast, sky-covering ice sheet that resembled spider silk, ice lines, and a net covering the heavens and the earth.
The ice sheet fell like needles, crackling and popping as it struck, not only piercing Xie Jinhui but also severing the two spiritual threads of immortal power that symbolized the fair judgment of the Tai Su Wu Nian Stone.
That was all Xie Jinhui's immortal power.
Like a flower petal, he clenched his chest, bent slightly, and resembled a flower about to wither.
Where is my Soul Lock?!
I was too far away from him, so I grabbed my chest.
Heart meridian, life essence, accelerate for me! I can live, but he cannot die!
I believe Xie Jinhui wouldn't just stand there and die a miserable death simply to protect the lives of Fei Kongshan.
He won't, he will!
Xie Jinhui moved. He moved.
In a way that breaks my heart...
Once again, the blue sky and clouds of Feikong Mountain were visible, but this time there was more silver needle-like icy rain.
He concealed his immortal form, transforming into golden dust that filled the gaps in the sky where needles could fall.
The icicles hung in place, the net trembled for a while, then came to a standstill, stiffened and shrank.
"Xie Jinhui, blow him up!"
I tried to encourage him in my heart, but that wasn't his intention.
After the golden dust subdued the ice crystals, it instantly solidified into a flowing golden river of sand.
This river has a clear purpose: the sea it flows towards is the divine consciousness of the Holy Emperor.
He deliberately landed on the fake Heavenly Emperor's palm so that he could wrap his spiritual consciousness in his own body.
The fake Heavenly Emperor grinned mockingly, his voice becoming unnatural.
"You're a fool! You walked right into my trap for the sake of my defeated opponent!"
Hahaha, you idiot, you idiot!
You're just as foolish as we used to be!
The false Heavenly Emperor raised his other hand and suddenly forged the rigid ice net in the air into a cage, causing it to cover the quicksand spirit in his palm.
Before the cage could even be lowered, the fake Heavenly Emperor's gaze locked onto Fei Kong Mountain, and he said in a low, hoarse voice, "Fei Kong Mountain, ah, hehe!"
The ice cage is about to close, and my soul lock is about to strike.
I roared at the heavens.
"Xie Jinhui, reach out!"
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