At that time, the Li Family patriarch was still in the world, but he had already resigned from his position as Sect Master and was living in retirement at home. When Scholar Zhu attacked the Western Capital, he went upon hearing the news and, with other patriarchs, suppressed Scholar Zhu.

Afterward, Scholar Zhu vanished, disappearing without a trace.

"Did he hang himself? Such a shallow Dao Heart, unable to withstand the blow."

The Li Family patriarch immediately became furious, "My Upper Realm!"

"Boom!"

This punch struck Jyuyangzi, causing the flesh on Jyuyangzi's body to constantly explode, almost reverting to bare bones.

This was his strongest strike.

Without the celestial fragments, he couldn't suppress Jyuyangzi with his strength!

Jyuyangzi's body rapidly healed.

The Li Family patriarch's Golden Body began to rot, continuously disintegrating, turning into blue smoke and rising.

He lunged at Jyuyangzi, striking again with a finger, this Tribulation Finger hitting Jyuyangzi's brow. Jyuyangzi's body didn't move, but his finger burst with a crack!

Suddenly, his Golden Body shattered with a crackling sound, extraordinary power disintegrating, revealing the Primordial Spirit.

The Li Family patriarch leaped back, flying toward the entrance.

At this time, Scholar Zhu was already carrying the celestial fragments, flying to the rosy clouds entrance, when suddenly that rosy clouds entrance closed.

Scholar Zhu felt a shudder in his heart and turned to see the Li Family patriarch flying in.

The Li Family patriarch also felt a shudder in his heart; this Immortal Realm was Jyuyangzi's Harmonization Land, and he couldn't escape this Harmonization's Void Great Realm either.

"If you hadn't taken my celestial fragments…"

The Li Family patriarch was filled with extreme hatred, just as he was about to pounce on Scholar Zhu, when suddenly his Primordial Spirit exploded with a bang, transforming into a stream of light flowing into the approaching Jyuyangzi.

Scholar Zhu hurriedly put down the celestial fragments, nervously watching Jyuyangzi flying toward him and shouted: "Little Ten!"

Chen Shi and Black Pot flew out from the celestial fragments, Liu Qinghong, sitting in the car, hurriedly shouted: "You all hold on for a while, my true body will be here soon!"

Her true body had already cultivated to the Returning Void Realm, an incredible expert among the Yin Yang Two Realms. But in the face of an evil immortal like Jyuyangzi, she was utterly inadequate.

Black Pot anxiously watched Jyuyangzi approaching, suddenly stood up, activated the Circulation Fire Realm, and the Heaven Measuring Iron Ruler whizzed out from the wooden carriage, landing in its hand.

Chen Shi activated another Immortal Artifact, the Yin Yang Sun Moon Ring, and tossed it to Scholar Zhu, saying: "Teacher, take this for protection!"

Scholar Zhu quickly activated the Sun Moon Ring, surrounded by Yin Yang Qi, and felt slightly reassured.

With a thought, Chen Shi summoned Little Dun Fairy from the small shrine. Little Dun Fairy frowned slightly and said: "My Harmonization space is only the size of the small shrine, while his Harmonization space is so vast; I'm no match."

Chen Shi activated the West King Jade Seal, gritted his teeth, and didn't take down the Heavenly Net Blood Transformation Divine Sword from the Divine Shrine, thinking: "If I invoke the Divine Sword, there might be two demons!"

Jyuyangzi stepped forward, his gaze falling on Black Pot and the Heaven Measuring Iron Ruler, then sweeping over Scholar Zhu and the Yin Yang Sun Moon Ring, and finally focusing on Chen Shi and the West King Jade Seal.

"So you're the current True King? So young."

Jyuyangzi, exuding evil, watched as behind him, countless flesh writhed, quickly climbing and growing, soon covering the sky and beginning to infect the mountains and rivers. Before long, only the Ascending Mountain was left not entirely polluted by the flesh.

Immortal energy lingered, seeming to repel the flesh.

Chen Shi gathered his courage and loudly declared: "Yes, I am the current True King of the West Bull New Continent! Jyuyangzi, why don't you bow when you see the True King?"

Jyuyangzi's demonic nature grew more intense, he laughed heartily, and coldly said: "Back then, the True King harmed fellow Daoists and slaughtered the world's immortals, anyone who crossed the Heavenly Tribulation was marked to be killed! My Daoist friends, killed by the damned court and its dogs, who knows how many! Are you the True King? Then the True King of that time must be dead, right? Well then, I shall kill you first…"

His evil Qi surged, just as he was about to kill Chen Shi and the others, when suddenly he stopped, focusing on the celestial fragments behind Chen Shi, seeing within it tens of thousands of people, looking at him in despair.

Jyuyangzi's face twisted ferociously and he shouted: "Kill them all!"

He charged forward, Chen Shi, Black Pot, Scholar Zhu, and Little Dun Fairy each prepared themselves. Suddenly, Jyuyangzi stopped again, looking down at his hands, his body trembling.

"This isn't me! It was the True King who harmed me; it has nothing to do with the people or Little True King. This isn't me, this definitely isn't me… If I can't discern right from wrong, then there's no point in cultivating to immortality!"

With a shake of his sleeve, a long rainbow descended from the sky, piercing through him.

The instant the rainbow passed through him, it transformed into an Immortal Sword. Jyuyangzi raised his hand, grasped the sword light piercing through his body, and slashed toward his Harmonization Small World.

With that slash, light illuminated the small world, mountains crumbled, the world shattered and collapsed, countless flesh severed!

Within moments, this small world separated from the West Bull New Continent, reverting into a Void Great Realm.

Jyuyangzi's breath weakened, he coughed blood repeatedly, dropped the Immortal Sword in his hand, which turned into a long rainbow hanging in the air.

With a dejected expression, he forlornly looked up to the sky.

In the sky, the rosy clouds he left when he ascended to the Immortal Realm still lingered, undestroyed.

Chen Shi was moved, Jyuyangzi severed his own Harmonization Small World, cutting himself from the Immortal Realm!

Currently, his degree of evil transformation wasn't as deep as before, he seemed to have gained rationality.

However, in the moment of loss of control by evil transformation, the willpower this Daoist displayed by drawing the sword and cutting himself was terrifyingly strong!

"Elder Jyuyangzi."

Chen Shi tentatively asked, "Are your injuries severe? I have healing spiritual medicine here."

Jyuyangzi seemed not to hear him, talking to himself: "I'm just a cultivator, I don't like the court, nor the struggle for power. I just like cultivation, being able to discuss Dao with a few like-minded friends, and solve cultivation problems together, that's enough. The court invited me to be an official many times, but I always refused."

He muttered: "When I cultivated to the Unification Realm, I noticed the evil Qi stirring within me, my Daoist friends also noticed. We tried our best to solve this, stumbling through cultivation to the Mahayana Realm, and during the Tribulation Crossing Realm we used the Heavenly Tribulation to suppress the evil Qi within until we finally cultivated to the Ascension Realm."

He shook his head with a faint smile: "Once we stepped onto this path, we became True Immortals. Together, we designed all kinds of magic skills, just to suppress the evil Qi within at the moment of ascension and prevent the evil transformation from occurring. Alas, who knew the True King issued a Sealing Immortals Order, forcing all cultivators to abandon the Tribulation Crossing and Ascension Realms, making the world devoid of immortals!"

He was filled with immense grief.

Some feared the court and abandoned their cultivation, but some were resolute unto death.

The True King's iron rule was that any act of defiance meant execution!

The Daoist friends who cultivated with him fell one by one under the court's purge, and besides them, all cultivators who had crossed the Heavenly Tribulation were also targets for elimination!

He was terrified, hiding everywhere, barely avoiding pursuit, but the court's Immortal Artifacts continued to track him.

"The True King wouldn't let cultivators ascend, but I wanted to show him that I could ascend. Not only did I want to ascend, I wanted to leave inscribed steles at my ascension site, to tell him outright! I wanted to validate the results of my friends and I! They died, but I wanted to ascend, I wanted to tell the world, the True King was wrong! He shouldn't have killed us! We could suppress the evil transformation, we could ascend!"

He chuckled lowly: "Only at the moment of Harmonization did I know I was wrong. We were all wrong! The various cultivation techniques we designed couldn't suppress the evil Qi! Once we harmonized, we would transform, become evil immortals!"

He knelt with a thud, laughing upward; while his laughter was like crying: "Harmonization leads to evil transformation! Evil transformation leads to the Immortal Realm's execution! There are no exceptions! Wrong, haha, all wrong! Ren Tianxing, Dan Qiuzi, Xiao Xiangzi, you were still thinking about how to avoid evil transformation while fleeing, still thinking about creating a Daoist Skill that could convince the True King to admit his mistake! But, all wrong, all wrong…"

He lay crying on the ground, not rising for a long time.

Chen Shi looked at him sympathetically; it wasn't the True King who severed their path to immortality, but the heavens themselves.

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