BXBX NOVEL Chapter 13 - The Dao Fruit's Backlash Severely Wounded Donghuang Taiyi
Clang!
A series of restrictions awoke, unleashing destructive energy to the extreme. The bell’s waves distorted time and space, reshaping the earth, wind, water, and fire. Even before contact, the descending Pangu Palace felt its influence. Though it remained unstoppable, freezing the bell’s waves as it passed, the Twelve Wu Ancestors surrounding it began to react intensely as they sensed a dreadful threat.
In the middle of this confrontation, the void had dried up, and chaos reappeared, with strange scenes of splitting chaos. Threads of light seemed to reflect an omen of creation! This clash marked the peak of current battles in the Primordial Realm. Although Donghuang Taiyi was slightly weaker, his combination of Innate treasure and Quasi-Saint cultivation, unmatched in the realm, still shook the heavens. At the very least, he would not be crushed by the Pangu Palace. However, just as several powerful masters thought the Pangu Palace would be temporarily blocked, an unexpected reversal occurred. Donghuang Taiyi, who was fully activating the Chaos Bell, suddenly changed expression. The bell, which had reached its maximum potential, suddenly sounded a sharp internal chime.
Boom!
An endless wave of tribulations erupted within the Chaos Bell and unleashed disasters—wind, fire, water, thunder, lightning, and the nine hardships. Catastrophic backlash immediately sent the Chaos Bell flying. Tribulation light burst forth, illuminating the nine heavens and ten earths. The six Heavenly Tribulation Dao fruits, originally at Taiyi Golden Immortal level, seemed to consume some kind of tonic and surged madly to Da Luo Golden Immortal rank.
The six tribulation Dao fruits resonated with chaos, nearly forming a terrifying Dao manifestation, shapeless and formless, invoking the Dao’s fury. It was as if the Heavenly Tribulation Dao had been provoked, and it exploded in that instant. At this crucial moment, the six Dao fruits unexpectedly turned against Donghuang Taiyi, catching him off guard.
Most strikingly, the power of the Heavenly Tribulation Dao surpassed all expectations. Initially thought capable of producing a single Da Luo Dao fruit, it now showed something more profound.
“This is a Quasi-Saint level Dao!” a great master cried out, unable to remain still. The entire Primordial Realm was stunned. They had thought the Heavenly Tribulation Dao, newly established, would be weak, but they hadn’t anticipated that the authority bestowed to the Heavenly Court was only a fragment of the true Dao hidden beneath the surface.
“Indeed, we should have expected this! How could a mere Da Luo Golden Immortal manage the realm-wide tribulations? Such a tribulation method was never something one could freely hand over; it follows its own Heavenly Dao’s operations. The authority given to the Heavenly Court was but a thread, aligning only with its role.”
Several powerful masters pondered rapidly, deducing insights, and some revealed sympathetic gazes toward Donghuang Taiyi. Donghuang Taiyi, with his Quasi-Saint cultivation and Innate treasure, had been suppressing the tribulation Dao fruit. Though it wasn’t the complete Heavenly Tribulation Dao, he couldn’t summon the full backlash of the Dao. But now, as he diverted his attention to fight the Wu race, the tribulation Dao fruit found an opportunity to retaliate.
At that moment, as everyone predicted, the Chaos Bell—its interior aflame—was blown aside. Its strongest strike shattered and its power mostly dissipated. Donghuang Taiyi didn’t even have time to react. Instantly, a torrent of disaster tribulations hit him, Quasi-Saint level tribulations that would make even a Quasi-Saint tremble.
For a moment, Donghuang Taiyi was engulfed in tribulation, losing half his cultivation in the struggle. At that same moment, the Pangu Palace descended with a bang. The twelve Wu Ancestors opened their eyes, casting down eleven laws of great divine power and one law of Quasi-Saint level.
Boom!
The entire space turned to dust. The four primal forces—earth, wind, water, and fire—scattered in all directions. Chaos waterfalls cascaded down. Donghuang Taiyi reverted to his original form, his enormous true body exploding into countless drops of qi and blood. Even as he rapidly regenerated, he was attacked by layer upon layer of laws, repeatedly crushed.
In a single instant, he suffered a thousand attacks. The six Dao fruits’ surrounding tribulations oppressed him, and within an instant, he was slain over a thousand times, his qi nearly exhausted. Eternal laws were etched into his flesh. The vast Great Sun Golden Crow body was featherless, half-broken, and even lost one foot. At every moment, wind, fire, thunder, and various disasters continued to descend, his qi rapidly depleting as if he would fall from the Quasi-Saint realm at any moment.
It was tragic beyond measure.
This happened in one moment before the Pangu Palace had fully landed. There was no escape; the hall’s aura locked onto him completely. Donghuang Taiyi stared hopelessly at the Pangu Palace as it fell, seemingly intending to crush him and the entire Yao race Heavenly Court.
It shouldn’t be this way! At the very least, not this miserably! He was a Quasi-Saint!
Donghuang Taiyi trembled, both furious and fearful. If the Pangu Palace succeeded in suppressing him, he truly risked annihilation. A Quasi-Saint was difficult to kill, but if suppressed and slowly worn down, even a Quasi-Saint could die.
Just as the Pangu Palace was about to fall completely, Emperor Jun finally arrived. Donghuang Taiyi had managed to survive for a moment. Another Great Sun Golden Crow descended, coordinated with the innate treasures, the River Diagram and Luo Book, and mobilized the Yao race’s Heavenly Court formation. Together with dozens of Da Luo Golden Immortals, they activated the formation to shield Donghuang Taiyi, who faced the Pangu Palace and was already weakened by the prior attacks.
Rip!
Boom!
Palace after palace of the Yao race’s Heavenly Court shattered. Formations that had taken them countless epochs to establish collapsed in an instant. Countless Yaos were swept into the chaos, and many Da Luo Golden Immortals groaned under the strain.
Just as the formation was about to collapse completely, the Pangu Palace halted, exhausted of all power. The twelve Wu Ancestors descended and retrieved the Pangu Palace, their towering figures encircling the heavens and gazing down upon the Yao race’s Heavenly Court.
In that moment, the Yao race suffered a major blow. Their strongest, Donghuang Taiyi, was critically injured, and Emperor Jun, along with dozens of Da Luo Golden Immortals, were all wounded. The Yao race was shattered, its overwhelming momentum fractured in mere moments, all because of the sudden emergence of the Heavenly Tribulation Dao fruit.
Many powerful masters observed from afar, their gazes complex. The Heavenly Dao had acknowledged the Yao race’s Heavenly Court, seeming to favor them, yet the Heavenly Tribulation Dao fruit now appeared as its greatest curse. How strange this irony was.