Chapter 589 - 39: Blackmailing Bodhi, The Demon Ancestor’s Brother, The Uncanny Fu Xi

Chapter 589: Chapter 39: Blackmailing Bodhi, The Demon Ancestor’s Brother, The Uncanny Fu Xi

"Wrong."

’Wrong?’

Fu Xi Ancestor’s expression turned solemn. ’Wrong?’

’It can’t be wrong.’

’At The Beginning of Ancient Times, the being who silently spread the Dao, aspiring to become the Daoist Ancestor, called himself Xuan Sheng!’

He looked up toward the Celestial Vault, a faint smile gracing his lips.

"Since you say it’s wrong, do you have an answer? Let’s hear it."

Many Cultivators looked at Fu Xi Ancestor in surprise. ’Who is this great elder talking to? How baffling...’

Just then, the Divine Mountain began to crack, and new words appeared on its surface.

"At The Beginning of Ancient Times, Hongjun spread the Dao."

The instant the words appeared, the Heaven and Earth Profound Yellow Exquisite Pagoda suppressing Taiyi swelled to an immense size, pressing down over the entire Profound Purity Realm and blocking all prying eyes!

The lamenting Ancient Bodhi Buddha shot a sharp glance to the side. The Demon Ancestor’s expression hardened as she rose to her feet.

"Supreme Profound Clarity, what is he hiding?"

Ancient Bodhi Buddha frowned for a long time, then shook his head.

"It’s fine. Shakyamuni is observing from within. He is a [Fake Dao Fruit], and unlike Taiyi, he isn’t shackled. Supreme Profound Clarity cannot hide anything from him."

The Demon Ancestor pondered for a moment, then nodded slightly.

"True. Fu Xi is also in there. There shouldn’t be any major problems."

At this moment, the Ancient Bodhi Buddha couldn’t help but ask:

"You seem to trust Fu Xi a great deal?"

"Of course," the Demon Ancestor said, as if it were the most natural thing in the world. "He is the person I trust most."

"Why?"

The Ancient Bodhi Buddha was even more puzzled.

The Demon Ancestor smiled and said softly:

"He is my brother."

The Ancient Bodhi Buddha was visibly stunned. He spoke in utter bewilderment.

"Since when... did you have a brother??"

Now the Demon Ancestor was confused as well, looking at Bodhi with a strange expression.

"I have always had a brother. What is wrong with you?"

The Ancient Bodhi Buddha frowned deeply. Without answering, he began to thoroughly investigate the annals of the Years, and to his surprise, he actually found the cause.

Though the Demon Ancestor’s origins were unknown, she had first appeared before the Era of the Three Emperors. She looked like a little girl, innocent and naive, wandering the Human World with a young boy by her side.

’And the young boy... he really looks like Fu Xi?’

The Ancient Bodhi Buddha’s brow furrowed. ’This is even more wrong,’ he thought.

’Fu Xi was the first Human Emperor. He didn’t exist before the Era of the Three Emperors. Even if he later attained the rank of Daluo, his presence permeating all of history, how could he have appeared as a young boy, living side-by-side with the naive Demon Ancestor?’

’No, this is very wrong.’

A profound and mysterious light flickered in the Ancient Bodhi Buddha’s eyes as he began to unravel the mystery layer by layer.

The difference between an Ancient One and a Daluo is that an Ancient One [witnesses] all of history, while a Daluo permeates all of the Years.

They seem similar, but they are not. The history of the current age is far from what it was at The Beginning.

In the contest between Dao Fruits, who knows how many times history has been overturned and reset, how many times it has been altered...

A Daluo can only permeate the history of the Years as it exists [in the here and now].

An Ancient One, however, can see the true past, see everything before it was tampered with, see that very first Ancient History.

If an Ancient One is like this, an Enlightened One is naturally even stronger.

Ancient Bodhi Buddha reviewed the previous version of history. The one accompanying the Demon Ancestor was, indeed, Fu Xi.

He delved further back. It was Fu Xi. Still Fu Xi. Always Fu Xi. There didn’t seem to be anything wrong.

Until, Ancient Bodhi Buddha delved into a history where Fu Xi did not exist. In that period of history, the Three Emperors were the Youchao Clan, the Suirenshi Family, and Zhu Rong.

It was only after repeated contests that they were eventually replaced by the current Three Emperors.

But the problem was, in that forgotten stretch of Ancient History where Fu Xi didn’t exist, the one by the Demon Ancestor’s side was...

...still Fu Xi.

The Ancient Bodhi Buddha’s face was grim. Refusing to accept it, he delved into the very first Chapter of Ancient History—The Beginning, which had never been altered or corrected by any great power.

In this era, even the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors didn’t exist. Yet Fu Xi was still there, at the Demon Ancestor’s side, taking care of the naive Demon Ancestor as they relied on each other to survive.

"What in the world happened?" In the Current World, floating above the stream of Years, the Demon Ancestor asked in confusion. But the Ancient Bodhi Buddha merely glanced at her without answering, his figure vanishing into the flow of Time.

He traveled to the first, unaltered version of history and observed quietly. The Demon Ancestor, in her naive stage, still possessed Infinite Magical Power.

But the Fu Xi accompanying her was just an ordinary person, with no Cultivation, and certainly not a Daluo.

’Was I wrong?’

The Ancient Bodhi Buddha frowned and muttered to himself:

"Could it be that Fu Xi first became the Demon Ancestor’s brother, and only then became the Celestial Emperor?"

That seemed to be the only explanation, yet he still felt something was off.

Whenever he gazed upon Fu Xi and the Demon Ancestor, the Ancient Bodhi Buddha felt a faint sense of dissonance, as if things shouldn’t be this way, as if this wasn’t how they were meant to be...

But the facts were what they were.

"It seems I was overthinking things..."

Ancient Bodhi Buddha let out a soft breath, withdrew from that point in history, and returned to his place above the stream of Years. Looking at the frowning, confused Demon Ancestor, he smiled.

"I indeed did not know before that Fu Xi was Fellow Daoist’s brother."

A soft expression appeared on the Demon Ancestor’s usually frosty face.

She smiled gently.

"It’s always been this way, my brother just doesn’t like to show it. When I was still naive, he was the one who took care of me. Now that I’m powerful enough to overwhelm everything, it’s my turn to take care of him..."

She paused, her expression suddenly sharpening as she stared at the Current World, at the heaven and earth formed from the Ancestor Star.

"Therefore... the Goddess must die."

The Ancient Bodhi Buddha was a little confused.

"Why is that?"

The Demon Ancestor didn’t answer, only silently added in her heart.

’I must collect all the Transcendent Traits for my brother... He will achieve Transcendence!’

A faint smile appeared on her face.

...

「Within the Profound Purity Realm.」

The Heaven and Earth Profound Yellow Exquisite Pagoda blotted out everything. The Celestial Vault warped, and the Divine Mountain trembled!

"Hongjun..."

For the first time, the color drained from Fu Xi Ancestor’s face. He stared at the name on the mountainside.

"So that’s how it is..."

Ao Tao looked over in confusion.

"What?"

Fu Xi Ancestor ignored him, raised his head, and looked toward the Celestial Vault, as if talking to himself, and as if asking a question:

"You’re testing me by threatening to flip the entire board? Why? Do you think you can trap and kill me here? That’s rather naive. After all, the one from Spirit Mountain is also in this realm."

At an infinite height, the deep-eyed face formed by the will of heaven and earth paid no mind to Fu Xi Ancestor’s words in the Human World below.

’Fu Xi’s reaction shows he knows that Hongjun is Lu Xuan.’

’But who knows about this?’

’My three masters, Elder Haotian, Houtu, Xiaonian...’

’So, how does Fu Xi know?’

’He knows that I am Hongjun, but he doesn’t know that I am also Shakyamuni?’

’And what exactly are his Transcendent Traits??’

The huge face formed by the will of heaven and earth narrowed its eyes slightly and muttered to itself:

’Now, for the second test...’

With a mere thought, back in the Human World,

Just as the Cultivators were staring at Fu Xi Ancestor in astonishment, completely baffled by what the great elder was saying, something suddenly happened.

CRACK!

With a sharp sound, the Divine Mountain collapsed. A Great Banner shot into the sky, only to fall back down and land perfectly in the hands of a young man.

SWISH!

Innumerable gazes instantly fixed on the young man.

Lu Xiuyuan looked at the Great Banner in his hand and fell into deep thought.