Chapter 591 - 40: Audacious Fu Xi, the Supreme’s Wrath

Chapter 591: Chapter 40: Audacious Fu Xi, the Supreme’s Wrath

"Why would you think that?"

Fu Xi Ancestor’s face filled with sorrow. He said, his voice laced with pain:

"Xiaoxuan, have you forgotten the day I found you in the heavy snow and brought you home, the hot porridge I made for you? Have you forgotten that I seized the fragments of Taiyi’s Donghuang Bell and turned them into your opportunity to dream of Ancient Times?"

He seemed tragic and dejected, the rims of his eyes turning red.

"Or have you forgotten the sweater I knitted for you with my own hands when you were ten? Or do you no longer remember when you had a fever at fourteen, and I ran through the pouring rain, kowtowing everywhere, begging for medicine for you?"

Lu Xuan fell silent.

He gently closed his eyes.

"Grandpa Fu, I’ve never forgotten. It’s just..."

Lu Xuan’s expression suddenly sharpened. He forced himself into the state of [Supreme Forgetting], entering a state of absolute calm, casting aside all emotion and desire, and jarring himself awake from his immersion in the past.

As if asking a question, yet also as if talking to himself, he said:

"’Your Transcendent Trait is absurd, but it must have significant limitations... Can it only be used on those weaker than you? No, that’s not right. The one who created my soul was at least a [Supreme Daluo].’"

"’Yet you did indeed replace the Celestial Blade Ancestor in his entirety... Or rather, for those whose cultivation is lower than yours, you can replace them completely. For those higher, you can only replace parts of their historical actions?’"

As Lu Xuan slowly analyzed everything he knew, the tragic look on Fu Xi Ancestor’s face faded, replaced by a calm smile. "There’s no need to guess further," he said flatly.

"It’s the same as before: first, decide how you will handle this. Since Sakyamuni Buddha is cooperating with you, your only choice is to destroy me. But..."

A wry smile touched his lips.

"If you destroy this body of mine, and Shakyamuni doesn’t intervene to help, the Demon Ancestor, Bodhi, and the others will surely notice something is amiss. When that happens, your connection to Shakyamuni will be exposed as well."

Lu Xuan exhaled a breath of pure, clear air and shook his enormous face.

"You seem to have no reservations, even showing signs of seeking death. It reminds me of something. Elder Haotian once destroyed your main body, yet you revived almost instantly. If I destroy this body of yours, can you still revive?"

The smile on Fu Xi Ancestor’s face slowly faded.

Lu Xuan understood. He spoke with a smile:

"It seems that’s indeed the case... However, a single Transcendent Trait has major limitations. How do you possess the ability to substitute and replace others’ identities, pasts, and existences, while also having the power to revive immediately after death?"

He paused, his expression turning icy as he spoke, word by word:

"Or could it be... that Fu Xi is just another person you’ve replaced?"

Fu Xi Ancestor was silent for a long while before clapping lightly.

"Impressive. Very impressive."

"You’ve guessed about seventy percent of it. But why don’t you keep guessing... who exactly am I?"

Lu Xuan remained indifferent. With a single thought, the winds and clouds of the entire world churned, and a supreme, mighty pressure swept toward Fu Xi Ancestor.

Fu Xi Ancestor’s expression turned solemn, and he chose to end his own life. But Time froze and halted. He was stripped of all ability to act and was suppressed within the Profound Yellow Pagoda.

Inside the Heaven and Earth Profound Yellow Exquisite Pagoda, Taiyi curiously watched the sudden appearance of Fu Xi Ancestor.

The latter was completely shackled, his very Time frozen. He couldn’t move a muscle.

"Why did you suppress a minor Immortal in here?"

Taiyi seemed a bit confused but didn’t dwell on it. He yawned and continued to call out from the pagoda:

"Xiaoxuan, we can really talk about this! Right now, we are not enemies. I once wanted to raise you, to teach you everything. That’s the truth! It’s enough to show that before you attained your Dao Fruit, I had no ill intentions toward you!"

Lu Xuan exited the profound state of [Supreme Forgetting Emotions]. Hearing the shouts from within the pagoda, he ignored them, but then he suddenly froze.

’Something’s not right.’

He reviewed his own past: growing up in Qianlong City, encountering the Evil Cult’s massacre, fleeing to East Sea City, and then being...

Adopted by Grandpa Fu.

An immense sense of dissonance bloomed in Lu Xuan’s mind, and he was horrified. ’Grandpa Fu?’

’Fu Xi?’

’Fu Xi raised me?’

Taiyi said he once thought about raising me.

’Taiyi, Fu Xi, Taiyi...’

Lu Xuan recalled an incarnation of Taiyi named Chu Tai. For various reasons, that Chu Tai had chosen to betray Taiyi and secretly stand by his side.

’Why did he betray Taiyi?’

’What was the reason again?’

Under this extremely intense sense of dissonance, Lu Xuan’s mind was in turmoil.

Immediately, within his spiritual world, the [Path of Great Balance] hummed, the Creation Jade Scroll trembled, and even his faint, embryonic [Dao Ancestor] status began to flicker and glow!

Lu Xuan suddenly understood.

"So that’s how it is."

His gaze became incredibly profound. He reached out and beckoned.

And inside the Profound Yellow Pagoda, under Taiyi’s dumbfounded gaze, the little guy whose Time had been frozen was snatched out again...

He furrowed his brow.

"What on earth is Lu Xuan doing?"

Meanwhile, Lu Xuan muttered to himself:

"It seems I guessed right..."

With that, he woke Fu Xi Ancestor and asked coldly:

"For those stronger than you, you can only replace a segment of their history, acting in their place for a certain period. It seems this would have loopholes, leaving open the possibility of being discovered?"

Fu Xi Ancestor’s expression gradually darkened.

But the hairs on the back of Lu Xuan’s neck stood on end. He was still terrified. Although Grandpa Chu was merely an incarnation whose every connection to Taiyi had been severed,

his cultivation was comparable to the [Supreme Level], and his status was even deeply entangled with the Ancient Ones. Yet, a part of his history had still been silently replaced by Fu Xi!

’If I hadn’t known a thing or two and sensed the error, if not for the tremor from my Lifebound Dao Artifact, the Creation Jade Scroll, which is comparable to a Dao Fruit artifact, if not for the warning from my [Dao Ancestor Embryo] status...’

Lu Xuan’s mind trembled.

At this moment, Fu Xi Ancestor stared at the giant face.

"You’ve perceived a part of the truth?"

Lu Xuan looked at him, his expression utterly frigid.

"The one who raised me was Chu Tai."

"It seems you really do know." Fu Xi Ancestor looked incredulous, a confused and suspicious expression on his face. "But... how is that possible?"

He seemed very frustrated, almost dejected, but then a grim look appeared on his face.

"Let me see if this was an accident or something else... Lu Xuan, observe the whole of Years past and future. How many people are me? And how many are not?"

Horrified, Lu Xuan tried to scan through the past, to perceive every person named Fu Xi throughout the annals of history.

Human Race Celestial Emperor Fu Xi, Fu Xi taming the floods, Fu Xi aiding King Wu in his crusade against Zhou... ℯ

"Now look, how many of them are me?"

Fu Xi Ancestor laughed heartily, a look of supreme arrogance appearing on his face.

"Everything under the heavens... all of it is me."

Lu Xuan was still perceiving the before and after of history.

Fu Xi the Celestial Official Emperor of the Celestial Court, Fu Xi King the head of the Ten Halls Yama of the Underworld, Fu Xi the Great Bodhisattva of Spirit Mountain, Fu Xi Child of Douluo Palace, Fu Xi the Great Virtue of the Spring and Autumn Period...

’Huh?’

’Wait a minute...’

’Douluo Palace?’

Under the immense sense of dissonance, even without a warning from the Creation Jade Scroll or the Dao Ancestor Embryo, Lu Xuan was certain this one was wrong.

He didn’t know who it was supposed to be, but it was definitely not Fu Xi. It was a logical error!

Fu Xi Ancestor was still smiling at this moment.

"All of them are me, there is not one that is not me..."

His words stopped abruptly. Lu Xuan also seemed to sense something. Gazing out beyond the Profound Purity Realm, he could see, above the Thirty-Three Celestial Realms, above the River of Time, a raging fire filled the sky, burning its way down, striking at segment after segment of Years!

"Supreme, you dare!" the Demon Ancestor’s hysterical voice suddenly rang out, shaking the past and future of Years and stirring up monstrous chaos!

’Teacher noticed too?’

Lu Xuan’s heart relaxed slightly, and then his spirits lifted. ’The Years are in chaos, and All Daoist Fruits are looking on... What a great opportunity!’

He looked at the somewhat stunned Fu Xi Ancestor and spoke sincerely:

"You are not the main body, yet you still possess this Transcendent Trait? You’re quite bold... Thank you!"

With that, Lu Xuan grabbed the stunned Fu Xi Ancestor, froze him again, and suppressed him inside the Profound Yellow Pagoda.