CHAPTER 285: CHAPTER 284: ANCESTOR, I’M GOING TO MAKE IT!

Say it’s madness, yet those rational Blood God’s sons are figuring out ways to separate and excise this chaotic will to restore their original Heart Realm. The Blood God’s sons supporting Zhu Su are not without being manifestations of the Ancestor of Nether River’s will, who desperately wishes to regain his sanity.

Out of nowhere, countless fragments of forbidden knowledge appeared in his mind. Where did this knowledge come from?

Most of his focus was spent comprehending this new knowledge while suppressing obsessions.

A very small part of his remaining rationality led countless Blood God’s sons to search, eventually finding Zhu Su, this singular Blood God’s son, and swiftly feeding back information. The feedback received by the Ancestor of Nether River was perceived as his own thoughts.

Ancestor of Nether River: ???

Do I know this stuff?

He didn’t even have time to think before he was gradually drawn into the chaotic, frenzied allure of this knowledge.

Recorded in Nezha’s accounts as chaos, passed on chaotically, but inherently chaotic knowledge lacks any concept of order to begin with.

Chaos. There is fundamentally no right or wrong.

When it came to the Ancestor of Nether River, he began deducing with his Second Corpse Quasi-Saint cultivation. To his astonishment, the more he deduced, the more ecstatic he became, because on the Great Dao he had once perceived as a dead end, he now saw endless unknown paths ahead!

The Dao Fruit of Slaying Two Corpses proved its worth. He actually reasoned out countless new insights from the chaotic Outer Dao, including elements tying into his long-studied Reincarnation Dao.

The collision between the forbidden knowledge and the Ancestor of Nether River’s Dao Fruit ignited countless sparks of Spirit Light. He maniacally deduced, exploring infinite possibilities to validate his Chaos Origin—a frantic search in truth and falsity for a path of ascension.

The Reincarnation Dao emphasizes lifetime after lifetime of accumulating merit to deepen one’s fortune and foundation, striving to advance further along the Great Dao. Was it possible, then, that through continuously accumulating enough foundation across reincarnations, one might ultimately verify Chaos Origin?

Then, by reversing cause and effect, could he ordain himself to become a Saint, truly fulfilling the Heavenly Mandate?

Theoretically, such a future existed. This was reaching fifty in the cosmic mechanism, leaving behind the forty-nine to find the one—where the Ancestor of Nether River might obtain Chaos Origin through what is unaccounted for.

But in reality? Utterly impossible. Old Deng would never allow it.

But that is the wondrous paradox of the Dao.

Coupled with the unstable mentality of the Ancestor of Nether River, he actually believed in this outcome and began taking action!

He unleashed his mana to frantically push the Reincarnation Dao Fruit he had condensed, the terrifying mana within the Blood Sea converging and channeling into the Dao Fruit. Through cycle after cycle of reincarnation, he kept deducing, as if operating some cosmic simulator to frenziedly seek the future where he became a Saint.

Meanwhile, the Blood God’s sons around Nezha, long corrupted by the Outer Dao, had already become grotesquely warped. The ’Warm-hearted Person’ continuously shifted forms—pig, dog, human, ghost, Asura—changing tens of thousands of times with each breath.

The surrounding Blood God’s sons were the same. To an unknowing observer, it might resemble some bizarre transformation party.

The Ancestor of Nether River’s Reincarnation Dao Fruit couldn’t match his long-practiced Slaughter Dao. But as a peer of the Three Pure Ones, having persisted until now, even with half his foundation fractured, it remained impossibly profound.

Forget those novels where a simulator is used once or ten times a day—here, in a single breath, the Ancestor of Nether River simulated hundreds, thousands, countless lifetimes. Endless possibilities unraveled within his Reincarnation Dao Fruit, feeding back into his deductions.

Nezha, utterly bewildered by now, had no idea what had happened to the Ancestor of Nether River. Seeing the blankly distorted Blood God’s sons, he ran without a second thought.

Whatever’s going on with the Ancestor of Nether River has nothing to do with me. Better to escape now.

Unfortunately, just as he moved, countless Blood God’s sons locked their gaze upon him, eyes filled with an insatiable thirst for knowledge!

Knowledge changes destiny!

He could only grit his teeth and keep stumbling through his storytelling.

Meanwhile, the trapped Jin Ling Saint Mother, puzzled by the collapsing Blood Sea Formation, dismissed the mystery for now. Drawing the Qingping Sword, a flash of verdant sword light cleaved through the Blood Sea. With the formation no longer barring her way, Jin Ling transformed into Golden Light and bolted out of the Blood Sea.

No one even tried to stop her along the way.

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Deep within the Blood Sea, the Ancestor of Nether River, relying on the Reincarnation Dao Fruit, accumulated through generations—hundreds, thousands, millions, billions of lifetimes—repeatedly reached the peak to amass a foundation, inching ever closer to that unattainable dream.

"Almost there, almost there!"

"Faster!"

"The Ancestor is about to succeed! About to ascend!"

"Mana, come to me!"

The Reincarnation Dao Fruit had already started emitting unbearable cracking sounds, but the Ancestor of Nether River paid no heed.

"The Ancestor is about to ascend! The Ancestor has achieved the third corpse slaying!"

In reincarnation, his future self surpassed his current self, restoring his cultivation of Slaying Two Corpses, approaching the edge of slaying the third, until ultimately slaying the Ego Corpse.

"The Ancestor is about to ascend! Three Corpses, unite for me!"

Within reincarnation, after countless billions of cycles of accumulated lifetimes, the Ancestor of Nether River’s three corpses bizarrely merged in an instant, then surged toward that supreme pinnacle!

Three Corpses united as one. This was the method of the Daoist Ancestor to ascend, the most orthodox approach within the Primordial era.

An unmatched, overwhelming power instantly backlashed against the Ancestor of Nether River’s Dao Fruit. Boom!

His Dao failed to sustain his Chaos Origin realization.

The Blood Sea erupted into chaos. The brains of countless Blood God’s sons exploded into nothingness—their Divine Souls unable to handle knowledge surpassing all comprehension.

The entire underworld shook violently due to the Blood Sea’s upheaval; "ghostly wails and divine sobs" would be a gross understatement. It was only through Houtu’s intervention as the Earth Dao Saint that tremors subsided, though there was no averting the unprecedented spike in workload for the underworld.

As Blood God’s sons around Nezha exploded, a mysterious Dao Qi wildly surged toward Nezha’s Divine Soul. The moment it made contact, Nezha felt his perspective ascending at terrifying speed.

That "highness" soared beyond even the augmentation granted by the Creation Jade Scroll Fragment—an unprecedented sensation overwhelmed his mind. The road ahead, murky in the past, now appeared crystal-clear. And at its end loomed the dreamlike Chaos Origin Dao Fruit!

Though momentarily entranced, Nezha quickly regained his senses. Having survived the Chaos realms, he hurriedly shielded his True Spirit with Merit while frantically stuffing the forbidden knowledge invading his mind into the Creation Jade Scroll.

Protected by the Merit’s Golden Light, Nezha’s Divine Soul was dragged into his own Reincarnation by the Ancestor of Nether River’s broken Reincarnation Dao Fruit.

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The rampaging Blood Sea was suppressed by a Saint’s intervention. Its madness even rippled over to the Ancestor of Nether River Mother’s portion of the Blood Sea, prompting her to gaze intently at its counterpart.

For a fleeting moment earlier, she seemed to have glimpsed herself performing Three Corpses Unification.

In Nuwa Palace, Nuwa witnessed the entire process. At first, she had laughed at the Ancestor of Nether River’s insanity, but upon seeing his Three Corpses Unification within reincarnation, she could no longer maintain her composure.

No matter how the Three Corpses were unified and regardless of success or failure, merely touching upon this concept placed one among the absolute peak Great Experts of the Primordial era.