Man is in the heavens, parasites are born

Chapter 242 Prototype
In an instant, endless sacrificial flames erupted from the five altars—flames capable of annihilating even the Celestial Emperor.

Endless flames burned, but strangely, all kinds of immortal gold and materials remained undamaged. At this moment, the sacrificial patterns that had been binding the strange Immortal Emperor's Dao Fruit quietly faded away.

In an instant, the radiance of the Immortal Emperor's Dao Fruit illuminated the ten directions of the world, but it continuously disintegrated and disappeared under the burning of the sacrificial fire.

It couldn't withstand such terrible flames!

Along with it, the extremely concentrated pollutants also collapsed; they were the most concentrated form of pollution.

However, it can be seen that within the constantly collapsing Immortal Emperor's Dao Fruit, countless Great Daos are disintegrating and breaking.

Those are countless Great Daos at the level of Immortal Emperors, which together formed and constructed this Immortal Emperor-level Dao Fruit!
Of course, it is only natural that he could not withstand it, because this was originally the flame that the Immortal Emperor should use to 'sacrifice' his own Dao after he had accumulated enough power.

This flame transcends the Dao and transcends the mortal world. It can extinguish all cause and effect, and it can also allow the Immortal Emperor to reach the ultimate sublimation and take another step forward.

These crumbling, collapsing roads were all unwanted 'dross' and pollution, which are now being burned and cleared away.

As he watched his clone being burned by the terrifying sacrificial flames, Fang Ming felt absolutely nothing.

He felt no pain whatsoever, as if he were watching something unrelated being burned.

Protected by the sacrificial patterns, he was also unable to perceive the state of his split body.

He didn't know if his clones felt pain, but judging from their calm demeanor, they probably didn't.

That makes sense, after all, this is not a flame in the ordinary sense. It is normal that one cannot feel pain in the ordinary sense when burned by such a flame.

Just as the strange Immortal Emperor's Dao Fruit was about to completely disintegrate under the burning of the sacrificial fire, Shi Hao, Ye Fan, and the ruthless man made their move.

At this moment, countless flowers of the Great Dao scattered across the sky, crystal clear, each petal exuding the supreme aura of an immortal emperor.

On each petal, the phantom of a ruthless person emerged, her hands forming a supreme hand seal, from which countless beams of immortal light flew out and entered the strange Immortal Emperor's Dao Fruit that was about to collapse.

The celestial light shone brightly, and the bizarre Immortal Emperor Dao Fruit, which was originally on the verge of collapse, was temporarily stabilized.

The accelerated time flow effect of the myriad worlds has no effect on them. The myriad worlds cannot affect the Immortal Emperor, nor can they affect Fang Ming, their master.

Time passed, and the scene remained silent. This peaceful scene did not last long, lasting only for a thousand years.

A thousand years later, the already fiercely burning sacrificial flames suddenly became extremely explosive, instantly engulfing the entire altar.

Visibly, within that flame that transcended limits, surpassed the world, and leaped beyond eternity, the altar, including the temple on it and the one where Fang Ming's clone was located, vanished instantly, swallowed by the sacrificial fire.

The flames were so intense, unbelievably fierce!
In an instant, everything vanished—the altar, the temple, the Immortal Emperor's Dao Fruit—everything disappeared!

At this moment, all fluctuations disappeared. His five major avatars seemed to have never existed. Fang Ming even felt that this was not a weapon sacrifice, but a true Dao sacrifice!
However, after seeing the countless undamaged sacrificial patterns beneath the vanished altar, he knew that this was not the real sacrificial path.

"The true danger of the sacrificial path seems to be far beyond my imagination!" Fang Ming was surprised as he looked at the undamaged sacrificial path patterns beneath the vanished altar.

Fang Ming was not in a hurry and waited patiently.

A thousand years later, a point of light appeared in each of the places where the five altars had disappeared. Then the points of light expanded, and his five avatars reappeared in the places where the altars had disappeared.

They succeeded!
As Fang Ming's clones appeared, the temple that had been surrounding him collapsed layer by layer and vanished instantly.

In an instant, Fang Ming felt himself possess an unbelievable power, a power so strong that he could hardly believe it!
"Is this the rudimentary form of the Immortal Emperor Dao Fruit achieved through cultivation based on my system?"

As his five major manifestations appeared, Fang Ming sensed the changes in the myriad worlds and revealed an expression of disbelief.

At present, their myriad worlds are evolving infinitely, giving birth to countless great worlds, and even to supreme great worlds like the Heavens, which transcend the great worlds.

The vast universe is like the River of Souls, containing countless great worlds. The supreme universe, which transcends the vast universe, contains countless great worlds.

He could sense that he was just a little short of becoming a primordial land, a supreme path, and attaining the Dao fruit of an Immortal Emperor.

Besides the countless great worlds and the supreme great world that surpasses them, independent time-space rivers and independently operating time-space systems have been born in the fragmented worlds.

It's likely that the heavens and the celestial realms that Ye Fan, Shi Hao, and others want to reshape follow a similar logic.

Besides, some Dao Seas have already taken shape, such as spacetime and the world, but countless Dao Seas such as destiny, cause and effect, time, and annihilation have not truly taken shape.

After all, his current clone is not a true Immortal Emperor, but merely a 'prototype of Immortal Emperor Dao Fruit' forcibly created by Shi Hao, Ye Fan, and others.

In the blink of an eye, Fang Ming discovered that there was no influence between the main body and the split body. The consciousness of the split body was him, and the consciousness of the main body was also him. This was a wondrous experience. The consciousness of the split body was extremely powerful, touching the level of an Immortal Emperor.

However, the main subject is merely the Celestial King, who possesses two senses and two different perspectives, making it a rather novel experience.

At this moment, Ye Fan spoke with a smile: "What do you think, fellow Daoist?"

"It's better than ever before!" Fang Ming smiled and said, "I never thought that I would experience a feeling close to that of an Immortal Emperor when I was still a Celestial King. I'm sure this is the first time in history that I've had such an experience!"

"If you don't cultivate faster, you might have to experience the feeling of being an Immortal Emperor in the Immortal King realm in the future," Shi Hao said half-jokingly as he approached.

"This..." Fang Ming was speechless, then waved his hand and said, "It's not that bad, fellow Daoists, it shouldn't be that fast."

As he spoke, he looked thoughtful and asked the group, "In your opinion, what is the next step in advancing my system? Is it to perfect those special places, allowing countless Great Dao Seas to be born, so that my myriad worlds can become a primordial land, forming its own supreme Dao?"

Everyone here is an Immortal Emperor, so it would be best to ask questions at this time.

“Fellow Daoist, you’ve got the focus wrong,” Shi Hao said. “The focus should be on expanding your own Great Dao, making it comparable to the Supreme Dao. When you achieve Dao, you will understand what it means to be an Immortal Emperor. After achieving Dao, you will have as much of the so-called Dao Sea as you want, and you can evolve it however you want.”

“That’s right.” Ye Fan nodded and said, “If you focus on perfecting your own special places in the myriad worlds, or even on opening up special places, then you will never be able to become an Immortal Emperor. This is completely different.”

"I've seen those Dao Seas before, and they left a very deep impression on me. Could they not be things at the Immortal Emperor level?" Fang Ming looked at them with doubt.

“It is indeed something at the Immortal Emperor level, and it is not weak.” Ye Fan nodded, then changed the subject and said, “But one, two, three, four, thousands of Dao Seas cannot make a person an Immortal Emperor, even if they themselves also contain all kinds of Great Daos.”

He looked at Fang Ming very solemnly: "Fellow Daoist can understand the Supreme Dao in this way: it is constructed from countless Dao Seas. As long as the number of Dao Seas you cultivate is limited, then it will not transform into an Immortal Emperor!"

"So that's how it is..." Fang Ming murmured softly, his mind suddenly clear.

Finally, I understood the meaning of what Shi Hao had said earlier.

The focus is not on perfecting those rudimentary forms of the Dao Sea, nor on finding ways to create other Dao Seas, or even on creating more supreme worlds.

For his current split body, what he needs is to expand his own path!

As long as one expands one's own Great Dao, a supreme universe will naturally be born, and a Dao Sea will appear.

At the same time, he also understood why the individual paths of the people present could not be summarized by a single great principle.

Because it is so complex, with all streams converging into one, it is so intricate that no adjective can describe it.

Even for the Primordial Immortal Emperor, the 'Primordial' he obtained did not refer to a single Great Dao named Primordial, but rather to the Dao Fruits he comprehended and realized from countless primordial root states of the Dao.

He obtained countless original, unaltered essences of the Great Dao.

As for Wushi, he was no exception. With time and space as the core, he evolved beginning and end. Using this as the core, he expanded endlessly. After reaching the extreme of evolution, he transcended beginning and end, and only then did he become the Immortal Emperor.

Moreover, his "beginning" and "end" also imply that they have already encompassed everything, not to mention that he has subsequently broken free from the original constraints.

"In that case, my previous actions did limit my own split self," Fang Ming said with a touch of emotion.

“That’s not quite right,” Shi Hao shook his head and said calmly. “In the beginning, most people cultivated in this way, comprehending a certain fragment of the supreme Dao, which led to the existence of various great Daos such as ‘cause and effect,’ ‘destiny,’ and ‘chaos.’”

"When I attain enlightenment one day, I will infinitely expand and extend my limited understanding of the Way, see the whole picture, and become the 'Way' myself," he said with a smile.

Therefore, this cannot be considered a wrong way of practicing.

On the contrary, the most orthodox way of spiritual practice is to expand from point to line, from line to plane, from plane to form, and then to form infinitely.

"As for how to evolve the finite into the infinite, that depends on your comprehension, fellow Daoist. The mysteries involved are not universally applicable." Shi Hao's gaze swept over Fang Ming's myriad worlds as he said, "However, since you have been able to forge such a path, your comprehension is certainly not a problem. With our help, becoming an Immortal Emperor is practically a certainty."

Fang Ming looked at the people present, clasped his hands in greeting, and said with a smile, "I will need your help in the future."

The others present also clasped their hands in a gesture of respect and smiled, saying, "That's how it should be!"

After the successful sacrifice, Shi Hao, Ye Fan, and the others returned to their respective foundational worlds, striving to recover as quickly as possible and then reflect the heavens and the celestial realm.

Then, they must cultivate the second Immortal Emperor Dao Fruit as quickly as possible, and then perform another Dao sacrifice.

(End of this chapter)