Chapter 800 - 419: Calamity Within the Jade
Tie Dan opened his eyes, looking at the jade pendant in his hand.
Don’t worry, it’s not like he crashed and reverted to the Nine Yin Mountain again; this is just the meditation chamber on Cloud Platform Peak.
Just now, after leaving the Cloud Platform Treasure Vault, he randomly found a room to meditate in, glanced inside the jade, and in the blink of an eye, he managed to come out of another tribulation.
This tribulation inside the jade is the Heavenly Demon Tribulation, which is also a Heart Demon Tribulation. To put it simply, it’s a daily life story of a wealthy young master falling in love, where you personally inhabit a character within the jade and become one with the heavenly demon, experiencing a grand drama of love entanglements and palace intrigue.
Of course, if someone is particularly addicted to beautiful girl games, they might get lost in this illusion realm for a long time, trying to conquer every character, collecting all the HEBETE endings. In that case, don’t mention being trapped in the dream for sixty years; starting a whole new book separately wouldn’t be a problem.
However, this theme is limited by the Heavenly Dao, and even if it’s written, it belongs to those celestial books that are invisible, inaudible, indescribable, only to be understood and not to be articulated. Those who get it, get it. So we’ll skip the strategy process here.
Alright, honestly, there’s not much process anyway, because this sort of side quest doesn’t really challenge Tie Dan at all. After all, he can chop through the mundane world with his sword! By breaking through with violence!
Exactly! Just to emphasize a decisive action! Chop when it’s time to chop! Chop! Chop randomly! Just emphasizing smashing it to pieces!
Ahem, well, Tie Dan is not brainless. Mainly, he’s already at the True Man Realm, practically hanging in there with cheats. So of course, he’s just messing around, with no patience for quests and all these messy GIEGIE sister’s pins misplaced or fan given wrongly, it’s simply insane...
Once, due to a mix-up with quest items, a sister blinked and said, "GIEGIE~ I accidentally tore the fan you worked so hard to get, you won’t be mad, right~~", which pissed Tie Dan off. He didn’t care at all and struck with his sword, activating an ending.
Tie Dan looked at it—Can this shit still be considered beating the game? Then why the heck am I strategizing? Just chop through everything!
Thus the palace intrigue turned directly into a martial arts battle, kill kill kill, slicing through tribulations, exterminating entire clans, wiping out families, and slaughtering his way up to capture the throne in the Jinluan Palace, smoothly breaking out of the illusion realm...
Ahem, all in all and in all, the side storyline is irrelevant. What Tie Dan focuses on is the essence of the heavenly demon and how this thing can actually be killed.
As of now, on this Taiji Heaven map, there aren’t many that can kill him outright, but constantly encountering a heavenly demon blocks his way. With mechanics that lower the dimension and strike to kill upon exposure, dying once costs ten lives—how can anyone play like this?
To deal with heavenly demons, one must find a way to handle them, otherwise, nothing will make any sense.
You can’t hide or run away, confront the challenges directly, strike through tribulations—the way of the Sword Sect.
Fortunately, through the experience in the dream of the person inside the jade, Tie Dan has begun to perceive the form of the heavenly demon and the mastermind behind the Taiji chess game.
Yes, whether it’s about saving the common people, solving the heavenly demon issue, or suppressing the Insect and Demon Clans, there’s an unavoidable entity.
Immortal Palace.
The true Immortal Palace, and the outer heaven’s heavenly demons.
These heavenly demons manipulate, controlling the Qiankun from behind the scenes of the Immortal Palace. More specifically, they are known as the Moon Demons, or more accurately, the Taiyin Star Demons, as this demonic group currently resides in space, in the base closest to Taiji Heaven, on the Taiyin Star.
Yes, the Second Void on the moon, now it’s the Taiyin Demon Palace, the base camp of the Taiyin Star Demons.
From the recollections of interactions between the jade’s person and the heavenly demon, this heavenly demon was first guided down from Outer Heaven by the Taiyin Demon Palace, descended onto the moon as a demon fetus, acquiring a physical body.
Then, using the Primordial Spirit Secret Technique, projecting onto the bloodlines of dukes or Gate Valve disciples, able to manipulate a skin sack to play in the mundane world and enjoy its riches.
And judging from the decades of co-existence with the heavenly demon as family in the jade, this heavenly demon indeed came to play, in layman’s terms, it’s a player who spent money to role-play in a different world with ancient style.
Yes, to the heavenly demons from Outer Heaven, Taiji Heaven is just a game.
You could be extravagant and splurge, buying a city or a country, role-playing as a member of a poor family, smoothly becoming a general or prime minister, or even directly buying sixty years of rule, instantly revealing kingly aura, participating in the quest for supremacy, enjoying the thrill of ruling the world. Or you could be more frugal, spending only a little, casting yourself in a wealthy family, living freely and happily enjoying worldly prosperity.
So in this world, nothing is real.
Victory and defeat are prearranged. It’s a script, a game, a trap.
Yet, nothing is false.
Good wine is real, soft jade is real, beauties are all real.
The starving dead are real, the exposed corpses are real, the piles of skulls are real too.
The cries and tears of the common people are the necessary embellishment for the celestial beings’ gaming experience, and cannot lack authenticity.
So, as it’s said in the dream, even if you fight head over heels on their planned chessboard, you won’t gain any peace.
Taiji Heaven is the playground for these heavenly demons, who script the rules themselves, fighting against themselves—how could they possibly lose?
When the game is destroyed, they can reboot the worldly catastrophe, summon the underground Insect Clan for a reboot, just like exterminating the Demon Clan.