Above the Great Dao

Chapter 1306 614: Justice for You (Part 2)

Feng Huixue led his carriage to stop in front of the Ruzhu Female Palace beneath the Jade Palace, got off the carriage, Chen Shi alighted as well, followed by Black Pot and Yu San, as they entered the palace with Feng Huixue. The palace halls were deep and winding, and they walked for a long time before arriving at the Nine Flowers Jade Palace.

The Jade Palace was bathed in nine beams of spiritual energy, exuding an indescribable solemnity and majesty.

Chen Shi, Black Pot, and Yu San gazed at the ground, following Feng Huixue into the Nine Flowers Jade Palace.

The layout inside the Nine Flowers Jade Palace was nearly identical to that of the Houde Palace on Yellow Earth Slope, also featuring a lotus platform throne, with Xuanhuang Qi forming a Xuanhuang Sea around it, and a Lady sitting on the lotus platform.

Chen Shi glanced up sneakily and saw that the Lady on the lotus platform looked almost exactly like Lady Houtu.

However, at the moment he raised his eyes to look at this Lady, the originally seemingly ordinary-height Emperor Houtu appeared immensely majestic, majestic enough to fill his entire vision, even beyond what his sight could contain!

In his eyes, there gradually remained only the fluttering robes of Emperor Houtu, without seeing the whole person.

He quietly turned his head and discovered with astonishment that the Xuanhuang Sea surrounding the Lady was not an illusion but a real Xuanhuang Sea, vast and boundless, with countless worlds floating atop it!

Furthermore, the Yellow Qi continuously evolved, transforming into Earth, giving birth to new worlds.

And Emperor Houtu is a supreme divine presence seated on the Xuanhuang Sea.

Chen Shi no longer dared to look at the true body of Emperor Houtu, and only then did the visions gradually dissipate, returning Emperor Houtu to normalcy in the peripheral of his sight.

The Thick Virtue and Bright Heaven Palace fundamentally couldn't contain this Lady.

Her true body has always been seated in the lotus within the Xuanhuang Sea. Although the Heavenly Palace appeared to house the Nine Flowers Jade Palace, and the Lady seemed to reside therein, the reality was the opposite.

"This is a supreme divine skill of hiding the vast within the small."

Chen Shi thought to himself, "What the eyes see may not be the truth."

"Your subject Chen Shi from the West Bull New Continent pays respects to the Lady." Chen Shi bowed down.

The Lady on the lotus seat was very pleased, raised her hand, and said with a smile: "Rise, you two don't need to bow either, please be seated."

Chen Shi, Black Pot, and Yu San each sat on a cushion, feeling somewhat nervous. Yu San, in his nervousness, caused his fish scales to tremble, making a dinging sound.

The consciousness of Emperor Houtu was connected to Lady Houtu in the Earth Immortal Realm and countless worlds in the Xuanhuang Sea, where numerous thoughts and awareness come from the depths of time and space, arriving in her mind every moment.

She had to analyze this information and make correct judgments, which made her appear somewhat tired. The arrival of Chen Shi and the others allowed her to relax a bit, and she said with a smile: "I am fully aware of the encounters of the West Bull New Continent, and indeed quite moved. The West Bull New Continent has been trapped in an evil transformation for sixteen thousand years, seemingly a disaster for Wu Wang, but actually an immortal catastrophe. An immortal, for their own immortality, has brought calamity to the world. We must provide justice to your West Bull New Continent for this matter."

Chen Shi opened his mouth, wanting to speak, but for some reason, he couldn't as an indescribable emotion surged in his heart, momentarily choking him.

Tears inexplicably streamed from his eyes, and the scalding tears rolled down his cheeks.

He had been revived without anyone speaking to him about justice, and he only tirelessly sought it for himself.

He had slain the sons and daughters of the Zhao family, stormed the county government to kill the County Magistrate and his wife, killed Black Mountain Granny, killed the Heavenly Elder in Gongzhou, and killed the Young Master in the Western Capital, all for the sake of justice!

He revived Huaxia Gods, eradicated the Thirteen Families, opposed Despair Slope, ascended Despair Slope to battle the Primordial Worm, and fought the Heavenly Venerate, all in pursuit of justice!

But throughout this period, no one had spoken to him of justice, only of this being the way of the world!

He ascended to the Earth Immortal Realm, lived as a lowly Heavenly Soldier in the Heavenly Court, and still, no one talked about justice!

Emperor Houtu was the first to say he would ensure justice for the West Bull New Continent.

"Lady!" Chen Shi bowed on the cushion, tears streaming down his face.

He lost his composure.

How many people died in the West Bull New Continent?

From sixteen thousand years ago during the Great Shang Era, to the True King Era, to the present Second True King Era, too many people had perished. Nearly the entire population of the Great Shang era was wiped out, with survivors having to transform into the Ghost Clan to survive.

Through two True King Eras, they experienced two great extinctions, with the surviving people barely clinging to life under the threat of evil spirit disaster and calamities, and those in pursuit of immortality had to self-castrate, abolishing their Tribulation Crossing and Ascension realms!

Even Chen Shi, when confronting the entire world's evil transformation, once despaired to the point of wanting to have the Great Ming people transform into the Ghost Clan for a slim chance of survival!

What immense suffering, what immense humiliation!

Those prodigies who despaired to death, those who were twisted and transformed into evil spirits, those like the Daoist Innocent, whose lives were snuffed out, were countless in the history of West Bull New Continent!

Did the people of West Bull New Continent commit any sin?

Did they violate any heavenly decrees?

Were they guilty of unforgivable crimes?

No.

Just a powerful immortal wanting to raise a worm unintentionally marked West Bull New Continent as pasture, which led to this world facing an unprovoked disaster!

It was only a worm!

The West Bull New Continent was merely food to feed this worm.

Countless worlds also became food for the Primordial Worm in the Dark Sea, their numbers unknown!

No one ever spoke of rectifying justice for the people of these worlds!

Such deep hatred could not elicit a word of justice from others!

Only Emperor Houtu spoke of rectifying this injustice for them.

Chen Shi's shoulders trembled as he lay prostrate, silently crying, finding it difficult to rise for a long time.

After a long while, Chen Shi suppressed his emotions, secretly wiped away his tears with his sleeve, straightened his back, and apologized with shame: "Lady, your subject lost composure, please don't blame me."

Emperor Houtu gazed at him, suddenly understanding why her clone was so fond of this youth, even going as far as to use bookkeeping methods to draw her attention to him.

He did not become like other immortals, who stopped considering themselves human after ascending, becoming adept at scheming. Nor did he resemble divine beings, always adhering to their duties and not overstepping boundaries.

Chen Shi had yet to complete the Cutting Three Corpses, retaining all seven emotions and six desires, holding onto his joys and sorrows, able to sympathize with others, and relentlessly pursued outcomes for the sake of justice.

He was more like a flesh-and-blood mortal.

For a long time, Emperor Houtu adhered to the Divine Dao, without overstepping boundaries, even her doppelgangers were consistent in this, observing the misdeeds of immortals, but unable to intervene because immortals were not part of the reincarnation cycle.

Perhaps it was precisely for this reason that her West Bull New Continent clone appreciated Chen Shi.

And this also moved her.

Emperor Houtu smiled and said, "Your Majesty has endured much wrong."

"Not wronged..." Chen Shi began to say, but his eyes reddened again, nearly breaking into tears before he held back.

Emperor Houtu switched topics, saying, "The suffering of the West Bull New Continent stems from the struggle between immortal and divine. This conflict has ancient origins, tracing back to the Ancestor Court Great Shang era. Back when it was the Mysterious Bird Heavenly Court of Great Shang, and the Lord of the Heavenly Court was the Great Shang Heavenly Emperor, Tianyi. Tianyi and the gods partook in the incense of the ancestral temple, wielding enormous divine power, with successive kings of Shang being heavenly emperors, and numerous emperors coexisting. Great Shang implemented harsh laws, and each year offered human and beast sacrifices to the Heavenly Court, causing countless deaths."

Chen Shi was captivated by her words, thinking: "This diverges from what my wife Little Dun and Wu Qi narrated."

"Great Shang already had a mature Daoist skill system, known as the Witch Sacrificial Dao Pattern, passing down bloodlines where every Fate heir inherited the power and position of their predecessor, every Gonggong's child inherited Gonggong's power and position, every Spring God's child inherited Spring God's power, and every Water God's child inherited Water God's power. Strength was continuously passed down among the Great Shang royal family and the divine officers, never disrupted."

In a calm pace, Emperor Houtu narrated that historical period, "The common people were only slaves, disrespectfully treated as sacrifices offered to the gods and empire in the Heavenly Court. No one could oppose Great Shang. The so-called civilization was built upon uncountable flesh and bones. Until one day, three of the cleverest in the human clan realized a cultivation system from the Witch Sacrificial Dao Pattern."