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Chapter 859 - 87: Ascending Lingxiao, Slaying the Jade Emperor! (Part 2)

Three Celestial Masters simultaneously attacked Duncan, as numerous Divine Spirits in the Heavenly Court also set up a trap around him.

These three strongest Celestial Masters of the Daoist sect joined forces, estimating that even Daoist Lv couldn’t withstand them. Duncan certainly wouldn’t let the enemies surround him heavily, so with a flick of the Imperial Banner in his hand, an instant surge of profound and yellow aura emerged, echoing like a reflection from the long river of Huaxia’s history.

Soon, the image of a middle-aged Daoist, wearing a yellow turban, with long hair wildly dancing, dressed in a Daoist robe, and with firm eyes, slowly appeared. He chanted softly:

"Heaven is dead, the Yellow Heaven shall rise."

"In the year of Jiazi, the world will be auspicious!"

—Taiping Dao—Zhang Jiao (incarnation) (Central Yellow Extremity Yellow Horn Immortal) (eight-star gold)!

Hiss.

What’s happening?

Seeing the image of the middle-aged Daoist in front of them, wearing a yellow turban with long hair wildly dancing and exuding a murderous aura, the three Celestial Masters called by the Jade Emperor couldn’t help but feel a sudden toothache. Zhang Jiao of Taiping Dao held a very high position in the Daoist sect, and was one of the original peaks of early Taoism.

Zhang Daoling’s grandson, Zhang Lu, was a figure of the Three Kingdoms Era, meaning Zhang Jiao was only a few generations apart from Zhang Daoling. Yet, the influence of Celestial Master Dao was considerably less than Taiping Dao at that time.

However, due to the Yellow Turban Rebellion, Taiping Dao was directly devastated, and later Daoist sects erased much of Taiping Dao’s heritage to gain support from the ruling class.

Marking the transition from Tao to Taoism.

One was the Five Pecks of Rice School, and the other was Taiping Dao.

During that time, joining the Five Pecks of Rice School required contributing five pecks of rice, while Taiping Dao required nothing; if you were starving, the Great Virtuous Master would truly give you a bite to eat. Yet, in the history of this world, the Great Virtuous Master Zhang Jiao also died of illness, a Daoist adept in philtre water healing, ultimately dying of illness, showing that it was Heaven’s will.

"I, Zhang Jiao."

"Invite Heaven to die!"

The Daoist sect does not solely have the authority over talismans; Taiping Dao has an equally strong tradition of inviting Heaven to die.

If not for the Yellow Turban Rebellion, Taiping Dao’s influence would far surpass any branch of the Daoist sect.

Zhang Jiao, holding a scroll of the Taiping Sutra, appeared, and countless bolts of lightning spread in all directions, like heavenly punishment, forcing the three Celestial Masters, who also excelled in Daoist spells, into embarrassing avoidance.

Apart from Zhang Daoling, who could be counted as Zhang Jiao’s elder, the other two Celestial Masters learned many spells originally from Taiping Dao.

This Great Virtuous Master may not be in the ranks of the four great Celestial Masters in later generations, but he did huge things that no one could match among the Daoist high priests over the years.

—Taiping Danqing!

A scroll of ancient scripture rose with the wind, like a heavenly book shrouding Lingxiao Hall, directly suppressing Celestial Master Ge’s Taiping Pure Elixir.

—Yellow Heaven’s Great Law!

Zhang Jiao’s hair and beard danced wildly, with heavenly rolling thunder behind him, seemingly about to strike him, or to shatter all the enemies before him.

He replaced Heaven with Yellow Heaven.

Capable of punishing enemies before him with heavenly punishment lightning, he himself had to endure the wrath of Heaven’s penal thunder.

This is merit as merit, fault as fault; his achievements do not offset his mistakes.

Enjoying the incense of all beings in one half of the night, and struck by lightning in the latter half, each has their own course.

Moreover, Duncan’s summoned Zhang Jiao is not exactly the historical Great Virtuous Master; posthumous deification is an extremely nuanced matter, and there’s assimilation with divine position laws, just like the difference between Lord Guan the Saintly Emperor and Guan Yu.

Strictly speaking, Duncan had no expectations that the ’Central Yellow Extremity Yellow Horn Immortal’ would become effective, but this world’s Heavenly Dao actually acknowledged it.

The Lord acknowledged it.

Thus, Taiping Dao Zhang Jiao transformed, becoming a ranked god among the level of Five Direction and Five Elder Immortals.

Not good!

The three Celestial Masters’ expressions changed drastically; in terms of fighting prowess, they couldn’t necessarily surpass the Zhang Jiao before them.

After all, he was a professional rebel.

The even more terrifying aspect is that the divine position Duncan granted ’Central Yellow Extremity Yellow Horn Immortal’ is ’Calamity’, and besides that, there is almost no other divine position.

It’s clearly using Zhang Jiao’s posthumous deification as a weapon.

This calamity can be as minor as dynastic change, or as major as the death of Heaven itself – if Heaven can die, then can the Daoist, Buddhist, and Divine Spirits across the realms die?

Zhang Jiao truly incited rebellion; deifying a divine position like this with the role of calamity is something that provokes deep fear upon reflection.

"Where are the Yellow Turban Warriors?"

At Zhang Jiao’s call, phantasms of golden-armored warriors appeared.

Yellow Turban Warriors are guardian spirits from Taoist mythology, originating with Zhang Jiao, though they have been purposefully hidden by the Daoist sect due to his rebellious actions, lacking even a formal divine position title beyond self-proclaimed Great Virtuous Master and Heavenly General.

Thunder rumbled.

Zhang Jiao.

No.

It should be said that Central Yellow Extremity Yellow Horn Immortal, with the strength of one, faced three Daoist Celestial Masters, unwavering and unfaltering. His demon technique lightning spell was even fiercer than the Daoist Shentu lightning spell; considering Duncan’s official divine position title, the Great Virtuous Master under the guise of Yellow Horn Immortal makes even Zhang Daoling avoid confrontation.

—Nine-section Staff!

—To Taiping[Taiping Qingling Book].

Time seemed to slow at that moment.

As Zhang Jiao threw the Nine-section Staff in his hand, the flow of time became chaotic, like slow motion frame by frame; the Taiping Qingling Book transformed into countless runes, trapping the enemy before them, with eight floating characters at the center: ’Update Heaven and Earth, Usher Taiping’.