Redemption of a Born Demon

Ditru had already unwrapped the gauze from half his face. His immense Spiritual Power materialized in midair, transforming into countless golden threads. These threads gathered behind him, weaving together like a fine tapestry to form a pair of colossal eyes that looked down upon the crowd on the ground.

Zhou Qingchen and the others did not look away. As they met the gaze of those eyes, a multitude of golden threads shot out from the Void and wrapped around their bodies.

The golden threads tightened and pulled, seeming to want to tear their lives and souls from their bodies and drag them into the cycle of reincarnation.

This was the "Eye of Rebirth," formed by condensing immense Spiritual Power. Its effect on the Divine Soul was especially terrifying. Anyone who met its gaze would have their life reaped by the golden threads and be sent into reincarnation.

As Ditru’s primary target, Yi Beidou undoubtedly bore the greatest pressure. But after his recent battle against Lotus and the others, his state of mind had reached a new level of completion, and he now possessed a much deeper understanding of the methods of Spirit Cultivators. To think this kind of technique could subdue him was simply wishful thinking.

A glazed, jade-like color rapidly covered his body. Yi Beidou stared directly at the pair of eyes in the Void. The countless threads pulled with all their might but were completely unable to move him in the slightest.

He was like the legendary Stabilizing Needle, completely immovable.

"Is this all you’ve got? The more gauze you remove, the stronger you should be. Are you only using half your strength?"

Yi Beidou said calmly.

"You’re right. This is only the beginning."

Ditru’s voice was just as devoid of emotion. He continued to unwrap the bandages until only a single patch on the top of his head remained.

At the same time, his hands formed a seal, and a miraculous scene unfolded. His body seemed to writhe, and two new bodies emerged from within his own, taking their places beside him.

These two bodies did not share Ditru’s face or build, yet they gave off a feeling of being interconnected by the threads of fate and causality.

Everyone knew these two bodies couldn’t possibly be made of real flesh and blood, yet no one could detect anything amiss about them. They were so realistic as to be indistinguishable from the genuine article.

"The Three-Life Bodies? A Buddhist Sect Divine Power?!"

Ding Huiyuan’s eyes narrowed as he couldn’t help but speak.

Legend has it that the highest realm of Buddhist Dharma allows one to traverse the river of time, to know the past and future, and to understand one’s previous and present lives. The simultaneous existence of the past, present, and future forms the Three-Life Bodies, which possess unimaginable Divine Powers.

It is rumored that only the Buddha himself ever reached this state, where past, present, and future exist eternally.

"A Buddhist Sect Divine Power? Back in the day, Siddhartha merely borrowed from our Realm of Rebirth’s ’Rebirth Technique.’ It is only your shallow understanding that makes you mistakenly believe he created it."

Hearing this, Ditru turned his gaze upon him. In an instant, Ding Huiyuan’s entire body went rigid. His thoughts, his body, his magnetic field—everything froze solid. If he hadn’t cultivated the Buddhist Dharma and possessed the wisdom of selflessness, which allowed him to maintain a flicker of spiritual awareness, he would have died without even knowing how if his opponent had gotten close.

Like the Divine General Mansion, Ditru’s God-Sealing Organization also had another name when interacting with the mortal world. Its true name was the "Realm of Rebirth." The organization itself specialized in various Spirit Secret Techniques. In the mortal world, the origins of many legends about the afterlife were, in fact, inextricably linked to the Realm of Rebirth.

As a world-shaking Spirit Cultivator, it was inevitable that Shakyamuni would have drawn some inspiration from the Realm of Rebirth for his Daoist Magic and Divine Powers.

Furthermore, this involved a hidden secret. Back then, when Shakyamuni used the Wish Power of all living beings to attain his True Spirit, before he annihilated his final self within the Sumeru Realm, the Ancestor Realm he struck with the full power of the Sumeru Realm was none other than Ditru’s Realm of Rebirth.

"The past is fixed."

Just then, the middle-aged-looking being on Ditru’s left suddenly spoke. Its voice was as grand as a heavenly decree, carrying the feeling of a True Word Technique.

As these words fell, everyone suddenly felt the space around them solidify. Everything became incredibly strange. The scene before them was like a photograph, and they were all framed within it.

A photograph represents a past that has already occurred and cannot be changed.

Yi Beidou was also under a terrible suppression. He felt as if he had been completely disconnected from his surroundings in an instant. He couldn’t even perceive the flow of time; trying to move his own flesh and blood, to use his power, felt like fighting against time itself.

He had become "the past"—a fixed past that could not be altered.

’Severing the connection? Or is it severing causality?’

Yi Beidou quickly realized the key to the technique.

Ditru had severed his connection to the outside world and the link between his mind and body. The effect was even spreading. Yi Beidou felt his thoughts becoming sluggish, each one fragmented and disjointed, as his opponent’s terrifying Spiritual Power began severing the links between them.

Once all these connections were severed, he would be completely cut off from "reality," no different from someone living in "the past."

The old are always the most cunning. As the main combat power among the five leaders, Ditru’s strength was even greater than Long Yichen’s.

If not for Lotus’s help in overcoming the Demon Tribulation earlier, Yi Beidou would have had a truly difficult time dealing with an attack of this level.

But now, having sensed his opponent’s intent, he immediately focused his mind. The Jade Power spread through his body, and the Demon Flame simultaneously ignited within him to block the invasion of the enemy’s Divine Power. He reforged his body into an iron-clad whole, on the verge of breaking free from his state of being trapped in "the past."