Chapter 357: Chapter 167 Choose Heaven_1

“To think that the five bodhi leaves I cast aside would leave behind such propelling forces from cause and effect after ten thousand years.”

“Taoist Doyen Wen Tiantai? I would have never imagined that the proud young cultivator from back then could actually step into the Taoist Doyen Stage.”

In the depths of Shen Yuan’s eyes, it seemed as if countless stars were swirling, capturing the cause and effect of what had happened in the desolate mountain completely in his vision.

Just moments before, Shen Yuan had locked onto the plotting demons like Bai Zhao, who were seeking legacy, by deducing the propelling forces of cause and effect in Cang Province using his Star Astrology Divine Power.

However, the Star Astrology Divine Power of the Second Realm was only focused on deduction and had no offensive capabilities whatsoever.

Even though Shen Yuan had pinpointed the location and identities of the demons like Bai Zhao, he couldn’t cross thousands of miles to forcibly act against them.

But as soon as they took out the starlight bodhi leaf from the stone box, everything began to change.

Though the starlight bodhi leaf was originally formed by the Sainthood Attainment Enlightenment Array Formation and was, in essence, just the convergence of starlight, not some peculiar divine treasure. It had managed to survive to the present all because Wen TianTai had sealed it in an altar stone box.

When the great Spirit Transmutation demons destroyed the altar and opened the stone box, Wen Tiantai’s contingency plan completely dissipated, and the starlight bodhi leaf could no longer sustain itself, transforming into starlight and returning to the heavens and earth.

The great Spirit Transmutation demons would never believe that the starlight bodhi leaf, which bore the legacy of the Supreme Taoist, was merely made of starlight and had disappeared suddenly simply because it could not withstand the erosion over such an extended period of time.

In their rage, the great Spirit Transmutation demons were eager to find someone to blame for this event. As the central force that unified the various Demons’ Realms, the Ancient Demon Hall naturally took the blame.

Unable to bear the consequences, the Ancient Demon Hall shifted the blame onto Bai Zhao.

Bai Zhao, having no choice, tried to prove his innocence and sought to ascertain the whereabouts of the starlight bodhi leaf using the Heaven-choosing Compass.

But the starlight bodhi leaf had already dissipated into the heavens and earth, leaving no trace to follow. Instead, the contact with the starlight bodhi leaf allowed the Heaven-choosing Compass to lock onto the Starry Bodhi Tree inside the Courtyard Secret Realm.

Shen Yuan was naturally very pleased with Bai Zhao’s probing.

Having seen the entire process of the demons’ strife, he knew that Bai Zhao was the principal instigator behind the River Ji Dragon Palace conflict, trying to plot against him.

Had Bai Zhao not used the propelling forces from the cause and effect to deduce the Starry Sky Bodhi, they being far away in Qing Province, Shen Yuan with his current strength would not have been able to act against them across thousands of miles.

But after Bai Zhao used the Heaven-choosing Compass to deduce the Starry Bodhi Tree, Shen Yuan found an opportunity to act.

The Starry Bodhi Tree was Shen Yuan’s home ground, and he had just used the Star Astrology Divine Power to merge the Starry Bodhi into the sky of the Courtyard Secret Realm, making it more perfect.

Bai Zhao’s actions were effectively delivering himself right into Shen Yuan’s hands, which was undoubtedly a grave mistake for anyone using the Deductive method.

Without much effort, Shen Yuan locked onto Bai Zhao using the Star Astrology Divine Power and forcefully extracted Bai Zhao’s propelling forces from cause and effect through the Starry Bodhi Tree, which was traced back by the Heaven-choosing Compass.

A massive amount of propelling forces was infused into the Starry Bodhi Tree, allowing Shen Yuan to use Bai Zhao’s power to bridge thousands of miles and manifest in this desolate mountain in Qing Province.

That multitude of gathered stars, the Eyes of Stars, were the result of the Star Astrology Divine Power manifesting through the propelling forces of cause and effect.

The scrutiny from the stars above bore an unimaginable pressure; nearly ten great Spirit Transmutation demons fell from the sky and crashed into the earth.

It was as if they were bearing an invisible mountain, and under its immense pressure, all their mana and the power of Yin God were suppressed.

If it had not been for their strong physical bodies as great Spirit Transmutation demons, just the pressure from the Eyes of Stars would have been enough to crush them to dust.

All the great demons fearfully bowed their heads, not daring to directly look into those supremely majestic eyes in the starry sky.

The scattering starlight blurred their perceptions, and the fear in their hearts also stripped away their rational thinking, making it impossible for them to detect the strands of Primal Chaos Energy hidden within the starlight.

The great demons could only angrily turn towards the pale-faced Bai Zhao and demand,

“Idiot! What have you traced back to?”

With the emergence of the Eyes of Stars, the propelling forces within Bai Zhao were being relentlessly drained, and his cultivation level had shockingly plummeted to the Qi Training Early Stage, with no sign of stopping as it continued to fall to even lower realms.

Bai Zhao had completely lost control over the Heaven-choosing Compass, an experience he had never had before.

The Heaven-choosing Compass, a treasure of deduction nurtured by the Demon Saint Bai Ze, could not be controlled by ordinary means; only a cultivator who was an expert in the Deductive method could possibly control the Heaven-choosing Compass, and that too only when it had no master.

Since the Heaven-choosing Compass had acknowledged Bai Zhao as its master and was further assisted by the Divine power of propelling forces, almost no one under heaven could compete with Bai Zhao in the art of deduction, not even the various Star Divination Masters from Louguan Temple.

But after deducing that single starlight bodhi leaf, the Heaven-choosing Compass encountered an invasion in reverse, and the other party almost effortlessly took control of everything.

There was only one possibility for such a scenario to occur.

The other party’s realm was extremely high, able to ignore the effects of tracing causality and suppress everything.

Combining this with the origin of the starlight bodhi leaf, a terrifying thought emerged in Bai Zhao’s mind.

“He is the Supreme Taoist! The causality I traced back led to the Supreme Taoist himself; he must still be in the Primal Chaos Realm, thus he was able to come down with his gaze using the stars as a medium!”