Redemption of a Born Demon-Chapter 58: Zizai Dharma Seal: A Point to Heaven and Earth Reverses Yin and Yang

Chapter 58: Chapter 58: Zizai Dharma Seal: A Point to Heaven and Earth Reverses Yin and Yang

The Esoteric Hand Seal mirrored the human heart, and a disorienting, upside-down illusion appeared before Yi Beidou once again.

He again gathered his Evil Qi to shatter the illusion. The moment it broke, the Great Vow Master attacked from behind, just as before.

BOOM!

Their palms collided. The Master once again used the force of the blow to retreat, then formed a Hand Seal and activated the Brahma Sound Illusion. The cycle repeated.

In Yi Beidou’s mind, the Brahma sound grew ever louder. With each illusion he shattered, the pocket of reality he could see shrank. Throughout the jungle, figures began to stretch and grow taller.

They had green faces and long fangs, yellow beards and red hair. Their features were savage, their eyes like bells, taking on the fearsome appearance of Mighty Spirit demon-subduers, like Dharma Protector Vajras.

The bodies of the Eighteen Demon Kings seemed to be gradually deifying.

This was a sign that the Grand Array’s Brahma sound was corroding ever deeper into Yi Beidou’s Meditation Realm. 𝒇𝓻𝓮𝓮𝙬𝙚𝒃𝒏𝓸𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝓬𝓸𝒎

"Look at the terrain, the mountains. Five ridges rise up, just like the five fingers of the Tathagata. That is why the Brahma sound is endless, growing ever more intense!"

"Look at the sky! Dark clouds cover it, hiding the stars and moon. The Beidou is dim, lost in the celestial river!"

"You have just finished a great battle; your spirit is exhausted and your Physical Ability is depleted. But I possess a Demon-Subduing Divine Power to cut off your sense of direction and throw your perceptions into chaos!"

"The heavens, the earth, and the people are all on my side! This is your destiny! You are meant to die here. Why else would the heavens send a Free Celestial Demon like you, one who achieved Ascension so easily? It was to help me perfect my great technique! Such is causality. How can you possibly resist?!"

"Hurry and submit to your fate! I will help you escape this sea of suffering and deliver you to the Western Heaven Paradise!"

At the same time, the old monk’s voice continued to reverberate like a Demon Sound, constantly trying to shake Yi Beidou’s mind and spirit.

Bewitching hearts and twisting right from wrong—the Great Vow Master wore a monk’s robes, but his deeds were those of a Celestial Demon!

A demon in monk’s robes. What Yi Beidou had said back then was not wrong in the slightest.

Yi Beidou’s figure swayed like a lone boat, seemingly on the verge of capsizing at any moment. Yet, the impatience on his face gradually faded, replaced by a growing sense of tranquility.

The instant the old monk’s last word left his lips, Yi Beidou’s eyes flew open. The Qi and blood in his body surged, and his spirit rose like a tidal wave.

"Destiny? I have weathered countless tribulations and shattered my destiny long ago! Even heaven and earth cannot bind my fate. You think you’re worthy of being my destiny?!"

Yi Beidou’s voice was like a clap of thunder. As he spoke, the air compressed in his lungs exploded before him in a cloud of white mist.

Indeed, this man’s appearance—countering his abilities, confusing his true heart—was the first tribulation he had faced since his Ascension.

But he had never believed in destiny, nor had he ever feared tribulation.

For he himself had walked a path paved with countless tribulations.

In his eyes, tribulations were the steps to enlightenment, the gateway to life’s evolution, the very force that helped him climb higher.

’Without experiencing tribulations, how could I have ever achieved what I have today?’

’This man is merely here to aid my Cultivation!’

This couldn’t help but remind him of the legends.

When Shakyamuni achieved enlightenment, Celestial Demons came to assail and bewitch him.

And now, though the Great Vow Master wore a monk’s robes, he was a demon who bewitched the hearts of men, while he himself was one who sought the tranquility of Cultivation.

After Shakyamuni’s enlightenment, he used a Seal Technique to repel the Demon King. And now, the Great Vow Master was using a Seal Technique to disrupt his true heart.

Everything was reversed, yet it all felt the same.

"Let me show you what causality truly is!"

The ill-fitting clothes on Yi Beidou’s upper body had long since been blasted apart in the violent clashes, revealing a powerful torso and perfect muscle definition, as dazzling as a sculpture.

His mind and spirit fused into a Barrier. His Demon Nature and divine nature both converged in his palms. He pointed one finger to the sky and one to the ground, unexpectedly forming a Seal Technique.

Legend has it that when the Buddha was born, even as an infant, he pointed one finger to the sky and one to the ground, symbolizing his supreme status between heaven and earth.

But that was not Yi Beidou’s intent.

He pointed to the sky to break free from the cage of destiny. He pointed to the ground to cast off the shackles of the earth.

The Great Vow Master didn’t know it, but he was wrong. Gravely wrong.

He thought he could suppress Yi Beidou by borrowing the power of the earth and the favor of the heavens, but he had forgotten the True Intent behind Yi Beidou’s name.

To move Tai Mountain, to change the Beidou.

His very nature was to break free from the shackles of heaven and earth, holding the True Intent of remaking the world.

What the Great Vow Master considered to be destiny’s mandate was, in fact, aiding Yi Beidou’s Cultivation.

"Zizai!!"

A sonic boom erupted from Yi Beidou’s mouth, rolling through the forest. In coordination with his Heart Intent’s magnetic field, it shook the heavens, the earth, and the people.

One finger to the sky, one to the ground, chanting "Zizai."

This was Yi Beidou’s third Martial Arts technique, the Zizai Dharma Seal!

This seal was one of intent. It overawed the mind, inverted the world’s magnetic field, shattered the Array Barrier, and struck directly at a living being’s true heart.

"This is..."

The Great Vow Master’s pupils contracted violently. He could clearly feel the magnetic field around Yi Beidou inverting in tune with his fingers.

It was called the Zizai Dharma Seal, but in truth, it inverted heaven and earth.

With a finger to heaven and earth, he reversed Yin and Yang!

’If one does not shatter the shackles of heaven and earth, how can one be called free?’

He immediately formed a Big Hand Seal. The Lotus-like and Evil Ghost-like marks all over his body trembled, and the chanting Brahma sound seemed to transform into the wails of fiends.

With an instantaneous burst of spiritual power, he used the Hand Seal to block the inversion of the magnetic field.

However, while he could block Yi Beidou’s Seal Technique, the Eighteen Demon Kings he had brought could not.

They chanted Brahma sounds and operated their Dharma Artifacts, but in reality, their Heart Intent had long been connected to the surrounding magnetic field.

At this very moment, as Yi Beidou suddenly formed the Zizai Dharma Seal, his body rapidly magnified in their vision. It was as if he were no longer a man, but one of the Gods and Buddhas seated in the great halls.

One finger pointed to the sky, one to the ground. In their eyes, heaven and earth seemed to flip upside down. The instantaneous change in the magnetic field corroded their bodies, leaving them mentally disoriented, dizzy, and with their Qi and blood flowing in reverse.

PFFT!

They could no longer maintain the Array’s Dharma Realm and couldn’t stop themselves from spitting out blood.

A single Seal Technique had injured all eighteen Soul-Stealing Demons.

The terrain’s advantage changed, the favorable conditions of heaven and earth could no longer restrain Yi Beidou, and the Demon Suppression Array dissipated into thin air.

"You sought to disrupt my mind with a Hand Seal Technique, so now I use a Hand Seal Technique to break your Grand Array. This is causality!"

Yi Beidou strode forward, his gaze like lightning. Freed from his restraints, his Demon Nature was no longer held in check, and his aura surged like the sea.

"A demon in monk’s robes. I’ll send you back to the Eternal Purgatory!"

Yi Beidou roared, his figure instantly striking out at the Great Vow Master.

He thrust out a palm. Evil Qi and killing intent gathered in its center, rolling forward like a great tide, crushing everything in its path.

Destruction Killing Tribulation!!

The Great Vow Master met it with a palm of his own. The Lotus and ghost faces around his body shrieked with a thousand sharp Brahma sounds as he, too, pushed his Physical Ability to its absolute limit.

Ksitigarbha’s Skillful Method—All Ghosts Lie Hidden!!

BOOM!!

The two clashed head-on. The Great Vow Master stumbled back two steps and immediately understood the power of Yi Beidou’s Demon Body. Having lost the Great Trend, he could not face him directly.

A look of mixed dread and greed filled his eyes.

’This is the kind of physical body I covet!’

"Protectors!!"

He bellowed, and the bodies of the Eighteen Demon Kings around him trembled. They immediately ignored their injuries and threw themselves at Yi Beidou, ready to die.

Over the years, he had continuously used the Esoteric Hand Seal Technique to suppress their minds, making them fearless in the face of death for his sake.

’Now is the time to use them!’

BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!

Martial Artists of the Peak Soul-Seizing Realm pounced on him, but Yi Beidou paid them no mind, simply enduring their attacks as he continued to charge the Great Vow Master.

However, something unexpected happened.

Facing his palm strike, the Great Vow Master not only didn’t dodge, but turned sideways to meet it with his left shoulder.

THUD!

The palm struck the Master’s body squarely, producing a dull thud and the sound of cracking bone. The Great Vow Master spat out a mouthful of blood, but used the force of the blow to retreat while his right hand formed a claw, striking like a venomous snake at the arm Yi Beidou had hit him with.