Chapter 523
An Irresistible Force
Before the words were finished, a gigantic, chaotic hand, formed from pure Heavenly Laws and covering half of the North Sea sky, crashed down from the heavens!
Its target is the Xuanhuang light sphere that imprisoned the Kunpeng!
Hongjun! Dao Ancestor Hongjun has finally made a personal move!
It wasn't that he pitied Kunpeng, but rather that he clearly sensed that Zhen Yuanzi's reckless attempt to kill Kunpeng had already triggered the terrifying lightning punishment from the depths of the Heavenly Dao for acts of "world destruction"!
If Zhen Yuanzi is allowed to kill Kunpeng and implicate hundreds of millions of living beings in the North Sea (although they have already suffered heavy casualties, there is only Kunpeng inside the light sphere at this moment), then the Heavenly Dao Thunder Punishment will surely descend!
This lightning punishment will not only kill Zhen Yuanzi, but may also affect the entire North Sea and even shake the foundation of the primordial world!
This is something Hongjun absolutely does not want to see!
The colossal hand of chaos, imbued with an unparalleled will of Heaven, slammed down upon the primordial yellow orb!
Click—!
A sickening cracking sound rang out!
The Xuanhuang light sphere, which had withstood the combined attack of numerous powerful beings without breaking, was instantly covered with spiderweb-like cracks under Hongjun's angry (or perhaps to maintain the stability of the Heavenly Dao) palm strike! It was on the verge of completely shattering!
Within the sphere of light, Kunpeng's eyes erupted with wild joy! The Dao Ancestor has made his move!
He's saved!
However, just as the sphere of light was about to shatter and the Kunpeng was about to break free—
"Kunpeng! Die!!!"
Zhen Yuanzi's eyes flashed with blood-red light, and he let out a shrill roar!
He completely disregarded the shattering orb of light, the chaotic giant hand slamming down on him, and the backlash he was about to suffer!
He burned his last bit of essence, compressing and condensing all the vast and boundless primordial energy and earthly power within his body into his fingertips!
laugh!
A beam of dark yellow light, condensed to the extreme, as thin as a needle, yet containing the power to destroy the world, ignored the distance in space, instantly pierced through the cracked light sphere barrier, and precisely entered Kunpeng's brow!
"Uh…"
The ecstasy on Kunpeng's face froze instantly, his eyes filled with extreme fear and disbelief.
He opened his mouth as if to say something, but no sound came out.
The next moment, his enormous demonic body, along with his primordial spirit and true soul, silently melted and annihilated! Completely turned into nothingness! Not even a trace was left!
The legendary demon master, the Kunpeng Ancestor who traversed the primordial world for countless eons, perished completely, his body and soul destroyed!
Almost at the same instant that Kunpeng was annihilated, Hongjun's chaotic giant hand also completely shattered the Xuanhuang light sphere!
The terrifying aftershocks of the Heavenly Dao power slammed into Zhen Yuanzi!
"puff--!!!"
Zhen Yuanzi felt as if he had been struck by a heavy hammer, his body trembled violently, and he suddenly spat out a mouthful of golden blood containing the essence of Xuanhuang!
His breath instantly weakened, and his face turned as pale as paper!
He forcibly killed Kunpeng and withstood the aftershock of Hongjun's attack. Even though he had reached the peak of the ninth level of Quasi-Saint, he suffered unimaginable injuries!
However, he forced his swaying body to stand firm, and suddenly raised his head. His eyes, burning with blood-red flames, were fixed on the faint, illusory image of the Purple Cloud Palace in the heavens above. His voice was hoarse, yet filled with boundless hatred and determination, echoing throughout the primordial world:
"Hongjun! You've finally shown yourself?! Kunpeng was merely a tool in your hand to kill Hongyun! You are the true mastermind! It was you! You allowed and even orchestrated all of this! You killed Hongyun!!"
These words were like a thunderbolt from the blue!
The entire primordial world fell into a deathly silence in an instant!
All living beings were stunned! Zhen Yuanzi... dared to publicly accuse Dao Ancestor Hongjun of being the mastermind behind Hongyun's death?!
The illusory image of Zixiao Palace rippled slightly, and Hongjun's indifferent voice rang out again, revealing neither joy nor anger.
“Zhen Yuanzi, your desire to avenge your friend is commendable, but you have lost your mind and are spouting nonsense. The calamity of Hongyun is due to his own karma and destiny. I govern the Heavenly Way and spread teachings; why would I need to scheme against a mere Quasi-Saint?”
"Hahaha! What a stroke of luck! What a lack of scheming!"
Zhen Yuanzi, looking like a madman, laughed bitterly to the sky, his laughter filled with endless sorrow and mockery.
"If you hadn't deliberately excluded him from the disciples of Zixiao Palace, if you hadn't allowed or even secretly promoted the spread of the rumors about the Primordial Purple Qi, if you hadn't watched him being surrounded and killed without lifting a finger... how could Hongyun have ended up like this?!"
Hongjun! You are a hypocrite! You are the greatest demon in this primordial world!
"presumptuous!"
Hongjun's voice finally carried a chilling rage.
Zhen Yuanzi's public exposure of his scheme (at least part of it) has crossed his bottom line.
"Today! Even if I perish, body and soul, I will seek justice for Hongyun!!"
Zhen Yuanzi has gone all out!
He mustered his last remaining strength, and the primordial energy around him surged once more, causing the origin of the earth to burn wildly!
He transformed into a dark yellow divine spear that pierced through heaven and earth, carrying a resolute will to fight to the death, and fiercely stabbed towards the illusory image of the Purple Cloud Palace in the nine heavens!
This was his final strike, delivered with the peak cultivation of the ninth level of Quasi-Saint, fused with the power of the Earth Realm, and fueled by the burning of his life essence!
Its power is enough to pierce through the Milky Way!
"Stubborn to the end!"
Hongjun's voice was utterly cold. Faced with this desperate attack, he didn't even resort to any further methods.
The still-undissipated giant hand of chaos simply flipped over casually and gently patted the soaring Xuanhuang Divine Spear!
There was no earth-shattering explosion, only the manifestation of an absolute, overwhelming force!
The Xuanhuang Divine Spear, which embodied Zhen Yuanzi's lifelong cultivation, the origin of the earth, and the flame of life, shattered and disintegrated the moment it came into contact with the giant hand of chaos! It didn't even cause a ripple!
puff!
Zhen Yuanzi coughed up blood again, and his aura instantly weakened to the extreme, like a candle flickering in the wind!
The chaotic giant hand, with its undiminished momentum, slammed down on Zhen Yuanzi like the collapsing sky, carrying an irresistible will of heaven!
"Ugh—!"
Zhen Yuanzi let out a muffled groan of extreme pain as his body was slammed down by the giant hand!
With a deafening roar, it smashed through the seawater hundreds of millions of feet deep, and was finally suppressed at the bottom of the North Sea Eye, the deepest and darkest part of the North Sea, filled with endless yin energy and turbid earth energy!
The giant hand of chaos slowly dissipated.
Above the North Sea, only a bottomless, enormous vortex, exuding terrifying suction and an aura of destruction, and the faint, sorrowful aura belonging to Zhen Yuanzi slowly spreading out.
High above, the illusory image of the Purple Cloud Palace vanished, as if it had never existed.
Above the North Sea, there was a deathly silence.
All the powerful beings, whether from the Celestial Court, the Demon Court, the Witch Clan, or the rogue cultivators, were utterly silent, their faces pale as they stared at the enormous vortex that was devouring everything, their hearts filled with indescribable shock and chill.
The power of the Dao Ancestor has reached this level!
Deep within the eye of the North Sea, the desolate land, suppressed by the giant hand of chaos and filled with endless yin energy and turbid earth energy, is now violently agitated, like a volcano about to erupt!
An indescribable, extremely heavy, primordial energy erupted like a primordial beast breaking free of its shackles!
The entire surface of the North Sea seemed to have been struck by an invisible giant hammer, and suddenly arched upwards to a height of tens of thousands of feet!
Immediately, a beam of dark yellow light pierced through the heavens and earth, tearing apart the endless seawater and yin energy, and fiercely soared into the sky from the bottomless sea eye!
Within the pillar of light, a figure slowly rose! It was Zhen Yuanzi!
He looked utterly disheveled at the moment, his Taoist robe torn, his body covered in blood (the blood of the Xuanhuang Origin), and his aura was far from his peak state when he merged with the Earth Realm, even carrying a sense of exhaustion.
However, his eyes burned with a blood-red flame that was even more intense and frenzied than before!
An unprecedented, overwhelming pressure, seemingly capable of crushing all the heavens and myriad realms, descended with a deafening roar, like an ancient divine mountain awakening!
This oppressive aura... faintly carries... the might of a sage?! No! It's not the true oppressive aura of a sage, but rather... a purer, more domineering, ultimate power belonging to the very origin of the world!
"Hongjun!!"
Zhen Yuanzi roared to the sky, his voice hoarse like sandpaper, yet filled with a soul-wrenching hatred. "You think... this is enough to suppress me?! For Hongyun... I have already disregarded life and death! Today, I will show you... what true... mutual destruction is!!"
Before he finished speaking, he suddenly raised both hands to the sky! The remaining power of the earth's origin within his body, along with his last burning life essence, erupted without reservation!
This time, it's not a simple mobilization, but... a complete integration!
Just like when Rahu ascended to the Demon Realm, he briefly merged himself with the origin of the Demon Realm!
Zhen Yuanzi, in a desperate situation, forcibly integrated the remaining essence of the earth into his life core!
A terrifying aura, far surpassing anything before and seemingly imbued with the will of the entire primordial land, erupted from Zhen Yuanzi!
His body shone with an intense and dazzling divine light, as if he had transformed into a deity constructed from pure primordial energy!
The subtle pressure emanating from him, though not from a true saint, carried a domineering and resolute air of "the world is me, and I am the world!"
This is sacrificing oneself to forcibly activate the world's origin in exchange for a brief period of supreme power!
"Mysterious Yellow! Suppress the World!!"
Zhen Yuanzi's eyes flashed with bloodlust, and he pressed his hands down sharply!
The vast and boundless primordial energy gathered wildly, instantly condensing into a colossal primordial yellow mountain a hundred times larger and ten thousand times heavier than before in the heavens!
On this colossal mountain, mountains and rivers are clearly visible, the earth veins roar and howl like dragons, and divine thunder of the earth descends!
Its power was so terrifying that it seemed to crush the entire primordial sky!
With a destructive will to crush everything and bury eternity, it crashed down fiercely towards the direction of Zixiao Palace!
"Um?!"
Inside the Purple Cloud Palace, Hongjun's indifferent eyes finally revealed genuine surprise and solemnity!
He never expected that Zhen Yuanzi could break free from the suppression of the sea eye, and he never expected that this person would be so crazy, imitating the method of Rahu, forcibly merging with the remaining source of the earth, and unleashing such power that was close to that of a saint!
What alarmed him even more was that Zhen Yuanzi's desperate attack was not aimed at the creatures of the North Sea, but... directly at his Daoist temple!
"An ant trying to shake the sky, overestimating its own strength!"
Hongjun's voice was icy, filled with anger at being offended.
He sat upright on the cloud bed, without even getting up, but simply raised his hand and gently waved it towards the void!
The entire primordial sky seemed to have been swept across by an invisible giant hand! Endless laws of heaven instantly manifested and condensed!
It transformed into a vast, boundless, and supremely majestic chaotic sky!
This sky seemed to be the embodiment of the primordial Heavenly Dao, carrying an absolute will that could not be profaned or defied, and it surged back towards the Xuanhuang giant mountain that was suppressing it!
A terrifying collision beyond words! The colossal Xuanhuang Mountain and the chaotic heavens collided with a deafening roar!
The entire primordial world trembled violently!
The space is crumbling inch by inch!
A violent surge of energy swept across the heavens and the earth, blasting away the armies of the Celestial Court, the Demon Court, and the Witch Clan above the North Sea, turning countless lives into ashes in an instant!
Click!Click!
The colossal Xuanhuang Mountain was instantly covered with spiderweb-like cracks!
The Earth Divine Thunder was easily obliterated by the chaotic heavens!
The illusory images of mountains and rivers dimmed! Zhen Yuanzi's desperate attack ultimately failed to shake the power of the Heavenly Dao!
Zhen Yuanzi coughed up blood again, his body trembled violently, and his aura became even weaker. The terrifying power brought by the fusion with the source of the earth receded, and the backlash made him almost unable to stand!
But the crazed, bloodthirsty light in his eyes did not diminish at all; on the contrary, it burned even brighter!
"Hongjun!!"
He let out a defiant roar, his hands forming a seal once more, the remaining Xuanhuang Qi condensing again, as if he were about to launch another attack!
"Stubborn and unyielding! He deserves to die!"
Hongjun's eyes revealed a murderous intent!
He no longer held back!
The chaotic sky trembled violently, its power increasing tenfold in an instant!
With an absolute will to crush everything, it pressed down hard on the tottering Zhen Yuanzi!
This time, he will crush it completely and eliminate any future troubles!
As the chaotic sky pressed down, the Xuanhuang Qi that Zhen Yuanzi had condensed instantly collapsed!
He was slammed down and crashed into the bottomless eye of the North Sea once again!
The raging power of the Heavenly Dao followed closely behind, surging into the sea eye, intending to completely obliterate Zhen Yuanzi along with his remaining earthly origins!
However, just as the power of the Heavenly Dao surged into the depths of the sea eye, about to touch Zhen Yuanzi's remains—
For the first time, Hongjun's usually calm and composed face underwent a dramatic change!
He abruptly stood up from the cloud bed, his eyes filled with disbelief, shock, and anger!
"You bastard! How dare you—!!!"
He clearly sensed that deep within the sea eye, Zhen Yuanzi, who should have been crushed by the power of the Heavenly Dao, not only did not perish completely, but instead ignited the last bit of spiritual light!
He wasn't trying to resist, but rather... to completely detonate his remaining life imprint and the core of the terrestrial origin that had been forcibly fused and was on the verge of collapse!
He intended to unleash a self-destruction deep within the North Sea's eye, a destruction capable of shaking the very foundations of the primordial earth's veins, carrying with him the remnants of the entire land.
"madman!!"
Hongjun cursed inwardly! Zhen Yuanzi's actions were not intended to harm him (nor could they), but rather... to destroy him!
Destroy this North Sea eye, destroy this vital node connecting the primordial earth veins!
If successful, it will trigger a chain reaction, damaging the foundation of the primordial land and causing turmoil in its very origin!
At that time, as the embodiment of the Heavenly Dao, he will surely be severely punished by the will of the primordial origin!
It might even shake the foundation of his being in harmony with the Heavenly Dao!
He can't afford this price!
"We must stop him!"
Hongjun no longer hesitated!
His figure flickered and disappeared from Zixiao Palace in an instant!
The next moment, they appeared above the North Sea Eye, where violent energy raged and destructive energy filled the air!
He actually... descended in person!
Without pausing, Hongjun unleashed a burst of divine light from the Heavenly Dao, transforming into a stream of chaotic light. Ignoring the terrifying energy turbulence that was powerful enough to tear apart a Quasi-Saint, he plunged headlong into the unfathomable eye of the North Sea!
He was going to personally take action and forcibly suppress Zhen Yuanzi before he could self-destruct!
Just as Hongjun rushed into the sea eye, at the edge of the North Sea, the Kunpeng, which had been shaken to the brink of death by the aftershocks of the previous battle and was almost reduced to a wisp of a remnant soul, suddenly emitted a faint, gentle light carrying the aura of the Heavenly Dao on its broken body.
Before rushing into the sea, Hongjun actually separated a wisp of Heavenly Dao power to protect Kunpeng's last true spirit and attempted to repair and awaken its remaining body!
Clearly, he is not willing to completely give up on Kunpeng, this chess piece.
Kunpeng's tightly closed eyelids trembled slightly, as if it was about to awaken.
He felt the faint yet real power of the Heavenly Dao within his body, his eyes filled with the ecstatic joy of surviving a calamity and tears of gratitude towards Hongjun.
He struggled, trying to muster his last strength to escape the terrifying battlefield of the North Sea.
However, just as his mangled body twitched slightly, attempting to transform into a streak of light and escape—
A sudden change has occurred!
The murky waters of Beihai suddenly began to surge violently without warning!
A terrifying suction force, cold and lifeless, carrying endless Yin energy and earth vein turbidity, suddenly emerged from the bottomless seabed below, like an invisible giant hand, and instantly grabbed the newly awakened and extremely weak Kunpeng!
"What?! No—!!!"
The Kunpeng let out a scream of extreme terror!
He struggled desperately, but like a flying insect caught in a spider's web, he was powerless to resist!
He could only watch helplessly as he was dragged by that irresistible force, plummeting rapidly into the depths of the North Sea eye!
His eyes were filled with endless fear and despair!
That deep within the sea eye… is a forbidden zone that even Dao Ancestor Hongjun personally ventured into! (End of Chapter)