Chapter 902
Forcing Back
Chapter 902 Forcing Back
At this moment, the Guizang Hall was no longer an inanimate object, but a true divine artifact that governed the cycle of life and death.
The void solidified under this oppressive force, and all other laws of the Great Dao were repelled by the power of this artifact.
As this aura appeared, the aura of heavenly punishment also began to condense above the Primordial Realm.
It seems that this world absolutely does not allow existences above the demigod level.
Gu Yuanqing even sensed that the Dragon-Slaying Guillotine used by Li Miaoxuan also caused a disturbance in the rules.
Li Miaoxuan also felt the suppression and hostility of heaven and earth towards the Dragon-Slaying Guillotine, and with a wave of her hand, she withdrew the Dragon-Slaying Guillotine.
Gu Yuanqing's expression also changed slightly. Judging from the aura alone, he knew that the power of this hall was enough to cause a devastating blow to his clone.
"Is it really a divine artifact of rules?" Li Miaoxuan sensed this aura through the spatial passage opened by Gu Yuanqing.
Gu Yuanqing narrowed his eyes slightly and made a decisive move, using the Heavenly Fishing Technique to pull his clone back to the cave.
"You think you can just come and go as you please? Stay here!"
Inside the Guizang Hall, the Great Venerable's voice rang out, indifferent and cold.
With a buzzing sound.
The main hall crashed through the void and, following the ripples of space left behind when Gu Yuanqing's clone escaped, plunged headlong into the spatial turbulence!
Sensing the approaching force, a glint flashed in Gu Yuanqing's eyes. He reached out and struck out with his palm.
All paths lead to nothingness!
The two forces met amidst the spatial turbulence.
The power of returning to the void collides with the way of life and death in the void.
After a brief stalemate, the palm print shattered, and the Gui Cang Hall continued its pursuit.
However, as they approached the location of Beiquan Cave, the main hall suddenly stopped moving forward.
"What a pity!" Gu Yuanqing was slightly disappointed.
However, he felt this was normal. Cultivators at this level, unless their minds were clouded by the calamity energy and their heavenly secrets were obscured, would hardly expect others to willingly walk into their trap.
Just then, Gu Yuanqing suddenly looked up.
Suddenly, the void above Beiquan Mountain shattered, and a corner of an eave appeared first.
A weathered old bell hangs from the eaves, its clear, melancholic tinkling sound reverberating throughout the entire Qian Yuan Realm without any wind.
The next moment, an ancient palace burst forth from the sky, blotting out the sun and darkening the heavens.
The main hall rapidly expanded and grew larger, then descended upon Beiquan Mountain.
This is to bring the entire Beiquan Mountain into the main hall, thereby completely severing the path of the divine artifacts of rules.
Within the Qian Yuan Realm, countless cultivators around Beiquan Mountain looked up, their pupils shrinking.
The main hall was bathed in a soft light that was a mixture of gray and dark gold. The light was not dazzling, but it was chilling to the bone. Just one glance made one feel the hairs on the back of one's head stand on end, and something on one's body was withering and aging.
The terrifying pressure instilled fear in everyone who saw it, as if this power was even more terrifying than the heavenly tribulation.
A sect activated a grand formation, but in the blink of an eye, the formation shattered under the oppressive force.
"what happened?"
What is this?
The cultivators in Beiquan Mountain could hardly feel the oppressive aura of this hall, but the sheer size of the hall itself was enough to change anyone's expression.
"It seems he's completely enraged!" Gu Yuanqing's expression remained calm.
Li Miaoxuan's expression turned slightly solemn as she said, "The power of a rule-based artifact is truly immeasurable!"
Gu Yuanqing said, "Indeed, but it doesn't matter. If we were outside the Qian Yuan Realm, it would be really difficult to deal with, but here we have nothing to fear. His idea of covering Beiquan Mountain is wishful thinking! The only concern is that it might affect the Qian Yuan Realm itself!"
As the words were spoken, the North Spring Cave Heaven hummed, its power empowering the body, and then spreading throughout the entire Qian Yuan Realm through the North Spring Cave Heaven.
In an instant, his divine sense seemed to spread throughout the entire Qian Yuan Realm.
At this moment, he is like every blade of grass bowing its head as the wind sweeps across the grassland, and every splash of water as the waves crash against the rocks.
It is mountains, it is water, and it is this whole world!
It was as if the power of the entire world had been awakened by his divine will!
Heaven and man are one!
Previously, his control over the Qian Yuan Realm was roughly equivalent to, or slightly inferior to, using the boundary token, thanks to the connection between the Beiquan Cave Heaven and the Qian Yuan Realm's earth veins.
But now, they want to be above them.
The reason why the Qian Yuan Realm is the way it is today is because both its primordial energy and the Great Dao come from the feedback from the Bei Quan Cave Heaven. To a certain extent, the power of the Bei Quan Cave Heaven has already penetrated into the deepest part of the entire Qian Yuan Realm.
Gu Yuanqing couldn't do this before because of his own realm and cultivation, but after preaching to the world last time, the recognition of many living beings and the resonance of the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth with him made his connection with the Qian Yuan Realm even closer.
As many years have passed, his control over the Qian Yuan Realm has changed dramatically. Although he still cannot achieve the absolute control of the Bei Quan Cave Heaven, it is not an exaggeration to call him the master of the Qian Yuan Realm.
And this is also the source of his confidence to test the Ancient Divine Sect in advance!
A light shone in Li Miaoxuan's eyes. She could also sense the changes in the Qian Yuan Realm. She was surprised and thought to herself, "I thought I was almost catching up with him, but I didn't expect that I was still so far behind!"
Inside the Guizang Hall, the divine sense that the Great Venerable had extended suddenly froze.
After he manipulated the Gui Cang Hall to crash into the Qian Yuan Realm, he quickly locked onto Bei Quan Mountain, but he did not sense Gu Yuanqing's aura until the last moment when he suddenly discovered that Gu Yuanqing's aura seemed to be everywhere!
"A mere demigod? How could that be!"
The true gods in the main hall all changed color.
“He wasn’t this powerful when he came here last time!” Li Huang exclaimed in shock.
“Even if he had all the Domain Tokens in his hands, he still wouldn’t have reached this level!” Yan Guichi said.
The Great Venerable said indifferently, "It's just a small world that has only been advanced for a few hundred years. Even so, what use is it? The only thing that I'm wary of is the power within this mountain!"
Mu Qingxuan said in a deep voice, “Great Venerable, we must finish this quickly, for the power of Heavenly Punishment has already caught up with us!”
The Great Venerable closed his eyes slightly, and the power of the Guizang Hall increased once again.
A grayish-white mist descended like a tide, and the main hall collapsed with a deafening roar.
Gu Yuanqing calmly raised his head, raised his hand and struck out with a palm, the power of Beiquan Cave Heaven and the power of Qianyuan Realm rushed in and strengthened it.
As soon as this palm strike landed, it expanded to a size of thousands of miles and reached towards the Guizang Hall.
But the next second, Gu Yuanqing raised an eyebrow and realized that his palm print was getting smaller the closer it got to the Guizang Hall.
“This great hall is a world unto itself. It seems that this artifact is undoubtedly a rule-based divine artifact, but it should only be a lower-level rule-based divine artifact!” Li Miaoxuan said.
Inside the Guizang Hall.
Li Huang sneered: "Only a rule-based artifact can withstand a rule-based artifact. This Gu Yuanqing actually attempted to fight against the Gui Cang Palace with his own power. I don't know whether to call Gu Yuanqing stupid or ignorant! Is he really from the Law Source Realm?"
“It must indeed be related to the Dharma Source Realm, otherwise, a mere demigod would not be able to stop us or capture Zhuo Ming. However, since he has ended up in the Linglong Realm, perhaps his background is just so-so!” Mu Qingxuan said.
The Great Venerable remained silent, but manipulated the Gui Cang Hall to continue descending. More gray-white energy descended, transforming into rotating talismans to resist the palm strike, but the Gui Cang Hall's suppressing power was not affected in the slightest.
Gu Yuanqing gave a light snort. In the Celestial World, the Daoist Imprint of the Dao of Space shone brightly, and the power of the Daoist Imprint radiated into the Qian Yuan Realm along with his divine sense.
The power of the entire Qian Yuan Realm was borrowed, and the space around the Gui Cang Hall began to solidify. The Gui Cang Hall's descent was halted, and the gray-white aura was also imprisoned in place.
"Another spatial technique? A mere trifle!"
The Great Venerable snorted softly, forming a hand seal. A talisman of the cycle of life and death flew out from his ten-thousand-foot-tall Dharma Body, rapidly expanding and merging into the Gui Cang Hall. The Gui Cang Hall hummed, the solidified space shattering instantly, and the hall's descent accelerated!
However, the Great Venerable's expression changed slightly the next moment.
The speed at which the Guizang Hall descended suddenly slowed down.
For every inch it falls, the mountain below grows an inch taller;
For every foot the canopy falls, the mountain extends outward by one foot.
The Guizang Hall is like a giant bowl trying to cover the waves, but the waves overflow the rim of the bowl the moment it falls.
Moreover, the pressure from the surroundings increased rapidly, actually squeezing the area that the power of the Gui Cang Hall could radiate, as if the power of the entire world was pressing down on the hall.
This is a contest between power and the Great Way!
The main hall was completely suspended in mid-air.
Of course, it's not that the main hall can't be lowered, but rather that if the power of the Guizang Hall cannot cover the mountain below, he simply wouldn't dare to lower it.
Because that would mean that the other party's rules would envelop the Guizang Palace, and once that happened, the Guizang Palace would lose contact with the entire world, and its power would rapidly decline.
This is also a drawback of the lower-level rule artifact.
Although it also carries the power of the Great Dao, it is also the divine power that supports this world itself.
Moreover, most lower-level rule artifacts borrow the power of other higher-level rule artifacts, unlike higher-level and mid-level rule artifacts which are the source of the Great Dao themselves and possess immeasurable power.
Gu Yuanqing looked up at the grand palace in the sky and sighed softly, "They are truly cautious!"
Li Miaoxuan roughly saw through the clues and laughed, "If he were a fool, he wouldn't have become a god, nor would he have lived for so many years."
“That’s true!” Gu Yuanqing said with a smile.
The forces of Guicang Hall and Gu Yuanqing were locked in a stalemate in mid-air.
At this moment, the power of divine punishment had already begun to condense.
The tribulation clouds rapidly grew larger, swirling and churning. At the very center of the tribulation eye, a spatial rift opened, resembling the eye of divine punishment!
A bolt of pure, unadulterated purple lightning crashed down.
This is divine retribution for violating the rules!
It is formed from the deep-seated rules and power of this great world.
The Great Venerable snorted coldly.
The grayish-white energy surrounding the Guizang Hall transformed into a vortex, into which purple lightning fell, only to be disintegrated and annihilated layer by layer by the power of life and death, like a clay ox entering the sea.
But the second bolt of lightning followed closely behind, twice as thick as the first.
The third way...
The fourth course...
One bolt of purple lightning after another fell, initially with gaps, but later almost forming a continuous waterfall, submerging the Guizang Palace in a vast ocean of divine punishment lightning.
The Great One raised his head, his expression gradually becoming solemn.
Inside the Guizang Hall, Mu Qingxuan, Zhou Tianyan, and the others also began to change their expressions, a hint of fear flashing in their eyes.
"Great Venerable..." Mu Qingxuan couldn't help but exclaim.
Even though the Gui Cang Hall is a divine artifact of rules, it dares not ignore the divine punishment. Otherwise, Zhuo Ming would not have been refused entry to the hall back then.
The power of the Heavenly Punishment Thunder was still increasing, and the Daoist energy of the Gui Cang Hall had reached its peak. With each instance of Heavenly Punishment power neutralized, the ancient patterns on the hall's body dimmed a little.
The copper bells on the eaves shook wildly, their ringing rapid and shrill.
The Great One remained silent.
He can hold on. The foundation of the Gui Cang Hall is far more than this. Although the Heavenly Punishment is strong, it is not enough to truly damage the foundation for the time being.
But then what?
Even the most powerful artifacts can be destroyed if certain rules are violated!
With each heavenly punishment, the main hall would be shrouded in calamity energy. If it really reached a certain level, it was feared that even if they left the Linglong Realm, they would still fight to the death!
Even now, he probably wouldn't dare to use the power of the Guizang Hall for many years.
Moreover, the longer he endures the power of divine punishment lightning, the longer he needs to remain dormant.
"Never mind."
The Venerable One's voice was low, without resentment or anger, only a sense of regret.
This time, he personally took action and used the power of the Gui Cang Hall, but he still failed to force Gu Yuanqing to reveal his trump card and failed to see through his true nature in one fell swoop!
As soon as he had a thought, the Gui Cang Hall emitted a low hum.
The main hall suddenly contracted, then abruptly flew upwards.
"You think you can just leave like that?" Gu Yuanqing scoffed.
The power of the Qian Yuan Realm gathered once more, attempting to block the main hall.
The Great Venerable lowered his gaze and said indifferently, "Although I cannot subdue you, you cannot keep me either!"
The main hall suddenly trembled, and the vortex formed by the gray-white energy suddenly increased its rotation speed to an unbelievable level, actually absorbing dozens of divine punishment lightning bolts that were falling one after another.
The pitch-black plane at the bottom of the main hall suddenly lit up, and a gray-white shockwave rippled outwards from the bottom of the hall.
Under this immense force, the binding force on the main hall suddenly loosened for a moment.
The Guizang Hall transformed into a streak of gray-white light, crashing into the sky.
The void shattered, and the main hall was about to be swallowed up.
Gu Yuanqing raised his finger as a sword and made a sweeping motion in the air.
The Azure Sword burst forth from the sky, guided by Gu Yuanqing's divine sense and based on his true essence, with the power of the Northern Spring Cave Heaven and the power of the Qian Yuan Realm all amplified upon it.
The Heavenly Fishing Technique is activated.
The Azure Nether Sword traversed the void and appeared behind the main hall, piercing through the gray-white aura and striking the Gui Cang Hall.
"clang--!"
A clang of metal resounded through the heavens.
The old bell at the end of the palace, its surface mottled with verdigris, was grazed by the sword light, causing it to shake violently and a corner of it to crumble.
Copper shavings scattered and turned into grayish-white dust.
The retreat from the Guizang Hall was slightly hampered.
Inside the hall, the Great Venerable turned his head and glanced at the broken bell, his expression becoming even colder.
Although this bell is not the original of the Guizang Hall, it has followed him for countless years, but today it is broken!
Gu Yuanqing made another sword gesture, and the Qingming Sword, which had been deflected, drew an arc and slashed down again.
A hand reached out and slapped across the air, sending a grayish-white aura sweeping in to trap the Azure Sword.
Gu Yuanqing raised his hand and summoned the Azure Nether Sword back into the cave.
The Guizang Hall, on the other hand, was completely swallowed up by the void.
Gu Yuanqing did not pursue, but looked down at the longsword and saw a small nick on the blade.
Li Miaoxuan said, "It's still a bit lacking to go head-to-head with a Void Immortal artifact against a Rule-based Divine Artifact."
Gu Yuanqing poured his true essence into the sword, and the nick slowly disappeared. He smiled and said, "I was just testing it out because he was about to leave!"
(End of this chapter)