Boom! Crack!
The sky above was shrouded in dark clouds, veiling the heavens, blotting out the sun and moon. The entire Qingyang region was plunged into darkness.
The clouds gathered like rolling columns of smoke, surging like a tidal wave that swept away everything in its path.
Boom! As the clouds condensed, thunderclaps erupted in the sky, one after another, shaking the earth violently.
A fierce wind rose, and a torrential downpour began to fall.
Without its protective grand formation, the Yunxia Sect was drenched by the rain within a mere quarter of an hour.
The Yunxia Sect square was no longer the lush green lawn it had been; it had already been shattered by the force of Gu Qingfeng’s leap. The pouring rain fell in sheets, flowing along the countless fissures, mingled with fresh blood.
Boom! Crack!
The clouds condensed, thunder roared.
Over a thousand members of the Yunxia Sect lay prone in the muddy water, each like a statue, bleeding from all seven orifices, their bodies stiff, expressions numb, gazes vacant…
At this moment.
The man in white stood tall, allowing the torrential rain to soak his robes. He stood with his hands clasped behind his back, unmoving—he hadn’t moved from the start. He simply raised his head, gazing intently at the rolling, condensing clouds in the heavens.
His aloof expression held an unyielding arrogance that defied the world.
His dark eyes held a disdainful pride that looked down upon the heavens.
His brows were slightly furrowed, carrying an infinite cold sharpness.
Suddenly!
With a resonant hum, colorful radiance suddenly erupted around his body.
The radiance blazed like fire, burning fiercely.
Immediately after, another layer of color flashed around him, like golden brilliance.
Then, another layer, like violet brilliance.
And another…
Six colors, nine colors…
Eighteen colors.
Twenty-seven colors…
The colors surrounding Gu Qingfeng gradually shifted, growing more and more numerous. In the span of a single breath, a full eighty-one distinct colors condensed and manifested around him. Each color was different, each profound mystery unique, each representing a layer of the Natural Order’s profound mysteries. The eighty-one colors shifted, alternated, inverted…
“Take back your trash!”
Gu Qingfeng stared at the rolling clouds obscuring the sky. With a shake of his body, he gave a fierce tremor. Every hair on his body, every inch of his skin, every pore, every sinew and bone erupted with terrifying power in that instant!
A series of crisp cracking sounds rang out as the eighty-one profound mysteries of the Natural Order surrounding him were instantly shaken into dissipating smoke.
But just as the colors around his body scattered, they condensed and manifested once more. Nine colors…
Eighteen colors…
Eighty-one colors…
“I said, take back your trash!”
Gu Qingfeng shook again!
The eighty-one colors scattered once more.
But the moment they dispersed, whoosh—the eighty-one colors of the Natural Order condensed and manifested anew.
He shook, they reformed, repeating over and over.
Gu Qingfeng’s eyes blazed with fury. Whoosh!
Flames suddenly ignited around his body—a purple-gloomy colored flame. It resembled ghostly fire, yet more like hellish water. Yes, it was like water burning. Clearly fire, yet it gave off a profoundly cold feeling.
The purple-gloomy flames blazed, instantly incinerating the eighty-one natural colors until they were utterly clean.
Yet, very quickly, the eighty-one natural colors condensed and manifested again.
And so it was.
The purple-gloomy flames burned, while the eighty-one colors of the Great Natural Order condensed and manifested.
“I don’t want to be involved in your damn affairs!”
“Don’t drag me into it!”
“Take back your trash!”
“I said I don’t want to be involved in your damn affairs!”
The myriad colors continued to condense and manifest around Gu Qingfeng.
Unburnable, unfathomable.
But as the purple-gloomy flames burned, his complexion gradually grew weaker, his vital energy and spirit likewise diminishing.
Whoosh!
The purple-gloomy flames vanished, yet the eighty-one colors of the Great Natural Order continued to madly condense and manifest, one after another. No one knew how many layers formed, but in an instant, the myriad colors suddenly coalesced into a single multicolored lotus. Like a Buddhist lotus seat, it contained myriad colors, myriad profundities, myriad wonders, spinning madly around Gu Qingfeng. With each rotation, every pore on his body grew more dazzlingly colorful.
As the colored lotus spun, it grew faint and indistinct. No one knew how many times it rotated before the multicolored lotus gradually faded away.
Gu Qingfeng closed his eyes, inspecting his physical body. It was filled with the myriad profound mysteries of the Great Natural Order. He shook his head slightly, his expression seeming somewhat helpless, and murmured, “What cannot be escaped in the end cannot be escaped. A road of no return in the end is a road of no return…” He raised his head and opened his eyes. The dark clouds in the sky were no longer condensing, beginning to gradually disperse.
The thunderclaps ceased their roaring, beginning to gradually fade…
Everything was returning to normal…
“Fine!
Go ahead and force-feed me this trash from the Great Natural Order!”
“Even if you give me all these colors, even if you give me the entire Great Natural Order itself, I still won’t get involved in your affairs.”
If it were anyone else, even a reincarnated great power, forming a Foundation with myriad colors would have them cheering with excitement.
But Gu Qingfeng couldn’t feel excited no matter what.
Not only was he not excited, he was even somewhat displeased.
Because he knew the significance these myriad colors represented.
“After the Cataclysm, the heavenly order was reorganized, the myriad laws re-condensed. I suppose the Old Man Upstairs is still asleep… Even the Master who presides over the Heavenly Dao is asleep…
None of the other Masters or Ladies are likely awake either. I wonder who is presiding over the Great Natural Order after the Cataclysm.”
“In the eyes of the Heavenly Dao, I have always been a sinner. Even though I accepted the Heavenly Judgment, my body was returned to its original state, yet my soul remains unextinguished. I suppose I haven’t escaped my crimes either…”
“I don’t know who presides over the Great Natural Order in this Present Era. I suppose they’re also asleep. If they wake up and find the Great Natural Order has force-fed me these myriad colors… I suppose you’ll have a bigger headache than I do when the time comes…”
After being judged by the Old Man Upstairs this time, Gu Qingfeng had originally intended to stop making trouble…
Now that the Great Natural Order had force-fed him these myriad colors, it was tantamount to pushing him directly onto the battlefield. Even if he didn’t want to, he would have to pick up the slaughtering blade once more.
“A lifetime of sin, generations of sin… That saying indeed holds true…
If even I, judged by the Heavenly Dao, cannot escape my crimes, then reincarnation itself is a sin. If you all reincarnate, it would be adding sin upon sin…”
“Xingtian, Luohou, Jidu, Baiqi…
You few stubborn old demons of the Nine Nethers, you’ve all been fooled by others, damn it…”
Thinking of this, Gu Qingfeng couldn’t help but want to laugh. He sighed helplessly, considering going back to try again—try to see if he could destroy the myriad colors the Great Natural Order had forced upon him. Because he truly didn’t want to stir up trouble anymore. If he could destroy them, he would do his utmost. If he couldn’t…
He shook his head. Gu Qingfeng really couldn’t be bothered to keep thinking about this damn problem.
The dark clouds dispersed, the thunder vanished, the rain stopped.
The blazing sun once again hung overhead, the sky clear for ten thousand li.
Everything had returned to normal.
Those who had fainted and lay prone in the muddy water gradually woke up one after another. No one knew what had happened. Everyone’s consciousness was somewhat muddled. Their memories only recalled that Gu Qingfeng had been undergoing Foundation Establishment, then dark clouds gathered in the sky, thunder roared, and then…
Then there was no ‘then’…
No one knew exactly what had transpired.
At least, that was the case for Ouyang Feiyue, who woke up first. She felt a splitting headache and, enduring the pain, tremblingly struggled to her feet from the ground. Her whole body ached, every bone feeling as if it had fallen apart. She had no strength left…
She opened her eyes, her vision somewhat blurry. Clutching her head, it felt as if it were about to split open. Even the slightest movement brought intense pain.
“What happened?”
Ouyang Feiyue didn’t know.
And Gu Qingfeng?
He was already gone…
Where did he go?
Ouyang Feiyue didn’t know, nor did she want to know. She only wanted to leave this place as quickly as possible, to get as far away as she could.
“You?”
Noticing Wei Qing also climbing to his feet in the distance, Ouyang Feiyue looked at him with shock and doubt.
Wei Qing’s face was deathly pale, his expression terrified. Blood trickled from his eyes, ears, and mouth. He looked around left and right, opening his mouth, but not a single word came out.