What about Xiao Jinr?
Is she dead?
Dead.
Every single person present, be they Great Dao envoys or immortals from the great sects, saw it clearly. Just moments ago, Gu Qingfeng struck down with a single palm, killing Xiao Jinr, reducing her to scattered ashes.
No one had expected him to be so cold, so heartless—so cold and heartless that he would personally kill the one he cared for most.
At this, the Immortal Dao envoy Wu Yuan, the Heavenly Dao envoy Po Yun, and the Buddha Dao envoy Wuxiang were utterly panicked.
The fundamental purpose of their descent to the mortal realm was to use Xiao Jinr's life to threaten Gu Qingfeng into handing over the Myriad Living Stupas Myriad Phenomena Worship.
But now that Gu Qingfeng had personally struck Xiao Jinr dead, what leverage did they have left to threaten him?
Seize the Myriad Living Stupas Myriad Phenomena Worship by force?
Directly annihilate him?
Who had the confidence?
No one had absolute confidence. If they had possessed absolute confidence, they would have acted long ago, not waited until now.
What to do?
Wu Yuan didn't know. Wuxiang didn't know. Po Yun likewise didn't know. All they could do now was wait—wait for the decree from their respective Great Daos. One by one, they retreated in panic, their eyes filled with nothing but apprehension.
Their earlier arrogance before Gu Qingfeng had been solely because Gu Qingfeng cared for Xiao Jinr, and they held her life in their hands. Now that Xiao Jinr was dead, they had lost their reliance, and fear naturally welled up from the depths of their hearts.
"I have no interest in the Human Dao, not even the slightest bit."
Gu Qingfeng stood mid-air, hands clasped behind his back.
His snow-white robes fluttered in the eerie stillness.
His ink-black hair danced wildly in the deathly silence.
He was still himself.
Yet he was not himself.
The him of moments ago had been more about silence, about stillness.
But the him now was no longer silent, no longer still. What remained was only aloof pride, only domineering supremacy.
His voice was, his tone was, his words were, his expression was, and he himself was even more so.
"I have told you more than once that my existence is not a threat. It was not in the past, it is not now, and it absolutely will not be in the future."
His words were not spoken for the immortals of this world, nor for the envoys present, but for the Great Daos beyond the firmament.
"In the past, I naively believed that as long as I lived honestly and kept to myself, one day I could prove to this Heaven, this Earth, that I am not a threat. Even though I knew the hope was slim, I still preferred to deceive myself and cling to a shred of fantasy about this Heaven and Earth. So, when you tested me time and again, I chose silence. Once, twice, three times—it was always so."
"It was a dream, an unrealistic dream from the very beginning. Now, this dream must awaken."
"I can be silent once, silent twice, silent three times, but I will absolutely not remain silent forever."
"Since you all insist I am a threat, then I shall grant your wish and become a threat to this Heaven and Earth!"
Perhaps realizing something.
The Immortal Dao envoys and World envoys, led by Wu Yuan, all wore expressions of fear, tense and panicked. As they retreated, they tightly gripped their World Command Flags and Great Dao Command Seals. The same was true for the Heavenly Dao envoys led by Po Yun and the Buddha Dao envoy Wuxiang.
Only White-Browed Holy Monk remained kneeling on the ground.
His complexion was poor, or rather, wretched. His compassionate eyes were filled with worry.
Moments ago.
When Gu Qingfeng had soared into the sky holding Xiao Jinr, ready to wage war against the Three Thousand Great Daos, White-Browed Holy Monk had still clung to a sliver of hope.
But now.
After Gu Qingfeng had personally struck Xiao Jinr dead, the last vestige of hope in White-Browed Holy Monk's heart had also vanished like smoke.
He did not know what method Gu Qingfeng had used to kill Xiao Jinr, nor did he know what method Gu Qingfeng had used to fuse Xiao Jinr's blood spirit into his own chest.
Yes.
He did not know.
But one thing he knew clearly: Gu Qingfeng had truly decided to wage war against the Three Thousand Great Daos.
He finally realized that Gu Qingfeng's earlier declaration about severing this Great Dao, destroying this World, and extinguishing this Heaven and Earth was not merely empty words. It was not meant to scare the Great Daos, nor was it a threat to Heaven and Earth. He was truly prepared to do it!
White-Browed was compassionate. For the sake of all living beings under Heaven, he could sacrifice everything of himself.
Therefore.
To make Gu Qingfeng hand over the Myriad Living Stupas Myriad Phenomena Worship, he had forsaken his own reputation, willingly becoming a despicable and shameless person, using Xiao Jinr's life as a threat.
He did not want Gu Qingfeng to wage war against the Great Daos. He wished for it less than anyone else. If not for this, he would not have earlier forsaken even his dignity, kneeling down to beg Gu Qingfeng to hand over the Myriad Living Stupas Myriad Phenomena Worship.
But that was only his own wish.
He did not wish for it, but that did not mean Gu Qingfeng would not do it.
For the sake of all living beings under Heaven, he made one final desperate effort, pleading once more: "Ancient Benefactor, please do not act impulsively! Everything can be discussed. We can still talk! Absolutely do not take action!
You must not take action!"
"Talk?"
Gu Qingfeng did not look at White-Browed. Instead, he gazed at the increasingly trembling, increasingly mysterious Blood Moon in the sky, responding indifferently: "Fine. I have always been a reasonable person. If you want to talk, it's not impossible. Go and summon the Old Man Heaven for me, have him kneel and kowtow to me, and I might consider talking. Can you do that?"
Gu Qingfeng's words could not be described as anything but arrogant.
Arrogant to the point of defying all laws and principles, arrogant to the point of utter recklessness.
Searching throughout this Heaven and Earth, from ancient times to the present, who would dare to make the Old Man Heaven kneel?
No one dared.
Never had anyone.
Yet now, Gu Qingfeng had said exactly that.
"Ancient Benefactor, this old monk..." White-Browed had just begun to speak when Gu Qingfeng directly cut him off: "I asked you if you can do it?"
"I..." He had just opened his mouth again when Gu Qingfeng ruthlessly interrupted once more: "I asked you if you can do it?"
"This poor monk...
This poor monk cannot do it!"
In an instant, Gu Qingfeng, who had been gazing at the Blood Moon, suddenly turned around. His cold, stern face was filled with fury, his dark eyes brimming with killing intent. Raising a hand, he pointed at White-Browed kneeling in the air and roared harshly: "Since you can't do it, then what the hell are you talking to me about!"
Boom! Rumble—!
Crack!
Such an enraged roar, containing rolling killing intent, was like a demonic howl from hell, shaking Heaven and Earth.
It shook the sky until it crazily cracked, shook the Great Earth until it trembled incessantly, shook the natural order until it mutated, Yin and Yang reversed, the Five Elements fell into chaos. It shook the great sun until it plummeted, shook the night moon until it vanished, as if the sky had collapsed and the earth had split. The World plunged into darkness. For a moment, the entire World seemed to be shaken into chaos. Lightning filled the sky, crazily striking. Fierce winds howled, sweeping across the Great Earth like the advent of doomsday.
When Gu Qingfeng's furious roar reached her, Su Hua did not know what was happening. She only felt as if her mind had exploded, her vision turning dark. Her body, from skin and pores to bones, tendons, and blood vessels, swelled violently from the shock. Unable to react in time, she was instantly shaken until her seven orifices bled, and she plummeted from the sky.
She did not know what had happened. When she stood up, her head was dizzy and muddled. Ignoring her own injuries, she lifted her head to look.
This one look was enough to terrify her into collapsing on the ground.