Darkness.
Boundless darkness.
Silence.
Endless silence.
With a single raised finger, he shattered the Immortal Dao's Purification Judgment.
With the power of a single shout, he shattered the Buddha Dao's Transcendence Judgment.
With both hands holding it aloft, he rendered the Heavenly Dao's Destruction Judgment immobile.
How many in all the world could accomplish such feats?
Who would dare believe it if they hadn't seen it with their own eyes?
Even now, witnessing it firsthand, the people of the world still felt as if they were in a dream.
At the very least.
Su Hua was like this.
She could never have imagined that Gu Qingfeng's physical body had already become so formidable it could shake the heavens and earth, move gods to tears.
However.
She did not rejoice because of this, for she knew that the Present Era had only been open for a little over a hundred years. The origins of the Three Thousand Great Daos were all still re-deriving. Moreover, due to the existence of spatial barriers, the power of the Great Dao Judgments was greatly diminished. And, the Judgment Eyes of the Great Daos had only temporarily vanished; it did not mean they had dispersed.
That was not important.
What was important was that the World Judgment had yet to appear.
In this world, the Great Dao Judgments were not terrifying; what was terrifying was the Law Judgment belonging to this world itself!
But.
The Law Judgment?
Why had it not descended yet?
Just as Su Hua was wondering in shock, a world-shaking sound shattered the darkness here, and shattered the silence here.
The Azure Heaven held aloft by Gu Qingfeng's hands suddenly began to rotate, instantly forming a boundless vortex—none other than the Law Judgment descending from this world.
When the Law Judgment appeared, it instantly swept Gu Qingfeng into its depths.
The Law Judgment seemed to possess infinite transformations, and also possessed endless power.
These transformations were transformations of space; this power was also the power of space.
Legend had it that no matter how powerful you were, facing the Law Judgment of the world, you could neither break it nor disperse it. You could not escape, nor could you flee. Once swept into it, you would be torn to shreds on the spot, reduced to ashes. As long as you were not dead, the Law Judgment would not stop!
What was Law? This was Law.
What was Space? This was Space.
Was it truly so?
For others, perhaps it was.
But for Gu Qingfeng, there had never been absolutes between heaven and earth, nor would there ever be legends.
Within the vortex.
His snow-white robes fluttered triumphantly; his ink-black hair danced wildly.
Gu Qingfeng still stood tall, his hands holding up the Azure Heaven.
No matter how frenzied the vortex, no matter how the space transformed, no matter how infinite the Law, no matter how terrifying the Judgment, none of it could shake him in the slightest.
He just stood there, just held up the Azure Heaven, like a war god propping up the sky!
Escape?
Gu Qingfeng did not escape!
Nor would he!
Strangely.
Smoke suddenly began to rise from all around his body.
This smoke was neither the crimson mist enveloped by the Blood Moon, nor the white smoke purified by the Immortal Dao, nor the golden smoke transcended by the Buddha Dao. It was black smoke.
What was this?
No one knew.
No one understood.
They only knew the black smoke grew larger and larger, spreading out in an instant. The next moment, it seemed as if the entire world was permeated by this black smoke.
Su Hua, filled with trepidation, cautiously probed it and finally understood what this black smoke was.
It was Killing Intent.
Heaven-defying Killing Intent!
It was killing aura!
Sky-filling killing aura!
Heavens!
Su Hua was so frightened her face turned ashen, her entire body trembling uncontrollably. She simply could not imagine, could not conceive, how Gu Qingfeng could possess such terrifying killing aura, such terrifying Killing Intent?
What had he experienced, what had he gone through, to forge such overwhelming Killing Intent and savage killing aura?
Everyone could have Killing Intent.
But killing aura was not something one could have just by wanting it.
This was a taboo.
Especially for immortals and buddhas, it was a taboo among taboos. To achieve killing aura, one needed to experience countless slaughters, slay innumerable lives, before one could forge killing aura. This was also why killing aura was listed as a taboo in the Great Desolate Celestial Realm.
And the most important point was that to forge killing aura, one first had to sever one's own humanity. Only by severing one's humanity could one become cold and ruthless. And once killing aura was forged, humanity would vanish without a trace, inevitably leading to madness and demonhood.
At that time, one would be neither human, nor immortal, nor buddha, nor ghost, nor even demon.
In her past life, Su Hua had seen many who cultivated killing aura. In the end, without exception, almost all of them went mad and demonic.
Could it be that Gu Qingfeng had also gone mad and demonic?
She did not know.
Su Hua truly did not know.
She even more so did not know how Gu Qingfeng's Killing Intent could be so heaven-defying, how his killing aura could fill the entire sky!
Was this really just killing aura?
No!
It was not merely killing aura.
Su Hua might not know, but Da Xing the Mad Monk knew.
Even though he was a Living Buddha of the Western Heaven wandering between heaven and earth.
Even though he had cultivated for who knows how many years, ascending to heaven and descending to earth, and had seen countless great powers, witnessed countless grand scenes.
At this moment, gazing at this sky-filling black smoke, he still could not help but suck in a cold breath, feeling his hair stand on end, the heavens spinning and the earth turning.
Yes.
This was not merely heaven-defying Killing Intent!
Nor was it merely sky-filling killing aura!
There was also overwhelming killing majesty!
And soaring killing momentum!
Da Xing the Mad Monk knew Gu Qingfeng's identity. Not only did he know Gu Qingfeng's identity, he even knew that Gu Qingfeng had already forged this heaven-defying Killing Intent, this sky-filling killing aura, this overwhelming killing majesty, and this soaring killing momentum back in the Ancient Era. Not only he knew, many in the Great Desolate Celestial Realm knew this was the Nine Nethers Emperor's peerless Killing Domain that struck fear into all who heard of it!
He knew, and he had witnessed it.
The reason for his shock was not because of this peerless Killing Domain containing Killing Intent, killing aura, killing majesty, and killing momentum, but because of Gu Qingfeng after unleashing this peerless Killing Domain.
The more powerful the Killing Intent, the more powerful the killing aura, the more powerful the killing majesty and momentum, the harder they were to control. If one could not control them, one would go mad and demonic.
And Gu Qingfeng's killing aura, Killing Intent, killing majesty, and killing momentum were peerless, the greatest in history, unmatched by anyone. Even those old fiends within the Nine Nethers Hell were far inferior. Da Xing the Mad Monk had wandered the Three Thousand Worlds and had never seen anyone whose killing aura could compare to Gu Qingfeng's. If it were not so, it would not be called the peerless Killing Domain.
Da Xing the Mad Monk clearly remembered that in the Ancient Era, after Gu Qingfeng unleashed the peerless Killing Domain, he simply could not control it. Every time he unleashed it, he would inevitably go mad and demonic, slaughtering until the heavens darkened and the earth went dim before he would stop. And whether he could awaken was an unknown; he might completely fall into madness, forever reduced to a demon of slaughter.
But now?
Had Gu Qingfeng gone mad and demonic?
No!
Su Hua might not be able to tell, but Da Xing the Mad Monk saw clearly: Gu Qingfeng absolutely had not gone mad and demonic.
What did this mean?
It meant that the Gu Qingfeng of today could already completely control his peerless Killing Domain.
Da Xing the Mad Monk also clearly remembered a sentence spoken by the Zen Sect's Patriarch back then.
The Zen Sect's Patriarch said.
When Gu Qingfeng unleashes this peerless Killing Domain, if he no longer goes mad and demonic, it means he has already gained control over this Killing Domain. When he can control this Killing Domain, it means he has cultivated a Killing Heart. When he cultivates a Killing Heart, it also means he has opened a door, a door to a Great Dao—a Great Dao that is a peerless Slaughter Dao.
Thinking of this.
His heart skipped a beat. Da Xing the Mad Monk could no longer stand steady, plummeting from mid-air. He did not get up, but trembled as he murmured, "The Slaughter Dao, the Slaughter Dao...
Has that damned kid Gu really opened a peerless Slaughter Dao?"