Dong—
The Mystic-Yellow Bell from Heaven and Earth tolled once more, its crisp, crackling chime causing the boundless Primordial Chaos to tremble violently.
Yet.
The more it trembled, the more frenzied the Chaos became!
"I shall make this Chaos bloom in my name!"
Gu Qingfeng's voice exploded forth, and the madly swirling Primordial Chaos completely boiled over, blooming wildly like a flower of chaos.
At this moment.
The Azure Heaven was no longer the Azure Heaven.
The Great Earth was no longer the Great Earth.
The world was no longer the world.
There was only the madly blooming Primordial Chaos.
Within the Chaos, it was as if the sun and moon were renewed.
This sun was the sun of light.
This moon was the moon of darkness.
As the sun and moon renewed, it was like light and darkness intertwining, even more like the sun and moon fusing.
Hong long long—Kacha!
After the renewal of sun and moon, winds rose and clouds surged!
This wind was the wind of purity.
These clouds were the clouds of turbidity.
As winds rose and clouds surged, it was like purity and turbidity intertwining, even more like wind and clouds fusing.
After winds rose and clouds surged, lightning flashed and thunder roared!
This lightning was sacred lightning.
This thunder was evil thunder.
As lightning flashed and thunder roared, the sacred and the evil intertwined, even more like the sacred and the evil fusing.
After lightning flashed and thunder roared, Heaven and Earth became one.
This Heaven was the Heaven of life.
This Earth was the Earth of death.
As Heaven and Earth became one, the Azure Heaven's scripture and death intertwined, even more like the Azure Heaven and the Great Earth fusing.
Primordial Chaos.
Boundless, endless Primordial Chaos.
Such Chaos swallowed the Sacred Breath and also swallowed the Mystic-Yellow Bell.
"I shall use my body, my heart, my spirit, my soul, my divinity, and all that I am to incarnate as the overlord who dominates life and death!"
Hong!
Nong ba!
When Gu Qingfeng's voice exploded once more, the madly swirling Primordial Chaos suddenly detonated. A figure stood up from the exploding Chaos. It was truly a human figure.
But not an ordinary human. It was a giant, a giant whose head touched the Azure Heaven and whose feet trod upon the Great Earth.
A giant whose sinews and bones were like mountains and rivers, whose blood was like flowing streams, whose palms were like mountain ranges, whose hair was like forests.
Heavens above!
Xuanyuan Wan, the Great Mad Monk, and the female sect master Ye Tianlan were all so terrified they collapsed to the ground, their faces ashen, their bodies trembling uncontrollably.
What kind of existence was this?
No one knew.
They only knew this giant possessed a Chaos Body. One eye was filled entirely with life, the other entirely with death. One hand was like light, the other like darkness. One foot seemed sacred, the other seemed evil.
The giant gazed into the distance, as if looking at the Gate of Remote Antiquity beyond the Vault of Heaven, or as if gazing upon this supremely sacred Heaven and Earth. He raised his arms, his ten fingers interweaving as if grasping a Chaos Axe, and roared fiercely: "Be destroyed!"
He slammed it down violently into the void.
This axe strike possessed the might to cleave Heaven and Earth.
It cleaved, causing the Azure Heaven to seem to disintegrate.
It cleaved, causing the Great Earth to seem to disintegrate.
It cleaved, causing the world to seem to disintegrate.
It cleaved, causing the Remote Antiquity to seem to disintegrate.
It cleaved, causing the Mystic-Yellow to seem to disintegrate.
It cleaved, causing all things in Heaven and Earth, the void itself, to seem to completely disintegrate.
What had happened?
Xuanyuan Wan did not know. The Great Mad Monk and the others also did not know. For when Gu Qingfeng incarnated as the Chaos Giant, raised his arms as if to cleave Heaven and Earth, they knew nothing more.
She did not know how long had passed.
Xuanyuan Wan awoke from unconsciousness.
But she had only awoken.
Her head was heavy, her body weak, her consciousness blurred, her thoughts utterly chaotic.
She shook her heavy head and looked around. Ruins were everywhere, seemingly boundless.
Where was this?
Xuanyuan Wan did not know, nor was she interested in knowing at this moment. Her mind was filled with the scenes of madness she had witnessed before losing consciousness.
"Heh heh."
Gazing at the Vault of Heaven, Xuanyuan Wan laughed inexplicably.
This laugh was full of mockery, full of ridicule.
She laughed at the Immortal Dao, laughed at the Buddhist Dao, laughed even more at the Heavenly Dao, laughed at all the Three Thousand Great Daos.
"Why?
Just why?"
Xuanyuan Wan's demeanor was like that of someone who had lost their mind, as if interrogating the Three Thousand Great Daos and also interrogating Heaven, Earth, and the Vault of Heaven: "Why must you do this?"
"He is indeed the Sin-Bearer of the Daoless Age, that is true. He is indeed a variable of the current era, that is also true. He indeed carries the Sin-Blood, that is also true. He indeed gave birth to All Beings Pay Homage to the Floating Pagoda."
"His existence is indeed an unknown threat."
"But it is only an unknown threat!"
"An unknown threat does not signify anything."
"Who dares guarantee that Immortals will forever be Immortals, Buddhas will forever be Buddhas, Humans will forever be Humans, Heaven will forever be Heaven, Earth will forever be Earth? Who dares guarantee that Immortals and Buddhas will not become threats in the future, that Heaven and Earth will not become threats in the future?"
"None of you can guarantee it."
"All of this is unknown."
"Must you obliterate all possibilities for the sake of the unknown?"
"Heh heh."
"He said that his greatest wish in life was merely to seek a lifetime of carefree freedom, nothing more."
"But you wouldn't believe it, insisting his existence was a threat, threatening the Great Daos and all living beings, threatening Heaven, Earth, and all things."
"You have been forcing him, forcing him from the very beginning."
"Now you have finally gotten your wish, forcing him into becoming a genuine threat."
"Before, he merely possessed a body of strange fortunes. Now, you have forcibly driven him to possess a body of Forbidden Great Daos."
"He possesses six Forbidden Great Daos, and can incarnate as the Avici Uninterrupted Evil Asura who dominates Purgatory. Above, he has Myriad Manifestations and All Beings Pay Homage; below, he has Purgatory's Flames and All Deaths Pay Homage."
"Just now, he incarnated as that Chaos Body, one eye filled with life, the other with death, one hand like light, the other like darkness, one foot seeming sacred, the other seeming evil."
"That Chaos Body cleaved Heaven and Earth. Even the Sacred Breath was cleaved into disintegration by him. Even the Gate of Remote Antiquity was cleaved shut by him. Even the Mystic-Yellow Bell was cleaved into nothingness by him. Even the Sacred Judgment was cleaved into dissipating smoke..."
"And you...
Heh heh, you actually...
actually still arrogantly fantasize about using Xiao Jin'er's life to threaten him?"
"Even the Heavenly Dao was scared into submission, and yet you still mobilize what, the nine Purification Dragons, the five Wisdom Kings' Dharma Form Wrath Incarnations?"
The more Xuanyuan Wan spoke, the more she felt like laughing, laughing at the Three Thousand Great Daos, laughing at this Vault of Heaven and Earth.
"Heh heh, still preparing to obliterate him at all costs?"
"You can't even budge a single hair on his body. Your nine Purification Dragons, your five Wisdom Kings' Dharma Form Wrath Incarnations were all beaten into scattered dust and vanished smoke by him. Whether your Great Dao origins can successfully re-derive in the future is itself an unknown. With what will you obliterate him?"
"How laughable!"
"How stupid!"
"Do you regret it?"
"I believe you must deeply regret it, but it's too late to start regretting now."
"Wait. All of you, wait obediently. This matter is not over, nor will it end. Perhaps it doesn't even count as a beginning."
"He said he will annihilate all Three Thousand Great Daos, sever this Vault of Heaven and Earth."
"He said it, and I believe he will certainly do it."