Above, the Heavenly Duke roared; below, the Earthly Mother shrieked; and in between, the endless incarnations of the Three Thousand Great Daos howled in fury.
This scene was madness.
It was also breathtaking.
And it was utterly unprecedented throughout all of time, under heaven and upon earth.
When had anyone ever witnessed the descent of all the endless incarnations of the Three Thousand Great Daos?
Never!
When had anyone ever seen the endless Venerables of the Three Thousand Great Daos so utterly frenzied?
Never!
When had anyone ever witnessed the Heavenly Duke and Earthly Mother of the Azure Heaven and Great Earth joining forces in a siege?
Never!
And yet.
What was even more maddening,
Even more breathtaking,
And even more utterly unprecedented was that, despite the frenzied siege by the Heavenly Duke, the Earthly Mother, and even the endless incarnations of the Three Thousand Great Daos, that former Lord Chixiao, that former Emperor Jiuyou, simply stood there in the void. He did not dodge, did not evade, did not speak, allowing these Dao incarnations, this Heavenly Duke and Earthly Mother, allowing all of it to simply erase him.
His flesh was turning to ash, yet it was reborn from nothingness.
His soul was scattering to the winds, yet it was reforged in nirvana.
He was dead, yet alive.
He was alive, yet dead.
Life was being reborn, death was being annihilated.
What was called transcending life and death? This was called transcending life and death.
What was called indestructible and immortal? This was called indestructible and immortal.
Could he not be killed?
He could not.
The great powers from sacred lands and blessed lands like Cang Yan could not do it.
The Three Thousand Great Daos, their endless Venerable incarnations, could not do it.
The Heavenly Duke and Earthly Mother could not do it either.
No one could.
He had opened the Dao of Slaughter, he presided over slaughter itself—how could he possibly be slain?
He had opened the Dao of Life, the Dao of Death, transcended life and death, become indestructible and immortal—how could he possibly die?
At this moment.
Gu Qingfeng withdrew the six forbidden Great Daos, did not summon the Avici's Evil Asura soul again, and did not transform into the incarnation of the Ancestral Sage of Humanity who traversed the highest heavens and the deepest hells.
He was just himself.
But he was also not himself.
His white hair grew whiter, his blood-red eyes grew bloodier.
Thick, billowing smoke emanated from his entire body. This smoke was black smoke, it was white smoke, it was chaos smoke, and it was the smoke that belonged to Original Sin.
"Since all of you wish to end this, then spare no effort to kill me!"
Gu Qingfeng swept his gaze across, sweeping over Jun Xuanji, sweeping over Canyang Wuyou, sweeping over Yun Nishang, and roared: "Kill me!"
With a thunderous explosion, Jun Xuanji and the others were instantly blasted, blood spraying from their mouths and noses as they were sent flying.
"And you lot too!"
Gu Qingfeng leaped into the air, a pair of blood-red eyes sweeping across the countless Dao incarnations in the sky, bellowing: "Kill me!
If you cannot kill me today, I will slaughter every last one of you!"
Gu Qingfeng raised his palm, and with a *bang*, the incarnation of a Great Dao Venerable was annihilated in the blink of an eye!
"Kill me!"
*Bang!*
Another Great Dao Venerable's incarnation vanished into smoke!
"Kill me!"
*Bang!*
*Bang!*
*Bang!*
One after another, Great Dao Venerables were shattered and dispersed by Gu Qingfeng, vanishing one by one.
"Kill me!"
Gu Qingfeng threw a punch, shaking the sky and causing the Dao incarnations to plummet one after another.
"Kill me!"
Gu Qingfeng seemed to have gone mad, bloodthirsty and frenzied, savage and cruel, single-handedly taking on the Heavenly Duke and Earthly Mother, beating them until they had no power to fight back!
"Is this all the so-called Heavenly Duke and Earthly Mother are capable of?
If this is all you've got!
Then all of you can go turn to ashes for me!"
Gu Qingfeng raised both arms, gripping the Heavenly Duke's head with his hands and stomping on the Earthly Mother's head with his feet. He threw his head back and let out a heaven-shaking roar, his body shaking violently, shaking both the Heavenly Duke and Earthly Mother until they vanished into smoke and dust!
Even the Heavenly Duke and Earthly Mother were beaten into nothingness?
Yes!
The Heavenly Duke, hailed as the incarnation of the Heavenly Dao, and the Earthly Mother, hailed as the incarnation of the Earthly Dao, were thus beaten into nothingness by Gu Qingfeng alone.
The other incarnations of the Three Thousand Great Daos were also beaten into disarray. What had been countless Dao incarnations, innumerable Venerable incarnations, were now fewer and fewer, all beaten down by Gu Qingfeng in less time than it takes an incense stick to burn.
Witnessing this scene.
Da Xing the Mad Monk and the others had long forgotten to breathe, forgotten to think, forgotten everything.
They all knew Gu Qingfeng was powerful, powerful beyond comprehension, powerful beyond imagination.
But now, the Three Thousand Great Daos with their endless Venerable incarnations, even the Heavenly Duke and Earthly Mother, had descended. Not only had their joint siege failed to budge Gu Qingfeng an inch, but now they were being beaten into nothingness one by one by Gu Qingfeng alone.
These weren't the incarnations of some random cats and dogs, but the Venerable incarnations of the Three Thousand Great Daos!
Even if the origins of the Three Thousand Great Daos had not fully reformed yet, a starved camel is still bigger than a horse. The origin of a Great Dao is still the origin of a Great Dao. No matter how weakened, it is still the origin of a Great Dao. Just like deities—no matter how weakened a deity is, they cannot be compared to immortals, demons, or humans. So how is it that these Venerables, comparable to the incarnations of various gods, are so utterly helpless before Gu Qingfeng?
They did not know.
No one understood.
Cang Yan was also severely injured, bleeding from all seven orifices from the mere force of Gu Qingfeng's shout. She flashed back to Genggu Wuming's side and exclaimed in awe: "The power of Original Sin is truly terrifying!"
She could see that the Gu Qingfeng of this moment was no longer the Gu Qingfeng from before. Even if he had not completely transformed into an incarnation of Original Sin, he was absolutely not far from it.
"Nameless, why do you not act?"
Noticing that Genggu Wuming had remained unmoved like an outsider from beginning to end, Cang Yan asked.
"I cannot kill him."
Genggu Wuming's murmur came. Cang Yan felt like crying but had no tears. She had asked Genggu Wuming before if there was any hope of killing Gu Qingfeng, and at the time, Genggu Wuming had only answered that she did not know. Now, asking again, Genggu Wuming was straightforwardly stating that she could not kill Gu Qingfeng.
"Should you not at least try?"
Genggu Wuming shook her head.
Clearly.
She did not even wish to try.
If Genggu Wuming said she could not kill Gu Qingfeng, then he truly could not be killed.
Cang Yan, who had still held onto a sliver of hope in her heart, looked at the silent Genggu Wuming and was left with nothing but despair.
Earlier, she had also asked Genggu Wuming if they would lose this game.
Genggu Wuming had said she did not know if they would lose, only that they certainly would not win this game.
Cang Yan had asked again, if they lost this game, how badly would they lose?
Genggu Wuming had said, how badly they lost this game depended on how badly he wanted them to lose...
Now, Cang Yan still found it somewhat incomprehensible. But now, at this very moment, she finally understood.
Facing an incarnation of Original Sin with an indestructible life and limitless power, what could you do besides resigning yourself to fate?
The answer was certain: you could do nothing. Besides resigning yourself to fate, you could only resign yourself to fate—to *his* fate!
"Since you were able to suppress those few incarnations of Original Sin like Chiyou and Xing Tian back then, why can you not suppress him?"
Genggu Wuming murmured: "He is not Chiyou. He is not Xing Tian either."
"What difference does it make?
They are all incarnations of Original Sin!"
"Chiyou and Xing Tian may be incarnations of Original Sin. His existence... perhaps from the very beginning was never merely an incarnation of Original Sin..."