What was even more unbelievable was that many could tell Gu Qingfeng's earth-shattering, domineering sonic might was specifically targeting only the four body-snatched individuals. The Ten Little Hidden Dragons, the Thirty-Six Hua Pavilion Young Masters, and the others had merely collapsed to the ground from the shockwaves of that might.
If the mere shockwaves were this terrifying, then if they had been directly targeted by his might...
No one dared to continue that thought.
True Monarch Longsheng and over a dozen other Nascent Soul Old Monsters, along with the Ten Little Hidden Dragons and the others, tried to suppress the fear in their hearts and rise to leave. However, Gu Qingfeng's earlier furious roar of domineering might had been far too terrifying. It had truly caused their Nascent Souls to tremble and their spiritual power to run wild through their meridians. In such a state, they simply could not mobilize their spiritual power.
As for their minds, they had long since collapsed.
With their minds collapsed, their willpower crumbled. With their willpower crumbled, their spirit weakened. All sorts of fears and terrors assailed their hearts. Their bodies trembled uncontrollably. They wanted to stand up, but their legs refused to obey. The moment they managed to rise, they would collapse back to the ground. The more they wanted to leave, the more afraid they became; the more afraid they became, the more they couldn't leave. Some of the more timid ones, like Wei Jiaojiao, were even scared into losing control of their bowels and bladder...
At this moment, they finally, truly realized just how terrifying Gu Qingfeng's existence was.
They regretted it.
They regretted ever daring to challenge Gu Qingfeng.
They were afraid.
Afraid to the marrow of their bones, afraid to the depths of their souls.
The Taixuan Platform had descended into chaos. Cultivators from various sects and factions dared not linger any longer, each one frantically fleeing for fear of inviting disaster upon themselves.
Within the crowd.
Lan Fei'er, Shui Yunruo, Huo Wuchenyue, Qingzhu, and Xiao Shanrou—these five women had been standing there quietly all along. Because they were relatively far away, they had not been affected by the shockwaves of Gu Qingfeng's furious roar of domineering might. However, that was only physically unaffected. Deep in their hearts, they had long been terrified into a state of bewilderment by the scene before them.
All five of them had previously crossed hands with Gu Qingfeng and had always known he was powerful. But just how powerful? None of them had a concrete concept in their hearts. They only felt he was very mysterious, very bizarre, very powerful, and also very terrifying.
Yet no matter what, they had never imagined Gu Qingfeng would be terrifying to such an earth-shattering, world-defying extent.
It was truly earth-shattering.
The Ten Little Hidden Dragons and the Thirty-Six Hua Pavilion Young Masters joining forces could not budge him an inch.
Situ Zhengnan, possessing a Transcendent Color Spirit and six great fortunes, was erased by him with a single move.
The four body-snatched reincarnators, fighting with their lives on the line, still failed to move him a hair. Instead, they were utterly annihilated, reduced to ashes by a single roar of his domineering might.
Gazing at the people struggling painfully on the ground at the Taixuan Platform, the five women could hardly bear to look directly.
There was the Grand Elder of the Thundercloud Branch, the Grand Elder of the Yuqing Sect...
These were all Nascent Soul Old Monsters who had cultivated for thousands of years, holding extremely high prestige within the Four Great Regions. Yet now, affected by Gu Qingfeng's furious roar of domineering might, they lay paralyzed on the ground, unable to even stand up.
And then there were those Ten Little Hidden Dragons and Thirty-Six Hua Pavilion Young Masters, each blessed with either innate or acquired fortunes, hailed as geniuses favored by heaven. In ordinary times, which one of them wasn't awe-inspiring, hailed as the most outstanding geniuses of the Four Great Regions after the great calamity? Not only did they fail to budge Gu Qingfeng an inch when they joined forces to besiege him earlier, but now, affected by his roar of domineering might, some had died violently, some had fainted, some had lost all their cultivation, and some had lost control of their bowels and bladder.
Witnessing this scene, while fear gripped their hearts, the five women also felt immensely grateful that they had not provoked him back in the Black Crow Secret Realm. Otherwise, the consequences would have been...
Truly unimaginable.
They felt this way.
And Su Hua, standing nearby, was no exception.
From beginning to end, she had stood here quietly, her brows slightly furrowed, her expression solemn, watching silently. Her eyes were filled with endless astonishment and confusion.
Throughout, she had not intervened to stop things.
She was an Immortal, but that was her past life. In this life, she was merely a preacher of the Immortal Dao. Though her heart held compassion, she was not a saint.
She understood the cause and effect of this matter more clearly than anyone. It wasn't that she hadn't stepped forward to advise them, but these people were determined to cause trouble for Gu Qingfeng, leaving her with nothing more to say. Most importantly, she knew very well that even if she managed to dissuade these people today, they would still seek out Gu Qingfeng for trouble another day. The root cause had already taken hold. Only by letting these people taste the bitter fruit of their actions would they desist.
Like the five women, she too had known Gu Qingfeng was powerful, but she too had never imagined he would be this powerful.
She too had known Gu Qingfeng's existence was extremely mysterious, but she had never imagined it would be so mysterious—so mysterious it completely exceeded her scope of understanding.
She did not know why Gu Qingfeng, who was neither a reincarnator nor a transmigrator, possessed musical attainments that were peerless under heaven.
She did not know why Gu Qingfeng's true body, which seemed perfectly ordinary, stood unmoving as a mountain, impossible for anyone to shake—something that fundamentally did not conform to the laws of the Immortal Dao.
She also could not understand why Gu Qingfeng, who clearly bore no trace of sin-taint on his person, would adhere to the ancient Slaughter Law of Three Lives, Three Deaths, and Three Annihilations.
Yes.
The Slaughter Law of Three Lives, Three Deaths, and Three Annihilations.
From Gu Qingfeng's behavior and the methods he employed against these people, she could see that what Gu Qingfeng had been adhering to was precisely the Three Lives, Three Deaths, and Three Annihilations.
This was an ancient Slaughter Law, a law so ancient it no longer existed.
Slaughter was a sin.
Moreover, it was one of the original sins.
In ancient times, many people, to avoid original sin, would grant Three Lives before slaughtering: the first life in reverence of life itself, the second in reverence of heaven and earth, the third in reverence of parents.
Later, many discovered that even adhering to the Slaughter Law could not avoid original sin, so gradually, no one adhered to it anymore. To this day, forget demonic path practitioners, even those of the Immortal Dao wouldn't bother with such a thing. Since he wasn't even a reincarnator and bore no sin-taint on his person, why would he adhere to such an ancient law?
She didn't know. She couldn't figure it out.
What drove Su Hua most to distraction was that she discovered Gu Qingfeng's body continuously emitted faint, flickering spiritual power. She had secretly probed it earlier and could only describe it with eight words: unfathomably deep, vast and boundless. As for how vast, she didn't know and dared not probe deeper. She only found it inconceivable and completely at odds with the laws of the Immortal Dao.
Su Hua had never felt like such a clueless little girl as she did today.
Because Gu Qingfeng's existence completely contradicted everything she knew about the laws of the Immortal Dao.
It was as if most people were born with one head, two arms, and two legs. Occasionally, there might be a two-headed monster, but it would absolutely not live long. Yet Gu Qingfeng was born with thirty-six heads, eighty-one arms, and countless legs, and he lived more prosperously than anyone else.
Su Hua felt she had truly wasted all these years she had lived.
"Sister Su Hua, what... what is Gu Qingfeng doing over there?"
Lan Fei'er looked at Gu Qingfeng and noticed this fellow had been standing there all along, not speaking, not moving, just standing there with his eyes closed, his expression very serious. Especially around him, his violent spiritual power flickered faintly, sometimes disappearing, sometimes appearing. When it disappeared, for some reason, it caused the entire Taixuan Platform to tremble incessantly. When it appeared, it crackled and popped like the roar of ten thousand thunderclaps.
"His spiritual power is too violent, and it's extremely unstable. It seems like he's been continuously suppressing it..."