Gu Qingfeng stood atop the four-sided great cauldron, raising a hand to point directly at the Vault of Heaven.
"Kill!"
A furious roar erupted, and Killing Intent soared to the heavens.
The Myriad Phenomena Stupas stirred into motion.
Only this time, it was no longer a sky full of Gods and Buddhas, nor a sky full of Immortals and Demons, but a sky full of Asuras.
Blood!
A sea of blood!
A boiling sea of blood-fire.
Within the blood sea, countless Asuras swept forth, blotting out the sky and earth, swallowing the Vault of Heaven in an instant as if crushing rotten wood.
Boom!
One Great Solar Radiance scattered and vanished.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
One after another, in the blink of an eye, all the Great Solar Radiance in the Vault of Heaven completely dissipated, leaving not a single trace.
Extinguished.
All were extinguished.
What was extinguished was not just the Immortal Dao's Great Solar Radiance Judgment, but also the many spiritual wills that commanded these Great Solar Radiances.
Although they were merely spiritual wills, they belonged to the spiritual wills of Immortal Dao Great Powers, each possessing the ability to annihilate from afar. Yet now, they were just... extinguished. In an instant, all were extinguished, without a single one remaining.
The terrifying part was that Gu Qingfeng hadn't even made a move. It was merely his Killing Intent that stirred, nothing more.
It was the Myriad Phenomena Stupas that acted, transforming into a sky full of Asuras.
Previously, no one knew just how terrifying Gu Qingfeng's Myriad Phenomena Stupas were, or even what mysteries they held. Now they finally understood the horror of the Myriad Phenomena Stupas, and finally grasped their profound secrets.
And this was only the Myriad Phenomena Stupas.
One must remember, at this very moment, there was still an ancient Primordial Taboo that Gu Qingfeng had gestated in the Vault of Heaven that had not yet acted. This Primordial Taboo possessed eyes like abyssal voids and a body like the Void itself. The might of its roar could shatter the Void. No one could imagine to what terrifying degree its existence reached.
"Is there anyone else who remains unconvinced?"
Here and now.
Gu Qingfeng stood upon the great cauldron.
His sleeves fluttered in the wind.
His black hair danced wildly.
Upon his aloof face, a pair of grayish eyes swept across the scene. His contemptuous gaze seemed capable of piercing through all things between heaven and earth, traversing the Void, penetrating the barriers of worlds, and staring down upon the Myriad Great Daos. His domineering words echoed through the Void: "And who still desires what lies within this cauldron?"
Faced with Gu Qingfeng, whose Killing Intent now soared to the heavens, many felt as if they had returned to the Primordial Era.
Because the Killing Intent Gu Qingfeng radiated at this moment was all too familiar to the Myriad Great Daos.
Back then.
When he trod upon the Nine Nethers, it was this same Killing Intent that filled the sky.
When he burned the Nine Heavens, it was also this same Killing Intent that filled the sky.
When he severed the Vault of Heaven, it remained this same Killing Intent that filled the sky.
When he blotted out the heavens with a single hand, it was still this same Killing Intent that filled the sky.
Back then, when he clashed with the Myriad Great Daos, it was precisely this Asura Killing Intent that set the blood sea ablaze against the heavens.
Given this.
How could the Myriad Great Daos not be familiar with it?
They were far too familiar.
Especially the Immortal Dao, familiar to the point of being ingrained, familiar to the point of having developed a shadow of fear.
Now.
He once again exuded this same blood-sea Asura aura of solemn slaughter.
Who dared to remain unconvinced?
Who still dared to desire that Blood of Original Sin?
The answer was certain.
No one remained unconvinced.
And no one dared to desire the Blood of Original Sin any longer.
The Great Daos were still the same Three Thousand Great Daos of old.
And Gu Qingfeng was still the same Gu Qingfeng of old.
The only difference was.
In the past, Gu Qingfeng possessed the Peerless Throne of Immortals and Demons, and the Nine Nethers Emperor's Seal.
Now, although Gu Qingfeng lacked the throne and the emperor's seal, he possessed an indestructible absolute power, the Myriad Phenomena Stupas worshipped by all beings, and the most terrifying of all—the Primordial Taboo.
"Amitabha."
Suddenly.
A solemn, sacred, and supremely holy Buddhist chant came from the Vault of Heaven.
It did not come from Pudu, but from the Western Paradise. Along with the Buddhist chant came a vast, sacred Buddhist aura. As a golden-yellow radiance flickered in the Vault of Heaven, it seemed as if a mountain peak had appeared—no!
That was not a mountain peak, but more like a venerable ancient Buddha that inspired awe.
"Western Paradise Buddhist Dao, don't you dare disrespect the face I've given you!"
Gu Qingfeng glared at the golden ancient Buddha in the Vault of Heaven and roared angrily: "Although I revere the Buddha, it is only reverence. Don't you dare test my limits using my reverence for the Buddha! Once or twice is enough—there will absolutely not be a third time! If you keep chirping nonsense at me again, I'll slaughter my way to the Western Paradise and wipe out your so-called Pure Land!"
The ancient Buddha statue flickering in the western Vault of Heaven, for some reason, ceased its flickering. The Western Paradise Pure Land also fell silent, with no further response. Even the sacred Buddhist aura halted, as if hesitating over something.
"Stop embarrassing yourselves in front of me with this worthless trash!
Get the hell back!"
With an angry roar.
The previously still blood sea began to boil once more.
The previously still Killing Intent once again soared to the heavens.
The previously still Myriad Phenomena Stupas once again spread across the sky.
The previously still Primordial Taboo also let out a furious roar.
Awooo—It sounded like a God's cry, a Demon's howl, a Dragon's rage, a Phoenix's shriek, like the collapse of heaven, the splitting of earth, and even more like a roar from a primordial beast of the Wilderness!
In an instant, the ancient Buddha statue that had appeared in the western Vault of Heaven scattered and vanished.
Silence.
Stillness.
Absolute stillness, endless stillness, boundless stillness.
Gu Qingfeng had wiped out the many Immortal Dao spiritual wills within the Great Solar Radiances with a single move, and the Immortal Dao didn't even dare let out a peep. If the Immortal Dao didn't dare, the other Great Daos dared even less. The Buddhist Dao wanted to interfere, but merely uttered a single Buddhist chant—nothing more. Without even saying a word, they were frightened into silence by Gu Qingfeng's tirade, not daring to utter another syllable.
Silence.
No one knew how much time passed.
The Killing Intent radiating from Gu Qingfeng no longer soared to the heavens, gradually fading away.
He closed his eyes, took a deep breath, as if suppressing something. He glanced at the Myriad Phenomena Stupas, then at the Primordial Taboo lurking in the Void, and shook his head slightly. After a moment, he finally looked down at the four-sided great cauldron beneath his feet.
"Don't...
Don't fuse with it, alright..."
Suddenly.
A faint, ethereal voice came from the Vault of Heaven, as if pleading with Gu Qingfeng.
The voice was intermittent, as if lost. Immediately after, a halo of light slowly rose within the endless Void.
The light resembled a yin moon, yet also a yang sun.
It resembled Radiance, yet also darkness, with the Radiance shifting and the darkness transforming.
It resembled holiness, yet also evil.
That halo of light was like a bloody sun and moon. As it appeared, half the sky was dyed a bloody hue. The blood color boiled, as if burning. Accompanied by it was an utterly terrifying aura, an aura that seemed capable of melting heaven and earth itself.
Within the bloody sun and moon, a woman was flashing towards this direction.
Three thousand strands of white hair.
A robe of blood.
A woman of peerless elegance, stunning beauty, and matchless grace, yet also one who appeared incomparably tragic and beautiful.
Her beauty was so radiant it seemed to dare compete with the sun and moon for brilliance, so stunning it made all things in the world pale in comparison before her.
The blood dyed the sun and moon.
Filling the entire sky.
World-Honored Empress, Jun Xuanji.
As she appeared, her stunningly beautiful face—which seemed not to belong to the mortal world—quivered slightly. Gazing at Gu Qingfeng, her expression seemed filled with longing, with conflict, with resentment, with anger...
A multitude of emotions tangled together, complex and chaotic, dominated more by hesitation, by confusion, and by a sense of being lost.