Chapter 3470: Exiling a Heavenly Venerable
The living beings of Luozu Cloud Mountain Realm all looked toward the sky.
The crimson sky ignited, turning into a purple-red sea of flames. Within this sea of flames, "fireballs" appeared.
These "fireballs" were exceptionally bright and grew increasingly massive—they were stars from the cosmos.
Some stars, located trillions of miles away, were summoned by Fengdu Dadi, intertwining with the rules of heaven and earth to become part of his divine technique.
All living beings, including gods, were stunned, feeling suffocated.
This was a true apocalypse. Even gods seemed insignificant before it, like ants, like dust.
Gu She Yunliu spoke with difficulty: "Thousand Stars Stringing Together! This is Fengdu Dadi's technique. Is a Heavenly Venerable, the Heavenly Venerable, in Luozu Cloud Mountain Realm?"
The fame of Thousand Stars Stringing Together was immense—it was a Heavenly Venerable divine ability.
In ancient times, Xinghuan Heavenly Venerable had nearly severed the Yellow Spring Star River with this technique, demonstrating its power.
However, when Fengdu Dadi used this technique, it was not directed outward for destruction but inward against himself.
This was a tactic of harming oneself a thousand to wound the enemy eight hundred.
It was also a last resort, forced upon him.
Otherwise, Di's half-ancestor power would have petrified him, sealing him completely, and then slowly refining his soul!
"Boom rumble!"
One by one, stars crashed into the atmosphere of Luozu Cloud Mountain Realm. The destructive force spread outward from Tianjin Cliff. Wherever the waves of fire surged, everything turned to ash, affecting most of the Luozu Cloud Mountain Realm.
Viewed from the cosmos, the human-shaped great world shook with violent rumbling, flames spreading until it was entirely engulfed.
Fragments of stars scattered across various parts of the great world. These fragments were millions, even billions of times larger than the greatest mountains in Luozu Cloud Mountain Realm.
Space rifts appeared everywhere, spreading through the cosmos like shattered glass.
Fortunately, this was Luozu Cloud Mountain Realm. In any other great world, it would have collapsed into cosmic dust.
Tianjin Cliff, known as a forbidden land among forbidden lands, was completely flattened and vanished from existence.
There, chaos was ethereal, and everything turned into nothingness.
The divine bodies of Fengdu Dadi, Qiangshake, and Fulu Shenzun turned into a misty state.
Di's half-ancestor body could not withstand it either, but he fared better than them, merely cracking into fragments before quickly reforming into human shape.
However, the stone cracks remained, unable to fully recover in a short time.
The least injured was Leifa Heavenly Venerable, who had stayed far away and retreated to a distance early on.
"No matter how you struggle, it's futile. One against four, you have no chance of escape!"
Leifa Heavenly Venerable unleashed the Soul Refining Tower to collect Fengdu Dadi's soul mist.
Fengdu Dadi's soul mist spread over a hundred million miles. Before it could reform, it was attacked by the Soul Refining Tower, constantly being pulled into the tower.
"Whoosh!"
Within the soul mist, the Soul-Settling Ring spun rapidly, transforming into a massive halo beneath the Soul Refining Tower.
These two divine artifacts, listed in the first chapter of the "Taibai Divine Artifact Canon," clashed in a stalemate of magical combat.
One collected souls, the other settled them.
Fengdu Dadi's soul mist quickly condensed, gradually forming a human shape. Yellow Spring Rivers flowed within the mist, their currents roaring violently, reflecting his current anger.
"This person's mind is extremely firm, his divine soul terrifyingly strong, not far from a half-ancestor! Even if we suppress him, refining and killing him will take a long time. More frighteningly, we cannot stop him from self-destructing his divine source!" Di transmitted to Leifa Heavenly Venerable.
Leifa Heavenly Venerable asked, "What do you suggest?"
"Exile him! Once I fully recover, killing him will not be difficult."
Di spat out a breath of half-ancestor divine qi. The time rules of heaven and earth surged wildly, and then a vast and majestic River of Time manifested in space.
The River of Time, its origin unknown and its destination unclear.
But it had witnessed the evolution of the universe through the ages, carrying all rises and falls, burying one Heavenly Venerable and Primordial Ancestor after another.
No matter how brilliant a figure, how powerful their cultivation, or how invincible, in the River of Time, they were but a single splash of water, ultimately perishing.
The Demon Shrine slowly rose from Di's hand, pulling time rules, time imprint light points, and Fengdu Dadi's soul mist frantically toward it. Gradually, it floated above the River of Time.
The River of Time, usually calm, suddenly stirred with ripples and waves.
Fulu Shenzun and Qiangshake had already reformed their divine bodies and poured their divine power into the Demon Shrine.
The Demon Shrine was a time divine artifact, arguably the strongest time artifact besides the Universe Cauldron, even more extraordinary than the Sundial. Above the River of Time, its power grew even stronger!
It was because of this artifact that Di could cross the River of Time and awaken in this era.
Only it could reach the future when the River of Time was isolated by the rules of heaven and earth.
"Great Soul Spirit Art!"
Fengdu Dadi's soul mist ignited, condensing into chains that bound souls and claimed lives, piercing through heaven and earth, crossing the River of Time, and wrapping around Di, Fulu Shenzun, Qiangshake, and Leifa Heavenly Venerable.
The divine souls of these four powerful beings showed signs of leaving their bodies, as if Fengdu Dadi was pulling them all into the Demon Shrine.
"He has cultivated the Great Soul Spirit Art to such a level! Within an eon, he might prove the half-ancestor path!" Fulu Shenzun felt heavy-hearted, sensing immense pressure.
Today was truly a battle of success or death!
The Great Soul Spirit Art was the foremost divine ability of the Ghost Clan.
Given Fengdu Dadi's current mastery of this art, any one of them facing him alone would surely end up with their soul captured.
"He won't have that chance!"
"Tai'a Thunder Calamity!"
Leifa Heavenly Venerable rapidly formed hand seals. Countless lightning bolts gathered from the cosmos, taking the forms of various divine beasts—dragons and phoenixes flying together, luan birds singing long.
This was the strongest divine ability of the Thunder Clan!
Fulu Shenzun and Qiangshake also struck, unleashing the Original Lamp and the Demon God Stone Pillar to counter the Great Soul Spirit Art and break the soul chains.
"Whoosh!"
At that moment, on the River of Time, a pure white lotus bloomed.
The lotus had seventy-two petals, each different, but all were sacred and noble, radiant and dazzling.
It floated on the surface of the River of Time, untouched by the current.
At the center of the lotus stood a woman in white with black hair, a green lotus mark on her brow, and traces of time in her gaze. On her wrist hung a string of lotus seed prayer beads, beautiful, ethereal, and naturally graceful.
"Great Emperor, let me see you off on your final journey!" Her voice was pleasant, melodious, and sweet.
The woman in white raised her slender, fair right arm, and behind her, a dazzling divine ring appeared.
A terrifying event occurred.
The River of Time behind her surged with waves hundreds of feet high.
"Whoosh!"
Driven by her power, the waves rushed toward the Demon Shrine.
Being able to directly mobilize the River of Time, causing it to change and become turbulent, meant that the entire universe's time was shaking and accelerating. Though the acceleration lasted only an instant, and many cultivators could not sense it, it was still terrifying!
This was something even Fengdu Dadi could not do!
Most of Fengdu Dadi's soul mist was drawn into the Demon Shrine. Always calm and composed, he now let out a sigh of surprise: "Qishier Pin Lian, you are still alive?"
The woman in white, standing at the center of the lotus, said calmly, "We will meet again in the future!"
Just as Fengdu Dadi's soul mist was about to be completely absorbed into the Demon Shrine, the remaining soul mist that had not yet been taken in suddenly stopped resisting and surged forward, enveloping the Demon Shrine from the outside.
"Sizzle!"
This soul mist ignited!
In that instant, just as the waves of the River of Time were about to arrive, the Demon Shrine suddenly shot out, striking Di.
The Demon Shrine and Di plunged downstream along the River of Time, flying into the future.
"Boom!"
The waves of the River of Time surged over them, drowning them in the river.
Before long, the River of Time calmed, and no more waves could be seen.
Qiangshake finally breathed a sigh of relief. "Impressive, Fengdu! He sacrificed his own divine soul to take Di away!"
Fulu Shenzun said, "Naturally, he had to take Di, because Di is the only half-ancestor in the world. If Di recovered his cultivation, Fengdu would never escape the Demon Shrine and would surely die."
"How many years were they exiled?" Leifa Heavenly Venerable asked.
He directed this question at the woman in white standing on the seventy-two-petal lotus.
In terms of cultivation, Leifa Heavenly Venerable believed he was second to none. But in terms of time mastery, this woman in white, if she claimed second, no one in the world would claim first.
The woman in white said, "No matter how many years they were exiled, for now, the world belongs to us. Moreover, the rules of heaven and earth have severed the River of Time. Even with the Demon Shrine, they cannot return from the future."
"Should we go to Kunlun Realm to seize that thirty percent of Time Esoterica? That Time Esoterica was originally yours." Leifa Heavenly Venerable had the resolve to make bold moves and re-rule the world.
But their current strength alone was insufficient. They needed to enhance their power from all dimensions before suppressing the Heavenly Court and Hell Realm's All Heavens.
The woman in white said, "Forget it. Huaying Cangjie's lifespan is running out. If we provoke him now... have you considered that he might be waiting for us to come, to take us all with him when he dies? Wait until he dies, then enter Kunlun."
"That old fellow is truly tenacious. As long as he lives, we cannot set foot in Kunlun Realm." Qiangshake was very eager to go to Kunlun Realm and break into the eighteenth level of Nether Prison.
Suddenly, Fulu Shenzun's expression changed slightly. "My spiritual power light barrier has been broken!"
The few present focused their senses and detected it.
Fulu Shenzun said, "It was Fengdu Dadi. When he used Thousand Stars Stringing Together earlier, he triggered the Yellow Spring Seal hidden in the stars. While we were suppressing him, the Yellow Spring Seal flew out and shattered the spiritual power light barrier."
The woman in white sighed. "Hao Tian has sensed my aura. I must leave!"
"Whoosh!"
The seventy-two-petal lotus rapidly contracted, turning into a particle of time light and vanishing into the void.
Leifa Heavenly Venerable looked toward the direction of the Abyss of Darkness, narrowing his eyes, his expression growing serious. "She has finally emerged!"
Far away in the cosmos, above the Abyss of Darkness.
A woman in red stood in the void, her white hair flowing like a waterfall, her gaze cold and sharp. The myriad stars trembled, as if billions of stars bowed at her feet.
Her emergence, with a powerful aura shaking the boundless starry domain, immediately alarmed the entire Hell Realm.
(Chapter End)