6kv Chapter 143 You... cheated first!
Chapter 143 You... cheated first!
The Emperor's Seal, restarted.
It rose silently from the center of the array and hung in mid-air.
The seal was already transparent, almost ethereal, as if one could reach out and pass through it.
Yet it is more real than any physical entity in the world.
Everyone present, regardless of their cultivation level, could sense a tremor originating from the depths of their souls.
The space where the seal is located is being squeezed and distorted by its very existence, and is ultimately being reshaped into its domain.
That void no longer belongs to this world.
It became its own little world.
The Human Emperor's Seal is the only one of its kind in that world, and its absolute ruler.
Inside the seal, the chaos that had devoured the essence of the five top-tier magical artifacts ceased its frantic churning and returned to stillness.
A chilling, deathly silence.
The once-powerful Purple Heaven Divine Thunder, Seven Stars Glow, Five-Colored Divine Light, and Mysterious Dark Light—all their spiritual energy—has vanished.
They were completely melted down, transformed into a more ancient and primitive form.
nothingness.
That nothingness is the origin of everything, and also the end of everything.
The eight ancient seal characters on the seal face also changed from gold to a chaotic color.
They no longer emit light, but instead resemble eight bottomless black holes, greedily devouring all light around them, including gazes.
Shen Jizhou stared intently at the jade seal, his pupils contracting to their maximum size.
His expression finally changed completely.
Shen Jizhou, the highest-ranking figure in the Daoist sect beyond the Great Wall, showed a trembling expression for the first time.
Because he finally sensed the true power of that jade seal.
The previous Emperor's Seal was nothing more than an inanimate object that sealed away a wisp of the Emperor's fortune.
And now this place...
After absorbing the entire essence of five top-tier magical artifacts, it was no longer "sealed," but rather...
Resurrection!
It is awakening!
Shen Jizhou could clearly sense that the ancient will that was dormant in the deepest part of the seal was slowly opening its eyes.
That is the true will of the Human Emperor!
It is the supreme majesty of the ancient human emperor who ruled over all spirits and suppressed the eight wastelands and four seas!
That will is about to descend upon this world!
"Everyone"
Shen Jizhou roared suddenly, his voice no longer calm, but urgent and solemn.
"retreat!"
"Everyone back off!"
"Retreat to a distance of one hundred feet!"
The crowd inside remained staring blankly at the Emperor's Seal, which exuded an apocalyptic aura.
"Reload now!!"
Shen Jizhou roared again, his voice carrying the essence of truth, like a great bell, crashing into everyone's mind!
Instantly, chaos erupted.
Everyone scrambled backward as fast as they could, wishing they had two more legs.
At this moment, only two people remained in the arena.
One was Lu Yuan, who lay paralyzed beside a boulder, bleeding from all seven orifices, his life hanging by a thread like a candle in the wind.
The other was Shen Jizhou, who stood in the middle of the ruins, staring intently at the jade seal, his muscles bulging and taut.
Suspended between the two was the Emperor's Seal, which was awakening.
Shen Jizhou took a deep breath.
He knew he couldn't wait any longer.
Let's wait a little longer, until that wisp of will fully awakens, until that jade seal truly reveals its full power...
Even I am in real danger!
Shen Jizhou suddenly took a step forward.
This step is of paramount importance.
The ruins beneath their feet had been trampled into a huge pit three feet deep, with rubble flying everywhere and dust billowing up!
He held up the sky with one hand!
The fleeing crowd caught a glimpse of this breathtaking scene out of the corner of their eyes.
Shen Jizhou slowly opened his right hand, palm facing upward, his index, middle, and ring fingers slightly bent, as if to hold the sky in his palm. His thumb and little finger loosely clasped his palm, as if to suppress the heavy earth beneath his feet.
Starting stance: Heaven and Earth Profound Yellow Technique!
This is one of the most advanced starting stances in Taoism!
It symbolizes holding up the sky with one's hands and standing firmly on the ground, residing in the middle, and using oneself as a bridge to connect with the power of heaven and earth!
Shen Jizhou slowly uttered the first incantation:
"Heaven and earth were dark and yellow, the universe was vast and boundless."
With each word he uttered, the space around him began to fluctuate violently.
"The sun and moon wax and wane, and the stars and constellations are arrayed in the sky."
As the second sentence fell, countless stars suddenly lit up the night sky that had been shrouded in darkness!
Those stars are no longer illusions, but real, ancient stars!
Their light pierced through the endless void, converging into a dazzling galaxy that descended!
"The cold comes and the heat goes, autumn harvests and winter stores."
As the third sentence fell, the earth began to tremble.
Beneath the ruins, powerful earth elemental energy was forcibly extracted.
The light coalesced into streams of earthy yellow light, surging in from all directions and converging at Shen Jizhou's feet!
"The leap year completes the cycle, and the musical scales harmonize the seasons."
As the fourth line fell, a faint, melodious sound of musical scales resounded throughout the world!
The sound was mysterious and unpredictable, like the breath of heaven and earth themselves, like the rhythm of the birth and death of all things!
Then Shen Jizhou began to perform hand seals.
The first movement with his right hand was the "Heavenly Gang Seal"!
The thumb hooks around the middle joint of the middle finger, while the index and little fingers are raised, resembling the constellation of the Big Dipper!
With a pinch, the Milky Way hanging from the sky suddenly solidified, transforming into a tangible barrier of starlight!
Then, his hand gestures changed swiftly, and he performed the "Earthly Fiend Technique" again!
Thumb hooks around the base of ring finger, index finger bends like a hook, middle and little fingers are joined together!
With a pinch, the earth elemental power surging from the earth suddenly condensed, transforming into a massive earth barrier as thick as a mountain!
"Heavenly Spirits and Earthly Fiends, protect my true form!"
With a shout, Shen Jizhou's starlight barrier and the Xuanhuang light shield merged into one in front of him, transforming into a supreme light curtain flowing with starlight and earthy radiance! The defensive power of this light curtain far surpassed that of the previous Buzhou Mountain phantom.
Because what it borrows is the immense power of this world itself!
To break this curtain is to be an enemy of heaven and earth!
At that moment, the Emperor's Seal moved.
There was no golden light, no loud noise, and no earth-shattering phenomena.
It simply floated forward three inches.
It's only three inches long.
But it was those three inches that made Shen Jizhou feel the terrifying pressure of the entire sky collapsing down!
Shen Jizhou gritted his teeth and changed the hand seal on his right hand again!
The Heavenly Gang Technique transforms into the "Jade Purity Realm Technique," and the Earthly Fiend Technique transforms into the "Upper Purity Realm Technique." When the two techniques are combined, they ultimately evolve into the "Supreme Purity Realm Technique"!
The Sacred Realm of the Three Pure Ones has descended!
The Jade Purity Sacred Realm transformed into a pure light that enveloped his head, the Upper Purity Sacred Realm transformed into a radiant light that protected his entire body, and the Supreme Purity Sacred Realm transformed into a thick light that supported his feet.
The three layers of light curtains merged with the Heavenly Gang and Earthly Fiend Barrier to form an indestructible absolute defense line!
Shen Jizhou spoke the truth once again:
"May the Three Pure Ones dwell above, and may the virtuous endure forever!"
"Immunized by all laws, indestructible through countless eons!"
The moment the mantra was spoken, the Human Emperor Seal activated for the second time.
It simply flipped over gently, aligning the eight chaotic ancient seal characters with Shen Jizhou.
Then one
boom!!!
There is no light.
No sound.
There were no warnings, no prelude, and no room to hide.
It takes effect immediately.
"puff"
Shen Jizhou coughed up a mouthful of blood!
His legs buckled instantly!
My knees are trembling!
His waist was bent!
His spine was groaning under the strain!
That supreme defense, constructed by the Heavenly Gang, Earthly Fiends, and the Three Pure Ones, is now collapsing at a speed visible to the naked eye!
It wasn't that it was defeated, but that the very concept of "suppression" forcibly erased its existence!
The starlight barrier collapsed!
The earth's barrier shattered!
Jade Purity Sacred Realm, cracked!
Shangqing Sacred Realm, broken!
Taiqing Sacred Realm, collapsed!
All defenses are as fragile as morning dew in the face of "suppression"!
Shen Jizhou's eyes were finally filled with uncontrollable horror.
this!!!
But Shen Jizhou did not give up.
Shen Jizhou, throughout his life, cultivated Taoism, sought knowledge, and defied fate; when did he ever admit defeat?!
Shen Jizhou suddenly looked up, his eyes flashing with an unprecedented light!
His right hand made a hand seal again!
This time, it was no longer any ancient or secret technique, but his own creation, which combined all the methods of the world into one, drawing upon his life's wisdom!
"The Great Dao Technique of Primordial Unity!"
Once this technique is mastered, one's very being becomes the Dao!
Once this secret is revealed, his words become the Dharma!
He made a fist with his right hand, as if he were grasping a mass of chaos.
Within that chaos, Yin and Yang energies flowed, the Five Elements interacted and evolved, and the Eight Trigrams and myriad phenomena changed!
This chaotic mass is the manifestation of his life's cultivation!
He used his own body as a furnace to forge all laws, and finally created... a small world!
A small world completely independent of the outside world!
In this world, he is the creator god!
The "suppressive" power of the Human Emperor's Seal descends!
It crashed hard into this small world!
boom
silent.
True silence.
The impact transcended the realm of sound, transforming into the purest destructive will, directly reverberating deep within the souls of everyone a hundred feet away! The fleeing crowd looked back in horror, only to see the distorted, annihilating scene in the center of the arena—a power that should never exist in the human world! On the arena, Shen Jizhou's small world was trembling and shrinking violently.
Its edges were eroded inch by inch by the power of "suppression," disintegrated inch by inch, and erased from this world inch by inch!
Blood began to seep from Shen Jizhou's seven orifices.
His skin quickly lost its luster, becoming dry and cracked, like a rock that had been weathered for thousands of years.
Using one hand is ultimately too much of a strain!
Take a breath.
Two breaths.
Three breaths.
Shen Jizhou's little world has been compressed to the point where it can barely protect him!
If this continues, he will surely die!
A flame of anger and embarrassment ignited in Shen Jizhou's eyes.
He is Shen Jizhou!
He is the highest mountain in the Daoist sect outside the Great Wall!
How could he fall here?!
He doesn't agree!
Shen Jizhou suddenly looked up to the sky and roared, his voice like a dragon's cry, shaking the heavens:
"All things return to one!!"
Before the whistle had even faded, his hands suddenly clasped together!
This time, he abandoned all defense and chose to attack one by one!
The small space that had been compressed to its limit suddenly collapsed inward, condensing into a ball of light the size of a fist!
Within the sphere of light lies the fruit of his life's work!
It contains all his vitality!
It contains everything about him as Shen Jizhou!
Then one
Shen Jizhou suddenly pushed his hands forward!
The sphere of light that contained everything about him transformed into a streak of light that tore through the night sky, crashing headlong into the Emperor's Seal!
Shen Jizhou's hands bulged with veins as he exerted tremendous force!
This is a desperate, life-or-death strike, risking everything for your life and dignity!
Lu Yuan, who was slumped in the distance, saw this scene and used his last bit of strength to curse in his heart.
this……
That old bastard!
He's starting to lose all shame!
He started cheating!
I used both hands!!!
In the blink of an eye, the sphere of light that carried Shen Jizhou's life's cultivation collided violently with the Human Emperor Seal!
There was no loud noise.
There was no light burst.
Not even a ripple of energy was stirred up.
There is only one kind of absolute stalemate that suffocates even the soul!
The sphere of light hovered three feet below the Emperor's Seal, trembling and spinning violently, its light flickering, yet it could no longer advance an inch. The Emperor's Seal, with its terrifying power capable of suppressing eternity and obliterating everything, was actually held aloft by this small sphere of light! Lu Yuan, slumped beside the boulder, was already so weak he couldn't even lift his eyelids.
At that moment, however, he forced his eyes open, his gaze filled with fear and disbelief.
This……
That old man...
Just how damn strong is that?!
Don't fucking piss off!!!
Switching from one hand to two hands completely reversed a seemingly hopeless situation?!
Lu Yuan could clearly sense that the ball of light was moving upwards little by little!
Although it was slow, although it was difficult, and although the sphere of light dimmed a little with every inch it moved, it was indeed moving!
It is pushing back against the Emperor's Seal!
In the center of the arena, Shen Jizhou's arms were bulging with veins, like the gnarled roots of an old tree, every muscle groaning under the strain! He seemed to be crushed by an invisible mountain, his bones creaking, yet he stubbornly stood firm!
His feet were already deeply embedded in the ruins, the ground was cracked inch by inch by his feet, and the dust was up to his knees!
But he remained standing!
Still using those hands that shouldn't be used at the same time, he held on tightly to the ball of light, fiercely resisting the majestic and awe-inspiring Emperor's Seal!
"Get up! For me!"
Shen Jizhou let out a beast-like roar, each word tinged with the stench of blood.
The muscles in his arms suddenly bulged, and his sleeves ripped into pieces of dust!
With a loud shout, he pushed upwards again with both hands!
The ball of light shone brightly and actually pushed upwards by three inches!
The Emperor's Seal was forced to retreat!
This scene terrified all the spectators a hundred feet away.
It's not just them.
Even the two Daoist giants, Crane Patrol Celestial Venerable and Crane Heaven Celestial Venerable, who were on par with Shen Jizhou, were stunned by this scene. Everyone knew that Shen Jizhou was the highest peak in the Daoist world beyond the Great Wall.
But no one expected that this mountain would be this high!
No ritual implements are needed.
Relying solely on one's own spiritual attainment.
How could someone... how could someone withstand the Human Emperor's Seal after sacrificing five top-tier magical artifacts with their bare hands?!
Crane Patrol Celestial Venerable and Crane Heaven Celestial Venerable asked themselves if they could have done this under these circumstances without using magical artifacts and relying solely on their own Dao Fruits... Lu Yuan stared intently at the ever-rising ball of light, his heart sinking into an abyss.
His face was completely drained of color, leaving only a deathly ashen color.
like……
If this continues...
So this gamble, meticulously planned for so many days, costing me multiple top-tier magical artifacts to nothingness...
Of course, afterwards one could accuse Shen Jizhou of being dishonest and breaking his promise.
They initially said they would use one hand, but ended up using both hands.
Can……
What's the point of criticizing afterward?
It has no effect whatsoever!
If we lose, we lose!
Shen Jizhou's previous statement that he only used one hand cannot be used as evidence of winning or losing.
That was just a verbal promise.
The rules of the "Challenge to Heaven" will not ultimately result in Shen Jizhou being declared the loser because of his words...
All that painstaking effort I've put into these past few days...
Really...
All their efforts were in vain?!
boom! ! !
A crisp, abrupt gunshot, completely out of place, suddenly rang out!
With both hands raised to the sky, resembling a god or demon, Shen Jizhou suddenly had a burst of blood mist erupt from his right forearm, the one from which he exerted the most force!
A bloody hole suddenly appeared!
"It's you..."
Lu Yuan, who was slumped on the ground, found himself holding a brand new Ma brand pistol in his right hand.
A wisp of incongruous blue smoke rose from the cold muzzle of the gun.
"...He cheated first."