Chapter 914 - 829 Qingcheng's Beauty
Meanwhile, in the True Ancestor World.
“Sound Venerate’s Corpse has emerged.”
In the Sacrificial Temple, the voices of the Ultimate Beings rose.
“The Ban Explorers move swiftly indeed,”
said Ji Wulu,
“We need not concern ourselves with the Evil Corpse; we simply wait.”
“We only need to verify, to examine whether the laws from the Grey Mist Sea are indeed effective!”
His eyes blazed with intensity.
“Martial Honor, plus Sound Venerate… hmm, perhaps in time, we might receive even more from the Grey Mist Sea.”
Ning Tianji then spoke.
They all waited.
…
At this moment,
in Sound Desolate,
atop Immortal Melody Mountain.
The music of the zither played by Sound Venerate had stopped at some unknown point.
She listened as Nan Feng played,
looking up at the Ultimate Celestial Phenomenon Nan Feng had induced, the Zither Path Stairway to Heaven, and the Supreme Hall she had never seen before.
Sound Venerate suddenly knelt.
She paid great respect to the Ultimate Celestial Phenomenon!
“The path I did not complete… you may reach its end,”
Sound Venerate looked towards Nan Feng and couldn’t help but smile.
When Nan Feng concluded her performance, she slowly stopped.
She opened her eyes, feeling an unprecedented sense of transcendence.
In that instant, she had almost traversed all paths of the zither’s way, aided by the paths of her previous life as a backdrop.
Overlooking the Way of the Zither, she aimed directly for the hall.
“No wonder junior brother Zi Xuan proclaimed himself invincible after a battle with a past life…”
She understood that feeling.
Because, with one way and multiple realms, she truly grasped it all in her heart!
She looked up at Sound Venerate and asked,
“Are you going to the Heavenly Abyss?”
She was aware that once the Martial Venerate Evil Corpse awakened, it went to the legendary Heavenly Abyss.
Sound Venerate nodded and replied,
“This is the last thing I can do.”
She smiled and said,
“The one at The End of Myriad Paths allowed the Ancestral Realm to rise in peace, but… one day, we must re-enter the Sea of Grey Mist.”
“Only our corpses can bridge the Heavenly Abyss.”
She raised her hand, and within the boundless void, a Great Path Bridge appeared.
Just like Martial Honor once did, she stepped onto the Great Path Bridge.
“Give my regards to that one,”
Sound Venerate spoke her last words, and then, she stepped forward.
She vanished from Sound Desolate.
…
In the next instant, the Great Path Bridge sprawled across the True Ancestor World.
As Sound Venerate arrived, the Supreme made his journey; the entire True Ancestor World felt it, and countless beings knelt.
“Sound Venerate… one of the ten from the Era of the Ancient White Mist.”
“Her corpse has emerged… and even induced an Ultimate Celestial Phenomenon!”
“The ten were indeed the most dazzling of beings; had they not perished, with more time to grow, it’s unimaginable…”
The people quivered and knelt without exception.
Sound Venerate revisited her old haunts, saw the vastness of the True Ancestor World, and continued on her way, next appearing before the Sacrificial World State.
At this moment, everyone in Sacrificial World State was trembling with apprehension.
“So it turns out that the one at The End of Myriad Paths blocked everything…”
She murmured softly.
Just one glance, and she understood much.
“The Nine Laws, the old covenant… indeed, it was her.”
She lingered above Sacrificial World State for a long time when suddenly, with a single thought, the tens of thousands of Incense Fire Temples scattered across the land all collapsed.
“No!”
“What has happened…”
“It’s Sound Venerate… she has destroyed all the Incense Fire Temples? Why?!”
Countless divine servants cried and grieved.
Sacrificial World State, the exclusive domain of the Sacrificial Temple, held supreme status. The Incense Fire Temples spread throughout the state directly transmitted people’s faith to that supreme Sacrificial Temple.
But now, all Incense Fire Temples were destroyed.
Even the divine tablets belonging to the Ultimate Beings were all extinguished.
“Sound Venerate, you’ve gone too far!”
Suddenly, inside the endless sky of Sacrificial World State, another massive bronze ancient hall manifested.
That was…
the Sacrificial Temple!
Upon seeing this, Sound Venerate said coldly,
“The one at The End of Myriad Paths gave you the Heaven-reaching Great Path, and yet you have squandered it… even monopolized the Nine Laws, preventing others from reaching the same heights.”
“A bunch of petty beings.”
Her tone was cold.
“You who just revived, dare to be rampant before the Sacrificial Temple?”
“Back then, you were just another Ultimate Being, on the same level as us. Do you want a fight?”
Ning Tianji’s voice rang out angrily from inside the temple.
But Sound Venerate shook her head,
“I am Ultimate because back then, I only had enough time to reach the Ultimate.”
“You are Ultimate because this life is as far as you will ever get.”
“A fight?”
She snapped her fingers, and the strumming of the zither exploded.
Boom!
A single strum of the zither shook the temple.
“You’re courting death!”
From inside the temple, Ning Tianji roared fiercely, reaching out with a terrifying power sweeping forth, the supreme authority of a Nine Laws’ Ultimate Practitioner.
Yet, as the zither music reached him,
Ning Tianji’s supreme law dissipated instantly.
At the same time, a muffled grunt came from within the Sacrificial Temple.
Ning Tianji…
had lost!
He was defeated in a single move!
“The Nine Laws… indeed, an invincible method.”
“Pity that the practitioner is a pus-filled person.”
Sound Venerate shook her head, turned, and walked away.
The Sacrificial Temple was silent, offering no resistance.
And just like that, Sound Venerate vanished.
…
After a long while.
At the Northern Bone Wall.
The Great Path Bridge arrived with a thunderous roar.
Musical notes bubbled like boiling water.
Sound Venerate stood there, looking at the Wall of Corpses with a trace of emotion in her beautiful eyes.
“Eternal Ring Demon Serpent, Nine Lives Stone Crow, Indestructible Bi Fang, Grey Mist Demon…”
“They are all the skeletons of Ultimate Beings.”
That woman who was once known as the end of the Myriad Paths…
Could she have slain all the mighty ones in the Grey Mist Sea?
Otherwise, how could there be so many bodies to build this endless Wall of Corpses?
“I had thought that ‘Demon Fiend’ and ‘Blood Fiend’… could already be considered the strongest in the killing Dao.”
“But I never imagined she was the person stained with the most blood…”
Sound Venerate murmured and then she did not linger any longer, she stepped across the endless skeletal plains and entered into the pitch-black, empty Heavenly Abyss.
She silently transformed into a sky full of light rain.
In the darkness, she filled in much of the void.
A bridge that was only a shadow, became a lot more solid in an instant.
…
And behind.
Upon the Wall of Corpses.
An old man dressed in a white robe knelt upon the wall, scattering paper money into the sky.
“Martial Honor has passed away, Sound Venerate has withered… Farewell, World-Honored One.”
His old eyes were filled with reminiscence!
…
And at this moment.
Sound Desolate.
Atop the Immortal Melody Mountain.
Nan Feng watched as Sound Venerate departed, her heart inexplicably filled with desolation.
That was her previous life, but she somehow felt pity for the other woman.
Tormented endlessly, but in the end, still saw no hope.
That era, the ten Supreme Beings bore too much.
“The ancient paths in the Grey Mist Sea, the endless lands of pitch black…”
Nan Feng murmured, saying:
“In this life, I shall step on the ancient paths again, to witness the ultimate truth.”
Her Dao heart was resolute.
But at this moment, a grievous and indifferent voice suddenly rang out.
“The ultimate in the Zither Dao… Quite impressive.”
Nan Feng turned around and saw the filial woman sitting silently beside the thatched cottage, now looking over here.
The woman’s long hair trailed on the ground, her face crisscrossed with scar marks, as if they had been covered with envenoming creatures, yet her eyes were exceedingly beautiful.
With just those eyes, it was clear that she must have once been a woman of peerless grace.
“Are my eyes beautiful?”
The woman asked.
Nan Feng replied,
“Quite beautiful.”
“It’s a pity, they are too full of resentment, too cold.”
The woman smiled and said,
“Once, I was just as peerlessly beautiful as you, and my eyes too were once full of light.”
“But young one, you must understand, every pair of resentful and cold eyes… need to be cleansed with blood.”
Nan Feng said,
“Have you killed many people?”
The woman replied,
“I have.”
“My father, my elder brother, my younger brother… my whole family, the entire World of Grey Mist.”
“I used the blood of my kin to clear the Chaos Fog from my path and saw an even colder me.”
Nan Feng’s brow slightly furrowed as she looked at her.
“Haha… Afterward, my method was even revered in the Grey Mist Sea as one of the laws of proving the Dao; it seemed to be called ‘Blood Rushing Through the Fog Sea.'”
“This method requires the blood of those closest and dearest to you in order to cleanse the fog on your path.”
After speaking, the woman continued to ask,
“Do you think I am bloodthirsty?”
Nan Feng said,
“Are you not?”
The woman said indifferently,
“When I was six years old, I lost the most precious thing a woman can have.”
“My cousin was the beast.”
“At that time, my family was the weaker branch, and my cousin was a Main Ancestral Hall genius. I was scared and afraid, I dared not tell anyone.”
“Weakness brought on endless bullying.”
“Until one time, he was discovered by my father. I thought I would be saved.”
“But my father just waited outside the door, ignoring what had happened.”
“That day, I knew that in this world, apart from myself, I couldn’t rely on anyone.”
“Fortunately, I had been born with a beautiful face, a weapon bestowed by heaven for my revenge.”
“I used my beauty to bewitch a heartless youth. The youth sought only my beauty, but with just a little trickery, he went to challenge my cousin.”
“He was killed.”
“Because my family was the most powerful in that world, my cousin was known as one of those most likely to prove the Dao. Killing him was very difficult.”
“I was discovered, but by then, my cousin had grown strong, invincible, a favored child of heaven, and to him… I was just an ant, and he sold me to a brothel to be trampled by the world.”
“In that brothel, using my appearance, I learned tens of thousands of cultivation methods.”
“I played the zither in the marketplace, sold my body at night, and my hatred became part of my music.”
“I saw all the ugliness of the world, I saw the ghostly nature of human hearts… The sins and misdeeds of this world made me what I am.”
“The year my cousin reached the Ascendant Path, I ascended as well, and then I sent him on his path.”
“That night, I erased the whole world… haha, I also personally took a knife and destroyed my face that could overturn the world.”
Having said this, Qingcheng’s scarred face showed a touch of a smile, a liberated one.
“I wore mourning clothes for the world, donned sackcloth for heaven and earth, and held a funeral for ugliness.”
She lifted her hair and suddenly began to play the zither.
This was a zither music full of heartache, an eternal hate, and a cold indifference to the world!
“Your Zither Dao has reached the ultimate.”
“But… I cannot walk your path.”
“You have people who love you, care for you, and even in the most dangerous times, the happiness and love inside you continue to warm you, letting you stay firm in your Dao heart…”
“While I can only kill!”
Qingcheng’s eyes showed an unparalleled hatred, a jealousy that could shake the heavens, she said;
“I want to hold funerals for all the ugliness in this world!”
“I will kill you, kill all living beings, leaving only snow between heaven and earth. This is the pure cleanliness I seek!”
And along with her zither music, a sky filled with visions appeared.
It was a scene of endless ruination.
Mountains of corpses, seas of blood, the mournful sounds of lament echoing through the Sky Domain, the wails of death shaking the heavens!
…
Goodnight.