Chapter 181 - 106: The Battle to Slay Heaven One (Part 2)
Chapter 181: Chapter 106: The Battle to Slay Heaven One (Part 2)
They had roofs over their heads.
Food to eat.
No rampant, corrupt officials.
The laws were just.
The Court did not levy so many harsh and exorbitant taxes.
Originally, all they wanted was a little bit—just enough to scrape by, to no longer be bullied and casually slaughtered like pigs and dogs.
They were grateful to this heroic lord, and to the Wind Snow Sword Immortal.
They had shown them.
That as it turned out,
a person could live this way.
"They are not kindling. They are people..."
Su Chen recounted.
In a daze,
he saw the Great Liang Imperial Palace, and the countless ill-fated souls buried in the Chaotic Burial Mound.
He saw the countless defiant Liang People who died resisting the Violent Liang in an age of endless chaos.
He saw the refugees dying, crop after crop, amidst ceaseless natural disasters and man-made calamities...
"They are people!"
"Without a never-ending supply of Human Spiritual Qi, this Palm of the Human World will not be destroyed! It will only merge with the true Human World! You are the one weaving lies, claiming to be the justice of the Celestial Dao, yet all you’ve ever done is act on your own selfish desires..."
"You... you just don’t want to die."
Su Chen continued.
He pulled the Dust-Washing Sword from the ground, his entire being erupting with a brilliant, sharp aura, like a terrifying blade about to be unsheathed.
The One King, Two Venerables, Three Immortals, along with Great Yu Yue and the master of Demon Mountain—these ancient titans all believed he would surely die facing this terrifying Heavenly Punishment Divine Beast.
But Su Chen saw things differently.
This battle, he would win.
The grand tide!
The destruction of Celestial Will is the grand tide!
He *is* the grand tide!
The terrifying changes brought by his Extreme Ascension to Immortality told Su Chen one thing clearly.
Now,
even if a true Dao Platform expert were here, he could cut them down!
"Ant!"
"How utterly senseless!"
"You... are now kindling as well..."
"This Heavenly Punishment Divine Beast of mine is the strongest in a thousand years. It is your honor to die crushed beneath its feet!"
The Celestial Will seemed to be furious.
ROAR!
A terrifying dragon’s roar shook the Nine Heavens.
The Heavenly Punishment Divine Beast charged, stomping toward Su Chen.
At the same time,
Su Chen slashed out with the Dust-Washing Sword.
BOOM!
The cry of the sword resounded across the thirty thousand li of Daqian’s land.
At this very moment,
the brilliant, Immortal-like rhythm of this sword strike bloomed.
Across the thirty thousand li of land,
all swords and blades could not stop trembling, paying homage to this strike—arguably the very Peak of the World in the Palm.
At this moment, across the Daqian World, over ten million people subconsciously looked toward the former lands of the Zhu Country.
They knew nothing of some heaven-sundering battle against the firmament.
At this very moment,
they only felt that someone important was here.
BOOM!
The Celestial Will’s Fortune trembled.
The Mountain River Fortune was boiling.
The All Living Beings’ Fortune was surging in.
Each of the Three Fortunes offered a point of Spiritual Light, injecting it into this sword strike, allowing it to sublimate completely and take its final step of transformation.
The eleventh Immortal Extinction Skill!
This was the eleventh Immortal Extinction Skill!
On par with the Dao Platform!
Originally, this sword strike could not have slain the Heavenly Punishment Divine Beast, but now it could.
Heaven and Earth themselves acknowledged this strike!
"This?!"
"He’s reached the Dao Platform!"
"No, wait!"
"This strike... it actually became the eleventh Jue! But he’s not in the Dao Platform Realm, so how can he bear the Heaven and Earth’s Will, as well as the power of the Three Fortunes..."
Throughout the Daqian World, the titans were stunned and trembling.
They simply could not fathom it.
How on earth Su Chen had accomplished this.
The Ten Extremes Immortal Techniques!
Each technique came from a fallen Dao Platform expert!
Bearing the Heaven and Earth’s Will!
And the Three Fortunes!
They were a Creation unique to this World in the Palm.
But why could he, Su Chen, a mere practitioner of Mortal Cultivation, achieve something on par with the Dao Platform, bear a Creation, and forge a living, eleventh Immortal Extinction Skill...?
In that instant, as the eleventh Jue, the Sun-Chasing Sword, fell...
The Heavenly Punishment Divine Beast perished!
It vanished into thin air under this single strike.
This was something none of the titans had expected.
Even the Celestial Will was stunned.
"Impossible!"
"You’ve... reached the Dao Platform?"
"Within the World in the Palm, it’s impossible for a Dao Platform expert to be born..."
The illusory white-robed figure roared.
For the first time, it was panicked, a trace of terror in its voice.
RUMBLE—
The thunder and lightning vanished.
But,
on the ground, earth-fire surged and roiled, turning into scalding hot, endless lava that spread for a thousand li.
Within this thousand-li-wide sea of magma, a thousand-zhang-tall lava monster was brewing, climbing out, and advancing on Su Chen.
This was the second Heavenly Punishment Divine Beast!
"You must be at your wit’s end!"
"Die!"
The Celestial Will roared furiously, but it was already trying to flee the battlefield.
However,
Su Chen didn’t move.
He wasn’t at his wit’s end yet, but he couldn’t unleash a second strike so soon.
Beneath his robes,
countless Fissures had appeared in his flesh.
At this moment,
he couldn’t even draw the Dust-Washing Sword to unleash his second strike, Burial Star.
The Longevity True Qi was flowing toward his wounds.
But,
the effect was too slow.
"So you really are at your wit’s end."
The Celestial Will laughed.
It descended a second time and revealed a smile, but this smile could not conceal its fear.
A long time ago,
it had noticed this anomaly.
But,
it never expected,
that this ant-like fellow would actually grow to such a level.
"Perish!"
"Hurry up and perish for me!"
The Celestial Will controlled the second Heavenly Punishment Divine Beast to stomp forward.
BOOM!
A giant gourd descended, carrying a single person.
"Looks like I made it in time."
Yu’s robes were in disarray as he arrived, travel-worn, standing atop a wine gourd.
However,
he was smiling.
Many years ago,
he too had experienced a heaven-sundering battle.
Back then,
he was weak.
Facing the mighty heavens, he could not muster the will to fight.
He watched as his last remaining family member perished.
"Let me buy you the time needed for the final, curtain-closing strike of this heaven-sundering battle..."