Chapter 1820 Chapter 1813: Act I (2) |
Chaos.
Standing solitarily within the Dark Void, with eyes of resplendent stars, Wei Wuyin calmly observed the greater world as the scene began its gradual descent into utter and irreversible chaos, distraught and enraged were prominent emotions among the crowd. Su Yi's escape far exceeded the expectations of these top-tier forces as they deployed various methods of profoundly mysterious origins and diversity. They involved Divination Spiritual Spells, Spiritual Perception Ascension Arts, Heavenly Treasures, and Mystic graded tools.
The most ridiculous thing was that they were told what was going to happen prior, and in the end, they had allowed it to happen with open eyes.
Humiliation!
Shadow Veil was immediately questioned with furious fervor. The hectic and urgent trembling within the Dark Void from enraged and emotionally heated spiritual transmissions distorted space, time, mana, and gravity on a ginormous scale. Briefly, Wei Wuyin was untouched by the Heavenly Force of the Seven Utmost Towers as their attention was pulled elsewhere. It was only brief, of course. Within mere seconds, all attention shifted back to Wei Wuyin—the foreigner and main culprit of this embarrassing situation.
Moreover, the serenity within his expression was like a splash of sand in their eyes—extremely irritating. Did he truly think they were useless, stumbling monkeys that he could play with as he pleased?!
Suo Haoran calmly assessed the situation as Tianshi Ya sent him a curious glance, unlike some others who were livid to an extreme. He answered her unspoken question via spiritual transmission: "Shadow Veil's curt response is that they simply informed others of the details. They shouldn't be held accountable for anyone's inability to act on their greedy desires, either to prevent the Void Formation from shifting Daoist Su away or tracking his trajectory and current location. Ridiculously enough, they're refusing demands for refunds and call to action to seek out Su Yi.."
Tianshi Ya's eyes shone with instant realization. So they lost Su Yi already? She wasn't at a level to interact with this sort of scene or event, so she could only act as a spectator. She had played her part already and caused the Zenith Creation Tower to suffer losses but nothing too severe. Moreover, she elevated her status and received the rare recognition of Tianshi Zaoxuan by solidifying her relationship with Suo Haoran.
Long Shiya's facial expression was unsightly to an extreme, as ugly and distorted as it could be. His hands were rapidly moving, weaving into intricate and profound hand-seals, forming numerous overlapping afterimages pulsating with resonant qi as he built up a momentous aura. Suo Haoran side-eyed Long Shiya and shielded Tianshi Ya from any excess resonant qi fluctuations. The waves produced by the rapid movement of his hands were enough to collapse large portions of basic-tier mortal planets with ease. His agitation was readily apparent for all to see.
Su Yi must die!
Wei Wuyin could feel the murderous eyes of a Supreme Sage burrow violently into his body from all over, hoping to kill or excavate his secrets out of frustration. Potentially, finding Su Yi's location as a result. Their actions were nonsensical, however. Wei Wuyin's body was like the Void, endless and mysterious, and a few of these individuals suffered an immediate backlash from the passive retaliation of his True Void Dragon Bloodline.
When Wei Wuyin fought against Pakhet, his True Void Dragon Bloodline exhibited an extraordinary ability to devour and digest the aura of Laws, even permanently eliminating a portion of Pakhet's Authority of Law at the time. At the moment, his body was ruthlessly devouring perceptions and spiritual senses, causing backlash after backlash.
This, however, exposed his unique situation as a hybrid.
These were Resonant Soul Realm experts or those relying on powerful and extraordinary sensory armaments and Heavenly Treasures. Blocking all of it would be far too difficult, so he didn't try. He only kept his outward youthful vitality concealed, preventing his age from being known immediately. As for his Astral Souls, they were already disguised, hidden within the Void-like worldscape of his body. It made his cultivation indiscernible for now.
"A bloodline of space and time?" Instantly, quite a few experts were enlightened to an aspect of his true power. It was unavoidable. Moreover, he only sought to delay that information, not to prevent it forever from leaking.
Furthermore, his upcoming plans would inevitably force many of his secrets out, especially his cultivation base.
Only a bandage to an inevitable eventuality. But it was enough—for now.
"Keep looking," Wei Wuyin calmly spat, directly threatening any daring folks. As he did, four auras of Laws within him pulsed all at once. At the forefront of which was the mutated Minor Authority of Imperial Law surging with a tyrannical oppressive aura, seemingly suggesting that his dignity as a monarch was on the verge of being infringed. This was sufficient to establish an unending death grudge.
"..." The perceptions and sensory spells of quite a few backed off but not all. That was until Wei Wuyin's calm eyes radiated violently murderous soul light, shifting from serene to true brutality. His hand pulled out his saber by a millimeter from its scabbard, and his aura of Laws was on the verge of completely erupting. The rest immediately retreated, only leaving behind the unintrusive Heavenly Force of the six still-functioning towers of the Seven Utmost Towers.
Wei Wuyin stared at the Dark Void for a long stretching moment before a clank resounded, signifying the return of his saber to its scabbard.
Suo Haoran's eyes glowed with glaring brightness. His head snapped to the side. The Elephant-Tigress Sovereign similarly shifted her head in the same direction with an aggressive snap, her eyes widened as her eyes perceived the agonizing death of a Sage. The Heavenly Treasure she wielded shaped like an eye crumbled as her vitality and Mystic Soul was obliterated. She floated a few million miles from Wei Wuyin as a cold, bloodless corpse without any signs of blood, spirit, or vitality.
Every sign of potential life was annihilated.
Once beautiful, now dead. That was the best description that intruded the Elephant-Tigress Sovereign's mind at the moment. An illustrious female Sage was killed right then and there before the eyes of several Supreme Sages. Yet when she thought about it, she felt that it was utterly ridiculous that a Sage would dare to spy brazenly on a Supreme Sage using a Heavenly Treasure when that Supreme Sage likely had multiple Heavenly Treasures on their body. Her death was thoroughly deserved.
"Must you kill?" A scholarly voice laced with righteous anger questioned in a half-roaring and half-questioning tone. The Heavenly Force from the Zenith Refinement Tower increased by two-fold.
Wei Wuyin casually shrugged, condensing his World Pressure into a solid spherical shape, blocking the incursion of Heavenly Force without any ripples. His defenses were preternaturally sturdy, almost impregnable.
[RIGHT ARM: Pride]
Karmic Luck Value: 263,776.3 → 268,334.4.
First Calamity: Survived - 7/7.
Second Calamity: Claimed - 1/1.
Third Calamity: Claimed - 3/3.
Fourth Calamity: Claimed - 18/18.
Fifth Calamity: Suppressed - 47 Years.
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[LEFT ARM: Lust]
Karmic Luck Value: 263,776.3 → 268,334.4.
First Calamity: Claimed - 7/7.
Second Calamity: Claimed - 1/1.
Third Calamity: Claimed - 3/3.
Fourth Calamity: Claimed - 18/18.
Fifth Calamity: Suppressed - 47 Years.
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Another delectable meal of karmic luck meant for Su Yi was unceremoniously reaped by Wei Wuyin. That woman wasn't just brazen, she was determined and powerful, a significant enemy to Su Yi's future. She likely offended Su Yi to an irreconcilable extreme, and after he displayed ferocious strength against Mythical Punishment, she refused to allow him to escape so easily and return to kill her at a later date.
How could she possibly eat and sleep in peace knowing he was out there if that happened?
Unfortunately for her, she presented Wei Wuyin with the perfect opportunity to claim her sin-laden and Heavenly Daos' hated head under a perfect pretense. Additionally, excluding the Zenith Refinement Tower, the others more or less understood that the woman was vastly overreaching in her actions. Those Sages who had dared to do so thanked their lucky stars they weren't the chicken slaughtered to scare the monkeys. Simultaneously thinking up to here, all of their facial expressions became awkward and humiliated.
True Sages were mere monkeys here?
Unfortunately, their disapproval of such sentiment had no outlet. What were they to do? Follow that Sage to the afterlife? They all intelligently remained silent and withdrew all their means, not daring to be a second chicken to drive the point across deeper.
Tianshi Ya coldly snorted. She was acting as a spectator yet these little maggots thought they could intervene in this level of conflict? How hilarious.
'I can feel it—your urge to howl,' Wei Wuyin thought as the mutated Authority of Saber Law within him thrummed incessantly. Just a small act of drawing upon its power to kill had unleashed an unstoppable outcome, and there was little he could do. Within a very limited time frame, he had to draw his saber or potentially lose this opportunity to advance forever. He knew that much.
Fortunately, this would only accelerate his plans, not adversely affect them. Wei Wuyin's starry gaze shifted to Suo Haoran.
As if prompted by that gaze, Suo Haoran's spiritual aura ballooned imposingly, making his identity known as he spoke out to all those present and observing: "Where did you send Daoist Su, World-Saint Neo-Dawn?"
To be so direct! Worthy of a Supreme Sage.
Shockingly, Wei Wuyin hadn't stayed silent here. "One of the forbidden zones of your galaxy."
Instantly, everyone recalled Shadow Veil's information and realized that it was crucial! This foreigner had never said he wouldn't say where Su Yi had been transported to! Simply that he would protect him from divination!
Didn't that mean the Sage there died for utterly nothing?!
What a joke! Sages weren't cabbages!
The forbidden zones of the Utmost Purity Galaxy were regions of the Void-Blank Space between cultivation celestial civilizations such as starfields, stellar regions, and galactic zones that were far too dangerous for even Supreme Sages to colonize or placate its dangers, akin to the White Abyss of the White Abyssal Galaxy!
They were avoided, and the galaxy's society developed around not interacting with them, like a volcano with the ability to erupt at any moment. Some even benefitted from the geographical and celestial phenomena that occurred within or around them, making significant profits through exploration and excavation.
Unfortunately, with a galaxy this huge, there were numerous forbidden zones, both large and small, so this reveal didn't assist in their efforts to find Su Yi by much, especially since Wei Wuyin had openly admitted to using his aura to shield Su Yi from divination. Only brave Grand Seers and profoundly powerful Supreme Seers would take such risks to scry for his location. The others would fear ending up dead through retaliatory backlash. Moreover, some forbidden zones made it increasingly perilous to seek out information, which added a layer of difficulty to the already harsh task.
Suo Haoran once again spoke out with a spiritually booming voice for all to hear, "Which forbidden zone?" Inwardly, he rolled his eyes with a slight groan. Such a ridiculous question. It felt so unlike him, passive and naive. And as expected, Wei Wuyin exposed a faint grin. It radiated a cheeky energy that made one wish to act immediately.
"I wonder which one? My memory is a little foggy, and after all the interference during the transportation, I don't think I can reliably say which." Wei Wuyin pondered with a tap of his finger to his chin.
"..."
Was he trying to toy with us? This foreign bastard!
He continued, however: "But a hazy mind can be cleared, greased with some…as the mortals say—coin."
"..."
Numerous figures exchanged glances. He wanted them to bribe him?
Suo Haoran nodded, "What's your price?"
A few faces scrunched up with surprise within the crowd, both those who directly allied with Su Yi or had Karmic entanglements with him, whether good or bad. Suo Haoran started public negotiating? Shouldn't it be done through private transmissions?
Wei Wuyin clapped his hand once, instantly dispersing a large portion of Heavenly Force by sheer strength, gathering everyone's attention as a boom echoed across the stellar region. "Oh…how about…" he lifted a single finger.
"One?" Tianshi Ya was confused.
A few came to their own conclusions.
'One Mystic-Soul Essence Stone?" Long Shiya thought outrageously, finding that Wei Wuyin's greed would certainly be the death of him. And the delivery of such a horrific fate seemed increasingly likely to be shaped like him.
'A single Mystic-Heaven Alchemical Lineage?' Tianshi Zaoxuan thought from an Alchemist's perspective.
'One thousand Mystic-Heaven Essence Stones?' A few had more reasonable assumptions, either in the one thousand or one hundred.
However, what Wei Wuyin said sent them into an utter frenzy.
"One loss."
BOOOOM!!!
Wei Wuyin's four Laws surged into the heavens, overturning every essence, energy, matter, and mana within a billion miles with torrential momentum, exerting an unprecedentedly unheard-of World Pressure that crushed the oppressive Heavenly Force of the Seven Utmost Towers.
"Who among you all can deliver that fate to me?!"
"...!" The entire crowd was stunned speechless!
"WHO?!"
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[Author's Note: Last Month was a VERY Stressful month. Apologies to everyone, but it was a much needed de-stressing period.
For now, we'll be changing the release time, about twelve hours prior to the former release. So 8:00pm-9:00pm PST.
Let's have a great rebound month!]
Erdiul's Note: This guy...
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