Chapter 979: 974: Surviving the Disaster
Chapter 979: Chapter 974: Surviving the Disaster
At first, there were only some sounds.
Even though Lü Yang had cut off all his senses connecting to the outside world, this sound still reached him. This was because it didn’t come from any specific place.
Instead, everything in existence was chanting.
Under these circumstances, Lü Yang’s perception of the outside world was almost forcefully torn open, and a sight he would never forget for the rest of his life crashed into his vision.
It was a beam of light.
The light falling from the Other Shore was so pure and flawless that one couldn’t help but want to lose themselves in it. It was as if infinite supreme truths of the Great Dao were flowing within its brilliance.
At first glance, it was just an extremely tiny white dot. However, as it continued to descend from the Other Shore, the white dot grew larger and larger until it manifested into a boundless, world-encompassing grand light. It turned the Great Net of Karma Links entirely into an ocean of light, leaving nothing else behind.
The radiance was vast and mighty.
Wherever it passed, colors, sounds, and sensations—all things in creation were completely stripped away. Even Time and space seemed to lose all meaning within this light.
Only the light flowed on.
Within the Great Net of Karma Links, all the scenes of karmic links spanning the past seventy thousand years ground to a halt at this moment, as if frozen in the amber of Time.
The Saint Sect Ancestral Master had made a move!
The Mighty Power of this strike even surpassed the finger that had nearly killed Lü Yang outright in the Current World—the one formed by a mere thread of Intention stirring Spiritual Qi.
Back then, it was just a single Intention.
But this time, the Saint Sect Ancestral Master had, in the truest sense, extracted a streak of Mana from His true form situated at the absolute pinnacle of the Other Shore and cast it down!
Wherever it swept past, the entire Great Net of Karma Links seemed to melt away like ice and snow. The scenes of karmic links were wiped completely clean, plunging Bhagavat into a prolonged silence.
While karmic links themselves could not be destroyed, the scenes of karmic links were different. Since the Saint Sect Ancestral Master had struck, He would leave no flaws whatsoever. Even though karmic links wouldn’t perish, as long as any foreign entity existed within the scenes of karmic links, it would inevitably be crushed into fine dust without any suspense.
Bhagavat sighed inwardly, “The purest form of power… This is the advantage of a First Saint. Despite exhausting my mind and scheming for eons, it still cannot rival a single all-out exertion from Him.
“Regardless, He has finally bowed His head.”
Casting a streak of Mana down from His true form on the Other Shore—an interference of this magnitude—was actually equivalent to the Saint Sect Ancestral Master lowering His own Position.
Although it wasn’t enough to cause a qualitative drop in His Position, it was still considered a rare success. The only pity was Immortal Monarch of Tribulation, who was hiding somewhere unknown. Even though he had evaded Bhagavat’s search, he ultimately failed to escape with his life. By now, his body and soul had likely been completely annihilated.
Bhagavat cast one last look at the Great Net of Karma Links.
There, the grid symbolizing the era seventy thousand years ago had been completely shattered. Only drifting, loose karmic links remained, and it would likely take a very long time for them to recover.
In the next second, all the Mighty Power of the Master of Dao dissipated.
The Great Net of Karma Links returned to tranquility once more. The dim cosmos fell entirely silent without the slightest sound. A long time passed just like this—until a wave of Mighty Power suddenly descended.
The Saint Sect Ancestral Master!
This wielder of Constant had actually cast His gaze down once again! He inspected the damaged Great Net of Karma Links several more times, only withdrawing His sight after confirming everything was perfectly in order.
Another moment passed.
The Mighty Power of a Master of Dao descended once more!
This time it was Bhagavat. Just like the Saint Sect Ancestral Master, he meticulously scanned through the Great Net of Karma Links before finally withdrawing his consciousness in slight disappointment.
Similar situations occurred back and forth three more times.
Only after the third pass did all phenomena completely die out. The Great Net of Karma Links settled into dull stillness, leaving only the damaged karmic links to slowly re-establish their connections.
In the gloom, Lü Yang’s consciousness gradually regained clarity from the earth-shattering waves of destruction. He faintly woke up, but still felt as though he were hopelessly trapped in a nightmare.
He cursed inwardly, “What the fuck… The Saint Sect Ancestral Master fights completely dirty!
“If He couldn’t find me, He just nukes the entire fucking board? How is this any different from realizing you can’t win halfway through a chess game and just smashing the chessboard over your opponent’s head?
“Is He even human?”
In that brief instant just now, Lü Yang was almost ready to respawn into his next life. But right as the light fell, one of his Talent Skills lit up completely out of the blue.
Got a Pair!
To be honest, Lü Yang had been terrified at the time, because the streak of Mana that the Saint Sect Ancestral Master cast down from the Other Shore had clearly exceeded his limits.
Forget about one Great Perfected Lord—even if there were ten, a hundred, or a thousand Great Perfected Lords, once that Mana swept over them, they would be wiped out instantly. There wouldn’t be any suspense about the result. Under such circumstances, Got a Pair could actually be activated? For a moment, Lü Yang even suspected that his Talent Skill had broken.
In the end, however, he still chose to trust it.
Then, he watched as his Talent Skill activated. He began to operate on his own, completely unfurling the karmic links of Yu Zhao Dragon Monarch and hermetically sealing himself inside.
After that, a miracle happened.
All the scenes of karmic links were annihilated, leaving only the karmic links themselves. Hiding within Yu Zhao Dragon Monarch, he actually used this shell to luckily survive!
He thought excitedly, “As expected of the Talent Skill I was born with!”
Clearly, even the Saint Sect Ancestral Master couldn’t have anticipated this move. This was simply because the effect of Cuckoo’s Nest replaced the target’s karmic links from the very root!
As long as he wore this cloak, he was no longer a foreign entity within the Great Net of Karma Links!
After narrowly escaping death, Lü Yang kept turtling inside Yu Zhao Dragon Monarch’s karmic links. He wasn’t in a hurry to come out; he just waited patiently.
The results didn’t betray his expectations. Whether it was Bhagavat or the Saint Sect Ancestral Master, they both liked doubling back for a surprise check. This made Lü Yang even more cautious. Even after three passes, when both Masters of Dao seemed to have genuinely withdrawn their gaze, he didn’t act rashly. Instead, he continued waiting for the karmic links to reshape.
He wasn’t anxious about this at all.
Because there was no distinction of space and Time within the Great Net of Karma Links, no matter how long he stayed here, the point in Time he returned to would still be the exact instant he left.
During the wait, Lü Yang simply started studying Bhagavat’s Plane Creation Technique.
An unknown amount of time passed like this before the drifting karmic links re-established their connections and the great net reshaped. Even up to this moment, the Mighty Power of a Master of Dao still hadn’t manifested again.
Just in case, Lü Yang waited for another two and a half years.
“No rush, patience brings perfection!”
Lü Yang waited just like that, until his Dao Heart issued a warning. Only after realizing that staying any longer would likely cause him to lose his way did he finally stand up and step out from the karmic links he was hiding in.
“The time has come!”
Lü Yang looked around and let out a long howl. Then, the Fruit of Divine-Empyrean Thunder surfaced in his hand, and the three rings of the Overlord-level Dao Weapon, Sheji Master, rotated in tandem.
The final ring lit up with a resounding BOOM.
“After Cuckoo’s Nest, Yu Zhao Dragon Monarch, who was originally bound to die, actually received the blessing of the Dao of Arcane Body, thus resolving his lifespan issue.
“However, out of caution, he ultimately chose to fake his death. No one knew about it; even Old Dragon Monarch was completely unaware. As for Bhagavat’s Unity, it was isolated by Yu Zhao Dragon Monarch’s Perfect Dao Heart, leaving him unable to sense anything either. Thus, he silently and stealthily lived on until seventy thousand years later…”
Altering the cause, changing the result.
He thought, “Zhi Gu Jin!”
The seething, multicolored light fused into one at this moment. It finally landed on Yu Zhao Dragon Monarch’s body, erupting into a blinding, incandescent white radiance.