Chapter 665: Divine Vault Sovereign Appears
Immortal Realm, Great Brahma Heaven.
Buddhist Light was boundless, the sound of Confucian teachings lingered long.
In the common perception, Buddhism and Confucianism were peaceful existences, advocating non-killing and reason, but in the Great Brahma Heaven, this perception was shattered.
The current Great Brahma Heaven was extremely dangerous. Even a top-ranked Golden Immortal like the Netherfire Immortal Lord dared not venture into the Great Brahma Heaven. A single beam of Buddhist Light from the Buddha or a single true word from the Confucius Sage was enough to cause a Golden Immortal to perish, their Dao extinguished.
Only a Primordial Chaos and Limitless Immortal was qualified to set foot in the Great Brahma Heaven.
“Confucius Sage, will you persist in your delusion?” The Buddha sat cross-legged upon a lotus, his expression one of compassion for all living beings, yet his methods were thunderous and extreme.
“The Dao Ancestor is dead. The Divine Vault Sovereign is where the great momentum lies. Why must you struggle so bitterly to hold on?”
“Now the Great Cleansing is proceeding in full force. The myriad heavens and worlds, the Underworld, none can escape the fate of being cleansed. If you now abandon the darkness for the light, submit to the Heavenly Dao, there will still be a place for you in the future Immortal Realm.”
“The Sovereign remembers that you spread the Dao across the myriad heavens and worlds, making a tremendous contribution to its birth and strengthening. Unwilling to kill you, it has thus ordered me to persuade you continuously.”
“If you wear down the Sovereign’s patience, then it will no longer be just me taking action!”
The Confucius Sage splashed ink to form characters, blocking the sound of Buddha, and said slowly, “The Dao Ancestor had the grace of teaching me the Dao. He was both teacher and friend. If he has matters, I must help. If he has enemies, I must avenge.”
“Buddha, the Dao Ancestor also had the grace of discussing the Dao with you, the grace of enlightening you. Have you forgotten all of that?”
“Superficial!” The Buddha revealed the wrathful visage of a Vajra deity. “If both you and I were to preside over the Immortal Realm, the process of destroying the myriad heavens and worlds would be even faster than it is now. For your own selfish reasons, you have delayed the entire plan!”
“Revenge? On what basis do you seek revenge? You and I have fought for nine thousand years without determining a victor. With what do you seek revenge?”
“Just with your mouth?!”
“The Black Tide is about to sweep across the worlds. Our world, other parallel worlds, none can escape the fate of destruction.”
“If we do not destroy the worlds in advance before the Black Tide arrives, ensuring the Divine Vault Sovereign becomes the last one, obtaining the qualification to restart the world and resist the Black Tide, what other way is there?”
“You keep saying you support the Dao Ancestor, that the Immortal Realm should not take action to destroy the myriad heavens and worlds. Then how should we save ourselves?”
“The Dao Ancestor had no second method, he stubbornly resisted to the end, so he died. Do you wish to follow in his footsteps?”
“You are not acting out of ‘righteousness’, but out of ‘foolishness’, out of hypocrisy.”
“Without destruction, there can be no construction. Do you not understand this principle?”
“You spread the Dao across the heavens, opened the spiritual wisdom for humanity, were revered as the Teacher of the Myriad Worlds, yet in the end, you yourself have not learned clearly.”
The Confucius Sage fell silent. Indeed, he knew what the Buddha said was correct. There simply was no second solution. He was just stubbornly resisting, without reason.
Just as the two prepared to continue their battle, they sensed the commotion coming from beneath their feet, and the light that illuminated the entire Immortal Realm.
“The Immortal Emperor has used the Immortal-Burying Spear?”
The two were astonished. What was the Immortal Emperor doing? Who was he fighting?
Other than the Dao Ancestor reviving, who else was worthy of the Immortal Emperor taking up his weapon to fight?
It couldn’t be that the Immortal Emperor had lost his mind and was taking the Immortal-Burying Spear to fight the Divine Vault Sovereign.
That wouldn’t be an Immortal-Burying Spear, but a Heaven-Burying Spear.
The two who had been fighting continuously for nine thousand years unanimously chose to cease hostilities, leaving the Great Brahma Heaven to investigate.
The shock in their eyes was no less than that of the assembled immortals, shocked to the point of almost not daring to believe their own eyes.
What did they see? An unfamiliar cultivator was pressing down on the Immortal Emperor, beating him, each punch heavier than the last, each punch more ruthless than the last.
And this was the Immortal Emperor’s state while being bolstered by the formation of the assembled immortals, equivalent to the power of more than half the Immortal Realm.
The Immortal Emperor was not fighting alone, but together with nearly a thousand Celestial Immortals and dozens of Golden Immortals.
At this moment, the Immortal Emperor had reached an unprecedented realm, his strongest state since attaining the Dao, his most glorious moment.
A Primordial Chaos and Limitless Immortal, chaos as one, the beginning of primordial energy, was the ultimate degree a living being could achieve.
The Immortal Emperor had comprehended the rules of life evolution and was most familiar with this. His current state was reaching the limit of a living being, with no room for improvement.
This was also the most miserable time for the Immortal Emperor since attaining the Dao, his face bruised and swollen, half his front teeth knocked out.
If not for the fact that both of them were Primordial Chaos and Limitless Immortals, with supreme eyesight that could see the Immortal Emperor had reached his limit, an outsider seeing the Immortal Emperor in such a wretched state would never believe he was the strongest in the Immortal Realm.
The Immortal Emperor was like a phoenix soaring through the heavens, encountering Jiang Li, having its feathers plucked and falling into the water, becoming a drowned chicken.
The assembled immortals formed their formation, sharing their power with the Immortal Emperor. The Immortal Emperor shared his injuries with the assembled immortals. The assembled immortals vomited blood in great mouthfuls, their internal organs turning into pus that flowed from their seven orifices, an exceptionally gruesome sight.
The assembled immortals used their merit to repair their bodies, only to be shattered again by Jiang Li, over and over, with no strength left to resist.
A single person’s strength suppressing the entire Immortal Realm, not even myths and legends would dare to fabricate such a tale.
The terror and fear in the Immortal Emperor’s heart could not be described in words.
How could there possibly be such a powerful person in the world? Surpassing a Primordial Chaos and Limitless Immortal, surpassing the limits of life, reaching an unprecedented realm, strong enough to wrestle with the Divine Vault Sovereign.
Could life truly defy the heavens?
This person’s strength absolutely had nothing to do with the embryonic Heavenly Dao of the Nine Provinces. Even if the embryonic Heavenly Dao were sacrificed, such power could not be obtained.
If the Immortal Emperor was terrified, then the Executor of Karma among the assembled immortals was so frightened he wanted to kill himself.
He had originally thought to let Jiang Li and the Immortal Emperor wound each other, or for Jiang Li to be killed by the Immortal Emperor, so that no one would hold him accountable.
Now it seemed Jiang Li’s ferocity far exceeded expectations. The Immortal Emperor was simply not his match.
What kind of monster had he inadvertently nurtured?!
“Sovereign, save me!” the Immortal Emperor shouted, his cry for help piercing through the thirty-six heavens, reaching the heavens beyond heavens, the Divine Vault Sovereign’s seclusion place.
Dong, dong, dong—
As the Immortal Emperor’s cry for help faded, majestic bell sounds came from beyond the heavens, like heavenly music, intoxicating to hear.
It was as if these bell sounds had continued from ancient times to the present, never interrupted, and also as if these bell sounds came from within the heart, always echoing in the ears, only now realized belatedly that there were bell sounds within the heart.
“Qiongxiao, why have you interrupted my seclusion?” That person spoke the Immortal Emperor’s true name.
The bell sounds transformed into human speech, reverberating in the hearts of all present.
A plainly dressed person stepped through the heavens. With each step that person took, boundless water automatically rose beneath their feet, supporting them.
That person was untainted by worldly dust, expressionless, with delicate skin and neutral features, indistinguishable as male or female.
Whoever saw that person, their first thought would be of the most beautiful things in the world.
That person was beautiful to the extreme, their charm transcending gender, transcending species, transcending time, the embodiment of all beauty.
If the Mortal World Celestial’s beauty was uncontrollable extreme beauty, then this person was extreme beauty under perfect control.
Jiang Li recognized this person at a glance.
“Divine Vault Sovereign.”
The Divine Vault Sovereign’s gaze swept over the pleading Immortal Emperor, the Buddha and Confucius Sage who had ceased fighting, and finally rested on Jiang Li.
The Divine Vault Sovereign frowned slightly. “You are a very strange person. All living beings of the myriad heavens are under my control. Why is it only now, upon seeing you, that I know of someone like you? Even with you right before me, your karma is exceptionally vague, difficult to see clearly. What exactly is your origin?”
This was the first time the Divine Vault Sovereign had encountered a living being it could not see through.
“All living beings of the myriad heavens must follow the rules of life evolution, divided into these twelve levels: mortal, Qi Refining, Foundation Building, Golden Core, Nascent Soul, Spirit Transformation, Unity, Transcending Tribulation, Earthly Immortal, Celestial Immortal, Golden Immortal, and Primordial Chaos and Limitless Immortal. Unless you are not within these twelve levels.”
The Divine Vault Sovereign was constrained by the Nine Great Rules, but at the same time, under the premise of not violating the Nine Great Rules, it was an invincible existence with infinite authority.
Logically, there should be no one outside its control.
Strange.