Questioning Heaven, Desiring the Way - Chapter 186

Su Yuqing slammed a palm against his scabbard. The entire space trembled, and a ringing sound filled the air. He was slowly retracting his sword domain.

He wanted to salvage the sword domain before Gu Suihan drained it of all its fiendish sword qi. Otherwise, everything he had done before this would go to waste.

ROAR! The gigantic sinister shadow that seemed to blot out the sun could sense what Su Yuqing was doing and immediately let out a roar. A giant hand that measured at least a hundred meters in demonic qi and was comprised of vengeful souls came toward the older man.

“Humph!” Su Yuqing used his sword to draw a long river of sword qi in the air, then spun around to turn it into an enormous sword that he used to swing at Gu Suihan.

“Block him!” Gu Suihan’s weak voice suddenly rang inside Marahu’s head as he hesitated.

Marahu glanced at Gu Suihan and made a decision. Pfft! He raised his spear and thrust it at Su Yuqing’s back.

“Are you nuts? Don’t you know what a fiendish spirit is? Don’t you know how much damage this thing can inflict on the world?” Su Yuqing barely managed to dodge the sneak attack and turned to stare at the devil in disbelief.

Marahu didn’t say anything as his gaze flickered slightly. The strange symbol on his body began to flow like water. At the same time, a blood-red moon slowly rose from his back. A green snake rested on top of the moon and stared sinisterly at Su Yuqing. The way it flicked its tongue was able to make one feel a chill deep in their bones.

When Su Yuqing saw Marahu’s reaction, he only had to think for a few seconds before guessing what this devil was up to. His expression turned frosty as he spat disdainfully, “Your ambition is…pretty great, but just like how a snake dreams of swallowing an elephant whole, it’s just wishful thinking on your part!”

He raised his sword, and it collided violently against the tip of Marahu’s spear, which flickered nonstop like a snake flicking its tongue. The veins on the hands he used to grip his sword were bulging. He was clearly very, very angry.

“The dark waters of the Huangquan River ebb quietly, under the Naihe Bridge, to the other side. Any consequences, karma, debts…shall be left entirely to fate.”

Gu Suihan did his best to calm his heart down. His spirit inside his consciousness sat on his heart-soul with a solemn look on its face. A six paths of reincarnation Sanskrit diagram slowly began to gather at the back of his mind. The blood-red color that glowed with violence and the dao runes that gave off murderous qi slowly dissipated. A gentle golden glow stood in its place, giving off a positive qi from the universe, a glow that radiated with righteousness.

The boundless sea of blood that surrounded his spirit was slowly corroded and transformed into wisps of green smoke. The sea of blood that was formed by countless stubborn, evil, and other messy thoughts slowly turned into nothingness. At the same time, the demonic shadow that had been absorbing all the fiendish sword qi from the sword domain gave out a howl that sounded a little panicky. It looked down in shock at that tiny person below who was no bigger than an ant to it, yet he was like a tiny spark that had landed in a pool of gasoline.

“Fiendish qi…killing qi…murderous qi…are all associated aspects of the laws of nature governing massacres. Since I was able to kill all of you back then, the same can be said about now.”

Gu Suihan’s clear voice suddenly resounded in space as he stared at the fiendish spirit with those darkened eyes that could bore a hole through the universe. The fiendish spirit that had become sentient from absorbing demonic qi couldn’t help but feel fear.

“You must know that at the end of the day, you’re just a combined body that is a physical manifestation of the millions of karma I carry.” Gu Suihan’s lips parted and curled into a cold and malicious smile.

In that instant, his blade trembled slightly and hummed. The blood runes slowly rotated, and different parts of the blade began to sparkle with a white light that resembled brilliant stars.

The tadpole-sized runes began to gather into a strange and mysterious formation diagram that filled the fiendish spirit with terror.

“This is the Fiendish Qi Gathering Spirit Trapping Formation!”

This was the formation that Gu Suihan had come up with after the massacre in Qingguo had gone a little awry. That was why he turned his sword into a saber at Youthful Clarity Sect. He wanted to carve this formation into the blade.

“EEEK!” The fiendish spirit started to panic, and it couldn’t hide the terror in its eyes as it stared at the saber that looked like a toothpick in relation to its large size. Demonic qi gathered, and a giant hand made from vengeful souls came crashing down violently toward Gu Suihan.

The fiendish spirit glared angrily and hatefully at Gu Suihan. It howled mightily as it raised a chilling fiendish wind, opening its seemingly borderless and bottomless mouth that was at black as ink. The mouth lunged for Gu Suihan as it threatened to vacuum everything in its way.

“Too late.” Gu Suihan’s lips curled into a relaxed smile.

The spirit that had nearly been swallowed by the vengeful thoughts surrounding it was now suddenly giving off an imposing aura that was complex and filled with mystery.

The formation diagram on the saber’s blade suddenly lit up. It was like a whale swallowing water, like a black hole that could gobble up any creature, as it displayed an incredible suction power from nowhere.

The fiendish spirit roared and glared venomously at Gu Suihan as it struggled continuously while being sucked into the formation diagram on the saber. The only thing left in the sword domain was the echoes of its wails and sad cries.

Woong! The blade couldn’t help but tremble. The formation runes on it couldn’t stop falling apart, and the laws of nature around it couldn’t stop exploding. The blade gave off a hum that sounded like a whine, as though it couldn’t take it anymore.

“Relax. This is just an appetizer.”

Gu Suihan put his saber back in its sheath and ignored the trembling of the fiendish qi as it struggled to break free of the formation. He looked up at Marahu, and Su Yuqing, who were still fighting away, and his lips curled into a frosty smile.

He then casually took a storage bag out of his coat. It looked ordinary and old, and the design on it had faded long ago.

Su Yuqing had been fighting nonstop with Marahu all this time, but he had covered the entire sword domain with his spiritual sense, so everything that Gu Suihan did could not escape him. When he noticed what Gu Suihan was doing, he couldn’t help but wonder what the young man was up to.

“Marahu, get ready!”

Gu Suihan noticed Su Yuqing’s more careful actions in response and smiled faintly. He was in no hurry. He proceeded to take out a stack of exploding talismans from his storage ring and stuck them onto the storage bag.

Once he was done doing that, he flung the bag toward where Marahu and Su Yuqing were fighting like he was throwing a hand grenade.

“What is that thing?” Su Yuqing had a bad feeling about this and looked a little uneasily at the storage bag that didn’t do anything.

“Keep fighting him. I’ll come over to help you.” Gu Suihan tread on the five elements in the air and ran upward with large and confident steps.

Marahu had no idea what Gu Suihan was trying to do, but he instinctively hid the doubtful look in his eyes deep in his heart instead. After Gu Suihan gave the instruction, he roared loudly and raised his spear.

Meanwhile, Gu Suihan suddenly froze in his step for a moment to leave an afterimage in that spot that was difficult to discern if it was real or not, while he leaped right back to where he came from. The wisp of spiritual sense he left on the storage bag that he had flung earlier ignited all the exploding talismans.

KABOOM! An explosion hit Su Yuqing and Marahu’s ears, and they instinctively turned to look at the storage bag, only to see something that nearly paralyzed them.

As the talismans exploded, the violent shockwaves instantly caused the formation runes on the storage bag to crumble.

The sound of glass shattering resounded continuously as the storage bag turned to ash. In its place were cracks in spacetime that were as densely packed as a spiderweb.

The cracks were like a mouth ready to gobble someone up. They led to an endless void and a freezing wind came blowing out from it. Yet at the same time, it had a strange suction power that was trying to suck Marahu and Su Yuqing in.

“You traitor! Betrayer! Untrustworthy fellow!” roared Marahu. His eyes bulged and he bared his fangs as he couldn’t stop himself from being sucked slowly into the cracks.

“You’re…a vicious one!” Su Yuqing’s reaction wasn’t as vehement, but his heart was cold as he looked at Gu Suihan with a conflicted look in his eyes. The hateful look on his chiseled face said more than his words.

“Bon voyage, both of you.” Gu Suihan had a relaxed smile on his face as he even started waving goodbye to them.

“Gu…Sui…HAAAAN….”

As the cracks swallowed them up, their miserable voices faded as well.

Without its owner at its helm, Su Yuqing’s sword domain fell apart immediately. Gu Suihan felt dizzy for a moment before finding himself back at the well that sealed off the Devil Abyss.

“Cultivation doesn’t improve the brain, huh.” Gu Suihan used a hand to stop the saber on his belt from vibrating. He looked up at the darkened eye in the sky and gave it a mysterious little smile.

He had merely used a little trick earlier. It was too bad that the cultivators in this world had never seen or heard of this trick before.

All he had done was to make use of the instant when the exploding talismans exploded to make the spacetime runes on the storage bag explode as well. Cracks of differing sizes in space time would appear based on how strong or weak the laws of space in the place the bag was in were.

Most of the time, this technique killed both the one who executed it and the target. After all, if you were stuck in your enemy’s domain and you couldn’t defeat your enemy, the best you could do was to bring your enemy down with you. So, this technique was actually a really nasty one. But whether one managed to pull it off or not also depended highly on luck.

If Su Yuqing hadn’t just managed to create a sword domain and its laws were therefore not stable, plus it had been weakened by the fiendish spirit sucking up most of its fiendish sword qi, Gu Suihan couldn’t possibly have succeeded either.

“Brains can’t compare to luck!”

Just then, an icy and sinister voice that sounded like the winds from hell quietly rang out from behind Gu Suihan.

Gu Suihan’s face froze and he covered 300 meters in one second as he ran toward the well that had crumbled.

He realized whose voice that was. That was…You Hantian’s voice!

Author’s note:

There are two possibilities for the next chapter.

1) Gu Suihan escapes into the Devil Abyss again

2) Gu Suihan lures You Hantian into the Devil Abyss, tricks the Evil Ghost, seals off the Devil Abyss temporarily, goes to the Seven Kill Sect, then goes to the Upper World…

Oh me oh my! What should I do? What should I do??!