1267: Chapter 373 Stealing the Heavens 1267: Chapter 373 Stealing the Heavens As Thai Zu transmitted his voice, Su He felt an attracting force landing on him.
Without struggle, he leapt forward along with the force.
Before his eyes
A sky-reaching finger descended with overwhelming force, and in an instant, the whole world was left with nothing but a single finger.
The breath that could destroy all and the essence of all life surged over simultaneously.
There were no stars, no flow of time, only that world-annihilating finger—not a metaphor, but a literal description.
If this finger pointed outward, even a major world would be extinguished in the blink of an eye.
A sea-like, abyss-deep breath pressed down, leaving Su He unable to move, his True Yuan felt as if it had solidified, and he could not mobilize it at all.
He could face the Sealed Emperor Great Ancestor without missing a beat, but in front of this finger, he couldn’t even circulate his True Yuan—not a matter of courage, but a disparity in Boundary Status, a disparity in power!
Just like an ant, held down by a finger, all its strength would be futile.
Death was imminent!
Su He’s expression changed suddenly.
Was it not Thai Zu who called for him, but the Yuan Finger that mimicked Thai Zu to trick him here?!
Su He roared, and automatically a pangolin materialized on his back, jumping up above his head.
Taozu Finger Bone shone as bright as the sun in an instant.
Light shone over his entire body, like a trace of warmth in winter.
The frozen True Yuan slowly started to circulate again.
But it wasn’t enough!
Far from enough!
In the face of such power, this tiny rate of circulating True Yuan was far from sufficient to even form a proper resistance.
Still going to die!
Previously, fighting the Ancestor of the Dou Yuan Sovereign, cutting down the Second Ancestor of the Sealed Emperor, and resisting the Sealed Emperor Great Ancestor, made Su He feel somewhat aloft.
It seemed as if he really could dominate the Immortal Honored Battlefield, even his mindset started to change.
But this single finger shattered his pride instantly.
It wasn’t his own power, after all, not his own.
The pangolin automatically shielded its master, offering a struggle.
The Taozu Finger Bone, needless to say, was already flashing, ready to counter at any time.
And yet, he, the master, couldn’t control it under these circumstances.
The enemy killed without hesitation, he had the Treasure Sword, but he couldn’t lift it or wield it…
If he were a real Immortal Sovereign, even if outmatched… at least he would have the means to bite this finger, wouldn’t he?
What’s fake will always be fake…
Su He smiled bitterly, exerting his full strength to slash forward, the sword light turning into a waning moon, but upon striking the Yuan Finger, it did not manage to even leave a fingerprint.
The gap was too large!
Su He panted, watching the finger pressing down, then he heard a voice from behind.
Bang!
It sounded like a footstep, and with it, the surrounding stars stirred, spinning into a vortex, pulling that earth-shattering finger into it.
Su He turned his head, only to see Thai Zu lying lazily behind him.
“Elder master!” Su He was astonished.
You’re here!
You’re in here, yet you let that finger scare me?!
After the great joy passed, his eyes were full of silent accusation.
Here, where even his True Yuan could not be mobilized and Divine Sense dared not to extend outside his body, his attention was all obscured by the finger, and he had not noticed Thai Zu behind him—indeed, he wouldn’t find it disadvantageous, for Thai Zu was always non-existent in his consciousness; he could only see him, but not perceive him.
Thai Zu blinked: “I pulled you here, and you just started shouting at that finger.
I thought you wanted to test its weight, so I left you the battlefield.”
Su He: “…”
This was his own elder master; he couldn’t curse at him!
He choked for a while and looked around.
The shattered stars around him were unchanged, still in the same place.
However, Tao Master and the others had disappeared, as if Thai Zu had pulled them into that space where they had a quiet conversation.
In front of him, Thai Zu lay in the starry sky, holding up the sky and suppressing the earth, still with his usual unrushed demeanor, but his dim old eyes twinkled with starlight, gazing across.
Countless stars behind Su He crossed each other, refining earth, water, wind, and fire.
They formed a vortex similar to the North Underworld, within which the finger was imprisoned.
Then they heard Thai Zu say one word: “Collapse!”
The vortex, stars, and the Laws, along with the finger within them, shattered at the same time, instantly turning into nothingness.
Su He was overjoyed, but before he could speak, the fragmented finger started to reassemble.
With a bend and a flick, it stretched out towards Su He.
That suffocating sense of impending death returned, and Su He, propped by the pangolin, quickly sidestepped, avoiding the finger.
Behind him, Thai Zu made a surprised noise, “Don’t want to try anymore?”
Su He: “… I’ll die!”
He would really die!
Thai Zu laughed heartily, stepped forward in front of Su He, and with a sweep of his paw, slapped down with tremendous force onto the finger, knocking it back.
The collision of paw and finger made no extraneous force disperse, yet Su He could feel it, that even with the pangolin’s support, a mere scrape by such might would mean certain death.
All ten of him combined would have no chance of survival.
After Thai Zu’s paw struck the finger, he stepped down in sequence and the entire starry sky began to spin, re-forming the supporting vortex, imprisoning the finger within it once again.
The stars, like sand in water, rotated and smashed onto the finger, grinding it into fragments which then again collapsed.
This time Su He saw it clearly.
It wasn’t just the finger that perished, but also the expanse of the starry sky from before.
But then, as a candle would be lit, that starry sky brightened up once more.
The finger also reformed anew.
It was still translucent, the young woman inside expressionless.
Su He: “?”
He was certain that in that moment the finger had truly perished thoroughly, dead beyond death!
There was no reverse flow of time here, but everything went back to before!
“Elder master?” Su He asked softly.
Thai Zu chuckled: “Scared, little guy?
Don’t worry, elder master has already suppressed him more than nine hundred times.
He can’t stir up any waves, it’s just that elder master cannot erase him completely, that’s all.”