935: Chapter 262: The War Before Ancient Times_2 935: Chapter 262: The War Before Ancient Times_2 This Phoenix, Su He recognized half, which resembled seven parts of the Phoenix that carried on its back countless Phoenix Mountains, the entire inheritance from the Phoenix Nest!
But even such a Phoenix, under that giant palm, was like nothing more than a Grey Falcon.
The palm lifted and stilled for a moment in the clouds.
A voice fell from above.
“Kneel!”
This voice was extremely awkward, not a real language, it was like mountains collapsing, like Heavenly Thunder, but its meaning was just this.
Beneath it, Su He and Ji Feixue simultaneously changed color.
One man and one turtle vomited a mouthful of blood each.
Two Silver Needles flew out of Ji Feixue’s body, piercing her eardrums in an instant.
Seeing Su He shaking his head in the face of this unparalleled pressure, Silver Needles flew and instantly pierced Su He’s ears.
The voice within the illusion grew weaker, but his Sea of Consciousness still thundered wave after wave.
Next to them, the Toad and the Fox both screamed at the same time, burrowing into the Sea of Consciousness of the two.
Su He and Ji Feixue vomited another mouthful of blood, as if the entire heavens and earth had crashed into their minds, threatening to shatter their skulls.
In the illusion, the command to “kneel” had been completed, yet the two of them still couldn’t bear it, as if the voice had been sealed in their minds.
Ji Feixue clutched her head and looked towards Su He.
The one who uttered that voice was the owner of the palm!
The boundary status was too high, far beyond what Su He and Ji Feixue could endure.
Even though it was just an image, a scene impressed upon them, it was still unbearable for them!
This illusion should not have been released at this time!
One at Stepping Sky Five-fold and the other at Opening Heaven Three-fold, they were far from being able to draw down such an influence.
Was it because their combat power was too high, so high that the passage thought they had reached Stepping Sky Seven-fold?
Or did the two of them entering together trigger an accident!
“Retreat!” Su He shouted urgently, but Ji Feixue could no longer hear, her ears pierced, unable to hear anything but the command to “kneel” from the illusion.
But from Su He’s eyes, she knew what he was saying.
They leapt back but found they could not leave the illusion!
The grade of this Illusion Realm was too high.
“Kneel!” The voice that could break the heavens and the earth composed this strange Tao Rhythm, Su He and Ji Feixue retreated explosively, their faces changed again, and both man and turtle’s ears oozed blood at the same time.
Ji Feixue’s figure transformed into a White Dragon in an attempt to resist with her dragon body, but as soon as she changed, it was as if she were struck by a heavy blow, her entire Dragon Body smashed into the ground, the command “kneel” causing even greater damage to her Dragon Body!
Su He roared while a faint voice in his mind began to rise, “Hence…
fierce winds do not blow all morning…
sudden rains do not last all day…
who causes these?
Heaven and earth…”
The Tao Te Ching recited itself spontaneously.
It emanated from his mind, filling the entire illusion.
A ripping sound echoed in his mind, as if something had shattered.
That incessant “kneel” command was then chased out by the resounding Tao Te Ching throughout his mind.
The Origin!
Was that commanding voice to “kneel” from the Origin?!
At the very least it was a force related to the Origin!
The Sealed Emperor Great Ancestor from the Great Sun Tomb!
Su He didn’t know why he suddenly thought of the pitch-black Great Sun in the tomb, where he had fought Ji Feixue, which also carried this rhythm, only it was much weaker, disrupted by Ji Feixue with the help of the red sun.
Right now, in the present, Ji Feixue was facing such an existence in the Great Sun Tomb—was she not yet at this level, facing an entity that wished to become such a being?
The object Tai Zu wanted me to steal back, could it resist such a being?
The Tao Te Ching echoed through his mind, and the voice to “kneel” was pushed back.
Su He turned his head and saw the collapsed Ji Feixue on the ground.
A flow of water quickly wrapped her up, coiling her around him as the Tao Te Ching flowed from his mouth.
It still came out as a whisper, yet this whisper wasn’t soft at all, sounding like a bell or a drum, echoing in all directions.
The sound struck Ji Feixue’s mind over and over.
Before long, a phantom on Ji Feixue’s body was shattered.
The White Dragon twitched and once again turned into a human form, falling onto Su He’s Shell.
Life Energy flashed in her ears, and her punctured eardrums had recovered.
She looked down at Su He in shock.
Such a voice, such a Tao Rhythm—this was the most primitive Great Tao between heaven and earth!
Is this Dragon Turtle the child of Heaven and Earth?
How could such a thing be mastered by someone?
Unless there was an existence that transcended heaven and earth, whose stature stood above heaven and earth, explicating the Great Tao personally.
She was astonished, then heard a Phoenix’s cry within the illusion, scattering the “kneel” composed of various noises.
Looking up, she saw the Phoenix floating in the air, fluttering its wings, its head held high, “All Heavens may bow, but we, the Phoenix Clan, do not bow!”
With a long cry, it spread its wings to soar, carrying a sense of facing death without fear, charging towards the giant palm with a resolve to perish together.
The giant palm pressed down.
In an instant, heaven and earth disappeared, the whole world turned into nothingness, leaving only a palm that could suppress heavens and obliterate earth, and a rebellious phoenix rising defiantly against the heavens.
“Better to be a broken jade than a whole tile,” it held its honor over survival without a second thought.
The phoenix and the palm collided thunderously, and in an instant, the whole world of nothingness was enveloped by the Phoenix True Fire, scattering celestial flames.
The giant palm scorched, the phoenix wailed in agony.
But at that moment, a turtle’s roar sounded, a dragon head tore through the void, a Dragon Turtle burst into the battlefield, its Turtle Shell flying off its back to strike the giant palm, repelling it and protecting the Phoenix.
“Old Phoenix, since when has my Dragon Turtle Tribe ever bowed to enemies?” the Dragon Turtle roared.
Then, an Azure Dragon followed through the rift torn by the Dragon Turtle, its mouth releasing a Dragon Ball towards the giant hand in the sky.
“Old bird, you slander my Dragon clan, I’ll break your Hundred Thousand Great Mountains!” the Azure Dragon glanced up at the Phoenix.
Another voice followed, “Count me in, I’ve long found those Hundred Thousand Great Mountains a nuisance, might as well move a few back to make a nest!”
After this voice, yet another spoke, “I have no interest in the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains, I just want to cut down that thing above our heads.”
With that, a Kylin and a White Tiger charged in.
The White Tiger had wings on its back and fangs sharp as swords.
Upon entering, it eyed the giant hand in the sky, not bothering to conceal its murderous intent and roared as it soared towards the heavens.
The Dragon Turtle shook its head, seemingly muttering “dumb cargo,” but then it too took off towards the sky.
At the same time, the five Divine God Beasts charged toward the heavens.
The giant hand above the Nine Heavens erupted with angry energy and descended with a crushing blow.
As the anger surged, Su He felt the sky collapse and the earth shatter, the sound of Tao Te Ching in his mouth grew louder, resisting the fury and observing the Illusion Realm.
There, the five Divine God Beasts and the giant palm collided fiercely, yet not producing the colossal boom one would expect.
Instead, the entire world turned white.
Where the eyes could see, there was nothing, nothing could be heard.
After an unknown amount of time, the white light dissipated revealing a bare palm receding.
In the sky, five finger-like columns that reached for the heavens crumbled.
Yet, the figures of the five Divine God Beasts were nowhere to be seen.
The illusion shattered bit by bit, disappearing without a trace, and the world reverted to the tomb corridor of the Evil-suppressing Taoist Palace.
Su He and Ji Feixue fell into silence, even the toad and the fox sat stunned and speechless.
The Evil-suppressing Taoist Palace was not a place of illusion, but one that carried the secrets of the All Heavens and Myriad Realms that once were.
What had just transpired was indeed an event of the past.
Su He could tell that, whether it was the Phoenix head or the Divine Beasts that arrived later, they probably all possessed combat power no less than Thai Zu.
But whose hand was that?
Another origin source?
What period did this event take place?
Su He did not recognize the Dragon Turtle, presumably even older than Mingzu.
He had never seen him in the Dragon Turtle Ancestral Land during Ancient times, especially in that era where there were Tiger Type Divine Beasts comparable to the ancient patriarchs of various species.
An event from the Heavenly Court Period?
Or perhaps the period between the fall of the Heavenly Court and Ancient times?
Su He had always been unaware of how the Heavenly Court had perished.
For Baiyin, the Heavenly Court was already in the times of Ancient Times, its many secrets had become unverifiable.
Perhaps Mingzu knew, Su He didn’t know whether Thai Zu knew, the Old turtle had too many secrets.
A good while passed before everyone came back to their senses.
Su He turned to look at Ji Feixue, just as he was about to speak, he heard Ji Feixue say, “Don’t speak of it!”
That giant hand was clearly not dead, merely having its five fingers broken off.
Thus, such a being would sense even an attempted discussion of it.
She jumped down from Su He’s Shell, “If you want to know, you can ask Thai Zu.
That Azure Dragon, I recognize him, he is the father of the current Dragon tribe ancestors.
Long since vanished, but there are records in the Dragon Gate.”
The Four Spirits Divine God Beasts, each with their own legacy.
The Phoenix Ancestor of the Phoenix Clan has lived for an indiscernibly long time, surviving from who knows which epoch.
Meanwhile, the Dragon clan’s lineage is unbroken, one generation after the next, with each dragon leaving its heritage and records in the Dragon Gate.
As for the Dragon Turtle—Ji Feixue only knew that they once nearly faced extinction.
Reportedly, there was a time when the Dragon Turtle Tribe was the foremost among All Heavens and Myriad Realms, with countless Dragon Turtles within the Tribe.
Yet, there was a long period when only Thai Zu, a lone Dragon Turtle, was alive.