866: Chapter 232: Speculations About Mingzu_3 866: Chapter 232: Speculations About Mingzu_3 To execute Phoenix Chao Fei, the power of Heavenly Punishment was instantly boosted to the extreme.
At that moment, Phoenix Chao Fei had escaped the predicament with the help of a Soul Beast, and the half-formed Heavenly Punishment immediately took shape—it was already sufficient to kill Su He alone.
As the Soul Beast faced destruction, Phoenix Chao Fei disappeared and reappeared in the midst of a vast mountain range, no Heavenly Punishment in pursuit.
Her Heavenly Punishment was lifted.
She was never the original target of the Heavenly Punishment.
The moment Phoenix Chao Fei appeared, she immediately cried out, “Youngest one!
Tell the Old Phoenix, if it doesn’t show up, the little Peacock will surely die!”
Urgency laced the chill in Phoenix Chao Fei’s voice.
In the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains, a phoenix’s cry echoed, and the Third Ancestor opened his eyes.
…
Using a Soul Beast as a substitute to deceive Heavenly Punishment?
Su He turned and looked towards the Toad.
The Toad was taken aback, immediately clenching its teeth in anger, “I’ll kill you!”
“You are the real target of the Heavenly Punishment, how could you escape so easily!
Phoenix Chao Fei was just incidental!”
The Toad’s voice yelled directly into Su He’s heart, the transmission instant.
Phoenix Chao Fei hadn’t triggered any laws, she was just brought along!
Of course, if she had left a step later, once the Heavenly Punishment fully formed, she would have inevitably become its direct target as well.
“Don’t hold back, take out any powerful explosives you have!
Power up the Star Ring, and let’s get out of here!”
Su He cried out urgently.
Just then, Heavenly Punishment suddenly struck down from above, and the Toad, caught in the middle of searching, shockingly looked up, his eyes filled with perplexity.
Where would it get such things!
The moment it appeared, Su He had already transmitted the thought.
If it really had something similar, it would have used it long ago!
As the Heavenly Punishment struck down directly, the Toad gave a wry smile and instead zipped up his pocket, offering Su He a smile, “Hey…”
It was about to speak, yet at that moment, the starry sky above the Undamaged Realm was suddenly torn open by a massive entity.
A Dragon Head emerged.
Tai Zu leaned forth, emitting a long chant, and instantly a beam of light from his mouth struck the Heavenly Punishment, shattering the devastating Heavenly Punishment that had forced Phoenix Chao Fei to flee merely with its aura.
With one strike shattering the Heavenly Punishment, Tai Zu was relentless; the beam did not extinguish but ascended against the direction from which the Heavenly Punishment had come, striking fiercely into the Tribulation Cloud above.
The beam was silent yet seemed like the most intense scorching entity between heaven and earth, gradually melting away the Tribulation Cloud bit by bit.
At this moment, Su He sensed no aura, but the beam shot by Tai Zu gave him a feeling as if it aimed to tear the very fabric of this realm from its roots.
To completely destroy this universe.
Su He stared in astonishment at Tai Zu.
The location of the Undamaged Realm is where Baiyin Star Fishing occurs, a forbidden zone of the Fu River from ancient times, connected to the Star River in the Star Sea.
Tai Zu’s true form had always been within the Star Sea, still sealed within the Three Drums.
Was this a forceful breaking of the seal, opening the connection, and charging down forcefully?
This was the first time Su He saw Tai Zu’s true form.
Even at a distance through the starry sky, he could sense the endless Dragon Turtle Qi rolling in, suppressing the entire starry sky.
Tai Zu hadn’t directly descended into the All Heavens and Myriad Realms, only thrusting the Dragon Head in, and through the division of the worlds, Su He could see bolts of Thunder striking upon Tai Zu.
This was punishment for his forceful intrusion into the Lower Realm.
Although not Heavenly Punishment, each bolt was vastly more powerful than the Heavenly Punishment brought forth by Su He and Phoenix Chao Fei.
Had it fallen on Su He, it would have been no different from Heavenly Punishment.
Unperturbed, Tai Zu merely stared at the starry sky above Su He’s location, where the recently dispersed Tribulation Cloud reappeared.
The essence of Heavenly Punishment again revealed itself.
Su He felt a chill in his heart, just as a cold gleam flashed through Tai Zu’s eyes, and he declared aloud, “Disperse!”
This command seemed like the Heavenly Charter itself, causing the swirling Tribulation Cloud gathering in the starry sky to indeed no longer coalesce, struggling…
and dissipating.
Su He was stunned, the scene felt eerily familiar.
In ancient times, it had been the same celestial pressure that Baiyin had dispersed with a single shout of “Begone.”
Back when he had just entered the second level of Opening The Heaven, Xuanwu was also clueless, understanding nothing.
He had felt that Baiyin was incredibly domineering.
Now, as his Tao Cultivation had improved and he had stepped onto the Way of the Xuanwu, his perception of Tai Zu was entirely different.
The point wasn’t to scold the heavens and earth, but in the instant Tai Zu spoke, the laws around him burst forth, seemingly breaking through the heavens, shattering the laws of the star space around Su He.
Yet, this burst didn’t damage the heavens and earth—it was as if, in that instant, Tai Zu’s will had replaced that of the heavens and earth.
In that moment, Tai Zu was the world!
He said that Su He had not touched the rules, and naturally, the tribulation clouds dispersed.
At his command, the heavens and earth returned to clarity.
Tai Zu looked down at Su He, who swiped his paw and swam towards Tai Zu.
As he neared and saw the thunder striking Tai Zu, he opened his mouth but didn’t know what to say.
Tai Zu shook his head, “No harm, even the heavens of the Upper Realm need tidying!”
Su He immediately burst into laughter.
Was the ancestor always this domineering?
Su He looked at Tai Zu, who chuckled, “In the future, if you want to speak, first envelop yourself with the Star Ring, let the power of Xuanwu permeate, or do it within your own Inner World, then you need not worry.”
Traversing time… Of course, it’s nothing for ordinary people to say, since nobody can do it, let alone shout it linked with heaven and earth.
But Su He couldn’t!
He truly could do it!
The Star Ring around Su He instantly manifested, enveloping him, he looked up at Tai Zu, “I’m sorry for causing trouble for the ancestor.”
Tai Zu laughed heartily, looking at Su He as if seeing a naive young man, “If the younger generation doesn’t cause trouble, what do you need an old ancestor for?”
Su He was taken aback and then laughed.
What Tai Zu said made too much sense, he didn’t know how to argue.
He only looked at Tai Zu and asked, “Ancestor, how is it that I can traverse time without being struck, but get stricken when I speak of it?”
Time is a forbidden domain for cultivators; shouldn’t heavenly punishment descend the moment one grasps time?
Tai Zu smiled, “The higher your realm, the more secrets you touch, the more you’ll realize… what White Spirit said about the two origins, must be true!”
Tai Zu’s voice was ethereal, “Perhaps one origin governs time but doesn’t object to you stepping out of the time stream.
And the other simply does not allow it?”
Or maybe this origin does not allow time traversal, but this origin has vanished, no longer there to govern.
Su He pondered deeply, in Tai Zu’s words, this origin increasingly sounded like the Heavenly Dao.
The natural controller of heavenly punishment is the Heavenly Dao.
Two origins, the one striking him is the one that does not allow stepping out of time, but this origin does not govern time, so when Su He truly steps out of time, it can’t do much.
But when Su He speaks of it, he triggers some laws, and immediately heavenly punishment descends?
If it is the Heavenly Dao, it should be omnipotent, how could there be two?
And…
“Why doesn’t it just appear and suppress me?” Su He wondered.
To kill him, a little turtle, even the old ancestor might not be able to block it, right?
Tai Zu laughed, “That proves, it cannot appear.”
Cannot appear, is it being obstructed?
Su He suddenly looked up at Tai Zu, gape-mouthed, and after a long while gasped, “The Lords of Ming…”
He didn’t finish his sentence, but Tai Zu shook his head smiling, “I don’t know!”
Tricking me again!
Su He fell silent, his mind filled with tumultuous waves, only after a long while did he shake his head with a bitter smile, looked up at Tai Zu, “Ancestor, if speaking of it touches the taboo, and if others see me and say that I can do it, wouldn’t I constantly be attacked by heavenly punishment?”
Tai Zu laughed heartily, “What others say, what does it have to do with you?”
He looked at Su He, smiling, “Think no more, cultivate diligently.
If there comes a day when your cultivation is so high that you can change heaven and earth, and the heavens and earth cannot do anything to you, what need you fear?”