Gods Vanish on a Cloudy Day
Chapter 29 The Palm of Inherited Legacy (5700)
Su Zhou’s personal space is a small world that is as you wish, able to move with the soul, and also reside within the flesh and blood.
Moving with the soul is the Soul-Bearing Boat, which can protect the soul as it traverses the void of the universe.
And moving with the flesh is the Scale of Bearing the World, which can protect the flesh from decay and lead directly to the foundations of eternity.
In theory, this chaotic, supreme inheritance, the 'Scale of Bearing the World', if cultivated to its peak, could indeed create a universe and bear it upon oneself, traveling through the heavens and worlds.
This is similar to the plans of the Chaos Spawn clusters of the World-Creating Realm, the 'Dark Abyss Dao' god system, which also involves moving with the entire universe.
The youth guessed that the Dark Abyss Dao's Hedao Armament (a powerful weapon formed by merging with the Dao) should be a Grand Dao artifact with the Scale of Bearing the World at its core, allowing it to propel the entire small universe away from the World-Creating Realm and into the outer void.
If coupled with the Pioneer Spawn 'Exhaustive Dao' and the Samsara Spawn 'Revolving Dao', which are allied with the Dark Abyss Dao, then the background behind this departure would probably also include 'exploring the distance' and 'breaking the cage', which aligns even more with the current situation of the World-Creating Realm.
It must be said that the plans of these god systems working together are, just like the principles they follow, very predictable and easy to guess.
Previously, Su Zhou was noncommittal about the Dark Abyss Dao's plans.
It would be good if they succeeded, but it didn't matter if they didn't.
Anyway, it's Chaos, and those who understand, understand. Who knows what they want to do?
Even though it's a god system here and not a chaotic, evil demon, Su Zhou still remains skeptical about the stability of their plans, because it's hard to imagine a situation where the plans of Chaos Spawn don't go awry.
Just like now, the Dark Abyss Dao's plans have made him a little angry.
"You guys, when you're notifying Chaos Spawn to return to the small universe to prepare to leave as a group, don't make all these messy Dao sounds!"
"When notifying people at their homes, show some respect!"
Faced with the 'Chaotic Sound' that the Dark Abyss Dao was clearly using the divine power of its Hedao Armament to forcibly push into the entire universe, enough to shake space-time and shatter everything that wasn't Chaos Spawn, Su Zhou was clearly furious—although he was a covenantor of Chaos, and his personal world was a supreme inheritance of Chaos, the beings within his personal space were not.
The Dark Abyss Dao's domineering methods clearly didn't care about this situation; all non-Chaos Spawn who heard this news had to die.
He could understand the other party's desire to protect secrets, and generally it wouldn't accidentally injure ordinary people, but the arrogance inherent in this action aroused Su Zhou's rebellious spirit.
——You don't want me to hear it? I insist on hearing it!
He'll let them taste his power!
At this moment, the Teng Snake's soul had completely become the vessel for the chaotic Dao sound.
As the purest Chaos Spawn, the Heavenly Demon was naturally also on the Dark Abyss Dao's notification list, and the Dao sound released with it as the source was almost a direct attack from the Hedao Armament.
If it were the Hedao Armament of another great being's spawn, Su Zhou would definitely cut off the link with the Heavenly God Scale (a powerful artifact) without a second thought and run away with his personal space; whoever tried to resist head-on was an idiot.
But who told them to be Chaos Spawn?
"Hey, you don't need to be so angry. After all, it's Chaos, so who knows if they're doing it on purpose or if it's just a random number? I suspect they never even thought about obliterating anyone else; they just accidentally used too much force."
Regarding Su Zhou's indignation, Yala comforted him with trash talk, but didn't have the slightest intention of continuing to speak well of the Dark Abyss Dao. Instead, he chuckled and passed a string of information to Su Zhou, which contained the most detailed and authentic cultivation method for the supreme Chaos divine power, 'Scale of Bearing the World'.
He was just waiting to see the show, and in the World-Creating Realm, what could be more fun than the present situation?
"Hit them hard!" He urged.
In an instant, the entire personal space trembled.
"Crack!"
A slight sound rang out, not the sound of something shattering, but like the crisp sound of bones creaking as a giant who had been resting for a long time began to get up and stretch.
Suddenly, the wind rose, and the world began to move—all the life in the personal space heard this sound.
At this moment, Su Zhou reached out his hand.
His hand was like jade carved from stone, with clear textures, sturdy and full of strength. Every strand of flesh and blood contained endless vitality and divine power. Even a drop of blood falling would be enough to create a Candle Sun Forest (Zhu Zhao Zhi Lin) in a desert and create an entire ecosystem.
And now, all of these powers began to condense and sharpen. The divine power that should have created thousands of things began to transform into the might to destroy and suppress all things.
If it were the original Su Zhou, he would definitely not have been able to cultivate such a complex and powerful great divine power. Even if he became a Celestial God, he would have been affected by the power of this divine power, transformed into a Chaos Spawn by this divine power, and even have other divine powers turned into puppets of the Scale of Bearing the World, becoming a part of the 'world', with no other possibility.
But the current Su Zhou could, on the contrary, master the power of this divine power—with the experience of the youth witnessing many correct things and inheriting the legacies of many great beings, he could already withstand the essence of Yala's inheritance and even turn it into his own, completely controlling it!
In an instant, it was as if the sky had collapsed.
The entire personal space suddenly darkened, because all the energy in the entire world, all the free spiritual energy, and even the endless chaotic spiritual energy in the void outside the world, was temporarily drawn upon by the youth and condensed on this palm.
Bearing it on his hand!
[Palm of Bearing the World]
Without the determination to shoulder all the future of Chaos, the arrogance of bearing the unknown fate of a world, and the will and strength to never stop or retreat in the face of all hardships and obstacles, it would be absolutely impossible to cultivate this great divine power!
"Quiet!" he said.
Then, that iron-cast palm, as if it had condensed the power of the entire world, suppressed the Dao sound that was spreading with the Teng Snake's soul as its center!
"Boom!"
Around the Teng Snake's soul, the gradually spreading Dao sound shook violently. These textures, formed by the fusion of the purest information and transcendent power, essentially represented the essence of some divine power. If a peerless genius were to observe them, they would surely be able to comprehend the Dao and inherit its legacy from them.
And if a strong person gathered these textures, they could even weave them into a net, ultimately weaving an entire man-made universe.
Faintly, from within these endless Dao sound textures, one could see the illusory shadow of an ancient and towering enormous cauldron-bell. It wasn't hanging high like a normal bell, but was inverted in the universe like an abyss, its bell body chaotic and empty, as if it could devour everything and contained the scenery of the universe.
A strong person was striking this bell, and the source of the endless Dao sound originated from here. The Teng Snake's soul was merely the port through which the Dark Abyss Bell released its power.
But now, another hand, as if bearing the entire world, fell, blocking this port.
In terms of power, the former was terrifyingly powerful; even a peak Creation Machine God expert wouldn't be able to block it head-on and could only retreat. If a small world in the void were struck directly, it would shatter and turn into sparkling world dust in the frozen void.
However, the power of the latter was refined and condensed, and it could even see through the various flaws in that Dao sound, and even actively guide this power to distort, collide, and misalign itself, creating gaps.
In an instant, it pierced through all obstacles like an arrow shot from a bowstring, directly striking the divine power imprint within the Teng Snake's soul, which was condensed from the essence of Chaos and served as a port.
*Peng!*
The chaotic Grand Dao imprint shattered abruptly, and the Teng Snake's soul, which had originally been ethereal and hazy, instantly cleared up and returned to normal.
However, before the Teng Snake's soul could react, Su Zhou's power continued to surge, rushing towards the giant bell shadow behind that imprint, seemingly wanting to dispel it.
Even, conversely, using his own power to strike this bell as well!
"Dang!"
At the end of time and space, the Dark Abyss Dao, Moluo Heaven.
The Abyss Lord 'Overturning Time Serpent · Yang Galardo' raised his head.
The enormous accretion disk of the universe's central black hole, which surrounded and drew the entire 'Moluo Heaven Universe', and the machine god body of the Hedao Armament 'World-Sounding Bell' which also surrounded the 'Dark Abyss Dao', vibrated slightly, as if surprised, even shocked, by something unexpected.
[This sound…] He murmured, his tone carrying unconcealable surprise: [Could it be…]
The Dark Abyss Dao is a god system that dwells around black holes, most adept at distorting space-time with chaotic gravity and creating chaotic domains to cast various mystical divine arts and powers. And the small universe 'Moluo Heaven' that they created is a world that directly distorted the space-time of the great universe with the supermassive black hole 'All World Prison' at its core.
The Dark Abyss Dao's Hedao Armament [Manifest World-Sounding Bell] is a Grand Dao artifact forged using the gravity well of 'All World Prison' as a mold. Its power can distort everything in the universe, and its sound can reach the ends of the universe. Its sound waves, like gravitational waves, can penetrate all world dimensions unchanged.
And just as other Hedao Armaments can create a kind of truth, the truth represented by the Dark Abyss Dao's Hedao Armament is very simple.
That is, to distort the truths created by other Hedao Armaments.
Although it feels a bit like a "you're putting a square peg in a round hole" argument, that's indeed the case.
If the universe is regarded as a machine that runs automatically, then Hedao Armaments and Hedao experts are the experts who can control this machine, even speak for themselves and issue commands to rewrite the machine's operating code.
And the Grand Dao sound played by the World-Sounding Bell is like suddenly making a very loud noise when others issue commands, covering up all the commands of others, causing all instructions to become ineffective and distorted, even destroying that other truth.
Simply put, it's like a mischievous ghost suddenly shouting when someone else is singing.
But now, the World-Sounding Bell, which should be distorting the divine power of other Hedao Armaments, was being played by someone else.
"Dang!"
[Who is it, who can actually reverse the Dao sound and strike the 'World-Sounding Bell' in return!?]
The Overturning Time Serpent Yang Galardo's machine god body, which was tens of astronomical units long and resided in the accretion disk of the universe's central black hole, stood up with a rumble. This enormous serpent shone with a dark silver halo, even covering the fiercely burning fire layer around the event horizon.
As the great serpent stood up, the magnificent light circles brought about by the distortion of space-time were constantly spreading, and even strange scenes like the reversal of time could occasionally be seen, which was a scene that could never be seen in normal universe space-time.
Even though the divine power of the Dao of Time was declining day by day, the Abyss Lord could still distort space-time with his enormous mass and use the simplest method to reproduce some of the most basic Time techniques with his unparalleled body.
But even he couldn't figure out who it was, and from where, using what method, from the distant end of space-time, using his own power, struck the 'World-Sounding Bell' once.
Yang Galardo watched solemnly at the countless space-time ripples emanating from the World-Sounding Bell above his head. The materialized fluctuations vibrated back and forth in the universe like tsunamis, causing the surrounding accretion disk and stars to churn like small boats in huge waves, and space-time cracks were derived from these ripples, tearing the universe apart.
For a time.
At the very core of the Dark Abyss Dao, a space-time storm suddenly arose, interrupting the many Dao sounds that were being transmitted to the entire World-Creating Realm.
Outside the Dark Abyss Dao, Moluo Heaven, a delegation heading towards the Dark Abyss Dao stopped its actions due to a sudden cosmic storm. The leader, a Machine God, dispelled his starship body and transformed into the main body of a Silver Fairy. This true form was extremely petite, but the Machine God body was as large as a planet. The Machine God surprisingly raised his hand to cover his forehead and looked at the entrance to Moluo Heaven.
[The Dark Abyss Dao is ringing the World-Sounding Bell? Who are they messing with again?]
This Silver Fairy was none other than the Silver Fairy 'Ling Hui' who had registered Su Zhou's name before. Prior to this, she had received orders from the Fairy Queen and the Domain Lord of Strife to first go on a mission to the Extreme Heaven Tower, and then to a faction of god systems including the Dark Abyss Dao.
The Dark Abyss Dao was her second target, but now it seemed that the Dark Abyss Dao had encountered a rather significant accident.
[Could it be a countermeasure against the upheaval of the Jade Balance Dao some time ago? Or could it be that the Founding Dao couldn't hold back any longer and was using a Hedao Armament, and the Dark Abyss Dao was counteracting it?]
One of the Steel Giants in the team scratched his chin in confusion: [These Dark Abyss Dao guys rarely do anything proactively, but if someone else is going to do something big, they definitely have to get involved!]
[Hmm…] The Silver Fairy and the Giant God could both sense the space-time fluctuations spilling out from the entrance and exit of the Dark Abyss Dao, which were visible to the naked eye. The entire delegation from the Vortex of Strife hesitated somewhat.
The principle adhered to by the Dark Abyss Dao is very simple—whether they are right or not doesn't matter at all, but if they are really right, then even if they harass them, it will definitely be useless.
They call themselves 'Examiners', like the abyss that swallows light. Only those who can cross the abyss and penetrate the dim light can be called correct and make them bow their heads.
Before this, they will question everything in the world, including many truths.
Since they have also taken action, it means that they have found the target to be tested this time... And whether this target is someone or the entire universe, they will not be afraid because of it.
[Forget it]
But the Silver Fairy wouldn't think so much. Ling Hui gave it about a millisecond of thought before giving up: [Anyway, we're ambassadors. Let's go over there and tell the Dark Abyss Dao the news from the Queen and the Domain Lord as soon as possible—an unprecedented great change in the multiverse is about to happen. If we don't deal with our universe's troubles sooner, the future will definitely be a pain in the ass.]
Within the Dark Abyss Dao, Yang Galardo could naturally sense the delegation from the Vortex of Strife approaching Moluo Heaven, but there was no time to react.
[Insignificant power… but like a butterfly flapping its wings and causing a storm, a series of completely unpredictable chain reactions directly triggered the power of the World-Sounding Bell itself… Exquisite! This is the divine power of the supreme divine power Scale of Bearing the World. Only by bearing the entire world in your hands can you lightly induce such divine power!]
He exhaled. The Abyss Lord Serpent, who had become completely serious, wanted to deduce who had taken action.
But just as he was about to begin his deduction, a terrifying sense of crisis caused him to withdraw his hand. The body of the Overturning Time Serpent even trembled slightly, and the entire Machine God body solidified in place, not daring to move.
——Above Hedao… Flood Realm?!
No, a subtle difference… If it was a true Flood Realm, or even a stronger expert above it, where would they need to use any techniques? Just a thought would probably be enough to suppress the World-Sounding Bell, which was not operating at full power, right?
But even so, that extremely delicate and completely unpredictable chaotic power was not something ordinary gods could use.
[Is it a great chosen one who has received the direct gaze of Chaos?!]
Thinking of this possibility, Yang Galardo couldn't help but calm down. He frowned tightly: [When did other Chaos Spawn in the multiverse come to our world as well?! Tsk, I knew it. With the awakening of the great universe's will, the eyes of all the worlds will also be focused here… That's why I wanted to leave this chaotic land quickly!]
As long as they are watched by other strong people, there will be no possibility for the future. In order for the countless people of the Dark Abyss Dao to live freely in the future and choose the path they want, he, as the Abyss Lord, must lead them out of the increasingly turbid quagmire of the World-Creating Realm.
What's more, if the universe itself has a will, what future can the myriad creatures living within it have?
At the end of time and space, in his personal space, Su Zhou still hadn't stopped.
He held the Dao sound textures condensed by the World-Sounding Bell tightly in his outstretched right hand. The youth was constantly gathering the surrounding universe's void spiritual energy using his entire personal space as a resonator, creating one earthquake after another, creating one rhythmic explosion after another, indirectly transmitting them to the World-Sounding Bell.
[Manifest World-Sounding Bell], in essence, is a huge 'Scale of Bearing the World', but what it bears is not a specific world, but a 'Grand Dao Texture' and 'Divine Power Structure' woven into a world structure. Together with the universe's central black hole 'All World Prison', it forms the Dark Abyss Dao's small universe 'Moluo Heaven', an even larger 'Scale of Bearing the World'.
This layer-upon-layer nested structure allows the Dark Abyss Dao to activate its Hedao Armament at a very small cost, and even achieve the effect of interfering with the truths of several Hedao Armaments at the same time.
And Su Zhou took the initiative to join in, becoming part of the nested structure, and then used his personal space to transform into another smaller 'World-Sounding Bell', conversely interfering with the operation of the larger Hedao Armament.
"I see, I get it!"
At this moment, Su Zhou's eyes lit up, he laughed loudly, and then took a step forward, clenched his right hand into a fist, and then exerted his strength forward!
In an instant, all the power in the entire personal space erupted. Even the power of the Wisdom Tree and the Blade of Annihilation were integrated into one, transforming into a hurried and short, but extremely loud rumble, exploding around the Hedao Armament at the end of space-time.
In terms of power, he was simply an ant compared to the Hedao Armament—but who told the biggest boss of Chaos to help him? With the official cheat provided by Yala, Su Zhou understood all the principles and operating modes of the World-Sounding Bell, avoided all direct power contests, and directly triggered the World-Sounding Bell's own resonance.
And at the moment when Su Zhou vibrated the World-Sounding Bell for the last time, an immeasurable, inconceivable, and enormous force also surged from the other end of the World-Sounding Bell, and then, with Su Zhou's right hand as the source, spread to his entire body, and even his entire personal space.
This power was nothing else, but the 'rebound' that was reversed after Su Zhou condensed all the power of his personal space and bombarded it, as the World-Sounding Bell was no longer passively struck under the control of a Hedao expert!
Faced with a Hedao Armament controlled by a Hedao expert, even with Yala's guidance, it was impossible for Su Zhou to continue taking advantage.
But this was not a bad thing.
Faced with the rebound that was rushing back, Su Zhou didn't panic at all. He even spread his arms and welcomed this indescribable enormous force, enduring all the vibrations head-on.
In an instant, this huge rebound ran through every corner of the youth and his personal space, from the earth's veins to the spiritual energy cycle, from the Yang of fire elements to the sea of source water, from the winds of the four directions to the boundless land. Everything in the world was vibrating and resonating at the same frequency.
Dang!
Like a grand bell, countless vibrations finally condensed into a leisurely bell sound that ran through the world.
Su Zhou stood in his personal space, his eyes tightly closed, his long hair flying behind him, and his right hand slightly outstretched, as if holding something in his hand.
One could faintly see that within this empty-handed right hand, there seemed to be an ocean continent, the entire world condensed into a hazy shadow, like a scale that could no longer be solemn and heavy.
Scale of Bearing the World… Palm of Bearing the World.
The ultimate form of the personal space, finally achieved here with the blessing of multiple powers!
Watched the game for a day, ignb!
Almost lost my full attendance bonus, luckily I wrote it out!