Gods Vanish on a Cloudy Day

Chapter 8 Prelude to the Torrential Battle (1w1, Big Chapter Seeking Monthly Tickets!)

Chapter 939 The Opening of the Great Flood War (11,000 words, big chapter seeking monthly tickets!)

For Shenmu Zhuzhou, Yuan Cangmeng, Zhenyu Shenxiang, and many other powerful individuals and civilizations that are paying attention to the void around Huntian, the conflict that just occurred can be considered the first time in their lives that they have witnessed a battle of 'infinite' level.

Waves of shock are emanating from the collision point between Su Zhou's blade and the Huntian Realm. The essence of the surrounding multiverse is undergoing visible deformation. If Su Zhou had not used his great power to freeze the void, achieving an effect similar to a Great Seal within a small area, the Huntian Three Thousand Realms and the many world clusters even further away would have been annihilated in an instant.

And this divine power, which would annihilate many worlds and universes in an instant, if the two sides of the battle had not set a limit to their power, but instead released it wantonly, driven by a pure desire for destruction, then the divine power intertwined by both sides would infinitely and without loss spread to every corner of the multiverse, destroying countless heavens.

That is the Great Flood, a Great Flood of destruction—it has nothing to do with resistance, nothing to do with consumption, nothing to do with skill. As long as it is released, it will never shrink, never decay, and unless it is directly offset by other Great Floods or even stronger existences, or by the multiverse's own curbing power, it can absolutely continue to infinity.

Even though it was suppressed by the small-scale frozen void created by Su Zhou, even so, when the aftermath transmitted to many worlds, although it did not cause any substantial impact, it was still possible to see the sea of clouds churning above the sky, and the starlight flickering like a malfunctioning lamp.

And in the void of the multiverse, cracks are forming from the deformed multiverse void and spreading in all directions—the void around the Huntian Realm is undergoing a chain collapse. Terrifying spacetime turbulence is born in the low rumbling that even Hedao would be daunted by, which is the most terrifying natural disaster in the multiverse.

Of course, neither Su Zhou nor the Five Supreme Sages would allow this situation to really happen.

"Interesting!"

With wide eyes, Su Zhou's lips curled up. At this moment, his long hair was scattered as he stared at the direction of Huntian: "Ring... a giant ring... a five-headed snake in interlaced rotation!"

He did not conceal these words, and everyone could hear them, but apart from the Five Supreme Sages who were confronting him, no one could understand the meaning behind these words.

Because that was the truth that could only be seen from a perspective that transcended time and space.

Su Zhou could see that infinite power was erupting from Huntian, not only from 'the current Huntian', but also from 'the Huntian of the previous moment' and 'the Huntian of the next moment'. Huntian, which extends forward and backward in this way, constitutes an infinite ring composed of 'creation and termination'.

This is a ring that is so huge that it is inconceivable, and is itself so long that it falls into the category of infinity. However, the ring itself is not completely closed. It can draw on the surrounding world clusters and absorb new Great Daos from the multiverse through the two points of origin and end to grow.

This is 'infinity', an infinity that is mature enough but still growing.

—The Huntian Realm absorbs the Great Daos it has never seen before into its ancient source every moment, and then condenses and throws out the useless dross at the distant end, turning it into the Huntian Three Thousand Realms, gradually spreading to the entire multiverse.

In this way, infinity becomes stronger and the power becomes more abundant.

And this itself, how similar it is to the way the Great Flood powerhouses instinctively understand the multiverse, and then release their Great Dao fluctuations to change and influence the multiverse.

This is 'infinity'—the power of the Huntian Realm.

Not to mention, there are still five supreme powerhouses controlling all of this.

Those five, the existences who can支配 (zhīpèi - dominate) this infinite power, are…

【——The Five Supreme Sages of Huntian——】

In the eyes of all other Hedao powerhouses, the five Supreme Sages emerge, each representing the absolute authority of an era.

They absolutely統御 (tǒngyù - govern) infinity, uniting the past, future, and present, and everything that is connected by cause and effect is the 'Great Flood'!

【How powerful…】

Watching this scene, Zhu Diwen almost groaned. In His eyes, everything became blurred. The battle of the Great Flood even made Him, a Hedao peak powerhouse, unable to see any aspect clearly. And when His divine soul sensed those unspeakable infinite vibrations, it provided Him with a phantasm.

At this moment, Huntian transformed into a giant god with five faces and ten arms in His eyes, while the Primordial Zhuzhou transformed into a divine dragon with infinite phantasms, wrestling with it.

Their power is so strong that even a simple fight, using pure strength to compete with each other, can shatter and distort the multiverse void that serves as the arena.

And at this moment, facing the Five Supreme Sages, Su Zhou's gaze swept across the past and future.

He could see that the 'snake heads' extending from this infinite ring, the first snake head, was derived from the extremely distant beginning of chaos and turned into a tributary.

In the ancient Huntian Chaos era, many innate gods and demons were conceived—at that time, there were no Five Supreme Sages to determine order, and the peerless powerhouses of later generations were constantly tracing back through time to influence the past and become new innate gods and demons.

At that time, it was also the beginning of the sealing of the multiverse, the most powerful moment of the Great Seal.

At this time, Huntian was not huge, its time was obscure, and it may not have been considered infinite. The number of future powerhouses was not large.

However, the fact that they traced back through time did impact the many original innate gods and demons of the Chaos era. These muddleheaded existences, who were just existences, manifesting as a certain Great Dao, and who would all transform into Dao in the future, one after another awakened their wisdom because of the tracing back of powerhouses from later generations, which in turn affected the birth of the future.

Even because their own kind were oppressed, seized, erased, and replaced by powerhouses from later generations one after another.

Those ancient concepts became the raw materials for later powerhouses to tamper with their own births…

These innate chaos gods and demons became angry, and even developed hatred for all future beings.

【We... are the original spirits of the Great Dao, the ancestors and cornerstones of you and all living beings. In the future, we will transform into the Dao and become the heaven and earth and universe of your existence.】

【You do not thank us for our nurturing and watching... but actually... actually attempt to trace back through time, erase the truth of our 'existence', and turn all our watching and love into nothingness...】

【Erroneous descendants, you should not have been born!】

The awakened primordial gods and demons lost their love, and therefore could not transform into a pure Great Dao, watch over and wait for the infinite future of the universe.

They drew on the nutrients of wisdom from the future, and instantly all awakened, forming an indestructible alliance of ancient gods.

They are not rigid, nor are they foolish and simple. In the Huntian Great Universe where time travel is possible, these ancient primordial powerhouses can penetrate the past and future from the very beginning, drawing on all the wisdom, experience, technology, philosophical, scientific thinking methods of the future, and even all derivations.

If they do not transform into the Dao, they will instead imprison the future of a universe, turning the entire universe into a simple hunting ground where the ultimate powerhouse rules the weak, leading to fewer and fewer absolute powerhouses in the future.

This is also their purpose—if powerhouses appear in the future, they will instead replace and erase these ancient spirits of the Great Dao. This was not their first move, but the aftermath of the 'future' attacking the 'past'.

But conversely, the powerhouses of the future realized that the roots of their birth were being shaken, and naturally they were unwilling to show weakness and began to resist with all their strength.

This great war, spanning ancient and modern times and shaking the roots of the Huntian Realm, almost caused Huntian to disintegrate.

Until 'Qianyuan Daozun' appeared.

The appearance of the First Supreme Sage opened the prelude to the massacre.

Whether Qianyuan Daozun was an original ancient god, or a powerhouse from later generations who seized the spirit of the Great Dao and changed their own birth, no one knows for sure.

He may also be a 'native intelligent life' formed by the enlightenment of the original Qi in the Chaos Era.

He may even be a powerhouse from the outer universe void.

But no matter what, only one thing needs to be known.

That is that he is very strong—unimaginably strong.

Qianyuan Daozun is the source of all wonderful ancestral Qi. Regardless of the past, future, grudges between ancient gods and future powerhouses, whoever affects the trend of Huntian's development, he will kill.

Slaughtering ancient gods and killing new gods, Qianyuan Daozun swept from the past to the future, killing all the Hedao who dared to stand in his way.

Thus, whether above or below the heavens, there was peace.

And the remaining power of those ancient new gods was refined by Qianyuan Daozun into ancestral Qi, and then sublimated into the Three Thousand Great Daos, becoming the stars of Huntian. Some of the remaining dross was thrown by him into the outer universe void at the end of the era, which was the origin of the primitive 'Huntian Three Thousand Realms'.

Qianyuan Daozun raised all things to the sky, turning those divided universe time and space into many floating island planes and continents with different time flow rates.

In this way, the chaotic universe time and space also cut off the endless impact of powerhouses from the infinite future who attempted to replace the original spirits of the Great Dao—only powerhouses permitted by Qianyuan Daozun could, under his guidance, shape their own origins and history in the original chaos.

—Settling the universe, dividing yin and yang, sorting out the past and future, pacifying the primordial gods and demons, finalizing the Three Thousand Great Daos, and subduing the infinite future.

This is the merit and virtue of the 'First Supreme Sage of Huntian', the first head of the five-headed giant snake.

Its name is 【Absolute Great Dao】

Just as infinity and eternity each have different methods to achieve them, the absolute element achieved by Qianyuan Daozun is like this.

【Fellow Daoist, how about we each take a step back? We can guarantee with everything we have that everything we do is for the sake of the sentient beings in this multiverse.】

Emitted from the origin of the past, and resounding in the termination of the future, Qianyuan Daozun's information cannot be heard unless one can see the past and future of an infinite universe.

Perhaps it is a wise old man, or a majestic middle-aged man, or a sincere and close-to-Dao child, anything is possible.

But Su Zhou just sneered: "I'm just here to visit the will of the Huntian universe, why are you overstepping your authority and 'taking a step back'?"

"Moreover, what's the use of your guarantee? I've seen no less than a thousand or eight hundred guys who do bad things with good intentions, which kind of self-righteous good intentions do you belong to?"

"Finally, you give, you sacrifice, are you worthy? You are not even a complete Great Flood. If you ask me, why not let me do it!"

This is Su Zhou's professional skill. Throwing out such a set of words can immediately make the other party speechless—not that they really can't refute it, Su Zhou's words have too many loopholes, it can even be said that his whole body is full of flaws.

But so many flaws, on the contrary, make it flawless.

After all, once Qianyuan Daozun starts to refute, then will they still fight next? Will they still confront each other? Wouldn't accepting these words make one look a little touched?

Most importantly, Su Zhou is the Great Flood.

So from a practical point of view, it is indeed better to let him do it—is that even possible?

Therefore, Qianyuan Daozun stopped speaking, and the Polar Star Holy Emperor took over the conversation.

【Senior, if you want to examine our Huntian, or want to communicate with the will of the Huntian universe, you can. But the spirit of Huntian is really busy with important matters now. We did not force it, but the spirit of Huntian itself did not choose to meet you.】

The Polar Star Holy Emperor's words are powerful and concise. He did not lie, and he can indeed explain many things.

Most importantly, he threw Su Zhou's accusations against them onto the spirit of Huntian, who has not yet appeared. Now, it's impossible to determine the actual situation.

But Su Zhou obviously didn't come here to reason: "Don't call me senior, we're really not familiar, and I'm younger than you, can't you tell? My absolute age is only in my early thirties, theoretically speaking, I'm equivalent to just hatching."

"As for the situation of the spirit of Huntian, I really don't know, but you guys have taken over His 'infinite power' to confront me, so His situation can't be said to be good."

"If it's not you guys who did it, I can help; if it's you guys who did it, then don't talk nonsense."

——The Polar Star Holy Emperor is an existence that was conceived from the possibilities that Qianyuan Daozun did not strangle.

The Huntian Realm has infinite possibilities, infinite growth veins.

The source ancient gods and the future new gods, the battle that transcends time and space, is not 'absolute', nor can it cover all possibilities, so it was suppressed by Qianyuan Daozun, who represents the 'absolute Great Dao'.

And the Polar Star Holy Emperor originated from a universe in the 'branch' of 'the ancient gods and new gods fighting each other, but the intensity did not break Huntian'.

Ancient spirits of chaos roamed the heavens and earth, engraving their own traces in the future; the ethereal Venerable Lords of the future influenced the past, casting their own majesty in the distant origin.

The ancient new gods fought each other, but vaguely created an order—that was a terrifying order in which the origin and the end joined forces to rule 'all now'.

The ancient gods who lost their love, and the new gods who were indifferent from the beginning, after reaching a tacit understanding in the initial struggle, began to exchange what they had and wanted to join hands to construct a 'ring'.

The ring is infinity, the foundation of infinity, the unit of infinity. The primordial ancient gods of chaos and the future new gods of order are intertwined into a '衔尾蛇 (xiánwěishé - ouroboros)' representing infinity. At this point, the entire Huntian Great Universe will be ruled by them.

And the Polar Star Holy Emperor, as one of the stars, emerged with absolute power, breaking this terrifying double snake that spanned the infinite spacetime structure.

He completely destroyed this terrifying double snake that ran through the infinite spacetime structure, and turned the wreckage of the ring into the heavenly rules, confirming the iron-like laws, making all universe spacetime orderly, allowing the past and future to normally connect, turning into a continuous rushing river.

——Capturing the sun and moon, stepping on the heavens and earth, holding the double snakes in hand, with the long river winding around his body, using six dragons to control the heavenly chariot, and using the polar star to鎮 (zhèn - suppress) the light and shade.

The Holy Emperor除灭 (chúmiè - eradicated) the gods and cleared the heavens and earth. This great achievement is the reason why he became the 'Second Supreme Sage', the second head of the giant snake.

The Polar Star Holy Emperor appeared in the 'impossible possibility' of 'Qianyuan Daozun'. Of course, it may also be Qianyuan Daozun's acquiescence, but the Five Supreme Sages treat each other equally, and no one can tell the relationship between them. It is fate and miracle.

【Why are you prejudiced against us?】

At this moment, the Qiongyuan Sage also spoke to dissuade: 【Shigang Mentor, as you can see, we are indeed striving for the future of Huntian and the survival of sentient beings. This is true and indisputable history.】

The name of Zhuzhou has countless names. Different people will get different results according to different understandings. Some people can see the original Zhuzhou, some people can see the god of judgment, and some people can see Xiguang.

Su Zhou turned his head and looked at this 'third head', then raised his eyebrows: "Oh, not bad, you also have attainments in the Way of Infinite Time and Space. In that case, why don't you try to break through the Great Flood yourself, and instead join forces with other Supreme Sages to be a combined component?"

"As for prejudice... to be honest, if you had cut off the possibility of ancient and new gods time-traveling from the beginning, and acted arbitrarily for eternity, then maybe I would be inviting you to a banquet in the void to share your experience in becoming a Great Flood—but you didn't prohibit time and space at all, but continued to allow this phenomenon of the past and future being connected."

Saying this, Su Zhou shook his head: "Your choice is to allow the appearance of the 'ring', and also to allow the 'existence of the weak to be denied by the strong, losing its reality'."

The Qiongyuan Sage appeared in the 'impossible possibility' of the 'Polar Star Holy Emperor'. He was born in the endless 'parallel time and space' of the Huntian Great Universe. There, it was the Great Universe time and space where the ancient worms representing truth and the future gods representing omniscience fought.

Truth is poisonous, and it will chase people, devour people, just like a terrifying worm, devouring the sea of all minds.

And the gods who know everything naturally know how to curb the poison of truth, and tame these truths that mortals cannot look directly at, cannot touch, and cannot understand, into knowledge that can be used, can be copied, and can be used for all conquests and constructions.

But whether it is the worms or the gods, their battles have destroyed the sustainability of the universe's time and space, because the 'omniscience' required by the gods does not allow any changes. All their subordinates are all tools used to transform the truth and fulfill knowledge.

That group of ultimate technologists created a super-giant spacetime swallowing machine that can continuously swallow the truth and create an 'omniscient world'. When the many universe spacetime swallowed by this giant machine turn into an omniscient universe, it will cause the gods located in it to 'awaken omnipotently' and possess relative omniscience.

And omniscience is omnipotence. As long as this super-giant spacetime swallowing machine swallows the multiverse, the gods will become the omniscient and omnipotent gods of the multiverse.