Chapter 323 Zhoutian Myriad Things, What Does Not Change is Change Itself (5400, Second Update, Seeking Monthly Tickets~)

What exactly is the concept of Su Zhou's full strength? Perhaps no one knows except for the National Teacher and the God of Water. Only these two can be regarded as opponents who ‘fought to the death’ with Su Zhou, and only the dead know.

But can that really represent Su Zhou's full strength?

No, that was just Su Zhou's full strength when he was in the Awakening Realm and when he first entered the Domain Lord Realm. His full strength at that time didn't count.

And now, what is Su Zhou's full strength, who has awakened his second divine ability?

Zhou Buyi, and the Heavenly Justice League around the Godwood blockade circle, were fortunate enough to witness this scene.

In the torrential rainstorm that suddenly gathered in the sky, the violent lightning snakes crisscrossed in the blazing white water vapor. The cyan lightning illuminated the dim world where the setting sun was falling—and then, the thunder light cascaded down from the sky!

In the first second, as Zhou Buyi watched the cyan-blue thunder dragon breath that filled the sky, it was like rain pouring down on him. He never expected that this was an attack that a mere Celestial Gang Martial God could create—with himself as the center, all six square kilometers were a place of thunder bombardment.

No, it's not just thunder! Zhou Buyi, who had defended against Su Zhou's dragon breath, immediately realized that the seemingly slow-moving stream of lightning was not true lightning. Its essence was actually a series of ultra-high-speed, ultra-high-temperature dragon breaths! If he rashly used defenses against lightning to block it, he would be burned to ashes! He could block it, but he had only blocked a few at the beginning, and now the dragon breath that appeared, in terms of size alone, was at least ten thousand times the original!

"Are you even being reasonable?!"

With an angry roar, the giant wooden statue that Zhou Buyi had transformed into immediately gave up all other thoughts. He took root on the spot, and countless vine tendrils extended from his legs, deeply absorbing the earth's leyline power. At the same time, his eight arms simultaneously formed different secret seals. Accompanied by solemn mantras, layers of spiritual power shields, incorporating the essence of Taoism, Buddhism, and Confucianism, were created and erected in front of him.

Even this was not the limit. Soon, the original giant wooden statue transformed into a true giant tree—the eight arms and head were the main branches of the tree, and the body was the trunk. Using it as a fulcrum, countless fine branches and leaves grew out, turning it into a lush green ancient tree. On each leaf of this ancient tree, completely different spiritual patterns were engraved, but they could be combined with each other.

Instantly, within a mere second, Zhou Buyi was covered with more than four hundred different spiritual power secret seals and shields. The excessively strong spiritual light twisted each other, even creating a pure white field that completely shifted the light—after all, Zhou Buyi was not just a martial artist, he was also the heir to the various schools of thought of the past. More than a hundred years of cultivation had already honed his Taoist arts and martial skills to perfection.

Then, above this pure white field, the cascading thunder light was like a torrent falling from the sky. It crashed down, and finally turned into a huge stream of light, falling on top of it.

In the second second, more than four hundred layers of shields were all shattered, completely dissolved by the purest brute force of the dragon breath. The strong light and shock waves generated by the collision between the shields and the dragon breath even illuminated the distant New South Heaven City like dawn. The martial artists who were enforcing martial law in the city felt the terrifying spiritual power fluctuations behind the brilliance and couldn't help but tremble.

But this was not beyond Zhou Buyi's expectations. He understood what Su Zhou meant by going all out—that was to use up all his strength in ten seconds, completely disregarding the damage to his body. The techniques used in probing and attacking between ordinary martial artists were meaningless in this kind of burst that only the undying could use at will.

But coincidentally, he was also undying—so the giant green tree also began to expand rapidly. It could be seen that the earth was sinking, and countless soil and moisture were being absorbed by Zhou Buyi and temporarily converted into a part of his body. His crown transformed into a crystal-clear form like crystal in an instant, and then began to bloom with a cyan spiritual light.

The thunder light breath that broke through the shield continued to fall. It bombarded the crown of the tree, but the endless impact and high heat seemed to disappear into the sea of mud when they entered the crystallized branches and leaves, completely absorbed by the giant tree.

However, in the third second, the crystalized crown of the giant tree transformed by Zhou Buyi began to melt. Having absorbed too much energy, it began to collapse on its own, turning into ashes. However, the energy it forcibly absorbed was released and exploded before melting, colliding head-on with the thunder light breath released by Su Zhou—and at this moment, the shock wave, even greater than that of the first second, blew away all the scattered objects within a kilometer radius. Whether it was the wreckage of buildings or loose soil, they were all blown away by a violent air current, and then vaporized into golden-red molten lava steam in mid-air.

Crack, crack, crack, the sound of rocks breaking rang out in the fourth second—at this time, the martial artists who were watching and blocking the battle area also began to turn around and take refuge without hesitation, because the earth was cracking, and the high-heat molten lava steam had even formed a visible tornado. The air was filled with the scorching metallic smell and the high temperature that was enough to bake people into gas, and a small part of the crown of the green giant tree was missing, with a very obvious dent, but the thunder light was still falling.

But Zhou Buyi still had a way to deal with it. The divine tree he transformed into, which was the result of his decades of research into mysterious power, named by him as the 'Continuing Wood', naturally had its true magical qualities.

The so-called continuation naturally meant to carry on the past and open up the future, inheriting the past and paving the way for the future. After he realized that the essence of the Banyan Undying Tree's power was 'undying and indestructible', he decided to modify this essence and create a kind of Godwood power that met his requirements. At that time, wanting to suppress the whole world with his own strength, he was troubled by the fact that the power accumulated in his body was not enough, so he made up his mind to find a solution.

The result was that he succeeded. The power of the Continuing Wood allowed him to transform the power he had accumulated into 'saplings', and when he needed it, he could take it or control the saplings to fight—through this peculiar divine ability, he had placed his 'saplings' in all one hundred and forty-four states of the Heavenly Justice League, and each sapling was equivalent to a Celestial Gang Martial God!

In other words, his true full strength was one hundred and forty-four Celestial Gang Martial Gods, plus the power of his main body!

Buzz—at this time, throughout Heavenly Justice, in all the places where Zhou Buyi's saplings were located, a group of cyan wood light disappeared from the wooden statues. Of course, rashly moving power from afar would cause great losses, and it would not be possible to fully control it for a while, but in a short time, Zhou Buyi's main body's power could be said to have increased fifty times!

Boom, in the fifth second, the green light of the Continuing Wood, which had been suppressed all along, flourished. It was as if the original concave bowl-shaped spiritual light gradually bulged. Su Zhou's aftermath alone was enough to turn the surrounding earth into a lava Jedi and burn the steel and cement, but when the dragon breath impacted on this spiritual light, it was divided into dozens of tributaries and overflowed in all directions.

For a time, the other martial artists watching from afar were also slightly excited—although they had not figured out what was going on because of the rush of time, it was obvious that a strong man of unknown origin had found the Director-General to fight, and just now, the Director-General, who had been passively beaten all along, finally gained the upper hand!

But this result shocked Zhou Buyi instead—even if his main body's power increased fifty times, making him unable to control it for a while, and the wandering power was not concentrated enough, so the destructive power could not really increase fifty times, but it was still better than Su Zhou's spiritual power. Why could he only stalemate with Su Zhou, and not counterattack?!

And in the sixth second, Zhou Buyi finally realized the reason, because Su Zhou, who was descending endless dragon breath in the high sky, was not just simply spewing thunder light. In fact, in these short five seconds, he had already found the flaw in his spiritual power operation!

It could be seen that the huge white dragon's chest had the light of the five elements rotating. No matter what kind of changes Zhou Buyi himself used, Su Zhou could always use the corresponding attribute changes to restrain him. Even, he could arbitrarily gather the power of the four elements of thunder, water, fire, and wind, and combine them into a torrent of energy whose attributes Zhou Buyi could not understand at all. With such a dragon breath, his spiritual power shield would naturally collapse!

In the seventh second, thunder roared in the sky. That was the thunder that was born when the thunder light erupted in the second second. Accompanied by this thunder, the wingless dragon transformed by Su Zhou stopped breathing. He roared to the sky, and then the cyan-purple spiritual light on his body shone even brighter than before—and this time, there were even strange black and white flames wrapped around his arms, and sparks flew all over the sky, as if he were a demon star falling straight into the world.

Boom! After Zhou Buyi had completely lost his defensive shield, Su Zhou transformed into a meteorite that was getting bigger and bigger, and rushed straight towards him. And in this eighth second, Zhou Buyi also roared and moved his branches—the giant tree man, transformed into the main body of the Godwood, raised his tree branch hands full of spiritual patterns and spiritual light, and the light cyan brilliance transformed into a group of hazy mist, wanting to block Su Zhou's desperate impact.

Rumble! In the same second, the two collided, and the giant tree was directly hit by the giant dragon into the depths of the ground. The earth shook violently like water waves, and the battle area, which had long been turned into a lava lake, set off a huge golden wave of magma, splashing in every corner within a few kilometers.

And at this moment, Zhou Buyi, who was hit so hard that he almost lost consciousness, once again faced the fires of karma, and also faced the test of Su Zhou urging the fires of karma divine ability with all his strength for the first time.

——What does it feel like to be burned by the fires of karma?

Zhou Buyi couldn't describe the pain, it was a pure mental pain, like repeatedly letting you personally experience the things you least wanted to face again and again. The man originally thought that he would see his teacher pass away, his wife die, and his friends leave one by one, their traces gone, their bones unknown, but in the end he found that this was not the most painful time for him.

His most painful moment was on a day a hundred years ago, when he made the decision to let the Undying Cult escape across the border, so that they could linger on.

"In this way, all the organizations related to immortality within the League will disappear, and in the future, anyone who wants to pursue Godwood immortality can only go to find the Undying Cult—but they don't understand at all that those people are just bait we released, and we can harvest them whenever we need to."

"As expected of the Chairman!" "This is also a long-term plan, and all threats are within a controllable range!" "Those people in the Undying Cult still think that they escaped by their own strength, but they don't know that they are still turtles in a jar, just changing fish tanks!"

In those praises, he actually felt a brief moment of triumph. Yes, sacrificing a small number of people can benefit more people. This is also a helpless move, a necessary sacrifice, and there is no way around it.

As long as he continues to create some enemies, let them come out from time to time to destroy one side, kill some unmanageable frontier civilians, and create fear, while sending official troops over to gain the hearts of the people, the cohesion of the Heavenly Justice League will rise, and the people's sense of belonging will be stronger.

"What a good idea, why didn't I use it this way before?" With such doubts, Zhou Buyi ended the meeting in countless flattery and approval: "It's just a few deaths. If we don't do this, there will be other messy rebels in the future, and more people will die."

But soon, that feeling of elation turned into a burst of panic when he returned home and saw his eldest son still in swaddling clothes—among those who were sacrificed, there must be parents and children. They were also the same people. He hardened his heart to sacrifice them, but after all, someone had to do it. As long as he was not strong enough to ignore choices, there were always people who needed to make choices based on the size of their life numbers.

But how could he feel pride, complacency, and a sense of 'controlling the lives of others' for this kind of behavior? He was clearly a person who wanted to create lasting peace in the world, but if he continued to ignore the people and life in this way, one day, he would become a devil like the former An Dynasty emperor, eating people like beasts!

People can make mistakes, but they cannot decorate mistakes as 'necessary correctness'.

The heart does not deceive people. If you want to compromise, you will compromise, and Zhou Buyi at that time did compromise.

All the sense of glory and pride in his achievements, all the pride and respect for his diligent career, at that moment, turned into Zhou Buyi's shame.

That kind of shame was a pain that others could never understand. The man who wanted to become a hero knew that he would never be able to face his dream again, and every time he faced it, it would remind him of that brief moment of self-satisfaction, that moment of arrogance that regarded human life as a tool.

However, in the ninth second, Zhou Buyi, who was burned by the fires of karma, cheered up again. He roared and waved his branches to push Su Zhou away—even though he was scarred and covered in charred marks burned into charcoal, he still had strength.

——Zhoutian myriad things, what does not change is change itself.

If you make a mistake, you go back to the right path, even if you are ashamed, you have to continue. In this world, the only unchanging thing is eternal change itself. People are not stones, they will indeed be proud, arrogant, and complacent, but the unchanging heart is not about being forever calm, forever rational, and never making mistakes, but about being able to regain the original intention and return to the right path after arrogance and complacency.

If he were a true villain, the power of the fires of karma might have made him suffer for a longer period of time, but Zhou Buyi was, after all, a person who had fought for the peace of the world all his life. The power of the divine wood world on him was even greater than that on Su Zhou, which allowed him to seize the opportunity and break free from the divine ability of the fires of karma.

"Thank you, Su Zhou, you really woke me up, I am extremely grateful—but the battle has just begun!"

He condensed the spiritual power that was still mostly in his body, but he did not have time to use it, and began to repair the injuries in his body. Zhou Buyi roared and charged towards the giant dragon in front of him. He could see that Su Zhou's spiritual power was indeed about to be exhausted, and he might be able to not only survive ten seconds, but also defeat the other party in turn!

Then, it was the tenth second.

"No, the battle is over."

Saying the last sentence, Su Zhou, who had stopped breathing, clenched his fists, and then punched the ground with a punch like a meteor, hitting the tree trunk in the face of Zhou Buyi who was struggling to move forward.

In the fluttering carbonized wood chips, between the explosions of flames, he silently threw the second punch, the third punch, the fourth punch... a total of three hundred and seventy-four punches.

Every punch was with all his strength, and every punch carried a terrifying impact and high temperature no less than the previous dragon breath. This no-breath combo, which was long in saying it lasted a second, but incredibly long in saying it was short, ended with the most simple and unadorned rising dragon fist. That terrifying power directly sent Zhou Buyi's Godwood body flying, out of the ground, and back to the surface.

Then, he dispelled his true form and continued to stay underground, gasping for breath.

"You bastard, you held back."

The scarlet little snake crawled out of Su Zhou's arms, and it tutted: "The Heavenly Human Cycle wasn't used to the end, otherwise, your final all-out blow would have been enough to blast that Godwood kid into ashes—although he is also very strong, he can still withstand your freak for nine seconds and still have the strength to fight back. Ordinary monsters would be gone in the first second."

"Farting about holding back, I'm just being fair—this Zhou Buyi has no idea how many clones are outside. If he really went all out, all the clones should come over and merge with the main body. That would be the complete form. I, Su Zhou, have always been fair and just, and would never act impulsively. How could I take advantage here?"

Su Zhou spat out fragrance unhappily, and then sat on the dripping ground full of lava, exhausted, and waved his hand: "What's more, this is indeed my all-out—I have been breathing with all my strength for seven consecutive seconds. If it was a horizontal sweep, it would be no problem to burn half a city, but it can still be blocked for so long. It seems that my firepower is not enough, and I will continue to strengthen it next time."

The snake spirit rolled its eyes—except for Godwood and a few Celestial God clans that focus on defensive power, it didn't know what monsters could survive a second under that kind of ground-washing breath.

"Then what?" It asked: "He survived, so what are you going to do next?"

"What else can I do? The sudden powerful enemy was defeated by Zhou Buyi, the director of the Demon Subduing Bureau, with all his strength. Even so, the director is still seriously injured. At this point, the internal forces of the Heavenly Justice League don't want to quickly unite their strength. Before finding out the origin of that powerful enemy, will they still be thinking about infighting?"

Taking a breath, Su Zhou, who had recovered nearly half of his spiritual power, sneered: "If there are really oddballs doing this, then it's none of my business. Anyway, if I encounter guys who prey on the people, I will kill them one by one. As a '侠客' (xia ke, knight-errant), that's probably all I can do. How to deal with it specifically depends on Zhou Buyi, this 'leader'."

"As for the future, naturally, I will continue to vacation here with Qiming, and then let Zhou Buyi foot the bill."

"Beat people up and still want them to pay for you? Su Zhou, you really are a devil."

"I beat him, and he still has to say thank you!"

These 2 chapters are a bit long, so it's a bit late, it doesn't affect today's update, still asking for monthly tickets and recommendation tickets~