Chapter 482: The Formless Time Perishes, Chaos Manifests

The magical light dimmed, the ripples yet to dissipate.

Faintly, one could only see a few remnants drifting down, then immediately turning to dust in silence.

Suddenly!

Xu Tianci appeared in a certain spot, and toward the empty space before him, he thrust his hand out fiercely—*squelch*, piercing through a heart!

?! It was not Du En who was surprised, but rather he himself who was surprised.

Because the person pierced, upon being revealed, was actually just an ice-shell mannequin! Du En was not here!

Before he could react, nine feet of white silk appeared out of thin air, wrapping him up tightly.

The action of hanging, severing your life and death! The punishment of the pestle!

Boom! Without giving this side any chance to act, a giant fist, gathering its momentum, smashed down with simple, unadorned force, directly smashing him into a pulp.

At this moment, because a puddle of paste could still be left behind, it allowed one to see through his tricks.

He disappeared quite suddenly, and amidst an inexplicable flicker, appeared quite a distance away; his chest and abdomen could not help but heave, his breath also somewhat disordered, though he forcibly restrained it.

Xu Tianci's expression turned gloomy; he looked left and right, his gaze patrolling.

He could not find that sun that had hidden itself!

It was clearly such a dazzling and delicious existence, yet now it had completely hidden away! "By adopting a war of attrition here, do you not care about the current plight of those two people?"

"..."

Du En did not answer, yet he also answered.

The True Image of Subduing the Dragon slowly turned, towering and majestic; a silent pressure descended, giving this side only a feeling of heart-palpitating dread, feeling as if it would kill its way to his front the next moment and beat him into another puddle of meat paste, or perhaps unleash another wave of absurd, full-armed saturation strikes.

What on earth was going on with that Dharma technique?! To be honest, Xu Tianci still felt lingering fear, and was incomparably shocked and puzzled.

However, the True Image did not attack.

Because Du En was neither hurried nor impatient.

Giving this side a silent answer.

Do you really think I didn't leave any means on them? Having hurriedly snatched the people and been pursued closely the entire way, Xu Tianci actually couldn't be certain that they truly had no methods on them, so he was restless, and he couldn't help but speak: "It's useless, I am immortal and indestructible!"

Even the Supremes wouldn't dare to boast so loudly; you really dare to say such a thing.

Du En couldn't help but think this, and then began to perform in his true colors: "Speaking so much only shows that you have no confidence at all."

"You!"

Xu Tianci listened to the voice echoing throughout the cavern, so calm, so piercing, as if it were stating an unassailable fact, completely stabbing at his own lungs.

The key was that the other party had not stopped: "Seemingly mysterious and unfathomable, but actually just posturing; the grotesqueries I have seen are far more real than yours.

That kind of trick is nothing more than borrowing lives and borrowing forms. Xu Tianci, you have borrowed from Chili, and you have borrowed from Jiuyun, along with other vermin in the gutters; in the end, who do you think you really are? With rotten, foul water sloshing in your cranial cavity, do you still have the brains to remember your true name?

Tianci, Tianci, why 'Heaven-Gifted'? Did your father really give you this name? I don't think so; clearly, there were a bunch of older brothers and sisters above you, and a bunch of younger brothers and sisters below, and your aptitude is obviously not the type to shock heaven and earth or move the gods. Why did your father give you such a..."

"Enough!"

Xu Tianci was furious, mad with rage, and couldn't help but roar: "How could a clumsy, lowly person understand my greatness?"

"But I am a person from the Upper Realm."

"You motherf—!"

This side instantly broke their defense.

Having once boasted of being a Superior Person, spending a lifetime thinking about going to the Upper Realm, only to end up like this without ever having gone, and then having a genuine person from the Upper Realm jump out in front of him.

If he could crush the opponent with strength and beat them to the ground, he could still be smug, but now it was the reverse—being suppressed and beaten—and this point was completely impossible to refute.

"Formless and substanceless, soundless and scentless, no self and no other, the Formless Divine Art!"

"Hahahaha!"

Xu Tianci no longer restrained himself, no longer hesitated, and immediately urged his power to manifest the technique; amidst a surging explosion of Dharma power, he laughed wildly and spread his hands, his face suddenly turning into a blank slate.

A blank face, a blank heart; an evil strangeness began to emerge, and then he punched into the void, and a wave-like surge of Dharma power erupted.

Du En was naturally unafraid; he drove the True Image and directly counterattacked.

In an instant they made contact, and then the wave suddenly dissipated, formless and substanceless.

A feint? A wasted move?

No, it was a full-coverage strike! Since he couldn't find the sun that had hidden away, he would smash all the obstructions to pieces, go to the other side of the planet, to the place of the setting sun; he didn't believe he wouldn't find it that way! Boom, boom, boom! The cavern suddenly exploded; it was a sudden eruption of Dharma power that directly submerged every aspect of the whole, and while at it, it struck the True Image, causing it to crack as well.

It was not just an ordinary Dharma power strike; it harbored some kind of evil principle, a hundred or thousand-fold amplification—no, it was seeking out gaps to enter, drilling through the leaks in the image, erupting amidst various principles and appearances, not crushing from the inside, but turning things to nothing from within.

No self-appearance, no other-appearance...

"Why does it feel like there's a hint of Buddhism again?"

Du En pondered and experienced it, thinking just that.

"Hahahaha, you've finally shown yourself!"

Xu Tianci's face, which lacked the features of the seven orifices, suddenly turned one hundred and eighty degrees on the spot, looking at Du En, who was not too far behind, propping up the Eternal Frozen Coffin to defend himself.

Facing this move of 'Formless Striking Nothingness', he truly could not hide anymore.

Only.

"Don't you feel that your energy is a bit excessive right now?"

"Hm?!"

Xu Tianci was stunned upon hearing this, and then felt a bit of delayed realization.

That's right, he had been beaten to death twice in a row; although he had the method of 'Borrowing Appearances to Replace Fate', that was not a method without limits. Under the impact of Du En's over-limit principles, especially that wave of full-firepower strikes from the True Image, it had actually taken away more than just one of his 'Borrowed Appearances'. The consumption was greater and heavier; logically speaking, he should be falling into a state of exhaustion by now.

"Also, don't you think I was too certain that you would be inside that fat dragon?"

That's right, he had clearly been posturing before; normally, one would think he was actually hiding secretly and wouldn't be so obviously and directly hiding inside it, but this side had just locked onto it, launching a fierce, fiery assault...

"You, what tricks are you playing?"

"The flourishing of spring, the peak of summer, and what comes next?" "What?"

"You really are slow-witted."

Spring, summer, autumn, winter; the four seasons of the year.

Implanted into the life-body, stimulating potential, hiding within, and bearing fruit.

"The harvest of autumn, hmm, it is just like this."

As Du En finished speaking, he was no longer in the ice coffin, but had reached his hand into the Formless.

"Although I don't know the details of that 'Formless Divine Art' of yours, if it truly has a Buddhist foundation, then what you've practiced is a bit crooked. Look, aren't there still many original forms here?"

Greedy, fallen, crazy... From the opponent's origin, Du En took out a Life Fruit of Myriad Forms, which was filled with all sorts of things.

"This, this, what, evil path, technique is this?"

Xu Tianshi's superficial formlessness, as the origin Life Fruit was removed, instantly became incomparably aged, covered in wrinkles, stubbornly piling up into a look of decay.

"Four seasons of the year, the turning of the time wheel; this of mine is a proper and authentic Great Dao."

As Du En said this, he crushed the treasure that could theoretically also be called a Longevity Fruit, a treasure that countless people on the verge of death in the outside world would greedily crave.

Then, he looked at Xu Tianshi.

"So, there is one last season, winter. What can you think of regarding this?"

"No, no, no, Great Cultivator of the Upper Realm, True Cultivator of the Upper Realm, spare my life! I have clearly been diligent and conscientious, receiving the Upper Realm's mandate and heavenly grace. I have already reached the door, I have already built the stairs, ah!!!"

Xu Tianshi screamed suddenly, and Du En also sensed the change, so he directly pushed the Wheel of the Four Seasons.

The killing intent of winter, all things wither! In an instant, Xu Tianshi, who was already a candle in the wind, died directly in the winter, turning into drifting snow and broken ice, no longer able to borrow forms to replace his life.

However, the change had not yet stopped.

This underground cavern was shaking incessantly.

All things considered, with the ability of a Supreme, would they really leave behind such a boundary layer after merging space? If it was not because of the Supreme, then what kind of existence would truly be supporting this boundary? Everything, in fact, lies in this node! At this very moment, it was finally disturbed and revealed its original appearance.

And Du En was already in its "belly."

The mouth closed and sealed, trapped deep within.

It was as if it were truly a Heavenly Dog swallowing the sun, causing the sun to sink and disappear.

The blind ignorance of stupidity followed and appeared. The two boundary lines retracted and returned to the center, forming a void point. A figure could be called the center of this point, appearing exceptionally abrupt between the front and back of the unique space of the Qingxuan Star Realm, yet there was also a sense of it being a matter of course.

"Oh my, Brother Disciple Du is in trouble!"

A voice that sounded frivolous suddenly rang out here.

It was Sheng Zhaoshui.

Within the node, amidst a ripple of water, he pushed open a door and then walked out, followed by a rhombic mirror, which was the host carrier for the Dark God.

The person and the god had previously been continuing to recast the Upper Realm Secret Key in Nine Clouds City, but now they appeared in this place. It was obvious that they had already finished recasting and had actually arrived here long ago, just hiding on the side and observing in secret.

The abnormal boundary between spaces is indeed difficult for people to perceive, and wanting to step into it also seems very difficult, but as long as one companion has already entered and left behind some clues, Sheng Zhaoshui could rely on his own divine abilities to follow them in.

When it comes to the ability to step into all kinds of inexplicable and incredible places, he is even higher than Du En.

It's just that in this current state, it looks like he is standing by with folded arms, watching as the other side is trapped in a predicament.

"So, what should we do now?"

Sheng Zhaoshui appeared a bit troubled, and the Dark God was also silent. Both of them "stared" at the giant object that appeared in the void point domain, and in fact, both felt a kind of pressure.

In fact, they didn't want to stand by and watch him die just now, but they were also subjected to a kind of invisible resistance and suppression, so they failed to make a move.

Because the behemoth in their eyes is no simple character! The "Classic of Divine Wonders" records: In the past, there was a creature called Kunlun, a divine mountain and immortal land. To its west, there was a beast, shaped like a dog, with long hair and four legs, resembling a bear but without claws. It had eyes but could not see, it walked but could not open, it had ears but could not hear, it knew people's intentions, it had a belly but no five internal organs, and it had intestines that were straight without coils, so food passed straight through.

People with virtue who approach it will be repelled and cannot get close.

People with evil virtue who approach it will be relied upon and can be driven.

This was caused by Heaven, so it is named Chaos, ranking among the Four Evils!

"Although it is still just an immature juvenile, this is, after all, one of the Four Evils. Ordinary True Dragons cannot beat it. Once fully grown, it can rival a True Monarch, and even reach the level of becoming a Supreme in the human world... Should I say the Sect Master is generous to throw it over here as a guard dog?"

Sheng Zhaoshui couldn't help but touch the stubble on his chin, looking as sloppy as ever, but in fact, under the gaze of that pair of blind eyes of Chaos, this side was constantly subjected to a strong invisible repulsion.

This kind of void point is like its demon domain or dharma domain; in short, it is a domain supported by its own strength. Because its own walking ability is extremely poor, it uses this as a means of movement. Good people with virtue cannot enter, cannot approach, and will only be repelled, excluded, and suppressed.

Previously, Du En was not obviously repelled or excluded. Firstly, Chaos was hiding at the time, and only because it had just revealed a mouth could it lead directly to its empty belly. Secondly, it was because Xu Tianshi was commanding it; that villain with evil virtue could easily drive this beast that cannot distinguish right from wrong!

So now, if it weren't for Sheng Zhaoshui driving the divine ability of 'Flowers and Leaves Do Not Meet,' they would have long been bounced back to the surface of space. Therefore, he is actually not as light and sloppy as he appears on the surface.

"All in all, it is because we are not completely good people that the repulsion we received was not too intense. Otherwise, we would have to find a way to lure it to the surface and then kill it and cut open its belly by setting up arrays and prohibitions."

The Dark God said this calmly, seemingly having already assessed the current situation.

Because of the peculiarity of the Qingxuan Star Realm here, the normal method for dealing with Chaos—which is to penetrate into the inner layer of space to surround and attack—simply does not work. That is why it is necessary for Sheng Zhaoshui to consume energy with Chaos now, and there is no energy left.

It is also fortunate that it is a beast like Chaos, which has poor initiative and lacks brains. Otherwise, it would have already noticed something wrong and launched an attack. How could it allow them to be here, one with the leisure to speak frivolous words, and the other still able to observe calmly?

In short, Supreme Luoyu using Chaos to guard the gate has both advantages and disadvantages.

"So, is this really what he left here to guard the gate?"

Du En's voice suddenly cut in.

"Hmm?!"

Sheng Zhaoshui couldn't help but be stunned. He looked over fiercely, only to see him, covered in the lingering hatred of the Phoenix, charging in again. Relying on the madness and power of the Divine Venerable's lingering hatred, he withstood the still-existing but obviously weakened good-repelling force, returned to the habitat domain of Chaos, and landed beside the person and the god.

"How did you go outside? Weren't you eaten just now?"

Sheng Zhaoshui appeared very surprised. After all, he had seen it clearly: a sun being swallowed by a vicious dog was not false or illusory, and Du En did not possess such means, so...

"It is said that Chaos has nothing in its belly, only an esophagus and an intestine, both of which are straight. Now that it has its mouth tightly closed, could it be that you crawled out from the other end?!"

"No, that blast of mine just now opened a hole in its body. I just took advantage of its power to repel good to escape. It's just that this guy is muddled and only has instinctual nature, so it didn't notice."

(End of chapter)