Chapter 490: Three Talents Combine Strength, Heaven and Earth Bind and Restrain

In fact, Du En was not at all surprised by the information Sheng Zhaoshui had just revealed.

Because this fellow had come over ahead of time, it was naturally impossible for him to be wasting time; although he liked to hide things and be sneaky and ghostly, if one looked into it carefully, hiding these circumstances did not actually affect the development of the situation.

Therefore, he did not pay much attention to it; after all, you hide things and I hide things, the pot shouldn't call the kettle black.

However, it is worth mentioning that while his eavesdropping could deceive the "weak prodigy" Sheng Zhaoshui, it was difficult to avoid the "strong prodigy" An Shen...

Amidst the flickering of his gaze, he launched the final round of a full-scale assault on the rapidly dwindling wraiths.

Meanwhile, the conversation between the two who were taking the opportunity to rest had also reached its end.

An Shen spoke up again: "So looking at it this way now, could the special nature of that Zhu Yi be that?"

"Are you saying she might be a Daughter of Life Source, a Daughter of the Star Realm, a manifestation of the Star Core... The life source of the Star Realm is actually very similar to a place of reincarnation, or rather, they contain similar things, don't they? So, it is only natural that things like reincarnation and rebirth would be cooked up, right!"

Sheng Zhaoshui transmitted his voice with profound meaning.

An Shen seemed to have a deep understanding of the life source, so if one were to speculate deeply, perhaps he himself had once intervened and done similar things, which was why he had been able to keep his temper earlier and not overstep his bounds to seek out Zhu Yi and inquire about anything.

To this, An Shen merely smiled indifferently, noncommittal, and then revealed a somewhat worried look: "What I fear is that it isn't just a so-called Child of the Stars, and, how much do you think Du En has seen through, how much does he know?"

"Haha, that I don't know!"

Sheng Zhaoshui would not casually say anything he was not certain about.

Well, actually, it was just that he was afraid Du En was eavesdropping at this moment, and if he happened to hear him saying something bad about him... it didn't seem like a big problem? At most, at some point in the near future, he might fail to provide timely reinforcements... That problem seemed quite big! In short, Sheng Zhaoshui did not dare to say anything more that might be construed as disparaging.

"Now that the wraiths have been cleared out, the overall scale has shrunk by more than ten thousand to one; I fear the big event is about to arrive."

Du En's voice came over calmly at this moment, interrupting the idle chatter that had just begun.

Hearing this, the man and the god did not delay any further, flying together behind Du En, taking him as the point of the horn to form a Three Talents formation, and then looking upward together.

Compared to before, the tide of wraiths had shrunk by more than ten thousand to one; there was no longer that boundless, endless, and inexhaustible situation of them surging forth, nor were there any of those exceptionally powerful individual monument-carrying wraiths.

The reason was actually clear at a glance.

They had already been consumed.

And what had been created right now was something that kept bobbing and sinking in the blood-mist firmament, and after losing the invisible support of the remaining wraiths, it began to fall to a boundary they could see.

It was a deep, dark void.

Countless wraiths had surged into this place before, or rather, they were the basic elements that constituted the dark void.

Disintegration, refinement, convergence...

Debris drifted down from the sky.

It was fragments of skin, more and more, larger and larger.

By the time they reached the altitude where the three were located, skin the size of faces had already appeared in the high sky.

They were the faces of young girls, one after another, there were countless of them.

The situation was truly bizarre; Du En immediately retracted his Dharma artifact puppet to avoid any unnecessary wear and tear.

"Zhu Yi."

Looking at those faces drifting into his sight, although his gaze remained calm, there was a soft murmur in his heart.

In an instant, as if hearing these words, all the girls' faces turned toward them abruptly, their hollow seven orifices facing this way—eyes, ears, mouths, and noses empty, deep and dark, and softly, like resentment and like weeping, an invisible gaze penetrated through.

Resentment.

Why is it resentment? Humans have five emotions: joy, anger, sorrow, happiness, and resentment.

It is relatively superfluous, like something forced and far-fetched, but if one investigates it carefully, it seems to be able to blend the former four; it can be tainted with joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness, and further expanded, all the seven emotions and six desires, all the various things of mortals, can be said to be born from resentment.

Therefore, it is resentment, it is the Resentment-Evil!

From the torn-apart shells of the girls, what was being gestated was exactly this kind of existence; it was formless and qualityless, it had not yet been born, but its violent evil nature had suddenly blanketed the world, and the spreading evil was no longer a false or chaotic thing.

"The Child of the Stars, which is closely related to the life source of the Star Realm, turns out to be the womb of the Resentment-Evil?"

Sheng Zhaoshui gazed and murmured, his heart heavy, unable to maintain his fake, grinning face any longer, because the pressure attacking from all directions was truly immense, and because he practiced the Dao of Emotion and held the power of emotional threads and thoughts, he felt as if he were soaked in fuel and had run into a sea of fire.

If not for his corresponding practice of the opposing Abyss Water Cold, he would have been ignited and burned away at the very first encounter.

As for the god beside the two, he did not have as many feelings about this situation.

Because he did not know about Resentment-Evil; he had never seen Resentment-Evil before.

However, this did not prevent him from judging that a crisis was approaching.

But the key was, where was the enemy?

In his eyes, there was only the dark void of unknown scale—or rather, it appeared to be there, but in reality, it had no substance—along with the skin fragments and girls' faces constantly drifting down from it.

Those were all just a manifestation, not the true reality.

He raised his hand to make bold contact, but those skin faces simply passed through without a trace; there was no sensation and no substance.

So, how was one to defeat this kind of enemy?

"Let's try the Qiankun Rope first."

Du En spoke thus, and the other two had no objections.

The three exerted force together, and the Qiankun Rope suddenly pulled taut.

In fact, after arriving here, it had already appeared impatient.

However, when it truly came time to be put to use, it could not help but feel a sense of aimless confusion.

Because what was it supposed to bind? The evil nature, the evil, or the evil appearance?

That formless and qualityless fetal state of the Resentment-Evil... he simply could not touch it...

"Form a formation!" An Shen synthesized the situation and said this, while at the same time, a large hand in the mirror waved, and various materials for setting up the formation flew out.

Du En and Sheng Zhaoshui also nodded and made the same movements; various formation tools were combined accordingly, and the three of them sat at the core pivot of the formation, which could be called the key component.

Start the formation!

Three Talents Combined Power Treasure Formation!

The name sounded very plain, without any flowery or redundant prefixes, but that did not mean its power and efficacy were small; on the contrary, it expounded the principle of the Three Talents combining their strength!

The so-called Three Talents are the Heaven Talent, Earth Talent, and Human Talent, which also correspond to three states: ecological, worldly, and mental. Those who unite the Three Talents can connect even triangular opposites, organizing all principles and phenomena, and harmonizing disparate states! Hum! The array materials and array bases quietly vanished, then rapidly formed an array. In an instant, accompanied by a soundless, formless, yet substantial chime, they drew an equilateral triangle with the three people as corners. Then, countless disparate triangular lines surged out from the corners, endless, corresponding to the falling skin flakes and the girl's face, filling the sky in the blink of an eye.

An unimaginable computational burden instantly pressed down upon the An Shen who was presiding over the main array. However, as a deity, he was exceptionally suited for this moment of computational control.

A deity is a spiritual life form descended and nurtured by heaven and earth, inherently capable of close connection with heaven and earth. Furthermore, because he abandoned instinct to pursue the human heart, he added an extra talent, possessing the legal quality of the Three Talents. It should be said that it is precisely because of this that True Monarch gave this treasure array.

A treasure array above the sixth-rank peak! Unlike a treasure tool, which has a continuous surge of magic power and can barely be used across ranks, this thing called an array requires the presiding person to control the calculations. If one does not possess the corresponding quality and foundation, even a strong heaven-proud one cannot support it across ranks.

Otherwise, back in the Source Life Star Realm, An Shen would certainly have deployed a few weakened versions of sixth-rank arrays to attempt to kill the Saint God.

Why a weakened version?

Because there were no array materials on that star realm that met the standard; even using stars as a base would not work. At the same time, An Shen was limited by his practical experience at the time, so deploying a sixth-rank array was actually quite a stretch.

In short, he is now perfectly suited to preside over this array! Thus, after sorting through the vast feedback that surged in all at once, An Shen began to adjust and drive it. Consequently, the countless triangular lines no longer surged like a muddy torrent; they suddenly became orderly, each nesting, each tightening, each connecting.

Uniting Heaven, Earth, and Man, and the states of life, world, and mind into one body and one force! In an instant, the ordinary visual field vanished, and the five senses of the three were replaced and grafted into an alternative perception, as if it were an elevation of divine sense, like stepping into a void of principles.

On this vastly different side, they could not even see their own original forms, having transformed into different dharma forms.

The sun is brilliant, with a divine person inside, vaguely visible.

The dark sun is heavy, reflecting fragments, mirroring thousands.

The desolate abyss angler, weaving with flowers and leaves, hangs a book as bait.

Under such circumstances, they finally saw His form.

A blurry, distorted figure covered in mottled squares, with countless flesh-and-blood branches extending from the edges, and long, flowing hair. In the movement, there seemed to be eyes, as if pouring out some kind of faint resentment.

La la la~ A song that unexpectedly sounded normal and pleasant drifted from the girl's shadow, which resembled Zhu Yi, soaking into the heart and stirring emotions. Yet, it was not stirring them in any good or bad direction; or rather, it was just touching them cautiously, as if a timid fledgling were lightly tapping the unfamiliar air.

Is this the fetal form and true appearance of the Resentful Evil? Whether it was Du En or the other two, they could not help but be somewhat surprised.

And immediately following, another wave of malice arrived uninvited.

It was the Evil Evil that had existed on the reverse side of space all along!

It seemed to notice the actions of the three people here, so it hurried to appear, like a hen protecting its nest, wanting to drive away the foreign enemy coveting its young...

No.

Du En thought so.

Whether it is the Evil Evil or the Resentful Evil, neither would have such a tender and affectionate expression.

The reason it appears this way is still just a facade; hidden inside is another set of logic, a logic that conforms to the essence of the two evils.

Unfortunately, neither of these can communicate, so they could not quickly and clearly grasp the inside story. Therefore, they did not hesitate for a moment, and now, under the combined force of the Three Talents, they once again drove the Qiankun Rope.

What is Qian?

Heaven.

What is Kun?

Earth.

The true pivot of heaven and earth, the harmony of yin and yang, the hardness of steel! In an instant, the magic power of the three flowed away like a torrent. In the end, it was almost supported by Du En's own strength, using the principle of endless life itself to carry out the connection and output.

Thus, the triangular lines of the Three Talents Treasure Array appeared here and rapidly dyed into black and white cold colors, shimmering with a metallic cold tone, revealing the indifference of heaven and earth, which are selfless and ruthless.

The Evil Evil and the Resentful Evil are both outside the true pivot, both are heterodoxies of the evil pivot, and are the acquired projections of man.

Bind it!

In the invisible, all the black and white indifferent lines had already been embedded on the fetal form of the Resentful Evil, and drove away the malice of the Evil Evil, forbidding its spread and expansion.

By this time, Du En and the others finally understood why True Monarch gave only the Qiankun Rope, and not some other form like a Qiankun Saber or Qiankun Sword.

Because it needs to coordinate with the Three Talents Combined Treasure Array! A treasure tool like the Qiankun Rope reflects the Heaven Talent and Earth Talent, but lacks the Human Talent. If it were only used for binding, it might be fine, but if one were to trigger the array power to attack, the originally stable and balanced Three Talents array base would immediately collapse. At that time, they, who are sitting at the array eye, would also be severely injured, and there might even be a possibility of falling.

After all, it is a sixth-rank treasure array, corresponding to the real Heaven-Proud Refining Void Perfection level. They cannot withstand such backlash from crossing ranks; only Du En, relying on the Undying Saint Source Body, might possibly survive.

So what?

What should be done now? The binding has already restrained the fetal form of the Resentful Evil, but how to eliminate Him? In the final analysis, if an existence like the Resentful Evil could be eliminated, then things would be very simple. Meng Changqing would not have gone to such lengths to find the dharma for eliminating evil.

An Shen silently maintained the array. In fact, with the Resentful Evil interfering in front and the need to support the true pivot now, the treasure array was in a state of limit operation. Therefore, he needed to use all his ability to maintain this treasure array that had crossed a whole major rank.

In other words, he was currently unable to even stir his thoughts to respond.

Sheng Zhaoshui then focused his attention on Du En.

It was not that he was slacking off at this moment, but that Du En had just expressed his opinion earlier.

Save people! Therefore, his own means, the method given by the True Monarch to attempt to kill the Resentful Evil, could only be used later. Moreover, the Resentful Evil is an evil, and that Evil Evil is also an evil; perhaps that side is the most troublesome, and that trump card should probably be saved for the opponent...

In the midst of such thoughts, he saw Du En shift his body and actually walk out of his array eye position.

Body and Spirit Separation!

What walked out now was the Primordial Spirit, while the physical shell remained in place, or rather, the palace! The Divine Palace manifested, the Green Cyan transformed into armor, and the Mirror Reflection Armor also emerged, revealing a shallow reflected light from the inner layer, as if it were very difficult in this situation... In short, he cut himself off from the endless magic power and other parts that could provide for the treasure array, leaving them in place to continue supporting the operation of the treasure array, only letting his own thin Primordial Spirit walk out!

No, no, no, is this a Primordial Spirit?

If one must say, this should be a divine sense or a reflection, a more unstable and rootless carrier, yet it was truly carrying Du En inside.

(End of chapter)