Chapter 1540: Yang Within Yin Cannot Exit, Therefore Stirred and Activated to Become Thunder (Two-in-One)

"Crack!"

The wake-up block struck the table, its sound shaking the whole hall, rousing the mortal world.

"The story continues from last time————Now then, the Whale Emperor schemed for thousands of years, convened the Great Hunt of the East Sea, cast a sky-covering net, wanting to swallow the Three Realms,

take in the myriad spirits, seeking a single chance to transform into a rainbow through ten thousand ages and forever enjoy carefree ease.

Who knew, it was also the work of heaven's numbers; previously Long Xiang and the King of Huai raised a huge ruckus in the Netherworld, turning the Underworld upside down, and actually startled the True Spirit of the Great Li Dynasty's Grand Ancestor who had slumbered for ten thousand years. Once the Grand Ancestor awoke, his gaze projected divine light, and he was a ruthless character too; he did not cultivate divine abilities, did not refine magic treasures, but actually wanted to use the universe as a furnace cauldron, refine the myriad worlds, and achieve the Dao!

Two heroes rose in parallel, killing intent lurked in the dark, the world suffered calamity.

The King of Huai, however, had a hero's liver and gall; with a cold eye he looked on, and early on saw through both their abacuses clearly, truly and precisely, resisted with all his strength, and awaited the moment calmly. In the span of half a double-hour, he suddenly heard three long howls.

The Great Li Grand Ancestor, the Whale Emperor, the King of Huai————actually transformed into rainbows one after another; the world calls it the World-Opening Battle!"

Twilight gradually ended, the bright moon slowly emerged, hanging high in the sky.

Red, white, blue————three-colored Tianhe, invertedly suspended in the sky, grew even clearer beneath the dark night.

Night yet not black, dusk yet not dark.

Patrol guards wore armbands on their sleeves, held long spears on patrol, enforced the curfew, shouted for crowds to go home, not to take to the streets. Walking to an alley

mouth, they saw a crowd gathered; originally wanting to warn them, upon hearing a few drifting words, they couldn't help but halt their steps and lean against the wall to listen.

"Clack-clack-clack————" The storyteller joined two fingers, tapped lightly upward: like a steed's hooves treading, each sound urging people on, "Up to here; heaven also collapsed, earth also cracked, the three sides' heroes, rushed straight into the azure heavens, wanting to compete in height with Heaven's Lord.

Slow to speak, fast to happen, the Great Li Grand Ancestor flicked his sleeve and raised his hand, the virtual and real inverted, what was clearly real action, in an instant all became illusion; flipping his hand back, what was laid out as illusion, actually all transformed into reality again. This move of true and illusion contending, truly ghost-and-god unfathomable.

Who expected the Whale Emperor even more fierce, opened his mouth and inhaled, the wind and rain from eight directions all entered the whale's belly, no matter virtual or real, true or illusion, all kinds of harm, he accepted them all as listed, swallowed them clean in one go!

Just at this moment, the King of Huai moved!

Straight like a sky-pouncing ape, a circling eagle. That powerful flesh body of his, truly was ten thousand methods cannot invade, all evils hard to approach. Only saw his figure flash, pierce through void and shatter space, in a flash already before the Grand Ancestor, reached out like iron pincers, clamped onto the Great Li Grand Ancestor's skull in one grab.

The Grand Ancestor had just become startled aware, when the King of Huai's hand had already used solid force, only heard a 'puff' sound, like a ripe melon splitting open————"

"Pfft, boring, boring! Same old routine, so they transformed into rainbows and still use fist and foot kung fu?"

"Not so, not so, this listener, cultivation reaching this stage, the person is the Dao, the Dao is the person, person and Dao have long since not been separate from each other, returning to simplicity and truth, the so-called fist is also authority, the peril within, not for outsiders to know————"

"I'm not listening, not listening."

The crowd shouted in response.

"Crack! Good, since the various gentlemen request it, then I'll change the telling. These three supremes, new grudges and old hatreds cannot be pursued, life-and-death enemies cannot be let go.

That day they transformed into rainbows and ascended, instantly battled to the universe's wild borders, the Great Dao all ground away. Chickens turned into dogs, dogs turned into chickens, men turned into women, women turned into men!"

"This is good, this is good, has style!"

Old and young masters a chorus of cheers, waves of hurrahs, urging him on repeatedly.

"What comes after."

"What comes after————" The storyteller Mr. wanted to speak but stopped, a long sigh, raised his hand pointing at the sky, "If you want to know what happens next, you might as well————look up at the sky?"

The alley fell dead silent.

The last sliver of sunlight withdrew from the end of Huaijiang, the sky dome thoroughly darkened, dim blood light bathed down.

The wall shadow slanted into a line, the listeners stayed in darkness, sorrow welled from within.

A month now————

At home there's still someone lying on the bed, unconscious.

Third month entering fourth month, the spring plowing season, short on labor, not enough porridge rice, afraid it's——

The patrol guard gave rise to desolation.

Since that day, his old man has also been sleeping continuously, every day his mother has to help wipe his body, feed him rice porridge, just this month has had enough grief, he severed his thoughts, took a deep breath, prepared to urge the crowd that night had fallen and curfew was in effect, everyone go home.

Just as he walked into the alley, the patrol guard suddenly halted his step.

On the storyteller's face, he saw a face shocked beyond description.

Following that, he raised his head.

Pupils abruptly dilated.

The three-colored Tianhe reflected, the round moon in this interval became extremely inconspicuous, but in this moment————

A fire meteor pierced through the round moon, like a sharp arrow that punctured some bubble, penetrating through and out.

Flames blazing, white light briefly tore apart all darkness, Xu Xu then dimmed.

The round moon hid in the white light for an instant, gradually, it began to collapse, began to swell, cracks visible to the naked eye emerged, from a complete silver disk, turning into countless fragments.

Unknown how long passed, in the vault of heaven meteors began to appear, burning flames began to appear.

The moon, collapsed————

"Clang-clang-clang————"

The bronze bell urgent, rang on the distant mountain, startling flying birds from the woods, a dark mass.

"Run!"

The patrol guard shouted violently.

Piercing screams pierced through ears, the entire town thoroughly boiled, the earth trembled, snakes, insects, rats, ants crawled out of cracks.

No time.

Still no time.

The patrol guard watched helplessly as a fireball smashed into Jianghuai, a mountain-like wave surged skyward, connecting heaven and earth, only then came the thunderous explosion sound.

"Boom!!!"

The guard was blown flying, crashed into something hard.

Fierce wind blew, roofs all blown away and collapsed, countless people shrieked continuously.

But these shriekes also quickly disappeared.

Chaotic stones smashed down, covering heaven and earth, the patrol guard curled in a corner, Qi and blood flowing in reverse, both eyes bloodshot, head almost about to explode, couldn't hear anything, eyes full of white light, intense nausea and abdominal pain.

He felt like he was about to die.

Suddenly.

A wisp of cold air struck his face.

The patrolling guards shivered.

For a long time.

Pain, excruciating pain.

The ringing in his ears persisted, his sense of touch gradually returned, his left hand seemed fractured, sore and swollen, the patrolling guard raised his right hand, trembling fingers, to touch, to feel.

He felt the unevenness of the blue brick wall, climbed upward, bit by bit supporting his body weight, cautiously opening his tear-filled eyes, countless overlapping lights and shadows gradually merged, ground, roof tiles, everywhere covered with a thin layer of white frost.

He raised his head again.

The endless waves connecting heaven and earth were frozen, turned into floating ice mountains.

Between heaven and earth, more streams of light surged out, coming from all directions to meet the falling meteors, blocking the rising tide.

Alive—alive?

In the vast sky, shattered moons kept falling without end.

The patrolling guard's legs went weak, he collapsed sitting on the ground.

"Ah!!!"

In the boundless darkness, a roar erupted, like a wail.

Defeat, defeat!

The Four Passes, the Flying Horse Martial Master's engagement span is arm length, the Wolf Beacon and Tiger Hunt span is the size of true Gang, the Entering Zhen Xiang and Azure Dragon span is the distance of divine ability effects.

The Smelting Furnace spans three thousand li, wherever authority reaches.

Transforming into a rainbow, distance and space, almost lost their effect.

In an instant, both sides used millions of li as units, for span, crisscrossing and intertwining, each world lay in ruins.

In the void, where there should be nothing, silent and breathless, Bai Yuan somehow felt he had hit something soft, but already

could no longer tell, only left with excruciating pain sweeping his whole body, opening his eyes again, his field of vision showed the looming figure of the Great Li Taizu.

The Great Li Taizu stood in the void, behind him was unfathomable darkness, the nine heavens and ten earths diminished to invisibility, his clothes were in tatters, naked, hair disheveled.

The Second of the Four Immortals had just exploded into two puffs of blood mist, vanished into ashes, leaving no trace in the world, the Great Li Taizu paused in place, raised his hand to grasp, reality and illusion shifting.

Bai Yuan appeared in the dream.

Bai Yuan clasped his hands behind his back, knelt on the ground, offered no resistance, the Great Li Taizu beheaded him with one sword, in an instant, the dream collapsed and turned into reality, in the dark, the same blood mark appeared on the neck of the flying-back Bai Yuan, yet could not be perfectly replicated.

Ripples spread, resisting.

The Great Li Taizu again activated his authority, using the Dragon Lord's authority to defeat Bai Yuan's resistance authority.

Authority cannot be canceled, but can be countered.

Upon contact, the blood mark instantly cut into the bone, nearly severing Bai Yuan's head.

But the next moment, the wound on Bai Yuan's neck disappeared, replaced by a more dangerous cutting force, flowing through space, "object" returning to its owner.

A strong sense of disassembly swept over, head and body nearly became two separate entities, the Great Li Taizu instantly turned the disassembly feeling into illusion and dream, restored, the Third and Fourth Immortals successively leapt from the dream, continuing to besiege Bai Yuan.

Similar games, a thought ten thousand times, a breath ten thousand times.

They had experienced exactly————no days, no months, unaware of years, unaware of moments.

The Great Li Taizu inverted order, chaotic authority.

This flowing harm returned to Liang Qu.

The River Lord split, the Heavenly Origin downgraded, massive harm turned into countless tiny wounds, then in the blink of an eye digested and restored by the boundless volume of Transforming into a Rainbow.

Bai Yuan fled.

The Great Li Taizu did not pursue, but instead seized Bai Yuan in the dream with his backhand, this result projected into reality.

Millions inside and outside, reality collapsed into the result, Bai Yuan's vision flashed, and instantly appeared before the Great Li Taizu.

Before the Collapsing Authority took effect, the Yinglong Authority first flowed Bai Yuan away.

Thus, a new round of games.

No one dies, no one perishes.

But the more the games are lost, the more traits invade.

In the red river there is blue, in the blue river there is red.

Mutual permeation, mutual invasion, mutual interference.

Only the White River flows silently.

The Mirage Dragon's reality-illusion transformation is practically unlimited use of Izanagi, stronger than Taotie.

But Liang Qu only felt relaxed, even after such games for a month.

Compared to when the Azure Dragon was in the Smelting Furnace, the Smelting Furnace was in Transforming into a Rainbow.

Deathless and indestructible.

No longer needing to fear being crushed in one blow, no longer needing to survive in crevices.

In the endless darkness, only Bai Yuan and the Great Li Taizu remained.

The Whale Emperor was dazed and confused, unaware of his whereabouts.

Constantly ruling and being ruled, his main consciousness worn out completely, self utterly blurred, left only instinct, his massive body scattered in the void.

Bai Yuan was no better off, even though the Whale Emperor lost consciousness, he still could not successfully rule, dazed and confused, reactions everywhere half a beat slow.

The Great Li Taizu grew weary.

Even resistance must have a limit.

Joining forces with the Whale Emperor, until the Whale Emperor vanished without trace, two against one, knowing it was impossible, this monkey still could leap about here, baring his teeth.

It had never fought such a sawing, such a torturous battle before; it seized Bai Yuan again and struck into the sun wheel.

High temperature?

No.

Hot springs.

Liang Qu stretched his limbs, glanced sideways, and before flying out of the sun, saw a three-legged giant bird curled up inside the sun wheel, its wings as if embracing, though the three-legged giant bird seemed a little dead.

Is it the third sun of the bing fire day?

Is it the fire-element great position fruit picked up by the old dragon lord?

No answer.

The whale emperor has lost the ability to think.

The Blood River Realm, no, within the Dream Dynasty, everything is reborn anew.

On the square of the Cloud Immortal Island, the scene of Bai Yuan kneeling and submitting to the Great Li Taizu is performed over and over; each repetition collapses reality, and the control of the red river over the blue river deepens further.

The Lotus Great Master has fully grasped the key to transforming into a rainbow.

Transforming into a rainbow is indestructible; the key to contention is dismantling the opponent's rainbow transformation, breaking indestructibility, and the only way is through essence—using essence to destroy the foundation and authority of the rainbow transformation, for essence is both the rainbow transformation and the fundamental of the world.

Bai Yuan's essence of resistance lies in invading the Dream Dynasty; the essence controlled by the Dream Dynasty likewise invades the other side in each suppression of Bai Yuan.

But the Dream Dynasty has amplified the effect of controlling essence!

As long as Bai Yuan's submission is repeatedly replicated within the Dream Dynasty, the dream collapses into reality, and the invasion speed of the Dream Dynasty far surpasses that of Bai Yuan's Boundless Water Realm.

The Dream Dynasty's scale is inherently greater than Bai Yuan's Boundless Water Realm; at this moment, it has nearly fully invaded, while the Boundless Water Realm has barely managed to invade half of the Dream Dynasty!

Those who follow me prosper; those who oppose me perish.

This is truly the first authority of the Great Li Taizu.

The Zhu Lu is merely the promotion of a position fruit after the Fengchan of Mount Tianshan.

As long as the Immortal of Li wills it, anything can happen—no matter how unbelievable or hard to believe, effort can make it succeed; as long as the Immortal of Li does not will it, all obstacles will slowly wither away!

After a full month, the final victory is settled.

The tense nerves regain their elasticity.

The Lotus Great Master relaxes.

Victory.

Bai Yuan's successive promotions are unfathomable, bringing panic to all, keeping him anxious and uneasy.

The facts prove: the Huai Yuan is exhausted, the whale emperor is muddled, and the Great Li Taizu will completely merge the yin and yang realms.

Only I am supreme—there can only ever be one.

"Plop!"

On the square of the Heaven Fire Sect, the white ape in the dream kneels once again, offering loyalty; Wu Lingxu and Fei Taiyu accept the white ape's allegiance.

The dream collapses into reality.

The blue river base further advances the red invasion, completely covering it with a layer of blood, as if a warrior had fallen by the riverbank, his flowing blood staining the river red.

Between heaven and earth, all people raise their heads.

Everyone feels uneasy.

"Li Xian, that's enough."

The Lotus Great Master said lightly, with unprecedented calm.

The Great Li Taizu is equally tranquil; he sensed Bai Yuan's four authorities, interwoven into a great net, one of which is "interval"—perhaps a pillar—and with a single thought, he could make this heaven and earth split apart.

The dream collapses into reality once again.

The Great Li Taizu seized Bai Yuan's head with one hand, lifted it, no longer harboring hatred, his gaze instead welling with admiration.

"I, having attained the supreme, govern the six directions; with the whale emperor's aid, you, with your lone body, dared to resist—worthy of being recorded in history. I shall command the historiographers to paint your likeness in vermilion and pass it down to posterity. Any last words?"

Bai Yuan gasped violently, revealing a fierce grin: "What Dream Dynasty, what illusion and reality—better to call it self-deception!"

"At death's door, so flustered and embarrassed—only loses one's dignity." The Great Li Taizu smiled faintly.

Bai Yuan no longer spoke, only raised his hand, pinching his index finger and thumb together.

One sentence, one character?

The Great Li Taizu pondered briefly, not understanding, frowned: "What do you mean? My patience is limited!"

Bai Yuan still said nothing, only lowered his gaze, glanced, bared his teeth, and squeezed out a big grin: "You like this—can't go looking for the dragon maiden, guarding a widow, wasting people."

The Great Li Taizu's gaze turned cold: "Seek death!"

His remaining patience vanished completely.

The Great Li Taizu shifted between illusion and reality, donned his ceremonial robes, and grasped the authority of the water realm.

"Li Xian, the great or for self-cultivation, currently controlling the water level is still difficult to dismantle; to be safe, dismantle the easiest one!" The Lotus Great Master immediately reminded.

The Great Li Taizu could not discern the size of the position fruit, but truly felt the differing difficulties.

One immovable, one hard to move, one movable, one easy to move.

Different degrees of invasion?

Why are there four levels?

Though strange about the different sensations, the Great Li Taizu did not delay, immediately pulling out one of them!

A miserable cry.

The Haiya King arrived dazed between the Great Li Taizu and Liang Qu, feeling his spiritual link to the heavens constantly waning, faint and fleeting, but glancing left and right, he dared not speak.

Qing Nü, Tian Wu, and Giant Spirit each lost one; the interconnected, woven Cang Ming Realm great net collapsed instantly.

"Bang!"

As if something had shattered.

In the vault of heaven, the azure river thoroughly collapsed, dried up, and was extinguished into darkness.

The crimson Celestial River blazed with light, squeezing out the White River, swallowing the Blue River, resplendent and magnificent, thoroughly becoming the sole existence in the night sky's vault!

Patch after patch of dark clouds rapidly cracked and dissipated, the starry sky revealed itself, no more light of any kind remained, heaven and earth shrouded in blood color.

Water stirred into waves, grass blades bent.

The Straw-Hatted Old Man froze in place.

Long Eying's face turned deathly pale, the old Monk chanted sutras.

Xu's head spun with dizziness, she fell into Yang Dongxiong's embrace.

Hai Fangzhu's wrists and ankles entwined.

"It's over————"

The Tusi swayed unsteadily.

In the boundless void, the rainbow bridge shattered, Bai Yuan withered, fur drooping.

Lost its spirit and vigor, the five-zhang ferocious ape shrank to just over one zhang, looking exactly like an old monkey drowned and driven out of its troop, gaunt and withered, all its features sagging.

Darkness, dead silence, vast emptiness.

It ended.

Great Li's Taizu gripped Qing Nu, five fingers sinking deep into Bai Yuan's flesh and blood, fresh blood flowing horizontally.

Clearly omnipotent, clearly undying and indestructible————no joy, no satisfaction.

Only————the fury of everything being destroyed!

He was originally considering whether to thoroughly finish off Bai Yuan, or imprison him for day-and-night torture, when he suddenly seemed to think of something, once again hoisting Bai Yuan high, coldly laughing and retorting: "Now, your cards————are they all played?"

Face sagging, head full of blood, Bai Yuan weak and breathless, chest heaving with difficulty, panting heavily, it laboriously turned its head, squeezing out a smile.

"No!"

Great Li's Taizu blanked for a moment.

【There is a Giant Spirit Hu, who pervasively obtains the Dao of Kun Yuan, able to create mountains and rivers, bring forth rivers.】

【Giant Spirit】

【Authority: Tongzheng】

【Category: Zhi】

【Unblock obstructions, excavate perilous barriers, make mountains and rivers accessible, connect water and land, turn natural moats into thoroughfares.】

【Refining Rite: Open the nine orifices, dredge the hundred rivers, break the ten thousand obstacles.】

【Advancement Rite: Open heaven and split earth, support heaven and stand on earth, can advance to the Imperial Category Position Fruit————Pangu.】

【Tianyuan】

【Authority: Hengyu】

【Category: Yu】

【Boundary Rite: Tianyuan is the Orthodoxy, commands the Four Yu, can guide and illuminate the Tianyuan Realm.】

No Wu Zhiqi, Yinglong, Chuan Zhu, Pangu.

Liang Qu silently counted through once.

Not enough.

Not insufficient, but can continue adding.

He still has a "Zhu".

【Boundary Rite: Earth Stem is the Response, commands the Four Yu, can guide and illuminate the Earth Stem Realm.】

Slightly operate it a bit.

Bai Yuan raised its head, grinned, smiled at Great Li's Taizu.

Heart went *weng* as it swelled and burst, blood flowed backward, surging up to the crown.

Bodhisattva Lianhua's face turned deathly pale: "Bad! Your Majesty, quickly————"

No need for others to remind, Hukou slightly swelled, Great Li's Taizu had already blasted Bai Yuan into blood mist, thoroughly extinguishing————

Heaven and earth dim and deep, tide sounds greatly rose.

Stars shone, like reefs.

In the sole vaulted Celestial River, a silver-white river quietly flowed out, booming vast, breaking through the blood color, vast and mighty, covering the Red River.

Night bright as day, heaven and earth's blood red rapidly dimmed.

On the boundless Jianghuai Great Marsh, every layer of waves reflected the Silver River's cold light.

Hukou split open bleeding.

Great Li's Taizu stood dazed in place.

Suddenly.

Shadow enveloped.

A large hand gently pressed onto Great Li's Taizu's skull.

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