Chapter 254: What a Feast!

【Long Flowing Water】 falls!

How terrifying is the fall of a fruit position? Almost simultaneously, every cultivator under heaven who cultivated 【Long Flowing Water】 felt an inexplicable sense of oppression.

Directly above the Foundation Establishment realm, the Bitter Sea churned with waves. A crowd of Foundation Establishment True Persons looked up to see a somewhat blurry, blazing white light. That light resembled a crescent moon, hazy and illusory, its true form indiscernible; one could only sense the vast, boundless divine ability imagery filling it.

"Failed."

Seeing this, Lu Yang shook his head; this was clearly not the omen of a successful quest for gold. Although Suo Huan had gambled on that one-in-ten-thousand hope to charge at the fruit position.

Pity that he still fell short at the final step.

Soon, Lu Yang spotted Suo Huan's figure within that arc of light. He saw that Suo Huan's expression was blank, as if he had encountered something inconceivable.

Immediately after, this great cultivator from beyond the heavens suddenly laughed. He laughed loudly in mid-air, his laughter shrill and mournful. His previously stable qi mechanism abruptly turned incomparably violent, and his jet-black eyes actually flushed with scarlet blood. Everyone could hear his hysterical roar:

"Too bullying! Too bullying!"

"Why treat me this way? I, 【Huan Xu Realm】, I, Suo Huan... Hahaha! Suo Huan! Suo Huan! This Daoist title truly was not chosen incorrectly!"

"My lord! Come out!"

"I know you are watching!"

Amidst his roaring, centered on the slowly descending 【Long Flowing Water】, three golden core dharma bodies of earth-shattering, immensely grand scale manifested.

Suo Huan instantly recognized these three Golden Core True Lords. They were precisely the chief culprits who had presided over the Battle for the Dao and annihilated the 【Huan Xu Realm】. In an instant, his laughter became even more tragic. Back then, he had thought he escaped death only with the help of the Realm Heavens, but now it seemed that was not the case!

"Everyone, the main course is served."

The True Lords' voices carried a hint of amusement, echoing in a realm imperceptible to True Persons:

"Amitabha... My Buddha is compassionate. It was not in vain that we let this person go back then. Today, our merit is finally complete, and we can guide this blessed land back to its proper place."

"This person's golden nature belongs to me."

"Holy Sect, stop there. Do not move recklessly. Divide according to our prior agreement; otherwise, if we turn on each other, no one will get to eat this meal."

"Tsk."

The three Golden Core True Lords took their positions, exchanging vast spiritual sense. They had actually already decided on a "distribution plan," and now they simultaneously struck to restrain Suo Huan.

"The Pure Land gave me the qualifications of a blessed land, so upon my failure, the blessed land returns to the Pure Land. The Dao Court bolstered my cultivation, enabling me to refine a golden nature; thus, upon my death, my golden nature belongs to the Dao Court. As for the Holy Sect, they hoped I would shake 【Long Flowing Water】, perhaps even intending to drag it under their rule?"

This was a gluttonous feast.

He was the main course on the table, while the Pure Land, the Dao Court, and the Holy Sect were the diners... Thinking of this, Suo Huan gradually ceased his manic laughter.

He had actually anticipated this point long ago.

From the moment he accepted funding from the three parties, he had foreseen the result of failure. Therefore, the current scenario of being consumed jointly by the three did not surprise him.

What truly drove him to despair was someone else.

The next second, Suo Huan looked around at the three Golden Core True Lords and suddenly laughed: "My lord, after plotting for so many years, what are you still waiting for?"

Boom!

In an instant, as if responding to Suo Huan's inquiry, an indescribably massive qi mechanism suddenly rose from the direction of the Four Seas Sect and the Dragon Palace!

"Hmm?"

At this moment, the crowd of Foundation Establishment True Persons below all turned to look. Even the three True Lords in the sky who were dividing up Suo Huan revealed expressions of surprise:

"An omen of seeking gold?"

"Is it Tian Qiu? No, wasn't he slain by Suo Huan? Without a physical body, leaving only a soul, what does he have to seek gold with? What fruit position requires no physical body?"

In an instant, myriad thoughts raced through the three True Lords' minds. Finally, a guess emerged. Almost simultaneously, the gates of the Dragon Palace within the Four Seas Sect swung wide open, rolling out surging death qi. In the center of that death qi stood a dragon shadow of indistinct form, slowly opening a gateway.

【Netherworld】!

What fruit position under heaven requires no physical body? Naturally, it is the Netherworld, which governs the reincarnation of all living beings and the endless cycle of samsara! Those with physical bodies find it difficult to enter the Netherworld!

Only souls can come and go!

Ordinarily, when a soul reincarnates, it is directly absorbed by the Netherworld. However, at this moment, Tian Qiu was attempting to open a gateway leading to the Netherworld!

"What is he doing?"

"Seeking gold while simultaneously opening the Netherworld... It is Ang Xiao! He intends to use the Netherworld to drag a 【fruit position】 down with him. Suo Huan was merely bait to confuse us?"

"Tian Qiu is the true target of this move!"

At this moment, the three True Lords clearly saw that as Tian Qiu's qi mechanism erupted, a heavenly star in the firmament blazed brilliantly. It was precisely the Water-attribute fruit position 【Heavenly River Water】. This fruit position was known as: "Qi must rise and fall; at the high position of bright fire, water surges forth as rain to aid the water within the fire; only in the heavens does this exist."

Among Water-attribute fruit positions, this Dao is supreme!

Such a change immediately unsettled all the True Lords. They almost simultaneously struck at Tian Qiu, only to be steadily blocked by another towering dragon body.

Four Seas Sect, Dragon Lord!

This one was a noble born of heaven in days of old, at the Mid Stage of Golden Core, whose grotto-heaven had not fallen. The length of time he had existed could even be traced back to the founding days of the Four Great Sects.

Just how much substance did that hold?

To put it plainly, he had even seen the Dao Lord!

One must know that the current Dao Lord remains hidden. Even among Golden Core True Lords, the vast majority had never seen the Dao Lord, and many were not even clear whether the Dao Lord was male or female.

Yet the Dragon Lord had seen him.

Although over these many years, under suppression from all sides, the Dragon Lord had maintained his Mid Stage cultivation and failed to break through to the Late Stage, this did not mean he was weak.

Now that the Dragon Lord had acted, his towering dragon body resembled a wall without head or tail, stretching between the crowd of True Lords and Tian Qiu. It was as if he had suddenly divided heaven from earth. The entire overseas region, the infinite seawater, responded at this very moment, and another fruit position star in the firmament shone with brilliant light.

【Great Sea Water】!

In days of old, the True Dragon clan ruled the rivers, lakes, and seas. Of the six Water-attribute fruit positions, four were under their control. 【Great Sea Water】 was once the supreme ruler of the Water attribute.

However, after the Heavenly Change, the majesty of the True Dragons no longer existed.

Not only did 【Great Sea Water】 step down from its position as Water supreme, allowing 【Heavenly River Water】 to take its place, but other fruit positions were also lost. Of the four Dragon Lords, only one remained.

To describe it as a blood-deep hatred would not be an exaggeration!

"Make a gamble!"

At this moment, the Dragon Lord's action showed he was truly prepared to stake everything. Because in his heart, he knew clearly that the Dao Lords of the four major sects would not interfere in such matters.

With his Mid Stage Golden Core cultivation, if he also had the assistance of that 【Ang Xiao】, there was perhaps a chance!

Just then.

As Tian Qiu opened the gates of the 【Netherworld】, amidst a cluster of infinite death qi, a tall figure finally appeared quietly from behind the door, hands clasped behind his back.

Judging by his build, he should be male, yet his face was obscured by a blur, making it impossible to see clearly. However, unlike other things in the 【Netherworld】, he possessed a physical body! Although his blood and qi were not visible, that unshakable solidity was something a soul could never provide.

"What a feast."

He smiled slightly. A voice that seemed neither male nor female, neither old nor young, difficult to define in gender or age, boomed out: "Why not let me have a share of the soup?"

【True Lord Ang Xiao Obscuring the Sun】!

After not much time had passed, True Lords under heaven once again felt a resonance.

For a moment, countless True Lords cast their gazes simultaneously, trying to pierce through the mist veiling the face of that mysterious True Lord behind the gates of the Netherworld.

(End of Chapter)