Chapter 74

Suichu spoke the words that most pierce the heart, and even before the battle began he dealt Chaoxi a mental blow.

Saying "Honghuang is my home"... without even looking, do you think you're worthy?

Do you have the property deed?

Do you have the land map?

You have nothing... then are you the legendary master of Honghuang in spirit?

Suichu hits the mark with a single jab, piercing the heart and hurting people, making Chaoxi clutch his chest, breathing uneven.

She widened her eyes, staring fixedly at Suichu's mouth, her gaze dangerous and ferocious, as if she wanted to tear it apart.

"If you... if you're the master of this Honghuang house, then I am still the heir to the great Pangu ancestor god's undertaking!" Suichu, having the upper hand, shows no mercy: "You say you have a house, then I am the construction department plus the demolition department, put under your charge!"

The onlooker Fengxi, upon hearing this, instantly had a mental reversal—he felt that Chaoxi's "nest" way wasn't all that either!

"Are you convinced or not?"

Suichu pressed his advantage, his expression looking extremely smug: "Looking at your huffing and puffing, you must be unconvinced... but it's useless!"

He strutted arrogantly, drawing a stone axe from his waist, lightly tapping the blade with his other hand: "Little girl, you don't even check who I am... showing off in front of me is just showing off your axe skill before Pangu!"

"Your cultivation is so shallow; you'd better withdraw and change your 'nest' way into a 'dwelling' way—similar in meaning yet original, capable of evolving a new meaning."

"Honestly be a homebody, quietly be a beautiful maiden—how wonderful would that be!"

……

Suichu launched a strong offensive, his sharp tongue weaving horizontally and vertically, terrifying beyond compare.

In the domain of battle, it's uncertain whether he's invincible, but in the ability to spar with words, Fengxi would call him the strongest!

Visible to the naked eye, Chaoxi's mighty aura was suppressed; facing Suichu, it was one-sided—weak, pitiful, and helpless.

She remained silent, silent... after a not‑short period of silence, she finally exhaled a long breath, her gaze becoming firm again, her emotions calming.

Chaoxi looked at Suichu, pulling out a slightly weird smile: "Property deed... land map..."

"Yes, I don't have them now."

"But, in the future anything is possible."

She lifted her head, her smile gradually becoming bright: "Who knows, one day the land map will be in my hands... even the property deed, I might have the chance to create it myself."

Chaoxi's smile was radiant, yet a cold gleam flickered in the depths of her eyes, making Fengxi nearby feel his scalp tingle and an inexplicable chill rise in his heart, as if...

It was as if some terrifying existence, wielding a vicious axe in the dark, was walking toward this place!

As an onlooker one already feels this way, let alone Suichu.

This mighty‑tongued king's original smug expression vanished, turning solemn and serious as he sized up Chaoxi from head to toe, chuckling softly: "Oh? Is that so? Then let me wait and see."

"But let me kindly remind you—some things, winning first doesn't count as winning." He said leisurely, "The person who laughs first isn't necessarily the one who laughs last... perhaps one day they'll burst into tears, bow their head in a pitiful apology, sincerely admit fault, straighten out their position, and understand the principle of seniority and hierarchy."

"These words, I'll return them to you unchanged." Chaoxi unmoved, "All right, future matters can be discussed later. As for now, you just honestly stay here and watch the show with me—watch those three who jumped the most joyfully, and see how they end up in miserable ruin."

"I cannot obey." Suichu shook the stone axe—this seemed to be a weapon casually hewn from a random stone and polished—now it began to gleam, a terrifying power starting to surge.

"This isn't up to you." Chaoxi's pretty face hardened, her hands crossed and shifted in front of her, forming a seal... just a moment later, the silently snack‑watching Fengxi on the side noticed—space and time had shifted!

An ancient aura began to surge, making him feel, in a daze, as if he had arrived at the dawn of a vast universe's creation.

Heaven and earth seemed to separate and merge, the primordial yellow surging tumultuously.

The universe was evolving, the Three Thousand Great Daos planting their seeds here, silently driving the flow of time, so that a perfect world could appear.

Heaven and earth, primordial yellow; the universe, Honghuang!

"Three thousand kinds of laws, and you've actually mastered them all, at least to a minor accomplishment... using such a foundation as bricks, you construct the Honghuang universe?" Suichu saw through the illusion at a glance: "On what basis? Cheating without observing the basic laws!"

"Don't ask—asking just means you're a genius!" Chaoxi, using his own method against him, turned his earlier words back at him with righteous confidence: "Two thousand years ago, the Holy Queen Nüwa returned to visit my Wu Clan and hastily held a cultivation lecture."

"I listened and gained greatly; all three thousand laws entered my door, achieving my 'nest' Great Dao!"

"How about it? Are you convinced or not?"

"Not convinced? Then hold it in!"

Chaoxi's seal turned again, the Great Dao shifting unpredictably.

In that evolved, desolate and ancient heaven‑and‑earth, yin and yang cycled... the sun and moon were born!

The sun rose and set, the moon waxed and waned, mutually interacting, interpreting the mysteries of time.

The sun and moon are yin and yang.

In the alternation and transformation of yin and yang, brilliant stars evolved, starlight poured down, casting this place in a hazy glow.

The constellations sparkled and spread, occupying the high sky above this battlefield, reflecting with the supremely high and infinitesimally distant stars of the heavens.

Sun and moon wax and wane, the constellations are spread out!

All this seems slow, but in fact it is extremely swift.

The "nest" Way, though its name sounds ordinary, actually embodies a lofty intent, capable of being first‑rate in the present age.

Right now, we are about to evolve the rhythm of the entire Honghuang universe!

Suichu gazed at the spreading, sparkling constellations, which seemed to resonate faintly with each other, like a self‑contained vast spell formation, his eyes flashing: "Don't tell me you, by simply looking up at the night sky each night, have comprehended the Heavenly Stars Grand Formation through your own wit and talent!"

"Huh?" Chaoxi let out a feigned exclamation: "You're so clever, actually seeing through a bit of my reality and illusion!"

"However, my modest comprehension hasn't reached that level... the fruits of my understanding and deduction of the Heavenly Stars Grand Formation are just a tiny bit!"

Suichu smiled lightly: "Is it really just a little bit, or a little bit the size of Honghuang?"

"It's hard to say... perhaps while I'm fighting, I'll find myself standing in a forbidden realm, in tune with the Heavenly Dao, and naturally have a sudden epiphany that fills in a big piece of the puzzle." Chaoxi looked very sincere: "A genius, after all, ought to have the appearance of a genius!"

A genius is not mere talent; naturally one can do what others cannot!

The dialogue between the two big shots made Fengxi nearby tremble, as he struggled to diminish his own presence.

At this moment, he inexplicably lost the pride and sense of accomplishment from having cultivated the Pangu Dharma‑form.

This cruel Honghuang world, with cheat‑users running rampant, makes people despair!

Fengxi reckoned that even if the Pangu Dharma‑form stepped forward, facing these two he'd probably be only about equal, neither superior nor inferior.

After all, the Nine Axes of Opening Heaven and the Heavenly Circuit Stars Great Formation have appeared…… What can he do? He's also quite helpless!

Just when Fengxi was feeling pessimistic and despairing, Suichu, who had always been imposing and let Chaoxi go all out, finally moved.

He couldn't stay still.

The opponent was even less scrupulous than he.

In the realm of exceeding the lower limit, Chaoxi seemed to surpass his teacher, excelling beyond the blue.

He dared to wait longer; who knows, Chaoxi might suddenly have an epiphany and perfect the Heavenly Circuit Great Formation!

And as soon as Suichu moved, it was a killing move.

"I pay homage to the ancestral god and have grasped the divine rhythm of the Nine Axes of Opening Heaven." He spoke solemnly, "Infusing its essence into my offensive means, I have formed a set of deadly techniques."

"Today, I ask fellow Daoists to judge."

"Take a look at my Way of Opening Up—how much of the flavor of Pangu Ancestral God standing in Chaos, mastering the Great Dao, and creating heaven and earth does it have?"

Suichu opened his mouth calmly, the stone axe moving along an exquisitely mysterious trajectory, from low to high, he chopped toward the starry sky!

One axe!

The tremendous tremor of the starry sky evolved by Chaoxi, and the Great Tremor of the Heavenly Circuit Stars, were on the verge of shattering!

That which combined myriad Dao and embodied creation—the primal yellow of heaven and earth, the vast Honghuang cosmos—also suffered a blow like a higher, more transcendent Great Dao bombardment and crushing, causing the Three Thousand Laws to tremble!

"In the primordial antiquity, who transmitted the Dao?"

The ancient, weathered Dao resonance echoed throughout this battlefield spacetime.

This is what Suichu is chanting.

At this moment, he bears an incomparably sacred and extraordinary Dao aura, like the legendary Pangu Great God who opened up Honghuang and created all things, striding across the ages!

Before Pangu, what are the Three Thousand Laws worth?

In the primordial antiquity, who transmitted the Dao——in that most ancient era, at the beginning of heaven and earth's opening, who passed down the seed of the Great Dao?

It is Pangu!

"When form above and below had not yet arisen, how can we examine it?"

The first axe had just fallen when the second arrived.

This is another question.

——Before heaven and earth had taken shape, where else could it have arisen?

"In the dim and obscure darkness, who can fathom it?"

In a haze where light and dark are indistinguishable, who can investigate the root cause?

"When there is only a vague semblance, how can we discern it?"

How can we distinguish and recognize this vague, misty phenomenon?

Following the second axe, the third and fourth axes were unleashed, and in an instant the battle situation reversed.

The primal yellow of heaven and earth and the vast primordial cosmos evolved by Chaoxi began to collapse at this moment!

Myriad rays of creation‑and‑destruction light shone, each ray able to easily open up or destroy a minor thousand‑world…… endless cycles of birth and death, making this battlefield spacetime seem on the verge of annihilating into nothingness.

Fengxi hid far away of his own accord, and only by calling upon the battlefield's protective mechanism did he gain a slight sense of safety.

After preserving his life, he obsessively gazed at the devastated battlefield core…… perhaps because he had comprehended part of the Heavenly Dipper Great Formation and had also condensed the Pangu Dharma Aspect.

Fengxi had a feeling——every axe that Suichu unleashed, he could perceive and understand, and moreover…… replicate it exactly!

This is somewhat too unbelievable.

Understanding is fine to say, but actually using it…… seems a bit excessive?

In theory, if Suichu were to use all nine axes of Opening Heaven here, then Fengxi would also have mastered these nine forbidden killing techniques!

"This…… might be an illusion, right?"

Fengxi scratched his head, "I'm not the kind of cheater who just claims hacks and gets them; watching people fight, I can suddenly comprehend……"

"Right……"

"This must be an illusion!"

"I, Fengxi, never cheat!"

(End of chapter)