Chapter 726: I Use All Living Beings to Conquer Heaven

The Temple Master is dead.

The Temple Master was the strongest person in Zhishou Temple.

And Zhishou Temple was the backing of the Xiling Divine Palace.

Once the Temple Master died, it meant the failure of the war to conquer the Tang Kingdom.

Furthermore, it was not just the Temple Master who died; there was also the Great Hierarch, the Tianyu Great Divine Official, the Half-Cut Daoist, the middle-aged Daoist, the Drunkard, the Butcher... too many people died.

Perhaps not everyone was as famous as the Great Hierarch or the Tianyu Great Divine Official. But without a doubt, they were all a small handful of figures standing at the peak of the cultivation world, and they were also the true pillars of the Xiling Divine Palace.

Now that the pillars have collapsed, can this Divine Palace, which has stood for thousands of years and held a supreme position in the world, still be preserved under the surging torrent of humanity?

This question soon had an answer.

—No.

The Xiling Divine Palace collapsed.

After the Divine Palace collapsed, the Tang Kingdom was counterattacking, the New Religion was counterattacking, the Demon Sect was counterattacking, and the secular world that had been oppressed by the Divine Palace was counterattacking...

The Divine Palace retreated step by step, continuously shrinking its sphere of influence, until it withdrew its forces to Taoshan, with nowhere left to retreat.

Taoshan.

Early morning, there was a thin mist, and the morning sun had not yet risen.

The mountain peak had three cliff terraces, four divine halls, thousands of divine officials, tens of thousands of deacons, and cavalry; this was the hall where the Daoist Sect had ruled the human world for countless years, and it was also the holy land in the hearts of all believers of Haotian.

At this moment, the cliff terrace was teeming with people, a dense, dark mass.

The Red-Robed Divine Officials, Black-Robed Deacons, and knights clad in black-gold armor all had complex expressions on their faces, and they were all silent, a deathly silence.

Only in near despair would there be such silence.

The personnel of the Divine Palace on the cliff terrace looked down the mountain.

At the foot of the mountain was a black ocean, an ocean composed of the Tang Kingdom's Xuanjia Heavy Cavalry.

Tens of thousands of heavy iron cavalry surrounded Taoshan tightly; except for true Daxingzhe, no one could escape this black ocean.

At the end of the mountain path, there was a blood-colored divine carriage.

The woman in the blood-colored divine robe inside the divine carriage was the Ruling Divine Seat, Ye Hongyu.

Aside from her, it seemed all the top powerhouses of the Haotian Dao had died.

As the Caijuedashengonguan, Ye Hongyu should have been the last hope of the Divine Palace, but she had already stood on the opposite side of the Divine Palace.

Behind the entrance to the mountain path, a few people also stood; they were outstanding and aloof, immersed in their own affairs—some forging iron, some playing chess, some playing the flute—out of place with the world; they were students of the Academy.

At the end of the mountain path directly in front, a petite figure stood with her hands behind her back. She was Yu Lian, the Third Mister of the Academy. She was even more so Lin Wu, the Twenty-Three Year Cicada, the contemporary Sect Leader of the Demon Sect. It is said that the National Master of the Golden Tent Royal Court died at her hands. And now, the Demon Sect Leader stood at the highest point of Taoshan, looking at the Divine Palace with indifference.

Since ancient times, the Dao and the Demon have been irreconcilable; this was the greatest insult to the Xiling Divine Palace.

A figure walked out from the crowd.

When they saw this person, there was a stir among the people on Taoshan.

Because this person was Ye Su, the former Daoist Sect Walker, and now the greatest traitor of the Daoist Sect.

"The Xiling Divine Palace was originally a religion for Haotian to guide all people. Yet it has brought disaster to the country and the people, manipulating faith. It nourishes itself with the flesh and blood of all living beings, harming billions of lives; both humans and gods are outraged. Today, all living beings have risen to conquer, besieging Taoshan. From this day forward, the Daoist Sect is reborn; I replace the Divine Palace with the New Religion, to seek welfare for all living beings and to bestow grace on behalf of Haotian."

Ye Su's voice was very soft, yet it spread throughout Taoshan, reaching everyone's ears, and suddenly he swung his arms: "The Divine Palace is dead, the New Religion shall be established."

"The Divine Palace is dead, the New Religion shall be established!"

"The Divine Palace is dead, the New Religion shall be established!"

"The Divine Palace is dead, the New Religion shall be established!"

When Ye Su finished these words, the black ocean below began to boil, and a moment later, it erupted like a mountain-shaking tsunami; the shouts resounded through the sky, deafening and shaking people's souls.

Taoshan remained deathly silent, but their minds seemed to explode with a boom; they were completely stunned by the scene before them, unable to speak, giving rise to a feeling of unreality.

Was the Daoist Sect really going to turn a new page just like this?

From now on, would they only be the remnants of the old era?

Amidst the tsunami-like shouts, the Tianyu Second Divine Official passed through the ocean formed by countless deacons, lowered his head, and said one sentence.

"Taoshan... is willing to surrender."

On this day, the Xiling Divine Palace was annihilated.

The Divine Palace was annihilated in name.

However, the Xiling Divine Palace had existed in the world for countless years, with deep-rooted connections; in every country, there were countless believers so devout they were willing to die for it. Wanting the Divine Palace to be annihilated in the true sense was destined to be a long process. And during this period, it was destined that countless blood would be shed and many people would die.

But whoever tried to stand in front of this surging torrent would only have one end: to be smashed to pieces.

The New Religion gradually replaced the Xiling Divine Palace.

And people's faith in Haotian was also weakening.

The extremely cold land in the far north.

This was a frozen land where human traces were extinct.

A black figure stepped into this world of ice and snow; seen from afar, it looked like a speck of ink spilled on a blank canvas.

"Have the black crows disappeared? Then she is about to awaken!"

Yu Liancheng looked toward that towering snow peak.

Since the battle with the Temple Master, he had been searching for Haotian in the human world.

A few days ago, he set foot in this ice-covered region and saw the black crows circling between the ice peaks. The black crows were condensed from pure power of Darkness, without a trace of light mixed in. And absolute Darkness also represented absolute Light. Therefore, Yu Liancheng knew that Haotian was in this land of ice and snow.

The black crows were the dissipation of Haotian's energy.

When Haotian awakens, she will also take this power back.

Crack! Crack!

Just at this moment, the permafrost layer that had formed over thousands upon thousands of years began to collapse inch by inch, and countless cracks appeared before his eyes.

With a booming explosion, a light blasted out from the ice and snow, carrying with it the freezing air of the heavens and Broken black ice, resembling a Flood Dragon of ice as it headed toward Yu Liancheng.

Bang!

Yu Liancheng struck out with a casual palm, shattering that ice Flood Dragon.

Yet, under the terrifying, immense force carried by the ice dragon, he actually retreated three steps. With every step he took, countless ice and snow splashed up, leaving cracks dozens of zhang long on the ice layer. Moreover, a layer of ice had formed over the palm that had collided with the ice dragon.

"Come out. After resting for so long, you should have returned to your peak." Yu Liancheng blew a breath onto his palm, blowing away the ice and snow on the ground.

Amidst the swirling cold air, a human figure appeared in Yu Liancheng's field of vision.

A look of curiosity appeared on Yu Liancheng's face as he narrowed his eyes to look at that figure.

He wanted to see what Haotian would look like after she had severed Sang Sang's "humanity."

Is she ugly? Is she beautiful? Is she fat? Is she thin?

Yu Liancheng could not imagine it.

Precisely because he could not imagine it, he had an even greater interest in the Haotian before him.

And when Yu Liancheng saw her, he still could not imagine it.

Haotian's beauty was already beyond imagination.

Because her beauty had already exceeded the scope of human imagination.

That face was peerlessly beautiful, dreamlike and illusory.

The so-called "bright eyes and beautiful gaze" could not fully describe the gentleness and brightness of those eyes. The "spring mountain eyebrows" spoken of by poets could not compare to the graceful and hazy beauty between her brows. Her exquisite nose, her lips... there was not a single part that was not perfect, perfect to the point of making one feel ashamed of their own inferiority.

She was draped in nothing but a light gauze, as if woven from Haotian Divine Brilliance, covering most of her graceful and full body, revealing only a pair of soft, boneless, slender hands and a pair of delicate jade feet.

As her frost-like, snow-like jade feet stepped onto the snow, one could not tell for a moment whether the feet surpassed the jade and snow, or the snow surpassed the feet.

A gust of cold wind from the snow kingdom brushed past, blowing the gauze, as if she were about to ride the wind and leave.

Without a doubt, this was a perfect woman.

Yu Liancheng had traveled through ten thousand worlds and did not know how many peerless beauties he had seen. But the beauty of the woman before him was truly the only one he had ever seen in his life. Even a small toe seemed to be filled with infinite charm.

The only pity was that her temperament was perhaps too vast and cold.

In that seemingly gentle gaze, there was an indescribable sense of disdain, making one wish they could kneel down and kiss the tops of her feet.

Now, Haotian just stood there quietly, watching quietly, without any words, without any movements, yet she seemed elegant to the extreme, moving to the extreme, her demeanor impossible to describe in words.

"Hoo!" Yu Liancheng let out a long breath and finally came back to his senses. He shook his head vigorously, shaking off the thoughts that had entered his mind.

"Filth should be erased."

Haotian's voice was also very pleasant, without any fluctuations, yet it was not mechanical; it was simply transparent and empty.

Moreover, that voice resounding from her body possessed countless syllables, so complex that it was impossible to understand, sounding more like the voice of nature.

At the same time, she extended a finger toward Yu Liancheng, a fair, slender finger without the slightest flaw.

When the finger pointed at Yu Liancheng, "crack" and "crack" sounds of shattering echoed in the void, and the space completely shattered, as if it were a broken mirror.

"Hey, hey, hey, let's talk properly, don't resort to sneak attacks."

Yu Liancheng's figure appeared from another location, and wrinkles appeared on his previously smooth clothes.

Haotian's finger swiped again.

Rumble!

The ice surface where Yu Liancheng had been standing seemed to be bombarded by thousands of shells, suddenly bursting open, creating an ice trench a hundred zhang long and dozens of zhang deep.

"What a crazy woman."

Yu Liancheng's figure appeared high in the sky, dozens of zhang up. He looked at Haotian and let out a long whistle: "Since you really want to fight, then follow me."

Having said that, his figure shot up into the sky.

Haotian's eyes flickered, and she headed toward Yu Liancheng.

Although it was still daytime, the Moon was still hanging high in the sky, only its radiance was obscured by the sun.

Yu Liancheng stepped with his toes onto the Moon Sphere, which was piled up with countless stones, and lowered his head to greet Fuzi: "Old friend, long time no see."

"Do you have wine?"

A grand voice emanated from the Moon Sphere.

Indeed, it was a voice, not a vast divine sense echoing in his mind.

Yu Liancheng was not surprised. Ever since he passed his insights on the Haotian Divine Kingdom to Fuzi, the realm of this powerful Daxingzhe of the Nightfall world had risen again in an incredible way.

By now, Yu Liancheng could no longer see through Fuzi's realm.

This old man was worthy of being an existence second only to Haotian.

Of course, this was Haotian's world; no matter how powerful one was, one could not contend with Haotian.

And if the Haotian of the human world were to merge with the Haotian in the Divine Kingdom, even if Yu Liancheng and Fuzi were added together, they probably wouldn't be enough for Haotian to fight with one hand.

"Of course I do." Yu Liancheng took out a wine flask and tossed it casually.

The wine flask did not fall to the ground but was controlled in mid-air by an invisible force, tilting slightly, and wine poured onto the stones below.

"Good wine." A slightly satisfied voice rang out, seemingly still carrying a hint of drunkenness, and then it continued in a complaining tone.

"You brat, you're the only one who can come see me, and you don't know how to come up more often to keep this old man company and chat. It's very boring hanging in the sky, you know. Besides, it's rare for you to come up once, and you don't even know to bring more wine and meat. These days, I've been dying of craving..."

This Moon Sphere spoke a lot, as if it were a chattering old man who had finally found someone to confide in, and regardless of whether the other party wanted to listen, it just kept talking like beans pouring out of a bamboo tube.

Not until that perfect figure appeared on the Moon Sphere did Fuzi's voice finally stop.

Haotian's eyes fell on the stones beneath her feet, and in her calm gaze, a ripple finally appeared. The Moon Sphere had blocked the God's Kingdom Gate, and the vast majority of her power remained within the Divine Kingdom.

"Kid Yu, this girl is no longer tethered by the power of the human world; she is the true Haotian. Although she only possesses a portion of her power, her strength is even greater than when she fought me before. Do you want my help?" Fuzi's voice rang out.

Yu Liancheng laughed and said, "You are just a sphere right now, how can you help?"

"Throw that stone at her."

A round stone suddenly soared into the air and smashed toward Haotian.

Yet, at a distance of three feet from Haotian, the round stone abruptly shattered, turning into powder and drifting away.

"Fine, it seems I can only watch you; I will give you all the support I can, except for actual help."

"You old man..." Yu Liancheng shook his head.

Watching this man and this sphere clowning around, Haotian's gaze returned to absolute indifference, without a single ripple of emotion.

It was just that her skin began to bloom with light, and endless radiance gushed forth from her body.

"Let's look at me instead."

Yu Liancheng shook his head and flicked his sleeve; seven books floated in the air, each with a single character on it, which, when joined together, read: Sun, Fall, Sand, Bright, Sky, Invert, Open!

It was precisely the Seven Volumes of Heavenly Books.

And when the Seven Volumes of Heavenly Books appeared, Haotian frowned, suddenly feeling an unprecedented sense of danger.

One must know, this is Haotian's world. Even the Fuzi of the past could not make her feel this way.

And this sense of danger came from the Seven Volumes of Heavenly Books.

Zhishou Temple preached for Haotian, yet they left behind methods to counter Haotian, and these methods were within the Seven Volumes of Heavenly Books.

In the original timeline, the Temple Head Chen Mou obtained the Seven Volumes of Heavenly Books and even intended to use them to replace Haotian.

It is a pity that this method was only known to the successive Temple Heads; even Yu Liancheng could not achieve it.

Fortunately, he had his own method.

"Haotian uses the Eternal Night to harvest all living beings; I use all living beings to harvest Heaven!"

Yu Liancheng swept his sleeve, and endless power surged from the Seven Volumes of Heavenly Books, vast and mighty, filling the Moon Sphere and every corner of the void.

This is the power of all living beings.

And I am among all living beings.

PS: This volume ends tomorrow.