nyslfriends Chapter 1964: A Gift of Treasures as a Form of Coercion!
Chapter 1964: A Gift of Treasures as a Form of Coercion!
next moment.
Cheng Buzheng's steady and profound voice once again echoed slowly in the hall, resounding throughout the surrounding area:
"But there is one point that I will make clear to you all today."
Even without the Demon Lord Shark Minghong in charge—
"I will not completely annihilate the demon race."
His gaze was deep, carrying a worldly wisdom, as he slowly explained:
"If the human race completely eradicates the demon race, they will lose the checks and balances from external enemies."
The major sects and forces of the human race will inevitably begin to fight and infight, and at that time, internal strife will break out among the human race, resulting in losses far exceeding those caused by external invasions.
They will also lose their drive to succeed.
Notice!
The existence of the demon race is not only an important channel for human cultivators to obtain cultivation resources,
It is also an excellent opportunity for us cultivators to hone our Dao heart, refine our combat power, and break through our realm.
Only when there are external enemies can humanity unite its efforts and steadily survive and develop.
The Nascent Soul True Monarchs inside the hall were all veteran cultivators who had practiced for hundreds of years, possessing keen insight and profound experience.
They instantly grasped Cheng Buzheng's profound considerations and good intentions.
Although some cultivators disagreed, feeling it was a great pity to miss the opportunity to unify the seas, they were perfectly aware of the situation...
The will of the Venerable One is something they cannot question or change.
therefore!
No one dared to object; they all bowed and listened attentively.
After everyone had processed what he said...
Cheng Buzheng said no more, and his spiritual energy surged as he raised his hand.
In an instant,
A burst of spiritual light erupted in the air above the main hall, and countless radiant treasures appeared out of thin air.
A superior-grade magic weapon with a sharp and imposing appearance.
Rare and precious materials for refining weapons
A peerless elixir for nurturing spiritual power and enhancing cultivation...
Numerous rare and precious treasures were on display.
Each treasure radiated a dazzling and warm light, and a misty spiritual aura filled the entire hall.
"In this great battle, you have all worked hard and made great contributions."
Cheng Buzheng's voice was calm.
"These treasures are my reward to you all."
The voice has not fallen,
The numerous treasures suspended in mid-air suddenly split into streams of soft, dazzling light, which flew precisely to each cultivator in the hall, hovering quietly and waiting to be picked up.
Upon seeing this, the Nascent Soul cultivators swallowed all the words that were about to be politely declined.
Looking at the numerous treasures of exceptional quality and immense value before them, the crowd's faces lit up with joy. They all bowed respectfully, their voices ringing out in unison:
"Thank you so much, President, for the gift!"
"Thank you so much, President, for your generous gift!"
"···"
Cheng Buzheng looked at everyone, his expression gentle, and spoke calmly:
"My dear friends, you have worked hard on this journey. These treasures are all rightfully yours. There is no need for you to be so polite with me."
Upon hearing this, all the cultivators bowed deeply in gratitude once again.
Cheng Buzheng slightly raised his hand, waved it, and said in a calm tone:
"That's enough!"
If there are no other important matters, you young friends may take your leave.
"Yes, sir!"
The group of cultivators bowed in unison and then left the Venerable Hall in an orderly and slow manner, departing shortly afterward.
As the clamor subsided, the magnificent hall returned to silence once more.
Cheng Buzheng sat upright in the main seat, watching the figures gradually disappear at the entrance of the hall. His sharp and steady eyes became slightly unfocused, and all the majesty of a venerable one faded away.
He sighed softly, his voice low and weak, drifting through the empty hall:
"I hope everything goes well."
"···"
···
Forbidden Sea!
The eternally silent outer void remains deathly still year-round.
The sun and moon have disappeared, and the stars have vanished.
suddenly!
The eternal silence shattered in that instant!
The vast void, which had been as smooth as a mirror and undisturbed for millennia, suddenly began to violently tremble and surge.
It was as if a still pool of water, frozen for millions of years, had been violently smashed down by a colossal boulder that stretched across thousands of miles from the heavens.
A deep, powerful roar pierced through layers of dimensional barriers, echoing throughout the outer reaches of space.
The dark space kept wrinkling, twisting, collapsing and breaking apart.
The dense, dark cracks spread like a spider web for thousands of miles, stretching across the sky.
A violent and turbulent endless spatial turbulence erupted from the depths of the crack, tearing apart the shackles of the Heavenly Dao and crushing the void barrier.
Tiny, sharp fragments of space, carrying the terrifying force of annihilating stars, rampaged and ravaged the world.
This devastating chaos is akin to a desperate killing trap; even a Nascent Soul True Monarch of this realm would be instantly torn to shreds by the turbulent currents.
The very essence of their souls and spirits completely disintegrated.
Sever all chances of reincarnation.
next moment!
A condensed, pure, and unadulterated stream of crimson light suddenly shattered the raging spatial turbulence.
Ignoring the immense pressure of the collapsing void and unfazed by the rampant spatial fragments, it traversed the chaotic, violent, and murderous airspace at breakneck speed.
They forcefully broke free from the strangulation shackles of boundless chaos.
The fierce and domineering crimson light slowly subsided...
Looking again, a towering, majestic figure stood firmly in the dark void.
The man was tall and strong, with sharp muscles and bones. A dark, menacing aura of blood-red energy surged and swirled around him, chilling and terrifying.
He quietly held a massive, ancient, and heavy black millstone, its entire surface engraved with intricate patterns of purgatory.
A vast, oppressive force, capable of annihilating all things, swept across the heavens and earth, enveloping all directions.
This is the progenitor of the Purgatory Clan, who has been dormant for countless ages.
—Sha Minghong.
His cold, deep vertical pupils slowly swept across the desolate, lifeless void around him, his gaze tracing every inch of the distorted, wrinkled space. The composed expression on his face, which had just broken free from the turbulent currents, quietly froze.
His brows furrowed involuntarily.
A deep sense of astonishment and disbelief welled up in his eyes.
A vast and boundless divine thought instantly spread out, washing over the entire airspace like mercury spilling onto the ground.
A few breaths later...
Sha Minghong was deeply shaken. His deep voice, filled with disbelief and astonishment, murmured:
"This...this is impossible!"
He suppressed the surging emotions in his heart and once again activated his full divine sense to thoroughly explore the surrounding world.
The sheer thickness of the spatial barriers, the aura of this land—
This is the forbidden sea.
An uneasy feeling lingered in his heart, refusing to dissipate.
At the same time, the purgatory aura surging around him was subtly restless.
"wrong!"
A sudden doubt arose in Sha Minghong's heart, and his vast experience of cultivation over millennia surged into his mind.
The Forbidden Sea is the most supreme and forbidden place in this world.
In the past, a great master from Langya exhausted his life's cultivation and unparalleled resources to create a great formation to suppress this sea area.
It can be described as heavily fortified and impregnable.
The normally rampant spatial turbulence couldn't even touch the protective light barrier on the outer layer of the great array.
Even if a Nascent Soul cultivator unleashed their entire life's worth of Law Origin to bombard the formation, they wouldn't be able to budge it in the slightest.
Not to mention directly venturing into the forbidden sea!
Logically speaking...
The violent spatial turbulence from beyond the realm could at most only stir up the void beyond the realm.
It is absolutely impossible to break through the blockade of the great formation left behind by the old man Langya in this realm.
It is even less likely that any cultivators will be drawn into this perilous place.
In the entire world, apart from the exclusive teleportation array connecting the Forbidden Sea and the Endless Sea,
There is only one shortcut to get inside—
That is a spatial wormhole that is randomly generated in the void.
However, spatial wormholes originate from the spontaneous evolution of the void, without any rules, and arise and disappear in an instant.
The landing point is even more unpredictable and random.
This phenomenon occurs only once in billions of years.
No cultivator could predict the trajectory or control the timing of its birth.
Furthermore, it would be impossible to use this method to accurately enter the heavily guarded Forbidden Sea.
As an opponent of the old man from Langya, Shark Minghong was perfectly clear in his heart;
The spatial wormhole in the Forbidden Sea is essentially a minor flaw in the formation that has accumulated over countless ages due to the erosion of time.
Such a flaw may seem mysterious, but it is actually very easy to repair. It can be completely eliminated without leaving a trace by a formation master of the same level as the old man of Langya.
Unfortunately, the lower realm's resources are scarce.
The cultivators' vision, cultivation level, and mastery of formations were all shallow.
No one could replicate the unparalleled skills of the Langya master.
This is why these randomly appearing spatial wormholes have remained for eternity, becoming the only variable in the Forbidden Sea.
Could it be that the spatial turbulence that raged outside the realm just now happened to sweep me into a spatial wormhole hidden in the void?
Through a series of unexpected events...
Is that why I fell into the forbidden sea?
The thought suddenly popped into my head.
He quickly deduced the cause and effect, verified and reviewed the events layer by layer, and the more he thought about it, the more reasonable it seemed.
The initial shock and doubt subsided slightly.
Just as he was secretly scanning the blind spots in the void around him...
suddenly.
A faint, extremely subtle aura, perfectly integrated with the energy of heaven and earth, quietly appeared in his perception.
Instantly, Sha Minghong's heart tightened, his pupils suddenly contracted, and the murderous aura surging around him was like a peerless ferocious beast that had been dormant for thousands of years and was ready to strike.
The [Hellfire Annihilation Millstone] in his hand trembled slightly, and a terrifying aura capable of annihilating all things quietly flowed, locking onto a seemingly empty and deathly still void in front of him.
The power of the laws within his body was quietly circulating, ready to unleash its full power at any moment.
"Who's there? Show yourself!"
A cold, powerful shout suddenly exploded, shaking the entire silent void.
The surrounding floating fragments of space were all annihilated by this overwhelming power.
Sha Minghong's entire aura locked onto the airspace ahead.
next moment,
The once still and calm void rippled slightly, spreading out in thin, translucent ripples like water.
The heavy, stable space unfolds layer by layer, peeling away and crumbling.
A tall, slender figure with flowing robes stepped out calmly and stood silently in mid-air.
This person's aura was completely concealed, appearing calm and even, yet his body texture and stance in the void concealed an unfathomable and vast inner strength.
It also makes it impossible for people to fathom its depth.
The instant I saw the person's face clearly...
Sha Minghong's expression suddenly changed drastically, his cold, vertical pupils surging with disbelief and astonishment.
The restless, malevolent aura surrounding him suddenly surged violently.
His tone was icy and chilling, full of wariness and suspicion:
It's you!
How did you enter the Forbidden Sea?
Above the void, Cheng Buzheng looked down at Sha Minghong, whose expression was solemn and who was on high alert, and a faint smile appeared on his lips.
The sound is smooth and clear.
Clearly echoing in the vast, deathly silent airspace:
“Senior, if I hadn’t secretly intervened and brought you into the Forbidden Sea, you would still be drifting and struggling in the endless spatial turbulence, with nowhere to escape.”
Instead of thanking me, how can you complain about me?
The moment those words entered my ears...
A bad feeling welled up in Sha Minghong's heart.
At this moment, he finally realized the truth.
From beginning to end, I was trapped in a deadly trap that the other party had meticulously woven!
The self-destruction of the light spears encountered earlier within the outer sea array, and the strange loosening of the surrounding spatial seal...
It was never a coincidence, but rather a deliberate scheme and covert operation by the other party.
The sole purpose of the other party quietly unsealing the spatial constraints and stirring up the raging turbulence outside the realm was to forcibly pull him into the void turbulence layer.
And take this opportunity to drag himself into the forbidden sea.
Even if he had lived through countless ages and witnessed countless schemes and intrigues, he still couldn't understand it...
How could the other party, a mere cultivator from the lower realm, possess such exquisite and top-notch spatial manipulation techniques?
But Cheng Buzheng standing here alive is the most conclusive and irrefutable evidence.
"Could it be a bloodline inheritance?"
after all!
This barren lower realm, within the entire world, is the only place that could pose a fatal threat to him, a Void Refining Realm Ancestor, and the Forbidden Sea.
To be precise, it is the supreme array left behind in this world by the old man from Langya.
He had already noticed something was amiss.
The Nightmare Clan junior risked damaging his own laws and foundation to desperately entangle him. At that time, he vaguely guessed that there might be other schemes involved.
same.
He had considered the possibility that the Nightmare Clan brat might try to use the Langya Formation to control him.
But he was certain that he controlled all the passages connecting the Forbidden Sea to the outside world.
Moreover, the other party is unable to break free in order to restrain him.
Because of this, he didn't think too much about it!
They also took no precautions.
"It seems I underestimated their schemes and tactics after all?"
Then, Sha Minghong's thoughts shifted, his gaze darkened, and doubts arose in his heart.
"wrong!"
"How can that Nightmare Clan brat be able to use two bodies at once?"
With his own body tightly bound to the main body, how could he possibly have the spare energy to orchestrate the Forbidden Sea?
A sudden, brilliant idea exploded in his mind, instantly unraveling all the previously unsolvable doubts.
It's a bloodline clone technique!
That's for sure!
This child must have awakened a top-tier bloodline clone technique!
One of the clones spared no effort to deplete its own essence and burn its foundation, desperately restraining the main body and holding me back from all my steps, leaving me no time to investigate the outside world or uncover the tricks.
Another clone quietly escaped, concealing itself in the void to secretly set up a plan, taking control of the array authority left behind by the powerful figure from Langya.
Finally, when the time was right, they quietly broke the spatial seal of the great formation and shattered the space using the self-destruction of the light spear.
Using the power of spatial turbulence, he was swept into the turbulent layer.
They went to great lengths to forcibly drag me into the forbidden sea.
They attempted to use the power of the incomplete supreme formation to completely annihilate me!
In the blink of an eye,
All the obscure and difficult-to-understand layouts and contradictory points of doubt suddenly became clear.
A thousand thoughts raced through Sha Minghong's mind, unfolding layer by layer, his expression shifting between light and shadow.
His body was enveloped in a turbulent, infernal aura that rose and fell restlessly.
The standoff in the entire airspace instantly reached its peak, and a major battle was imminent.
Cheng Buzheng, sitting opposite him, took in all the changes in his expression and the fluctuations in his emotions, his eyes shifting slightly.
Then.
He didn't waste any words, his mind racing...
hum-
The world suddenly changed drastically!
boom!
Boom! Boom!
The once dark, lifeless, and calm sky was suddenly whipped into a raging storm, with howling winds tearing through layers of void.
Boundless, inky black clouds rapidly converged from all directions, layer upon layer, covering the entire forbidden sea.
A suffocating, oppressive atmosphere permeated the surroundings.
...(End of this chapter)