His refusal had clearly enraged Heaven's Will.
Heaven's Will had bestowed merit out of goodwill, only to be bluntly rejected.
Even Heaven's Will was stunned—there was actually someone in the world who would refuse merit?
Then Heaven's Will's fury began to rise!
As Heaven's Will, how could it afford to lose face?
This was the first time since the creation of heaven and earth that someone had rejected it!
How could it swallow this insult?
Thus, the Eye of Heavenly Punishment appeared on the spot, determined to demand an explanation from Lu Changsheng—
You. What exactly do you mean?
This merit was bestowed by Heaven's Will. How dare you refuse it?
At that moment, the Eye of Heavenly Punishment appeared in all its might. Its rumbling echoed in the ears of every living being, conveying only one message:
Are you taking it or not?!
But Lu Changsheng showed no fear. He glared back, his meaning perfectly clear:
I don't care how much merit this is. I absolutely won't accept it!
In an instant,
the Six Sages prostrated themselves.
They gazed up at Lu Changsheng in the Ninth Heaven and silently gave him a thumbs-up.
How noble of you! How impressive!
If you don't want it, can you give it to me?
That Golden Cloud of Merit was at least worth hundreds of millions. How could you just say you didn't want it?
Was this something a normal person could do?
"Heaven's Will is truly furious this time. Will Saint Changsheng be all right?"
Countless living beings discussed the matter in horror.
What shocked them even more was the unprecedented way Lu Changsheng had provoked Heaven's Will.
He had enraged Heaven's Will by refusing merit. Even saying it aloud felt like a dream to them.
Could someone like this truly exist in the world?
But reality told them that sometimes, fact was more fantastical than imagination.
They had really witnessed it with their own eyes!
Lu Changsheng was precisely such a person. Merit that others desperately sought had been directly turned away by him.
He could be called the number one person since the creation of heaven and earth.
At that moment,
all the living beings of the Great Desolation stared at Lu Changsheng's figure in a daze.
Above the Ninth Heaven, the Six Sages were even more impressed beyond words.
Tongtian could not help praising him. "For such a heaven-defying feat, I, Tongtian, am willing to call you the strongest in history!"
The other Sages also voiced their agreement.
Just then,
seeing that Lu Changsheng had gone this far and still stubbornly refused to accept the merit,
Heaven's Will was practically exploding with rage.
It absolutely refused to believe this was possible!
When dignified Heaven's Will bestowed merit, how could anyone dare refuse it?
If I give it to you, you have to take it even if you don't want it!
Heaven's Will was determined to force the merit down.
Whoosh—
The Golden Cloud of Merit instantly flew toward Lu Changsheng.
When Lu Changsheng saw this, he turned and dodged without a second thought, fleeing at top speed.
For a time,
Lu Changsheng raced ahead while the Golden Cloud of Merit pursued him from behind.
The two chased one another back and forth, putting on a fantastical, epic spectacle unlike anything the Great Desolation had ever seen.
The living beings of the Great Desolation were utterly numb from watching.
"Seriously? I'm having a breakdown!"
At Wuzhuang Temple,
Zhen Yuanzi clutched his chest, feeling a dull ache in his heart.
The Blood Sea.
The entire sea surged violently without end, with ten-thousand-zhang blood waves soaring into the sky.
At its center, Ancestor Minghe clenched his teeth.
West Kunlun.
The Queen Mother of the West's face had gone pale.
Even some mighty figures who had seen through worldly affairs since ancient times and remained unmoved by mundane matters
nearly failed to catch their breath when they witnessed this scene. Their vision darkened, and they almost fainted.
At that moment,
countless mighty figures burst into tears.
Please, act like a person!
Are you seriously trying to evade merit like that?
Have you ever cared about our feelings?
Seeing that the Golden Cloud of Merit continued to pursue him relentlessly,
Lu Changsheng finally grew thoroughly annoyed.
"You forced me into this!"
The next second, Lu Changsheng suddenly halted.
But the Golden Cloud of Merit continued charging toward him at full speed.
At this moment,
the living beings of the Great Desolation thought Lu Changsheng had finally given up and was preparing to accept the merit.
However, in the next instant,
they saw Lu Changsheng raise his hand.
In a flash, a terrifying Hunyuan aura rapidly condensed—
Annihilation Golden Thunder!
Lu Changsheng had attained the Dao through the perfected Three Thousand Laws. Commanding the Three Thousand Great Daos was no more difficult to him than lifting a finger.
Every law in his grasp possessed an astonishingly terrifying might.
What he was displaying now was precisely the Sage divine ability of the perfected Law of Destruction—Annihilation Golden Thunder!
Terrifying lightning carried a dense aura of annihilation as it tore through the void. The clouds stretching for hundreds of millions of miles above the Ninth Heaven were swept away in an instant!
Lu Changsheng's expression turned solemn. Without the slightest hesitation, he aimed at the surging Golden Cloud of Merit and struck with all his might!
BOOM—!!!
The terrifying blast shook the heavens and earth of the Great Desolation.
The endless void was ripped open into a savage gap, and Chaos Qi poured backward into it.
Mountains and rivers shifted, while the four seas churned.
The entire Great Desolation World shook violently!
When a Sage struck, heaven and earth collapsed.
Under such might, even the power of merit could not withstand it.
Thus,
under the watchful eyes of all the living beings of the Great Desolation, that Golden Cloud of Merit was finally and completely destroyed.
At the same instant, the hearts of the living beings of the Great Desolation seemed to shatter along with it.
No—!
This was practically squandering a heavenly treasure! Squandering it!!
Countless people screamed inwardly.
That was merit! Someone had actually destroyed it with a casual strike!
Without even blinking?
At that moment,
Lu Changsheng watched the Golden Cloud of Merit dissipate and finally breathed a sigh of relief.
No one knew that when the merit had been chasing him moments earlier, he had actually been terrified beyond measure.
He spoke to the Eye of Heavenly Punishment in the sky:
"I don't want this merit anymore. You can go back now."
Heaven's Will was helpless as well. Now that the merit had been destroyed, it could only withdraw, no matter how unwilling it was.
"Ding! Host destroyed one hundred million merit. Two hundred million merit deducted."
The system's notification suddenly rang out.
Lu Changsheng froze where he stood.
Then his body trembled slightly, and his eyes reddened.
Destroying merit?
And deducting double the amount?
He stood silently in the void for a long, long time.
At that moment,
the living beings of the Great Desolation gradually recovered from their shock.
The sight of the merit being destroyed had struck them far too hard.
"Hm? What's wrong with Saint Changsheng?"
"He seems to be trembling?"
Everyone finally noticed that something was wrong with Lu Changsheng.
The Six Sages were also confused. His reddened eyes sent a chill through their hearts.
"Could Saint Changsheng be regretting it?"
"Has he finally realized how precious merit is?"
Some people made such guesses.
But in the next moment, Lu Changsheng's actions told them—
They were all wrong!
Completely wrong!
Lu Changsheng merely waved his hand, directly releasing a trillion merit!
In an instant, all that remained before the eyes of the living beings of the Great Desolation was a sea of golden light!
A trillion merit erupted together, its brilliant golden radiance making even their primordial spirits tremble!
"Mother, why can't I see anything?"
"It's too dazzling! This merit's golden light is too powerful!"
The Six Sages widened their eyes. Though the golden light stabbed at them, their vision held nothing but gold.
It was as if their entire divine sense had been stuffed full of golden light!
The living beings of the Great Desolation nearly suffocated beneath this vast merit.
However,
the most shocking part was still to come.
After releasing a trillion merit, Lu Changsheng directly unleashed a Great Dao divine ability—
Sacred Azure Tribulation Light!
This divine ability possessed heaven-shaking might. The instant it erupted, the Great Desolation trembled, the void roiled, and heaven and earth turned upside down!
The earth, water, flames, and raging winds surged and rampaged. The auras of yin and yang became chaotic and reversed!
The entire Great Desolation seemed on the verge of collapse. The Thirty-three Heavens shook violently, as if they were about to fall from the heights. The Great Desolation World seemed poised to return to the state of primordial chaos before the heavens and earth were first formed!
Only Lu Changsheng threw back his head and laughed.
"Be destroyed! Let everything return to nothingness!"
Rumble!!!
In an instant, wherever the tribulation light reached, stars shattered, while time and space vanished completely!
Before this power, which was capable of destroying heaven and earth, even that trillion merit could only collapse on the spot!
Next.
The six Sages all froze.
The countless living beings throughout the Great Desolation were also stunned.
Their hearts were shaken beyond words!
Immortal Venerable Changsheng's strength had actually reached such a level!
Among the Six Sages, no one dared claim that they could withstand such a divine ability.
What shocked them even more was that Saint Changsheng had used such a divine ability to destroy merit!
An entire trillion merit!!!
What an enormous amount that was. Saint Changsheng had actually destroyed every last bit of it!!!
What a waste! What a terrible waste!!
This wasn't a matter of having something wrong with his head. His mind was filled with an endless abyss!
Rumble—!
The terrifying Sacred Azure Tribulation Light swept across the heavens and earth!
The entire Thirty-Three Heavens trembled as if they were about to shatter. Heaven and earth turned upside down, and yin and yang fell into chaos!
The earth shook violently, splitting open into rifts stretching for billions of miles. Countless mountains collapsed, while billions of acres of seawater across the four seas surged into the sky and hung there upside down.
The laws completely collapsed. Time and space continuously vanished, leaving behind only the deepest, darkest silence.
The entire Great Desolation seemed, at that moment, to be on the verge of returning to chaos.
Fortunately, this terrifying upheaval finally began to subside.
At that moment, across the lands of the Great Desolation,
all living beings were already stunned speechless.
Everyone stared blankly at the sky.
That apocalyptic sight was deeply etched into everyone's heart.
"Is this the strength of Saint Changsheng?"
"With such divine power, who could possibly stop him?!"
Only then did all living beings realize that Lu Changsheng not only possessed immeasurable merit, but astonishing strength as well!
That world-destroying sight sent chills through their hearts!
Yet the most shocking thing was not how terrifying this power was.
It was that Lu Changsheng had actually used such overwhelming might to destroy a trillion units of merit!
That was a full trillion units of merit!
A trillion!!
All the living beings of the Great Desolation were utterly dumbfounded.
The total merit they had seen in their entire lives did not amount to this much!
Could he have saved the entire Great Desolation World in his previous life?
Yet what was even harder to accept was that this merit, vast as the sea, had been destroyed by Lu Changsheng himself.
What sane person could possibly do such a thing?
Zhen Yuanzi of Wuzhuang Temple, Queen Mother of the West of Kunlun Mountain, Ancestor Minghe of the Blood Sea, the two Demon Emperors of the Heavenly Court, the Twelve Ancestor Witches of the Witch Clan, and countless other mighty figures across the Great Desolation were all so enraged that they vomited blood!
"I've lived for tens of thousands of years, and I've never seen anything so absurd!"
"My state of mind has completely collapsed!"
Countless mighty figures wailed in despair.
They truly could not imagine that anyone in this world could squander things to such an extent.
A trillion units of merit—he scattered it as he pleased, destroyed it as he pleased.
What was he scattering here? Merit?
He might as well scatter all of us along with it!
For a time, many mighty figures were left utterly dispirited and drained of strength.
Ancestor Minghe in particular was advanced in age and could not withstand such a shock. His mind was nearly hazy, and his face was as pale as paper.
Had he not founded the Asura Clan and established the Asura Path long ago precisely to accumulate merit and attain sainthood?
Yet after countless epochs of toil, the merit he had obtained was still pitifully little.
Who could have imagined that Lu Changsheng would casually produce an astronomical amount of merit?
Even more infuriating was that Lu Changsheng did not care in the slightest. The merit ordinary people dreamed of—not only did he disdain it, he could annihilate it with a wave of his hand.
How could Ancestor Minghe not collapse?
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