"Shui Wuge, can your strength still support you in suppressing the world?"
"Even with the Immortal Clan Dao Son before you, you didn't act. When exactly do you plan to strike? And what exactly are you considering?"
Qing Kong noticed that Shui Wuge had not attacked Qing Liu Sheng.
This made no sense. As long as Qing Liu Sheng's identity was investigated, it could be exposed immediately.
The Immortal Dynasty's Heavenly Laws only protected its citizens. As for non-citizens, they might not all be enemies, but they were not bound by Dao artifacts either. Shui Wuge had more than enough power to attack.
Perhaps her strength had already begun to decline!
"As expected, Liu Sheng was destined to be unparalleled in the world!"
"Stop thinking about it!"
"Win first!"
Tian Xiaoxiao rallied her spirit.
Within the Chaos Void created by the power to Open Heaven and Split Earth, she had no idea which way was up or down, nor east or west. Her perception was utterly hollow.
But she didn't need to know.
She closed her fingers and pointed toward the sky. Twelve powers fused with a boom, interweaved, and erupted with a vast force beyond all measure!
A pillar of light cleaved through the Chaos Void, Open Heaven and Split Earth!
"Earthly Branches Grotto-heaven Law!"
"Twelve seconds!"
She couldn't possibly sit around and wait for defeat. She began struggling with all her might. The Chaos Void was pried open, and Qing Liu Sheng's four powers of Earth Wind Water Fire were isolated outside the grotto-heaven.
But cracks spread at lightning speed. The power to Open Heaven and Split Earth—far surpassing Ni Xinzhao's and possessing an overwhelming advantage—was tearing apart the Earthly Branches Grotto-heaven.
"I've already mastered the strongest law! Even if an unexpected enemy appears, can't I still fight?"
"So what if Qing Liu Sheng was born able to open a grotto-heaven? I can suppress one too!"
"I came here for the Twin Immortals. Why would I fear a new-generation prodigy?"
"I'm the true Unparalleled and Invincible!"
Tian Xiaoxiao formed hand seals, fully activating the Earthly Branches Grotto-heaven. Her God Blood also awakened completely, and the black phantom of the Heavenly Tribulation Divine Fox covered the Nine-tailed Sky Fox.
God Blood was extraordinary. She hadn't been able to display even one ten-thousandth of its might. Only now, after her physique had reached another level, could she awaken it!
This was why she dared to oppose the Twin Immortals. Even if the Future Dao Lord mastered the Future Divine Law, whose might rivaled a Dao canon, God Blood could still grant her the power to fight back!
The Divine Phoenix was a direct descendant of the World Gods. It had existed before the beginning of the human era, merely remaining asleep all this time. It could be called a half-god.
Its power was enough to overwhelm everything. It could borrow strength from the ancient World Gods, who were somewhere unknown. Even the Heavenly Stems Grotto-heaven might not be unable to withstand it.
With the blood of such an existence, what was wrong with opposing Rainbow Radiance True Immortal in her youth? What was wrong with opposing the Future Dao Lord?
What was wrong with suppressing the mere Immortal Clan Dao Son?
Complete Future Divine Law!
Before the Earthly Branches Grotto-heaven opened, Qing Liu Sheng had already understood its weakness. His divine sense spread, and his figure began accelerating. He activated the Complete Future Divine Law!
The Complete Future Divine Law was born after Tong Mingqiong's Imperial Dao reached Great Success. Every form of power had been sublimated further. It was no longer merely the ultimate prediction of the future.
Unfortunately, Yun Ye lacked Tong Mingqiong's foundation. Even though he cultivated the same law, its might was far inferior. Thus, Qing Liu Sheng within the Heavenly Road projection did not unleash the Complete Future Divine Law head-on. He merely accumulated power, continuously seizing Tian Xiaoxiao's future.
"Time Lock!"
Tian Xiaoxiao failed to notice. She continuously used the power of the Earthly Branches Grotto-heaven to resist Yun Ye, but what shocked her was that her further-sublimated strength was actually unable to match Qing Liu Sheng in his normal state. He shattered it with casual ease and walked toward her step by step.
She knew that the distance he was crossing was not spatial. It was the remainder of her strength. When her strength was exhausted, it would be the moment Qing Liu Sheng took her life!
"Clang! Clang! Clang!"
The pillar of time-light pulsed.
She noticed the gap and activated the Earthly Branches Grotto-heaven, which grew stronger at maximum speed over twelve seconds. Three seconds had already passed, and her power was rapidly sublimating!
From being completely unable to contend with him and having to forcibly activate her World God bloodline, to barely holding her own now—the difference was only three seconds!
She still had a chance. As long as six seconds passed, the balance would be tipped!
Then she was astonished to discover that Qing Liu Sheng had actually stopped. Rarely had he refrained from continuing his attack. Instead, he gazed at her from afar with those azure eyes.
"What... happened?"
Tian Xiaoxiao had no idea what Qing Liu Sheng was doing.
But he told her himself.
His words sent her plunging into an icy abyss.
"The victor has been decided."
Qing Liu Sheng said this.
Then something incomprehensible happened.
The Earthly Branches Grotto-heaven, which had split into three pillars of light...
With a boom.
It vanished like smoke and dispersed like clouds.
She whipped around and looked at the Earthly Branches Grotto-heaven, which should have been displaying invincible power through Open Heaven and Split Earth. Countless fragments were breaking away, and it was heading straight toward its end.
What had happened?
Impossible to understand—completely impossible to understand!
Without the slightest warning, her Earthly Branches Grotto-heaven had shattered just like that. Was this some kind of joke?
"..."
The divine masters throughout the Red Heaven Realm also fell silent. With their eyesight, they couldn't even see what had happened, leaving them as bewildered as mortals.
With Tian Xiaoxiao's current strength, opening the Earthly Branches Grotto-heaven at three seconds should have brought her close to the level of a True Realm Grotto-heaven Master. In other words, she should have been comparable to the Imperial Dao.
The Imperial Dao was enough to easily suppress all kinds of authorities. Even all the Venerables of the Red Heaven Realm joining forces could never oppose an Emperor—they would be suppressed with a single hand.
Yet such a powerful grotto-heaven had exploded with a bang, like fireworks.
Naturally, they were left bewildered.
What had happened?
"President... what did you do?"
Tian Xiaoxiao raised her exquisite, somewhat pale face. She knew that she had lost this battle and had no chance left.
The grotto-heaven had been infused with all her strength. To open it a second time, she would have to wait until her power recovered.
Would her opponent let her devour vast quantities of resources to recover her strength within this Heavenly Road?
"Seized your future."
The youth took a single step and suddenly appeared beside Tian Xiaoxiao. As he passed her, her body immediately seemed to scatter into particles, turning hazy. She had already reached the boundary between life and death, relying only on her invincible divine sense to maintain a brief existence.
Tian Xiaoxiao watched the youth's figure recede. The azure-robed figure gradually transformed into white mist, leaving behind only a single sentence that continued to echo throughout the Red Heaven Realm.
"I am the Azure Heaven Dao Son. I was born Unparalleled and Invincible, destined to defeat every enemy..."
Countless people were horrified.
Countless people were shaken.
Tian Xiaoxiao had swept through the ninth-rank Heavenly Road, displaying the terrifying power of the Manifest King reincarnated as a human. She possessed the potential to reach the summit of the world and was frighteningly overwhelming.
Qing Liu Sheng was even more of a monster. Without any Slaughter Power added to him, he had relied solely on a cultivation of just over a decade to crush Tian Xiaoxiao with the force of rotten wood breaking before him.
A grotto-heaven?
The grotto-heaven that had defeated the young Divine Emperor had collapsed outright, its existence erased by an unknown and terrifying technique!
"I lost. Everything returns."
Tian Xiaoxiao watched helplessly as all the Slaughter Power she had obtained was withdrawn. Even her vast, substantialized fortune collapsed outright.
Qing Liu Sheng was a living person of the modern era, not a projection from history. After being defeated by him, she not only failed to gain fortune—she had to return everything.
Return it where?
Naturally, to Qing Liu Sheng himself!
Not to mention the fortune she had gained, even the fortune belonging to the Manifest King, to true spirits, demons, and devils, mostly collapsed as well, flowing toward the victor.
A bitter expression appeared on Tian Xiaoxiao's face.
The Earthly Branches Grotto-heaven hadn't been shattered, nor had its strength been exhausted. Rather—
Time was up!
Just as she had countered the young Divine Emperor, Qing Liu Sheng's law completely countered her as well. This was a battle destined to end in defeat.
A pillar of light descended from the heavens. Slaughter Power so immense that it could directly elevate a mortal to the level of a Venerable descended with it. Yun Ye merely sat in the stands, not a trace of aura leaking from him. His control was perfect beyond perfection.
All of this had been a destined future. He felt no surprise at all, merely proceeding step by step toward that future.
"The Complete Future Divine Law counters the Earthly Branches Grotto-heaven far too thoroughly. It doesn't even need me to use my full strength."
"Whether facing me or facing Tong Mingqiong, it was a challenge destined to fail..."
The Future Divine Law had been sublimated by a Dao canon, and three Emperors had sacrificed themselves for it. It could be called the Half-Step Absolute Rule closest to the Absolute Rule. It could even see the future of True Immortals, so naturally, it was more than capable of dealing with a few beings from the Red Heaven Realm.
Moreover, the Future Divine Law did more than merely spy on the future. Yun Ye had once used the power to summon future existences, while Tong Mingqiong had used the power to accelerate time and reach the future.
All the cultivators instantly killed by Tong Mingqiong had not died in another worldline. Their futures had been terminated. It could be understood as accelerating them directly until they died of old age. After all, the Heavenly Road trials did not need to deceive True Immortals. Creating new worldlines would merely be superfluous.
With such power, Tian Xiaoxiao could never resist, no matter how she relied on the Earthly Branches Grotto-heaven.
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