The Heavenly Dao Would Not Permit It

The next morning, the sky was overcast, with low clouds stretching for ten thousand miles.

All of Little Mountain Peak was steeped in tension.

Chen Changsheng stood solemnly behind Xiao Feng and gave his instructions. "Senior Brother, you'll paint the eyes of these divine beasts in a moment. Remember, only the Azure Dragon and Vermilion Bird, and you must do both at exactly the same time!"

Ouyang accepted the Eye-Painting Brush Chen Changsheng handed him and nodded earnestly.

Then Chen Changsheng turned his head. "Second Senior Brother, Fourth Junior Brother, stand guard. If Junior Brother Xiao fails to overpower the divine beasts' consciousnesses, you must act immediately and use your sword intent to sever the entanglement between him and their consciousnesses."

Leng Qingsong and Bai Feiyu stood with their swords cradled in their arms, their expressions equally solemn.

Under Hu Tutu's expectant gaze, Chen Changsheng coughed. "Little Junior Sister, go get a quilt from your room and crawl under it. The thunder will be very loud in a moment."

Hu Tutu nodded earnestly, carried her little quilt out of her room, and carefully wrapped herself in it.

Once everything was ready, Chen Changsheng looked up at the sky. Now it was time to ask whether Heaven was willing to lend them something!

Chen Changsheng leaped onto the platform they had built and softly exhaled. His right hand formed a spell seal, and a Peachwood Sword flew out of his sleeve.

"Ignite!"

At Chen Changsheng's quiet command, the two candles atop the platform burst into flame without being touched.

He brandished the Peachwood Sword and swept his sleeve, sending a dozen or so yellow talismans flying out to hover upright before him.

With that move alone, Chen Changsheng could have easily landed himself a position as an imperial preceptor in the mortal world.

Performing his rite at the altar atop the platform, Chen Changsheng brought out one of his trump cards.

A yellow talisman imbued with Dao resonance slowly rose upright.

Chen Changsheng bit his finger, smeared a drop of blood essence onto the yellow talisman, and shouted:

"Formation, rise!"

Little Mountain Peak's formation for concealing the Heavenly Pivot rose, masking every trace of aura on the peak.

"Heaven and earth are boundless, yin and yang reverse! Soul, prepare to emerge and await my command! Soul, emerge!"

Chen Changsheng flipped his sleeve, and the yellow talisman brimming with Dao resonance shot toward Xiao Feng, sinking straight into his body.

Xiao Feng felt his whole body shudder, and then he flew out of his own body.

It was an extraordinary sensation, a wondrous feeling he could neither explain nor describe.

The instant Chen Changsheng saw Xiao Feng's soul leave his body, he shouted to Ouyang, who had long been waiting, "Eldest Senior Brother, do it!"

Without the slightest hesitation, Ouyang raised the Eye-Painting Brushes in both hands and touched them to the eyes of the Azure Dragon and Vermilion Bird on Xiao Feng's back.

Both brushes landed on the divine beasts' eyes simultaneously, and the true qi within him poured madly into the Azure Dragon and Vermilion Bird on Xiao Feng's back.

The sky, already covered in low clouds for ten thousand miles, filled with Dark Clouds. Heavenly lightning churned within them, seemingly searching for the aberration daring to defy Heaven.

The dozen or so yellow talismans before Chen Changsheng shot toward the sky.

The yellow talismans plunged into the Grand Formation Chen Changsheng had prepared beforehand to conceal Heaven's secrets.

At least until Ouyang fully awakened the divine beasts' consciousnesses, they could not allow the Heavenly Dao to discover what was happening.

The true qi within Ouyang poured madly into the two divine beasts on Xiao Feng's back.

As Ouyang's true qi flooded into them, the two already lifelike divine beasts began moving across Xiao Feng's back of their own accord.

A soaring dragon's roar rang out, answered by a piercing bird cry.

Two divine beast phantoms rose straight from Xiao Feng's back into the air.

The immense pressure unique to divine beasts made the atmosphere over all of Little Mountain Peak begin to freeze.

The Heavenly Dao seemed to have discovered that someone was secretly giving birth to children on its behalf. The heavenly lightning that had merely churned within the clouds now lashed madly at the surroundings of Little Mountain Peak.

Heaven's terrifying might left the land around Little Mountain Peak riddled with devastation.

But beneath Chen Changsheng's formation, the heavenly lightning still could not find the bastard defying Heaven.

As the two divine beast phantoms gradually began to solidify, their eyes slowly gained a gleam of life.

Their intelligence was about to awaken!

Watching the two divine beasts in the sky, Chen Changsheng shifted his gaze to Xiao Feng. A flicker of reluctance passed through his eyes, but then he raised the Peachwood Sword and pointed it at Xiao Feng. "Azure Dragon on the left, Vermilion Bird above-emerge!"

In his soul form, Xiao Feng felt a pair of huge hands tearing at his soul, ripping off his left arm and his head!

The pain was beyond anything words could describe. Xiao Feng, who had endured thousands of drops of essence entering his body without a sound, was driven utterly mad with agony.

Yet even in the depths of his madness, Xiao Feng kept his spiritual core clear. His silent screams and the way his body was stretched and twisted made him look more like a King of Hell from the Underworld.

The torn-off pieces of his soul were continuously kneaded and molded, slowly taking the shape of two little Xiao Fengs.

Soul reconstruction!

Hu Tutu wrapped her quilt even tighter. Just watching made her tremble at the pain Xiao Feng was suffering. Pulling her little quilt tighter around herself at least gave her a little sense of safety.

Lying beside Hu Tutu, the Tibetan Fox Hu Yan watched Chen Changsheng's almost supernatural soul reconstruction technique, his jaw nearly dropping in astonishment.

Even I, at the tribulation transcendence stage, couldn't manipulate souls like this. What kind of monster is this kid?

Bai Feiyu and Leng Qingsong, meanwhile, watched it all calmly. They both understood perfectly well that without enduring this agony, Xiao Feng would never be able to transform into a dragon.

All suffering would become insignificant the moment he succeeded.

An even louder dragon's roar and phoenix cry rang out once more. This time, there was a trace of vitality in the two divine beasts' calls.

"Now! Go!" Chen Changsheng pointed the Peachwood Sword in his hand at the two divine beast phantoms in the sky.

The two little Xiao Feng souls he had molded were instantly driven into the two divine beast phantoms.

The newborn divine beast phantoms had yet to develop consciousness, only to have someone forcibly occupy their nests like cuckoos displacing magpies.

Their instincts as living creatures made them struggle.

Fortunately, these were divine beasts that had yet to fully form. Had they already been born, anyone seizing their bodies like this would likely have been forcibly erased by the Heavenly Dao in an instant.

Using the Peachwood Sword, Chen Changsheng helped Xiao Feng suppress the divine beasts' resistance while guiding the remainder of his soul back into his body.

Ouyang stood nearby, ready at any moment for Chen Changsheng's order to cut off the flow of true qi.

Bai Feiyu and Leng Qingsong had already placed their hands on their sword hilts.

All four youths were waiting to act and help Xiao Feng.

The divine beast phantoms in the air gradually quieted. Xiao Feng's souls were taking over their spiritual cores smoothly.

But just as success was within reach, the Heavenly Dao seemed to sense that its children, on the verge of being born, were dying.

The countless bolts of tribulation lightning churning in the sky began to converge, forming a rift.

An eye utterly devoid of emotion slowly opened!

Endless pressure and lightning churned around the eye, and this time, the Heavenly Dao finally discovered the instigator behind it all!

The Grand Formation over Little Mountain Peak shattered in an instant. Endless, murderous tribulation lightning poured down like torrential rain toward Xiao Feng on Little Mountain Peak!

The eye of heavenly punishment!

The legendary eye of heavenly punishment that could destroy everything!

The Heavenly Dao would not permit what they had done!