Piercing the Clouds, He Looked Upon a Diminished World; Heaven and Earth Were but Dust Beneath His Wings
Expressing his thoughts with words of inquiry to Heaven and Earth, a spark of clarity slowly ignited in Yu Tunzhou's originally dull and lifeless eyes, growing brighter and brighter.
An unprecedented instinct drove him, burning fiercely in his chest.
At this moment, he could clearly feel that the Kunpeng Divine Intent that had been secretly connected with him was boiling over, as if it were in harmony with his Great Dao and his true heart.
This is a resonance originating from the Dao heart, and has nothing to do with bloodline inheritance.
Suddenly, the vast ocean and azure sky before him vanished, replaced by an even more expansive and ancient expanse.
An even more Savage Wilderness and untamed sea.
There, he saw a Kun Fish that stretched across the entire sky and earth.
It was so enormous that it couldn't fit in his field of vision; he could only see a black spine stretching from one end of the horizon to the other.
With each swish of its tail, the four seas tremble; with each breath, the tides rise and fall.
So much so that this vast and boundless sea seemed somewhat crowded.
It traveled all over the world, saw all the grandeur and beauty of the world, and even went to the Guixu of the deep sea.
Yu Tunzhou saw it gaze silently at the azure sky in its final moments, without anger or roar, only a deep-seated resentment.
Because the sea has a limit.
It has seen all the scenery in this sea area and is now taking its first steps.
The ocean is its home ground, but also its shackles; this is its destiny as the "Kun".
But it refused to accept its fate!
This will pierced through from eternity past, crashing fiercely into the depths of Yu Tunzhou's Primordial Spirit!
That is innate arrogance, the untamed spirit born at the pinnacle of all things, like the sun high in the sky, where all things bow down in its rays!
Suddenly, it raised its head, its roar echoing mightily, piercing through the abyss and soaring into the azure sky, as if addressing heaven and earth, the Great Dao...
A challenge to fate and all established rules.
The sea has its limits, the sky has its boundaries, but my pursuit of the Way has no end!
Under the influence of this divine will, Yu Tunzhou seemed to feel the same way, standing on the same side as the Kun Fish of the past, and amazing changes began to occur within his body.
A series of dense cracking sounds emanated from its body, like the collapse of the heavens and the splitting of the earth, extremely terrifying, causing the people in the distance who were gradually awakening from "Dao Bewilderment" to retreat in horror.
In their eyes, the flesh beneath the giant creature's scales was surging violently, as if something was about to break free from the dragon-kun's body.
Its massive body convulsed violently on the sea, whipping up towering waves. Mountain-sized, jet-black scales shattered and fell away, dripping with blood. With a chilling cracking sound, the colossal creature's spine seemed to snap—
Scales broken, spine severed----
Unimaginable pain is happening to it.
Until the first Root Bone pierced through the spine.
It was a pure white bone spur, piercing straight out from the center of the spine and extending straight towards the sky.
Then came the second, the third—fascia began to connect the bone spurs, and a translucent membrane spread rapidly across the fascia.
That's Wing.
At that very moment, without any warning, the entire sea darkened.
It wasn't that the light of day was blocked, but rather it was as if the "gaze" of this world had suddenly withdrawn from all directions, gathered, and fallen upon this colossal creature that was trying to go against the natural order.
High in the sky, an eye is slowly opening.
"How can there be the aura of the Primordial Heavenly Dao here?"
As Huntian ran for his life, he looked up in shock, his mind filled with questions.
What exactly did those Dragon Race "take" back then to build this Eternal Dragon Gate?!
But it didn't have time to think deeply. A tremendous change was taking place in the Yu Tunzhou. The earth shook and the mountains trembled. It flapped its wings and tumbled and flew away, fleeing all the way.
Suddenly, it looked up at the sky and saw the Golden-Winged Great Peng peering down from the clouds in astonishment.
"Little Peng, you'd better hurry up and save the day!"
At this moment, Peng Fei stared in horror at the scene below, an ancient legend echoing in its mind.
Could this colossal creature be the legendary Kun Fish?
But why would Kunpeng appear in the Dragon Gate?!
The antagonistic relationship between the Peng Race and the Dragon Race can be traced back to the Kunpeng Lineage!
Suddenly, Peng Fei caught a fleeting glimpse of golden light below.
It looked closely and saw it was the same fat bird from before.
This fat bird originally lived on the head of this big fish, but now the big fish was violently rolling, as if the sky was falling and the earth was cracking, making it difficult for it to survive. It was struggling to flap its wings to avoid it, and was even actively greeting it.
Peng Fei narrowed his eyes, pondering whether he should go down and capture the fat bird, forcing it to reveal everything it knew.
It was very interested in the Kun Fish below that was trying to transform into a Peng bird, and if possible, it wouldn't mind taking the risk.
Below, seeing that the roc cub showed no intention of coming to Peng Fei's aid, Huntian immediately flew into a rage. He used the purest ancient Demon Race language, and the wind carried his rebuke to Peng Fei's ears. "I am Great Sage Huntian Peng Demon King! You roc cub, are you trying to rebel? Hurry up and come to my rescue!"
Peng Fei's pupils contracted sharply, and his feathers bristled.
The Great Sage Huntian?!
This is the Great Sage from mythology! A heroic legend familiar to every Peng Race since childhood!
How could this guy possibly be?!
No, the other party was using the ancient Demon Race language. Although I could instinctively understand it, I didn't know how to use it.
In the next instant, disregarding the danger, Peng Fei swooped down, dodging the oncoming waves, and precisely swallowed the fat—resembling the golden Primordial Spirit of the Great Sage —before returning to the sky in a disheveled state.
"Hmph." Huntian snorted coldly, "You're smart enough to open your mouth now, your ancestor wants to observe the movements below."
Peng Fei, with a mixture of excitement and reverence, confirmed Huntian's true identity.
During the great calamity of heaven and earth, all the powerful beings of various races showed signs of returning, except for their lineage. Despite having produced more than one Great Sage in the past, there has been no news of them to this day.
Huntian scolded, "Enough nonsense! With your stupidity, if I had a choice, I wouldn't even bother with you!"
Huntian peered down from Peng Fei's open beak, his expression grave.
pain.
The extreme pain overwhelmed Yu Tunzhou's Primordial Spirit like a tidal wave.
That divine intent was like a torrent washing over his entire body, inside and out, crushing and reshaping every inch of his flesh and blood. Shattered scales and broken spine were just the beginning.
This is going against the grain.
Fortunately, this pain acted as an anchor, allowing him to maintain his clarity and preventing him from being swallowed by chaos.
He could feel his scales peeling away one by one, turning into new downy feathers; he was growing his own...
wing.
But a chilling pressure also descended from the heavens, seemingly preventing him from completing the final step, pressing down on him!
At the same time, the Human Race and Demon Race who had been closely following Yu Tunzhou in the distance suddenly heard the same sounds they had heard before entering the Dragon Gate.
This time, their orders were to surround and attack the giant fish! If they could kill it, they would exceed the requirements for completing this trial!
Not only them, but all the martial artists in this sea area who had not yet broken through their cultivation barriers and left heard this sound and were affected.
All the native aquatic beasts swam frantically from all directions, like a dark swarm of ants, climbing up to the Yu Tunzhou in the center, tearing and gnawing at its flesh.
In an instant, Yu Tunzhou became the "enemy" of the entire world.
But he seemed oblivious, raising his head and letting out a roar that shook the four seas, gathering all his strength and charging fiercely towards the supreme blue sky!
The force of that collision was like the sky and the sea exploding at the same time!
He braved the oppressive force of heaven and earth, and withstood the siege of countless water beasts, carving out a bloody path through the land.
At this moment, he seemed to be roaming freely in the ancient world, breaking through the vast ocean and rising up with the force of the three thousand, just like the Kun Fish that raised its head millions of years ago, facing all kinds of calamities, step by step, going against the current, and transforming from a fish into a Peng!
I don't know when.
His figure seemed to gradually overlap with that of the Kun Fish that was struggling to break free from the shackles of the vast ocean before Fang Gu.
The same bloody carnage, the same shattered scales, blood staining the vast ocean red, and newly sprouted downy feathers fluttering down—
But just as those colossal wings were about to fully unfurl, just as his transformation into a roc was about to succeed, just as he was about to break free from the shackles of this world—
The ancient Kunpeng figure that overlapped with his suddenly stopped.
Then, he slowly turned around.
A pair of cold, indifferent eyes, even more ruthless than the ancient Heavenly Dao Eye above his head, seemed to have been separated by countless ages, and fell upon Yu Tunzhou.
"Here it comes— Laozi knew that old bastard was up to no good!"
Huntian, who was guiding Peng Fei across the water, became increasingly solemn, sensing the arrival of Kunpeng Divine Intent.
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Huntian was suddenly horrified; this was no longer divine will!
Rather, it is the will of the true self!
That old Kunpeng is still alive?!
Even when the Demon Court collapsed, this old man still lived a carefree life, only one step away from achieving true freedom and transcendence.
Now, countless ages have passed, and the patriarchs of each family have long since vanished, leaving no one to hinder their path.
This old thing has probably already strayed from the Dao and disregarded all the heavens, standing on a supreme level equal to the Demon Emperor Niangniang!
Huntian's eyes showed anxiety; the worst possible outcome had occurred!
Before this, the Kunpeng Divine Intent was merely a symbol of the Great Dao, devoid of preferences or will, appreciating all "fellow travelers" in the world without discrimination.
But when the will of that old Kunpeng descended, this divine will became a towering mountain blocking the way!
Fellow Xuandu, you received so much help from the Kunpeng Divine Intent before. If you cannot fulfill your wishes now, you will have to "spit out" just how much of it!
The wind and waves in this Primordial Spirit Sea suddenly froze.
The wind has stopped, the water is still, and the waves have ceased.
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A terrifying will, domineering, tyrannical, arrogant, and indifferent, forcefully descended, suppressing the laws of heaven and earth, the vitality of water, and the sounds of battle, all at their original point.
All the water beasts and martial artists who were fighting for the flesh and blood of the Yu Tunzhou Boat regained their senses at this moment, and then trembled with fear.
The Demon Race race, in particular, felt the fear emanating from their bloodline, and they all instinctively trembled, prostrated themselves, and knelt in worship. Only a few, relying on their own bloodline origins, managed to avoid prostrating themselves completely.
In fact, the owner of that will did not even look at them.
He didn't even bother to glance at the deepest secrets and fortuitous opportunity of this world.
Guided by divine will, Xiu's gaze traversed time and space, landing on Yu Tunzhou.
As time passed, His will grew ever more fervent and ferocious, yet it was neither ostentatious nor manic; rather, it was a domineering force imbued with deathly stillness and indifference.
Faced with this will, even though Yu Tunzhou possessed the immense power to overturn rivers and seas, he still had no room to resist, like a firefly facing the bright moon.
This is the Kunpeng, a unique and supremely ferocious creature throughout the ages, domineering to the extreme, and ferocious to the extreme.
The momentum of the Yu Tunzhou came to an abrupt halt.
It also includes his personal transformation.
He looked up in confusion.
Why?
Why was it Kunpeng, whom he had always considered a kindred spirit, who stopped him at the last moment?
Meeting that cold, indifferent gaze, more merciless than the eyes of Heavenly Dao, he gradually understood what the other person meant.
This person is making him make a choice.
He became the adopted son and successor, and then, with the blessing of the Kunpeng Divine Intent, he completed the transformation into a Peng, attained enlightenment and became carefree. From then on, he no longer respected the Heavenly Emperor, worshipped the Earth Gods, followed the laws, or entered the cycle of reincarnation.
still----
die.
It turns out Huntian wasn't wrong.
The divine will of the Kunpeng may not be a gift.
He faced the oppression of heaven and earth, and the devouring of all living beings to reach this point, but the divine will that had originally helped him stood against him at the most crucial moment.
Successor, adopted son----
What a prestigious title!
A low laugh echoed between the sky and the sea.
He chuckled softly, his laughter as muffled as a shattered heavenly drum. His bones trembled and cracked under the pressure of that divine will, yet his laughter grew louder and more unrestrained.
[Throughout his life, Yu has endured many hardships, even finding himself imprisoned in a cave, yet his heart remained steadfast, unyielding despite countless setbacks.]
He suppressed his sneer, his madness, all his anger and resentment, becoming as calm as a stagnant pool, but the flame in his eyes burned even brighter.
Faced with the domineering and arrogant invitation from the Kunpeng Divine Intent, his answer was:
You've blocked my great freedom!
The next moment, having rejected the divine will, he was met with its backlash; almost instantly, half of his body turned to ashes.
The excruciating pain overwhelmed him like a tsunami, a thousand times more painful than the previous shattering of scales and spine and the rebuilding of flesh and bone.
But he did not fall. Instead, he straightened his spine, met the cold gaze above him, and a tremendous will erupted from within him.
This will was earth-shattering, but it wasn't directed at any one person; rather, it was directed at everything in this world that stood in his way of pursuing true freedom!
Even the Kunpeng!
He forcefully broke free from the shackles of divine will!
Those colossal wings, capable of blotting out the sky, finally unfolded completely amidst a rain of blood and shattered scales.
Those giant wings covered the sky, each newly grown feather was as black as ink, but the edges gleamed with a cold light, as if they had been tempered a million times.
Where the wings swept, the clouds were torn to shreds, the gale whipped up thousands of piles of snow, and the sea poured into the sky, forming a water curtain that stretched across the heavens and the earth.
In an instant, the entire sea trembled.
And for the first time, the Kunpeng's will, which spans countless ages, showed a genuine fluctuation.
Yu Tunzhou raised his head, his golden eyes burning with an unprecedented light—the purest freedom, freed from all constraints and shattered from all shackles.
He suddenly flapped his wings and soared into the sky. Although he was left with only a broken body, he still left everything behind. His wings spread across the clouds, causing the heavens to tremble, the mountains to shake, and the seas to tilt!
In a mere instant, the water beasts that had been hunting him were reduced to dust beneath his wings, and the various martial artists who had been vying for his flesh and blood, influenced by the heavens and earth, were also swept away by the roc's wings and sent to their deaths.
Then, Yu Tunzhou ignored the warning and rebuke in Kunpeng Divine Intent and flapped its wings upwards.
up.
Go upwards again.
Until they reach the end of the azure sky, they will completely break free from the "cage" of this barrier and break free from all constraints and shackles.
That moment.
With a glance up and down, he saw that the entire world was but a speck of dust beneath his feathers.