Denied Favor
With the five treasures complete, Mo Chen did not pause for a moment.
He raised his hands, and the five treasures trembled simultaneously, transforming into five streams of light that crashed into the initial dark green beam of light that connected the five Divine Ability.
That dark green beam of light was the Golden Nature he had condensed.
The five treasures return to one, with Golden Nature as the guiding element.
Su Yao other six held their breath. Mo Chen trembled violently, and his brows, once emerald green, burst forth with unprecedented brilliance. A pillar of light, reaching to the heavens and the earth, shot up from his body, piercing the Great Void and heading towards an indescribable higher place.
Within the pillar of light, five colors swirled and eventually merged into one color, an extremely deep emerald green, like the first new sprout in the beginning of time.
"We've sensed the Fruition Position!" Xue Min exclaimed.
Su Yao's heart skipped a beat. He clearly sensed that deep within the Great Void, an extremely vast, ancient, and majestic being was slowly opening a crack in the void.
Geng Wood Fruition Position.
The entire Great Void began to tremble. Five forces swirled and receded within the pillar of light, crashing towards the ancient portal.
Mo Chen's figure appeared and disappeared in the pillar of light, his whole being like a burning emerald flame, pouring all his Law Power, Essence Blood, soul, and Golden Nature into this final battle.
"Did it work?" Ni Polu murmured.
Su Yao didn't answer, he just stared intently at the beam of light.
A beam of light shot into the sky.
Deep within the Great Void, the the Unseen portal slowly opened, and an extremely pure and vast emerald light poured down, merging with the pillar of light.
Mo Chen touched it.
But the moment the two touched, a burst of fire suddenly erupted from Mo Chen's Rising Yang Mansion, causing the pillar of light to tremble violently, and then the door began to close.
There were no warning signs whatsoever.
There are no issues with load-bearing capacity, no shortage of Law Power, and no backlash from Daoist principles.
But that newly opened portal, like a cold and indifferent being, turned away after glancing at Mo Chen.
The Geng Wood Fruition Position did not favor him.
Mo Chen's pupils contracted sharply, his eyes reflecting the Daozheng emerald light. He opened his mouth as if to say something, but no sound came out.
The emerald light that descended from the sky receded like a tide, peeling away from Mo Chen's pillar of light, and then disappeared completely.
Then, the beam of light shattered with a deafening roar.
The five treasures exploded, transforming into countless streams of light that swept back. Mo Chen was suddenly thrown away by an invisible force, his body riddled with cracks, and his breath barely a whisper.
That the Unseen door has closed.
The beam of light dissipated.
The Great Void returned to its dark green hue.
Mo Chen trembled violently. The remaining dark green beam of light, his Golden Nature, did not dissipate after the beam of light shattered. Instead, it twisted like a living thing.
The beam of light shrank smaller and smaller, becoming more and more solid, until it turned completely black. A blurry human face emerged on its surface, with features identical to Mo Chen's, but twisted and ferocious, full of greed and violence.
"Oh no, the Golden Nature has been corrupted by evil." Xue Min's expression changed drastically.
Before the words were finished, the dark-skinned face suddenly opened its mouth and swallowed Mo Chen whole.
Mo Chen's physical body was shattered, and he was on the verge of death. He couldn't even put up a fight before disappearing into the black mist.
The black energy swallowed the Mo Chen, as if it had received a great boost, and expanded with a roar, transforming into a ferocious demon hundreds of feet tall.
Its shape resembles a withered, gnarled tree, entirely black, with dark green pus flowing between its branches. Countless human faces rise and fall on its body, some crying, some laughing, some angry, some furious, their voices like the howling of ten thousand ghosts, causing the Great Void to tremble.
Su Yao's expression changed drastically, and he immediately transformed into golden light and vanished.
Seeing this, Xue Min cursed inwardly, then quickly fled with Li Chaoxue and Ni Polu, while Yang Xuanye also quickly disappeared into the distance.
Those Purple Mansion True Person who had rushed over upon hearing the news and were observing from the shadows also scattered and fled in all directions.
The demon did not pursue the group. It was newly born and not yet stable. It was frantically devouring the Geng Wood miasma around it, and its aura was rising steadily.
After fleeing a thousand miles, the group breathed a sigh of relief, but when they looked back, they suddenly saw a figure appear in the Great Void.
The person appeared above the demons at some unknown time, dressed in a plain white robe, with a handsome face, but so pale that he was as if he had never seen the sun. In his hand, he held an old book, its pages yellowed, its edges slightly curled, and it was unremarkable.
He stood there above the evil spirits, his expression indifferent, as if looking at the roadside weeds.
The next moment, He gently tossed the scroll in his hand.
The scroll slipped from his hand and unfurled in mid-air, turning countless pages with a whooshing sound, even without wind. Each page cast a ray of clear light, so light and faint as moonlight flowing on water, silently falling upon the hundred-foot-tall demon.
The evil spirit suddenly stopped moving.
Its howl stopped abruptly, as if someone had choked it. Then, its enormous body began to shrink, shrinking from a hundred feet to ten feet, from ten feet to one foot, until it finally shrank into a fist-sized ball of black mist, which was gently drawn into a page of the scroll and disappeared into a small, dark silhouette.
The scroll closed and flew back into the man's hand.
The pale-faced man never once glanced at the fleeing crowd. He simply tucked the scroll into his sleeve, and his figure faded away like ripples, disappearing into the Great Void.
Su Yao stared at the spot where he had disappeared, his back soaked with cold sweat.
"Who is that person?" Ni Polu's voice trembled.
Su Yao said in a low voice:
"He should be a judge of the Netherworld, but he must be newly appointed, since there is no record of him in my temple."
As soon as he finished speaking, the sky over the direction of Nanzhao suddenly brightened.
A streak of fire descended from the sky like a falling star, trailing a long, crimson tail, heading straight towards the Nanzhao Royal City. The blaze was so intense that it illuminated half the sky and was clearly visible even tens of thousands of miles away.
Immediately following, from the north of Wumeng Mountain, an extremely sharp Geng Metal aura soared into the sky, like thousands of troops drawing their swords at the same time. Its sharpness pierced through the Great Void, making everyone's skin feel cold.
Su Yao suddenly turned his head to look.
Fire descends from the sky, Geng Metal soars into the heavens.
More people are asking for money, and two people started asking at the same time.
Xue Min's expression turned extremely ugly in that instant.
He gazed towards the direction of the Nanzhao Royal City, then looked north towards the Wumeng Mountain, his lips moved slightly, but in the end he only managed to utter three words:
"Another one."
Su Yao felt a slight chill.
Before the Geng Wood fully formed, Radiant Fire and Geng Metal were already impatient. These Great True Person, one after another, threw themselves into the pursuit of gold, like moths to a flame, one after another. For the sake of Proclaiming Earth, must so many people really be sacrificed?
Before he could think further, Xue Min had already moved, transforming into a streak of light and speeding towards the direction of the Nanzhao Royal City.
Su Yao did not hesitate, turned around and glanced at Yang Xuanye, and said:
"Your Excellency, the situation here has exceeded my control. I will return to Golden Ao first and discuss it with you later."
Then he looked at Yang Nan and the other two:
"Come back to Golden Ao with me."
Without waiting for a response from the three, he summoned the rosy light and fled towards Golden Ao Mountain.
As for those two newly arrived gold-seeking True Person, he would not go there again.
The Five Virtues Geng Wood, Radiant Fire, Geng Metal, Proclaiming Earth, Gui Water. Except for Gui Water, which is still missing a person, Proclaiming Earth, which is still in the grotto heaven, the others have now entered the game.
These people sought the golden body, and their deaths and spiritual dissipation seemed unrelated, but in reality, they subtly aligned with the cycle of the Five Virtues. Each death of one of them had an impact on the spiritual atmosphere of Nanzhao.
Zilin is still in seclusion...