Imprisoned for a Hundred Years

Shock, embarrassment, astonishment... all manner of intensely complicated emotions welled up in Gonggong's heart.

In midair, Gonggong spun around faster than lightning and plunged headfirst beneath the sea.

Ao Changsheng watched the Daluo's movements, unable to suppress his amusement.

A long while later, the burly Daluo, now dressed in fresh clothes, walked up from the seabed, one step at a time, onto the island's shore.

"Fellow Daoist... you didn't see anything just now, did you?" Gonggong walked toward Ao Changsheng with a somewhat stiff smile.

His Daluo Law Power bore down without the slightest restraint, its threatening intent self-evident.

However...

"Although I'd very much like to say I didn't see anything, but..." Ao Changsheng paused before continuing, "Even if I said that, I imagine you wouldn't believe me, would you, fellow Daoist?"

Gonggong silently raised his head to look at the sky.

That was true!

Why bother deceiving himself?

But...

"You didn't see me today, understood?" Gonggong put on a stern face and looked at Ao Changsheng again.

The Daluo Law Power he had just withdrawn bore down once more.

"Uh..."

"Is that a threat?" Ao Changsheng

Ao Changsheng silently drew upon the power of his Daoist sanctuary, and a terrifying pressure bore down directly on Gonggong.

"Uh..."

Feeling the terrifying pressure mercilessly force his Daluo Law Power back into his body, Gonggong's expression changed abruptly.

"What the hell is this pressure?!"

Gonggong trembled all over. Feeling the immense pressure around him, as though it came from the entire world, his expression grew utterly stiff.

Even the Ancestral Witch body he was so proud of could scarcely withstand the immense pressure.

I've... offended a big shot!

The thought instantly appeared in Gonggong's mind.

However unruly he might be, at the critical juncture between life and death, Gonggong instantly made the most correct choice.

Without the slightest hesitation, he put on an apologetic smile and apologized.

"I, Gonggong of the Witch Race, have been disrespectful, senior. I entered your Daoist sanctuary without permission and have come to admit my mistake. Please forgive me!"

"Gonggong? The Witch Race?"

Was he that Ancestral Witch Gonggong of the Witch Race descended from Pangu?

The corner of Ao Changsheng's mouth twitched slightly. Looking at the Daluo before him, whose face had changed in an instant, he found it hard to believe.

This guy was the Ancestral Witch of the Witch Race, famous throughout the Primordial World for being unruly?

That had to be a lie!

Much as Ao Changsheng wanted to say that, he sensed the dense Great Dao of Water within the other party, as well as his powerful body, which surpassed even his own true dragon body.

Ao Changsheng knew then that the guy before him, who loved fancy swimming and had no backbone at all, was indeed Gonggong.

Though surprised by his identity, Ao Changsheng had no intention of making an issue of it.

Although Gonggong had just threatened him with the Law Power of a Daluo Golden Immortal, Ao Changsheng had sensed no killing intent from him.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have been joking with Gonggong here. He would have slapped him to death instead.

He didn't care whether the other party was a protagonist of the Witch-Demon Tribulation or not!

"Considering that you had no intention of killing and have such a good attitude in admitting your mistake, I won't punish you severely. I'll just sentence you to..." Ao Changsheng pondered briefly before continuing.

"You shall hold up the heavens in my world for a hundred years."

As soon as Ao Changsheng finished speaking, he turned his hand over without waiting for Gonggong to react. The embryonic form of a great thousand universe appeared out of thin air and drew Gonggong directly inside.

As for this embryonic great thousand universe, Ao Changsheng had created it for amusement and practice after first becoming a Golden Immortal and gaining the power to open up worlds.

Of course, although it was a practice piece, he had drawn on the power of his Daoist sanctuary to bolster him, using a Sage's power to support his Golden Immortal cultivation as he opened up this great thousand universe.

Unfortunately, even with the power of his Daoist sanctuary bolstering him, Ao Changsheng was ultimately only a Golden Immortal.

His cultivation realm and comprehension might have been enough to open up a small world, but they fell short of what was needed to open up a great thousand world, a great thousand universe.

Thus, in the end, he had only opened up an embryonic great thousand universe where energy and matter were in extreme chaos, space and time were inverted, heaven and earth were undivided, and the Principles were unclear.

And Ao Changsheng, a mere Golden Immortal, lacked the ability to bring order to the great thousand universe's space and time or hold heaven and earth apart.

So he could only leave the great thousand universe in chaos.

Just now, a sudden flash of inspiration had reminded him of this chaotic great thousand universe.

Although it could hardly be called a world, perhaps it could serve as a prison or a place of punishment.

And wasn't the Daluo-realm Ancestral Witch Gonggong before him a ready-made test subject?

"Where in the world is this?"

Gonggong truly felt so wronged that he wanted to cry.

Hadn't he merely been inattentive while searching the East Sea for a hidden great power, sneaking off to swim and play in the water?

How had he ended up offending a great power hidden in the Primordial World and getting thrown into this godforsaken place?

Wait... a hidden great power!

Gonggong suddenly realized that he seemed to have found the hidden great power the Dao Ancestor had spoken of.

But...

Realizing it now seemed a little too late. Gonggong wore a woeful expression as he looked at the endlessly disordered space and time around him.

When he first arrived, Gonggong hadn't felt anything.

After all, he was a Daluo Golden Immortal, and only needed to circulate a little Law Power to suppress all the matter and energy within hundreds of millions of miles around him, restoring it to calm.

But as time passed, Gonggong discovered that the pressure from the chaotic matter and energy around him was surging.

It was only then that Gonggong noticed that all the disordered space and time in this world was filled with seemingly endless matter and energy.

Moreover, the entire world was like a single entity: tug one hair and the whole body moved.

Amid the endless chaos, an unusual presence like Gonggong had appeared.

As a result, the matter and energy of the entire great thousand universe were drawn toward him. Chaotic forces were constantly transmitted, accumulating and pressing in on him.

The matter and energy Gonggong had calmed fell back into chaos, and endless chaotic forces piled up against his body.

Nowhere to hide, nowhere to escape; he could only endure it head-on!

In just one year, he already had to exert his Ancestral Witch body to its fullest and hold nothing back from his Great Dao of Water, giving everything he had just to protect himself.

At the thought of spending a hundred years here, Gonggong couldn't help feeling despair.

If time could be turned back, Gonggong would definitely slap his formerly arrogant self across the face.

Wasn't he just a Daluo Golden Immortal? What did he have to be so cocky about?

Gonggong looked at the seemingly endless matter and energy around him and felt the increasingly terrifying pressure bearing down on his Ancestral Witch body. At last, he felt afraid.

Could that senior great power be trying to kill me to keep me quiet?

"Spare me, senior! I know I was wrong! Spare me, senior..."

Gonggong cried out, begging for mercy.

But...

Deep in the East Sea.

Ao Changsheng's Daoist sanctuary.

What should I eat to pass the time this year?

Ao Changsheng's avatar stood on the shore, his eyes gazing silently at the vast sea as he spaced out... ahem, as he pondered.

He was pondering what he would do to pass the time over the next year, or even the next ten or hundred years.

It was a habit Ao Changsheng had developed over millions of years.

After all, secluded cultivation was very boring, so whether he had anything to do or not, Ao Changsheng would send an avatar outside to pass the time.

In the beginning, Ao Changsheng would feel uncomfortable after spacing out... ahem, pondering for a single day.

Gradually, over millions of years, Ao Changsheng had reached the point where he could now start pondering and space out for hundreds or thousands of years at a time.

That could be considered a change in Ao Changsheng's mindset as he went from a short-lived being to a long-lived one!