259: Chapter 258 Tampering with Heavenly Secrets, Unforgivable

Above the sky, that giant silver eye had already squeezed in halfway.

The entire dilapidated space of the Ethereal Immortal Mansion let out an unbearable groan, and the tectonic plates began to collapse on a large scale, turning into nothingness.

The true form of the Heavenly Dao—even if only a corner of its eye squeezed in—carried a weight of rules that this fragment fallen from the Upper Realm could never withstand.

"Ant..."

That grand, cold, mechanical voice devoid of any emotional color resonated through the world once again.

"Attempting to tamper with destiny, unforgivable."

Inside the giant eye, a silver sea of lightning was brewing frantically. This time, it was a world-destroying lightning waterfall capable of completely purifying this million-mile radius, along with the entire ruins of the Immortal Mansion, into nothingness!

It wanted to erase this disobedient Upper Realm fragment and this damned anomaly together!

"Revered Master!"

Inside the barrier, although the six disciples were protected by the Laws of Su Lin's inner world, the instinctive fear of facing heavenly might still made their minds tremble.

"It wants to destroy this Small World! We are hiding in your barrier, but once everything outside collapses, we will be swept into the turbulent Void Realm!"

Han Yue bit her lip tightly, calmly analyzing the situation.

"Who said I was going to hide?"

Su Lin stood in the center of the hundred-foot golden starlight barrier, looking up at the high and mighty silver giant eye, the corners of his mouth curling into a cold and arrogant arc.

He slowly raised the ancient sword [destiny] in his right hand.

At this moment, six-colored divine patterns flowed wildly over the body of the [destiny] sword, but at its very core, it was shrouded in a layer of grayish, seemingly inconspicuous yet extremely profound aura.

That was Chaos.

It was the most primitive power of creation fed back by the world tree that had just sprouted within his body.

"Heavenly Dao, did you get one thing wrong?"

Su Lin's voice was not loud, but with the support of his Mahayana Stage cultivation and his inner world's Laws, it clearly pierced through the void and slammed directly onto the pupil of that silver giant eye.

"This is the Ethereal Immortal Mansion, a fragment that fell from the Upper Realm."

"The rules here are already incomplete and broken. You forced your way in; aren't you afraid of getting your neck stuck in the door?"

The moment his words fell.

He gripped the hilt with both hands, raised [destiny] high above his head, and then stabbed it fiercely into the edge of the crack in the sky that the giant eye had forcibly torn open!

"Stitch!"

Inside Su Lin's body, that vast starry sky spun crazily, and the sapling of the world tree swayed gracefully.

A majestic and unparalleled Space Law surged out along the blade of [destiny] like a burst river.

But this power of Law was not for destruction.

It was needle and thread.

The golden Space Law turned into billions of visible threads, precisely piercing into the edges on both sides of that huge crack.

"Since you like staying outside so much, then never come in again!"

Su Lin shouted violently, and his arms pulled fiercely toward the center.

"Close for me!!!"

Those billions of golden Space Law threads tightened instantly, just like pulling a zipper, forcibly pulling the huge crack torn open by the Heavenly Dao toward the center to close it!

The Heavenly Dao giant eye was stunned.

It had expected this ant to put up a desperate fight and use all its strength to resist its lightning.

But it never expected that this madman would ignore its attack and instead go directly to sew up the door it came in through!

"Presumptuous!"

The will of the heavenly dao was furious, and the giant eye squeezed inward desperately, trying to use the pure weight of its rules to pry open the closing crack.

The silver lightning waterfall crashed down, hitting Su Lin's starlight barrier and causing it to shake violently.

"Revered Master! The barrier can't hold on much longer!"

Mu Qingxue shouted.

Repairing the space torn by the Heavenly Dao required an astronomical amount of Spiritual Qi.

"Okay!"

Su Hongling and Luo Ximei did not hesitate at all; the two of them placed their palms on Su Lin's back, one on the left and one on the right.

The extreme blood energy of a Mahayana Stage Body Cultivator, as well as the black and white Devilish Qi fused with the True Immortal Origin, were poured into Su Lin's body without reservation.

"We'll join too!"

Han Yue, Chu Weiwei, and Ye You also stepped forward one after another, channeling their most fundamental power.

Six peak powers gathered in Su Lin's body, and after being converted by the world tree, they all turned into the purest power of space repair.

"Get out!!!"

Su Lin roared up at the sky, and [destiny] in his hand twisted violently.

Above the sky.

Those billions of golden Law threads contracted to the extreme.

At the very moment the silver giant eye was still trying to release lightning, the crack closed at an incredible speed!

"Crack!"

It was like a guillotine falling.

The small portion of the Heavenly Dao giant eye's shadow that had squeezed in was actually cut off by this forcibly closed space crack!

A shrill scream came from outside the closed crack and gradually faded away.

The so-called Heavenly Dao was forcibly locked outside the door!

And that portion of the cut-off silver shadow, having lost the support of its main body, instantly turned into a sky full of silver light rain, dissipating within the Ethereal Immortal Mansion.

The storm ceased.

The thunderclouds dissipated.

The dilapidated sky of the Ethereal Immortal Mansion returned to that dead, gray darkness, as if the earth-shattering scene just now was merely an illusion.

"Huff... huff..."

"Old Man!"

Su Hongling was the first to pounce over, grabbing Su Lin, her red eyes full of the ecstasy of having survived a disaster.

"Did we win?! Did we actually clip the Old Heavens back out?!"

"That was thrilling..." Luo Ximei slumped to the ground, exhausted, but the smile on her face was more bewitching than ever. "If this gets out, my title as the Empress of the Demonic Path might have to change to 'Heaven-Defying Madman'."

Chu Weiwei hurriedly took out a large handful of Medicinal Pills and stuffed them into Su Lin's mouth, while Han Yue and Mu Qingxue helped him catch his breath, one on each side.

"We won..."

Su Lin swallowed the Medicinal Pills and looked at the sky overhead, which was as good as new (though stitched together with gold threads), a sincere smile finally curling the corners of his mouth.

"At least here, it can't get in."

Just then.

The entire Ethereal Immortal Mansion suddenly began to shake violently.

The floating islands and broken palaces around them all began to turn into points of flowing light, drifting upward.

"What's going on? Is this lousy place collapsing?" Su Hongling was startled.

"It's not collapsing; the Immortal Mansion is rejecting us."

Su Lin took a deep breath and stood up with the help of his disciples.

He could feel that it could no longer maintain its independent form, and it was gradually disintegrating, forcibly expelling all outsiders.

"Let's go. We've taken what we needed; it's time to go back."

Su Lin thought for a moment, and took his disciples into the protection of the Star Chart's halo.

The next moment.

A gentle but irresistible repulsive force descended.

With a flash of light, the figures of Su Lin and the others instantly disappeared from this collapsing, dilapidated world.

...

Along with them, those Loose Cultivators and Elders of various Sects who had luckily survived were also expelled.

At this moment, above the Black Sea, at the edge of the Sky Rift Valley.

The originally churning void vortex shook violently, and then, like a fountain, it spat the people inside out one after another.

"We're out! We're out!"

"I'm still alive! Hahaha, this Old Man is still alive!"

Mo Chen, Heavenly Calculation Granny, and dozens of other lucky survivors fell onto the sea, weeping with joy.

Although they hadn't made it to the end, being able to go through such a desperate situation and survive was a great stroke of fortune in itself.

Mo Chen was clutching the long sword in his hand, with which he had comprehended a new Sword Intent in the scroll world, and his eyes were anxiously searching the crowd.

"Where is Senior Su? Has Senior Su come out?"

Just as he finished speaking.

"Hum!"

The space fluctuated violently.

Su Lin, in a green robe, with his six stunning disciples, landed steadily on the sea not far from the crowd.

As soon as he landed, he hadn't even had a chance to take a breath of the outside air.

"Activate the Formation!!!"

An old and cold roar suddenly exploded from the void in all directions.

Immediately after, the originally gray sky instantly turned into a glaring silver-white.

A monstrous giant net, almost invisible to the naked eye, woven from countless Space Laws and Void Secret Silver, descended from the sky, completely enveloping the hundred-mile sea area!

This net appeared too quickly and too abruptly; even Su Lin, at the very moment he was just teleported out and his spatial perception was at its weakest, had failed to detect it in advance.

"Swish!"

The giant net tightened, like a huge, transparent, inverted bowl, trapping Su Lin and his seven disciples, along with the surrounding Loose Cultivators who hadn't had time to rejoice yet, all tightly within it.

"What is this stuff?!"

Su Hongling was furious and reflexively swung her great sword at the transparent grid.

"Clang!"

With a crisp sound, the great sword was actually bounced back, and Su Hongling felt a numbness in her arm.

"Don't touch it!"

Su Lin's eyes turned cold instantly, and he pulled Su Hongling back.

Feeling the strange fluctuation in the air around them that was rapidly becoming viscous and frantically draining the Spiritual Qi from their bodies, he immediately recognized the Origin of this thing.

"[Taixu Absolute Net]."

Su Lin spat out the four words coldly, piercing directly into the void outside the giant net.

"What a grand gesture. To scheme against me, you even brought out this ancient sealing Formation."

"Hahahaha!"

Following Su Lin's words, three figures exuding earth-shattering pressure slowly emerged in mid-air outside the giant net.

In the center was a man holding a dry tobacco pipe, wearing a kind yet extremely sinister smile.

It was none other than the owner of the Black Sea Market, a powerful expert at the Late Stage of the Tribulation Transcendence Stage, Old Ancestor Cang Ming!

"Young Friend Su, truly good insight, recognizing this treasure of mine at a glance."

Old Ancestor Cang Ming puffed on his pipe twice, exhaling thick smoke, with a confident, cat-watching-a-mouse, playful expression.

"This Taixu Absolute Net is something the three of us spent a thousand years of hard work refining secret silver in the depths of the void to weave."

"It doesn't hurt people; it only does one thing, which is to seal off space and drain all Spiritual Qi."

"In this net, even if you were an Immortal descended to the Mortal world, don't even think about using a shred of the power of Law; you can only obediently become a Mortal waiting to be slaughtered!"

The Loose Cultivators and experts inside the net were scared out of their wits upon hearing this.

They tried to circulate their Spiritual Qi, but were terrified to find that their Dantian seemed to be sealed with cement, their Meridians were empty, and they couldn't even form a single spell!

"Old Ancestor Cang Ming! We are just passing by! The treasures are all on him, it has nothing to do with us! Let us out!"

"That's right, Senior! We are willing to hand over our storage rings, please be merciful!"

A group of Cultivators who had just been rejoicing at their survival were now kneeling in the net, kowtowing and begging the Old Ancestor Cang Ming outside for mercy.

"Shut up. A bunch of trash."

Old Ancestor Cang Ming didn't even look at them; his gaze remained fixed on Su Lin from start to finish, his eyes full of greed.

"Su Lin, oh Su Lin."

"This Old Man admits that your attainments in Formations are truly unprecedented."

"Being able to survive in the Immortal Mansion, and perhaps even obtaining that heavy treasure of the Immortal Realm, truly makes me look at you with new eyes."

"But you are still too young."

Old Ancestor Cang Ming sneered, as if admiring a perfect trophy about to fall into his pocket.

"The world of cultivation is about deceit and treachery; it's about being the one who survives to the end."

"You fought desperately inside, exhausting your foundation; this Old Man waited in comfort outside, setting up an inescapable net."

"Now, what do you have to fight me with?"

He stretched out his withered finger and pointed at Su Lin.

"Hand over everything you obtained in the Immortal Mansion, and that piece of chaos immortal gold."

His gaze swept greedily over the beautiful female disciples behind Su Lin, who now appeared somewhat weak because their Spiritual Qi was suppressed.

"If I'm in a good mood, I might leave you a whole corpse and let you reincarnate quickly. How about it?"

These words were shameless to the extreme.

But also arrogant to the extreme.

In the eyes of the three Tribulation Transcendence Stage old monsters, Su Lin, trapped in the [Taixu Absolute Net], was currently a toothless tiger, with no choice but to wait for slaughter.

Su Lin just stood there quietly.

Not only was he not afraid in the slightest, but even the way he looked at Old Ancestor Cang Ming carried a kind of pity, as if looking at a moron.

"What are you laughing at?"

Old Ancestor Cang Ming felt an inexplicable fire rise in his heart from being looked at by Su Lin with such eyes, and he frowned and shouted.

Su Lin sighed and shook his head gently.

"I'm laughing at you; you've lived for thousands of years, yet your eyes are pitifully blind."

"You just said that this net can drain Spiritual Qi, seal Laws, and turn people into Mortals?"

"So what if it does?!" the bandaged freak couldn't help but snort, "Stop bluffing! I can feel the Spiritual Qi in your body draining away rapidly right now!"

"Then didn't you notice..."

Su Lin slowly raised his head.

The aura he had deliberately restrained was, at this moment, no longer suppressed in any way.

He did not resist the draining of the giant net; instead, he actively opened up his inner world.

A terrifying pressure, like a sea of stars that had been sleeping for billions of years suddenly exploding, rushed straight into the sky from Su Lin's body!

As soon as this pressure appeared.

That [Taixu Absolute Net], which claimed to be able to seal a Grand Unity Golden Immortal, actually made a violent sizzling sound.

It wasn't draining Su Lin's Spiritual Qi.

It was full!

The power level within Su Lin was too vast; this lousy net couldn't digest it at all, and instead was being forcibly burst by this power!

"This... what is this aura?!"