181: A miraculous salvation! This is the true Thousand-Armed Guanyin!

【 True Name · Mandate of Heaven 】

With Su Jin as the origin, the structure of reality began to disintegrate.

Space suddenly collapsed inward, then folded outward, forming unnatural wrinkles.

From that shattered void, specks of starlight and deep shadows surged forth simultaneously.

They intertwined and ascended, weaving an illusory imperial robe upon him.

The robe billowed without wind, its surface shimmering with light and shadow, depicting the cyclical birth and end of worlds.

In the depths of his eyes, the intersection of countless threads of causality was reflected.

Every moment of Cloud City, from its birth to its current fall, was clearly visible.

At this very moment.

He was the only “Heaven” within tens of thousands of miles, the supreme law itself.

“【 In My Name, I Command — — All Phenomena Revert 】”

His words became law.

The river of time rippled backward.

The solidified debris in the high sky began to float upward, and the grating sound of the city’s structure crumbling transformed into the muffled thud of healing.

On the verge of shattering cloud heart, countless cracks glowed softly, showing a tendency to mend.

However, an unexpected change occurred!

The array disk deeply embedded within the cloud heart suddenly erupted with a dazzling dark red light.

That light was filled with the meaning of distortion, corruption, and the end of all things.

It was as if the laws of another world had materialized, carrying an inherent exclusivity and aggressiveness.

Su Jin’s Mandate of Heaven power seemed to hit an invisible dam.

It was unable to completely reverse the collapse of the cloud heart.

“Hmm?”

Su Jin raised an eyebrow.

He felt that the array disk left by Sky Peak had an extremely terrifying core essence.

It seemed to be a “conceptual anchor point,” firmly nailing the outcome of “collapse” and “fall” to Cloud City’s destiny.

Although this power was far less grand than his Mandate of Heaven, it reached a certain level of equivalence in terms of “quality.”

Presumably.

Sky Peak, or rather, Dark Star Empire.

Must have paid a considerable price to forge this array disk.

“If reversal isn’t possible, then… erase it.”

Su Jin’s mind stirred, changing the way the law was cast.

Since he couldn’t make time flow backward, he would directly strip the “collapse” attribute from the cloud heart at a conceptual level.

“【 Strip · Principle of Collapse 】”

This time, his power was no longer a forced repair, but like an invisible surgical knife.

It delved into the origin of the cloud heart.

Forcibly stripping the concept of “collapse” represented by that array disk, along with its foundational law.

From the cloud heart’s trajectory of destiny.

Buzz — —

The violent tremor of the cloud heart finally stopped.

The countless cracks on its surface stopped spreading, and the turbulent energy within gradually subsided.

However, the light it emitted was already extremely dim, like a candle in the wind.

It would be impossible for it to recover enough to support the entire city’s operation again without three to five months of nurturing.

And the most fatal problem at hand was — — Cloud City was still falling.

Having lost the anti-gravity support of the cloud heart.

This miraculous city, suspended in the sky for thousands of years.

Was now transforming into a gigantic artificial tomb, accelerating its descent towards the “Endless Chasm” below!

Panic had already spread throughout the city.

Countless citizens screamed, and the buildings groaned under the immense strain of the violent tremors.

On the streets, people despairingly watched the ever-approaching abyss of clouds, the shadow of death enveloping everyone’s hearts.

Amidst this apocalyptic scene.

A towering azure pillar of light, piercing through the clouds, surged forth from deep beneath Cloud City.

Within the core of the earth pulse, Su Jin’s gaze penetrated the rock layers, looking towards the opposite side of the abyss.

His connection with Grand Void Azurewood Palace had reached an unprecedented depth.

“Rise!”

A soft command, like a divine oracle.

Following his will, countless thick Sky-Peering Vines burst forth from the ground throughout Cloud City!

This time, they were no longer slender reconnaissance units.

Instead, they transformed into colossal entities, each over ten meters in diameter, like azure giant dragons.

Verdant spiritual light flowed across the surface of the vines.

On their tough bodies, thunder patterns flickered, empowered by the Yi Wood Thunder Pool.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

Countless gigantic vines, like launched anchor ropes.

With the whistling sound of tearing through the air.

Streaked across the sky, spanning tens of thousands of meters, and plunged into the sheer cliffs on both sides of the “Endless Chasm”!

“Rumble — —”

The giant vines tensed, emitting a colossal roar like steel cables stretched to their limit.

The downward momentum of the entire Cloud City slowed.

However.

The terrifying inertia of the city’s descent was immense; these vines alone only delayed the arrival of destruction.

Su Jin, within the core of the earth pulse.

The robe woven from starlight and shadows on him blazed with light.

His body.

Began to infinitely rise and expand.

In a way that transcended physical laws.

Amidst the interplay of light and shadow.

A majestic Dharma Body, indescribable in its grandeur.

Appeared in the void beside Cloud City.

This Dharma Body.

Its head touched the sky, its feet trod the void, and it was clad in an imperial robe.

Its features were indistinct, yet it possessed an supreme majesty, as if ruling over myriad worlds.

Immediately after.

Behind and beside the Dharma Body.

Arms constructed from pure starlight and psionic energy continuously extended and unfolded.

Ten, a hundred, a thousand, ten thousand…

The number of arms was countless.

Like a forest made of arms.

Each arm contained the mighty power to support heaven and earth.

They gently reached out, supporting the immensely vast base of Cloud City from below.

The scene.

Was like the legendary Thousand-Armed Divine Buddha, holding a falling mortal city steadily in its palm.

Within Cloud City, everyone was stunned.

The storyteller who had been spitting wildly in the Listening Wind Pavilion.

Was now squeezed into the square with a crowd of people.

He looked up, mouth agape, and the clapper in his hand fell to the ground with a “clatter.”

He pointed at the majestic divine figure in the sky.

His voice trembled uncontrollably with excitement.

“Th-three heads and six arms… No… Th-this… This is a thousand hands and a thousand arms!”

“What I said is true! What I said… is all true!!”

He suddenly burst into laughter, and as he laughed, tears streamed down his face.

A roar, expressing the feelings of everyone present.

It turned out that it wasn’t an exaggeration.

But rather, their meager imaginations simply couldn’t depict the true magnificent posture of this being.

Legend had, at this moment, become reality.

A sacred Dharma Body, larger than the city itself, was holding up their world.

Those myriad arms of light, like the strongest supports, completely quelled the vibrations of the entire city.

The descent had stopped.

The ecstasy of surviving a disaster and the shock of witnessing a miracle.

Left countless people speechless; they knelt on the ground, prostrating themselves before the majestic figure.

A Crimson Scale Guard captain’s mouth hung open.

Watching the unimaginable scene before him, he murmured.

“Good heavens… How many hands must that be…”

A young soldier beside him, his face flushed with excitement.

Stammered, “Th-this… This is… City Lord Su?”

“Who else could it be but him!”

The captain slapped him on the back of the head, his eyes filled with fervent adoration.

“Remember this moment! This is a miracle!”

Su Jin held up the entire city with his Mandate of Heaven Dharma Body.

With his immense power connecting heaven and earth, his perception also expanded to an inconceivable degree.

At this moment.

His heart stirred, sensing two completely different anomalies.

To the south, in the direction of Youfeng Valley.

A cold, silent, and sharp will that severed all things exploded at the world’s law level.

A True Name echoed in the perception of all living beings — —

“Annihilation!”

It was Bai Xiao!

He had unleashed his True Name!

Su Jin’s gaze seemed to pierce through endless space, seeing that familiar figure.

Dark Star Empire must have committed unimaginable power to the battlefield in Youfeng Valley to push Bai Xiao to this point.

Immediately after.

In the more distant northern sky.

A gigantic mushroom cloud, accompanied by a world-shattering explosion, roared upward.

The spatial laws there were completely torn apart.

The violent energy turbulence even transmitted along the law’s pulse into Su Jin’s perception.

Su Jin, while maintaining the Dharma Body and holding up Cloud City, connected these pieces of information in his mind.

He instantly understood.

Sky Peak’s actions in Cloud City, from beginning to end, might have been a deception.

Sacrificing elites, sacrificing heroes, even resorting to that law array disk capable of contending with the Mandate of Heaven.

Its primary purpose might not have been to destroy this insignificant floating city.

But rather to firmly tie him, Su Jin, here!

The true killing moves were launched simultaneously in the south, in the north, and on other Blue Star Alliance defense lines!

Dark Star Empire’s ambition this time was far greater than anyone could have imagined.

Su Jin’s eyes deepened.

“Sky Peak…”