119: Chapter 119 This is cause and effect! Anyone who dares to disagree will find out soon enough!

Just as all the Cultivators in the venue were being suppressed by the supreme Dao charm emitted by that copper coin, their Divine Souls on the verge of cracking and their Dao Hearts on the verge of collapse.

A calm, ripple-less voice drifted out from the heavenly character no. 1 private box, ignoring the Dao pressure sufficient to crush Divine Souls, and ignoring the deathly silence of the entire venue.

"Just a copper coin I happened to obtain in my early years."

"I walked through the Mortal World, stained with a bit of the Mortal atmosphere; I traveled through the various realms, bearing some secular Karma."

"Using it to exchange for a stone today cannot be considered an insult to it."

Su Changge's voice was very soft. When heard, it did not sound like any language, but more like the supreme, resounding voice that defined the Laws of all things when the world first opened. Every word and every sentence contained inconceivable might, directly branded into the depths of everyone's Divine Soul Origin.

He was stating a fact.

A fact that, in his view, could not be more ordinary.

Yet, taboo terms like "Karma" and "Mortal World"—which even Saints must spend their entire lives contemplating, and which could lead to Dao transformation and death if handled carelessly—when spoken from his mouth, contained the supreme weight of the birth and destruction of eras, and the Reincarnation of the Universe!

These words fell into the ears of the various powerful Old Ancestors hidden deep in the Void Realm, peeping at this place with Divine Thought, causing their Dao Hearts, which had long been as calm as an ancient well and unpolished through ten thousand tribulations, to twitch crazily, almost cracking on the spot!

Using... using the supreme Law that represents the most primitive operating rules of the world—which even legendary Great Emperors find difficult to touch—to cast... a copper coin circulated among Mortals?

And speaking of it so lightly, as if it were just a common stone picked up on the side of the road?!

What kind of existence is this? Which ancient deity from which era is playing in the human world?!

Inside the heavenly character no. 2 private box, Qilin Blood Prince's face, twisted by rage, turned from green to white, then from white to a morbid dark purple, like spoiled blood.

After the extreme fear, the shattered dignity and pride turned into a boundless sense of humiliation sufficient to burn through his sanity.

He did not believe it!

He absolutely did not believe it!

He was the most outstanding descendant of the Primeval Imperial Clan, with a noble Bloodline and vast knowledge. He had never seen such absurd and ridiculous records in any of the most ancient classics!

Casting the supreme Dao as Mortal copper and iron? This was no longer a Divine Ability, but a blasphemy against the "Dao" itself!

"Illusion!"

"This is absolutely a supreme illusion that has blinded everyone's Divine Soul! It is a trick of the eyes!"

Qilin Blood Prince emitted a hysterical shriek from the depths of his throat. The sound was shrill and sharp, not like a human voice, but more like the wail of a dying Vicious Beast.

He had been driven mad by that invisible Dao pressure and Su Changge's understatement; his Dao Heart had already lost its defense.

"Under this Prince's Dragon Mirror of Truth-Breaking, all falsehoods will have nowhere to hide! Shatter for me!"

He acted like a madman. A bloodstain split open on his forehead, and essence blood mixed with the power of his Divine Soul Origin poured crazily into the ancient dragon-patterned mirror he had summoned.

The ancient mirror was dark gold all over. A lifelike Primeval Azure Dragon coiled on the mirror body. The mirror surface circulated an ancient and vast aura. Once it appeared, a supreme will that could see through falsehoods and point directly to the Origin permeated the area.

This was the Legacy Bloodline treasure that the Primeval Imperial Clan relied on: the Dragon Mirror of Truth-Breaking!

Legend had it that this mirror was made by taking the reverse scale of a Primeval Dragon Emperor, supplemented by Chaos Divine Gold fused with Nine Heavens star cores, and refined over ten thousand years. It could see through all illusions, Restrictions, and Formations in the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths. Where its light shone, all Laws retreated, and all things revealed their true Origin form!

"Show me its true form!"

Qilin Blood Prince burned nearly half of his Imperial Bloodline. His originally handsome face instantly aged hundreds of years, and threads of gray-white appeared in his red hair! He staked all his power on this one strike!

Hum—!

A beam of Truth-Breaking Golden Light, as thick as a mountain and condensed to the extreme, exploded from the mirror surface!

This golden light tore through layers of space within the auction house, ignored the obstruction of all Laws, and carried the majestic heavenly might of judging all illusions in the world, shooting straight at that plain-looking copper coin on the auction stage!

Inside the heavenly character no. 1 private box, Su Changge did not even lift his eyelids. He continued to sip the clear tea in his cup, as if the shocking strike outside, which was enough to make a Saint temporarily avoid its edge, was just a wisp of breeze blowing past the window.

Just as that Truth-Breaking Golden Light containing the will of the Primeval Dragon Emperor was about to touch the copper coin.

Ding.

A faint, extremely slight tremolo sounded.

It was not any Magic Treasure being activated, nor was some Divine Ability being triggered.

It was that copper coin, that ancient copper coin carrying the Karma of the era, which seemed to be disturbed by the rude provocation of an ant, and vibrated unhappily.

A circle of warm, mysterious yellow light slowly bloomed from beneath the verdigris on the copper coin's surface.

The light was not dazzling, not scorching, and did not have half a point of killing intent, yet it was heavy enough to carry the heavens and myriad worlds, and as ancient as the first ray of light born in the world. What flowed within it were the supreme Laws that defined all things and created rules.

The Truth-Breaking Golden Light and the mysterious yellow light touched silently.

There was no earth-shattering explosion.

There was no loud noise of Laws colliding.

That Truth-Breaking Divine Light, which was enough to pierce a Saint's dharma body and judge all falsehoods, the moment it touched the mysterious yellow light, was like a drop of ink falling into an infinite ocean of Chaos, instantly assimilated, dissolved, and returned to nothingness.

And that mysterious yellow light, without any loss, with a speed exceeding the definition of time and ignoring the distance of space, arrived first despite starting later.

It simply, gently, imprinted on the surface of that Dragon Mirror of Truth-Breaking.

"Crack."

A barely audible crisp sound was as clear as a thunderclap in the silent venue.

That Bloodline treasure, which had been passed down for ten thousand years, claimed to be eternally immortal, and had witnessed the rise and fall of the Primeval Imperial Clan, developed a crack thinner than a hair in the center of its mirror surface.

Immediately, the crack seemed to come alive, spreading crazily at a speed exceeding Divine Thought perception.

Crack! Pitter-patter—!

In just one breath, spiderweb-like black cracks covered the entire mirror body.

"Pfft—!"

Qilin Blood Prince felt as if he had been struck by hundreds of millions of thunderbolts. His body shook violently, and the blood he spat out contained a large amount of internal organs that had turned into fragments.

The treasure connected to his Bloodline and Divine Soul was destroyed, and the backlash almost completely destroyed his Dao foundation!

He looked down in horror.

Looking at the ancient mirror in his hand that had lost all its light and turned into a pile of spiritless metal fragments, his sanity shattered along with it.

"No..."

"Impossible..."

"My... my Dragon Mirror of Truth-Breaking... my clan's Legacy treasure..."

He muttered to himself, his eyes vacant, his Dao Heart completely collapsing at this moment.

At this point, no one dared to attribute everything before them to an illusion anymore.

What kind of supreme might was this?

"Seeing" a Primeval treasure passed down for ten thousand years until it shattered! This had already exceeded the cognitive limits of all Cultivators present!

"Open the Heavenly Eye! Use the Origin, spare no cost, see clearly what that thing is!"

Several Nascent Soul Ancestors who had been sitting deep in the Void Realm could no longer sit still. They were unwilling, and they did not want to believe it. They were existences standing at the peak of this era; how could they have their Dao Hearts scared to pieces by an object!

In an instant, several terrifying gazes containing the rotation of the sun and moon and the birth and destruction of galaxies pierced through the Void Realm from different directions, looking at that copper coin together.

They wanted to verify a conjecture that made their Souls tremble.

However, at this look, their Divine Souls were almost completely evaporated by that Dao charm on the spot!

In their Dharma Eye of Divine Ability, that copper coin did not exist in the material world at all!

It was not in the past, not in the present, nor in the future. It hung outside the time and space of all worlds, independent of the long river of time! Invisible threads of Karma representing "Fate" and "Luck" were born and destroyed around it, and rivers of "Time" rushing endlessly were forced to change course because of its existence!

Looking for one more moment, their "Dao", the Laws they had cultivated all their lives, would be forcibly assimilated, twisted, and eventually completely collapsed by it, turning into a part of that copper coin!

"Pfft!"

An Old Ancestor shed two shocking trails of blood and tears from his eyes, let out a shrill scream, and withdrew his Divine Thought like lightning. His entire aura instantly withered, as if a thousand years of Lifespan had been drained away.

"Do not look! Do not explore! Do not think!"

He used his last bit of Divine Thought to issue a warning from the depths of his Divine Soul to the other Old Ancestors.

"That is the source of the 'Dao'! It is the beginning of all Laws! It is the Incarnation of taboo!"

Just then, in the crowd, a white-haired Grandmaster, famous in the Central Province for appraising treasures, who had seen countless treasures in his life and even had the fortune to gaze upon fragments of Imperial weapons, suddenly trembled violently. His knees went weak, and with a "thud", he performed a full prostration towards the direction of the auction stage.

Tears streaming down his face, he used his forehead to slam against the hard ground again and again, like a madman.

"This old man was wrong! This old man was wrong!"

"Exhausting my whole life, boasting of having seen all the wonders of the world, only today do I know that everything we have seen in our lives is dung! All is rubble!"

"To hear the Dao in the morning, one can die in the evening! To be able to personally gaze upon such... such a creation-level divine object, this old man has... no regrets in this life!"

He suddenly raised his head, his aged face intertwined with fanaticism, awe, and the ecstasy of Epiphany, and shouted with all the strength of his life:

"That is not a copper coin! That is the root of the two most ancient Laws of 'Exchange' and 'Value' in the world!"

"It is the... 'great dao mother coin' that nurtured all transactions and all rules of equivalent exchange in the world!!"

great dao mother coin!

These four words, like invisible Chaos divine hammers, heavily smashed into the heart of every Cultivator in the venue!

So that was it!

So that was how it was!

A coin that could carry Karma, explain Laws, and embody the Dao—besides being the mother of all coins and the source of all Laws, what else could it be?!

On the auction stage, the gray-robed old man whose robes had long been soaked through with cold sweat, the moment he heard these four words, was like being struck by lightning. His whole body shook, and the last trace of confusion and fear in his eyes turned into endless piety and fanaticism.

He looked at the copper coin that lay quietly in the center of the tabletop covered in spatial cracks, as if it had existed there since eternity, just like a Mortal seeing the god who created him.

Where did he still dare to have any air of an auctioneer? Trembling, he respectfully lifted the auction gavel that had long lost its meaning with both hands, and with all his strength and the awe of his life, he struck it down heavily!

Dong—!

This sound rang through the entire silent venue, and also rang deep in everyone's Divine Soul!

"Honored guest in the heavenly character no. 1 private box, bids... one 'great dao mother coin'!"

The old man's voice was hoarse from extreme excitement, but it carried an unprecedented sacredness.

"This item... is priceless!"

"Sold!!"

"The enlightenment stone, belongs to... belongs to Senior!!"