142: Chapter 142 The Sky-Devouring Sparrow Attacks, Life or Death Hangs in the Balance!

A strange cry rang out from the depths of the sea of fog.

At first, the cry did not sound particularly loud, yet it contained a strange rhythm that pierced through the Divine Soul, ignoring the defenses of the Physical Body and true Qi, striking directly into the deepest part of the three Cultivators' spiritual platforms.

Su Changge's Divine Soul shook; he felt as if his Three Ethereal Souls and Seven Corporeal Spirits were being torn apart by this sound, his scalp tingling intensely.

The overbearing will contained within this cry did not sound like the roar of a living creature, but rather like the proclamation of some Law of Heaven and Earth, intending to devour everything within a radius of ten thousand miles and reduce it to nothingness.

The next instant, the wind rose.

It was not an ordinary mountain breeze, but a Chaos gale originating from the depths of the Void Realm!

The thick, impenetrable fog, in the face of this overwhelming and irresistible power, was as fragile as a piece of old paper; it was instantly torn to shreds and sent swirling wildly in all directions.

The curtain between heaven and earth was pulled back, and a Vicious Beast, so colossal it defied description, finally revealed its true form.

Its wings were pitch black, and every feather was not a product of flesh and blood but was forged from some unknown divine metal, gleaming with a cold, deep luster.

Along the edges of its wings were naturally formed dark Dao patterns, which seemed to be devouring the surrounding light and Spiritual Qi at every moment.

When it spread its wings, it draped a curtain across ten thousand miles of sky, completely obscuring the firmament and the sun, casting a massive shadow like an eternal night.

On top of its head, three blood-red feathers shot into the sky; they did not look like feathers, but rather like three swords of slaughter that had drunk their fill of the blood of gods and demons. As they swayed in the wind, they sliced through the Void Realm, creating ripples in space.

And those eyes, like blood moons that had been peering from the fog, were now locked onto Su Changge without any concealment. The killing intent in those eyes was no longer mere brutality and hunger, but had turned into solid ice, freezing everything within its gaze.

"It... it is a Primordial Relic..."

Mo Wentian's voice was no longer trembling but hoarse with the verge of collapse. He stared fixedly at the Vicious Beast, his pupils contracting into invisible black dots due to extreme fear.

"Sky-Swallowing... Sparrow!"

These last three words were squeezed out from between his teeth, as if he had used the last of his life's strength.

The moment this name was spoken, the last trace of color drained from his face, and his Dao Heart felt as if it had been struck head-on by an invisible heavy hammer, instantly filling with cracks.

His legs went weak, his Dao body could no longer maintain a standing posture, and he collapsed to the ground, his eyes filled with nothing but dead, silent despair.

Sky-Swallowing Sparrow!

That was a name that only existed in the most ancient myths, a synonym for taboo!

Legend had it that this creature fed on the sun, moon, and stars, and treated the Dao of Heaven and Earth as a snack. A truly adult Sky-Swallowing Sparrow possessed a ferocity capable of shaking a Great Emperor who held the Mandate of Heaven, and there were even terrifying records of it slaughtering Emperors!

Judging by the Aura of the one before them, although it was far from reaching its Peak and was still in its infancy, the terrifying Aura radiating from the depths of its Bloodline, capable of causing the myriad Daos to collapse, was certainly not something that Cultivators like them could fathom!

Let alone resisting, in front of such an existence, they did not even have the right to let their Divine Souls escape.

Lin Gujian clenched his teeth tightly, blood seeping from the corners of his mouth; he wanted to draw his sword, for this was his final dignity as a Sword Cultivator.

Yet, just as his fingers touched the hilt of the ancient sword that had accompanied him for hundreds of years, his entire body was completely restrained by an invisible and irresistible Domain.

That pressure was no longer mere Aura, but had evolved into a Domain of "Momentum" independent of Heaven and Earth.

Within this Domain, the Sky-Swallowing Sparrow was the only Dominator, the only Law. His body was as stiff as stone, and even mobilizing a single trace of Sword Qi had become an impossible luxury.

His pride-filled Sword Intent and his unbreakable Sword Heart became nothing but a fragile joke in the face of this absolute suppression originating from the hierarchy of life.

He could only watch helplessly as the Vicious Beast, which had obscured the firmament, opened its massive beak—capable of swallowing a ten-thousand-fathoms high divine mountain in one bite—and dove toward the Senior it had locked onto!

At that moment, Su Changge's mind went blank.

Escape?

His legs were filled with ten thousand tons of divine iron, completely ignoring the commands of his Divine Sense.

He could clearly see saliva, the size of small hills, dripping from the edges of the Sky-Swallowing Sparrow's beak forged from divine metal, each drop containing a terrifying power that could corrode all things.

He could smell the pungent wind rushing toward him, mixed with the final resentment and unwillingness of countless powerful creatures before their fall; that scent was enough to cause the Divine Soul of a Soul Transformation Cultivator to rot on the spot.

It was over.

This time, he had truly reached a dead end.

Pretending to be mysterious, he had actually ended up in front of a living Primordial taboo; now, he wouldn't even have a chance at Reincarnation.

Endless bitterness surged in Su Changge's heart, and he simply gave up all futile struggles.

He closed his eyes, waiting quietly for the final darkness to descend.

In his mind, countless thoughts flashed by like a lantern show.

I've only been here for a few days since my Transmigration! I haven't even had a chance to see the beauty of this world yet...

System, you scammer, what happened to the promised newbie protection? Is this your way of protecting me?!

Just as the shadow, capable of devouring everything, was about to completely envelop him, and the bird's beak, sharp enough to pierce the Dao, was less than an inch from the hair on his head...

A change occurred, silently!

A Supreme Aura, impossible to describe in any language and impossible to perceive with any Divine Sense, began to diffuse from within Su Changge's body.

That Aura was formless and immaterial, silent and still, yet the moment it appeared, it caused the entire Heaven and Earth to fall into absolute stillness.

The wind stopped.

The clouds solidified.

Even the rampaging Chaos gale became as docile as a pet cat, hovering in mid-air, not daring to move a single inch. The Laws of time and space, the ultimate truths of the Dao, were all stripped of their meaning of existence at this moment.

【Passive Effect: Supreme Aura of Ten Thousand Beasts, has been automatically activated!】

The cold System notification sound rang in Su Changge's mind, but he had already fallen into a Chaos of consciousness and could not hear it at all.

And in the eyes of the Sky-Swallowing Sparrow, which was diving down, about to taste its "delicacy," the world before it underwent a subversive and terrifying change that made its Bloodline tremble.

The human Cultivator, who was as tiny as dust and could be blown away by a single breath, had disappeared.

Standing in his place was an... existence that it could not understand, could not look at directly, and did not even have the qualification to look up to.

He stood there quietly.

His body was surrounded by the most primitive Chaos Ancestral Qi, and the flow of every wisp of Aura was evolving the birth and decay of a great Universe.

Deep within His eyes, billions of stars condensed and formed in an instant, only to return to extinction in the next. The Universe reincarnated with His breath, and the river of time flowed backward under His will.

His figure was blurry and indescribable, yet it filled every inch of space and time in the past, present, and future.

He stood at the end of the river of time, overlooking the vicissitudes of eternal epochs.

The Sky-Swallowing Sparrow's Bloodline memory, inherited from the Primordial Prehistoric era, was forcibly awakened at this moment by an irresistible force, and a scene sealed in the deepest part of its Bloodline, which even its ancestors feared, clearly appeared within its Divine Soul.

In that Chaos epoch, so distant it could not be traced.

One of its ancestors, powerful enough to contend with Chaos gods and demons, was soaring above the Nine Heavens, feeding on the newborn sun, using newborn worlds as a nest, looking down upon eternity, its ferocity covering the ages.

At that time, its ancestor was one of the true overlords of Heaven and Earth.

But then, one day.

Such an existence appeared.

He just lifted His hand casually.

That arrogant ancestor of the Sky-Swallowing Sparrow fell from the Nine Heavens, wailing, unable to even raise a thought of resistance.

He casually grabbed that massive body.

Plucked the feathers.

Removed the plumage.

Deboned it.

His movements were as casual as if He were preparing an ordinary piece of poultry.

And then...

Used it as a snack to satisfy His hunger.

That Supreme fear, originating from the source of its Bloodline and engraved in its true spirit, instantly crushed all of the Sky-Swallowing Sparrow's ferocity, brutality, and rationality!

"Screech—!!!"

A mournful cry, distorted and sharp enough to tear the firmament, erupted from the mouth of the Sky-Swallowing Sparrow.

Its incomparably massive body, in mid-air, forced itself to stop its dive in a posture that completely violated the ultimate truths of the Dao!

The terrifying momentum completely rebounded onto its body, causing its wings, which were comparable to divine metal, to emit sounds of breaking under the unbearable stress.

"Crack! Crack!"

The crisp sound of bones breaking was exceptionally jarring in the silent Heaven and Earth.

Immediately after, this Primordial Vicious Beast, which had just been suppressing eternity and acting arrogantly, seemed as if all its bones and Divine Soul had been extracted.

Its massive body fell straight down from mid-air, out of control.

"Boom—!"

The earth shook violently, and the mountains swayed.

Endless smoke and dust shot into the sky, forming a huge mushroom cloud.

The Sky-Swallowing Sparrow slammed heavily onto the ground in front of Su Changge, smashing a bottomless giant pit into the incredibly hard earth.

It completely disregarded its twisted and broken wings, and even more so, its injuries and wretched state.

Its massive body curled up into a ball in the giant pit, shivering, the intensity of its trembling causing the entire deep pit to constantly collapse.

Those giant eyes, like blood moons, were now filled with the most primitive panic, fear, and pleading.

It dared not look up at Su Changge again.

It only buried its head deep under its broken wings, emitting faint, weak whimpers from its throat; the sound was exactly like a newly hatched chick facing a natural predator.

"Co... coo..."

The anticipated destruction of his Divine Soul did not arrive.

Su Changge slowly opened his eyes.

What entered his eyes was a scene that left even his Divine Soul confused.

In front of him, there was now a bottomless, giant crater.

In the crater.

That heaven-obscuring giant bird, which had almost scared him to death, was lying there, its massive body trembling like a sieve in the wind.

What happened?

Su Changge was completely stunned.

And behind him, Mo Wentian and Lin Gujian, who had already closed their eyes to wait for death, prepared to welcome the annihilation of their Divine Souls, also noticed something strange and slowly opened their eyes.

When they saw this scene before them, which completely subverted their understanding from hundreds of years of cultivation.

Both of their mouths opened wider and wider.

Their eyeballs were almost popping out of their sockets.

A strange "cluck-cluck" sound came from Mo Wentian's throat, as if his neck were being tightly squeezed by an invisible giant hand, and he couldn't catch his breath for a long time. He raised his hand, pointing at the shivering Sky-Swallowing Sparrow in the deep pit, his fingers trembling violently from extreme shock.

"This... this... this..."

"Senior... it... it..."

He stammered, his mind in Chaos, unable to even say a complete sentence.

Lin Gujian was also completely petrified on the spot.

His worldview, his cultivation view, were completely shattered at this moment, and then reshaped in an even more inconceivable way.

A Primordial Relic.

A Sky-Swallowing Sparrow.

That was a taboo existence that could contend with Great Emperors and viewed gods as food!

How could it...

How could it kneel?!

And, to kneel so thoroughly, so humbly, so... piously?