37: Chapter 37 What kind of monster is this?! The old monster's Dao heart collapsed!

Elder Xue He forced his neck to turn, shifting his gaze away.

He gasped for air, his chest heaving. The calming jade pendant on his chest was emitting a faint coolness; it was his only reliance at this moment, maintaining his crumbling sanity.

"Calm down! I must calm down!"

He pinched his thigh hard, roaring frantically in his heart.

"I saw nothing. I am just an innocent Cultivator who happened to pass by. I know nothing!"

At this moment, only one thought remained in his mind: flee! Immediately! Right now! Escape from this den of demons! The further away, the better!

This place is too terrifying! The one living here is no reclusive Master; he is clearly an indescribable, ancient monster beyond the reach of cognition!

That idiot Sect Master, actually attempting to covet the "extraordinary treasure" of such an existence?

This is simply the funniest joke since the birth of the Universe!

A single drop of water he uses to water flowers has a value that exceeds the sum of the entire Blood Fiend Sect's eternal foundation!

What are you going to use to seize it? Your pathetic life? I fear you aren't even qualified to be a snack for this existence!

In Elder Xue He's heart, there remained only endless contempt for Sect Master True Person Xue Tu, and relief at having survived this disaster.

Fortunately. Fortunately, he was naturally cautious and didn't learn from that fool Shadow Killer to recklessly charge in. Fortunately, he also didn't listen to the Sect Master's foolish orders to kill his way up the mountain with great fanfare.

Otherwise, at this very moment, the name Blood Fiend Sect would likely have been completely and cleanly wiped from the map of the Eastern Wasteland!

Just as Elder Xue He steadied his mind, prepared to tuck his tail between his legs and sneak away the way he came, his peripheral vision was once again captured by the movements of that terrifying existence.

He saw Su Changge finish watering the flowers and set down the ladle and wooden bucket with satisfaction. He wiped his hands, scanned his small courtyard garden, and frowned slightly.

"Eh, why is there a weed growing here? It's truly an eyesore."

He muttered softly, bent down, and reached out. His fingers pinched a pitch-black, twisted wild grass in the corner of the garden. Then, he pulled it out casually.

"Puchi." With an insignificant sound, the weed was uprooted by him.

Su Changge examined the weed in his hand with a look of disgust, as if he had touched something dirty, and with a flick of his arm, tossed it onto the empty ground nearby.

This was the most ordinary weeding action. But in the eyes of Elder Xue He, this was another apocalyptic painting that shattered his Divine Soul!

"That... that is not a weed!" Elder Xue He's pupils, due to uncontrollable fear, contracted to the size of pinpricks for the third time!

Under the insight of his Blood Pupil Secret Technique, he could see it clearly! That pitch-black "wild grass" was by no means a mundane object!

Its roots were not anchored in the soil, but pierced deep into the layers of the Void Realm, absorbing not nutrients, but the Law Origin of this Heaven and Earth!

Its leaves were covered in wriggling, incredibly evil Demon patterns. Every line was whispering, emitting a terrifying demonic intent capable of devouring the sun and moon, causing the Three Thousand Dao to wither and fade!

"Devour... Devouring Dao Demon Vine!" Elder Xue He's teeth were chattering frantically, clattering, almost biting his tongue into pulp.

Devouring Dao Demon Vine! That is a world-destroying demonic plant belonging to forbidden legends even in the ancient Demon Realm!

Legend has it that once this thing matures, it can devour the complete Dao Laws of a Small World, dragging the entire world into eternal silence!

Why would something that only exists in the forbidden chapters of the oldest demonic texts appear here?! And... it's just a seedling?

What made his brain go blank and his Divine Soul freeze was the attitude that terrifying existence had toward the "Devouring Dao Demon Vine"! He actually... he actually found it an eyesore?!

And then... just like that... pulled it out casually? With... with his bare hands?!

Elder Xue He felt his worldview, values, and cultivation perspective, along with his tempered Dao Heart, being ruthlessly gripped by an invisible hand at that instant.

"Crack!" A crisp, loud sound exploded deep within his Divine Soul! Everything shattered!

He saw that the "Devouring Dao Demon Vine" tossed casually on the ground wither, carbonize, and finally turn into a handful of black ashes, completely dissipating the moment it left the man's palm.

That man's hand was not tainted with deadly poison. His hand itself was a supreme Law of death! To touch it was to end!

"Pfft—" Elder Xue He could no longer withstand these successive mental nuclear explosions. His mental defenses completely collapsed, and he spat out a mouthful of scalding blood.

His Nascent Soul Dao Heart, which he had cultivated for over a thousand years and thought was indestructible, instantly dimmed, and shocking cracks appeared out of thin air, as if it would completely disintegrate at any moment!

"I understand... I completely understand..." Elder Xue He's eyes shifted from fear to despair, and finally, into a state of near-manic "enlightenment."

"He is not playing in the Mortal World... He is suppressing!"

"This mountain is not his reclusive Daoist temple at all, but his... prison!"

"He is using his own unimaginable, supreme power to suppress everything in this mountain! Suppressing those terrifying things that, once released, would be enough to destroy the Heavens and Myriad Realms! That Tri-Origin Heavy Water, that Devouring Dao Demon Vine, are all just the tip of the iceberg among the thousands of horrors he is suppressing!"

"Taixuan Sect... how could Taixuan Sect be built on some immortal mountain blessed land! They are built on a... supreme divine prison suppressing ancient fierce beasts!"

An incredibly absurd, yet incredibly "reasonable" conjecture formed frantically in his mind, instantly becoming the only truth he could accept! Otherwise, there would be no way to explain everything before his eyes that exceeded the limits of imagination!

Having figured this out, the last shred of luck in Elder Xue He's heart turned into smoke and dust. The look he cast toward Su Changge had stripped away all emotions, leaving only the purest awe and fear, originating from the deepest depths of his Soul.

Meanwhile, Su Changge, having finished weeding, felt his waist a bit sore. He straightened his back, let out a big, comfortable yawn, and stretched.

"Ah—sleepy, going back to take a nap." He muttered, turned around, and walked back to his thatched cottage with leisurely steps, swaying slightly.

However, this perfectly normal action of his became the last straw that broke Elder Xue He.

In his vision, as the man opened his mouth and let out a yawn, in an instant, the winds and clouds changed color!

The entire Taixuan Sect—no, the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi for ten thousand miles around, and even the entire Eastern Wasteland, along with the cold and distant starlight power from above the Nine Heavens—at that instant, turned into an invisible, world-destroying vortex, casually swallowed into his belly in one gulp!

And his stretching movement drove the rhythm of the Laws of the entire world! That was not stretching muscles and bones! That was combing through the web of Laws of this world!

"One gulp... to swallow the Heaven and Earth..." "One thought... to align Dao with the True Self..."

Elder Xue He's legs went soft, unable to support his weight any longer, and he collapsed onto the ground like a pile of mud. On his face, there was nothing left but a dead, ashen gray.