315: Chapter 315 The Suppression of the Divine General and the Secret of Divinity

Zhou Wannian's long, fair index finger of his right hand pressed down extremely casually toward the hundred or so overbearing Silver-Armored Knights above the firmament.

There were no complex hand seals, nor any earth-shattering spiritual light and shadows.

But at the ten-thousandth of a fraction of a second when his fingertip slightly curved, the space above this abandoned ancient Ascension Altar completely changed.

The Taisu Origin World already possessed a terrifying gravity ten billion times that of the Grand Void Firmament. The Space Laws here were solid to an outrageous degree; even those high and mighty Divine Generals had to rely on the Golden Lion Divine Beasts with strange Bloodlines beneath them and the armor engraved with High-Dimensional Divine Runes to barely maintain a hovering posture in mid-air.

However, when the perfect inner universe rules of Zhou Wannian's Great Five Elements Illusory World Art, which formed its own world, descended, the original gravity Laws of this world were forcibly tampered with and overwritten as if by an irresistible cosmic giant hand.

Great Perfection Space Collapse.

An absolute heavy pressure completely transcending the Heavenly Dao of the Taisu Origin World centered on Zhou Wannian's fingertip, like an invisible Dimensional Tsunami, instantly enveloped the hundred or so Silver-Armored Knights in mid-air.

"Boom."

This wasn't thunder, but the dull sonic boom produced when the hundred or so hill-sized Golden Lion Divine Beasts' physical bodies directly broke the limit of sound transmission in this world the moment they contacted this invisible heavy pressure.

These strange Divine Beasts, known in the Taisu Origin World for their powerful physical bodies and infinite strength, didn't even have time to let out a single wail before their indestructible golden bones emitted a dense cracking sound like firecrackers inside their bodies.

"Bang bang bang bang bang."

A series of hair-raising sounds of flesh and blood exploding rang out in mid-air one after another.

Under Zhou Wannian's single press, the hundred or so Golden Lion Divine Beasts were like tomatoes hit head-on by a ten-thousand-ton hydraulic press, directly exploding into clouds of thick golden blood mist in mid-air.

And those Silver-Armored Knights riding on the backs of the Divine Beasts, who a moment ago were flaunting their power and viewing Zhou Wannian as lowly ants, met an even more miserable end.

Their proud silver heavy armor and those Extreme Path Defense Magic Treasures engraved with the High-Dimensional Divine Seals of the Canglan Divine Domain were not even as good as half a sheet of thin paper in the face of this Great Perfection Space Collapse power.

"Crack."

The eyes of the leading Divine General Commander, which originally flickered with lightning, were now filled with endless fear and disbelief. He watched helplessly as the massive Divine Stone on his chest, which emitted a piercing red light and was claimed to be able to withstand the full strike of a half-step Creator, let out a crisp wail and was instantly covered in dense cracks before shattering into extremely fine powder.

Immediately after, that matchless terrifying gravity slammed solidly onto his head.

There was no suspense, no room for resistance.

The hundred or so Silver-Armored Knights, who exuded the pressure of a Dao Ancestor, were like a group of dead birds with broken wings, mixed with the golden blood rain from the exploded Divine Beasts, falling straight down from a height of ten million zhang.

"Rumble."

A terrifying, earth-shaking roar echoed across this vast jade land.

Even the white jade earth, which was incredibly solid in this Taisu Origin World and had not left a single mark after enduring the wind and frost of countless Chaos Epochs, crashed down after bearing the terrifying impact of these hundred knights, collapsing like fragile ice into a huge, bottomless sinkhole tens of thousands of zhang wide.

Violent dust mixed with golden divine blood rolled and permeated above the sinkhole.

Meanwhile, the perpetrator, Zhou Wannian, still stood steadily in the center of the abandoned altar. His Green Robe remained spotless amidst the dancing dust; he had even placed his hands behind his back again, as if the feat of suppressing a hundred Divine Generals with one hand just now was merely him casually brushing off a few withered leaves.

He lowered his head slightly, his deep gaze piercing through the rolling dust, calmly watching the bottom of the sinkhole.

Zhou Wannian's tone was steady, carrying a sense of absolute relaxation that made one feel as if they were bathed in a spring breeze, yet it was chilled to the bone. He spoke indifferently.

Zhou Wannian evaluated with a composed expression: "Flying high in the sky makes it easy to trip over your tongue. This posture now, though a bit unsightly, at least allows you ignorant fools to clearly realize exactly what kind of things you are."

At the bottom of the sinkhole.

Not a single one of those hundred Silver-Armored Knights could still stand. Most of the knights, under the dual pressure of the terrifying fall and the Space Collapse, had long since had their physical bodies turned into a pile of mush, and along with their Origin Divine Souls, were completely crushed into the most basic void dust.

Only the leading Divine General Commander and his adjutant beside him, because their armor was of the highest quality and they had frantically burned their Origins at the moment of life and death, managed to barely keep a breath.

But even so, their appearance was already too gruesome to behold.

The Divine General Commander's bones had long since shattered inch by inch, and his magnificent silver heavy armor was twisted and embedded in his flesh like a pile of scrap metal. He lay prone in the rubble at the bottom of the pit like a dying dog, vomiting large mouthfuls of golden blood mixed with internal organ fragments.

He struggled to lift his head, looking through his blood-blurred vision at the Youth in Green Robe standing at the edge of the altar, looking down at him like a Supreme deity.

Fear, an unprecedented and extreme fear enough to destroy all his faith and Dao Heart, tightly wound around his Soul like a cold venomous snake.

He couldn't understand it no matter what.

How could this lowly Mortal, who didn't have a trace of Godhead aura on him and seemed like someone who had smuggled up from a lower dimension, possess such unfathomable and terrifying power? With just a casual downward press of a finger, he had completely crushed this Canglan Divine Guard, which was enough to sweep across the Grand Void Firmament, into meat paste.

This kind of power, this absolute control over the Laws of heaven and earth—even those high-ranking Upper True Gods in the Canglan Divine Domain, or even that unfathomable God King Your Majesty, might not be able to do it so nonchalantly, without even a hint of effort.

"You... what kind of monster are you?"

The Divine General Commander's voice was hoarse and leaky. He exhausted the last bit of strength in his body to let out a hiss full of despair and horror.

Zhou Wannian looked at this ant struggling for life at the bottom of the pit and did not feel any anger because of the other's offense. For a perfect existence like him, whose inner universe was in Great Perfection and formed its own world, these so-called Divine Generals were truly just slightly larger bugs.

He took steady and relaxed steps, treading on air from the edge of the abandoned altar, walking step by step toward the bottom of the sinkhole.

With every step he took, the Great Perfection Space Laws beneath his feet would automatically condense into an invisible transparent staircase. He walked extremely steadily and calmly.

When he walked in front of the Divine General Commander, he looked down at the other's face, which was distorted by extreme fear.

Zhou Wannian's tone was easygoing, as if asking a passerby for directions on the street, as he spoke indifferently.

Zhou Wannian inquired calmly: "The term 'monster' would be more appropriate when applied to you fellows who treat other people's worlds as pig farms. However, I have just arrived in this Taisu Origin World and am indeed somewhat curious about your local customs. Now, I ask, you answer. If your answers satisfy me, I might let you die a bit more quickly. If there's any more nonsense, I will let your Divine Soul burn at the bottom of this pit for ten thousand epochs."

These words, which had no trace of Killing Intent exposed yet carried absolute control, made the Divine General Commander shudder violently.

He did not doubt what this Youth in Green Robe said; the other's extreme sense of relaxation, viewing all things as nothing, made him clearly realize that in the other's eyes, he didn't even deserve the qualification to beg for mercy.

The adjutant on the side had long since been scared out of his wits. Ignoring the excruciating pain of his comminuted fractures, he desperately knocked his chin against the ground, making a mushy sound of begging for mercy.

The adjutant cried out shrilly: "Supreme, have mercy! Whatever you want to know, this lowly one will tell you everything without reservation. I only beg the Supreme to give me a quick death."

Zhou Wannian didn't even look at the adjutant; his gaze remained on the Divine General Commander.

Zhou Wannian asked in a steady tone: "You just kept saying I'm a Lower Realm ant without a Godhead. In this Taisu Origin World, what exactly is this thing called a Godhead? And what kind of role does your Canglan Divine Domain play in this world?"

The Divine General Commander struggled to swallow a mouthful of saliva mixed with blood. He knew there was no chance of survival today, but under the dominance of that fear deep in his Soul, he could only tremble and reveal the basic common sense of the Taisu Origin World bit by bit.

The Divine General Commander replied hoarsely: "The Taisu Origin World... is the ultimate upper-level plane of all lower Major Thousand Worlds and even the multiverse. The quality of the Laws here is extremely heavy, and the air is filled with the violent origin mother qi. Any creature from the Lower Realm who ascends here, if they cannot use this origin mother qi to condense a 'Godhead' within their body in a very short time, will be completely crushed by these heavy Laws and turned into nourishment for the world."

He took a deep breath and continued to explain tremblingly.

The Divine General Commander said fearfully: "The Godhead is the foundation for us to stand in this world, and it is also the hub for us to communicate with and borrow the Origin power of the Taisu Origin World. Creatures without a Godhead are heretics not recognized by the taisu heavenly dao, the lowliest of slaves. And our Canglan Divine Domain is the Supreme power that governs this vast territory, ruled by the great Canglan God King. These millions of lower Universes around us, like the Grand Void Firmament, are all under the jurisdiction of our Divine Domain."

Hearing this explanation, a faint trace of mockery and realization flashed in Zhou Wannian's eyes, which were as deep as an ancient well.

He originally thought that a high-dimensional world capable of nurturing such heavy Laws and origin mother qi should have some kind of leap-frog Breakthrough in its cultivation System. But now it seemed that this so-called Taisu Origin World was merely taking a more Advanced path of parasitism.

Using origin mother qi to condense a Godhead was, to put it bluntly, actively binding one's Soul deeply with the Heavenly Dao of this Taisu Origin World in exchange for the authority to mobilize the Laws of this world.

This method of cultivation might seem high and mighty, possessing terrifying power that crushed Lower Realm creatures, but in reality, they had completely become Puppets of this world's Heavenly Dao. All their power came from external gifts; once the Taisu Origin World's Heavenly Dao will withdrew this authority, these so-called gods would instantly be knocked down to the Mortal world and become the most pathetic wastes.

Compared to the Great Path of the inner universe pursued by Zhou Wannian's Great Five Elements Illusory World Art—'forming one's own world, encompassing all things, and absolute freedom'—this was simply the difference between clouds and mud. One was a self-imprisoned parasite, while the other was a true Creator God who truly transcended all heavens.

Zhou Wannian shook his head slightly, an undisguised look of disappointment appearing on his handsome face.

Zhou Wannian's tone was steady, carrying a composure that had seen through all illusions. He calmly remarked, "By borrowing the power of heaven and earth and branding yourselves with a slave mark called a Godhead, you truly believe yourselves to be omnipotent gods. Your understanding of power, you well-frogs, is so impoverished it's laughable. True strength does not seek external help; it is I am the Heavenly Dao, I am the Universe. By entrusting your lives to the charity of this world, your path of cultivation has been a pathetic dead end from the very beginning."

This heartless critique, pointing directly at the essence of the Great Dao, sounded like ten thousand claps of thunder in the ears of the Divine General Commander.

His pride and faith, brainwashed by the Divine Domain for countless eons, shook violently under the impact of Zhou Wannian's words. He instinctively wanted to refute, to uphold the dignity of the God Race with the Supreme majesty of the Canglan God King, but when he saw Zhou Wannian's eyes—deep to the extreme and swirling with the birth and death of galaxies—all his words caught in his throat.

He vaguely felt that every word spoken by the Youth in Green Robe before him was the most indisputable truth in this world.

Zhou Wannian ignored the Divine General Commander's broken Dao Heart and lightly tapped the void twice with his slender fingers.

Zhou Wannian continued to inquire flatly, "Since this Ascension Altar is the channel connecting the Lower Realm and this Taisu Origin World, why did you abandon it? I saw surprise in your eyes just now at the altar's fluctuations. Could it be that you haven't received an Ascender from the Lower Realm for a very long time?"

The Divine General Commander's body jolted, and a complex look flashed in his eyes—both fear and cruelty.

He did not dare to hide anything and could only confess truthfully.

The Divine General Commander said with a trembling voice, "This... this is not abandonment. It is... it is because the great God King Your Majesty, three Chaos Epochs ago, ordered the blockade of all Ascension channels leading to the lower Universes. Because the God King found that the creatures of the Lower Realm contain a pure Luck that is unpolluted by the taisu heavenly dao. Rather than letting them ascend to condense a Godhead and become part of the God Race, it is better... better to keep them as livestock in the Lower Realm."

The Divine General Commander swallowed hard, his voice growing smaller and smaller.

The Divine General Commander continued, "Every long period of time, the Divine Domain uses a System Magic Treasure called the primal heaven derivation disk to send out harvesting commands to those lower Universes. They make the great experts of the Lower Realm slaughter each other, eventually extracting the perfect Dao Fruits and Luck they have cultivated to use as nourishment for the God King to break through to a higher Realm. Therefore, this Ascension Altar was locked from one side long ago; no one should be able to ascend through it. How... how on earth did you break the God King's sealing barrier and force your way here?"

It was only at this moment that this high-and-mighty Divine General Commander finally revealed the greatest shocking secret of the Taisu Origin World to Zhou Wannian, as well as the true mastermind behind that primal heaven derivation disk System.

It turned out that those Grand Void Dao Ancestors hiding in the depths of the Origin Sea, thinking they controlled everything, were merely fat pigs kept in a pen by this Canglan Divine Domain. And the broken System compass that tried to devour Lu Yuan's inner universe was the sickle cast into the Lower Realm by the Canglan God King to harvest Luck.

This Taisu Origin World was not some dream Ascension Holy Land for cultivators at all.

It was a massive and cruel slaughterhouse, a dark source used by the God Race parasites on the taisu heavenly dao to exploit and devour the lowly creatures of countless Major Thousand Worlds.

After hearing these words, Zhou Wannian's face, which had been wearing a casual and light smile, still showed no violent emotional fluctuations. He did not show any rage, nor did he emit any terrifying Killing Intent that could destroy heaven and earth.

He just stood there extremely quietly, his green robe fluttering gently in the breeze at the bottom of the sinkhole.

But his eyes, deep as an ancient well, became colder and more silent at this moment than the darkness in the deepest part of the Great Primordial Void.

That absolute calm was even more hair-raising than any wild anger.

Zhou Wannian's tone was steady, carrying a natural relaxation, yet it also exuded a Supreme dominance that could make all the heavens and worlds tremble.

Zhou Wannian spoke flatly, "So that's how it is. I thought that broken disk was just a deformed product born from the void; I didn't expect such a long dog leash to be attached behind it. To treat the living beings of countless Universes as livestock for food—you parasites who call yourselves gods certainly have quite an appetite."

He lowered his head slightly, looking at the Divine General Commander.

Zhou Wannian announced in a casual tone, "Since you like playing harvesting games so much, then as a wanderer who just came up from that Lower Realm you locked down, I naturally must take a good walk through this Canglan Divine Domain. I'll go meet that high-and-mighty God King Your Majesty and see just how hard his head, which is parasitic on the taisu heavenly dao, really is."

Hearing that Zhou Wannian actually dared to challenge the Canglan God King, a trace of frantic mockery surged from the depths of the Divine General Commander's already broken heart.

The Divine General Commander found strength from somewhere and roared with a distorted face, "You lunatic! You have no idea how terrifying the God King is. He is the Supreme True God who has mastered the Taisu Origin. Your power in this Taisu Origin World is ultimately like water without a source. As long as the God King mobilizes the Heavenly Dao to crush you, you will turn to ashes in an instant. You..."

Before he could finish his words.

Zhou Wannian's right hand, which had been behind his back, reached forward with extreme casualness.

Buzz.

The flawless inner universe rules of the Great Five Elements Illusory World Art descended instantly.

There were no fancy movements, nor any stalemate of magical power.

The five fingers of Zhou Wannian's right hand curved slightly, directly ignoring the indestructible God Race bone of the Divine General Commander's skull. Like reaching into the surface of water, he pierced through the forehead and into the Sea of Consciousness without any resistance.

"Ah—"

The Divine General Commander let out a shrill scream like a vengeful ghost.

Zhou Wannian's fingers made an extremely precise grab within the other's Sea of Consciousness.

A strange crystal, emitting a dazzling silver light and shaped like a dodecahedron with the Lightning Law of the Taisu Origin World flowing inside, was forcibly torn out of the Divine General Commander's forehead by Zhou Wannian.

This was the Godhead—the high-and-mighty source of power that the God Race of the Taisu Origin World relied on for survival.

As the Godhead was forcibly stripped away, the Divine General Commander's massive and powerful Physical Body seemed to have all its life force drained instantly. His face, which had been distorted by anger and fear, froze instantly. Then, his entire body, as if it had undergone billions of years of weathering, turned into a pile of extremely fine gray powder in the blink of an eye. Not even a trace of a remnant Soul was left as he completely dissipated at the bottom of the sinkhole.

The Adjutant on the side, who had been kowtowing and begging for mercy, witnessed the tragic scene of the commander's Godhead being pulled out alive and him turning into ashes. He was so terrified that he let out a heart-wrenching scream, his eyes rolled back, and he was actually scared to death on the spot. Subsequently, he was also turned into a cloud of dust by the Great Perfection Five Elements Disintegration power.

Zhou Wannian slowly withdrew his right hand, his deep gaze quietly fixed on the silver Godhead in his hand, which was emitting a piercing thunderous light.

Even after leaving its owner's body, this Godhead continued to throb violently. It tried to communicate with the Taisu Origin World's Heavenly Dao Origin, releasing wild lightning power to attack Zhou Wannian, this "heretic" without a Godhead.

Crackle!

Streaks of purple divine thunder, enough to tear apart a Creation Realm expert, shot out from the Godhead and struck Zhou Wannian's palm fiercely.

But on Zhou Wannian's fair and slender palm, not even a tiny red mark was left.

The Great Perfection Space Law formed an absolute dimensional barrier on the surface of his palm. The moment the wild Taisu divine thunder touched the barrier, it was forcibly assimilated and absorbed.

Zhou Wannian held the Godhead and examined it carefully.

Zhou Wannian's tone was steady, carrying a bit of boredom as he calmly remarked, "The interior is filled with extremely dense origin mother qi, but the weaving of the Law is crude and unbearable. This is the key you use to communicate with the Heavenly Dao? It's simply like a low-quality shackle forged from the highest grade Divine Gold."

He did not fuse this Godhead into his own body.

For a Great Thousand Lord like him, who already possessed a perfect inner universe and was a world unto himself, anything that tried to bind him to an external Heavenly Dao was the most vicious poison.

What he needed was nourishment, not shackles.

Zhou Wannian's right fingers suddenly clenched inward.

Crack.

An extremely crisp sound of shattering echoed at the bottom of the sinkhole.

The silver Godhead, which was said to be indestructible and contained the Taisu Origin World's Heavenly Dao Law, was like a fragile glass ball before Zhou Wannian's unreasonable inner universe crushing power, and was directly squeezed into pieces.

The moment the Godhead shattered, a massive amount of pure origin mother qi lost the restraint of the Law and erupted in Zhou Wannian's palm like a small storm.

Zhou Wannian did not waste such top-quality nourishment.

The phantom of the chaos jianmu in his inner universe flashed behind him, and its wide-open devouring mouth sucked that wild origin mother qi into his body like a whale drinking water.

The heavy grandmist mother earth continent let out a satisfied roar, converting all this high-dimensional mother Qi into the Origin that nourished the land. The great sea true water surged with waves, and the Primal Gengjin flashed with sword light. The Five Great Primordial Origins circulated endlessly in the inner universe, perfectly merging this external power into the foundation of his own Universe.

Zhou Wannian let out a long breath of turbid air mixed with faint silver lightning.

An extremely casual smile appeared on his handsome face.

Zhou Wannian whispered to himself in a soothing tone, "Although the Godheads in this place are trash, the energy contained within is quite a good supplement. Since that Canglan Divine Domain treats the Lower Realm as a pigpen, then I'll have to reluctantly treat their gods and buddhas as high-grade fodder for the continued growth of my inner universe."

He casually dusted the sleeves of his green robe, turned around, and took steady, relaxed steps.

The Great Perfection Space Law flowed beneath his feet.

Like a casual stroll, Zhou Wannian followed the invisible transparent steps and walked back from the bottom of the tens of thousands of feet deep sinkhole onto that abandoned ancient Ascension Altar.

With his hands behind his back, his eyes, deep as an ancient well, pierced through the purple-gold Chaos clouds and looked toward the countless Bronze Heavenly Pillars in the distance that pierced the sky, toward the Canglan Divine Domain hidden in the depths of those pillars.

The breeze brushed past his dustless green robe.

The corner of Zhou Wannian's mouth curled into a faint, coldly sharp arc that exuded endless dominance. Without any hesitation, he very normally took composed steps toward the Divine Domain that represented the highest power of this world.

Zhou Wannian said steadily, "Wash your necks. I've come to collect the rent."