76: Chapter 76 The Great Sage Takes Action, His Words Become Law

The sky had truly been pierced with a hole.

A pitch-black fissure stretched across the horizon.

It pierced through the entire sky of the Eastern Wasteland.

There was no gale, no Chaos.

Only pure "Nothingness."

Anything in the world that approached it would be completely erased.

On the ring, the Chaos Holy Son was kneeling.

His eyes were hollow; he was already an empty shell without a Soul.

Li Changsheng sat on the ground, wailing loudly, his cries shrill.

Below the ring, inside and outside Tianjiao City, millions of living beings were frozen in shock.

From Saint Lords and Imperial Lords to Mortals and foot soldiers, everyone was motionless.

Their thoughts had stopped the moment the sky was slashed open.

The world plunged into a profound silence.

Only those childish cries remained, exceptionally clear and chilling beneath the split sky.

An aged, distant sigh rang out from thin air.

This sigh carried the power to calm all things, instantly suppressing all silence and panic.

An old man suddenly appeared above the Heaven-Reaching Ring.

He wore coarse linen clothes, was barefoot, and his hair and beard were a tangled mess.

He looked like an old farmer from the fields.

Yet the moment he appeared, the Laws of heaven and earth trembled because of him.

"Greetings, Mad Elder!"

"It's Mad Elder! He has actually come out of seclusion!"

In the spectator stands, several Saint King Elders from the Heavenly Pride Battle organizers tightened their expressions.

Upon seeing the old man, they all bowed respectfully.

Mad Elder.

A name that only existed in legends.

The true guardian god of Tianjiao City.

A Great Saint at the Peak who had lived for who knows how many tens of thousands of years.

Ordinary Saint Kings were nothing but children before him.

Mad Elder ignored everyone.

He looked up and glanced at the pitch-black fissure just once.

The cynical expression on his aged face vanished instantly, replaced only by gravity.

"What powerful Sword Intent, what pure Law of destruction."

He muttered to himself, his expression revealing a trace of unease.

The fissure appeared stationary, yet it was devouring the Origin of heaven and earth.

If it were not stopped, within three days, the entire Eastern Wasteland would become a dead land.

"Oh well, oh well, I suppose I'm just unlucky, cleaning up after someone else's child."

Mad Elder complained, but his hands were not slow.

His entire aura instantly merged with heaven and earth.

"Close!"

Mad Elder extended a withered finger and pointed from afar at the pitch-black fissure.

An ancient syllable was spat from his mouth.

Rumble!

The entire Eastern Wasteland continent trembled violently.

Billions of divine chains of Law rose from the four poles of heaven and earth.

They transformed into boundless divine light, rushing madly toward the sky fissure, intending to forcibly Seal it.

This was the mighty power of a Great Saint!

Words manifesting Law, commanding heaven and earth!

Countless Cultivators watched this scene, deeply shocked.

But the pitch-black fissure reacted.

It remained unmoved, ignoring the lashing of the divine chains of Law and the filling of heaven and earth's Origin.

It even turned the tables, devouring the countless divine chains of Law along with it.

"Hmm?"

Mad Elder's expression tightened.

"You refuse a toast only to be forced to drink a forfeit, huh? Today, I, this old man, am determined to patch this hole of yours!"

He shouted, and behind him appeared a magnificent manifestation, stepping on the galaxy and holding the sun and moon in its hands.

The Great Saint's Laws transformed into divine needles, and the Origin of heaven and earth transformed into thread.

He intended to forcibly stitch the fissure shut.

Above the sky, divine light shone brilliantly, and the sound of the Dao roared.

Everyone watched with bated breath, nervously observing this scene.

The Great Saint at the Peak versus the Indestructible Sword Intent.

This was a contest of strength at the level of Law.

After a while.

Mad Elder's originally ruddy complexion turned pale, and fine beads of sweat seeped from his forehead.

But in the end, his skills were superior.

Under his full effort, the pitch-black fissure began to close inch by inch with great difficulty.

When the last trace of the fissure vanished, the sky returned to clarity.

Mad Elder breathed a sigh of relief, his body swaying, nearly falling from the sky.

Merely repairing a single sword mark had cost him, a Great Saint at the Peak, so much effort.

He cast a lingering fearful glance toward the ring.

He flashed and landed between Li Changsheng and the Chaos Holy Son.

He did not look at the dazed Chaos Holy Son, but instead looked at Li Changsheng, who was still rubbing his eyes and sobbing.

Mad Elder's heart tightened.

This little ancestor must absolutely not cry again!

He cleared his throat and announced to the entire audience with the fastest speed in his life.

"The final is over! In this battle, Great Xia Divine Dynasty's Li Changsheng is the winner! This year's Heavenly Pride Battle has now come to a perfect conclusion!"

Get him out of here quickly!

Can't stay even one second longer!

Just when everyone thought the show had ended.

A calm, gentle, and somewhat doting male voice quietly rang out in everyone's hearts.

"Changsheng, if you've played enough, it's time to come back."

The voice was not loud, yet it held unquestionable majesty.

Upon hearing this voice, Mad Elder's expression changed drastically.

Not good!

He looked up.

Sure enough.

The firmament he had exhausted his efforts to stitch back together.

At this moment, it was easily torn open from the middle by an invisible giant hand.

With a "swish" sound!

An even larger opening appeared.

Golden light poured down from behind the opening, holy and vast.

Pfft!

A massive force rebounded.

Mad Elder spat out a mouthful of blood and retreated repeatedly.

He was horrified.

All his efforts, his Great Saint Laws, were vulnerable before that power.

"Words manifesting Law? No! This is changing the sky and replacing the earth!"

He exclaimed.

Everyone watched in astonishment.

A giant hand condensed from golden Law reached out from the opening.

It ignored space, ignored time, and ignored all the Formations of Tianjiao City.

Before this giant hand, Mad Elder, this Great Saint at the Peak, was actually unable to move.

The giant hand descended, its movements very gentle.

It extended two fingers and gently picked up Li Changsheng, who was still rolling on the ground crying.

The moment the still-tantrum-throwing Li Changsheng was touched by the golden fingers, his crying stopped instantly.

He stared blankly at the familiar golden light, sniffled, and called out in a very aggrieved, small voice.

"Father Emperor."

The giant hand soothingly rubbed its knuckles against his little face.

Then, the giant hand paused slightly.

It randomly grabbed through the air toward the champion's podium at the very top of the spectator stands.

Hum!

That heavenly mandate dao fruit, guarded by countless Restrictions, instantly ignored all Seals.

This was the final reward of this year's Heavenly Pride Battle, sufficient to make even a Saint crave it.

It flew into the giant hand's palm and landed beside Li Changsheng.

After finishing all this, the giant hand withdrew.

Along with that milky-voiced "champion" and the true "champion reward."

They all retracted into the golden fissure.

As the giant hand disappeared, the fissure that had torn heaven and earth also healed along with it.

Not a single trace was left behind.

The sky returned to clarity.

Everything just now felt very unreal.

But on the ring, the blood at the corner of Great Saint Mad Elder's mouth, and the Chaos Holy Son who lay limp on the ground, completely crippled.

All proved that everything that had just happened was so real and terrifying.

Silence.