181: Chapter 181 Acting on Behalf of Heaven, Executing Punishment!!!

"Rumble…"

The sound of thunder passed through that tiny aperture, reaching deep into Su Yu's Sea of Consciousness.

In that sound, the majesty of past Heavenly Tribulation was gone, leaving only an extremely human-like anxiety and mournful cry.

Su Yu's True Spirit followed that tiny aperture of the Dao Heart.

Quietly "gazing" at that sea of purple-gold thunder rolling frantically outside the gray screen.

He "watched" those bolts of lightning striking futilely.

"Watched" the heaven and earth phenomenon where the Laws of the entire The Great World were weeping violently because salvation could not be descended upon.

At this moment, in this abyss of desperate straits where life and death were seized and plunged into absolute humiliation.

The corners of Su Yu's mouth, smeared with black blood, actually twitched in reality, forming a trace of a smile that was tender to the extreme in a microscopic way.

This smile carried no calculation, no ferocity.

There was only an ultimate sense of relief, as if seeing through life and death and spanning five lives of Reincarnation.

He finally understood.

In this fifth life, the Old Man of Heaven was truly good to him.

Good to the point of being unreasonable, good to the point of pouring out everything.

"Old Man of Heaven…"

Deep within the Sea of Consciousness, across that layer of gray screen, Su Yu sent out an extremely weak yet extremely clear Soul voice toward that violent sea of thunder.

"In this lifetime, you chased after me to feed me for a lifetime."

"You kicked stones apart to send me a Legacy, and when I walked the wrong path, you sent me top-grade Spirit Medicine."

"Even when my wife was Undergoing Tribulation, you personally stepped in as a Protector, afraid that a single hair of mine would be harmed."

"In this life, I, Su Yu, do not believe in gods and do not worship Buddhas."

"But I accept your favor."

"I call you 'Old Man of Heaven' completely of my own free will."

The sea of thunder outside the sky screen seemed to sense Su Yu's communication, and it smashed even more frantically.

The purple-golden thunder transformed into countless Dragons of thunder, tearing at that layer of gray screen, wanting to drag Su Yu out of that demon's den.

But the smile on Su Yu's face, at this moment, receded bit by bit.

Replaced by an extreme ruthlessness that was colder than ten-thousand-year black ice and more resolute than Asura Hell.

"However, Old Man of Heaven."

Su Yu's voice gradually rose within the True Spirit, akin to an active volcano that had been dormant for ten thousand years, finally welcoming an eruption suppressed to the extreme.

"These old dogs are too greedy."

"Not only do they want my life, but they also want to use my physical shell as a cauldron furnace."

"They want to tie me to a pillar, use the Luck you gave me to drain your blood, cheat your Law, and mend their own filthy and stinking lives!"

"They want to use your favoritism to escape the Heavenly Punishment you brought down!"

"I, Su Yu, am a killing embryo, a bastard."

"But I have my backbone!"

"I would rather my Divine Soul be destroyed and suffer eternal damnation!"

"Nor will I ever be a guard dog for these scum for even a day! Nor will I let them suck even a single drop of blood from you!"

Su Yu's locked Nascent Soul, under the suppression of nine black magic mountains, within this endless dark prison.

Suddenly ignited!

That was not ordinary burning; he directly detonated his own flawless Dao Heart!

He detonated the very last trace of his existence in this heaven and earth!

He exhausted all the confidence from five lives of Reincarnation, exhausting the most extreme pride and arrogance of this lifetime.

Following the aperture poked out by that Dao Heart, toward the vast Heavenly Dao outside the gray screen.

He let out an ultimate wild roar that shattered the Soul and resounded through the entire river of Karma in the Hunyuan Heavenly Domain!

"Old Man of Heaven!"

"If you still acknowledge me as someone who eats food rewarded by the Old Man of Heaven!"

"If you also feel that these old immortals are disgusting to the extreme!"

"Then do not save me!"

"Don't care about this bullshit Heavenly Secret Obscuration! Don't care about these bullshit underlying Laws of The Great World!"

"Take this layer of gray screen!"

"Take this solitary peak of the sea of clouds!"

"Along with this nailed-down, tattered shell of mine—"

"Smash it all to pieces for me!!!"

Su Yu raised his head, two lines of pitch-black blood tears flowing from his hollow eye sockets.

His Soul let out a final roar amidst the firelight:

"Old Man of Heaven! I beg you!"

"Kill me!!!"

Kill me.

These three words were not the wails of the despairing, nor were they a coward's plea for mercy.

This was a Child of Luck, a peerless Prodigy bearing ten thousand points of Heaven-Defying Fortune, regarded by the Heavenly Dao as its own flesh and blood.

At the final juncture of life, in order to maintain his dignity, and to prevent the Heavenly Dao that sheltered him from being exploited by thieves.

He issued the highest-spec "Declaration of War" toward this heaven and earth!

It was also his final, ruthless checkmate move in this desperate chess game to overturn the entire chessboard!

"Boom—!!!"

As Su Yu's angry roar fell.

Outside the gray screen.

That sea of purple-gold thunder, which was still frantically colliding and attempting to tear apart the Formation to save people.

Abruptly.

Stood still.

All the sound of thunder, all the howling winds, all the heaven and earth phenomena.

At this instant, fell into absolute silence.

The Heavenly Dao understood.

It was a rule without emotion.

But under the resonance of Su Yu's Dao Heart of rather shattering as jade than remaining intact as tile, and under the infection of that extremely tragic, extremely sorrowful will of mutual destruction.

The Origin will of this heaven and earth, which had been dormant for countless epochs.

For the first time, experienced what it meant to have "heartache".

Experienced what it meant to be in an "ultimate frenzy" thoroughly enraged by this group of thieves parasitizing on The Great World to suck blood!

The heavens wept.

There were no dark clouds.

Across the vast and boundless thirty-six prefectures of the Hunyuan Heavenly Domain, in the extreme northern ice plains, and in the abyss of the East Sea.

Above the tens of trillions of Mortal cities and Immortal cultivation Sects.

Drop by drop of scarlet liquid spilled down from nothingness without warning.

"Drip."

A drop landed in front of the Immortal Cave of an Old Monster who was in seclusion.

"Drip."

A drop landed on the hoe being farmed by a mundane farmer.

People raised their heads in shock.

What they saw was not ordinary rainwater.

That was blood.

An extremely pure blood rain exuding endless desolation and grief!

The Heavens Wept!

The Heavenly Dao of The Great World was shedding blood tears for that child it favored and was most proud of!

Yuheng Mountain, Zizhu Peak.

Inside the grand Formation originally oppressed by the blood-colored tribulation clouds.

Mu Qingxue stood blankly on the bluestone slabs of the backyard.

She raised her head, looking at the blood rain drifting across the sky.

A drop of warm blood water fell on her cheek, sliding down her paper-white skin.

Her body trembled violently.

She tightly grasped the broken jade pendant in her hand, her nails sinking deep into her flesh, fresh blood mixing with the blood rain from the sky dripping onto the ground.

"He…"

An extremely faint choke issued from Mu Qingxue's throat.

She did not wail loudly, because that was too superficial.

Her cold eyes reflected the blood rain all over the sky, revealing a heartbreaking despair and ultimate pride.

"He chose… the path that was hardest to walk."

It was not just Zizhu Peak.

At this moment, all living beings in the Hunyuan Heavenly Domain felt a shudder and sorrow originating from the depths of their Souls.

It was as if something extremely precious and inviolable was being cruelly erased within this heaven and earth.

Beneath that layer of gray screen of "Heavenly Secret Obscuration".

At the peak of the solitary peak of the sea of clouds.

The Tribulation Supreme sitting squarely before the bluestone chessboard, that gray giant hand suspended in mid-air, suddenly stiffened ever so slightly.

Within the eyes hidden behind the mist, for the first time, a flash of unbelievable horror flickered past.

Because he felt that.

His flawless curtain covering the heavens, which was sufficient to obscure all heavenly secrets.

Was from the inside.

Was from within the body of that ant locked tightly by the soul-fixing prison-suppressing nails in his palm, who was already half-dead.

Emitting an aura... a terrifying suction force sufficient to destroy heaven and earth!

"What is going on?!"

The Tribulation Supreme abruptly stood up, and the bluestone chessboard before him instantly exploded into powder.

"This power… This is not something he can possess as someone in the Soul Transformation Stage! This is…"

The Supreme's words had not finished.

The drastic change descended with a boom!

The Heavenly Dao no longer attempted to tear apart that layer of gray screen.

It withdrew all thunder.

It directly abandoned the maintenance of the Laws of all mountains, rivers, sun, moon, and stars across the entire Hunyuan Heavenly Domain!

At this instant, all Spiritual Veins of The Great World stopped flowing, and all Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi fell into stagnation.

The Heavenly Dao gathered the entire world's foundation, all the destruction Origin it could mobilize.

Completely and thoroughly.

Following the induction of Su Yu's ten thousand points of Fortune.

Following the tiny aperture poked out by that needle of the Dao Heart.

Extremely overbearing! Extremely unreasonably!

It poured directly into Su Yu's tattered physical shell, which was pinched in the palm of the giant hand and locked dead by the nine soul-fixing prison-suppressing nails!!!

"You seek death?"

A celestial sound without sound, yet grand enough to crush an entire dimension, reverberated roaringly in Su Yu's Sea of Consciousness.

Carrying endless sorrow and a fury that burned away everything.

"I grant you—"

"Acting on Behalf of Heaven, Executing Punishment!!!"

The moment this celestial sound—so grand that it could not be described by any words, transcending the concepts of time and space—exploded roaringly within Su Yu's tightly locked Sea of Consciousness.

The entire Hunyuan Heavenly Domain stagnated.

This was not an exaggerated metaphor, but an absolute standstill in the literal sense.

The breeze stopped in mid-air, the raised dust hung suspended without falling; the posture of flying birds spreading their wings was frozen, and even the violent Void Realm turbulence at the edge of The Great World looked like frozen ice sculptures.

In this one-ten-thousandth of a breath, the Heavenly Dao of The Great World, in order to save its Child of Luck who had been forced into a desperate situation, directly unplugged the underlying power source maintaining the operation of this Universe.

It completely and thoroughly drained all operating energy that The Great World, the thirty-six prefectures, the endless ice plains, and the deep sea could produce at this single instant!

There was no thunder descending from the sky to strike that gray screen obscuring the Heavenly Secret Obscuration.

Because the Heavenly Dao knew that across the rule barriers laid down by the Tribulation Supreme, launching a strong attack from the outside was already too late.

Since the outside could not be broken, it would be blasted completely through from the inside!

In an extremely overbearing posture, even willing to damage the world's Origin, the Heavenly Dao crossed the barrier of dimensions following the ten thousand points of Fortune aura in Su Yu's body that shared the same Origin with it.

It forcibly materialized the most primal "Heavenly Retribution World-Destroying Thunder Pool" of The Great World directly from the deepest part of Su Yu's tattered physical shell!

Darkness.

The absolute darkness created by the Tribulation Supreme's "Universe in the Palm".

At this moment, it was ruthlessly torn apart by a trace of extremely dazzling, extremely pure purple-gold light.

"What… What is that?!"

Above the Nine Heavens, the Tribulation Supreme hidden behind heavy mists suddenly let out an extremely startled muffled grunt.

That gray giant hand of his that pinched Su Yu was currently like holding the core of a star undergoing a supernova explosion!

On the surface of the gray palm, which was originally indestructible and could easily crush even immortal dao remnant Laws, countless spiderweb-like cracking patterns unexpectedly emerged.

Following those cracks, hundreds of millions of purple-gold divine radiances, ten million times more blinding than the sun, sprayed frantically outward like peerless sharp swords!

Hot!

Unbearable extreme scorching heat!

This heat was not a high temperature in the physical sense, but the karmic backlash representing the highest will of this heaven and earth! It was the Heavenly Dao's most direct anger toward thieves!

"Suppress this deity!!!"

The Tribulation Supreme panicked completely. Having lived for over one hundred thousand years, he had never seen such a bizarre and terrifying change.

He frantically mobilized the half-step immortal essence magic power within his body, attempting to forcefully grip that giant hand and completely crush the mutation inside Su Yu's body.

However, he could not crush it.

Even if he exhausted the Supreme might of the Tribulation Stage, that gray giant hand was still being forcefully propped outward, inch by inch, at a visible magnitude!

The center inside the giant hand.

Su Yu was suspended in nothingness.

His tattered body, which had originally been tortured out of human shape and whose flesh and blood had dried up, was currently undergoing a heaven-shaking, terrifying transformation.

The Origin of the heavenly retribution thunder pool transformed into liquid purple-gold thunder plasma, and without passing through the operation of any Meridians, extremely brutally filled every single cell and every inch of bone marrow throughout his entire body!

"Crack crack crack crack…"

A series of horrifying sounds resembling stir-frying beans emitted from within Su Yu's body.

His shattered right knee, under the scouring of the purple-gold thunder plasma, actually used lightning as bones to reshape a thunder leg sparkling with destructive runes!

His left arm, severed at the shoulder, intertwined and roared with thunder light as a purple-gold arm condensed purely from the Heavenly Dao divine punishment took shape with a boom!

And the most terrifying mutation occurred within his Sea of Consciousness.

"Bang!!!"

The first loud sound that shook the Soul!

That was the first "soul-fixing prison-suppressing nails" nailed to the fatal acupoint between his eyebrows.

This Supreme Magic Treasure bestowed by the Mahayana Stage giant Patriarch Tailing could not even accomplish half a breath of resistance before this Supreme might of acting on behalf of heaven and executing punishment.

It was directly blown apart from the inside by the purple-gold thunder plasma, exploding into black fine powder all over the sky!

Along with the shattering of this main nail.

In the outside world, within the Void Realm Secret Realm.

"Puff—!!!"

The high and aloft Old Ancestor of the Taixu Immortal Palace, Patriarch Tailing, unsuspectingly spat out a foul-smelling black blood several zhang long facing upward!

His Mahayana Primordial Spirit projection condensed from the Origin unexpectedly dimmed by a full thirty percent in an instant!

The Magic Treasure was destroyed and connected by Karma, directly causing this Mahayana Early Stage giant to suffer irreversible heavy injuries!

"My prison-suppressing nails! How is that possible! That is a divine object capable of locking down the remnant Souls of True Immortals!!"

Holding his chest, Patriarch Tailing's refined visage completely distorted, screaming hysterically like a common shrew.

The Xuanbing Toad Ancestor, Medicine Venerable of Nine Turns, and others on the side were so frightened that they retreated repeatedly. Looking at Patriarch Tailing's miserable appearance, their eyes were filled with incomprehensible extreme fear.

However, this was merely the beginning.

"Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!"

Deep within Su Yu's Sea of Consciousness, a dense series of explosions sounded roaringly like the battle drums of the Grim Reaper!

The second one piercing into the throat!

The third one piercing into the heart!

The fourth one piercing through the Dantian and Qi Sea...

A full nine soul-fixing prison-suppressing nails.

Those nine black magic mountains that originally suppressed his Nascent Soul to the death, those hundreds of millions of sinful chains that wanted to lock him down like pigs and dogs.

Under the violent scouring of the heavenly retribution thunder pool, like residual snow under the blazing sun, like spiderwebs in a storm.

Turned into ashes and smoke altogether! Completely ceased to exist!