151: Chapter 151 Severing the Divine Bridge and Bidding Farewell to the Old Path, the National Preceptor of Yankang Attends to Cover the Sky

In the deathly silence where thousands of Little Jade Capital Disciple were kneeling and trembling, a sudden, abrupt, yet infinitely desolate and fanatical laughter exploded above the white jade ruins.

Everyone looked up in shock, only to see the scholar in green robes, who had been standing silently in the shadows behind Ye Xiu, throwing his head back and laughing.

He laughed until he doubled over, laughed until tears streamed down his face, laughed until the meticulously groomed bun on his head was completely disheveled.

The State Preceptor of Yankang!

This man was the true "Number One Sage" of the Major Thousand Worlds.

This peerless genius, who had exhausted his life's efforts attempting to use the reforms of a Mortal to resist the Heavenly Dao and save the common people.

After witnessing the absurd scene of the Grand Elder of Taixu crushing his own fellow Disciple and the entire Little Jade Capital sect turning coat, his Dao Heart finally underwent a most thorough collapse and reconstruction!

"State Preceptor, have you gone mad?"

The Grand Elder of Taixu frowned slightly. Having now converted to the Shrouding the Heavens Method and condensed a Pseudo-Emperor Bone, he couldn't help but let a trace of arrogance flash in his eyes when facing the once unfathomable State Preceptor of Yankang.

"Mad? No, it is only today, at this very moment, that I have truly awakened!"

The State Preceptor of Yankang abruptly stopped laughing. He turned around, and in those eyes that were as deep as an abyss, the calculations and walking-on-thin-ice caution of the past could no longer be seen. Replacing them was an extreme madness that seemed ready to burn everything to ash in a raging fire!

He looked at his own hands, his voice hoarse yet every word dripping with blood:

"I spent two hundred years on the Yankang reforms, deducing arithmetic, innovating Divine Ability, forging great weapons... I thought that as long as we Mortal were smart enough and worked hard enough, one day we could carve out a path of survival for the common people within the cracks of the Heavenly Dao."

"But I was wrong! Wrong beyond measure!"

The State Preceptor pointed fiercely at the layered black tribulation clouds above the Nine Heavens, roaring hysterically:

"The Law I spent my whole life cultivating are all nothing but the scraps tossed down by those fake gods in the sky! I tried to win against them on the chessboard they laid out, using the pieces they carved? That is the biggest joke in the world!"

"At the end of that severed Divine Bridge, there was never any righteousness for the common people; there were only butchers high above who raised us like pigs and dogs! As long as we continue to cultivate this Divine Bridge method, no matter how many warships my Yankang Kingdom builds or how many powerful beings we cultivate, in their eyes, we are merely a group of fatter lambs waiting to be slaughtered!"

These words were like heavy hammers, smashing fiercely into the hearts of every Cultivator present.

Indeed, using the master's rules to resist the master—how desperate and pathetic was that?

"Only by overturning this chessboard! Smashing these rules! Only that is the true path to survival!"

The State Preceptor of Yankang turned abruptly, his thin green robes flapping in the violent wind. He did not beg Ye Xiu like the Grand Elder of Taixu; instead, he suddenly raised his right hand. In his palm, he gathered the terrifying True Qi of his Divine Bridge Realm Peak, enough to overturn rivers and seas!

"Today, I, the State Preceptor of Yankang, have achieved complete enlightenment!"

"I do not want this old Dao of longevity that is controlled by others! I do not want this method of the fake gods that is imprisoned by the Heavenly Dao!!!"

In the horrified gaze of everyone present, including the Grand Elder of Taixu, the State Preceptor of Yankang did not hesitate in the slightest. He slammed his palm, which contained his lifelong cultivation, directly onto the top of his own head!

"Bang!!"

A dull thud that made teeth ache. Blood, blindingly bright, sprayed instantly from the State Preceptor's seven orifices!

He did not use Ye Xiu's power, but in an extremely fierce and cruel manner, he personally shattered the "Divine Bridge" in his Sea of Consciousness that he had cultivated for three hundred years!

"Crack! Boom!"

With the collapse of the Divine Bridge, the cultivation within the State Preceptor, which had been as vast as an abyss or the sea, leaked out crazily like a burst dam. His originally lean and upright body withered instantly, his black hair turned into snow-white hair in the blink of an eye, and wrinkles appeared on his face as if carved by a knife.

This was the backlash of having his Dao foundation completely destroyed! This was "self-crippling" in the truest sense!

"State Preceptor!"

Several generals from the Yankang Kingdom who had been abducted cried out in grief, their eyes splitting with rage. However, even as his Physical Body was rapidly decaying and his vitality was crazily fading, the back of the State Preceptor of Yankang remained straight.

He dragged that remnant body, which seemed as if it would turn into flying ash at any moment, step by step to stand before Ye Xiu.

"Thump!"

This Number One Sage of the world, who had a strong backbone and would not even kneel to the Emperor, fell heavily onto his knees amidst the fragments of white jade.

He raised that face, old as orange peel, and in those dim eyes burned a fire of seeking the Dao that was hotter than the sun.

"Your subject... the State Preceptor of Yankang!"

"Today I sever the Divine Bridge and renounce the old Dao! I do not seek longevity, I only seek... the Truth!"

"I implore the Sect Leader to show mercy and bestow upon me the Shrouding the Heavens Method! I am willing to use this remnant body to serve the Shrouding the Heavens Dao for the Sect Leader! Even if my body is smashed and my bones ground to powder, I will still watch from above the Nine Heavens as the fake gods stain the blue sky with blood!"

"Hum!"

The entire Little Jade Capital was deathly silent. Everyone was deeply shocked by this extreme and tragic "hearing the Dao in the morning, one can die in the evening" spirit of the State Preceptor of Yankang. Even the four Grand Elders, including Taixu, were moved; they had changed their methods just to survive, but this man before them was sacrificing himself for the truth and dignity!

"Hahahaha!"

Ye Xiu, who had been watching coldly from the sidelines, suddenly clapped and laughed. He stood up abruptly from the jade ruins, his bright red Dragon-patterned wedding robe looking as striking as if it were soaked in blood.

In those golden and silver eyes, a flash of undisguised admiration appeared for the first time.

"Good! What a ruthless man! To be able to be so heavy-handed with yourself, no wonder you could become the Number One Sage of the world!"

Ye Xiu crushed the purple-red wine gourd in his hand, the extremely potent thousand-year demon brew mixing with the [Pure Yang True Fire] within his body. It instantly turned into a roaring fire Dragon, swallowing the dying State Preceptor of Yankang in one gulp!

"Others need me to force them before they dare to shatter their bridges; since you have the courage to destroy yourself and start over, then I, the Sect Leader, will grant you a tremendous fortune!"

"With the Aptitude of the Number One Sage of the world, wouldn't it be a waste to cultivate an ordinary Bitter Sea? Force all your Comprehension Ability out for me!"

"Boom!"

The Pure Yang True Fire crazily calcined the State Preceptor's remnant body, and Ye Xiu unsparingly poured the [Taiyi Power], which represented endless vitality, continuously into the State Preceptor's dried-up Dantian.

This time, what Ye Xiu taught was not just the method to open the Bitter Sea, but also the profound Dao patterns and insights of the "Shrouding the Heavens" system, branded directly into the depths of the State Preceptor's Soul!

Amidst the extreme interweaving of fire and vitality, the State Preceptor kept his eyes tightly closed, his whole body trembling violently.

Suddenly!

From the State Preceptor's shriveled lower abdomen, a strange color lit up, different from the deathly black light of the Grand Elder of Taixu. It was an extremely brilliant, extremely pure gold!

"What is that?!" The Grand Elder of Taixu gasped in shock.

The golden light grew more and more intense, actually piercing through the State Preceptor's Physical Body and illuminating the surrounding dozens of zhang of ruins as if they were cast from gold.

Accompanied by a deafening roar like a tsunami, an ocean, entirely golden and radiating endless upright righteousness and the supreme principles of heaven and earth, slowly emerged behind the State Preceptor!

Golden Bitter Sea!

Legend has it that only those with an extremely Heaven-Defying Physique or peerless Comprehension Ability in the Shrouding the Heavens system could condense a mutated Bitter Sea accompanied by visions at the very beginning!

And it wasn't over yet!

"Swish—"

A golden Spring of Life gushed out, like a golden waterfall pouring down from the Nine Heavens. In the center of those golden waves, a green lotus radiating Chaos energy broke through the golden seawater and slowly grew out, blooming with three petals, each petal circulating Dao runes that seemed capable of explaining the origin of the Universe!

A peerless Shrouding the Heavens vision — [Bitter Sea Planting Golden Lotus]!

"Boom!"

With the formation of this heaven-shaking vision, the State Preceptor of Yankang suddenly opened his eyes.

His white hair instantly turned pitch-black like ink, and the wrinkles on his face were smoothed away by the golden light.

His originally lean and weak scholar's frame did not become muscular like the Grand Elder of Taixu, but it radiated a terrifying pressure of "speaking the Law and suppressing eternity"!

Pseudo-Emperor Bone formed! Bitter Sea Golden Lotus appeared!

At this moment, the State Preceptor of Yankang was like a True Immortal of Confucianism who had walked out of an ancient myth. Every movement he made carried a composure capable of easily tearing apart the Law of this world.

He quietly felt the vast power within his body, which did not rely on external sources but was entirely conceived by himself. There was no crying with joy, only an extreme clarity after seeing through the illusions.

"The old Dao is dead; the new Immortal shall stand."

The State Preceptor retracted the vision behind him and tidied up the tattered green robes on his body, which were already stained red with blood.

With extreme solemnity and reverence, he performed the highest-ranking subject's salute of the Yankang Kingdom toward Ye Xiu.

"Your subject, the State Preceptor of Yankang, kowtows to thank the Sect Leader for bestowing the Shrouding the Heavens Dao!"

"From this day forth, there are no more subjects who obey the heavens in this world, only the blade of the Shrouding the Heavens serving under the Sect Leader!"