Chapter 1958: Drive Away the Tiger

Without any warning, the tree stump suddenly flung aside the large stone pressing on it, shooting several zhang high.

A rich life essence spread out, and the deceased Huang Jin Gui, right before their eyes, branched out and quickly bloomed into a golden expanse.

"What is this?"

Cao Er Zhu's eyelids twitched in fright, somewhat disbelieving.

He swore he wasn't hallucinating; it was truly a knee-high wooden stump that, in an instant, accomplished what would normally take decades or even centuries.

It had grown into a tree!

Lush Huang Jin Gui, in the desolate remains of Gui Zhe after the Great Catastrophe, radiated a new life, a sense of breaking through and rising anew, appearing so out of place.

However, this was just the beginning.

Bang, bang, bang!

Soon, from all directions, plants burst forth from the cracked earth, stubbornly and eerily growing upwards and climbing.

Some bloomed with red and pink flowers...Some had roots as straight and sharp as swords, yet were fundamentally just weeds...And some, not even reaching the stage of a stump, were merely charred wood struck by lightning, suddenly whipped upwards. The sudden surge of life force "within them" had nowhere to be released, so branches grew upwards and roots downwards, completing the feat of "evolving into a tree" mid-air...

Cao Er Zhu's eyes were wide with shock.

That tree was too active; it hadn't even fallen down mid-air when its roots spread out in all directions, as if one could hear it coalesce into a human face, roaring desperately:

"Give it to me, give it to me!"

"Ah! Where is the earth? Where is the earth!"

Before finding soil, this tree could absorb nutrients while rooted in the air.

When its roots touched the branches of the nearby Huang Jin Gui, they quickly pierced into the other's body, greedily drawing in life force.

The latter, not to be outdone, reciprocated, "You consume, I consume," and thus they intertwined, nourishing each other as they grew.

When that "active" tree finally fell and touched the earth, encountering stones and soil, it became like an insatiable, indescribable being. Its roots plunged into the earth, desperately scrambling for vitality.

Only then did the constantly twisting canopy cease its frenzied squirming, slowly unfolding as if expelling a turbid breath of release.

"Hoo!"

A gust of wind carried the fragrance of Gui flowers across the mountains.

Cao Er Zhu paused, then turned his head blankly.

Spring had indeed arrived; this was no longer just the Gui Zhe ruins.

In a single instant, Huang Jin Gui had taken root throughout the entire dilapidated Gui Zhe Holy Mountain. From afar, the mountain range was orange-yellow, as if it had plucked the sunset from the horizon, interspersed with verdant green, clearly teeming with life.

Even the area of Yu Jing City in front of Gui Zhe Mountain, which had been emptied and resembled a basin of scattered rocks, was now filled with a sea of flowers and Gui trees, lush and beautiful beyond compare.

"Ah..."

Standing amidst it, Cao Er Zhu couldn't help but groan in comfort.

He felt his Qi Hai violently surging, his muscles disintegrating and growing, his body rapidly expanding, as if he was undergoing a second development.

His back and neck also felt itchy, as if two more heads and four more arms were about to sprout to release this surging life force.

"No, Father!"

Cao Er Zhu suddenly became alert.

The Fa Shen Xing Jie guardian immediately severed the rampant life force within his body.

But he saw that on the right side of his father's Shen Tui, a life Dao pattern appeared, and a thin Huai branch suddenly emerged from the flesh.

Before he could stop it.

In another blink of an eye, using the Shen Tui as nourishment, the Huai branch vigorously grew into a Huai tree ten zhang tall.

His father's Shen Tui lay horizontally, resembling the soil beneath the tree, its life force continuously draining away.

"Stop!"

Cao Er Zhu grabbed his Hong Tian Chui and lunged forward.

As his backside left the ground, he didn't notice the Gui Fo behind him tremble, causing mushrooms to break off and roll away from its body.

"Ugh."

A soft grunt sounded.

The Gui Fo's stone eyes seemed to have moved?

"Ah!"

"Run!"

"Zhong Yuan Jie is useless, quickly escape the Gui Fo Jie!"

Throughout the Gui Fo Jie, including the old Jing Du, Qi Lin Jie, Zhong Yuan Jie, Nan Li Jie... at this moment, were also filled with a sudden sea of flowers and ancient trees.

Trees grew thick, and myriad grasses flourished.

Each one, individually and collectively, rose upwards, breaking through species limitations, growing wildly and aberrantly.

Trapped within, screams rose and fell.

Those who had earlier lingered, now wished they had wings, running and flying at the same time.

The swift ones saved their lives.

The slow ones, upon contact with the flowers, grasses, and trees, immediately had their nutrients drawn, becoming desiccated husks.

In just a few breaths, this Gui Fo Jie, with the Ancient Battle God Stage as its formation and arena, transformed into a paradise of life.

If one were to look down from high above...

One would see the myriad flowers and trees of the Gui Fo Jie, intricately arranged and varied in height, forming a relief-like array diagram of life's profound mysteries.

Among them, Gui Zhe, Yu Jing, and the outskirts of Yu Jing were the most prominent. Ancient trees intertwined, giving rise to three towering, gigantic Huai trees. From afar, they resembled three large incense sticks placed in a censer of life.

"Sheng Ling Yan Si!"

And at this moment, the old man outside Nan Li Jie had just put down his hands, which had been forming seals.

"I'm surrounded?"

Kui Lei Han turned back from his shock behind him, looking at Yao Zu, who was a step away.

He found it somewhat unbelievable that someone from outside the Gui Fo Jie could cause such an anomaly within it with a single technique.

How was it done?

Did this not mean that the distinction and restrictions between inside and outside the Gui Fo Jie, which applied to him, Kui Lei Han, did not apply to Yao Zu? Could Yao Zu strike from anywhere?

"What do you want to do?"

Looking at the large young man before him, Yao Zu's eyes held a hint of amusement.

He shook his head, took a step forward, and entered the Gui Fo Jie.

Just as Kui Lei Han was about to act, with a bang, Yao Zu's form shattered and merged into this paradise of life, leaving only a mocking laugh:

"The Dao is like a high mountain; you are at its waist, while this Ancestor is at its peak. The beauty of the view is beyond words."

So fast!

Xu Xiao Shou was shocked.

He had tried his best to overestimate Yao Zu's abilities, but unexpectedly, this fellow still surprised him greatly.

Outside the Gui Fo Jie, with a technique lower than the height of Dao transformation, it acted as a fuse, igniting the Gui Fo Jie, which was like a powder keg.

Yet, it caused all life forms in the Gui Fo Jie to aberrantly evolve on their own, subsequently breaking through the limits of this technique's height, from Dao transformation, to super-Dao transformation, to the extreme of the Dao of Life.

Four ounces to move a thousand pounds!

Yao Zu did not display Shen Ting, but wherever there was life, could it not be their Shen Ting?

"Master Cao, do you have a Shen Ting?"

Xu Xiao Shou hurriedly asked, hoping to sever the follow-up of the Dao of Life through Shen Ting, and then have Fa Shen Xing Jie cover the entire Gui Fo Jie.

Others might not be able to do it, but Nian Zu's explosive power had a chance to completely disrupt Yao Zu's arrangement in an instant.

"Not yet."

Kui Lei Han, however, gave a negative answer.

It was only after Feng Zu that he realized the formation of Shen Ting was not an overnight endeavor.

Hua Chang Deng could instantly forge Wu Gen Gui Yu because he had swallowed Gui Zu's Shen Ting Yin Cao, allowing him to immediately construct an outline.

Even so, Wu Gen Gui Yu didn't help him much.

And Ba Zun An, who returned to zero in one step, never displayed a Shen Ting until the very end, which Kui Lei Han guessed meant he also didn't have one.

Congealing a Shen Ting was actually simple.

Congealing a Shen Ting that significantly enhanced oneself was quite difficult.

Clearly, the pigs raised in the pig farm were all not given this time and right.

"Boom!"

The familiar explosion of the Hong Tian Chui came from afar.

Kui Lei Han's mind stirred, seeing the foolish Er Zhu, oblivious to danger, smash his own Shen Tui with a hammer, attempting to rescue it.

But the Huai branch on the Shen Tui acted as a shield, offsetting the Hong Tian Chui's attack, and then retreated with the Shen Tui.

While retreating, it also launched a barrage of Huai branch attacks like a pear blossom rain.

Cao Er Zhu was utterly miserable.

"Trying to smash a rock with an egg!"

Kui Lei Han cursed under his breath, exasperated, and immediately set off.

But then, Xu Xiao Shou's voice came to his ear, somewhat unexpectedly:

"Master Cao, save Er Zhu, and cast the others out of the Gui Fo Jie."

Purple lightning streaked across the sky.

Kui Lei Han vanished in an instant, grabbing Er Zhu like a chicken.

A ripple of electric light behind him, like a pear tree in bloom, his manipulative, penetrating divine sense precisely struck everyone on the Gui Fo Jie battlefield.

A toss!

Everyone was thrown out of the battlefield!

"Ah—huh?"

Screams immediately erupted, but after realizing what had happened, everyone began to express gratitude to Nian Zu.

Greatly benevolent Kui Lei Han, this was truly the Lord of Life, unlike that old man who regarded human lives as mere weeds!

Where was the Shen Tui?

Having finished the main task, his peripheral vision couldn't help but sweep towards that large Huai tree.

Kui Lei Han didn't stop moving. His body sank, his great cloak billowed, and with a rumble, a sea of thunder spread from beneath his feet, covering the paradise of life.

"Shen Xiao Kui Shou!"

Blue lightning and purple electricity flashed in the void, as if divine thunder descended.

A colossal thunder spirit, like a thunder god, rose up in the air, towering above the skies of the Central Region, its terrifying half-body resembling a thunder ancestor clearly visible even outside the Gui Fo Jie.

"What a terrifying aura, what pure Fa Shen Xing Jie!"

"Compared to the half-statue that Battle Ancestor took to sea, it's not inferior at all; this must be Kui Lei Han's true body!"

That Shen Xiao Kui Shou was indeed awe-inspiring, making people dare not look directly at it.

It wore colossal armor cast from purple lightning, not appearing solid, yet already possessing the雏形 of a mask. Scales covered its upper and lower body, extending to its arms, and in its palms, it held a giant axe and a heavy hammer.

Under its gaze, the Huai tree, though extraordinary for growing from a Shen Tui, truly seemed as small as a mud ball, incomparable.

One was a Shen Tui.

One was Nian Zu.

"Thunder Punishment!"

Kui Lei Han raised a hand.

Behind him, Shen Xiao Kui Shou lifted its axe and hammer high, and gently clashed them together.

With a rumble, the sky collapsed and the earth split. Above the Gui Fo Jie, a cloud of calamity gathered.

"This..."

The cultivators who had just been thrown outside, not yet having landed, felt their hairs stand on end.

There was a feeling that the Great Calamity of Ancestral God Extinction was descending again.

But this time, the thunder punishment was anchored to that paradise of life!

"Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom..."

Without any delay, the dark calamity clouds covering the Gui Fo Jie directly poured down purple lightning.

This tribulation thunder did not descend in individual bolts at all.

It was so brutal that it poured down from the sky like a waterfall, less like a thunder tribulation and more like a thunder tribulation version of a storm.

In the blink of an eye, the paradise of life was once again a mess.

If Ba Zun An, when taking action, still had reservations, knowing to activate Da Meng Qian Qiu and use illusion to strike reality, trying to avoid harming the Gui Fo Jie.

When Kui Lei Han moved, it truly became unstoppable.

Looking again, there was no longer a single intact flat ground in the Gui Fo Jie, only the surviving flowers and grasses from the tribulation, still stubbornly struggling upwards.

"He sure can hide!"

Kui Lei Han could accept that such a comprehensive destructive strike couldn't force out Yao Zu's true body.

No matter how strong the thunder tribulation, there were always gaps.

No matter how vast the sea of thunder, it couldn't extinguish all life.

Yao Zu was not skilled at direct confrontation, but in terms of self-preservation, he was definitely much stronger than himself.

Kui Lei Han removed those three "incense sticks" that looked very strange. This was an intuition; he couldn't let Yao Zu fully unleash the follow-up of the "Sheng Ling Yan Si" technique.

Furthermore...

"The Scythe of Death should no longer be in the Gui Fo Jie; Fa Shen Xing Jie cannot find a trace of reincarnation aura."

Kui Lei Han reported, then fixed his gaze on the Gui Fo and Shen Tui.

Without a word, he reached out, and the two objects were drawn towards him. At the same time, Xu Xiao Shou's voice entered his ear, somewhat surprising:

"Feint and retreat."

"Give the Shen Tui to him, try to save the Gui Fo, and still do not reveal the mask."

"Focus on Hua Xiang Gu Li and Sheng Fu Tu Zhi Cheng; take these two places down. His movements are far faster than imagined; we cannot let him activate his backup plan."

Kui Lei Han was surprised in his mind, but didn't doubt it, only confused.

Shen Tui...

To give it up?

Didn't they say that through the Shen Tui, Yao Zu might be able to imitate a bit of Nian Dao? Wouldn't this be equivalent to handing it over?

But father was still father, not son.

With a change of thought, Kui Lei Han roughly understood Xu Xiao Shou's concerns.

Not Yao Zu, but Mo Sui!

"This chess game must be let go."

In Qian Shi Di Jing, Xu Xiao Shou's expression was solemn, and he consciously slowed down the pace.

The game had just begun; one could not kill too aggressively.

Kui Lei Han could be strong, but the stronger he appeared, the more Mo Zu and Sui Yin could sit back and watch.

After all, someone was already stopping Yao Zu.

And while Kui Lei Han seemed to have unmatched combat power, his number of strikes was actually limited. If he expended too much here and his condition deteriorated.

When it was Mo and Sui's turn to enter the field, he would have no cards left to play, only the possibility of personally entering the game.

What about those Dao Qiong Cang?

How should they be watched?

So Kui Lei Han couldn't be too strong; he should even appear to be defeated under Yao Zu's oppressive might, so that Mo and Sui might act out of urgency.

If they didn't move, then he and Kui Lei Han shouldn't move either.

If Yao Zu succeeded because the enemy didn't move and he didn't move...

This was a bit amusing.

Xu Xiao Shou didn't believe that everyone in the entire game could play so steadily.

At least what he knew on the surface was that although Mo Zu couldn't be moved, in Yao Zu's layout, the first one to be targeted was Sui Yin.

—The fire was already burning his buttocks, rushing into his rectum, Sui Yin, why are you still sitting on the volcano? Move!

"Brother Pei Pei."

"Hmm?"

"Do you know 'Shu Zhong'?"

"What about it?"

"Sui Yin's 'Shu Zhong'..."

"Shush! Master Xu, what do you want to do? Keep your voice down!"

Qi Lin Jie.

Si Xiang Mi Jing.

Thunder roared outside the secret realm, but inside, there was no reaction.

This realm was completely isolated, directly banished by Sui Yin's grand gesture.

"Rumble!"

The Ancestral Source Emperor Tribulation had reached its final stage.

Yue Gong Li's tribulation crossing was too smooth; his foundation was exceptionally good.

However, logically speaking, a low-rule plane like Si Xiang Mi Jing, no matter what, could not provide the Dao principles and energy required for a cultivator to cross the Ancestral Source Emperor Tribulation.

What is Dao?

Dao externalized is myriad methods.

Dao internalized is primordial zero.

The essence of Dao, naturally, is the supreme evolution of techniques.

And the supreme of techniques lies in taboo change, this is Sui Yin, this is Sui Yin's self!

Having seen Ba Zun An use the ever-changing self to determine the unchanging self, and use the uncertain future to inversely determine the past and present that were already certain, Sui Yin comprehended.

"The taboo self, it is my Dao!"

He had already swallowed Shu Zu, abandoning the unchanging, leaving only the myriad changes.

He simply didn't need to follow Mo Zu's old path of two-in-one or one-to-zero, nor could he, after all, Ba Zun An had Qing Ju, Mo Zu had Sheng Zu, Yao Zu had Gui Zu.

And he had nothing, only himself.

But the ever-changing self, the future self, the self that only remained, wasn't it also the entirety of "self"?

Accept them, accept oneself, accept "reckless abandon" will suffice.

All previous awe and hesitation stemmed from being trapped in the dilemma of two-in-one, one-to-zero.

So, abandon two-in-one, one-to-zero, maintain the perfect combat power of the normal Sui Yin, which is one Venerable; if needed, exhaust taboo changes, like Ba Zun An, to achieve zero combat power, which is limitless.

He, his Dao had already been established!

Ba Zun An could return, could retreat from limitless to two states, because Qing Ju could awaken him.

He certainly couldn't return, but why would he need to return?

Every layer of change after the taboo self was "me," and after the power of limitless was exhausted, it automatically descended to one Venerable, even stronger than Ba Zun An's two states.

Sui Yin was clearly so strong.

Sui Yin, before, was actually controlled by others?

Sui Yin knew where the problem lay; he had comprehended, but was powerless to unleash taboo changes, to achieve the taboo self of zero.

His condition was too poor.

He was so poor he had nothing.

No body, half his power taken away, only Yue Gong Li remained.

Then...

"Zero, start from Yue Gong Li!"

Accepting the status quo and moving forward was all that was needed.

Sui Yin, therefore, made his move!

After Shu Zhong Wan Bian, disregarding consequences, was offered by the hand of Zu Shen, the Dao law level of Si Xiang Mi Jing was invoked and began to evolve on its own.

Sui Yin, who had long witnessed the profound mysteries of Tian Jing, easily bestowed the Dao law height of a Holy Emperor upon a small world.

The cost was that Si Xiang Mi Jing was overstimulated and would be rendered useless after consumption.

But what did it matter?

A mere Si Xiang Mi Jing could be opened again.

If Sheng Gong truly needed it, with a pinch of taboo technique, countless planes could be opened for them.

The crucial point was, why should he assist Sheng Gong? Sui Yin only needed to take care of Sui Yin himself. He only focused on every future transformation of himself, finding joy in it.

This was already the pinnacle of Dao!

Being alone could also be called "逍遥" (carefree)!

Sui Yin, whose Dao heart was clear, was determined to first bring out a Holy Emperor Yue Gong Li to verify the taboo changes, and then return to zero to achieve the taboo self.

The Ancestral Source Emperor Tribulation reached its final stage; everything was proceeding according to plan.

As for Mo, Yao, Nian, Sui Yin temporarily put them aside. As long as they didn't touch him, he would let them fight.

As for Dao Qiong Cang and the layout, he was too lazy to bother. It was better to rely on himself than on others. It wouldn't be too late to target them if the taboo self couldn't be verified.

Just then, Sui Yin, full of anticipation, heard someone chanting his venerable title again.

His consciousness probed...

Coincidentally, it was an acquaintance, Xu Xiao Shou!

Sui Yin rarely bothered with others chanting his venerable title, after all, there were too many believers in the Southern Region, and listening to each one was truly troublesome.

However, Xu Xiao Shou's words might be worth listening to?

A strong interest surged, and Sui Yin leaned in to listen.

This listening was fine, but Sui Yin's heart immediately tightened, and his mindset changed somewhat, because the very first sentence was...

"Brother Pei Pei, don't you think 'Shu Zhong' (术种, technique seed) sounds like 'Shu Zhong' (树种, tree seed)?"

Further down...

"Brother Pei Pei, can 'Shu Zhong Wan Bian' (术种万变, myriad changes of technique seed) elevate the Dao law level of a world?"

Even further down...

"Of course I understand the principle of 'pulling seedlings to help them grow' and 'draining the pond to catch all the fish,' but what do you think, Brother Pei Pei, of planting the 'Shu Zhong' as a world tree, allowing it to constantly aberrate, continuously providing vitality and water, nurturing a new Heaven Realm?"

Rumble!

In Si Xiang Mi Jing, the last lightning bolt of the Ancestral Source Emperor Tribulation struck, illuminating Sui Yin, who was resting with closed eyes on the divine throne.

That slender and languid figure, like someone gravely ill suddenly sitting up, could no longer maintain its leisurely posture.

A frenzy of murderous intent spread from the nine heavens and ten lands. Sui Yin materialized, roaring with a cracking voice:

"Infuriating me!"

"Shen Nong Bai Cao!!!"

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