The Growth of a God

Chapter 890: End of Volume: Tongtian Sect Leader

Buzz!

Under the watchful gazes of the Five Directions and Five Emperors, the Qing Emperor, whose identity had been exposed, struggled with all his might.

Yet that Huanglong merely opened its mouth and spat out even more Xuanhuang Qi, firmly trapping the Qing Emperor in place.

Immediately afterward, that Xuanhuang Qi manifested into the shape of a Treasure Pagoda, with one Proverb Talisman after another, brimming with Dao rhythm, continuously roaming across its surface.

"That’s the Heaven and Earth Profound Yellow Exquisite Treasure Pagoda!"

The [Heaven and Earth Profound Yellow Exquisite Treasure Pagoda] possessed the ability to suppress the Ancient Desolate Realms.

Even Bai Yu City, which had been torn upside down by the Immortal Slaying Sword Array, was restored to order under the suppression of the [Heaven and Earth Profound Yellow Exquisite Treasure Pagoda].

Frozen time began to flow once more, and the originally collapsed Earth, Fire, Water, and Wind started to reconstitute material forms.

Then, under the shocked gazes of the Five Directions and Five Emperors, those Lives that had previously died beneath the Immortal Slaying Sword Array were actually given Resurrection by the [Heaven and Earth Profound Yellow Exquisite Treasure Pagoda].

Whoosh!

It was as if time itself were flowing backward.

The Four Immortal Slaying Swords, which symbolized High-dimensional Power, were forcibly lowered in dimension into material entities.

When the four Divine Swords of gold, black, red, and green appeared in the four quarters of heaven and earth, all things destroyed by the Immortal Slaying Sword Array were restored to their original state.

The dead Lives were resurrected, the shattered earth reassembled, the vanished sky and sun, moon, and stars appeared once more...

Everywhere the eye could see, everything seemed to have reverted to how it had been before the Qing Emperor descended.

"Did I... die?"

"Is this the Primordial Tao Fruit?"

"Is that the Heaven and Earth Profound Yellow Exquisite Treasure Pagoda?"

"Is that Huanglong the legendary Huanglong Zhenren?"

"That black great bird... is it the Incarnation of Emperor Hei?"

"And the one inside the Pagoda is... the Qing Emperor? He’s been imprisoned?"

...

When one Immortal after another underwent Rebirth, their memories were still fixed on the moment just before their deaths.

Thus, when they saw the Qing Emperor being suppressed by the [Heaven and Earth Profound Yellow Exquisite Treasure Pagoda], the shock and disbelief in their eyes almost overflowed.

However, everything that had happened so far was still not the most astonishing part.

Buzz!

When the [Heaven and Earth Profound Yellow Exquisite Treasure Pagoda] began to spin, Li Hao’s Huanglong Incarnation coiled around the Pagoda’s body in concert.

It was as if the Treasure Pagoda were blessing Huanglong, yet also as though Huanglong were lifting the Pagoda high...

The Qing Emperor, trapped within the Pagoda, sensed danger and instinctively began recalling the Four Immortal Slaying Swords.

Clang! x4

The materialized Four Immortal Slaying Swords arrived in an instant.

Unfortunately, when the four Divine Swords struck the Pagoda’s body, they produced only a crisp sword hum.

For the [Heaven and Earth Profound Yellow Exquisite Treasure Pagoda], whose interior had formed a world, a universe of its own, the Four Immortal Slaying Swords that had been forcibly reduced in dimension simply could not inflict any substantive damage upon it.

Unless their true master—Shangqing Lingbao Celestial Venerable—were to be fully resurrected, it would be impossible to once again display that supreme divine might of one sword cleaving open Chaos.

"You are not the true master of the Four Immortal Slaying Swords, so you fundamentally cannot draw out their Power."

Silently, without a sound, the Xuanhuang Qi within the [Heaven and Earth Profound Yellow Exquisite Treasure Pagoda] took form as a humanoid entity.

He was once the Yellow robed King, the Chaos Incarnation; now he was, like Huanglong, a Creator Incarnation.

"Although you have seized the lineage of Shangqing Lingbao Celestial Venerable and forcibly cultivated His Dharma Body..."

"In the end, you still are not the true Tongtian Sect Leader; you are merely an Immortal Dao Incarnation manufactured by the Godslayer Civilization."

As though to corroborate the Yellow robed King’s words.

The Qing Emperor opposite, once certain that the Four Immortal Slaying Swords could not rescue him, saw his original form rapidly collapse, revealing his true appearance.

It was a highly abstract, irregular entity.

A special Incarnation form, akin to the Heavenly Dao or the Immortal Dao.

If one were to concretize the abstract conceptual notion of "Immortal," it would probably resemble the Qing Emperor’s current appearance.

Every Immortal could glimpse their own shadow within this abstract concept, yet would clearly know that it was a higher, more exalted high-dimensional existence than themselves.

"I am not the true Tongtian Sect Leader?"

With a faint note of sudden realization in his tone, the Qing Emperor sighed softly.

"Perhaps you are right. In truth, I’m nothing more than a counterfeit fabricated by the Supreme Will!"

"Truth is singular, and the Celestial Father’s path cannot be replicated."

"After the Great Celestial Elder died, His Primordial Spirit split into three, transforming respectively into the Taiqing Celestial Venerable of Tao and Virtue, the Yuqing Primordial Celestial Venerable, and the Shangqing Lingbao Celestial Venerable."

"Even at the height of these three Celestial Venerables’ prime, they could not reproduce the divine might of the Great Celestial Elder, could not once more become that Celestial Father who stands above the All Heavens and Myriad Realms."

"Not to mention, I’m just a counterfeit who inherited the orthodoxy of the Shangqing Lingbao Celestial Venerable..."

His tone paused slightly. The Qing Emperor looked at the Yellow robed King opposite him and continued with a sigh.

"If we really tally it up, I might even be inferior to you."

"Because at the very least, you’ve completely inherited the orthodoxy of the Taiqing Celestial Venerable of Tao and Virtue and the Yuqing Primordial Celestial Venerable, whereas my orthodoxy was forcibly seized from that Sword Immortal."

Gazing at the Qing Emperor across from him, the Yellow robed King vaguely sensed something Unknown from the other’s words.

By common sense, when a final boss suddenly exposes hidden secrets and truths, it’s definitely not out of simple good will.

Besides, after becoming the Tower Spirit of the Heaven and Earth Profound Yellow Exquisite Treasure Pagoda, the Yellow robed King’s abilities in all aspects had been greatly enhanced—among them, an intuition that could foresee the workings of fate.

"What are you planning to do?"

The intuition that pierced straight into the Heavenly Dao was warning the Yellow robed King, and He decisively chose to strike at the Qing Emperor.

Swish——Boom!

The surging Xuanhuang Qi triggered a tremendous detonation, and the Yellow robed King’s attack was immediately met with the Qing Emperor’s mockery.

"Didn’t you say I’m not the real Tongtian Sect Leader?"

"Then I’ll let you see the real Tongtian Sect Leader right now!"

Before his words fell, that abstract, irregular entity transformed once again, actually reverting back to the appearance of the original Azure Taoist Robe.

However, unlike the previous Qing Emperor, this "Qing Emperor" now felt like the manifestation of the Great Dao itself; every move he made carried unfathomable divine might.

"Sword, come!"

With that, they only heard this "Qing Emperor" give a low shout.

A streak of azure light then pierced through the Heaven and Earth Profound Yellow Exquisite Treasure Pagoda and landed in His hand.

It was the sword that had originally been at Li Bai’s waist, and also the Tongtian Sect Leader’s Tao Forming Treasure as the Shangqing Lingbao Celestial Venerable—the Qingping sword Sword.

"I haven’t seen you in so long, my treasure!"

Gently stroking the blade, the "Qing Emperor" lifted his head again, boundless depth and sorrow flowing in his eyes.

The Qing Emperor... or rather, the will of the Tongtian Sect Leader, crossed hundreds of millions of years to descend upon this world once more.

"So you’re the successor my elder brother chose?"

As his gaze focused on the Yellow robed King, Li Hao nevertheless felt as if the Tongtian Sect Leader was seeing his true body inside the Divine Treasure Vault.

[This isn’t an illusion, he really sees me!]

Li Hao’s heart turned cold; he had just wanted to say something when he saw the Tongtian Sect Leader opposite him suddenly laugh freely.

"Such a timid fellow, though that temperament is exactly the same as my elder brother’s!"

"Do you know that another way of saying ’not entangled in karma’ is ’cowardly as a mouse’..."

Before Li Hao could retort, the Tongtian Sect Leader had already raised the Qingping sword Sword in his hand.

"Though this kid wasn’t personally chosen by me as an Inheritor..."

"Since he was able to obtain my orthodoxy, he at least has the qualification to behold this one sword of mine."

"After this sword, he can escape from this Treasure Pagoda of yours, and you will also have the chance to witness what a true ’Heaven Cutting Sword’ is."

"There is only one chance; what you can obtain depends entirely on your own comprehension!"

With that, the Tongtian Sect Leader swung his sword.

Rumble...

The All Heavens and Myriad Realms within the Heaven and Earth Profound Yellow Exquisite Treasure Pagoda suddenly shattered, and the pagoda’s body itself broke apart into endless Xuanhuang Qi, returning to Huanglong’s body.

Yet that azure sword light still did not lose momentum, cleaving fiercely toward the dome of Bai Yu City.

Whoosh!

In that instant, Chaos first opened, and the Great Dao suddenly appeared.

Whether on the surface or hidden in the dark, all the Supreme Gods who were still watching this battle saw the true nature of Bai Yu City.

It was the "Great Dao" left in the Ascension Area by the Fifth Celestial Father·Great Celestial Elder.

The Six Desire Realms of the Desire Realm, the Eighteen Heavens of the Realm of Form, the Four Formless Realms, the Four Brahma Heavens, the Four Holy Realms, the Ninefold Heaven, the Three Pristine Celestial Realms, the Daluo Heaven...

Scattered across the All Heavens and Myriad Realms, a full one hundred and eight central major worlds together constituted the essence of Bai Yu City.

Boom!!!

They too were alarmed by this sword of the Tongtian Sect Leader.

The Supreme Gods within those one hundred and eight central major worlds all opened their eyes one after another, staring at Bai Yu City in utter shock.

Among them were the Tathagata of the Buddha Realm, the Four Imperial Lords of the Ninefold Heaven, and many Demon Gods hidden in the Desire Realm...

After that, even more Space-Time Rifts appeared across the Four Seas and Eight Desolates of Bai Yu City.

Since the death of the Great Celestial Elder, this was the first time Bai Yu City had so clearly displayed its special status to the All Heavens and Myriad Realms.

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