Chapter 319 - 136: Guest Minister Gong Yan, the 1000-Zhang Yin Snake! One Finger Across the Sky

The West Mountain Incense Altar was, without a doubt, an Unparalleled Array.

It was attuned to the surrounding mountains and flowing Earth Veins, secretly resonating with the fortune of the Da Yu Capital City. It even maintained a thousand intricate connections to the celestial phenomena and constellations.

The Leader of the Gui Chen Sect had personally swept through the mountains to establish this Array.

Afterward, he had brought in over a hundred thousand craftsmen, along with many sect slaves who had Cultivation, to work day and night for a very long time before it was finally created.

But with a single movement, Su Bai had already taken control of the Array’s core. Instantly, the celestial phenomena and Earth Veins within a thousand-mile radius converged around him, submitting to his command.

There was no resistance whatsoever.

It was as if all of this had been prepared just for him.

Su Bai gazed at the Capital City, his expression calm.

There were still a day or two before the Incense and Candle Grand Assembly was set to begin, but that was of no concern to him. He hadn’t come here to actually attend some grand assembly.

He had accumulated enough on his journey here.

’There’s no need to wait any longer.’

HUM!

His voice spread in all directions, the sound waves traveling to the farthest reaches. When it entered one’s ears, the volume was neither high nor low.

But amid the peaks of West Mountain, a sudden rumbling erupted, as if the mountain range, the land, and the endless sea of snow were all resonating with his voice!

It was as if everything between heaven and earth had become his mouthpiece, compelled to transmit his voice.

In an instant, ripples spread across the dome of the sky, enveloping the wind and clouds. The sky itself seemed to transform into a boundless ocean.

The few Gui Chen Sect Daoists, their faces draining of color, were instantly submerged.

They were like candles struck by a tsunami, vanishing without a hint of struggle, blown to some unknown place.

BOOM!

A blast of air howled, sweeping up wind and snow for hundreds of miles.

Propelled by the massive wave, the voice surged into the Da Yu Capital City in a flash.

The clear and articulate voice exploded in everyone’s ears at almost the same time!

In that moment, the entire city shook. The accumulated snow and icicles on countless eaves were sent flying backward, shattering to pieces.

The sheer force of it was immense, shaking the entire Da Yu Capital City.

The voice was so vast, pouring down like the Tian He river from the heavens.

It stirred the wind and clouds for thousands of miles, which then came pouring down in a torrent. The stronger a person’s Cultivation, the more their Heart Spirit was shaken.

Ordinary people, on the other hand, merely heard it as a clap of Celestial Thunder. They looked up in a daze, completely unaware of what was happening.

"He’s here?"

In the small, fence-enclosed courtyard in the back of the Gui Chen Sect’s grounds, the Leader of Gui Chen Sect slowly raised an eyebrow.

’I thought you were a man of some character, but to think you’ve become a blade for that Celestial Secret Old Thief...’

"Hm?"

’He’s here already?’

Atop the Thirty-Three-Layered Buddha Tower, the Rebirth Buddha Venerable’s heart stirred. His gaze pierced through thousands of miles of open sky to land on the West Mountain Incense Altar.

"Who goes there?"

"Which Great True Master is this!?"

"This is a provocation against the Gui Chen Sect..."

At the Gui Chen Sect Headquarters, countless people’s expressions changed upon hearing the voice.

Some were astonished, some sneered, some wore grave expressions, and some even held a trace of anticipation.

In the Da Yu Capital City, the many Cultivators also paled.

They could feel an extremely powerful will embedded in the voice—a Divine Intent that was almost tangible.

Many cultivators soared high into the sky outside the city to get a better look.

They could only sense an infinite light outside the city, as if the great blazing sun had fallen from the sky.

The magnificent power was vast, mysterious, and impossible to look at directly.

In the Capital City, among the many scholars strolling about, Cui Yanliang was one of them. His body suddenly trembled as he looked up, a joyful light in his eyes.

’Could it be that the senior has arrived?’

...

"Damn it! Who’s causing trouble?"

Inside the main hall, Xiao Yu shot up, his face grim. He raised a hand and slapped it heavily against the empty air.

Golden ripples spread out, outlining a Profound Light Mirror, which then appeared and reflected a scene from a thousand miles away.

Within West Mountain, countless craftsmen seemed to have been affected by something and were all fleeing in disarray.

And surrounded by a cluster of Magic Altars, a young man in a white robe sat cross-legged in the center.

The white-robed young man sat there cross-legged. His aura was ethereal, like an immortal’s, yet as heavy as a mountain.

It seemed to hold the vastness of the heavens and the might of the earth.

The man’s aura was like the rising sun. A torrential momentum surged upward, stirring the celestial phenomena for thousands of miles. One could faintly see clouds gathering and thunder booming.

Waves of air swept up endless wind and snow, roaring like dragons.

"It’s you!"

Xiao Yu’s expression changed as he recognized Su Bai.

Not long ago, the Leader of Gui Chen Sect’s incarnation had gone to the Desolate Province. As the Vice Sect Leader, he was privy to all the details.

And just a short while ago, the Sect Leader had given him a warning.

"To be able to stir the great momentum of heaven and earth without any True Qi fluctuations... What kind of Cultivation Technique is this?"

Staring at the white-robed youth in the Profound Light Mirror,

the expressions of the many True Masters and the few Great Feathered Transformation True Masters in the hall all changed.

Of the five paths in the world—Buddha, Dao, Demon, Ghost, and Heretic—no matter which one a person cultivated, the foundation was inevitably nature’s spiritual energy.

Cultivating the five paths was akin to revealing five different faces of nature’s spiritual energy.

Yet, without the slightest fluctuation of nature’s spiritual energy, nor any overflow of True Qi, this person could actually trigger such an astonishing celestial phenomenon.

’This is far too terrifying.’

"How audacious!"

To Xiao Yu’s left, a middle-aged Daoist with a dark, sallow complexion snorted coldly. He reached out a hand and jabbed a finger viciously toward the Profound Light Mirror.

"You want us to come and see you? Let’s see what you’re made of first!"

His name was Gong Yan. He was one of the Gui Chen Sect’s two Feathered Guest Ministers and a great expert personally recruited by the Leader of Gui Chen Sect.

Over the past thousand years, he was the one who had acted the most within the Gui Chen Sect, and he was a renowned figure in the Dayu Cultivation World.

HUM!

As his finger jabbed, the scene in the Profound Light Mirror changed abruptly.

Up in the dome of the sky, a sinister wind raged. Streams of pitch-black yin energy rose from the depths of the earth.

It tainted the mountains and rivers and dyed the snowy sky black.

This yin energy crisscrossed and rapidly formed a thousand-zhang-long, pitch-black Yin Snake.

The Yin Snake whipped its tail, its roar shaking the heavens.

In an instant, countless clouds of dust billowed up with a great roar, as if a colossal mountain were toppling over.

The Yin Snake opened its large black eyes and looked down, its gaze fixed on West Mountain as it let out a horrifying hiss.

ROAR!

After a tremendous sound, it exhaled a massive amount of venomous yin energy, which rolled like the Tian He river and poured down toward the incense altar at West Mountain!

With a single breath, the world was plunged into darkness!

The potent toxic gas seemed to poison even the cold wind and snow. Nature’s spiritual energy could not withstand it, letting out a HISSING sound.

The hibernating beasts and Demon Beasts in the mountains were all startled, letting out mournful howls as they fled deeper into the forest.

This was his signature technique.

The Yin Snake Seven Kills Technique!

Su Bai’s aura was incomparably grand, so Guest Minister Gong Yan naturally didn’t dare to be careless. He struck with his full power from the very beginning.

This Yin Snake Seven Kills Technique was a Nine-grade Technique he had painstakingly cultivated for a thousand years, and he had already reached an extremely profound Realm with it.

Moreover, he was just one step away from deducing this technique to the higher Super Grade level.

When that time came, if he succeeded, he could use this technique to create a second incarnation—one that could fly through the sky, burrow into the earth, ascend to the heavens to pluck the stars—omnipotent!

At this moment, although the technique had not yet reached Super Grade, the moment the Yin Snake Seven Kills Technique was unleashed, a murderous atmosphere descended upon the West Mountain range, and countless Demon Beasts scattered in a panicked rout.

And beneath the earth, the hidden yin energy surged violently. Countless skeletons and corpses buried within trembled and burst from the ground, about to transform into Demon Ghosts!

"ROAR!"

Atop the high incense altar, the Silver-White Dog Demon let out an agitated roar of unease. Its fur stood on end like a porcupine’s quills, ready to pounce.

"You’re still young. You’re no match for this beast."

Su Bai raised a finger and pressed down on the restless Silver-White Dog Demon.

Although this Silver-White Dog Demon had already surpassed its bloodline’s limits and its Cultivation had advanced by leaps and bounds under the refinement of his True Qi...

...the time had been too short. It would already be a struggle for it to fight a Void Realm expert. Trying to match a Feathered master would be truly courting death.

The Silver-White Dog Demon let out a low growl and lay down on the ten-thousand-zhang Magic Altar, unmoving.

Su Bai, however, slowly raised his head and pointed a finger across the distance.

"You want to test my mettle?"

"You’re not nearly enough."

Martial Dao cultivation emphasizes advancing triumphantly, but it also calls for a balance of tension and relaxation.

These past few days of surveying the world had been his most relaxed period in a long time.

But relaxation didn’t mean doing nothing, nor did it mean his Cultivation stagnated. On the contrary, his progress had been even greater.

During these days, whenever he reached a major city, county, or another Great Province, Su Bai would sense those heavy with sin and send out a Divine Thought Incarnation to capture and suppress them.

As a result, the amount of Experience Points he gained each day had been steadily increasing.

Not long ago, he had used a large amount of Experience Points to raise the Realm of the Dragon and Phoenix Immortal Scripture, an Immortal Grade Divine Technique, to the 5th Layer.

Both his Divine Spirit’s strength and his Physique’s durability had surged several times over as a result.

Su Bai had also reserved a considerable amount of Experience Points to break through the thirty-million Experience Point barrier for the Fourth Immortal Golden Body Transformation, as well as to advance his own Martial Arts Realm.

Judging by the Experience Points he had currently accumulated, he had more than enough.

BOOM!

And now, as Su Bai’s finger descended, heaven and earth let out a thunderous roar.

In a daze, the onlookers saw a majestic mountain rise from the earth and a shooting star streak across the sky.

Waves of air surged and roared with the force of a dragon, creating a massive commotion like a thousand claps of thunder.

This finger strike fearlessly crashed into the descending pitch-black Yin Snake.

"Not good!"

In the hall, Gong Yan’s heart leaped. Without a second thought, he jabbed all ten of his fingers forward.

The surging True Qi in his body poured out like a bursting dam, gushing into the void with the movement of his ten fingers.

A thousand miles away, the thousand-zhang Yin Snake let out a silent roar.

RUMBLE!

The next instant, a golden light erupted!

Accompanied by an earth-shattering shriek that echoed through the clouds.

The finger strike, like a rainbow piercing the sun, instantly penetrated the pitch-black Yin Snake.

Then, its momentum unabated, it pierced through layer after layer of the void, as if directly traversing space itself, and blasted toward the northern part of the Da Yu Capital City.

In the Da Yu Capital City, countless Cultivators looked up to see an indescribable streak of golden light flash by like lightning, seeming to blot out the sun as it pressed down on the Gui Chen Sect Headquarters in the northern part of the city!

Within the Gui Chen Sect Headquarters, the sound of shattering Jade instantly rang out.

Immediately after, the expressions of the many True Masters in the hall changed. They simultaneously shot up from the ground, breaking through the air to flee.

But no matter how fast they were, they couldn’t match the speed of that finger.

With a loud CRACK,

a finger like a rainbow piercing the sun appeared in the phantom Profound Light Mirror, cutting across the sky.

Then, as the expressions of Xiao Yu, Gong Yan, and the others twisted in horror, a surging and boundless power erupted in an instant!

RUMBLE! RUMBLE! RUMBLE!

The vast Gui Chen Sect Headquarters shuddered violently, and even the distant houses in the Capital City trembled slightly.

The streets outside the Gui Chen Sect Headquarters shook in violent waves, nearly tossing the numerous buildings into the sky.

HUM!

Inside the Gui Chen Sect Headquarters, intricate and ancient Array Patterns flickered for a moment before being shattered by the sky-rending blast wave.

Huaisheng Daoist stood up from the woodshed and looked up.

He saw that even under the suppression of the Array Patterns, it was as if a volcano that had been dormant for a thousand years had suddenly erupted. Countless surging blast waves, carrying immense clouds of dust and smoke, shot toward the sky!

It was like a giant mushroom cloud blooming over the Gui Chen Sect.

And even with the protection of the Array Patterns, who knew how many houses, pavilions, Daoist Temples, and shrines within the Gui Chen Sect...

...were blown over and instantly shattered!

The next moment, another finger appeared in the dome of the sky.

It swept across!

In a single instant, a vast golden light tore through the rolling mushroom cloud and, like a mountain falling from the heavens, descended upon the Gui Chen Sect Headquarters!

"It’s rude not to return a favor."

"Gui Chen, what do you think of this finger of mine?"