Chapter 215: The Tribulation Can Speak?!! Heavenly Dog and The Frozen General

The pitch black clouds pressed down so low that the colossal, faceless Heavenly General was now clearly visible to everyone in Jade City. The sheer weight of his black and gold lightning armor made the space around him warp and distort.

Standing in the center of his private courtyard, completely exposed to the apocalyptic aura, Yu Liang did not draw a weapon.

He did not even circulated his spiritual energy to fight.

Instead, he calmly raised his hands, cupped his fists, and gave a slight bow.

"Heavens," Yu Liang’s said. "If you really want to deal with me, we should probably do it somewhere else. Otherwise, many innocents will get hurt, and a lot of good property will be damaged. I’d prefer not to clean up the mess."

It was a polite suggestion. But it was also a blatant attempt to move the battlefield away from his wife, his restaurant, and his newly acquired commercial empire.

For a second, the sky was dead silent.

Then, the colossal Heavenly General lowered his head. The burning, golden eyes within his shadowy helmet locked onto Yu Liang.

When the General spoke, the voice did not echoed in the air. It exploded directly inside the Sea of Consciousness of every living being on the continent, carrying the cold, indifferent will of a slaughtering persona.

"A lowly ant like you doesn’t get to decide!"

Whaatttttt??!!!!!

The moment those words rang out, the entire world was plunged into a state of absolute, mind shattering astonishment.

At the Cloudwater Sect, the Vice Sect Master’s eyes widened in pure terror now. "It... it spoke?!" This time he shrieked, his voice cracked with every word.

In the Wilderness of Ten Thousand Tribes, Patriarch Ao Huang, who was still kneeling in the dirt, felt his soul tremble so violently he thought it would shatter. "Tribulations... Tribulations are mindless forces of nature! They are just the mechanical puppet for execution made by the Heavenly Dao! They never speak!"

This was a fundamental law of the cultivation world. A tribulation was like a lightning strike or a hurricane it didn’t have thoughts not it have kind of ego, it just made to destroy.

But this General spoke! He literally replied!

This means the manifestation has a true, independent consciousness!

The realization sent a wave of unprecedented horror through the minds of all of the hidden monsters and sect masters. The Heavens weren’t just sending a mindless lightning bolt to test a talented junior.

The Heavens considered Yu Liang such an unfathomable, existential threat to the very being of the Lower Realm that they had manifested a conscious which is intelligent, and highly personalized executioner just to ensure he was erased!

’How far is the Heavens considering this guy a threat?!’ The collective thought of the entire world screamed in despair.

Down in the courtyard, Yu Liang’s polite smile slowly faded and he frowned.

His eyes narrowed slightly as he calculated the situation. If he were to fight this conscious manifestation of heavenly army here, just the shockwaves from their collision would instantly vaporize Jade City. The Heaven’s Table would be reduced to dust and evryone would die.

And worst of all, Mei Hua would be in danger.

Even though she was a Nascent Soul grandmaster, a clash between him and a conscious Heavenly Tribulation would tear the space apart. He couldn’t let her get hurt.

He must move this fight, or end it instantly but seeing the huge army he Highly doubt it would end instantly.

Sensing Yu Liang’s hesitation, the Heavenly General sneered, his consciousness projected a mocking, arrogant aura.

"You care for these mortals and worry about your little toys?" The General’s voice boomed, dripping with disdain. "Then watch them turn to ash! I will obliterate this city, your so called cherished people, and everyone you care about, and I will grind your soul into nothingness!"

Hearing the threat against Mei Hua and the others, slight frown that appeared on Yu Liang’s face vanished completely.

It was replaced by a cold sneer. The temperature in the courtyard seemed to drop to absolute zero.

"Heavens," Yu Liang said as his voice echoed with a terrifying, mocking chill. "You should really put a leash on your dogs. It’s barking way too much."

Silence!

The entire world held its breath. ’He... he just called the conscious manifestation of the Heavenly Dao a dog?!’

The Heavenly General froze. The black and gold lightning in his armor flared violently ehich erupted into a blinding, chaotic storm. The sheer rage radiating from him caused the clouds to boil.

"INSOLENT BRAT!" The General roared as his voice shook the very foundations of the continent. "I AM THE MIGHTY GENERAL OF THE QIN ARMY! IN THE ANCIENT ERA, I LED MILLIONS OF TROOPS AND CONQUERED THE ENTIRE CONTINENT! I AM THE WRATH OF THE ANCIENT ERA! I WILL CRUSH YOU INTO MEAT PASTE!"

Yu Liang rolled his eyes and he actually let out a bored sigh.

As a man with the System and the knowledge of the world’s true history, he knew exactly how pathetic this ancient era was.

"Conquered the entire continent?" Yu Liang sneered, shaking his head in sheer amusement. "That’s not in any history book. Let me guess, you just conquered some puny, mud brick kingdom the size of a courtyard, and used your frog sized brain to think you conquered the whole world? Pathetic. How utterly pathetic. If you really conquered the continent, why are you just a glorified lightning dog for the Heavens now?"

CRACK!

The General’s mind completely snapped. The insult to his glorious past and his current status as a "dog" shattered whatever shred of composure he had left.

"I WILL TEAR YOU APART!"

The General let out a soul shredding roar. He reached out with both hands and grabbed his massive, hundred mile long black and gold halberd. The weapon shone with the power to cleave the continent in two.

He raised the halberd high above his head and sky shattered in it’s way. The spiritual energy of the world was sucked into the blade. He poured all his consciousness, all his rage, and all the wrath of the Heavenly Dao into a single, world ending strike aimed directly at Yu Liang’s head.

"DIE!"

The halberd swung down fiercely. The strike was so fast, so heavy, that time itself seemed to slow down. The people watching from hundreds of thousands of miles away closed their eyes, waiting for the explosion that would wipe Jade City off the map.

But...

Swish!

The expected, earth shattering attack did not come. They were waiting for the massive explosion and shockwaves of destruction.

The people slowly opened their eyes and looked up when no such thing happened.

What they saw made their brains short circuit.

The colossal Heavenly General, mid swing, his halberd was frozen just a few feet above Yu Liang’s head... And it was completely, utterly frozen.

He wasn’t just paused as it was completely locked in space. The black and gold lightning around him stopped moving. The roaring wind ceased altogether. The terrifying pressure vanished in an instant.

The mighty, conscious General of the Qin Army, the ultimate executioner of the Heavens, was frozen like a cheap toy whose batteries had just been pulled out.

The expected attack did not come.

And in the courtyard, Yu Liang just stood there, his hands still behind his back, looking up at the frozen General with a calm, unbothered expression.