bookbashuk Chapter 149 One Punch Kills
Chapter 149 One Punch Kills
Chapter 149 One Punch Kills
Zhu Rong arrived too quickly and too suddenly. Even the Heavenly Auspicious Clouds and the Eight Treasures Jade Flying Chariot could not stop this ancestral witch's sudden attack. Guang Chengzi was naturally caught off guard. With just one punch, Zhu Rong directly blasted Guang Chengzi's head apart.
But the next moment, a huge divine furnace engraved with dragon and tiger patterns rushed over, opened the furnace lid with a whoosh, and smashed it down, instantly creating a huge hole in the entire flying chariot, showing just how powerful this attack was.
Zhu Rong merely sneered, and the transparent, colorless inner fire reignited on her body. As the inner fire burned, the fire died and the person perished. No matter how powerful the Eight Trigrams Furnace was, Zhu Rong could simply fly away; why did she have to take it head-on?
"snort!"
With a cold snort, pure energy descended once more upon Guang Chengzi's headless body. The milky-white energy, like threading a needle, reassembled a head. When the energy dissipated, Guang Chengzi's head had reappeared.
Touching his still-painful neck, Guang Chengzi's previous indifferent smile vanished, replaced by a cold snort: "Well done, Zhu Rong! You've actually evolved flames to the level of the mind. Truly remarkable. It seems that among the Twelve Ancestral Witches, besides Zhu Jiuyin and Houtu, you are the third best. Even Dijiang is no match for you!"
Guang Chengzi was truly on the verge of death. The physical bodies of the Twelve Ancestral Witches were extremely powerful. At the Great Luo Golden Immortal stage, they could already go toe-to-toe with top-grade innate spiritual treasures. After severing one of their corpses and achieving the Hunyuan realm, they became even more invincible.
Even if they were to collide with a top-grade innate spiritual treasure until they died, it would only be the spiritual treasure that would shatter, not these ancestral witches.
Now, being punched at close range by the Ancestral Witch, the power of which is terrifying is equivalent to the self-destruction of a top-grade innate spiritual treasure. The strength of the power is so great that it can even knock out a whole group of the myriad worlds with a single punch!
Even those Hunyuan Golden Immortals or Quasi-Saints wouldn't dare to withstand such a terrifying punch head-on, let alone Guang Chengzi, a mere Tai Su Daluo.
It directly shattered the nascent forms of matter within his body, and even severely damaged his moral compass, almost causing it to collapse.
The collapse of the Great Dao is an extremely terrifying thing. Collapse does not mean death. The collapsed Great Dao of Morality still exists, but Guang Chengzi, the master of the Great Dao of Morality, will fall into an endless slumber until the Great Dao is restored, at which point he will be able to awaken again.
The Great Luo Immortals who died in the three great clans of the Primordial Era were basically those whose own Great Dao was destroyed, which forced many subordinate Great Luo Immortals to their deaths, and they themselves fell into eternal slumber.
Unless the Great Dao is restored one day, they can no longer appear in the primordial world. Until then, they should just go to sleep.
If it weren't for the assistance of the Eight Treasures Flying Chariot's Eight Treasures Avenue, the Eight Trigrams Furnace's Eight Trigrams Avenue, the Great Righteousness Avenue of the Heavenly Auspicious Clouds, the Vitality Avenue of the Second-Rank Creation Green Lotus, the Rule of the Golden Rule Bell, and other great paths that desperately supported the Moral Great Path, how could Guang Chengzi still speak or even recover? He would probably have died long ago.
But it was this near-death experience that made Guang Chengzi's understanding of life and death even clearer.
Where there is death, there is life; if you want to live, you must not live. But the Great Luo transcends life and death, and there are infinite mysteries to ponder within it.
It was during this death that Guang Chengzi comprehended the mystery between life and death, and at the same time, he sensed a great path that had never been controlled by anyone before.
The Great Path of Life and Death!
The Great Way of Life and Death is a combination of the Great Way of Life and the Great Way of Death, but life and death cannot be simply summarized as life and death.
Life and death are neither life nor death, neither extinction nor annihilation, neither existence nor life. They are neither existing nor perishing, but rather exist in a boundary between the two.
This path is extremely peculiar. Correspondingly, there are the Path of Nirvana, the Path of Extinction, and so on. They all seek life in death or seek death in life, but in general, they are constantly returning and recovering between life and death.
This deeply moved Guang Chengzi, causing even his recently attained Tai Su realm to loosen, as if it were about to transform into the Tai Shi realm, where even the tangible yet intangible material prototypes would disappear, becoming merely a foundation with form.
Isn't life and death something that has form but isn't material? To comprehend life and death is to comprehend the path to the Primordial Realm.
However, this understanding of life and death is too weak to be enough for Guang Chengzi to break through, but it can be transformed into a solid stone to support the great path of morality, allowing this path to flow further and fly higher.
"It seems I have to thank you, Zhu Rong. If you hadn't been there and had given me that punch, I don't know how long it would have taken me to even begin to feel the path to breaking through to the Tai Shi realm."
Guang Chengzi returned to his original form, but swallowed the Jade Void Treasure Box, using the endless Primordial Dao contained within to suppress the various subtle emotions in his Dao heart.
The Heart Fire is the fire of burning emotions within the heart. Guang Chengzi already understands how Zhu Rong overcame these numerous obstacles.
It wasn't that the opponent was so powerful that even numerous treasures like the Heavenly Auspicious Clouds and the Eight Trigrams Furnace couldn't stop them; it was because of him.
It was the emotional fluctuations in Guang Chengzi's heart that were sensed by the Ancestral Witch Zhu Rong with her inner fire. Taking advantage of these emotional fluctuations, she bypassed numerous treasures and came directly in front of him to deliver a punch.
This was only because the Heavenly Auspicious Clouds suppressed his inner demons; otherwise, Zhu Rong wouldn't even need to step in, he could have directly punched his Dao heart and shattered it.
When the Dao heart is shattered, the Dao cultivation disappears. Even if the physical body, soul, and magical power still exist, it's like a child wielding a peerless sword; a slight misstep can injure oneself.
That's why Guang Chengzi suppressed his emotions again to prevent Zhu Rong from using this as an opportunity to break through.
This also gave Guang Chengzi a lot to think about. These twelve ancestral witches were indeed not to be underestimated. Although they looked miserable under his many treasures, as long as they were given a chance, Guang Chengzi would immediately reveal his own weakness, which was himself.
If you're not strong enough, you're like the lowest plank in a bucket. How much water the bucket can hold depends not on how high the highest plank is, but on how low the lowest plank is.
If the Twelve Ancestral Witches were already so difficult to deal with, it would be even more terrifying if it were other top-tier gods with primordial spirits.
It's no wonder that even though Donghuang Taiyi wielded the Chaos Bell, he couldn't subdue these top gods.
Even if these top-tier gods can't defeat Chaos Bell, it doesn't mean they can't escape. As soon as one of them escapes, they'll immediately roam around attacking, making you extremely annoyed.
Treasures are not invincible; only cultivators are invincible.
Even if Hongjun Daozu didn't use any treasures, who would dare to provoke him if he were just empty-handed?