Chapter 822: Blooming (Part 2)
He paused for a moment, then intensified his tone: "Now, with just a thought from the esteemed Master of Motion and Stillness, the Supreme Heavenly Venerate can be resurrected! With the strength of the Taishang, aiding you in transcendence is as easy as turning your hand."
Upon hearing this, Yu Youyuan tapped his knuckles on the armrest and fell into contemplation once again.
The cloaked man looked into Yu Youyuan's eyes, revealing a trace of impatience: "Even if you do not trust me, you should trust the Supreme Heavenly Venerate. The transcendence you pursue is merely a trivial matter in the eyes of Taishang!"
He then flicked his sleeve, conjuring a holographic projection in the hall, displaying Lin Rui pointing at Luo Wangshu's forehead, suppressing the power of Luo Wangshu's Divine Thought.
The cloaked man clasped his hands behind his back: "The situation is beyond redemption; why force it? I beseech the esteemed Master of Motion and Stillness to make a quick decision! If you cannot abandon this unattainable Truth Method, then I will have to change my course and seek another way out."
Yu Youyuan glanced at the projection. When he saw the Truth Divine Pattern on Luo Wangshu's forehead and the presence of Meng Weiyun beside her, his eyes remained unchanged.
He knew long ago that the other party had a backup plan.
Years ago, Yu Youyuan realized the anomaly with Luo Wangshu and Meng Weiyun, but constrained by Lin Rui, he couldn't eliminate them in advance.
To gain time, he had to tolerate, and thus had to stand by as the Supreme remnants within these two women grew wildly, until now, perhaps with just a small measure from the cloaked man, the Supreme Heavenly Venerate could awaken within them.
Yu Youyuan was filled with immense unwillingness and reluctance.
Now he was only a step away from the Divine King, just 0.004% away, needing only another 40 minutes to surpass the superlimit rank.
Yet now the situation had taken a dramatic turn, with the Undying Dragon Venerate's Primordial Spirit Power even impacting his Sea of Consciousness. This ancient Divine King let out a deafening laugh and roar, its massive dragon body, shrouded in purgatory flames, crashing towards the Divine Palace like a meteor again and again.
Its immense Divine Power and Shattering Technique pummeled the space around the Divine Palace into ruin, causing the solid walls of the palace to begin to warp, while the undying force allowed its divine body to recover after each grievous injury.
The Void Rift of the West Abyss also expanded crazily, devouring everything around the Divine Palace at an alarming rate, the space seemingly being torn apart, emitting an unsettling sound.
The body of the Motion and Stillness Heavenly Dragon was being corroded by the power of the void, its blue scales turning into nothingness, dragon blood boiling and evaporating in the void.
The Cosmic Dual Dragons were not to be outdone, the gears of the clock on the male black dragon flickering with eerie light, making the flow of time inside the Divine Palace chaotic, distorting the movements of objects, trapping the senses in disorder.
The female white dragon wielded the Void Spear, each possessing strong penetration, stabbing at the Divine Palace like raindrops, riddling the palace structures with holes.
Yu Youyuan's Motion and Stillness Heavenly Dragon kept fighting desperately with all its might.
But the battle dragon's bloodstained, riddled wounds made Yu Youyuan feel immense pain every moment.
The array around the Divine Palace was on the verge of collapse, the gaping maw of the Swallowing Heavenly Venerate now covering half of the Divine Palace, pulling everything around into that endless black vortex.
The phenomenon shown by the Abyss now was entirely different from the battle at Yellow Mountain Island.
It seemed to have initially grasped the Burning Destruction Technique, and the divine pattern of motion and stillness around the Divine Palace, as well as the Truth Barrier and other defensive powers, were gradually being burned away by the power of the Swallowing Heavenly Venerate, directly transformed into the purest Ether Element Spirit and consumed by the Swallowing Heavenly Venerate.
Yu Youyuan keenly felt the interference of the Dreamy Heavenly Venerate on his mind.
Yu Youyuan's vision was always distorted, making the situation on the battlefield blurred and indistinguishable.
He saw the Power of Space-Time from the Central Abyss transforming into countless twisted paths, each seemingly deadly, making it difficult for him to decide where to focus his defense.
In his battle dragon's eyes, the Void Rift of the West Abyss even seemed like an opportunity to break through the crisis, nearly driving the Motion and Stillness Heavenly Dragon recklessly into it, with Swallowing Heavenly Venerate's fangs sometimes close at hand, sometimes far away.
Yu Youyuan's five senses and Spiritual Sense were also twisted, feeling like a giant propeller was stirring in his mind, preventing him from focusing his attention to judge the direction of the attack.
His thoughts began to become chaotic, unable to distinguish between reality and illusion, each decision becoming extremely difficult, the chaotic cognition plunging him into doubt and hesitation, his combat rhythm completely disrupted by the Dreamy Heavenly Venerate, who left him in a passive position.
Yu Youyuan even heard the mocking laughter of the Dreamy Heavenly Venerate: "Can you now distinguish what is up and down, left and right, past and present?"
Yu Youyuan had to clench his teeth, enduring the pain, focusing all his strength to resist the psychic intrusion of the Dreamy Heavenly Venerate, telling himself he must persist, that if he took one more step, he could break through the superlimit, escaping all present dilemmas.
Yet the hallucinations grew more severe, and blood gradually seeped from the corners of his lips.
These guys do not want Him to take a further step into the superlimit realm, yet little do they know that all their actions are within someone's grasp, and their deeds will only awaken an even more powerful and terrifying existence.
Yu Youyuan isn't without the idea of taking the Supreme Heavenly Venerate as a bargaining chip to force the gods to make concessions, much like three years ago when Lin Rui was to the Great Sun Venerable.
However, Yu Youyuan then slightly shook his head; unless he forsakes the idea of transcendence and withdraws from the artificial firmament like Lin Rui did, the gods will never give up.
Just as this cloaked man said, their pursuit of transcendence might truly be of no consequence in the eyes of Taishang, solely because that one had already severed the connection with the root.
However——
A hint of derision flitted across Yu Youyuan's eyes.
This fellow in front of him was too arrogant and complacent, he really thought he could manipulate the fate of all gods at his fingertips?
Cheng Zaotian, who kept his head down and stayed silent, marveled inwardly that the Lord indeed saw through human nature and situation, forcing the gods to abide by His will.
Compared to Him, Yu Youyuan, the gods might rather see the Supreme Heavenly Venerate resurrected.
And as for him, Yu Youyuan, transcendence is more important than superlimit.
As long as he detaches from the root and gains dominion over the artificial firmament, Yu Youyuan has countless ways to achieve superlimit within a few years.
"I seem to have no choice." Yu Youyuan said indifferently looking at the cloaked man, "I can release the suppression on the Garden of Truth, but for your Supreme Heavenly Venerate to be resurrected, it's no easy task."
"That is no longer your concern!" The cloaked man's eyes flickered slightly, "You just need to follow the divine contract between us——"
At this moment, the 'Silent Bell' suddenly let out a 'clang' roar.
The entire Divine Palace shook violently, and the bell body developed more threads of cracks once again.
The tiles of the Divine Palace began to seep sticky black liquid, each drop reflecting the crimson monocular of the Lord of Darkness, within this hall, even the shadows within Yu Youyuan's armor twisted violently as if coming alive, containing a force of eternal silence colder than death.
——This is the power of the Lord of Darkness!
If not for Yu Youyuan's power suppressing them, they could instantly transform into thousands of spikes, piercing into His divine body through the seams of His bleeding battle robe, capable of freezing His divine blood into ash upon contact.
More divine blood seeped from Yu Youyuan's mouth, his gaze was as obscure and dark as it could be, "Enough!"
He raised his hand and summoned back the divine power directly from above the Garden of Truth, "Do as you wish."
The cloaked man immediately raised the corner of his mouth slightly in a smile, covering his chest with one hand, he bowed with respect, "This is a wise decision!"
At that instant, the Garden of Truth was enshrouded by a bizarre and terrifying power, and sixty-seven thousand males and females, young and old, possessing the Supreme Blood, suddenly began to tremble violently without any warning.
Weird lights surfaced below their skin, and their blood vessels bulged and twisted on the surface like earthworms.
Then, their bodies, as if unable to bear some enormous pressure, burst with a 'bang', blood mist spread throughout the entire Garden of Truth, chunks of flesh and shattered bones flew everywhere, as if a bloody storm had rained.
Some among them, possessing cultivation, stared blankly at the sky, "We are Taishang! We are Truth!"
Their skulls immediately bloomed like petals, and what sprayed out of their cranial cavities wasn't brain matter, but rather Taishang Source Essence crystallized into varying sizes.
Countless blood and flesh flowers bloomed in the garden, with each flower pistil holding a pulsating silver-white Source Essence.
The ground of the Garden of Truth cracked amidst the dense blood rain, golden lines spread out from the fissures, weaving into a huge and mysterious array, an eerie purple light illuminated the entire Luojing Divine Palace.
Meanwhile, an illusory yet immensely dignified female figure gradually emerged.
It was a mysterious robed woman stepping on a Karma Fire Red Lotus, wearing a black jade crown with hanging beads, her white hair spread like a flowing Galaxy, her face as cold and aloof as a snow lotus in first bloom, yet radiating an awe-inspiring authority.