I Cheated While Cultivating

Chapter 369: Chapter 89: Under the Heaven Rotating Seal, the Universe Shatters!

Projection card!

Heaven Rotating Seal!

Zhou Heng’s gaze was profound, his expression solemn, as he gripped the Golden Small Seal, his palm slightly trembling.

At this moment, he felt as if he were holding a vast, boundless piece of heaven and earth, this tiny golden seal seemingly the origin of all universes, the source of countless worlds!

It contained endless power.

“What is this?”

Standing not far from Zhou Heng, Cui Qingyang noticed the delicate golden seal and with just one glance, he felt his scalp tingle, his eyes sting, and his mind deeply shocked.

In just an instant, this Great Grandmaster who had cultivated a Dharma Body to the Fourth Rank felt an immense terror, as if he had seen the heavens fall and the earth overturn, the scene of all heavens shattering into pieces.

Terrifying to the extreme!

Hidden in the sea of dream consciousness, He Mengqiu was directly shaken back to reality by the terrifying aura of the Heaven Rotating Seal. Her eyes were wide open, staring at the small seal in disbelief.

“What is this?!”

He Mengqiu’s mind was in shock, feeling that the power of this treasure was unimaginably potent.

Yet, even after racking her brain, she could not identify what kind of treasure it was. In her memory of two lifetimes, there was no such powerful seal among the treasured artifacts.

At the same time, the Celestials in the sky such as Yu Xinzi, Yan Shouyi, as well as Cui Tianhe, Gou Chen, and others also felt the presence of the “Heaven Rotating Seal,” and were alarmed even before laying eyes on it.

These Tao Lords and Celestials one after another turned their perception downwards, fixing their gaze on the golden seal in Zhou Heng’s hand, sensing the terrifying Taoist charm it contained.

Hum!

With just one look, many Celestials felt as if their heads were about to explode, as if they had witnessed an endless expanse of the world plunging into destruction.

Heavenly pillars collapsing, the sky and earth sinking, countless immortals, Buddhas, and Saints perishing like rain!

The more powerful they were, the more sensitive they felt to the Taoist charm on the golden seal, and Yan Shouyi, after one look, even had a moment of dizziness as his body trembled slightly, seemingly affected by an immense impact.

As for the Tao Lord Yu Xinzi, he immediately raised his hands to his head, let out an extremely agonized scream, and clawed out two handfuls of hair with faint golden blood on them.

Then, Yu Xinzi’s head suddenly “twisted” and then, with a “bang,” it exploded on the spot!

The scene was like a ripe watermelon being suddenly crushed underfoot, exploding instantly.

In an instant, brain matter and skull fragments scattered in every direction, exploding in the air, red and white splattering everywhere. With just one look at that thing, the Tao Lord Yu Xinzi had become a headless torso.

The strength of the impact that it contained was self-evident!

Even though such an explosion of the head wouldn’t even count as an injury to a Tao Lord and certainly couldn’t cause real damage, the scene was still immensely shocking to behold.

At this moment, everyone’s mind was filled with a tremendous question.

“What is this?!”

…

At the highest point of the firmament, the golden Buddha seated on a lotus throne, “Mokarakashyapa,” suddenly cast his gaze down, focusing on the Heaven-Rotating Seal in Zhou Heng’s hand.

The compassionate-faced Buddha above seemed to have spotted something inconceivable, his visage registering disbelief as if he had seen a ghost, and he exclaimed in shock, “The Heaven-Rotating Seal???”

“Yes, precisely the Heaven-Rotating Seal!” Zhou Heng sneered, lifting his palm upward dragging, and bellowed sharply, “Rise!”

Before his words had faded, the golden seal in his palm ascended, shooting toward the heavens, with streaks of golden divine inscriptions unrolling, crushing layers upon layers of Buddha’s light, shattering the chant of the Sanskrit hymns.

In the blink of an eye, this golden seal expanded infinitely, covering the sky, breaking through the high heavens, as if it had transformed into an ancient divine mountain suspended in the air, encompassing the entire territory of Da Qi, spanning millions of miles.

A force powerful enough to be incomparable, terrorizing and vast, emanated an endless ancient aura, giving one the feeling that the age of the ancients had descended once again.

Many Celestials lifted their heads to gaze at the sky, fixating their eyes on the shimmering golden divine inscriptions as if in fervent madness almost to the point of obsession.

In their eyes, the divine inscriptions floating around the golden seal contained countless profound and ultimate laws of the way, so exalted as to be at the peak of perfection. Even being able to memorize the smallest fraction was considered a supreme opportunity.

However, the Celestials soon realized that no matter how hard they tried to imprint these divine inscriptions in their memory, they would quickly forget them, unable to retain anything at all.

This left them incredibly anxious.

Only Yan Shouyi maintained a calm gaze towards the sky, black and white radiance gleaming within his eyes, as the Tai Chi Graphic Record behind him rotated, and around him began to flicker the phantom shadows of some divine inscriptions.

He was the only one who could retain a fraction of the divine inscriptions.

However, for Yan Shouyi and the other few Celestials, these divine inscriptions manifesting from the Heaven-Rotating Seal represented great fortune, but for Cui Qingyang, it heralded soul-trembling terror.

He had heard Mokarakashyapa’s cry of alarm and had also sensed the supreme divine might released by the great seal.

He made a quick decision, immediately abandoning his breakthrough, intending to escape through the dream realm.

But just as Cui Qingyang was about to enter into the dreamscape, he suddenly found that the void had been completely sealed and suppressed, making it impossible to even flee into the dream realm, let alone move a single finger!

“What is this, what in the world is this?!” Even if it were a Unique Divine Weapon, it shouldn’t be possible for it to suppress me to such an extent in the hands of someone of Secret Six Rank!”

Cui Qingyang couldn’t comprehend the situation, which had exceeded the scope of his imagination.

Elsewhere, Mokarakashyapa, who had just descended a portion of his power, had regained his composure, returning to a compassionate demeanor, with his hands forming a mudra, his gaze fixed on Zhou Heng, and he uttered solemnly, “In this world, there is actually a descendant of Guang Chengzi, and even the projection of the Heaven-Rotating Seal has been obtained, inconceivable.”

He, too, was suppressed by the Heaven-Rotating Seal, unable to extricate himself, much less escape, doomed to be obliterated under the crush of this ultimate great seal.

“Guang Chengzi…” Zhou Heng’s eyes narrowed slightly as he looked up at the giant Buddha in the sky. The power of the Heaven-Rotating Seal shielded him from the influence of transcendent forces, and he said in a deep voice, “Are you really Mokarakashyapa?”

“Benefactor jests—is there even a fake one?” Mokarakashyapa replied with a smile as he plucked a flower, saying, “This poor monk is a disciple of the Buddha Shakyamuni from the Western Paradise. You have a predestined connection with our Buddha, would you like to join our teachings?”

“There’s no need.” Zhou Heng shook his head, no longer inquiring, and commanded sharply, “Fall!”

Facing such a Buddha, even with the Heaven-Rotating Seal dominating the scene, he dared not take it lightly. To even ask such a question was to take a great risk.

He had to fight quick and decisive!

Boom!

With Zhou Heng’s command of “Fall,” the Heaven-Rotating Seal thundered down!

This seal filled with ancient aura seemed to pervade the entire universe, carrying a weight incomparable to anything else, as though it was heavier than thousands of universes combined, causing mountains and rivers to boil, chaos in the void to churn, and the celestial atmosphere was squeezed and dispersed, continuing to thunder incessantly.

Heaven and Earth tipped over!

The cosmos shattered completely!

All realms crumbled away!

An indescribable weight crushed all the Great Dao, all laws and rules; whether real or illusory, whether past, present, or future, they were all encompassed within this great seal!

Ruthlessly ground to dust!

The Heaven Rotating Seal!

This was the Heaven Rotating Seal, which had shone brilliantly during the legendary battle of sealing the gods, causing the fall of innumerable immortals and gods—a supreme magic weapon!

Even if it was just a projection, it held boundless might!

Snap!

The Heaven Rotating Seal smashed upon the golden body of Moksha Jia Ye, as if bringing the crush of an ancient and primeval world, colliding with the golden light of the Buddha’s disciple’s Dharma Body.

Hum hum hum!

The trembling sound, like a great bell, echoed as Moksha Jia Ye’s manifested golden body burst forth with dazzling Buddha light, yet under the Heaven Rotating Seal’s incomparable massive power, his Dharma Body was struck with layer upon layer of illusions, nearly breaking apart.

“Amitabha!”

Moksha Jia Ye chanted the sacred name of Buddha; layer upon layer of illusory worlds unfurled upon his golden body, like bubbles in a dream, yet they descended into reality.

Layer upon layer of these illusory worlds swiftly came to the side of Dream Saint’s foremost disciple, whose eyes blazed with light. In the center of his forehead, a billion layers of light and shadow suddenly brightened, weaving an infinite and boundless tapestry of dreamlike worlds.

This was to aid the Dream Saint’s disciple in transforming his Tao seed into Tao fruit, seizing this opportunity to achieve the Dao, and secure the position of the Divine First Rank.

Had there been no interference, perhaps the Dream Saint’s disciple and Moksha Jia Ye might have indeed succeeded.

Unfortunately, beneath the Heaven Rotating Seal, there were no ifs!

Boom!

The Heaven Rotating Seal continued to plummet, its countless cloud-inscribed divine scriptures shining brightly, evolving layer upon layer of ancient light and shadows, entangling around this great seal.

Within these layers of light and shadow, glimpses could be seen of ancient scenes from eons past—the collapse of the Heavenly Pillar, the Milky Way pouring downwards, stars plummeting, the earth shattering…

Legend had it that in the epochs long gone, there existed a mountain that reached the nine heavens above and descended into the Nine Netherworlds below.

In a subsequent cataclysm, the Heavenly Pillar collapsed, the cosmos shattered completely, and a supreme being collected half of that mountain upholding the sky and refined it into a magic weapon.

That was the Heaven Rotating Seal!

Under the bombardment of such a treasure, the golden body’s Buddha light that Moksha Jia Ye had manifested burst apart and was smashed to pieces. The fragments of light flew everywhere, and the chants and songs of the Buddha turned into wails.

The Dream Saint’s disciple didn’t even get the chance to see his Tao seed bloom and bear fruit before it was crushed on the spot along with his Primordial Spirit, leaving behind only a wisp of his True Spirit wrapped in a remnant of Moksha Jia Ye’s Buddha light.

This wisp of Buddha light attempted to carry away the Dream Saint’s disciple’s True Spirit, but under the crushing might of the Heaven Rotating Seal, such a plan could only fall through, impossible to realize.

The Heaven Rotating Seal, filled with killing intent, continued to plummet; the moment this sole remnant of Buddha light came into contact with the Heaven Rotating Seal, it disintegrated and dissipated completely, forever obliterated from existence.

At this point, the first disciple of the Middle Ancient Dream Saint, a Second Rank Tao Lord, had both his body and spirit annihilated. The power that had descended from the Moksha Jia Ye Golden Body was also thoroughly crushed, failing to imprint its grand dao onto this realm.

Yan Shouyi retracted his Primordial Spirit, which had transformed into a heaven-supporting giant. He put away the Pure Sky True Sun Sword and took a deep breath. This strike could be said to be the first time he exerted his full strength in three hundred years.

The remaining twelve Celestial Men felt as though they had survived a catastrophe. They had all been previously enveloped by the sacrificial light column; had they not been rescued, they would fearfully have become sacrifices by now.

Even so, they were all severely drained and would need time to recuperate.

Meanwhile, the originally chaotic void, crushed into disarray by the fierce battle, gradually healed under the nourishment of the light scattered from the shattered Dream Dao Seed.

Everything was returning to normal.

“Ah, it’s finally over. That scared me to death,” Cui Qingyang, the Prefectural Governor, lay on the ground completely devoid of dignity, arms spread wide, looking up at the sky, feeling an unprecedented sense of relief.

“Big Senior Brother…” He Mengqiu had also returned from the dreamland, holding a veil in her hand. She looked up at the sky, her expression complex.

After a brief respite and silence, everyone’s gaze turned to one place.

They looked toward Zhou Heng.

…

“Congratulations! You have used the Projection Card ‘Heaven Rotating Seal [Silver]’ to kill ‘Jade Heart Son’s’ true Dao Seed body!

“Treasure Box [Platinum] +1, Fortune Bag [Gold] +1, Fortune Bag [Silver] +1, Fortune Bag [Copper] +1, Choice Reward Quantity +1, Existing Base Attributes +1, Existing Additional Attributes +1.

“Special Skill Upgrade Card +1, Martial Arts Taoist Formulas Upgrade Card +1, Lifespan +100, Dream Dao Seed Fragment +1, Choice Reward Quantity +1, Martial Arts Taoist Formulas Proficiency Gift Pack +1.

“You may choose any 1+1 of the following rewards.

“① Kill Shot Once: Specify any creature, and it will be killed with a single hit.

“② Misfortune Once: Specify any creature to encounter unimaginable misfortune, lasting for twenty-four hours.

“③ Breakthrough Once: Disregard any realm’s limit, allowing oneself to break through to a higher level.”

…

“Congratulations! You have used the Projection Card ‘Heaven Rotating Seal [Silver]’ to kill an aspect of the Evil God ‘Moksha Jia Ye’s’ Divine Sense embodiment!

“Treasure Box [Platinum] +2, Fortune Bag [Gold] +2, Fortune Bag [Silver] +2, Fortune Bag [Copper] +2, Choice Reward Quantity +2, Existing Base Attributes +2, Existing Additional Attributes +2.

“Universal Special Skill Card +1, Assignable Resurrection Times +1, Allocatable Lifespan +500, Moksha Jia Ye’s Pure Land Fragment +1, Choice Reward Quantity +2, Martial Arts Taoist Formulas Proficiency Gift Pack +1.

“You may choose any 1+2 of the following rewards.

“① Concealment Once: Conceal a certain matter, erasing all traces of its existence, making it as if it had never existed.

“② Distortion Once: Twist a certain rule according to one’s will, lasting for fifteen minutes.

“③ Manifestation Once: Bring into reality an imagined scene or object, duration fifteen minutes, the degree of reality is influenced by the level of understanding.

“④ Cataclysm Once: Trigger a natural disaster across the whole world, including but not limited to earthquakes, tsunamis, lightning, storms, meteorites, earth splits, mountain collapses, etc., lasting for fifteen minutes.

“⑤ Invincibility Once: To any being, you are invincible, lasting for eight seconds.”