Chapter 483: The Mysterious Only Hall (Thanks to Peach Blossom Bloom...)

Chapter 483: The Mysterious Hall of Oneness (Thanks to Peach Blossom in Bloom for the Fifty Thousand Reward!)

Two Great Principles of the second tier, even an Exalted One would find hard to slay, only able to gravely wound them.

Yet, faced with Qi Yuan’s devastating assault, empowered by ten thousand suns, they shattered in an instant.

Such might was enough to move, astonish, and bewilder the Yang Gods observing this battle.

“Ultimate power, overbearing and unparalleled destructive force… is this also a form of supreme principle?”

“Even the Great Principle engraved upon the will of the Immortal Dao shattered in an instant—such power…”

Many Yang Gods cried out, shaken by Qi Yuan’s strike just now.

This was ultimate power, without any flourish, without any principle contained within.

It was merely power!

Within the Grand Blaze Palace, True Origin Heavenly Venerate’s expression turned grim, his heart chilled with fear.

The Solar Heavenly Venerate, bolstered by the Great Sun Throne, had still lost!

Were Banner Lord and Abyss Lord not even a match for a single blow from the Ten Suns Heavenly Venerate… no, the Ten Thousand Suns Heavenly Venerate?

“You actually seized the Exalted Throne—how is this possible!”

Among all this, what True Origin Heavenly Venerate could not accept was not the silence of Banner Lord and Abyss Lord.

But rather… the seizure of the Great Sun Throne!

This meant that even if the Great Sun Exalted One returned to the Sixth Heaven, his throne would be gone!

What would happen then, True Origin Heavenly Venerate could not imagine.

“You are guilty.”

What awaited True Origin Heavenly Venerate was Qi Yuan’s judgment.

“Outside the Celestial Kun Strange Land, you had none of the bearing befitting a Great Principle Yang God—you spewed nothing but foul words!”

“In a single sentence, seven or eight forbidden terms!”

“The corruption of the cultivation world’s atmosphere rests on your shoulders!”

“Rectifying the cultivation world’s atmosphere begins with you!”

As Qi Yuan spoke, a vast fist hurtled toward True Origin Heavenly Venerate.

In an instant, stars filled the sky, light blazing brilliantly.

True Origin Heavenly Venerate’s face twisted in terror, and he let out a wretched cry: “…Save me!”

But the preceding words seemed bound by some mysterious seal; he could not utter them at all, only managing the two words “save me.”

Naturally, no one answered him.

The terrifying fist landed upon True Origin Heavenly Venerate’s body.

His celestial spiritual power surged wildly, principles activated, and space twisted and overlapped.

Under the effect of principles, the spatial distance between him and Qi Yuan seemed to stretch millions of miles apart.

Such was the power of principles—ordinary Yang Gods could not even approach True Origin Heavenly Venerate’s form.

Yet even so, that fist defied all reason.

The space of millions of miles shattered like glass, crushed and wadded into a ball by the immense force.

Space broke apart, and the unmatched fist struck True Origin Heavenly Venerate’s body.

That strength, that agony, that annihilation—irresistible, unimaginable.

In an instant, True Origin Heavenly Venerate’s body and soul shattered.

With one fist, principles fell.

True Origin Heavenly Venerate’s dissipating form was swept away by Qi Yuan’s sleeve, collected into the underworld as fertilizer.

His gaze now turned to the remaining Grand Blaze Palace crowd, a glint of killing intent in his eyes.

At this moment, he was terrifyingly powerful.

But he knew this power… would not last long.

After all, his body was merely at the Violet Mansion stage, even if bolstered by the Little Marriage and Shared Robes, which had elevated him considerably.

Sustaining tens of thousands of stellar golden cores upon his form was still arduous.

“Alas, I am still too kind.”

Qi Yuan thought to himself.

The reason he had donned the myriad stars was, first, for style, and second, for kindness.

Otherwise, he would have used the simplest method—directly unleashing the Star Projection—smash!

With one smash, the power would be even greater.

However, such an attack was uncontrollable and could easily harm the innocent.

Qi Yuan, lawful and good, naturally did not wish for the aftershocks of his battle to injure mortals.

Thus, the stars were all gathered upon his form; now, with blood-red and blazing white light shining, he stood majestic as a celestial god.

“Kill!”

Another mighty fist pressed down with overwhelming force.

He showed no mercy to the Yang God Heavenly Venerates of Grand Blaze Palace.

Within the Grand Blaze Palace, the remaining Yang God Heavenly Venerates were all horrified, feeling the threat of death.

The Solar Heavenly Venerate watched Qi Yuan’s upright figure, a glimmer of relieved smile flashing in his eyes.

To fall now or fall later—there was no difference.

Yet, just then, suddenly, within the Grand Blaze Palace, a violent tremor arose.

A vast and righteous aura seemed to descend from the Seventh Heaven.

Enveloping the Grand Blaze Palace.

A great shout rang out.

“Unique across the heavens, eternal unity!”

“Protect my Grand Blaze!”

Within the Grand Blaze Palace, the remaining Great Principle cried out.

He was the Great Principle second only to the Great Sun within the Grand Blaze Palace.

Upon his person, a token suddenly appeared.

At the top of the token were engraved two characters: “Unique” and “One.”

“This is… the Token of Oneness!” a Great Principle exclaimed.

“It is indeed the Token of Oneness—no wonder the Grand Blaze Palace gained the support of the Hall of Oneness and became the overseer of the Lin Ya Molt!”

The Sole Mandate radiated a terrifying aura, more powerful than even an offensive Creation Treasure.

“This is the Sole Mandate, Qi Yuan. Do you dare defy the Sole Hall and oppose the will of the Immortal Way?”

That Grand Principle roared, his voice resounding through the Sixth Heaven.

The Sole Mandate was the token of the Sole Hall, representing its supreme authority and will.

Even a Revered One, upon seeing the Sole Mandate, must treat it with due respect!

The many Yang Gods of the Grand Blazing Palace seemed to regain their confidence.

The Grand Blazing Palace was the steward of the Linya Molt, sheltered by the Sole Hall. No matter how powerful Qi Yuan was, could he stand against the Sole Hall?

Was this not a rebellion against heaven itself?

“Break!”

But Qi Yuan did not retreat, nor did he flinch before the Sole Mandate.

A strike of ultimate power collided with the radiance emitted by the Sole Mandate!

Boom!

The mighty blow shattered the surrounding space.

The Grand Blazing Palace shuddered with a clang.

The Grand Principle holding the Sole Mandate had blood at the corner of his mouth, his form unsteady, as if about to shatter.

“You… how dare you!”

He was shocked, never imagining Qi Yuan would dare strike the Sole Mandate.

“All who block me are my enemies,” Qi Yuan said slowly.

He too was somewhat surprised.

This Sole Mandate was rather fierce, deflecting most of his attack.

“Do you mean to defy the Sole Hall and oppose the Linya Molt?” the Grand Principle shouted coldly.

Though sheltered by the Sole Mandate, Qi Yuan’s strike was too overbearing, still wounding him.

“Don’t use the Sole Hall to pressure me. And what is this Linya Molt to me?” Qi Yuan said earnestly.

He was merely a small Purple Mansion cultivator—what did the Linya Molt have to do with him?

Qi Yuan feared no threats, and another mighty strike was already launched.

Seeing this, the Grand Principle of the Grand Blazing Palace wore an especially grim expression.

Even with the Sole Mandate’s protection, if Qi Yuan kept striking, he could not hold out long and would be shaken to death alive.

“Yang Gods of the Heavens, Revered Ones—will you stand by and let this outsider overthrow the Grand Blazing Palace?”

This Grand Principle roared.

But no one heeded him; they all looked on indifferently.

Witnessing this, the Grand Principle felt helpless and sorrowful.

Finally, he gave Qi Yuan a deep, venomous glare.

“Steward of the Linya Molt, beseech the Sole Hall to open the Seventh Heaven, to avoid calamity and disaster!”

With his great shout, a vast and majestic aura seemed to descend from the Seventh Heaven.

Within the Grand Blazing Palace, the expressions of those Yang Gods and disciples turned ugly and resistant.

For the Grand Principle was using the Sole Mandate to elevate the Grand Blazing Palace to the Seventh Heaven to escape disaster.

In the Seventh Heaven, there was only the Sole Hall and the special beings after the Linya Molt.

That heaven was utterly unfit for cultivators to survive—indeed, it had no immortal energy or spiritual qi at all.

Once they entered the Seventh Heaven, they could not cultivate, nor could they frequently use Dao arts, for there was no way to replenish themselves.

It could be said that the Seventh Heaven was a barren wasteland, worse even than the lower realms.

Staying there, cultivators might fall at any moment.

If Qi Yuan were not dealt with before the Linya Molt ended, and they returned to the Sixth Heaven, all of them would perish and transform into special beings.

This was slow suicide.

Yet they could not stop it.

For if they did not go to the Seventh Heaven, facing Qi Yuan, they had no hope of survival.

Then, a chaotic, deathly aura descended from the sky.

The entire Grand Blazing Palace was enveloped by this aura.

“The Sole Hall descends upon the world!”

“The Grand Blazing Palace is to go to the Seventh Heaven… Is this not seeking death?”

“Even a Grand Principle, staying in the Seventh Heaven for a thousand years, would surely die!”

At this moment, Qi Yuan looked up, his gaze piercing the firmament.

What met his eyes was a vast darkness.

A grim, somber, deathly aura filled and pervaded everything.

The sky was pitch-black like ink, deep and boundless, silent and still.

But Qi Yuan suddenly saw, in the dark vault of heaven, countless densely packed eyes opening, gleaming with an eerie light.

These eyes stared silently at Qi Yuan, devoid of any emotion.

They watched in stillness, like bats hanging upside down in a cave.

That gaze sent a chill down one’s spine.

It was the first time Qi Yuan had felt such a sensation.

At that moment, the aura of the Seventh Heaven leaked forth, and the Sole Mandate enveloped the Grand Blazing Palace.

The entire Grand Blazing Palace—vast as a world—plunged abruptly into the Seventh Heaven.

Qi Yuan suddenly saw that those indifferent eyes, upon witnessing the Grand Blazing Palace vanish into the Seventh Heaven, seemed to flash with a hint of greed in their pupils.

These eyes… were conscious?

This surprised Qi Yuan slightly.

For according to the information he had obtained before, the spirits of the Sole Hall were formed from the Yang Gods of the Sixth Heaven who died in battle during the Linya Molt, possessing no consciousness or emotion.

Their sole instinct was to open the Seventh Heaven.

But now… he saw greed in their eyes.

This differed from what the books recorded.

Still, what did that matter to Qi Yuan?

Now, standing outside the Grand Blazing Palace, his expression was complex: “Does this count… as me having razed the Grand Blazing Palace?”

The world before him was barren, with no trace of the Grand Blazing Palace at all.

He looked up at the Seventh Heaven and shouted directly, “Hey, shielding a criminal is also a crime. Solemn Hall, do you intend to commit a crime as well?”

Alas, the sky above remained silent, with no one answering him.

As for those eyes, they too vanished after the Seventh Heaven closed.

“Don’t think that running off to another realm lets you escape justice—I have cross-border enforcement authority!”

Whether he had it or not, Qi Yuan threw out the threat anyway.

Alas, still no reply.

This left Qi Yuan slightly disappointed.

“Don’t think that hiding in the Seventh Heaven lets you badmouth me behind my back—I can hear you even through a single heaven!”

Qi Yuan strongly suspected that those in the Taihuang Palace would surely gossip about him behind his back.

Especially since he was now in the Sixth Heaven.

At that thought, indignation flared within him, and he quickly put his superpowered ears to use.

His ears, when he listened intently, could pick up certain peculiar sounds.

He could even, on occasion, hear the thoughts of others.

He turned his hearing toward the place where the Taihuang Palace had flown into the Seventh Heaven and listened carefully.

In an instant, his eyes grew strange.

A faint, gnawing sound came through—like a rat chewing on something, or a cat gnawing on plastic.

“Who’s gnawing on spare ribs?”

Qi Yuan was somewhat surprised.

And then, all of a sudden, a wretched voice reached his ears.

“Hel…”

The voice was hurried, then abruptly cut off, as if it had never existed.

Qi Yuan heard clearly that the voice belonged to none other than the Solar Heavenly Lord.

It came from the Solar Heavenly Lord, who had gone to the Seventh Heaven.

As if something terrifying had occurred within the Seventh Heaven.

Qi Yuan’s gaze instantly turned toward the Star Realm.

In the Star Realm, the star belonging to the Solar Heavenly Lord still shone.

That meant… he was still alive.

“Did I mishear?”

Qi Yuan pondered.

……

In the Sixth Heaven, the news that the Ten Suns Heavenly Lord had raised his divine throne, swept through the Taihuang Palace with ten thousand suns upon him, seized the Great Sun Throne, and forced the Taihuang Palace to retreat to the Seventh Heaven, stirred up a massive uproar.

Countless cultivators were shocked, or even horrified.

After all, such a thing… had never been seen since time immemorial.

Ten suns hanging in the sky were enough to shake the Sixth Heaven.

And these tens of thousands of stars suspended in the void… could mere shaking even describe it?

At that moment, in the Zi Yuan Heaven, Zi Yuan Xiaolu swallowed hard with difficulty: “Blood-Robed Senior Brother… he’s too big!”

With tens of thousands of stars fused into his body, Qi Yuan’s form had swelled to a terrifying degree.

He stood outside the Taihuang Palace, and from the Zi Yuan Heaven, separated by countless worlds and endless distances, one could still see that towering, majestic figure.

That kind of vastness was beyond description, beyond endurance.

“Didn’t I say Blood-Robed Senior Brother is the foremost prodigy of the Black Demon Abyss? Even the Abyss Lord was beaten to death by him in three punches!” Zi Yuan Xiaolu looked at An Xunlu, unable to resist showing off with pride.

She wanted to see how An Xunlu would refute this time.

Such combat power rivaled that of a Supreme Venerable.

Senior Brother Black Sword probably wouldn’t possess such might for ten thousand years.

An Xunlu took a deep breath: “You’re right. For now, in the Black Demon Abyss… Blood-Robed is supreme, but…”

“But what?” Zi Yuan Xiaolu asked discontentedly, immediately pressing.

“But your chest is small!” An Xunlu said, then left, thrusting out her own ample bosom.

“You!” Zi Yuan Xiaolu’s face instantly reddened, and she stomped her feet in fury.

She was furious!

When you can’t win an argument, you start attacking someone’s figure, huh?

At that moment in the Zi Yuan Heaven, many prodigies were stunned, and after the shock came elation.

With a powerhouse like Blood-Robed in the Zi Yuan Heaven, what fear was there of the Linya Molt this time?

The Zi Yuan Heaven… was surely destined to flourish!

Hadn’t they seen the Taihuang Palace beaten back into the Seventh Heaven?

On the other side, the Zi Yuan Ancestor gazed at the void, a flicker of emotion passing through his heart: “You really went all out, killing the Abyss Lord outright.”

The void rippled, and Qi Yuan’s figure appeared.

Now, he had shed the domineering aura and killing intent from outside the Taihuang Palace. Clad in an ordinary black robe, his demeanor seemed somewhat languid, like a sunlit, reclusive boy.

“Old man, I said I’d have your back—I don’t break my word.”

“You truly startled me today. I fear… even the Supreme Venerable is deeply wary of you!” the Zi Yuan Ancestor sighed.

He hadn’t expected Qi Yuan to be this strong.

“So many stars… I’m truly envious!” He looked at the stars in the Star Realm with longing in his eyes.

“Alas, I’m still too weak. Against a Supreme Venerable… I have no certainty,” Qi Yuan said.

This was the truth.

A Supreme Venerable and a Great Principle seemed like two different realms.

“A Supreme Venerable has no certainty against you either,” the Zi Yuan Ancestor said, looking at Qi Yuan. “You can summon thirty thousand stars—who knows how many more you have hidden?”

“That question?” Qi Yuan squinted. “Let them guess.”

This time, Qi Yuan naturally hadn’t summoned all his star projections.

He still held something back.

“You rascal.” Hearing this, the Zi Yuan Ancestor felt greatly reassured.

The stronger Qi Yuan grew, the more at ease he became.

“You must be careful of the Solemn Hall. Within the Solemn Hall… though there are no cultivators, those spirits… are troublesome.”

Although they cannot descend to the lower realm, the Linya Shed is still controlled by the Taihuang Palace—who knows what sinister scheme they might unleash against you!” Ziyuan Ancestor spoke of the Weiyi Hall, his gaze wary.

Qi Yuan’s expression also grew complicated: “Old man, how much do you know about the Weiyi Hall?

For some reason, now that the entire Taihuang Palace has ascended to the Seventh Heaven, I have a premonition that their Yang Spirits have all perished.”

“The stars of the Star Realm still shine—how could they be dead?” Ziyuan Ancestor was puzzled. “If they do not descend before the Linya Shed ends, perhaps they truly will all die.

One man forcing the Taihuang Palace to relocate—this is something unheard of since ancient times.”

As Ziyuan Ancestor spoke, a thought struck him: “If you wish to learn more about the Weiyi Hall, you could go and see those Supreme Venerables—they might know.”

“See the Supreme Venerables?” Qi Yuan mused. “Indeed, I should go and meet them.”

Qi Yuan also wanted to see the Moon Goddess Yuanjun and clarify matters regarding his master.

Now, his game was nearly fully loaded; the time left for him was running short.

“Old man, I need Black Demon Ancestor Blood—the more, the better,” Qi Yuan said.

Though tens of thousands of stars hung in the sky, Qi Yuan still lacked a sense of security.

He needed the Black Demon Ancestor Blood to raise the level of the *Ancestral Blood Art*, which would also elevate his cultivation as the Ten Thousand Dao Martial God.

Currently, the *Ancestral Blood Art* was stuck at the thirteenth layer, merely comparable to the Great Principle.

There was still vast room for improvement in the *Ancestral Blood Art*.

He couldn’t just rely on the Stellar Golden Core every time he faced someone, could he?

The Stellar Golden Core’s empowerment demanded too much of his own physique.

He also needed to raise his cultivation as the Ten Thousand Dao Martial God to strengthen his body.

Otherwise, if a million stars were to descend upon him, with his current frame, he would surely suffer from kidney deficiency.

“Rest assured, I will go see the Black Sword at once,” Ziyuan Ancestor said earnestly, then added, “Now that the Taihuang Palace has moved into the Seventh Heaven, you must be careful… the Linya Shed… is very dangerous.”

The Taihuang Palace could also employ many inscrutable techniques through the Linya Shed.

“Relax, with the Great Sun dealt with, there’s no worry for now. My cultivation is still low—what does the Linya Shed have to do with me?”

Qi Yuan shrugged.

“Without the Great Sun by my side, playing games is so much cooler!”

“Tell me, now that I have seized the Great Sun’s throne, does he still possess the power of a Supreme Venerable?”

Qi Yuan’s mind wandered.

Ziyuan Ancestor shook his head: “About the Supreme Venerables, I do not know. If you wish to understand these things, you still need to go see those Supreme Venerables.”

“Alright.”

“By the way, you must be wary of the Principle Society—it has two Supreme Venerables.

And… there is one thing… before the Principle Society came into being, the Sixth Heaven… had no Supreme Venerables.”

(End of chapter)