Chapter 985 - 441: Return! (Part 2)
Instantly, it surged towards the mountain gate!
"It’s over."
All the disciples of the Kao Mountain Sect showed complete despair on their faces.
Xu Qinghan slowly closed her eyes.
A clear tear slid down from the corner of her eye.
"Xu Ran, junior brother, I might not see you return!"
However, the expected death did not descend.
Time seemed to stand still once again at that moment!
Xu Qinghan opened her eyes in confusion.
Then, she saw the most unbelievable scene of her life!
In front of their Kao Mountain Sect mountain gate, before the surging endless black mist.
The sky cracked open!
A space-time rift so enormous it defies description crossed the sky!
Within the rift.
It was deep, cold, and deathly silent.
The cosmic starlit sky!
And at the center of the rift, a silhouette slowly stepped out!
It was a young man in black.
His features were handsome yet extremely cold!
A pair of eyes.
One like a blazing divine sun! Intense and dazzling!
The other like eternal void! Deep and silence!
In his hand, he held an ancient, heavy black long sword!
The blade seemed to contain the darkness of the entire Universe!
He just stood there quietly like that.
Standing before the rift.
Standing between the black mist and the mountain gate.
It’s as if he had existed for eternity!
An indescribable terrifying pressure!
It spread from his body!
The pressure!
Beyond an Immortal!
Beyond a God!
Even beyond the limits that this realm can comprehend!
Just existing.
Made the world lose its color!
Made the sun and moon lose their light!
Made the originally raging endless black mist, as if meeting its nemesis.
Suddenly.
Solidify!
All the ferocious and twisted shadows emitted an agonizing silent scream of fear!
As if they had witnessed the most terrifying existence in the world!
Before the mountain gate.
All the disciples and elders of the Kao Mountain Sect, including Xu Qinghan, were stunned!
They opened their mouths wide, their eyes hollow, their minds blank!
The scene before them, like the descent of a deity and demon, completely overturned their understanding!
And amidst this deathly silence, the young man in black who had walked out from the space-time rift spoke slowly.
His voice!
Cold!
Indifferent!
Without the slightest emotion.
Yet it seemed to contain the ultimate decree of the cosmos!
"Who allowed you"
His gaze swept over the solidified endless black mist.
"To disturb my domain?"
The voice wasn’t loud, yet it seemed to contain an unimaginable power that makes words become reality!
The moment the words fell!
Rumbling——
It wasn’t sound, but the roar of the Dao! The tremor of the Law!
The endless Celestial Demon black mist that had solidified in mid-air, like black tides, along with all the ferocious, twisted, and immensely sinister Outer Heaven Demons within, at this moment, let out a silent wail that surpassed the limits of divine souls!
It wasn’t pain!
It was collapse! It was disintegration!
As if an invisible great hand reached out from the void, gently wiping!
Or perhaps, it was the words of this young man in black, becoming the supreme will of this realm! His words were the decree! His gaze was judgment!
The surging black mist, like ice and snow under the sun, melted rapidly at a visible speed!
But it wasn’t simply dispersing, it was obliteration!
A kind of annihilation that erased existence itself completely!
Every single wisp of Demonic Qi that constituted their existence, every evil thought, under this irresistible will, transformed into the most primal void! Not a trace was left!
There was no earth-shattering explosion, no destruction-filled light.
Only deathly silence!
Absolute deathly silence!
A moment ago, it was still engulfed in demonic flames, ghostly wails and divine roars, as if dragging the entire Southern Celestial Stars into an endless Hell.
The next moment, everything was gone, except for the enormous spatial rift that still spanned across the sky, revealing the cold Cosmos, and the young man in black standing silently before it.
It was as if the intense battle before, the billions of Celestial Demons that drove Kao Mountain Sect to despair, were all but a fleeting nightmare.
The wind gently blew past.
It ruffled a few strands of hair on the black-clad youth’s forehead and lifted the destruction and bloodshed at the mountain gate of Kao Mountain Sect.
All the remaining people of Kao Mountain Sect still maintained their previous postures, like clay figures or carved wooden statues.
Their eyes were wide and round, their mouths open enough to fit a fist, and the expressions on their faces were of ultimate shock, ultimate confusion, and a trace of awe that seeped from the depths of their souls, unbeknownst to even themselves!
It was the primal reaction of life towards an existence that surpassed the limits of understanding!
They couldn’t comprehend what had just happened.
The terrifying nature of the Outer Heaven Demons that surged like a tide, they had experienced firsthand! Each one emitted an aura that made their hearts palpitate, some as powerful as those comparable to Nascent Soul or even Divinity Transformation monsters! Even the Mountain Protection Array was forcibly exhausted and shattered!
Yet this power, strong enough to sweep across several Cultivation Stars, under a single utterance from that black-clad youth
Just vanished like that?
Erased?
What kind of power is this?
An Immortal?
No! Even the Immortals of legend who ascended to the Immortal Realm probably couldn’t achieve such an unbelievable feat, could they?!
This was no longer Divine Techniques, no longer a Spell!
This was a divine miracle! The authority of a Creator!
"Gulp!"
Someone, unknown who, swallowed hard, breaking the deathly silence.
Everyone’s gaze, almost unconsciously, focused on the figure standing between heaven and earth.
He slowly turned around.
Those eyes, half divine sun, half void, fell upon the dilapidated mountain gate and the Kao Mountain Sect disciples and elders who survived the disaster, still trembling with fear.
The gaze was very calm, without joy, without anger, and not even pity.
Only an ancient indifference.
As if, in his eyes, all living beings were no different from the dust of the stars.
However, when his gaze finally fell upon Xu Qinghan, holding a Spirit Sword with dried tears and a face still pale.
Those eternally frozen eyes seemed to ripple ever so slightly.
Like an ancient deep pool without waves, where an invisible stone was thrown, creating barely discernible ripples.
The ripple vanished in an instant.
So fast it made one think it was an illusion.
But he indeed paused at that moment.
He looked at Xu Qinghan, at the Spirit Sword she held, which he had once used, now dim in its glow.
Time seemed to slow down once again.
Xu Qinghan also stared blankly at him.
Her mind was still blank, but her heart raced uncontrollably!
The aura of this person was so unfamiliar! So unfamiliar it suffocated her! That pressure, above everything else, almost robbed her of the courage to look directly!
But why, in that cold indifference, did she vaguely capture an incredibly distant, incredibly blurred, yet soul-shaking sense of familiarity?
Was it an illusion?
It must be... How could the junior brother possibly become like this...
"You..."
The black-clad youth spoke again.
This time, his voice didn’t seem as purely cold and indifferent as before.
Was there a trace of hoarseness?
Or perhaps, it was the awkwardness of attempting to voice words after being sealed away for too long.
He looked at Xu Qinghan, his gaze seemingly piercing through time and space, seeing some scenes from long ago.
"Are you okay?"
Just three simple words.
Yet like three bolts of thunder!
Struck fiercely at Xu Qinghan’s heart! And struck at the hearts of all Kao Mountain Sect elders and disciples who heard it!
Are you okay?
This tone, this address...
Though still cold, beneath that coldness lay what seemed no longer the indifference looking down at ants, but an inquiry? A concern laden with some complex emotions?
Especially Xu Qinghan!
She suddenly widened her eyes!
Her slender form began to tremble violently!
This voice, this feeling, even though it had become incredibly unfamiliar, even though separated by infinite years and time and space!
But that mark branded deep within the soul surged wildly at this moment!
It’s him!
It really is him!
The one in her memory, always with a hint of shyness, a bit of stubbornness, quietly cultivating in Kao Mountain Sect, yet always stepping forward at critical moments—
The youth she regarded as a younger brother, yet left an indelible silhouette in her heart—Xu Ran!
Junior Brother!