Chapter 309 - 293: Remarkable
Black Mountain Master took a single step forward.
With that one step, the entirety of Taixu Hall, and even the Holy Sect Mountain Gate’s territory for dozens of miles around, seemed to sink!
It was an intensification of his very "presence," as if Heaven and Earth had suddenly been burdened with ten thousand times their previous weight.
All the Masters inside the hall staggered, caught off guard, nearly forced to their knees by the sudden, crushing "heaviness."
Their Magical Power felt as if it had been infused with lead, circulating sluggishly, and even their Divine Souls felt a dull, compressive force.
And then!
With Black Mountain Master as the epicenter, the illusory "Ten Thousand Layers of Demon Mountain" behind him, already as solid as reality, suddenly and rapidly expanded outward!
In the blink of an eye, it filled the entire visible space within the hall.
It even broke through the hall’s boundaries, engulfing the dim sky and leaden clouds outside!
It was no longer an illusion, but a tangible and terrifying Realm Heaven formed from countless towering Demon Mountains.
Each peak was thousands of feet tall, pitch-black like ink, with jagged, rugged slopes and strange, protruding rocks. Viscous, blood-like, dark-red Demon Patterns flowed across their surfaces.
There was no grass or trees among the mountains, only howling Bone-Eroding Yin Wind and a pervasive, desolate demonic mist.
And every one of these mountains was shouldered by an Ancient Demon Deity.
These Demon Deities gazed down with cold, demonic eyes, their mouths uttering ancient demonic words that rumbled like muffled thunder.
An immense will of ferocity, tyranny, suppression, and destruction mingled with the sheer weight of the peaks themselves. Like hundreds of millions of tangible worlds, it came crashing down upon Qi Yun, upon every corner of the great hall!
One mountain, one world; one peak, one Demon Deity!
Myriad mountains overlapped, their demonic might like a hellish prison!
This was the [Ten Thousand Mountains Demon Heaven Realm], a technique Black Mountain Master had created himself, founded upon the Profound Vault Origin Refining Demon True Register.
Within this Realm Heaven, he was the lord of ten thousand mountains, the sovereign of all demons. His word was law, suppressing all who dared to defy him!
A pressure so vast it was hard to imagine, like a tangible tide of chaos, completely submerged Qi Yun.
Black Mountain Master stood at the center of the ten thousand mountains, his figure merging with the highest and most treacherous main peak.
He stared down impassively at the deep blue figure below, who seemed utterly minuscule against the backdrop of demonic mountains and their shadows. His voice, devoid of all emotion, was like the grinding of Ten Thousand Years Profound Ice:
"So what if you’ve forged a [Venerable Dao Foundation], possess a Forbidden Thunder Technique, and hold an extraordinary Dao Position?"
"Today, I will utterly shatter your pride and make you understand—"
"—the meaning of a true gap in power!"
The ten thousand mountains quaked in unison as demonic howls shook the heavens!
Innumerable Demon Mountains, carrying the mountain-heavy Demon Deities upon them, converged with the force to crush a Star River and suppress the ages, crashing down to crush Qi Yun’s position!
Space itself groaned, unable to bear the strain.
The sight of the great hall had long been replaced by the endless shadows of the Demon Mountains.
The assembled Masters who had retreated to the edges felt like mayflies in a raging sea, liable to be annihilated at any moment by the aftershocks of this terrifying Realm Heaven.
Facing the heaven-toppling [Ten Thousand Mountains Demon Heaven Realm], Qi Yun raised his head. The demonic qi and Yin Wind whipped his Daoist Robe into a frenzy.
His eyes, reflecting the countless Demon Mountains crashing down, were as serene as an abyss.
He met Black Mountain Master’s indifferent, condescending gaze and faced the imminent pressure of the ten thousand mountains.
Qi Yun took a step forward!
BOOM—!!!
A roar like the one that split the heavens and parted the earth erupted violently from within his body and from the void behind him!
[Daluo Realm]!
A turbulent, surging flow of chaotic energy appeared, like the primordial state before the ten thousand things were separated!
Within the flow, earth, water, wind, and fire cycled into existence, colliding, annihilating, and being reborn. Miniature points of light—suns, moons, and stars—flickered in and out of view, slowly tracing profound trajectories.
Countless indescribable Great Dao Magic Patterns and torrents of Daoist Intent flowed and flickered between existence and oblivion, demonstrating the supreme principles of the creation and destruction of the Ten Thousand Laws and the rise and fall of all Daos!
An immense aura—venerable, noble, supreme, and unparalleled, one that transcended all other Dao Principles and was born to be Commanding All Skills—erupted from this hundred-zhang-wide Chaos Realm Heaven!
Compared to the heavy, grim, and suppressive [Ten Thousand Mountains Demon Heaven Realm], the [Daluo Realm] was small in scale.
However, its supreme artistic conception—one that looked down upon the Ten Thousand Laws, declaring ’My Dao is the Heavens’—was like a lighthouse in the dead of night, so blindingly brilliant it was impossible to ignore!
The instant the [Daluo Realm] unfurled!
The golden divine light that had been brewing in Qi Yun’s eyes suddenly flared to an extreme intensity!
They were like two miniature suns of thunder rising in his eyes!
Facing the towering Demon Mountains and ancient Demon Deities that nearly filled Heaven and Earth, he suddenly opened his mouth. His voice, like the thunder of the Nine Heavens, chanted clearly, word by word:
"My hand alone throws the Nine Heavens into chaos,
I drink the dust of eternal calamities from my cup.
Suddenly, a Decree from the Jade Pivot arrives,
And the Star River reverses, becoming a flash of lightning!"
Every syllable he uttered stirred the supreme Daoist Intent hidden in the ether.
And as the final line—"And the Star River reverses, becoming a flash of lightning!"—was spoken—
An endless, scalp-numbing, and dense humming sound suddenly erupted from every corner of the [Daluo Realm] at once!
Within that hundred-zhang-wide Chaos Realm Heaven, as Qi Yun’s Heart Thought turned, one after another, [Shenxiao Thunder Talismans] began to manifest in a frenzy! Each Talisman was golden, with edges flowing with incandescent white electricity, and their patterns were complex and esoteric to the extreme!
One thought born, ten thousand talismans appear!
After mastering the [Heaven-Reaching Talisman], Qi Yun’s Talisman Painting no longer required brush, ink, paper, or inkstone, nor any complex rituals. He didn’t even need to move his hands.
With a mere flicker of his Heart Thought, the True Meaning of the Great Dao itself would coalesce into the form of a Talisman!
In an instant, a dense, innumerable array of Thunder Talismans had already formed, spreading across the entire [Daluo Realm].
The magnificent might of thunder, like the fury of the Celestial Dao, condensed and gathered its power within the hundred-zhang chaos, illuminating the interior of the Realm Heaven in a blaze of gold and white.