Chapter 341 - 316: Temporarily Holding... the True Monarch’s Position
Qi Yun’s eyes narrowed, the divine light within them flickering wildly.
He could clearly sense the origin aura of the vast, boundless power that had suddenly emerged to help him stabilize his Daluo Heaven...
’The True Celestial Will... is helping me?’
Qi Yun muttered to himself, his voice holding a trace of dawning realization.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
The True Celestial Will was suppressed by the Fruit Position, its authority usurped.
And It wanted to return to its Celestial Position!
Its only hope... was him.
After all, if he fell, no one else within Cang Que could ever hope to contend with the Fruit Position.
The True Celestial Will would then have no hope of ever returning!
The moment the thought arose in Qi Yun’s mind, the vast power from the True Celestial Will suddenly surged!
It was no longer the previous trickle of support, but as if an ancient, slumbering Earth Vein had completely awakened.
At this moment, the fundamental rhythm of the Heaven and Earth of Cang Que, the breath of its mountains and rivers, the primeval origin accumulated over eons from the flourishing and withering of all life—all of it transformed into a silent but majestic torrent that made the void tremble, surging violently into his crumbling Daluo Heaven!
VMMMM—!!!
The Daluo Heaven shuddered violently!
The Chaos Realm Heaven had been compressed to less than a hundred feet, its border’s Dao Patterns crumbling away. Now, like a parched land suddenly inundated by a celestial river, the dim illusions of the sun, moon, and stars within it erupted with an unprecedented, brilliant light!
Pure Qi billowed upward. The Star Map it formed expanded and solidified at a startling rate. The trajectories of countless stars were no longer illusory; they transformed into tangible, silver-glowing chains. As the chains intertwined, the Power of Order spread, forcibly smoothing out and realigning the chaotic Laws within a radius of hundreds of feet, then thousands, and even farther beyond!
Muddy Qi sank with a roar. The aspect of the Nine Netherworld Ruins was no longer a mere illusion; it manifested as a true black hole vortex that consumed all things. Its edges emanated an absolute darkness that devoured all light and detection, silently engulfing the turbulent, cyan-gray stream of Laws from the Fruit Position. It crushed them, reducing them to the most primordial chaos energy!
The four fundamental origins—earth, fire, wind, and water—no longer cycled through creation and destruction, but manifested directly as tangible phenomena.
The four origin powers surged and intermingled, weaving layer upon layer of luminous barriers imbued with the Life and Death Dao along the edges of the Daluo Heaven!
Qi Yun felt as if a burning, ancient star had been plunged into his Purple Mansion Sea of Consciousness!
CRACK—!
A soft sound that only Qi Yun could hear, as if some invisible shackle had broken, rang out from the deepest part of his Dao Foundation.
Immediately after, his Cultivation began to skyrocket at a visible rate!
His Magical Power, once restrained and stagnant due to inter-realm suppression and rejection from this world’s laws, began to surge tempestuously!
His meridians and acupoints were widened and reinforced in an instant. His Magical Power transformed from a river into a Star Sea, and its quality underwent a fundamental transformation.
Each wisp began to carry a trace of the chaotic Dao Rhyme from the dawn of Heaven and Earth, along with the ancient, profound weight unique to the Cangque Realm!
His Divine Soul, that recently formed pale-gold Yang God, burst forth with brilliant light!
Its form expanded and solidified at an incredible speed, and its original gentle, jade-like pale-gold luster rapidly transformed into a deeper, dark gold that seemed capable of illuminating all of time and space!
As the Yang God’s eyes opened and closed, faint illusions of the sun and moon rose and fell within them. The Pure Yang Dao Rhyme naturally flowing around its body began to be infused with wisps... of the cold majesty belonging to the authority of Heaven and Earth!
Simultaneously, the Daluo Heaven was also changing.
This Venerable Realm Heaven, after merging with the Cang Que Origin and fragments of authority gifted by the True Celestial Will, began a true metamorphosis!
The Realm Heaven’s range was no longer passively expanding, but actively growing!
From an initial few hundred feet, it spread to thousands, then tens of thousands of feet in a mere instant!
And this range seemed to have no limit.
As long as the support from the True Celestial Will continued, it could continue to extend, to cover and replace the surrounding Heaven and Earth controlled by the Fruit Position!
Qi Yun’s aura underwent an earth-shattering change.
It was no longer the deep, restrained pressure of a Master, nor the blazing pure yang aura he possessed just after achieving the Yang God stage.
Instead, it was a sense of... supremacy... as if he shared the same breath and destiny as Heaven and Earth itself!
He stood in the center of the madly expanding Daluo Heaven, his Deep Blue Daoist Robe fluttering on its own without wind, dancing wildly. Wisps of Chaos-colored Dao Patterns and azure celestial light began to flow naturally from the edges of his sleeves.
Within his eyes, his left eye swirled with the nine colors of chaos, reflecting the creation and destruction of the Profound Yellow and the Ten Thousand Laws. His right eye became a field of pure azure, containing the rise and fall of a Mountain and River Illusion and the cycling of the sun and moon.
Though his physical form hadn’t changed, in the perception of every being who witnessed the sight, he was growing infinitely taller, expanding, transforming into a Supreme True Deity whose head touched the firmament and whose feet trod upon the Nine Netherworld, his body wreathed in endless great Daos and Cause and Effect Threads!
"What... is this?!"
In the distance, the fifty Rapidly Cultivated Yang Gods battling the Cang Que Yang Gods, as well as their opponents, all instinctively slowed their attacks, staring in horror toward the epicenter of the cataclysmic transformation.
Then—
RUUUUUUUMBLE!!!!!
A terrifying power, far vaster and colder than before, filled with boundless rage and killing intent, erupted from the roughly acre-sized, cyan-gray halo!
Sensing Qi Yun’s transformation, the Fruit Position was enraged. It would obliterate him in a single blow!
Wherever the torrent passed, space didn’t just tear—it vanished completely, reduced to absolute nothingness!
This attack was already beyond the comprehension of the Yang God level.
This was the Fruit Position’s desperate, all-or-nothing gambit to utterly erase Qi Yun—the greatest variable—from the Cangque Realm, along with the True Celestial Will that supported him!
However, in the nick of time, just as this apocalyptic torrent of heavenly punishment was about to engulf the Daluo Heaven—
VMMMM...!!!
The True Celestial Will, which had been wrestling with the Fruit Position, burst forth with its most dazzling brilliance!
The deep pulse of the Cangque Realm reached its peak!
This was the last and greatest power that the True Celestial Will could mobilize.
The entire Heaven and Earth’s instinctive desire for the return of the "rightful master" and its natural rejection of the "thief’s" usurpation!
This power was formless and intangible, yet it was more fundamental and vaster than any Divine Power Technique!
It was an empowerment!
A recognition!
It was... an entrustment!
In an instant!
Qi Yun felt his consciousness being forcibly pulled up to an indescribable dimension.
He "saw."
He saw the trajectory of every speck of dust falling amidst the ruins of the Broken Imperial City below, and its causal history, stretching back hundreds of millions of years to when it was part of a mountain.
He saw every tiny channel through which Magical Power surged within the bodies of the fighting Yang Gods in the distance.
He saw the entire Great Cang Territory. He saw the threads of fate—some faint, some distinct, some thick, some thin—above the heads of its billions of inhabitants, all weaving together into a vast sea of light. He saw how their joys and sorrows, their births and deaths, resonated subtly with the land’s "National Fortune," "Earth Veins," and "celestial phenomena."
He saw, higher up, inside the cyan-gray halo that was the Fruit Position, how countless pale chains forcibly pierced, twisted, and replaced the original azure network of Heaven and Earth Laws.
Omniscient.
Omnipotent.
With a single thought, he could pluck those Cause and Effect Threads, causing a broken pillar in the Imperial City ruins to rejoin, allowing a heavily injured Yang God in the distance to reverse their injuries, making a patch of rain clouds instantly disperse, or silently redirecting the flow of an Earth Vein...
’I’ve become... the sovereign of this Heaven and Earth.’
Lowering his gaze to his hands, Qi Yun slowly clenched his fists, a divine light overflowing in his eyes:
"Is this... the Fake True Monarch Position?"
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