txolops Chapter 1743 Mountains and Seas Enter the Painting
Chapter 1743 Mountains and Seas Enter the Painting
Chapter 1743 Mountains and Seas Enter the Painting
"Happy! So happy!"
"In the past, we protected the mountains and seas, but now the mountains and seas have become our shield! Truly, cause and effect are cyclical, and retribution is inevitable!"
Amidst the bursts of wild laughter from the saints, the mountains and seas had already been shattered into pieces by the torrent of Dao Annihilation.
Logically speaking, mountains and seas damaged to this extent should have ceased to exist long ago. But it seems that some unseen force is secretly resisting the erosion of the illusory realm, while forcibly binding countless fragments of mountains and seas together. This allows the mountains and seas to maintain their "intact" appearance.
Li Fan's divine sense swept across the mountains and seas, instantly pinpointing the source of this sustaining power. As expected, it was the pair of divine senses left behind by Qiu Tianhui and his wife.
As a pivotal point on the Great Dao of Mountains and Seas, from the beginning of the mountains and seas to the end of time, this couple, formed from divine thoughts, are not actually living beings, but rather a manifestation of concepts.
Normally, they were completely unaware of this, but now that the mountains and seas were facing destruction, the couple instinctively looked up at the sky. Then their expressions gradually became blank.
The figure seemed to be in a state of rapid vibration, with each fluctuation causing a living being to detach, transform into a speck of light, and drift into the sky.
The points of light did not give birth to any living beings, but instead flew to various parts of the shattered mountains and seas, acting like a nourishing tonic. After the mountains and seas absorbed them, the rate of shattering instantly slowed down.
"The Qiu Tianhui couple did indeed have a backup plan!"
"This is using the power of living beings to nourish the mountains and seas. Like a great tonic when someone is on the verge of death, it may bring a brief resurgence, but ultimately it cannot save the mountains and seas!"
The sages saw this clearly, yet they remained bystanders.
At the same time, most of the attention is still focused on the hidden patterns of mountains and seas.
As the torrent of Dao Annihilation continued its erosion, the instinctive reaction of the mountains and seas finally arrived. And its intensity was somewhat beyond the imagination of the sages.
Across the mountains and seas, it was as if a strong wind had suddenly risen.
Those remaining possibilities, which could have struggled to survive the impact of Dao Annihilation, were instantly plunged into a terrifying vortex as the wind blew through the interior of the mountains and seas.
Countless possibilities were annihilated, transforming into the purest power of mountains and seas.
Living beings, civilizations, possibilities, paths. Everything within the mountains and seas is reduced to nothingness in this vast storm.
All that remains is the mountains and seas themselves.
Extremely pure, and extremely powerful.
It was as if I had returned to the initial state after my mind had wandered, and the mountains and seas were just mountains and seas.
Boom boom boom!
A tremendous collision resounded from all directions of the mountains and seas, and several torrents shot into the sky. It was clear that the Dao Annihilation Torrents that had entered the veins of the mountains and seas had been forcibly pushed back by the great power of the mountains and seas.
When the enemy retreats, we advance.
An ineffable, immense vitality flowed from the veins of the mountains and seas. The shattered mountains and seas thus slowly reformed.
Perhaps sensing the specific crisis situation in the outside world, the newly formed Shan Hai did not evolve into many possibilities.
It did not reveal the legendary Primordial Immortal Realm.
Instead, it is like a stone carving, with all the myriad forms of mountains and seas engraved within it.
It has lost the so-called "change," but it exudes a unique sense of solemnity and dignity.
The appearance of the Mountain and Sea Stone Slab seemed to shroud everything in the mountains and seas, rendering them lifeless and transforming them into part of the carvings on the slab.
Even the saints within the Xuanji Ring could not escape it.
The white light surrounding the Xuanji Ring solidified and remained still, like ice. The power of the stone-sculpting continued its inward erosion, unstoppable.
"go!"
Seeing that the situation was not good, Li Fan decisively chose to join the other saints in manipulating the Xuanji Ring and escaping into the void.
They could have arrived in an instant, but now, amidst the mountain and sea stone slabs, they can hardly move an inch.
Intuition told the sages that if they didn't leave now and continued to stay, they would likely face the same fate as the mountains and seas themselves, being sculpted from stone.
At the critical moment of life and death, they all unleashed their full potential. The radiance of all the great Daos shimmered, illuminating the Xuanji Ring with its seven-colored splendor.
They forcefully broke through the blockade of the stone slabs that had transformed into mountains and seas, and successfully escaped into the void.
Only a long line drawn by the light surrounding the celestial sphere remained, lingering in the frozen mountains and seas.
The saints who had fled into the illusory realm, still shaken, looked back.
Ironically, in the past everyone avoided the Dao Annihilation Void Realm like the plague. But now, compared to the turbulent Void Realm, the stone-like mountains and seas are actually more dangerous.
At the very least, with the strength of the saints, no matter how turbulent the Dao Annihilation may be, they can still manage to survive for a while.
But faced with this petrification of mountains and seas...
If the saints do not flee, their fate will likely be the same as that of all other things within the mountains and seas: the mountains and seas have already completed their transformation, turning into a single, intact stone slab.
Like a steadfast rock, it remains unmoved no matter how the winds and waves crash against it.
The last glimpses of the mountains and sea can be faintly seen from the patterns on the stone slabs.
But now life is gone, and the future is gone.
The mountains and seas are forever frozen in this moment.
"Fellow Daoist Taiwei... Taiwei!"
As the saints remained silent and lost in thought, Shouqiu's exclamation made their hearts leap again.
Following Shouqiu's gaze, one could see the majestic figure of the Taiwei Holy Emperor etched upon the mountains, seas, and sky.
Like a radiant sun, it protects the people of the Holy Dynasty, attempting to withstand this sudden catastrophe caused by the strange changes in the mountains and seas.
Although the Holy Emperor Taiwei was petrified, his expression was still clearly visible.
He looked up at the sky, stood with his hands behind his back, and showed no fear.
Unfortunately, the strength of a saint is not enough to overcome the calamity of the petrification of mountains and seas.
Not only did he fail to save the people of the Holy Dynasty, but he himself was also buried along with them.
"Foolish! Why didn't Fellow Daoist Taiwei run away!"
“It’s not that he can’t, but that he doesn’t want to. Taiwei’s entire foundation rests on the mighty Holy Dynasty. Now that the Holy Dynasty is gone, and its people are gone, even if he manages to escape, his strength will be reduced to less than a hundred percent. Rather than becoming someone else’s fodder, he would rather end his own life.”
"What do you mean by that, Fellow Daoist Guiming?"
"Ha ha……"
The petrification of mountains and seas, the death of Taiwei—all these stimuli brought the saints one step closer to restoring their true nature.
Li Fan didn't care much. He had already formed a united alliance with Shouqiu and Daode, and could easily suppress the other saints.
At this moment, his gaze was fixed on the mountain and sea stone slab in front of him.
The feeling this stone slab gave him was exactly the same as that of the "Boundless Mountains and Seas Monument".
The Boundless Mountain and Sea Monument bears the imprints of various Great Dao principles. The raised lines on the mountain and sea stone slabs seem to correspond precisely to the various Dao principles within the mountain and sea!
"If I could absorb this stone slab, it would be like swallowing mountains and seas and all the great Dao!" Such a thought suddenly appeared in Li Fan's mind.
But after witnessing the scene after the collision between the Void Realm and the Mountain and Sea Stone Slab, he instantly abandoned the idea.
The Dao Annihilation power that had been lurking within the mountain and sea veins was not only forced back, but even the Void Realm, which had already engulfed the mountain and sea, fell back under the control of the mountain and sea as the petrification progressed.
What the mountain and sea stone slabs reveal is not a pitted and uneven fragment eroded by the illusory realm, but a complete picture.
At the cost of sacrificing its own vitality, the accumulated aggression of the Void Realm over countless years was lost in a single day!
Faced with the mountain and sea stone slabs, the Dao-annihilated giant waves, and even the illusory incarnations, all sought to invade again.
But the stone slabs remained as one, unmoved.
While reconnecting the severed mountains and seas in a bizarre way, the very fabric of the mountains and seas is completely concealed.