The cultivators outside the mirror at this moment were utterly bewildered.
They had originally assumed the Heaven Burying Bell was a fortune the Heavenly Emperor obtained in his youth.
But they had never expected.
Judging by the reactions of the Supremes in the mirror, this Heaven Burying Bell was actually the ancestral imperial weapon of someone else.
“So that means this immortal device was openly stolen by the Heavenly Emperor when he was young?”
“But how on earth did he manage to do that?!”
“Imperial weapons across this world all have sealing restrictions. To control an imperial weapon, one must first refine and break down those restrictions.”
“Moreover, with just the toll of a bell he awakened a Longevity Family’s imperial weapon?”
All the cultivators fell silent.
The way Gu Changqing summoned the Heaven Burying Bell looked as if this imperial weapon had always belonged to him.
It was truly baffling!
At this moment, a cultivator who had read ancient records on cultivating the Heavenly Dao said quietly, “I’ve seen in old books that conquering and cultivating the Heavenly Dao is about borrowing the Heavenly Dao’s power of the laws.”
“In a sense, the imperial weapons of the world are products of the Heavenly Dao. So when one cultivates the Heavenly Dao to a certain level, one can directly manipulate imperial weapons!”
The crowd’s first reaction was: so that’s how it’s possible.
But their second reaction was: how unbelievably absurd is that??
Countless cultivators were speechless.
After a long while, a cultivator suddenly murmured, “From this moment, the Heavenly Emperor’s era of undefeated legend truly began, I suppose.”
Since ancient times the Heavenly Emperor had been called the Undefeated War God.
He had once, alone with a bell, swept across the heavens and countless worlds, subduing and killing innumerable foes, terrifying many Great Emperors.
All living beings of the Beixuan Continent feared this Heaven Burying Bell. Of course, they feared its owner even more.
…
Inside the mirror.
After a moment of brief shock, the Supremes quickly reacted.
“How dare you use my family’s imperial weapon!”
They immediately rushed to attack Gu Changqing.
Clang clang!
Gu Changqing cradled the ancient bell and struck out a deafening shockwave.
Ripples burst forth from the Heaven Burying Bell. The sound-wave ripples were terrifying, like a sharp blade that shattered endless spacetime and sliced the entire world in two.
“Go!”
Nine Supremes combined their efforts, their dense power of the laws interweaving to form a Heavenly Blade.
It suddenly slashed down, silencing myriad paths and breaking the cosmos apart.
Boom!
The two collided in one place, unleashing an extremely terrifying roar. Light billowed and divine might ravaged like a surging tsunami, swallowing heaven and earth.
The two forces kept dissipating.
At one moment everything exploded. The entire spacetime abruptly collapsed, and countless great realms were annihilated.
The Heavenly Blade’s momentum waned, and the shockwave was smoothed away.
“Fight!”
The Supremes flew in. The surrounding grand forces obliterated the boundless heavens, while their control of the laws interlaced into a formation seemingly intent on directly subduing and killing Gu Changqing.
Gu Changqing remained calm and unhurried.
He took one step and a great realm collapsed.
He stood upon the Heaven Burying Bell like a divine ancestor descending from the heavens, or the appearance of gods and demons. With overwhelming divine endowment, he drew the myriad paths of heaven and earth to converge upon the bell beneath his feet!
“Go!”
He kicked the Heaven Burying Bell and countless divine patterns erupted from the bell’s body.
The divine patterns were like tiny characters yet contained boundless divine might that added to the Heaven Burying Bell’s power, causing the bell to unleash a terrifying true might!
That stretch of the river of time was shattered instantly. Myriad paths collapsed and the cosmos ceased to exist.
Stars from the nine heavens fell—an apocalyptic scene!
The formation woven by the Supremes was smashed in an instant.
The Heaven Burying Bell lived up to its name. It really was as if it intended to bury the heavens and subdue all living beings!
The nine Supremes bled across the firmament, their Supreme divine blood staining the sky red.
“Subdue!”
Gu Changqing formed a hand seal and the Heaven Burying Bell immediately halted. It grew with the wind until in an instant it was hundreds of meters in size.
Like a world crashing down, it obliterated earth, water, wind, and fire, sweeping away all Dao laws and shattering myriad paths.
Bang!
The Heaven Burying Bell stopped on the ground, pinning the nine Supremes beneath its body. Endless golden radiance shone on its surface, divine patterns circled it, dazzlingly brilliant and magnificent like a great sun.
No matter what the nine Supremes did, the Heaven Burying Bell remained unmoving like a mountain.
…
“This…”
Outside the mirror, seeing the nine Supremes suppressed just like that, the assembled cultivators were stunned into silence.
A single Saint King attacking Supremes in rebellion was already horrifying.
But to subdue nine Supreme-level cultivators head-on.
Such a scene was too dreamlike, too unbelievable.
“The Heavenly Emperor—he actually did it!”
Everyone knew the Heavenly Emperor would surely be able to walk out of this secret realm alive, but even after racking their brains they dared not imagine he would do it in this way.
“No, no, something’s still not right.”
Soon a cultivator realized something.
“The Reincarnation Sea is a supreme holy land that can break a bloodline curse.”
“The Heavenly Emperor suppressed nine Supremes and found the Reincarnation Sea—so why did the little fox still die?!”
These words made all the cultivators suddenly gasp.
Only then did they realize the script they had assumed had once again been rewritten!
Could it be that the little fox never actually died???
…
Gu Changqing tore open spacetime and drew the little fox’s body out of it.
He picked up the little fox and flew down to the bottom of the cliff, then placed the little fox’s body into the Reincarnation Sea.
At that moment he could feel endless vitality within this divine sea!
“There’s hope, so you won’t die, you won’t die…” he muttered to himself.
Gu Changqing murmured, thinking of that once white figure who had sheltered him from wind and rain. His excitement was impossible to hide.
The instant he placed the little fox into the Reincarnation Sea, boundless vitality surged toward it.
Inside the Reincarnation Sea, the blue little flowers began to wither at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Gu Changqing stared fixedly at the little fox’s body.
15 minutes.
30 minutes.
A long while passed.
Even though that boundless vitality poured into the little fox’s body, the little fox’s form remained withered like bark.
At that instant, Gu Changqing’s heart suddenly jolted.
“The Reincarnation Sea… can’t break the curse?”