Chapter 1 The Crack

Kacha!

It was as if a thunder dragon had slashed across the sky, and a chilling, terrifying aura threatened to freeze the mountains for a time.

The experts from the various Lian Fa Tangs (Refining Method Halls) in the mountains trembled, feeling a terrifying killing intent like a dark cloud pressing down, making it almost impossible to breathe.

"Yuanshen..."

Someone's face twitched, letting out a groan.

The Yuanshen realm (Primordial Spirit), its name derived from the eternally existing gods, the power of Yuanshen, refers to the power originating from 'gods'.

Experts of this level could gather wind and thunder with a thought, and change the color of the sky and earth with a single anger.

Lu Daoren in the sky remained silent, his solemn presence seeming to replace the entire firmament.

For a time, the plants and trees in this world let out sharp wails, bursting forth with intense fear and dread.

In the invisible and terrifying atmosphere of肃杀 (su sha - bleakness), only Zhang Longfu, sitting still on the mountaintop, remained unchanged, his ghost-fire-like eyes beneath the hood without the slightest fluctuation:

"You shouldn't have known. It's better to die unconsciously than to watch yourself die..."

Zhang Longfu looked calm. Although he didn't know how this stupid donkey had discovered all this, it was no longer important.

Tens of thousands of years was a long time, enough for him to leave countless contingency plans.

'It's just a pity about my plan...'

Zhang Longfu sighed inwardly.

He had originally wanted to go to the Da Zhou (Great Zhou) Imperial Capital. If he hadn't felt something, his tens of thousands of years of planning would have been in vain.

But even so, his greatest desire was probably going to die prematurely...

Boom!

With Zhang Longfu's thought, drastic changes occurred in the mountains. Thousands of mountains trembled together, the earth shook like a tidal wave, and countless plants, trees, mud, and rocks were thrown into the sky.

The experts from the Lian Fa Tangs between the mountains took to the air to avoid it, looking back at the mountains, only to see what looked like ferocious giant demons struggling beneath the rolling, shaking mountains under the night.

In an instant, amidst the countless dust storms, 'mountain peaks' as straight as swords rose from the ground!

Suddenly, those 'mountain peaks' rose to thousands of zhang (丈 - approx. 3.3 meters), dense as a forest, exuding an extremely oppressive aura.

An expert from the Lian Fa Tang who was slightly closer had his pupils shrink, seeing dense, extremely complex Dao array patterns on those mountain peaks.

"Seven Kill Life-Pointing Wick..."

The thunderous anger immediately subsided, and Lu Daoren's face was extremely ugly as he stared at the forest of mountain pillars: "Traitorous villain, you are, very good!"

Lu Daoren was extremely furious.

Tens of thousands of years ago, he was seriously injured and fell, forced to feign death to prolong his life. In a hurry, he had to entrust everything to this Zhang Longfu, whom he had once rescued from the war.

But who would have thought that the person he trusted so much was plotting against his true body.

He may not know the Tian Ren Qi Sha Ni Ming Shu (Heavenly Blade Seven Kill Reverse Fate Technique), but he had heard of it. The many 'mountain peaks' rising from the ground were clearly 'wicks'!

"Want to turn my true body into lamp oil? Wishful thinking!"

Boom!

Sound waves howled, and thunder exploded.

The raging hurricane tore through a large swath of the night sky, like a star sea storm descending between heaven and earth. In an instant, the mountains trembled wildly.

It was as if an invisible hand wanted to pull up thousands of mountain peaks all at once!

The magnitude of the momentum caused all the experts from the Lian Fa Tangs in the mountains to change their expressions, bursting out with Dharma-protecting divine powers and retreating repeatedly.

They didn't even dare to resist!

Whoosh, whoosh~

The hurricane howled, as if it could extinguish all things. It was visible to the naked eye that the plants, trees, mud, and rocks that had been thrown to the high heavens had disappeared without a trace the moment they touched the air currents.

The spiritual beasts raised in the mountains also wailed and turned into blue smoke, and many experts from the Lian Fa Tangs were buried in the hurricane before they could react.

Only on the barren mountain peak, in the place where the hurricane was the strongest, did Zhang Longfu still sit cross-legged. The hurricane, which was enough to cut apart magical artifacts and destroy mountains and cities, couldn't even lift his hood!

It was as if he wasn't in this world!

The two were separated by another dimension of the world!

"You dare to show off a mere dimensional body protection method in front of me?!"

In the night sky, which was boiling like the sea, a ray of bright starlight suddenly appeared. Lu Daoren's voice seemed to flow down from the extremely high and distant sky:

"Traitorous villain, you deserve to die!"

Om~

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In the next instant, the darkness receded, the starlight was at its peak, and then shadows flowed down, covering the sky and the sun!

"Ah!"

Among the mountains, an expert from the Lian Fa Tang who was avoiding the astral winds suddenly screamed and rushed into the astral winds as if his life depended on it.

An old man not far away felt uneasy and suddenly raised his head, and couldn't help but be terrified.

What tore through the night and fell from the sky was not something else.

It was a huge star dragging a tail of flames that was tens or hundreds of miles long!

The star broke through the dawn and fell from the sky, carrying the fierce force of crushing the sky and destroying the earth, towards the Lian Fa Tang forbidden area among the mountains.

It crashed down!

"A single act of saving a life has been offset by tens of thousands of years of protection! You and I, no longer owe anything! What traitorous villain..."

Zhang Longfu raised his eyebrows and looked up, the scarlet light in his eyes becoming even stronger, almost bursting out:

"Old donkey, I've endured you for a long time!"

Whispering like a roar, Zhang Longfu suddenly stood up, his hood suddenly flying up, revealing the dry and dilapidated body underneath, like a skeleton.

This was a corpse that had decayed to the limit, with no trace of life, with only a layer of skin more than a skeleton.

At this time, looking up to the sky and roaring, the sound was like millions of demons and ghosts roaring together:

"Fifty thousand years, worse than death, you caused it!!!"

Sound waves raged, and the mountains responded.

At this moment, except for the 'sword peaks' that stood like a forest, this vast mountain range, which was unknown how many thousands of miles wide, seemed to tremble in unison with this roar.

Then, it rose from the ground, and amidst the endless flow of array patterns and Dao essences, it soared into the sky, meeting the scarlet star falling from the high heavens.

Rumble!

Like stars colliding, like the earth sinking!

An unimaginable, huge collision sound resounded through the sky, and a vast aura like a huge mushroom cloud soared into the sky.

The rolling undulations rushed towards all directions like the roars of thousands of fierce beasts, and in an instant, they had already shaken millions of miles of sky and earth.

At this moment, Youzhou (幽州), a land with hundreds of millions of people, trembled for a moment, although it was only a moment.

But this moment of vibration caused the violent shaking of millions of mountains, and the shaking of more cities.

For a time, in Youzhou and even the Northwest Dao (Northwest Region), countless cultivators were awakened from their seclusion.

The weak looked up blankly, seeming to be aware of something, yet also seemed to be unaware of anything.

And the strong, felt a throbbing in their hearts, looking north towards the extremely distant depths of the night, vaguely, they seemed to see endless starlight burning fiercely.

In a trance, it seemed to turn into seven large lamps that flashed and went out, lit between heaven and earth!

"Hmm?! This is... the Heaven Star Reverse Fate Lamp? Someone still knows this method?"

"Tian Ren Qi Sha Ni Ming Deng (Heavenly Blade Seven Kill Reverse Fate Lamp)... Even the former dynasty's Xia Qi's teacher didn't dare to light this lamp, this person, doesn't know whether to live or die."

"Reverse fate forbidden technique? Interesting..."

Like giant beasts crawling between thousands of mountains and rivers, in the Northwest Dao City (道城), beams of light tore through the dark night like heavenly swords, looking towards the place where the undulations came from.

Some were surprised, some were curious, some were indifferent, and some even seemed to have a hint of greed.

"Tian Ren Qi Sha Ni Ming Shu..."

In the Jing Ye Si (Night Watchers) resident in Dao City, in a certain courtyard in the backyard, Qi Xuan Zhen Yi (Seven Mysteries Perfected One) stood with his hands behind his back, looking at the deep night sky, his face solemn.

After a long time, he sighed:

"A troubled time..."

The Tian Ren Qi Sha Ni Ming Shu, in Da Zhou and even the world, belonged to the category of forbidden techniques. There was no other reason, reversing fate was taboo.

It violated the taboo of the Dao Palace (道宫).

The teacher of Xia Qi of the former dynasty, the last Celestial Master of Da Xia (Great Xia), 'Zhuge', used this method when Da Xia was about to sink.

However, he did not want to reverse his own fate, but rather used himself as the wick, using his own fate as oil, forcibly extending the national fortune of Da Xia by ten thousand years.

Even if it wasn't for the sudden emergence of the Great Zhou Tai Zu (Grand Ancestor) and others, the misfortune of Da Xia's destruction might have been reversed.

And even if he failed, the backlash of this technique forcibly collapsed the national fortune of later generations, making Da Zhou unable to unify the world, or even Nan Zhan (Southern Continent).

It had to be divided into three!

Even so, it still caused great hidden dangers in the national fortunes of the three great imperial dynasties, which could not be eliminated to this day.

The tyranny and horror of this technique could be seen from this.

"I didn't expect that someone would really dare to defy the heavens and change their fate..."

Lin Yan didn't know when he came to this courtyard either, glancing at Qi Xuan Zhen Yi's gloomy face: "It seems Daoist friend won't be able to have a quiet life."

There were many methods to reverse fate in the world, but only a few had been verified, and the Tian Ren Qi Sha Ni Ming Shu had the greatest reputation.

It could reverse fate at the lower level, and reverse national fortune at the higher level. For Da Zhou, it was a true taboo.

Qi Xuan Zhen Yi retreated to the northwest frontier, originally wanting to avoid being disturbed. It was possible before, but now that this technique had appeared, it was absolutely impossible for him to ignore it.

"Everything is fate, and nothing is up to us..."

Qi Xuan Zhen Yi sighed: "Before leaving the capital, my elder brother went to the Grand Master of Rites to ask for a prophecy for me, pointing out that the only chance of survival for my death tribulation was in the Northwest Dao...

I originally thought I could easily avoid it, but now it seems that I still have to go through the tribulation..."

As he spoke, his expression gradually calmed down.

"The saying of tribulations..."

Lin Yan shook his head, but could not persuade him.

This was not a height he could reach.

Tribulation, fate, fortune, and disaster were the most taboo points for the world's cultivators, and also a height that ordinary cultivators could hardly reach in their entire lives.

Not to mention his Golden Core Third Revolution, even a great cultivator like Qi Xuan Zhen Yi, who was only one step away from cultivating Yuanshen, could hardly fathom it.

"Brother Lin should go to the Imperial Capital, even if there are changes in the various Daos in the future, they won't be able to affect the Imperial Capital."

Qi Xuan Zhen Yi smiled reluctantly, and then looked towards the direction of the Dao City teleportation platform:

"Reverse fate techniques are not tolerated by the world. Calculating the time, the imperial decree from the Imperial Capital should be arriving..."

The Jing Ye Si monitored the various Daos in the world, but the Jing Ye Si was not the only one monitoring the world.

The Da Zhou Imperial Court had many means to monitor the world, and some things did not need to be reported by them at all.

"Hmm?"

Lin Yan's heart moved, and he also followed his gaze.

Sure enough, Qi Xuan Zhen Yi's voice had not yet faded, and a ray of bright yellow and noble divine light had already burst out from the Dao City teleportation platform.

At first, it was only like a candle flame, but in a blink of an eye, it was as bright as the great sun, and Dao City was like daylight for a time:

"Exterminate!!"