Do I Look Like a Savior? It's Nothing but a Self-Directed, Self-Performed Show
Do I Look Like a Savior? It’s Nothing but a Self-Directed, Self-Performed Show
Although Yao Yao was more satisfied with this answer than the first one, she still felt inexplicably irritated.
She didn’t know what a little girl like her had to be so irritated about.
A shifu could sometimes be closer than family.
She had always kept this sentence firmly in her heart.
Now that her brother was gone, and Grandma had likely met with misfortune, the only family she had left was her shifu.
“I have already avenged your brother Jiang Yang for you, so you don’t need to grieve anymore.”
“Deep within the Sky Pool of Death, I saw him. I learned about you from his mouth, and so I killed him in passing.”
“However, the one who possessed his body was merely a wisp of the Celestia Sacred Emperor’s True Soul. The true culprit is still somewhere in the Beyond.”
“But rest assured, Yao Yao, your shifu will find him in due time...” Gu Changge continued, taking the initiative to talk to Yao Yao about her brother.
Jiang Yang was already dead, and the Symbol of Reincarnation was currently being suppressed and digested within the Grand Flask.
Naturally, he could not tell Yao Yao the details of this process.
On the other hand, Yao Yao did not know Jiang Yang’s true identity. Since Gu Changge told her the culprit was the Celestia Sacred Emperor, she would surely pin the debt on the Celestia Sacred Emperor’s head.
With this layer of karma in place, even if the Peach Tree behind Yao Yao wanted to divine something, it would be impossible to find any flaws.
After all, the Celestia Sacred Emperor was indeed an accomplice of the Mortal One.
The traces of the Mortal One’s existence had already been erased by Gu Changge.
When the time came, any investigation could only lead back to the Celestia Sacred Emperor. After all, the Celestial Seal and the Celestia Holy Land were both left behind by him when he departed the Heavenly Star Realm.
“I understand. Thank you, shifu.”
Hearing Gu Changge say this, Yao Yao couldn’t help but nod.
Even if Gu Changge hadn’t acted, she would have found a way to settle this grudge herself.
Now that Gu Changge had resolved part of it for her, Yao Yao felt the remaining part needed to be settled by her own hands.
“Yao Yao...”
At this moment, Grandma Yin Hua, who had been hiding beside the Sky Pool, suddenly cried out in shock and delight.
Her aged face was streaked with tears, overcome with emotion.
When Yao Yao had fallen into the Sky Pool, she had wanted to rescue her.
But that terrifying figure stood towering in the high sky, its aura suppressing all eight directions, enveloping heaven and earth, leaving her unable to move an inch.
Grandma Yin Hua had naturally been endlessly worried about Yao Yao’s safety, but she could only fret anxiously, unable to move.
She truly never expected that Yao Yao would be brought out of there by Gu Changge.
“Grandma...”
Yao Yao was also overjoyed at this moment. She had thought Grandma would die at the hands of that terrifying figure, but never expected her to be alive and well.
“You two, grandmother and granddaughter, should reunite first.”
“I still have matters left unresolved here.”
At this, Gu Changge set Yao Yao down and spoke in a calm voice, his gaze falling upon the terrifying figure in the high sky.
“Mm, shifu.”
Yao Yao was very sensible and knew what matter Gu Changge was referring to.
Her eyes couldn’t help but fill with worship.
Grey fog billowed, mountains collapsed and the earth split, and even the firmament was torn open with a crack, burned and caved in, shattering inch by inch like a mirror and falling down.
Such a sight was incomparably horrifying. Not only did it make Yao Yao, Grandma Yin Hua, and the others’ hearts palpitate with unease, it also unsettled the many supreme experts of the Sky Domain who had been watching this place.
The sky had collapsed, such a dreadful crack had appeared—at a time like this, who could mend the heavens?
Boom!!
At this moment, as if it had suddenly noticed Gu Changge.
The terrifying figure shrouded in thick Grey Fog high in the sky suddenly turned its cold, merciless gaze downward. Its blood qi surged, accompanied by a dreadful pressure that shook the universe and turned seas to ash.
This aura was far too terrifying.
It was simply like a supreme True Demon awakening.
In this instant, not only the entire Sky Domain, but even the other domains of the Heavenly Star Realm—the Earth Domain, the Wonder Domain, the Water Domain... all felt this world-overwhelming aura.
All worlds perishing, the universe collapsing!
Countless living beings and Cultivators trembled beneath this aura, their souls on the verge of shattering, as if facing an apocalyptic calamity.
Terrifying chains of order and rules interwove there, firelight pierced through the sky, and stars trembled and fell one after another, about to smash into the earth!
The entire world seemed to be marching toward its final destruction.
“Too terrifying...”
“What exactly is hidden beneath the Sky Pool of Death? Why does it feel like this aura has already surpassed what this realm can withstand?”
“Indeed, what kind of horrifying great demon is this? Merely awakening has shattered the firmament. It is doomed to bring disaster upon all living beings.”
“What are we to do...”
The ancient existences within the Mystic Mountains and Forbidden Areas watched this horrifying scene with trembling voices, their souls quivering, beginning to despair.
The higher one’s level, the more one could feel this terror.
This was no longer a power that the Cultivators of the Heavenly Star Realm could contend against.
The collapse of the sky was one thing.
That world-overwhelming True Demon fully reviving, walking out of the Sky Pool of Death, and sweeping across the entire Heavenly Star Realm—that was the true despair of all living beings!
From its current state, it seemed to be trapped within the Sky Pool of Death, unable to leave.
But that world-overwhelming demonic might had already broken through the firmament.
At this moment, countless living beings and Cultivators, their faces pale with despair, all knelt prostrate on the ground, praying for a savior to come rescue them.
“Do I look like a savior?”
“However, this disaster—it is time for it to end.”
Standing by the Sky Pool, Gu Changge’s robes fluttered, his figure tall and straight, as if endless immortal qi swirled around him.
At this moment, hearing these words coming from all corners of the land, a trace of interest couldn’t help but appear on his incomparably handsome face.
“Shifu is the savior sent down by the heavens to save us...”
Yao Yao said firmly, now holding unparalleled worship and faith in Gu Changge.
Shifu’s power surpassed imagination!
“The Exalted Immortal’s descent to the Overworld—could it be that he was waiting for this very day?”
Grandma Yin Hua now also held Gu Changge in the utmost reverence, venerating him like a god.
She had once believed he had perished here.
But she never expected him to appear again today, seemingly intending to suppress this True Demon with his own strength alone.
To prop up heaven and earth on the verge of collapse!
Rumble!
And at this moment, Gu Changge took a step forward.
Strand after strand of immortal qi emerged, and the five-colored divine light beside him instantly boiled over.
Cascades of light rose and fell, black particles drifting within them, as if containing withered worlds one after another.
Heaven and earth resonated, all Daos trembled.
True Dragon, Celestial Phoenix, Vermilion Bird, Kunpeng—many peerless great fiends manifested, like a young Immortal Emperor patrolling the skies!
Mighty beyond bounds, suppressing all the rules of this place!
The firmament quaked, the Sky Pool of Death rumbled, sending down terrifying chains of order!
The power he displayed instantly far surpassed the shackles of this realm, reaching a world-shaking degree.
His vast blood qi stretched like boundless mountain ranges.
Piercing through the sky, tearing apart the universe, entwined with endless chaotic immortal qi!
Heaven and earth were astonished!
All eight directions fell silent!
“It’s... it’s that Exalted Immortal...”
“Didn’t he already perish within the Sky Pool of Death?”
A supreme expert from one of the Mystic Mountains spoke with a trembling voice, unable to believe it.
Countless Cultivators and living beings watched this scene in trembling awe, hardly able to imagine that at this moment, a savior had truly appeared, going forth to save all under heaven!
And it was none other than the Exalted Immortal suspected to have perished in the Sky Pool of Death.
For a time, Cultivators and living beings everywhere knelt down, unable to stop themselves from bowing in worship toward that direction, filled with boundless reverence.
Sounds of prayer and supplication resounded through heaven and earth!
“Today, I shall suppress you, True Demon, and restore purity and clarity to heaven and earth!”
Gu Changge rose to his full height and shouted lightly at the terrifying figure within the Grey Fog, “The living beings of heaven and earth, the myriad spirits of this world, shall not suffer your ravages. Get back to where you belong!”
At this moment, he was righteous and awe-inspiring, boundless Light of Piousness seemingly flowing over his body!
Hearing these words, countless Cultivators and living beings were stirred, their blood boiling with passion.
Some even wept tears, deeply moved, feeling an indisputable righteousness that would purge away all great evil!
Rumble rumble!
Soon, a great battle erupted here, shaking heaven and earth, terrifying to the extreme!
The aura Gu Changge displayed was boundlessly horrifying, blotting out the sky and covering the earth, pressing down upon the firmament.
All eight directions trembled, as if supreme universes one after another were crushing forward.
Every cell of his body devoured and exhaled light, dazzling and resplendent, erupting with ultimate power!
Bang!
Between heaven and earth, grey fog billowed, surging violently.
But along with a tremendous boom.
The grey demonic qi scattered, as if bones were snapping, chunks of blood bursting apart, bone fragments flying in all directions, blood mist sweeping out!
Between heaven and earth, only Gu Changge’s figure remained, the one and only!
Eternal and unmatched, spanning the horizon—with a bang, the terrifying figure within the grey fog was blown apart!
This place instantly became like a bottomless black hole, demonic fog blotting out the sky and sun.
All sights vanished from view.
That scene just now became the final image in the eyes of many living beings and Cultivators.
Their blood boiled with passion!
“Who would have thought this Exalted Immortal was one who bore the world in his heart... we are unworthy of comparison!”
“If I had even a shred of the Exalted Immortal’s courage, why would I cower here!”
At this, many supreme existences were infected, their blood likewise surging, and they shot into the sky from all corners, rushing toward the Sky Pool of Death to assist Gu Changge in suppressing the True Demon.
Pfft!
But before these beings could even approach the Sky Pool of Death, they were struck by the dreadful astral winds from the shattered firmament, and instantly turned to dust, Primordial Spirits and all.
This scene shocked everyone even further, causing countless beings to tremble in fear.
As expected, such a feat was not something ordinary people could accomplish.
For a time, their reverence for Gu Changge deepened further. What kind of spirit, what kind of righteousness that cared for all living beings under heaven, drove him to fight a life-and-death battle there?
“Shifu will definitely be fine!”
“He’s the savior!”
Yao Yao’s small hands clenched tight as Grandma Yin Hua led her away from that terrifying battlefield, fearing she would be caught in the aftermath.
Her faith in Gu Changge was absolute, without a shred of doubt!
Shifu would surely sweep away all calamities!
In the end, this terrifying battle that shook the entire Heavenly Star Realm lasted a full half a day, then ended with an earth-shattering roar.
As if filled with boundless unwillingness!
Immediately after, endless black light burst forth, blotting out heaven and earth. No one could see clearly what happened within.
Then, the all-suppressing grey fog dispersed, and even the terrifying aftershocks vanished without a trace.
Of course, the Sky Pool of Death itself was also reduced to ashes in this battle.
Only ruins and dust remained at the site, nothing left at all.
Mountain ranges, the Sky Pool, ancient trees... all were beaten into calamity ash.
The Grey Fog completely dispersed.
Sunlight once again spilled down between heaven and earth, restoring clear skies. Everyone was shocked and overjoyed to discover that the shattered firmament seemed to have been mended by that Exalted Immortal with supreme means!
The calamity had been stopped.
However, only that Exalted Immortal’s whereabouts were unknown in the end, becoming the greatest regret and mystery among countless Cultivators and living beings.
That Exalted Immortal had swept away all calamities for the living beings of heaven and earth, yet in the end his whereabouts were unknown, even his life or death uncertain.
This matter became an eternal mystery through the ages—even countless years later, no one would know the answer.
However, many people believed that with the Exalted Immortal’s power, it was impossible for anything to have happened to him.
Most likely, after resolving this calamity, he chose to ascend and depart, returning to the Beyond.
Some even felt that the Exalted Immortal had rushed to the Sky Pool of Death back then precisely to suppress the True Demon within.
The Sky Pool of Death was a place that sealed away a peerless fiend; the day the seal was broken would be the day the Heavenly Star Realm met its destruction.
And the Exalted Immortal was the savior sent down by the heavens to rescue the Heavenly Star Realm.
And so on and so forth—all sorts of rumors emerged, growing more and more exaggerated... and impressive, yet many people held an attitude of deep conviction.
After all, the sights of that day were truly too astonishing. Some had even used Photographic Stones to preserve the blurry images they had glimpsed, circulating them throughout the lands.
This matter was also recorded into the annals of history, for all living beings and Cultivators of later generations to revere and recount.
Of course, in gratitude for the Exalted Immortal’s grace, this place was built into a ruin by countless Cultivators and living beings, named the Exalted Immortal Ruins.
Within the Exalted Immortal Ruins, statues rose from the ground, receiving incense and worship day after day.
Of course, these were all matters for later.
At this time, Gu Changge had long since taken Yao Yao and left the Sky Domain, preparing to bring her back to the Beyond.
Grandma Yin Hua ultimately chose not to leave together with Yao Yao. With Gu Changge caring for Yao Yao, she was very much at ease.
She still had her own matters to attend to, still had regrets. Her former Sect still had many things waiting for her, so she did not wish to leave the Heavenly Star Realm.
Although Yao Yao was reluctant to part, she expressed her understanding and would not force Grandma Yin Hua to leave with her.
Moreover, she believed in her shifu’s methods—he could bring her back to the Heavenly Star Realm at any time. After all, even such a powerful True Demon that brought calamity upon the world had ultimately been suppressed by her shifu.
Back then, shifu had only seemed to suffer some minor injuries.
Of course, Gu Changge would never tell her that the True Demon that seemed intent on bringing calamity upon the world was merely his Nature God’s Chant.
He had never had any intention of bringing calamity upon the world—he had no such idle time.
It was merely a self-directed, self-performed act before the eyes of all living beings, playing the savior once. The various effects that followed were actually unimportant.
Of course, he also took the opportunity through this matter to casually polish his glorious and righteous image as a shifu before Yao Yao.
Furthermore, even if some Absolute Being later intended to divine the existence of the Reincarnation of the Mortal One and traced it to the Heavenly Star Realm, they might well suspect that he was the Reincarnation of the Mortal One.
This move was a piece Gu Changge had laid down in advance.
Whether anyone would actually investigate, however, he could not be sure.
In the process, he did discover quite a few benefits. No wonder the Mortal One liked to dabble in faith-based methods.
The Power of Faith was the purest form of power, capable of strengthening the Primordial Spirit.
However, Gu Changge had never believed in such things.
To him, faith was nothing but rootless duckweed, liable to collapse at any moment, unable to last.
But after devouring and refining it with the Grand Flask, it could even serve as another resource to aid his cultivation.
Afterward, having cleaned up all traces, Gu Changge brought Yao Yao to the summit of a randomly found mountain.
“Yao Yao, today your shifu will take you away from the Heavenly Star Realm and back to the Beyond,” he said with a smile.
“Mm.”