That Forbidden Existence Will Plunge This World into Terror
That Forbidden Existence Will Plunge This World into Terror
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This was something that could not be looked upon directly.
The Profound Earth Immortal King, Azure Heaven Immortal King, and the others felt their Dao Hearts trembling, their eyes filled with nothing but horror and disbelief, their voices shaking, containing immense fear.
Just moments ago, they had merely glanced at the Eight Barren Demon Halberd in Gu Changge’s hand, and their eyes immediately stung with pain, nearly shedding tears of blood. They had hastily averted their gazes.
Within their Knowledge Seas, a splitting pain had even transmitted through, as if a halberd’s gleam had truly slashed down at them across the sea of stars, intending to annihilate both their bodies and souls.
Standing at the Immortal King level, they understood quite a few of this world’s terrifying secrets.
Some things—perhaps mortals or ordinary Cultivators could not discern any difference in them, and would suffer no effects whatsoever.
But in the eyes of those high-level beings dwelling in higher dimensions, these were objects of great terror, unspeakable things, where a single misstep meant the danger of death.
They could easily drive a Cultivator into a state of madness, even more frightening than the collapse of one’s Dao Heart.
If beings with cultivation higher than theirs were to witness this object, it might not be as simple as bleeding eyes—their very souls could fall into turmoil, facing a great crisis of life and death.
At this moment, the Profound Earth Immortal King, Azure Heaven Immortal King, and the others felt their hearts and spirits trembling uncontrollably. They never imagined that one day they would encounter the legendary thing-that-cannot-be-looked-upon.
Generally speaking, such unseeable, unnameable things only appeared in the Source World.
Just like the Dragon Climber Immortal King who had been slain by Gu Changge earlier—it was because it had been contaminated by the Eternal Devouring Qi from the Source World that its Physique underwent a certain transformation, becoming incomparably powerful.
The origin of the Eternal Devouring Qi was precisely the Source World, which was also one of the unspeakable things of this world.
They had once heard of some ancient immortal records, in which an Immortal King encountered a kind of mist among the unspeakable things.
Merely seeing it from a great distance, his heart and spirit slipped beyond his control, and he walked toward it, gathering around the mist, reduced to a walking corpse.
One must know—that was an Immortal King! Merely because he glanced at it from a vast distance, he suffered that calamity, never to be reincarnated for all eternity.
Just thinking about it made one’s hair stand on end. It was impossible to trace the source and origin of those bizarre things.
“Why does he possess such an unseeable thing?”
“Or rather... could it be that, from the very beginning... we were wrong all along?”
Thinking of this, the gazes they turned toward Gu Changge had already changed drastically, as they conceived of a possibility they had never dared to even consider before.
And at this moment, unlike the Profound Earth Immortal King, Azure Heaven Immortal King, and the others who were merely horrified—
“That... that’s...”
King Ming was already horrified to the extreme, his scalp practically tingling numb.
His entire body was trembling; he could no longer speak, staring at Gu Changge across the black ocean.
That hand gripping the great halberd was shaking slightly.
Even though King Ming had rampaged across the Other Domain for many epochs, feared by many Immortal Kings, called the Fierce King by the world—
At this moment, he still felt endless terror and dread.
He simply could not believe his own eyes.
“That’s the genuine article... You... you couldn’t be...”
King Ming naturally recognized the Eight Barren Demon Halberd. Back then, though he had only copied a single halberd gleam, he had witnessed that scene of the heavens collapsing—the great halberd sweeping across the sky, slashing down from above the eternal azure heavens, shattering and destroying everything.
If he had never seen its true form, how could he have possibly replicated it in later ages?
But King Ming truly never imagined that one day he would actually see the genuine article—and at such close proximity.
However, what chilled King Ming’s courage and terrified him most was that the owner of this genuine article now stood right before him—and just moments ago, they had even been discussing hunting him down.
Before this, King Ming had never even considered that possibility. After all, it was far too inconceivable.
The chief culprit of the Forbidden Epoch, the one who caused the destruction of the Immortal Palace, who separated the Source World from the Celestial Domain in the Severed Horizons—that Forbidden Existence was now standing alive before him.
Who could have imagined this? Who would have dared to imagine it?
One must know, that was the Forbidden Existence who single-handedly destroyed three thousand provinces, whose name struck terror into the Nine Heavens and Ten Realms.
Even the Immortal Palace that once ruled over all the heavens was far from enough before him. The Grand Palace Master of the Immortal Palace perished because of him; the Celestial Domain declined because of him. It could be said that this broken, incomplete world of today was all caused by him.
Even over in the Other Domain, when the immortal Ancestors of the Emperor Families mentioned his existence, they did so with awe, wariness, and even fear.
At this moment, King Ming felt his entire body suffused with cold, his hands and feet freezing. Having perceived the truth, he no longer even had the courage to speak.
His face was filled with terror and unease, all his earlier confidence completely gone.
“It seems you’ve recognized it.”
“Since you know who I am, then you should also understand that I wasn’t joking with you just now.”
The corners of Gu Changge’s mouth still held that faint smile, and the Eight Barren Demon Halberd swept horizontally through the air.
The monstrous baleful aura nearly split the universe before him apart. The divine senses spying from all around were instantly severed into dust and ash. Only a series of horrified, trembling muffled groans could be heard, and then the skies in all four directions fell into dead silence.
“Could it really be... that one?”
The voices of Azure Heaven Immortal King, Profound Earth Immortal King, and the others were shaking as well.
After witnessing the change in King Ming’s expression, they too understood—things were truly as they had guessed.
While their hair stood on end, they felt their souls trembling incessantly—an emotion they had never experienced since becoming Immortal Kings.
Fear, dread, unease.
That Forbidden Existence had reappeared in the world, and had appeared right before them.
This shock, like an ancient myth come to life, left even Immortal Kings trembling in spirit and unable to find peace.
Even if an Ancestor of an Emperor Family were here, they would probably react the same way.
If there was anyone present who was not the least bit surprised by this scene, it was the big red bird standing off to the side.
It knew Gu Changge’s identity well, and naturally understood what Gu Changge’s reappearance in the Celestial Domain meant for the people of today.
Once this news spread, the entire Celestial Domain—and even the Other Domain—would plunge into endless terror.
Before the Forbidden Epoch, the Demon Lord had not yet fallen out with the Immortal Palace.
For reasons unknown, he had once journeyed to the Other Domain and slaughtered an entire Emperor Family—even the Ancestor of that Emperor Family was slain by him.
That was the Other Domain’s most powerful force, traceable back to its very birth, yet it was destroyed just like that—becoming the only Emperor Family in the Other Domain ever to be annihilated.
One must know, an Ancestor of an Emperor Family essentially meant an immortal being, an emperor among immortals—the strongest existence that could be born within a True World, already standing at the absolute peak, meaning the ceiling itself.
Even the Grand Palace Master of the Immortal Palace, at the height of his full glory, could at most only defeat an Ancestor of an Emperor Family.
So one could imagine how great a sensation and impact the destruction of that Emperor Family caused in the Other Domain.
Later, when the Immortal Palace unified all the heavens, the Other Domain dared not set foot in the Celestial Domain—partly because of this very connection.