Chapter 286
Chapter 286
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Translator: Ace
Chapter: 0
Chapter Title: The Substitute Long Flowing Water
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Just as Suo Huan's bid for gold failed and the three parties shared the spoils, the Soaring Empyrean Sun-Obscuring True Lord finally made his move. Overnight, the overseas became the center of the world's attention.
At the same time, several True Lords watched in shock and uncertainty.
"Angxiao... He's giving up on Long Flowing Water?"
"Or does he believe Long Flowing Water will emerge unscathed, unshaken by Suo Huan, and that his late Golden Core position won't be affected?"
"Where does his confidence come from?"
This time was different from before. The previous Chongguang's failure, beyond saving, stemmed ultimately from lack of preparation and an information gap.
But this time, the alliance aimed truly to topple this fruit position using Suo Huan. Even if Chen Tu's yin-yang attributes were altered, even if Long Flowing Water was forcibly sealed away to live in seclusion, Angxiao would still drop a realm!
How could he remain unconcerned?
Or had he decided to exchange for Heavenly River Water? But fruit positions weren't so easily swapped out.
Or perhaps... he wasn't Angxiao at all?
Did he have some other scheme?
In that moment, countless True Lords divined and deduced, but all heavenly secrets were veiled. No one could discern the true cause and effect.
In a flash, the three True Lords present made their decisions.
"We can't let him succeed!"
Beyond them, many other True Lords acted as well, recreating the scene of the old siege on Angxiao as they all raced toward the overseas!
"Xuan Gui! Mingzhu! Yuanxu! Aid me once more!"
The Dragon Lord's voice boomed out. After a brief pause, three more dharma bodies rose from the Four Seas Gate, blocking three of the attacking True Lords.
"Just this once."
"After today, Mingzhu and the Dragon Clan owe each other nothing."
"Sigh, I'm just an old bag of bones anyway."
In an instant, the colors of the entire Foundation Establishment realm grew hazy. Over a dozen True Lords clashed, their auras intertwining, as if kneading the heavens and earth into a single mass.
Under the influence of the Great Sea Water fruit position, endless transformations arose overseas. Each True Lord's strike birthed a phenomenon: erupting volcanoes, rising islands, falling frost and snow, spreading kelp... Thus, bit by bit, they eroded the overseas space, like scorching the sky and boiling the sea!
Such phenomena persisted for a small half-hour.
This fierce resistance from the Four Seas Gate clearly exceeded everyone's expectations. Moreover, Tian Qiu had timed it perfectly, coinciding with Suo Huan's bid for gold.
Thus, he ultimately succeeded.
"Boom!"
With a colossal roar, the Hades Mansion gates stabilized completely. The Soaring Empyrean Sun-Obscuring True Lord behind the gates grinned, immediately extending his palm toward the sky.
"No chance!"
Almost simultaneously, all the True Lords erupted, their unparalleled might shattering the blockade by Dragon Lord and the other three overseas True Lords, separating him from Heavenly River Water.
The next second, Heavenly River Water remained intact.
Long Flowing Water stirred.
"Tch, that damned perceptual obstruction again!"
Only then did the three True Lords—whose strikes had been the most ferocious, their true bodies positioned overseas—realize they had inadvertently overlooked Suo Huan.
But upon realizing it, they felt a strange puzzlement.
"Heavenly River Water was the decoy. He still wants Long Flowing Water after all. But what does he use to draw it? Did he truly think we missed his pawn on Suo Huan? Nothing more than that Heavenly Virtue Beneficent Divine Water—we severed its influence long ago..."
Yet the next second, the True Lords' expressions shifted abruptly.
For under Angxiao's influence, Long Flowing Water truly changed course, plummeting straight toward the freshly opened Hades Mansion gates!
This defied reason!
Angxiao had only ever exchanged words with Suo Huan once, granting a single Heavenly Virtue Beneficent Divine Water—which the True Lords had detected in advance.
How had he done it?
Among those present, only Suo Huan understood clearly, his eyes burning with intensifying hatred. "The one I've seen... Actually, back then, the one you and I, my lord, had seen!"
But he had forgotten!
It was the day Huanxu Realm fell! This lord... Angxiao... had appeared once before, imparting a certain method to him.
"Ten Thousand Spirits Returning to Ruins Dao Scripture!" Suo Huan gnashed his teeth.
"That wasn't a derivation from Huanxu Realm at all—it was you, borrowing the name of the realm's heavens, giving it to me. This Dao scripture was never a gold-seeking method from the start!"
This was the true reason for Suo Huan's despair.
He realized he had never escaped a True Lord's grasp from the beginning, like a marionette perpetually toyed with in the palm of a hand.
"Beast... Beast!"
Precisely because he understood everything, knowing he had never truly had a chance at gold-seeking, Suo Huan lost all composure upon failure, roaring madly. An overwhelming sense of powerlessness filled him, yet he was helpless, able only to let Angxiao sacrifice his cultivation at this moment.
That's right—sacrifice!
The so-called Ten Thousand Spirits Returning to Ruins Dao Scripture was fundamentally a method to offer the cultivator's entire self to a fruit position, thereby triggering its downfall!
"Splash!"
In nearly an instant, Suo Huan's flesh and cultivation burned away, leaving only a soul carrying golden nature, barely huddled in his blessed land.
And with only his soul remaining...
The Hades Mansion manifested!
The souls of foreign cultivators were anomalies in this world; the Hades Mansion naturally drew them in for reincarnation. At this moment, it proactively opened its gates!
And behind these gates stood another Angxiao!
He seemed long prepared. The instant the Hades Mansion gates opened for Suo Huan, he reached out to seize the plummeting Long Flowing Water!
In this instant, time nearly halted.
The Dragon Lord, who had resolved to stake everything, felt a chill to his bones. Instinctively, he lowered his head, gazing toward yet another Angxiao in the Dragon Palace.
To be precise, the doppelganger Angxiao had refined from Chongguang's Dao sins.
At this moment, he stood with hands behind his back, leisurely admiring the colors in the sky, never once glancing toward the Dragon Lord.
The Dragon Lord closed his massive, mountain-like golden eyes, whispering with his last sliver of hope:
"Angxiao... What you promised me before..."
"What?"
As the words fell, Angxiao finally glanced carelessly at the Dragon Lord, his calm expression like gazing at a mud eel writhing in a pond.
"You've called me Angxiao—still not understood?"
"I'm a Saint Sect True Lord, late Golden Core to boot. As everyone knows, I don't keep promises."
The next second, stagnant time resumed its flow. Long Flowing Water reached the Hades Mansion gates. Smiling, Angxiao claimed it.
But abruptly, his expression twisted dramatically!
With no hesitation, he flung his hand fiercely, trying to hurl away the Long Flowing Water in his grasp and sever the connection—but it was too late—
"Boom!!!"
In a flash, shocking change erupted!
The originally docile Long Flowing Water suddenly lashed out, like a breached flood, slamming its unparalleled might straight into the Hades Mansion!
Accompanying it came a long-suppressed, ecstatic mad laughter:
"Hahahahahaha!"
"Angxiao, do you like the gift I sent you?"
Such frenzied laughter was utterly familiar to all the True Lords. Even Angxiao betrayed a hint of astonishment:
"Xue Feihong!?"
The next second, the fruit position that should have been Long Flowing Water shuddered, as if shedding a thin veil, revealing its true form within.
"That's not Long Flowing Water... It's Stream-Beneath-the-Ravine Water?"
It was the Limpid Flying Snow True Lord!