Chapter 77: Tianyunzi

  "Tianyunzi!"

  Under the night sky, above the turbulent devilish energy, the old Heart Devil stood in mid-air, standing a hundred feet above the devilish energy, both shocked and enraged.

  "Xīn mó, bǎi nián bù jiàn, nǐ shì bu shì zài hēi chuān jí dì zì yú zì lè, wán shén me yī mèng bù yè chéng wán dé nǎo zi dōu dòng jiāng le?"

  Translation: "Heart demon, not seen for a hundred years, are you having fun in the extreme land of Black River, playing what one dream city that your brain is frozen stiff?"

  "How dare you move a disciple of Tianyunzi in front of the Tianyi Temple under Mount Tiandu?"

  "Have you asked me?!"

  A strange light flashed, and the entire night sky was divided into two parts, one side as black as ink, and the other side as bright as day.

  Ning Feng and others were momentarily stunned, Tian Yunzi wore a yellow robe, stood with his hands behind his back, and faced the Heart Demon Old Man from afar.

  Two men, one standing atop a hundred-foot-tall, heaven-defying evil aura; the other simply standing on the ground, yet their auras were evenly matched, like the divided heavens.

  "He is your disciple..."

  The old man hesitated for a moment, seemingly having great reservations, but thinking of Mirror Gongzi, he gritted his teeth and said: "What's the big deal?!"

  "Your disciple is a disciple, isn't my disciple also a disciple?"

  Tianyunzi and Xinmoulao, one a sect master of the Xianmen and the other a giant of the Modao, stood facing each other in confrontation. Meanwhile, Ning Feng and the other two people managed to slip away from the center of attention, all letting out a sigh of relief and relaxing.

  Looking at Tianyunzi in front of him, who was not tall and majestic, but had a profound and towering back, Ning Feng felt a sense of relief in his heart: "There is a reliable backing, someone to support me, it's great."

  He then stood shoulder to shoulder with Chen Xiwei, and casually pulled up Shu Baili who was still weak in the legs. Just as he did, he heard the words of the old Heart Demon in his ear, and couldn't help but let out a chuckle.

  "It's getting real fast!"

  "Just now it was all 'ancestors', now it's all 'I'."

  "You just said 'He wants to kill you. Let him kill'. Now you say 'Your disciple is a disciple, but my disciple isn't a disciple'?"

  "It's really... reality!"

  The old Heart Devil's transformation was only natural to him, but when it fell into Ning Feng's ears, it evoked countless emotions. Standing behind his own master, he finally felt the cruel side of the Immortal World.

  In an absolute power disparity, if someone wants to kill you, then let them. If you resist, it's your fault.

  "What a monstrous joke in the whole world!"

  With a clenched fist and an unyielding expression, "I want to cultivate my skills, I want power, I can no longer be treated like an ant, at the mercy of others, with life and death decided by them!"

  "Mountains can't always block all the wind and rain for me, ultimately I have to rely on myself."

  At that moment when Ning Feng's heart was surging. "Shan" brushed his sleeve and sneered: "Heart Demon, is your disciple a disciple or not? Do I still need to tell you?"

  "What a joke!"

  At a distance of over 100 zhang, Ning Feng and the others could see that with Tian Yunzi's one sentence, Xinmo Old Man's momentum was clearly stagnant, as if that sentence had touched on something.

  "What is it if not a disciple?"

  Ning Feng, Chen Xiwei, and Shu Bailin all had a big question mark in their minds, "Could it be an illegitimate child? Wouldn't that be serious?"

  They were indulging in wild fancies when the old Heart Devil suddenly became enraged and shouted, "Tianyunzi, are you determined to be partial today?"

  "What's it to you?"

  Tianyunzi took a deep breath, his robes fluttering open, and a red sun floated behind his head. On top of it rose the magnificent Temple of the Sun God, its beauty unparalleled, radiant without bounds, illuminating the six harmonies and eight desolations. It was far beyond Ning Feng's beginner-level solar technique.

  Standing behind Tianyunzi, Ning Feng and the others all felt a warm and gentle feeling, as if spring breeze had passed by, all fatigue and injuries were healed, and the whole person was reborn.

  Underfoot, the blades of grass stubbornly pushed their way up, swaying gently in the sunlight, as if thanking Tianyunzi for giving them the chance to live.

  On one side, life bursts forth in profusion; on the other, all things are being devoured. The two are clearly distinct: one is life and the other death, one heat and the other cold.

  "Tianyunzi!"

  The old man's face was gloomy, and he spoke in a cold tone: "Even if you protect him today, what can you do? Can you protect him for one day, let alone his whole life?"

  The tone was icy and cold, with an unspoken threat of intimidation.

  Ning Feng and others subconsciously cast their eyes on Tian Yunzi, what the Heart Demon Old Man said was not unreasonable.

  From behind, they clearly saw Tianyunzi shaking his head, his shoulders slightly trembling, as if he was laughing.

  "Another joke, heart demon, you're stuck in Hei Chuan's Ice Extreme Seal, have you really been frozen stupid?"

  "Today, I will strike at your heart devil's rebirth, and for over a decade, you won't dare show your head."

  "Dare to threaten me again, and more than a decade later, if you touch a single hair of my disciple, I will gather my fellow sect members, block the Black River Ice Extreme, destroy your Heart Demon Palace, and then search the entire world, risking a hundred years of my life, to eradicate all your Heart Demon seeds."

  "Do you believe it or not?"

  Tianyunzi spoke with a pause between each sentence, and with each pause, he seemed to ascend higher, as if the brilliant sun was supporting him from beneath his feet, rising straight up to the ninth heaven, and then turning back to gaze down at the old Heart Demon.

  Above the sky, white daylight overpowered the dark night, as if heaven and earth were overturned. The entire world stood beside Tian Yunzi, pressing down on the opposing demonic energy that dissipated and collapsed incessantly.

  The old man's face changed greatly, and it was clear that he believed it.

  "Tianyunzi, you..."

  His pale white hands like death, his jet-black fingernails pointing at Tianyunzi, unexpectedly didn't dare to utter another harsh word.

  "So domineering! So overbearing!"

  "Is this the Temple of the Sun God?"

  Shu Bailin was involuntarily muttering to himself, looking at his expression and tone, it was clear that he was drunk.

  By his side, Ning Feng and Chen Xiwei exchanged a smile with You Rongyan.

  Unscathed, openly declaring today to cripple the opponent, turning around to intimidate and say that they want to exterminate the entire family, cut off all means of retreat. This kind of domineering manner is the true Sun God Temple.

  "What is Heart Devil Rebirth, what is Heart Devil Seed?"

  Just as Ning Feng's mind had just raised this question, the situation on this side changed drastically.

  Tianyunzi seemed unwilling to say anything more and suddenly made a move.

  "Whoosh!"

  His figure blurred for a moment, disappeared, replaced by a rainbow rising from the ground, spanning the sky, and falling into the boundless darkness.

  In an instant, a million rays of light, billions of golden glows, the Sun God Temple crashed down, suppressing all heavens.

  Surrounding the Temple of Gods. Golden winds howl by. Dispersing endless demonic energy, passing through and igniting star fires everywhere, burning into a blazing inferno.

  Innumerable golden rainbows, innumerable gusts of solar wind, innumerable clusters of true solar fire, billions of rays of divine solar light...

  A temple of the Sun God suppresses, all sorts of solar methods spread out, in an instant. All darkness is shattered, the night sky is bright, brighter than a sunny noon.

  Ning Feng stared intently without blinking.

  "This is the true Solar Law!"

  "I am the Great Sun, wind and fire come from my heart, wherever the rainbow passes, that's where I'll be!"

  He was just about to praise him when Tianyunzi suddenly made his move, in the blink of an eye.

  In a short time, the vast sky and earth have changed completely. With the Temple of the Sun God as its center, everything has taken on a new appearance.

  Innumerable sun god lights crisscrossed back and forth, forming a light domain of several hundred feet in diameter.

  In this realm of light, all non-light is excluded, purified and annihilated. In the domain boundary of this light, everything has nowhere to hide, all in sight.

  "Who would have thought that cultivating the Sun Technique would be so terrifying in the end!"

  Ning Feng's eyes shone brightly, his gaze closely following a dark figure that darted back and forth in the light domain, like a bird trapped in a net, unable to escape no matter how hard it struggled.

  This dark figure, with a long and mournful cry, was filled with boundless sorrow and indignation, it was the old Heart Demon.

  A silhouette made entirely of the sun god's light would occasionally appear and disappear a few zhang away from him, no matter how the Heart Demon old man changed his tactics, he was ultimately unable to shake it off.

  "On that day, the soul realm was destroyed, and the nine orifices stone entered the body. The divine palace's old ancestor, who had borrowed a physical body to manifest his divine image, also seemed to be such a being of light."

  The winds howled and the waves surged, Tianyunzi and the Old Man of Heart Demons engaged in a battle that represented the pinnacle of the entire cultivation world, a showdown between the realm below the Yuan Ying and above the Golden Dan. To him, it was no different from a grand demonstration of the Taiyang Scripture's various realms.

  "Transform divine light into a domain of light, with an area of one hundred square meters, all within the palm of your hand, where one disappears and another grows, with boundless power."

  "The light body comes and goes as it pleases, leaving no trace, in the blink of an eye, it is everywhere."

  "The light technique of the Sun's Law, cultivated to the extreme, can actually have such power..."

  The wind blows gently and I yearn for it, "When can I be like my respected teacher?"

  Thinking of him now, the Sun God's light is just a ray of light, compared to the magnificent scene in front of me, it's truly worlds apart.

  "Tianyunzi, you're deceiving people too much?!"

  "How dare you?"

  In a flash of time, the entire realm collapsed into a space of over ten zhang in size, with one light and one dark shadow standing opposite each other.

  "The demon in one's heart is boundless, forever trapped in the mortal world!"

  The dark shadow looked up at the sky and let out a long howl, suddenly dispersing and turning into strands of demonic energy that wrapped around Tian Yunzi.

  Every wisp of demonic energy manifests a person struggling in agony, groaning, bellowing, howling, and sobbing...

  "Master..."

  Although the wind was fierce and frightening, he saw that the light and shadow transformed by Tian Yunzi were motionless, allowing strand after strand of demonic energy to wrap around him, binding him tightly.

  The next moment, a breathtakingly beautiful scene burst into Ning Feng, Chen Xiwei and Shu Bailin's eyes.

  One after another watermelon-sized bubbles emerged from Tianyunzi's body. Each bubble was floating with nine-colored light, dazzling to the extreme.

  In every bubble, there is a life...

  The wind condensed, looking far away, on one of the bubbles, saw a young man with high spirits and ambitions, leaving his hometown to make a big career, but ultimately ended up with a humble face, inheriting the family business under the nagging of his elderly parents, and eventually became the image of his father in the past, sneering at his son's ideals.

  A kind and gentle woman was kidnapped by mountain bandits, barely escaped with great difficulty, but was blamed by the whole village, had no place to settle down, and hanged herself.

  Seeing a newly promoted official who was initially motivated to clean up the bureaucracy, from viewing corrupt officials as enemies to becoming one of them and suppressing another newly promoted honest official.

  A farmer who had worked hard day and night, tilling the land he had just acquired, fell ill and after a long illness, owed countless debts and was sold into slavery.

  Witnessing a prosperous city turn into ruins in just one day amidst the flames of war; witnessing the aftermath of a plague, where tens of millions of people wail and die...

  Each bubble is the disillusionment of ideals, the futility of persistence, the mockery of fate, and the powerlessness to change everything that struggles in vain in reality.

  Just gazing from afar, Ning Feng, Chen Xiwei, and Shu Bailin, my heart is simultaneously heavy, as if a mountain is weighing on me, I wish to throw my head back and let out a long sigh, board a small boat and drift away into the vast ocean, leaving everything far behind.

  "Is this the demon of one's heart, forever trapped in the mortal world?"

  Ning Feng gazed at the scenes unfolding in the midst of the bustling world, his mind dazed and bewildered by the kind of suffocating oppression that made one want to go mad.

  Looking far away, is it still like this? Immersed in it?

  "Is he your master?"

  Just as Ning Feng's mind had just given rise to this thought, a clear and melodious voice rang out:

  "Ridiculous!"

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