Techniques and Dao

Chapter 58 Chaos Behemoth
When you open the books of human history, you will always see many records about floods and ferocious beasts in the world.

The earliest record of chaos is found in the *Shenyi Jing* (Classic of Strange Things). The *Shenyi Jing* states: "West of Kunlun there is a beast, its shape like a dog, with long fur, four legs, resembling a bear but without claws, having eyes but unable to see, unable to walk, having two ears but unable to hear, possessing human-like intelligence, having a belly but no internal organs, having intestines that are straight and do not twist, food passes directly through. Those with virtuous character who approach it will offend it, while those with wicked character will rely on it. Its name is Chaos."

Chaos is described as a ferocious demon from ancient times, resembling both a dog and a bear. Legend has it that when it encounters a person of good character, it will wreak havoc.

At this very moment, in the center of the underground magic array, slumbers a colossal beast named Chaos, its body wrinkled and its appearance ferocious.

Chaos was captured by a black claw, which belonged to an even larger black dragon. This black dragon had horns and its entire body was covered in glossy black scales; it was the legendary Earth Dragon. At this moment, a thick reinforced concrete pillar was pressing down on the Earth Dragon.

Hua Sheng had no idea how to awaken the earth dragon. He mustered his courage and tried to approach the black dragon, raising his hand and forcefully slapping its body. But like striking a rock on a mountain with bare hands, the dark "hill" remained completely still.

Hua Sheng gritted his teeth and punched the black dragon hard, but the dragon remained unmoved.

Of course, the ideal way is to awaken the Black Dragon without disturbing the beautiful dream of chaos. In this way, he and Taishang Xiaojun can be like the poem described by Xu Zhimo: "Quietly I leave, just as quietly I came; I wave my sleeves, without taking away a single cloud."

The best strategy is to withdraw completely.

But after failing to strike the black dragon with all her might for the third time, Hua Sheng was pushed aside by Tai Shang Xiao Jun.

Tai Shang Xiao Jun extended his index finger and waved it from side to side, the gesture meaning "You can't do it this way."

He then recited some kind of incantation, and a retro-styled alarm clock appeared in his palm. The alarm clock was small, only about the size of Taishang Xiaojun's palm.

Hana used her thumb and forefinger to make a tiny gesture, and then formed a large cross with her hands in front of her chest, indicating that such a small alarm clock wouldn't be of much use.

Taishang Xiaojun ignored him and kept winding up the alarm clock. After winding it up, she placed the alarm clock in front of Huasheng and pointed to a line of small print on the bottom. Huasheng leaned closer and saw that the bottom of the alarm clock read "Model: Mom's Roar PRO".

What?! Mom's roar... and it's the PRO version...

Hua Sheng gasped. Although he had never been yelled at by his mother before, judging from the information conveyed by Tai Shang Xiao Jun's eyes, such an experience must have been quite terrifying, leaving psychological trauma on many children.

Just as Hua Sheng was imagining the power of the alarm clock, Tai Shang Xiao Jun suddenly put the alarm clock on the ground, then turned and ran far away, like a child lighting firecrackers during the New Year. Almost simultaneously, the alarm clock began to vibrate, and Hua Sheng felt a tingling sensation in his feet. The earth shook violently, and even though he was wearing noise-canceling headphones, he was still shaken so badly by the earth-shattering alarm that he could hardly stand.

When they saw the earth dragon guarding the chaos again, its eyes were open a crack, half-awake. As the earth dragon gradually awoke, a crack appeared in the surrounding Sanskrit sound barrier, and then the crack widened, until the entire Sanskrit sound barrier began to collapse, torn into pieces and scattered like sawdust.

What kind of alarm clock is this? This is explosives for directional blasting!

Hua Sheng thought to himself that if he didn't have this pair of magical earphones, he would probably be so shaken that he would bleed from all seven orifices.

Finally, after what felt like an eternity, the terrifying alarm clock stopped. Seeing that the magic circle had been neutralized, Hua Sheng breathed a sigh of relief and took off his headphones.

The Supreme Lord Xiaojun opposite him also took off his headphones: "See, it's always easier to destroy something than to protect it!"

Hua Sheng was about to speak when he felt a wave of foul, damp, and hot air blowing from behind him. The smell made him nauseous, and he gagged several times unexpectedly. Turning his head, he saw the Chaos Beast, its mouth steaming, sniffing him.

Chaos awoke earlier than the earth dragon; this must be what they mean by "the heavens do not grant our wishes."

Hua Sheng didn't dare to breathe loudly, his face turned towards the Chaos Beast, glancing at Tai Shang Xiao Jun out of the corner of his eye as he waved.

"Hey~~ Supreme Lord, what do you think we should do with this big guy?"

But then a sharp scream came from the other side.

"My God! My Rolex!"

Tai Shang Xiao Jun paid no attention to Hua Sheng, only clicking his tongue and staring at his wrist with a pained expression. It turned out that the Rolex Daytona watch in his hand had its dial glass shattered by the loud noise of the alarm clock, but his eyes looked like those of an office worker who had saved up for years to buy a luxury watch that had been smashed.

"Hey! There's no time to worry about watches!" Hua Sheng slowly retreated towards Tai Shang Xiao Jun, lowering his voice as he said, "Isn't your watch fake? It's fake! In a life-or-death situation, you shouldn't be concerned about such details!"

With a deafening roar, the colossal Chaos broke free from the earth dragon's claws that had been pressing down on it. It pounced on Hua Sheng with lightning speed, snapping its jaws shut. Hua Sheng recoiled, narrowly avoiding becoming the beast's meal. But because it was so close, Chaos's saliva still splattered all over his face.

Hua Sheng spat on the ground, "It stinks! It disgusts me!"

"If you hadn't brushed your teeth for hundreds of years, you'd still smell this bad!" Tai Shang Xiao Jun gloated from behind.

Before anyone knew it, Taishang Xiaojun had already firmly grasped the two precious swords, Ganjiang and Moye. He leaped high into the air and swung them down at the Chaos Twin Swords.

Unexpectedly, Chaos raised its head and sprayed a stream of saliva-like spittle into the sky, drenching Tai Shang Xiao Jun. Tai Shang Xiao Jun fell from mid-air and nearly slipped because of the slippery spittle, having to constantly adjust its balance.

"I now slightly regret letting you give the Nine-Turn Rejuvenating Pill to someone else." Tai Shang Xiao Jun stuck his sword into the ground and wiped the wet saliva off his face.

Hua Sheng said, "I'm going to have a mental block!" "Close combat is not advisable, let's use ranged attacks instead." With that, Tai Shang Xiao Jun waved his hand, and two gleaming swords flew into the air, aiming straight for Chaos's face. Chaos spat out viscous liquid to deflect the two swords and pounced on the two of them.

Hua Sheng retreated while chanting the Frost Spell. When Chaos spat viscous fluid at him again, he flicked two fingers and shouted, "Hurry, hurry, as the law commands! Frost Spell!"

In an instant, the entire chaos was frozen into an ice sculpture.

"Soaring Sky level?"

"How could that be? It's just the Xuanming level." Hua Sheng said, scratching the back of his head.

"Don't be shy, you can only last five seconds at most."

Before Tai Shang Xiao Jun could finish speaking, with a crack, Chaos broke free from the ice and continued to charge forward, its huge and solid body crashing against the cave walls with loud thuds.

"Only two seconds. Even the Xuanming level is unqualified! Just putting on a show, only able to deceive their own people, what's the difference between them and the Shuhuan level?" Taishang Xiaojun complained one after another.

"At least it's somewhat comforting!"

The two seemed to be performing a crosstalk routine while running.

"Why is this guy, Earth Dragon, just staring blankly?"

"Are you still half asleep?"

Hua Sheng and Tai Shang Xiao Jun flew upwards at top speed, then used their wall-passing technique to pass through the rock wall and ceiling, intending to take temporary shelter. Unexpectedly, Chaos also jumped up and smashed a large hole in the rock wall, causing the underground river to instantly flood the underground cavern.

Upon reaching the upper level, a man-made concrete structure, the two swiftly passed through an iron gate, dodging rapidly. Chaos relentlessly pursued them, accompanied by earth-shattering impacts that erupted behind them, sending rubble flying and causing the stone wall containing the iron gate to collapse with a deafening roar. Even the reinforced concrete walls beneath were no match for the astonishing brute force of the Chaos behemoth's charge.

As Hua Sheng dodged through the passage, she shouted to Tai Shang Xiao Jun, "Hey! Tai Shang Xiao Jun, what other options do we have? It seems like we're going to have to fight it head-on. We'll probably be suffocated by the stench before it even suffers a scratch!"

Tai Shang Xiao Jun shook his hair, which was wet from the drool of the Chaos, and suddenly patted his head and said, "I've got it!"

"Speak up if you have any ideas! Don't hold back!"

Have you read "The Three-Body Problem"?

"No, isn't that a famous science fiction novel?"

"Do you know what dimensional reduction attack is? We'll reduce chaos to a lower dimension!"

"This..." Hua Sheng was completely bewildered. "Although I haven't read this book, I've at least heard that it's an attack weapon from some kind of super-advanced civilization, right? Besides, this is a novel! How could we possibly have it?"

"Haven't you ever heard the legend of the Painting Immortal?"

His words suddenly made Hua Sheng understand. When he was a child, he watched TV dramas of *Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio*, which often told stories of immortals descending from paintings to the mortal world, or returning from the mortal world to the paintings. So, wouldn't the journey from the painting to the human world be an elevation from two-dimensional to three-dimensional space, and the return from the human world to the painting be a reduction from three-dimensional to two-dimensional space?
So immortals already possessed the magic of ascending and descending to higher dimensions? It's just that immortal techniques and scientific theories have different names.

Hua Sheng exclaimed, "Holy crap... such a powerful spell should have been brought out a long time ago! Were you planning to hoard it for the New Year?"

"But to achieve the dimensional reduction of immortality, there is a prerequisite."

"You're still breathing heavily when you speak, can't you just finish speaking all at once?" Hua Sheng asked breathlessly.

"The Immortal Spells are all about the immortals themselves entering and exiting the painting. But if you want to seal a third party into the painting, you need to use tremendous force. In other words, you have to force it into the painting."

"What should we use to crash?"

"hand!"

"You think you're swatting a mosquito? How could you possibly move such a massive lump of chaos?"

Just then, as another thick reinforced concrete wall was knocked down by Chaos, Tai Shang Xiao Jun and Hua Sheng suddenly found themselves in the underground parking garage of a high-end shopping mall.

Customers coming and going in the parking garage were initially stunned, then began screaming and scattering in unison. This was followed by the roar of engines and the sounds of cars colliding as they tried to escape. The scene was so chaotic that it caused congestion, and some cars simply crashed through the barriers and sped off onto the ground.

Hanamori stared blankly at the chaotic underground parking garage and the running, screaming crowd, and sighed.

"This is huge! We're going to be trending on social media!"

(End of this chapter)