Destiny is ashes

Chapter 1026 Faster Than Light (Short chapter, longer chapter to be written tomorrow)

There is gravity between all things.

Everything is constantly dragging each other along, like a crowded bucket of crabs, trampling and pinning each other, exerting all their strength to drag each other down with more force than they can climb, making it impossible for anyone to break free and reach higher horizons.

That was a tremendous constraint, an innate predicament.

The soul is bound to the body, the body is bound to the earth, and mortals are bound to social classes.

Even those who seem to be high above others, standing above all others, are not actually free from this gravitational pull.

They were pulled even tighter by that towering edifice of power composed of countless people, trapped within it, unable and unwilling to break free.

Heaven and earth are like a mother who spoils her children too much, embracing all things tightly. But this love is too heavy and suffocating, making it impossible for any of the children to leave.

This is a theorem, a law written into the operating principles of the Great Dao.

However, there are always some things that can transcend this theorem and escape the gravitational pull of all things.

It's like a child's curiosity about the unknown, like a hero's desire for adventure in the distance, like a supreme pursuit that transcends human nature and breaks free from the pull of the soul.

It's just like……

A martial artist's desire for strength!

There was no rebuttal, no boasting, no anger, and no thought that 'ganging up' was wrong.

When an undisputed strongman is right before your eyes, when 'heaven' and 'destiny' are within your grasp, a martial artist has no need for those low-purity things.

After a moment of deathly silence, killing intent and fighting spirit erupted like a volcano—everyone present, including Long and Zhuzhou, moved at the same instant.

They were like shooting stars that had broken free from the pull of gravity and were resolutely flying against the current, rapidly approaching Anjing from all directions!

Yue Qingge did not speak, but the Blood Sea Peace sword in his hand emitted a long laugh-like sword cry. He drew his sword almost joyfully, and the divine sword also slashed out joyfully—without the slightest hesitation, he was the first to strike!
The dazzling sword light rose from the ground, almost like a skill, but an ultimate art. Swordsmanship, principles of law, domain of law... the supreme sword path from the One Beginning Sword Court and Yue Qingge's own path of law merged into one at this moment.

Behind that blinding brilliance, the fire was dying out, the light was dimming, the rocks were cracking silently, withered yellow leaves appeared from the void and fell again, and even the wind was being cut and shattered.

Smooth, mirror-like sword slashes instantly wove together a giant net that covered the heavens and the earth, descending upon An Jing from all directions!

Each sword aura contained the essence of the immortal arts of magic. As they flew, they constantly generated, transformed, and connected with each other, sealing off all possible directions for An Jing to dodge from all sides, in the sky and on the ground!

This is not a killing move, but a restraint!

Just as Anjing was enveloped by the sword net and his attention was drawn away, Yongzhizhen, in the distance, formed hand seals and his expression became solemn.

[Yuan][He]

The magic seal in his palm that suppressed all things did not directly attack An Jing, but instead slammed down on the ground beneath everyone's feet with a loud bang!
Rumble——! ! !
The entire Xuanri Tang Valley, a vast plain spanning hundreds of miles, suddenly sank under this magic seal!
The earth was no longer a solid flat ground, but had transformed into an enormous funnel. Countless layers of rock and sand collapsed and fell towards the very center like a waterfall bursting its banks, instantly forming a bottomless, pitch-black abyss that even light could not illuminate!
Yue Qingge's sword net blocked the high sky, while Yong Zhizhen's earth sinkhole created an abyss. The two worked together seamlessly to plunge An Jing into this endless fall!
"A sealed-off world, is that it...?"

However, An Jing's face remained completely expressionless.

He did not resist the suction of the collapse, and even laughed strangely, letting his body fall into the deep darkness along with the collapsing earth.

But this is the second step in the battle!
Just as An Jing fell into the abyss, two completely opposite but equally deadly attacks erupted simultaneously from the sky and the ground!

Below the abyss, Cang Anqi's figure had already silently blended into the shadows of the abyss's rock walls. He stretched out his right hand, his five fingers spread, and countless blood-red, lifelike vines burst forth from the cliffs on all sides!

They frantically absorbed the life force of the earth, coiling together to form a giant hand of blood energy, which reached out to grasp An Jing as she fell!

At the top of the sky, Mo Kongche's body had transformed into a bright sun that purified all things!

Endless pure light gathered before him into a judgment axe that pierced through heaven and earth, carrying the power to purify all evil and destroy all laws, and cleaved down vertically!
Above and below, heaven and earth, destruction and creation, the two forces form a perfect killing force, aiming to completely crush the falling An Jing in the center of the abyss!

The unparalleled power is transformed into a Tai Chi millstone, which can wear down and shatter even the eternal and indestructible divine metal, turning it into equally indestructible but fragmented dust!
But this is not the end!

Just as the crimson vines and the Judgment Axe were about to close in, the dragon shadow in the distant Great Wilderness suddenly lit up its eyes, which contained the image of endless cycles of time!
An invisible and intangible ripple of time suddenly spread out from An Jing as the center. An Jing's falling figure, the air flowing around him, and even all the reactions he was about to make, all froze for a moment!
[Fake Time Stop]

Although it was only an extreme slowdown that was almost a pause, it was enough. However, perhaps due to poor coordination, the time stop that Long Ying used enveloped everyone, so that the attacks of others could not hit An Jing.

But is it really impossible?

At this moment, the [Sun Candle], which had been holding back for so long, moved!

The light, originally pure gold and almost white, suddenly turned into a subtle blue. This was an anomaly caused by the air being ionized by increasingly powerful solar radiation, which then transformed into lightning.

The instant the radiance turned from white to blue, all the Yang lightning was bound, suppressed, and entangled around the Sun Candle. Its serpentine bird body, composed of pure light and heat, at that moment withheld all its outward brilliance, compressing its boundless power into a single point, transforming into a true, perfectly solidified, falling blue sun!
Then, they charged toward Anjing at the speed of light!

No matter how much time slows down, the speed of light is still the speed of light!
During the charge, the powerful outward thermal pressure caused Yang Lei to expand continuously, almost instantly transforming into a huge, self-fusioning blue fireball.

This fireball, moving at a speed beyond comprehension, is violently crashing into An Jing, who is frozen in mid-air in the abyss, caught between two forces and unable to move!

The terrain changes, they attack from above and below, time and space are locked, and finally the strongest one delivers the fatal blow!
This is a perfect killing trap set up by six top geniuses and a manifest ancestral spirit, theoretically without any flaws!

An Jing did indeed feel that long-lost sense of danger.

But not after everyone has started their attack.

But it happens before everyone else begins their attack.

He was laughing as he fell.

Haha, that's the stinging feeling. You can't just deal with it casually, you can't ignore it, you can't... take it lightly.

Yes, nothing can travel faster than light, not even when time stands still.

but.

If it is not static.

Instead, it was with unparalleled combat talent, incredible combat premonition, and that faint perception of cosmic light.

If the counterattack had already begun before the 'light' leaped in.

So, light is no longer the fastest.

As the distant dragon's shadow seemed to freeze time, everything appeared to stand still at that moment.

However, everyone present possessed the power of cosmic light, and none of them could be completely frozen in place.

So at that instant, just before the sun's candle began its charge, just as the light was about to condense.

They saw it; they had already seen it.

A sword appeared out of thin air in An Jing's hand.

A long sword with a dark red blade and unparalleled sharpness.

Then, a chilling and scorching sense of danger emanated from that human.

An Jing raised his hand, ignoring all the 'stagnation' and 'slowing down' of the cosmic light divine power of the distant dragon shadow, and flicked his finger towards the sword tip, producing a crisp sound of a chess piece falling.

Thus, a calamity suddenly struck the world.

then.

A jet-black sword light slashed out!

The sword light was so pure and so profound that it cleaved through the void, cutting off the path of light, rendering distance ineffective, and shattering the universe. It was like a cliff stretching across the ends of the earth, where even light would fall.

But it wasn't a cliff, nor a crevice.

It is the blade that ends everything!

hum!
The dark sword light, which foresaw the future, sliced ​​through the incoming blue sun the instant the light bombarded it. The blazing fusion fireball was instantly cleaved in two by the sword's edge, annihilating it and scattering waves of fire and lightning across the sky!

But before everyone could be shocked that Sun Candle's most powerful attack had been so easily defeated by such pure skill, something even more astonishing happened—

Because of a figure, they suddenly jumped up!

An Jing broke through the vast spiritual flames he had created, his figure closely following his own sword light. Then, with a punch, he tore apart the blue ionized clouds and fire waves, causing his right fist, which had been strengthened by the Tai Bai evil energy, to rise from below and instantly cross a distance of a thousand feet, slamming it hard into the head of the Sun Candle, whose body was stopped in place by the sword's edge!
In that instant, even without emotion, the sun candle, formed from a ray of light from the ancestral dragon scale and acting as the agent of the Zhaolin Realm, revealed a look of astonishment in its purple-blue dragon eyes.

Immediately following was a deafening roar!
Crackling sounds—BOOM!

Like a meteorite striking the earth, amidst the teeth-grinding sound of bones shattering, the enormous divine body of Sun Candlelight, especially its neck and head, was sent flying into the sky by this earth-shattering Rising Dragon Fist!

(End of this chapter)