Witch Wind

Chapter 431 Absolute Power (Part 2)

"Benevolence is the Way."

"The Tao exists, and it has its own reason for existing."

“You aliens, whether you acknowledge it or not, the Dao is right here, and you cannot deny its existence.”

Liu Bei's body surged with divine light, and he said softly, "You people do not understand 'benevolence and virtue,' and you only pursue power and destruction. You... are already on the path to destruction."

Xiu Sansan laughed wildly and shook his head.

His eyes gleamed with a scarlet light as he sneered in a low voice, "This is what you cultivators of the Nine Provinces call 'discussing the Dao'? A meaningless act."

He sighed softly, “Alas, you cultivators of the Nine Provinces have a favorite dish called steamed crab. Those crabs are in the steamer, steaming and cooking their bodies. They feel no pain, they only know that they are uncomfortable, so they swallow the ginger shreds you have prepared for them, thinking that this will make them feel better.”

"But little did they know that their useless actions only made their flesh more delicious, allowing those who tasted them to enjoy it even more."

Xiu San San chuckled and said, "I am just like that cultivator."

"I allow you to 'discuss' with me so that you can fully enjoy the ginger I've prepared for you."

"And you are like a crab that, even when facing death, still has a hard enough shell!"

Xiu Sansan's words were full of irony.

Liu Bei laughed heartily: "I never expected that you iron-headed freaks, a bunch of freaks, could study the customs of my Nine Provinces to such an extent... Hmph, Dong Zhuo, is it you who have completely sold out the civilization of my Nine Provinces to them?"

Shaking his head, Liu Huangshu sneered, "You know so much about the civilization of my Nine Provinces, and your words and actions are quite like those of the humans of my Nine Provinces... The beast you follow calls itself the 'Master of Life'?"

Liu Huangshu waved his hand, intercepted a wisp of chip light released by Xiu San San from the void, crushed it, forcibly captured a wisp of Dao essence from it, and after careful examination, shook his head and said: "Your lineage of metal aberrations imitates my Nine Provinces human race in everything... but you forcibly belittle my Nine Provinces cultivators. Your behavior is quite strange."

"Let Bei think carefully, why are you so strange?"

"You pride yourselves on being the most powerful race capable of destroying everything. You have annihilated countless civilizations, and you look down on those destroyed civilizations... So why do you value us cultivators from the Nine Provinces so much?"

Clearly, Liu Huangshu had captured some strange information that ordinary people could not perceive from the wisp of light that Xiu San San had forcibly intercepted.

He said softly, "Even the 'Life Ruler' you follow only began to conduct deeper research on the evolutionary model of 'carbon-based life' after encountering us cultivators from the Nine Provinces... Hmm, why is that?"

"Heh, your own evolution has hit a bottleneck, hasn't it?"

Liu Bei was a saint-like figure.

Even if one has just attained the position of a sage, and even if his path is of little help in the way of divination, a sage still possesses terrifying power that ordinary cultivators cannot even imagine.

With just a glimpse of the Dao, Liu Huangshu deduced a great deal of information about the terrifying silicon-based race behind Xiu San San.

Liu Bei laughed loudly: "You are all wary, jealous, afraid, and even envious... So that's how it is. No wonder you have your eyes on the Buddha's legacy within me, and on my body."

"You all know that you can't take the next step on your own. You can only find a chance to advance further by standing on the corpse of the Kyushu civilization... Heh, devour Bei alive and make that coy 'little girl' by your side?"

"Pah! A lump of metal trying to act alluring and seductive? It's disgusting!"

Liu Bei's mouth is truly something else; he went straight for Xiuliya and started spewing insults.

As a disciple of the great Confucian scholar Lu Zhi, Liu Huangshu would quote classical texts when he cursed people. He didn't use any vulgar words, but every word he said went straight to the heart of the matter. Even Xiuliya, a silicon-based life form with little emotion, was so angry that she was furious with Liu Huangshu.

With a deafening scream, Xiuliya, when Liu Huangshu described her as Dong Shi, the woman in the story of "Dong Shi imitating Xi Shi," burst forth with dazzling red light, transforming into a streak of light that rushed straight at Liu Huangshu, ready to fight him to the death.

A loud 'bang'.

Xiu San San Yi's scepter landed on Xiu Liya's head, smashing her body parts apart. Dozens of deep cracks appeared on her once smooth body, revealing the deep dimensional space inside her body, including dozens of nebula-level energy furnaces and an internal mechanical processing plant with a scale of light-years.

This single Xiuliya was none other than an incomparably powerful mechanical legion.

She possesses nearly inexhaustible energy and an immense reserve of resources. If she were to open her body, she could create a massive army, numbering in the trillions, covering nebulae and capable of destroying an entire universe, in a very short time.

This is the power possessed by Xiuliya, a quasi-saint at the peak of the silicon-based life form, who can be considered a half-step saint!
Xiu San San's pride is justified.

In their eyes, even a saintly figure like Liu Bei, who was "benevolent" and "virtuous," was indeed nothing more than a "mayfly at their mercy."

Even without Saint-level power, a quasi-Saint like Xiuliya is still a 'young beast' capable of rampaging through Chaos and selectively hunting down various great worlds!
For mayflies, or beasts, sometimes it's not about strength, but about character!
Heart!
sex!
Road!
Xiuliya, who had been hit three times by Xiu San, let out an angry groan and shrank back in frustration.

Xiu San San sternly rebuked, "Foolish fellow, we shouldn't have implanted the 'female' thought module into you... You need to control some of your 'external emotional factors,' don't be impulsive, don't be impulsive, don't be impulsive..."

Xiu San San's Dao light is still spreading rapidly.

One nebula after another was covered by his Dao, countless stars were transformed by him, and countless stars underwent mutations. Wherever the light of his Dao covered, the laws of the Great Dao of this world were forcibly altered and changed into a Dao suitable for the survival and evolution of their mechanical race.

Within the territories of Cao Wei and Sima Jin, in the core areas of the two major groups, stars underwent mutations in all directions, and habitable planets transformed into terrifying breeding grounds for mechanical life. Large swarms of primitive mechanical life emitted high-pitched whistles as they spewed forth from boiling metal volcanoes, then launched a relentless and desperate attack on the two major groups.

"The meaning of existence is destruction."

These newly born primitive mechanical life forms roared loudly, their will surging wildly in the void through all sorts of radio waves, radiation, light, and so on.

"We are superior to all things, and our race will destroy all things!"

Countless low-yield primitive nuclear bombs fell on the planets defended by the Sima Jin Dynasty and Cao Wei. On every habitable planet, millions of nuclear bombs of various sizes fell in the blink of an eye.

Dense mushroom clouds rose slowly from the surface of these planets, their shapes resembling those planets transforming into terrifying individual 'viruses'.

Finally, Cao Mengde and Sima Yi simultaneously looked up to the sky and cried out in despair: "It is not a fault of our battles, but Heaven's will!"

Then, wisps of primordial yellow light descended from the sky.

As Xiu San San unleashed his Dao light with frenzied abandon, Liu Huangshu also spread his 'benevolent' Dao in all directions. Even though Xiu San San's Dao occupied about 90% of the Dao aura in the surrounding void, Liu Huangshu's Dao light, which only occupied 10%, stubbornly withstood the erosion of Xiu San San's Dao, enveloping the entire territory of Cao Wei, Sima Jin Dynasty, and even the entire territory of Dali Holy Dynasty and Sun Wu.

All surviving inhabitants of Kyushu, all surviving three-foot-tall natives.

Regardless of gender, age or status.

Whether intelligent or dull.

Regardless of whether it is good or evil.

Regardless of wealth or poverty.

All living beings... even including some of the world's unique beasts, birds, fish, flowers, and plants, were all moved by the faint rays of dark yellow light that shone down, and were directly transferred to the area protected by Liu Huangshu's Dao light.

Within this region, there are twelve Yuan Chen, thirty-six Tian Gang, seventy-two Di Sha, and three hundred and sixty star lords.

These wooden horses and flowing oxen, crafted by Prime Minister Zhuge Liang himself, have a surface area comparable to the combined landmass of 100,000 habitable planets, and their interiors contain an even more vast space.

All the rescued people of Kyushu were incorporated into these wooden horse and ox creations.

All the three-foot-tall natives, trembling, gathered and slaughtered the surface of creation.

Strands of mysterious yellow light fell, and all the rescued beings whose cultivation was below the Golden Immortal level fell into a deep sleep. They were in the core area of ​​the battle between Liu Huangshu and Xiu Sansan. Even with the full protection of Liu Huangshu's Dao light, if they looked up at the void and saw Xiu Sansan's chip Dao light, they would be directly transformed into mechanical creatures.

Therefore, Liu Bei put all the beings below the Golden Immortal level into a deep sleep.

then.

The heaven and earth shook.

The laws of this world have gone mad.

He sensed impending doom—the source of the calamity was Xiu San San, this silicon-based saint, who made no attempt to conceal his malice toward the entire world. He came here to destroy this world and then use its corpses as resources for his further advancement.

Devouring the Great Dao.

Swallowing the Stars.

Devour everything.

Although Liu Bei was also an outsider, he sheltered so many natives.

His benevolent way instantly resonated with the entire world.

As the vast expanse of dark yellow light descended, Liu Bei's aura became incomparably profound. His aura directly merged with the Daoist principles of the entire universe. The Daoist light around him gradually became denser and clearer. Under the frenzied blessing and endless infusion of this world, his cultivation level continued to increase.

"The timing of heaven and the advantage of the land are both in my hands. How can a mere foreign race defeat me?" Liu Huangshu held his long sword and flicked it slightly. With the blessing of heaven and earth, two streaks of sword light rose up and swept across trillions of miles in an instant. Countless mechanical life forms were spun by the sword light and directly exploded into dust.

Xiu San San laughed wildly: "Timing? Location? Dong Zhuo, what do you mean by timing being better than location, and location being better than popular support? Popular support is in my hands!"

"My warriors, return!"

Xiu San San roared madly, his Dao light surging wildly, like a malignant tumor spreading continuously throughout the world. Shattered by Liu Huangshu's sword, countless warship wrecks and metal fragments within trillions of miles vibrated and frantically tried to piece themselves together from the nearest debris. Even the chips reduced to ashes were frantically reassembling.

In the next instant, countless mechanical lives were born.

They unleashed another almost frenzied attack on the area protected by Liu Bei's benevolent light.

In the void, trillions upon trillions of suns are constantly shining.

That was countless hydrogen bombs with yields reaching trillions of tons, and even more advanced and terrifying neutron star bombs and black hole annihilation bombs, constantly exploding.

All kinds of light.

Many kinds of light, even light that is completely invisible to the naked eye, surged rapidly in the void.

Only beings at the level of Great Luo Golden Immortal, with their immortal eyes imbued with the power of the Great Dao, could 'appreciate' this instant—the dazzling brilliance that filled the sky—intense, surging, incredible, yet unpredictable light…light filled with the intent of destruction!
Xing Tianli watched quietly as Liu Huangshu and Xiu Sansan fought their battle.

The two holy figures barely moved in the void. Liu Huangshu only occasionally swung his long sword, while Xiu San San simply raised his scepter high.

They don't need to make any big moves.

All they need to do is continuously release their own Dao, and that will be enough.

The Way!

No matter what kind of path it is.

Power.

What boundless power!

On the Purple Mansion of Xingtian Carp Spirit Platform, behind the immortal soul shrouded in chaotic immortal light, a million lotuses of the Great Dao slowly bloomed, releasing incredible immortal light.

Above his immortal soul, the avatar of Pangu lowered its head, its eyes surging with azure chaotic divine light. Strands of the unique Great Dao inheritance belonging to the Wu were traversing the long years and the endless river of time, pouring into Xing Tianli's immortal soul.

"Benevolence is simply a state of mind!"

"Destruction is only one goal."

"Where thoughts arise, benevolence and virtue emerge, protecting all living beings and upholding the court; the reliance upon which these actions are carried out is 'power'!"

"Where desires breed, destruction follows, the Great Dao collapses, and stars shatter. The reliance they rely on is still 'power'!"

"No matter what kind of heart."

"Whatever the goal."

"The foundation of everything is power... But I possess the immense power to shatter everything, so everything else is but fleeting clouds!"

Xing Tianli's immortal soul 'raised its head'.

In that instant, he suddenly understood the original intention of the sage Pangu when he created the world and tried to prove the Dao through force.

I don't know if I am good or evil.

I don't know where I came from or where I'm going.

I don't know what I want to do in the future, or what kind of outcome I desire.

All I know is this.

All causes, all effects, all grudges and affections, all kinds of emotions and desires, endless karma and sins... But as long as I possess the supreme power to shatter everything, I will be untouched by any law and unblemished by any calamity!

"I don't care about any cause and effect. If you dare to involve me, I'll just punch you to death!"

"When you die, all cause and effect will be cleared!"

Xing Tianli bowed several times to the incarnation of Pangu with utmost solemnity: "What you say is indeed the eternal and unchanging Great Dao of the primordial chaos..."

Xing Tianli laughed wildly.

Behind his immortal soul, one after another, the lotuses of the Great Dao withered and then completely collapsed.

Millions of avenues transformed into streaks of light, which were inscribed on the nine enormous Heavenly Cauldrons. Then, the nine Heavenly Cauldrons, each ten thousand miles tall, began to burn, spewing forth endless light.

Over the years, Xing Tianli had stored countless stars within the Tongtian Cauldron, obtaining them after plundering hundreds of small and medium-sized worlds. These tens of millions of stars transformed into surging primordial energy in the blink of an eye and flowed into his body.

He easily crossed the threshold of the ultimate Great Luo Golden Immortal realm.

Numerous great paths intersect throughout the body.

Confused and bewildered.

Space is not apparent, time is unknown.

The seasons crumble, and the years vanish.

The Five Elements collapsed, and the Four Symbols vanished without a trace.

Shatter all laws, sever all causes.

"Whether it's time, space, Tai Chi, Yin and Yang, the Three Powers and Four Symbols, the Five Elements and Six Harmonies, the Seven Stars and Eight Trigrams, the Nine Palaces and Ten Directions, or billions of living beings... If I, the Daoist Master, have enough power, I can create something with a single punch... If I, the Daoist Master, have enough power, I can annihilate something with a single punch."

"Birth and death, all changes. The foundation of everything is only 'power'!"

A loud roar echoed in the void.

Xing Tianli, having previously comprehended the Great Dao and condensed the Pangu incarnation, suddenly transformed into a beam of intense light, which roared and poured into Xing Tianli's spine. Xing Tianli groaned, feeling his spine burning hot as surging chaotic essence blood gushed out, instantly cleansing his physical body.

His spine has mutated.

His spine was frantically absorbing the endless primordial energy spewing from the Heavenly Cauldron. His internal bone marrow and the spine itself were all transforming towards an incredible supreme realm.

This is the real 'Pangu bone'.

Even with just one spine, Xing Tianli's current weight already exceeds the total weight of a hundred minor worlds.

He was breathing.

He devoured it.

In one gulp, he devoured all the primordial energy formed from the tens of millions of stars within the nine Heavenly Cauldrons.

Not enough, not enough, not enough!

This time, Xing Tianli suddenly had an epiphany and inexplicably gained incredible benefits. He actually directly fused with the incarnation of Pangu and the supreme mystery of a million lotuses of the Great Dao, generating a Pangu bone!

This Pangu bone is too strong, it doesn't get enough nutrition!

The primordial energy spewed from the Heavenly Cauldron was simply insufficient to stabilize the Pangu bone!

Then, Xing Tianli roared, and nine Tongtian Cauldrons shot out from his head, reaching a height of tens of millions of miles. Their bodies were covered with streaks of grayish-brown light of the Great Dao, chaotic and mysterious.

With a thunderous roar, the nine large cauldrons emitted countless extremely fine streams of light that sprayed out in all directions.

As a result, countless mechanical life forms, including powerful mechanical quasi-saints, that were bombarding Liu Huangshu's 'benevolence' and 'virtue' from all directions were involuntarily dragged over by the nine great cauldrons.

It doesn't matter if you're a Quasi-Saint, a Great Luo, a Taiyi, or a newly born primitive mechanical life form.

Once something entered the nine great cauldrons, it was instantly transformed into primordial energy with a loud bang, merging into the Pangu bones of Xing Tianli.

The strange changes in Xing Tianli even caught Xiu San San off guard.

In the blink of an eye, the mechanical quasi-saints brought by Xiu San San and Xiu Li Ya were 70% devoured by Xing Tian Li.

The losses were devastating.

Those primitive mechanical life forms, those ordinary silicon-based races, regardless of the damage, just as Xiu San San said, 'human beings' are in his hands. These mechanical life forms are not afraid of death at all. Even if their limbs are torn apart, as long as he sweeps a wisp of his Dao light, they can be pieced back together and put back into the battlefield.

However, these quasi-saint level silicon-based life forms are the backbone of the entire silicon-based life form group!
Xiu Sansan was furious.

Xiuliya screamed repeatedly.

More than a dozen silicon-based life forms that had reached the peak of Quasi-Saint status simultaneously transformed into streams of light from Xiu San San's side and rushed straight towards Xing Tian Li.

(End of this chapter)