Chapter 83: Opening Heaven and Earth
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The sky rumbled with a thunderous roar. The originally white, misty sky where no sun could be seen suddenly became unpredictable, alternating between clear and cloudy. After several moments, another tremendous sound echoed through the air. The white mist gathered and dispersed, changing color to form dark, oppressive clouds with thunder and lightning constantly flickering within.
Heaven and earth changed color – what was happening? None of them had ever seen such a thing. Facing the might of heaven and earth, that overwhelming presence made them feel they had no power to resist whatsoever. Everyone seemed to have become like ants, their faces all changing color.
Bai Suzhen knew that after Yue Qianchou’s cultivation increased, the space’s territory would expand – she had witnessed this before. But she had never seen such a scene. Looking at the lightning within the dark, oppressive clouds above, that destructive power capable of annihilating everything, even Bai Suzhen’s face flashed with a trace of panic. Could it be that her tribulation-crossing stage heavenly tribulation had arrived?
Yue Qianchou gazed up at the sky, suddenly feeling something in his heart. Everything between heaven and earth seemed to be waiting for something. Yue Qianchou closed his eyes, opened his arms toward heaven and earth, and let his divine sense expand infinitely, gradually becoming one with heaven and earth.
Feeling every movement between heaven and earth, Yue Qianchou’s lips curved into a slight smile. ‘They’re waiting for my summons!’
“Come!” Yue Qianchou said gently with a smile. He spread his arms wide, held his head high and chest out, standing in a spread-eagle position as an unknown force slowly lifted him into the air.
Guan Yu, Chen Feng, and Bai Suzhen watched in stunned amazement, not knowing what he intended to do.
After his body rose to a certain position in the sky, Yue Qianchou suddenly opened his eyes. Instantly, the lightning in the clouds became even more restless and agitated. Thunder and lightning intensified rapidly. First, a bolt of lightning quickly struck toward him, followed immediately by countless bolts of lightning rushing toward him desperately. All the thunder and lightning released from the clouds, using him as their endpoint, wove together into a massive sphere of light.
“Boss!” Chen Feng cried out in alarm. All three faces turned deathly pale – being struck by so much lightning, no one could survive.
How could this happen? Bai Suzhen gritted her silver teeth and suddenly flew toward the sphere of light in the sky, wanting to rescue Yue Qianchou, whether he was dead or alive.
Just as Bai Suzhen was about to approach the sphere of light woven from lightning, a bolt of lightning as thick as a water barrel struck directly toward her from the clouds. Bai Suzhen was greatly shocked. Using all her tribulation-crossing stage cultivation, she desperately released a earth-shaking, dazzling white radiance that collided violently with the lightning. “BANG!” – a heaven-shaking explosion.
The powerful, scattered shockwave knocked Guan Yu and Chen Feng to the ground. The two sat there with their mouths agape – to resist such tremendously powerful heavenly thunder, this level of cultivation was truly astonishing. This was something they wouldn’t even dare to imagine. The birds and beasts raised in the area fled in all directions.
After the tremendous sound, Bai Suzhen looked up and spat out a mouthful of fresh blood, her body flying sideways from the impact. Before she could fall, another bolt of lightning twice as thick as the previous one pursued her from the clouds. A trace of despair flashed across Bai Suzhen’s face – that previous strike had exhausted all her cultivation. She could no longer resist.
“Stop!” After a furious shout from the sky, that pursuing lightning bolt instantly vanished without a trace. Bai Suzhen safely fell into the sea of flowers. With disheveled hair and torn clothes, she slowly stood up, helplessly looking up at the sky.
“Sister, don’t worry. I’m fine,” Yue Qianchou’s voice came from the sky to comfort her.
After he spoke, the constantly interweaving lightning in the sky gradually retreated into the clouds. The dark clouds also stopped surging, and the earth became quiet.
Yue Qianchou stood unharmed in mid-air. He was seen holding his arms crossed at his chest, then suddenly shouted loudly: “Open!” His arms forcefully pushed left and right, as if pushing apart objects weighing ten thousand pounds.
The earth trembled again. The purple chaos that surrounded them on all sides, connecting heaven and earth, rapidly spread toward the distance. The dark clouds in the sky also began rolling again, dispersing from the center and following the distant purple chaos. A patch of azure blue sky like blue velvet also spread, chasing the dark clouds. Suddenly, as the dark clouds retreated, they left behind a blazing sun in the azure sky, its rays shining brilliantly upon the earth.
The clouds in the sky dissipated completely, and the earth returned to its original tranquility. The originally misty sky where no sun could be seen was replaced by blue sky and blazing sun. Yue Qianchou, like a god who had opened heaven and earth, still stood in the air, his robes fluttering loudly in the wind.
Floating in the air and looking around, Utopia’s territory had doubled in size. Without doubt, his cultivation had improved again – he had finally broken through to the Foundation Establishment stage he had dreamed of. Yue Qianchou couldn’t help but laugh heartily in the air.
Confirming that everything was truly calm, Guan Yu and Chen Feng got up, looking around at a loss. Hearing their boss’s triumphant laughter, the two looked over, then turned to look at each other in bewilderment.
“Holy shit!” A strange cry came from the air. The two quickly looked up to see Yue Qianchou flailing his limbs as he fell straight down like a black shadow. “THUD!” – he crashed to the ground on his back in the courtyard.
“This… makes… no… sense,” Yue Qianchou lay on the ground with a look of dying with eyes wide open, staring at the sky. Just moments ago he had been floating effortlessly in the air, and that mysterious unknown power seemed to be at his command. The feeling of controlling heaven and earth was so wonderful! How did he suddenly lose that connection? It was as if everything that had just happened was a dream, and this fall had woken him up.
Moving his limbs that felt nearly shattered from the fall and twisting his neck, he saw Guan Yu and Chen Feng standing on either side, looking at him with uncertainty. Yue Qianchou groaned, “What are you looking at? Hurry up and help me up. Damn it, I almost got killed by that fall.”
The two each lent a hand, hesitantly helping him up. This boss who had just been like a god – how had he suddenly become like this? His clothes were in tatters, and the black residue left on his body after foundation establishment was half there and half not, making him look like a beggar.
“Ouch!” Yue Qianchou stood up with a groan, looking around. The bamboo houses had all collapsed, the trees in the forest were toppled everywhere, and the entire sea of flowers had been devastated beyond recognition. All of this proved that what had just happened was real, not a dream.
Thinking of this, Yue Qianchou said anxiously, “Where’s my sister? Quick, help me get to my sister.”
Actually, Bai Suzhen had already rushed over when she saw him fall from the sky. She had just arrived when she heard her brother anxiously asking about her. Her face couldn’t help but show tenderness as she said softly, “I’m here.”
Yue Qianchou spun around sharply. Bai Suzhen’s beautiful hair was disheveled, her clothes torn, and her pale face forced a slight smile while a trace of blood at the corner of her mouth was strikingly red. From the first time Yue Qianchou had seen her, she had always been quiet and gentle, always spotlessly clean, uniquely beautiful and dignified in the world. When had she ever looked so bedraggled? She had just tried to risk her life to save him! It was all his own carelessness that had caused this trouble.
Yue Qianchou felt a sharp pain in his heart, regretting it to death. His eyes became slightly moist. He pushed away the two supporting him, and though his body hadn’t recovered yet, he stumbled over, opened his arms and hugged Bai Suzhen tightly, constantly blaming himself: “It’s all my fault, it’s all my fault. I wasn’t paying attention just now, that’s why you got hurt…”
Bai Suzhen’s pale face flushed with a layer of red. In over two hundred years, this was the first time she had been embraced by a man, and held so tightly at that. There were even people watching! Her jade arms used some force to push Yue Qianchou away, shaking her head: “I’m fine. I just overexerted my vital energy and feel a bit weak. Are you alright?”
Yue Qianchou also realized he had inadvertently taken advantage, scratching his head with a smile: “I’m fine, I’m fine. I just fell from up there and my body feels a bit numb from the impact. I haven’t recovered yet, but I’ll be fine in a while.” As he spoke, he even pounded his chest with his fist to show he was okay.
Bai Suzhen nodded, looked him over, and said gently, “Go wash up.” After speaking, she found a cleaner corner in the courtyard and sat down cross-legged with her eyes closed.
Knowing she needed to recover her depleted vital energy, Yue Qianchou looked at himself and said to his two subordinates, “My hands and feet are still a bit unsteady. Could you two help me to the lake to wash up?”
The two nodded and supported him on either side as they walked out. Passing through the devastated sea of flowers, Yue Qianchou sighed, “I made too much of a commotion just now. When you two have time, please restore this place. My sister likes flowers. And those collapsed bamboo houses too – I’m counting on you.”
Guan Yu and Chen Feng actually answered in rare unison: “Yes.”
When they reached the lake, he found his body seemed to have returned to normal. He tested his movement – there was still slight discomfort, but no other reactions. Yue Qianchou quickly stripped off his clothes and joyfully plunged into the lake to splash around. He had been a swimming expert in his previous life, and now he displayed various swimming strokes that Guan Yu and Chen Feng had never seen before – freestyle, butterfly stroke, breaststroke… Chen Feng watched in amazement. Throughout this day, his worship of his boss had risen in a straight line.
