Chapter 778

Chapter 778: Choice

Xu Fan gazed at the Ten Thousand Miles of Calamity Clouds, sensing something amiss.

After all, this is my disciple; such a vast expanse of calamity clouds is downright disrespectful.

For my disciple, the power of this calamity is barely more than a tickle.

As Xu Fan muttered to himself, the first bolt of thunder calamity struck from the heavens.

The thunderclap echoed for miles, plunging the entire area into a world of lightning.

By then, others who had caught wind of the event began to arrive.

“Why aren’t you cultivating in the sect? What brings you here?” Xu Fan asked Li Xingci.

“I can’t hold back any longer. I’ll start my thunder calamity right after Senior Brother finishes his,” Li Xingci replied.

“You two really are like brothers, even timing your thunder calamities together,” Xu Fan chuckled.

After withstanding the first bolt, Xu Gang cast dozens of defensive techniques on himself, looking completely at ease, even somewhat relaxed.

Behind the thousand-hand illusion, a Thunder Pearl materialized, containing eighty percent of the energy from the previous thunder calamity.

“Not bad. Drawing in the thunder calamity and condensing it into a Thunder Pearl—that’s my style,” Xu Fan laughed.

Just as Xu Fan thought this was a routine thunder calamity, a crack split the sky, and a giant hand covered in celestial script reached down toward Xu Gang.

The giant hand effortlessly scattered the calamity clouds, as if warning everyone to stay out of its way.

Seeing this, Xu Fan was livid.

Even he had never dared to disrupt the calamity clouds during his own thunder calamity.

Because once broken by external forces, the clouds would reform, their power multiplied several times over.

“A bunch of stinky fish and rotten shrimp, all trying to mess with my disciple!”

In an instant, the surrounding space was sealed, and Xu Fan transported Xu Gang and the onlookers to a backup location for the thunder calamity.

Xu Fan sensed the aura emanating from the crack in the sky and frowned deeply.

“Heavenly Way’s Will, I demand an explanation. Why are beings from the upper realm allowed to descend here at will?”

Xu Fan directly communicated with the Heavenly Way’s Will, and behind him, the Faceless Law Form Golden Body took shape.

The golden body was surrounded by flowing celestial script, with a phantom of scriptures manifesting behind it.

With a palm strike, Xu Fan repelled the giant hand reaching from the sky.

Even a Great Luo Golden Immortal descending to this realm would find their power severely restricted.

At that moment, Xu Fan received a vague message: it was helpless, as the opposing force was a Great Luo, capable of interfering with its operations.

“Whether it’s Great Luo or Golden Immortal, if you dare target my disciple, even the supreme authority won’t stop me.”

Another giant hand descended from the sky.

It sealed off all surrounding space, and the laws of the wide road began to shift.

The Faceless Law Form Golden Body, which had been growing in power, suddenly disappeared due to the alteration of the wide road laws.

“Altering the wide road laws, it must be a Great Luo,” Xu Fan said, now fully alert.

From the voice that had been practicing, a faint and elusive sound emerged.

“Punish!”

Immediately, Xu Fan felt his control over his body weakening.

A profound fear of life and death gripped his heart.

“So this is the power of a Great Luo Golden Immortal’s words becoming reality? Interesting,” Xu Fan chuckled despite the overwhelming fear.

A compass, formed from the power of reincarnation, appeared beneath Xu Fan’s feet, and the Faceless Law Form reformed once more.

This time, however, it was shaped by the roads of reincarnation and death.

The chaotic-colored Faceless Law Form seized the Giant Hand descending from the sky.

“I didn’t expect Great Luo to be your limit,” Xu Fan said, his tone tinged with surprise.

Just moments earlier, space had been sealed, and time, space, and the wide road laws had been distorted.

In that brief moment, Xu Fan felt the restrictions from the golden finger vanish.

Using that fleeting opportunity, Xu Fan elevated his comprehension of the wide road to the level of a Golden Immortal, and it continued to rise.

His eyes, filled with the essence of all things and paths, swirled with endless scriptures.

As his understanding of the wide road rapidly deepened, Xu Fan’s gaze grew more rational, and his aura became increasingly terrifying.

When his comprehension of the wide road reached a critical point, Xu Fan radiated a fearsome presence, like a vessel of myriad paths.

A vast river, connecting all worlds, materialized around Xu Fan, with him at its center.

An endless binding force coiled around Xu Fan, as if trying to drag him into the river’s depths.

At that moment, the master of the Giant Hand in the sky seemed to witness the most absurd scene imaginable.

The giant hand opened, revealing a pair of eyes in its palm, fixed on Xu Fan in the river.

The eyes were filled with disbelief, as if the insignificant ant it had been toying with was now attempting to become its equal.

The river’s image began to solidify, and the binding force on Xu Fan grew stronger.

Space, time, reincarnation, death, light, darkness, metal, wood, water, fire…

Countless wide road laws transformed into chains, attempting to trap Xu Fan and prevent him from escaping the river.

Xu Fan’s expression remained calm as he glanced at the eyes in the palm of the giant hand.

Instantly, a great fear gripped the heart of the hand’s master, yet this only deepened the master’s curiosity.

At the center of the river, Xu Fan’s body began to grow larger.

Until the entire river barely contained Xu Fan’s two legs, the water reaching his knees.

Xu Fan slowly lifted one foot, moving with immense slowness and weight, as if dragging an entire Thousand Worlds.

The higher he lifted his foot, the greater the pressure became, as if the forces of the heavenly way and myriad worlds were pulling down on Xu Fan’s raised foot.

It felt as though an eternity had passed.

Finally, Xu Fan’s foot broke free from the river’s surface and landed heavily on the riverbank.

At that moment, the seal from the giant hand’s master shattered, and the heavenly ways around them returned to normal.

A familiar force of shackles reappeared within Xu Fan.

This restored a glimmer of life to Xu Fan’s previously cold and rational gaze.

With one foot in the river and the other on the bank, Xu Fan looked toward the giant hand, as if he could see the master of the giant hand in the vast world beyond.

“Seal!” Xu Fan uttered a single word.

The master of the giant hand was instantly bound, severing the connection between the two realms.

“Cut!”

A giant blade appeared in the world, striking horizontally across the giant hand.

A Void Realm instantly formed, sealing the severed giant hand within it, eventually transforming into a realm pearl in Xu Fan’s hand.

With a hint of humanity in his eyes, Xu Fan gazed at the river beneath him.

“Let it be~”

His tone carried a sense of nostalgia, along with a trace of regret.

The power of the shackles returned to its place, the river vanished, and Xu Fan remained the undefeated respected elder of the cultivation world.

“Choice, what choice is there?”

“To strip away all emotions with Taishang Forgetting Emotions, even if invincible in the Three Thousand Great Worlds, what does it matter? It’s just a soulless puppet,” Xu Fan said, shaking his head.

As he prepared to take that final step, a choice emerged in his heart.

Though this step could lead to transcendence, the rapid elevation of his wide road comprehension required the abandonment of emotions to achieve it.

This choice came from the will to transcend the Three Thousand Great Worlds.