Lu Yang's words seemed to have broken Emperor Cang's defenses.
"What did you say!"
In an instant, heaven and earth changed color. Emperor Cang's anger seemed to come from the bottom of his heart. Even this Azure Heaven incarnation faintly wavered, actually showing a tendency to self-detonate.
However, seeing this, Lu Yang's expression didn't change; he even became more contemptuous:
"What? Can't hear clearly?"
"Then don't run so far away. Come closer to listen, so you can hear more clearly."
As his voice fell, Lu Yang's gaze seemed to pierce through the void, seeing a sorry figure fleeing in panic, speeding all the way into the distance.
It was exactly Emperor Cang's Blue Heaven incarnation!
He ran away!
The already dead Yellow Heaven incarnation, the heavily injured Azure Heaven incarnation—at this moment, they were all unhesitatingly abandoned by him as he fled desperately towards the distance without looking back!
What bewilderment, what broken defenses, what shock—it was all to fool people. From the moment Lu Yang blew up the [Dao-Conquering Tianhun Diagram], he had been single-mindedly thinking about how to escape. The emotions he displayed and the inner thoughts he revealed earlier were mostly just to buy time for his escape!
However—
"Can you escape?"
Lu Yang looked calm. His gaze merely flashed, his robes fluttering loudly. Boundless spiritual power spontaneously gathered, reflecting five colors, and finally condensed into a large hand.
[Heaven-Bearing Palm]!
The palm print filled the sky, but it didn't go grab the Blue Heaven incarnation that had already fled far away. Instead, it grabbed the heavily injured Azure Heaven incarnation in its palm, and then operated a secret method.
"Thump! Thump! Thump!"
In an instant, a massive sound like the booming of a beaten drum transmitted from the palm of that sky-filling large hand. Beating ceaselessly, it immediately triggered a resonance with heaven and earth.
At this moment, it seemed as if it was no longer a palm beating.
But the heart of heaven beating!
This resonance rapidly spread to the heavily injured Azure Heaven incarnation, and then, under his astonished gaze, spread towards an even further direction.
"[Myriad Thunder Resonance Method]? Impossible!"
Emperor Cang simply couldn't believe his eyes. This was clearly the secret method he had used earlier to deal with Lu Yang's [Floating Light Realm Sea Great Immortal Art].
As a result, it was now being used by the other party?
How is that possible!
"Of course it's impossible."
At the same time, Lu Yang nodded slightly: "This secret method is indeed a bit difficult. Even for the current me, it's impossible to learn it just by taking a glance."
Right, right, right, this makes sense!
As his voice fell, but before Emperor Cang could breathe a sigh of relief, Lu Yang's voice continued: "But after thinking about it for so long, I understand it a bit now."
Emperor Cang: "...Ah?"
What did I just hear? I clearly understand every single word, but how come I don't understand them when put together? What do you mean you understand it a bit now?
However, very soon, he didn't need to think anymore.
Because the resonance originally acting on the Azure Heaven incarnation unexpectedly crossed thousands of miles at this moment, directly locking onto the Blue Heaven incarnation, which should have already been safe!
"Boom!"
In an instant, the transmitted resonant vibration made Emperor Cang feel a splitting headache. Every thought seemed about to shatter, explode, and turn into nothingness!
"This..."
Emperor Cang gritted his teeth, sensing the increasingly strong and intense crisis. His heart was filled with bewilderment: "This shouldn't be. My incarnations are different from other incarnations!"
Because he was one body transformed into three, having no main body at all. The independence of each incarnation was quite strong. Theoretically, even the resonance of the [Myriad Thunder Resonance Method] couldn't put him to death through an incarnation. However, the secret method Lu Yang displayed right now actually made him see the shadow of death!
"What's so strange about this."
Facing the shocked Emperor Cang, Lu Yang was completely calm and breezy:
"The original [Myriad Thunder Resonance Method] was created by Sisui for your cultivation. It had a surplus of profound wonders but insufficient lethality, and indeed couldn't do anything to you."
"So I slightly improved it."
"I removed the cultivation part, strengthened the lethality, and optimized it specifically for your special situation. Now, it should be called the [Heart of Heaven Thunder Resonance Method]."
Emperor Cang: "..."
Numb.
At this moment, the increasingly strong resonance and the subsequent shadow of death completely swallowed Emperor Cang's mind, even causing him to experience some hallucinations.
It seemed to be like this back then as well. He had created the [Three Profound Heavens-Revering Orthodox Method] based on the [Precious Life Perfect Form Scripture], feeling high-spirited and vigorous. As a result, after showing it to that person, he praised him on one hand, and then altered the cultivation method beyond recognition on the other, leaving not a single word the same except for the name.
It was an indescribable despair.
A high mountain to look up to, suffocating. Facing him was like standing at the edge of a cliff, uncontrollably giving rise to fear, impatiently wanting to stay far away.
'Teacher...'
This time, Emperor Cang was truly bewildered. The excessively absurd reality made him not even have time to feel despair, merely staring blankly at his shattering Dharma Body.
Am I about to die?
Ever since my betrayal, I've cultivated bitterly in the Netherworld for more than a hundred thousand years, originally thinking I had the overall situation in hand and could rest easy. As a result, I'm suddenly about to die all at once?
Why did it turn out like this?
I had never heard that [Pill Cauldron] was this formidable before. If he was truly this formidable, why didn't he make a move earlier, and only suddenly made a move now?
Hateful. If only Heavenly Furnace, Xin Ye, You Hai, and the others hadn't died yet. I still have a trump card that can forcibly transfer the injuries I suffer onto them at the cost of sacrificing the [Heavenly Laws and Earthly Rules]. That way, perhaps I could survive... No, there would even be hope to turn defeat into victory!
But they all died.
And the Perfected Lord Azure Firmament Radiance who fled, and the Precious Shimmering Radiance Bodhisattva who turned against me, had already found ways to sever their connection with the [Heavenly Laws and Earthly Rules] long ago.
A desperate situation.
Emperor Cang's thoughts gradually dissipated just like this, until a calm inquiry suddenly sounded in his ears: "Exactly, how did Sisui die back then?"
"...!"
In an instant, the fire of hope was reignited.
He has something to ask me! He needs something from me!
I can still be saved!
More importantly, I can answer this question! Because of a certain reason, the Dao Lord couldn't delete his relevant memories, so he truly knows the answer!
"It's the [Heavenly Dao]!"
At the critical juncture of life and death, Emperor Cang didn't hesitate at all and responded decisively: "Back then, on Cang Hao's orders, I attained the [Immortal Kingdom Dao Laws] through the Void."
"By relying on this, the [Heavenly Dao] was officially established."
"Unlike the [Paramita], the [Heavenly Dao] is closer to the Mortal World and has a greater influence on it. At the same time, the [Heavenly Dao] actually also carries the meaning of a path!"
"The two Lords of the Sword Pavilion and the Dao Court joined forces. Using the karma of Sisui's inheritor on me as the foundation, with [Fortune] as the guide and [Destiny] as the path, finally that Lord from the Saint Sect used [Inevitable Fate] as the conclusion, opening up a stable passageway from the chaotic karma of the Dao Lord battle."
"That stable passageway is the [Heavenly Dao]."
"The World Honored One used it to retrace the past and intervene in the Dao Lord battle."
"Therefore, it also determined Sisui's death. Even from a certain perspective, the [Heavenly Dao] is actually built upon Sisui's corpse..."
His voice abruptly ceased.
Up until this moment, the will to survive still lingered in the depths of Emperor Cang's eyes. However, his consciousness seemed to have triggered a certain taboo and quietly dissipated.
Almost simultaneously—
"Boom!"
The Netherworld trembled violently!
At this moment, billions of death spirits in the Netherworld all looked up at the sky. The battle of Great Perfected Lords that shook heaven and earth just a moment ago seemed insignificant at this moment.
Because an anomaly appeared above the Netherworld.
Looking up from the Netherworld, it was merely a black dot as small as could be, but everyone's line of sight was irresistibly forced to focus upon it.
Their gazes gradually drifted upwards.
The black dot also grew larger and larger in their vision. The black dot gradually became clear, transforming into a tiny figure that seemed to be making eye contact with every single person.
Even Lu Yang was no exception.
'He's looking over!'
'The Primordial Saint Ancestor is looking down... Not good!'
Sisui's death—this was a true taboo! So taboo that one would die just by speaking of it; so taboo that the lofty Primordial Saint Ancestor would even cast his gaze down because of it!
Could it be that this life ends here?
Lu Yang gritted his teeth and immediately pulled out the panel of [The Book of a Hundred Lifetimes], ready to restart. However, right at this moment, a cold and clear voice suddenly rang out.
At the same time, at the [Netherworld Lord's Palace]...
The slightly frail-looking youth slowly walked out of the main doors. Leaning against the grand hall, he looked up at the sky with bloodshot eyes, staring fixedly at that tiny figure hanging high in the heavens.
The next second, he spoke.
These were words he had never spoken to that tiny figure in the past. Yet now, he gritted his teeth, carrying unstoppable anger, and spat them out with unwavering firmness:
"Get lost!"
In an instant, dead silence reigned.
The gazes of all the death spirits fell back down. The formless, immaterial mighty power dissipated completely, and along with it, that tiny figure high above the celestial dome was also erased.
Disappearing without a trace from then on.