Free Web NovelChapter 318: Chapter 45: The Immortal Gods’ Legacy
When Su Zhou unleashed his full power, cleanly and decisively blasting the Divine Bird Peacock to pieces and picking up the dazzling Evil Soul that spilled from its corpse—a soul shimmering with resplendent light and swirling with five colors, as brilliant as fireworks—
To be honest, no one present had even realized that the Peacock was already dead.
After a good ten-odd seconds had passed, even Su Zhou tilted his head in confusion, glancing behind him from the corner of his eye and wondering where the cheers were. It was only then that Tang Yuan, who had been hiding in a corner in his Spiritualization form, finally caught on. The pale-faced young man tremblingly raised his hands, one clutching his heart and the other pointing in the Peacock’s direction. "It’s dead!"
—’Isn’t that obvious? I just crushed its head twenty seconds ago and even collected the Evil Soul. Brother Tang, your reaction time is way too slow.’
Su Zhou, who had turned his back to the crowd again, frowned slightly, thinking things were a bit sluggish.
As for Bai Canglang, he sucked in his umpteenth sharp breath of cold air. He couldn’t help but be shocked. Just moments ago, he was thinking, ’This Peacock is so strong, what do we do?’ Then it was, ’The Peacock is being suppressed, but how do we kill it?’ And then, ’The Peacock...’ Before he could even finish the thought, the Peacock was dead. "Professor Su is terrifyingly powerful!"
—’That line is a bit cliché, and it sounds like something a villain would say. Brother Canglang, your literary skills aren’t that great.’
Su Zhou, who was crouching down to examine the Peacock’s corpse, kept his expression neutral, feeling that the praise lacked a certain flair.
"I-In less than thirty seconds... When he fought me, he wasn’t even using his full strength...? I was defeated by a Dragon of the same level who was holding back..." After his shock, Garuda lowered his head and began to sob quietly. "SOB SOB SOB SOB SOB... The outside world is so scary, humans are so scary..."
—’Of course. If I had to use my full strength against you, I’d truly be letting down Yara’s training. Besides, what are you crying for? It’s not like you’re some innocent little bird!’
After quickly setting up a small preservation Orbit and collecting some of the Peacock’s body tissue, Su Zhou left it where it was for the officials to collect later.
After doing all this, he heard Garuda’s lament. His expression couldn’t help but darken, feeling his reputation had been slandered.
Only after that did the more common shouts of amazement and exclamation finally ring out. "Professor Su is that strong?!"
"Is it a hidden secret Bottom Card? By the way, what exactly is Professor Su’s bloodline?!" This was the normal, bewildered amazement.
"Uh, the Five Emperors Dragon?" Someone exposed themselves as an older fan of an ancient card game.
"But doesn’t the Five Emperors Dragon’s awakening require Earth, Water, Fire, Wind, and Dark?" Someone else exposed themselves.
"Forget the bloodline! I’m telling you, Professor Su’s Dragon Pupils are purplish-blue. Logically, his Spiritual Power should be the same color!" The master of logic appeared.
"The puzzle... is solved!" This came from an older fan of an ancient fighting manga.
—’Right, now this is more like it.’
It was only then, as he looked up at the Evil Beasts all prostrated on the ground around him, that Su Zhou’s gloomy expression finally brightened. Things were looking up! Now *this* was the proper amazement!
Of course, though a lot was going through his mind, in reality, Su Zhou had just very coldly crushed the Peacock’s head, very coldly examined its corpse, collected some of its body tissue, and then used his own cold Suppression to intimidate the surrounding Evil Beasts.
It was a real coldness. The Evil Beasts were all trembling uncontrollably. Many of the Evil Beasts near Su Zhou couldn’t even withstand this inexplicable fear and trembling, and they dropped dead on the spot, crushed by his Spiritual Pressure.
"I’m going to deal with the Teleportation Sect inside first." Now that he had revealed his Fire Attribute Spiritual Power, his Bottom Card, Su Zhou really had nothing left to pretend about. He gave a shout to the people behind him, then acted as if no one else was there, ignoring all the surrounding Evil Beasts and walking into the Sealing Hall alone. This time, no one thought Su Zhou’s actions were reckless. They only marveled that Professor Su was indeed swift and decisive in his actions.
Su Zhou had actually considered revealing his Fire Attribute Spiritual Power from the beginning when he was dealing with Garuda. After all, trying to beat Garuda into tears using only Wind Thunder might have required draining all of its Spiritual Power, which would have been a bit of a waste of time.
But, considering he hadn’t yet achieved his final goal and that it was more prudent to always hold something back no matter who he faced, Su Zhou had resisted the idea. It was only when the Peacock forcefully sealed his Wind Thunder that he had no choice but to helplessly unleash his true power and blast it to pieces.
As for what problems this reveal would cause... Of course, it would cause no problems at all.
’For one, my Fire Spiritual Power is for Enhancement and Burst, which is vastly different from the burning golden fire displayed by the Blade of Annihilation. Even if Zhengguo connects me to the person who destroyed the Tang Family, so what? They’d probably just issue a commendation. At most, I’d waste some time putting away the medal.’
Even back then, Su Zhou wasn’t afraid of Zhengguo finding out about this. After all, he had a clean record, and the Tang Family were not good people. Even if he had no background, after doing such a thing and revealing his Talent, the worst that could happen would be a stern lecture.
But now, he was Zhengguo’s number one, and even a professor at an Academy within the Zhengguo Government system. So, him occasionally punishing evil and promoting good was no longer a disruption of public order and stability, but rather proactively maintaining order and stability—a virtue.
—’To punish evil and promote good, the best way is indeed to stand on high, on the side of the majority.’
With that thought, Su Zhou wasn’t actually worried that revealing his Fire Attribute Spiritual Power would cause other powers to become wary. They were in the Kunlun Secret Realm right now. The students who might have blabbed had been dismissed before the battle began. Everyone present now was a professor. If nothing else, being chosen to explore the Kunlun Secret Realm meant they were at least core pillars of the establishment, and their lips were definitely sealed.
This meant that when facing external enemies, he could still pull the ’You thought I was a Wind Thunder Mage? Actually, I’m a Melee Warrior!’ routine several more times!
At this moment, as if they had sensed something, no more Evil Beasts surged from the other side of the Teleportation Sect. In fact, many of the Evil Beasts that had just been heading out were now frantically scrambling back in the opposite direction, seeming to want to return to the world on the other side of the Teleportation Sect.
As Su Zhou walked through this ancient palace, he scanned his surroundings and nodded slightly. "This palace is quite new... At least compared to those ancient palaces that are at least ten thousand years old, this one is probably only four or five thousand years old."
Like Garuda, he could also tell that this palace was different. At the same time, Su Zhou also sensed a strong feeling of space-time distortion faintly coming from the distance. He figured the Peacock and its kind had come from that world to invade the Kunlun Secret Realm.
"Come to think of it, that Peacock Divine Bird was actually quite strong."
Recalling the fight, Su Zhou wasn’t just trying to build up his opponent; the creature really hadn’t been weak. As for why he’d obliterated it in twenty-three seconds, there were many reasons. The most important one was that the fellow was too arrogant. After using its Five-Colored Divine Light Divine Technique, it thought victory was assured and didn’t even bother to fly.
If it had flown into the air—not even too high, just a few hundred meters would have done—and then sealed Su Zhou’s Wind Thunder, preventing him from flying and forcing him to just jump up to fight it, while it acted like a bomber in mid-air casting all sorts of Five Elements Magic, then the outcome would have been truly uncertain. Who knows, maybe after Su Zhou exhausted its Spiritual Power, the Peacock would have still had the strength to escape?
’So, really. A bird that doesn’t fly, fighting other creatures on the ground... Did that Peacock think it was an Ostrich? That it could kill a lion with a single kick?’
That was probably the cause of the Peacock’s death—it had underestimated the heroes of the world and gone against its own nature.
"I must learn a lesson from it. I must never underestimate others." fгeewёbnoѵel.cσm
Thinking of the fate of the Peacock he had just obliterated, Su Zhou became vigilant. "If I go to an Otherworld in the future and encounter an unknown opponent, I absolutely cannot assume the enemy is weaker than me. No matter who they are, I must go all out, like a lion hunting a rabbit!"
"Su Zhou, oh Su Zhou, you are still very weak, and this world is still very dangerous!"
Yara, poking out from his hair, said with a strange expression, "...Aren’t you forcing it a bit? I wasn’t even this cautious back in my day. Sometimes, when you need to show your Majesty, you just have to show it."
"And that’s why you got sealed."
"Shut up!"
Not wanting to repeat the same mistake, Su Zhou shot it a sidelong glance. With just one sentence, he had provoked Yara into a chaotic squawk of ’WAAAAAHHH!’ before it shrank back into his hair.
Of course, both Su Zhou and Yara were just joking. After all, Yara had already escaped; Yara had triumphed over the Seal! And a victor naturally wouldn’t mind such teasing. After a moment, Yara reappeared. It sniffed the air in the distance and shook its head. "There’s no aura of a Great Being. That world over there is probably just a very ordinary one."
"But that world has a very strong bestial scent. It feels like there’s no civilization, just beasts."
"I see." This matched the deduction Su Zhou and Yara had discussed before: a world with the aura of a Great Being couldn’t be directly connected to the Cosmos where Earth resided. To travel to such a world, one must rely on a Celestial God Seal to pass through.
Otherwise, just opening a crack would be enough for the lingering will of a Great Being to pass through directly. One had to rely on something related to the Great Seal, like the Celestial God Seal, to ensure the lingering will of the Great Being wouldn’t dare to move.
By now, Su Zhou had reached the very center of the Sealing Hall.
Here was a vast, empty hall. Beneath a circular dome, a massive Tiger Claw Array was suppressing the ground. And beneath it was a deep and abyssal black hole, which pulsed as if it were alive, seemingly leading to the far side of the Nine Netherworld. freewёbn૦νeɭ.com
Now, the Tiger Claw Array was almost completely eroded, and the black chasm was more active than ever before. Su Zhou could see many Evil Beasts, fearful of him, frantically rushing into the chasm, pushing back other Evil Beasts that had been trying to get out. A few other Evil Beasts poked their heads out, saw Su Zhou staring right back at them, and then quietly slunk back with a low gurgle.
—’Sorry, wrong door.’
"How do I destroy it, to stop the Monsters from the Otherworld from invading our world?"
No nonsense, when he saw this rather active Alien Species Space-Time Gate, Su Zhou genuinely didn’t know what to do. He was only at the Extraordinary Level, still a long way from being able to manipulate space-time. No matter how strong he was for his level, it’s not like a few hundred thousand jin of force could shatter space, right? Although with his arm strength, a single swing of both arms was already close to a million jin of force.
"Simple. You sit here and scare them all back."
Swinging from Su Zhou’s ear like a swing, Yara’s simple and plain answer caused a great big question mark to appear in Su Zhou’s great big eyes. But it quickly added, "Just kill any that are slightly stronger and poke their heads out. When your Zhengguo Government arrives, have them detonate a hydrogen bomb here, and that’ll be the end of it."
"Are hydrogen bombs that versatile?" Even more question marks appeared above Su Zhou’s head. "If it’s really that simple, why didn’t the West Mother Great Venerable shatter this passage back in the day? As for the Immortal Gods, just take the Demon Gods for example. They were several kilometers long; a collision with Earth from outer space could cause a mass extinction. It wouldn’t be strange for their full-power strike to far exceed the might of a hydrogen bomb, right?"
"How stable do you think a Space-Time Passage is? A single hydrogen bomb certainly can’t destroy it, but it’s no problem to throw it into chaos for a long time." Yara shook its head and sighed. "As for why your Immortal Gods had this technology but didn’t destroy it, isn’t it simple? Because the Immortal Gods didn’t want to destroy it completely."
"Haven’t you figured it out yet, Su Zhou? This Beast God Realm is also a legacy left to you by the Immortal Gods!"
