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Chapter 230 The Truth About the Paradise

Tianlong!

The moment the enormous creature appeared, Chu Xiu realized its identity.

It was a creature several times larger than an earth dragon. Its body was over two hundred meters wide, and its length was outrageous. Although most of it was hidden in pipes, it was definitely over ten kilometers long! Larger than the diameter of the entire city!

Its appearance is similar to that of an earth dragon, except that it no longer has any snake characteristics. Its skin is no longer smooth scales, but hard and reflects a metallic luster, like some kind of special alloy. Its head is no longer a snake's head, but a strange thing with long horns and covered with a lot of alloy plates, like a drill.

The soaring dragon seemed to rip the spine out of the city, causing the entire earth to crack!
People near the tremor screamed in panic, while those further away stared blankly up at the enormous figure soaring upwards in the center of the city.

Civilians, soldiers, generals, and even Buddhist elders were stunned by this scene and did not know how to react.

"This is Tianlong?"

In the face of such a colossal object, humanity is awakened to its most primal fear—the dread of massive objects etched into our genes!

At this moment, a large amount of black mist began to flow into the body of the Heavenly Dragon, and the dense energy relics on his body gradually changed from bright white to deep black!
"Is it searching for a hiding place?"

Chu Xiu narrowed his eyes.

He destroyed the original body of the Celestial. Without a place to parasitize, even with the power of the Celestial, it would not be able to exist for long.

As soon as the thought crossed Chu Xiu's mind, he waved the Soul Banner again, and more ghosts rushed out to search for and rescue the city's residents, moving them outwards.

Chu Xiu had a bad feeling that after losing his body, his opponent would most likely fight to the death.

He himself was not afraid, but he was worried that ordinary people without power would be affected.

Just as Chu Xiu was pondering this, a loud dragon roar suddenly rang out from the giant object in the center of the city!

The sound was ancient and vast, like a god who had been asleep for ten thousand years was awakening!
Suddenly, a large amount of steam erupted from Tianlong's entire body! The light of those energy relics was rapidly absorbed, as if all the energy of the celestial beings had been poured into Tianlong's body!

A hideous face protruded from the top of the head in the sky. It looked down at Chu Xiu and let out a sharp roar!
"Envoy of Civilization, I will make you pay the price!"

The moment the words fell, a terrifying scene unfolded. Tianlong suddenly looked up, and his head, which resembled a tunnel boring machine drill bit, split open in all directions, revealing a huge cannon barrel.

The next moment, the energy beam, condensed to its maximum, shot into the sky, reaching a thickness of over a hundred meters!

"boom!!!"

Amidst a deafening roar, the energy beam utterly destroyed all obstacles in its path! The solid rock walls, accumulated over countless millennia, crumbled without resistance the moment they touched the energy beam, the damage spreading outwards and collapsing!
"Boom!"

The mountain-like rock walls continued to crumble, and countless boulders the size of houses fell down, like a meteor shower!
But that wasn't the most terrifying part. As more and more energy beams were injected, the rock walls began to crack. Eventually, the entire rock stratum was pried up and split into countless boulders that rained down from the sky!
This scene was like—the sky had fallen!

Moreover, this collapsing sky is composed of millions of tons of rock!
Everyone stared blankly at this catastrophic scene, their eyes filled with extreme terror. Even Liang Zhan and the Buddhist elders were stunned, their faces filled with fear!
Even they were powerless to resist this disaster!
The entire sky pressed down, and even a martial artist who had cultivated their skills to the extreme could only wait to die like an ordinary person! Could even the sharpest blade dismantle a collapsing sky?

Just when everyone was in despair, Chu Xiu stood in front of the overwhelming rain of boulders.

"Humph."

A fierce glint flashed in his eyes, and the Blood Demon avatar behind him suddenly exploded, turning into boundless blood that spread in all directions!

[The Blood Sea Domain]!
In the blink of an eye, it unfolded a huge blood-red arc covering a million square meters!
This curved surface, like an inverted hemisphere, covered the densely populated area. The next moment, an astonishing scene unfolded: the rain of millions of tons of stones falling on the Blood Sea Domain was as if corroded by some incredibly strong acid, instantly breaking down into countless tiny stones! They were scattered in all directions!

"this!"

The group, who had thought they were doomed, were stunned once again by the miraculous scene unfolding above them.

When the sky returned to calm and the millions of tons of rocks were all stopped, a deafening cheer erupted from below!
"Buddha, Buddha, save the world!"

An elderly man, with tears streaming down his face, said, "To witness the Buddha's miracle in my lifetime, my life has been worthwhile!"

Everyone involuntarily knelt down and worshipped Chu Xiu in the sky!
However, despite the crowd's worship, Chu Xiu showed no sign of pride; instead, his expression was extremely solemn!
He looked at the Blood Demon incarnation beside him.

Previously, the Blood Demon incarnation had suffered many serious injuries, and during the battle with Asura, half of his body was even shattered.

Even then, Chu Xiu was not worried at all, because he knew clearly how tenacious the life force of the Blood Demon incarnation was.

But now, a look of worry flashed in Chu Xiu's eyes.

At this moment, the Blood Demon incarnation collapsed to the ground like a melted wax figure. Most importantly, its originally bright red body had turned into a sticky dark red, and its whole body exuded a foul, rotten smell.

The stones that fell from the sky weren't particularly hard; even the hardest stone was as fragile as tofu in front of Chu Xiu.

The key is the potential energy that is converted under the attraction of gravity!

Even if the stone is crushed into sand-like particles, the enormous energy still exists, and the only option is to withstand it!
"Even a Blood Demon incarnate couldn't withstand a million tons of rocks."

Chu Xiu could sense that the Blood Demon Avatar was in extremely poor condition. Although it was far from being dead, it didn't have much fighting ability left. At most, it could release a few more skills to provide support. It was impossible for it to maintain the state it had when fighting Asura.

It can be said that in order to save the residents below, Chu Xiu directly lost his strongest trump card!

At the same time, he could sense that Tianlong's power was still very strong!
How could he not look solemn!

Just then, the dragon that had released its energy beam suddenly turned its head, and another human face appeared on the back of its neck, giving Chu Xiu a strange smile.

"I must say, your strength is indeed beyond my expectations."

"But what will you do next?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Tianlong shot out another beam of light upwards!
"Boom!"

Amidst the deafening roar, the beam of light that shot into the sky, after reaching a certain height, suddenly spread outwards like a celestial maiden scattering flowers!

Wherever it went, the remaining rock layers were completely broken up.

Chu Xiu then discovered that after clearing away the rocks, there was a huge, pitch-black dome in the dome. The material that made up the dome was not visible, but he was certain that it was extremely sturdy. Even the Heavenly Dragon's breath, which could split rocks in an instant, could not destroy it.

If he's right, this should be the barrier that Yaksha mentioned before, the outermost layer of Paradise Lost that can't be broken through!

However, this time, it was not the Yaksha that attacked the barrier, but the Celestial Dragon, whose energy level was many times stronger!
"Crack!"

To Chu Xiu's astonishment, large spiderweb-like cracks appeared at the center of the energy breath impact!
As the beam of light continued to inject energy, the crack quickly spread outwards, and when it reached its end—

"Boom!" A deafening roar, like a nuclear explosion, rang in Chu Xiu's ears, triggering a chain reaction that shattered the barrier that had long bound or protected everyone!
The enormous, pitch-black barrier shattered into countless fragments and fell downwards, while beyond the barrier lay a clear, starry sky.

There wasn't a trace of cloud or fog; it wasn't the gray, hazy sky of the city, but rather the brilliant starry sky of a rural evening free from industrial pollution.

No, it's even more dazzling! Much more dazzling!
After Chu Xiu realized what was outside the barrier, his eyes widened in shock!
This place is not some pristine rural area far from the city, but rather—

It's right in space!
The whistling wind swept past his ears, and at the very top of the shattered dome, a large amount of air was escaping outwards!
At the same time, as the balance of the paradise was broken, it began to shake and rotate, and a huge planet that occupied the entire sky swept through the shattered barrier.

At this moment, Chu Xiu finally understood what the celestial being had said.

Why is it that over the years, no one has ever been able to escape, and even he has only managed to bring back a hundred people at most?

Why could Tianlong fill his body with energy relics just by going outside once? It's because there is the energy of the sun in the outside world!
The other party wasn't exaggerating or threatening him; they were stating the facts!

Once the barrier breaks, the air will escape rapidly, and these 20,000 people will suffocate!
Even if he could solve the oxygen problem, how would he send 20,000 people back to the Shiki world, which is tens of thousands of kilometers away?

"Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!"

Chu Xiu's rare expression of frustration made Tianren burst into hearty laughter, but perhaps realizing that his own situation was no better, the smile on his face quickly faded.

"Boom."

He manipulated the now completely unrestrained celestial dragon to turn in the air, and in space, this behemoth was finally able to fully stretch its body.

Everyone looked up, staring blankly at the shattered barrier and the enormous celestial dragon within it.

The next moment, a voice as solemn as a god came from the sky.

"Everyone, the disaster just now was merely a test from the Buddha for you."

"I'm so glad to see that you all survived."

"However, the test is far from over; the real challenge lies ahead!"

"What the Buddha wants to test is your faith!"

The voice emanating from within the Heavenly Dragon completely stunned those below.

"That sounded like the holy monk's voice just now?"

"The holy monk is still alive? Where did he just go? He said it was a test from the Buddha, but what was that test?"

For a moment, everyone's faces were filled with doubt.

Having no knowledge of space, they did not realize what the broken barrier meant. Because this place, although in space, still had gravity, the air would not all dissipate at once. Therefore, only a few martial arts masters felt the abnormal airflow.

Most people were still completely bewildered by what had just happened.

Hearing the holy monk's voice at this moment, I felt inexplicably at ease.

However, the Buddhist elders were quite the opposite. They knew more about the inside story and that what was happening was completely beyond their imagination. They also knew that the holy monk had used some kind of bewitching supernatural power, which was something the holy monk would never need to do with his prestige!
The holy monk's voice continued: "Just now, a false Buddha, an incarnation of a demon, broke into the main city and killed my physical body in the mortal realm."

"I know that the supernatural powers displayed by the false Buddha have deceived many people, but the more powerful the evil forces you face, the more they test the steadfastness of your faith!"

As the words fell, the enormous celestial dragon slowly descended from the sky and coiled itself in the center of the shattered city.

"Now, I give you a choice: gather around me, and Buddha will lead you out of the sea of ​​suffering and back to the blissful Peach Blossom Spring."

"But if one remains stubbornly unrepentant, one will incur the wrath of the Buddha and fall into the eighteenth level of hell!"

"A twelve-hour time limit has been set. Anyone who fails to make a decision by the deadline will be considered to have failed the test!"

The holy monk's words immediately caused a huge uproar among the crowd!

"The holy monk has spoken! What are you waiting for? Hurry up and head to the vicinity of the divine dragon!"

"But, but, the disaster was clearly caused by the dragon, and the one who saved us was the false Buddha he claimed to be!"

"Yes, who can know which one is the real Buddha?"

"Nonsense! Is there even a need to say it? Look at those false Buddha's protectors! What Buddha's protectors are so ferocious and terrifying?"

"But didn't Buddha teach us not to be deceived by appearances?"

"You! Utterly foolish! Hopeless! The holy monk has spoken, how could it be false? I won't stop you from courting death, but I'm leaving!"

At the same time, similar arguments are happening around everyone!

Chu Xiu, watching from a distance, had a solemn expression.

He finally understood what the celestial beings wanted to do.

The other party's goal never changed: to escape back to Peach Blossom Spring with a large number of believers! He never intended to kill anyone!
If he really wanted to kill people, he could have just directed the Heavenly Dragon's energy breath at the crowd. With that kind of terrifying energy output, what could Chu Xiu possibly use to block it?

He deliberately shattered the boulder to weaken Chu Xiu's condition!
This is an open and unsolvable scheme, because the heavens and the people are certain that Chu Xiu cannot abandon the people!

"That's quite a tactic." Chu Xiu's gaze gradually turned cold.

"However, he still has one problem that hasn't been solved."

At this point, many residents began to waver and started heading towards Tianlong.

But they were quickly stopped by Liang Zhan and his soldiers.

Although some soldiers wavered, most still believed in Chu Xiu, and even if the soldiers rebelled, there was still the ghost legion blocking them from the outermost layer.

These people can't leave even if they want to!

Just then, a dazzling golden light suddenly emanated from the people! The soldiers who had been blocking him were repelled the moment they touched the golden light!

Under the protection of the golden light, the man transformed into a streak of light and arrived near Tianlong!

(End of this chapter)