If you don't give up, I'd like to be your adoptive father.

Chapter 1251 Desire to Mend the Sky and Save the World
The fat old man, Wei Ran, said, "Only ignorant people would think that the Sky-Mending Stone is ordinary."

As he spoke, he glanced at Grand Tutor Yu.

Grand Tutor Yu has always been very tolerant of his "darling," and he doesn't mind or pay attention to his provocations at all.

Well, although this guy has fallen in cultivation level, he's still a Grand Luo Golden Immortal. Now that he's activated his Great Destruction Father, he's a contender for third or even second place on the "Godfather Value Ranking".

The Jade Emperor is of paramount importance, without question.

The only fat old man among the adoptive fathers to reach the pinnacle of the "Great Luo Path" can help Grand Tutor Yu unravel the secrets of the Great Luo Path. Leaving aside his strength, in terms of value alone, he can rival Zen Master Wuchao.

“I once repaired the calamity of the earth crack, perhaps I can try to mend the sky,” Grand Tutor Yu volunteered.

"Is repairing the calamity of the earth's fissure the same as mending the sky?" Yang Jian shook his head and said, "Mending the sky requires delving into the very heart of heaven. You are not a Great Luo Golden Immortal, so you are not qualified to mend the sky."

Wei Ran raised his head and said in a deep voice, "True Lord, go and borrow the Five-Colored Stone, and I will mend the sky."

Yang Jian hesitated and said, "Great Immortal, have you ever mended the sky? To successfully borrow the Five-Colored Stone from Goddess Nuwa, you must have the ability to mend the sky."

Otherwise, we would create karma, waste the five-colored stones, fail to complete the task of mending the sky, and our sins would multiply many times over.

Wei Ran hesitated, "If the Zhu Ling Grotto-Heaven still existed, my cultivation level would not have been reached—"

He suddenly stopped talking and glared at Grand Tutor Yu with hatred.

Xiao Yu shouted, "You ignorant fool, how dare you glare at me? Do you know that the fact that you're alive and spouting nonsense here is all thanks to me!"

If I had harbored any ill intentions towards you and had deliberately stood there without dodging, allowing your supernatural powers to strike my 'Hengshan Body' directly, you would have already been reduced to ashes and your soul scattered, your millennia of cultivation rendered meaningless.

If you were a true Great Luo who understands destiny and knows the will of Heaven, you would understand that you could never repay the kindness I have shown you in ten lifetimes!
"If you were a decent person with a conscience, you would have already knelt down and kowtowed to me thirty or forty times."

Wei Ran was furious and was about to yell and curse.

But he was indeed, at least once, a true beggar version of a Great Immortal.

Although it's a bit of a beggar's world, it's not in harmony with the world of Pangu, but only with the Zhuling Grotto-heaven created by the "Five Ancestors of Zhuling".

At least in terms of understanding the celestial order, they haven't compromised too much.

After hearing Grand Tutor Yu's words, his anger stemmed from primal human instinct. As the saying goes, severing the three corpses and attaining the Great Luo realm never means becoming a heartless and desireless person. On the contrary, emotions become purer and more genuine.

But beyond his human instincts, his spiritual sense was also stirred, and his Dao heart pounded. After a brief calculation, he rationally realized that everything Grand Tutor Yu had said was true.

He truly must be grateful to Grand Tutor Yu for the rest of his life, thanking her for doing her best to dodge at that time.

Well, he should thank "Great Extinction Dad," otherwise Grand Tutor Yu wouldn't have been able to escape even if he wanted to.

"Why are you hiding? Why don't you let us all suffer the consequences?"

He no longer glared at her with resentment; his face and eyes showed a hint of confusion.

Grand Tutor Yu said with righteous indignation: "I deeply hate your shamelessness, incompetence, ignorance of fate, and lack of knowledge of destiny."

In my heart, I would certainly like to see you all die a miserable death on the spot, so that I can stand on your corpses and laugh heartily.

But at what cost?
Unlike you petty, heartless, and wicked immortals, I would rather let you live on in ignominy than allow the catastrophe of the collapse of the heavens to occur.

If you surround and kill me, I will do my best to dodge and minimize the damage to the foundation of Hengshan.

If I shared your base nature, I would simply open my heart and embrace your great supernatural powers, allowing Hengshan to be utterly destroyed. After all, that "I" was nothing more than a "Hengshan spirit body."

Grand Tutor Yu is showing off again.

She exerted all her strength, willing to endure the supernatural powers of other near-Great Luo Immortals, just to avoid the attacks of this fat old Taoist, simply because this fellow had activated the Great Annihilation Father early on.

She truly cherished this "godfather".

Only if he lives can she complete the "Great Luo Golden Immortal's Powerful Killing Technique".

"I don't believe you're that great!" The fat old Taoist was still denying it, but his clear Taoist heart, which had severed the three corpses, was completely in chaos, and his expression and eyes became confused.

Yang Erge and Li Laosan, who were standing nearby, were also somewhat taken aback by Yu Taishi's performance, and their faces showed shock.

Grand Tutor Yu continued to pretend.

She looked up at the rain falling through the hole in the sky, a faint sadness on her exquisitely beautiful face.

It was as if Guanyin Bodhisattva had possessed him.

"Even Erlang Shen was struck by lightning. Why wasn't I affected at all?"

Although I voluntarily took on the role of 'Pillar of Hengshan,' it is still not my responsibility.

But it's like borrowing the stone from the goddess Nuwa to mend the sky; once you accept the task, you have to take responsibility.

Because I did my best to protect Hengshan, without any selfish motives whatsoever.

You may doubt me, of course, but God knows everything.

My body is clean; that's proof that I'm clean!

Although she was pretentious, at least in the last sentence, she acted with a straight face.

She wasn't struck by lightning, her body wasn't charred, and she was very clean, precisely because she was clean and untainted by any sin.

Of course, she wasn't tainted by karma or sin for the mere incident of the collapsing heavens. She, however, had to bear part of the blame for the Hengshan Divine Palace's actions.

Therefore, she genuinely hopes to earn some "heavenly merit" during the process of mending the sky, to make up for the mistake of the earthquake destroying the Hengshan Divine Palace.

"Grand Master Yu, Immortal Wei. Now that the misunderstanding has been cleared up, we should work together to resolve the calamity of the collapsing sky."

Looking at the gaping hole in the sky, which had started as a few scattered raindrops but had now become a torrential downpour, Yang Jian's expression turned solemn. He said, "You all do your best to stop the Milky Way from flooding the human world. I'm going to Nuwa's Palace immediately."

If other great immortals are already preparing to mend the sky, we will assist them from the sidelines.

If no great immortal intervenes, I will ask the Goddess for a few Heaven-Mending Stones, and Wei the Great Immortal will join forces to give it a try.”

After saying that, he leaped into the air, transforming into a beam of celestial light, and instantly disappeared into the horizon.

Xiao Yu glanced at the fat old Taoist priest and said, "I'll go dredge the underground water veins."

She shrank down and disappeared into the ruined Zhuling Cave.

The fat old Taoist looked around at the sparse immortals, his sorrow and regret more intense than the raindrops falling from the sky.

"Zhu Ling Cave Heaven cannot be saved. Pack up what you can and get out of here! The Third Prince and I will keep an eye on the Heavenly Cave."

Nezha said, "Let me clear away the fallen fragments of the cave, no problem at all."

I'm impatient to keep casting spells to stop the cascading river of heaven.

At this point, he suddenly realized, "Hey, if the sky has a hole in it, the cave must be even more dilapidated."

Why has so much time passed without any new fragments of the celestial realm falling to earth?

The reason he and his second brother left Nantianmen and deliberately waded into the muddy waters was because they saw that the celestial paradise was about to fall to earth and cause widespread suffering.

At that time, a vast landmass, spanning thousands of miles, separated from the celestial realm and crashed down upon the human world.

At this point, the sky had broken, but the cave was surprisingly calm.

"Could it be that Zhu Ling Cave Heaven can still be preserved, that it can be saved?" Nezha carefully sensed the aura of the cave heaven.

The laws governing the grotto-heavens are different from those of the outer middle realm. Grotto-heavens possess their own unique laws of the Great Dao and pure spiritual energy, while the middle realm is the "middle heaven" of the Pangu world.

Nezha is currently inside the dilapidated cave, but he cannot sense a strong "aura" from it. He only feels that the spiritual energy around him is extremely chaotic, and the laws are almost the same as those in the "outside world".

“The cave is completely dead, but it didn’t shatter into pieces, and no fragments fell down. That’s strange.” Nezha looked at the fat old Taoist with a puzzled expression.

The old Taoist priest had been paying attention to Grand Tutor Yu and the Heavenly Cave, and hadn't really noticed the changes in the grotto-heaven.

He was taken aback when Nezha reminded him.

After silently sensing for a moment, he hesitated and said, "Zhu Ling Cave Heaven is indeed dead, but not in a conventional way."

Previously, the pillar of heaven collapsed, just like the foundation of a tall building crumbling.

Higher floors become castles in the air, and naturally they will fall downwards.

At this moment, the grotto is like a fruit hanging on a fruit tree.

The fruit still hung on the branches, but was slowly withering and shriveling. Something was stealing the essence and vitality of the grotto-heaven.

He was one of the creators of Zhuling Grotto-heaven and was able to detect the fundamental changes in the grotto-heaven.

Nezha asked curiously, "Even if there are many ways to die in the grotto, you can't die halfway through and then change to another way!"

If the foundation collapses, the 'fruit' should fall directly to the ground.

If the fruit hangs on the branch and slowly withers, the foundation will not collapse.

"But if the foundation didn't collapse, why did the grotto-heaven die?"

The fat old Taoist looked down into the human world through the hole in the cave, his expression complicated, and said, "It seems that Yu Fengxian did something."

The 'pillar of heaven' supporting Zhuling Cave Heaven is Mount Heng.

The core of Hengshan Tianzhu is also Hengshan Shenfu.

The Hengshan Divine Palace was destroyed by a Xuan-level earthquake. That must not have been an ordinary Xuan-level earthquake.

How could the Five Sacred Mountains Divine Palace not withstand a mere Xuan-level earthquake?

Nezha waved his hand impatiently, "Sigh, let's not talk about this now, it's pointless, and I don't want to hear it."

The fat old Taoist looked regretful and said, "When the Heavenly Pillar collapsed, the Zhuling Cave Heaven fell."

It seems that Yu Fengxian transformed into the spirit of Hengshan Mountain and revived Zhuling Cave Heaven.

As a result, we beat 'her' to death. Alas, judging from her calm and composed manner as she came up to talk to us, she must have done something beforehand, which is why the cave slowly withered and did not continue to fall into pieces.

Let's set aside our concerns about the grotto for now; the hole in the sky is the real calamity."

At this moment, the hole in the sky was like a showerhead turned on at its maximum speed, with raindrops connecting to form rain lines, which were about to merge into a waterfall.

Nezha said, "You can block the hole in the sky. Join forces with the immortals of Zhuling Grotto to set up a magic array to slow down the water's flow as much as possible."

I'm not suited for this kind of thing. Hmm, I'll go down and watch the fun.

The Five Sacred Mountains Gods haven't shown themselves yet, what are they doing?

Under the helpless gaze of the fat old Taoist, Nezha, carrying the Fire-Tipped Spear and riding the Wind-Fire Wheels, transformed into a beam of fire and quickly escaped the dilapidated Zhuling Cave.

When Nezha was at the South Heavenly Gate, he opened his spiritual eye and looked down at Zhuling Cave Heaven and Hengshan Mountain in the human world.

At that time, he only saw the general situation of Zhuling Cave and did not see the scenery of Hengshan Mountain clearly.

Even now, when he looked at Mount Heng through the hole in the Zhuling Cave, he still couldn't see it clearly.

Because at this time, Mount Heng has blurred the boundaries between the human world, the underworld, and the divine realm.

Standing high in the sky, he could see that the surrounding air was filled with smoke and dust and the evil energy of the earth.

Looking at Mount Heng from dozens of miles away, it appeared as if the mountain had experienced a nuclear explosion, with a massive mushroom cloud looming over it—a truly terrifying scene. It was said to be the end of the world. For the ordinary people near Mount Heng, everything they had experienced was already seen as the apocalypse.

Even now, the local residents feel like they are living in a ghost town.

It's not their hallucination.

One day, a torrential downpour from the hole washed the dust in the air to the ground.

However, visibility didn't improve much because there was still turbid, earth-evil energy spewing out from the earth's holes and fissures. It spewed all the way up to ten thousand feet into the sky, blotting out the sun and plunging the world into darkness.

Nezha continued flying downwards, until he was only a thousand feet from the ground, when he felt the dense, dark, and yin energy again.

This is the "primordial energy of heaven and earth" from the underworld; it should not enter the human world.

At this moment, they also spewed out from the cracks in the ground, spreading to the Hengshan area, plunging the surrounding area of ​​a thousand miles into darkness.

Even in broad daylight, lamps are needed, but their light doesn't reach very far. The area within a two-hundred-mile radius is like the underworld. The boundary between the underworld and the living world is blurred; it wouldn't be wrong to say it's in the underworld.

"Ouch, that was horrific!"

Nezha activated his spiritual eye again and saw through the scene below: the main peak of Mount Heng, which was originally thousands of feet high, was now completely gone, leaving behind a huge hole that was unknown how many miles deep it was.

The hole runs through the earth's veins, connecting it to the underworld.

There are also cracks around that are large enough to fit the entire county town inside.

From the holes and cracks, gushing forth the Yin energy of the Netherworld, mixed with the power of faith and the turbid evil of the earth's veins.

There were also thousands of "corpses," torn to pieces and scattered around like raindrops.

Not a single one of them is alive!
Well, corpses are certainly not living people, but they weren't living people before they were either; they were all ghosts and spirits.

Nezha could imagine what they had gone through before.

The enormous Nanyue Divine Palace, with its eighteen levels of hell, resembled a tin box filled with fish roe. When the box was placed on the ground and the giant spirit stomped on it, the tin became as brittle as paper, and the roe splattered in all directions.

"God, save me!"

"Great God, please have mercy and help me!"

Nezha's body radiated divine light, and the Wind Fire Wheels beneath his feet burned with blazing flames, dispelling a large amount of yin and turbid energy around him, making him very conspicuous.

As he approached the ground, the remaining ghosts and spirits, wailing and lamenting, drew near to him and cried out for help.

They were hidden in the dark, malevolent aura, their figures indistinct and unclear.

Once inside the range of Nezha's divine light, their faces and appearances can be clearly seen.

None of them were intact; some were missing limbs, some had their intestines ruptured, and some had their heads crushed. They were pitiful and horrifying.

Nezha exclaimed loudly, "I'm just a 'God of Fighting,' not good at helping the souls of the dead. It's no use you coming to me!"

Despite saying this, he still manifested the Dharma form of three heads and eight arms, with one of his two heads reciting the "Yuanshi Tianzun Salvation Mantra Scripture" and the other reciting the "Lingbao Salvation Sutra".

He didn't stop, his two heads chanting scriptures, and he floated into the hole in the ground, entering the depths of the earth's veins.

(End of this chapter)