Exploding God

Chapter 1172 Heaven and Earth Return to One

Compared to the older members of the tribe who were moved to tears, the younger members of the tribe showed more shock and disbelief.

Is there anyone in this world who can compare to Elder Tantai Zhongyi?

No, this extraordinary phenomenon is in no way inferior to that of the Grand Elder!

Could this be the secret of my Tantai family?

Strength is always the foundation of confidence. At this moment, the domineering strength displayed by Tantai Dapan greatly inspired all the clansmen. Everyone involuntarily straightened their posture and looked intently at Lu Ze.

At this moment, they suddenly felt that this person was not so terrifying after all, since it was the Supreme Elder who had truly shown his strength in front of everyone!

However, there were two exceptions among the Tantai people: Tantai Daoxue, who had a solemn expression, and Wu Riguang, whose face was deathly pale.

The former was a judgment drawn from combining news from both locations and the Supreme Elder's reaction, while the latter was based on firsthand observation of how the arrogant and domineering Grand Elder was pulverized into bones by the sword current...

When Lu Ze chuckled and casually put one hand behind his back, Wu Riguang's lips lost all color.

Damn, this feeling of familiarity!

Why is it that same action again?!

Is there no one in the world who can allow him to fight with both hands free at the same time?

Wu Riguang's lips trembled slightly, and his feet began to retreat uncontrollably under the control of his memories.

Manager Xie, who was initially shocked by Tantai Dapan's terrifying aura, swallowed hard as he watched the figure slowly approaching and retreated as well.

The two briefly exchanged glances as they stood side by side, then looked away and continued to back away.

The eldest brother doesn't laugh at the second brother; we're all worldly people.

The two, from opposing camps, achieved perfect teamwork with just a glance.

……

A smile played on Lu Ze's lips. He lightly touched the ground with his toes, as if a gentle breeze were blowing across the stone platform, creating cool ripples on the mountaintop. He then took a step and gently stepped into the empty space in front of him.

Without a sound, an animation resembling ink wash appeared above the previously empty ground, transitioning from transparent to slightly red to fiery red, and finally, countless red threads intertwined to form a long sword, which was placed flat in the void, appearing precisely in front of Lu Ze's step.

Lu Ze's left foot stepped down without pausing, and faint ripples spread across the crimson sword spine, proving to people that it was not a physical object, but merely a near-tangible... air.

The crowd was stunned. Compared to the earth-shattering power displayed by the Supreme Elder, Lu Ze's movements were so light and inconspicuous.

However, this silent scene brought a real shock to the highly skilled martial artists.

The higher one's level of understanding, the more one realizes how extraordinary this movement is!

The seemingly effortless sword energy staircase is merely a facade; the terrifying control it silently exudes is what truly inspires fear.

"Since you're asking for advice, let's stop here."

Lu Ze smiled and walked forward with his hands behind his back. With each step he took, a lingering mortal sword aura silently condensed at the point of landing.

The youth walked freely, and red mist rose like rising clouds on the spine of the sword, each wisp of sword energy splitting into strands.

When Lu Ze stepped out of the first position, there was only a red dot and a wisp of red light under his feet... But when he calmly ascended to a height of 100 meters, people saw densely interwoven sword marks converging from the soles of his feet to the top of his head along an arc.

The menacing sword aura, the almost tangible crimson flames, the indifferent face, and the smile playing at the corners of his lips... all of this was attributed to Lu Ze, and people seemed to see a sword immortal descend upon the world.

People stared blankly at the sky.

Under a sky a blend of blue and white, Tantai Dapan stood with his hands folded in front of him, calmly looking down as if he were a sovereign over all things.

Amidst the flamboyant and vibrant crimson aura, Lu Ze stood with one hand behind his back and the other palm facing upward, calmly holding it in front of him. In a daze, people understood what the greatest arrogance in the world truly meant.

"Heroes have always emerged from among the young. Only after meeting young friend Lu did this old man truly feel that his own era had come to an end." Tantai Dapan's voice was deep and resonant, showing no signs of being over thirty years old.

At this time, he was domineering and a stranger to countless people. Only Tantai Daoxue understood Tantai Dapan, who had roamed the Mist Plains a century ago, ventured into forbidden lands alone, slaughtered a valley by himself, suppressed a region by himself, and ultimately dominated the world for a hundred years!

But the more this was the case, the more uneasy Tantai Daoxue felt.

He murmured to himself, "No...no."

"If the younger generation cannot push the older generation forward, if new people cannot replace the old, then this world will have no driving force to move forward," Lu Ze said loudly.

"Well said, this deserves a 'Mountain Descending Intent' as a reward." Tantai Dapan laughed loudly, his hands finally separating, one above the other, like the Yin and Yang of Tai Chi, with blue and white energy spreading out from the left and right sides respectively.

At first glance, it was just a touch of dark blue and a touch of gray, but when Tantai Dapan completely separated his hands, those two colors suddenly began to intensify.

It gets higher and higher, wider and faster, and the colors become deeper and deeper.

—Boom!

Suddenly, a thunderous sound came from the sky.

Everyone was looking up at the sky, so they could clearly see the magnificent scene of the sky being divided into blue and white, with thin clouds dissipating and shadows overlapping like mountains.

—Whoosh.

A gust of air, stretching three thousand meters, suddenly crashed down from the sky onto the ground, causing everyone's trouser legs and shirt hems to flutter involuntarily. Then, everyone felt the silence around them.

That was the silence that followed after all air movement was forcibly suppressed.

Just as the silence began to descend, people's pupils suddenly contracted, because the shadows piled up in the sky had condensed into two heavy mountain-like outlines in just a few seconds!

Green mountains and white peaks.

And the outline is still expanding, getting lower and lower...

Dark clouds loom over the city, threatening to crush it!

Everyone felt suffocated. The closer they got to the training ground, the greater the pressure on their bodies and minds. Those who were not strong enough even had their legs trembling and felt an urge to kneel down.

Is this still asking for advice?

"Could this be... the legendary supreme martial art of our family... the [Heaven-Suppressing Golden Pagoda]!"

Wu Riguang was already obsessed with martial arts, and the moment he saw this magnificent scene, the rumors about a certain profound martial art came to mind.

[A gifted ancestor of the clan braved countless dangers, confronting a great terror for thirty days without dying, and in doing so, comprehended a supreme martial art, using a tower to suppress all living beings!]

Wu Riguang trembled, this time with fear, excitement, and the thrill of witnessing a legend.

In the blink of an eye, the green mountains and white peaks in the sky had condensed into the size of two other mountain peaks, looking precarious and about to crash down at any moment.

The unprecedented solidity made it impossible to doubt that these were two real mountain peaks, and once they crashed down, there was no way to avoid them!

I can't believe that anything can stop them under the suppression of these two mountains!

How should that person face this?

"Should it be a reward?"

Lu Ze tilted his head, the smile on his lips not disappearing, but people could feel a tremor in that smile.

"Old sir, in this world, only I, Lu Ze, appreciate this glimmer of hope."

"Give me a reward? Ha~"

"Don't even mention a single move, you can't even bear half a word of it."

The last three words were like knives.

Lu Ze's gaze turned indifferent for a moment. A hundred meters away, he calmly looked at Tantai Dapan, his right hand forming a palm, and slowly raised until it was above his head.

There was no ripple in his palm, no sword energy condensed, it was just a posture of holding the sky flat!

This move is something that any martial arts practitioner has done countless times in their past life, so everyone present felt a great sense of absurdity upon seeing it.

That was the huge contrast created by the mismatch between the actions and the strange phenomena of heaven and earth.

Especially when Tantai Dapan pressed his hands down with a bang, the two giant peaks in the sky really fell to the earth with a devastating force.

Those Tantai people who had been barely holding on to the edge were terrified and ran back without a second thought.

Their intuition was screaming at them that if they were too slow, even a slight press on the edge of that outline would mean certain annihilation.

Is this a request for advice?

How could such astonishing martial arts be used in the training ground of Tantai Manor? Is this an attempt to raze the manor to the ground or annihilate the summit of Bijia Mountain?

"withdraw!"

Just as Fatty Xie's legs were still trembling, a strong force came from the side, and his vision began to recede rapidly. When he caught a glimpse of the burly figure out of the corner of his eye, the middle-aged fat man suddenly felt a lump in his throat. It was Wu Riguang who had lifted him up with one hand.

Wu Riguang's expression was unfriendly. Of course, he didn't want to drag the fat man along... but that damn Lu guy still hadn't pulled his left hand out from behind his back.

Do you know how scary this action is?!

If you were to pull your left hand away, I wouldn't be holding onto this fatso anymore.

Unfortunately, Lu Ze didn't pay attention to him, otherwise he would have praised him by saying, "You understand me."

……

As soon as Tantai Dapan used his move [Mountain Descending], he completely dispersed the crowd around the huge martial arts arena on the back mountain.

Within a 10,000-meter radius, eagles soared and rabbits darted through the mountains and forests, and countless strange beasts fled in a frenzy.

These creatures all felt the terror of life and death brought about by the natural disaster.

Lu Ze, the only target about to be suppressed by the two mountains... didn't even lift his eyelids.

He calmly gazed at Tantai Dapan, his words uttered like thunder.

"Crush the mountain."

He clenched his right fist tightly and swung it downwards with force.

Click!

That was the sound of devastating thunder, which instantly resounded throughout the entire sky, piercing through all obstacles, tearing through thousands of miles of clouds, and covering all directions.

The Tantai people, who were still looking at the sky while fleeing, suddenly saw a blinding red flash in their vision, which was originally only blue and white.

With countless spreading cracks, like lightning and thunder, like the blood vessels and meridians of gods, it appeared in the entire Green Mountain and White Peak in an instant.

Moreover, those fine red dots became brighter and brighter, more and more dazzling...

The group of people who had just taken refuge inside the villa had no time to adjust their running posture when they suddenly stumbled and stopped in their tracks.

A streak of red light, like the thousand-foot-long red glow of the rising sun, pierced through the darkness and arrived.

The mountain peak remained a mountain peak, but it transformed into a volcano.

The thunder was the roar of a volcanic eruption; the crimson light transformed into a towering pillar of fire, but its direction was not towards the sky, but rather towards the earth…

People's breath caught in their throats as they watched the vast, incomparably fiery red giant sword, as if thrown from the heavens, tear everything apart and crash down from the sky to the earth.

--boom!

The enormous, indescribably crimson greatsword grazed the tip of Lu Ze's right hand as he pressed down, then pierced straight into the black stone training ground.

At that moment, people seemed to see a mushroom cloud rising, and everyone experienced a brief period of hearing loss at the same time.

"Mountain Protection Formation!"

Tantai Daoxue finally roared out in anger.

His voice might not have been heard by others, but his forceful arm-waving motion was seen by the servants.

A vast, enormous ripple of light rose from the ground, instantly growing to hundreds of meters high, like a giant dam covering the area.

—Boom!

A red hole, hundreds of meters in diameter, stood out starkly in the sky, right in the center of the clouds and the shadows of the mountains!

On the training ground, terrifying crimson smoke billowed and surged like an out-of-control wildfire, spreading layer upon layer.

The crowd watched in horror as the activated force field was forcibly stretched into an arc, and the arc grew larger and larger, like a dam on the verge of collapse... where raging waves could burst forth at any moment.

At that very moment, Tantai Dapan's [Descending Mountain] finally arrived late.

However, the thickest part melted into a void. Lu Ze neither dodged nor flinched, indifferently watching the mountains roar down from all around.

--boom.

—Zhi.

A sound like lake water vaporizing rang out.

The red smoke that was about to rise higher into the sky was finally neutralized, but the resulting intense water vapor instantly turned into a thick fog that made it impossible to see one's hand in front of one's face and spread out.

In an instant, everyone instinctively raised their arms to block the wind; all they could see was a white blur, and all they could hear was the sound of the wind.

one second...

five seconds...

ten seconds...

The wind gradually subsided, and the fog gradually dissipated.

The crowd saw the scene again, but everyone felt a chill run down their spines and into their brains.

Two people were still standing in the sky.

The strange phenomena in the sky have disappeared.

On the ground...

A hundred-foot-long crimson sword was stuck in the center, its red light flickering around it.

It seemed like it was about to disappear in the next second, but as time passed, it showed no signs of dissolving.

The tribesmen, who had previously been thrilled by the power of Tantai Dapan, fell silent.

In the sky, Tantai Dapan stared blankly for a long time before looking up at Lu Ze.

Although the Supreme Elder himself was unharmed and his aura remained as domineering and unparalleled as before, a bitter look flashed deep in his eyes.

He skillfully concealed this emotion in his eyes.

Tantai Dapan grinned, his voice still booming: "As expected of Mr. Lu, with this one move, Tantai Zhongyi's death was not in vain. I take back what I said earlier!"

The crowd below, unaware of the Supreme Elder's inner thoughts, lost all their newly risen energy upon hearing these words.

Yes, the power this guy surnamed Lu has displayed is beyond the limits of imagination.

Sigh, I just didn't expect that the outcome would be decided in a single move.

Why did you say those things to us earlier, Supreme Elder?

Looking back now, my domineering attitude lasted only a minute. Didn't all my earnest words and boastful remarks just now become a joke?

Just when people thought the day's discussion was over.

Suddenly, they felt a powerful aura surging from behind them, flowing out from all directions, and then converging towards the front and the sky... The crowd stared blankly at the materialized blue clouds, which, driven by the wind, transformed into long rivers that flowed towards Tantai Dapan.

The enormous blue vortex resembled a funnel in the sky.

This scene is like a hundred rivers flowing into the sea.

"Since that's the case, I'll end this duel with just two moves, so as to save myself from further humiliation." The Supreme Elder's carefree laughter came from the vortex, and his figure had already disappeared from sight.

Or...did it end abruptly?

The crowd felt a little disappointed.

However, no one saw that Tantai Daoxue, the patriarch who had brought the family back to its former glory, was in tears at that moment.

He opened his mouth, but couldn't utter a single word.

A deep sadness was evident in his eyes.

He was right...

The words Tantai Dapan uttered as he walked out of the ancestral hall were truly his last words.

The words he uttered before stepping onto the training ground were merely a farewell to his family.

This supreme martial artist, who has supported his family for a century, will now end his life in the way he has chosen.

Because this second technique has a forbidden name hidden deep within the family secrets…

The blue clouds enter the sea.

Heaven and earth return to the same source.

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