Chapter 202: Huang Biaozi’s Greatness!
Chapter 202: Huang Biaozi’s Greatness!
“It’s his aura!”
Just then, however, a flicker of excitement suddenly appeared in the icy eyes of the forwardmost Tang Yilin as she stared fixedly ahead.
“Senior Tang, what’s wrong? What happened?”
Tang Feng and the others seemed to perceive the change in Tang Yilin, each halting their discussions to shift their gaze toward her.
“It’s him! I sensed it! It’s his aura!”
Tang Yilin paid no attention to Tang Feng and the others. Her eyes, originally empty, now shifted, gaining a trace of vitality.
“Senior Tang!”
Tang Feng and the rest wore confused expressions, completely baffled by the situation. They exchanged bewildered glances involuntarily.
Diuliu! (Spinning sound)
While they were lost in confusion, a bronze mirror flew uncontrollably out of the storage pouch at Tang Yilin’s waist. It hovered in the air, emitting a series of clear, resonant chimes.
“It’s him! It really is him!”
Seeing the bronze mirror fly out, excitement burst forth in Tang Yilin’s eyes. She cried out, her voice cracking slightly.
Weng weng weng! (Buzzing sound)
At that very moment, an aura wholly alien to the Mortal Realm erupted instantly from the bronze mirror.
“What?”
“Impossible!”
“Ah!”
Even the slightest brush of that aura caused Tang Feng and the others, before they could even react, to feel a searing pain in their heads. With a loud boom, they collapsed into unconsciousness.
Tang Yilin did not faint. The moment she sensed that aura, driven purely by instinct, she fell to her knees with a thud, staring vacantly at the bronze mirror.
“You’ve returned… you’ve finally returned!”
Kneeling on the ground, Tang Yilin murmured these words to herself, as if she had been waiting for this day for a very long time.
“Brother Tang Ni, you’ve finally returned! If you hadn’t come back, Yilin wouldn’t have been able to hold on much longer!”
As she knelt, tears quickly welled up in Tang Yilin’s eyes.
Chila! (Ripping/Sizzling sound)
The bronze mirror grew brighter and brighter. When it reached a certain intensity, a bolt of white light shot violently from its surface, piercing directly into the body of Tang Feng, who lay behind her.
“Ah!”
As the white light entered Tang Feng’s body, he involuntarily cried out in agony. Pain contorted his face briefly, only to vanish almost instantly, replaced by an expression of profound satisfaction.
After ten or so breaths, Tang Feng slowly returned to normal. He gradually opened his eyes and stood up.
Yet, anyone observing closely would notice Tang Feng was different now. His eyes were clear and bright, but within them lingered deep traces of vicissitude and sorrow.
Tang Feng’s appearance had also altered slightly, reverting to that of a fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy. Though bearing some resemblance to Tang Jinbiao, his features aligned more closely with Wang Wanyu—possessing a fragile build, a somewhat pale complexion, and the overall look of a malnourished youth.
“Brother Tang Ni!”
After seeing Tang Feng rise, Tang Yilin knelt on the ground. Whether from excitement or something else, her voice trembled as she cried out.
“Hmm, Yilin, it’s been a long time. I never expected you to grow to such heights!”
Tang Feng, currently possessed by Tang Ni, glanced at Tang Yilin, a trace of gentleness flickering in his eyes as he spoke.
“It’s all thanks to Brother Tang Ni! Brother Tang Ni, Father and the Elders…”
Tang Yilin was no longer the little girl who only knew how to act spoiled; she knew what was important. She immediately tried to speak of the Tang Family’s massacre.
“Ha, I know!”
However, Tang Ni paid her little heed. He lifted his head, gazing towards the direction of the Spirit Annihilation Array, observing the thick black clouds in the sky. He shook his head with a trace of helplessness and sighed, “So it seems it’s come to this day. How many times has this been? I’ve lost count! This time, someone has broken the rules of the game. But perhaps it’s for the best. Samsara has been dead for nearly a Millennial Era. If no one broke the rules, this place would eventually become the next world! I hope things turn out differently this time!”
Tang Ni—the person standing before Tang Yilin was truly Tang Ni!
This was the young man Tang Jinbiao glimpsed through the Black Hole when Gongsun Lver, the beloved of Captain Wang, died.
Furthermore, he had another identity: Tang Jinbiao’s elder brother!
A legendary figure of the Divine Wind Continent!
Apart from Tang Yilin and the long-vanished Tang Family Elders, no one knew he had already ascended.
Of course, Tang Ni carried far too many enigmas within him. Perhaps none could explain him fully save himself.
“Breaking the rules incurs punishment. But this time, who should be punished? Red Worm? Dragon Emperor? Or the will of the Mortal Realm?”
Tang Ni looked into the distance, seemingly unable to decide.
For Tang Yilin, Tang Ni was like a deity. She didn’t even dare lift her head. The usually poised Tang Yilin, who faced Tribulation Transcendents unflinchingly, now found herself utterly cowed before this mere Mid Foundation Building Stage Cultivator.
Was this perhaps a deep-seated inferiority?
No matter how fiercely proud one was in front of others, there was always that one person who made even looking up feel impossible.
“Samsara, oh Samsara, what existence are you truly?
Why have you made countless mighty beings, past and present, pale at the mere mention of you?
Shouldn’t you be eternal?
Why did you die?
Pitiable! Pathetic! Lamentable!
My pity extends to those Cultivators striving desperately for the Great Dao, thinking they defy the heavens to seize life itself. Yet in truth, their centuries of hardship amount to nothing more than a Nanke dream—an ending predetermined since birth, revealed only in death that all will vanish like a wisp!
My sorrow extends to those who, knowing the end is inevitable, still fight to defy it. Alas, it turns out I too am such a pitiful soul!
My lament extends to all, whether they know the truth or not, for you persist in striving!
And as for me, Tang Ni!
What can I do?
Could it be that through eons passing, millions, billions of years, even a Millennial Era, I, Tang Ni, will forever remain the God-King? No matter how many cycles of Samsara, always the God-King?
Forever a Fourth-Step mighty being?
Ha, how laughable it seems now! Through hundreds, thousands of Samsaras, my spirit indestructible, my will undying—thus I endure eternally! Ha, what a ridiculous prospect!”
It made people laugh until they wanted to cry, what bullshit this undying divine soul is!
Huang Biaozi, I, Tang Ni, admire you. Once I thought my achievements came from painstaking effort, but now it seems just a joke!
As the saying goes, “a child of three reveals the man,” and indeed it does!
Tired, tired, really tired!
I couldn’t even remember how many times this was. I was still the God-King, I still had to reach the fourth step, I still had to endure endless loneliness, and then repeat that meaningless thing!
Sometimes, I really didn’t understand, what was the value of our existence?
Time and again, we repeated those so-called unchanging Samsaras, but in reality, it was just repetition over and over!
What is it all for, throughout one’s life?
Tang Ni looked at the dark clouds in the distance, talking to himself in words no one could understand, sometimes happy, sometimes sad, as if telling an ancient story or narrating his own experiences.
“No!
Samsara isn’t dead! If Samsara were truly dead, that person wouldn’t have appeared, and no one could reach the Fifth Step!
Wasn’t that what I sought my whole life?
Yes, Samsara is definitely not dead!
There must still be a glimmer of hope; nothing in the world could remain unchanging forever. I just hadn’t found it, but Huang Biaozi already had!
Since Huang Biaozi wants to hatch an earth-shattering scheme, I, Tang Ni, will help you. I want to see a brand-new world! I want to see you become the god you described! I want to see that day when you become the creator!”
Yet, a moment later, Tang Ni’s eyes immediately showed a look of determination, as if he had set his course.
“Annihilation! Anything that hinders your ascension to godhood must be annihilated!
Is it the Red Worm? Is it the Dragon Emperor?
Hmph, even if your Fate Destiny is destined to become supreme beings, even if through cycle after cycle, you will eventually reach the peak!
But now, I can annihilate you here. Even if I can’t alter your Fate Destiny, I will stop you!
I will make you struggle at the bottom forever! I will crush your wills! I will consign you to eternal downfall!”
Suddenly, Tang Ni’s eyes burst with a fierce glare, and a surge of killing intent erupted from him.
Tang Ni glanced back at Tang Yilin and the others, frowning slightly; he paid extra attention to Li Qing and Ma Hong, as if he had noticed something!
Thump!
Tang Yilin felt Tang Ni’s gaze; her heart thumped wildly, and her breathing became slightly erratic.
However, Tang Ni ignored Tang Yilin, instead closing his eyes as if sensing something.
“Got it!”
In the blink of an eye, Tang Ni snapped his eyes open wide again, thinking to himself: “This mere ant of a person could recall memories of past lives? Over time, it had even formed a subconscious!”
Boom!
At that thought, Tang Ni’s mind jolted violently, and he instantly realized something.
“Déjà vu!
This is déjà vu!”
This man could predict the future, not because he could truly foresee it, but through countless real experiences, which gave him a strong sense of déjà vu!
It wasn’t dead, Samsara wasn’t dead, it absolutely wasn’t dead!
Who the hell said Samsara was already dead?
Who the hell said that dragons beget dragons, phoenixes beget phoenixes, and rats beget rats that dig holes?
Haha, I understand, I understand!
Huang Biaozi, you truly are the most amazing God-King since that person’s departure!
That man was reborn through the path of dreams, dreaming thousands upon thousands of reincarnations, altering the threads of cause and effect, tying knots outside Fate Destiny, and achieving an immortal fruit!
Good! Good! Good!
Huang Biaozi, I admire you! Your Way of Deception was indeed one of the most extraordinary paths among the three thousand great ways! You truly are the founder of the Way of Deception! You dared to deceive everything!
Haha, haha, so that was it, so that was it!
You had long discovered Samsara was dead! You knew you couldn’t change the entire Samsara, nor could you alter your own reincarnation or Fate Destiny, so you only changed one person’s reincarnation!
I finally understood why you chose to destroy your physical body at a price hard to imagine and risking your own downfall, to bring a soul from that shattered world!
This soul was insurmountably insignificant and not worth mentioning!
But the current Samsara was like a vast ocean: the ocean had died, with no wind or waves, utterly still! Yet all it took is one stone, just one tiny stone, and the whole ocean would stir!
And Tang Jinbiao was that stone! He would break this deadlock!
A genius, an absolute genius!
Haha, I had been so wrong all along, thinking I only needed to rush forward blindly, chasing a target I myself didn’t even know, only to find in the end, nothing left but pain!
Haha, so that was it, so that was it!
Start from the simplest! Achieving the simplest perfectly made it anything but simple!
Huang Biaozi, oh Huang Biaozi! If Samsara hadn’t truly been dead, I believe you could have reached the Fifth Step!
But even if Samsara had truly died, if your move was right, then Samsara might revive!
The extreme of life is death, and the extreme of death is life!
Even if the whole Samsara couldn’t revive, so long as even a slight change emerged, you could seize that slight change to overthrow the entire Samsara!
Haha, haha, Huang Biaozi, oh Huang Biaozi! Once I thought you were just a liar—who knew you were such a great and noble liar, willing to sacrifice yourself for the world!
Good! I, Tang Ni, support you!
Exterminate!
Every existence that hindered your changing Samsara must be exterminated!
In an instant, Tang Ni’s entire temperament completely changed; at that moment, he finally seemed to grasp Huang Biaozi’s deep devotion.
Note: A Millennial Era in this book equals ten thousand trillions of years!