The Heavens: A Qing, the Yue Girl at the beginning

There was no sound as the sword fell.

Or rather, the sound was swallowed up by a more fundamental collapse—the frequency band of the spatial structure's own lament, far below the limits of human hearing and even instrumental detection.

Only deep within the soul, a string bound to "existence" itself, is plucked, unleashing a silent tremor of fear.

Above the North Pole, the aurora borealis, a tapestry of iron blue and flames, suddenly collapsed, as if an eye of the heavens had been gouged out.

Immediately afterwards, an indescribable sharpness pierced out from the void—it was not like a sword, but more like a vertically erected, extremely thin layer of light, like an unfolded scroll depicting the scene of the beginning of chaos, with crystal-clear light flowing along its edges.

Zhao Qing actually compressed, forged, and tempered a fragment of a small world carrying completely different laws of primordial energy and spatial coordinates into a "sword tip" that could bear her magnificent sword intent.

With its overwhelming force and weight, it descended vertically, serving as the initial spearhead that pierced through the Nibelungen barrier here!
"town."

She spoke calmly, as if delivering a verdict.

The next instant, dimensions unfolded.

The flat "drawing" expands and fills, first transforming from "lines" into "surfaces," and then expanding from "surfaces" into "volumes," causing the tiny tears and cracks it just created to rapidly enlarge and spread.

What started as a sliver of light has become a scar stretching across the sky.

A strange brightness enveloped an area of ​​over a thousand miles.

That was the radiance released when countless "lines of law" were forced to emerge from the hidden state, violently vibrated, broke, and then continued to regenerate.

The light contains the illusory shadows of mountains, the sound of tides in rivers and seas, the withering and flourishing of plants and trees, the smoke and fire of human life, and the Daoist rhythm of stars shining and fading.

They are densely packed like waterfalls, crisscrossing each other, like billions of translucent strings being frantically plucked, playing a silent celestial melody of order confronting chaos, and new life eroding decay.

It was precisely the targeted evolution of Zhao Qing's Void Sword Technique "Tai Su Collapse - Heavenly Barrier Unraveling" that attached an extremely unstable space bubble to the target's barrier and then detonated it, thereby releasing all the hidden stress and transferring it to the opponent.

This special stress wave does not spread in the "nothingness," but is guided to cause damage in adjacent spaces. It is extremely efficient and unavoidable, and one can only withstand it by force.

Click——!
The clear cracking sound finally surpassed a certain threshold, transforming into a tangible impact that swept across the sea and the ice field.

A hurricane, resembling several rings of craters, expanded outwards from the point of impact, turning permafrost into dust and shimmering into a murky gray fog. The aurora borealis was twisted into broken ribbons of color, and even starlight appeared to flicker and double briefly.

The Arctic Ocean's deep sea in the outside world and the hatchery in the Nibelungen are like two overlapping transparent paintings, beginning to shift, slide, penetrate each other, merge, and become one.

In that instant, the seawater became harder than steel, and then transformed that hardness into kinetic energy that could destroy everything.

The shock wave spreads in a hemispherical shape in the seawater, first hitting the real Arctic seabed on which the Nibelungen “basement” is attached, reaching the weak points of the underlying crust.

……

At the same moment when the old shell shattered and the new reality descended, the long-brewing, globally-spreading "Four-Pole Dragon Locking" ultimate environmental modulation project, with its four strategies of "Weak Water," "Flaming Wind," "Splitting Soil," and "Extinguishing Flames," was suddenly pushed into its final stage and activated simultaneously!
The land was the first to respond.

It didn't start in the Arctic.

It is from deep within those 127 precisely selected locations thousands of kilometers away, surrounding the Pacific Ocean.

Three hundred kilometers southeast of the Kamchatka Peninsula, on the steep cliffs of the Pacific Trench, the first crack appears—no more than a few meters wide, yet it extends downward, downward, and downward again, all the way to the Mohorovičić discontinuity.

It extends directly to the plastic rheological layer of the upper mantle.

The rock masses on both sides of the crack shifted relative to each other at a speed of several meters per second, and the stress that had accumulated over millions of years found a way to be released at this moment.

Then comes the second and third rounds.

Aleutian Trench, Japanese Trench, Ryukyu Islands, Mariana Trench, Tonga-Kermadec, Chile...

One deep-sea trench after another, like a zipper torn open by an invisible giant hand, neatly split along the subduction zone.

There was no fire, no mushroom cloud.

Only a deep, continuous rumbling sound emanated from the depths of the earth, so muffled that it made the continental shelf tremble.

In Anchorage, Alaska, the glass curtain wall of a 30-story office building shattered simultaneously, scattering millions of shards of glass like a diamond rain in the morning light; the steel cables of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco vibrated and hummed, the frequency increasing until they finally disintegrated.

Mexico City is built on ancient lakebed sediments, where the soft soil liquefied as surface waves passed through.

The tall buildings, like candles stuck in cream, slowly tilted and collapsed, turning into ruins in the rising smoke and dust.

The coastline north of Jakarta advanced 300 meters into the sea in ten minutes—not because the sea receded, but because the entire landmass sank.

Across the Pacific Ocean, on the breakwater of Valparaiso, Chile, a flock of seabirds took flight in alarm.

As soon as they left the concrete surface, the twelve-kilometer-long dike sank into the sea.

Like building blocks being pressed into a sandbox by a giant.

On the screen of the global earthquake monitoring network, the numbers representing the magnitude of earthquakes are jumping wildly.

7.9, 8.2, 8.5, 8.7... finally settled on 8.9.

One hundred and twenty-seven deep earthquakes with moment magnitudes between 7.9 and 8.9, with perfectly synchronized phases and carefully designed rupture directions, played out a predetermined symphony.

The long-period seismic waves they release are pre-modulated in time, with frequencies falling within a narrow range of 3-10 mHz—the inherent frequency band of the Earth's free oscillations, and also the resonance range in which ocean waters are most sensitive to changes in global-scale force fields.

Earth became a giant drum being struck.

The ocean is like mercury vibrating on a drumhead.

Rayleigh waves, Leff waves, spherical oscillations, circular oscillations...

Seismic waves of various modes repeatedly superimpose, interfere, and amplify. They couple with the ocean's natural frequencies, generating coherent standing waves in the deep basins of the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Oceans—waves invisible to the naked eye yet powerful enough to move mountains.

A massive "gravitational ramp" pointing towards the equator and spanning the entire Northern Hemisphere was created out of thin air in half an hour, taking effect precisely at that moment due to the advance timing.

The seawater in the Arctic Ocean—this relatively enclosed, icy bathtub—found itself to suddenly "tilt."

An unimaginable volume of water, under the combined forces of seismic gravitational disturbance, the Coriolis force inverse matrix, and ocean standing waves, is irresistibly drawn southward.

The Fram Strait between Greenland and Norway, the Bering Strait, the narrow waterways between the Canadian Arctic archipelago... all these outlets to the Arctic Ocean instantly became super floodgates.

The deep blue, bone-chilling waters of the Arctic Ocean, carrying disintegrating icebergs, fragments of permafrost, and ancient sediments churned up from the depths of the seabed, roar southward as a terrifying undercurrent with a speed exceeding three hundred knots!

On a macroscopic scale, sea levels are dropping at a rate on the order of centimeters per second.

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The fire, too, boiled.

Hawaii, Jan Mayen, Caroline, Samoa, Easter Island, Tristan da Cunha, Louisville, Afar, Réunion... Nine major global mantle plume hotspots each have their own alchemical matrices simulating the Rhine or the Candle Dragon activated.

It's like injecting an extremely high dose of adrenaline into the heart of a nine-headed, sleeping magma behemoth.

The thermal buoyancy and fluidity of the mantle material surged instantly.

The upwelling rate of the nine superplumes increased by tens of times.

The scorching, semi-plastic rock material surged upwards along these deep-seated "arteries" of the Earth, taking more than two hundred hours in total, altering the global mantle convection pattern.

Correspondingly, a powerful, persistent, and directional "suction force" was applied to the mantle material beneath the Arctic Circle. The hot material, rich in "fire element" activity, was drawn by this combined upwelling effect and began to slowly and steadily "drift south."

Directly below the North Pole, the mantle is losing temperature and becoming inert.

The "fire" beneath the earth's crust was drawn away.

The Earth's crust itself is being attacked from both sides.

……

The wind displays its power in the highest heavens.

The cold, high altitudes, 20 to 50 kilometers above the ground.

Catalytic nanoclouds, refined by "Tai Xu Qing Qi" and deployed by 324 "Qing Que" satellites in the past 72 hours, have quietly covered more than 2200 million square kilometers of Arctic airspace.

The classic Chapman mechanism has been sped up by tens of millions of times.

The ozone column concentration plummeted like an avalanche.

Ten seconds after the plan was launched, monitoring data showed that the total amount of ozone over the North Pole had plummeted by 65%.

An unprecedented super ozone hole, comparable in size to the entire Arctic Ocean, has thus taken shape and become anchored.

Undiminished, full-spectrum ultraviolet radiation—especially high-energy UV-B and UV-C—is like countless scorching swords, piercing through the thin atmosphere and shooting straight down.

……

Water, on the other hand, completes its final transformation.

The seawater that was massively pumped out of the Arctic Ocean was not simply poured into other oceans.

The massive amount of water that was "requisitioned"—more than 100,000 cubic kilometers—did not dissipate after flowing thousands of kilometers south, but was instead guided, bound, and lifted by a pre-deployed complex force field.

Defying the usual laws of hydrodynamics, it continuously builds up, compacts, and rotates, silently accumulating.

It has transformed into a super "water mountain" with a diameter of over 500 kilometers and a drop of up to 100 meters between its center and edges, rotating slowly.

It was not a tsunami.

It is larger and more stable than any tsunami.

It is a giant "water element buffer zone".

Once the black king embryo deep in the Arctic attempts to mobilize the power of the water element, it will unleash a world-ending tsunami.

This massive water structure can then collide head-on with the water, using its mass and kinetic energy of equal or even greater magnitude to achieve the most primitive and effective counterbalancing, offsetting, and restraining effect.

The strategy of "weak water" is revealed here.

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Earth, water, wind, and fire—the four elements—are the four poles that lock the dragon.

But this is still not the end.

Aside from its purpose of "elemental desertification," it is also a series of interconnected weapons, using cataclysmic events and changes in land and sea as its strategic moves.

The strategy of "soil cracking" induces global earthquakes and gravitational disturbances not only for pumping water, but also to pre-"soften" the crust in specific areas—especially key fault zones around the Arctic Circle—creating stress cavities and weak points.

The strategy of "extinguishing the flames" removes the fire element from the mantle, which not only weakens the foundation of the Black King's power, but also causes the crust beneath the Arctic to lose the support of deep heat sources, becoming relatively "brittle" and "cold".

The external energy impact and internal energy upheaval created by the "Foal Wind" and "Weak Water" are the fuse. The Nibelungen, which was pierced by Zhao Qing's sword and lost its independent space protection, and the incubator where the Black King hid, is the powder keg stuffed with explosives and exposed to the fuse.

A few microseconds later, her second move, following her initial strike, also landed. It was a powerful, surging Taiyin and Taiyang sword aura that swirled and crashed down at high speed, accompanied by thunder and sparks. The dark blue rainbow and silver radiance transformed into layers of light rings.

This is a super-magnetic field whose power surpasses the total amount of Earth's magnetic field. However, it does not prioritize destruction. Instead, it interacts with the incubation field that has been invaded by external laws and temporarily magnetized. At the same time, it incorporates the "Tian Gang Manifold" and also has the effect of shielding the surrounding Earth's gravitational potential trap.

Essentially, it works on the same principle as how Gu Huai of the Lingxu Sword Sect controls the Sword Mountain Sword, only on a scale a thousand times larger.

Simply put, the entire hatchery suddenly became a "floating island" freed from the planet's constraints, and was being lifted up and pulled along.

And so, the powder keg exploded.

It was an apocalyptic scene that could not be described in words.

Within 88 degrees north latitude, a permanent ice sheet more than two kilometers thick, along with the seabed sedimentary rocks hundreds of meters below and the Precambrian basement rocks even deeper, were torn apart and uplifted as a whole.

The seabed underwent dramatic deformation. Newly formed mid-ocean ridges rose up in the central Beaufort Sea, tearing apart ancient sedimentary layers; a section of the Mendeleev Ridge sank by tens of meters; and large areas of the Laptev Sea shelf collapsed, forming steep cliffs.

More visually striking are the land edges surrounding the Arctic: northeastern Greenland, northern Svalbard, Franz Josef Land, Severnaya Zemlya, the northern coast of East Siberia…

The coastlines in these areas collapsed during the violent tremors, with hundreds of meters high coastal cliffs crumbling and falling into the sea.

But the most eye-catching feature is undoubtedly the hatchery "base" that was "shaken away" and is now rising slowly.

Its surface was covered with viscous dragon blood and lava, and it tumbled and broke in the air. The largest fragments were still several kilometers long and wide, with plasma flames burning at their edges from friction with the air.

Like the remains of a giant god who crashed into Mount Buzhou in mythology, it roared towards the stratosphere and flew toward Zhao Qing's tiny figure.

The atmosphere formed clear shockwaves around it, and the ultraviolet light beams gave it a pale halo.

Below was a bottomless, spewing crater filled with subterranean fire.

The massive amount of seawater, losing its support, poured into this newly formed abyss, was immediately heated, and created a steam cloud column with a diameter of thousands of kilometers, carrying rock powder, ice crystals, and the torn remains of ancient organisms, which shot into the sky at several times the speed of sound.

Then, it started to snow.

Pale purple snow.

Those are not ice crystals formed from the sublimation of water vapor.

Those are ozone molecules that have been completely ionized by high-energy radiation, which recombine and rearrange in a wildly changing magnetic field to form a brand new lattice.

They drifted down silently, gradually unfolding a dreamlike yet deadly veil.

A waterfall of energy level transition glow also cascaded down.

Red, orange, gold, green, cyan, blue, purple... seven colors flowed, but were far more intense and profound than the aurora, like the innate spiritual stones left behind by Nuwa when she mended the sky, melting and flowing at this moment!
Scorching and sacred, it contrasts with the rising column of destructive smoke.

"Report... In the North Pole region, the peak gravity anomaly has reached 10^5g and is continuing to rise."

"The plate stress network has detected a global oscillation, and the total energy release of the Circum-Pacific seismic belt has exceeded the total of all previous years."

"Sea levels in the Arctic Ocean have dropped by an average of 4.2 meters!"

"The geomagnetic axis shift is accelerating, 0.8 degrees... 1.2 degrees... 1.5 degrees!"

"Mantle heat flow monitoring shows that the upwelling rate of material at nine target hotspots has increased by 1,200 percent, and the temperature of the lower mantle in the Arctic Circle has dropped by 800 degrees Celsius."

"Communication! All longwave and satellite links in high-latitude regions are experiencing severe interference and are becoming ineffective!"

"High-intensity life response detected—reading exceeds instrument limit—classification: unknown—energy level: cannot be assessed—"

Countless observation stations, countless satellites, and countless sensors, either deep underground or in orbit, are feeding massive amounts of data into the global command network that is still in operation. Information scrolls across screens, charts jump wildly, and alarms blare everywhere.

But everyone watching this scene—whether it was the pale-faced general in the command center, the dumbfounded scholar in the laboratory, the soldier clutching his weapon in the underground bunker, or the civilian who caught a glimpse of the strange phenomenon in the sky in a distant city—fell into the same silence.

That is the silence that comes after cognition has been completely crushed.

Language cannot describe what is seen.

Reason cannot comprehend what has happened.

They could only watch, watch the earth rise into the sky, watch the ocean turn into a desert, watch the sky tear open a wound.

It reveals the swirling, inhuman colors that lie beneath.

“That doesn’t look like an explosion…” After a long while, someone murmured, their voice trembling, “It looks like… like a piece of flesh from a planet, forcibly ripped out, and it’s still… still splattering.”

……

Zhao Qing hovered above the boiling sea of ​​clouds, amidst the destructive gales. Her gaze passed over the approaching landmass and met the countless golden eyes that opened within the enormous shadow.

With a single sword stroke, he pierced through the barrier; with a single palm strike, he pressed down into the void.

The stage curtain was lifted, forcing out the hidden protagonist.

They seem to have the upper hand, but this is only superficial.

Because she knew very well that the scheme she had painstakingly devised, using a one-time "momentum," would ultimately only result in forcing the Black King Nidhogg into a desolate space environment unfavorable to his combat capabilities before he could regain his senses and react.

Aside from that, it didn't cause any real harm whatsoever.

The catfish-like embryonic creature was indeed severely damaged. Its tentacles, mouthparts, and scales were all worn away. The several corona swords fired by the magnetic reconnection carbonized more than 100,000 tons of flesh and blood, and many of its bones were broken into pieces. It was on the verge of death.

However, it is not the Black King's true form, but merely a disguise.

As the giant catfish was about to die, the enormous creature hidden inside—a magnificent black dragon about 600 meters long—burst out from its original body, rapidly draining the catfish of its nutrients and energy, thus ending this development process that had lasted for thousands of years.

The reason why it is much larger than the catfish monster that is over 200 meters long is not hard to understand. It is simply because it is nested with a layer of Nibelungen, thus achieving a spatial scaling of dozens of times.

It should be noted that Zhao Qing confirmed the key point because he had previously discovered that the catfish was no longer dazed and confused, and had secretly released a Word of Power to actively absorb external energy in order to resist the process of "elemental desertification". He realized that he had to strike first and quickly launched the plan.

……

An incredible dragon emperor's pressure spread out, transforming into a tangible mental impact even in the thin medium outside the Carmen Line.

Radiating downwards.

One can imagine that at this moment, all living beings on the earth with dragon blood flowing through their veins, from the first generation onwards, would tremble, suffocate, and even involuntarily kneel down under the pressure emanating from the source of their bloodline.

"Those who overstep their bounds."

"You woke me up."

In an instant, the billions of dragon eyes that seemed to be inherited from different individuals and manifested in the void merged recursively, gathering into two unique dark golden giant eyes, within which flowed mysterious patterns of endless birth and death.

It is the manifestation of power, the node of rules, ancient, majestic, and violent, yet it also captivates people and makes them unconsciously indulge in it.

Even a fleeting glance was enough to bring down the judgment of obliteration.

It contains the cold and overwhelming rage of a monarch disturbed by ants beside his bed and whose sacred realm is invaded by filth.

Then, suddenly a "familiar" voice rang out, as if implanted in one's heart, constantly questioning:

"Why attack the Dragon King Nidhogg? Why treat Him as an enemy for no reason and feel that He must be destroyed? This is simply a fabricated charge! If you blindly believe in prophecies, why can't you patiently negotiate?"

"When it comes to the damage done to the Earth, isn't it your mess that caused the most destruction? You're the source of the apocalypse!"

This certainly wouldn't have any impact on Zhao Qing.

Sword intent attacks are what she excels at.

Moreover, her eyes now gather the power of the yin and yang, and the essence of heaven, earth, and water, making them the most powerful part of her body.

A few pointless arguments and the subtle mental manipulation couldn't shake her resolve; she directly severed the wisp of thought that had been feigning acceptance.

However, Zhao Qing's experiment, in which he genetically edited the dragon subspecies in the hatchery beforehand, adding a large number of inducible genes related to dissociative personality disorder in an attempt to interfere with their mental state during the completion phase through food chain transmission and "enrichment," has clearly failed.

The precedent of "Zero" being controlled by a pontine transection surgery now appears not to be a general rule—personality can vary in strength.

The gaze of the giant golden eye slowly swept across the sky.

It was as if it were recognizing something.

It's as if they're evaluating something.

We must figure out the true nature of this sudden enemy.

“Spirit from another planet, you will pay the price.”

"Try it."

What's my reason? Since we've already declared war, I'll put everything else aside and focus solely on uncovering the mysteries of cultivation and breaking through my own limitations!
……

The divine thought that had just returned was still lingering in the vacuum when Zhao Qing's image, which was originally a composite of countless spatial mirrors, suddenly split apart.

From one to a hundred, from a hundred to ten thousand, scattered without a trace, disappearing into the light.

At the same instant, trillions of beams of starlight, each with a diameter of micrometers, flashed across a distance of hundreds of miles and bombarded the center of the black dragon's blazing pupils, triggering an annihilation of the ultimate yin and yang.

Furthermore, clusters of true fire with a glassy luster burst forth, seemingly having crossed from beyond countless stars, yet they still did not extinguish.

A gigantic curtain suddenly appeared in the void, like a projection of a majestic mountain. However, it quickly sprouted roots and branches, and was actually a seven-colored miraculous flower undergoing endless rebirth.

Its petals, as they drifted away, bloomed and withered repeatedly, each time seemingly causing the primordial energy of the surrounding space to perish and vanish.

If the concentration of primordial energy here was previously 0.001% of that on the ground, now there are three or four more zeros after the decimal point.

It's as if a forbidden zone for any element has been demarcated.

At this moment, the landmass fragments are still rapidly moving away from Earth's gravity.

The residual magnetization polarity has not yet been eliminated.

Black Dragon's gaze had already frozen.

He suffered blindness and went blind on the spot.

The nictitating membrane, cornea, sclera, ciliary body, choroid, retina... let's call them that for now. They were all burned from the outside in by the surging starlight and melted into crystalline fragments.

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So you like glaring at people so much? You don't need to do that anymore. (End of Chapter)