Lord of the Earth

"This is bad! This mortal dynasty can actually threaten our divine kingdom?"

"How dare you! How dare you! Do you really think we're pushovers?"

The three patriarchs of the Tai Xuan Sect were both angry and afraid, and roared without regard for their image.

Then, within the three divine kingdoms, several semi-transparent "figures" suddenly appeared.

Those were a vast number, tens of thousands of "Holy Spirits," who were received by the gods into the divine kingdom to provide them with faith and spiritual power, and to bless the divine kingdom in order to ascend to a higher level!

It's important to understand that what sects originally pursued was cultivating "merit"—accumulating merit to achieve personal perfection and thus ascend to immortality...

However, these founders of the Tai Xuan Sect attempted to use this "path of faith" to gain "godhood" for themselves by leveraging the vast number of people in the human race to provide faith, which deviated from the righteous path originally set by the human race!

"Hmph, blind fools! The path set for us by the human gods is far beyond what this path of faith can compare to!"

Faced with the counterattack launched by the three deities at all costs, mobilizing the power of their divine kingdoms, and converging into a surging torrent that crashed towards Qianxia's sea of ​​fortune, Xia Tian only saw cold mockery.

"Certainly!"

Within the sea of ​​auspicious clouds, the majestic, mountain-like phantom of a human god-king did not dodge in any way.

Instead, it slowly raised its giant hand, which was formed from the beliefs of hundreds of millions of people. In the palm of its hand, countless vivid scenes of human survival, struggle, and reproduction appeared: farming, craftsmen forging, students reciting, and soldiers wielding weapons. It was the weight of Chinese civilization, the sedimentation of Earth's history, and the indomitable will passed down from generation to generation by the entire human race!

"The tide of humanity, cut it down!"

The phantom of the divine lord clenched his giant hand, and the vast scene of civilization suddenly collapsed, transforming into a gray, long, illusory blade that appeared ancient but contained the power to sever the passage of time and annihilate all laws.

Facing those three dazzling torrents of divine origin, yet carrying a sense of alienation from the "heaven," he silently slashed down with his blade. There was no earth-shattering explosion, only a strange scene as if "existence" was being denied by "concept"!

Where the gray blade flashed, the torrent of Li Huo's origin seemed to have met its nemesis. The divine fire that could burn everything quickly dimmed and went out like a candle in the wind, as if its concept of "burning" had been forcibly erased!
The chilling force of the Xuanming Origin Torrent, which had frozen everything, melted away rapidly like snow melting in the spring sun before the civilized blade light that carried countless warm moments of human life. Its "freezing" law was completely dismantled!
The immense weight of the original Earth element, which suppressed all the heavens, appeared insignificant and fleeting in the face of the weight of the long river of civilization and the changes of time. It was cleaved by a blade and instantly collapsed and disintegrated, its illusion of "eternity" was ruthlessly punctured!
hold head high!
At the same time, the seven-colored dragon let out an even higher-pitched roar, as if it had gathered the voices of billions of humans, and its huge dragon body suddenly wrapped around the core of the three swaying divine kingdom projections in the sky.

The dragon claws dug deep into its structure, and the seven-colored light containing the "human touch" was like the most intense corrosive agent and the most violent assimilative force, frantically eroding, penetrating, and disintegrating the seemingly perfect and solid law barrier of the divine kingdom projection!

"Crack...knock..."

A series of teeth-grinding cracking sounds rang out as cracks spread wildly across the surface of the Triple Divine Kingdom projection. Its light dimmed rapidly, and its volume even began to shrink, as if an ice sculpture had been thrown into boiling lava and was being forcibly dismantled from the conceptual level by the power from the "human world"!
No! This is impossible!
"The power of this Dynasty of Destiny... truly can restrain us!"

The Fire Ancestor let out a terrified scream. He felt even his divine body trembling, as if he were about to be polluted and assimilated by the "worldly aura" contained in that spirit of fortune!
"Leave first! This boy is strange, and Qianxia's fortune is suppressing our divine path!"

The voice of the Xuanming Ancestor was filled with unprecedented fear, devoid of any arrogance.

"The foundation of the divine kingdom has been damaged; to remain here any longer will surely lead to death!"

The most decisive one was the Earth Ancestor, who had already fully activated his damaged "Divine Kingdom" in an attempt to leave this place. He believed that as long as the kingdom remained, there would be no shortage of firewood. At this time, the Tai Xuan Sect had only sent a few of their "First Heaven" deities!

Even stronger beings are still waiting for their chance "outside the heavens". The fact that the "fallen divine kingdom power" of the Qianxia Dynasty can touch the first level of heaven does not mean that it can reach the higher second or third level of heaven!

The three divine beings were in a sorry state at this moment. The light on their divine bodies flickered and their aura was extremely weak. They no longer cared about their dignity, their divine weapons, or even their disciples. All they wanted was to escape this terrifying place that had caused their Dao hearts to collapse and their divine power to fail!
"Want to leave now? It's too late!"

Seeing it "flee," Xia Tian's icy voice sounded like a final judgment.

A "Key of Heaven"—neither gold nor jade, with an ancient design and countless fine silver-white threads flowing across its surface—suddenly appeared in his hand. Upon closer inspection, it was revealed to be a "Supreme Treasure of Glazed Glass" composed of countless forces of rules.

"The key to the heavens, tracing back to the source, sealing all gods—the lock!"

Xia Tian frantically poured the surging divine power and profound will within him into the key, and then hurled it at the three beams of divine light that were trying to escape into the void!
call out!
The Heavenly Key vanished instantly, not by breaking through space with speed, but as if it had directly merged into the "rules" themselves, going against the current along three invisible paths, arriving first despite being late!
In the next instant, amidst the terrified perception of the three divine beings, a silver-white "heavenly lock" phantom, radiating an aura of absolute "sealing," appeared out of thin air at the front end of the connection channel between them and their own divine kingdoms, which should have been incredibly stable and transcended time and space!
Then, the lock cylinder was gently turned, as if an invisible key had been inserted!

hum!
A sound that transcends sound and reaches the very essence of the rules—a "lockdown"—sounds out!
"Locking down the heavens and severing the earth, all laws return to stillness!"

Om-!
An invisible wave, yet one that made all the gods tremble, suddenly spread out from the center of the Key to Heaven!
Wherever this wave swept, space seemed to freeze, and the flow of time became sluggish. Even more terrifying was that the omnipresent "net of rules" that forms the foundation of the world was forcibly "locked"!
Within this locked area: the Fire Ancestor's clone was horrified to discover that his connection with the Law of Flame had been completely severed! The World-Burning Flame was extinguished instantly; the Xuanming Ancestor's clone tried to control the Xuanming Dead Water, but felt that the law was as unresponsive as dead water; the Earth Ancestor's clone wanted to manipulate the gravity of the earth, but it was like a mud ox entering the sea!

The Heavenly Key not only locks up space, but also the "activity" of all laws within this area, preventing even the gods from manipulating the "lines of rules"!
"Do not--!"

The three patriarchs of the Tai Xuan Sect roared.

This is because, after being "blocked," the three divine kingdom projections, whose foundations were already corroded by the "human touch" and were on the verge of collapse, were like floating islands that had lost their power and could no longer maintain their high-hanging posture!
boom! boom! boom!
Under the gaze of countless horrified eyes, the three "divine kingdoms" that symbolized supreme power and eternal existence crashed down from the sky like three burning meteors, accompanied by ear-piercing cracking sounds and countless fragments of laws, and slammed heavily outside Longyuan City.

The earth seemed to be pounded by a giant hammer, raising a dust mushroom cloud that blotted out the sky!
A terrifying shockwave swept in all directions, carving three bottomless ravines into the wilderness. Where the divine kingdom crashed, the remaining power of the laws went berserk and chaotic, forming three desolate areas filled with destructive energy!
"How is this possible! What kind of treasure is this that can even seal the rules of heaven and earth?"

"Such power! It must be a weapon used by a true god!"

"Damn it, it must be a treasure left behind by the gods of the human race in the past... and it was left to these mortals instead of us."

Having failed to escape, the three once high and mighty gods now had dim divine bodies, their surrounding aura of laws shattered and broken, like broken butterflies battered by a storm, their auras extremely weak.

Even maintaining their levitation was a struggle, and they staggered and fell from mid-air. Their eyes were filled with fear and indignation. The backlash from the "path of faith" of the gods had caused their divine power to dissipate and their foundation to crumble, which was far more serious than losing their natal divine weapons!

"You wait...why aren't you going to help me?"

The Earth Ancestor struggled to his feet, his imperial robes stained with dust and blood, his jade crown shattered. He looked at the heavily injured Tai Xuan Sect disciples around him, trembling with rage.

"You bunch of good-for-nothings! You've always enjoyed our protection and the sect's resources, but now that we're in trouble, not one of you dares to lift a finger?!"

Unfortunately, even their own god had been defeated, so how could the others dare to make a move? In particular, several demigod-level "divine messengers" hesitated, not daring to meet their gazes, and instead chose to play dead in silence.

"Truly, my good disciples! We've wasted our efforts protecting you, sending you to this eternal land, and now you've turned out like this..."

"We have wasted our divine power to send you to the Eternal Land to continue your lineage..."

Upon seeing this, Ancestor Xuanming sighed deeply, his tone filled with resentment and unwillingness.

"In the end, they turned out to be a bunch of ungrateful wretches who would stand by and watch someone die!"

"I refuse to accept this! You're only relying on the power of a divine weapon... It's infuriating! We risk our lives for the human race, and they still give such a treasure to you useless people from our ancestral land..."

The Fire Ancestor glared at Xia Tian with even more hatred.

The once aloof deity now spoke with a hoarse and weak voice, echoing across the deathly silent battlefield, making him appear even more pathetic.

"It seems that even now, you are still unrepentant... Since you consider yourselves superior, today I will let you experience what it is like to be a prisoner, what it is like to be trapped in a cage!"

The sound of summer is as cold as an ancient abyss, pronouncing their fate.

"Buzz!"

Just then, the shadows at the edge of the battlefield twisted, as if an invisible gate had opened. Immediately afterwards, a heavy, solemn aura, carrying the majesty of the underworld and the power of a majestic mountain, descended with a roar!

A towering figure, as imposing as a mountain, strode out.

He was clad in the dark armor of the Underworld Lord, with patterns of Mount Tai and the laws of the Underworld engraved on the armor plates. He was surrounded by a dark divine light, and with each step he took, it seemed as if thousands of ghosts were whispering and mountains were roaring.

With a resolute face and piercing gaze, he was none other than Wu Song, who was bestowed the title of "Lord of Mount Tai" and held the power over the laws of the Qianxia Dynasty and a portion of the land!
Above his arms was an enormous, heavy chain, neither gold nor iron, shimmering with a dark gold luster.

The chains were naturally engraved with Daoist runes such as "Binding Gods," "Suppressing Souls," and "Breaking Laws," which were the divine artifacts embodying his divine authority—the "Nine Nether Chains"!
Wu Song appeared, not even glancing at the three disheveled deities.

First, facing the direction of Xia Tian's city wall, he clenched his fist with one hand and struck his breastplate heavily, performing the highest salute in the Qianxia army that combined with Shintoism, his voice booming like a bell.

"Your Majesty, Wu Song has come by imperial decree to escort the guilty god into the Heavenly Prison!"

After receiving Xia Tian's slight nod of permission, Wu Song suddenly turned his head, his eyes, which contained the weight of Mount Tai and the chill of the underworld, instantly locking onto the three gods who were trying to get up.

"Sinful God, submit to justice! Bind the Netherworld!"

His voice was like thunder as he suddenly threw out the "Mount Tai Nether Lock" from his hand.

The dark gold chains, as if alive, instantly transformed into three ghostly shadows, tearing through space and ignoring the remaining divine power of the gods, precisely wrapping around the necks, arms, and cores of the three gods' bodies!

"Ugh!"

The moment the chains pierced their bodies, the three deities simultaneously let out piercing screams. The runes on the chains scorched their divine bodies; even more terrifyingly, they directly imprisoned the flow of their remaining divine power and even began to suppress their very souls!

The other end of the chain was firmly gripped in Wu Song's hand. He yanked it sharply!
"stand up!"

An overwhelming divine power, combined with the weight of Mount Tai and the pull of the underworld, erupted.

The three deities were like dead dogs being dragged along, completely unable to resist. They were forcibly pulled up from the ground and humiliatingly led towards Wu Song.

This scene of "divine retribution" plunged the battlefield into a deathly silence.

The scene revealed the wounded but fervent-eyed soldiers on the Great Wall, as well as the Tai Xuan Sect demigods and saints who lay limp on the ground, pale-faced and their faith shattered.

As summer arrived, the seven-colored dragon and the phantom of the human god slowly merged into the landscape map behind him.

His gaze, sharp as lightning, swept over the distraught Zhenwu and the others below, finally settling on the direction where the divine kingdom had fallen. His voice, calm yet containing a deafening power, resonated deep within the souls of every member of the Tai Xuan Sect…

"Originally, I was still considering that as a member of the human race, we should never exterminate them... But now it seems that the human race's plans in the outside world may have already been corrupted by the gods... Or rather, these humans have become a part of the gods."

"In that case, I, Qianxia, ​​and my ancestral human race, will carry the human race forward on our own!"

This information was automatically acquired after Xia Tian became the "Lord of the Holy City," which also gave him a better understanding of the history of the human race!
"Liu Yun, listen to my command. From now on, you will officially inherit the position of 'Sect Leader' of the Tai Xuan Sect. From this day forward, you will lead the people of the Tai Xuan Sect..."

"Remember, the Tai Xuan Sect is a reclusive sect of the human race. Though it claims to be reclusive, its true purpose is to save the world. Every action it takes should be driven by the paramount task of saving humanity..."

"Next, the Tai Xuan Sect will be under the jurisdiction of the 'Hall of Righteousness,' and Liu Yun will be the deputy hall master of the Hall of Righteousness..."

Summer announced a promise.

The Hall of Righteousness was originally an institution established by Emperor Qianxia to unify various martial arts forces and external forces. The current hall master is "Zhan Zhao," who commands many outstanding figures such as Tie Zhongtang, Li Chenzhou, Nie Feng, and Bu Jingyun!

Today, it has over a million people under its command, making it a formidable force.

With a keen eye, Xia Tian gradually brought this "hidden sect" under his administration...

After inheriting the position of Lord of the Holy City, he is qualified to receive many humans from other worlds. In addition, he has the "Ark of Crossing the World" that he had before, which can gather people. With the help of these forces, Qianxia can reach the level of an imperial dynasty more quickly!
Since these "hidden sects" like the Tai Xuan Sect have abandoned their responsibilities!
Therefore, the portion of "human destiny" that should have belonged to them would have gone to Qian Xia. (End of Chapter)