Conferred God: Got cramped at the beginning

Chapter 989 The Lament on the Execution Platform

Within the heavens, clouds and mist surged, and the stars in the sky flickered uncertainly.

Countless gazes, some bright, some dim, some filled with doubt, some with fear, were all focused on the heavens above.

They gathered outside the Lingxiao Palace, at the ancient execution ground that had been silent for countless millennia—the Execution Platform.

At this moment, the Execution Platform not only reappeared in the sky, but its aura of power and evil soared into the heavens, stirring up the primordial energy of the universe into chaos.

The cold, black iron platform, the dark blood groove, and especially the massive guillotine hanging high above, gleaming with a chilling light, all silently proclaimed that the dormant instruments of punishment had been awakened.

Before this execution platform, the Great Dragon God Ao Bing, who upheld the principles of Heaven and righteousness, sat upright, dressed in a black robe.

In the vast expanse of the heavens, no one could see through Ao Bing's thoughts at this moment, much less guess his intentions.

With that enormous shadow looming over them, all that remained in everyone's hearts was doubt.

The situation in the world is always unpredictable and ever-changing.

The "Journey to the West Scheme," initiated by His Majesty the Jade Emperor, which gathers the power of the five directions and attracts countless ancient beings to participate, is clearly the most captivating event at present, concerning the ultimate destiny!
This system encompasses the four continents, connects the nine netherworlds and ten categories, and links the five directions of the world together in one place.

Its momentum was so immense and its carnage so brutal that it could become a fulcrum to shake up the grand scheme of things in the five directions.

Throughout the heavens and beyond, all forces, whether immortals, gods, demons, or extraterrestrial giants, are racking their brains in this game of chess, either making moves or sharpening their knives, waiting for the moment when the storm will sweep across the world.

But at this crucial moment when the winds of change are gathering and a bloodbath is about to break out, the Great Dragon God, who should have been one of the core players in the Journey to the West game, made a move that left all the "players" stunned and puzzled, and even vaguely uneasy—he abandoned the Journey to the West game that was enough to overturn the world and brazenly restarted the Execution Platform!
What does restarting the Execution Platform mean?
This is by no means as simple as just executing gods and immortals who violate heavenly rules.

It means that Ao Bing, this Great Luo Immortal, is going to restore order to the world!
We must re-establish the majesty of the Heavenly Rules and Regulations, which have been eroded by the long years, replaced by various unspoken rules, and intentionally or unintentionally ignored by countless powerful individuals. We must make all cultivators in this world think of the existence of those Heavenly Rules and Regulations in every action they take!
What does the temporarily "shelved" Journey to the West mean?

That was a massive calamity that encompassed the five great realms!
It is a chessboard where the top experts of the five great worlds compete!

It is an immeasurable calamity that will sweep across the universe, destined to result in mountains of corpses, seas of blood, and the annihilation of immortals and gods!
What is a killing calamity?
All creatures compete, and the strong prey on the weak!
Under the principles of righteousness, any means are justified!
In the midst of carnage, all ethics, rules, order, and even right and wrong will be submerged by the primal instinct for survival and struggle.

For that elusive yet undeniably real "ultimate destiny," everyone involved in the carnage will stop at nothing.

Intrigue, sneak attacks, assassinations, manipulating people, and reversing time and space... these are all commonplace.

On this blood-stained chessboard, only strength and supernatural powers matter.

Only the most brutal battles and struggles can trigger the manifestation of the "ultimate creation" hidden deep within the source of the Great Dao.

Chaos is the breeding ground for slaughter; order is the shackles of slaughter.

At this moment, Ao Bing restarted the Execution Platform and rectified the heavenly rules!

Ostensibly, this is about upholding the laws of Heaven and restoring order. But in reality, it's clearly about reshaping the order.

It is suppressing this Journey to the West carnage that has just begun!
What's even more puzzling is that this whole Journey to the West plan was actually decided by Ao Bing, the Jade Emperor, and Emperor Taizong of Tang in the Lingxiao Palace!

For him, pushing forward the killing spree was simply going with the flow, something that directly benefited him.

So the question arises: what is the significance and purpose of his going against the tide, rectifying the heavenly rules, and suppressing the killing calamity?
His actions, in contrast to this massacre, are utterly contradictory and absurd.

Various doubts swirled in the minds of the powerful figures from all sides, and countless thoughts collided in the void, attempting to deduce Ao Bing's motives.

However, Ao Bing's aura was as deep and unfathomable as the ocean, obscuring all heavenly secrets. Those probing divine thoughts vanished without a trace, like a clay ox sinking into the sea. He simply and calmly perused the list of "Sinful Immortals and Evil Gods" written in cinnabar on a scroll of black jade, ignoring those names that could shake an entire star field. He showed no intention of responding to the doubts and speculations of the world.

What is the purpose? The purpose lies in the act itself! It lies in the act of restarting the Execution Platform!

Ao Bing showed no intention of responding to these people's questions.

What is the purpose?

The purpose lies in the act itself!

This involves a fundamental difference in concept between Pantian and the other four great realms—the "freedom" and "constraint" of Da Luo.

In the common understanding of the four great worlds beyond Pantian, the Great Luo Realm is a realm of indestructibility and unfettered freedom.

They possess near-absolute freedom.

It is not bound by any rules.

They do whatever they want; they kill whomever they want. In their eyes, all things in heaven and earth, and all living beings, are no different from dust and ants.

Power is the only truth and the only rule of the game.

This absolute freedom is the supreme power that the four great Luos pursue and enjoy.

However, the strong in Pantian emphasize self-discipline.

It is relative freedom, which is different from absolute freedom!
Pan Tian's Great Luo wouldn't easily attack those below the Great Luo level—even if they did attack someone at the same Great Luo level, they would insist on having a legitimate reason for doing so.

None of the Great Luo beings in Pantian are 'bloodthirsty'.

However, Ao Bing's existence is an exception among the Great Luo Immortals!
He needs to be killed!

It also requires a thirst for killing.

Only through the means of killing and conquest can he extract a portion of the original essence from others when their essence returns to heaven and earth, and transfer this essence from Pan Tian to Yuan Tian through the Hunyuan Liangxiang Pivot in order to maintain the existence of Yuan Tian!

This is a secret that cannot be revealed to outsiders.

However, while it is possible to seize the essence of heaven and earth through the means of killing, one cannot engage in meaningless indiscriminate killing.

Therefore, the best option is to conquer other regions.

However, Ao Bing was burdened by the secret he carried, making it impossible for him to go on a conquest beyond the borders.

The only way to seize the essence of heaven and earth through killing is this Execution Platform!

After the First Emperor, Ao Bing secluded himself in the East Sea to avoid the backlash from humanity in Yuan Tian.

It was at that time that the system of karmic positions between heaven and earth was perfected, and the cultivation of living beings became increasingly easier.

Therefore, because the power came too easily.

Because Ao Bing, the Heavenly Lord in charge of punishments, was in seclusion and asleep. And because more and more powerful beings in the world were turning their attention to beyond the realms… and because the Jade Emperor was consciously indulging…

And the Jade Emperor's suppression of those immortals and gods of the Heavenly Rules lineage...

As a result, the gods and immortals in this world became increasingly disrespectful of the heavenly rules.

Throughout countless ages, countless sinful immortals and wicked gods who committed capital crimes have only been locked in the Heavenly Prison, never executed... This situation has emboldened even more immortals and gods to cross the boundaries of the death penalty...

Over the countless years, there have been so many sinful immortals and wicked gods that even the Heavenly Prison cannot contain them all!
The Execution Platform has been reopened, and executing these deserving criminals in the name of heavenly rules is the most "justified" form of slaughter!
This is both rectifying the laws of heaven and demonstrating order, and harvesting the essence of heaven and earth in accordance with the rules!

With each strike, every immortal god is annihilated. Before returning to the world, a portion of their essence is quietly absorbed by the Primordial Two-Phase Pivot and transformed into the power that sustains the Primordial Heaven Anchor Point!

As for the impact of activating the Execution Platform on this Journey to the West game, on this calamity... or whether it will make Ao Bing the target of everyone's attacks in this calamity...

Ao Bing didn't care about this at all!

Under the mutual spiral of Pantian and Yuantian, all changes in Pantian must be reflected in Yuantian. Only after anchoring in Yuantian can progress continue.

And the Yuan Tian, ​​which serves as the anchor point, is under Ao Bing's control—that is to say, from the moment the Yuan Tian and Pan Tian begin to rotate in a spiral, all the chess games in Pan Tian will be reflected in the Yuan Tian.

All of everyone's chess games will be laid bare before Ao Bing.

In this situation, Ao Bing's identity in the game of Journey to the West is not the 'player' that others expected.

Rather, they are 'referees', who are on an even higher level than chess players!
Moreover, it was the kind of referee who was extremely biased!
In the blink of an eye, Ao Bing's perception had already landed on the timeline of this Heavenly Plate.

The 'Hongjun Dao Ancestor' of Pantian has long since perished.

The originally stable spacetime within Pantian was also becoming precarious amidst the attacks originating from the timelines by the powerful beings of the four great worlds.

Nowadays, the spacetime of this universe is not as stable as it used to be, and the price to pay for reversing spacetime is also not as great as it used to be.

In this game of chess at the level of Da Luo, amidst the calamities of the Journey to the West, amidst the calamities of vying for ultimate creation—all the players on this chessboard are at the Da Luo level!
In other words, in this game of chess, all the players have the ability to reverse time and space!

The vast majority of those chess players came from outside the realm. Unlike Pan Tian Da Luo, they did not have a great reverence for time and space. Therefore, their habits meant that when they made a mistake in the game, they were very likely to choose to rotate through time and space and start over!
The wars that have ended on the timeline will be restarted on this chessboard.

And that is the significance of Ao Bing's existence!
Between the rotations of time and space, the situation of Pantian is determined by the anchor point of Yuantian—in this way, the strong in Pantian are in an advantageous position in the game of that timeline.

This ensures that no matter how those chess players from outside the realm reverse time and space, the game of Journey to the West will remain under Pan Tian's control!
The Jade Emperor initiated the game, while Ao Bing used Yuan Tian as an anchor point to ensure Pan Tian's 'winning rate' in this game.

To put it more bluntly, it's cheating.

If we compare this Journey to the West game to a game...

Then all the players on this chessboard are players of that game—each with the ability to start and load a game at will!
What Ao Bing had to do was to secretly tamper with this 'file'.

By gradually compressing the points where others can load and roll back their saves, and by gradually blocking the changes on the timeline, the affected 'past' remains 'permanent'.

This made the players who participated in the game accept the consequences of their bets.

What is the ideal situation in this game of chess?
It was that chess player from beyond the borders who gained something from this game, but his gains were not substantial...

Meanwhile, even more players suffered losses in this game...

As a result, the investment of those powerful figures from beyond the realm in this game will only increase.

As a result, they will become increasingly unwilling to give up their investment and increasingly reluctant to leave the game...

Therefore, they will do everything in their power to influence the creation of their respective worlds, in order to delay the arrival of the final battle.

……

Before the execution ground in Heaven, Ao Bing flipped through the list of sinful immortals and evil gods, disregarding their origins in the slightest, and simply used a vermilion pen to slowly trace the lines on the list.

With each stroke of the pen, the guillotine on the execution platform fell once more.

The sinful immortals and evil gods on the list have accumulated sins for countless millennia—even if some of them are willing to go to the outer realms to fight to the death in order to atone for their sins, the rest are far beyond what this heavenly prison can hold.

For countless years, prisons that held these sinful immortals and evil gods have been scattered throughout famous mountains and rivers all over the world.

Outside the prison, besides the prison guards, there were also many powerful figures connected to those sinful immortals and evil gods, lurking nearby and putting pressure on the guards... even planning to 'break out of the prison' and so on.

However, in front of Ao Bing, a Great Luo Immortal, all those networks of relationships and the distance between time and space are meaningless!
The list of sinful immortals and evil gods, regardless of where they were before or who protected them... only requires Ao Bing to have a thought and a stroke of his vermilion brush.

Immediately, in the shift of time and space, he appeared from the place of imprisonment and suppression on the execution platform, and was then annihilated by the guillotine.

On the execution platform, the guillotine was raised again and again, and then fell again and again.

As the chains were pulled up and down, the clanging sound of them mingled together.

The previous round of 'clanging' hasn't even subsided yet.

Then the next round of 'clanging' began.

Round after round, wave after wave.

Just like an unstoppable tide, it surges and overlaps in a mighty, undulating manner.

And amidst the clanging and banging, the immortals and gods in this celestial realm...

Whether it's natural or natural.

It still came from outside the region.

Whether they want to hear this sound or not.

I still don't want to hear that sound.

This sound, like a shadow, echoed in everyone's hearts.

Amidst the echoing sounds, countless cultivators, even in a daze, appeared on the Execution Platform, watching the guillotine fall upon their heads... and then, they awoke from their daze amidst the icy chill.

(End of this chapter)