All-Heavens Game, the Strongest Player

Chapter 126, "The Celestial Master" in the Celestial Master's Ordination.

"What's wrong?" The old master looked puzzled.

"Well, I don't know why, but I always seem to be under divine retribution. It's fine as long as I don't go to places with few people, but if I go to a deserted place, things will fall from above and might accidentally hurt you!"

Chu Xiu said.

At first, the old Celestial Master didn't care at all, shaking his head and saying, "I am the Celestial Master, what divine punishment could fall on my head? Come with me without worry, nothing will happen!"

Hearing this, Chu Xiu was skeptical, but followed him to the back mountain.

The next moment, the sound of something cutting through the air rang out.

One by one, the little babies with long tails flew in from all directions and landed straight on Chu Xiu's head.

When the old master saw it, he was completely stunned!

"What heinous thing have you done that has angered both heaven and man?"

……

Half an hour later, the old master, who had finished washing up and changed his clothes, had bandages wrapped around his feet, plaster casts around his neck, and gauze wrapped around his head.

With Zhang Chulan's help, they arrived at the Longhu Mountain Visitor Center and met Chu Xiu.

In the end, he followed his heart and chose the place with more people.

As for the back mountain, it's gone now. It's called "Hou Keng" now. When it rains in the future, we'll fill it with water, give it a name, and then it can be turned into a lake scenic area that charges admission!

"I've never seen anything like this before. It's divine retribution! There's actually something like that?"

It is said that heavenly lightning can take human form, and Zhang Zhiwei knows this. He himself can even make lightning take human form and give birth to gods to attack enemies. Even if the heavenly tribulation takes human form and Wugensheng takes human form, and the two fight until the Great Dao is destroyed, he can accept it.

Since cultivators exist within the universe, they are part of the Dao, so it's normal for them to be replicated.

But what was that thing just now?

Dongfeng Express!
Although it wasn't a mushroom in terms of power, it was enough to blast a huge crater into the back mountain, which was almost as powerful as a mushroom! Fortunately, it was Zhang Zhiwei, whose skills were extraordinary and whose cultivation was unparalleled, having already reached the realm of "Land Immortal".

He dares to say that if it were anyone else, even the current leader of Quanxing Sect, Wugensheng, and the Great Ying Immortal, Zuo Ruotong, they would all be doomed.

Not a single bone fragment will be left!
"At first, I didn't know it was divine retribution. I thought the company had asked a sister department for help. Later, after I reconciled with Xiao Zhao, I found out that they hadn't put it there at all!"

Chu Xiu shook his head.

This left the old master utterly astonished, exclaiming, "The world is truly full of wonders!"

Then, he released the golden light from his body, enveloping himself, Chu Xiu, Zhang Chulan who was supporting him, and Zhou Wushang who was always by Chu Xiu's side.

Then he unleashed his thunderous power.

The combination of the two created a "Golden Thunder Domain".

"This domain can actually shield the power of the 'Mark of the Heavens'? Although it doesn't affect our ability to control it, and we can break through it, it's still quite exaggerated!" Zhou Wushang said.

Zhang Zhiwei was not capable of resisting the Marks of the Heavens.

However, he was able to shield the power of the Heavenly Dao, causing the dormant Heavenly Marks to lose their connection with the corresponding heavens and earth.

In other words, in the state of "the world without a master," he has already broken free from the Heavenly Dao, and the rules of heaven and earth have no effect on him.

In some ways, it's comparable to Master Ye's "Boundless" style!

When he suppressed the Eight Eccentrics, what he showed was only the tip of the iceberg.

"There are too many things to tell, I don't know where to begin, so let me start with myself!" Zhang Zhiwei said with a nostalgic expression, recalling, "It was probably more than fifty years ago! After the Jia Shen Rebellion, I was quite curious about what they had figured out, so I secretly went to the Twenty-Four Heavenly Valley without telling my master!"

"What did you find?" Chu Xiu asked.

Upon hearing this, the old Celestial Master shook his head: "I didn't find anything else, but I did see a strange Qi formation. The Eight Extraordinary Techniques should be derived from the mystery of that Qi formation that Wugensheng stole!"

Mentioning this, Chu Xiu and Zhou Wushang exchanged a glance, both thinking of the one who devoured immortals. "Zhang Boduan, the Purple Sun True Man, was also devoured by the Qi Bureau and ascended to immortality?"

"Hmm!" Zhang Zhiwei nodded and said, "I became very interested in that Qi formation and wanted to stay in Tongtian Valley to study it properly. But just then, my master Zhang Jingqing suddenly came over, beat me up, and dragged me back. Then, he lied to me and said that if I wanted to know the secret of that Qi formation, I didn't need to study it at all; I just needed to inherit the Heavenly Master's Degree, and it would be inside!"

At this point, a look of frustration appeared on his face.

He added, "And then, I got scammed!"

Chu Xiu: "..."

The Celestial Master's Ordination Ceremony was indeed a huge pitfall.

"What exactly is inside the Celestial Master's Code?" Zhou Wushang asked.

“A ‘Celestial Master’!” Zhang Zhiwei said, “It is the ascension body left behind by the first Celestial Master Zhang Daoling after his death. It was nourished by the Qi of successive Celestial Masters and eventually transformed into a ‘deity’!”

This result was beyond Chu Xiu's expectations.

"Is it really worth all that secrecy? Wouldn't it be better to just put the ancestral master in the ancestral hall for people to worship?"

Zhang Zhiwei shook his head upon hearing this.

"As I said, it is merely the remains of the patriarch, not the patriarch himself! It gathers the Qi of successive Celestial Masters and condenses the patriarch's Dharma, and has long transcended the mortal realm. Its function is to directly seal off all paths to immortality from the perspective of the rules of heaven and earth, cutting off all possibilities of becoming an immortal!"

Upon hearing this, even Zhang Chulan showed a look of astonishment.

He asked, puzzled, "Why?"

"Because becoming an immortal is a dead end!" Zhang Zhiwei said, "The earliest person to become an immortal is impossible to trace back, but the earliest victim I know of can be traced back to 'Feng Hou,' the prime minister during the time of the Yellow Emperor!"

"Fenghou Qimen?"

“That’s right!” Zhang Zhiwei nodded. “He became an immortal even earlier than the Yellow Emperor. Part of the legend of his ascension to immortality comes from him. But after becoming an immortal, he did not gain immortality. Instead, the Qi formation in the Twenty-Four Solar Terms Valley forcibly drained all his Qi and cultivation, causing him to die in meditation!”

Then, he paused for a moment.

He added, "Later, the original sources of all the great skills also touched upon the path of immortality, and were similarly drained and died! Not only that, the founders of the various sects were not spared either. Even the founder of my Longhu Mountain, who was as powerful as he was, only managed to find the root of everything for future generations before he passed away!"

Upon hearing this, Chu Xiu immediately asked, "Is there a problem with the Heavenly Dao itself?"

“That’s right!” Zhang Zhiwei nodded and said, “According to the patriarch’s speculation, this world was originally incomplete, with an incomplete Heavenly Dao and missing rules, which is why countless geniuses and extraordinary individuals in ancient times were stuck at the threshold of immortality and turned into a handful of dust! Later, one or more extraordinary individuals suddenly had a brilliant idea and came up with the path of ‘using humans to nourish the heavens and achieving harmony between humans and the heavens,’ setting up a Qi formation to nourish the Heavenly Dao with their own bodies!”

It turns out that Tongtian Valley really can connect to the heavens.

The earliest sages used it to arrange qi formations to bury themselves and complete the way of heaven.

“I don’t know who they are, but according to mythology, they can be referred to as ‘Nuwa,’ who mended the sky!” Zhang Zhiwei said. “However, even the kindest people cannot be without any evil thoughts in their hearts. They used themselves to mend the heavenly order, but they did not expect that they would also let their evil thoughts affect the heavenly order, giving birth to resentment, selfishness, greed, and… indifference!”

At this point, the rest is self-evident.

Nuwa's mending of the sky did not bring about the "Heavenly Way" that all living beings truly needed. Instead, it nurtured an extremely terrifying demon that fed on immortals!

Therefore, Zhang Zhiwei said that there are no immortals in this world, only demons.

"The Heavenly Master's Blessing is a shackle imposed on all living beings by the Heavenly Master, and it is also a barrier that separates the Heavenly Dao from all living things. The source of its power is the deity, the Heavenly Master, within it!"

Zhang Zhiwei said, “Learning from the lessons of the Way of Heaven, the patriarchs of all generations did not endow it with emotion, so it needs a Heavenly Master to bear it. Only those who bear the Heavenly Master's decree and have the heart of a true ‘Heavenly Master’ are true Heavenly Masters!”

Upon hearing this, Chu Xiu finally understood what the final mechanism of this game, "The Celestial Master Descends the Mountain," really was.

It wasn't until the Celestial Master Zhang Zhiwei descended the mountain to exorcise the demon; that only counts as half the story.

The true Celestial Master descended the mountain when Zhang Zhiwei used the Celestial Master's Power to awaken the "Celestial Master" within, who then used a completely irrational method and a powerful force capable of reversing the laws of heaven and earth to wipe out the players!

In that case, even if Chu Xiu didn't bring any skills or use the Heavenly Mark, he would probably have a hard time fighting against him!
This is the real third-round elimination mechanism!
"But if you've blocked the path to immortality with the 'Celestial Master,' what about the Eight Extraordinary Techniques? And what is the origin of the so-called 'Art of Chaos'?"

(End of this chapter)