Chapter 350 - 147: The Will of the Myriad People, Suppression by Chains! Confucian Daoist Venerable, White Lotus Elder

ROAR!!

The Ink Dragon’s furious roar abruptly ceased mid-air.

Its massive head abruptly drooped. The madness in its scarlet eyes receded, replaced by a flicker of human-like shock and fury:

"Damn it! Who in the hell are you? How do you know so much!?"

The Ink Dragon—or rather, the Leader of the Gui Chen Sect—was reeling. A torrent of emotions surged within him.

Rage, suspicion, apprehension, disbelief...

And a sliver of deep-seated fear, so faint that even he himself was unaware of it.

"Su Bai. Just a traveler,"

Su Bai replied indifferently, his hands clasped behind his back.

He stood tall, his robes fluttering loudly.

Compared to the Ink Dragon’s massive form, his figure was undoubtedly minuscule.

But at this moment, in the eyes of Cui Yanliang and Jin Yunfeng, Su Bai’s silhouette seemed as towering as an Ancient Divine Mountain, his aura as boundless as the Star Sea itself.

Limitless!

Although he was looking up to speak, it created the strange illusion that he was the one looking down upon the Ink Dragon.

"Su Bai... Su Bai..."

The massive Ink Dragon’s long, black whiskers trembled, its voice chilling to the bone, like a frigid gale sweeping down from the heavens:

"You lied to me!"

"Which deathless ancient from the old times are you the reincarnation of?"

"Yunxiao Daoist? Cangqing Demon Lord? Demon Daoist?"

"Or perhaps... the Netherworld Venerable Master!?"

RUMBLE!

The furious roar became a physical shockwave that detonated in the air. Vast ripples instantly spread across the entire branch sect, reaching even the whole of Da Yu Capital City.

For a moment, the very earth shook!

The entire branch sect trembled violently. Countless people staggered and fell to the ground, letting out groans of shock and terror.

’Not again!!’

In the distance, the Gui Chen Daoists and disciples who were kneeling on the ground heard the blast and their hearts pounded in terror. They instinctively threw themselves flat on the ground.

「Deep within the grand hall.」

The Leader of the Gui Chen Sect was filled with a mixture of shock and rage!

He refused to believe that someone could just appear out of thin air—some Divine Being descending upon the world.

’To possess such terrifying strength after just a dozen days... If he isn’t the reincarnation of an Ancient Great Power,’

’then I refuse to believe it!’

CLANG! CLANG! CLANG!

As the Ink Dragon roared,

the golden chains extending from the depths of the void began to tremble violently, emitting a groaning sound as if they were on the verge of snapping.

This made Jin Yunfeng’s and Cui Yanliang’s hearts pound, and they couldn’t help but worry.

The two of them instinctively glanced at Su Bai’s back, and for some reason, they felt their spirits calm.

"Must one really have an extraordinary background to be believed?"

Su Bai slowly shook his head in response to the question from the Leader of the Gui Chen Sect.

’Within Da Yu, the more profound a master’s Cultivation, the less they believed in prodigies who appeared out of nowhere.’

’These masters are often superstitious about past lives. Every time a powerful expert appears, they speculate about which old monster they might have been in a previous life.’

’The Netherworld Venerable Master, back in his day, was apparently the subject of much of the same speculation.’

"I am already connected to the fate of Da Yu Country, linked to the hearts and minds of the masses! Killing me would be like destroying the world, like wiping out the countless believers of my sect!"

"If you kill me, it would be the same as slaughtering all the people under heaven! No matter which deathless ancient you are, no matter what Ancient Great Power, you cannot bear such a sin!"

The Leader of the Gui Chen Sect barked.

Under the deluge of Thoughts from hundreds of millions of people, he had become even more frenzied and paranoid than before.

"Killing you might not be so difficult..."

Having said that, Su Bai slowly raised his foot, preparing to step forward.

"Stop!"

The Ink Dragon suddenly roared, the sound like the collective, piercing shriek of millions.

For a moment, the void thrummed as the sound wave crashed down, madly assaulting Su Bai’s spirit!

Su Bai’s body swayed slightly, and a hint of approval appeared in his eyes.

"To integrate the stray thoughts of millions and forge them into a Divine Technique... not a bad method."

Before the words had even left his lips, his raised foot stomped down on the earth.

BOOM!

In that instant, it was as if the very heavens were collapsing and the earth was caving in!

As his foot came down, a visible ripple surged outward in all directions, crashing into the distance like a tidal wave.

The vast Gui Chen Sect branch was nearly upended by that single stomp.

On the ruins before him, countless bits of earth and gravel were instantly pulverized into particles too fine to be seen by the naked eye.

A furious wind roared to life, revealing the dense, scarlet runes covering the ground.

HUMMM!

As the scarlet runes appeared, every part of the branch sect—every palace, every pavilion, every rockery, even every single stone slab—erupted with an eerie, black-and-red light!

Beams of light shot skyward, crisscrossing as they formed a massive Array that enveloped the entire branch sect!

CRACK! CRACK!

But under the immense force of Su Bai’s stomp, rockeries collapsed, stone slabs shattered, and palaces toppled throughout the branch sect.

Amid the screams of countless servants and slaves within the branch sect,

the light from the terrifying Grand Array, which had only just flared to life, shattered completely.

"No!!"

A roar filled with utter unwillingness followed.

The countless golden chains spreading through the void trembled violently!

Streams of brilliant lamplight shone forth.

One after another, splendid scenes slowly began to materialize.

This was one of the subtle applications of the Sutra of the Power of All Living Beings’ Wishes.

Then, this brilliance and these images transformed into specks of golden light that branded themselves onto the chains.