Chapter 1278 - 358: Oppressive Pressure

Chapter 1278: Chapter 358: Oppressive Pressure

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Ning Zheng was eating melon beside herself, and was startled.

Watching as the protagonist painter single-handedly fought off three historical Immortal Venerate armies, yet unexpectedly the melon landed on herself.

What is this?

Are we good brothers?

Only two Immortal Venerate seats, allowed for just the two of us to prove ourselves?

This clearly aims to draw the battle toward Ning Zheng.

But Ning Zheng couldn’t refute this, as the painter is indeed a real pit, but also genuinely helpful.

He truly helps in blocking others for me.

I really have to be grateful.

After all, I’m not yet aiming to attain the way, it’s a one-time nuclear weapon, surely to be used when rivaling against prehistory.

"Block, then block." Ning Zheng said calmly.

Meanwhile, the blacksmiths beside looked like they were immersed in CP, excitedly watching Ning Zheng and the painter.

"Too handsome, only the two of us in the world."

The Medical Fairy’s eyes sparkled, and said:

"The painter exhibited the aura that once dominated Nine-State, over 15 million years, under the control of the Black Hand Painter, no one in the Nine-State world could ascend to Immortal!"

"At that time, he alone blocked the Path to Immortality!"

"And now, the painter intends to block the route of the future Immortal Venerate alone, preventing others from advancing, and has already reserved the seat!"

A few blacksmiths watched in amazement.

This dominance, arrogance, assertiveness, who else but me!

I’m a fan, a fan indeed, as expected from the protagonist, the style is very high.

Instead, Night Mad Cultivator spoke of official business:

"Hmm, this idea is clearly another one I came up with! In several previous engagements with the past, they’ve escalated to Half Celestial Phenomenon Immortal Venerate levels, using cheat codes to decide the winners."

"Now, we’re not giving anyone the chance to break Celestial Phenomenon, everyone is normal combat power, emphasizing fairness."

Doing so actually has many benefits.

It limits the upper threshold of combat power, gently cooking frog slowly, silently eroding the prehistoric foundation!

Repeatedly painting water dragon heads, draining enemies dry.

The upstream of the River of Time dries up, the Immortal Venerates’ pond gets smaller and smaller, without direct combat, they’ll be slowly drained to death!

This is the simplest combat method.

After all, those three prehistoric old ones are so powerful, it’s clear without estimating, just knowing you’re outmatched!

Hence, winning without a fight is the best choice!

But at this moment, the painter intends to prove the way, unveiling the mysterious veil, a group of people wanted to vie for the painter’s grand path.

Su Yuniang looked at the old steward: "They say they’ve found the painter’s way to prove himself, learning to paint like the painter... Could it be, this path requires painting to prove itself? What exactly is it?"

Su Yuniang’s question is one all the blacksmiths also wanted to ask.

Each with eyes sparkling with expectation, waiting for Ning Zheng’s answer.

Ning Zheng did not conceal, "Before, the painter told me he wanted to prove the ’future,’ but actually what he’s truly proving is the Creation Immortal Venerate, also known as Creation Painting."

"Or perhaps, the Vanity Immortal Venerate, the prosperity of Nothingness."

Ning Zheng patiently explained.

This Venerable Position is similar to the Xian’s Venerable Position.

Xian proves ’physics,’ which is essentially the foundation of matter, mastering the quality and energy level of all things between heaven and earth.

Concretely speaking, it’s the present.

Because only the present... with Xian, is real.

While what the painter wants to prove is the framework of all things’ emptiness.

Simply put, if the world is likened to a computer game, then he is proving a blob of emptiness, a sketch.

Then, using Xian’s power of matter to fill the sketch, uphold the data, transforming you into a true entity.

Xian, is the real.

The painter, is the empty.

The painter likely very early on chose this path, complementing Xian from prehistory.

Furthermore, the painter’s power has revealed itself early on, whether it’s Embers or the Painter... all are void sketches needing material to transform into reality.

Following Ning Zheng’s explanation, the group gradually understood.

"I see, calling him the ’future’ is not too far off, because he paints fictional historical data voids, then has Xian from upstream open the gate, filling it with substance, turning emptiness into real history..."

"Indeed, from this perspective, he indeed grasps the future! No wonder previously so arrogant, declaring himself the Future Immortal Venerate."

"Isn’t that so? Xian is the present, grasping reality, and he is the future... grasping emptiness."

"Nowadays, it seems the painter planned step by step for hundreds of steps just to wait for today, he long since calculated his future achievement!"

"Amazing!"

"Squatting in Nine-State for 15 million years, secretly setting up, accumulating foundation, all to pull off today’s big event!"

The blacksmiths kept marveling.

...

Unlike the blacksmiths’ amazement and Ning Zheng’s melon eating, Immortal Venerable Changzhen and others were anxious.

"Trouble."

"Everyone, what should we do next?"

"We’ve killed until our hands are soft."

"Moreover, their parallel history keeps getting stronger, as each parallel history destroyed sends transmigrators to new parallel history, learning from the last one’s lessons."

The longer the battle drags on, the more disadvantageous it is for them!

As the main battleground is in the opponent’s home turf.

The powerful ones and Immortal Venerates that die get absorbed faster by the ’future,’ used by the painter to create new parallel history.

The painter clearly intends to wage war to feed war.

Just as the painter says, he doesn’t know the outcome of the battle, merely gambling on the infinite possibilities of the future, believing future heroes will rise to challenge them...

And what of them?

They best have a decisive hammer effect, quickly closing down the battlefield.

The victory path of Celestial Phenomenon Immortal Venerate is what they aspire to, yet the painter stubbornly blocks them, denying them any opportunity to reach that threshold.

"Now, which path should we follow?" Immortal Venerable Changzhen said coldly: "What do you think, should we concentrate our efforts on Auspicious, or follow Creation?"

Venerable Zhongluan analyzed: "Neither is easy to follow, both Immortal Venerate proving conditions are too demanding, one needs ample collection of Qi Fortune Value, and the other requires painting numerous parallel timelines..."

These thresholds are difficult to achieve on the battlefield.

Since the opponent holds the home-field advantage.

And the Vice Xirong Manor Master has likely collected enough Qi Fortune Value now, ready to prove himself anytime!

Yet he hasn’t gone to prove himself.

You’re competing against him, having painstakingly collected enough Qi Fortune Value, only for him to prove himself one step ahead, leaving you helplessly watch?

"Then, are we only to follow the painter’s path?" Holy Spirit Immortal Venerate’s expression darkened, "This is also difficult to follow! It requires drawing countless timelines, mastering the Power of Nothingness..."

"No matter which path is hard to follow." Immortal Venerable Changzhen said coldly: "Then don’t follow, wait for death?"

Since engaging with the future, they’ve repeatedly failed, with no victories at all.

Yet everyone understands.

This isn’t their fault.

It’s the ’future’ environment that holds an overwhelming advantage, rendering the Celestial Phenomenon Immortal Venerates’ old powers ineffective...

They can only attack proactively.

Anyone who has played various military games, deployed all kinds of chess strategies, or even played tower defense games knows, the defending side has an incredible advantage.

Even among the prehistoric cultivators present, many entertained a thought:

Time, location, and human harmony, we’ve gradually lost them, is the ’past’ truly destined to be rendered obsolete by history?

Are we to utterly perish in the past?

Even previously deploying Immortal Realm and Netherworld to occupy the ’future,’ employing delaying tactics now proves ineffective.

Future is set to rise entirely, while past is set to entirely vanish?

No matter how they deliberate, they could only start an upright battle!