Chapter 660 – Marvel at the Changed World (1/2)
Chapter 660 – Marvel at the Changed World
Translated by: Hypersheep325
Edited by: Michyrr
(TN: This title is from the poem 'Swimming' by Mao Zedong. It is the final line, the full line being, 'The goddess if still here would marvel at the changed world'.)
The green leaf came through the darkness.
The Pope also walked out of the darkness, his face so pale as to seem transparent, the sea of stars within his eyes moving at high speeds like a burning flame.
Just when the Pope had offered his most powerful attack, using the Green Leaf World to strike at the Tianhai Divine Empress, the two battles in Luoyang and the stream tens of thousands of li away also reached their most critical junctures.
The black ruyi that had already dispersed into a Daoist technique scored countless fierce lines in the buildings around the Monastery of Eternal Spring, streaks of clear light flickering in and out of existence. An extremely cold Qi enveloped the entire Daoist monastery, freezing the water in the jars into ice cubes and shattering them. The lights in the monastery were frozen into colored glass and then shattered, and even the lava bubbling out from cracks in the ground instantly froze!
Daoist Ji's Daoist robe turned white, the color of frost, and also of the passing of time. He saw the Black Frost Qi that enveloped the monastery, sensed the ripples of power coming from the Mausoleum of Books, and an expression of profound thought suddenly appeared on his indifferent face. Clear light seeped out of his Daoist robe, flowing like clear water into that glimmering radiance of the stars that represented Daoist techniques.
The Daoists still alive in the Monastery of Eternal Spring spat out blood and incessantly chanted Daoist scriptures.
An extremely complex and difficult-to-understand syllable emerged from Daoist Ji's lips!
This was the final book of the three thousand scriptures of the Dao, the most incomprehensible Dragon language, the essence of the most masterly Daoist technique!
With this syllable, the sky above Luoyang suddenly began to shake, and the Daoist technique that had come from the dispersed jade ruyi momentarily grew sluggish, the Black Frost Qi visibly drawing back through the darkness.
Daoist Ji took out a longsword, the first time he had taken out a sword!
The sword imbued with a Daoist technique slashed down and from the darkness came a shrill howl, carrying no will of its own yet also holding a deep unease, followed closely by a cacophony of shattering!
With these countless tiny shattering sounds, the shattering jars still shattered, along with the transparent chunks of ice within them. The lanterns like colored glass also shattered, the frozen lava also shattered. All shattered into powder, melted into clear water, evaporated into mist. This world of colored glass that had been shattered by frost and ice was once more under the control of clear light!
Tens of thousands of li away, by the stream behind the old temple, the monk had walked up to the Tianhai Divine Empress's body.
The Tianhai Divine Empress's eyes were incomparably bright, golden flames spitting out of them as if a Phoenix was about to be reborn from this place.
This was a pair of true Phoenix eyes.
Her gaze swept all around. The blood lotuses on the stream began to drift up like they were alive and covered the monk's body. Soon after, they crumbled like maple leaves.
Beneath every broken blood lotus, the monk's body also cracked, his skin cracked, but what flowed out was not blood, but a milky white light.
Those rays of light contained an unimaginably sacred energy, almost the same as the Sacred Light of the Li Palace, yet there was a fundamental, and to the beings of this continent, most fatal difference.
This was also Sacred Light, but it came from another world, a world carrying another race that bore an innate hostility to this world.
Countless quantities of Sacred Light surged out of the monk's body, but the stream behind the old temple made no sound. The boiling water suddenly stopped, and the water converted into mist also grew still.
This was an absolute stillness. Only one thing remained moving: the monk's finger, that finger approaching the Tianhai Divine Empress's forehead.
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The green leaf arrived at the summit of the Mausoleum of Books, confronting the Tianhai Divine Empress.
This was a true world. The trees and stones of the mausoleum sensed its true and incalculable weight and shuddered in unease, sinking down.
If she were still at her peak state, perhaps she would not feel it so troublesome.
But she had already departed from Concealed Divinity, and could no longer preserve her existence within the world nor conceal it within.
If her body, Dao, and soul were all present, perhaps she could firmly block this world, just like that man called Chen Xuanba had done many years ago in the Garden of Zhou.
But her Daoist technique had been broken in Luoyang by Daoist Ji, her soul suppressed by the monk next to Xining Village's stream. Right now, all that was at the peak of the Mausoleum of Books was her body.
Even if she had the body of the true Phoenix, it would still be impossible for her to endure the coming of a world.
What could she do? Would she now fall and burn into nothingness?