Chapter 1020: A Hundred Generations Exchange for My Eight Venerable Experts, I Use My Command to Summon Divine Light

Cen Qiaofu was completely stunned for a moment.

He couldn't fathom what mindset this impostor had, daring to pretend to be Cen Qiaofu right in front of the real, original Cen Qiaofu.

The key issue was...

"What is there to impersonate about an old man like me?"

Cen Qiaofu stared at the version of "himself" inside the water sphere, utterly speechless.

If you were going to impersonate Ba Zun An, everyone would understand that—after all, Ba Zun An himself was right there and probably wouldn't make a big fuss about it.

But I'm just an obscure old Tai Xu, with no major crimes to my name and no extraordinary feats in my life.

Just the ordinary "fighting a hundred with one in the Eight Palaces" and the straightforward "Chop Wood and Attain Dao in a single night"...

Wouldn't impersonating a Shui Gui have more potential than pretending to be Cen Qiaofu?!

Cen Qiaofu's mouth twitched, and he hesitated to speak, but in the end, he had no choice but to turn to Shui Gui.

Shui Gui met his gaze, and after the two locked eyes for a second, they both burst out laughing with a "pfft."

"What are you laughing at?"

Xiu Yuan Ke sensed the thick sarcasm in their laughter and immediately flew into a rage, but before he could say more...

"Shut up!"

With a wave of his hand, Shui Gui summoned a water-element mystic array diagram from beneath his feet, preventing this guy from interrupting Ba Zun An's ritual.

Xiu Yuan Ke felt his heart seize up, as if it were completely constricted.

He had just opened his mouth when he sensed some force from the water sphere seeping into his muscles, bones, and meridians, locking him in place entirely.

He was completely immobilized!

"What the hell kind of ability is this..."

Xiu Yuan Ke was shocked.

He couldn't see through this power at all.

But he had clearly seen the mystic array diagram under that golden beast-faced figure's feet just moments ago!

Water-element mystic arts?

Was this guy Yu Ling Di?

"???"

Xiu Yuan Ke was dumbfounded.

How did his senior brother end up mixed up with Ling Department's leader, Yu Ling Di?

This... this...

Wasn't it?

So his senior brother was from the Shengshen Hall all along?

Impossible!

That left only one explanation...

Yu Ling Di was one of their own?

Reaching this conclusion, Xiu Yuan Ke was utterly jaw-dropped.

For a moment, he didn't dare to resist, afraid that any wrong move would bring even bigger trouble.

Of course, the most crucial thing was that, in this delicate situation, his senior brother's scheme was clearly more important, and he shouldn't cause any extra complications.

His eyes darted around...

Xiu Yuan Ke strained to glance toward his "senior brother."

He was still writing something on that golden scroll...

The surging power radiating from the scroll was palpable even through the water sphere.

"Sheng force..."

Oh, my senior brother, what massive scheme are you plotting behind Can Yue Xian City's back?!

Meanwhile,

Ba Zun An's full attention was on the Shengdi Jinzhao.

He was completely unaware of anyone approaching from behind.

But entrusting his back to others was a sign of Ba Zun An's absolute trust in Cen Qiaofu and Shui Gui's abilities.

As each blood character formed on the Shengdi Jinzhao, the imperial will within it grew stronger, and the repelling golden light on Gu Yin Cliff pushed back all unrelated individuals from the surrounding area.

Cen Qiaofu, Shui Gui, and even Xiu Yuan Ke inside the water sphere were all drawn to this change and fell silent.

The three of them were forced back by the golden power, staring unblinkingly at the "Ba Zun An/senior brother," who had his back to them, as he poured all his effort into writing the ancient script.

Finally, when the last character was complete...

"Buzz!"

The Shengdi Jinzhao shook violently, as if it had absorbed a full surge of energy, suddenly coming alive.

At the same time, a torrent of Shengdi power burst forth, and with a "pop," the water sphere trapping Xiu Yuan Ke shattered.

Yet at that moment, Xiu Yuan Ke couldn't cause any mischief.

Like Cen Qiaofu and Shui Gui, his knees trembled, and he nearly collapsed to the ground, suppressed by the terrifying Shengdi force.

"Decree!"

At the sound, the three of them struggled to look up.

What they saw was the post-heaven realm "Ba Zun An/senior brother" breaking free from gravity's pull, slowly floating into the air—this was clearly the Shengdi power guiding someone of a higher tier.

In that instant, although Ba Zun An looked even more exhausted from inscribing the decree, he was bathed in the golden light from the Shengdi Jinzhao, like a divine being descending.

Clouds swirled around him, and a gentle breeze accompanied him.

Before long, under the guidance of heaven and earth, Ba Zun An drifted up to the ninth heaven.

He held the golden decree in his hands, his expression solemn, gazing down as if overlooking the five domains and four seas, his presence swallowing mountains and rivers.

"Go forth!"

Without further delay, once he stood in the ninth heaven,

Ba Zun An casually tossed it, and the Shengdi Jinzhao turned into a streak of light, merging into the heavenly dao.

"Boom!"

Yunlun Mountains shook from the nine heavens.

The sky cracked like a mirror, and under the watchful eyes of all, a golden spot appeared, then blazed like a fierce sun.

A immense pressure followed, descending from above.

At that moment, whether it was those fighting over the nine great dragon veins on the mountains, or the trial participants scattered in the inner and outer areas seeking opportunities, or even the Chop Dao and Tai Xu who had sneaked into this world...

All prostrated themselves, terrified and slamming to the ground!

"Again... it's happening again...?"

The trial participants were baffled.

How many times had this occurred!

Could the Wangcheng Trial even proceed normally anymore!

First, there was the great sage battle and the black dragon's oppression; then the sea controller and the halberd destroying the Sin Bow; and now this golden sun falling, forcing everyone to kneel...

What sins had Dongtian Wangcheng committed!

Why were all these disasters happening in the Yunlun Mountains area?

The trial participants felt they had grown accustomed to the string of accidents in this Yunlun Mountains trial.

But each accident...

Was undeniably a rare, world-shaking event!

Even as they were pressed down, everyone still strained to lift their eyes, staring wide at the golden blazing sun in the ninth heaven, hovering near all living beings.

"Is that the sun..."

Someone murmured in shock, marveling at the distant sun that illuminated everything, something they took for granted.

Now, another sun-like blaze hung overhead, one that looked capable of annihilation!

This one was anything but gentle!

It seemed like the Shengdi was furious, intent on destroying the heavens and earth!

"No!"

"It's not the sun!"

Suddenly, someone gazing at the ninth heaven realized that the golden spot had expanded into a vast scroll covering the entire sky, and they understood that the blinding light was merely an extension of the Shengdi power.

"What is that thing—a scroll?"

"Look, there... it seems to have writing on it!"

The golden scroll unfurled, replacing the entire blue sky and white clouds.

Once enlarged, the blood-red ancient script, like talismans, became clearly visible on it.

Everyone felt as if a divine miracle had descended; even prostrated on the ground, they yearned to glimpse the blood-red ancient script, as if a single look could grant them enlightenment and instant sainthood.

But the next second...

"Ah—"

"It hurts! My eyes!"

"You damned divine miracle, can't it descend somewhere else? I just want to rank in the top thirty-six on the points leaderboard!"

"If I've done wrong, let the trial officials punish me, not blind me like this, wahhh..."

Across the Yunlun Mountains, cries of agony echoed from countless ordinary people who had dared to gaze upon the Shengdi Jinzhao.

Amid the widespread wailing and suffering, a faint dao sound emerged—misty and enchanting, like a chant or a murmur, reciting and singing, resounding in the ears of all living beings.

As the dao sound began,

In an instant, the pain and chaos vanished, and the Yunlun Mountains fell into utter silence.

"Sheng secret... buried world... for a thousand years..."

The dao sound washed over hearts like a spring breeze at first, then struck like thunder.

Like the tolling of grand bells and chiming, it echoed in the souls of the Yunlun Mountains trial participants, leaving many young people bewildered.

But it was different for others...

When the sound reached the ears of the intruders, their eyes instantly burned with fervor and madness.

"Sheng secret?"

"The Sheng secret void island?"

"Is this the divine trace of Sky City?!"

With just that phrase, countless people who knew Sky City's other name, "Sheng secret void island," realized that something major was about to happen.

The Shengdi power grew even stronger after the dao sound.

All living beings were crushed, gasping for breath, yet countless still forced themselves to look up, striving to decipher the mysteries of the blood script on the golden scroll and gain the "Sheng secret's" favor.

But to no avail.

The phenomenon intensified.

In Dongtian Wangcheng, people began to tremble and kneel involuntarily.

Before anyone could mock them, "thud thud" sounds filled the air as knees hit the ground all around.

In that moment, no one dared to make a noise.

Some bowed their heads in prayer, others raised theirs in defiance.

The spirit refiners exhausted all their means, desperately seeking a way out—or an opportunity—from this "persecution."

The ancient script of the Shengdi Jinzhao, now in the air, was impossible for anyone to read directly.

However, as the dao sound continued its recitation, the blood-red decree characters lit up one by one in correspondence.

At that point, even the densest among them realized that they didn't need to look—just listen—and they might receive the guidance of the Sheng force decree's power.

The dao sound paused, then resumed.

First came the exposition, then the startling tones.

"I with... my blood... cross the ancient past...!"

After the emphatic sound, ripples appeared in space-time.

Vaguely, everyone seemed to see, from a distant eon ago, a magnificent ancient city floating in the clouds of the ninth heaven.

There, immortal sounds lingered, cranes and phoenixes sang together, colorful mists flowed, and divine beings performed.

But the scene shifted, and the battered, ancient Sky City above Dongtian Wangcheng came into view.

Decay, aging, moss, rubble...

In an instant, everyone understood.

The first scene was Sky City's original state.

The second was its current condition.

And as the city in question, Sky City, after that emphatic sound, seemed to gain a soul, brimming with vibrant energy.

With a massive "rumble," the ancient city broke free from the spatial fragments, like a wild horse off its reins; even the massive black heavenly dao chains, thick as pillars holding up the sky, could no longer restrain it, and it was about to burst from space-time and crash onto the Shengshen Mainland.

"Oh, heavens..."

The residents of Dongtian Wangcheng were stunned.

What kind of power was this?

A single phrase making Sky City rise up for you?

Crucially, everyone keenly noticed the self-reference in that phrase—"I"!

In other words, this divine miracle wasn't a manifestation of the heavenly dao, but someone summoning Sky City's power?

Lowering and then raising their eyes, the spirit refiners who thought they didn't need to look anymore were surprised to find, upon glancing up again, that the golden scroll covering the sky had somehow expanded further.

It had grown so vast that even people in Dongtian Wangcheng and Yunlun Mountains, craning their necks upward, could only see a tiny fragment of one blood-red ancient character—a mere stroke.

"What's going on?"

Such enormity inspired fear.

At that moment, the people of Dongtian Wangcheng and Yunlun Mountains had no idea that, after two phrases, the area covered by the Shengdi Jinzhao had expanded far beyond this place.

Drawing on the power resonated by Void Island, it had spread across the entire Dongtian Realm, then extended to Dongyu Jian Shen Tian, and even reached the whole Shengshen Mainland—the five domains!

In Zhongyu's Si Ling Mountains, the so-called "thunder tribulation" divine miracle was interrupted by the Shengdi Jinzhao.

Zhong Rong, in the midst of alchemy, looked up in astonishment and saw a faintly familiar power in the decree's ancient characters, reminiscent of the half Sky Tree seed he had consumed years ago.

In Gui Zhe Sheng Mountain, the screen wall candles lit the ground.

Hua Chang Deng, half-reclining under the broken Liu Shen worship willow, suddenly had a flash of surprise in his pitying gaze, and the remnant candle on the table before him flared up.

With a soft sound,

He grasped his Gui Fei sword, looked up at the sky, and let his screen wall candle ground sword intent rampage.

But seeing it was the Shengdi power of the golden decree, not an old acquaintance arriving, he chuckled and shook his head with a sigh, dismissing it as a false alarm, then lay back down.

What he saw was sword intent power.

Beneath the four seas,

A woman in prison garb, her limbs bound, her ordinary appearance unable to hide her ethereal beauty, looked up from the water cell and saw the light of the Shengdi Jinzhao.

Unlike everyone else, what she saw wasn't power or light.

In the midst of the ten-thousand-zhang radiance, she saw that man—with a beard, unkempt, and eyes that had grown turbid and yellow.

Two clear tears merged into the water cell.

Her eyelashes trembled, and she silently closed her eyes, as if recalling the beautiful past, a smile that was hard to describe forming on her pale lips.

All things in the world, at that moment, looked up and finally saw the figure beneath that light.

Even those in confrontation deep beneath Gu Yin Cliff's sea—Jiang Shi Ban Sheng, Huang Quan, Tian Ren Wu Sui, and at the Void Gate, Rao Yao Yao, Xu Xiao Shou, Mu Lin, and others—

No exceptions!

The Shengdi Jinzhao halted the world's processes, forcing all present to make time to heed those guiding words.

"Sheng secret buried world for a thousand years, I with my blood cross the ancient past..."

Xu Xiao Shou was still pondering that phrase, wondering how many more months he needed to reach the point of drawing everyone's attention and fleecing the world like this.

In the ninth heaven, after Ba Zun An's emphatic phrase, his exhausted state vanished, and a sharp edge returned to his eyes, unseen for decades.

At the same time,

The last two lines of ancient script on the Shengdi Jinzhao suddenly lit up, harmonizing with the dao sound in everyone's ears, making them realize that this voice... wasn't a divine sound, but that of a human!

"Hundred generations exchange for me, Ba Zun An, I with my decree summon divine light!"

With a buzz, golden light erupted.

The Shengdi Jinzhao's power was fully activated by the blood characters, transforming into a beam of nine-colored divine light that descended straight from the heavens onto Gu Yin Cliff!

Ba Zun An gazed into the void, his turbid yellow eyes clearing, and as he turned, his sight followed to the point where the divine light fell on Gu Yin Cliff.

He took a deep breath, waved his sleeve toward that direction, and said softly:

"Void Island, descend."

Rumble rumble!

As the words fell, the heavenly dao chains could no longer hold back Sky City, shattering amid booming sounds.

And that Void Island, which had hovered above Dongtian Wangcheng for nearly a month, along with the ancient magnificent city on it...

Finally, like a toppled Buzhou Mountain, it tilted and plummeted toward Gu Yin Cliff in the Yunlun Mountains.

In that instant,

The sun and moon paled, and the world lost color!