Chapter 2134: Eight Gates Realm, All Beings Equal

The Meng Tianhai of this moment was completely unlike the gloomy appearance he had previously maintained.

Perhaps it was because he had been suppressed for fifty-four thousand years, or perhaps this was his true nature.

For these years, he had been Fu Lanting, he had been Huo Shiji, he had been Peng Chongjian... The world had not heard of Meng Tianhai, and he had almost forgotten himself!

He had hidden for too long, played too many roles.

Sometimes, even he couldn't distinguish whose figure was truly him, sinking and floating in the blood river.

He needed this battle!

He needed to be reminded, to be confirmed, to confirm that he was the Meng Tianhai of the mythical era, and not someone else.

So, when Chen Pu went to Qin Ku Academy and colluded with Zuoqiu Wu to find out his true name, he was actually pleased in his heart.

Although reason told him that he should still hide for a few more years, that he still needed to make some preparations and reach a truly safe level before revealing himself, his emotions told him that he couldn't bear it any longer. He needed to find himself again!

After more than fifty thousand years, he had gained a lot, but he had also lost a lot.

What kind of emotion?

Precisely this kind!

Boiling, burning, arrogant...

"The youngsters are as crazy as I was back then!"

Under the siege of several grandmasters wielding Cave Heaven treasures, he fully displayed his Meng Tianhai's fists!

"Good! This is more like it!" Si Yu'an became more excited as he fought, his body swelling like a giant spirit in the wind. The long sword in his palm had already become a peak, inverted like a heaven-supporting pillar, and the sword sank into the blood river. "Fifty thousand years weren't just spent eating swill! It's not in vain that my Kunwu has been unsheathed!"

Meng Tianhai rose high, his fist resisting, refusing to let the mountain tilt!

Compared to the Kunwu sword, which at this moment propped up the heaven like a pillar, the nine-foot-tall Meng Tianhai was no bigger than an ant. Yet, with his fist resisting, he lifted the mountain!

"Not enough! Relying on you, Si Yu'an, relying on all of you combined, is still far from enough to stop me!" He roared angrily, "Wu Bingyi! Do you still want to hold back? Song Bodhi! Nán Chǔ is so close, did you not bring a Cave Heaven treasure?!"

No one who came to the Dao Extremity of Calamity Water today was alone. Each represented a force, each hid their means.

As the fighting progressed, they were revealed one by one.

For example, Chen Pu's Sea of Learning, Ruan Qu's Si Xuan Earth Palace, and Si Yu'an's Kunwu.

Then, did Wu Bingyi and Song Bodhi have no other preparations?

Wu Bingyi had brought the manifestation of law, the world's first chain "Law Has No Two Gates," which he used to lock the Red State Tripod. But this was not his limit. Had he borrowed the Law School Holy Land's Three Punishments Palace's town sect treasure?

Law Ancestor Han Gui in that year had personally refined the fourth-ranked of the Ten Great Cave Heavens, the "Three Yuan Ultimate True Heaven," into a heaven-measuring ruler. This treasure had always been held by the Rule Heaven Palace master, measuring the height and breadth of heaven and earth—would it be seen today?

Song Bodhi's knife technique was already powerful enough, but the vast Great Chu, rich in resources, how could this be all?

Would the third-ranked of the Ten Great Cave Heavens, the Zhanghua Terrace refined from "Tai Yuan Total True Heaven," be moved here today?

Or, settling for the second best, would the thirty-third-ranked of the Thirty-Six Small Cave Heavens, the Cloud Dream Boat refined from "Purple Profound Cave Illuminating Heaven," be able to show its splendor in Calamity Water?

Meng Tianhai was looking forward to stronger opponents!

Fifty thousand years! He also wanted to know just how strong he was!

"As you wish!" Song Bodhi only said this sentence.

One sentence, four words, carved into Meng Tianhai from four directions! And all were blocked by his fists.

Truly the world's top fist art, Meng Tianhai had spent more than fifty thousand years, integrating the talents of countless prodigies, to grind out such fists.

Unstoppable!

Song Bodhi's Other Shore Golden Bridge beneath his feet suddenly arched upside down, as if a bright moon on the ground, and water in the sky.

And on that sky dome flowing with a starry river, there was indeed an exquisite giant ship, gradually parting the clouds, as if sailing from a dream. The moment it appeared, it had already crushed down onto the blood river.

It was precisely the Cave Heaven treasure that the Great Chu Empire had inherited for thousands of years, nurtured in Cloud Dream Marsh, and regarded as the spiritual symbol of the Great Chu navy, the Cloud Dream Boat!

Song Bodhi stood on the ship's head, his splendid robe fluttering!

This dream boat sailed into the blood river, bringing with it endless clouds, making the blood river foggy. The clouds completely covered the Blood Lotus Holy Realm that was gestating there, and the giant blood lotus swaying in the blood river, along with the many almost empty-shelled lotus seed worlds, temporarily hid their traces.

If not for Meng Tianhai still fighting on the blood lotus, and the Si Xuan Earth Palace and Kunwu Sword also emitting magnificent light and shadow from time to time, the several young True Persons watching from afar would almost not be able to see where the crowd of True Lords were!

The biggest change was not just the clouds covering the river, but on the water's surface and in the water's depths.

For Meng Tianhai, a story that was absolutely not wonderful was unfolding.

The blood river waves were vast and originally profoundly invisible.

Standing on the blood river, one only saw surging red water, a solid expanse of fresh red, fundamentally unable to see any reflection. Even the part of the huge blood lotus that had dived into Calamity Water and raised the lotus world, the part on the blood river's surface, was not visible in the slightest.

But at this moment, if you parted the clouds and looked down at the blood river, you could see people's reflections.

Of course, there were the battle postures of several Dao Extremity powerhouses, the majestic extending Si Xuan Earth Palace, and the Kunwu Sword standing like a mountain peak and lying like a ridge...

But there was more than just this.

Not just these people in front, these matters.

If one could examine it closely, they would know that it was the vast, scattered, broken dreams of life in the world!

The Cloud Dream Boat was exhibiting such divine wonders.

Descending into this world, covering everything. Clouds steamed, dreams ten thousand.

Thus, the clouds covered the lotus world, and the sea of dreams covered the blood river!

Although it couldn't be said that it immediately cut off Meng Tianhai's connection with the blood river's power, it still made him operate his power with a constant delay.

The clouds obscured Meng Tianhai's iron fists, and the dream realm hid Song Bodhi's knife light.

There was also Si Yu'an's killing intent reaching the sky and Chen Pu's palm covering the sea of heaven.

The battle situation intensified several times for a while!

Wu Bingyi walked over at this moment.

He didn't walk fast, he wasn't charging at all.

He just walked forward calmly, ordinarily.

It wasn't like he had come to fight, but rather like he had come to judge, or even to ignore the word "judge"—he had simply come to announce a result.

In such an intense battlefield, where all Dao principles were conflicting and chaotic, his stability and calm did not appear abrupt. It was as if everything should be so. All "chaos" was waiting for his "order."

He established his order in the battlefield where various Dao Extremity principles collided!

Wu Bingyi's power was manifesting.

No more words were spoken, but all rules underwent fundamental changes. No more actions were taken, but all great powers had to be restricted!

Although there was Dao Extremity in the world, it was not permitted to act arbitrarily.

The boundary of freedom was law!

Meng Tianhai's eyes brightened!

"Well done, holder of the Rule Earth Palace, you did not disappoint me!" He was overjoyed, smashing several fists in succession, blasting open the knife light, sword shadow, and Sea of Learning. He single-handedly crashed through space-time, actively welcoming Wu Bingyi. "Law Has No Two Gates, you are wise enough to be called! Come! Give me more! Let me see a stronger performance from the contemporary Law Sect!"

Wu Bingyi stopped his steps, his face unchanged. His tall crown remained still, and his palms divided into eight gates.

Everyone's gaze, consciously or unconsciously, fell on him.

He himself became the ruler of law, the standard, the anchor point for all rules in this world. With him as the center, rules extended vertically and horizontally, clearly defined.

His left palm was a compass, his right palm was a square.

When the two palms were apart, this world was re-divided.

Now, the distance between him and Meng Tianhai was already bound by new law.

Every move Meng Tianhai made had to comply with the law, otherwise, it was a violation.

Violation of the law must be investigated!

Two palms, eight gates, all the laws of one world.

Open, Rest, Birth, Injury, Block, Scene, Death, Shock, these eight gates fixed the boundaries of the eight directions, preventing the fist momentum from escaping. They locked all of Meng Tianhai's madness and evil in this place.

This was the Rule Earth Palace's town palace ultimate art, Wu Bingyi's personally created Eight Gates Law Realm!

Once entered, it was forever difficult to exit.

The eight gates were not doors!

If one followed the law, they would naturally have to submit to the law, only step by step self-imposing restrictions and locking themselves down, a slow death.

If one violated the law, the law would not forgive lightly, and they would immediately be escorted to the execution ground!

When ordinary True Lords fell into this realm, they would first examine the situation, observe the Dao principles, find a relatively balanced space-time point, calculate the corresponding costs and gains, and then act.

But Meng Tianhai was different.

The moment he entered the law realm, his body bore ten thousand pressures, and he immediately smashed the death gate with his fist!

Precisely to make the most wrong choice, precisely to trigger the strongest counterattack of the Eight Gates Law Realm, truly possessing a powerful force that covered everything.

The death gate, as one of the three fierce gates, was not beneficial for auspicious matters and was suitable for hanging, funerals, punishment, execution, warfare, and hunting livestock.

Meng Tianhai, by touching it with his fist, immediately triggered the five punishments.

Five kinds of punishment tools condensed in the air—

Tattooing fine needle.

Nose cutting narrow blade.

Foot breaking long axe.

Castration small dagger.

Beheading big knife.

They were the embodiment of legal dignity, the foundation of deterrence's existence.

They represented the ancient Law School's five punishments!

Ink, Yi, Fei, Gong, Da Pi!

"Heaven has a constant way, emotionless and fair. Mountains and seas are all wilds, only the human world is outside it. How? Inside is virtue, outside is law." Wu Bingyi's voice sounded within the Eight Gates Law Realm, stern and cold, "However, virtue has no fixed form, law has fixed rules. Thus, virtue cannot be relied upon for long, but law can be followed for a long time!"

Before grasping Kunwu and stepping into the blood river to fight desperately, Si Yu'an had already thrown the true source fire realm of red amber back into Jiang Wang's hand. Jiang Wang had thus always held it in his hand, not letting go.

At this moment, within the true source fire realm, a crowd of cultivators were all silent, no one spoke.

Zhu Weiwu and Ning Shuangrong were both nursing their injuries, only Zhuo Qingru was stunned for a while. How could she not remember this piece, "De Fa Three Lectures"?

The Law School great grandmaster Wu Bingyi was a person who didn't like to express himself too much. He always advocated "action better than words" and had few published works.

This "De Fa Three Lectures" was one of his few articles known to the public.

It was recorded by his students during his rare lectures and only published later.

The person who recorded and diligently spread this piece in that year... was precisely Xu Ximing.

Hearing "De Fa Three Lectures" again after Xu Ximing perished in Calamity Water, the taste in her heart was unspeakable for a while.

Law can be followed for a long time!

These four words explained the meaning of law's existence.

It couldn't be absolutely correct, but it provided a set of rules that could maintain relative correctness in the vast majority of situations. Anyone could clearly know what they could do and what they couldn't do.

Now, these five punishment tools, which manifested the dignity of the Law School, were precisely telling Meng Tianhai that he had done wrong things and needed to be punished.

The five kinds of punishment tools surrounded Meng Tianhai, each one unavoidable.

Meng Tianhai did not avoid them.

He endured the Ink punishment, the Yi punishment, the Fei punishment, the Gong punishment, and the Da Pi punishment, walking towards Wu Bingyi. His fist struck the five punishment tools, and his fist again smashed the injury gate!

He could block these punishment tools, but the pain of that kind of punishment he had to feel. Punishment could not be avoided, which was precisely the terrifying aspect of the Eight Gates Law Realm.

From ancient times to the present, the five punishments had punished countless people. The pain attached to them was enough to collapse the divine soul of a powerful cultivator. The weakness of those who had been punished one by one continuously impacted the Dao body.

People's awe of the law made the law more powerful. The Law School never avoided punishment, never was stingy with its might. In chaotic situations, use heavy cannons!

And Meng Tianhai's face was expressionless.

"Punishments are set for the weak, how can they be applied to a great man?" Not only did he not retreat, but he also smashed the shock gate with his fist. "We cultivators, comb the wind and bathe in the rain, are brave and diligent. We seek to be 'I am invincible,' why should we care about the ants behind?"

The injury gate was also a fierce gate; encountering it meant diseases, punishments, and injuries.

The shock gate was also a fierce gate, primarily causing shock, fear, wounds, and official disputes.

Meng Tianhai at this time not only suffered the penalty of the ancient five punishments on his body, but also had a hundred diseases entwined around him, wounds that did not heal, and even shock emotions that continuously killed his heart.

He just moved forward!

"What are ants?"

He swung his fist, smashing the eight gates with his fist. "Below me, all are ants! All beings are equal!"

He equally overlooked the entire world, and of course, there was no law in his eyes.

The power of the law was triggered, and the eight gates of the law realm all opened!

Meng Tianhai touched all laws and welcomed all penalties onto his body.

Since its creation, the Eight Gates Law Realm had probably never displayed such might. Even Wu Bingyi himself could hardly replicate it again. Because it was impossible to have such an opponent again who actively bore everything, and even pushed everything, allowing this move to reach such a peak.

That surging Law School power, like a roaring sea, surged in the high sky, gathering into a single-horned, unicorn-like virtual shadow.

The law beast Xie Zhi leaped onto this, and the dignity of the law did not allow provocation!

It was not comparable to evil beasts like Qiong Qi.

Appearing in this Eight Gates Law Realm was the law's response to the provocateur.

Law has no limit, and the limit of the law at this moment was Wu Bingyi!

Wu Bingyi was in the Dao Extremity, and Xie Zhi was also in the Dao Extremity.

It touched with its single horn, and the entire world collapsed with it. The single horn pointed directly at the source of evil, followed by terrifying punishments. Fierce fire burned, frost knives bullied, and heaven and earth changed, the sky lighting up with purple-red destruction thunder!

And Wu Bingyi, stepping into the law realm from the "Open Gate," his tall crown and wide sleeves, faced Meng Tianhai.

"Law is for the awareness of others, virtue is for self-awareness. But the law of others' awareness also comes from self-awareness. Sages discipline themselves and see the heavens and earth as square, wise ones set the square to correct the hearts of the world's people. Survival of the fittest is the principle of heaven, but why do humans surpass heaven? It is because humans with strength protect the weak, drops accumulate to form a flood!"

The preceding sentences were still from "De Fa Three Lectures."

The following sentences were his interrogation—

"Meng Tianhai, what do you think?"

"Where did your Blood River Sect come from?"

"What do you rely on to open up a great world?"

"How is your blood river so vast?"

Wu Bingyi waved his large sleeves open, and his two palms came together, as if heaven and earth were closing in. "If there were no ants in the world, how could there be you, Meng Tianhai?!"

If there were no law in the world, black and white would not be distinguished, clear and turbid would be mixed. All things would be a chaotic mess! The entire Eight Gates Law Realm thus closed back into one place, completely burying Meng Tianhai, forming a rotten coffin.

This was the strongest killing technique of the contemporary Law School, the punishment law coffin that could span years.

All the laws of the world, all the statutes of ancient and modern times, a person's entire lifetime, were all within it.

Judging this person in time, punishing and killing for fifty-four thousand years!

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