Chapter 166: The Fate Devourer and The Invincible Master’s Defeat ( Bonus GT - III )

Chapter 166: The Fate Devourer and The Invincible Master’s Defeat ( Bonus GT Chapter III )

Inside the Myriad Star Heaven Connecting Hall, the starry sky above the platform was changing every moment. Daoist Master Tianji sitting at the center of the array, his eyes locked onto the thread of fate he was trying to held in his spiritual grasp.

At first, everything was perfectly clear. Through this thread, Tianji could see the faint, ethereal silhouette of a person sitting in seclusion.

Tianji’s lips curled into a satisfied smile. The transaction was worth it. The Heavenly Secret Pavilion had successfully peered into the destiny of a future Era defining genius.

But human nature, even in a thousand years old monster, is driven by insatiable curiosity.

"Just a silhouette is not enough," Tianji murmured to himself, his starry pupils spinning faster. "If I can push just a little deeper, I can see his true face, his spiritual being, and the exact a little trajectory of his future. With my cultivation, peering through the final veil of a Foundation Establishment brat should be as easy as turning over my hand."

With a deep breath, Master Tianji channeled the power of the ten supporting elders. He pushed his divine sense and his eyes with much more force, driving his sight directly into the core of the thread, attempting to pierce the final layer of the destiny.

But the moment his perception crossed that invisible threshold, the threads which was just a bit way from his hand violently mutated.

The brilliant, auspicious light instantly turned into a pitch black. A terrifying, abyssal coldness surged up the thread, directly striking Master Tianji’s sea of consciousness.

"What?!" Tianji’s expression changed drastically.

This was no longer a normal thread!

This was a trap!

’But how?’ Master Tianji, had already exploded because the one he was seeing before him was nothing more than a brat! How could such a seemingly insignificant situation possibly conceal a trap capable of threatening him?

Yet, the more he thought about it, the more something felt wrong. There was no way he could afford to underestimate this situation!

In the invisible realm of fate, a monstrous clash instantly erupted. Master Tianji’s divination power manifested as a giant, golden eye of destiny, radiating the orderly light of the Heavenly Dao. It sought to illuminate every corner of that person future.

But opposing it was Yu Liang’s mutated array, upgraded by the System Store treasures and in his vast resources.

It manifested as a bottomless, lightless black vortex. It didn’t just hide Yu Liang, it created an absolute blind spot. Master Tianji’s golden eye of destiny shone its light into the vortex, but the light simply vanished, swallowed by the ’nothingness’ of the void. It was like trying to illuminate the bottom of the ocean with a single candle, the darkness just ate the light.

"Impossible! What kind of law is this?!" Master Tianji gritted his teeth, his face turned slightly pale. He tried to pull his perception back, to sever the connection and retreat.

After years of experience he knows this thing can’t be normal, he shouldn’t poke his nose where it doesn’t belong.

But he couldn’t!

Because the mutation second item Yu Liang had already taken root in the space. As Tianji tried to retreat, the array took shape of a Tree, it sprouted millions of invisible, razor sharp roots.

These roots didn’t attack Mater Tianji’s body, they attacked his connection. The roots violently wrapped around Mater Tianji’s golden divination threads, biting into his fate lines like starving piranhas.

Master Tianji was being pushed back by a terrifying suction. He felt his own destiny, his own parts of past and future, being dragged toward that black vortex! If he was pulled in, his existence would be erased from the cycle of reincarnation.

"Pull back! Sever the connection!" Master Tianji roared, his eyes bleeding golden blood.

But the backlash was too massive.

Because the ten elders were acting as the stabilizer of the array, the terrifying suction and the biting pain of the immense backlash instantly transferred to them.

"Ugghh!"

The ten white bearded elders simultaneously let out agonizing screams. The skin on their faces instantly wrinkled and cracked, their lifeforce began to violently drain. Black blood poured from their eyes, noses, and ears. The spiritual energy in their bodies went into chaotic rebellion as the backlash poisoned their meridians. The grand array began to shake violently, the runes flickered as if they were about to shatter.

"Master! We... we can’t hold it!" the eldest of the ten elders choked out, his body trembling so hard his bones were audibly cracking.

Mater Tianji’s heart sank.

He miscalculated.

This was his the most decision he made in his entire life, because Yu Liang’s fate has now became a devourer! The brat in his eyes triggered something so terrifying, that it was actively eating away the Heavenly Secret Pavilion’s divination!

But before Tianji could order the elders to forcefully collapse the array to save their lives, the ultimate catastrophe struck.

The Tree having fed enough on Mater Tianji’s divination power, suddenly bloomed flowers in the Unseen realm.

BOOOOOOOM!

A massive, terrifying counter attack erupted from Yu Liang’s end of the connection.

It was a strike of Blossoming Flower of Severed Fate. A colossal, pitch black lotus flower made of pure erasure and void energy bloomed along the golden thread, and then, it fired a invisible blade of anti fate directly back at the diviners.

The speed of this attack was beyond the speed of light, it traveled through the connection, completely ignoring physical distance and defensive formations.

In the Myriad Star Heaven Connecting Hall, the starry sky above the platform suddenly turned pitch black.

The invisible blade of anti fate struck the array.

Three of the ten elders, the third, the seventh, and the ninth were sitting in the direct path of the backlash.

They didn’t even have time to scream.

The moment the black lotus energy touched them, their bodies, their souls, and their very existence in the world instantly turned into fine gray ash.

They didn’t just die, they were completely erased. The space where they sat was left completely empty, not even a speck of dust was remaining.

Three elders of the Heavenly Secret Pavilion were wiped out of existence in a single breath.

"NOOOOOOOO!" Tianji’s eyes widened in sheer, unadulterated horror.

The remaining force of the attack slammed directly into him.

Master Tianji, a terrifying existence whose cultivation was unfathomable, instantly deployed his supreme defensive treasure, the Heavenly Fate Reflecting Mirror but the blade of anti fate shattered the mirror like cheap glass.

The residual force hit on the Mater Tianji’s chest.

CRACK!

The sound of his ribs shattering spread in the hall.

Master Tianji was sent flying backward, crashing through three massive pillars before slamming into the far wall of the hall. He eyes bleed a massive amount of golden blood and it started to crack, the starry vortex inside them completely extinguished, replaced by a dull and dying light turning gray.

The remaining seven elders, having their connection violently severed by the destruction of the array, all collapsed onto the platform, coughing up lots of black blood, their cultivation bases were severely damaged, their faces looked like they had aged a hundred years in a single second.

The grand, beautiful starry sky of the hall shattered like a broken mirror, the illusion dissolved revealing the sky outside.

Silence. Deathly silence filled the hall, broken only by the ragged, bloody breathing of the surviving elders and the dripping of Master Tianji’s golden blood.

At the edge of the hall, Sword Venerable Qingyun and Patriarch Ao Huang stood frozen like statues.

Despite their powerful cultivation realm, their mouths were wide open. They were half step Divine Lords, the absolute peak of the world, but right now, they looked like two terrified mortals.

They had just watched the invincible Daoist Master Tianji, a man who could erase powerful families with a wave of his hand, a man they both revered and feared get countered so brutally IN his own FIELD that he lost three of his supreme elders and suffered a catastrophic backlash in the span of... Just three breaths.

Qingyun’s mind was buzzing. Ao Huang’s massive body was instantly covered in scales, a instinctive defensive form brought due to his sheer shock.

"By the Ancestors..." Ao Huang swallowed hard, his voice shaking with a mixture of terror and disbelief. "Senior Tianji... was defeated? By a counter attack? From a Foundation Establishment Realm cultivator, no less?!"

Qingyun didn’t answer. He just stared at the bloody, broken form of the Pavilion Master, his Dao heart trembled violently.

The genius he thought wasn’t just a genius. He was a monster who must possess a terrifying background or a treasure that could bite back at the Heavens themselves.