Stranger Danger-Chapter 1829: The Heavens Are Virtuous, You Are Not

“Is it... over?” Xiahou Zun’s throat rolled a little as he watched the vast shadow slowly disappearing from his vision.

“Not yet.” Ye Qing shook his head while withdrawing his hand and the light in his palm. “But soon.”

As soon as he finished, the Earthly Sovereign Bell shook lightly in his hand and unleashed a long, resounding chime. It pierced through the darkness and spread toward the bottom of the abyss.

The next moment, nine dim but stubborn lights burst out from the infinite darkness below!

The lights punched through many layers of primal chaos and cut through the air with a screech, flowing up in reverse. When they appeared, the group saw that they were none other than the nine cracked and rusted dark yellow nails that were originally nailed to the World Ender Jiuying’s vital spots!

The next moment, the dark yellow nails abruptly switched directions and plunged toward the bottom like nine meteors. They stabbed viciously into the vast snake body that was sinking into the darkness!

Pssh! Pssh! Pssh...

A series of muffled but teeth-gnashing piercing noises came from the darkness as clear as day, and... 𝕗𝕣𝐞𝐞𝘄𝐞𝚋𝚗𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗹.𝚌𝕠𝚖

“Ruthless... how ruthless can you be?”

A weak but hateful voice came disjointedly from deep within the snake body and resounded throughout the desolate bottom of the Blue Hole of Primal Chaos. “Even the heavens possess the virtue of cherishing life, and you are the successor of the Earthly Sovereign. Why... Why must you end me thoroughly? Why can’t you give me a sliver of a chance to live?”

“The heavens are virtuous, yes. You’re not.”

Ye Qing did not even look down at the black abyss beneath his feet. He simply faced toward the empty space in front of him and spat, “You are a sinner with no virtue whatsoever. So why should I let you live?”

When the last word tumbled out of his mouth, the Earthly Sovereign Bell’s light abruptly increased dramatically. Vast and grandiose dark yellow power and poured madly into the nine massive nails.

Buzz...

Dazzling light like never before erupted from the nine nails, and their dim runes all lit up at once. At the same time, a power capable of suppressing everything exploded from them!

Shred...

It sounded as if the world itself was being ripped apart. The next moment, the immense body of the World Ender Jiuying was ripped into nine pieces!

The dark yellow light burned brightly at each wound and ate away at the regenerating flesh and remaining resentment and toxin. It burned and purified it all into dust!

Still, it wasn’t over yet.

Ye Qing stomped his right foot, and a wisp of black qi and white qi appeared underneath his feet. Like a pair of yin yang fishes, they chased each other’s tail and rapidly merged into a massive millstone that encompassed the entire bottom of the blue hole.

The millstone rotated slowly and let out creaking noises that were so old, so heavy, it felt like the very wheel of rebirth that drove the entire world.

The nine body parts and every ounce of taint and energy they contained were drawn in by an irresistible force and cast into the rotating millstone of yin and yang.

Grind... Grind...

The millstone made this horrible grinding noise as it spun.

The scales that rivaled divine metal in terms of toughness, the highly toxic flesh and blood, the defiant and resentful soul fragments of the World Ender Jiuying—all of it was ground and disintegrated into nothing. In the end, they dissolved into the purest nothingness and returned to Primal Chaos.

Once its job was done, the millstone gradually faded, and the Innate Yin Yang Qi disappeared.

The bottom of the blue hole returned to its usual stillness once more.

With this, the World Ender Jiuying was finally dead in every sense of the word!

After the World Ender Jiuying had dissolved completely into nothingness, its suffocating, vicious qi that permeated the area receded like tide water and left behind only cold, dead stillness, and the distant echoes of the Earthly Sovereign Bell.

“We are done here, seniors. It is time we go.”

A hint of relief flashing on his face, Ye Qing withdrew his Earthly Sovereign True Body and returned to his normal size. His dark yellow qi sank back into his body, and his overwhelming, all-encompassing aura disappeared as well. He then shot his fellow Sages a smile.

Everyone nodded and adjusted their auras. Then, they followed Ye Qing toward the top of the Blue Hole of Primal Chaos.

The way back was completely different from when they first entered this place. Without the World Ender Jiuying’s unconscious power of destruction to ravage this place, the Blue Hole of Primal Chaos remained unusual and anomalous, but it was also so much more wonderful than before.

The spiraling, grayish black water that refracted the vestiges of profound light, the shattered fragments of space that looked like scattered stars, the ribbons of light that looked strangely twisted as they plummeted at high speed, they all looked uniquely beautiful.

The Old Heavenly Master remarked while stroking his beard. “I did not notice earlier, but the inner parts of the Blue Hole of Primal Chaos is surprisingly scenic.”

The Chief Libationist gave a little nod of agreement and appreciation. “It is a given that the scenery before Primal Chaos is split is profound.”

The group was not in a hurry right now, so they slowed down their footsteps, made idle chit-chat with each other, and enjoyed this final scene of the Blue Hole of Primal Chaos. It would probably be their last moment of peace and quiet before they embarked on the final leg of their journey.

Some time later, the light above their heads grew brighter, and the group finally burst out of the sea surface like fishes. Just like that, they found themselves above the Primal Chaos Ocean once more.

The sea breeze blew against their faces. It felt humid but refreshing. It was completely different from the oppressive and still air of the blue hole.

After they left the blue hole, Ye Qing mustered a thought and shook the Earthly Sovereign Bell suspended above his head lightly.

Buzz—

A clear chime rang, penetrating the sea water.

The next second, nine rusted and cracked dark yellow lights burst out of the center of the giant vortex. They sank into the wall of the Earthly Sovereign Bell in no time.

They were none other than the nine dark yellow nails used to seal the World Ender Jiuying.

After the nine nails had entered its body, the Earthly Sovereign Bell shook and became a tad brighter than before. The engravings on its wall became clearer and more lifelike, and its aura grew denser, heavier, and more potent.

Clearly, the Earthly Sovereign Bell had become stronger after retrieving its origin power.

After the nine dark yellow nails were gone, the Blue Hole of Primal Chaos seemed to lose its final pillar of strength. The vortex spun slower and slower and stopped devouring seawater altogether. Not only there, seawater was pouring out of the center and filling up the hole.

The vortex began shrinking at a visible rate. Its flow was growing slower and slower as well.

Soon, the Blue Hole of Primal Chaos that once consumed everything in its vicinity and suppressed a terrible evil was completely gone. All it left behind was a wrinkly sea surface. It was as if the destructive scene from before had never happened.

At the same time, the entire Primal Chaos Ocean was undergoing a change.

Originally, the yin, yang, and Five Phases of this place was running rampant and out of order. Now, they were becoming stable. The howling astral wind were becoming gentle, and the gigantic sea waves were calming, and the anomalous phenomena that permeated the sky were fading as well. A sort of invisible order was slowly returning to this sea region that had been thrown into chaos for countless years.

Stroking his beard and watching the calming sea, the Old Heavenly Master said a bit wistfully, “The World Ender Jiuying is dead, the Blue Hole of Primal Chaos is gone, and the natural order of this place will soon be restored. It probably won’t be long before the anomalous yet beautiful seascape that was Primal Chaos Ocean would disappear forever.”