Ascending to Godhood: I Can Foresee All Futures

"Temple Master—!!"

A stifled, mournful cry erupted from within the temple.

Yu Huayuan’s pupils contracted. His entire aura exploded outward, his withered frame seeming to grow taller in an instant. His Daoist robe billowed, and his hair and beard stood on end.

"Chen Sheng, you cur! How dare you!!"

Chen Sheng acted as if he hadn’t heard. He held up Daoist Qingxu—limbless and barely breathing, like a mangled trophy—and his voice was terrifyingly placid and indifferent.

"I will ask one last time..."

"Surrender, or die?"

"Fiend! Qingfeng Temple would rather die than surrender!"

Yu Huayuan roared, his voice resolute and echoing within the array.

"Very good."

Chen Sheng gave a slight nod, his expression unreadable.

But in the next instant, the biting Sword Intent coiling around him suddenly surged.

Countless tiny, razor-sharp glints of blade light materialized from thin air. As if drawn by an unseen force, they formed a torrent that poured madly over Daoist Qingxu’s mutilated body.

In a flash, before his severed limbs could even hit the ground, they were utterly annihilated in the dense storm of blade light.

Daoist Qingxu couldn’t even let out another muffled groan. His entire body exploded into a thick cloud of blood mist, which was then completely dispersed by the fierce Qi Force. He had suffered total annihilation, body and soul!

Chen Sheng retracted his hand, a faint scent of blood seeming to linger on his fingertips.

’I originally thought that using Qingxu to threaten them might shake their resolve.’

’It seems I was too naive.’

’They aren’t fools. They know what’s at stake and don’t lack the determination to perish together.’

’For now, my only hope lies in the last two Array-Breaking Pearls in my possession.’

"Fiend! Die!"

Yu Huayuan watched as his Temple Master vanished into nothingness before his very eyes. His eyes looked ready to split with rage, and a volcano of grief and fury erupted in his heart.

Holding nothing back, he frantically spurred his will to activate the array. Countless sharp, pale-cyan streams of air floating above Qingfeng Temple trembled in unison, emitting a piercing hum.

SWOOSH! SWOOSH! SWOOSH! SWOOSH—!

The next instant, hundreds, even thousands, of wind blades, condensed to their absolute limit, tore through the air like an enraged swarm of bees, blanketing the sky as they shot violently toward Chen Sheng outside the array.

The might of a Tier Four Mountain Protection Array at full power was enough to make any Profound Mastery expert’s face change color.

Chen Sheng’s gaze hardened, and the True Essence in his body surged.

With a thought, his body’s vital energy resonated with his Golden Bell Gang Qi. A grand, corporeal-looking phantom of a golden bell, interwoven with the color of blood, instantly appeared and shielded him securely within.

CLANG! CLANG! CLANG—!!!

The wind blades hammered against the phantom bell like a torrential downpour, erupting in a continuous, deafening roar.

The tolling of the bell reverberated for miles, and visible shockwaves spread wildly through the air.

The phantom bell’s light flickered violently and its surface rippled, but it held firm, refusing to be broken.

Chen Sheng snorted coldly. As he weathered the terrifying attack from the array, a severe glint flashed in his eyes.

Then, without hesitation, he flung his hands out, and two Treasure Pearls—one wreathed in pale gold light, the other in cyan—flew from his grasp.

Array-Breaking Pearls!

As the Treasure Pearls left his hands, they shone with a brilliant, clear light.

The golden and cyan radiances intertwined and instantly swelled, their brilliance briefly overpowering the cyan hue of the sky-filling wind blades.

It was as if two suns of different colors had suddenly risen into the sky.

An irresistible Breaking Power cascaded down like a tidal wave, instantly blanketing the sky above Qingfeng Temple.

The moment the surging, sky-filling wind blades came into contact with this clear, misty light, they melted away like snow in the sun, dissipating rapidly, unable to get anywhere near Chen Sheng.

"Array-Breaking Pearls?! And two of them?!"

Yu Huayuan’s pupils shrank as he cried out in shock.

He had been wondering how Golden Spring Temple, whose Golden Bell Heaven-Covering Array was even stronger defensively than the Yin-Yang Clear Wind Array, could have been defeated so quickly.

’Unless a Pill Realm Grandmaster took action, or they used a massive number of Siege Magical Artifacts to attack regardless of the cost.’

But now, seeing these two brilliantly glowing Treasure Pearls, he understood instantly.

It turned out that the Government Office—no, Chen Sheng himself—possessed treasures like the Array-Breaking Pearl.

And he had used two at once!

These items were incredibly difficult and costly to refine; an ordinary faction could never hope to possess one.

Qingfeng Temple, with its centuries of history, had only a single one in its treasury. It was considered one of the temple’s ultimate trump cards, never to be used except in a matter of life and death.

’The State City’s Jingwu Bureau... or the Nie Family behind him?’

Yu Huayuan’s thoughts raced. He could faintly perceive the backing that allowed Chen Sheng to act with such impunity.

Only such a behemoth could so easily provide these kinds of resources, giving Chen Sheng the confidence to sweep through the Ning’an Martial World.

At this thought, Yu Huayuan’s anxiety intensified, and he was overcome by a profound sense of sorrow.

With a furious roar, he disregarded the strain on himself and forcefully drew upon the core power of the Grand Array.

A thick, solidified pillar of cyan wind shot up from within the temple, brazenly crashing toward the two hovering Array-Breaking Pearls in an attempt to destroy or interfere with them.

However, now that the Tier Four Array-Breaking Pearls had been activated, how could their power be ordinary?

The dual-colored light of gold and cyan merely rippled. Where they merged, profound ripples spread out. When the seemingly peerless pillar of cyan wind plunged into the halo of light, it was like a clay ox sinking into the sea.

It was instantly dispersed and dissolved, failing to cause even the slightest disturbance.

Immediately after, the light from the two Array-Breaking Pearls reached its peak and they exploded.

There was no earth-shattering boom, only silent annihilation.

The gold and cyan halo of light expanded abruptly, forming two translucent domes of light, one inside the other. Like a pair of gigantic bowls, they descended to cover the entire entrance of Qingfeng Temple.

Countless tiny, profound runes flowed and flickered across the surface of the domes, violently clashing with and eroding the array patterns of the Qingfeng Temple Grand Array below.

KRAK... KRAK-KRAKA-CRACK...

A grating, cracking sound that set one’s teeth on edge came from the void and the ground simultaneously.

The pale-cyan barrier of airflow enveloping Qingfeng Temple twisted violently, flickering in and out of existence, while the thousands of roaming wind blades grew visibly dimmer and sparser.