Urban Undying Lord
Chapter 229 - 229 228 Power of All Beings

229: Chapter 228: Power of All Beings 229: Chapter 228: Power of All Beings Blood stained the sky; both knees shattered, Ye Xuan was howling at the heavens, his roars carrying an unwilling but piercing sadness.

When this scene was broadcast live via satellite to the eyes of people all over the globe, everyone watched in stunned silence, not understanding what Ye Xuan was doing, even less why he chose to sever his own legs.

At that moment, something within everyone began to stir; their blood boiled, and from every viewer’s eyes, tears began to spill.

“Mom…

Mommy…

Why…

why am I crying?”

In an ordinary city in the East, a little girl’s cheeks were streaked with tears as she clutched her mother’s hand and murmured the question, only to find, to her surprise, that her mother’s face was already marked with trails of tears, as she stared intently at Ye Xuan struggling against the heavens on the city’s screen.

It wasn’t just this mother and daughter—every human watching Ye Xuan’s Crossing Tribulation shed a tear, unaware of what had come over them, but feeling an inexplicable pang deep in their souls that caused the tears to flow unbidden.

The people did not know that the tears shed were not for Ye Xuan; they cried for themselves.

The Heavenly Dao is merciless, treating all beings as nothing more than fodder; the Earth Dao is callous, burying souls for eternity.

To live a life is to witness a season of flora, as brilliant as humanity is, in a hundred years all that remains is but a skeleton, eternally damned to the cycle of life and death in the Red Dust, unable to break free.

Today, it appeared that Ye Xuan was undergoing the Nine Heavens Immortal Tribulation in pursuit of becoming an Immortal, but wasn’t this also humanity’s struggle against Heaven and Earth?

To break the shackles of the cosmos, to shake off the chains of fate, to fully command one’s destiny—this has always been the hidden desire in the depths of human hearts.

Yet, since the dawn of creation, how many have truly been able to break free from the chains of fate, to be the masters of their destinies?

What Ye Xuan was doing now was what all beings longed for—they cried for themselves, lamenting that they were eternally lost in the Red Dust, unable to resist a destiny controlled by Heaven and Earth.

All beings know suffering; their hearts are torn with sorrow.

As tears blurred their vision, each person clenched their fists tightly and silently prayed for Ye Xuan in their hearts.

“Heaven and Earth inquire, what is emotion?”

Amidst the vast expanse of the sky, with the sound of Heavenly Dao Thunder, this voice resounded around the world.

A heaven-reaching Immortal Light descended from the heavens, enveloping Ye Xuan’s battered body.

Day and night inverted, Qiankun Inverted, the breath of Time assailing the senses, Ye Xuan’s already damaged body began to age rapidly, his lush black hair turning white, his handsome features becoming lined with wrinkles.

“Ye Xuan, you have severed familial ties, cut off connections with the Mortal World, you are heartless and unrighteous, unfilial and disloyal, what makes you worthy to become immortal?” The vast Heaven and Earth, boundless and endless; this was the Heavenly Dao’s questioning, a statement that cut to the heart.

Within the expanse of the sky.

Under the erosion of Time’s Immortal Light, Ye Xuan became feeble with age, but his piercing eyes softened, and although his aged body increasingly stooped, his face showed a warm smile.

At this moment, Ye Xuan did not answer Heaven and Earth’s inquiry.

Instead, he waved his hand through the air, and scenes of his life from childhood to adulthood materialized in the void.

In the freezing cold, as a young child, he was driven from his home.

As a teenager, deathly ill, his loved one departed from him.

Four years of battling in the Blood Sea, ever-watched by the Primordial Spirits.

Struggling in the face of death, resurrecting from Silent Annihilation.

As these scenes unfolded, inside the Ye Family’s ancestral home in the Capital City, Ye Xuan’s mother and Ye Ling’er covered their mouths with their hands and wept.

They truly did not know the extent of unimaginable trials Ye Xuan had gone through.

There is no perfect law in the world, be true to Tathagata, be true to your beloved.

Ye Xuan, with his conscience clear, looked up to the heavens and said calmly, “The moment I stepped onto the Blood Sea Battlefield, I had no way back.

Because if I retreated just one step, not only would I die, but my family would also fall into the Red Dust.”

“Heaven and Earth, you come and tell me, what is emotion?”

The Heavenly Vault was silent, without voice or word, as the Time’s Immortal Light burst into nothingness around Ye Xuan.

His aged body rejuvenated, even his severed knees regrew until his body was whole and flawless.

“Heaven and Earth’s second question elicits the resentment of all living beings!”

Whooo Whooo!

The chilly winds of Heaven and Earth howled, bringing with them shadowy ghostlike figures that filled the sky, beings who died by Ye Xuan’s hand—not just the Blood Soul Strange Beasts but also a vast number of innocent humans.

“Ye Xuan, you have killed millions, your hands stained with fresh blood, bearing the wrath and resentment of millions of souls.

What right do you have to become an immortal?” Thundering sounds of Heavenly Dao Laws echoed.

This was the Heavenly Dao questioning Ye Xuan on behalf of those unjustly slain.

“Ha ha!”

Suddenly,

Ye Xuan burst into maniacal laughter, staring at the vengeful spirits and malevolent shades in the sky, his eyes devoid of any hint of regret.

“If I don’t kill, they will kill me.

In this world, there is only strong and weak, no right or wrong.

This so-called ‘second question of Heaven and Earth’ is nothing but a joke.”

“How dare you!”

The will of Heaven and Earth was terrifying.

Dismissive words from Ye Xuan set the Heavenly Dao Laws in motion, as a fearsome fiery line appeared in the Heavenly Vault.

The heavenly might burst forth that could shatter all realms, furiously descending upon Ye Xuan.

Boom!

A hundred thousand miles of land turned to dust, Ye Xuan’s body instantly shattered, the vast and covering blood fog appeared tragically beautiful.

“Divine King Ye!”

Around the world, the mountains and rivers shook.

As Ye Xuan was obliterated to pieces by the heavenly punishment, the endless cries of human anguish roared, provoking a terrifying transformation in the world and causing the strange faces in the Heavenly Vault to writhe as if experiencing great agony.

Rumble!

The Qiankun Inverted, an extraordinary upheaval in the power of human Dao took place!

Ye Xuan had aided humanity in creating a new epoch.

He was the Divine King revered by all in this world, the sole object of faith for humanity globally.

Without his militaristic governance, humanity would have already been destroyed, mercilessly devoured by the Blood Soul Strange Beasts.

As he faced this heavenly punishment and calamity, the long-suppressed Power of Faith of all living beings erupted in this moment, exhibiting a force that could shake heaven and earth.

The Power of Faith from a single person is not fearsome, but when the beliefs of all humankind come together, a great river of human Dao emerges in the endless Heavenly Vault, its torrential waves causing Heaven and Earth to tremble.

The Nine Heavens River spanned the sky, this was the power of human Dao, the Power of Faith, and the power of all beings.

Rumble!

What was called heavenly punishment vanished under the converged force of all beings.

The waters of the hundred thousand mile-long Nine Heavens River reassembled Ye Xuan’s shattered remains, and at the center of that vast river, a speck of blood-red Primordial Light began to faintly bloom.

“The power of all beings?”

Ye Xuan’s astonished voice emerged, as the roiling river waters allowed his body to congeal.

Wrapped in the power of all beings, his body underwent an unimaginable transformation.