Chapter 579: Chapter 440: Alive
Zheng Jingshu looked at the head of Zheng Tong before her, her expression growing increasingly grim.
Though she disliked Zheng Tong’s preachings and was often annoyed by his presumptions, he was still an elder of her clan.
He was a relative who had watched her grow up since she was a child, her ntor in cultivation, and the person who had silently supported her and her sister over the years.
When the young girl saw his head returned to Ming Mountain Sect in such a bloody and mangled state, her recent impatience and disgust towards Zheng Tong seed to dissipate all at once.
Her mind suddenly recalled the great changes in the world, when the spiritual essence surged, countless common disciples of the Ming Mountain Sect rose up, and bursts of bloodshed erupted on the mountain. It was he who had stood in front of her and her sister, shielding the still youthful them from the harshness of the world.
But now, Zheng Tong was reduced to nothing but a head, his face so disfigured that not a single whole feature remained, only bloodied marks continuously twisting and forming numbers.
And yet, within his head, there lingered a faint trace of vitality, preventing Zheng Tong from dying.
She could imagine the unimaginable torture he must have endured.
A surge of murderous intent gathered in her mind, her overwhelming grief finding no outlet.
As Zheng Jingshu’s emotions fluctuated, the ground beneath her feet thundered, and the nearby mountains reverberated with echoing howls.
At that mont, all of Ming Mountain fell eerily silent, every creature fearing the vast power accumulating within the earth and mountains.
And Zheng Jingshu, the source of these phenona, only wished to find the perpetrator of this act and inflict upon them the most cruel and terrifying revenge, making them regret everything they had done.
“Uncle…”
The intense murderous intent burst forth from her, sweeping continuously towards Zheng Tong’s head.
“Tell , who did this?”
But no matter how fierce her thoughts prodded, the Zheng Tong before her showed no response, as if he were already dead.
Yet, everyone present, whether it was Zheng Jingshu, the Sect Leader of Taihe Sect, or Xuanyin Taoist, could feel the faint life force lingering inside the head.
Feeling the murderous intent and anger erupting from Zheng Jingshu and the disturbances from deep within the earth, Xuanyin Taoist felt a slight sinking in his heart, a premonition of sothing dire.
“Zheng Jingshu lacks her sister’s talent for cultivation and the previous Sect Leader’s resolute will.”
“If not for the sacrifice of the previous Sect Leader, and the forced intervention of the Immortal Court Immortals, she might never have had the chance to master the Fourth Legacy.”
“Such a youngster suddenly possessing the strongest power of this era, likely uncontrollable and more dangerous than any of the Four Transmitters.”
“Since the sacrifice of the previous Sect Leader, Zheng Tong was the only one who could speak his mind to her…”
In the mind of Xuanyin Taoist arose the mory of the great battle with the Great Bright Buddha, where Zheng Tong had soared into the sky, stopped Zheng Jingshu’s further slaughter, and saved tens of millions of lives.
He believed that at that mont, only Zheng Tong could have managed that, and without his intervention, he couldn’t estimate how many more would have died by Zheng Jingshu’s hands.
“In the Ming Mountain Sect, Zheng Tong was perhaps one of the rare good people, one of the few powerhouses who still harbored kindness towards the world.”
“Perhaps he was also the staunchest upholder of the previous Sect Leader’s wishes, the one most intent on rebuilding humanity and forging a prosperous era after the apocalypse.”
“He was also a shackle on Zheng Jingshu, a safety asure.”
Observing the horrific state of Zheng Tong, and the head that looked as though it had been mauled by beasts, Xuanyin Taoist sighed softly, “The fool who did this has no idea what kind of monster they’ve unleashed.”
On the other hand, the Master of Taihe Sect didn’t indulge in such thoughts; he simply saw the person who had thrown the head as a severe threat, endangering Ming Mountain Sect and thus his own plans for ascension.
He assessed the condition of the head while speaking, “When the opponent chopped off Elder Zheng’s head, they also deliberately maintained him in a half-dead state before throwing it here… Hmph, this is a blatant provocation.”
“The countdown on his face, is it the ti this head has left to live? Or perhaps the ti when the perpetrator will act?”
Hearing this, Zheng Jingshu muttered, “Countdown…”
Originally, when she saw the head descending from the sky, she thought that the other party brought Zheng Tong’s dying head to her to watch him die before her eyes.
But at this mont, listening to the words of the Master of Taihe Sect and sensing Zheng Tong’s condition, she discovered that Zheng Tong did not show signs of life fading, leading ultimately to death.
The head in front of her was sohow still in a state of survival, as if it had been frozen at the mont of being alive.
Suddenly, she looked up at Xuanyin Taoist and the Sect Leader of Taihe Sect and asked urgently, “Since he is still alive, do you have any ans to fully revive him?”
The Master of Taihe Sect paused slightly and said, “You should understand that killing a person is countless tis easier than reviving soone. It’s just like you can kill thousands of people but cannot revive a single dead person…”
Zheng Jingshu snorted coldly, and the ground beneath her feet seed to tremble with her emotions.
She solemnly said, “But isn’t he still alive? Since the other party can keep him in this living state, perhaps there is still a way…”
Sensing Zheng Jingshu’s serious deanor and the terrifying power contained deep within the earth, the Master of Taihe Sect could only patiently explain, “Have you ever seen soone left with only a head, twisted like this, and still survive?”
“From my experience, he is already dead. It’s just that the certain power the other party has deployed temporarily preserves a glimr of vitality, manifesting as a state of suspended death.”
“As soon as the force applied to this head is exhausted, this state of suspended death will also end completely, much like those techniques used to produce walking corpses or zombies. Do you think that can be called living?”
Zheng Jingshu, however, seed to ignore the Master of Taihe Sect’s words altogether and went forward in one step, her hands reaching out through the air to grab Zheng Tong’s head.
“I say he can live, and he will co back to life!”
With Zheng Jingshu’s words, the aura between heaven and earth boiled. Centered on her hands, it expelled towards all directions, gradually forming a vacuum zone devoid of aura, evil spirits, or immortal essence.
In the next mont, both Xuanyin Taoist and the Sect Leader of Taihe Sect had already been forced to retreat backward.
Seeing this, Xuanyin Taoist’s expression changed: “Adjust the ridians, block the Divine Skills…”
With Zheng Jingshu’s power erupting, the rapidly ticking countdown seed to hit a fast-forward button, continuously decreasing at an accelerating rate.
Zheng Jingshu stared fiercely at the head held in her arms.
“Co back to life!”
“Tell ! Who did this?!”
…
The present world.
Above Buddha Country.
Lin Xing stood with his arms crossed, watching the city below plunge into chaos.
Bai Yiyi was sitting on his shoulder, looking at the chanical Buddha rising from the city center, saying, “No wonder after you secured the Ming Mountain Sect, you decided to co here first. Have all these statues gone mad? If no one deals with them, I fear the tens of millions of people in Buddha Country will perish.”
Lin Xing nodded slightly, “Without the Great Bright Buddha, his remnants in the current world’s network have each gone their own way, possibly having fallen into internal strife.”
Behind Lin Xing, layers of thunder faintly rippled, as if possessing their own consciousness. Even though controlled by Lin Xing, they still continuously attempted to surge towards Buddha Country below.
Bai Yiyi also sensed this and remarked, “This Great Bright Buddha, damn it… It’s like he wrapped his soul ring around your Immortal Artifact.”
“This deep obsession, I see you either spend ti completely erasing this obsession or you sort out his issues in Buddha Country; otherwise, you won’t be able to fully complete this Immortal Artifact.”
“But this is also good, one more artifact to protect the Dao. It gives us a better chance in our coming confrontations with the Immortals from the Immortal Court.”
She was well aware that behind the Ming Mountain Sect was the support of the Immortals from the Immortal Court, and those Upper Realm Immortals were the biggest threat to her and Lin Xing.
Yet Lin Xing did not respond to Bai Yiyi’s words, as if at this mont, the completion of the Immortal Artifact didn’t concern him. He arrived over this dood nation only because he had promised the Great Bright Buddha to handle Buddha Country in his own way.
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