Chapter 76 The Subterranean Giant Breaks Through the Earth! Perfect timing, we need someone to dig a well.
In the northern suburbs of Qingyun City, the tens of thousands of Cultivators who were still reveling and breaking through after being assigned roasted meat skewers suddenly shuddered in unison.
An indescribable, fatal sense of crisis, seemingly coming from the depths of their Souls, instantly enveloped the entire construction site.
"Crack... Crack..."
The earth split open without any warning.
A massive chasm, several zhang wide, followed the foundation of the construction site and spread abruptly into the distance. From that bottomless crack, thick, dark-golden mist gushed out, so dense it wouldn't dissipate.
That mist contained no Spiritual Qi; instead, it was filled with an Ancient Death Qi capable of corroding the Divine Soul and shaking the Dao Fruit of a True Immortal!
“Boom—!”
With a loud crash, a terrifying claw covered in dark-golden scales—larger than the entire Qingyun City—slammed out from underground and struck the outer wall of the construction site.
That was the blue-brick wall that Cangqiongzi and Ancient Ancestor Yuanmo had spent an entire day just "straightening out." Before this claw, it was like paper, instantly disintegrating into a cloud of dust.
Following that, an enormous head with a battering horn and eyes like dark-golden suns slowly emerged from the ground.
It opened its abyss-like bloody maw and let out a greedy roar toward the small courtyard across the wall, shaking the entire Eastern Wasteland:
“So fragrant... Such a fragrant smell of meat...”
“This Ancestor has slumbered for a million years... Have I finally waited for such peerless blood-food to awaken?!”
“Roar—!”
The pressure of the Ancient Terror swept out like a physical force.
The tens of thousands of Cultivators on the construction site, including the True Immortal Cangqiongzi and the half-bodied Ancient Ancestor Yuanmo, couldn't even summon a single thought of resistance before this terrifying Aura that transcended the Laws of the current world.
They were like ants before a god, only able to collapse in the mud and water, watching in despair as the sky-blotting beast crawled out from the earth step by step.
“This... is this the Ancient Devouring Beast from the legends, suppressed beneath the Nine Serenities by the first Immortal Emperor of the Immortal Court?!” Cangqiongzi’s eyes nearly popped out, his voice filled with extreme terror.
That was an immemorial taboo that fed on True Immortals and could swallow a Spiritual Vein in one bite!
...
Just as chaos broke out outside, with the beast rampaging and the walls collapsing at the critical moment.
Inside the courtyard.
Lin Yuan was lazily slumped in his rocking chair, holding a freshly roasted, sizzling skewer of Void Returning Stage Great Demon wings, preparing to take a bite.
The roar that shook the Eastern Wasteland reached the courtyard, causing the skewer in his hand to tremble slightly. Most unfortunately, a grain of cumin fell onto his purple-gold windbreaker.
Lin Yuan looked up at the massive dark-golden head in the sky that was completely blocking the sunlight and drooling right at him.
In his eyes, there was no fear, no shock.
There was only a thick, scalp-numbing... irritation from being disturbed and having his meal ruined.
“Old Wan.”
Lin Yuan’s voice was extremely calm, so calm that it made Demon Venerable Wanhua beside him shudder.
“Old... Old servant is here!” Demon Venerable Wanhua dropped the skewers he hadn't finished stringing and scurried to the rocking chair, his voice trembling.
He knew that the Young Master was truly unhappy.
“Which blind fool is screaming outside again?” Lin Yuan brushed the dust off his windbreaker with disgust, “It shook off my cumin.”
“And, in broad daylight, it's blocking the sun completely. How am I supposed to get the right color on these skewers?”
Lin Yuan put down the half-eaten wing, stood up, and looked at the Ancient Devouring Beast in the sky that was roaring madly and preparing to crash down, sighing with extreme helplessness.
“I originally wanted to get along with you all as a Mortal, but why do you all rush to deliver your heads one by one?”
By now, the Ancient Devouring Beast had noticed Lin Yuan in the courtyard.
In its dark-golden beast pupils, this Mortal, who seemingly had no Spiritual Qi fluctuations, emitted an ultimate temptation from his body that made every pore on its body go wild and even its Soul tremble!
That was no ordinary Mortal.
That was... an ultimate Dao-rhyme blood-food that was purer, more domineering, and many dimensions higher than the roasted meat smell it had caught upon waking!
“Roar! Eat you! This Ancestor can transcend the Law Seals of this world and return to the Immemorial Era—!”
The Ancient Devouring Beast went completely mad. It opened its bloody maw, large enough to swallow a mountain range, and with an Ancient Aura that could destroy everything, it bit down hard toward the small courtyard where Lin Yuan was!
Facing this bite that could sink the Eastern Wasteland.
Lin Yuan just lazily looked up.
Max-Level Comprehension instantly activated.
[You observed the Ancient Devouring Beast breaking the earth, gained insight into the Origin of the Law of Earth, and comprehended—The Daluo Heaven-Shaking Fist!]
[You observed the Ancient Maw devouring all things, gained insight into the tearing and collapse of the Law of Space, and comprehended—The So Near Yet So Far Restriction!]
There was no System notification sound, only that instant moment of divine inspiration.
“Too noisy.”
Lin Yuan sat in his rocking chair, not even moving his buttocks. He just casually raised his right hand toward the abyssal maw about to bite down from the sky and lightly... waved, as if shooing a fly.
“Whoosh—”
There was no earth-shattering eruption of Spiritual Qi, nor any brilliant Cultivation Technique special effects.
Only a breeze.
A breeze that seemed weak, but in an instant, brushed away all the madness, greed, and world-destroying Ancient Death Qi in the sky.
The Divine Ability of the Great Dream of the Mortal World Art that erases all Karma and turns all things into emptiness, combined with the trace of the Law of Earth Origin he had just comprehended.
Under Lin Yuan’s gentle brush.
“Bang!”
A muffled thud echoed.
Under the ghost-seeing gazes of the tens of thousands of Cultivators on the construction site and Jinyue.
The Ancient Devouring Beast, which claimed it could swallow the sky, and its dark-golden head, which could crush True Immortal bones, was struck as if by the heaviest iron hammer in the Mortal world, emitting a crisp sound of bone cracking.
Immediately following.
The massive, sky-blotting beast body bizarrely and rapidly shrank and collapsed in an instant.
In less than a breath's time.
This taboo terror that had awed the Immemorial Era and been suppressed at the bottom of the Nine Serenities actually shrank into a dark-golden "misfit" the size of a local dog, bald without a single scale, and even its two battering horns became rounded and cute.
“Awoo...”
The shrunken Ancient Devouring Beast let out an extremely humiliated and terrified wail as it fell from the sky. With a "splat," it landed precisely in the yellow mud pit that Cangqiongzi and Ancient Ancestor Yuanmo had just mixed.
It splashed a column of mud a zhang high.
Its world-shaking Ancient Divine Power had been sealed until not a trace remained by that light brush. Now, apart from having a slightly tougher Physical Body, it was worse than a stray dog in the Mortal world.
Silence.
The entire northern suburb of Qingyun City fell into an extreme silence.
The sky instantly returned to being bright and clear, and the afterglow of the setting sun warmly spilled down once more.
The mouths of the tens of thousands of Cultivators on the construction site were wide enough to fit a goose egg, and their eyes were nearly popping out of their heads.
That Immemorial Terror that made even True Immortals despair, that Divine Beast that could swallow the sky...
Was just casually... slapped into a local dog by that white-robed scholar using a dust-covered feather duster... no, with his bare hand, and even had its cultivation stripped and was stuffed into a mud pit?!
Cangqiongzi and Lei Mingzi knelt on the wall, their bodies stiff and their heads buzzing.
“Old Ancestor... am... am I having hallucinations from eating roasted meat?” Lei Mingzi’s voice was extremely dry.
Cangqiongzi swallowed hard and looked at Lin Yuan in the courtyard with terror and reverence:
“No, it’s not a hallucination. Lei Mingzi, remember this, the Lord was... he was ‘cleansing all the world's frenzy with a Mortal breeze’! That wasn't a wave of the hand; that was clearly the supreme Daluo Law that reigns above the Myriad Realms!”
Inside the courtyard.
Lin Yuan waved his hand at the air in front of him with disgust, muttering:
“Every single day, there's no peace. Dust even got into the teapot.”
He turned his head, looked at the "dark-golden local dog" shivering and weeping in the mud pit outside the wall, and casually said to Luo Xue:
“Luo Xue, go tell Old Wan. Although this new ‘laborer’ only has half a body (it actually just shrunk), it did crawl out of the ground after all.”
“Since it likes playing with mud, let's not waste its talent. Before the end of the year, have it dig a hundred deep wells in the center of the construction site for me. If they aren't dug neatly, all its steamed buns will be docked, and I'll use it to fill the latrine.”
Luo Xue smiled slightly and bowed, “Yes, Young Master, Luo Xue understands.”
In the mud pit.
The Ancient Devouring Beast—now "Little Dog"—listened to the decree delivered by Luo Xue. A rusty shovel was forcibly stuffed into its paws, and tears went "patter-patter" into the yellow mud.
It was the Ancient Devouring Beast! It was a Divine Beast that fed on Laws!
Now, it actually had to dig wells with a shovel on a Lower Realm Mortal's construction site, watched by a group of Soul Transformation, True Immortals, and even a Demon Venerable?!
Moreover, if it didn't dig, it would lose that damn, delicious shred of pickled vegetable it smelled when it woke up?!
“Awoo...”
The Ancient Devouring Beast let out the most humiliated and humble wail of its life, its self-address instantly changing from "This Ancestor" to "I."
It tremblingly picked up the shovel and, seeing the sympathetic (actually gloating) gazes of Ancient Ancestor Yuanmo and Cangqiongzi nearby, silently began its path of well-digging to seek the Dao.
“This Cultivation World... is too dangerous! Why didn't anyone tell me that in this Mortal courtyard lives a demon who can slap an Immemorial Divine Beast like a dog!!!”
The Ancient Devouring Beast roared in its heart, and for its steamed bun, it began to swing the shovel frantically.