Chapter 415 - Meet the Great Devil Heaven's Bane Again

“Master Xiao?”

With a gentle voice, Su Lianyue called Xiao Chen tentatively. But at this moment, Xiao Chen didn’t react at all. Her eyes getting colder and colder, Su Lianyue took two steps closer.

She knew well enough that when a cultivator was making a breakthrough to reach the Nirvana Realm, he would enter into a state of suspended animation. Now Xiao Chen was in such a state. As long as Su Lianyue interrupted him with a fatal attack at this time, Xiao Chen would lose all his cultivation or even lose his soul.

Eyes getting colder, Su Lianyue gathered her energy and made a sharp blade with purple light. Holding it in her hand, she slowly walked to Xiao Chen. In fact, she didn’t really want to kill Xiao Chen. At this moment, she remembered that Xiao Chen had always been good to her in the past two months. He picked and washed spiritual fruit for her. When she felt cold, he would set up a fire to keep her warm. There was even a time when she underwent Qi Deviation, Xiao Chen transferred her energy to help her treat the injuries…

And what was more, Xiao Chen didn’t abandon her when they were trapped in the ice cave… Su Lianyue kept all of this in her mind. Since childhood, she and her sister depended on each other for survival. In addition to her sister Su Lianxin, no one had ever treated her so nice like Xiao Chen. Besides, he was a man…

The rings around Su Lianyue’s eyes turned a little red. However, the blade with purple light in her hand became colder and colder. She knew what she was doing. She believed that in this world, there was no permanent ally, only permanent enemies.

In these days, Su Lianyue knew from Xiao Chen’s words that he had a feeling of deep estrangement toward the Orthodox Path. But also, she could see that Xiao Chen was still tied to it. Thus, he surely would return to the Orthodox Path one day and became her biggest enemy at that time.

“Master Xiao, I’m sorry. As you have said, you and I will become enemies eventually because we are from two opposite sides.”

After she finished speaking, Su Lianyue waved the blade with tears. Then the blade with purple light went straight to Xiao Chen’s neck, which brought a gust of cold wind. But just at this moment, Su Lianyue suddenly felt something wrong. Then the purple blade stopped an inch away from Xiao Chen’s neck.

Su Lianyue felt even more wrong. “Even if he is in the state of suspended animation, how can he not notice the crisis that he is facing at this moment? It’s not right! Is he…”

Thinking about this, Su Lianyue waved her sleeves and withdrew the purple blade. She ran up to Xiao Chen. First, she checked if he was still breathing. Then, she touched his chest. But there was no breathing or heartbeat. His body felt ice-cold…

“Master Xiao!” Su Lianyue gave a frightened scream, but Xiao Chen’s body fell stiffly back. He didn’t lapse into a form of suspended animation. Instead, he died for real…

“No… No! What’s going on? No!” Su Lianyue’s eyes suddenly widened. All the tears that gathered in her eyes instantly fell as disconnected and scattered pearls.

“No… It was impossible. How could this be? What’s going on?” Su Lianyue became more and more panic. She didn’t know why she would have such a reaction. Just now, she had made up her mind to kill Xiao Chen. But now, when she saw Xiao Chen like this, she felt a sudden desire to burst out crying. She had never been so uncomfortable. She didn’t know what was wrong with her.

“No… Master Xiao, wake up! You wake up!” More or less, Su Lianyue lost control of her emotions. She raised Xiao Chen up and kept shaking his shoulders.

Suddenly, she was a little scared. “What if I cannot open the mystic domain’s breach by myself? What if the powerful soul in the western mountain suddenly comes to attack me? What if Red Sleeve or Ye Wuxin arrives here all of a sudden??” Until now, she finally discovered that after being with this man before her for more than two months, she seemed to have got used to relying on him. As long as he was around, any problems that she encountered would be solved…

…

At this moment, Xiao Chen felt that his spirit was wandering around outside of his body. He didn’t know where he was and only felt like he might have been here. The stars here were within reach. But this deadly silent place was chilled to the marrow.

Suddenly, a voice sounded in the distance. “Junior, here you are again.” There was a little loneliness in the desolate voice, which sounded as if it was from the Archean Eon.

Right after that, a tall and gigantic figure slowly rose up in the near distance. Although the figure was vague, it had a heroic manner that could make all living things prostrate themselves reverently.

Xiao Chen was startled with a chill. “He is that the Great Devil Heaven’s Bane!” Earlier in Tianyuan City, he accidentally entered the Dimension of the Frigid Void from the black box and met the seventeenth-generation Apostate of Heaven—the Great Devil Heaven’s Bane!

“Junior, congratulations! Just as I expected, you have successfully reached the real Nirvana Realm!” the Great Devil Heaven’s Bane said slowly.

Once again, Xiao Chen was startled. “Have I reached the Nirvana Realm?” Raising his head, he looked at the tall and big devil shadow nearby and asked calmly, “Why did you lead me here?”

This time, Xiao Chen was not as surprised as he was when he first saw the Great Devil. After all, he had gone through many things, and his cultivation level was much higher than it was when they first met.

The Great Devil Heaven’s Bane nodded slightly and said, “Rest assured, Junior. You come here through your dream, so you are not related to the real world. I led you here because you will be the best Apostate of Heaven.”

With fixed attention, Xiao Chen thought for a little while and then smiled. “I’m sorry. I will never become the eighteenth-generation Apostate of Heaven, not only now, but also in the future.”

“Why? The Annihilation Times has come in the world that you are in. Fighting against the Natural Law is your only way to save all living beings! Don’t you know that?” The Great Devil Heaven’s Bane went furious, just like last time.

Xiao Chen didn’t answer immediately. Instead, he was immersed in thought, thinking carefully. “Why would these people go to fight against Natural Law again and again? What exactly is the Natural Law that they are fighting with? Is it really because of what they said that the Natural Law is merciless and dictates the life and death of every being across all domains?”

Nowadays, Xiao Chen was no longer the muddleheaded boy who would believe whatever others said. Now he knew his own mind. But at that time, Fengxi told him something about the Annihilation Times and the battle against the Natural Law, plus he came across the Great Devil before him. Thus, he truly believed that all living beings were fighting against Natural Law only because it was merciless. But now, he didn’t think so.

No matter whether it was the seventeenth-generation Heaven’s Bane or the first-generation Heaven Exterminator, although their cultivation levels were high, they were still devils in the final analysis. Even if they gave up their surnames, they could not get rid of the trace of devil nature hidden deep in their hearts. Through the ages, rebels always had high-sounding reasons to fight. They said they were fighting for all the living things, for freedom, or for equality. But so what? In fact, because of them, countless living beings were dead, their blood flowing like streams. But the devils themselves finally managed to ascend to the throne.

Especially after Xiao Chen experienced the thing about the Corpse Refinery Sect, he became more and more skeptical about the words said by the Great Devil Heaven’s Bane. Red Sleeve could fool all the people in the Corpse Refinery Sect for thousands of years and made them believe in her with all their hearts. But then, what about the so-called Apostates of Heaven? Did they also fool all the living beings and these so-called Heaven-exterminating families?

“Junior, why don’t you say anything? Do you doubt what I said?” With his two sharp eyes, the Great Devil Heaven’s Bane looked sternly at Xiao Chen.

Raising his head, Xiao Chen replied calmly, “You keep on proclaiming that we should fight against the Natural Law. However, I don’t know what Natural Law is in your mind. What exactly the Natural Law is that your people have been fighting with generation after generation?”

“Hmm…” It appeared that the Great Devil Heaven’s Bane could not come up with an answer to this question, and there were two streaks of cold light shot out of his eyes. Also, he seemed to see that this junior before him was very different from others. So he asked in reply, “Then, what do you think the Natural Law was? In your opinion, why our lives are in the hands of Natural Law instead of ourselves?”

After taking a deep breath, Xiao Chen said word by word, “The Natural Law can feel everything, including each tree and flower. Everything in this world has its own laws—this is the Natural Law.”

“Keep talking,” the Great Devil Heaven’s Bane said in a low tone. Meanwhile, he released a stream of pressure as if he wanted to persuade Xiao Chen by coercion.

Xiao Chen continued, “The Natural Law is the law of this world. As a matter of fact, the Natural Law is exactly everything in this world. For everything, like each flower and each tree, there is a reason for being. If each flower, tree, grass, and stone also wants to become an Immortal and live forever, will this world go into a state of chaos? In this world, lots of living things grow in spring and wither in autumn. It’s Natural Law. May I ask if human beings can never die?”

Taking another deep breath, Xiao Chen went on, “After only a quarter, mayflies will become one year older. But for mortals, they need a whole year to be one year older. Well, it will take 1,000 years for the tree named Ming Ling growing in the south of Chu Country to get one year older. In ancient times, the tree called Da Chun will become one year older every 6,000 years. As for the stars and the universe, they take an eon as one year. However, everything will reach its end eventually. Nothing can be truly immortal. It is the Natural Law, which is also the law of all beings!”

The Great Devil Heaven’s Bane went into a rage already, and because of that, even the stars around him began to tremble. Then, there came his deep voice. “Who told you all of this…”

But Xiao Chen was not afraid of him. He smiled and said, “My master once told me that cultivators should take all the living things’ well-being as their top priority and view their life and death as secondary. However, you just told me to do the opposite and asked me to violent the Natural law of all beings. But only the devil will do these sorts of things, right?”

“You… How dare you!” The Great Devil Heaven’s Bane reproached Xiao Chen with a somber voice. All at once, an immense force came to attack Xiao Chen. Xiao Chen was pushed back for many steps, feeling that his Qi and blood were surging violently. Xiao Chen knew that Heaven’s Bane ruled the space that he was now in, so he could not bear even a harsh reproach aimed at him.

The Great Devil Heaven’s Bane was still full of anger. “The first generation, who would say nothing wrong, told me that the Natural Law bounds all beings and dictates the life and death of all of them. But you said that the Natural Law is the law of all beings! You are unforgivable!”

“Hehe.” Xiao Chen sneered. “Senior, you don’t even know what the real Natural Law is, but you keep saying that you are going to fight against it. How can either of us understand even a little bit of the profound Natural Law? But you vainly attempt to revert it! Don’t you think that it sounds ridiculous? Every now and then, you want to fight against, attack, and terminate the Natural Law. But if there is even no Natural Law, how can you and I still exist in this world?”

“You… I can turn you into merely flying ashes in an instant. Don’t you believe that?” At this time, the Great Devil Heaven’s Bane was still controlling his great anger with difficulty. After all, the man before him was the only one who had reached the real Nirvana Realm. Only he had the chance to defeat the Natural Law.

Xiao Chen smiled a little. “But cannot you remember what you said just now? I came to this Dimension of the Frigid Void through my dream. As long as someone in my real world wakes me up, you cannot kill me.”

“You… You are bold enough! Since you are not willing to join us, I may as well kill you!” The Great Devil Heaven’s Bane berated and raised his palm. All of a sudden, a rolling devil’s haze appeared. At the same time, all the stars died out.

Xiao Chen looked up and laughed. “Haha! I refused to help you, so you come to kill me. You are a devil, after all. Your evil nature will never disappear! But I took you as a heroic senior!” Before Xiao Chen finished speaking, waves of devil’s haze already came at him. Instantly, Xiao Chen was startled with a chill because if he was killed at this moment, he could never return to his real world.

While he was seeking some strategies, the devil’s haze arrived before him. Just when Xiao Chen raised his palm to defend, he felt it would be tough for him to defeat the devil. Though he had reached the Nirvana Realm, he could not even bear a single attack from this Great Devil. His breathing became increasingly difficult, and his internal organs were splitting. Xiao Chen felt as if the skin all over him was being torn.

Only after a moment, blue veins began to throb on his face. Xiao Chen felt that he could not take it anymore. In a hurry, he suddenly started to run the Devil’s Three Turns. Immediately, he managed to inhale the waves of devil’s haze. Both his hair and eyes became bright red in an instant.

The Great Devil Heaven’s Bane shuddered. “You… who on earth are you? Why do you know the first generation’s cultivation method?”