Divine Brilliance

“Ruler fought one against six today, I am impressed! This book was originally yours to start with! We attacked only because of the joy when a hunter sees its prey and can’t help it, I just wanted to test out the sword in my hand.”

Zong Shou turned around and looked at this Ruotao with a weird expression. Then, he smiled and nodded his head, before turning his eyes towards Shui Lingbo.

Out of the six people here, only his junior sister could go up against him. Although it was said that the six of them joined hands, actually, Yuan Wushang and the others used 30% of their strength to restrict this Taiyuan Fairy.

However, Shui Lingbo was looking over at him with a weird expression. It was filled with envy and also respect. Who knew if she envied Zong Shou for having so many friends who treated him sincerely or respectfully for his sword path breakthrough.

Following this, Shui Lingbo waved her hands like she didn’t care, turning to the side as a signal that she would give this Universe Book to him.

Zong Shou broke out into a laugh and totally relaxed, focusing on this Universe Book in front of him.

Weird, this was really weird!

Before this, he had such a thought but at this moment standing in front of his Universe Creation Records, that feeling was extremely clear.

Looking at it, it was similar to his Book of Eon but the feeling it gave was not right no matter how he tried to place his hand on it!

The spiritual energy fluctuations weren’t in an orderly manner, it was slightly chaotic. It was far different compared to the Book of Eon and even had threads of violent energy within.

Zong Shou frowned, reaching out his hand to try to touch it. However, in the next instant, many warning signs rose in his heart. That Book of Eon Extreme Life in his soul gave out a buzzing sound like it was extremely uneasy.

Moreover, at this moment it probably wasn’t a good thing for him to obtain these universe creation records.

Unifying Donglin, sword suppressing a world, he was already the center of attention of the Cloud World sects. At this moment, if he obtained the Universe Book, he would be the target…

Zong Shou’s pupils constricted. In that instant, he made his mind up.

This Universe Book was fake and to him, it was a curse and not a blessing.

With his mind turning slightly, he entered deep thought. He suddenly smiled and retracted his hand. Following this, a ball of sword light spat out from the sword in his right hand, spitting and swallowing uncertainty.

He didn’t know who set this trap or whether the one who plotted it was against was him.

However, he needed to just destroy this book so that it wouldn’t matter what plans that person had.

Just as the energy of his body was gathered to the extreme, the Green Dragon Hairpin Sword in his hand slowly couldn’t take it anymore and was on the verge of collapsing. Zong Shou didn’t hesitate to slash down on this Universe Book!

It caused everyone around to be slightly shocked, all the Grade Nine cultivators there were at a loss.

The envy and jealousy in them from before totally disappeared. What remained was shock and disbelief.

Hong!

A loud explosion erupted, the vast sword light slashed the spiritual light surrounding the Universe Book.

It first halted for a moment and the sword light was blocked outside. However, it lasted for just three breaths before the sharp sword intent already slashed in, instantly cutting this Universe Book into half.

In that instant, a ball of extremely pure abnormal power exploded out, charging everywhere and shaking the entire underground lake.

Zong Shou was the first to get hit, only feeling an explosion in his soul, causing him to nearly lose consciousness and feel extremely unpleasant as if he was going to vomit. The other people stood in the distance, but there were also a few who were nearly rendered unconscious by the mental blow.

Even such an extremely strong expert like Shui Lingbo found it hard to bear; her face was ashen white, her eyes filled with shock.

The mental energy blow lasted for close to ten minutes before stopping. Following this, all the cultivators in the lake all exchanged glances with one another, using their intent to interact.

“…The Universe Creation Records are actually fake?”

“It could be a trap! Who knows who laid this trap, how vicious.”

“I said that this universe definitely wouldn’t appear in such a place. Legend has it, that this Cloud Dream Swamp had many spiritual items but during the cloud desolate era, there were only beasts and medicine. I have never heard that it had traces of the Universe Book.”

“If he really touched that book, the outcome would be catastrophic. However, this Monster King was really too vicious to be able to slash down. Knowing when to pick up and let go, as expected from an extraordinary person…”

Zong Shou was totally stunned and was barely holding on. After a few breaths, he slowly returned to his senses.

Following this, right away he looked forward and his eyes lit up. His left hand reached out toward the fragment of the Universe Book. Although it was a fake Universe Book, if one looked closely, there were many surprising areas.

However, just as his hand reached out, the space in front of him was ripped open once more.

A large hand reached out from the void, coincidentally grabbing all the remnant pages of the broken book.

Zong Shou’s eyes constricted in danger, this person was really bold, daring to take food from the mouth of the lion.

His left hand didn’t retract, instead still reaching over. He changed from grabbing to smacking. Just as the hand was about to retract away from this space, he smacked over in an ethereal manner. It was heavy but looked light as if it had no power at all, but it had the strength to shake mountains and move rivers.

Following this, there were a series of energy explosions. The two of them crossed hands several times through space. The two hands were either smacking or grabbing.

Zong Shou wasn’t anxious and his spiritual sense spread out to search for where that hand came from.

That person seemed to know that it wasn’t good and was also unwilling to be entangled with Zong Shou. After several strikes, he decisively tossed aside several broken pages, bringing roughly half to leave this part of the space.

Moments later, the area in front of Zong Shou became calm as if nothing had happened before. Only, dozens of golden Universe Book remaining pieces floated down.

Zong Shou felt an inkling of regret, it was just that small bit and he would have found out where that person’s true body was.

Unfortunately, the owner of the hand was too alert.

He had casually waved his sleeves as he kept them all. After dealing with it, Zong Shou’s lips curled up slightly.

What Zong Shou took was the front half of this Universe Book and what that person grabbed was the second half.

At this time Shui Lingbo was already by his side, scoffing coldly, “I was thinking that this book definitely couldn’t be the true Universe Book. As expected, I was right. Who was the one who set up this scheme, how vicious!”

“The spell on this book was probably used to control one’s soul. However, it probably wasn’t targeting you, but someone else. This time he should have found a second target instead of his main target…”

Saying this, Zong Shou thought back to that hand that reached out from the void.

Its strength should be around his level, maybe half a level stronger or maybe even weaker.

If he wasn’t here, that book would have probably landed in that person’s hands.

Who knew if the person this book was meant to plot against was actually him. However, the one setting the trap probably didn’t expect him to exist.

He also didn’t think that he himself had the Book of Eon and could see whether this book was true or not.

Father said that this Book of Eon Extreme Life had the power to change fate and destiny. It not only changed his life, avoiding his corpse hanging out for three months, but other people’s lives were also changed too.

First, people around him; Xuanyuan Yiren, who didn’t disappear, as well as Hu Qianqiu and Xuanyuan Tong who were also still alive.

Gantian Mountain and Xuan Mountain City also didn’t collapse and instead worked together to sweep Donglin Cloud Continent.

The fates of many people also changed along the way.

His thoughts flowed and numerous things flashed in his mind. When it finally calmed down, he came to a fresh understanding.

He also understood the life and luck words a little more.

Smiling slightly, Zong Shou flipped the remnant book in his hands. Following this, his mind moved once more and his mouth formed a cunning smile.

“Although this book is fake, the true universe creation records have appeared in the world!”

One sentence caused everyone in the lake to look over once more.

Before this, when they thought that the book was fake, they were all disappointed and their interests disappeared, so they had no more intentions to remain there anymore.

However, at this moment, Zong Shou’s words brought up their curiosity once more.

The Universe Book had already appeared? Then where was it at?

In the next moment, Zong Shou laughed and spoke.

“Most probably it was in the hands of the person who made this book. Unless he personally saw it, it is unimaginable for someone to be able to replicate this Universe Book to such a similar level.”

When they heard that, Wuji and the other Grade Nine cultivators were shocked.

They only heard about the description of the Universe Book in ancient texts, as for what it looked like, they only had a rough impression.

Just now, when they looked at it, they didn’t have any doubts at all.

It was as if they were extremely sure that it was the Universe Book, they didn’t suspect whether or not it was real or fake.

At this moment, they thought back to it, wasn’t it suspicious?

Following this, they looked at the half-a-book of pages in his hands and smiled, “Although the book is fake, the space path within is really amazing, definitely written by an expert. Speaking of which, it is really weird that the Yin Dragon Canyon appeared three months earlier…”

Although the person was not plotting against him, it still made Zong Shou feel really annoyed.

“Since you placed down such a scheme then you deserve my little counter-attack and that is expected to!”

The surrounding people still didn’t reply. Although they kept silent, they all understood Zong Shou’s meaning.

In order for people to fall for it, this so-called Universe Book would have to be so strong as to not allow one to doubt it.

The person who forged this book would need to have really high cultivation, reaching the Saint Realm and have an understanding of space techniques.

However, how would such a person spend so much effort to use such methods to plot against small people like them?

Even Zong Shou felt surprised by the situation.

Then, the final possibility would be that the person already had the Universe Book, even personally reading it to replicate it.

This Universe Book really had appeared in the world.