Chapter 1155: Heaven and Man, Who Stands Higher?
Translator: Lordbluefire Editor: Lordbluefire
Qin Wentian stood on the lead seat, he was the first person who stepped upon it. Also, he was stepping on this lead seat whereby twelve years ago, nobody succeeded in acquiring the rights to sit upon.
"Overestimating your own abilities." The sky roc beside Jia Nantian mocked. Nobody had succeeded in taking the lead seat back during the first lecture, even Jia Nantian, the king of their sky roc race, had failed. Could it be that this man could surpass Jia Nantian and the demonic lion of twelve years ago? Impossible.
"Let alone for a human, even for greater demons, I've never witnessed one so arrogant before." An expert from the White Tiger Race coldly spoke. "Pride comes before a fall. Sometimes when you speak so arrogantly before you actually succeed, that would only end up with your own humiliation."
"Even if he is knocked down from the seat, he is still someone who killed white tigers before, fighting to a draw against a white tiger king two levels higher than him. As for you guys, you all were insulted by the sky rocs yet none of you have the balls to speak out, you don't even have the guts to try to contend for the first seat so where did you get the courage to insult him? The defenses of the White Tiger Race are truly legendary, attributed to their extremely thick skins." An expert from the Southern Phoenix Clan coldly laughed. The two factions warred with words, as cold intents permeated the area.
However, the eyes of everyone were on the lead seat. The astral light from the seat covered Qin Wentian as an image appeared up in the air. Over there, Qin Wentian stood proudly, fighting against the might from the heavenly dao. He was as tiny as an ant, and this involuntarily caused the spectators to recall the scene of Jia Nantian fighting against the heavenly might twelve years ago. The golden-winged great roc slashed out with its resplendent powerful wings, wanting to slice the bout of heavenly might apart, but it ultimately ended up in failure.
Today, this seemingly tiny and inconsequential Qin Wentian actually wanted to accomplish something Jia Nantian failed to accomplish twelve years ago?
At this moment, Qin Wentian's consciousness has already entered the image in the air. The might from the heavenly dao pressed down, who in the world could withstand the pressure?
However, Qin Wentian now was the strongest he has ever been. He magnified his strength by several times and as long as he was willing to, he would be able to transform into laws.
"RUMBLE~" Qin Wentian soared up the skies, his entire body shimmering with a divine glow, illuminating the entire space. He transformed into laws and with a lift of his palm, the heavens and earth were destroyed. That God's Hand of his wanted to break apart the heavenly daos. However under that bout of heavenly might, all lifeforms grovelled before it. It seemed completely unbreakable.
A resplendent light filled the sky. Qin Wentian actually transformed into a gigantic golden-winged great roc and slashed both his wings towards the bout of heavenly might. His wings were so sharp that it seemed they could tear the skies asunder. As his wings slashed out, all his golden feathers shot forth, transforming into numerous smaller golden-winged rocs that clashed against the heavenly might. In this entire space, there was only the loftiness of the great roc.
The eyes of the sky rocs present all flickered with sharpness. However although Qin Wentian was very powerful, he still didn't have enough strength to slash apart the heavenly might. The overwhelming pressure grew even more intense, boring down on him, he could only unleash the other greater demon innate techniques he learned from the treasured cauldron, contending fiercely, yet it still seemed he wouldn't be able to succeed.
Qin Wentian stood on the ground, he then transformed into a hundred meter tall giant, standing strong and tall against the pressure. The boundless energy of the world was used by him and within his body, a brilliant supreme demonic glow radiated out, enveloping his entire body. Under the bout of heavenly might, it seems that all laws wouldn't be able to escape the fate of collapsing under the pressure. If one wanted to break through the heavenly might, they undoubtedly had to be even stronger.
Next, Qin Wentian's body shone with a blackish-golden luster, like a god of destruction. The demonic glow covered his body and that destructive energy was raised to its max. In the next instant, the entire sky dimmed as numerous silhouettes of greater demons appeared in this illusory space. Their bodies shone with boundless resplendent light, the epitome of destruction.
In the scene in the air, all the energy of the world turned into the attribute energy of destruction, merging together as one, rushing up into the sky facing off against that bout of heavenly might. In the next instant, an apocalyptic scene appeared as darkness shrouded everything. It seemed that the heavens were broken apart, its might nullified. At the next moment, a stretch of starry skies appeared in the air above the heavens, cascading their light down onto Qin Wentian.
The scene in the air then vanished, the astral light of the lead seat returned to its usual calmness as Qin Wentian sat quietly on top of it. All the spectators were stunned into silence, they didn't know if they were stunned by the fact of that combat they saw, or by the fact that Qin Wentian had managed to secure the first seat.
Twelve years ago, at the lead of the 3,000 seats, nobody could acquire the rights to sit there.
Twelve years later, the human cultivator, Qin Wentian with a cultivation base at the fourth-level of immortal foundation, actually manage to secure the right to sit on the lead seat, listening to the dao lecture of the sacred academy.
"But because of your arrogance I just wanted to tell you all that if I do succeed, all of you better just shut the fuck up." The words of Qin Wentian echoed in the minds of many people. They stared at his back as they mused silently at what an arrogant person this was. But naturally, Qin Wentian had the qualifications to be arrogant.
The experts from the White Tiger Race were all ashen. That young man who feasted on white tiger meat used factual actions to insult them. The lowly human in their mouth once again slapped the faces of the white tigers.
The expression of the expert beside Jia Nantian also sunk, as he stared at the scene in disbelief. Qin Wentian actually succeeded.
As for the experts from the Skymist Immortal Empire who had a conflict with Qin Wentian, their hearts were burning with the fires of frustration. They wanted to watch as Qin Wentian disgraced himself, hence they managed to shift the center of attention to him. Yet, how could they have expected that Qin Wentian had actually succeeded, which caused their attempts earlier to get him to disgrace himself, seem so filthy and narrow-minded.
The two thousand plus experts all had various expressions. Jia Nantian stepped out, he has improved a lot during these twelve years, he initially wanted to try for the first seat yet he didn't expect to encounter such a situation. The experts from his race angered Qin Wentian, causing Qin Wentian to prove himself by taking the lead seat. Right now, Qin Wentian had truly succeeded and in that case, since the lead seat was already taken, he could only aim for the second row of seats, just like in the past.
His body flashed and stepped upon the left seat in the second row. The demon lion moved as well, stepping on the right seat in the second row. The seats of both of them were the same as twelve years ago. But today, one man was before them.
All the experts respectively stepped out, seizing the immortal seats. The competition was as intense as ever. Until when all the two thousands plus experts were seated, did everyone begin to fall silent. All of them waited patiently for the dao lecture of the sacred academy to begin.
Closing their eyes, astral light flashed as their consciousness appeared within the starry skies once again. That ethereal figure once again appeared before the eyes of everyone.
Everyone half-rose from their seats, indicating their respect.
"Today, I feel very gratified that there's someone who managed to sit in the lead seat." That ethereal figure smiled. He then continued, "Are the heavens higher than men? Or are men higher than the heavens?"
That voice seemed to contain profound mysteries, this sudden question suddenly caused everyone to fall silent as they contemplated it.
The lead seat has to fight against the heavens. Could the reason for that be because of this question? Are the heavens higher or are men higher? The 'men' spoken of by that voice, naturally includes both humans and demons.
"Can no one answer?" That figure asked again.
"What are the heavens?" Jia Nantian suddenly asked.
"The heavens are the heavens." That ethereal voice laughed, but it didn't provide further explanation.
"I cultivated in a particle world before. I also know that in the surroundings of the immortal realms, there are countless particle worlds. Each particle world contains boundless living things, but because of their weak cultivation bases, all of them believe that the heavens are at the supremely highest peak, where they can never reach. However, for those who managed to enter the immortal realms, they could break past the spatial bindings of a particle world and rise into the starry space by their own power. Hence, I believe that the heavens are nothing more than something illusory we imagined to restrict us. The heavens actually don't exist at all. Or maybe, it's merely a supremely high law where we temporarily have no way to breach it."
Qin Wentian slowly continued. "If this is the case, as long as your cultivation is weaker than the heavens, the heavens would be higher than you. But if your cultivation one day surpassed the heavens, you would be higher than the heavens."
"Continue." That ethereal figure smiled at Qin Wentian.
"Twelve years ago, senior has once said that when stellar martial cultivators cultivates, they use laws, transformed into laws and create laws. If the heavens themselves originally were classified as a kind of law order, humans may study from it when they were weak. But when they grow stronger to a certain point, they would try to find ways to reverse and break through, or even create it."
"You are not wrong." That ethereal figure smiled. "In truth, since you compared the heavens to a certain law, there exists two schools of thought as well. From the broader point of view, among the countless worlds in the starry space of this cosmos, they are all regulated by certain established laws. Are such laws created by humans then? If that is so, did humans create this cosmos? Or did this cosmos give birth to humans?"
"Junior has no answer." Qin Wentian shook his head and bitterly smiled. This question was too profound, most probably, only those who stood at the very pinnacle of this entire cosmos had the qualifications to probe further.
"I don't know that as well." That ethereal figure smiled. "However, given how much you have comprehended, it is truly praiseworthy. Let me bring all of you to a place, maybe your comprehensions would be even deeper there. Once your horizons are broadened, your insights would be much deeper as well. This would definitely benefit all of your future cultivations."
Beams of light then surrounded everyone, seemingly originating from the depths of the starry space. The students only felt their wills trembling as though their minds were about to explode. Even their bodies were convulsing violently.
A bright light flashed. Right now, the consciousnesses of everyone were among the boundless stars. At this moment, all their hearts were trembling fiercely as they stared at a shining silhouette of a greater demon right before their eyes. That greater demon was a great roc that hung suspended across space, shining with resplendent light. Nobody knew how gigantic it was, they had to stand extremely high in the air before they could make out the fact that this was the shape of a huge roc. However, all of them understood that although this great roc seemed extremely close to them, it was, in reality, extremely far away.
Above that great roc, there were countless shining figures which exuded a stifling heavenly might. The hearts of everyone were trembling as they felt the energy from these heavenly objects cascading down on them. The energy was so powerful that just a trace of it would be able to completely obliterate their existences.
"Are these… stellar martial constellations?" Someone mumbled in a low voice. Another bright light flashed, the pressure on all of them intensified as their souls trembled in pain. But at the next moment, all of their consciousnesses returned back to their bodies sitting on the immortal seats. Although they were uninjured, they were still shaking from the great waves of shock in their hearts as they lifted their heads up and stared at the starry skies.