The black tortoise had calculated its own fate and was unwilling to accept it.
So he wanted to escape into chaos and find a glimmer of hope.
However, as the saying goes, fate is hard to defy, and things that are destined are not so easy to break free from.
Before it could swim to the Northern Sea, it was captured by Hu Le and brought back to the shore from a distance.
Hu Le flicked his wrist, revealing a gleaming Star Sword. His gaze lowered as he swept it over the Xuan Turtle's limbs. This was the future Heavenly Pillar.
The Xuan Turtle had been slumbering in the North Sea for a long time and rarely saw outsiders, so it naturally did not recognize Hu Le's identity. When it saw a sword appear in Hu Le's hand, it knew that by the will of Heaven, this person was the one to send it on its way.
"Fellow Daoist! Please spare my life!"
It was quite cowardly and immediately begged for mercy.
Hu Le burst into laughter upon hearing this.
“You should know your own destiny, and you should also understand that it is not that I am unwilling to spare your life, but that it is the will of Heaven that you should use your body to mend the heavenly void.”
The black tortoise cried out in grief and indignation, "Why? Since my birth, I have lived in the North Sea, living a peaceful life, without any karmic ties with others, nor have I committed any sins. Why must I sacrifice my life to mend the heavenly void?"
Hu Le said indifferently, "This is preordained by fate, so who can be blamed?"
Seeing that Hu Le was heartless and refused to compromise, Xuan Gui suddenly felt a surge of malice and thought to himself: You make it sound so easy, but it seems you weren't the one who would sacrifice yourself to mend the heavens...
The more it thought about it, the more aggrieved it felt, so it immediately opened its blood-red maw and spat out countless balls of lightning at Hu Le.
These lightning orbs are formed from the innate Kui Water True Lightning, and once they explode, they possess the power to burn the heavens and boil the seas.
Rumble!
Kui Shui Zhen Lei exploded in succession, and endless lightning, swept up by destructive power, surged wildly toward Hu Le.
"A futile struggle!"
Hu Le smiled, raised his sleeve, and instantly absorbed the thunder that filled the sky into his sleeve.
Having experienced Hu Le's prowess firsthand, the Xuan Turtle realized it was not skilled in combat and was probably no match for him. So it simply retracted its entire body into its shell, becoming a cowardly turtle.
Its shell, nourished by spiritual energy for millions of years, is already considered a decent protective treasure.
Hu Le found Xuan Gui's behavior quite amusing.
This guy thinks he can't do anything to me just because he's hiding inside the turtle's shell?
He did not release the Starry Sky Sword, but instead raised his hand and summoned a bolt of Heavenly Thunder.
The chaotic lightning struck the back of the Xuan Turtle, instantly transforming into countless bolts of lightning that exploded outwards.
A burst of spiritual light rose from the tortoise shell, barely managing to block the divine lightning. However, the primordial spirit hidden within the shell was reduced to dust by the bombardment and shock of the divine lightning, scattering into specks of golden light that merged into the limbs and bones...
Once the divine lightning dissipated, the Xuan Turtle's aura had become extremely weak.
Hu Le raised his hand and pointed, a beam of black and white light shot out from his fingertip and entered the body of the Xuan Turtle, then flew out wrapped with its true spirit.
Hu Le grabbed the Xuan Turtle's true spirit in his palm and laughed, "Your act of mending the heavens with your own body is also a supreme merit. Although your fortune is shallow in this life and you cannot live forever, you may still achieve the Great Dao after you accumulate merit in the next life."
Having said that, he cast the wisp of true spirit into nothingness, sending it into the cycle of reincarnation...
Next, Hu Le directly used the Starry Sky Sword to cut off the Xuan Turtle's four limbs.
Because Hu Le had deliberately scattered the Xuan Turtle's primordial spirit and magical power, the Xuan Turtle's limbs had become even stronger under the nourishment of the fragments of its primordial spirit and magical power, and a mysterious spiritual energy was being nurtured within its bloodline...
Hu Le put away the Xuan Turtle's four limbs, then returned to Zhou Mountain, found Pangu and the Three Pure Ones, and gave each of them a tortoise foot.
Next, the four split up and flew towards the four extreme regions.
Not long after, Hu Le arrived in Antarctica, took out a tortoise foot, and infused it with a burst of creative energy.
After the tortoise's feet touched the ground, they took root and flourished. The energy of creation intertwined with the essence and blood within the tortoise's feet, and then further creation arose.
Driven by the power of creation, the already tall and thick tortoise feet continued to grow.
The tortoise's feet grew taller and taller until they reached the sky, at which point they stopped growing.
Eventually, it gradually turned to stone and became a pillar supporting the southern sky.
At the same time that Hu Le erected the Southern Heavenly Pillar, the Three Pure Ones also erected a Heavenly Pillar on each of the other extreme borders.
After doing all this, the four of them returned to Zhou Mountain one after the other...
Hu Le's primordial spirit returned to his physical body.
Now that he had the pillar of heaven, he no longer needed to support the sky. So his body shrank rapidly and returned to its original shape.
Having supported the heavens for so long, even with his strength, he was quite exhausted. He took a few deep breaths of spiritual energy before he regained some of his strength.
Just then, celestial music suddenly filled the sky, and the sounds of golden bells and jade chimes resounded. Immeasurable merit gathered above the heads of all the immortals and gods, transforming into a vast expanse of dark yellow clouds, which then split into more than ten streams and flew towards the immortals and gods.
This is a reward from Heaven for the gods and immortals who successfully mended the heavens.
Among them, Goddess Nuwa contributed the most, taking seven or eight tenths of the credit.
Next, it was Hu Le's turn.
He first used his most precious treasure to plug the gap in the sky, then he used his true form as Pangu to support the heavens, and then he went to the North Sea to kill the Xuan Turtle and took its four limbs to transform into pillars of heaven.
His contribution was second only to that of the Goddess Nuwa, so he also received a share of the credit.
However, although Gonggong broke the pillar of Zhou Mountain, Hu Le was also involved. Hu Le also bears some responsibility for the immense karma caused by the collapse of the pillar.
Fortunately, he has now accumulated so much merit from mending the heavens that it is enough to completely offset the karma on his body...
Hu Le absorbed the Xuanhuang energy into his body, closed his eyes and concentrated, then spread the Xuanhuang energy throughout his body to wear away the karma on his body.
As the primordial energy continued to circulate within his body, he slowly opened all the pores of his body.
Immediately, wisps of black and gray energy escaped from his pores and then dissipated into the void.
A moment later, the karma within him had disappeared, and the merit he had gained was also almost entirely consumed.
However, he had no shortage of merit points to begin with, so even though he had used them all up, he wasn't particularly distressed...
Hu Le opened his eyes and found that all the immortals and gods had put away their merits and were now standing in the sky above Zhou Mountain exchanging pleasantries.
As for Hongjun Laozu, no one knows when he left Zhoushan and returned to Zixiao Palace.
Hu Le was about to step forward to say goodbye to everyone when he suddenly saw Yuanshi Daoren raise his hand and point downwards.
The largest fragment of the Heavenly Pillar suddenly rose from the ground and automatically flew towards him.
He opened his sleeve and put the half of the celestial pillar into it.
Later, after he returned to Kunlun Mountain, he used the Jade Void Refining Technique to refine this section of the Heavenly Pillar into the famous Heaven-Turning Seal of later generations...
The other powerful beings also suddenly realized what was happening.
Zhunti Daoren felt rather regretful, as he had been careless and Yuanshi Daoren had gotten such a big advantage first.
Although there are still some fragments of the Heavenly Pillar below, neither their size nor the spiritual energy they contain can compare to the one that the Primordial Daoist collected.
Moreover, once Yuanshi Daoren refines the Fantian Seal, it will be equivalent to having completely taken over the original destiny of the Heavenly Pillar.
Even if they refined the other fragments into spiritual treasures, without the blessing of good fortune, their power would still be no match for the Heaven-Turning Seal...
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