Chapter 569: Chapter 567: The Subsequent Farce

"Handle it?"

The Ten-Faced Beast let out a hearty laugh.

Su Qing was speechless. He hadn’t expected the creature to truly live up to its name, to actually be called the Ten-Faced Beast.

"You simply can’t kill me."

"You fiery creature."

"Whatever I want to devour, I will devour!"

After being thwarted once, one of the faces on the Ten-Faced Beast’s body suddenly transformed into a gaping maw.

It bit down toward the planet.

A few members of the Duanmu Family broke away, flying out beyond the planet.

Unfortunately, they had no idea just how powerful the Ten-Faced Beast’s Devouring Power was without the support of the Array.

The moment they exited the Array, they were twisted, crushed, and swallowed by the Ten-Faced Beast.

This was the might of the Twelfth Realm.

The fiery creature blazed with furious flames, continuing its relentless struggle against the Ten-Faced Beast.

Su Qing began an Inference.

He was trying to determine if using the Causal Touch to eliminate his enemy would entangle him in causality.

The answer was yes.

He would be using a method of causality to resolve the situation.

Of course it would.

Su Qing performed another Inference. ’What about using the Infinite Fire Realm?’

The causal entanglement would be minimal.

The flames would burn away causality, and the Power of Rules within them would block it.

’Just as I thought.’

’It seems synthesizing so many causal Rule-based Flames was the right move after all.’

’Rules are superior to all else.’

He watched the arrogant Ten-Faced Beast and the Flame Spirit battle above. Their fight plunged the surroundings into darkness, and no one from the Duanmu Family, aside from Su Qing himself, could clearly see the fight.

Their battle was already distorting Space.

It was only natural that the others could not see them.

With a flick of his finger, Su Qing sent a small ball of flame shooting toward the Ten-Faced Beast.

Though the flame was small, it was a part of Su Qing’s Infinite Fire Realm.

The slightest touch, and the beast was instantly turned to ash.

Even the Flame Spirit off to the side was utterly stunned.

Despite being a being of fire Origin itself, it felt that if that flame attached to it, it would be instantly devoured.

’How terrifying.’

’Could there be a Great Power on the planet below?’

"Senior, I was rude just now. This junior has little to my name, but I wish to offer you my fire Origin and beg for your forgiveness."

The creature produced a dim flame that appeared in the void. This was its Origin.

Su Qing sent a telepathic message, "It’s nothing. You may leave. I don’t want your Fire Seed, so take it with you!"

His message was transmitted to the creature instantly.

He had no desire to incur a causal debt; there was no causal connection between them to begin with.

Su Qing had no intention of becoming entangled in causality with the creature over a Tier Twelve Fire Seed.

After all, his Infinite Fire Realm wasn’t yet capable of avoiding causality one hundred percent of the time.

Besides, Su Qing couldn’t care less about a Tier Twelve flame.

"Thank you for your magnanimity, Senior," the creature said, then quickly made its escape.

After all, Su Qing had insta-killed the Ten-Faced Beast—a creature it had been fighting for over a month—with a single wisp of flame. In the presence of such power, it felt an inexplicable pressure just being nearby.

’It’s gone?’

Su Qing smiled faintly.

He performed an Inference to see if he would be entangled in causality because of the few who had just run out and died.

If all went as expected... he shouldn’t be.

Unfortunately, however, Su Qing was still entangled in causality to some extent.

Because he had given them refuge, their deaths here were attributed to him as a sliver of causality.

However, repaying it was simple. The true cause of their deaths, after all, did not lie with him.

Su Qing couldn’t be bothered to deal with it.

That tiny bit of causality was less than one-ten-thousandth of the causality he’d incur by killing someone himself.

Most importantly, he had already repaid it.

The Spiritual Qi here was the repayment for that causal debt.

’Heh, that’s almost funny.’

’It seems this really does count as avoiding causal entanglement.’

It was the first time Su Qing had ever felt what it was like to repay a causal debt, and the feeling was incredibly relaxing.

’How wonderful it would be if I could truly repay all my causal debts.’

Once Su Qing opened his own Space-Time Veins, he would be able to derive a Grand Thousand.

Just thinking of that wonderful feeling brought a sense of pressure.

He carried far too much causal debt.

Some debts he wished to repay would require him to first open his Grand Thousand Veins and then settle them himself.

Su Qing sighed.

He downed the poison in one gulp.

Then, he continued his Cultivation, continued synthesizing flames.

His path was still long.

Some three hundred thousand points of Skill Level were nowhere near enough.

It would only let him cultivate for a dozen more years.

——

「Duanmu Family.」

Duanmu Shangjiu spoke in a cold voice, "When disaster struck, the Second Elder’s branch disobeyed family orders and secretly led several members out among the stars. According to our rules, they should be punished. Unfortunately, death extinguishes all, like a snuffed-out lamp."

"Be that as it may, the Second Elder’s branch must pay a price for the next three years."

"Do any of you elders have an objection?" Ever since she had sought out Su Qing, Duanmu Shangjiu had begun to strategize for the Duanmu Family once more.

She understood that during the crisis, a single wrong decision would lead to casualties.

In truth, everyone had tacitly approved of the Second Elder’s actions. The intention was to preserve a branch of the family line.

But who could have known? The battles of the powerful were not something the weak had any say in.

They had no choice at all.

The Second Elder had served as a warning to everyone at the cost of his life, but defying family rules still required a price to be paid.

...

「Several months later.」

A great number of Flying Ships and Flying Shuttles appeared outside Su Qing’s planet.

The previous battle between the Twelfth Realm experts had left the surrounding planets barren, and the most significant loss was their minerals.

Most of the planets had been destroyed, but they were merely shattered or blown apart.

The entire area was filled with mineral dust, and many Flying Ships and Flying Shuttles had appeared nearby to collect it.

They were here to collect minerals.

Many wanted to enter Su Qing’s planet or explore its secrets.

"Damn, look at all this Spiritual Qi! It’s a veritable paradise, a Pocket World! If I just soak in this for a while, I could probably break through to the Golden Core Realm, couldn’t I?"

"Heh, a Pocket World paradise, you say? Didn’t you notice that half the planet is obviously concealed? Can you see what’s inside?"

"There might be a Great Power living here. Drop the greedy thoughts. We’ll just collect the stellar wreckage and go."

"Instead of thinking about that, you’d be better off figuring out how to find a wife."

...

Su Qing had concealed this area precisely because he didn’t want to be stared at by so many creatures.

They should just do whatever they came here to do and be on their way.

If they disturbed his Cultivation, he would burn them all to ash.

These days, Su Qing’s Infinite Fire Realm was leagues beyond what it once was.

His causal, Rule-based Flames now accounted for the vast majority of it.

This was all thanks to Su Qing’s painstaking efforts.

He had been constantly synthesizing Rule-based Flames with a focus on causality.

As for causality, Su Qing was now even less afraid of it.

Incurring causal debt?

He’d just burn it away.

There was no other way. Burning it was simply more convenient than repaying the debt.

——

「Outside the Planet.」

An Eleventh Realm Cultivator arrived. He was from the Human Race.

"Lord Wei," a Ninth Realm Cultivator greeted with cupped hands.

"What’s the situation?"

"The Tenth Realm Domain-Breaking Divine Artifact has no effect on the Array. We can’t break it."

"Perhaps only you, Lord Wei, can break through the Array."

"Guan Shijia, have you found out who is inside?"

The Ninth Realm Cultivator, Guan Shijia, shook his head and sighed. "We’ve scouted a family that is recuperating on the planet. More than half of it is shrouded in an impenetrable Spiritual Mist."

"Furthermore, that family is located far from the Spiritual Mist."

"A treasure? One that causes a natural phenomenon?" Wei Buqi looked toward the family. They were a small group, their strongest member only a Seventh Realm Cultivator.

A malicious glint flashed in his eyes as he activated his Pupil Technique, intending to annihilate the family within the planet’s atmosphere.

Unexpectedly, however, an Array blocked the attack, causing him to suffer a backlash.

"PFFT—" He spat out a mouthful of Immortal Blood. It was a backlash from his Pupil Technique; the Array was clearly formidable.

Without further hesitation, he took out his Tier Ten Dao Artifact, the Heaven-Piercing Shuttle, and launched it at the Array.

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