Chapter 48: The Manifestation of the Supreme One Deity's Incarnation—Danger, Danger, Danger!

"Very well, very well."
"Truly worthy of being Donghuang Taiyi."
"Realizing you couldn't harm me, you actually thought of this trick."
"I must call this drawing the firewood from beneath the cauldron."
Lu Ge patted his behind and stood up, wearing a look of feigned terror.
Donghuang Taiyi's face turned dark as ink.
He had seen it clearly just now.
This Master Lu had done it entirely on purpose.
His current state was extremely bizarre.
It wasn't a question of whether he could be harmed or not; it was that he simply could not be touched at all.
After the tree trunk shattered, he had deliberately plummeted.
This was clearly mocking him.
"What a great Patriarch of Daoism, truly formidable."
"To be able to take the form of a ghost, unharmed by all things."
"I wonder if you can withstand this next move."
Donghuang Taiyi felt he had figured out some clues.
Lu Ge's current state was just like the ghosts described in books.
All sorts of physical matter simply found it hard to touch him.
If he encountered anyone else, he would indeed be helpless.
Unfortunately, however, you met me.
I, Donghuang Taiyi, am your natural nemesis.
Whoosh.
Donghuang Taiyi raised his right hand high, palm facing the heavens.
The sun in the firmament suddenly blazed with brilliant light.
The sunlight that had originally scattered across the heaven and earth, formless, shapeless, and invisible, now condensed into form, cascading down from the nine heavens.
"The True Fire of the Sun, grand and upright, supreme in its yang essence."
"I wonder if your ghostly tricks can withstand this?"
Donghuang Taiyi abruptly flicked his right hand.
The boundless solar light rained down, washing over Lu Ge like a torrent.
The True Fire of the Sun did not manifest in the form of flames, but as a radiance of the utmost scorching intensity.
The speed of light was too fast.
So fast that it left no time to react at all.
This time, Lu Ge wasn't intentionally refusing to dodge; he simply didn't have enough time.
The dazzling white divine light of the sun poured down, completely engulfing Lu Ge within it.
Ordinary mortals could hardly look upon it.
Even a single glance would likely cause one's eyes to burst.
Standing amidst the True Fire of the Sun, Lu Ge looked at the white divine light wrapping around him.
"If we speak in scientific terms, this thing should be nuclear fusion, right?"
"Truly worthy of you, Donghuang Taiyi."
"You actually mastered controlled nuclear fusion back in the Warring States period."
"If this were two thousand years later, you'd be worshipped on an altar."
"Well, it seems he's being worshipped on an altar right now anyway."
Standing within the heavenly light, Lu Ge shook his head, casting aside distracting thoughts.
In the past, looking at the sun was like a mayfly gazing at the azure sky.
Now that the heavenly light had condensed and gathered before him, it was quite a good opportunity.
Lu Ge seized the moment to observe carefully, comprehending the Dao of the sun and exploring the ultimate principles of heaven and earth.
Outside the heavenly light, Donghuang Taiyi's expression grew increasingly gloomy.
Having mastered the divine power of the True Fire of the Sun, while others could not see through the scene inside the heavenly light, he could see it with crystal clarity.
This Patriarch of Daoism, just like before, did not dodge or evade.
He even began observing the heavenly light of the True Fire of the Sun that he had summoned.
What did this mean?
Trying to secretly learn my divine power?
He was taking him far too lightly.
Donghuang Taiyi let out a cold snort, flicked his long sleeves, abruptly turned around, and fled for his life.
You must be joking; if he didn't run now, when would he?
His ultimate trump card had been unleashed, yet the other person treated it like a sunbath.
It was glaringly obvious that he couldn't win.
Was he supposed to wait here and die?
Taking advantage of the moment while the heavenly light was condensed and Lu Ge was deep in enlightenment, this was the absolute best opportunity to run away.
Yet without Donghuang Taiyi's support, this heavenly light gradually began to dissipate.
Lu Ge snapped out of his trance and looked at the empty space ahead.
"Eh?"
"Where are they?"
"Ran away?"
Lu Ge was somewhat dumbfounded.
No way, my friend.
You are Donghuang Taiyi, for crying out loud.
How could you just run off?
I was just starting to get a feel for it, and you're already tapping out?
Lu Ge soared into the air, casting his gaze in all directions.
Fortunately, Donghuang Taiyi's speed in riding the clouds was not fast; by this time, he had only flown a few miles away.
With a shift of his figure, Lu Ge blocked Donghuang Taiyi's path in the next instant.
"Seriously, why did you run again?" Lu Ge asked with a frown.
"A grand figure like Donghuang Taiyi, and this is your fighting spirit?"
"And you still dare to call yourself a walking incarnation of the gods?"
"You're about to lose all the face the gods have left."
Donghuang Taiyi's steps halted. Looking at Lu Ge before him, he felt as if a heavy boulder were pressing down on his heart.
"Master Lu, I admit I am no match for you."
"Besides, there isn't really such deep animosity between us."
"When the ambush was set back then, didn't I refrain from making a move?"
"Today, defeated by your hands, I am convinced of my loss."
"How about we call a truce and make peace?"
Lu Ge laughed mirthfully. "Killing someone is a crime."
"Does attempting to kill someone mean it's not a crime?"
"You didn't make a move back then—was it because you didn't want to?"
"It was simply because you didn't dare."
"We are all adults; we must always pay the price for our choices."
"All things in existence operate in a cycle of cause and effect."
"The cause was when you harbored malicious intent in your heart and came along with them to set an ambush to kill me."
"The fruit is that today you die by my hands."
"If you have any other tricks, unleash them quickly."
"If you don't, I'm going to make my move."
Lu Ge urged him urgently, hoping to trick Donghuang Taiyi into displaying his divine powers once more so he could secretly learn a thing or two.
Donghuang Taiyi gritted his teeth fiercely, staring straight at Lu Ge.
"Very well, very well."
"Since you refuse reconciliation and insist on driving me into a dead end."
"Then don't blame me for being unpolite."
"I am Donghuang Taiyi, standing firm in this world for so many years—do you truly think you can kill me?"
Donghuang Taiyi's aura surged tumultuously, stirring up chaotic winds that whipped his golden crown aloft and sent his long black hair dancing wildly.
His hands continuously formed bizarre incantation seals while he chanted words in a low voice.
Lu Ge watched closely, memorizing every single gesture of the incantation seals and every word of the chant.
"I respectfully invite the divine entity Taiyi to descend into the mortal realm, to cleanse the filth of the world and exterminate all evil!"
Donghuang Taiyi let out a sudden, explosive roar.
In an instant, the winds and clouds of heaven and earth changed color.
Boundless solar light converged in the void, vaguely transforming into a human-shaped divine avatar that blotted out the sky and sun.
"You forced this upon me."
Donghuang Taiyi glared resentfully at Lu Ge.
"Today, I offer ten years of my lifespan as a sacrifice to summon the divine avatar."
"I refuse to believe a deity cannot shatter your trick of being unharmed by all things."
Lu Ge ignored Donghuang Taiyi, instead raising his head to look at the vast avatar in the sky.
Its head touched the azure sky, its feet trod upon the earth—what a majestic divine avatar standing between heaven and earth.
"Is *He* the true Donghuang Taiyi?" Lu Ge murmured aloud.
The Donghuang Taiyi before him was merely a mortal walker bearing a deity's name.
Yet this avatar was the true Donghuang Taiyi.
Of course, it certainly wasn his original true body.
A mere ten years of lifespan, even supplemented by the identity of a divine walker, could at best summon a projection of his divine avatar.
Even so, Lu Ge felt immense pressure bearing down on him.
The avatar gradually solidified; although its figure remained somewhat blurred, forged entirely from heavenly light, its visage grew clear.
A pair of eyes looked down disdainfully upon the world, fixing their gaze upon Lu Ge.
Cold sweat streamed down Lu Ge's head, and a profound terror welled up in his heart.
It was only because the state of Supreme Emotional Forgetfulness firmly suppressed it that he didn't lose control and managed to steady himself.
Were it anyone else facing a deity directly, they would likely have been frightened to death by the divine might.
The divine avatar of Taiyi remained silent, simply making its move.
His mortal walker had used his lifespan as a sacrifice to summon him to descend.
He only needed to fulfill that walker's request.
The deity's eyes shifted slightly, and two scorching beams of heavenly light shot forth explosively.
Lu Ge only felt a dazzling brightness before his eyes; the state of *Xin Xin Gui Xu* was shattered in an instant, and his ethereal state was forcibly undone.
This time, Lu Ge truly and genuinely understood what it meant to feel completely scorched within.