Soul Land 5: The Rebirth of Tang San

Chapter 737: Mending Space

Tang San's words still echoed in her ears, and everything happening now was a complete confirmation of what he had predicted.

Mei Gongzi clearly remembered how she had argued with him back then, insisting that the Celestial Fox Demon Emperor would never help her advance her cultivation. And yet, now she was a Great Demon King.

The terrifying tribulation in the sky made it hard for Mei Gongzi to even breathe. This oppressive force directly targeted her divine consciousness, and not even the Celestial Fox Demon Emperor’s power could shield her from it.

The Celestial Fox Sacred Mountain was trembling continuously. While some of the tremors came from internal forces, most were due to the external pressure of the lightning tribulation.

The direct suppression of the tribulation on their divine consciousness was overwhelming, and many members of the Celestial Fox clan could hardly endure it.

"All Celestial Foxes, leave the Sacred Mountain immediately," the voice of the Celestial Fox Demon Emperor echoed from the sky. At the same time, the image of the nine-tailed Celestial Fox appeared once again in the sky. The Celestial Fox Demon Emperor’s divine consciousness enveloped the area, bestowing the Celestial Fox clan with his protection, allowing them to swiftly retreat to safety.

Mei Gongzi stood beside the Celestial Fox Demon Emperor, holding the Celestial Plume in her hand, while the White Tiger Demon Emperor had also come along, still feeling somewhat uneasy about the Celestial Fox Demon Emperor.

The Celestial Fox Demon Emperor didn’t look at the White Tiger Demon Emperor. He could feel that the aura beneath the Celestial Fox Sacred Mountain was gradually stabilizing, yet the tribulation in the sky grew increasingly violent. He turned to Mei Gongzi and said, "Use the Celestial Plume to guide you and sense the spatial fluctuations. In a moment, I will direct your divine consciousness to observe a certain location. All you need to do is lock onto the spatial coordinates of that place. Understand?"

Mei Gongzi nodded. "Understood."

White light surged in the Celestial Fox Demon Emperor's eyes as he fully unleashed his divine consciousness, bringing Mei Gongzi with him as they suddenly plunged into the Celestial Fox Sacred Mountain.

The first thing Mei Gongzi sensed was the overwhelming fortune. Even though she couldn’t see it directly or control it like a Celestial Fox could, the Celestial Plume’s ability to see the future allowed her to sense the shifts in fortune.

Quickly passing through the layers of fortune, she suddenly felt a terrifying aura—a sense of oppression that seemed to stem directly from destiny itself. Everything before her turned pitch black, and within that darkness, it felt as though countless invisible beasts were trying to devour her.

White light surged from the Celestial Fox Demon Emperor, and behind him, the shadow of the nine-tailed Celestial Fox flickered as its tails spread out. The surging and shifting fortune dispelled and suppressed the overwhelming feeling.

Only then did Mei Gongzi’s perception begin to clear.

A golden orb of light appeared within her vision. The golden orb seemed to rapidly expand, as though it were becoming a world of its own, but this world was incredibly illusory.

"That's the source of the disaster. Use the Celestial Plume to lock onto its spatial coordinates," the Celestial Fox Demon Emperor said, stepping back slightly.

Mei Gongzi nodded, raising her right hand and slowly waving the Celestial Plume. The three silver eyes within it flickered with strange light, and the power of space began to surge rapidly.

In Mei Gongzi's perception, countless silver lines appeared within the dark space, crisscrossing each other, each line representing a division of space. The dense web of spatial lines overlapped and intertwined, forming the most complex spatial structure she had ever encountered.

As the Celestial Plume waved, these silver spatial lines gradually became visible, encircling the golden world at the center.

The Celestial Fox Demon Emperor's eyes lit up as he saw the spatial lines. Indeed, finding the hidden space required a proper master of space.

Each line represented a fold in space, and with such a complex web of spatial folds, it was no wonder that his divine consciousness could not locate the true position of the Hell Garden.

Mei Gongzi infused some power into the Celestial Plume. Like unraveling a silk cocoon, she picked up a spatial line, and with a surge of silver light, merged this spatial line with the original space, dissolving that fold in space.

Then came the second and the third lines. One by one, the silver spatial lines were quickly unraveled by her.

However, there were simply too many of these silver spatial lines, and it was clear that dissolving them all would take some time.

Meanwhile, the thunder in the sky above the Ancestral Court showed no signs of waiting. The purple lightning, now tinged with golden halos, descended from the heavens once more.

The Emperors once again struggled to resist the lightning. However, none of them were willing to destroy the tribulation clouds. Simply resisting the tribulation only drained their own strength, but attacking the clouds would consume their very essence. For any living being, this was something extremely precious, directly tied to their lifespan and cultivation limits.

The Celestial Fox Demon Emperor's lips moved as if to urge her on, but he held back. Mei Gongzi had just ascended to the eleventh order, and for her to mend space like this demonstrated an exceptionally deep understanding of spatial forces.

As an Emperor, how could he not have some understanding of space? Yet, even with his level of cultivation, the Celestial Fox Demon Emperor knew he couldn’t mend space the way she was doing now. So, all he could do was wait as Mei Gongzi continued to align the spatial folds.

Mei Gongzi, on the other hand, felt something profoundly strange. As she merged these spatial lines, her understanding of space deepened. It felt as if this task had been specially designed for her, allowing her to fully integrate and master her newly acquired cultivation as a Great Demon King.

Is this part of his plan too? He must be in that golden-filled dimension right now....

Even though she was one of the planners and fully understood the plan, she still couldn’t help but feel a sense of incredulity at this moment.

***

Inside the Hell Garden.

As he sat cross-legged on the Heavenly Bloom, feeling the changes outside, the smile on Tang San’s face grew even more pronounced.

Since Mei Gongzi hadn’t triggered the Asura Sword a second time, he knew she was safe. Otherwise, he would have had no choice but to activate another trump card, accelerating everything. Of course, that wasn’t an ideal choice, as it would greatly increase the risk of his tribulation.

At this moment, proceeding step by step, with everything under control, was the most ideal situation.

Right now, the yin-yang energy within him was continuously nourishing his nine imprints. The Chaos Blue Silver Emperor at the center was becoming increasingly luminous, and the drop of chaos energy that had condensed into a water droplet was becoming more and more crystalline. This chaos energy was a rare treasure that only a plane could produce, and he absolutely couldn’t waste it. It would be a crucial asset for his upcoming tribulation.

The Spacetime Lighthouse shimmered with a faint halo, floating before him.

The spatial lines that Mei Gongzi and the Celestial Fox Demon Emperor were dealing with outside were actually a special application of the Spacetime Lighthouse: throwing space and time into disarray.

The core of the Spacetime Lighthouse was the Spacetime Beacon, a primeval mineral that had existed for countless ages and carried innumerable traces of the spaces it crossed, an inestimable amount of mixed energies. When these energies were released without locking onto specific coordinates, this was the effect—an enormous spatial disturbance that was beyond even the abilities of a First-Class God to contain.

If Tang San were to regain his God King cultivation, he could use the Spacetime Lighthouse to reach any plane he had visited before. Small planes like the Hell Garden could be directly brought under his control, functioning like a personal spatial storage device.

Moreover, even through this disordered space-time, the Spacetime Lighthouse allowed Tang San to know his own time and place and what was around him. Although he couldn’t see Mei Gongzi, he could sense the aura of the Celestial Plume and know that she was mending the space with it, allowing him to gauge her current state.

The Nine Heavens and Ten Earths Great Annihilation Tribulation couldn’t be directly withstood—that would be certain death. But with the Emperors outside helping him hold off the tribulation for a while, its power would be somewhat weakened. And even if the lightning tribulation above the Ancestral Court was dispersed, it would still drain some of the court's fortune. The Celestial Fox Sacred Mountain was completely destabilized now, and the Hell Garden had been shifted out of its original position by Tang San. It could no longer stabilize the Celestial Fox Sacred Mountain, which meant that there was no counterbalance to that massive amount of fortune.