Chapter 147: The Speed of Thought

Chapter 147: The Speed of Thought

The lightning tribulations and thunder clouds flickering in Tu Zhe's eyes were the external manifestations of the heavenly tribulation within his Sumeru ring that he could no longer suppress.

At the same time, he no longer needed to suppress it.

Ever since setting out from Mount Sumeru, Tu Zhe had experienced the teleportation channel being shattered by a heavenly spear, almost perishing along with Doggy; he had watched helplessly as hundreds of millions of innocent celestial beings on the Heavenly Stable Barren Star were turned into a bloody pulp of flesh and bone after being struck ten times by the Heavenly Ladle, while he himself remained utterly powerless; and he had been forced to swallow his rage again and again in the face of Tang Youyou's relentless oppression, all for fear of triggering a full-scale war between the realms of Buddhism and Taoism.

This stifling frustration was self-evident.

Damn it, as the ancients used to say, if others do not bully me, I will not bully others; if others bully me, I will surely cut them down!

Could it be that just as those words left his mouth, he was supposed to keep swallowing his anger and cast his own vow to the winds?

So what if you are a member of the imperial family?

Do you possess an extra life compared to me?

I am simply not going to pamper you with this nonsense.

Damn it, if you want a battle, then a battle it is. No more putting on airs!

Therefore, without even casting a glance at Tang Youyou, Tu Zhe bowed deeply to Erlang Shen and said, "Second Brother, let me ask you a question. How fast is your Earth-Bound Golden Light?"

"Hmm?"

Erlang Shen was somewhat surprised that Tu Zhe would ask about this at such a moment. However, he was not a meddlesome person; since Tu Zhe asked, there naturally had to be a reason.

Erlang Shen smiled and said, "Heh, how fast do you want it to be?"

"As fast as possible!" A dangerous flash of lightning crossed Tu Zhe's eyes.

Damn it, if I let you, Tang Youyou, escape today, how am I supposed to vent the fury pent up in my heart?

If my heart remains blocked, how can I ever continue to cultivate?

Seeing the flash of lightning in Tu Zhe's eyes, Erlang Shen smiled meaningfully and said, "Shrinking the earth into an inch, strolling ten thousand miles in a leisurely courtyard—those are mere tricks for children. My Earth-Bound Golden Light can reach a maximum of ten thousand times the speed of light. Do you want to learn it? Heh..."

Tu Zhe bowed all the way to the ground and said in a loud voice, "Please instruct me, Second Brother!"

Erlang Shen laughed heartily and transmitted a thought directly into his mind: "As fast as your thoughts are, that is how fast you will be. I have given you the secret. To what extent you can master it—whether one hundred times the speed of light, ten thousand times the speed of light, or infinite times the speed of light—depends entirely on your own fortune. Heh..."

*As fast as your thoughts are, that is how fast you will be!*

Tu Zhe repeatedly chewed on the true essence of these words.

In his previous life, there was a very famous saying: *No matter how far your thoughts can reach, that is how far you can walk.*

And Second Brother told him: *No matter how fast your thoughts can be, that is how fast you can be.*

How fast is a thought?

Is the speed of light fast? Of course!

Is thought fast? Of course!

Is thought faster than the speed of light? Damn it, can you ask a question that requires some intelligence?

My thought can leave the Milky Way in an instant; can light ever do that?

Tu Zhe suddenly opened his eyes and paid another solemn bow to Erlang Shen, indicating that he understood.

Erlang Shen looked at Tu Zhe in astonishment. *Does this kid's comprehension really run this deep? Damn it!*

Suddenly, Erlang Shen's sleeves fluttered, and the Howling Celestial Dog roared, "Tang Youyou, you bastard, how dare you harbor murderous intent toward Miss Doggy! Dog Brother is going to annihilate you today—"

Opening its jaws wide, a mouth that blotted out the sky and could swallow the stars filled the firmament. Darkness descended in an instant, and the giant fangs of the Howling Celestial Dog lunged toward Tang Youyou like heavenly pestles.

The giant mouth sought to swallow him whole, and the fangs intended to grind him to dust.

Damn it, Tang Youyou, you must be tired of living, right? How dare you target the female dog cherished by this lord? This is simply something that Uncle Dog can tolerate, but Aunt Dog cannot! Awooo—

You have to hand it to him for having the audacity driven by lust. Tang Youyou's current divine powers were formidable enough to rival even Erlang Shen's; just what kind of weight did you, a spiritual hound at most in the early Emperor realm, think you were carrying, trying to devour a powerhouse of True Monarch strength like Tang Youyou?

However, a dog husband has things he must not do, and things he absolutely must do. Without this kind of guts, when would the foreign invaders ever be driven out, right?

How could Erlang Shen possibly allow the Howling Celestial Dog to lock horns with Tang Youyou? Wouldn't that be pure suicide?

Therefore, with a wave of his hand, Erlang Shen flicked the Howling Celestial Dog straight into his sleeve, and the clouds parted to reveal the sun once more. The very moment he was pulled into the sleeve, the Howling Celestial Dog still didn't forget to howl toward Doggy, "My heart is crystal clear, yearning for a true romance—"

Doggy immediately threw herself into Little Su's arms and wailed, "Sister-in-law, the ruffian dog is bullying me, wuwuwu..."

At this moment, although Little Su was blushing fiercely, her heart felt as sweet as if she had eaten honey. She stroked Doggy and comforted her, "Don't cry, Doggy, don't cry. Later on, we'll teach that ruffian dog a lesson, okay?"

Well, this sister-in-law had practically given her tacit consent. Heh.

By this time, Tu Zhe had already gained some understanding of the essence of the Earth-Bound Golden Light. He felt that if he were to unleash the Earth-Bound Golden Light right now, he wouldn't dare claim how much faster than light he was, but at the very least, it would be comparable to the speed of light. No matter what, Tang Youyou shouldn't be faster than light.

Tu Zhe said to Erlang Shen, "Second Brother, please act as a witness for your younger brother today.

Tang Youyou previously attempted to forcibly seize my maidservant, stirring up trouble;

Now he has come a second time, not only harboring illicit intentions once more, but also targeting my brother.

I recall that all the heavens and myriad realms share an unwritten rule: if a conflict becomes irreconcilable, one party may issue a challenge to a duel to the other. Second Brother, does the Northern Pole Heavens have such a tradition?"

Erlang Shen nodded and said, "Indeed!"

Tu Zhe uttered a calm "good," then turned his eyes—still flashing with thunder tribulations and clouds—toward Tang Youyou.

Tang Youyou had been standing unconcernedly in the clouds with his hands behind his back all this time, patiently waiting for Tu Zhe and Erlang Shen to finish their conversation.

In his view, the matter between him and Tu Zhe was merely a question of time. *An ant! Is there any need to get angry with an ant?*

Tu Zhe looked coldly at Tang Youyou and said, "Tu Zhe, Son of Heaven of Mount Sumeru, hereby issues a challenge to Heavenly King Tang Youyou of the You Heaven, one of the Nine Heavens of the Northern Pole. Life or death regardless. Do you dare accept?"

Tang Youyou closed his eyes slightly and tilted his head back in a silent, grand laugh, as if he had just heard the most ridiculous joke in the world.

When he had laughed enough, Tang Youyou stared sternly at Tu Zhe and said indifferently, "Are you certain you are not talking nonsense?"

Tu Zhe took a single step into the sky and shouted sternly, "Do you dare or not—"

Tang Youyou spread his hands. "If you want to die, just say so. Do you even have the qualifications to challenge me?"

Tu Zhe sneered and instantly cast a barrier-concealing spell. Suddenly, countless meteors appeared in the sky, carving out thousands of fiery trails of light as they gathered together in the high altitude far beyond two million miles away from Bi-2.

Tu Zhe clenched both hands into fists and roared, "Condense—!"

The countless meteors immediately collided and fused together. In merely a fraction of a second, they solidified into a vast continent of solid rock.

Tu Zhe was afraid that fighting on Bi-2 would cause destruction to the library.

Tu Zhe glanced at Tang Youyou and rebuked, "If you have the guts, follow me—"

With that, he unleashed the Earth-Bound Golden Light. Not even a fraction of a second passed before he was already standing atop that meteor-rock continent, looking as though he had simply been standing there all along.

Erlang Shen nodded approvingly and said to Little Su, "Little Sister, this little fellow of yours is quite decent, heh. That speed is almost catching up to half of your Second Brother's..."

Little Su said with a hint of worry, "Second Brother, will he be alright?"

Erlang Shen shook his head. "I cannot see through your little fellow. Let us follow them. With Second Brother here, what is there for you to fear?"

With those words, Erlang Shen grabbed Little Su by the arm, a flash of golden light illuminated the space, and the two of them were instantly standing upon the meteor continent.

Seeing that Tu Zhe had summoned a vast expanse of meteors and even forged a continent out of them, Tang Youyou's fighting spirit was also ignited. A streak of mysterious light flashed, and he too stood upon the meteor continent at the same time.

Upon seeing this, Tang San and the others thought, *Well then, we should go up too.*

However, their speed compared to those real master-minds made them look like snails.

Tang San was somewhat better off, stepping onto the continent in a single stride, while the others who were not at the Heavenly Venerate realm needed anywhere from several breaths to dozens of breaths of time to arrive.

The disparity in their realms was laid bare at a single glance.

Tu Zhe surveyed the meteor continent and estimated it to be roughly the size of Bi-2. *Hmm, large enough.*

Tu Zhe communicated with Erlang Shen via divine sense, saying, "Second Brother, please keep an eye on Little Su later. My domain here is a bit large, heh."

Erlang Shen couldn't care less. What kind of spectacles had your Second Brother not witnessed before? Even if you were to smash a planet to pieces with a single punch, what of it?

Could it possibly hurt your Second Brother? Heh.