357: Chapter 84 The Master of the Dao 357: Chapter 84 The Master of the Dao The entire Great Yue Kingdom was almost entirely enveloped by the Ruyi Dao Rules.
Only the barren mountain currently occupied by the Martial Sect disciples remained a sanctuary, but just as the Void-breaking Array was activated, a five-colored waterfall descended from the sky.
“This is…”
“Is it the Five-Colored Dao?!”
Dreamy colored glaze, washing down.
The entire barren mountain was enveloped in this fantastical array of colors, and the Void-breaking Array, which had been injected with Primordial Energy, now emitted a low, mournful groan.
Those swirling talisman papers were frozen in an instant, fixed in the void, and the cultivators who recognized this Dao Rule revealed looks of utter despair!
The reason this northern hunt was so bleak
was because Prince Jiu of Chiling City had unexpectedly struck at Lanshan Mountain!
Prince Jiu had already rendered all those on the northern hunt defenseless.
And the “Demon Country Venerable” standing behind Prince Jiu possessed cataclysmic powers that could move mountains and overturn seas.
The void was frozen.
The already activated Void-breaking Array was forcefully suppressed by the Five-Colored Dao.
The talismans in the sky fell like flowers, dropping to the ground and turning into waste paper.
“Peacock Venerable…”
“Has personally arrived!”
A trembling voice rose from the crowd.
Everyone lifted their heads, gazing at the astonishing scene revealed after the firmament cracked open.
At the zenith of the Great Yue Kingdom’s Secret Realm, a rift was torn, and the river-like colored glaze Dao Rule fell from the heavens, cascading to the ground and enveloping the entire barren mountain region.
A golden pupil, through that sliver of a gap, coldly and heartlessly watched over the world of mortals.
Ants.
All those standing in the Void-breaking Array at this moment
were no more than ants.
“Senior brother…
hurry and contact the sect leader.”
Lin Yu’s complexion was terribly grim, as he subconsciously tugged at the senior brother’s sleeve.
No one had anticipated that the Demon Country Venerable would arrive so swiftly!
This level of power was simply not something they could confront!
In the blink of an eye, everyone would be reduced to ashes.
“Crack.”
An even more despairing event occurred.
That golden vertical pupil, looking down upon the human realm through the gap, merely swept across with indifference, and the Martial Sect Token clutched tightly in Wu Yue’s palm suddenly made a cracking sound!
After infusing it with Divine Soul, the token unexpectedly split open!
This entire world was shrouded by the Five-Colored Dao!
The Venerable’s arrival, the sealing of the Dao Rules!
The Divine Soul Order in Wu Yue’s hand became as useless as the talisman papers scattered across the sky.
In fact.
Even if the token weren’t sealed, it would be meaningless; it was only a Communication Order, not a transportation order.
The Five-Colored Venerable had already arrived, and the exiled immortals had not.
“Heh…”
A deep, disdainful laugh came from above the heavens.
Rustle.
Wu Yue opened his palm, silently watching the token in his hand turn to ashes and be scattered by the wind.
“This…”
Shang Yi’s pretty face turned pale, drained of color.
“It’s over…”
Yu Wenzhong stared blankly at this scene, his Panxuan Mirror also unable to be used at this moment.
The entire world had been completely sealed off.
He had been harboring a faint hope that during this northern hunt, the Yang Gods of Qiantian Palace were also paying attention, and perhaps the elders from his own sect, upon receiving the distress signal from the ship examiner, had headed towards the northern borders.
At this moment, all fantasies had turned to bubbles.
The peak figures of the Yang God Realm, from both worlds combined, only amounted to so many.
The moment the Void-breaking Array was suppressed,
everyone’s will to live could be declared shattered.
The Peacock Venerable needed only a trace of Divine Thought to envelop the entire world under the Dao Rule, refining it all.
Even if everyone brought out their ultimate treasures, they could only last for a brief instant.
By the time the human race’s Yang Gods arrived…
all they could do would be to collect the bodies.
No.
They wouldn’t even have time for that.
They would probably be refined by the Five-Colored Dao into minuscule particles, their bones crushed and scattered to the winds.
Where would there be any intact corpses?
“Swoosh!”
Just then.
A streak of sword light came flying, riding on the Ruyi Dao tides of the distant heavens, piercing through the rolling clouds of dust.
The next moment.
This streak of sword light, with thunder in tow, charged into the five-colored waterfall.
“Xie Zhen!”
“Xie brother?!”
“Young Master Xie…”
A mix of shocked, confused, and sympathetic voices simultaneously arose.
Shang Yi, Yu Wenzhong, and Tai Shang House’s second elder brother Qi Yu hadn’t expected at all that Xie Zhen, who had left and returned, would suddenly move from the north of the Great Yue Kingdom down to the south, to the convergence point designated by the bamboo slips.
With Xie Zhen’s unyielding character.
Where he departed from, was it not a departure?
Previously when Xie Zhen refused to travel with Qiantian Palace’s Tai Shang House…
They had thought that the next time they met would at least be in Great Chu.
Wu Yue looked at that black-clothed figure suspended in the air by Sword Control, filled with bewilderment.
He knew better than anyone Xie Zhen’s strength; the new master of Xuanshui Cave Heaven had already comprehended the force of “Dao Rules,” only a hair’s breadth away from the Yin God, and perhaps if he wished, he could ascend at any moment.
With such a realm…
how could he fail to see that this barren mountain in the south was wrapped in the Five-Colored Dao?
Xie Zhen had intentionally ridden his sword into this place!
Had he gone mad?
Could it be that he believed he had the strength to confront the Demon Country Venerable?
Among the countless voices, the most regretful one
came from Yuan Yi of Baihua Valley.
She stared blankly at the youth in black, bathed in the radiance of thunder and Sword Qi, standing amidst the floating talismans, his Sword Qi ripping a gap through the five-colored Waterfall.
Such an entrance was certainly dazzling.
But it also broke hearts.
When she saw the Array Talismans of the Void-breaking Array shatter and the five-colored waterfall descend, Yuan Yi had already prepared herself to face death…
Upon careful consideration, though she had many regrets in life,
at least there was one blessing.
That was, the one she cared about most had not stepped into this grand array and might still have a chance at survival.
Alas, now.
This sliver of hope amidst despair also shattered.
Yuan Yi collapsed to the ground, her eyes filled with gloom, yet inadvertently, her gaze met Xie Zhen’s.
The black-clad youth stood atop the Sword Qi, his black shirt still stained with coarse gravel, his eyes calm like the undisturbed depths of the ocean.
After their eyes met, Yuan Yi felt her Heart Lake suddenly become much more tranquil.
That already-despaired heart sprouted new life again, she clutched her sleeve, cautious and tentative, thinking about the last time she met Xie Zhen in the Secret Realm—it seemed so similar to now, also trapped within a realm of despair.
He had saved her once before.
Perhaps…
There would be a second time now?
“Don’t bother trying to send messages.
It’s useless.”
Xie Xuanyi looked down at the several Saint Heirs below him.
The Martial Sect’s Communication Order was shattered, Shang Yi, Yu Wenzhong, they both tried to use their Communication Tokens to contact the Yang Gods of their sects.
Alas.
The token was utterly useless at such a critical moment.
Even if he activated the “Lotus Token” himself and sent out a distress signal to his Master, Zhao Chunyang couldn’t just appear in the Great Yue Kingdom out of thin air.
Even a Yang God of his stature, capable of traversing the sky, needs the aid of Array Techniques and talismanic techniques to precisely determine the landing point for physical transportation…
the time Zhao Chunyang traversed the void from Da Sui Sword Palace was purely because the “destination” was too familiar.
Which of the Human Race’s Yang Gods doesn’t know the landing point of the Great Chu Imperial City?
“Brother Xie…”
Wu Yue forced a bitter smile, flicking his palm, he tossed away the utterly shattered token.
Indeed.
Sending messages now, what use would it have?
“Lord of Da Sui Sword, do you perhaps have a brilliant idea?”
Shang Yi bit down hard, lowered his attitude and respectfully transmitted his inquiry.
Among those in the northern hunt, Xie Zhen had the highest cultivation and held the most trump cards.
With such capabilities.
It couldn’t possibly be that he intentionally came here to “court death” along with everyone else, could it?
“Beneath the Yin God, all are but ants.”
Xie Xuanyi lightly chuckled, saying, “And in the eyes of a Yang God, Yin Gods are no different from ants.
He is a Yang God, while I am an ant.
What can I possibly do?”
The moment these words were spoken.
Shang Yi was rendered speechless.
She turned her head to look, the tear in the Five-Colored waterfall was slowly closing.
Clearly.
The moment Xie Zhen saw the Five-Colored Dao, the Five-Colored Dao also saw him.
For those “entities” willing to enter the array voluntarily…
The Peacock Venerable naturally welcomes all comers!
It is said that this Demon Country Venerable’s character is extremely proud, which can be inferred by his actions after seizing control of heaven and earth, not immediately committing a massacre…
This Great Demon is conceited to the extreme.
Just with a thought these human cultivators could turn into ash.
Yet, he just did not do so.
It was also.
For a transcendent Great Demon, why rush to crush ants that are already grasped in his palm?
Once the Five-Colored Cave Heaven closes, and the Dao cuts down, he can annihilate all these young Human Race talents!
“I indeed have no plan.”
“Only a Yang God can combat a Yang God.”
Xie Xuanyi spoke faintly: “However…
there’s more than one Yang God here.”
Immediately thereafter.
Xie Xuanyi raised his head and spoke loudly: “Peacock Venerable, if you wish to kill all the northern cultivators, you can act now!
As soon as you close your Lifebound Cave Heaven and let the Five-Colored Dao strike down, we will turn into dust!”
“…”
As this challenge fell.
Everyone in the Void-breaking Array turned pale, as they looked up in terror at the sky.
Above their heads, the vertical pupil slowly contracted.
The entire world was torn apart, countless gales surged up from the ground, the Void-breaking Array was crushed completely, a world-ending aura released from the Five-Colored Cave Heaven, and the Great Yue Kingdom’s Secret Realm was slightly opened, a towering figure suspended in the sky above, wrapped in the light of colored glaze.
He extended his hand.
This hand emitted Five-Colored Divine Radiance.
In an instant, a blinding holy light engulfed the entire barren mountain!
But Xie Xuanyi did not close his eyes, riding his sword to the very top of the sky, against the myriad swirling Five-Colored Dao Rules, speeding upwards.
This Five-Colored Dao, like a furnace.
Merely approaching the sky’s pinnacle began to dissolve his black shirt.
However, the next moment.
A fierce, heavy sigh resonated within Xie Xuanyi’s Heart Lake.
“Xie Xuanyi!”
With that voice, the nearly disintegrated Dao Heart’s scorching heat from the Five-Colored Dao was immediately sealed off.
“Do you really have to do this?”
This sigh.
Caused countless fragmented talismans to flutter in the void, transforming into an upside-down large bowl that covered everyone.
The rustling!
Countless sheets of paper pieced together in the air.
Facing Xie Xuanyi and turning his back to the Five-Colored Venerable, the White Robed Taoist appeared so “abruptly,” actually withstanding the onslaught of the Five-Colored Dao with his physical body.
Lu Yuzhen had been struck in the back by the hand formed from the Five-Colored Dao, his chest completely pierced through, yet his face remained unchanged, as if he could not feel any pain.
He looked at Xie Xuanyi tenderly.
His flying sword hung still in the air.
“Truly unexpected…
how did you guess?”
Lu Yuzhen smiled, saying, “I’ve never appeared within the Great Yue Kingdom before.”
“I’m sorry, I could only do this.”
Xie Xuanyi did not answer the question, only spoke calmly: “If you hadn’t come, I would die, and so would they.”
Despite his apology, there was not a trace of remorse in his tone.
“How could I simply watch you die?”
Lu Yuzhen seemed indifferent.
He again let out a sigh, looking down with a cold gaze, whispering, “As for them, what does it matter if they die?”
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(Tonight there’ll be another update.)