The chaotic fire transformed from the Thought-Self Corpse suddenly swallowed a portion of the undying sea of flames.
As if fighting poison with poison, it tempered itself within the Fire Spirit’s chaotic, frenzied will and flames.
That ever-shifting form actually began to settle into a certain stability, emanating a mysterious Dao resonance of myriad thoughts returning to one current, the heart-fire illuminating itself.
Meanwhile, the Ego-Self Corpse endured most of the Vine Ancestor’s spiritual erosion. Beneath the gaze of countless prying eyes, that figure in imperial robes and crown
instead grew ever more majestic and solid. It treated the foreign spiritual assault as a whetstone, tempering its absolute conviction in its command over the self.
As if making a declaration.
How could my Dao be something outer evils may pry into?
“He is using our power to perfect his art!”
The Myriad-Realms Vine Ancestor let out a shrill spiritual roar, filled with shock and fury.
It felt that not only had it failed to peer into the secret, but its own spiritual power was like a clay ox entering the sea, constantly digested and absorbed by the other party’s bizarre Three Corpses phantoms!
The Undying Fire Spirit also sensed that something was wrong. Its flames had not refined the other party at all.
Instead, they were being continuously assimilated and ordered by that Thought-Self Corpse.
Within its chaotic sentience, an emotion known as “fear” arose for the first time.
Only the Battle Emperor’s gaze remained icy. His broken halberd did not stop; each strike was heavier than the last.
It clashed fiercely with the Chaos Bell’s guarding power, erupting with destructive energy.
He had seen through Lu Xuan’s true state and knew that most of the other party’s attention was still on resisting the Great Dao tribulation. This was a desperate gamble.
“External forces are no longer to be feared. Now, it is time to end you completely.”
Lu Xuan felt the Three Corpses rapidly perfecting and solidifying under pressure from within and without. His gaze finally turned toward the final tribulation cloud that had brewed to its peak.
He took a deep breath, and the chaotic qi of the entire Realm Sea seemed to surge into his body along with it.
The Three Corpses phantoms abruptly returned, perfectly overlapping with his true body.
The next moment, he brought two fingers together like a blade and lightly slashed toward the Eye of the Great Dao, and toward the void within himself!
“Three Corpses, sever!”
There was no earth-shaking explosion, no dazzling brilliance.
There was only an intangible cracking sound, as if the foundation of the universe had been shaken, ringing out in the hearts of all beings at the Immortal King level and above.
The Eye of the Great Dao, condensed from the wrath of myriad Daos, suddenly froze.
Then, like flowers in a mirror and the moon in water, it began to collapse and dissipate inch by inch.
The Great Dao Tribulation of Creating a Law dispersed.
Lu Xuan stood alone in the Realm Sea, his aura restrained to the utmost.
Yet he gave off a profound, unfathomable sense of emptiness.
He had successfully passed the tribulation, and at this moment, he had truly taken the first step in severing the Three Corpses!
His gaze calmly swept over the Myriad-Realms Vine Ancestor, whose expression was ugly, the Undying Fire Spirit, and the Battle Emperor standing with halberd in hand.
“Now, it is time to settle the account between us.”
When Lu Xuan said, “It is time to settle the account between us,”
his tone was flat, yet it instantly froze the surging energy turbulence of the Realm Sea.
He stood alone amid the void. There was no longer any tribulation light shining around him, nor any terrifying aura, only a profound depth that had returned to simplicity and truth.
It was as if, merely by standing there, he himself had become part of the Great Dao, an incarnation of the rules.
The Myriad-Realms Vine Ancestor’s billions upon billions of eye-pupils contracted at the same time, sensing an unprecedented crisis.
The Undying Fire Spirit’s liquid golden flames churned violently; within its chaotic will, fear gained the upper hand.
Only the Battle Emperor’s withered face showed no expression. He merely gripped the broken halberd in his hand even tighter. The battle intent soaring to the heavens not only did not weaken, it became even more condensed, even purer.
“Arrogant!”
The Myriad-Realms Vine Ancestor was the first to strike. It knew it could not allow Lu Xuan to stabilize his realm any further.
Countless dark-purple vines were no longer mere phantoms; their true bodies pierced through layer after layer of space, like billions of venomous dragons, strangling toward him from every direction.
Ancient and vicious curse runes appeared on every vine, emanating law fluctuations that could decay all things.
Wherever they passed, even the spatial structure of the Realm Sea began to collapse.
This was the “Myriad-Realms Decaying Divine Vine” it had condensed after devouring countless ancient realms, enough to easily strangle a giant of the same level to death!
Facing an attack sufficient to plunge an entire great universe into utter silence, Lu Xuan merely raised his right hand lightly.
“Ego-Self Corpse, govern all laws; let chaos be the prison.”
Behind him, the phantom of the Ego-Self Corpse in imperial robes and crown stepped forward, overlapping with his right hand.
In an instant, Lu Xuan’s palm seemed to transform into the source of chaos, and he gently clenched it toward the vines filling the sky.
“Bzz—!”
With his palm as the center, endless chaotic qi surged out.
Yet it did not spread in disorder. Instead, it instantly evolved into a chaotic prison that enveloped the sea of stars!
Countless vines smashed into the prison walls. The curse power capable of decaying great realms was actually like a clay ox entering the sea, easily devoured by the chaotic qi.
Inside the prison, earth, water, fire, and wind reversed, and time and space fell into disarray, trapping the vines’ true bodies and madly grinding away the runes and vitality upon them!
“Roar!”
The Myriad-Realms Vine Ancestor let out a painful hiss. It felt its connection to the portions of its true-body vines that had split off being rapidly erased.
It frantically activated its divine power. Billions of eye-pupils shot out destructive gray light, attempting to pierce through the chaotic prison.
However, Lu Xuan brought the fingers of his left hand together like a sword and lightly drew a line toward the void where the Vine Ancestor’s true body resided.
“Thought-Self Corpse, heart-sword without trace; sever causes and cut off effects.”
The Thought-Self Corpse, representing infinite thoughts, transformed into an invisible, intangible, yet truly existent heart-sword, following the unseen lines of karma and slashing directly into the core consciousness of the Myriad-Realms Vine Ancestor!
“No—!”
The Vine Ancestor let out an extremely shrill spiritual scream.
Its vast and boundless spiritual power, before this heart-sword that specifically severed thoughts and intentions, actually appeared so bloated and unwieldy.
The miscellaneous thoughts, evil thoughts, and resentments of worlds it had destroyed, devoured and accumulated over countless years, instead became its burden at this moment and were turned back against it by the heart-sword!
Its billions of eye-pupils exploded one after another. Its enormous vine body convulsed violently, and its aura instantly withered.
Although this sword did not directly kill it, it heavily wounded the foundation of its sentience and severed more than half of its Dao cultivation!
The instant Lu Xuan dealt with the Vine Ancestor, the Undying Fire Spirit seized the opportunity.
Though it was afraid, its longing to clarify the self overrode everything.
It no longer scattered its attacks, but compressed its entire liquid flame body to the extreme, transforming into a golden divine flame spear condensed to the utmost.
The spear tip burned with ultimate flames capable of burning through myriad Daos, silently stabbing toward Lu Xuan’s back!
This was the condensation of its lifetime’s cultivation, seeking to kill in a single strike!
And the Battle Emperor also moved at this moment.
He had no flashy techniques. He simply raised the broken halberd high above his head, while the blood-fiend aura and battlefield killing intent around him boiled to the extreme.
Within the Realm Sea, the wails of countless gods and devils dying in battle seemed to resound!
He stepped forward, and the Realm Sea beneath his feet was reduced to dust.
The broken halberd carried a tragic will to shatter all laws, chopping down simply and directly toward Lu Xuan’s head!
This halberd sealed time and space and cut off all paths of retreat, forcing Lu Xuan to meet it head-on!
Attacked from front and back! The divine flame spear contained the ultimate law of “burning,” while the broken halberd represented the pinnacle of pure “force” and “slaughter”!
Lu Xuan’s expression did not change. He did not even turn back to look at that divine flame spear.
The Chaos Bell above his head rang out on its own.
“Clang—!”
The bell’s toll was vast and mighty. It was no longer defense, but an active attack!