Chapter 796: The Master versus the Dharma Spreader
The Dharma Spreader—truly worthy of his reputation as the most powerful being in the Xuanhuang Realm, an entity whose might overshadowed all others.
With all his power, Master Bai could evade him for a time.
But he could not hide forever.
After finally perfecting the "Foundation Establishment Through Oneself" technique and successfully validating its principles...
...the Dharma Spreader, following the faintest of clues, still managed to track Master Bai to his hiding place.
Hummmm...
It felt as if the air had been instantly siphoned away. The sudden, immense pressure change made everyone in Longevity Valley clutch their heads in agony.
Cracks spiderwebbed across the sky of the secret realm.
It was as if the realm itself could not withstand the immense power bearing down upon it and was on the verge of shattering.
...
All this transpired in a mere instant.
And yet, it was not the Dharma Spreader himself who had arrived in person.
This was merely the result of his gaze, cast down from the heavens above.
Master Bai strode out, ascended into the air, and with a gentle step...
The cracks marring the realm's sky began to mend themselves.
Longevity Valley, which had been shaking uncontrollably, slowly settled into stillness once more.
As they recovered from the Dharma Spreader's oppressive presence, the faces of the onlookers were ashen, their bodies trembling uncontrollably.
Even the trio of Dao Integration cultivators was no exception.
Before the Dharma Spreader, an ordinary Dao Integration master was no different from a cultivator at the Foundation Establishment or Nascent Soul stage.
They stared up at Master Bai, their expressions a mixture of awe and fear. He alone had shouldered the entirety of the Dharma Spreader's oppressive might.
Master Bai's robes billowed as if in an unseen wind, rustling softly.
"Take care of the children."
"Their contribution to the creation of the 'Foundation Establishment Through Oneself' technique was indispensable."
He gave the instruction calmly, without turning back.
Then, Master Bai tore through the void and departed from Longevity Valley.
"Master!" From beginning to end, the people of Longevity Valley had never learned his true name.
They knew him only as "Master."
Just like the orphans who had once lived in the dilapidated Xuantian Temple in Ningyuan City.
Having apparently locked onto its target, the Dharma Spreader's oppressive presence began to recede from Longevity Valley.
It did not vanish, however.
Instead, it focused entirely on Master Bai.
After Master Bai tore through space and returned to the main Xuanhuang Realm...
Whether it was an effect of the Dharma Spreader's power or Master Bai's own deliberate act, it was impossible to say.
But in any case, the sky above Longevity Valley did not return to normal.
Instead, a great fissure tore open, offering a clear view of the events now unfolding in the Xuanhuang Realm.
Master Bai soared into the heavens, his form expanding with every moment.
In the blink of an eye, he had become a titan, a colossal figure standing tall enough to prop up the heavens.
With his target now revealed, the Dharma Spreader wasted no words.
Across the celestial dome, black vortexes began to materialize one after another.
They looked like voids in the fabric of the sky, unleashing an infinite suction upon Master Bai.
They also resembled pairs of emotionless eyes, staring intently down at their quarry.
Because of the impenetrable barrier of the essence-devouring white mist, only those in Luoyan and Lueying Provinces—the region where Longevity Valley was situated—could witness this astonishing spectacle.
Every cultivator who gazed upon the black vortexes in the sky was instantly thrown into a trance.
Some even began flying mindlessly toward the heavens.
Like moths drawn to a flame, they flew in pursuit of the shifting black voids.
The nature of this attraction was unknown, nameless. Yet its pull on cultivators seemed even more potent than the lure of a Spirit of Heaven and Earth.
And this was merely the outward effect of the black vortexes.
Master Bai, who bore the full brunt of their power, felt his colossal form begin to distort, wavering for an instant.
Inexplicable explosions erupted across his body, one after another.
And this was only the Dharma Spreader's opening move.
What followed was what truly made the children in Longevity Valley cry out in alarm.
An eerie purple hue crept across the firmament of Luoyan and Lueying, quietly spreading until it consumed the sky.
It blotted out the heavens and replaced the blazing sun.
Bathed in its violet radiance, Master Bai's robes, his hair, even his eyes, seemed stained by the bizarre color.
Bang!
A chunk of flesh burst from Master Bai's body.
Then, a phantom-like human figure seemed to rise from the wound, inexplicably drifting away to dissipate into the heavens.
Had Li Fan been present, he would have recognized this phenomenon instantly: a corrupted Spirit of Heaven and Earth was being forcibly stripped from Master Bai's body.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
The massive explosions continued, their sound reverberating through the cosmos.
But the Dharma Spreader's assault was relentless.
Countless thin, black threads, like writhing earthworms, swarmed around Master Bai. They surrounded him like a pack of hyenas, feeding frenziedly.
Every moment, countless lines were siphoned from his body.
They were absorbed by the writhing black threads and converted into more of their kind.
...
The Dharma Spreader's methods had far surpassed the scope of ordinary spells and divine abilities.
There was no dazzling display of light, no earth-shattering show of force.
There were only a series of bizarre and unnatural phenomena.
The cause of these phenomena had to be a terrifying power, one far beyond the comprehension of any cultivator.
The cultivators in Luoyan and Lueying who witnessed this were all struck speechless.
Facing the Dharma Spreader's relentless assault, Master Bai seemed utterly defenseless.
He simply stood there, passively enduring the attacks.
Just as everyone thought this, Master Bai finally acted.
He stretched out his hands. His long sleeves billowed forward, plunging in an instant into the white mist barrier before him—the same barrier that spanned heaven and earth, dividing the provinces of the Xuanhuang Realm.
Then, an immense force surged from his arms.
RUMBLE! RUMBLE! RUMBLE!
A deep, muffled roar seemed to surge from every corner of the world.
"What's that..."
"Look! The white mist barrier is moving!"
The cultivators soon noticed the anomaly, their cries of alarm echoing one after another.
The white mist barrier, which had stood silent for ten thousand years as if it were an eternal, unchanging fixture of the world, was actually beginning to flow.
The roaring grew louder, and the white mist began to flow faster and faster.
The source of this incredible flow was none other than Master Bai's arms.
An immense suction force emanated from his hands.
He was frantically drawing the essence-devouring white mist—the very mist cultivators would do anything to avoid—into his sleeves.
What began as a trickling stream became a rushing river, then a surging torrent!
The mist that shrouded the entire Xuanhuang Realm was being drawn away in a ceaseless, rapid torrent, all of it flowing toward Master Bai!
This act, it seemed, finally provoked the Dharma Spreader's true wrath.
Within the eerie purple firmament, a face began to form, indistinct and vast.
Then, two fingers, like pillars holding up the sky, descended from above!
The world was instantly plunged into shadow.
A wail, like a demonic wind raging, descended from the highest heavens and echoed across the two provinces.
Wind and thunder roared as one, and cracks in space spread like a dense spiderweb.
In a heartbeat, they stretched from the sky all the way to the ground.
Anyone unfortunate enough to be caught in their path was instantly obliterated, leaving not even dust behind.
Even those fortunate enough to escape the fissures were pinned in place by the immense pressure of the two descending fingers.
They were frozen, unable to move a muscle!
The weaker among them were forced to their knees on the spot!
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