Chapter 799: Pride of Myriad Realms (Six)
Separated by layers of blazing fire, Bai Mo, located in the deepest reaches, slowly opened his eyes at this moment.
And within the layer of grey mist that enveloped him, thousands of eyes suddenly burst forth, like countless stars across the night sky.
Innumerable eyes gazed at each other, the silent scene exuding an eerie dead silence.
Bai Mo did not speak, merely glancing at the situation outside before once again focusing all his energy on drawing in the Sun.
He was still one last step away from truly becoming a True Sun Star Lord.
But this step was also the most difficult one.
......
In the blink of an eye, ten days had passed.
“Will this ever end...?” A certain Water Dao True Immortal, who had been continuously exerting himself on the front lines for eight days straight, for the first time showed a hint of despair on his face.
To replenish that enormous expenditure, he even gulped down the Purple-Green Great Medicine he carried with him as if it were a mere pill for restoring immortal essence.
But facing that endless light and heat, which continued to expand outwards, forcing them to slowly retreat, all their efforts seemed like a drop in the ocean.
A forbidden art capable of freezing an entire continent, when unleashed upon that Demon Sun, could indeed carve out a deep pit the size of a continent.
The problem, however, was that in just one second, the matter transferred from the other end of the realm-space could reconstruct fifty continents of the same size.
Over a hundred True Immortals, hastily summoned, along with over twenty floating fortresses, under relentless bombardment day and night, only managed to slow the expansion speed of the Demon-tainted Sun by half.
Yuan Shi Dao Ren, as the supreme commander, calculated that even if he joined the ranks of those unleashing their full power, he still couldn't completely halt the opponent's spreading advance.
Not to mention, as the Demon Sun's volume increased, the speed at which it drew in matter-energy from the alien realm-heaven was also increasing proportionally.
“Could it be that Heaven truly intends to destroy us?” His true body paced back and forth on the periphery of the battlefield, pondering the future of the Dao Chen Realm and preparing for the worst-case scenario.
The Moral Immortal Sect's storehouse, with its Purple-Green Great Medicine and semi-finished products, could probably only sustain consumption for two thousand years; once they chose to leave, all Immortal-tier cultivators would enter a life countdown.
Unless absolutely necessary, no one would make this decision.
“Wait, Heaven?! For the Demon Sun to so wantonly destroy realm-spaces, the Heavenly Dao would absolutely not stand by idly, but why...?”
The Dao Chen Realm had a Heavenly Dao.
The Heavenly Dao was ruthless.
Legend had it that the earliest cultivators in this realm obtained their cultivation techniques from comprehending the Heavenly Dao.
Even now, high-level cultivators could still, by chance, enter a state of comprehending the Heavenly Dao.
Many cultivation conundrums that had long troubled them in the past mostly became easily solvable in the state of comprehending the Heavenly Dao, and the bottlenecks that troubled cultivators also had the chance to quietly break through in such circumstances.
As the most profoundly cultivated being in this world, Yuan Shi Dao Ren was even more familiar with the Heavenly Dao's mode of existence and its laws.
Let alone demonizing the entire Dao Chen Realm, even if an Upper Realm True Immortal made a move to destroy a Lower Realm, the Heavenly Dao's backlash would be enough to make them suffer immensely.
Destroying a realm-space would incur endless karma, and their Qi Luck would be severely cut; in the time that followed, the True Immortal who destroyed the Lower Realm would be plagued by extreme bad luck.
Including but not limited to continuous failures in alchemy, running into enemies as soon as they stepped out, frequently being embroiled in pointless disputes, and when battling enemies, the opponent inexplicably performing exceptionally well, and so on...
Moreover, cultivators with sufficiently profound cultivation could all discern the Heavenly Dao's mark on these pitiable wretches; actively taking action against these marked individuals could even gain the favor of the Heavenly Dao.
However, this deity before him had no such mark at all.
Several conjectures spun through his mind, but in the end, Yuan Shi Dao Ren helplessly discovered that perhaps the answer was the one he least wished for—even the Heavenly Dao was unable to punish this fiend.
“If that is the case,” he mused, “I fear the hope for this battle is also rather slim...”
Thinking of fighting an opponent on par with the Heavenly Dao, Yuan Shi Dao Ren still felt a sense of powerlessness, even if he could lead all the forces of the Dao Chen Realm to face them together.
But if he were to abandon everything and flee now, that would be utterly impossible for him to forsake.
Since things had come to this, he could only proceed one step at a time.
......
Yisisi, knowing herself to be in the wrong, was now quite diligently expending the Demon Sun's power, even dispatching a large number of her Zerg subordinates to deal with the many Lower Realms afflicted by the demonic taint.
Because it, along with Yuan Shi Dao Ren and Chen Dao Ren, had already deduced and discovered that the demon-tainted lands would no longer give birth to Purple-Green Spirit Elixir in the future...
The enmity of obstructing the Dao was unending until death.
But fundamentally, Bai Mo was also summoned by it; if not for its summoning, the other party wouldn't have been able to come to the Dao Chen Realm at all.
The most ironic thing was that before Bai Mo summoned the Sun, he had returned all the Purple-Green Great Medicine to it, and additionally included some rather precious immortal materials.
If it had received these on any ordinary day, Yisisi would have considered it a very nice return gift, but compared to the Purple-Green Spirit Elixir, which could prevent it from being tainted by Dao Toxin, this could only be considered a silent mockery.
......
“Is there any meaning to this?”
When Bai Mo opened his eyes again, it was already half a month later.
In the nearly one month that had passed since then, over seven hundred True Immortal-level figures had arrived in the Dao Chen Immortal Realm, one after another.
Many among them had one foot in the grave, existing only by self-sealing with their last breath of vital energy to protect their sects.
They, too, were invited out at this moment.
Because the Demon Sun in the sky wished to destroy all Purple-Green Spirit Elixir and sever the immortal paths of all beings.
“Boom!”
A True Immortal, who had forcefully ignited his remaining potential, could no longer hold on, completely exhausting his life force. His immortal spirit heart contracted and self-destructed, exploding into a strange void in the empty space.
A pillar of scattered spirit qi shot straight into the sky, and then slowly disappeared into the void.
Yuan Shi Dao Ren lightly grasped at the spot where the pillar of scattered spirit qi disappeared, and a ball of green light appeared in his hand.
“This is the coordinate of the small world formed after Chong Xuzi’s return to the void. Xingjian, you personally take these coordinates to the Xuling Sect and hand them to the Xuling Sect’s Sect Master.”
“Yes, Master!”
The ancient True Immortals of the Dao Chen Realm, after their demise, would have their immortal spirit hearts contract and self-destruct, and their remains would transform into a small world attached to the periphery of the Dao Chen Immortal Realm.
These small worlds generally had abundant resources and were important foundations for a sect; however, compared to the combat power of a living True Immortal, being left with just a small world was a massive loss.
Chong Xuzi's return to the void seemed to light up a signal; not long after, two more voids formed, and two pillars of scattered spirit qi signified the fall of two more True Immortals.
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