Chapter 898: The Even More Ruthless Existence

Feng Gu looked extremely aged, long since lost the prestige he once had in the Tianmeng Clan.

The corruption of his Dao caused him to decline rapidly.

Yet he was the anchor of the Tianmeng Clan, and currently its clan leader.

After Zai Xun and other Tianmeng Clan elders left the Grand Universe, the Tianmeng Clan survived under his protection.

It was he who decided to use the Tianmeng Clan's ultimate treasure, the Tianmeng Pearl, to activate Chaos and shield the Tianmeng Clan.

"I pay my respects to the Clan Leader," Cang Jizhi said, bowing deeply as she opened the cave where Feng Gu was in seclusion, her tone utterly reverent.

Though she was only at the Seventh Step of Dao, in terms of current combat power, she should surpass Clan Leader Feng Gu.

Feng Gu was indeed at the Eighth Step of Dao; when activating Chaos, he was the main force, personally overseeing it and constantly guarding the Tianmeng Clan's borders.

Residing in a space saturated with mixed Chaos and Quantum Catastrophe laws, Feng Gu's Dao corruption was the most severe.

After paying her respects, Cang Jizhi suddenly remembered that the Tianmeng Clan had another Eighth Step Dao expert—Ti Yu.

Master Ti Yu had gone to the Ten Thousand Dao Mountains seeking a solution to Dao corruption—how come there's been no word after all these years?

That's odd—the Tianmeng Clan only had two Eighth Step Dao experts. Why had she forgotten Master Ti Yu?

"It's Jizhi, isn't it? How is your Dao progressing?" Feng Gu's voice was equally aged.

Cang Jizhi immediately set aside the matter of Master Ti Yu and replied respectfully: "Clan Leader, I feel something is strange."

"My Dao corruption had been suppressed before, but recently it has begun again—I've tried every method and failed, and…"

Cang Jizhi frowned, trying to recall what she meant to say.

She remembered that once her Dao corruption was suppressed, they were supposed to leave this place to accomplish something vital.

But she had been entangled with her corrupting Dao for so long—how had she forgotten?

Feng Gu sighed: "After the Cosmic Catastrophe, our Tianmeng Clan surviving here is already extraordinary."

"But recently, the laws of heaven and earth have changed abruptly—Chaos energy seems to be leaking out again, seeping into our living space and causing our Daos to corrupt once more."

"I'm the same as you—this corruption is hard to suppress… sigh…"

Hearing Feng Gu's words, Cang Jizhi's unease grew stronger.

Clan Leader Feng Gu spoke incoherently—he clearly didn't understand what she was trying to say.

She was certain there was something important she needed to say, yet she couldn't recall it.

Right—she was supposed to do that thing only after her Dao corruption was suppressed. Now that her Dao was corrupting again, she must put that matter aside.

Then let it be set aside—for resolving Dao corruption is the most important thing.

"Clan Leader, do we urgently need to enter seclusion to resolve our Dao corruption?"

Feng Gu reached out and pulled out a Cosmic Dao Fruit: "Jizhi, take this Dao Fruit. Though its Dao patterns are few, it will still help your Dao corruption."

"Clan Leader, I cannot accept it—you need it more."

"No need. I feel my Dao is likely beyond recovery. Once you're healed, lead our Tianmeng Clan away… hmm, perhaps away from this world…"

Feng Gu frowned, sinking again into deep thought.

Cang Jizhi sighed and accepted the Dao Fruit, then withdrew from the Clan Leader's cave—she must first resolve her own Dao corruption.

…

Ding Huan stood within the Chaos.

Before him was a massive barrier, shrouded in Chaos—even standing right beside it, his divine sense could not cover the entire barrier.

When his divine sense touched the barrier, Ding Huan could not help but admire Hou Yucheng.

He himself could not perceive whether the barrier contained billions of Quantized Catastrophe laws, nor how Hou Yucheng knew.

Ding Huan did not understand barriers, but all barriers were formed from laws, like a Cosmic Wall.

This barrier before him was constructed entirely from countless Chaos laws.

How many could possibly refine a barrier made of Chaos laws?

But he probably could.

He had already passed through a Cosmic Wall and fused with its billions of laws—how could he fear failing to refine a single barrier?

The worst outcome would be the barrier exploding, unleashing billions of Quantized Catastrophe laws.

Even then, he still had the Eternal Divine Wheel to protect him.

The fusion of Cosmic Catastrophe laws and Chaos laws easily causes Dao corruption.

Ding Huan didn't care—he could resolve others' Dao corruption, so why fear his own being corrupted?

With the Grand Cosmic Technique Zhou Tian successfully constructed, Ding Huan didn't just draw this barrier into his Grand Cosmic Zhou Tian—he also pulled the surrounding Chaos space into his Zhou Tian.

Ding Huan had long since fused with nearly nine-tenths of the Chaos laws beyond the Grand Universe; this impure Chaos had no effect on his Dao.

To Ding Huan, who had never encountered a barrier before, this barrier space was nearly flawless.

His Grand Cosmic Technique could sense fragments of the barrier's laws, yet could not penetrate into it.

As one Zhou Tian after another passed, Ding Huan became fully locked in a struggle with the barrier.

All manner of law attributes—elemental clashes, cutting laws, corrosion laws, void laws…

Anything he could use, he tried.

To counter laws, one must use laws—that was Ding Huan's belief.

This barrier was made of Chaos laws—and so it too was law.

Ten years later, when Ding Huan first captured a single law forming the barrier, a completely new cosmic landscape unfolded before his eyes.

If a Cosmic Wall was a line built from billions of law points, then this barrier was a surface formed from billions of Cosmic Walls.

A hundred years passed, and Ding Huan became utterly lost in the profound fusion of laws forming the barrier.

Though a hundred years had passed, Ding Huan still lingered outside this Quantized Catastrophe barrier, never even touching the laws within.

His sea of Chaos laws, however, surged endlessly—he sensed countless new Chaos laws and absorbed them into his own Chaos law sea.

Ding Huan was certain these Chaos Laws were brought by the Tribulation, and absolutely did not exist in the original Chaos.

Immersed in the process of the barrier formation, Ding Huan completely forgot his own purpose.

He had come to comprehend the Tribulation Laws, not to comprehend barriers.

He once thought that after Divine Arrays came Dao Arrays.

When he laid out Dao Arrays, no one taught him either; from start to finish he was groping forward on his own.

Touching this natural Tribulation Barrier, Ding Huan finally understood that barriers are the ultimate endpoint of all protective arrays.

No matter how Dao Arrays are laid out, there are traces to follow.

If a barrier can be laid out completely, then truly there are no traces at all.

If one must speak of traces, they are the traces of one's own Great Dao.

……

Hou Yucheng had been in closed-door cultivation within the Ten Thousand Dao Mountain Range the whole time, and had also been keeping an eye

on the Ten Thousand Dao Abyss, while at the same time waiting for Ding Huan to come out.

What disappointed him was that a hundred years had passed, and Ding Huan had not even shown a shadow.

What excited him was that although Ding Huan had not appeared, the Tianmeng Clan within the Ten Thousand Dao Mountain Range had truly vanished completely.

When he personally witnessed two Tianmeng Clan cultivators' Great Dao collapse and perish, Hou Yucheng thoroughly believed Ding Huan's words.

That was, Ding Huan had not only laid out a Dao-Collapse Law against the Tianmeng Clan here, but also laid out a Gene Slaughter Law targeting the Tianmeng Clan.

The Dao-Collapse Law alone, at most, only caused the Tianmeng Clan cultivators' Great Dao to collapse.

But the Gene Slaughter Law not only caused the Tianmeng Clan cultivators' Great Dao to collapse, it could also slaughter Tianmeng Clan cultivators.

Truly powerful.

Hou Yucheng was full of admiration in his heart; he felt that apart from Wuji, this Ding Huan was the strongest existence he had ever seen in his comprehension of the Great Dao.

After understanding the terror of Ding Huan's slaughter genes, Hou Yucheng simply hid at the edge of the Ten Thousand Dao Abyss.

Whenever he saw a Tianmeng Clan cultivator trying to flee into the Ten Thousand Dao Abyss, he would directly ambush and slay them.

Because Ding Huan's Dao-Collapse Law and Gene Slaughter Law were too strong, over these years Hou Yucheng had only managed to ambush twice.

The vast majority of Tianmeng Clan cultivators simply could not reach the Ten Thousand Dao Abyss.

……

Tianmeng Clan.

Clan Leader Feng Gu suddenly opened his eyes, then stood up in terror.

When he once again touched the Dao Intent of his Great Dao's Eighth Step, he suddenly recalled something.

That was, long ago, the Tianmeng Clan, after deliberation between him and several other powerhouses, had made a decision.

Once the Dao Chaosification was suppressed, they would immediately leave the Ten Thousand Dao Abyss, annihilate all human cultivators in the Greater Universe, and then enter the Greater Universe.

Only in a more vast place could the Tianmeng Clan thoroughly resolve the Chaosification problem.

Yet he had actually forgotten this matter; not only that, he also recalled that long ago the Tianmeng Clan's Dao Venerable Cang Jizhi had come to find him, and what she said seemed to be about this matter too.

Cang Jizhi might not have been very clear, but he, Feng Gu, understood it too well.

Before the Greater Universe Tribulation, the reason the Tianmeng Clan had nearly wiped out the human race was precisely because of the Oblivion Law.

Now he could be certain that someone had laid down an Oblivion Law in the space where the Tianmeng Clan resided.

Feng Gu's whole body was trembling; he knew this was his Great Dao's final flicker, which meant his time was not far off.

If he did not get this news out in time, perhaps after he perished, no one in the Tianmeng Clan would ever remember the matter of the Oblivion Law.

That the human race actually still had someone capable of laying down an Oblivion Law — this was simply shocking beyond belief.

The Oblivion Law the other party laid down was specifically targeting the Tianmeng Clan's forgetting of the human race's existence; to what degree would one have to master the Laws of Heaven and Earth's Great Dao to accomplish this?

This was in no way inferior to the Oblivion Law they had once deployed against the human race

"Quick, summon Grand Elder Tiyu, Dao Venerable Cang Jizhi, Dao Venerable Hanyi,

Dao Venerable Ao Chui — all of them!" Feng Gu's voice was urgent and panicked.

He was clearly a powerhouse at the Eighth Step of the Great Dao, yet now he was like a withered candle about to go out in the dying wind.

No one responded; Feng Gu stood dazed for quite a while, as if about to forget what had just happened again.

He abruptly grabbed a jet-black long needle and drove it into his own brow.

Spirit greatly boosted, Feng Gu immediately activated the Tianmeng Clan's Existential Gathering Token.

Amid piercing Dao-sound calls one after another, Feng Gu's expression grew increasingly uneasy.

Not only the Oblivion Law, but also the Dao-Collapse Law.

This was a Dao-Collapse Law specifically targeting the Tianmeng Clan, capable of collapsing the Great Dao of Tianmeng Clan cultivators.

He recalled long ago — right, before the Tribulation two ruthless figures had appeared among the human race.

The Tianmeng Clan powerhouses who died at their hands were beyond counting.

But no matter how ruthless they were, they had not laid down a Dao-Collapse Law against the Tianmeng Clan…