Chapter 1239: Brother Xuanwu Heavenly Palace Great Power Advances to Dao Merging

Boom!

Rumble!

Within the Heavenly Tribulation of Dao Merging, billions upon billions of destructive thunderous rules wove together like a net, transforming into a terrifying colossal palm of the firmament. The full power of the Heavenly Dao converged here, its rules forming a net that thunderously descended to suppress and slay any living being in the world that dared to transcend and display abnormality.

"Kill!"

Beneath the Lei Gao Jie, the old man with wild, disheveled hair dancing about roared.

He raised a single finger toward the sky, and a Heaven-Dao Brother Xuanwu golden statue, solid as substance, revealed its form. Indestructible Heavenly Dao rules, like net and thread, draped themselves over the Brother Xuanwu, granting it the liveliness of life. In its enormous pupils appeared a cold indifference, transforming it into the incarnation of the firmament, the manifestation of an immortal will.

Rumble!

The net of Heavenly Dao Lei Gao Jie rules descended, blooming brilliantly, destroying everything.

Yet the Brother Xuanwu within the Lei Chong Guang remained indestructible!

Moreover, it was not even injured in the slightest. The initial Dao Merging Lei Gao Jie could not affect it at all; bathing within the thunder, it revealed an expression of comfort.

This was the number-one body cultivator of the Nine Spirit Domain!

He had reached the extreme on the path of body cultivation, his foundation so deep it was terrifying, far surpassing the ancient emperor of the Horned Demon Imperial Clan. At this moment, having just advanced, he had not even finished enduring the Lei Gao Jie, yet already displayed strength far exceeding that of the Horned Ming Emperor — truly fearsome.

If the Horned Ming Emperor had not fled, if he were still in the Horned Ming Domain, the instant he witnessed this scene his heart and liver would likely have been scared to death!

These ants, each of whom appeared weak and required nine people to surround and kill a single one of them — once any of them advanced to Dao Merging, should he dare appear within the sight range of any one of them, he would undoubtedly die, with no possibility of survival.

It was simply like a ghost, like a nightmare!

……

"Brother Xuanwu is indeed very strong."

At the center of the immortal gate's billions of warships and the star-light twinkling Star Demon Tree, Yuan said to the surrounding immortal gate cultivators: "He has always been arrogant. Knowing full well that other great powers were using him as a spear, he still chose to be the first to advance to Dao Merging — that is the kind of invincible boldness he possesses."

"He is confident that once he takes the lead in advancing to Dao Merging, he can seize this once-in-a-thousand-years opportunity, sweep through the Baxian Sect, and stand unrivaled."

"With absolute power, sweep away all demons, monsters, and scheming plots."

"Now it seems…"

Divine Mechanism True Honored One cut in, smiling: "That is not the case."

"This person, like Zou Zou Xiyuan, has a streak of madness, but clearly his talent is far inferior to Zou Zou Xiyuan's."

"Whether one is arrogant depends on the result, not the process."

"Senior, you must not underestimate this person."

Jiang Ding gazed seriously at the Brother Xuanwu Heavenly Palace great power battling madly within the Lei Gao Jie: "What is his name again?"

"I see a kind of possibility in him. If he keeps fighting like this, keeps battling like this, keeps advancing like this,

even if I advance to Dao Merging in the future, I may not necessarily be able to slay him."

"This person keeps growing."

Jiang Ding Ning Zhong said: "I previously heard the Immortal Gate General Staff Department deduce the war situation and say that the Badaxian Sect — especially those sects that implement cruel internal systems — might erupt in conflicts between Dao Sons and great powers, because this generation's Dao Sons are far stronger than the previous generation's."

"Now it seems that may not be the case."

"The Brother Xuanwu Heavenly Palace great power lived through the era of Zou Zou Xiyuan's slaughter, lived through the siege of the Immortal Gate, lived through the siege of Dao Merging, lived through so many wars without dying, and is now advancing to Dao Merging."

"Those years are precious wealth; the hardships endured are tremendous wealth."

"During the Dao Son period, the Brother Xuanwu Heavenly Palace great power was inferior to the current Brother Xuanwu Dao Son, but during the Dao Merging period, the Brother Xuanwu Heavenly Palace may not necessarily be inferior to the future Dao Merging-stage Brother Xuanwu Dao Son. The foundation laid during the Dao Son stage cannot completely determine future achievements."

The expressions of the surrounding Immortal Gate Refining-Emptiness True Honored Ones immediately grew solemn.

The Great Sun Sword Son — the Great Sun Sword Master's lineage possessed an extremely keen intuition regarding enemies.

This was their fate, the very root of their Dao path. Those slightly lacking in this regard would have long since become corpses lying cold in some unknown place.

"The Brother Xuanwu Heavenly Palace great power — his name is Zhang Zhongtu, Dao name Guicong."

Yuan thought for a moment and said: "This name has been buried in tens of thousands of years; aside from Zou Zou Xiyuan calling it once back then, almost no one knows it anymore."

"Zhongtu…"

Jiang Ding committed this name deeply to his heart.

"Hahaha!"

"What's there to fear?"

Myriad Mechanism True Honored One, however, paid it no mind, and laughed boldly: "Jiang Ding, you say that hardships endured are precious wealth. Zhongtu, this old thing, is like that — does the Immortal Gate fall short?"

"The Immortal Gate fighting alone against the Badaxian Sect, surrounding and killing the Horned Ming Emperor… are all these not our wealth?"

"Are we to allow only this old thing to progress?"

"That is true as well."

Jiang Ding smiled faintly.

Over these years, the Immortal Gate's immortal-dao technological progress had been simply leaps-and-bounds. Yuan, Divine Mechanism, Myriad Mechanism, Extinguishing Sun, Vast Sea… everyone was growing at tremendous speed. In the past, any single Soul Transformation cultivator of the Immortal Gate was an important asset, yet now over a thousand Soul Transformation cultivators had already been born.

In the slaughter of the Nine Spirit Domain, no force had stood still.

The Dao Merging Lei Gao Jie in the starry sky thundered and rumbled. One after another, the destructive Heavenly Dao Lei Gao Jie rule-nets bloomed, grinding away rules, grinding away space, until finally even the Heavenly Dao of this stretch of starry sky was ground away, plunging into chaos and the unknown. All manner of absurd events occurred one after another; nothing was certain anymore.

The final bolt of thunder, containing the net of rules, struck down.

Heaven and earth suddenly fell silent. The destructive Lei Chong Guang dispersed, and the shattered chaotic space began to heal,

and the ground-away Heavenly Dao rule-net once again appeared between heaven and earth.

"How did it turn out…"

Everyone in this stretch of starry sky held their breath, looking toward this place.

The seven great powers of the Weixian Sect, who had been wholly devoted to refining their foundations and ignoring external affairs, simultaneously opened their eyes and fixed their gaze upon that expanse of space.

Dead?

Alive?

In the hearts of all the great powers there was worry, anxiety, anticipation. For hundreds of thousands of years, generation after generation of patriarchs had sought it bitterly, yet had never touched Dao Merging.

Today, has it truly been born?

Will the Jiao Jiao Mingyu heavens and earth reject the human race?

All manner of speculation emerged as that sheet of Lei Chong Guang scattered, the Heavenly Dao law-net healed, and space was restored.

"Hahahaha…"

"Hahahahaha…"

An old man with a full head of black hair threw back his head and laughed wildly, full of high spirits.

His voice shook heaven and earth, stirring up countless ripples of law, obliterating tens of thousands of li of starry sky, raising monstrous waves across the cosmos.

He still looked like an old man, with a long beard, yet his body radiated a kind of 'youthful' air.

Seen alone it was not obvious, but compared with the other seven great powers, the gap was enormous—even the seemingly sixteen- or seventeen-year-old, ethereal and otherworldly maiden who was the Qingmuxian Sect great power, when set beside this old man, carried an inescapable air of decline.

It was as if a young man pretending to be mature were placed beside an old woman deliberately acting young.

"Dao Merging…"

The Qingmuxian Sect great power revealed a look of longing and jealousy.

Dao Merging—one hundred thousand years of life!

The current cultivator of the Brother Xuanwu Heavenly Palace, Zhang Zhongtu, was the equivalent of a mortal in his twenties, with not a trace of agedness about him, right in the prime of his glory!

"…Hahaha!"

Zhongtu's smile vanished.

He completely ignored the seven great powers of the Weixian Sect, looked toward Yuan, who was surrounded by countless citizen warships amid the Star Demon Tree, and roared: "Yuan, first we slaughter the Qidaxian Sect, then you and I decide victory and defeat between us—how about it?"

"The slaughter that has stretched across the Jiuling Domain for who knows how many tens of thousands of years—I am weary of it. It should end!"

"The loser dies."

"The victor shall be the sole sovereign of the Jiuling and Jiao Jiao Mingyu domains!"