Chapter 1249: The Tianji Xiangong Great Power Ascends to Dao Merging

Under the cold gazes of the nine Refining Void combat-power powerhouses of the domain hegemon faction, the Tianji Xiangong great power remained composed and unhurried.

Within the dense, ink-black clouds of the Dao Merging heavenly tribulation, a structure filled with counting rods, abacuses, knotted cords, tortoise shells, star-galaxy-level computers, and every kind of divination artifact that had ever appeared in human history spread out in all directions, countless rules revolving around it, driving the divination artifacts to rotate, like an entire world of the Dao of Divination.

Rules of Tianji—no, rules of destiny—the trajectories of destiny flowed within!

The Tianji Xiangong great power, surrounded by countless destiny rules, appeared incomparably hazy; everything was obscured by the fog of destiny, and one could not make out a concrete form.

No one had ever known the true strength of the Tianji Xiangong great power, nor what secrets he held.

Among the great powers of the immortal sects, he had always been harmless, ordinary; Tianji Xiangong had never been the strongest sect among the Jiudaxian Sect, always keeping a low profile, utterly without anything special.

Yet, since ancient times, Tianji Xiangong had never faced the danger of sect annihilation!

Wuxingtian Sect had. It had once been eyed by many immortal sects, its great power had fallen into a trap, gravely wounded and on the brink of death, the sect's foundation on the verge of collapse, and so it had been forced to ally with the Dongji Demon Sect, supporting each other through those difficult years.

Brother Xuanwu Heavenly Palace had. Brother Xuanwu Heavenly Palace had nearly been annihilated by the Dongji Demon Sect; had the Qidaxian Sect not ultimately dispatched troops out of sect interests, Brother Xuanwu Heavenly Palace would already have perished. Even so, Brother Xuanwu Heavenly Palace still possesses the fewest Minor Thousand Worlds among sects, and the potential of its disciples is naturally lower than that of other immortal sects.

The once-glorious Great Sun Sword Pavilion, which had nearly annihilated all immortal sects and unified the Nine Spirit Domain, was even more a thing of the past, with only its Sword Sons remaining…

Throughout history, many immortal sects had risen to dominance, enjoyed boundless glory, fallen into valleys, seen their sects collapse, rising and falling—just like a human life, with no fixed certainty.

This was originally the natural order of heaven; the cosmic starry sky itself was a disordered flow, and things that were unchanging and eternal simply did not exist.

Yet Tianji Xiangong was exactly like this.

Always so plain and unremarkable, never undergoing any change.

When one's gaze was set on a timescale of hundreds of thousands of years, this stability sent a chill into one's heart, and bred wariness toward destiny rules—formless, intangible, and possessing no offensive capability.

Boundless spiritual energy of heaven and earth gathered and poured into the figure within the Lei Gao Jie; this continuous gathering of spiritual energy lasted for a century. Over that century, the aura of the figure within the Lei Gao Jie reached its limit.

Under the protection of the heavenly tribulation, an aura surpassing the Refining Void limit blossomed forth!

A great breakthrough occurred in the rules of destiny; the cultivator's Shen Hun Lao Yin entered the Heavenly Dao, and from then on began to exhibit the characteristic of indestructibility—as long as the Shen Hun Yin was not devoured by the Heavenly Dao, one could exist forever between heaven and earth.

Boom!

The first bolt of Lei Gao Jie fell, shattering layer upon layer of divination worlds, destroying tens of thousands of divination artifacts, causing the hazy

figure's aura to drop by a small notch—far inferior to the Brother Xuanwu Heavenly Palace great power's wild dominance, bathing in Lei Chong Guang and laughing up at the heavens, daring to throw punches at the sky.

……

"The Tianji path is just this slippery."

Yuan introduced to the surrounding immortal sect cultivators: "They cultivate the rules of destiny, yet they have never seen through destiny; instead they grow ever more 'superstitious,' believing that within the cosmic Heavenly Dao there exists a will—a superior being like an emperor."

"The heavenly tribulation is the Heavenly Dao's means of punishment, the manifestation of the superior being's majesty."

"Therefore, cultivators must display humility, be trembling with awe; Lei Ting and rain and dew are all heavenly grace, they must cautiously endure the tribulation, striving to be obedient subjects."

"I don't know if this is unique to Tianji Xiangong, or if all cultivators of the Tianji path are like this."

"So that's how it is."

The surrounding cultivators, including Master Canghai Canghai Tianjun and others, showed sudden understanding.

The Brother Xuanwu Heavenly Palace great power could ignore the first bolt of Lei Gao Jie; no matter what, the Tianji Xiangong great power would not be so pathetic—and this was not even an act; he was truly injured, injured under the Heavenly Dao's punishment, not daring to put on a show and bluff.

They could not help but feel contempt in their hearts, thinking this was far too weak.

Even when facing the Heavenly Dao, one should not be so abject—at the very least, one should die standing.

However, all this contempt and disdain naturally had no effect whatsoever on the powerhouse within the Lei Gao Jie; his path, his existence, had never been for the sake of what others thought.

Boom!

Boom!

Bolts of Dao Merging Lei Gao Jie fell one after another from the sky, and the immortal sects' actions did not stop either, beginning to lay down formations targeting the Tianji path.

After more than a hundred and sixty years of research, the immortal sects had gained much new understanding of Dao Merging stage capabilities; laying them out now felt fairly handy, and their strength should somewhat exceed what it had been when facing the Brother Xuanwu Heavenly Palace great power.

Countless immortal sect cultivators waited quietly.

Several months later, the final bolt of Lei Ting fell, the dark clouds dispersed, and the quiet starry sky reappeared in the sky of the Nine Spirit Domain.

Within it, a hemp-robed old man was revealed.

His body was covered in wounds—on his flesh and on his divine soul—his entire person a bloody, mangled mess, like a dying ascetic.

Yet his aura was so full of vitality, so vast.

Though he was only one person, he surpassed billions of living beings, transcending the world, standing at the center of the destiny-rule Heavenly Dao net, the favored child within the Heavenly Dao net.

With a single thought he could mobilize power far exceeding the Refining Void limit; among domain-level lives in the endless cosmos, he would be a nobody nowhere.

"Open fire."

Yuan said calmly.

He did not believe there was any need for conversation between the two sides.

This was the most core conflict of interests; there was no room for compromise, and words at this

moment held no value.

Hum!

The Zhong Senior Qian Shi Gao Jie Xing Chen Ding Gao Jie formation, the Zhutian Qingfeng Qingfeng Beidou Taibai Youming Curse-Killing Grand Formation, and the immortal sects' billions-of-warships army formation—the three great formations rumbled and turned together, billions of chaotic rule runes blossomed, a vast magnetic-rule Heavenly Dao net spread out, drowning everything, even drowning the newly born destiny-rule Heavenly Dao net.

Boom!

At the center of the three seventh-tier formations, banyan aerial roots, vines, trunks, and branches writhed like giant serpents, and a ten-thousand-kilometer banyan-orbital destruction cannon suddenly roared, firing a beam of destruction light that illuminated the entire cosmic starry river.

At the same time, the Taibai Youming Sky-Patrol Arrows, already in position, detached from the magnetic-rule Heavenly Dao net orbital tracks in the starry sky, and shot toward the newly born and gravely wounded Dao Merging Divine Lord, locking onto the most core Shen Hun Yin of the Dao Merging Divine Lord.

The two killing moves descended suddenly the instant the Dao Merging Lei Gao Jie dispersed!

"Sigh!"

"Fellow Daoist Yuan, truly leaving no room for sentiment at all."

The Tianji Xiangong great power gave a wry smile.

He glanced at the wounds on his body, and at the Shen Hun Yin not yet fully branded into the Heavenly Dao, and sighed softly.

Then, he burned his essence blood—essence blood that had just completed its qualitative transformation.

His body abruptly collapsed into a mass of spiritual light, completely merging into the threads of destiny, fleeing frantically into the distance along the Heavenly Dao web of destiny rules, sparing no cost, with no intention whatsoever of staying to fight head-on.