Chapter 1431: The Sword Cultivator Believes He Is Certain to Win

The most dazzling star instead displayed endless darkness.

Because all light had been devoured, none of it could be reflected back; what the myriad beings of heaven and earth felt was that the entire world had plunged into darkness.

As this dark, destructive star descended, every Dao Child and Holy Child of the Ancient God Domain was seized by an icy chill.

Everyone understood that the boundary between life and death had truly arrived.

This feeling was utterly foreign to them, for from birth they had been scions of the highest nobility, the apex existences of their realms, born extraordinary; death had always been distant, never real.

But now, it truly appeared.

At this moment, some panicked, but far more Dao Children stilled their mind-lakes into perfect calm in an instant, not betraying the cultivation their sects had given them, growing ever colder and more rational.

Led by these Dao Children, the entire All-Heavens Primordial Hell True Array swiftly recovered from chaos into stillness.

And within mere moments it operated at even greater efficiency, drawing in the world's spiritual energy and starlight from the four corners of the universe, resisting the omnipresent terrifying pressure, prying open an independent heaven and earth within the Destructive Solar Sword Domain.

"All-Heavens Star Lodges, Four Spirits Unite!"

The Tianyun Dao Child and the Weaver Spider Holy Child burned their flesh and blood, burned their divine souls, and shouted in low voices.

In the four directions, many Dao Children of the Ancient God Domain, standing between life and death, made the same decision—the most correct one—resolved to burn every last shred of enlightenment with the resolve to die, fighting for the greatest chance of life so that their Dao paths might continue onward.

Boom!

Rumble!

The countless stars within this heaven and earth began to shift and transform; the Seven Mansions of the Southern Vermilion Bird, the Seven Mansions of the Northern Brother Xuanwu, the Seven Mansions of the Eastern Azure Dragon, the Three Mansions of the Western White Tiger all blossomed with incomparably dazzling radiance, radiance that even a black-hole-like destructive star could not eclipse.

The many star lodges surged forward in mighty array, churning the web of Heaven's Dao rules; fueled by the magic power of the Ancient God Domain's Dao Children and prodigies, they shifted stars and all things, and with the blood of the Ancient God Domain's peerless prodigies as ink, sketched a grand star chart across the night sky, drawing the gaze of countless stars across all heavens to shine in answer.

Beneath a certain ceremonial rite passed down through endless ages, ancient star-spirits that had existed for hundreds of millions of years turned more of their attention—and more of their power—toward this star chart.

The star chart, in turn, blossomed with radiance.

"Roar…"

Star after star flickered; line after line was traced between the stars, one after another; as the strokes completed, amid the radiance of endless stars, a terrifying colossal beast shifted from illusion to substance and truly appeared before the eyes of all beings in heaven and earth.

This colossal beast had a dragon's head, a serpent's body, a tortoise shell, and from that shell sprouted a pair of fiery Vermilion Bird wings; its four claws were the sharp talons of a White Tiger, and with a snap of its fingers, countless rules shattered and tore.

Endless chaotic aura enveloped it; the rules of life, the rules of fate, the rules of fire

the rules of metal… the rules of every Dao Child fused within its body, all transforming into the heavy rule of Chaos—the origin of the universe's three thousand rules—naturally able to suppress all Daos.

This was the beast of the Four Spirits United!

This was also the supreme secret lore among the Ancient God Domain's many hegemon factions, the pinnacle transformation of the All-Heavens Primordial Hell True Array!

"Roar!"

At this moment, the Four-Spirit Beast bellowed; its voice spread out in waves of true, solid Chaos that instantly dispelled the darkness across more than a hundred thousand kilometers, reclaiming most of the world's radiance and spiritual energy, gaining an absolute advantage in sheer mass.

In the past it had simply been unable to unleash its full power, held back by others; now that was no longer the case.

The most terrifying sovereign of this heaven and earth remained the Four-Spirit Beast unleashed by the joint effort of the Ancient God Domain's many Dao Children!

"Die!"

Dozens of Ancient God Domain Dao Children, more united and resolute than ever before, roared.

At this moment, the shared will of these realm prodigies was purer than it had ever been; it even drew the embryonic Chaos Dharma Aspect in the sky to become more real, and this embryonic Chaos Dharma Aspect was summoned, descending to merge as one with the Four-Spirit Beast, further enhancing its spiritual agility and its ability to manipulate the rules of heaven and earth.

"Die!"

"Roar! Roar roar…"

Dozens of Ancient God Domain Dao Children and Holy Children stared fixedly at that blue-robed youth, letting loose terrifying sounds that were half human voice, half beast's howl.

Driven by their shared will, the Four-Spirit Beast roared toward the heavens; its abyssal maw gaped wide, endless Chaos power of heaven and earth surged forth, compressing and condensing without cease, then transforming into a Chaos Tianhe dragon breath that devoured everything, ignoring all else, recklessly charging toward the true body of that blue-robed youth.

In this attacking state, in the state of the embryonic Chaos Dharma Aspect, they held absolute certainty—this was the true body!

In this final moment, these Ancient God Domain Dao Children were wild and frenzied, completely ignoring the destructive star bearing down on themselves, caring nothing, charging only at the blue-robed youth's true body, resolved to perish together with the enemy, fighting to the bitter end.

This kind of resolve was rather rare among law cultivators.

"How wonderful…"

Jiang Ding, facing warriors such as these, could not help but sigh in admiration, expressing his respect.

Rumble!

The Dai Sen destructive star, condensing all its radiance, moved in response, shifting its angle, and in a hair's breadth of time pressed down upon the Four-Spirit Beast with all its gathered dragon breath.

Even though its power was far inferior, in control and agility the Dai Sen destructive star held an absolute advantage.

Under the gaze of countless eyes, the Chaos dragon breath and the destructive star made contact.

Sizzle…

Sizzle sizzle…

It was like two suns—one an endless darkness devouring every light in heaven and earth, the other a hazy gray

?? endless Chaos, heavy as a black hole; the two made contact, and the unimaginably vast energies within them annihilated each other, the shockwaves destroying all things in heaven and earth.

And there were the cruel to the extreme Solar Will and the Four-Spirits Chaos Will, locked in fierce slaughter, crashing against each other.

Both sides forgot everything; for the great Dao, for their own lives, they threw themselves into frenzied slaughter without regard, with all their experience, all their immortal Dao foundations, colliding, fighting to cross to the other shore.

The solar order and the Chaos rule forged from the fusion of many rules accumulated and slaughtered.

Every place was in battle!

The Chaos sun possessed a more than tenfold advantage in power, charging like a rhinoceros in wild brute force, trampling, crushing, without any technique, simply trampling and charging again and again, ignoring its own wounds, ignoring the opponent's reactions, straightforward, unchanging, ceaselessly slaughtering forward.

The dark Dai Sen star, by contrast, nimbly devoured everything; every strike it made was sure to crash into the opponent's weakest point, forming local superiority of force, many against few.

She was dancing on a blade's edge—one mistake meant utter death; even to a Dao-Merging Divine Monarch it was breathtaking, death lurking at every moment.

Yet the will within that destructive star did not think so.

He believed he was certain to win.

Sword arts at the Sword Spirit realm, a materialist Solar Sword Soul, and array Dao at the quasi-seventh-tier.

Could these existences be mere illusion?

The sword cultivator believed he would never err, that victory was inevitable.