Chapter 1683: Lord of the Opened Path

Boom!

Between heaven and earth, bolts of lightning equivalent to the terrifying attacks of the Heavenly Human realm fell one after another, enough to shatter star rivers, break through rules, and blast apart swathes of Dao Merging Divine Monarchs.

It was hard to believe—this was a Dao Merging heavenly tribulation.

"Will there be danger?"

Divine Monarch Senior Wanji and the others, sheltered by the Immortal Gate's solar system grand formation, held their breath and watched the Lei Gao Jie in the sky.

The Immortal Gate's grand formation was already operating at full power; fleets at every level were in a combat-ready state, able to sortie at any moment to block enemies that would obstruct the Dao.

They saw the blue-clad youth with his hands clasped behind his back.

Between heaven and earth, countless terrifying scenes of the End-Law Era suddenly appeared: countless worlds transformed into meteors and fell, the rules of the Immortal Dao collapsed, spiritual qi was severed, Qingshan remained as it was, yet the cultivators within suddenly grew white-haired, their teeth fell out, their smooth skin gained countless wrinkles, and their bodies emitted a foul stench.

These cultivators had lost their lifespans, become doddering old folk, and were walking toward the end of their lives.

Boom!

The second, third, and fourth tribulation lightning bolts crashed down, plunging into these scenes of a law-perishing age, and silently extinguished, unable to stir the slightest ripple.

These attacks of the Heavenly Human realm were so; in the future, true Heavenly Humans within the End-Law should be the same!

"This is a Rule Anomaly…"

Jiang Ding quietly gazed at the Lei Gao Jie in the sky.

Rule Anomalies are often born when a Supreme has reached the extreme of a branch of rules, representing the limit of some branch of rules within heaven and earth, like an emperor's canopy that travels with wind and rain.

According to the historical records of the Grand Yin-Yang Sword Realm, several hundred thousand years ago, when Patriarch Lei Yang broke through to the peak of the Heavenly Human realm and was about to step into the Supreme realm, the anomaly of the Thunder Yang destroying heaven and earth automatically appeared around him, and drew the previous generation's Solar Sword Master, Supreme Lin Yang, to personally pursue and kill him.

The previous generation's Supreme Lin Yang led the Grand Yin-Yang Sword Realm to successfully break free from the great tribulation; his lifespan was nearing its limit, and he could no longer afford to care about many honors.

Objectively speaking, if one does not speak to spare the venerable's feelings, Patriarch Lin Yang at that time had already lost the honor of a sword cultivator, personally entering the fray to pursue and kill a junior of loose-cultivator origin, and had thrown away a lifetime's old face completely.

Patriarch Lei Yang was no good sort at the Heavenly Human realm, burning, killing, and looting everywhere.

Patriarch Lin Yang, for the sake of his sect, disregarded personal honor and disgrace, and acted on Heaven's behalf.

Because, throughout history, any cultivator who possessed a Rule Anomaly at the Heavenly Human realm was bound to be the founder of a certain Dao; the Patriarchs of Grand Yin and Grand Yang in those years were such, and Patriarch Lei Yang was likewise.

This was an outstanding figure formed by the interweaving of countless Immortal Dao miracles and fortune over tens of millions of years; to let such a person grow would bring great calamity.

It was a great pity that Patriarch Lin Yang did not succeed; the Heavenly Human Lei Yang of that time truly had very good fortune.

Still, it was not without results—Patriarch Lin Yang successfully gravely wounded the foundation of Supreme Lei Yang,

damaging his great Dao foundation; it was unknown whether he had recovered by now.

And now,

the End-Law Rule Anomaly had appeared on this generation's Great Sun Sword Child!

This meant that the Great Sun Sword Child was likewise the highest achiever of the Great Sun Sword Dao, and had likewise pushed the Great Sun Sword Dao to the point of birthing a Rule Anomaly.

This was an opportunity belonging solely to Path-Openers.

Opening a path is fraught with hardship, with no road ahead, and a lifetime of wasted years is commonplace, yet there are also great opportunities and great creations.

"This Monarch must be more careful in the Upper Realm; once exposed, the number of Supremes wanting to beat This Monarch to death is unknown, without distinction between within or without the human race."

"Even Patriarch Lei Yang, under old grudges and new hatreds, might very well make a move…"

Jiang Ding murmured to himself.

Pinching off the future ruler of the Great Thousand Worlds in the cradle was too cost-effective; any Supreme would be tempted and unable to resist such a tremendous lure.

Four tribulation lightning bolts fell in succession, all like motes of dust, stirring no ripple at all.

Boom~

In the sky, endless tribulation thunderclouds churned, as if enraged; even more terrifying celestial phenomena appeared, stirring chaos into the ten thousand Daos' rules, primal chaos qi arose of its own accord, giving birth to phantom after phantom.

"Too slow."

"This Monarch has little patience."

Jiang Ding said coldly.

Clang~

The sword slowly left its sheath.

Four consecutive times, four consecutive tribulation bolts, never reaching the target he had envisioned in his heart, had already made him lose all patience, unwilling to continue waiting.

One must know that, for the Great Sun Sword Child, the heavenly tribulation was an extremely important opportunity!

If the tribulation's intensity was insufficient, this meant he had lost a great opportunity, lost the chance for his Dharma body and flying sword to transform; how could such an outcome be endured again and again?

How could another chance be given?

Amid the clang of metal, the sword body of the Taiqing Flying Sword was fully revealed between heaven and earth.

Within the terrifying pressure, heaven and earth slightly solidified.

It was a nine-colored flying sword like a ray of light; the azure was bright, the remaining eight colors were dim. The aura emanating from the flying sword solidified the spiritual substances within heaven and earth, and even the Heavenly Dao Lei Gao Jie in the sky was severely affected—great instability appeared in the tribulation thunderclouds.

Clang!

The sword-light of the Taiqing Flying Sword flashed and vanished, then folded back and returned to its sheath.

The solidified heaven and earth remained stiff for a long while, and only then returned to a flowing state; nothing had changed, not even a single speck of dust was damaged.

Only the Lei Gao Jie in the sky.

The Lei Gao Jie solidified, and then was cut open from the middle; a dim-yellow sword scar severed everything within it—all the Immortal Dao spiritual substances, the so-called Heavenly Punishment rules, the so-called lightning, the so-called thunderclouds… everything, beneath this

sword, completely dissolved and ceased to exist.

Boom~

In the sky, wind and clouds rose greatly, lightning was annihilated, and terrifying radiance bloomed, as if the heavens were enraged at being provoked by an insignificant ant.

But the next instant, all thunder sounds halted.

The tribulation thunderclouds shrouding the entire solar system instantly collapsed; the sky cleared and the air was fresh, without any tribulation remnant, and not the slightest trace of lightning pressure could be found anywhere in all of heaven and earth.

The Dao Merging heavenly tribulation had been forcibly cut down!

"Heavenly tribulation…"

"The heavenly tribulation, actually…"

Divine Mechanism Divine Lord and the others gaped, unable to believe what they were seeing before them.

Something as universal as the laws of the cosmos, the Heavenly Dao's heavenly tribulation, had been forcibly interrupted — such a thing had never been recorded in the history of this realm. It was the very first time since the dawn of creation.

"Great Sun Sword Lord,"

"Is he going to be beyond restraint again?"

Extinction Sun Divine Lord, who had previously welcomed the Great Sun Sword Son's return with great joy, now found himself with a splitting headache.

Any political system, any organizational entity, so long as it can exist, ought to possess balance — not rely upon the personal morality and emotions of individuals. Morality and emotion are useful, but they are not always reliable.

The Immortal Gate is the Immortal Gate of its citizens.

It absolutely must not be the vassal of any single powerful individual!

No matter who that powerful individual is, this is unacceptable.

Especially for the proud current administration, this outcome was even more unacceptable. This was the Immortal Gate built by his teacher and countless comrades-in-arms — it absolutely must not show any sign of degenerating in the future!

"Fellow citizens, it would be best to find ways to expand as quickly as possible!"

"Seek out new worlds to expand into."

Yuan Di murmured: "The Immortal Gate's Immortal Dao industrial system has sufficient capacity for replication and proliferation. So long as we have enough resources, we too can possess the ultimate power of Heaven-Persons. Any power that remains within the Heaven-Person realm, the Immortal Gate has no fear of it — this is the advantage of our Immortal Dao industrial path."

"Furthermore, the arrival of the Law-Extinguishing Rules grants a power akin to the touchstone turning things to gold for the research and development of the Immortal Gate's forbidden nuclear weapons. This project must be given the highest priority. The Great Sun Sword Lord will likewise be happy to promote the development of this project…"

The Immortal Gate's numerous Unity-of-Dao Divine Lords were caught up in a tense conference.