Chapter 2669: On Dao Discussion Cannot Replace Dao Practice

At the peak of the starry sky, the discussion of the Dao continued for hundreds of years.

Various insights into the great Dao emerged one after another, sketching countless scenes of the great Dao in the starry sky, with all kinds of heavenly Dao authorities listed among them. The ancient emperors of the forbidden zones were all figures who shook ancient and modern times, learned and erudite, with many who could draw analogies and apply knowledge broadly—just like Tai Shang Da Ri Gu Huang, who conducted extremely deep research into many paths beyond the degenerate Dao.

Numerous insights into the great Dao intertwined at the peak of the starry sky, voices raised in loud debate, each using their own Dao insights to overwhelm others'. Many supreme truths of the great Dao actually underwent some kind of terrifying change at the peak of the starry sky!

Various rules spread out like silk nets, merged together, and then spontaneously devoured the matter and energy in the surrounding starry sky, constructing a hazy cosmic prototype within the great Dao scroll, shrouded in chaotic qi, making many scenes invisible.

Only a few stars and the vague forms of innate living beings could be seen, and even a terrifying entity resembling a Pangu giant appeared!

This was nearly a reenactment of the scene of the universe's creation!

Although all transformations ceased here, and although all this was merely theory and Dao discussion, incomparable to reality, it was already astonishing enough.

During this process, the degenerate Dao, Yin-Yang Dao, Soul Dao, Earthly Dao, and other great Daos naturally evolved, grew, and displayed various changes, causing the forbidden zone ancient emperors to tremble as they watched, as if they had seen the future of the Dao.

Even in the black and white light flashing in Tai Shang Da Ri Gu Huang's eyes, successive glimmers of brilliance appeared—he had gained much.

This is Dao discussion!

This is even more the joint deduction of the Dao by the strongest group in the boundless starry sky!

It can be said that the numerous Dao insights gained from this single discussion alone surpassed the total gains of the new emperors from hundreds of thousands of years of warfare, and far exceeded them—this is the inevitable reason why many new and old ancient emperors opposed immediate attack. War is merely a means of seeking the Dao, not the end, and everyone sees this clearly.

However, no matter how lively the Dao discussion, it eventually comes to an end.

At the peak of the starry sky, with many Daos intertwined, the degenerate Dao sometimes overwhelmed all others, and sometimes was suppressed by multiple Daos, refuted until it amounted to nothing.

What is truly correct?

No one knows.

The only thing one can know is that pure Dao discussion cannot solve problems; no one can resolve fundamental issues through words alone, and theory cannot fully replace practice.

Just as it is now.

Tai Shang Da Ri Gu Huang believed himself stronger and more correct.

The forbidden zone emperors believed themselves more correct.

Moreover, in the Dao discussion scroll at the peak of the starry sky, each's Dao theories intertwined, and no one could overwhelm another—truly, theory cannot fully replace reality.

Therefore, the Dao discussion ended in an instant.

In an instant, heaven and earth cleared, the Dao scroll at the peak of the starry sky dissipated, the sounds of the many Daos vanished without trace, letting the countless beings throughout the boundless starry sky who had been listening to the Dao lecture awaken as from a dream, dazed and confused, as if suddenly waking from a beautiful dream, feeling lost as if something had been lost. This Dao discussion lasting hundreds of years was, for the entire boundless starry sky, an extremely important period of hundreds of years.

With the aid of the Dao power of the many forbidden zone ancient emperors, under the influence of Tai Shang Da Ri Gu Huang's teachings in immortal arts, the overall immortal Dao foundation of the entire boundless starry sky was directly raised by several levels!

At the peak of the starry sky where the Dao scroll had dissipated, the many forbidden zone ancient emperors surrounded Tai Shang Da Ri Gu Huang.

The Myriad Immortals Array of Chaos suddenly opened with a roar!

The Ancient Great Emperor, using the present emperor's seal as core, integrated the array, with twenty-six Daos humming, giving birth to all kinds of terrifying visions—chaos, soul, mountains, weeds, marriage, Tianhe... all kinds of Dao visions intertwined, forming an entire cosmic prototype!

Within this Myriad Immortals Array, earth, fire, wind, water, time, and space were all forbidden; all pressure fell upon the frail body of the blue-clad youth.

"Kill!"

The Ancient Great Emperor roared in anger, without a moment's hesitation.

"Kill!"

"Kill kill kill..."

The Nine-Leaf Sword Emperor, the Crimson Rock Dragon Emperor, the Red Thread Ancient Emperor, and many other forbidden zone ancient emperors shouted in fury.

All the forbidden zone ancient emperors were filled with killing intent, unwilling to allow at this moment the existence of a being whose Dao foundation would suppress the emperors. This person had gone too far; this would block everyone's path! The matter and spiritual energy of the boundless starry sky are limited—this era allows at most one person to become an immortal, and the emperors will not allow any being's first-mover advantage to be too great!

Boom!

Boom boom boom...

The Myriad Immortals Array rumbled in operation; the earth, fire, wind, water Dao flashed thereby, integrating many Dao authorities, and in the vague distance, a terrifyingly extreme human figure appeared!

This was a giant, born from the chaos cosmic prototype within the Myriad Immortals Array.

He wielded an axe full of barbaric aura, its handle formed by intertwined Daos into a terrifying giant axe, swinging down with unstoppable terrifying aura upon the blue-clad youth.

Must hit!

Must kill!

Must die!

At this moment, the Dao of the boundless starry sky rumbled without cease, as inevitable laws appeared in the starry sky, decreeing what must inevitably happen in the future.

Because this is the cosmic creation Pangu giant derived from the chaos cosmic prototype of the Myriad Immortals Array—every word and deed represents the will of the entire cosmic Dao, nearly extracting all rules and spiritual energy, even matter, from an unknown number of light-years around.

This strike is the strongest strike in the history of the boundless starry sky! The strongest strike in the history of all Daoist civilizations, a breakthrough at the peak, the current known upper limit of Daoist civilization!

This strike is too terrifying to describe, too brilliant for any Daoist words to depict, carrying the boiling killing intent of all the forbidden zone ancient emperors as it descended upon the blue-clad youth.

The Pangu-opening-heaven axe formed by the Myriad Immortals Array fell upon the head of the blue-clad youth!

Boom!

Ding!

In an instant, centered on the blue-clad youth, everything shattered—space, matter, time in chaos, black ripples swept in all directions, annihilating all matter; the terrifying damage caused even the forbidden zone ancient emperors to immediately activate the Myriad Immortals Array to reach him, otherwise they would risk injury.

This strike was the combined strongest strike of all the strongest beings of the boundless starry sky, producing an effect equivalent to countless trillions of forbidden zone Dao soldiers and star-domain Dao soldiers!

Even if the many forbidden zone ancient emperors as axe-wielders, they dare not face the aftermath of this strike directly.

At that very center, everything was destroyed—rules annihilated, space vanished, nothing could be seen clearly, even the Dao fell into chaos, making it impossible to know whether the authority of the degenerate Dao in this era still existed.

"Is he dead?"

"In theory, he should be dead."

"Under the current boundless starry sky, no living being should remain alive beneath this strike..." The Ancient Great Emperor, the Nine-Leaf Sword Emperor, and other forbidden zone ancient emperors spoke in low voices, their eyes fixed rigidly on that point of utter chaos, utter destruction, like a black hole.

After a moment, as the terrifying scale of annihilating visions faded, the scene at the center was revealed.

In an instant, all was silent as no birds or sparrows, the pupils of all the forbidden zone ancient emperors contracted, their bodies trembled slightly.

There, facing the strongest strike in the history of the boundless starry sky, a blue-clad youth stood still in place, his hair somewhat disheveled, his clothes torn in places.

That was all.

That's all there is to it, nothing else at all.