Chapter 518: Decisive Battle (Part II)

The Hall Master of the Holy Domain's Holy Hall.

He is the most mysterious existence in the Holy Domain.

It is rumored that he is the oldest living Saint in the Holy Domain.

Almost all veteran Saints, such as the various Sages and the King of Hell, only managed to step onto the path of transcendence after receiving his favor.

The Third Sage entered the depths of the Holy Hall as usual to report the latest intelligence gathered during this period.

After finishing the report, the Third Sage hesitated for a moment, then lowered his head and whispered a suggestion that the Holy Domain should concentrate its power to destroy the strongholds of the Salvation Lineage in various Time Domains.

Thereby ensuring the future peace of the Holy Domain.

"The peace of the Holy Domain, you say?"

In the vast darkness, a gender-neutral voice rang out.

"Come in, Kao."

Hearing his true name, the Third Sage hurriedly responded and walked into the darkness.

With one step taken, in the blink of an eye, the Third Sage saw that he had arrived in a Great World with bright sunshine and beautiful scenery.

This world had beautiful mountains and rivers, and a pleasant climate.

The only thing that made the Third Sage feel slightly uncomfortable was that this Great World actually lacked the slightest trace of Spirit Qi.

It seemed that all the Spirit Qi had been sealed by a powerful Barrier at the core of the earth's veins, condensed into crystalline bodies resembling High-grade Spirit Stones.

This meant that the billions of living beings inhabiting this Great World, despite having lived here for who knows how many years and having undergone Samsara who knows how many times under the Hall Master's will,

had never produced a single transcendent.

"Kao, when I was condensing my Golden Core, my master once said to me."

"Life will find its own way."

"So I changed the environment of the Great World within me, constantly tearing it down and starting over again and again."

"I wanted to see if these living beings could find their way in an environment without Spirit Qi."

The Third Sage listened to the voice beside his ear, his gaze sweeping across the land.

This land was vast, very vast, comparable to the surface area that the Great Worlds in the Shikong Haiyu should have.

This meant that many, many intelligent beings lived in this Great World.

Even without transcendent power, these beings still gathered together, established social structures, and then desperately tried every possible way to strengthen their own races, seeking a chance to survive in this place where ten thousand races lived together.

At the same time, there was an even deeper suggestion in the subconscious of all intelligent life.

That was to find a way to escape this Great World.

Under the deliberate control of that Hall Master.

The subconscious of all life would remember that if they could not escape, they would all follow this world into another Samsara and return to zero together.

"After these little lives accumulated the subconscious of generation after generation of ancestors."

"They could not cultivate, but they had already condensed the power of consciousness."

"They could train their consciousness to form Consciousness Totems and even divine statues."

"Although in this world, these consciousness methods cannot affect reality and can only shock the opponent's mind."

"But if taken to the outside world."

"The best among them would be able to ignite the fire of their Divine Soul and spirit, climbing to the Eighth or even Ninth Tier realm in an instant."

The Third Sage accepted the Hall Master's judgment without the slightest doubt.

He also focused on remembering the auras of those elites among the ten thousand races on the land, who were no better than plankton.

Then, the Third Sage asked:

"Hall Master, do you intend to take these elites with you to participate in the war?"

"No, they are still too weak."

Facing the Third Sage's inquiry, the voice sounded again:

"They only have the qualifications to become firewood now."

When he said this, the sky of this world suddenly turned from bright to dim yellow.

And very quickly turned from dim yellow to pitch black.

Under the pitch-black sky, billions of living beings felt great terror and looked up at the sky.

Some were dazed, some were insane, and some were desperately begging for mercy.

And the mentioned elites among the ten thousand races ignited their own fires of consciousness one after another, roaring at the sky.

It seemed they wanted to resist the malice this world held toward them.

However, unable to obtain transcendent power, no matter how they resisted, no matter how determined their will was.

They could not resist the decision of the master who controlled the world.

A huge black sphere appeared in the sky, and then all living beings were drawn into the black sphere by a huge attractive force.

Then they were ignited by a black flame inside the sphere, becoming a part of the black fire.

This process lasted for less than ten breaths of time.

The Hall Master completed this Samsara harvest.

He retracted the black fire from the black sphere.

Then he caused the surface of the black sphere to break, turning into a continuous black rain to wash the earth.

In the Rain Technique, there were the Embers of the subconscious of the ten thousand races after they had been ignited.

Under the blessing of some mysterious power.

These Embers would merge into the depths of the subconscious of the next generation of newborn beings.

Allowing them to develop and grow, and giving them the possibility of going further on the foundation of the previous generation.

The sky returned to clarity, and the earth once again possessed vibrant vitality.

The Third Sage could see that hundreds of thousands of creatures of different races were born on the earth once more, beginning to gaze at this world in confusion.

"Let us go."

"To the North King Time Domain, to conduct the decisive battle."

"..."

The Third Sage's eyes manifested a black light at this moment.

His hands were also covered in a layer of black film, and faint flames flickered within.

A faint smile appeared on the Third Sage's lips, and he instantly left this Great World, appearing within the Holy Palace.

However, at this moment, the Third Sage's identity had already become the Avatar of the Holy Palace Master.

The Third Sage's true body had not been devoured, but was merely suppressed in the depths of the sea of consciousness, silently watching the Palace Master use his body.

The Palace Master appeared, even though the Palace Master had not appeared for a very, very long time.

Many of the new generation of Sages had not even seen this founder of the Holy Palace.

But the moment the Palace Master appeared.

All Sages chose to submit.

Seeing the Palace Master at that moment, all Sages felt as if they were seeing the core of the Holy Domain's origin.

It was also at this moment that many veteran Sages felt a stir in their hearts, realizing what the Palace Master had been doing.

He... had actually been merging with the origin consciousness of this Time Domain, the Holy Domain, all along!

This difficulty was ten million times greater than the King of Hell merging with a Forbidden Land like the Hell of Boundlessness.

After being secretly shocked that the Palace Master had not yet gone insane.

They also rekindled their confidence in this decisive battle.

The King of Hell also silently resealed and preserved the Avatar that had been to the Pot Heaven.

And he stood firmly behind the Palace Master, unconditionally supporting all his decisions.

And he soon obtained a wisp of black flame.

And learned that this flame, which used the will of the strong as fuel.

Had a very special and important function for Sages like them who were half-step Dark Catastrophes.

When the flame burned in the sea of consciousness.

After stepping into that critical step, one could still maintain a clear consciousness.

To the King of Hell, this was equivalent to giving him the opportunity to temporarily become a Dark Catastrophe.

As long as he retreated quickly before the flame burned out, it would suffice.

Although going back and forth like this would certainly have great side effects and would also consume a massive amount of resources.

But compared to the trump card of becoming a Dark Catastrophe-level combatant, these costs were clearly all worth it!