Chapter 69

Strands of worldly power were imbued upon the Sword Dao principles, and the Slay Immortal Sword in Zhu Qingyun's hand was driven to its utmost power by him!

Countless Slay Immortal Sword Qi sprouted, the sharp Slay Immortal Sword gleam split Chaos apart, earth, wind, water, and fire surged, and innumerable lesser and middle thousand worlds instantly arose and were destroyed!

"Slay Immortal, profit!"

Rahu's eyes brightened; he thrust his God‑Slaying Spear forward, a pure, profound black gleam faintly appearing, merging into the Slay Immortal Sword Qi as it slashed toward Hongjun!

"Heaven's Luck!"

Hongjun roared in anger, the Creation Jade Butterfly blazed with light, bathing the entire Slay Immortal Sword Formation in a blinding white! "The Supreme Immortal Divine Ability: Five Declines of Heaven and Man!"

The Immortal Great Dao trembled; as time passed, Hongjun's cultivation grew ever stronger, and the Immortal Great Dao was nearly completely under his control!

This Supreme Immortal Divine Ability, forged by merging the power of the Dharma‑ending Age, was Hongjun's strongest move short of the Creation Jade Disc; a white immortal light turned into a beam that shot straight toward Zhu Qingyun.

Zhu Qingyun dared not be careless; he immediately set up the Myriad Heavens Repelling Great Formation!

The power of his innate Chaos Spirit Treasure was aroused, a tide of inviolable Dao rhythm bolstering his Dao‑body, barely managing to block that immortal light outside the formation! Zhu Qingyun dared not let that light touch his Dao‑body—the Five Declines of Heaven and Man were absolutely a vile negative effect.

"Huh?"

But unexpectedly, just as that Supreme Immortal Divine Ability was about to collide with the Myriad Heavens Repelling Great Formation, the immortal light suddenly veered off.

"Fellow Daoist Ancestral Dragon!"

The Ancestral Dragon stationed at the Exterminate Immortal Formation Gate heard Zhu Qingyun's shout and instantly tensed his mind.

"Imperial Dragon Shocking World Fist!"

The Ancestral Dragon's muscles tensed throughout his body, and he unleashed a vast golden fist‑shadow dragon!

"Boom!"

The two great divine abilities collided; Hongjun's Five Declines of Heaven and Man were indeed terrifying! The golden fist‑shadow dragon was instantly corroded the moment it touched the Five Declines.

First the dragon's head and neck, then its body and claws! Even the tail was corroded down to just the fin! Fortunately, the immortal power within Hongjun's Five Declines divine ability was expended.

The remaining fin struck Hongjun's body, but could not pierce the Creation light shed by the Creation Jade Butterfly.

"Phew~ What a terrifying divine ability!"

The Ancestral Dragon, having personally experienced that divine ability, secretly felt relieved.

The Imperial Dragon Shocking World Fist was his ultimate application of imperial, corporeal, and fortune laws; it was his greatest divine ability—a trump card among trump cards. He dared say that if this punch landed on the Primordial Qilin, the Qilin would not die but would be gravely injured.

This stemmed from his absolute confidence, which had long overwhelmed the wilderness before Hongjun revealed his power!

"Hongjun…… just what is his origin, and why is his rise so strange?"

Sensing Hongjun's still‑rising aura, the Ancestral Dragon was baffled.

"Screw it, this brat actually dared to scheme against me—I'll hit him with a round and talk later!"

The Ancestral Dragon lifted the Exterminate Immortal Sword, intending to unleash its sword qi, but for some reason the sword that usually felt as light as nothing now felt as heavy as a thousand jin.

"What's going on?"

The Ancestral Dragon lowered his head in confusion, only to see a long banner that had somehow pierced his chest, blood gushing out.

"Huh, why are there two Hongjuns?"

Following the banner's length, he saw its shaft gripped in another Hongjun's hand.

"Ah, that's it—Hongjun's self‑created Severing Three Corpses method; this is his avatar after his three corpses merged into one!" Just as the Ancestral Dragon grasped this, he saw strands of Chaos sword qi erupting from within the banner!

Within the Chaos, sword qi was endless; it was impossible to tell whether these were the Ancestral Dragon's intended Exterminate Immortal Sword qi or the Chaos sword qi waved by the Pangu Banner. Countless sword qi tore apart the Ancestral Dragon's body, his once‑prided flesh instantly annihilated as the Chaos sword qi entered, his five viscera and six bowels obliterated.

"World…… Creation!"

Hongjun gave a soft shout, and a surge of Dharma‑ending power flowed into the Ancestral Dragon's primordial spirit through his crushed entrails.

The Ancestral Dragon's primordial spirit turned hazy, and in the next instant, before everyone's astonished eyes, his primordial spirit's fire was extinguished! When the fire of the primordial spirit goes out, consciousness sinks—signifying the death of body and Dao.

The Ancestral Dragon's body slumped limp, the Exterminate Immortal Formation Gate shattered! As the gate broke, the still‑imperfect Slay Immortal‑God‑Slaying Formation immediately became unstable.

Hongjun fired a beam of immortal light, and the great formation shattered instantly!

"Fellow Daoist Ancestral Dragon!"

The Primordial Phoenix and the Primordial Oppressor, beings who had battled the Ancestral Dragon for countless ages, cried out in alarm!

They knew better than anyone how mighty the Ancestral Dragon was!

In this endless eon of struggle, even when they joined forces they had never once gained an advantage over the Ancestral Dragon—yet such a mighty Ancestral Dragon has died!! True, he died through carelessness, completely unaware of what was behind him.

Moreover, the Pangu Banner, this innate supreme treasure, was formed from the blade of the god‑axe Pangu used to cleave heaven, which is why it could so easily rend his flesh!

Yet in truth, having his flesh shattered and his five viscera annihilated was, for a being of the Ancestral Dragon's caliber, only a severe Dao injury.

Such an injury could be healed by the Three Lights Divine Water, and even if given merely a little time, the Ancestral Dragon's own fleshly recuperative power would suffice to restore him unharmed.

The true cause of the Ancestral Dragon's death was Hongjun's strange Dharma‑ending world power! The power of the Dharma‑ending Age represents stillness and death, a force so terrifying that even the Great Dao fears it!

Because the aura of the Dharma‑ending Age can reach its limit, it can even wear away the Great Dao!

In the Dharma‑ending Age, the Dao and its laws cease to exist, and the Great Dao collapses!

No matter how stunningly talented or peerlessly elegant you are, in the Dharma‑ending Age you cannot hope to fathom the Great Dao! And as the Ancestral Dragon fell, the Slay Immortal‑God‑Slaying Great Formation was shattered; with the loss of such a mighty divine‑ability wielder, the wilderness trembled—this was the world's lament! The Undying Volcano, the Eastern Sea's eye, and the central continent of the wilderness all shuddered, sending forth waves of still‑and‑dead qi.

Countless primordial qi dissipated, returning to Chaos.

The sole silver lining was that the Great Calamity's qi between heaven and earth had mostly dissipated! And as the Eastern Sea's eye, the Undying Volcano, etc., erupted, primordial qi scattered, and a strange aura appeared on Hongjun's body!

After breaking the formation, Hongjun instantly tore open the barrier of the wilderness world and returned to the midst of heaven and earth therein.

His voice, bolstered by the Great Dao, spread throughout the wilderness heaven and earth!

"Today I, Hongjun, prove the Dao and become a sage!"

A strand of Hongmeng purple qi flew from the Creation Jade Disc and settled upon Hongjun's primordial spirit!

The next moment, Hongjun entrusted his primordial spirit to the Heavenly Dao, and the first sage of the wilderness heaven and earth appeared!

In an instant, flowers rained from heaven and golden lotuses sprang from earth! Hongjun's Mixed Yuan Great Golden Immortal‑level Immortal Great Dao was unleashed, strands of immortal spirit qi replacing the lost primordial qi to fill the wilderness heaven and earth.

A vast, abyss‑like pressure appeared upon Hongjun's body.

Immediately, from those like Rahu who closely followed Hongjun's return to the wilderness heaven and earth, down to the weakest insects of the wilderness, all involuntarily bent their waists.

(End of Chapter)