Chapter 191: Severing the Dao and Contending for Supremacy, Ten Thousand Daos Merging into One

"It is fine to continue walking along the previous path; there will not be any major problems."

Zhang Xuan walked silently. After gaining a profound realization, he even opened a Domain Gate directly and rushed toward the edge of the Eastern Wasteland's Desolate Ancient Forbidden Land.

At the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Land, he stood blankly for a long time, feeling the aura of the 'Desolate' that permeated the space between heaven and earth, his expression becoming somewhat dazed.

If one speaks of the practice of the Swallowing Heaven Demonic Art and the Indestructible Heavenly Art in this world, the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Land is undoubtedly the number one Holy Land in the Human World.

After all, the figure who presides over this place exists eternally between heaven and earth by relying on the Swallowing Heaven Demonic Art and the Indestructible Heavenly Art.

Watching from this place, Zhang Xuan felt boundless emotions arise in his heart.

With the comprehension ability of a Nine-Orifice Stone Man, he could see even more of the extreme changes within; it was a place deeper and more peculiar than the changes of the Swallowing Heaven Demonic Art and the Indestructible Heavenly Art, and many parts were difficult to see through even in the state of a Nine-Orifice Stone Man.

However, although many parts could not be seen through, just the parts he could see were enough for Zhang Xuan to gain much enlightenment.

He wandered in the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Land for two days, feeling he had gained much, and then quietly went far away without attempting to go deeper.

He was not Ye Fan; he would likely not be able to return if he went in. Aside from being a bit gentle toward Ye Fan, the Ruthless Great Emperor did not have much gentleness for anyone.

There were truly too many ruins to admire across the entire Eastern Wasteland; having walked for five days, Zhang Xuan felt his accumulation was extremely profound and powerful.

On this day, looking up at the starry sky outside the Universe, a response naturally arose in his heart.

He did not use any other superfluous movements, just stepping step by step toward the starry sky outside the domain, rushing straight toward the heavens.

During this time, he used one field after another to break through the void and rush toward further distances.

It took a considerable amount of time before he truly stood in the starry sky. Standing in the true starry sky, the feeling he obtained was vastly different from looking out from the earth.

In the cold Universe, Darkness exists eternally, silent and indifferent.

It is boundless, as if one can never see the true depths.

At this moment, looking back at Beidou, one could feel the status and magnificence of Beidou. Above it, the aura of ancient Great Emperors still flowed; heaven knows how many Great Emperors have left their traces on the Beidou Gu Xing throughout history.

Zhang Xuan sat cross-legged in the starry sky, silently experiencing it. The Divine Source he carried around his body shattered piece by piece, merging into his physical body.

Once his state was truly restored to its peak, he silently reviewed the insights of Yang Jian, the insights of the Swallowing Heaven Demonic Art, and the insights into the realm described by Qingdi one more time.

Then, finally, he did not stop. In the silence, the area where his primordial spirit resided—that is, the location of the Platform of the Spirit—erupted with a light so dazzling it was extreme. In that instant, he was more radiant than the sun.

Boom—!

All the Daos of the heavens were resonating, and then, amidst violent trembling, ten thousand chains spread down from the void and merged into Zhang Xuan's body.

"They all say one must sever the Dao, but for me, the heavenly Dao does not need to be severed. I am walking the path from the Yishi Zhi Zun World.

"I will sever nothing. The angrier you are, the happier I am."

Above the firmament, all the Daos of the heavens were roaring and manifesting. One after another, terrifying bolts of lightning streaked across the horizon, covering every corner.

Boundless lightning streaked across one after another, but Zhang Xuan was not afraid at all.

His body changed naturally, turning into a deep, boundless black hole, swallowing the lightning bolts above his head into his body one by one.

That terrifying lightning not only caused him no harm, but instead became a kind of peculiar aid to him.

"Be more ruthless!"

Amidst this wildly dancing lightning, Zhang Xuan roared toward the sky. He had already had the certainty of severing the Dao before; why did he still insist on polishing for such a long time? It was for this very moment.

"Ye Fan severs nothing to maintain his most original self, so he must be attacked by all the Daos of the heavens together, barely surviving.

"This path is the most dangerous and the strongest. For me, this path can be walked, but I do not have to be exactly the same as him.

"Only when all the Daos of the heavens appear simultaneously do I have the opportunity to use my Dharma Body to merge into this heavenly Dao and achieve my Supreme Dharma Body, while also lighting up the spiritual light of the rules within my Dharma Body. I will have a share of every Dao rule, and in the future, no matter which heavenly Dao I use to prove the Dao and achieve the Other Shore, it will be even easier."

Boom!

In the void, a human-shaped figure suddenly appeared. The Flying Immortal Power in its hand was incomparably brilliant, illuminating the entire starry sky in an instant, and Zhang Xuan's body was struck through with a hole that was bright from front to back.

At this moment, Zhang Xuan's body trembled, but he was not terrified; instead, a smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.

Looking at the scene of the Nine Stars in a Row appearing above his head, he was not panicked or uneasy, but instead became increasingly calm.

A ray of light flickered above his primordial spirit. His primordial spirit was also pierced by that ray of light, but the Flying Immortal Law branded within that light was remembered and imprinted, becoming a part of the golden battle armor on his primordial spirit.

The heavens were flickering. Zhang Xuan was thoughtless and mindless, and then he saw a Great Bell vibrate with a boom, causing his body to tremble as if it were about to shatter.

The ancient stone bell carried Hun-tun Qi, as if it possessed some inexplicable divinity, powerful and irresistible.

Zhang Xuan continuously operated multiple divine arts to be able to confront that stone bell head-on. Facing that stone bell, no matter how exquisite the technique, it was useless; he could only use the purest power to contend with it.

"Wushi!"

Standing in the void, Zhang Xuan contended fiercely with his opponent. His primordial spirit and physical body were both dazed, as if flying like an Immortal. In the end, a bell-shaped mark was struck onto his body.

Then that imprint slowly merged into his Platform of the Spirit and primordial spirit, leaving behind no excessive traces.

It only made the fighting intent on his primordial spirit even more brilliant.

Hum!

Before Zhang Xuan could catch his breath, amidst a heaven-shaking dragon roar, an ancient sword cut through the past and present, slicing him in two.

One of the human-shaped figures stood there, like a living true dragon.

"Tai Huang!"

"Hoo!"

Zhang Xuan just let out a heavy breath, but he was not overly discouraged. He knew that all of this was a choice he had to experience; when he took this step, he had to walk this path.

His body truly seemed to turn into a boundless black hole, absorbing these imprints bit by bit, swallowing them all into his primordial spirit and physical body, and engraving them into his rules.

The path he walked was very similar to Ye Fan's, but also different. Ye Fan trampled all the Daos of the heavens under his feet, while what Zhang Xuan wanted to do was to turn all the Daos of the heavens into a kind of seed, and then when he walked far enough on a certain Dao in the future, use this Dao to achieve the Other Shore.

He could even repeat this operation later, letting all the Daos of the heavens become a kind of rule manifestation for him, allowing him to become an existence capable of anything.

The early stage is to merge the Daos of the heavens into the body, and the later stage is to transcend above the Daos of the heavens.

This is the path Zhang Xuan has determined to walk.

"It's just that I chose to undergo the tribulation in Beidou, which was still a bit rash. Damn it, this Life Ancient Star is too scary."

A shining Heavenly Blade illuminated the entire Universe and starry river, splitting Zhang Xuan in two. If not for the Immortal Phoenix Rebirth Technique recorded in the Swallowing Heaven Demonic Art and the Indestructible Heavenly Art that allowed Zhang Xuan to quickly regenerate and revive, he would have been hacked to death just now.

The heavenly tribulation will replicate and copy the imprints of one powerful figure after another from the Universe and starry sky, but only those who have deep imprints on this planet and in this piece of heaven and earth will appear.

Beidou is undoubtedly the true center of a certain Universe, and throughout the ages, Great Emperors and Ancient Emperors have basically all made a trip here, whether they had business or not.

Zhang Xuan has lived through this in great agony, yet he has no intention of retreating; after all, he feels that his own combat techniques have been honed too little, so he stands in the void, constantly clashing with one Ancient Emperor and Great Emperor after another from their youth.

Nine ancient stars are suspended in the sky, and beneath each star stands an ancient Great Emperor; as soon as one disappears, a new one emerges, cycling repeatedly without ever stopping.

Zhang Xuan fights intensely in the midst of this; for a person at this normal realm, even an Emperor Son at the same realm could not hold on, but Zhang Xuan is able to withstand it.

The Origin he has pushed to the limit is considered top-tier even among those who cultivate the Heaven-Swallowing Demon Bow.

In terms of Origin and innate potential, he is inferior to no one at this realm, and he even feels that his blood might be thicker than that of a Great Emperor at the same realm.

He endures it stubbornly, and Zhang Xuan tries his best to maintain his peak state rather than just lying flat to cope with the attacks of the Great Emperors and Ancient Emperors to kill time; he is truly and directly fighting these Great Emperors and Ancient Emperors to hone his own skills.

Although he is still in the Zhandao Realm, it is vastly different from a normal Zhandao Realm; after all, he has a Nine-Orifice Stone Man as his backup, and his battles with these Ancient Emperors and Great Emperors often allow his skills to be extremely sublimated after a few rounds of combat, rapidly improving himself amidst the crisis of life and death.

When he cannot hold on, Zhang Xuan does not feel ashamed to eat a Blood Bodhi grown in the Plantation or a portion of the essence of a peculiar Undying Divine Medicine.

He lets himself quickly recover to his peak, keeping his primordial spirit and physical body in a peak state at all times.

He just fights hard.

No one has a deeper foundation than Zhang Xuan, and no one is wealthier than Zhang Xuan; in this most difficult process, he uses the most extravagant methods to get through it.

Of course, it sounds easy, but in reality, it is extremely difficult to practice; even if someone else could have Undying Divine Medicine and Blood Bodhi, to clash with these Ancient Emperors and Great Emperors, one must stand on the same starting line as them to be able to withstand their attacks without dying.

Other figures would turn to ash after a single strike from an Ancient Emperor or Great Emperor, and no matter how many Undying Divine Medicine or Immortal items they had in their hands, they would have no way to survive.

Boom!

When the brilliant light soared into the sky, the ancient star represented by Tai Huang was ground away by Zhang Xuan through intense tempering, but this did not mean that good days were coming; instead, the ancient star above his head flickered, and a new figure stepped out.

Brilliant light soared into the sky, and a furnace smashed through the void with a boom, imprinting itself on Zhang Xuan's chest; a fiery red phoenix on the furnace spread its wings as if to fly, drawing out monstrous flames.

Zhang Xuan did not dodge or evade, his physical body seemingly firmer than the sturdiest divine metal in the world, and he used his palm to collide with it head-on.

Only after a phoenix mark was branded onto his body did he pause slightly.

Both his primordial spirit and physical body glowed during this process, his physical body seemingly turning into a black hole, and his primordial spirit doing the same, once again absorbing these terrifying Dao laws into his body.

The earth-shattering light swept through every corner, and Zhang Xuan did not retreat a single step, colliding head-on with such terrifying figures.

During this period, other peerlessly terrifying figures would also strike, blasting Zhang Xuan apart; never in this world has anyone been able to survive such attacks.

Great Emperors never meet one another; any Great Emperor is invincible within their own domain.

No one has ever faced the attacks of multiple Great Emperors—this is something one wouldn't even dare to imagine—but Zhang Xuan just fights to the death and refuses to retreat.

Moreover, he operates his techniques at any time and place to keep his state at its absolute peak; in this process, his physical body would be ruined and then restored again.

His primordial spirit would become dim, and Zhang Xuan even had to use the existence within the realm where the Nine-Orifice Stone Man resided to keep his primordial spirit at its peak at all times; after all, matter can be replenished, but the spirit will become exhausted.

Only Zhang Xuan, who possesses an 'other-self' and a Nine-Orifice Stone Man, can keep his state at its absolute peak at any time and place, stubbornly fighting to the death without retreating.

It is incomparably dangerous and incomparably difficult, but the harvest is also incomparably huge.

On Zhang Xuan's body, a bright heavenly saber, a furnace with a phoenix that seemed ready to spread its wings and fly to the sky at any moment, and even the ghost face mark of the Ruthless Great Emperor had all been branded onto him, having once pierced through his body.

The Heaven and Earth Dao resonated during this process, turning into thoughts that sought to bind Zhang Xuan, only to be integrated into his body and absorbed by his primordial spirit.

When the tribulation reached its final and most critical moment, Zhang Xuan's physical body and primordial spirit were both shining; the nine ancient stars that had been suspended above his head without disappearing all froze at once, then dimmed bit by bit and vanished simultaneously.

In this instant, ten golden crows streaked across the horizon, and boundless Hun-tun Qi gushed forth, as if a Chaos Body were awakening; there even appeared the ancient and simple phenomenon of Nine Dragons Pulling Coffin in this starry sky of the Universe.

Countless figures across Beidou looked up at the firmament, feeling this astonishing change.

Some ancient, great figures saw such a phenomenon and could not help but sigh in amazement: "That is the strongest phenomenon recorded throughout the ages; it only appears in those who have walked a completely different and terrifying path while in the Zhandao Realm."

"Heavens, is an invincible figure like Qingdi about to emerge in such an era? To be able to step forward and reach such a realm in the most oppressive environment of heaven and earth?"

"Truly terrifying beyond compare; who is it? Who has reached such a realm in obscurity?"

The world shook.

(End of this chapter)