Chapter 320: Holding Back the Collapse of Heaven with One Hand, Before Attaining the Dao!

Zhang Xuan sat cross-legged at the very top, watching this battle with cold eyes.

In reality, the battle basically had no suspense.

Ancient Great Emperors and Ancient Emperors have never had a distinction of superiority between them; after all, they were all invincible figures of their respective eras, but after choosing to Slash One's Own Blade, a distinction in strength could be made.

On Zhang Xuan's side, whether it was Gai Jiuyou or the Great Accomplishment Saint Body, both were figures who had become Great Emperors in the current age, their Qi and blood suppressing the world.

Moreover, having the Heavenly Heart Imprint in harmony with their own Heavenly Dao, every movement caused the myriad Daos of the heavens to resonate.

Normally, a contemporary Great Emperor would absolutely not lose when facing a Supreme from a Forbidden Zone; as long as it was one-on-one, they could win.

The situation on the Great Accomplishment Saint Body's side was the same, and the Great Accomplishment Saint Body even held the upper hand more often.

The physical body of a Great Accomplishment Saint Body could rival a Great Emperor even before becoming one, and after becoming a Great Emperor, it was truly and genuinely invincible.

Although the other few figures were not in harmony with the Heavenly Heart Imprint, their vigorous and boiling Qi and blood could provide them with endless confidence.

One was old and weak, the other was in the prime of their youth; who would win and who would lose was self-evident. This was not a matter of whose Dao was superior, but a result of old age and physical decline.

It is just like a strong and healthy ordinary middle-aged man who can definitely beat an eighty-year-old Mike Tyson.

Not to mention that the strong and healthy figures were Great Emperors and Ancient Emperors in their peak states.

This battle itself did not have much suspense.

After the six peerless figures entered the Immortal Domain, all Immortal Substance was actively isolated by Zhang Xuan; although there was an endless amount of Immortal Substance, they had no way to absorb it.

Everything could be said to have drawn to a close.

Zhang Xuan watched calmly from the side, yet countless Daos were flashing within his gaze.

These were the paths that these Ancient Emperors and Great Emperors had once walked; they were the supreme Dao Fruits of their entire lives.

If others were to contemplate them, they might never be able to reach this point in their entire lives, but within Zhang Xuan's territory, while they were fighting with all their might.

Their true Origin Daos were completely revealed, and then summarized and absorbed by Zhang Xuan.

Zhang Xuan's primordial spirit became increasingly brilliant and increasingly peculiar.

In the Yishi Zhi Zun World, no one dared to summarize and unify so many rules at once like Zhang Xuan.

Because those on the Other Shore often only had one rule they could take to the limit, while other rules had to be contemplated anew; someone like Zhang Xuan, who filled himself with all rules and truly succeeded in reaching perfection, could not be found anywhere in the world.

Yet Zhang Xuan still felt relaxed.

After all, in this world, he was the only one practicing the Eight-Nine Profound Art and the Tathagata Golden Body.

The general outline of the Tathagata Palm, as well as the insights into the Heavenly Dao explained by the Moral Heavenly Venerable.

As the Basis of the Existing World, although the Heavenly Dao explained by the Moral Heavenly Venerable was simple and easy to understand, it inevitably carried his own insights, and as the Basis of the Existing World, he was an existence similar to Pangu.

The Heavenly Dao he explained would naturally make people constantly approach Pangu; the Opening Heaven and Earth Three Brothers themselves were Pangu.

Zhang Xuan was now just constantly approaching the Moral Heavenly Venerable, though the Moral Heavenly Venerable was the creator god of the Yishi Zhi Zun World.

And Zhang Xuan was the Pangu, or rather, the Nuwa of the Zhetian World.

One Dao Fruit after another emerged in Zhang Xuan's eyes; in the blink of an eye, the Dao Fruits of the six great Ancient Emperors and Heavenly Venerables were all contemplated by Zhang Xuan.

And upon his primordial spirit, there were already densely packed rules, one after another.

The black hole-like existence formed by the Ruthless Great Emperor's Swallowing Heaven Demonic Art, the Void Dao of the Void Great Emperor, the Lihuo Scorching Plains of the Hengyu Great Emperor, the Phoenix Nirvana of the Undying Emperor...

The strongest Dao Fruits of many Ancient Emperors and Great Emperors all appeared on him, and they were all Great Emperor-level Dao Fruits.

At this very moment, if not for the suppression of the entire Small World, and if not for the peerless divine weapons he had refined himself also suppressing him, he would instinctively be unable to hold back and would rush toward a higher and more perfect level.

"Reaching this point is actually already enough; there is no need to be like I set out, to master the Dao Fruits of all the Ancient Emperors and Great Emperors tracked in the Forbidden Zones to perfection."

At this moment, Zhang Xuan had a peculiar realization in his heart: even the Moral Heavenly Venerable, Yuanshi Heavenly Venerable, and Lingbao Heavenly Venerable would not master all the rules between heaven and earth.

The Yuanshi Heavenly Venerable mastered the method of opening heaven and earth; it was the strongest vitality between heaven and earth, the ability of Creation, the first ray of light that tore through heaven and earth.

The Moral Heavenly Venerable was the foundation that carried all things in heaven and earth; he was the thick earth that carried things with great virtue.

And the Lingbao Heavenly Venerable was known as the destruction that destroyed everything, symbolizing the end.

They did not completely unify all other aspects of the path within themselves; what they mastered were only the three most important points between heaven and earth: the beginning, the process, and the result.

They only mastered the truly most effective and meaningful main rules, while all other rules were fillers; they mastered the skeleton, while the rest was flesh and blood, meridians, and fur.

"And if I want to learn, the path they walked is actually such a process: first grasp the main Heavenly Dao rules—the beginning, development, and end—in one's hands."

"The follow-up is to fill in various detailed rules; from the current situation, I am not lacking anything anymore. I can master the main beginning and the process of development."

"The Dao Fruit of the Wushi Dadi is enough for me to carry a large portion of the Heavenly Dao rules, and the Ruthless Great Emperor is another powerful supplement..."

"The Dao Fruits of the Undying Emperor and the Emperor Venerable are also of utmost importance; they are the joints, the key, the backbone, while the other figures are all fillers."

"If there is still one thing that must be mastered, it is Ye Fan's contemporary invincible Dao Fruit; he represents existence, represents the present..."

"And this part, I actually have a substitute for; the Small World I possess is the foundation of the entire world, it represents existence..."

"As of now, what I am lacking is only one single point..."

Amidst the intense battle, Zhang Xuan did not look at that fight; the battle had actually already ended in his eyes, and there was no need to pay attention to it.

He cast his gaze toward the Small World, and then looked through the World Barrier of the Small World toward Beidou.

Then he looked at a fat Daoist priest who was still in the Eastern Wasteland preparing to go to a cemetery to conduct archaeology.

"The small point I need to supplement now is actually reincarnation; having a deficiency in this aspect, once supplemented, this point will be perfect and flawless."

Zhang Xuan whispered, and then, just as his voice fell, that fat man who was originally poking his head around, preparing to continue his archaeology, had his figure move and disappear from where he was, appearing in the Small World controlled by Zhang Xuan, appearing in the stretches upon stretches of Shenmo Lingyuan.

"Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable, who is trying to harm me?"

Suddenly, the surrounding environment changed, and the fat man immediately jumped to his feet.

But just as he jumped up and looked at the stretches upon stretches of graves, looking at the undying obsessions walking everywhere, the headless Gods and Demons roaring, and the fairies with their hearts pierced dancing among them—a scene that would be enough to scare an ordinary person into madness—the fat man watched without blinking, and even drool flowed from the corner of his mouth.

"This is... this is that this Daoist has had incredible luck, accidentally walked into a crack in the world, and fallen into the Immortal Realm?"

"It is only right that this Daoist should carry forward the archaeology of the Immortal Realm; such powerful Gods and Demons have died so silently, buried in this nameless corner."

"Someone should bring out their relics, publicize their past deeds, and let the world remember the greatness of these invincible Gods and Demons..."

Even though this fat man had suddenly changed environments, he was not flustered at all; he was not even very concerned about the near-infinite Immortal Substance around him, but instead stared at the graves around him, his eyes shining.

"I have always remembered my purpose in finding someone, always searching for certain things. For all these years I haven't been able to find them; perhaps it is because I was looking in the wrong direction. I didn't reach the Immortal Domain. By coming to the Immortal Domain, perhaps I can find my true goal..."

This fat man was completely familiar, and he directly chose a tombstone, directly setting his sights on the most precious spot in the graveyard where Zhang Xuan used to bury the incomplete remains of Dugu Qiubai's Heavenly Remnant.

He walked straight over, preparing to take action, but before he could, he was slapped to the ground by a tombstone carrying nine drops of fresh blood, unable to even crawl back up.

"Damn it, this Daoist has truly seen a ghost; even a tombstone can hit people!"

This fat Daoist cursed in anger, but the fresh blood on the tombstone became even more brilliant, as if it were about to flow down.

It nearly crushed this fat man to death on the spot, and even the Swallowing Heaven Devil Lid within his Sendai actively revived, helping him block this terrifying blow.

It was only when the fat man saw the Swallowing Heaven Devil Lid flowing with Hun-tun Qi above his head that he reacted, his head covered in cold sweat.

"Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable, can this plain-looking drop of blood actually rival an Extreme Dao Imperial Weapon?"

While his scalp tingled, he was also somewhat excited and thrilled.

"Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable, I see that I have a connection with you!"

Boom!

Duan De, along with the Swallowing Heaven Devil Lid above his head, was slapped flying away together.

While in mid-air, just as he was about to be sent flying, he was gently caught out of thin air by a hand.

"You..."

Duan De looked up, just about to speak, only to see a figure surging with Hun-tun Qi all over, looking down at him from high above.

Seeing Duan De's surprise, the figure looked up, gestured with a hand, and he flew into the clouds.

Duan De was surprised and puzzled, yet inexplicably felt that the figure wearing a Daoist robe standing in the clouds looked somewhat familiar.

He looked at the figure with a full head of white hair but a rosy complexion and skin like an infant, smiling, and then slashed down with a sword.

Boundless Hun-tun Qi surged, and bewitching blood light sprinkled between heaven and earth.

The blood of an Ancient Emperor sprayed between heaven and earth, shaking the heavens and the earth.

In the past, this would absolutely have been able to shake the entire Universe, but in this Small World created by Zhang Xuan himself, no one could see it.

Only Zhang Xuan himself was admiring it.

And while Duan De was dumbfounded, he suddenly remembered why he felt familiar, and pointing at the figure wearing the Daoist robe, he said in shock: "Heavenly Venerable Daode, are you Heavenly Venerable Daode? You are actually alive, and you even entered the Immortal Domain?"

He looked down and discovered that this Immortal Domain was far more complex and terrifying than he had imagined.

Within that terrifying formation, multiple Ancient Emperors and Supremes were fighting in a bloody battle.

This kind of battle had reached its peak, its most white-hot state, and the most terrifying laws were everywhere.

A moment of carelessness, and even the top figures between heaven and earth would bleed and die in it.

And Duan De, who considered himself an expert among experts in archaeology, recognized many of the figures present just by taking a look.

"Void Great Emperor, Hengyu Great Emperor... and a bald man I don't recognize..."

The more he looked, the more surprised Duan De was, and the more his scalp tingled.

"Did I poke a Great Emperor's nest? Or have I not woken up yet? Aren't the Void Great Emperor and Hengyu Great Emperor both dead? Is Heavenly Venerable Daode alive?"

He was in a state of indescribable shock and awe.

Looking down, he was shocked but still able to accept it.

He had some understanding of the Qilin Ancient Emperor and the Wanlong Emperor; he had once wanted to find the tombs of these two Ancient Emperors, but unfortunately, he hadn't found them, only finding the tombs of some powerful figures of the Wanlong Nest to conduct some archaeology.

And seeing that figure in the intense battle whose blood energy soared to the sky, whose golden blood energy drowned everything, and who was crazily beating his opponent.

Even Duan De couldn't help but widen his eyes.

"This is..."

"A Saint Body of Great Accomplishment?"

He had not expected to see a living Saint Body of Great Accomplishment here, and the figure being beaten by the Saint Body of Great Accomplishment also shocked him.

But Zhang Xuan did not let Duan De continue to be shocked here; he looked down at Duan De, and a smile could not help but appear on his face.

"Worthy of being the master of the Emperor, on the road of reincarnation, in the entire world, you have indeed walked the furthest!"

Duan De was dazed, but he also fell into intense shock.

Because he saw that this figure, whose whole body was permeated with endless Hun-tun Qi, was exactly the same as the figure he had seen in that peerless, terrifying battle earlier; this was a figure suspected to be a True Immortal.

This figure looked down at him, endless light flowing in his eyes, and there were also layer upon layer of imprints.

Those imprints had both the most sacred life aura and the most terrifying death aura; life and death intertwined to form a most brilliant and white imprint, or rather, a ring.

As an archaeologist, Duan De was no stranger to this legendary ring, and upon seeing it, he blurted it out.

"The legendary Reincarnation Seal?"

"There is actually such a thing in the world, and there is actually someone who can die and return to life, constantly reincarnating?"

He was in shock, only to find this figure suspected to be at the True Immortal level looking down at him, his gaze crystal clear.

The reincarnation imprint he saw did not originate from other places, but from his own body.

Duan De was stunned by this, and looked down at himself.

But he could only see his increasingly plump, somewhat round belly, see his ancient Daoist robe, and see the archaeological items he had brought from various ancient places, and could not see much more.

"Truly a path that has gone very far; my path is almost complete today!"

Duan De heard such a whisper.

Then he saw that figure stand up.

(End of this chapter)