Chapter 626: Daoization Puppet

"You want this Bronze Ancient Box? Then you and I can make a deal: you let me go, and I will offer up this Bronze Ancient Box, and by the way, tell you how to use it."

Hun Xuan said, unwilling to let go of the chance to live.

"Do you think I am someone so easily fooled?"

Li Heng spoke with a look that was not quite a smile.

Hun Xuan frowned, "You don't understand, this Bronze Ancient Box is extraordinary, and once used, one must pay a corresponding price. But I can tell you what the price is, to avoid risk."

Li Heng shook his head.

"Once I Daoize you into a Puppet, you will naturally say it yourself; why would I need to make a deal with you?"

"Then I can completely delete the relevant memories now, so that even if you Daoize me into a Puppet, you still won't know what the price is, and in the end, you will only be left in the dark."

Hun Xuan said calmly.

"Then you are free to delete your memories."

Li Heng chuckled, unimpressed. A large hand covered in Source Power directly opened the Bronze Ancient Box, completely breaking the box's state of independent concealment, and reached inside to pull out Hun Xuan, who was hiding within.

In Hun Xuan's field of vision, this large hand of Li Heng's blotted out the sun and sky, shrouding all directions, as if the entire World were pressing down upon him, causing him to lose all possibility of escape.

But he did not intend to run, nor did he intend to wait meekly for death; instead, his aura surged violently, mobilizing all his cultivation, combined with the Great Dao insights he had only recently improved, sublimating to the extreme, like a blooming flower, to unleash his own peak strike!

In an instant, the Void shattered, and all returned to nothingness.

As the light and shadow streaked past and the Great Dao rhymes scattered, this strike of his had already touched the realm of a Great Venerable, destroying all existence, evolving into a silent, terrifying power, intending to pierce through Li Heng's palm and then calmly escape.

A look of wild joy appeared on his face.

This was his lifeline; he had finally waited for this moment!

As long as he unleashed this strike and successfully escaped, leaving the cage to return to nature, he would be like a fish entering the sea or a bird soaring in the sky, free forever, and then take the ultimate leap to prove the Dao as a Great Venerable!

He grew more and more excited in his heart, already imagining his Great Venerable-level strike catching Li Daoren off guard, directly piercing his palm, dissolving his flesh and blood, and allowing him to escape.

The next moment.

That heaven-shaking strike hit Li Heng's palm, using the infinite heavens and countless Great Dao laws as fuel, turning into an extreme Great Destruction, rising into an incomparably brilliant firework, terrifying and beautiful.

But the result was just like a firework: beautiful, yet without lethality, vanishing in an instant. Hun Xuan's strike had indeed hit Li Heng's palm, but after that firework dissipated, one could see that there was not a single scratch on Li Heng's palm.

Everything just now was nothing more than an egg striking a rock.

Hun Xuan was stunned, and the next moment he was grabbed by Li Heng, unable to move. But he did not resist, because he truly did not understand why that strike just now had no effect.

Is Li Daoren not a Great Venerable?

Was his strike just now not at the Great Venerable level?

Then why did that strike just now have no effect at all?

Even if this Li Daoren had prepared defenses in advance, since he had hit him squarely, and it was a Great Venerable-level strike, at the very least it should have left some scars.

Why did it turn out like this?

He could not fathom it, feeling completely powerless.

Is the being he is trying to deal with really a normal creature? Why does this Li Daoren give him a sense of oppression like the infinite, omnipresent Calamity and monsters?

All his methods are useless against this Li Daoren...

It is just like a Calamity!

He even felt this was more terrifying than a Calamity; at least he could avoid or seal a Calamity, but facing this Li Daoren, he was utterly defeated!

"Have you finished making a scene?"

Li Heng looked at the shrunken Hun Xuan in his palm and said calmly.

He could sense that the Hun Xuan from just now was indeed powerful, capable of unleashing a terrifying Great Venerable-level strike, already in a state of intermediate transformation; if that strike had succeeded and allowed him to break free, Hun Xuan would surely have ascended to Great Venerable.

In this situation, someone else might have truly let Hun Xuan succeed.

After all, this was a full-force strike from a Great Venerable breaking through a realm, mixed with his own endless sharpness and the transformation and sublimation of his own Dao Fruit, having a bit of the meaning of "when the time comes, Heaven and Earth provide strength," and an ordinary Great Venerable would have to take such an attack seriously.

But he is not an ordinary Great Venerable.

He is an Invincible One among Great Venerables, so he can naturally ignore it.

Hun Xuan was silent, his aura appearing somewhat withered.

He had lost after all.

Seeing this, Li Heng shook his head and did not say much, directly proceeding with the unfinished business from before. Just now, because Hun Xuan had hidden in the Bronze Ancient Box, the Daoization was interrupted. But now that Hun Xuan had appeared and Reality had been corrected, the Dadao Hai, which had lost its target, found it again and rushed toward Hun Xuan.

Hun Xuan did not resist as he faced the surging Dadao Hai.

He knew his situation clearly; his spirit was gone. The spark of transformation that should have led to his ultimate sublimation and final leap to prove the Great Venerable was also ruthlessly extinguished by Li Heng.

In this situation, he had no ability to resist and could only slowly Daoize under the scouring of the Great Dao, becoming a Puppet. At the final moment, his personality gradually dissipating, he weakly raised his head to look at Li Heng and spoke softly.

"I have lost, but you may not always win."

With these words, Hun Xuan's personality and will dissipated completely, and he thoroughly became Li Heng's Daoization Puppet. All the Great Dao essence that Hun Xuan had realized from the Source Power Degraded Product also became Li Heng's, giving him many insights, his aura faintly rising upward.

Li Heng raised an eyebrow, somewhat surprised.

Even if Hun Xuan's analysis of the Source Power Degraded Product only remained on the surface, these superficial insights were enough to bring him to the edge of a Great Venerable; if not for his existence, he might have been able to ascend to Great Venerable within a few days.

Now, these superficial insights could even raise the strength of his realm as an Invincible One among Great Venerables. It seems that even if it is not Source Power itself, but only a Degraded Product, it cannot be underestimated.

"Is this light the key to analyzing the Source Power Degraded Product?"

Li Heng muttered to himself, grabbing from Hun Xuan's body the Light of Dao Integration, though compared to what Hun Xuan had previously, only half of the Light of Dao Integration remained. It stands to reason that although Hun Xuan became a Puppet and the Dao Integration did not proceed smoothly, it still caused a certain amount of loss to the Light of Dao Integration.

He did not know the specific information about this light, even after searching Hun Xuan's memories, he found nothing.

Clearly, at the final moment, Hun Xuan not only deleted the information about the Bronze Ancient Box from his memory but also deleted the memories of the origin of this light and related matters.

But this could not stump him; with a thought, he simply and crudely used Source Power to restore the memory information that Hun Xuan had previously deleted, instantly knowing all kinds of information.

"Light of Dao Integration? Ancient past? Dao Lord?"

Li Heng's expression was strange.