Chapter 752: Wool-Gathering

This sword strike, once unleashed, was destined to hit.

Under this sword, the birth and death of the infinite Heavens and Myriad Worlds were but tiny specks of dust; it seemed to contain the empowerment of the entire Great Void, tracing a trajectory of profound mystery as it tore through the monster's flesh.

But... that was all.

Black blood dripped down, instantly staining the Zhongmo Zhidi red, and wisps of Magic Qi rose up, circling the monster; it opened its eyes instantly, roared in pain, and the sound waves rippled through the surrounding space-time, causing the Zhongmo Zhidi to tremble.

However, the Zhongmo Zhidi has always symbolized the end of all things and can be said to be pure Emptiness; whether it trembles or not is of no consequence, for even if it were truly shattered, a new one would appear.

"As expected, this sword couldn't kill it."

Li Heng shook his head, looking at the monster that had locked onto him, feeling no surprise at all.

The pitch-black giant maw that devours the Heavens and Myriad Worlds lunged at him instantly. This monster did not care what Li Heng thought or what he said; it simply ate.

Li Heng took a step, manifesting the intent of this shore and the other shore, standing on the other shore to dodge the pitch-black maw, and swung his sword to slash again.

In an instant, he swung countless swords; the terrifying sword intent and the surging, crisscrossing sword Qi intersected in front to form a massive sword net, interpreting the birth and death of the Great Void and manifesting ultimate slaughter, encompassing the monster within.

The sword net contracted, violently strangling!

In an instant, the monster shattered into countless chunks of flesh, and black blood overflowing with Magic Qi spilled like a waterfall, eroding the Zhongmo Zhidi even more intensely, intending to turn it into an Abyss.

The surrounding Void, every place of existence and non-existence, seemed to have turned into a muddy, damp quagmire; those caught within it, no matter how they struggled, could not stop sinking and being devoured by it.

However, Li Heng stood Above Dao Lord at this moment and ignored these things. It was Li Qianjun and the others who were thrown into a panic by these anomalies, only narrowly avoiding being swallowed as they sank.

Li Heng held a "Dao Sword" in his hand.

In a sense, this Dao Sword was formed by the entire Great Void, symbolizing the Great Dao of the entire Great Void; only those Above Dao Lord could manifest, condense, and wield it in their hands.

The countless swords he had just slashed had indeed struck the monster's origin and thoroughly annihilated it; logically speaking, this monster should have been completely dead.

But he knew very well it was not that simple.

Sure enough, the next moment.

The monster appeared again.

It was not those chunks of flesh re-condensing and resurrecting, but a direct, sudden appearance, just like a game boss respawning.

However, compared to the monster's previous image, the monster before him was vastly different; what circled it was no longer Magic Qi, but eerie Demon Qi, and its entire body was covered in black scales.

This transformation naturally had to do with the change in Li Heng's thoughts.

But he knew even better that this was because he had only slain one image of this monster, while the monster still had thousands upon thousands, countless other images still alive.

Seeing this, Changqing felt a sense of emotion in his heart.

It had finally come to this point; Fellow Daoist Li, what should you do now? He had no desire to watch the show at this moment; instead, his thoughts were complex as he recalled the past.

Back then, as a peak Dao Lord, he had not taken this monster to heart when he encountered it. But after he killed this monster a few times, things started to go wrong.

For instance, no matter how he killed it, it would resurrect, as if it had never died.

And every time he killed it, the monster's strength seemed to grow a bit stronger. Then, slowly, he was dragged down and worn out; in the end, even after exhausting all his strength and using some Secret Techniques to severely wound the monster and force it into slumber,

he still ended up buried in the monster's maw.

In the end, he was defeated and perished.

Li Heng, for his part, was actually not in a hurry.

He continued as he had just done, constantly unleashing sword strikes to slay the monster; in just a few seconds, he had already slaughtered the monster countless times. Of course, compared to the monster's countless images, the effect he achieved was almost zero.

At this time, Shang Qing could finally hold back no longer and spoke up to warn him.

"Fellow Daoist Li, this monster grows stronger every time it resurrects; you have killed it so many times, I fear..."

Before he could finish, Li Heng interrupted him.

"Many thanks for the reminder, Fellow Daoist Changqing, but this is all within my expectations; I am not surprised. You must trust in the strength of being Above Dao Lord. Even if I have killed this monster countless times now and made it countless times stronger, it still cannot reach the level of Above Dao Lord."

Having said that, he continued to slash at the monster.

The strength of being Above Dao Lord still held plenty of weight.

Although he could not thoroughly kill this monster, when it came to a real fight, he could still easily thrash this monster, even if it was growing stronger at every moment.

And at this time, the Void could no longer hold back.

"You, are, doing, what... no, meaning!"

"Of course it's meaningless; it's not like I don't know."

Li Heng responded casually and continued to slash.

"Then, you, why, do, this!"

The Great Void appeared somewhat angry.

"Isn't this exactly what you want? As long as I keep killing this monster without stopping, this monster cannot infringe upon the Great Void in the slightest, which is also a form of death."

"Then you don't need to worry about me as a threat either."

Li Heng replied as such.

The Great Void fell silent; after a long while, it responded thus.

"Empowerment, is not, infinite, Infinite, there is, time..."

"I certainly know that, so let's just wait until the time comes. If I still can't kill this monster when the time is up, then I have done my best, and you cannot blame me."

"If you must blame someone, blame your own power for not being good enough."

Li Heng smiled slightly, unimpressed, and instead offered a sharp critique of the Great Void.

The Great Void appeared even more furious.

"You, self-destruct, guarantee, kill!"

"No, I won't commit suicide."

Li Heng shook his head.

"What, on earth, do you, want!"

For some reason, after this monster awakened, the Great Void's determination to eliminate it grew stronger and stronger, to the point where it was now willing to communicate frequently with Li Heng. And the more they communicated, the less ignorant and instinctive this will became, becoming more and more personified.

"What I want, you cannot give me either."

Li Heng still shook his head.

"When the time comes, you will die!"

The Great Void dropped this sentence and fell into silence once again.

"Will I die? Then we shall see the truth through our actions."

Li Heng muttered to himself.

The reason he had been doing useless work all this time was that he wanted to fleece the Great Void to the maximum extent, preventing the Great Void from taking back the power and realm it had placed on the Dao Lord if he killed this monster too early; wouldn't he be at a huge loss then?

It was just like Earth in the past.

You finished the work the company gave you ahead of time? Very capable, right?

Then let's keep increasing the workload!

It looks like you're doing it very easily, so you don't need this help anymore, right? Then I will take it back.

From ancient times to the present, this has always been the principle.

And at this moment, as he fleeced the Great Void.

He also began to transform and sublimate once again.

At the peak of the Thirty-Six Heavens, the phantom of that supreme Daluo Heaven became increasingly solid, even beginning to bloom with light and manifest auspicious signs...