Chapter 979: Replace Heaven

Fortunately, the sacred beast Bai Hu did not mobilize the power of the Five Directions and Five Elements Great Array to crush Luo Fu outright.

Otherwise, Luo Fu would have found it extremely difficult to continue testing, and would have been forced to unleash his full strength to fight the sacred beast Bai Hu.

At the sacred beast Bai Hu's will, the entire power of the Five Directions and Five Elements small world descended upon him in an instant.

He did not use this power to attack, but instead channeled it into the Golden Dao flame burning around him.

In an instant, a golden light radiated outward from the sacred beast Bai Hu.

Where the golden light passed, space itself solidified.

The vast expanse of space centered on the sacred beast Bai Hu, under the corruption of the Golden Dao, began to metalize. All other forces were completely expelled, leaving only the Golden Dao.

Thick, solid, dense golden light filled every corner.

Under the pressure of the Golden Dao, the eight Chaotic-colored Great Dao swords slowed drastically, as if trapped in mud.

Not just mud.

Mud still had some fluidity; the golden light surrounding them was as dense as metal.

The space around the eight Chaotic-colored Great Dao swords was completely frozen by the golden light, and even the swords themselves began to freeze.

If Luo Fu had not continuously manipulated the eight Chaotic-colored Great Dao swords to unleash sword light and pierce through the surrounding golden light, they would have been solidified long ago.

Generating sword qi consumed considerable magic power; continuing this indefinitely was a significant drain on the eight Chaotic-colored Great Dao swords.

Choosing to phase out and move through the golden light was also unfeasible.

The golden light suppressed all Dao forces except the Golden Dao.

The Dao of Illusion was also restricted; activating it required magic power to sustain.

In fact, the magic power cost to sustain it was even greater than that of generating sword light.

By nature, the Sword Dao was superior to the Golden Dao.

Moreover, the Sword Dao possessed the power to sever Daos.

Against such Dao suppression, the Sword Dao was undoubtedly more effective.

Of course, Luo Fu was not without countermeasures in this situation.

Shhh!

Earth-yellow and illusory hues slowly faded from the eight Chaotic-colored Great Dao swords, as blinding golden light began to gleam along their blades.

The Golden Dao—Luo Fu was equally skilled in it.

Since only the Golden Dao was permitted to exist around him, he simply replaced the Dao forces on the eight Chaotic-colored Great Dao swords with the Golden Dao.

But this meant his previous tactics could no longer be used.

Luo Fu had never intended to reuse them anyway; such illusory-real transformation techniques could only be used once for surprise.

After one use, the opponent would be prepared, and achieving success again would be nearly impossible.

Luo Fu had expected the sacred beast Bai Hu to mobilize the Five Directions and Five Elements Great Array to reinforce its defenses and prevent such a move.

Instead, the sacred beast Bai Hu had chosen to cut off the fuel at the source.

It directly summoned the Golden Dao to replace all other Daos in the surroundings.

This method was equivalent to replacing Heaven's Dao with one's own Dao.

It was a technique reserved for powerful Hunyuan Daoluojin Xian or Heaven Dao-level powerhouses.

Yet the sacred beast Bai Hu, relying on its Heaven Dao authority and vast Heaven Dao power, had achieved a similar effect.

Undeniably, this method eradicated, at the root, any possibility of Luo Fu playing tricks again.

Faced with the Golden Dao's blockade, if Luo Fu wished to continue fighting the sacred beast Bai Hu, he had only one option: break through the Golden Dao's suppression and confront Bai Hu directly.

After replacing the Dao forces on the eight Chaotic-colored Great Dao swords with the Golden Dao, the pressure from the surrounding golden light weakened considerably.

But it was only weakened—not gone entirely.

The surrounding golden light, though formed from the Golden Dao, was saturated with the sacred beast Bai Hu's will.

Without Bai Hu's permission, even one equally skilled in the Golden Dao would be suppressed.

Yet compared to other Daos, the suppression on the Golden Dao was relatively minor.

Of course, if one's understanding of the Golden Dao surpassed that of the sacred beast Bai Hu, one would not be suppressed at all—instead, one could turn the tables, absorb the surrounding golden light, and use it to restrain Bai Hu.

If Luo Fu revealed his true Great Dao Realm, reversing control would be effortless, accomplished with a single thought.

Although the sacred beast Bai Hu's comprehension of the Golden Dao had surpassed the Hunyuan layer, it had achieved this only through Heaven Dao's enhancement—not through genuine personal breakthrough.

Through its Heaven Dao authority, the sacred beast Bai Hu could directly summon the Golden Dao of the Primordial World to empower itself.

It was as if the Heaven Dao had handed Bai Hu a complete Golden Dao to use temporarily.

In other words, regarding the artificially elevated Dao realm, Bai Hu was merely a user, not the owner.

Once the Heaven Dao withdrew its enhancement, Bai Hu would instantly revert to his original state.

This situation was similar to that of a Pre-Sage wielding a primordial supreme treasure.

Primordial supreme treasures themselves contained a complete Dao.

By refining such a treasure, one could gain the Dao's empowerment.

Of course, it was nearly impossible for a Pre-Sage to refine a primordial supreme treasure.

Sages and Sub-Sages were different: the Heaven Dao had already fully refined the treasure for them; they only needed to wield it.

Because it was not refined by themselves, the sacred beast Bai Hu could not unleash the full power of this primordial supreme treasure.

Otherwise, Bai Hu's Dao realm would not merely have just broken through to the Hunyuan layer.

The Primordial World's foundation was far from simple.

Pangu had once slaughtered every Chaos Divine Demon in the vast surrounding regions and absorbed them all into the Primordial World.

Having absorbed so many Chaos Divine Demons, most of the Primordial World's Three Thousand Daos were far more than merely Hunyuan-level.

This was why Ancestor Hongjun valued the Primordial World.

The Primordial World is still a Hunyuan layer because it was born too recently.

Several thousand yuanhui may be an extremely long time for the Hunyuan layer, but for a world, it is not long.

Strictly speaking, the current Primordial World is still a newborn world.

Due to having no master, the development of Primordial World's strong ones has been relatively slow.

Moreover, Ancestor Hongjun deliberately disrupted the balance of the Primordial World's strong ones to devour the Heavenly Dao, further slowing their development.

This is why the Primordial World's strong ones show little power, appearing like an underdeveloped ordinary Hunyuan layer.