Chapter 676: Late Arrival and the Final End

The Layer of the Great Dao’s Origin.

Fang Xing’s True Spirit Dao Seed comprehended numerous Great Daos, and his spirit entered a state of emptiness and serenity.

“The power of the Great Dao is boundless, shifting with the world… Even worlds of celestial rank cannot fully suppress a single Great Dao…”

“How could such power of the Great Dao possibly be divided into innate and acquired?”

“Therefore… what is called ‘transforming acquired into innate’ means elevating one’s own Dao Seed into an innate Dao Seed, thereby gaining the ability to twist and command greater forces of the Great Dao—resulting in a power level utterly distinct from before.”

At this moment, his Pan Wu Dao Seed was in a strange state.

In an inexplicable space, a primordial demon god roared: “Pan Wu! Pan Wu!”

In the demon god’s hands was an axe capable of splitting heaven and earth.

Beside the Pan Wu Dao Seed, the innate treasure—the Axe of Creation—appeared, gradually fading into vapor…

The Pan Wu Dao Seed absorbed thin strands of innate primordial essence, slowly acquiring traces of innate Dao resonance.

On the attribute panel, a mark appeared:

【14th Realm: Dao Lord (Step 3: 2/100)】

Its progress was continuously climbing, as if encountering no obstacle whatsoever.

“A single innate treasure is enough to allow a Step 3 Dao Lord to take their final step…”

“But I’ve only just ascended to Step 3 Dao Lord, yet I’m breaking through swiftly… Naturally, this is the attribute panel’s doing… As long as I grind proficiency, I gain rewards—and when I reach perfection, I break through!”

“This attribute panel, even if it’s a transcendence artifact, must surely be among the most powerful of its kind…”

Fang Xing sighed inwardly.

Time passed second by second.

Yet he remained utterly unaware.

…

The stars shifted, the cosmos became one.

Finally…

Within the Layer of the Great Dao’s Origin.

The Pan Wu Dao roared like a monstrous dragon with fangs bared.

Within its body, the Pan Wu Dao Seed reached its ultimate transcendence, resembling a dragon pearl, commanding the entire dragon.

“The power of the Pan Wu Dao…”

Fang Xing opened his eyes and raised his hand.

At that moment, he felt his Pan Wu Dao power condensed to its peak—on the verge of breaking through the boundaries of space and time…

“Becoming a Dao Lord merely requires complete comprehension of a single Dao…”

“But comprehending a Dao is not the same as fully mastering it.”

“Now I finally understand what it means to elevate an acquired Dao into an innate Dao.”

Fang Xing clenched his fist, and space-time seemed to shatter, plunging his surroundings into chaos.

He touched his brow and found an axe-shaped mark.

“Innate Pan Wu Dao Seed… Step 4 Dao Lord!”

“The Pan Wu Dao is simply too powerful…”

“This has elevated my combat power to its peak, allowing me to fight ordinary Eternal beings… but in the future, when I seek to sever my Dao and forge my own, it will be far more difficult!”

“But isn’t that perfect? If the Dao I create cannot overpower the Pan Wu Dao, what value does it have?”

Fang Xing could sense that the enhancement of his innate Pan Wu Dao power was comprehensive.

Even his temperament and True Spirit were similarly transformed!

This meant Step 4 Dao Lords could also resist True Spirit attacks!

“Indeed, thank goodness I didn’t rely on my knowledge of True Spirit attack techniques to fight beings like the Requiem Singers—Step 4 Dao Lords or even Eternal beings… otherwise I’d have been forced to flee, exposing my last card for nothing.”

Fang Xing glanced at his attribute bar:

【Name: Fang Xing】

【Profession: Star Warrior】

【14th Realm: Dao Lord (Step 4)】

…

At this point, he finally understood why some Step 4 Dao Lords could fight Eternal beings.

“Eternal beings require ‘opening a Dao.’ If the Dao they originally wielded was weak, the difficulty of opening a new Dao would be lower—but even those who reach the 15th Realm, even if they open a weak Dao, are only slightly inferior to the Pan Wu Dao…”

“Once the Pan Wu Dao is mastered to its limit, a Step 4 Dao Lord can indeed fight such Eternal beings.”

“But against a primordial Wu-type Eternal being, even the strongest Step 4 Dao Lord is no match…”

“Now it seems, aside from the Demon Lord and the Beast Lord, the Eternal beings of the Star Civilization, the Insect Civilization, and the Alien Beast Civilization don’t seem to include any primordial Wu-type?”

“In fact, Step 4 Dao Lords who wield ordinary Daos are still no match for ordinary Eternal beings—only those with exceptionally unique, top-tier Daos barely possess Eternal-level combat power…”

Fang Xing’s expression calmed. He took out the Grand Void Stone and entered the Grand Void Universe.

“Now that I’ve broken through to Step 4 Dao Lord and possess Eternal-level power… it’s time to turn the tide.”

As a thread of Fang Xing’s consciousness entered the Grand Void Universe…

Suddenly!

A massive crimson message appeared: 【The Ophiuchus War Ended in Defeat!】

【The Star Civilization Announces Bankruptcy!】

【The Requiem Singer’s Dirge Is About to Be Sung!】

Fang Xing’s face froze, then he sighed: “Of course… heroes always arrive just in time. The idea that one can rescue the day perfectly is just the sweetest fantasy and fairy tale?”

His breakthrough to Step 4 Dao Lord had never been timed precisely.

Was this timing within normal limits?

But the Star Civilization didn’t know he was about to ascend—they still regarded him as merely a powerful Step 2 Dao Lord.

Whether he was here or not made no difference to the outcome.

Thus, seizing the opportunity meant acting immediately.

And then…

Fang Xing opened a video—it was from the Dao Lord of Ten Thousand Swords:

!

Although the Dao Lord of Ten Thousand Swords looked exactly as usual, Fang Xing could see his weakness and agony:

“The plan has failed… I declare that the entire Star Civilization enters silent mode. All seed fleets must immediately sever Grand Void communications and enter the deepest level of concealment!”

“I believe… if we wait, humanity will triumph! The Star Civilization will triumph!”

The video ended quickly. Fang Xing reviewed the detailed battle report, his eyes narrowing:

“The Star Civilization’s main fleet—the Space-Time Fleet—blocked the Requiem Singer in the Ophiuchus Civilization and opened battle… Meanwhile, deep in the universe, Lord Han Sen and the Alien Beast Ancestor used a relic obtained from a transcendence realm to trap two Insect Civilization Eternal beings and launched a counterattack…”

“But the Star Civilization’s supreme AI miscalculated… the Requiem Singer, at the cost of grave injury, destroyed the forbidden weapon and then rushed to reinforce the two Insect Eternal beings…”

This was why the Dao Lord of Ten Thousand Swords was still alive to issue this announcement after the battle.

The Requiem Singer had no time left to kill him—this proved the two peak civilizations’ plan had succeeded: the two Insect Supreme beings were already cornered on the Eternal battlefield!

Unfortunately, with the Requiem Singer’s arrival, everything changed.

“The Eternal battle ended with the two Insect Eternal beings gravely wounded, sinking into prolonged deep slumber… As for Han Sen and the Alien Beast Ancestor? Lord Han Sen also fell into grave injury and must sleep for tens of thousands of years to awaken again—or he will vanish completely. The Alien Beast Ancestor died outright…”

“Eternal beings are not eternal. That’s another dark joke.”

Now that Fang Xing had inherited numerous transcendence legacies, he understood the state of Eternal beings far more deeply.

Eternal beings, who claim to exist eternally across all space and time, do not truly die.

Even if their True Spirit is annihilated, seemingly leaving no chance of revival…

Over time, their Eternal Mark will slowly reassemble, allowing the Eternal being to emerge once more from the flow of time.

But this process may take an extraordinarily long time—measured in ‘hundreds of millions’ of years, even billions or tens of billions.

Han Sen’s ‘grave injury and slumber’ state, however, may last tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of years.

“Overall, the Alien Beast Civilization is finished. Even if the Alien Beast Ancestor returns in the future, he will likely find no living member of his civilization…”

“And our human civilization has lost its pillar… the Insect Civilization will now relentlessly pursue every high-ranking member of the Star Civilization, determined to find Han Sen and eradicate him completely…”

The Star Civilization might wander the universe for tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of years.

But lie dormant for hundreds of millions or billions of years?

That is utterly impossible.

Even tens of thousands of years carry great uncertainty.

Thus, if they achieve this, the Insect Civilization will have effectively exterminated both peak civilizations and become the sole dominant power.

“The condition for an Eternal being’s complete annihilation… the first is failure to transcend!”

“For example, the Dao Lord of the True Immortal Realm—after failing to transcend, his Eternal Mark was utterly destroyed, with no possibility of reformation…”

“Beyond that, to destroy most Eternal beings, one must wait for the true ‘Final Cataclysm’—when the River of Time dries up and all celestial-level worlds sink into primordial destruction…”

Because Eternal beings are not transcendent!

They are still fish in the river, merely leaping briefly above the surface.

Once the river dries, even the largest fish will die.

The so-called ‘Final Cataclysm’ is the annihilation of all that can be spoken, known, or conceived.

To transcend the calamity, one must truly transcend—to reach the ‘Unspeakable Place’.

……

It was still the same virtual conference hall.

“Lord Fang Xing…”

The Lord of Ten Thousand Swords looked pale and defeated: “The Starfall Civilization… is finished…”

He didn’t care at all that Fang Xing hadn’t come to the great battle; it seemed to him that even with Fang Xing’s involvement, the War of Ophiuchus would have ended the same way.

Fang Xing fell silent, glanced at the list of the fallen, and found “Astral Catastrophe Lord·Ymir,” “Absolute Blade·Chixing,” and “Ice Emperor·Catherine” all on it.

This alone showed how brutal the great battle had been.

Yet “Blood Hell Divine Emperor,” this former fifth-rank Law Lord who had since broken through to become a Fourteenth-Domain Lord, did not appear on the list of the fallen.

Hmm, he was not alone—neither was I.

Clearly, the native Starfall Civilization people clung together and discriminated against outsiders for good reason.

“No… though the Starfall Civilization has failed, human civilization has not yet been defeated. We cannot surrender all this vast cosmic territory to the insect race.”

Fang Xing shook his head.

What else can we do? Our reserves are exhausted; the eternal strong ones on both sides are either asleep or dead... the Civilization's Dirge is about to sweep everything away.

The Lord of Ten Thousand Swords smiled bitterly: “Even the Blood Hell Divine Emperor is preparing to rebuild the Blood Hell Civilization—no, it should now be called the Blood Hell Alliance—and will soon represent the remaining human civilization in surrender…”

(End of Chapter)