Chapter 1157: Dao (Thanks to Liuji de Michong for the Silver Alliance donation to Adam)

Lu Mian's figure suddenly disappeared in the boundless universe, "teleporting" toward the area where the "Evil Dragon" was, following the occult connection established by the "Evil Dragon" responding to his own sacrifice.

Around Lu Mian, dense, layered color blocks and wailing souls suddenly appeared.

Spirit Realm!

As long as there is no very special isolation, there is a Spirit Realm and an Astral World everywhere.

This is one of the symbolic meanings of a pillar.

But waiting for Lu Mian was extreme light that swept everything away, as if two galaxies had approached each other, collided, and torn the Spirit Realm apart.

Lu Mian did not stay in the Spirit Realm, rushing before the erupting ocean of light could submerge him, transforming into abstract symbols and concepts, and entering the Astral World.

Endless light, heat, and matter followed in.

Lu Mian reached out with both hands, directly creating a door in the Astral World composed of various symbols and concepts—a "drawn" door, a door layered upon layer.

This door was instantly pulled open, and Lu Mian's figure disappeared into the Astral World.

In his eyes, the two giant bodies of the "Evil Dragon" coiled together were reflected.

He finally arrived at the area occupied by the "Evil Dragon," arrived at the place where the "Evil Dragon" could not create disasters, arriving through a "door."

He did not trigger the contract mark originating from Gidas, because that kind of "teleportation" belonged to the "teleportation" of Spirit Realm creatures; it couldn't enter the Astral World, nor could it open a "door."

He triggered the newly obtained contract mark, newly obtained a month ago, the one from Gehrman Sparrow!

The contract of the "Contracted Person," before obtaining the qualitative change brought by the power of fate, at a high level, actually couldn't force the target to sign a contract and fulfill the promise. But as long as both parties to the contract were willing to sign and willing to abide by it, and the contractee's body and soul could withstand the power from the contract object, then it was still effective, just that the occult connection established was too fragile, couldn't maintain more than two uses, and was easily interrupted.

Before going to deal with the "Primordial Demoness," Lu Mian went to the Astral World besides asking the various True Gods to give his soldier puppets angel-level power, and signed a "contract" with Gehrman Sparrow, who held the uniqueness of the "Door" pathway, to deal with scenes where he couldn't use soldier puppets.

In that battle back then, the "Primordial Demoness" was indeed too cautious and didn't use her full strength, but Lu Mian also hadn't revealed all his trump cards!

Just now, the reason Lu Mian waited until the sacrifice took effect and the "Evil Dragon" responded before triggering this contract mark representing the high-level power of the "Door" pathway was, first, to confuse the "Evil Dragon" through the persistence and journey before, and wait for the other party to appear dazed, so that it couldn't detect and destroy the contract connection in time; and second, to use the sacrifice to greatly strengthen the occult connection between himself and the "Evil Dragon," avoiding the situation of not being able to find the destination or locate it, after all, the "Evil Dragon" had the strongest "fog of war" at present.

—The negative effect brought by the contract related to the "Door" pathway uniqueness signed with Gehrman Sparrow was originally "often getting lost, and easily encountering dangerous creatures full of malice toward oneself," but after being "fooled" by "Fool" Klein, the negative effect became "only when using contract abilities is it possible to get lost, and easily encounter dangerous creatures full of malice toward oneself."

In the current environment, the creature most full of malice and most dangerous to Lu Mian was undoubtedly the "Evil Dragon"!

After Lu Mian "opened the door" and arrived at this area where the "Evil Dragon" was sealed, he immediately felt that the disaster caused by the "Evil Dragon" had subsided.

The effect of the wish power returned, and he entered the state of "occasionally" staying awake again!

The "Evil Dragon" roared, bringing extremely strong "conquest" and "charm," but no matter how violent it was, it was difficult to break free from the dragon-locking chains and the countless "evil ghosts" in the short term.

Lu Mian, while relying on the chaotic vortex face in the center of the head on his left shoulder to resist "conquest" and "charm" without quickly yielding, stood in the blood-colored ocean above the "Evil Dragon." While releasing the virtual personality, he cast his gaze toward the "evil ghosts" on the dragon-locking chains who looked terrifying and ferocious.

Having learned the origin of the dragon-locking chains and the "evil ghosts" from Mr. "Fool," he revealed an expression of emotion and admiration, then used a Western Continent phrase he had specially learned from Franca to say to those evil ghosts:

"Fellow daoists, please help me end the disaster!"

Those "evil ghosts" with terrifying appearances and ferocious expressions suddenly froze.

Fellow daoist... this ancient term, which seemed to have dissipated in history, entered their ears.

Their expressions softened, and on their green or white phantom faces, there were expressions of reminiscence.

Trying their best to maintain the different nodes of the dragon-locking chains, keeping the "Evil Dragon" sealed, and unable to use anything but "conquest," "charm," and a few other abilities in this area, some of them separated a hand to push their crooked, tattered high crowns back to their original positions, some struggled to tidy up the clothes that exposed rotting flesh, some tried hard to raise their hands to wipe the blood off their faces...

A gentleman dies without his crown falling off!

The Haoli sect leader beside the Dragon-Locking Well also heard Lu Mian's words. As a high-level being of the "River of Eternal Darkness," he slightly relaxed his control and suppression of those "evil ghosts."

The "evil ghosts" raised their heads, looked toward mid-air, and each shouted to Lu Mian:

"Fellow daoist, I am here to help you!"

These shouts intertwined, echoing layer upon layer.

Lu Mian, having obtained their permission, quickly incorporated them into his legion, letting them become his teammates and soldiers, thereby resisting the "Evil Dragon's" forced "conquest" and terrifying "charm."

One after another, layered phantom images of "evil ghosts" appeared behind Lu Mian. This was their mirror-self.

There were tens of thousands, or even more, "evil ghosts" at the bottom of the blood-colored ocean. While maintaining the dragon-locking chains and the seal, not letting the Evil Dragon "break free," they waited for Lu Mian to launch a destructive attack on the "Evil Dragon" and its main body with the mirror-self.

Lu Mian's six arms, either igniting with formless flames, creating chaotic vortexes, holding black flames that seemed to freeze the soul and all things, holding a virtual red altar, covered in gray-white, or raising a scorched banner, launched attacks on the "Evil Dragon's" giant body simultaneously.

These six powers belonging to the "Red Priest" and "Primordial Demoness" intertwined, forming a giant black flame sword burning with destruction.

The mirror-selves of the "evil ghosts," under the blessing of Lu Mian's level, also made their own attacks, especially those belonging to the Haoli lineage and related sects.

They obtained the consent and blessing of the Haoli sect leader outside the Dragon-Locking Well and the "Underworld Daoist" in the "River of Eternal Darkness," each borrowing a drop of dark river water without color.

Those drops of river water turned into virtual small arrows, flying toward Lu Mian's destructive giant sword in a sky-filling manner. Under the team ability of the "Red Priest," some were repelled, and some merged into it.

What is Dao?

Dao is the persistence of generations that can move mountains!

Dao is a single spark that can start a prairie fire!

Dao is fighting against heaven, with endless joy!

The "Evil Dragon" roared, but could not create disasters or bring catastrophes in this area, and could only use abilities like "conquest" and "charm."

It couldn't, and naturally, Lu Mian couldn't either.

The destruction he stirred up was currently hidden in the mirror world, not having arrived in reality, and the "Evil Dragon" itself was not in the mirror, being sealed and limited.

The "evil ghosts" who borrowed the "River of Eternal Darkness" water, mirror-selves and main bodies alike, suffered the erosion of the Sefirah power and dissipated one after another. But none of them felt pain; their expressions were calm and peaceful, carrying expressions of anticipation and longing.

The "evil ghosts" who hadn't dissipated yet looked at the black flame giant sword getting closer and closer, each revealing smiles.

【Author's note: Look at it one by one!】

Come, launch your attack on us!

With more and more "River of Eternal Darkness" water merging, the destructive giant sword Lu Mian manufactured did not expand, but became smaller and smaller, more and more dark.

Soon, it became a long sword that a normal human could use.

The long sword was pitch-black and still collapsing, as if about to form a point that compressed concepts like time, space, birth, death, destruction, and restart all together.

Seeing the mirror-world attack about to reach the area occupied by the "Evil Dragon," the "Celestial Master," "Holy Monk," and others around the Dragon-Locking Well made the visions around them obvious, merging into the well.

Splash, the blood-colored well water shook, and one dragon-locking chain after another broke as a result.

At the last moment, the high-level beings of the Western Continent lifted the seal, allowing the area where the Evil Dragon was to erupt with disaster and appear with apocalypse.

Lu Mian's attack immediately penetrated the mirror world, arriving in reality, arriving above the head of the "Evil Dragon" that hadn't made a reaction yet.

Behind him, one "evil ghost" after another dissipated due to the erosion of the Sefirah power; in front of him, more "evil ghosts" disintegrated under the impact of the destructive power.

Seeing this scene, a strong emotion suddenly erupted in Lu Mian's heart.

He shouted out loud:

"Fight!"

Fighting is giving everything, wave after wave!

Fighting is having the ambition to sacrifice, daring to make the sun and moon change into a new sky!

"Fight!"

Accompanying this shout, Lu Mian inserted the extremely unstable dark long sword into the neck where the "Evil Dragon" was intertwined.

A dark little point immediately collapsed there, tearing at the surrounding flesh, flames, steel, bones, and other things, absorbing all authorities, concepts, and symbols into it.

The "Evil Dragon's" entire body arched back, emitting a silent roar.

Then, it, along with the dragon-locking chains and those "evil ghosts," were all swallowed by the dark little point.

The darkness lost its stability, expanded and exploded, throwing out a large amount of light and heat.

Pop, pop, pop—Lu Mian's "Mirror Substitutes" all shattered, and his body was outlined at the edge of this area.

He saw emptiness ahead, with nothing left.

But at this time, in the void, the crazy and violent aura originating from the "Evil Dragon" permeated again, and that giant body was reshaping.

It was the consciousness derived from the "City of Calamity." The spirit is immortal. Once the physical body is destroyed, it can soon "be born" again from within the "City of Calamity."

Back then, the practitioners of the Western Continent, in a situation where they could seal the "Evil Dragon" to the point where it couldn't use the symbols of disaster and most of its abilities in the area, didn't kill it because it had no effect!

Seeing this scene, Lu Mian wasn't disappointed at all; he had been prepared for a long time.

What followed would be the second stage of the battle, a pure battle of consciousness.

PS: Thanks to Liuji de Michong for the Silver Alliance donation to Adam~

PS2: Seeking double monthly tickets for the last day of December~

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