Chapter 756: The Dao Lord's Battle

The Thirty-Two Layers Wood Transformation Art was now beneath Li Yuan's notice, but seeing that the law prohibition still remained, he could not help but feel a surge of joy.

If the Law Web could not erase his memories, then as long as he kept accepting missions with his Sword Lotus body, he could freeload the enormous trove of cultivation manuals within the Law Web.

Only…

"Does the Law Web truly notice nothing?"

Li Yuan looked beyond the divine realm, straining his perception to its very limit, yet he detected not the slightest anomaly.

He did not know whether the Law Web had truly failed to notice, or whether it had been blinded by the Great Luo Catalogue.

"A single proof won't suffice; I can try a few more times…"

Li Yuan steadied his mind, and only after half a day had passed without any anomaly did he cautiously sense his Sword Lotus body.

"Truly no detection at all?"

His will entered the Sword Lotus body; Li Yuan attempted to commune with the Law Web and found everything as usual, with no anomaly whatsoever.

"The Law Web shouldn't have such an oversight; it must be that the Great Luo Catalogue has obscured the heavenly secrets…"

Speculating inwardly, Li Yuan chose to continue submitting repair missions.

After several such attempts and finding that the Law Web seemed truly unaware, his courage swelled at once, and he continued accepting repair missions.

This time, he did not select the lowest-grade divine arts and supernatural powers, but rather the highest-grade cultivation method repair that a first-tier cultivator of the Law Web could select.

Among them was the Scarlet Brightness Nine Heavens Diagram.

A cultivation method of this rank, even within the Scarlet Brightness Heaven, was transmitted only to a portion of its disciples; its value was exceedingly high.

"Hum~"

Feeling the various scriptures flowing through his mind-sea, Li Yuan felt a surge of excitement.

"Mm?"

Just as he was about to examine the scriptures closely, his heart suddenly stirred; he then focused his spirit and entered the Weapon Mastery Space, his gaze falling upon the Sound-Listening Wooden Register.

A Sound-Listening of extremely high grade resonated in response:

"…From deep within the Opening Gui Xu, beyond the Xuanhuang Great World, the Nine Phoenix Dao Lord strides forth; boundless Dao essence surges and rises, and as his aura circulates, the myriad heavens tremble…"

"The Nine Phoenix Dao Lord!"

Hearing this Sound-Listening, Li Yuan's heart jolted; he then realized that if a Dao Lord was attacking, the Law Web likely had no leisure to attend to such trivial matters.

"Has the Nine Phoenix Dao Lord come because of his disciple's fall? Or because of the Law Web?"

Speculating inwardly, Li Yuan then quickened the frequency of his Sound-Listening.

……

Whoo-whoo~

In the boundless void beyond the Xuanhuang Great World, layer upon layer of ripples spread slowly outward like concentric circles.

"Nine Phoenix!"

Laws interweave, the void trembles, and one after another, overbearing auras rise from within the Xuanhuang Great World.

In the Xuanhuang World, upon a floating island, Feather-Wing Immortal rose to his full height, his cold, fierce gaze piercing through the void.

He saw within the Opening Gui Xu what seemed to be nine great suns patrolling the void, and a Daoist clad in a crimson ritual robe walking slowly forward.

Separated by an unknown number of layers of Opening Gui Xu, the membrane of the Xuanhuang Great World was already revealed in response.

"Is that the Nine Phoenix Dao Lord? His will reaches straight to the Xuanhuang Great World—does he mean to act again?"

"That doesn't seem right… Last time his true-disciple perished in the Xuanhuang, he merely struck from afar; for him to go in person now, there must be another reason…"

"Could the Dao Sect's martial display ground this time truly be the Xuanhuang Great World?"

"Eh? It's not just the Nine Phoenix Dao Lord—I seem to see the Jade Capital Dao Lord, the Mysterious Subtlety Dao Lord…"

In that instant, from deep within the Opening Gui Xu, countless wills rose, turning their gazes toward the Xuanhuang Great World by every means available.

The Opening Gui Xu is boundless, vast as Wang Yang, yet this top-tier dimensional heaven lay like a giant continent, stretching across the depths of the Opening Gui Xu.

"Hum~"

As if sensing the Dao Lords' aura, in the darkness Xuanhuang-colored radiance wove and flowed; faintly, one could glimpse a colossal divine tree bearing myriad realms!

"The World Tree!"

The instant the Xuanhuang World Tree manifested, within this dimensional heaven, countless major and minor Ci Yuan Shi Fa Jie trembled.

Upon a floating island, Yanbo Diaosou, who had been waiting in the Three Saints' Temple for an audience with the sages, sensed something and looked up.

He saw beyond the void the World Tree tremble lightly, and a colossal divine web, centered upon it and radiating across myriad worlds, revealed itself in turn.

"The means of the sages are truly fearsome and awe-inspiring!"

Gazing upon that immense divine web radiating across the heavens and encompassing infinite laws, Yanbo Diaosou felt only a shudder of awe in his heart.

In his perception, the laws of the Xuanhuang San Qian Shi Fa Jie and infinite Ci Yuan Shi Fa Jie flowed and interwove, together bearing up this Law Web of nine layers above and below.

Fate, tribulation, primordiality!

Upon this great web, Yanbo Diaosou sensed the auras of those three sages, who sat Gao Ju Jiu Chong above the Jiu Chong Fa Web, looking down upon all living beings of the realm.

All law and principle, all Dao and Qi, all being and non-being, time and space… all lay within the Law Web, beneath the Three Saints.

'Where is the Heavenly Heart?'

Yanbo Diaosou felt awe in his heart, yet also some doubt.

The Three Saints' control over the Xuanhuang Great World had already reached a terrifying degree, yet he had not detected the Heavenly Heart.

'Does the World Tree not acknowledge the Three Saints?'

Yanbo Diaosou decisively cut off this dangerous thought, then focused his spirit and looked beyond the void.

In that instant, he could see the Law Web trembling, and the upper three tiers also manifested in the world, save that the figures of the Three Saints could not be seen.

The wills of the Five Emperors, too, revived from their slumber.

The reason was simple: beyond the Xuanhuang Great World, there were not only the Nine Phoenix Dao Lord, but also the auras of nearly ten Dao Lords, including the Jade Capital Dao Lord.

A lineup like this would be enough to set off a localized war of creation!

Back in the day when the Daoist Yuan Ming Heavenly Lord transmitted the Dao, the number of Dao Lords who participated was only about this much...

"Because of the Law Net?"

The Misty Waves Angler squinted slightly. Though he was not within the Law Net, he knew the terrifying nature of this artifact created by the Three Saints.