Chapter 818: The Painter Master

The boundless Great Dao painting, like the Nine Zhutian' silver river flowing backward, sweeps all, overwhelms the world, and crushes the heavens!

Painter Master, standing on the Ten Thousand Dragons Soaring Diagram, his white hair whirls like snow, and his right‑hand brush—its bone of Chaos jade and its edge of ten thousand laws—dances like dragon and phoenix in the Void; each stroke resounds with the Great Dao and the ten thousand laws vibrate!

On the ancient painting board clutched by his left arm, xuan paper flutters like butterflies; each sheet that flies out becomes a defiant artwork capable of suppressing the Ultimate Leap!

The peerless killing technique forged by the Painter Master's supreme Painting Dao turns into a vast river of Great Dao paintings that thunderously bombards the area where the Void Lord and the Lord of the Bizarre reside!

Rumble!

The ancient Golden-Winged Great Peng's sharp talons tore through vast swaths of void surrounding the Void Lord, forcibly pulling that originally indeterminate Void back into the tangible world!

The towering Divine Mountains within the ten‑thousand‑zhang landscape scroll crash down like a storm; each Divine Mountain slams onto the ever‑shifting Bizarre Dao of the Lord of the Bizarre, suppressing the bizarre transformation with the Mountain Great Dao!

Countless stars surge skyward from the starry scroll; the Star River law intertwines with the origin of the Painting Dao to form a dazzling torrent of stellar brilliance, scattering and cleansing the invasive Bizarre and Void forces that constantly erode the body of the Honghuang Longzu!

Thousands of troops and horses burst forth from torn paper, the iron‑blooded killing aura charging straight at the Lord of the Bizarre, and the painting halberd's edge rips the bizarre heavens!

Each of these paintings is a Great Dao painting forged by the Painter Master, using his lifelong Painting Dao insight as ink and the laws of all heavens as brush.

They are not illusion nor phantom, but a defiant method whereby the Painter Master, after advancing a painting to the Half‑step Transcendence Realm, employs supreme Painting Dao power to manifest the true meaning of the Great Dao within the scroll directly into physical form!

The Jin Peng depicted in the painting possesses the genuine speed and sharpness of a real Golden‑Winged Great Peng!

The landscapes in the painting bear the true weight and suppressing power of an authentic ancient Divine Mountain!

The stars in the painting hold the genuine brilliance and vastness of the true heavens' stars!

The countless troops and horses in the painting embody the real iron‑blooded killing resolve and sharpness!

When the Honghuang Longzu sensed this overwhelming aura arriving, the pair of ancient dragon eyes, already tinged with Exhaustion and resolve, suddenly burst with an incredulous gleam of delight!

In those golden, dazzling Dragon Pupils, the all‑encompassing Great Dao painting was reflected, like a firmament wholly swept away by the long river of Painting Dao.

"This is... the Painter Master!"

The Honghuang Longzu's ancient, resonant dragon chant was filled with excitement and surprise.

He naturally knew who the Painter Master was—the foremost figure of Painting Dao who left a glorious reputation during the ancient era of the heavens and myriad realms!

The defiant being who once single‑handedly elevated a painting from a peripheral left path to the supreme Great Dao of the heavens!

The Painter Master, revered by countless ancient beings as the Eternal First of Painting Dao!

However, the Painter Master has been hidden from the world for endless ages.

So long that many younger generations of beings have never even heard his name, and even the Honghuang Longzu thought the Painter Master might have quietly attained self‑immolation in some unknown corner.

Yet now, the Painter Master not only has not self‑immolated, but at this most critical moment of the heavens and myriad realms, he descends with an overwhelmingly domineering presence!

"The Painter Master, who has been hidden for endless ages, has reappeared! Good, good, good!"

The Honghuang Longzu uttered three consecutive "good" characters, each booming like a dragon's bell, shaking the universe.

He knows the Painter Master is far from an ordinary Half‑step Transcendence.

This giant of Painting Dao, back in the ancient era, once fought side‑by‑side with Xuan Tian Di, divine demons and immortal saints, repelling several Era Great Calamities and slaying countless No Return Path supreme beings.

His terrifying combat power ranks among the top even among the handful of supreme beings at the absolute peak of the heavens and myriad realms.

At this moment, the Painter Master's timely arrival is undeniably an extremely powerful force!

His own dire situation—being sandwiched by the Void Lord and the Lord of the Bizarre, two primordial supreme forces, his dragon body nearly shattered, and only a hair's breadth from Death Path Vanish—will inevitably be greatly alleviated!

And the top‑level battle of the heavens and myriad realms—originally a hopeless scenario of six sovereigns against eight, the few against the many—will gain a crucial variable with the Painter Master's entry!

Sure enough.

Just as the Void Lord and the Lord of the Bizarre were about to finish off the gravely wounded Honghuang Longzu, the torrent of the Painter Master's all‑encompassing Great Dao painting struck, forcing both to abruptly cease their lethal assault on the Dragon Ancestor!

The Lord of the Bizarre's ubiquitous bizarre power, under the impact of the Great Dao painting, was forcibly expelled from around the Honghuang Longzu!

The Void Lord's void force, which had been continuously eroding the Dragon Ancestor's body, was also repelled in massive sheets under the dual suppression of the landscape scroll and the starry scroll!

The two, already forming an encircling formation, were further violently swept away by the terrifying Great Dao painting!

The wings of the ancient Jin Peng swept them back across countless layers of spacetime dimensions!

The myriad Divine Mountains suppressed them, freezing their forms!

The light of countless stars completely washed the battlefield woven with void and bizarre forces!

The Painter Master's hearty laugh rang like a thunderclap, shaking the endless spacetime universe:

"Hehe! Void Lord, Lord of the Bizarre! Endless ages have passed, yet you keep retreating? Have you started to bully the few with the many?"

He stands on the Ten Thousand Dragons Soaring Diagram, his white hair whirling like snow, and his bright, piercing eyes brim with contempt and battle intent.

"Come! Face me in battle! Let this old man see whether you two relics have made any progress in these endless ages!"

The Void Lord's body, originally existing in a state of non‑existence, was forced out of the void by the Great Dao painting's impact, manifesting a true physical form.

He looked at the Painter Master, and the otherwise indistinct visage unusually showed a hint of regret.

He knows that with the Painter Master's arrival, it is no longer possible to easily eliminate the Honghuang Longzu as before.

"Hehe, Painter Master, you immortal old… as expected, you've finally come."

The Void Lord's voice remained flat, yet the faint, unmistakable regret and apprehension in his tone were clearly perceived by every Half‑step Transcendent present.

As one of the Ten Prime Primordials of the No Return Path and among the most enigmatic of the primordial supreme, he seldom shows apprehension toward any being of the heavens and myriad realms.

But the Painter Master is different.

In the few Epoch Great Calamities before the endless ages, the Void Lord had clashed with the Painter Master.

That time, his Void Path, before the Painter Master's Great Dao painting, was forcibly driven back from the void state into a solid form, suffering a considerable loss.

The Painter Master's art turns "nothing" into "something", "void" into "reality", "non‑existence" into "existence"—a power that is precisely the nemesis the Void Dao most wishes to avoid.

The Lord of the Bizarre stared indifferently at the Painter Master; on the face that bore countless bizarre visages, all those faces simultaneously ceased weeping, laughing, and clamoring, and collectively fixed their gaze on the Painter Master.

Such uniform stare itself constitutes an extremely bizarre sight.

A moment later, the Lord of the Bizarre unusually showed a hint of solemnity.