[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-watching-the-immortals-fall":3,"chapter-watching-the-immortals-fall-watching-the-immortals-fall-chapter-76":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Watching the Immortals Fall",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2259949,4410,"Chapter 76: The Broken Dao of Heaven (Seeking First Subscription or 2)","watching-the-immortals-fall-chapter-76",76,"\u003Cp>Beneath a sky crimson as blood, purple thunderclouds coalesced violently and slashed down, shaking the nine heavens.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Below the restless thunderclouds, an old man with only his upper body dragged a tail of chaotic, bloody flesh as he ascended the Immortal Path.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When he saw the myriad lightning bolts hanging like swords in the air, his expression turned incredulous, blood spurting from his sunken eye sockets.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Dao of Heaven was clearly on its deathbed, so why could it still react?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that very moment, a lightning bolt shaped like a sword sliced down, severing the old man and spraying blood everywhere, filling his eyes with terror.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Why must one be recognized by the Seven Great Sects to become immortal?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Because you’re dying—you can’t control Qingyun’s realm, so you’re using this to prolong your life!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I was the most brilliant genius of my age, yet because I wasn’t of the bloodline of the Seven Immortal Sects, I could only waste away until my lifespan ended—what kind of Dao is this?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Are the sages you chose truly virtuous? Are their descendants virtuous too?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This is a broken, incomplete world—and you are a broken, incomplete Dao of Heaven!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I used the land without heaven as my furnace, ignited karmic fire, and refined the remains of the Immortal lineage using the spiritual essence of countless cultivators—I’ve long since escaped your control, and you cannot stop me!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As he shouted, another, larger thundercloud began to coalesce.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The old man choked on his breath: “I was only boasting— if you truly have Dao, then don’t stop me!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In response, thunder after thunder crashed down, each one severing his writhing flesh, spraying blood in all directions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The old man was crushed downward by the heavenly lightning, but soon he returned, grotesque and relentless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His massive blood tail was now rotting, exposing repulsive pink flesh that oozed like grease, yet it still surged upward against the current.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because he believed the Dao of Heaven was bluffing—it was a paper tiger!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It had gathered such a massive storm at first precisely because it couldn’t summon a second one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As long as he could smash through the Immortal Gate with this ugly body, shed his mortal flesh, the path beyond would be eternal bliss.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But contrary to his expectations, after the lightning had burned out, the sky once again coalesced into a deep purple thundercloud, more massive than before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The old man choked again, roaring that it was only empty words, only empty words—his bloodshot eyes wild with fury and rage, his blood tail thrashing uncontrollably as it began greedily sucking in the remaining spiritual essence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Deep within the ruins, within the so-called Central Immortal Mountain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Countless cultivators remained lost in their “Immortal Dream,” their bodies untouched by karmic fire, yet wracked with agonizing pain as their spiritual essence exploded from within.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was no eternal freedom here, no great mystery.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Amidst the splattering of blood, the entire mountaintop was dyed crimson.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Abbot of the Heavenly Book Academy now stood atop the nine heavens, his aura surging with every gust of wind, his white beard fluttering wildly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In his hands he held the golden scroll of the Heavenly Book, which now trembled violently.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet even so, the Abbot watched this scene without lifting a finger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He could not enter the ruins, nor could the Heavenly Book—both would be corrupted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, the newly formed heavenly lightning crashed down upon the grotesque old man, a faint aura of annihilation echoing through the land.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The old man had frozen, but his massive blood tail still writhed wildly, shrieking as if trying to tear itself free.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That piercing, ear-splitting shriek, carrying a chilling aura, made countless commoners on the ground tremble uncontrollably.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They had no idea what was happening—only that above, lightning and crimson light flickered alternately, and the more they feared, the lower they knelt.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for the cultivators in the city, they could barely see anything either.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The heavens above had been torn apart, the Dao of Heaven chaotic and agitated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Something extraordinary must be happening in the sky…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Could we use spiritual sense to observe?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ji You gripped the wooden pillar of the teahouse with one hand, his left foot planted on the outward-curving eave, his upper body leaning out as a golden light slowly rose in his eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But before his spiritual sense could ascend, he heard a wet “plop.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the roof of the opposite house, an old man who’d also come to watch the spectacle spat blood and collapsed straight onto the street.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Don’t use your spiritual sense, the old man muttered before passing out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Forget it. I’m not watching anymore.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It’s not that I’m afraid of death—I just hate spectacles.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ji You pulled himself back inside, calmly picked up his teacup, and shook it so violently that tea splashed across the entire table.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that moment, a far grander thunderclap crashed from the heavens—the sky cleared for an instant, then plunged back into darkness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But in that fleeting moment of clarity, Ji You thought he saw a thick, black substance slowly spreading along the horizon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The night was too dark; similar blacks blending together made it hard to see clearly—but it was definitely spreading.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cultivators must reach the Boundless Realm to truly enter the void, so he didn’t know if heaven even had a ceiling…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Come to think of it, the highest-ranked cultivator he knew was the immortal maiden who liked to kick people.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, a mass of charred flesh mixed with pink and greasy rot fell from the sky, still trembling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The old man’s blood-red eyes had grown cloudy, his entire body crumbling in violent tremors.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though he had been forced to act before his final breath, after preparing so long, he never imagined he wouldn’t even see the legendary Immortal Gate…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This path was impassable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But it no longer mattered to him—he was going to die.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And as he thought of the word “death,” his scattered, bloody flesh twitched again, as if infused with one final breath.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He opened his mouth wide, and a crimson beam of light shot through a thousand li of empty space, violently piercing the night and vanishing into the distance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Immediately after that strike, the light vanished from the old man’s eyes, and he plummeted into the mountains, landing on the blood-soaked mountaintop.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only then did the Abbot of the Heavenly Book Academy move, rising with the Heavenly Book in hand to the nine heavens.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ji You had not been mistaken—the boundless night was indeed being slowly smothered by a thick blackness, and now it was accelerating.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But as the Heavenly Book emitted a beam of divine light, the thick blackness scattered like swarms of ants encountering flame.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet ants are alive—they simply reroute when the path is blocked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Abbot of the Heavenly Book Academy pursued, holding the book as golden light blazed from its pages, burning straight through the blackness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, heaven and earth truly began to clear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The malevolent miasma outside Ningcheng County surged away in an instant, rushing back into the mountains.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Left behind, the countless demonic seeds across the hills and fields suddenly lost all vitality and collapsed to the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A beam of sunlight pierced the sky, blinding everyone, who scrambled to shield their eyes—only after long moments did they grow accustomed to the brightness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only then did they realize it was not night—it was noon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Most people still didn’t know what had happened in the mountains, but countless flying swords now rushed toward the ruins, their wielders’ expressions filled with panic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ji You snapped back to himself, stepped down from the teahouse, and stood beneath the sunlight, gazing at the clear sky.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In that single glance, he felt the grand Dao of Heaven had returned—and a powerful surge of energy roared through him, accompanied by spiritual light rapidly spreading outward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All the cultivators before him turned, staring at his youthful face in shock.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was about to transcend to the Profound Realm…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was only natural.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had already felt himself cross the threshold within the ruins, but without the Dao of Heaven there, his realm had been suppressed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet after thinking it over, Ji You forcefully suppressed his spiritual sense, refusing to respond to the Dao of Heaven.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The heavenly light, still hovering, immediately retracted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He no longer intended to become a bandit—because the old physician had awakened him: after leaving the Immortal Sect, he truly could do nothing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But he could not break through to the Profound Realm yet—if he did, many would not want him alive to return.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, this was Qiling—after all, so many cultivators had died here.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So what difference would it make if one more, a man named Ji, died?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore, he would return to the Heavenly Book Academy first, then break through in full view of everyone—accept their praise, then watch the women’s admiring glances, be endlessly praised by the outer academy, echoing across the eight directions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only then would no one dare move against him in secret.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It’s no wonder the world looks down on rustic private cultivators—someone of his status must be cautious.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After suppressing his realm, Ji You yawned, turned, and gazed down the long street, wondering why the one sent to fetch the money hadn’t returned yet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Could they have run off with the money?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As he pondered, he suddenly saw a silver ingot tossed out from the alley across the way, rolling lazily toward him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Wild silver?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of 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