Chapter 1361: Dao Union

Cultivation Realm.

Qing He and the others stood atop Heaven's Gate Peak, anxiously awaiting the outcome of this battle.

"How far has it gone!" Jiang Lianyi paced back and forth in agitation, unable to calm down for a moment.

Qing He noticed that only Yun Mengmeng differed from the others, staring blankly at the sky.

"Mengmeng, what are you looking at?"

Yun Mengmeng raised her hand and pointed at the night sky: "Looking at the stars."

"What stars?" Qing He was puzzled, followed her gaze upward, and her pupils shrank sharply.

The stars in the night sky dimmed one after another, extinguished, and could no longer illuminate the star field.

……

The Starry Cosmos collapsed, myriad laws fell silent, the Great Dao's principles intertwined and transformed into a shower of starlight across the heavens, resembling an apocalypse; even immortals as strong as they were could scarcely intervene in this battle.

Faced with Miss Miss Miss Miss Miss Yun Zhi's ever-increasing strength, the mastermind behind the scenes felt pressure surge suddenly—this enhancement brought on by the brink of Dao Union was too terrifying; not yet having achieved Dao Union, they already possessed combat power comparable to their own—if they truly achieved Dao Union, would they not be unstoppable?!

Miss Miss Miss Miss Miss Yun Zhi seemed to become the very essence of heaven and earth; every movement manifested the will of heaven and earth, the grand trend of heaven and earth stood with Miss Miss Miss Miss Miss Yun Zhi, and so did heavenly mandate—utterly terrifying.

"How is this possible!" The mastermind behind the scenes revealed an expression of disbelief.

Omniscience, transcendence, and Dao Union—these are the three major realms parallel above immortals; Miss Miss Miss Miss Miss Yun Zhi has reached the Dao Union realm, so only then would they be a match for him—how could the brink of Dao Union already possess such a terrifying aura?!

"Because your path is wrong!" The Immortal Maiden seized the opening and unleashed a punch, striking the mastermind behind the scenes in the face.

"The method by which you achieved transcendence is not the proper way, but merely a shortcut!"

"The true way of transcendence lies in continually contemplating the Dao fruit, eliminating qi mechanisms, becoming a vessel of the laws, separating heaven and man—only then can cause and effect be severed!" the Immortal Maiden rebuked, and hearing this, the mastermind behind the scenes felt a jolt in their heart.

As the founder of the Dao fruit system, the Immortal Maiden not only saw the method to achieve the Omniscience realm but also saw the path to achieve transcendence.

Achieving transcendence does not require slaughter; peacefully refining the Dao fruit leads naturally to the transcendence realm—there is absolutely no need to go to the extent of extermination!

"Shut up!" the mastermind behind the scenes roared in anger; to achieve transcendence, they had wrought boundless slaughter calamities, and even old friends had become souls beneath their blade—this was the thing they least wished to mention, and now the Immortal Maiden claimed their method was wrong—how could they bear this?!

"You deliberately seek the realm, rushing headlong, and are thus destined to fail!" the Immortal Maiden said again, seeing in the mastermind behind the scenes a reflection of their own obsessive pursuit of the ultimate realm, which led them into an inferior path.

Conversely, when she severed her past self and achieved the Immortal Maiden position, her state of mind was peaceful, she enjoyed the pleasure brought by cultivation, and she could see more paths clearly.

In ancient times, she had never mentioned these things, because she felt cultivation has no end, and obsessively pursuing realms would make one a slave to the realm, with a troubled mind—how could transcendence be discussed then?

The Immortal Maiden observed that Ying Tian Xian, after achieving immortality, did not seem to wish to continue cultivation, and saying so would only impose pressure on them.

Her achievement of Omniscience was also not the result of deliberate pursuit, but came naturally and effortlessly—she had never imagined she would achieve Omniscience.

The three-way battle had already become the purest collision of the Great Dao; the mastermind behind the scenes spat blood, immortal blood exploded in the heavens, transforming into a mass of chaotic mist; wherever it passed, space collapsed, forming black holes.

"Pu—"

Miss Miss Miss Miss Miss Yun Zhi and the Immortal Maiden likewise suffered severe injuries, blood trickling from the corners of their mouths.

The Eternal Immortal opened their heavenly eye; this battle had progressed to this point, leaving them uneasy in heart, desiring to see the future of this battle.

The heavenly eye opened and closed—future was endless chaos, heavenly secrets and cause and effect alike invisible; let alone seeing clearly the outcome of this battle, even what would happen in the next moment was completely indiscernible!

"Is Fellow Daoist Miss Miss Miss Miss Miss Yun Zhi's body not quite right?" the Qilin Immortal said, frowning, their vision the sharpest.

The three-person battlefield had already been enveloped by brilliant light and utter darkness, only able to judge which side held the upper hand through shifts in aura.

The Qilin Immortal noticed Miss Miss Miss Miss Miss Yun Zhi's bodily color had changed, becoming somewhat pale, like a freshly painted bubble soaked in clear river water, with pigment dissolving in the water.

"Indeed so." Upon the Qilin Immortal's remark, others also detected Miss Miss Miss Miss Miss Yun Zhi's anomaly.

They had never seen such a change before—it was as if……she was merging with heaven and earth!

Thump—thump—

Strange sounds appeared in everyone's ears, like someone's heartbeat, but this heartbeat flashed by instantly; they opened their immortal awareness, yet captured nothing.

Only Lu Yang clearly recognized this as the senior martial sister's heartbeat—uniting body with Dao, using heart in place of heaven, the senior martial sister was gradually becoming "Heaven."

In an instant, the battlefield situation shifted; Miss Miss Miss Miss Miss Yun Zhi's aura surged repeatedly, finally completely overwhelming the mastermind behind the scenes' aura, the entire universe became her domain, and all cosmic beings could feel her aura.

Miss Miss Miss Miss Miss Yun Zhi closed her eyes, yet her perception extended without limit; she perceived the mastermind before her, perceived Yun Mengmeng hugging her knees and sitting on Heaven's Gate Peak gazing at the stars, perceived the remote corners of the universe's edge—places the Cultivation Realm had not yet explored—still teeming with countless life-bearing stars, and every movement of these beings lay within Miss Miss Miss Miss Miss Yun Zhi's perception.

She raised her hand and lightly clenched her fist; at this moment, she was heaven and earth itself, and the natural forces between heaven and earth, stirred by a single thought of hers, were mobilized; the stars across the sky turned into furnaces, igniting the primal fire of heaven and earth, refining the mastermind behind the scenes.

The mastermind behind the scenes shouted loudly, the stellar furnace exploded, the primal fire of heaven and earth extinguished—they possessed the Five Elements Dao fruit, and the primal fire of heaven and earth likewise fell within the Five Elements' domain, yet could not affect them!

As for these stars across the sky, they belong to the Earth and Metal elements, equally within the domain of the Five Elements Dao fruit!

The next moment, Miss Miss Miss Miss Miss Yun Zhi's aura vanished completely, her body became increasingly transparent, like a clear, ethereal water person.

If one used immortal awareness to look, they would actually feel no presence of Miss Miss Miss Miss Miss Yun Zhi at all!

The mastermind behind the scenes felt a creepy sensation arise, as if they faced not a person, but the supreme azure heaven, while they themselves were a rebellious being daring to oppose heaven!

As the change reached its end, even the water person vanished, leaving only a graceful silhouette.

The silhouette's expression could not be made out, yet it gave a feeling of terrifyingly absolute indifference.

"Yun Luo."

The silhouette spoke, voice colder than Miss Miss Miss Miss Miss Yun Zhi's usual tone; a great hand condensed from laws and the Great Dao fell upon the mastermind behind the scenes, who spat blood profusely, revealing an expression of disbelief—this was the heaviest injury they had received in all their battles!

Their vitality was terrifyingly robust; in the blink of an eye they recovered, as if completely unharmed.

They stared fixedly at that silhouette, expression solemn, certain Miss Miss Miss Miss Miss Yun Zhi had truly achieved Dao Union.

The gap between Dao Union and transcendence should not be this great—could they have truly taken the wrong path?

……

"Ah, Xiao Zhi's stars have all gone out." Yun Mengmeng pointed at the last dim star in the night sky and said.

"Who is Xiao Zhi?" Qing He asked from beside her.