Chapter 582 - 503: Two Lunatics

The Late Stage of inescap="true" of the Second Tribulation.

The Innate Divine Race, who had sat on high for the duration of the Three Tribulations, was overthrown by the Ten Thousand Races. Their fortune scattered across All Heavens and all Daos, and the Great Dao shifted from a singular to a pluralistic state, bestowing an unprecedented opportunity for Dao Attainment.

The Ancestral Candle Dragon, the Great Celestial Venerable, the Martial Ancestor, and the Queen Mother of the West were all Daoists who achieved their Dao during the Second Tribulation.

As for the Three Tribulations, the Armament Ancestor, founder of the Military Dao, achieved his Dao by slaying the Great Freedom Heavenly Demon King.

However, that mysterious Armament Ancestor did not leave behind a Near Dao incarnation. After his Dao Attainment, he left Hongyuan completely.

It is worth mentioning that when the Queen Mother of the West of the Second Tribulation achieved her Dao, the greatest fruit she reaped was Heng Ancestor. By combining the wondrous ancestral qi of All Heavens and the fortune of the Immortal Dao, she devoured the great fortune of Heng Ancestor’s Transverse Body Refining Dao—a perfect example of karmic retribution, a cycle come full circle.

But what the Mountain and Sea never expected was that Heng Ancestor, their blood enemy, had not died at the hands of the Queen Mother of the West in the Late Stage of the Second Tribulation. Instead, he had hidden himself within the Daoist Hidden Body Dao, lying dormant until the present day.

The Primordial Ancestors at Nine Heavens Pass were mostly old fossils who had lived since the Second Tribulation. In their weaker days, they had lived in Heng Ancestor’s shadow and had not forgotten the sorrow and pain he had brought upon the Mountain and Sea.

One can only imagine how much hatred filled their hearts at this moment.

But the two Desolate Ancestors were being held back by the Martial Ancestor.

With only their own power and their Ancestral Artifacts, they couldn’t hope to make a dent against Heng Ancestor.

RUMBLE—

The struggle between the Slaughter Emperor and Heng Ancestor continued. At the core of the dazzling crimson and white Dao light, the pure collision of force continued to stir the All Heavens and Myriad Realms, giving birth to countless thunderbolts.

The storms in the Endless Chaos Sea came one after another, each stronger than the last.

The spacetime of Shanhai Pass and the vast Nine Celestial Domains trembled violently, as if about to be completely overturned by the two forbidden, monstrous beasts!

The clash of Extreme Daoists wasn’t a matter of fighting for three hundred rounds. The moment they engaged, each and every move collided. The civilizations within their respective Great Daos and the torrents of their Dao Essence clashed on all fronts. Often, a single exchange was enough to know the depth of the opponent’s Dao and determine a winner and a loser.

"I told you, you’re not good enough. It might be a little more interesting if your true body were here!"

A merciless, majestic voice rang out!

With just a single punch!

The struggle lasted but a moment!

The Flawless Divine Fist that extended from the Dragon Hunting Tower steadily pushed forward like a Divine Mountain. The torrent of the Body Dao civilization continuously crushed the Slaughter Emperor’s Doomsday Killing Path torrent, clearly gaining the upper hand in the contention of the Great Dao.

"Hahaha, my true body?!"

The Slaughter Emperor’s Dao Essence incarnation showed no signs of frustration or defeat. His tyrannical, thunderous voice rolled through All Heavens, still full of contempt and disdain:

"Back then, you avoided me like a mute dog. Now you’ve found your bark again? Transverse Refining Dao Ancestor, you cowardly piece of shit, you think you’re worthy?!"

"Hide your edge when weak, fight for profit when strong. Thus... the strong remain strong."

Heng Ancestor’s supreme gaze was indifferent.

He paid no mind to the Slaughter Emperor’s mockery.

His flawless, great hand commanded the torrent of the Power Dao, constantly forcing the Slaughter Emperor back as he steadily advanced toward the now-silent Burning Chaos Furnace.

’Fifteen Daoist Sects, a body like the Great Dao!’

From the day he had sensed Wu Dao within the Burning Chaos Furnace, Heng Ancestor, whose heart had been as placid as a still lake for eons, felt shock for the first time.

Because!

On this tiny ant, He had sensed the ultimate goal of his lifelong pursuit—the primordial, originating aura of all life!

’That was... a body like the Great Dao!’

’If I can dissect this fruit and reflect upon it to free my thinking, the final roadblock on my path of Transverse Cultivation will surely crumble on its own!’

Originally, He hadn’t planned to intervene.

The price for resisting the Celestial Punishment was too great.

It was far from the easy, unbelievable feat that outsiders perceived it to be.

’Do you really think the Great Dao Celestial Punishment is just some thunderbolts?’

No!

After withstanding a single strike...

...it was a complete negation from the Dao System!

Silent, imperceptible, and irresistible!

The power of informational erasure at a supreme conceptual level!

It caused Heng Ancestor’s Initial Tribulation Transverse Cultivation civilization to regress, turning millennia of painstaking cultivation into dust in an instant!

If he didn’t stop and continued to resist it head-on, his civilization would inevitably fall below the Initial Tribulation stage.

Therefore, although He appeared calm and indifferent on the surface, He was actually pressed for time.

He had to suppress the Burning Chaos Furnace and the Wu Dao within it before the second Great Dao Celestial Punishment descended!

"Haha, breaking a sweat, are we?"

The Slaughter Emperor saw that Heng Ancestor was all bark and no bite.

He too had withstood the Celestial Punishment, so He naturally knew its terror. His fundamental Dao Source in the Buzhou Great Abyss had been targeted for erasure!

Therefore, as mad as He was, even He didn’t dare drag this on any longer!

"Kid, I’ve bought you all this time! Aren’t you going to make your move?"

Within the nearly frozen spacetime, the Slaughter Emperor roared at the silent Burning Chaos Furnace while enduring Heng Ancestor’s punch.

’If I were to get serious, I could handle Heng Ancestor too. But the gains wouldn’t be worth the losses; I’d just be playing the fool for nothing. I’m not Wu Dao’s hired muscle.’

"Hmm?"

Heng Ancestor heard the Slaughter Emperor’s roar.

His heart couldn’t help but skip a beat.

In his perception at this very moment!

The previously silent Burning Chaos Furnace seemed to have transformed into a profound abyss—a pure abyss of fiery sea. Wisps of pitch-black Great Dao flames began to spurt from the furnace’s mouth!

Those flames were demonic and wicked, yet also supremely sacred and noble.

They were mere sparks, but it felt as if a single pitch-black ember could incinerate an entire Celestial Domain, possessing a supreme mighty power similar to the Great Dao Celestial Punishment!

’This isn’t the surface-level Chaos Essence Fire! But rather... from the core of the Burning Chaos Furnace! The origin of this Incomplete Dao Artifact, the Dao-Burning Fire capable of incinerating the civilizations of ten thousand Daos!’

’He actually found the core! Not only did he find it... he even opened the floodgates of its origin!’

’The essence of a Dao Artifact is so profound... without its acknowledgment... even an Extreme Daoist cannot control it. How could a mere All Heavens Emperor possibly achieve this?’

’A body like the Great Dao...’

In less than an instant, Heng Ancestor’s thoughts shifted from shock to speculation.

"You..."

He could no longer pay any mind to the Slaughter Emperor!

His concentration suddenly split as he cast his mental gaze into the Burning Chaos Furnace.

Piercing through layer after layer of the fiery sea, at the end of the crimson light of slaughter!

He saw Wu Dao, who was also looking up at Him with a sunny smile—

"Hello there."

And then... before Heng Ancestor could erupt in fury!

CLANG—

Wu Dao’s Primordial Magnetic Armor instantly exploded into Three Tribulation Dao Particles, his state unleashed to its absolute limit! He aimed the mouth of the bell at the core of the Burning Chaos Furnace’s Dao Source field and, with all his might, struck the Extreme Dao Bell!

In the next fraction of an instant!

BOOM—!!!

The abyss was opened, the taboo unsealed!

Within the distant Heaven-Burning Fire, ten thousand flames paid homage as a supreme existence awakened!

"AH! You bastard, how dare you!!"

In the Fire-Raising Sect, the Immortal Burning Furnace and the God-Burning Furnace raged out of control!

They instantly refined an old monster who was suppressing them to death. A boiling tide of gold and white Divine Fire swept through endless spacetime, nearly burning the Fire-Raising Sect’s Ancestral Land to cinders!

The gold and white Divine Fire broke through the Celestial Domain!

They rose up as two Divine Pillars of fiery sea in the Sea of Chaos, chirping with fierce joy as if answering the call of the unsealed Burning Chaos Furnace at Nine Heavens Pass.

The next moment!

BOOM—!!!

Outside the domain of Nine Heavens Pass!

The rupture in the Sea of Chaos, blasted open by the clash between the Slaughter Emperor and Heng Ancestor, expanded once more as a third torrent of the Great Dao—belonging to neither of them—erupted forth!

It was a Great Dao Fire so black it was tangible!

It symbolized pure destruction!

To incinerate all, to refine everything!

The moment it erupted... across the Primordial Mountains and Seas, across All Heavens and the myriad domains... all sentient beings felt, to varying degrees, a terrifying surge in the temperature of spacetime, heaven, earth, and the universe!

All the fires of the world, regardless of their rank! Revived on their own and swarmed in joyous pilgrimage, converging into a boundless torrent that rushed toward the rupture in the chaos at Nine Heavens Pass, transforming the vast Hongyuan into a blazing, pitch-black world of fire!

VMMMM—

Before one wave could settle, another rose!

The Burning Chaos Furnace had just been unsealed!

The appearance of three forbidden existences that should not have been present completely enraged the Hongyuan Dao System!

All living beings in the world, whether strong or weak! Felt a chill run down their spines! They felt that doom was imminent, that judgment had arrived!

The boundless Sea of Chaos stopped churning.

The Great Dao Celestial Punishment Divine Thunder also vanished.

Everything seemed calm and peaceful.

But only the Mountain and Sea Primordial Giants at Nine Heavens Pass, located in the eye of the storm, discovered with absolute terror—

The Slaughter Emperor, Heng Ancestor!

The Burning Chaos Furnace, the Extreme Dao Bell!

The four rampaging, forbidden behemoths... were rapidly turning illusory!

The torrents of the Great Dao civilizations belonging to the four forbidden ones were also regressing as if time were flowing backward. All information and concepts related to them were about to be negated and erased by the Hongyuan Great Dao!

Under the threat of complete annihilation! Even someone as tyrannical as the Ancestor of Transversal Refining... no matter how unwilling or furious he felt... was retracting his flawless, great hand back into the tower as if he’d been shocked by lightning.

At the same time, he disregarded the damage to his civilization. He dissipated the vast, gathered torrent of the Power Dao, doing everything in his power to quickly appear harmless and eliminate the Great Dao’s rejection.

But what Heng Ancestor did not expect was! Something happened that made the blood of all the watching giants of All Heavens run cold!

"Hahaha, stay right where you are for me!"

"Kill!!"

Under the threat of the Great Dao’s total erasure! The Slaughter Emperor and Wu Dao! Still had no intention of stopping!

They roared with ferocious expressions, and the utterly crazed killing intent in their voices exploded in an instant, causing the Divine Souls of all onlookers to go blank for a moment!

All their thoughts all converged into two words—

Crazy bastards!!

WHOOSH—CLANG!!

In the next instant! The tangible, pitch-black Dao fire from the all-consuming Burning Chaos Furnace engulfed Nine Heavens Pass!

At the same time, the toll of the Extreme Dao Bell rang out! But its Mighty Power far surpassed what came before!

At the core of the pitch-black Dao fire, a crimson light of slaughter blazed, vying for brilliance with the Dao fire. The Slaughter Emperor was personally wielding the Extreme Dao Bell, reviving the Five Tribulations First Fierce Weapon to its absolute limit!

In the final moments, everything seemed to blur and disappear.

Few were able to observe what happened.

Only a few beings at Nine Heavens Pass who had truly reached the Primordial Peak managed to observe a few fragmented images.

The Slaughter Emperor and the Burning Chaos Furnace (Wu Dao)... ignored the Great Dao Celestial Punishment! They unleashed the Burning Chaos Furnace and the Extreme Dao Bell... and forced their way into the lowest core level of the Dragon Hunting Tower!

"You... are courting DEATH!!!"

Immediately after, came Heng Ancestor’s furious roar—a rage that not even all the Divine Water in All Heavens could extinguish!

Why was he so furious?

Only the strongest observer on the battlefield, the Supreme Emperor Celestial Venerable, had seen it.

The Slaughter Emperor, the stronger of the two, in the deepest part of the Dragon Hunting Tower, had viciously taken a bite out of the single fruit on an indescribable Dao Tree!

This was the reason for Heng Ancestor’s maddened fury!

Next was that Burial Realm Demon King.

He hadn’t managed to fight his way to the very depths, but his ferocity was no less in the slightest!

He wasn’t seen, but his Burning Chaos Furnace was, forcibly sucking six of the Dragon Hunting Tower’s Peak Primordial Supremes into itself!

In the last moment, even the Supreme Emperor Celestial Venerable could no longer observe.

He could only vaguely see the Five Tribulations First Fierce Weapon, the legendary Extreme Dao Bell, dissipate without a sound, like a smudge being wiped away by a great hand.

The Slaughter Emperor’s Dao Essence incarnation met the same fate.

The Burning Chaos Furnace, a Dao Artifact in essence, and its Dao-Burning Fire, which had erupted like an ancient volcano, were also extinguished in an instant like a common flame doused with ice water. It cracked, crashed into the ’Mud Layer’ of the dry Taichu Universe Sea, and vanished without a trace.

Heng Ancestor, who had lost his composure in a fit of rage, despite his essence as a Half-Step Life Ancestor, his flawless body had developed a flaw. But in the end, he did not dare to strike again. Grabbing the Dragon Hunting Tower, he fled into the Sea of Chaos!

Judging by Heng Ancestor’s madness before he left, everyone knew... this wasn’t over!

The start of the next tribulation would be the time to settle all accounts!