Chapter 583 - 504: The Flame Is Extinguished, Four Tribulations

SPLASH—

Nine Heavens Pass.

The Taichu Universe Sea.

Waves rose and fell, surging violently.

"From now on, the Primordial Dam Area and the two surrounding dam areas are entrusted to you."

It was the familiar process of a Domain Master handover for a dam area.

The All Heavens Emperors from the Commander’s Law Enforcement Team.

They looked with deep emotion at the new Guan Lord of Primordial Pass, who exuded an aura of iron and blood. Unconsciously, their thoughts drifted to the Primordial Domain Lord from two months ago, the one who had once dazzled Shanhai Pass.

"Did the Primordial Domain Lord really go missing?"

The new Domain Master asked, his expression filled with regret as he accepted the Domain Lord’s Order.

"Perhaps."

One of the All Heavens Emperors from the Law Enforcement Department replied ambiguously, a shadow of gloom appearing in his eyes.

In truth, the Primordial Domain Lord wasn’t the only one who had vanished.

The Wu Race, once the most formidable and mysterious clan at Shanhai Pass, had also disappeared without a trace after the conclusion of the great battle that shook All Heavens and Myriad Realms one month ago.

No one was a fool.

Too many coincidences were no longer a coincidence.

Following the clues, there were suspicions within the Commander’s Law Enforcement Team.

It was highly likely that the Primordial Domain Lord was the very same Burial Realm Demon King who had plotted against the Dragon Hunting Tower and seized the Burning Chaos Furnace a month prior!

However, Primordial held great prestige at Shanhai Pass.

And the Burial Realm Demon King was entangled in far too much karma.

Rather than shatter his revered image and cause unnecessary turmoil within the army, the Law Enforcement Department chose not to publicize the results of their investigation or their suspicions. They would simply treat the Primordial Domain Lord as having genuinely gone missing.

As for the Primordial Domain Lord’s current whereabouts...

No one had an answer.

He seemed to have vanished from the Hongyuan Heavenly Realms.

At the final moment of the great battle a month ago, the Burning Chaos Furnace had been struck by Celestial Punishment.

The power of the Great Dao that erased everything still made the hearts of many Primordial Chaos experts pound with fear. It was hard to say whether the Primordial Domain Lord had escaped unscathed.

What could be confirmed, however, was that the Primordial Domain Lord was likely still alive.

Because his title upon the Dao Celestial Stele had not yet been extinguished.

The Dao Celestial Stele...

Thinking of this Dao Stele that suppressed the Nine Passes, the Law Enforcement Envoy’s gaze turned heavy as he looked toward the core of the Mountain and Sea Great Wall.

The once-majestic Celestial Stele, which none could look upon directly, was now fading. Its light grew illusory and weak as Shanhai Pass continued to fall, as if it could return to the Great Dao at any moment.

The Dao Celestial Stele.

It was a temporary Dao Artifact forged by the Great Dao itself, coalescing the fate of Hongyuan’s Ten Celestial Passes.

Since the end of the Four Tribulations, it had suppressed the space-time of the Nine Celestial Passes, ever since the Mountain and Sea began its invasion of Hongyuan.

It had constructed nine dam-like barriers, funneling the various tiers of Mountain and Sea existences to their corresponding Celestial Gates. This kept the enemy beyond Buzhou Mountain, preventing them from launching a full-scale invasion of the Hongyuan mainland.

This was also why, from the Four Tribulations until now, despite countless wars, no Mountain and Sea Army had ever crossed Buzhou Mountain. The stronger a Mountain and Sea creature was, the more terrifying the suppressive Power of the Dao Celestial Stele it had to endure the further it advanced.

The most direct manifestation of this was that they would encounter Celestial Punishment.

But the fate of the Great Dao was intrinsically linked to every living being within the civilization.

The primary source of the Dao Celestial Stele’s fate, without a doubt, came from the Martial Ancestor, who had been holding back the two Desolate Ancestors at the Ten Celestial Passes since the Four Tribulations.

Beneath this primary source, the fate was supplied by every Hongyuan soldier of the Nine Celestial Passes and every inch of Hongyuan territory.

And now...

The Martial Ancestor was about to completely scatter his Dao.

Less than a tenth of Hongyuan’s territory in Shanhai Pass remained, and vast numbers of soldiers from the various Celestial Gates had fallen in battle!

The fate coalesced by the Dao Celestial Stele had weakened to an all-time low!

One could even say it was on the verge of collapse!

Everyone knew.

All it would take was a single catalyst.

And the Dao Celestial Stele would completely dissipate.

At that point, Shanhai Pass would no longer be Hongyuan’s ironclad primary defense. Without this bulwark, nothing would stand in the way of a full-scale Mountain and Sea invasion of Hongyuan!

And that catalyst...

lay with the Martial Ancestor alone.

The moment he scattered his Dao would be the day Shanhai Pass crumbled!

...

Two months’ time was but a fleeting moment in the vastness of Hongyuan.

But the shadow of the great battle two months ago and the Martial Ancestor’s impending dissipation of his Dao made this period feel agonizingly long.

Countless living beings prayed and pleaded.

For a miracle to happen.

For someone to take the Martial Ancestor’s place and hold back the Mountain and Sea.

But the only response they received was the Severed Communication from the Luotian Sword Realm and the Celestial Court.

That’s right. At this critical juncture, Hongyuan’s two remaining behemoth factions that possessed Daoists had unanimously chosen to seal their "gates" and cut off all contact with the outside world of Hongyuan. Their stance of cold observation was no longer hidden in the slightest!

Beneath a Dao Ancestor, all are but ants.

With the two remaining Dao Ancestors refusing to intervene, the teeming, insignificant masses could no longer find the Power to resist.

For a time, an atmosphere of despair enveloped countless living creatures.

But the All Heavens did not simply sit and await their doom.

The New Hongyuan Alliance unified all resistance forces and was rapidly constructing a second line of defense within Buzhou Heaven, behind Buzhou Mountain.

Hongyuan’s Celestial Punishment had not yet completely dissipated.

Currently, it had only been lifted for the All Heavens Emperors.

Until the restrictions on Primordial Chaos experts were fully lifted, this second line of defense was Hongyuan’s last hope.

Great Tribulations birth great fortune.

The resistance forces of the All Heavens were all hoping that someone could rise rapidly in the time they had bought, break through the shackles of the Primordial Chaos realm, and hold up the sky for the beings of the Six Tribulations.

For instance, there were the veteran elders like the Supreme Emperor Celestial Venerable.

There were also the Peak Primordial Chaos Giants throughout the All Heavens who had the potential for Attainment Dao. All were seeds of hope for the sixth Great Tribulation.

However, just as the All Heavens were uniting as one, a dire situation was escalating, adding frost to the snow!

This was the Primordial Sect, the foremost harm of the All Heavens!

With the Great Tribulation approaching, they too had begun to descend into demonic madness!

Heedless of the cost, ignoring all losses!

They rampaged through the All Heavens Domains like a plague of locusts with an insatiable appetite, frantically plundering Original Dao Realms and the Spirit of Living Creatures!

And that was not all.

Due to the panic caused by the Great Tribulation, many Great Emperors and All Heavens Emperors throughout the All Heavens believed that disaster was imminent. They felt that Hongyuan had no hope of stopping the Mountain and Sea, and they lived in constant dread.

And so, in their panic, they acted rashly.

Just as mortals in chaotic times are easily swayed by sinister cults, they began to actively reach out to the Primordial Sect, placing their faith in the mysterious Primordial Daoist Venerable.