Chapter 593 - 574: Battle of the Great Dao

The fist-sized Primordial Spirit, however, which had been completely exhausted, was now in its element. It swept up the attributeless energy in the sky and actually grew a bit stronger; its previously blurry face sharpened into focus. This Primordial Spirit was none other than Master Wang, who had come close to being utterly destroyed.

Wang Meng had already cursed every god and immortal in the heavens he could think of. With no other choice, his Primordial Spirit descended into the corpse.

A moment later, Wang Meng opened his eyes. Fragments of a life’s memories flashed through his mind like a revolving lantern, playing out before him. They were the memories of this body’s original owner.

This person was also surnamed Wang, and his name was Wang Rencai. ’What kind of father would pick a name like that? Rencai? A talent for benevolence? Sounds more like a talent for getting trampled on...’ Only after reviewing this body’s extensive life experiences did Wang Meng understand what it meant that there was always someone crazier out there. This guy was... a one-of-a-kind dumbass. He, at least, had clawed his way up from the mortal realm and had seen all sorts of people, but his predecessor in this body was absolutely the king of all idiots.

This was a world known as the Heaven-Reaching Realm. No one knew how vast the Heaven-Reaching Realm was, only that it was composed of continents separated by vast oceans. An ordinary person couldn’t even traverse a single continent in their entire lifetime. The people here called it the "Garden of the Gods." Of course, the inhabitants of pretty much every Spirit Realm tended to think their own home was the center of the universe, a gift from the gods, a garden, a harem, or something of the sort.

However, Wang Meng could sense that this place was of a higher tier among the Spirit Realms, because the body he now occupied didn’t have a Life Mark. Instead, it had an Innate Life Wheel.

Currently, Wang Meng was on a continent called the Dragon Rock Realm. In the Dragon Rock Realm, the Taibai Mountain Range served as a border, dividing the land into two great Divine Descendant Dynasties. The dynasty this body belonged to was called Great Zhou.

This "Wang Rencai" had an extremely noble birth. He was from a famous aristocratic bloodline of the Great Zhou Dynasty and had the blood of the Divine Descendants in his veins. However, the guy was born lacking all Five Elements. Even as a descendant of the gods, in the eyes of Divine Cultivators, he was nothing more than useless mud that couldn’t be plastered on a wall.

Unlike in the Small Thousand Worlds, this world had no Sects. In their place were numerous Divine Cultivation Families who practiced cultivation under the rule of the Divine Descendant Dynasty. They valued bloodlines and lineage, and their world was filled with worship for the gods.

Even if he was a hopeless case, he was still a scion of a noble family with the blood of Divine Descendants. With even a little bit of sense, he could have lived a life of luxury, surrounded by beautiful women. Unfortunately, this fellow was both exceptionally lecherous and a complete weirdo. Causing trouble was his innate talent, and never just minor trouble... He lifted the skirt of the Divine Emperor’s most beloved Seventh Princess and spied on the Tenth Princess while she was bathing. The problem was, how old was the Tenth Princess? She couldn’t even be called a little girl yet. He was the scum of all beasts!

And those were just the minor incidents; the Wang Family was no ordinary family, after all. But this kid actually took an entire cauldron of Divine Emperor Pills—which the Great Zhou’s Divine Emperor Hall had spent a full twenty-four years refining—and fed them to a Divine Pet. What’s more, it was the weakest kind, a Mud Flood Dragon! In the end, that loach transformed into a Nine-Transformation Giant Loach... Those were Divine Pills meant for experts who had just broken through to the Divine Emperor Realm to consolidate their Divine Power!

To give them to a creature as worthless as a Mud Flood Dragon! It was something no sane person would ever do!

That cauldron of Divine Emperor Pills concerned five top-tier experts and was tied to the national strength of the Divine Descendant Dynasty!

Being a bit of a lecherous playboy wasn’t a big deal among the aristocracy. With his family’s power, it wasn’t even impossible that a princess would be betrothed to him in the future. Everyone could just turn a blind eye. But this incident caused all his past misdeeds to come to a head. Everyone, both inside and outside his family, despised this good-for-nothing. For the first time, the Divine Descendant Imperial City, a place that valued bloodlines above all else, made the decision to expel a scion of a noble family. Of course, the official reason given was a marriage alliance.

He was exiled to Wang City, on the border of the Taibai Mountain Range. A family with some connection to the Wang Family took him in, hoping for a marriage alliance; after all, there were countless people who wanted to curry favor with the Wang Family. As for the Wang Family, it was a case of out of sight, out of mind. They couldn’t very well kill him. Besides, even if the kid tried to turn Wang City upside down, no one would care. What’s more... with his pathetic level of destructive capability and without his family’s protection, he couldn’t even catch a rabbit.

"Holy hell..." Wang Meng couldn’t help but curse again. ’Lust is human nature, fine. Causing trouble, whatever, to each their own. But this guy was so delusional he actually thought he was an exceptionally gifted, once-in-a-generation genius... How lonely must a person be to become so shamelessly thick-skinned?’

’Doesn’t he know that people always let him win during sparring matches?’ The thought of everyone around him laughing in mockery made even Wang Meng cringe. After all... Master Wang had a reputation to uphold. Back in the mortal realm, he’d gotten into fights, battled with wits and courage, and even used a few dirty tricks. But this guy was just too pathetic.

’The most infuriating part was that someone of his level actually dared to enter the Taiyuan Bone Land. And by some stroke of insane luck, he hadn’t encountered a single demon or monster. The reason he died... was because he wasn’t watching his step, tumbled into a ditch, and fell to his death!’

’He fell to his own death! By himself!’

’In the Taiyuan Bone Land, could there possibly be a more ridiculous way to die?! No! There is absolutely no other way!’

According to the Saintess, ascension seemed like a promotion, but it was actually a method for the Celestial Dao to maintain its "rule." Those who were particularly unusual and powerful would be subjected to "strengthened trials." As for people like Wang Meng, they would be gifted tribulations from which they could never recover. This was called the Celestial Dao’s screening process.

When Wang Meng broke through the "gate," the power of heaven and earth surged forth, instantly tearing his body to shreds. An ordinary Cultivator, no matter how strong their Cultivation, would have been immediately annihilated before the great Dao. But Wang Meng’s entire Cultivation coalesced around his Godhood, forming a Primordial Spirit that escaped just before the shameless Dao could completely destroy him.

In that instant, the slightest mistake would have meant the end of Wang Meng. As his Primordial Spirit escaped, the Dao still managed to rip a layer of skin off it. Upon arriving in this Spirit Realm, he had to find a body immediately. In truth, Wang Meng had some time to choose, but after experiencing such a calamity, anyone would undoubtedly want to settle down at once. What’s more, it was a dead body, so Wang Meng was relatively calm about it.

The result...

Master Wang knew he had been tricked again!

Never mind that this person had already offended the most powerful and influential people in the Divine Descent Dynasty. The crucial point was his aptitude: a Life Wheel that was missing the Five Elements. A Life Wheel required the Five Elements Power to be driven!

But for him to break through the laws of this plane and attempt the Path of Divinity again, he would need even greater power. Lacking the Five Elements... He used to think his Five Elements Body was troublesome enough. Only now did he realize how blissful that had been.

Furthermore, if this body died, Wang Meng’s Primordial Spirit would also dissipate into nothingness. This was the most terrifying part of the Heavenly Dao Laws.

If he had stayed in the Small Thousand Realm, the Celestial Dao wouldn’t have been able to do anything to him.

Wang Meng curled his lip, rubbed his face, and looked up at the sky. Suddenly, he smiled. ’So what if things are like this?!’

’I’m here now. We’ll just have to wait and see how this story unfolds!’

BOOM—

A massive, deafening crash suddenly echoed in his ears!

At the same time, the surging energy that had filled the air completely vanished.

Wang Meng’s Primordial Spirit, which had been absorbing this energy, was taken aback. He extended his Primordial Spirit’s Divine Sense and finally "saw" two great experts, their bodies roiling with surging Divine Power!

Frankly, in terms of sheer power, these two were nothing special. At his peak, Wang Meng could have easily taken care of them.

The Life Wheel was a grade higher than the Life Mark, but the Elemental Qi here wasn’t as potent as he had imagined. In fact, it was much thinner. A higher grade, but weaker power... He had to admit, the Heavenly Dao Laws were really trying everything to deal with him.

Having just arrived, Master Wang behaved himself and watched for a while. From Wang Rencai’s memories, these two were absolutely extraordinary, likely first-class experts on this plane. Master Wang watched with great interest. ’Know your enemy and know yourself, and you can fight a hundred battles without defeat.’ He had to rendezvous with his brothers in the Divine Realm and had no intention of dying tragically in a place like this.

The Life Wheel of the Divine Descendant Dynasty was divided into five major realms: the Profound Wheel Realm, the Earth Wheel Realm, the Celestial Wheel Realm, the Godbound Realm, and the Divinity Transformation Realm.

In terms of Divine Power, the strength these two were displaying was, on one side, the purest Fire Element Power, and on the other, the most refined Water Element Power. Both had been cultivated to the absolute extreme. ’They must be experts at the Divinity Transformation Realm,’ he thought. ’Quite exquisite.’

But all techniques are ultimately connected. If he still had his former power, Wang Meng would have been very interested in testing the strength of these two. As it was now, however, his best bet was to run as far away as possible.

The problem was, thinking it was one thing, but doing it was another. The clash between the two had the force to shatter the heavens and split the earth, and Master Wang was the innocent fish about to be caught in the disaster.

Wang Meng saw it with perfect clarity: the two were now fighting for real. Their surging Divine Power was being drawn inward, all for the sake of an ultimate explosive release. This was the calm before the storm.

At this moment, the Water Emperor and the Fire Emperor were in a bind they couldn’t voice. Having fought to this point, guided by the momentum of their clash, they were locked in a stalemate where one of them had to die. Even if they wanted to pull back, they couldn’t. Whoever withdrew even slightly faster would be invaded by the other’s Divine Power. Given how refined and extreme their Divine Powers were, this would be a fate more painful than death, directly causing their Divine Power to regress and possibly even causing them to fall from the Divinity Transformation Realm.

Therefore, neither of them would dare to withdraw. But if they didn’t, as their Divine Power condensed and their auras intertwined ever more tightly, the final, unavoidable strike would likely result in mutual destruction!

Wang Meng instantly simulated the scene of their mutual destruction in his mind. In that moment, his expression changed. ’Fuck! So this is what they mean by "a fire at the city gate brings disaster to the fish in the moat"! With their mutually destructive water and fire Divine Powers, a hundred-mile radius will be blasted into nothingness! And of course, the spot where I’m standing is right in the middle of it!’

In his current frail body, he’d be toast for sure.

Without a moment’s hesitation, Wang Meng charged toward the two of them. In the standoff between their incompatible auras of fire and water, there was only a single sliver of a gap.

The moment Wang Meng ran out, both the Water Emperor and the Fire Emperor noticed his presence.

Both were taken aback for a second. They had chosen to duel in the Taiyuan Bone Land for two reasons. First, given their status, they didn’t want outsiders to know about their fight. Second, because this was a desolate, uninhabited land, no matter how fiercely they fought, the aftershocks wouldn’t harm any innocent bystanders. With their power, even the various Exotic Beasts would give them a wide berth. They just never imagined that someone would pop out from some forgotten corner.