Chapter 1405 - 743: Past Self, Demon Lord Battle_2

Ten Thousand Dragon Pearl!

This is the Dragon Clan’s inherited Dao Artifact. Every Dragon of the clan, upon ascending to the Daoist Master throne and approaching their fall, will fuse their own Lifebound Dragon Pearl into it.

Thus, within the Demon Domain, the Ten Thousand Dragon Pearl is likewise famed across the realms, an exceedingly formidable Treasure.

The instant this Treasure Bead appeared, it crushed the Void beneath it; countless dragon patterns erupted across its surface, as if it possessed spirit, directly pressing down toward the Golden Crow Emperor.

This was an ultimate strike!

Countless ages ago, the Golden Crow Emperor had already tasted the might of this Ten Thousand Dragon Pearl; how could he possibly be unprepared now?

"Clang!"

A long, resonant bell-note rang out. Above the Golden Crow Emperor’s head there manifested a towering bell, within which flowed a boundlessly vast aura of time.

This was the Holy Object once handed down in the Heavenly Court, likewise a Daoist Lord Level Divine Weapon—the Time Bell.

With the emergence of this Treasure, all things between heaven and earth seemed to freeze, including that ultimate attack unleashed by the Ten Thousand Dragon Pearl.

Time flowed in this instant; for a brief span the Golden Crow Emperor seized control over the Dragon Master and that Five Virtues Phoenix Master.

At this moment, not only the Dragon Master and Five Virtues Phoenix Master— even the swathe of spacetime belonging to this section of the Golden Crow World was entirely sealed.

All things interdicted!

Everything sank into the solidification of time and space!

Yet among the many experts present, the vast majority of Venerables were almost unable to resist at all; even their consciousness was completely frozen, incapable of thought.

Only a few who had some comprehension of the Time Dao could barely think.

"So this is a battle between Demon Lords!?"

Jiang Shu’s gaze grew heavier bit by bit, his heart filled with震撼.

It was only because he had now grasped a portion of the profundities of the Time Dao.

Had it been when he first stepped into the Daoist Venerable Realm, a battle between Demon Lords— even attempting to employ the Two Realms Shuttle would have been incomparably difficult.

For under a Demon Lord’s single thought, that was near-absolute instantaneousness.

There was not the slightest room for reaction!

Whichever Demon Lord present took action, heaven and earth would tremble, the Eight Desolations be suppressed.

Daoist Venerable and Daoist Master—on the surface they differ by but a single Realm, yet in truth the two are worlds apart.

However, even this Demon Lord Realm is not absolute invincibility.

Every strike will be sensed by the Heavenly Dao.

The Dao-transformation of the Heaven-Burning Demon Lord still unfolded vividly before Jiang Shu’s eyes.

Thoughts in his mind shifted in an instant.

Jiang Shu once more turned his gaze back toward the battlefield before him.

Without doubt, it was fortunate indeed that the Great Array presently lay within the Void.

Had it still been situated within the Golden Crow World, they would already have been ground to death by the aftershocks, no chance of life.

Within this near-frozen spacetime, the Golden Crow Emperor drew in a deep breath.

The surrounding Power of Time surged boundless and immeasurable.

He was not a Daoist Master of the Fire Dao.

That station once belonged to Di Yang in the past, and for a brief moment earlier had belonged to the Heaven-Burning Ancestor.

The reason he had just now used the Fire Dao to face the enemy, was merely because he had taken the Heaven-Burning Ancestor as a sacrificial offering to restore himself!

When the Heavenly Court war of old came to an end, this Golden Crow Emperor escaped by the skin of his teeth, nearly melted away by the Great Dao.

At that critical juncture, he expended methods long prepared beforehand, severed his own Great Dao, fell from his Realm, and then sealed himself away through the ages.

Now, at this key moment, by making use of the Heaven-Burning Ancestor as well as resources accumulated over endless years, he once again returned to the Daoist Master throne.

Yet such methods could not cleanse away the influence of god and Dao merging; they merely postponed it for a time.

Now that he had regained the Demon Lord throne, the fusion of god and Dao resumed, and his time grew short.

"If we drag this out any longer, I fear we will truly be dancing to the tune of these two traitors’ wishes."

The Golden Crow Emperor let out a cold laugh, and struck again; the Time Bell rang out clang upon clang.

And at this very moment, within that frozen spacetime, the Dragon Clan’s Dragon Master and the Five Virtues Phoenix Master faintly moved, seemingly about to struggle free of time’s solidification.

Any Daoist Master who could attain the Dao must have grasped the Path of Time; unless it was a Daoist Master who had directly proven the Time Dao itself, the differences at this tier were merely a matter of degree.

The two Demon Lords were about to break free, shattering the temporal stasis, and charge forth to attack.

Just then, within the Void, a long river suddenly began to flow.

Hualala!

The waters surged, raising stormy waves.

With a thunderous roar, a scarlet-golden great sun emerged from that long river, gazing down upon all beings, standing above the myriad directions.

It was a Golden Crow, its bearing lofty, posture arrogant, every movement carrying a domineering might that ruled the world, as though all things ought to submit beneath its feet.

Upon seeing this Golden Crow, the Dragon Clan’s Dragon Master, who had only just managed to wrench himself free of the temporal stasis, spoke in astonishment:

"Past-body?"

The Golden Crow Emperor did not reply; he turned and stepped into the River of Time, and that Divine Soul body directly entered the Golden Crow’s form.

Past-body!

This was a supreme profundity that only Demon Lords or Daoist Masters of the Time Dao could display.

It could summon forth one’s own Peak past-body.

So long as this art existed, one had nearly no weaknesses, never falling into frailty, remaining at Peak for ages untold!

Sure enough, once the past-body was deployed, the Golden Crow Emperor’s aura surged explosively.

If originally the Golden Crow Emperor, the Dragon Master, and the Five Virtues Phoenix Master formed a tripartite balance of power—

Then after merging with the past-body, the Golden Crow Emperor’s aura abruptly swelled, even surpassing the combined might of the Dragon Master and the Five Virtues Phoenix Master.

"As expected of the former master of the Ancient Heavenly Court; your strength is indeed formidable. But how long can you sustain it?"

The Five Virtues Phoenix Master was only slightly shocked, then immediately calmed once more.

Without question, the Golden Crow Emperor’s strength surpassed theirs; whether Dragon Master or Five Virtues Phoenix Master, neither wished to deny this, nor would they stoop to denying it.

Yet even power has its limits.

The mightier one is, the more deeply one is corroded by the Great Dao.

"I know—you are waiting for me to fully merge into the Great Dao. It’s fine. We shall continue to wear each other down."

The Golden Crow Emperor fixed his imperious gaze upon the dragon and phoenix before him, took a deep breath, and once more raised his head in a long howl.

In the next instant, the Time River surged again, and faintly, two more streaks of light walked out from within it.

One silver, one gold—these lights vaguely bore a Daoist Master level aura as well.

"Truly worthy of the Path of Time!"

The Dragon Master sighed in his heart.

Among the myriad Great Daos, Space and Time are without doubt two exceedingly special paths. Whether ascending to Venerable or ascending to Daoist Master, one must comprehend these two.

"Then—strike!"

Without form, the Dragon Master drew the seas to him; vast and mighty, grand without limit.

A phantom sea around him faintly flowed with chaotic hues, able to contain all, devour all.

Around the Five Virtues Phoenix Master, a stream of the Power of Five Virtues rippled out at once; the entire heaven and earth seemed to open itself, awaiting his command. He lifted his wings and suddenly spread them forward.

Five-colored Five-Virtue Divine Light howled forth, illuminating all things, shooting straight toward the fully restored Golden Crow Emperor.

The great battle erupted anew; yet unlike the deadlock from before, this time the Golden Crow Emperor had suppressed the two Demon Lords, and both sides plunged into a brutal slaughter.

At this moment, the constraints of time were likewise shattered by the outbreak of their battle.

Jiang Shu regained the Power of movement, exchanged glances with the many Human Clan experts, and all simultaneously retreated.

A battle of this grade was not something they could take part in—touch it and you die!

Yet now, the aftershocks around the battlefield of those three experts rippled outward.

The Human Race Venerables did not hesitate in the slightest; they turned and fled.

Just then, from the center of the battlefield, a succession of slaughterous killing moves unleashed by the Five Virtues Phoenix Master struck the Time River, had portions of their might refracted, and blasted outward.

On the path of that five-colored halo, there happened to stand a Daoist Venerable of the Hidden Sword Sect.

"No!"

That Daoist Venerable let out an angry roar, gripped his sword with both hands, Slaughter Sword Qi erupting from within his body, madly surging into the Dao Sword in his grasp.

All the Great Dao he had comprehended were offered up in that instant; his entire Power was raised to the extreme.

With a single sword of radiant light, he cleaved toward the front!