Chapter 492: First to Act

"They're here!"

Yaoguang thought to himself. There’s also a void Dao Lord.

The Penglai Dao Lord's thoughts stirred. In their telepathic state, Yaoguang instantly sensed her thoughts. The Great Dao of void is the most widespread of the various Dao. The divine race has two void Dao Lords: the Void Divine Venerable and the Voidlight Divine Venerable. Dao Lords who cultivate the Great Dao of void may not excel in direct combat, but they are essential, whether for pursuing targets or sealing the void.

"That makes things easier," Yaoguang said directly. "You take the four divine venerables, including the Destruction Divine Venerable. I’ll deal with these two void-type divine venerables before the other void Dao Lords arrive."

"Hm? You can—"

"Strike first!" Yaoguang gave the Penglai Dao Lord no time to react. He reached out and abruptly pulled her along as he used Void Flicker.

In less than a breath, they had already traversed the space between their original position and the divine race warship. By then, the divine race's warship had just finished emerging from the void.

"So fast!" The Penglai Dao Lord couldn't help but praise him. Traversing billions of miles in less than a breath was completely new to her, and the feeling left her breathless. She had never experienced anything like it before.

Yaoguang's comprehension of the Great Dao of void was truly enviable.

"Strike!" Yaoguang shouted.

The moment Yaoguang and the Penglai Dao Lord arrived, he unleashed a Great Disintegration Technique without hesitation!

Its target was the divine race warship. At this point, they naturally had no time to worry about property damage.

At the same time, the Penglai Dao Lord invoked the Great Dao of origin, instantly forming a sea of origin that covered the starry sky. The vast power of origin seemed to transform the entire starry sky into a brilliant violet radiance.

In an instant, it spread across millions of kilometers, then expanded even faster, reaching hundreds of millions and then more than five hundred million kilometers. It seemed intent on enveloping the entire starry sky.

"Yaoguang! Penglai! You’re courting death!"

The instant the warship was destroyed, the six divine venerables inside appeared simultaneously. The Destruction Divine Venerable struck with a destruction Dao Technique, shattering most of the Great Disintegration Technique. The other divine venerables rushed out and immediately took up their respective positions.

Three of them joined the assault on Yaoguang and the Penglai Dao Lord. The Void Divine Venerable immediately began sealing the void, seemingly afraid that Yaoguang and the Penglai Dao Lord might escape.

Meanwhile, the Voidlight Divine Venerable brought out a Dao Artifact. The instant the Dao Artifact appeared, visible ripples spread through space. The ripples seemed almost tangible, rapidly forming array patterns.

With his attainments as a sixteenth-level array caster, Yaoguang identified it at a glance as a teleportation array. It was a teleportation array that used a Dao Artifact as its foundation and was inscribed directly on the artifact.

Anyone capable of accomplishing such a feat had to be a powerful Dao Lord accomplished in both artifact refinement and arrays. Calling such a person Unrivaled in Array and Artifacts would hardly be an exaggeration.

Unfortunately...

"I'll leave the four divine venerables, including the Destruction Divine Venerable, to you!" Yaoguang transmitted the message through his psychic thoughts as he reached out to the Voidlight Divine Venerable and clenched his hand.

A force powerful enough to almost strip the divine venerable of his control over the Great Dao of void descended upon him. The teleportation array, on the verge of completion in the Voidlight Divine Venerable's hands, visibly stalled.

The Voidlight Divine Venerable, busy activating the array, realized something was wrong. His face turned pale with horror and disbelief.

"The void power I control..." With a buzz, the void trembled, then collapsed. In the next instant, it triggered a terrifying chain reaction.

A cosmic catastrophe engulfed the area around the Voidlight Divine Venerable. It was like a terrifying void storm that instantly swallowed the divine venerable. Its force tore everything in its path apart, violently battering Voidlight's divine body.

The radiance of the top-tier Dao Artifacts and protective treasures that repeatedly appeared around him was completely crushed beneath the relentless storm of void annihilation.

"Voidlight?!" The Destruction Divine Venerable gave a low roar and fired a Three-Colored Destruction Divine Light straight at Yaoguang.

It was like a stellar annihilation cannon, an attack releasing as much energy as an entire star possessed.

The power contained within the Three-Colored Destruction Divine Light pierced through heaven and earth, illuminating the galaxies. If unleashed in full, it would completely destroy anything in its path, whether planets, stars, or even Primordial Voids.

Carried by the Great Dao of destruction, the attack's force could extend for hundreds of light-years, perhaps even more than a thousand.

In other words, anything directly in its path within a thousand light-years would be pierced and utterly annihilated by this single Dao Technique. But before this devastating attack could even reach Yaoguang, the sea of origin descended from the heavens and blocked its path.

Endless destructive power erupted from the Three-Colored Destruction Divine Light, rapidly evaporating and annihilating the vast sea of origin.

But before it could evaporate the entire sea of origin, even more origin power poured down, forcibly holding back the destructive might of the terrifying Dao Technique.

In the end, after clashing for nearly a breath of time, the Three-Colored Destruction Divine Light ultimately failed to pierce or evaporate the descending sea of origin. Its power was gradually worn away until nothing remained.

While the Destruction Divine Venerable and the Penglai Dao Lord remained locked in a stalemate, Yaoguang's figure flickered again, and he appeared before the Voidlight Divine Venerable. Another Great Disintegration Technique came crashing down.

"Watch out!" The Thunderbolt Divine Venerable roared. Light and destruction circulated through his hand, combining to form thunderbolts. While far from pure, they possessed the characteristics of both Dao. He hurled them at Yaoguang.

The thunderbolts tore through the void and transformed into a lightning sword. Roaring with thunderous power, it tore through everything in its path at nearly the speed of light. Its momentum was no less formidable than that of the Three-Colored Destruction Divine Light, and it had almost as much killing power.

The lightning sword crashed into Yaoguang with overwhelming force, yet he neither dodged nor retreated. It was like a giant wave crashing against a reef.

The radiant lightning sword shattered on impact, exploding into countless streaks of light that vanished into the starry sky.

Yaoguang himself did not move an inch. He simply continued pressing the Great Disintegration Technique toward the Voidlight Divine Venerable's divine body. As one life-saving treasure after another shattered, terror suddenly surged into the eyes of the divine venerable.

Void power, refined to the point that it felt like it would have absolute control over the void, erupted with overwhelming force. The Voidlight Divine Venerable forcibly seized control of a portion of the void power, intending to protect his body and escape this stretch of the starry sky.

Yaoguang sensed it for a moment. The degree of control over the void was barely inferior even to that of an ordinary immortal.

In other words, whether through a treasure's amplification or some life-saving secret technique, the Voidlight Divine Venerable had, for a moment, attained a level of control over the Great Dao comparable to an immortal.

With such fine control over the void, even if he found himself in the most perilous situation, sealed in by a powerful Dao Lord through Dao Techniques or Dao Artifacts, he could still escape.

Even facing someone wielding a semi-immortal artifact, he could have gotten away. Unfortunately, his opponent was Yaoguang! A freak with comprehension comparable to an immortal venerable!

The moment Yaoguang realized the Voidlight Divine Venerable was unleashing his full strength to escape, his control over the Great Dao of the void was likewise pushed to its absolute limit.

"Suppress!" With a low utterance, the void around the Voidlight Divine Venerable seemed to solidify completely.

The void power he had cultivated for forty thousand years seemed to cease functioning altogether. No matter how desperately the divine venerable struggled, he could not mobilize even the slightest trace of it.

It was as though he had fallen into an ocean that was completely stagnant and frozen solid. No matter how skilled a swimmer he was, he simply couldn't move.

"How is this possible..." Disbelief filled the eyes of this void Divine Venerable. For the first time, he felt as though everything he knew about the world had been overturned.

With a boom, the Great Disintegration Technique followed immediately, crashing down.

With one hand, Yaoguang seized the Dao Artifact that could open the void teleportation array. With the other, he gathered all the void power he had drawn upon into the Great Disintegration Technique and hurled it at the Voidlight Divine Venerable!

With every trace of void power except Yaoguang's own suppressed and frozen in place, the Voidlight Divine Venerable had no room left to resist.

"This is not a power that could possibly exist in the mortal world..."

Amid an almost despairing wail, the attack shattered both the divine body and the soul of the Voidlight Divine Venerable. They were reduced to nothingness amid the annihilation.

"Voidlight!" The Destruction Divine Venerable let out an anguished and furious roar.

The divine venerables of the Ten Divine Races were far more united than the fiend venerables of the Six Great Fiendish Dao Sects.

When a fiend venerable of the Six Great Fiendish Dao Sects fell, the others might even take pleasure in the death and think about how to claim the fallen one's territory for themselves.

But the Ten Divine Races could truly unify and act as one.

"Yaoguang! You’re courting death..." The Destruction Divine Venerable's Great Dao of destruction shook the starry sky.

Before he could change his target, the sea of origin drawn forth by the Penglai Dao Lord had already blocked him and the three other divine venerables beside him, including the Thunderbolt Divine Venerable. "I am your opponent!"

Elsewhere, after killing the Voidlight Divine Venerable, Yaoguang's figure flashed and appeared before the Void Divine Venerable. The Void Divine Venerable was still reeling from how quickly the Voidlight Divine Venerable had fallen.

Of the divine race's two void Dao Lords, the Voidlight Divine Venerable was the younger. Yet his attainments in the Great Dao of void had surpassed his senior's, and by now, his strength exceeded that of the Void Divine Venerable, who had cultivated at the Dao Integration Realm for seventy thousand years.

Within his divine kingdom, he was powerful enough to crush even renowned Dao Lords.

And yet, such a powerful divine venerable had been easily slain by Yaoguang! His various divine abilities and methods had seemingly been rendered completely ineffective before Yaoguang.

At first glance, it was almost as though he had deliberately held back and simply allowed Yaoguang to kill him...

The whole sequence had felt completely incomprehensible to the Void Divine Venerable, but that only lasted until he faced Yaoguang himself!

When Yaoguang used Void Flicker to appear before him, he could clearly feel the void power under his control bowing before Yaoguang! It was as though his citizens, who should have belonged to him, were welcoming their king's return.

Just facing Yaoguang had already weakened his strength considerably.

"How is this possible..." The Void Divine Venerable's pupils constricted sharply.

I thought the Ten Divine Races were responsible for luring me into action while the void Dao Lords hid in the shadows and waited for the right moment. But instead... Yaoguang glanced at the Dao Artifact he had seized. To keep me from noticing anything unusual, they actually split up into two locations and planned to use a teleportation array to connect them? They’re trying to play with a teleportation array in front of a level 16 array caster?!

The two were still connected telepathically, so the Penglai Dao Lord instantly understood him. Then let’s eliminate these six divine venerables first, and afterward kill the void Dao Lords who arrive!