On the Path to the Great Dao

The Celestial Venerable's chest shimmered with radiant light, steaming and churning, corresponding precisely to the great Dao radiance within the Tai Chi Dim Sky. Wu Qi's strike had hit his heart, yet it was blocked by the Celestial Venerable's Dao patterns acting on their own, which meant his comprehension of this great Dao radiance had reached perfection.

But the Celestial Venerable was also startled, feeling a dull ache in his chest.

If not for his quick reaction, Wu Qi's strike would have already claimed his life.

The two clashed at lightning speed. The Celestial Venerable had to dodge the radiant light of the Yin Yang Qi Bottle while simultaneously engaging Wu Qi in direct combat. Even with the Wilderness Bright Dao Collection being an extremely profound immortal technique, he still appeared somewhat flustered.

He did not fear Wu Qi in the slightest; it was only the Yin Yang Qi Bottle that terrified him.

This treasure was even more powerful than last time, with no flaws whatsoever in its Dao techniques. It was only because Wu Qi's cultivation was far inferior to his that he could escape the bottle's coverage. Had Wu Qi's cultivation been even a fraction higher, he feared he would have been refined to death within the sea of fire.

Therefore, he would absolutely never fall into the radiant light of the Yin Yang Qi Bottle a second time.

Wu Qi's greatest strength lay in his explosive power in physical combat. In the battle at the Great Shang Celestial Court, the force unleashed by his final strike had obliterated the Celestial Venerable, blasting him from the celestial court all the way to the moon, its might savage beyond compare.

His close-quarters combat was such that even the Celestial Venerable dared not take a direct hit with his physical body.

The Celestial Venerable's vision went black for an instant, and Wu Qi descended from above, plummeting down from his Dao Realm. His five fingers splayed wide, and countless golden swords flew forth, spinning and slashing, piercing straight toward the Celestial Venerable's eyes!

The flaw in the second move lay precisely in the sun and moon of the Tai Chi Dim Sky, for the sun and moon corresponded to the Celestial Venerable's eyes!

The Celestial Venerable looked up, Dao patterns swirling within his pupils, forming a strange formation. Thick divine light blasted outward, shattering Wu Qi's divine ability to pieces!

Wu Qi dodged aside, and saw two thick beams of divine light punch through the sky above Despair Slope, blasting two enormous holes a hundred li across into the heavens, which took a long time to heal.

By the time Wu Qi steadied himself, the sun and moon within the Celestial Venerable's Dao Realm had already been restored to their original state.

Chen Shi frowned again. The second flaw was not a flaw either.

Or rather, there was a flaw, but its window was too brief. Given the Celestial Venerable's reaction speed, they simply could not seize that momentary opening.

"His comprehension of Yin and Yang energies, though inferior to mine, is still extremely high," Chen Shi thought to himself.

Neither the Celestial Venerable nor he could match the Yin Yang Qi Bottle in their understanding of Yin and Yang energies, which was precisely why the Celestial Venerable found it so difficult to escape the bottle. If it were Chen Shi in his place, he too would be unable to escape it.

"Five more moves remaining," Chen Shi said inwardly.

He glanced at Chen Yindu in the distance, thinking, "I wonder if Grandpa can calculate where the Celestial Venerable's Dao Unification world is truly hidden?"

Chen Yindu's main purpose in coming here, aside from searching for the Celestial Venerable's flaws, was to use the way the Celestial Venerable deployed his Dao Realm in this battle to locate the true position of his Dao Unification site.

If one could discover the location of his Dao Unification site, destroying his Dao Realm would be destroying his cultivation, knocking his cultivation realm down a peg.

Killing him afterward would become much easier.

It was precisely for this reason that immortals would hide the true location of their Dao Realms. Even in life-or-death combat, they would only temporarily summon their Dao Realm, then conceal it again after use.

Only deities like the Empress of Earth, who governed everything above and below the earth, could discern the locations of immortals' Dao Realms.

At this moment, Wu Qi's third killing move had already been unleashed. The Yin Yang Qi Bottle swept through the starry sky of the Celestial Venerable's Dao Realm, and the Celestial Venerable immediately felt his mind grow foggy. Wu Qi closed in and pressed a finger against his brow.

The Celestial Venerable laughed heartily. A surge of starlight burst forth from his brow, like a resplendent starry sky, causing Wu Qi's certain-kill strike to seem as if it were piercing into empty space, unable to harm him in the slightest.

"The third flaw is not a flaw either."

Chen Shi watched this scene from afar, calculating the time from Wu Qi destroying the starry sky of the Celestial Venerable's Dao Realm to the Celestial Venerable's reaction, then gently shook his head. No one could seize that instantaneous opening to strike down the Celestial Venerable.

"Four more remain."

He steeled himself and continued watching.

In the distance, Chen Yindu's attention was no longer on the Celestial Venerable himself, but fixed upon his Tai Chi Dim Sky, determining its precise location.

The battle between the Celestial Venerable and Wu Qi grew ever more intense. The fourth flaw was quickly verified, and it too was not a true flaw. Then the fifth move was also verified, and it likewise was not a flaw.

At the Jade Qiong Pavilion of the Celestial Way Academy, Yang Bi was somewhat flustered. That same fear he had felt in the Upper Realm when facing Feng Ruotong had resurfaced in his heart.

Back then, Feng Ruotong had single-handedly charged into the Upper Realm, facing nearly two thousand god-like deities of immense power. Feng Ruotong had held a single branch of peach blossoms, and wherever the blossoms bloomed, the petals danced in the wind. In a short span of time, they had filled the boundless Upper Realm, transforming into an unparalleled killing technique.

Feng Ruotong had gone on a slaughtering spree amidst the sea of flowers, cutting down the ancestral gods of the Thirteen Great Clans one by one, scattering all their immortal artifacts, killing the ancestral masters of the Thirteen Great Clans who were merely half a step from the immortal realm, and annihilating the entire Upper Realm single-handedly.

At that time, a feeling of insurmountable despair and terror had risen in Yang Bi's heart.

Now, that feeling had come rushing back, pressing down upon his mind, making his heart pound violently. The sound of his heartbeat echoed in his ears like rolling thunder.

His mouth went dry, and he stared wide-eyed at the battle between the Celestial Venerable and Wu Qi, suddenly desperate for a drink of water.

His eyes were growing dry as well. He forced himself to glance to the side and saw Li Tianqing beside him, also staring unblinkingly at the Celestial Venerable, observing his every move, cold sweat streaming down his forehead.

Their focal points were different. Yang Bi primarily observed whether there were flaws in the Celestial Venerable's Dao techniques and divine abilities. His comprehension of Dao techniques was extremely strong; he was the number one genius selected by the Thirteen Great Clans over several thousand years. If there were flaws in the Celestial Venerable's Dao techniques, they could not escape his notice.

Li Tianqing primarily observed the Celestial Venerable's temperament and habits, searching for flaws in his personality and character from his behavior.

His observations were meticulous and penetrating, often catching details that others overlooked, perfectly complementing Yang Bi.

However, even though he had discovered many flaws in the Celestial Venerable's personality and character, he found them useless.

Completely useless!

Because in the face of the Celestial Venerable's overwhelming strength, flaws in personality and character meant absolutely nothing!

"The sixth flaw is not a flaw either." Yang Bi's eyelid twitched.

Only one remained.

Of the seven possible flaws they had calculated, only the last one was left. If even this final flaw had been perfected by the Celestial Venerable, then even the smartest people of the Western Ox New Continent could never find the Celestial Venerable's weakness!

The only path remaining was to become stronger than the Celestial Venerable and kill him with absolute force!

But that was extraordinarily difficult!

Finally, Wu Qi once again charged into the Celestial Venerable's Dao Realm. This flaw had been proposed by Chen Yindu.

Chen Yindu had said, "The Empress of Earth can accurately locate the Dao Realms of immortals in the Earth Immortal Realm and open a path for Blue Goat to steal the deathless elixir. Does this mean that even for immortals who have transcended reincarnation, their Dao Realms contain the Way of Earthly Spirits, under the dominion of the Empress of Earth? Within the Celestial Venerable's Wilderness Bright Dao Collection, is there a Way of Earthly Spirits?"

Wu Qi activated the Yin Yang Qi Bottle. Within the bottle, a mass of Yin energy transformed into towering seas of water, cascading down and merging with the waters of the seas, rivers, and lakes of the Tai Chi Dim Sky, stirring up the winds and clouds!

The Celestial Venerable's aura shook violently, and he could no longer steady himself. His face changed drastically.

Wu Qi's spirit soared. He descended from the heavens, making straight for the Celestial Venerable!

His momentum grew stronger and stronger. Behind him, his Primordial Spirit emerged, and the shamanic ritual markings of the various races of the Great Shang Era transformed into ten thousand kinds of Dao power, converging upon his fist!

When this punch was thrown, the space of Despair Slope shifted forward levelly. Before it even landed, the Cloud Barrier behind the Celestial Venerable exploded with a deafening blast!

Chen Shi rose to his feet, his heart surging with emotion.

Yang Bi and Li Tianqing also scrambled to their feet. Li Tianqing stumbled, nearly falling off the pavilion top, and hastily grabbed hold of the rooftop ridge ornament.

Everyone was seized with excitement, staring unblinkingly at this scene.

The Celestial Venerable finally had a flaw!

The seventh flaw was a true flaw!

Facing this strike from Wu Qi, the Celestial Venerable also felt a tremor in his heart. This strike was the very technique that had shattered him all those years ago, incomparably ferocious and overbearing!

When he faced this strike once more, he could not help but feel a trace of fear.

He let out a great cry, and behind him emerged a magnificent Primordial Spirit.

His Primordial Spirit blazed with resplendent divine light, displaying the full glory of a Gold Immortal. But the next moment, the Gold Immortal Primordial Spirit turned around, revealing another face on its back.

His Primordial Spirit also had a face on the back of its head. Its arms twisted backward, contorting in reverse, and then the Primordial Spirit's muscles, bones, skin, and flesh all began to flip, front becoming back, back becoming front.

"Damn it!" Li Tianqing's face changed drastically.

He recalled the demonic domain of the underworld.

At that time, at Chen Shi's invitation, he had come to the demonic domain and calculated that the ratio of Yin energy to demonic miasma was twenty-seven to seventy-three. Yin energy accounted for twenty-seven, demonic miasma for seventy-three. And the demonic miasma had been formed by the dissolution of the Celestial Venerable's Primordial Spirit!

"In other words, the Wilderness Bright Dao Collection passed down by the Celestial Venerable is incomplete, possessing another side! This cultivation technique is divided into two aspects, immortal and demonic!"

Just as this thought crossed his mind, demonic miasma erupted from within the Celestial Venerable's body, covering up the seventh flaw as he met Wu Qi's unparalleled strike head-on!

"BOOM—"

Dazzling light exploded from the point of impact between the two combatants, expanding outward.

At the same moment, Chen Yindu rose and departed from his fairy mountain, walking toward the Recreate Heaven-and-Earth Furnace.

Yang Bi also stood up. Together with Li Tianqing, they braced against the shockwave of this strike. Without a word, the two left the Jade Qiong Pavilion, following Chen Yindu as they flew toward the Cloud Barrier.

As if by mutual understanding, they rose and departed at the same time.

They had already verified these seven flaws and knew in their hearts that there was no possibility of finding the Celestial Venerable's weakness any longer, so they immediately rose and left, preserving their valuable lives.

"Little Ten, let's go!"

Chen Yindu saw that Chen Shi was still sitting on that fairy mountain, staring intently at Wu Qi and the Celestial Venerable, and couldn't help but frown. "There's no need to keep watching. Wu Qi cannot help you find the Celestial Venerable's true flaw. We need to leave."

Chen Shi remained seated on that fairy mountain, deaf to his call.

"None of you are leaving!"

The Celestial Venerable had now fully demonized, manifesting his demonic Primordial Spirit. He actually engaged Wu Qi in close-quarters combat, meeting force with force.

The sky suddenly turned a bloody red. Countless masses of flesh covered the heavens above Despair Slope, spreading at terrifying speed, descending along the dome of the sky in all directions, gradually enveloping this world.

Despair Slope was a void world created by the Shang King and his eighteen court ministers, which had never been invaded by Demonic Energy. But now, as these writhing masses of flesh came surging in, covering Despair Slope, Demonic Energy invaded. The first things to be polluted were the spiritual energy of heaven and earth in Despair Slope, followed by one fairy mountain after another!

Within Despair Slope were one hundred and eight fairy mountains, upon which dwelt nearly a hundred Celestial Way Walkers. They had cultivated to the half-immortal realm but could never achieve Dao Unification. Originally, within Despair Slope, they had no need to worry about the curse, but now even the spiritual energy of Despair Slope was being polluted. They felt Demonic Energy invading their bodies, invading their Realms of Emptiness, and the demonic nature within them began to stir restlessly.

On some, fine long hairs sprouted from their faces and heads, dancing wildly in the air as if possessed of their own will.

Others felt an itch in their rear ends. When they scratched it, they saw that a bony tail had already grown behind them.

"Steady your minds! Don't let the Demonic Energy invade! Suppress your own demonic nature!"

From atop one fairy mountain, a Celestial Way Walker shouted, warning the others. But then he burst into laughter, crying out, "Ah, I have achieved enlightenment!"

He laughed uproariously, shedding his clothes and human skin, soaring into the air. He spread a thousand-li expanse of fleshy wings and took flight, flapping through the sky.

And Li Dao Spring, which had always dripped the purest spiritual liquid, was now also polluted by the Demonic Energy. The Dao spring was no longer pure.

Chen Yindu flew to the side of the Recreate Heaven-and-Earth Furnace and struck the great furnace heavily with his hand. One by one, the complex talisman Dao patterns on its surface were lit up by his boundless magical power as he roared, "Little Ten, let's go!"

This furnace, which even Little Duan Immortal could not lift, was easily raised by him. The furnace opened, and the black Phoenix Profound Flame within poured out, burning toward the masses of flesh surging in from all directions.

Chen Yindu let out a thunderous bellow. His body expanded section by section, and strips of Locking Dragon Whip wrapped around the furnace, binding it to his back. He charged forward with all his might, shouting, "Follow me!"

Li Tianqing and Yang Bi hastily followed him.

And on the fairy mountain, Chen Shi hesitated, gazing with lingering reluctance at Wu Qi and the Celestial Venerable still locked in battle. He gritted his teeth hard, then turned and chased after Chen Yindu.

The boundless mass of flesh, as if possessing intelligence, suddenly writhed and transformed into a colossal hand, descending from the sky to grab at them!

Chen Yindu activated the Recreate Heaven-and-Earth Furnace. Flames surged skyward from within the furnace, blocking that massive flesh hand.

In the air, countless tendrils of flesh descended from above. Chen Yindu ran through a barrage of attacks, a sea of fire rolling upward from the furnace, burning through the tendrils and snapping them apart one by one.

In the sky, the flesh transformed into the Celestial Venerable's visage, blotting out the sky and covering the sun. It opened a massive mouth to swallow them whole.

Suddenly, from within the Recreate Heaven-and-Earth Furnace, countless Creation Little Fives came flying out along the flames, pouncing upon the visage descending from the sky. They opened their mouths and bit down, and in a short span of time, they gnawed that face full of holes.

"Shh, shh, shh!"

Tendrils of flesh crisscrossed and interwove in every direction, piercing through Creation Little Five after Creation Little Five.

The tips of those flesh tendrils suddenly began to writhe, growing into one Celestial Venerable after another, wearing eerie smiles as they leapt and bounded after Chen Yindu.

Chen Shi, Yang Bi, and Li Tianqing leaped onto the Recreate Heaven-and-Earth Furnace, each activating their Dao techniques and divine abilities, cutting down Celestial Venerable after Celestial Venerable.

From within the Recreate Heaven-and-Earth Furnace, an endless stream of Creation Little Fives continued to fly out, battling the Celestial Venerables. Bodies from both sides rained down like a storm.

Chen Yindu transformed into an ancient giant, striding forward at a full sprint. With a thunderous boom, he smashed through the Cloud Barrier. Leaping and bounding, he crashed through the Welcome Immortal Pavilion with a deafening bang. Then he bowed deeply, and the black flames within the Recreate Heaven-and-Earth Furnace behind him burst forth, burning through the flesh on the sky ahead and revealing the path by which they had come.

He leaped, carrying the Recreate Heaven-and-Earth Furnace as he jumped out of Despair Slope.

Behind him, countless masses of flesh transformed into giant hands, all reaching out to grab him. Chen Yindu raised his hand and struck forward. The broken bridge in Tiandao City collapsed under the force of his palm strike.

The sole gateway of Despair Slope slammed shut with a thunderous boom, sealing those masses of flesh within.

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