257: Chapter 226 Is History Going to Repeat Itself?

"Mu Qingxue, seal off that space! Don't let a single shred of the Lightning Tribulation's aftershocks seep into the Formation Plate!"

Cold Moon's voice echoed within the Law space, carrying the supreme majesty of the Nanyu Empress. At this moment, she automatically assumed the responsibility of coordinating the entire situation.

"Understood!"

Mu Qingxue gave a cold shout, her white robes snapping loudly in the violent lightning-charged winds.

Her hands rapidly formed seals, and the [ice soul concentration tassel] tied to her sword hilt erupted with a blinding, ghostly blue light.

With Mu Qingxue as the center, an extreme cold wave capable of freezing time surged into the sky, transforming into a massive semi-spherical ice dome that clamped down firmly over Su Lin and the yin-yang formation bed.

That ice dome was no ordinary Mystic Ice, but was condensed from the Ice Law of the Middle Stage Mahayana. Within the layers of ice, one could even see tiny cracks caused by the freezing of space itself.

In mid-air, Su Ling was engaged in the most brutal head-on clash with that chaotic lightning pillar.

"Aaaaah! Shatter for me!!!"

The webbing of Su Ling's hands had completely split open. Blood flowed down the hilt of the [no edge] great sword, only to be instantly evaporated into a bloody mist by the high temperature of the lightning.

That silver-black chaotic lightning pillar was as heavy as ten thousand tons. Every time it pressed down, it caused the bones throughout Su Ling's body to emit a series of overburdened explosive pops.

"Second Senior Sister, step back! Let me!"

Luo Ximei stepped into the Void Realm, the Thousand-Handed Demon God Manifestation behind her already swelling to thousands of feet in height.

Within her platinum-colored right eye, the True Immortal Origin and the Demonic Path Origin burned frantically. Two diametrically opposed forces were crushed and compressed in her palm, turning into a black-and-white sphere of light the size of a fist.

The light sphere shot out, transforming into a black-and-white pillar of light that pierced through heaven and earth, slamming violently into the side of the chaotic lightning pillar.

A violent explosion erupted in mid-air. The chaotic lightning pillar was knocked slightly askew by this powerful impact. Su Ling seized the opportunity to take a sharp, ragged breath, her arms exerting force once more as she forcefully pushed the lightning pillar up several feet!

"Beautifully done, Fifth Sister!"

Su Ling spat out a mouthful of bloody foam and grinned wildly. "The lightning from this thieving Heaven actually feels pretty good when it hits the body!"

"Stop joking around! This is just the first appetizer!"

Luo Ximei's face was pale. Forcibly activating the True Immortal Origin had a massive backlash, and a trace of shocking black blood already seeped from the corner of her mouth.

"Senior Sisters, open your mouths!"

Below, Chu Weiwei did not fly into the high sky.

She knew full well she wasn't suited for resisting the heavenly might head-on, but as the Medicine Immortal, she had her own battlefield.

Her hands danced like fluttering butterflies as dozens of jade bottles shattered simultaneously in mid-air.

Under her spiritual power control, medicinal liquids of various colors transformed into clumps of dense spiritual rain, accurately falling onto Su Ling, Luo Ximei, and Mu Qingxue.

"This is a mixture of [Nine Deaths Soul Returning Mist] and [Overlord Vein Protecting Powder]!

As long as you still have a single breath left, this medicine can forcibly hang onto your lives!"

Chu Weiwei's eyes were bloodshot. While frantically concocting various potent medicines, she stared fixedly at Su Lin in the center of the Formation Plate.

"Revered Master... you must wake up quickly..."

On the outermost perimeter beyond the ice dome, Ye You transformed into a sky full of dark green demon vines.

Those thick vines did not attack the Lightning Tribulation. Instead, like a massive filter, they rooted themselves firmly in the Void Realm, frantically devouring the destructive energy scattered by the exploding Lightning Tribulation.

"Hiss—so full... so hot..."

Ye You's vine Origin constantly withered and snapped under the burning of the heavenly lightning, but relying on the unreasonable devouring talent of the [Abyssal Devouring] clan, she forced it to convert into demon power, stubbornly holding back the energy storm on the periphery.

The six peerless female cultivators cast aside all their internal schemes at this moment.

With their own flesh and blood, and the world-shaking abilities they had cultivated throughout their lives, they built a wall of sighs called 'bonds' above Su Lin's head.

However, when has the Heavenly Dao ever known mercy?

Above the firmament, that massive, torn eye seemed to be completely enraged by the stubborn resistance of these few ants.

From deep within the clouds came a terrifying sound, like a millstone crushing the world.

This time, no lightning fell.

Instead, that massive Eye of the Heavenly Dao slowly and coldly blinked once.

The moment it blinked, the wind between heaven and earth stopped.

The thunder also vanished.

An absolute dead silence enveloped the entire Law space of the Ethereal Immortal Mansion.

"What's going on?"

Su Ling shouldered her great sword, looking around uncertainly. "Where's the lightning? Has this thieving Heaven gone soft?"

"Shut up, Second Senior Sister! Something's wrong!"

Cold Moon suddenly looked up, her golden eyes staring fixedly at the high sky. The Imperial Dao Dragon Qi on her body was actually trembling uncontrollably.

From within that massive Eye of the Heavenly Dao, a silver liquid as thick as mercury slowly flowed out.

These liquids gathered in mid-air, gradually outlining a humanoid silhouette.

No facial features, no hair.

Only a silver body condensed from pure Heavenly Dao Laws.

It held a silver longsword and had a pair of wings woven from chains of order on its back.

An heavenly dao incarnation!

A dimensional pressure that reigned supreme over all living beings in this world descended with a crash!

Boom!

Su Ling, who was the first to be hit, didn't even have time to react before she was smashed directly from the high sky by this invisible pressure, crashing heavily onto Mu Qingxue's ice dome.

Su Ling spat out a mouthful of blood. She discovered in horror that her Mahayana Stage Physical Body, which could even withstand Immortal Artifacts, was actually emitting cracking sounds under this pressure!

"It... it's not made of spiritual power..."

Su Ling struggled to prop up her body, her eyes filled with disbelief. "This is... pure rules! It is negating my very existence!"

The heavenly dao incarnation had no emotional fluctuations. It slowly raised the silver longsword in its hand, the tip of the blade pointing distantly at Su Lin beneath the ice dome.

"Anomaly."

A mechanical voice without inflection or discernible gender rang out directly in everyone's minds.

"Erase."

The moment the words fell, the heavenly dao incarnation vanished.

"Block it!!!"

Cold Moon let out a hysterical scream. Nine imperial golden dragons roared out from her body, charging toward the silver figure that had suddenly appeared above the ice dome.

Luo Ximei's Thousand-Handed Demon God and Ye You's Heaven-Swallowing Demon Vines also erupted in a counterattack at the same time.

However, the gap was too large.

The silver sword in the hand of the Heavenly Dao Incarnation gave a gentle sweep.

No Sword Qi, no energy collision.

Half of Cold Moon's nine golden dragons were instantly erased. Cold Moon felt as if she had been struck by lightning; blood flowed from her seven orifices as she collapsed weakly to the ground.

Luo Ximei's Thousand-Handed Demon God was swept by that silver light, and its Devilish Qi was directly reverted to the most primal nothingness. She gave a muffled groan, and her platinum-colored right eye instantly burst, blood flowing freely.

Ye You's sky full of demon vines, upon contact with the silver sword, had all their life Laws severed, withering into a ground full of flying ash.

Utterly fragile.

Before the Incarnation sent down by the Heavenly Dao itself, even if they were peerless prodigies of the Mahayana Stage, they were as fragile as three-year-old children.

Crack...

Mu Qingxue's ice dome, which claimed to be an absolute defense, lasted only half a breath under the feet of the Heavenly Dao Incarnation before turning into a sky full of ice shards.

The silver figure slowly descended to the edge of the yin-yang formation bed.

It raised its sword, aiming it at Su Lin, who still sat cross-legged with his eyes tightly shut.

"Revered Master!!!"

The five blood-soaked women let out cries of despair.

They struggled to crawl over, wanting to use their own bodies to block that sword strike, but the Heavenly Dao pressure pinned them firmly to the ground, making even moving a single finger a luxury.

"It is over."

The mechanical voice rang out again. The silver longsword, carrying irreversible rule power, stabbed straight toward Su Lin's heart.

At this moment, the ice dome shattered, and all Laws became empty.

The silver longsword, carrying irreversible rule power, stabbed straight toward Su Lin's heart.

The tip of the sword was only an inch away from Su Lin's chest.

"No... don't..."

Cold Moon lay paralyzed at the edge of the shattered Formation Plate. The backlash from the erasure of her nine imperial golden dragons caused golden blood to constantly seep from her seven orifices.

This Empress, who ruled the Nanyu Divine Dynasty and stood high above, now reached out a trembling, blood-stained hand, her nails digging hard into the black stone ground, yet she could not move forward even half a step.

Despair.

A suffocating despair, darker than the abyss, submerged her and all the sisters present like a tide.

Su Ling's proud Mahayana Stage Physical Body was under the Heavenly Dao pressure, and those red eyes that always burned with unyielding fire were now shrinking violently due to extreme fear and grief.

"Why... why is it like this..."

Luo Ximei, blind in one eye, stared fixedly at the silver sword about to pierce her Revered Master's heart. Her Divine Soul was trembling, and her Dao Heart was collapsing.

The six most supreme prodigies of the current age, six great powers who could each intimidate an entire continent, were now united, yet they couldn't even manage to block this Heavenly Dao Incarnation for a single breath.

Incapable of taking a single blow.

It was truly like children facing an insurmountable deity.

Only at this moment, looking at that cold and heartless silver Incarnation with no facial features and only pure erasure rules, did a truth buried for a hundred years explode in their minds.

A hundred years ago, in that world-shattering catastrophe, what kind of existence did Revered Master actually face?

So, this was the Heavenly Dao!

So, this was the great terror that forced Revered Master back then to use his power and sacrifice his Divine Soul in a self-detonation just to barely tear open a path of survival for them!

"Was Revered Master... all alone back then, facing this kind of thing?"

Mu Qingxue's tears mixed with blood as they fell. Her frozen heart was ground to dust at this moment.

No wonder... no wonder Revered Master lost back then.

This kind of power that simply didn't follow logic and negated your existence directly from a dimensional level was not something a Mortal, or even a Mahayana Stage Cultivator, could contend with!

Luo Ximei used her remaining left eye to look at Su Lin's calm face, a desperate, miserable laugh leaking from her ragged throat.

"I thought we had become stronger... I thought we finally had the right to stand before Revered Master and block all the wind and rain for him..."

"It turns out we are still so weak... so weak that we don't even have the right to die with him..."

Once again.

History was going to repeat itself.

They had exhausted all their strength, endured a hundred years of suffering, and paid a price unimaginable to ordinary people to climb to the peak of this world, only to end up just like a hundred years ago—like a group of useless trash, watching helplessly as Revered Master died before them!

"I don't want this!!!"

Cold Moon let out a scream of extreme anguish. She tried to detonate the remaining Empress Dao Fruit within her body, wanting to turn into even a sliver of wind just to blow that silver sword slightly off course.

But the Heavenly Dao's pressure pinned them firmly in frozen time.

There was no miracle.

There was no resistance.

Only that silver sword, mercilessly stabbing toward Su Lin's heart.

However.

At the very one-ten-millionth of a split second before the sword tip could pierce Su Lin's skin.

Time seemed to be forcibly severed at this moment by some even higher Law.

"Ding."

An extremely crisp, extremely subtle sound of impact, yet one that seemed to ring in the depths of everyone's Soul, rippled through the dead silence of the void.

That silver longsword, representing the highest erasure will of this world, stopped.

It did not pierce into Su Lin's chest.

Instead, it struck an invisible, intangible 'crystal wall' that even the Heavenly Dao could not comprehend!

"Hmm?"

On the featureless face of the Heavenly Dao Incarnation, a trace of extremely human-like confusion seemed to flash.

It tried to increase its power, and blinding rule lightning erupted from the silver sword, wanting to forcibly pierce through this obstacle.

But it was useless.

That crystal wall was like a bronze wall from another dimension; no matter how much pressure it applied, it remained motionless.

The perspective cut into Su Lin's body.

Amidst the desperate roars of the outside world and the erasure of the Heavenly Dao, Su Lin's Dantian Qi Sea was undergoing a world-creating upheaval!

The Primordial Spirit that originally hovered in the center of the Qi Sea had completely disappeared, replaced now by a vast and boundless starry sky!

The [Myriad Heavens Star Chart], after fusing with the three [world cores], was no longer just a Magic Treasure, but had completely merged with Su Lin's Physical Body and Divine Soul, becoming his 'Inner World.'

And most crucial was that gray walnut obtained at the highest point of the [Treasure Bestowal Pavilion]—the World Seed.

Under the extreme death pressure brought by the external Heavenly Dao Incarnation, and the irrigation of the chaotic Origin produced by the collision of his six disciples' unreserved feminine spiritual power with Su Lin's own Pure Yang Fire...

That seed, which had been dead for untold millions of years, finally cracked open a sliver of a gap.

"Pop."

A soft sound, like the beginning of the world, echoed within Su Lin's internal Universe.

An extremely tender emerald sprout, yet one emitting an aura of infinite creation, emerged from the seed.

The sprout grew rapidly as the wind blew!

Its roots dug frantically downward, completely combining with the star sea of the [Myriad Heavens Star Chart] and absorbing endless Star Power; its branches extended upward, piercing through Su Lin's extraordinary meridians.

It propped up a sky and stabilized a land.

Su Lin finally understood where his true path to the Mahayana Stage actually led.