530: Battle of the Great Sage

The boundary sea churned, and the myriad Dao wailed.

The Myriad Laws Great Sage, who emerged from the Shattered Realm calamity eye, first had a trace of the boundary sea's will, coldness, and indifference flash in his eyes.

Immediately, a spark of spiritual light was drawn from the depths of the river of time and injected into the saintly body, which was reshaped by endless calamity power.

The coldness in his eyes quickly receded, replaced by an ancient and majestic aura that overlooked all ages and controlled the universe.

He slightly raised his hand, feeling the ten superior Great Dao surging and roaring within him, as well as the vast Law power they commanded, and a satisfied smile curved his lips.

Nine million years! He, Wan Fa, finally stepped foot into this familiar boundary sea once again!

"To use an un-Saint body to stir the will of the boundary sea and summon me back... Junior, your existence is the best sacrifice for my return to this world!" The Myriad Laws Great Sage's gaze was like lightning, instantly locking onto Xiao Zhuo.

Without any superfluous words, he pointed his fingers like a sword and gently swiped.

"Buzz—!"

Ten divine chains of the superior Great Dao, each with a different color but all containing world-destroying power, appeared out of thin air, like ten roaring ancient Heavenly Dragons, intertwining into a net covering the Star Domain, strangling towards Xiao Zhuo.

This strike seemed simple, yet it contained the Myriad Laws Great Sage's ultimate understanding of the essence of the Great Dao. The ten superior Great Dao complemented each other, and their power was by no means a simple addition, but rather an exponential increase!

Wherever they passed, the boundary sea Void Realm was not shattered, but directly returned to a primal state of "nothingness"!

Facing this terrifying strike, Xiao Zhuo's pupils constricted, feeling an unprecedented pressure.

But his eyes were calm, without the slightest panic.

With a thought, the Great Dao of Time and Space runes around him instantly lit up to their extreme.

"Time and Space... 斷流 (Dislocation)!"

He let out a low roar, and the bixue in his hand, which had already reached Divine-Grade, slashed horizontally forward.

There was no earth-shattering explosion; the ten divine chains of the Great Dao, which were strangling towards him, suddenly slowed down infinitely when they were ten thousand miles in front of Xiao Zhuo, as if stuck in a quagmire. The terrifying Dao Principle fluctuations they contained were also stripped away and delayed layer by layer.

It was not that their power was weakened, but that the "time" and "space" they occupied were forcibly twisted and severed!

Taking advantage of this gap, Xiao Zhuo's figure flickered, as if existing simultaneously in countless spacetime fragments, easily avoiding the core strangulation area of the Great Dao divine chains.

That strike, which was enough to annihilate an ordinary Saint, ultimately only erased a afterimage he left behind and a large area of the Void Realm.

"The Great Dao of Time and Space... is indeed profound." A trace of surprise flashed in the Myriad Laws Great Sage's eyes, which was then replaced by more intense interest and killing intent, "But, how many times can you dodge?"

He formed hand seals, and ten brilliant great suns suddenly appeared behind him, each great sun manifested by a superior Great Dao!

Destruction, Slaughter, Creation, Stars, Thunder, Fate, Karma, Yin and Yang, Five Elements, Void Realm!

The ten great suns rotated, their light intertwining, transforming into a furnace that refined myriad Dao—the myriad laws grand furnace!

"Suppress!"

The furnace tilted, its opening aimed at Xiao Zhuo, and a heaven-devouring suction force emanated, not only intending to swallow Xiao Zhuo's Physical Body and Primordial Spirit, but also to absorb and refine all the great power he cultivated into the furnace!

Xiao Zhuo immediately felt that the time and space around him became viscous and solidified, and the surging power transmitted from the Zizai Realm seemed to be frozen.

He let out a long cry, his inner Zizai Realm roared, and the Dao rhyme of freedom and unfetteredness soared into the sky, forcibly opening up a "Domain of Absolute Freedom" belonging to himself.

"Myriad Laws are all void, my Dao is free and unfettered!"

He no longer dodged, but instead actively charged towards the myriad laws grand furnace.

The dark long saber in his hand swung, the saber light no longer simple slashes, but evolving into infinite changes.

Sometimes it transformed into the Chaos Divine Thunder that opened up heaven and earth, sometimes it turned into the creation life force that nourished all things silently, and the next moment it became the silent death light that eroded everything... With the The Way of Freedom as the core, all kinds of Great Dao were used at will, perfectly combined, erupting with power far exceeding the limit of a single Great Dao!

"Boom boom boom—!"

The saber light and the myriad laws grand furnace collided violently, Great Dao runes shattered in pieces, and dazzling light and destructive energy storms swept in all directions, causing the Saints watching from afar to be moved and retreat one after another.

"This child... can he wield the myriad Dao to such an extent with an un-Saint body?"

"The The Way of Freedom... Is this the fundamental Dao Principle he relies on for merging realms? It actually has such potential!"

"Fellow Daoist Wan Fa was resurrected by the will of the boundary sea. Although his strength is not as good as his peak, it far exceeds that of an ordinary Saint. For this child to be able to fight him to such an extent is simply inconceivable!"

In the battlefield, although Xiao Zhuo repeatedly resolved the Myriad Laws Great Sage's terrifying killing moves with the strangeness of the Great Dao of Time and Space and the inclusiveness of the The Way of Freedom, he was clearly at a disadvantage.

His saber light was constantly being ground down by the myriad laws grand furnace, and his surrounding Domain was also compressed. A trace of pale golden blood began to seep from the corner of his mouth.

After all, he had not yet truly become a Saint, and the Zizai Realm was still in the process of promotion. Although his foundation was deep, directly clashing with a resurrected veteran Great Sage was still strenuous.

The Myriad Laws Great Sage became more and more alarmed as he fought. He found that even though his power far surpassed the opponent's and he had a greater mastery of the Great Dao, he always had a feeling of having power but nowhere to use it.

Xiao Zhuo was like a slippery fish, shuttling through the cracks of time and space, always avoiding fatal attacks at the last moment, and his occasional counterattack angles were extremely tricky. The Great Dao combination techniques he used were even unheard of, forcing him to divide his attention to deal with them.

"Above the myriad Dao, Time and Space is king, it's truly not false! But this Saint doesn't believe how long your power can last!" The Myriad Laws Great Sage roared, his offensive becoming even more violent. He operated the ten superior Great Dao to their extreme, unleashing various long-lost ancient Divine Abilities one after another, turning hundreds of millions of miles of the boundary sea into a forbidden zone of Dao annihilation.

Xiao Zhuo responded in silence, only pushing the Great Dao of Time and Space and the The Way of Freedom to their limits. His Divine Abilities had all been perfectly integrated into the Spirit Group structure, and the power unleashed, though still a gap compared to a Great Sage, was not significant.

His figure constantly flickered between reality and illusion, past and future, and nine out of ten of the Myriad Laws Great Sage's attacks fell into empty space.

He was stalling, adapting, and even using the immense pressure brought by the Myriad Laws Great Sage to accelerate the final promotion of the Zizai Realm and temper his own Great Dao.

This world-shaking battle did not end quickly like ordinary Cultivator duels, but instead fell into a strange stalemate.

One year, two years, three years... Time seemed to lose its meaning in the boundary sea.

Just as Xiao Zhuo and the Myriad Laws Great Sage were engaged in a ten-year tug-of-war in the depths of the boundary sea, the forgotten cage in the Dark Realm interlayer near the Immortal-Demon Realm finally saw a change.

"Boom crack—!!!"

A terrifying impact, condensed with the power of Time and Space and the aftershocks of the wan fa (myriad laws), just happened to sweep across the Dark Realm interlayer.

The incredibly sturdy barrier, which had trapped the Saints of the Immortal-Demon Realm for millions of years, shattered with a sound, revealing a huge hole.

"Hahaha! Heaven does not abandon me! The barrier is broken!"

"A million years! A whole million years! We are finally free!"

"Quick! Return to the Immortal-Demon Realm and reclaim our saint position!"

More than a dozen figures, exuding both excitement and weakness, rushed out of the hole, scrambling.

These were the Saints of the Immortal-Demon Realm who were trapped in the Dark Realm interlayer by Hao Duo's scheme back then—Cangwu Heavenly Venerate, Hanhai Heavenly Venerate, Leiji Heavenly Venerate, Taiwa Heavenly Venerate, Taihuang Heavenly Venerate, Yishi Saint Buddha, Wanxian Saint Buddha... and more than a dozen other ancient existences who once held the Heavenly Dao authority of the Immortal-Demon Realm.

However, before the wild joy on their faces had faded, a terrifying pressure, cold, dead, and full of forbidden aura, descended like billions of ancient divine mountains, firmly locking onto all of them.

"Heh heh, I didn't expect you old things to actually escape! That's good! Just in time to devour you all!"

Ripples spread in the Void Realm, and Hao Duo, wearing a nine-Dragon crown and a black imperial robe, slowly walked out.

A playful and cruel smile hung on his lips as he surveyed these dozen former opponents, whose aura was decaying and whose saint position halos had long since dimmed, as if looking at a group of lambs to be slaughtered.