546: Chapter 546 A True Immortal's Finger, Severing the Flow of the Galaxy

The collapse of the fleet came faster and more thoroughly than Saint Lord Xuan Lei had anticipated.

That pillar of gray light piercing through the starry Universe had not only erased nearly forty thousand warships.

It was more like an invisible heavy hammer, shattering the Dao Hearts of all the Cultivators on the remaining sixty thousand warships.

The so-called allied army of a hundred thousand, the so-called majesty of the Tian Yuan Divine Hall...

After witnessing that terrifying power, which could only be described as a natural disaster, it all became a complete joke.

"A devil! That's a devil's weapon!"

"Run! Run back! Get out of this hellhole!"

"I don't want to die... I have an eight-hundred-year-old mother above me and a child who just reached Foundation Establishment below..."

In the communication channels, cries, screams, and various chaotic alarms of overloaded Formations mixed together.

Formations and military orders were fragile and powerless in the face of the instinct for survival.

Countless warships ignored their allies and forcibly turned around.

They even collided with each other, all just to be the first to escape this Star Domain shrouded in the shadow of death.

The ship spirit of the Chaos Dao Palace faithfully executed Shen Yuanmo's orders.

"Hunting Mode, activated."

A cold mechanical voice echoed throughout the Dao Palace.

The pavilions and terraces that originally served as palace decorations now bloomed like lotus flowers, revealing the secondary battery arrays hidden beneath.

These secondary batteries were all killing weapons modified by Shen Yuanmo after absorbing the technology of the Heavenly Meteor immortal ship.

Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!

Thousands of thin gray light beams, like the scythes of the Grim Reaper, accurately wove through the chaotic fleet.

With every flicker, a warship's power core was inevitably pierced with precision, and it then turned into a brilliant firework in a chain explosion.

This was not a war, but a one-sided slaughter.

The Chaos Dao Palace did not pursue; it just floated quietly in place, elegantly and cruelly harvesting those ants who had once offended it.

Saint Lord Xuan Lei's face was ashen. His flagship, the Xuan Lei, was one of the strongest fortresses in the entire allied army.

But at this moment, he couldn't feel the slightest sense of security.

Through the Profundity Light Mirror, he watched his fleet being picked off one by one like a flock of sheep driven by a shepherd, and his Dao Heart was crumbling inch by inch.

He had lost.

He had lost utterly.

From the very beginning, this had been a wrong decision.

He shouldn't have come, the Tian Yuan Divine Hall shouldn't have come, and no one in this Star Domain should have coveted that palace.

"Saint Lord! We must retreat quickly! If we don't leave now, it will be too late!"

The lieutenant general rushed into the command room, crawling and stumbling, his face covered in tears and snot.

Saint Lord Xuan Lei turned his head abruptly, his eyes bloodshot, looking like a madman.

"Retreat? Retreat to where?!"

He grabbed the lieutenant's collar with such force that this Hedao Realm Cultivator's bones made an overwhelmed sound.

"A hundred thousand allied troops! The face of the Tian Yuan Divine Hall! To just run back in disgrace like this..."

"And tell everyone that we had a third of our forces blown apart by a single shot from a rat hiding its head, and then were hunted down like rabbits?"

"I, Xuan Lei... cannot afford to lose this face!!!"

With a roar, the Qi in Saint Lord Xuan Lei's body began to flow in reverse, and a resolute and tragic aura erupted.

He intended to use his self-detonation as a Mahayana Perfection Stage Saint Lord to fight for a sliver of hope for the fleet's retreat, and to preserve the last bit of dignity belonging to a powerhouse.

However, at the very moment his power was about to burst through his Dantian...

A vast and boundless pressure, far exceeding the limits of his imagination, suddenly descended!

The moment this pressure appeared, time and space in the entire Shattered Star Belt seemed to be frozen.

All the fleeing warships, all the exploding flames, and all the thoughts of the Cultivators fell into a standstill at this moment.

Only the Chaos Dao Palace remained unaffected, its aura still circulating.

"Trash."

An old, majestic voice that seemed to contain an endless will of thunder and fire exploded in Saint Lord Xuan Lei's Sea of Consciousness.

Those two words alone instantly smoothed out the wild power in his body and shattered his resolve to die.

Saint Lord Xuan Lei froze in place, and then, a surge of wild joy from surviving a disaster rose in his heart.

"Old Ancestor! It's Old Ancestor Lei Huo!"

Deep within the Tian Yuan Divine Hall, inside a palace wrapped in thunder and flames all year round...

A red-haired old man sitting cross-legged on top of lava slowly opened his eyes.

In one of his eyes, ten thousand bolts of thunder were being born and extinguished.

In the other eye, immortal fires that could burn the eight directions were blazing.

He was precisely one of the four True Immortal Old Ancestors of the Tian Yuan Divine Hall, True Immortal Lei Huo.

He had been awakened by True Immortal Xuan Yu and was already suppressing a stomach full of anger.

Having heard of a massive Opportunity, he had come together with the other three True Immortals.

They didn't show themselves immediately but hid behind the scenes.

Letting the allied army led by Xuan Lei take the lead was both a probe and a way to wear down the enemy.

But he never expected that the pawns he sent out would be defeated so quickly and so tragically.

That heaven-shaking shot had made even the hearts of the four True Immortals skip a beat.

"What a fine Immortal Treasure, what domineering killing methods," the cold voice of True Immortal Ming Quan rang out.

"Chaos dao rhyme circulates within it; if we can comprehend a thing or two, it might help us break through our Bottlenecks."

True Immortal Ku Rong's voice carried a strange rhythm.

"Hmph, no matter what it is, after today, it will belong to my Divine Palace."

True Immortal Lei Huo snorted coldly; he had decided to take action personally.

He no longer had the patience to wait.

Across the endless sea of stars, True Immortal Lei Huo slowly raised a finger.

That finger was as translucent as jade, wrapped in dense thunder and fire dao runes.

He lightly tapped in the direction of the Chaos Dao Palace.

This finger strike did not have an earth-shattering momentum.

But the moment his fingertip descended...

A brilliant galaxy spanning who knows how many light-years was actually forcibly severed in the middle under this finger!

The galaxy was severed!

The light of all stars, the movement of all cosmic dust, and the operation of all Laws fell into eternal stagnation along the trajectory of this finger.

A visible spatial fault, like a giant scar stretching across the Universe...

...extended toward the Shattered Star Belt and the Chaos Dao Palace at a speed exceeding light.

With this finger, anyone below the True Immortal stage would die upon contact and perish if even grazed.

Inside the Chaos Dao Palace.

The ship spirit issued a sharp alarm.

"Warning! Detected an over-specified True Immortal strike!"

"Master! A True Immortal has taken action!"

Sitting on the central throne, Shen Yuanmo still had his eyes tightly closed.

An endless torrent of energy was pouring from the chaos furnace into his crown.

His chaos dao embryo, Chaos Dao Body, and Half-Step Immortal Soul were all undergoing their final transformations.

The Bottleneck of the Mahayana Late Stage was already covered in cracks, needing only one last bit of external force.

And True Immortal Lei Huo's finger strike across the star sea became that final and most critical bit of external force.

"Perfect timing."

In Shen Yuanmo's consciousness, a light chuckle sounded.

That destructive finger power, enough to cut off a galaxy, had not yet truly arrived.

But the terrifying pressure it emitted had already acted upon his dao embryo through the Chaos Grand Array.

Crack—

A crisp cracking sound, appearing to come from the source of the Great Dao, rang out within his body.

The Mahayana Late Stage Bottleneck that had troubled him for a long time shattered at the sound under this external pressure from a True Immortal!

Boom!!!

An aura ten times, a hundred times stronger than before, erupted from within Shen Yuanmo!

At this moment, his cultivation naturally reached the Mahayana Perfection Stage!

The ninth revolution of the Nine Revolutions Spirit Refining Art operated on its own, his soul power surged, and he instantly merged with the entire Chaos Dao Palace!

The chaos dao embryo shone brightly, and the Yuan Character General Outline on his forehead completely turned into pure gold, like an eternal and indestructible cosmic singularity!

"ship spirit."

Shen Yuanmo's voice, for the first time, carried a hint of true emotion—a kind of indifference that looked down upon the world.

"Energy core, connect to the primordial immortal crystal."

"Myriad Dao Returning Origin Chaos Grand Array, activate at full power."

"In my name, command the Dao Palace, counterattack!"

In the next instant, Shen Yuanmo snapped his eyes open.

Two golden divine beams containing the birth and death of Chaos pierced through the palace and shot into the endless Void Realm.

At this very moment, the True Immortal finger strike that had severed the galaxy finally arrived!

"Break!"

Accompanied by Shen Yuanmo's shout, the Chaos Dao Palace, as massive as a star, erupted with an extremely brilliant Chaos divine light for the first time.

That divine light turned into a giant vortex, taking the initiative to meet that finger strike that destroyed everything.

The two collided without a sound.

There was only an extreme void.

With the point of impact as the center, a giant black sphere appeared out of thin air.

And it expanded at a terrifying speed, swallowing light, swallowing Laws, swallowing everything.

The stalemate lasted for only an instant.

The black sphere suddenly shrank inward and then exploded!

That finger power sent by True Immortal Lei Huo, enough to wipe out a world...

...was actually forcibly obliterated, swallowed, and assimilated by the Chaos Dao Palace!

Deep within the Tian Yuan Divine Hall, True Immortal Lei Huo suddenly stood up, a look of horror appearing in his eyes for the first time.

"It was blocked?!"

And the Chaos Dao Palace, having experienced a strike from a True Immortal, only had its surface chaotic airflow surge violently for a moment before returning to calm.

Immediately after, a cold and clear voice was transmitted directly to the ears of the four True Immortals.

"With just this much ability, you dare to snatch my things?"