391: Fragments of the Heavenly Dao

Taichu Heavenly Venerate looked at the arrogant Immortal Emperor Haotian and suddenly laughed up to the sky!

Haotian frowned, inexplicably feeling a chill: "Taichu! You old fool, what are you laughing at?! Don't tell me... you still have some trump card?!"

Taichu Heavenly Venerate's laughter gradually subsided, and a cunning light flickered in his eyes.

Just now, when Emperor Qin, Shen Wuya, and Ling Tian activated the Heavenly Selection Mark and drew upon that wisp of "heavenly dao energy," he felt it was extremely familiar!

At this moment, he finally remembered!

This so-called heavenly dao energy, wasn't it the core fragments of the shattered Small World?!

As one of the founders of the Spirit Realm, Taichu Heavenly Venerate understood better than anyone how the seventy-two shattered Small Worlds came to be.

They were created from seventy-two special fragments. Otherwise, given the Spirit Realm's strength, how could they have created a completely independent Small World with independent Law and independent civilization?

This was already the means of a Divine Being!!

Legend says these seventy-two fragments existed even before the birth of the Spirit Realm.

In reality, they were the civilization fragments that Lu Chen failed to completely clean up when he destroyed the last civilized world!! They contained partial Heavenly Dao Marks left behind when Lu Chen destroyed the Small World.

Taichu Heavenly Venerate said smugly: "I always felt the seal of the son of heavenly mandate was a bit familiar. Aren't these the core fragments of the shattered Small World! I tried to refine the fragments and extract the energy before, but it was impossible!! But now, Shen Wuya, you have a way to extract it. As long as we extract the fragment energy, we can kill Haotian!!

Immortal Emperor Haotian's face was as dark as iron, and he sneered coldly: "Taichu, stop trying to scare me! What damn fragments? Heavenly Dao Marks? Absurd! The entire Spirit Realm has already had its Origin drained by me. All seventy-two shattered Small Worlds have collapsed, their Laws annihilated, and not a trace of Spiritual Qi remains—what will you use to extract energy? Your mouth?"

However—

Taichu Heavenly Venerate merely smiled faintly, slowly raised his right hand, his five fingers seeming to grasp the stars, and suddenly seized toward the Void Realm!

"Boom!"

Space shattered like a mirror, and seventy brilliant streams of light burst forth from the depths of nothingness!

In an instant, seventy irregular, crystal-clear fragments floated between heaven and earth!

They varied in size and shape; some resembled a crescent moon, some looked like broken blades, and some pulsed like a heart. Starry river patterns flowed across their surfaces, and faintly, the echo of collapsing civilizations could be heard within!

Every fragment emitted a Heavenly Dao coercion that surpassed Law and transcended time—

Taichu Heavenly Venerate was proud: "These fragments are all civilization fragments left behind by the Heavenly Dao. Do you think your Formation can destroy them!!"

Emperor Qin, Shen Wuya, and Ling Tian simultaneously gasped, their eyes filled with disbelief!

"Holy crap..." Ling Tian felt envious greed, "This aura... is hundreds of times stronger than West Moon's Heavenly Selection Mark? I wish I could refine it!"

Shen Wuya shivered all over: "So that's it! I was truly foolish. It turns out the real Heavenly Dao Marks were hidden in every shattered Small World!"

Lu Chen realized it too upon seeing this: I knew it. How could this mere Spirit Realm be so formidable as to create a Small World? Isn't that the ability of the Heavenly Dao? Sure enough, they were merely created by mechanical girl zero, processed based on the civilization fragments of the previous era. Zero created them to enrich the world view.

This time, Immortal Emperor Haotian—was truly panicked!

He was not a fool.

Just now, the mere one ten-thousandth of heavenly dao energy converted by three Heavenly Selection Marks had almost utterly annihilated him!

Now, seventy Heavenly Dao civilization fragments floated before him, each one older, purer, and more powerful than a Heavenly Selection Mark!

"If they succeed in refining these... forget Territory Suppression, even if a true Divine Being descends, he would be turned to dust!" Haotian's heart pounded wildly, and cold sweat soaked his Imperial Robe.

His injuries had only recovered by thirty percent; he absolutely could not afford to delay!

He could not wait any longer!

"Recall the Bell—!" He roared, and the Firmament World-Suppressing Bell shrank abruptly, transforming into a golden light that vanished into his palm.

This bell was not only the Immortal Court's supreme defensive Spirit Treasure, but also a sonic killing weapon forged at the dawn of creation!

Haotian slammed his hands together against the body of the bell—

"Clang—!!!"

A single bell chime tore through the ages!

Invisible sound waves swept out like billions of divine swords. Space disintegrated inch by inch, and Laws wailed and scattered! The Five Great Emperors bore the brunt, their protective divine light instantly shattered as they all spat blood and flew backward;

Emperor Qin used the Great Qin Imperial Seal to block the attack, causing three cracks to appear on the seal;

The phantom image of Ling Tian's God Slaying Pavilion was directly shattered halfway!

"Shen Wuya! Hurry!" Emperor Qin gritted his teeth and roared, forcing himself back up.

Shen Wuya sat cross-legged in the center of the seventy fragments, forming hand seals, veins bulging on his forehead: "You must hold him back! I need at least the time it takes for an incense stick to burn to extract the energy!"

Hope reignited in the eyes of the Five Directional Emperors, and they roared as they charged forward again! White Emperor summoned the true form of the Azure Dragon; the Flame Emperor burned his Lifespan to transform into a fire god; the Yellow Emperor unfurled the Mountains and Rivers Imperial Map for a thousand miles; the Black Emperor summoned the Nine Nether Cold Prison; and the Azure Emperor turned ten thousand trees into soldiers to strangle the Void Realm! Emperor Qin and Ling Tian also desperately intercepted him, their sword and saber light weaving into a net!

However—

"Ants trying to shake a tree!" Haotian sneered. Using only thirty percent of his power, he shattered the Azure Dragon phantom with one palm, cracked the Mountains and Rivers Map with one foot, and with a backhand grab, crushed half of Ling Tian's Physical Body! He was like a War God descended, invincible!

"This is bad..." Shen Wuya's face was pale, sweat pouring down like rain.

He realized that these Heavenly Dao fragments were not "tame" like the Heavenly Selection Mark! Each fragment carried thousands of years of independent civilization evolution, containing billions of living Souls, Law systems, and historical will, like a miniature Universe! With his current Cultivation Realm, he simply couldn't refine them!

"I can't refine even one... let alone seventy!" Despair filled his heart.

Just at this moment—

Boom!

White Emperor was punched through the chest and fell to the ground; the Flame Emperor self-detonated his Origin, only managing to leave a scorch mark on the corner of Haotian's robe; Emperor Qin's Imperial Seal shattered, and he knelt on one knee; Ling Tian's half-body was annihilated, holding onto life only through his God Slaying will... Haotian stepped through the air, his gaze like a knife, stabbing directly at Shen Wuya: "Hand over the fragments!"

He reached out to grab the nearest crystal fragment—stealing just one would interrupt the refinement!

Facing Haotian's coercion!

Shen Wuya couldn't even stand steadily.

No one could stop him!

At the critical moment, Taichu Heavenly Venerate actually waved his hand and absorbed all the Heavenly Dao fragments into his own Physical Body! He spoke with a hint of decisive smile: "Emperor Qin, Shen Wuya, Ling Tian, thank you three for letting me experience the Heaven-Reaching Realm in this lifetime. The Spirit Realm is finished, and all my old friends are dead. There is no need for me to continue either. I hope the three of you can continue forward, Cultivate to the very end, and help me see if this world truly has an end."

"You're insane!" Shen Wuya cried out in alarm, "These are Heavenly Dao fragments! Even I cannot refine them! Your Physical Body cannot withstand them at all; it will instantly disintegrate! It's useless!"