419: Taoist Beast Black Dragon

“This Heavenly Dao… is definitely not just a simple Behind-the-Scenes Heavenly Dao!” Demigod Xing Kui said with certainty.

“The previous starlight was just its first layer of secrecy.”

“And the stars themselves now are the second layer of secrecy!”

“Even if we forcibly penetrate its second layer of secrecy, it's very likely there will still be a third layer of secrecy!”

Demigod Yao Xi frowned at this.

“But the problem now is… we can at most penetrate the first layer of secrecy.” Demigod Xing Kui sighed helplessly.

Although he was very unwilling.

Even with the three Demigods and Heavenly Kings joining forces and using the rules of heaven and earth, they still couldn't penetrate Xiao Shi's Heavenly Dao secrecy.

“I think… even if this person has other ways to become a Demigod, it won't be too fast. We still have time.” Demigod Mu Wen said in a deep voice.

“I don’t believe there are other ways to become a Demigod in this world.” Demigod Yao Xi shook her head.

“No matter how special he is, to become a Demigod, there are only two ways.”

“One is to be designated by the Martial Dao Ninth Realm, but in today’s Tianwu Continent, this is certainly impossible to achieve.”

“The second is to comprehend the rules of heaven and earth.”

Demigod Yao Xi felt that no matter how special Xiao Shi was.

He could only become a Demigod through these two methods.

There could not be a third way to become a Demigod in the world.

Xiao Shi’s uniqueness, at most, was reflected in his ability to comprehend the rules of heaven and earth faster than ordinary people.

But as long as he couldn't access the rules of heaven and earth.

It would be difficult for him to comprehend them.

“If he had the Dao Masters attack us before to access the rules of heaven and earth, then from this moment on, none of us can fight against people from the Fifth Domain.” Demigod Xing Kui said in a deep voice.

“As long as the three of us don’t make a move, in the current Tianwu Continent, it’s impossible for him to access the rules of heaven and earth.”

Demigod Yao Xi and Demigod Mu Wen both nodded in agreement.

Demigod Yao Xi added.

“If you want to avoid fighting him, then you’d best first settle the Saints and Dao Masters in your respective Great Domains.”

“This person possesses very strong concealment abilities and can appear in our Great Domains silently. If he keeps coming to our Great Domains, hunting Saints and Dao Masters to force us to act, we will have no choice but to act!”

“So… we must first settle the Saints and Dao Masters to prevent him from attacking.”

Saints and Dao Masters were important foundations of their forces.

If Xiao Shi kept attacking.

They would also have a headache.

But once they realized this.

They all had ways to prevent this from happening.

After some discussion.

At this stage, unable to penetrate Xiao Shi's Heavenly Dao secrecy, they could only first try to curb Xiao Shi's speed in advancing to Demigod.

This would give them ample time to constantly ponder ways to penetrate Xiao Shi's Heavenly Dao secrecy.

Afterward.

The three Demigod Heavenly Kings did not stay here any longer.

They returned to their respective Great Domains.

They needed to go back and settle the Saints and Dao Masters in their Great Domains to prevent them from being assassinated by Xiao Shi.

Heavenly King Yao Xi flew quickly towards her Great Domain.

While flying, she was also thinking about ways to break Xiao Shi's Heavenly Dao secrecy.

In a situation where it couldn't be broken by the rules of heaven and earth.

She really couldn't think of any method more effective than the rules of heaven and earth.

“Perhaps I can ask the Hall Master of Tianji Hall…” Heavenly King Yao Xi's heart stirred.

She felt that with the Hall Master of Tianji Hall's control over worldly intelligence, he would surely know how to penetrate Heavenly Dao secrecy.

Failing that.

She would wait until she obtained the heavenly secret box from the Hall Master of Tianji Hall and gamble on her luck.

To see if she could open a powerful treasure capable of penetrating Heavenly Dao secrecy!

Heavenly King Yao Xi knew deeply.

Rule-type heavenly secret boxes had a high probability of yielding Demigod-level treasures.

And if one could possess a Demigod-level treasure, even if its function wasn't to penetrate Heavenly Dao secrecy, it could still greatly assist in doing so.

Soon.

Heavenly King Yao Xi was already approaching her Yaoxi Great Territory.

But just as she was about to enter her Great Domain.

“Hmm?”

Heavenly King Yao Xi suddenly frowned.

Her entire body abruptly stopped.

At this moment, the space around her seemed normal.

However, Heavenly King Yao Xi detected something amiss.

The space here… seemed to have been sealed off!

Or more precisely.

It had been stripped away!

In an instant, she completely lost perception of the outside world.

Within this enclosed space, everything here would go unnoticed by the outside world.

This space seemed to have been temporarily stripped away from the Tianwu Continent, no longer belonging to the Tianwu Continent.

Heavenly King Yao Xi’s eyes narrowed.

She knew that even the other two Demigod Heavenly Kings would find it difficult to perform spatial stripping.

This kind of method… was no longer something an ordinary Demigod could do!

At the same time, what Heavenly King Yao Xi couldn't understand was… as one of the strongest people in the current Tianwu Continent.

She was still ambushed?

Who else had the ability to ambush her?

Whoosh!

The space in front of Heavenly King Yao Xi suddenly rippled like water.

A figure shrouded in a black cloak emerged from the ripples in space.

Under the cloak, a pair of vertical pupils, exuding an eerie, chaotic aura, stared at Heavenly King Yao Xi.

And a hoarse, low voice emanated.

“Yao Xi, long time no see. I’ve come to send you on your way.”

Heavenly King Yao Xi’s eyes narrowed slightly.

She looked at the Black Robed Man in front of her with a calm expression.

And asked coldly.

“Who are you?”

The Black Robed Man grinned.

He reached out and grabbed the hood of his black cloak, pulling the entire hood back, directly revealing his true face in front of Heavenly King Yao Xi.

The moment Heavenly King Yao Xi saw the other party’s face.

Her originally calm expression instantly changed drastically!

Her entire pupils trembled violently.

“You are!!!”

… Xiao Shi looked brightly at the Dao Beast that hatched after the beast egg shattered.

This was indeed a five-clawed Black Dragon with long horns.

Long dragon whiskers.

Covered in dark black dragon scales.

A surging and astonishing killing intent continuously emanated from the Black Dragon.

It seemed this Black Dragon was born for slaughter.

Even though this Black Dragon was only palm-sized now, under the terrifying killing intent emanating from its body, it would not be regarded as an ordinary young beast because of its small size.

Xiao Shi felt that even a Saint, upon seeing this Dao Beast Black Dragon, would probably have trembling legs, shivering and unable to stand steadily.

Such a Dao Beast of Slaughter.

Only a Dao Master who wielded the Dao of Slaughter could control it.

Of course.

Hatching was only the first step.

Xiao Shi knew that the more important step was to integrate this Dao Beast Black Dragon into his Dao of Slaughter.

He immediately began the integration.

“Woo!!”

When the Black Dragon sensed Xiao Shi’s Dao of Slaughter, it immediately let out a joyful low roar.

Clearly, Xiao Shi’s Dao of Slaughter brought it great comfort.

Its entire body eagerly soared up.

Straight towards the Dao River above the sky.

In an instant.

The Black Dragon arrived before the dao star representing Xiao Shi’s Dao of Slaughter in the Dao River, roaring as it integrated into it.

And the moment the Black Dragon integrated into Xiao Shi’s Slaughter dao star.

This dao star, located in the Dao River, gradually disappeared out of thin air.

No longer located in the Dao River.

But transferred from the Dao River… into Xiao Shi’s body!

Boom!!

Xiao Shi’s body vibrated violently at this moment.

He clearly felt his body undergoing earth-shattering changes.

Usually, only the Dao River could carry the Dao.

Now that Xiao Shi’s Dao of Slaughter appeared within his body, in a sense, his body was equivalent to becoming a new Dao River!

This made Xiao Shi clearly feel that all aspects of his body were undergoing transformation.

At the same time, the aura of the Dao emanating from him became incredibly astonishing!

Xiao Shi now finally understood why the Dao Master who gave birth to a Dao Beast in The Primordial Martial Era had died violently.

If the other party was like him.

Needing to use one's own body to carry the Dao.

Once there wasn't a strong enough body, it would surely be a dead end!

Fortunately, Xiao Shi’s physical body had always been very strong.

He endured this transformation.

His body successfully transformed into a new Dao River.

However, his Dao River could currently only accommodate one type of Dao.

It could not accommodate other Daos besides the Dao of Slaughter.

But Xiao Shi felt that if he could find a way to further expand his Dao River, he might be able to accommodate his other two Daos into his body in the future.

By then… his Dao would no longer be observable by other martial artists in the Upper Three Realms of Martial Dao.

Xiao Shi even felt that if he could go a step further.

Perhaps he could even accommodate all the Daos of the Tianwu Continent into his Dao River.

Thereby replacing the current Dao River of the Tianwu Continent!!

Once this step was achieved, then all the Daos in the Tianwu Continent would be in his hands!

However, this was clearly not something that could be achieved in a short period of time.

The opening of the Dao River was not a simple or easy task, requiring a lot of time and effort.

Currently, after successfully integrating the Dao Beast Black Dragon into his Dao of Slaughter, Xiao Shi could clearly feel that his Dao of Slaughter had undergone tremendous changes.

However, as a Dao of combat and struggle, the Dao of Slaughter.

Its power primarily needed to be demonstrated in actual combat.

Although Xiao Shi could now feel that the Dao of Slaughter had greatly enhanced.

But the specific extent of the enhancement would only be known in battle.

“Hmm?”

Just then.

Xiao Shi suddenly felt a ripple emanating from his Behind-the-Scenes Heavenly Dao.

He looked up and focused.

He found that the secret starlight around the Behind-the-Scenes Heavenly Dao had been dispersed.

“Are they starting to penetrate my Heavenly Dao’s secrecy…”

Xiao Shi was not surprised by this at all.

He knew that given the prominence of his Behind-the-Scenes Heavenly Dao in the Tianwu Continent, these three Demigod Heavenly Kings would eventually come to penetrate his Heavenly Dao.

However, he wasn't worried at all.

Even if these three Demigod Heavenly Kings joined forces to disperse those secret starlights, they would not be able to break his Heavenly Dao’s secrecy.

After all, his Heavenly Dao itself possessed strong secrecy, and it was the strongest Heavenly Dao throughout history!

Even with the combined efforts of the three Demigod Heavenly Kings, they were destined to gain nothing.

He completely disregarded their actions.

After successfully hatching and integrating the Dao Beast.

Xiao Shi began to ponder which Dao to suppress into the Dao Suppressing Sword next.

He began to observe the ownerless Daos in the Dao River above.

In his opinion.

After he had previously killed four Dao Masters.

There would now be four ownerless Daos in the Dao River.

He could choose from these four ownerless Daos.

“Oh?”

However, after some observation.

He found that there were far more than four ownerless Daos in the Dao River.

Instead, there were five ownerless Daos!

“There’s even one more!”

Xiao Shi’s eyes suddenly sharpened.

He knew very well.

Before a new era wielder appeared in the Tianwu Continent, no new Dao would emerge.

Only era wielders could create the Dao of their own era.

Therefore, it could be confirmed… this suddenly added ownerless Dao was not a Dao born out of thin air.

Instead, a certain Dao Master died, causing this Dao to become an ownerless Dao.

But what was strange was.

He had clearly only killed four Dao Masters this time… why were there five Dao Masters dead?

“These three Demigod Heavenly Kings would not kill each other’s Dao Masters without an official war…”

“Even if these Dao Masters had grudges against each other, under normal circumstances, a life-and-death struggle between Dao Masters is very difficult to achieve, and the three Demigod Heavenly Kings would not allow their subordinate Dao Masters to engage in life-and-death struggles.”

“Then how did this Dao Master… die?”

Xiao Shi vaguely sensed something unusual.

Let alone Dao Masters.

Usually, it was very rare for deaths to occur among Saints.

The death of any Saint or Dao Master.

Would inevitably cause a huge stir in the Tianwu Continent.

What was certain was.

This Dao Master must have died recently.

When Xiao Shi returned from The Primordial Martial Era, he had observed the Dao River of the Tianwu Continent, and at that time, he had not found any ownerless Daos in the Dao River.

Therefore, it could be confirmed.

This Dao Master died after his return.

Now he was wondering… who was this dead Dao Master?

Which Demigod Heavenly King’s subordinate Dao Master was it?

Currently, the Dao Masters in the Tianwu Continent were either under the three Demigod Heavenly Kings or under Xiao Shi.

There were no Dao Masters without affiliations.

Xiao Shi vaguely felt there was a problem here!

It was just that he lacked important information now, making it difficult to infer the situation.

Shaking his head.

Xiao Shi temporarily suppressed the doubts in his heart.

He mused that he might be able to investigate through Tianji Hall later.

The immediate priority was to first choose an ownerless Dao and suppress it into the Dao Suppressing Sword.

Immediately.

Xiao Shi carefully observed these five ownerless Daos.

He had already had contact with and understood four of these ownerless Daos when he fought the four Dao Masters earlier.

He was mainly observing the fifth ownerless Dao.

These five ownerless Daos were all Lower Mortal Daos.

After all, Upper Mortal Daos in the Tianwu Continent were extremely rare.

There was only one Heavenly Dao, Xiao Shi’s Behind-the-Scenes Heavenly Dao.

The existing Dao Masters in the Tianwu Continent basically all wielded Lower Mortal Daos.

Soon.

After Xiao Shi carefully observed these five ownerless Daos, he then made his choice.