133: Chapter 133 The Majesty of the Holy Lord, the Secret of the Dao Fruit

As the Clone of the "Holy Lord" stood up, the entire world seemed to tilt on its axis.

His figure was not particularly tall, and even appeared somewhat blurry and illusory, as if he might merge into the surrounding endless "Nothingness" at any moment. But the moment he stood up, he became the sole center of the entire world. All light, sound, Spiritual Qi, and even Laws involuntarily collapsed and annihilated toward him. It felt like a massive, invisible black hole, swallowing all of "existence."

The throne of "Nothingness" slowly dissipated and merged into his body. He stood suspended in midair, stepping upon a churning, ink-like sea of "Nothingness." His eyes, like pale flames, locked onto Lin Wan without a shred of emotion, containing only a pure scrutiny of this "anomaly," and... a chilling interest, as if he had laid eyes on a beloved prey.

"Your Dao can actually counter 'the end', and even... faintly possesses the ability to encompass, transform, and assimilate 'Nothingness'. Interesting, truly interesting." The voice of the Holy Lord's Clone rang directly in Lin Wan's Sea of Consciousness, grand and cold, carrying an ancient rhythm that seemed to belong to another era. "I have traveled the myriad heavens and witnessed countless Great Daos. Yet, to perfectly fuse four seemingly contradictory yet fundamentally identical Dao rhymes like Chaos, Destruction, Reincarnation, and Purification, creating a brand-new path with absolute countering power against 'the end'... I have never seen the likes of this before."

"Are you not a creature of this Realm?"

Lin Wan felt a chill in his heart. This Holy Lord's Clone indeed had incredibly sharp eyes, discerning the uniqueness of his Dao Fruit at a single glance and even questioning his Origins. However, he naturally would not answer.

"What if I am, and what if I am not? 'the end' encroaches upon the heavens and poisons the myriad worlds. We Cultivators must rise up to resist, purge the evil influences, and restore clarity to heaven and earth." Lin Wan's voice was calm as he fearlessly met the gaze of the Holy Lord's Clone's pale, flame-like eyes. The "Chaos Destruction Reincarnation Dao Fruit" slowly rotated around him, its four-colored Dao rhymes flowing to form a stable Domain that shut out the terrifying, omnipresent pressure of "Nothingness" from the Holy Lord's Clone.

"Resist? Clarity?" The Holy Lord's Clone laughed in a low, cold voice, as if he had heard the greatest joke in the world. His laughter was filled with endless mockery and pity. "Foolish. You do not understand at all what 'the end' is, what 'Nothingness' is, or what... the true 'Dao' is."

"All things in the world must die if they are born, and must end if they begin. Prosperity and decline, creation, existence, decay, and emptiness—these are the ultimate truths of the Universe and the Reincarnation of the Great Dao. 'the end' is not destruction, nor is it evil. It is the destination, the inevitable, the... final peace before rebirth. The decay, destruction, and nothingness you see are merely the outward appearances of 'the end'. The true 'the end' is 'being' returning to 'nothingness', the ultimate state of 'existence', and... the 'absolute silence' that transcends all dualistic opposition."

"Your 'Chaos' encompasses all existence, yet all existence will eventually return to 'Nothingness'. Your 'Destruction' accelerates the end, yet the end of all things is also 'Nothingness'. Your 'Reincarnation' cycles endlessly through birth and death, yet the other shore of Reincarnation is also 'Nothingness'. As for 'Purification'? Heh, it is nothing but futile struggle, trying to erase the brand of 'the end', without knowing that this brand itself is also a part of 'existence'. Erasing it is also an injury to 'existence' itself."

The voice of the Holy Lord's Clone was like the profound voice of the Great Dao, carrying a strange, bewitching power that pointed straight at the Dao Heart, attempting to dismantle the Foundation of Lin Wan's Dao Heart.

"Your Dao seems to counter 'the end', but in truth... it is resisting the Great Dao, resisting the inevitable. Going against heaven will only lead to self-destruction. Why not submit to 'the end', embrace 'Nothingness', and understand the truth that all things will eventually be destroyed? Only then will you achieve great liberation, great freedom, and great eternity. I see that your Aptitude is extraordinary and your path is unique. If you are willing to submit, I can bestow upon you the title of 'Divine Son of Nothingness'. When I usher in the descent of 'the end' and reshape this Realm, you will be one of the Dominators of the new world. What do you say?"

Submit to "the end"? Become the "Divine Son of Nothingness"? One of the Dominators of the new world?

Hearing this, Lin Wan felt no ripples in his heart, and even wanted to laugh. This Holy Lord's Clone was quite good at bewitching people's minds, but unfortunately, he had miscalculated.

"The Great Dao has fifty paths, heaven derives forty-nine of them, and one escapes. All things in existence have a sliver of hope; there is never an absolute 'inevitable'. Your so-called 'the end is the destination' is merely a generalization, a distortion of concepts. 'Being' returning to 'nothingness' is one possibility of the Dao, but 'being' can also be born from 'nothingness'. This is the rotation of Yin and Yang, endless and ceaseless. The 'absolute silence' you pursue is nothing but a pool of stagnant water, the death of the Dao, and the end of the Universe. It is by no means the Righteous Path."

"As for resisting the Great Dao?" A cold smile played on the corner of Lin Wan's mouth. "My Dao is the Great Dao! Chaos manifests all phenomena, Destruction slays evil demons, Reincarnation determines life and death, and Purification restores the true essence. Your 'Nothingness' is merely a state, a stage, a... 'pollution' that needs to be purified in the process of Chaos and Destruction. Your desire to replace everything and end everything with 'Nothingness' is nothing but wishful thinking. Today, I will show you what the true Dao is!"

Before his voice could fade, Lin Wan said no more. With a shift of his body, he took the initiative to strike!

He knew that in the face of an existence like the Holy Lord's Clone, any words were hollow. Only strength could shatter his illusory words!

Chaos, Destruction, Reincarnation, Purification—Four Phenomena as One, Dao Slashes Nothingness!

Lin Wan held his hands in a loose embrace before him. The "Chaos Destruction Reincarnation Dao Fruit" inside his body spun frantically, and the four Dao rhymes boiled and fused like never before. Ultimately, between his palms, they condensed into a singular, bizarre light blade only a foot long. It was condensed to the absolute limit, displaying a hazy gray of Chaos, containing a deep black of Destruction within, with the white of Purification flowing along its edges, and its trajectory carrying the phantom images of Reincarnation. This light blade seemed ordinary, but the moment it appeared, tiny black cracks silently manifested in the surrounding space, as if even space itself could not bear its existence.

Holding the light blade, Lin Wan slashed gently toward the Holy Lord's Clone.

There was no earth-shattering momentum, nor any world-destroying anomalies. There was only a faint, hazy gray blade light that seemed capable of severing Karma and destroying all Laws, silently slicing through the void toward the Holy Lord's Clone.

Wherever the blade light passed, the power of "Nothingness" that originally filled the world, constantly eroding and assimilating everything, parted and retreated silently as if it had met its natural enemy, seemingly clearing a path for this blade light. In its wake, the blade light left a pure "vacuum" trajectory, completely free of any contamination of "Nothingness," as if returning to the most primitive state at the dawn of creation.

For the first time, a visible ripple appeared in the pale, flame-like eyes of the Holy Lord's Clone. It was no longer purely cold and indifferent, but carried a hint of... solemnity? Or perhaps... a very faint trace of astonishment?

"A bit interesting. To think you could fuse four Dao rhymes to such an extent, even touching upon a trace of the true meaning of 'Dao Severing'... Unfortunately, your Realm is too low, and your understanding of the Dao is far too shallow."

The Holy Lord's Clone raised a finger. The finger was translucent like jade, yet seemed to be condensed from the purest "Nothingness" as he gently tapped toward the incoming hazy gray blade light.

"Finger of Nothingness—Myriad Laws Return to Nothingness."

Wherever the fingertip passed, space, light, Spiritual Qi, Laws... everything seemed to be wiped away by an invisible giant hand, turning into the purest, absolute "nothingness." It was not destruction, nor was it devouring. It was a higher level of sensation, as if "existence" itself was being "negated" and "erased."

"Buzz—!"

The hazy gray blade light and the jade-like "Finger of Nothingness" gently touched.

There was no earth-shattering explosion, nor any world-destroying impact. There was only an extremely subtle, light sound, like the cracking of porcelain, echoing at the point of contact between the two.

In the next instant, Lin Wan's pupils contracted sharply.

He felt that his "Four Phenomena Dao Slash"—which condensed his current strongest Dao rhymes and was enough to easily slay a Peak "King" rank—seemed to slash into an absolute void devoid of any concept of "existence" the moment it contacted the "Finger of Nothingness." The four Dao rhymes of Chaos, Destruction, Reincarnation, and Purification contained within the blade light seemed to have met the natural enemy of the "Dao," beginning to rapidly "disappear," be "negated," and be "erased" in a manner he could neither understand nor stop!

It was not devoured, nor transformed, nor purified, but... it was as if the very concept of their "existence" was fundamentally "negated" by the "Finger of Nothingness"! Since "existence" was negated, all attributes, power, and Dao rhymes attached to "existence" naturally vanished into thin air as well.

"Chii..."

The hazy gray blade light, like snow melting under the sun, rapidly faded and became transparent. Ultimately, less than three inches away from the fingertip of the Holy Lord's Clone, it completely dissipated, as if it had never existed.

Meanwhile, the "Finger of Nothingness" of the Holy Lord's Clone remained translucent, its momentum unabated as it continued to tap gently toward Lin Wan. Its speed seemed slow, but was actually fast to the extreme, as if breaking through the limitations of time and space, ignoring distance. One moment it was far away, and the next, it had already tapped to within three feet of Lin Wan's forehead!

An unprecedented, bone-chilling crisis of death—one that seemed to freeze and erase even his Divine Soul—instantly enveloped Lin Wan! He felt that everything of his—his Physical Body, Dharmic power, Divine Soul, Dao Fruit, and even the very fact of his "existence"—became incredibly fragile before this seemingly ordinary finger, as if the opponent could completely "erase" him from this world with a single thought if he so wished!

Was this the power of the Clone of the "Holy Lord"? Was this the terror of the "Nothingness" Dao Principle? To actually be able to directly "negate" an opponent's "existence" and "Dao rhyme"? This was simply mind-boggling, far exceeding Lin Wan's understanding of the "Dao"!

"Chaos, Destruction, Reincarnation, Purification—Four Phenomena Body Protection!"

At this life-or-death moment, Lin Wan pushed his understanding of the Dao to the absolute limit! The "Chaos Destruction Reincarnation Dao Fruit" above his head shone with an unprecedented brilliance. The four-colored Dao rhymes surged out frantically, interweaving and fusing before him to form an incredibly thick Chaos Dao shield that flowed with the bizarre scenes of Chaos evolving, Destruction descending, Reincarnation cycling, and Purification cleansing.

"Buzz!"

The "Finger of Nothingness" tapped gently upon the Chaos Dao shield.

"Crack..."

A crisp cracking sound rang out. The Chaos Dao shield, which condensed all of Lin Wan's Dao rhymes and was sufficient to withstand a full-strength strike from a Peak "King" rank, was instantly covered in web-like cracks the moment it contacted the "Finger of Nothingness." The Chaos, Destruction, Reincarnation, and Purification Dao rhymes flowing upon the shield once again began to rapidly "disappear" and be "negated," just like the previous blade light.

"Pfft!"

As if struck by lightning, Lin Wan spat out a mouthful of blood. His body, like being hit head-on by a star, flew backward at an even faster speed than he had come, crashing heavily into a towering mountain behind him, causing the entire mountain to collapse and shatter!

"Lin Wan!"

"Demon Suppressing Heavenly Monarch!"

In the distance, Ye Qingxian, who had just rushed into the Xuankun Gate and was fighting the remaining demons, along with countless Alliance Cultivators watching the battle here, were all horrified and cried out in alarm. Just one finger! That terrifying Demon Suppressing Heavenly Monarch, who could easily slay four Void Divine Generals, was actually defeated by a single finger from the Holy Lord's Clone, his fate unknown?!

"Cough, cough..."

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Amidst the ruins of rocks, Lin Wan struggled to climb up, covered in blood, his aura withered to the extreme.

On his chest, a clear and terrifying wound, as if a part of it had been "erased" by an invisible force, was continuously oozing blood. Around the edges of the wound, wisps of "Void" power, which constantly eroded and negated his vitality and magic power, lingered.

Had it not been for his special Chaos Destruction Reincarnation Dao Fruit, with its four types of Dao Rhymes spontaneously protecting his body at the final moment, barely neutralizing, transforming, and purifying most of the "Void" power, that finger just now would likely have completely "wiped out" his entire being, along with his Dao Fruit.

"What a terrifying 'Void' Law... It can actually directly 'negate' existence and Dao Rhymes... This has already touched upon the level of 'Dao', or even... the level of 'concepts'!"

Lin Wan was shocked in his heart, and he also understood the huge gap between himself and the Holy Lord Clone.

This was not just a gap in cultivation Realm, but a gap in the level of understanding and control over the "Dao".

The opponent's application of the "Void" Law had already reached the terrifying level of "negating existence" and "erasing concepts". This had almost touched upon the Realm above the Immortal Dao, involving the rules of the Origin!

As for himself, although his Dao Fruit was special and countered the "the end" attribute, his understanding and application of the Dao were still stuck at the relatively shallow level of "power".

"To be able to take one finger of this seat and not die, your Dao is indeed special. This seat is even more interested in you."

The Holy Lord Clone withdrew his finger. In his pale, flame-like eyes, interest deepened, but at the same time, a trace of cold killing intent appeared. "However, the game ends here. This seat wants your Dao. Your existence, this seat will... erase."

As the words fell, the Holy Lord Clone raised his hand again. This time, it was no longer a single finger, but his five fingers spread open, gently grasping towards Lin Wan's location.

"Void... Cage."

As his five fingers closed, the space within a hundred zhang radius around Lin Wan suddenly solidified and collapsed, as if it had been "cut" out from the real world, forming a completely independent, isolated from the outside world, absolute "Void" Cage!

Inside the cage, light, sound, Spiritual Qi, Laws, everything, all began to rapidly "disappear", being "negated", and swallowed and assimilated by "Void".

Lin Wan felt as if he were placed in an ever-shrinking, absolute dark Void Realm, his Physical Body, magic power, Divine Soul, and even his thoughts were being "wiped out" and "negated" by an invisible force!

"Damn it!" Lin Wan's heart rang with wild alarms, and he frantically urged the "Chaos Destruction Reincarnation Dao Fruit" within his body, attempting to use his own Dao Rhymes to resist, transform, and purify this omnipresent "Void" erosion.

But this time, the Holy Lord Clone was clearly getting serious. The power of the "Void Cage" far exceeded the previous "Void Finger", and its power of "negating existence" and "erasing concepts" was purer and more tyrannical.

Although Lin Wan's Dao Rhymes could barely resist and delay the erosion of "Void", it was like a drop in the bucket, and being completely swallowed and assimilated was only a matter of time.

Moreover, as the "Void Cage" continued to shrink, that feeling of "existence" being negated became stronger and stronger, and Lin Wan even began to doubt and waver about his own "existence" itself!

"I cannot sit and wait for death! I must break this cage!" A look of madness flashed in Lin Wan's eyes. He knew that if this continued, he would undoubtedly die. He had to risk his life for a fight!

"Chaos Destruction Reincarnation Purification—Dao Fruit Burn, Four Symbols Break the Heaven!"

Lin Wan gritted his teeth and made an extremely crazy decision—burning the Dao Fruit! He completely detonated and burned the power of the "Chaos Destruction Reincarnation Dao Fruit" within his body, which had just been completed and was not yet fully stabilized! At the cost of the Dao Fruit's Foundation, potential, and Origin, he exchanged it for a brief burst of power that exceeded his limits!

"Boom—!" An indescribable, terrifying aura, as if opening up the world, erupted from within Lin Wan's body!

The four-colored Dao Rhymes around his body, like burning flames, rose, intertwined, and fused crazily, finally turning into a strange light that was chaotic, gray, deep, and seemed to be able to contain everything, end everything, and yet contain infinite vitality!

This light was no longer a simple combination of Dao Rhymes, but had truly touched upon a trace of the Origin of "Dao", touching the boundary between "existence" and "non-existence"!

"Break for me—!" Lin Wan let out a roar that shook the world, both fists striking out together, smashing fiercely towards the walls of the constantly shrinking "Void Cage" around him!

"Dong—!" A dull sound to the extreme, as if two primordial divine mountains had collided! The entire "Void Cage" vibrated violently. That intangible, formless barrier that seemed to be able to "negate" everything was actually smashed inward by Lin Wan's punch, which burned his Dao Fruit and exceeded his limits, revealing countless fine cracks!

Within the cracks, chaotic gray light, destruction black rays, Purification white light, and Reincarnation phantoms faintly emerged, crazily consuming and annihilating with the "negation" power of the "Void Cage"!

"Eh?" The Holy Lord Clone let out a soft exclamation, obviously feeling a trace of surprise that Lin Wan could shake his "Void Cage", but immediately, a trace of cold killing intent flashed in those pale, flame-like eyes. "A dying struggle is meaningless. Void... return to silence."

His five fingers tightened suddenly. "Crack—!"

The cracks in the "Void Cage" expanded instantly, but the speed of shrinking also accelerated suddenly! It was as if an invisible giant hand wanted to crush and erase this cage, along with Lin Wan inside it!

"No—!" Ye Qingxian's eyes were splitting, and she desperately urged the Qingxian Sword, wanting to slash open the cage and save Lin Wan.

But the sword light she slashed out with all her might, landing on the "Void Cage", was like a mud ox entering the sea, silently "negated" and swallowed, without even stirring up a ripple.

Countless Alliance Cultivators were ashen-faced, despairingly watching the constantly shrinking pitch-black cage, and Lin Wan inside, whose aura was becoming weaker and weaker, as if he would completely "disappear" at any moment.

Could it be that the Demon Suppressing Heavenly Monarch, who had just risen and brought hope to everyone, was going to fall just like this?

Just at this critical moment, when the power Lin Wan had exchanged by burning his Dao Fruit was about to be exhausted, and his own existence was about to be completely "negated" and erased by "Void"—a sudden change occurred!

"Hum—!" Deep in Lin Wan's Sea of Consciousness, that mysterious "samsara mirror" fragment obtained from the "Abyss of Buried Gods", which had always been floating quietly and had no other reaction except providing a trace of weak Reincarnation power, at this moment, seemed to be stimulated by some kind of intense force, suddenly vibrating violently!

Following that, a vast will, ancient, vast, as if crossing endless time and space, witnessing the birth and death of the Universe and Reincarnation, awakened from within the fragment!

This will was not an attack, nor was it protection, but a pure "confirmation" of "existence" itself, a "resistance" to the negation of "Void", and a "manifestation" of the essence of "Dao"!

"Reincarnation... endless... existence... eternal... Void... but a moment... Dao... lasts forever..."

A vague, intermittent, yet containing supreme Dao Rhymes thought, was transmitted from the fragment, resonating with Lin Wan's will of burning his Dao Fruit and touching the Origin of "existence".

The next instant, that "samsara mirror" fragment suddenly burst out with unprecedented brilliant light!

This light was not any known color, but seemed to contain all colors in the world, and also seemed to transcend color itself. It was a pure light of "Being", symbolizing "existence", "truth", and "immortality"!

"Hum—!" The light of "Being" burst out from Lin Wan's Sea of Consciousness, instantly sweeping through his whole body, completely igniting, sublimating, and qualitatively changing that strange power that touched the "Origin of Dao" which he had exchanged by burning his Dao Fruit!

And it perfectly fused with Lin Wan's own Chaos, Destruction, and Purification Dao Rhymes in a way he had never thought of and could not understand!

A brand-new power, as if it had transcended the category of "Chaos Destruction Reincarnation Purification", more ancient, more essential, and closer to the Origin of "Dao", was born within Lin Wan's body, in the desperate situation where he was about to be completely "negated" by "Void"!

This power was no longer resisting "Void", but... containing "Void", defining "Void", incorporating "Void" into the category of "existence", and becoming a part of "Being"!

Just as darkness is the absence of light, and cold is the absence of heat, "Void" was merely a state of absence of some kind of "existence".

And this newborn power was "existence" itself, the Origin power that defined everything, contained everything, and made everything "have" meaning!

"Is this... the power of 'Being'? Or... the beginning of 'Dao'?" Lin Wan had a flash of inspiration and instantly understood.

This was not power he had comprehended himself, but a trace of power belonging to the "samsara mirror" itself that truly touched the Origin of "Dao", which was passively activated when the "samsara mirror" fragment sensed his will touching the "Origin of Dao" and the desperate situation of facing "existence" being "negated"!

Although it was only a trace, its level had already exceeded the "Void" Law mastered by the "Holy Lord" Clone that touched the "concept" level!

"So that's it... 'Void' negates existence, while 'Dao' defines existence. Your 'Void' is merely a state under 'Dao'. How can a state negate the definer itself?"

At the moment of realization, an unprecedented light burst out in Lin Wan's eyes, a light of wisdom that saw through the fog and saw the Origin.

He no longer burned his Dao Fruit, because that newborn power belonging to the "beginning of Dao" was already stable, and it began to automatically repair his damaged Dao Fruit, Physical Body, and Divine Soul.

He slowly raised his hand, and towards the "Void Cage" that was constantly shrinking and seemed to want to completely "wipe out" him, he tapped gently.

"Dao... Beginning!"

There was no earth-shattering momentum, no dazzling brilliance. Only a tiny, imperceptible point of pure "Being" light, as if containing the very first ray of light from the birth of the Universe, flew out from Lin Wan's fingertip and gently tapped on the barrier of the "Void Cage".

"Pop..." A sound so slight it was almost inaudible, as if a bubble had burst, rang out.

The next moment, in the incredulous, even slightly horrified gaze of the Holy Lord Clone, his "Void Cage", which was enough to "negate" the Peak of Void Refining, or even "quasi-immortal" existences, was like ice and snow encountering the scorching sun, instantly melting and disintegrating!

It was not broken, not destroyed, but... "defined", "contained", and "assimilated" into a part of "Being", becoming an insignificant background supporting that point of "Being" light.

The cage shattered, and Lin Wan's figure appeared in place, completely unharmed.

Around his body, there was no longer chaotic gray light, no longer destruction black rays, no longer Purification white light, and no longer Reincarnation phantoms.

Only a faint layer of halo, as if it did not exist, yet was real and undeniable, indescribable in words, representing "existence" itself, shrouded him.

Under this halo, the Holy Lord Clone's omnipresent, terrifying "Void" pressure seemed to have lost its effect and could no longer cause him any influence.

"Impossible! This is impossible! You... you actually... touched the Realm of the 'beginning of Dao'?! How is this possible?! You are just a Lower Realm Soul Transformation Cultivator!!"

The Holy Lord Clone lost his composure for the first time. Those pale, flame-like eyes jumped violently, and his voice was full of disbelief, and even... a trace of extremely faint fear?

"There is nothing impossible." Lin Wan's voice was calm, but carried an unquestionable majesty. "Your 'Void', in my eyes, is no longer invincible. Today, I will let you see what the true... Dao is!"

As the words fell, Lin Wan raised his hand again. This time, he pointed his fingers like a sword, and at his fingertip, a glimmer of light representing the "beginning of Dao" and defining "existence" slowly lit up.