The Heavenly Way has fallen, and the Defying Way reigns supreme.

The roar of the Heavenly Dao Incarnation shook the entire Hongmeng Realm; its golden Origin sprayed out like blood, greedily devoured by the Chaos Demonic Flame.

Its massive body staggered backward, and at the wound in its chest pierced by the Reverse Path Source-Severing Blade, Chaos and golden light violently intertwined and eroded each other, with every flicker causing its aura to weaken by a fraction.

The momentum of defeat was like water bursting through a dam, unstoppable.

"No... impossible... I am the Heavenly Dao... the source of order... how could I be defeated by a mere Reverse Dao Practitioner..."

The blurred face of the Heavenly Dao Incarnation twisted, the flames in its golden eyes flickering violently, filled with unwillingness, resentment, and a trace of... fear that even it was unwilling to admit.

It could feel that the Reverse Dao Power invading its body was like the most stubborn plague, frantically destroying its Origin structure, blocking its energy connection to the "threads" of the Three Realms, and even devouring its power in reverse!

Yet the tiny figure opposite it saw his aura rising continuously with the devouring, becoming increasingly unfathomable!

"The source of order? After today, this order should be changed."

Nightmare's voice was cold and ruthless; he pulled out the Reverse Path Source-Severing Blade, bringing out a trail of golden Origin light rain, and then raised it again!

The Chaos Demonic Flame gathered frantically on the blade, and the phantoms of the three dao reversal keys floated and roared within the flames, emitting an aura of ultimate destruction.

The Heavenly Dao Incarnation's pupils constricted, and the shadow of death completely enveloped it.

It looked up abruptly, letting out a final, hysterical roar: "Reverse Dao Practitioner! Even if I fall, you won't have peace! The Heavenly Dao mark has spread throughout the Three Realms; with a single thought, I can trigger the annihilation of all living beings, making the Three Realms be buried with me!"

As it spoke, its broken body suddenly erupted with a final, blinding golden light, and those countless "threads" connecting the Three Realms shook violently, seemingly about to transmit some kind of destructive command along the threads, detonating all marked living beings and earth veins!

Mutual destruction!

"Want to drag the Three Realms down with you?" A sharp light flashed in Nightmare's eyes, "Did you ask me first?!"

He had long been prepared for this!

Almost at the same time the Heavenly Dao Incarnation tried to trigger the threads, the Chaos mark on Nightmare's chest, which had fused with the three dao reversal keys, suddenly erupted with unprecedented, brilliant light!

"Three Keys Resonance — Reverse Path Sealing the Heavens!"

"Hum——!!!"

A terrifying force field, invisible and intangible, yet seemingly capable of freezing time and space and isolating Karma, instantly spread from Nightmare as the center to the entire heartland of the heavenly dao core, and even spread in reverse along those trembling "threads"!

This force field was not an attack, but an ultimate "sealing"!

It was the most fundamental "negation" and "isolation" of the Heavenly Dao order by the Reverse Path Law!

Those Heavenly Dao threads that were trembling violently, attempting to transmit the destructive command, froze instantly upon touching this Reverse Path Sealing the Heavens force field, like venomous snakes whose throats had been gripped!

The Heavenly Dao runes flowing on the threads quickly dimmed and disintegrated, and the connection with the Heavenly Dao Incarnation's main body was forcibly severed and disrupted!

The Heavenly Dao Incarnation's final resort was strangled in the cradle!

"No——!!!" The Heavenly Dao Incarnation let out a desperate and unwilling roar, its final struggle completely interrupted.

"It's over." Nightmare would no longer give it any chance.

He gripped the Reverse Path Source-Severing Blade with both hands, which had condensed all his power and devoured a massive amount of Heavenly Dao Origin, and raised it high above his head.

On the blade, the Chaos Demonic Flame retracted, turning into an ultimate, deep darkness that seemed capable of returning all things to "nothingness."

At the tip of the blade, a point of extreme black light flickered, as if it could even devour one's gaze.

"This strike is for the countless living beings in the Mortal Realm whose fates you manipulated and whose Origin you extracted."

"For the thousands of Cultivators in the Spirit Realm whom you regarded as pastures and took from at will."

"For the so-called 'Immortal Dao' in the Immortal Realm that you kept in captivity and turned into your food."

"And also for... myself."

Nightmare said each word clearly, his voice cold, yet it seemed to carry the weight of ten thousand tons.

"Grandmist Reverse Path — End · Return to Ruins!"

The moment his voice fell, the dark blade in his hand slashed down silently.

There was no earth-shattering momentum, no dazzling light.

Only a black line, as thin as a hair and pure to the extreme, extended from the tip of the blade, gently slicing through the massive body of the Heavenly Dao Incarnation, through the violently pulsating golden core in its chest that resembled a heart, and also through the huge golden sphere of light suspended behind it, which represented the root main body of the Heavenly Dao.

Time seemed to stand still at this moment.

The Heavenly Dao Incarnation's movements, expressions, and even the golden flames burning around its body, all froze.

The next instant.

"Pfft..." A faint sound, like a hot knife cutting through butter.

The Heavenly Dao Incarnation's ten-thousand-zhang-tall body, starting from the position sliced by the black line, silently split into two!

The cut was smooth as a mirror, with no blood spraying; only the purest golden Origin radiance poured out frantically from the cut like a flooded river!

And that golden sphere of light representing the core of the Heavenly Dao's will was also, at the same time, pierced straight through by that black line!

The light sphere shrank violently, as if feeling the ultimate destruction, and then, its surface was covered in dense black cracks!

"Crack... Boom!!!"

The golden light sphere, along with the severed remains of the Heavenly Dao Incarnation, exploded at the same moment! It turned into an endless, dazzling golden light rain, shooting out in all directions!

The heavenly dao core was shattered! The Heavenly Dao Incarnation was destroyed!

The vast Hongmeng Realm seemed to lose its support at this moment and began to shake and collapse violently!

Those countless "threads" connecting the Three Realms broke inch by inch, turning into light spots and dissipating.

The entire space was filled with violent and disordered turbulence of Origin energy.

Nightmare stood at the center of this destruction, the Chaos Demonic Flame around him automatically forming a huge vortex, like a black hole, frantically devouring and absorbing the purest, most primordial Hongmeng Heavenly Dao power gushing out from the broken core and Incarnation!

This was the ultimate nourishment accumulated by the heavenly dao core over hundreds of millions of years, extracted from the Three Realms!

At this moment, it was exposed without reservation, becoming ownerless, and becoming... the winner's trophy!

A massive amount of Heavenly Dao Origin, of unimaginably high quality, surged into Nightmare's body like a torrent.

He felt his cultivation, Physical Body, and Divine Soul all skyrocketing and transforming at an incredible speed!

The barrier of the Peak of Undergoing Tribulation had long been washed away, and he was stepping toward an unprecedented Realm that only existed in legends!

Inside his body, that Chaos mark was spinning and expanding frantically, as if it were about to evolve into a real, miniature "Reverse Path Universe"!

The color of the Hongmeng Reverse Dao Demonic Star Flame became deeper, and within the heart of the flame, scenes of the creation of the world and the birth and death of the Universe seemed to be unfolding.

I don't know how much time passed; perhaps it was an instant, perhaps ten thousand years.

When the last trace of pure Heavenly Dao Origin was devoured completely, and when the collapse of the Hongmeng Realm gradually subsided (although it was already a chaotic ruin), Nightmare slowly opened his eyes.

In his eyes, a Chaos-colored light flashed and vanished, returning to deep calmness.

But beneath that calmness lay a terrifying pressure sufficient to make the heavens and stars tremble and all Laws of Dao bow their heads.

He gently clenched his fist, feeling the surging, seemingly omnipotent new power within his body, as well as the "Reverse Dao Dominator Mark" that had already stabilized and become the core of his power.

Reverse Path Dominator Realm!

He succeeded! Not only did he slay the Heavenly Dao, but he also devoured its core Origin, breaking through the shackles in one fell swoop and stepping into this unprecedented supreme Realm!

At this moment, he was the only, supreme Dominator in these Three Realms! He was the source of the new "Dao"!

But the matter was not yet over.

Nightmare's Divine Sense, like mercury pouring onto the ground, and like a supreme monarch inspecting his territory, instantly covered the entire Three Realms — the Mortal Realm, Spirit Realm, and Immortal Realm!

He could clearly "see" that with the fall of the heavenly dao core and the breaking of those control and extraction "threads," in various places of the Three Realms, a certain invisible shackle within countless Cultivators quietly disintegrated, the flow of Luck became natural, and many Cultivators who had been stuck at a Bottleneck for many years suddenly had an epiphany and began to break through.

But at the same time, riots broke out in some places.

These were the remnants, those loyal to the old Heavenly Dao, or forces that originally relied on the Heavenly Dao to act tyrannically; upon sensing that "Heaven" had collapsed, they either tried to hide in panic, struggled in their death throes to counterattack, or took the Opportunity to cause Chaos and plunder.

There were also some areas where weak but stubborn Heavenly Dao marks remained, attempting to recongregate or incite Chaos.

"Hmph, stubborn and refusing to change, seeking your own death."

Nightmare's eyes turned cold, his killing intent awe-inspiring.

Since he had promised to give freedom to the Three Realms, how could he allow these dregs and tumors of the old era to continue to exist?

With a thought, the authority of the Reverse Path Dominator was activated.

Somewhere in the Immortal Realm, a hidden altar dedicated to the old Heavenly Dao statue suddenly collapsed, and in the secret chamber beneath the altar, several die-hard Elders who were trying to communicate with "Heaven" through Blood Sacrifice suddenly bled from their seven orifices, their Divine Souls inexplicably shattered, and they died on the spot.

In a deep mountain in the Spirit Realm, a Sect that had originally relied on the Heavenly Dao and bullied other forces saw its mountain-protecting array extinguish without warning, and all Cultivators within the mountain gate whose cultivation was above Soul Transformation and who had dense Heavenly Dao marks on them simultaneously felt a sharp pain in their Purple Mansion, their cultivation instantly abolished, and they were reduced to Mortals.

In a city in the Mortal Realm, several Cultivators who were taking advantage of the Chaos to rob and loot, and who carried faint Karma (evil deeds related to the old Heavenly Dao order), were grinning and raising their butcher knives, but in the next second, their bodies suddenly stiffened, and they fell to the ground as if their Souls had been extracted, their lives cut off.

Nightmare's figure appeared, as if teleporting, at every node where riots and hidden dangers broke out in the Three Realms.

He did not need to act; with just a thought, a single glance, the pressure of the Dominator Realm and the Reverse Path Law could descend from across space, easily erasing those "discordant" existences as if wiping away dust.

Those who submit to me can enjoy a free new life. Those who oppose me will be executed, no matter how far away they are!

His cleanup was efficient and cold, regardless of cultivation level or background, only judging whether they were too deeply connected to the old Heavenly Dao or whether they caused trouble when he established the new order.

In a short time, throughout the Three Realms, countless remnants of the Heavenly Dao, stubborn forces, and opportunists who caused Chaos, whether in the open or in secret, were silently cleared away, their Divine Souls destroyed, without even causing a ripple.

When the last trace of hidden danger was extinguished and the flow of Luck in the Three Realms completely returned to peace and nature, Nightmare stopped traveling.

He hovered at the highest point of the Immortal Realm, overlooking the vast world below that was gradually restoring order and radiating a completely different vitality.

He spoke slowly, his voice not grand, but clearly, like a whisper of Law, resonating in the hearts of every living being in the Mortal Realm, Spirit Realm, and Immortal Realm simultaneously:

"The old Heaven is dead, the new Dao is established."

"The Heavenly Dao's control of Luck, the game of shackling all living beings, ends today."

"From now on, Cultivators of the Three Realms shall follow their own hearts, comprehend their own Dao, seize the fortune of Heaven and Earth, and fight for supreme Opportunities."

"There will be no more Heavenly Fate constraints, no more forced determination of Luck."

"The Reverse Path does not deceive; freedom is the Foundation. However—"

"If anyone dares to defy the new order, engage in the exploitation and plunder of the old Heavenly Dao, or challenge my authority..."

"Kill, without pardon!"

The last three words, carrying killing intent as cold as a severe winter and the unquestionable majesty of a Dominator, were deeply branded into the depths of the Divine Soul of every listener, making all living beings, regardless of their strength, feel a shudder from their very Souls and... awe.

The new era began with iron, blood, and slaughter, descending in a way where freedom and absolute power coexisted.

Nightmare, the Reverse Path Dominator, became the only Dominator and rule-maker of these Three Realms.

He took one last look at this world that had regained new life, his figure slowly fading as he returned to his Foundation in the Mortal Realm — Ten Thousand Demon Valley.

There, many things still needed to be arranged; the new order needed power to maintain and enforce.

The era belonging to the Reverse Path Dominator officially began.