Four Domains Forces, Encirclement and Suppression in the Secret Realm

The stairs leading to the fourth level of the Dao Palace seemed endless, spiraling upward and disappearing into a mist of Chaos.

Nightmare's footsteps were unhurried; each step landing on the ancient stone stairs produced only a faint echo.

The surroundings were eerily silent.

The boundary between the third and fourth levels should theoretically be a place where the Dao Palace's rules transitioned, filled with turbulent Origin currents and hidden dangers.

But right now, it was too quiet.

It was so quiet that even the 'rustling' sound of the flowing Origin was clearly audible.

Nightmare stopped at the last step and looked up.

Before him was not the expected gateway, but a spatial fault forcefully torn open, behind which the more ancient and magnificent outline of the fourth level was vaguely visible.

This should have been a spatial fold of the Dao Palace itself, but now it looked like a giant mouth deliberately opened.

At the edge of the fault, the space retained traces of abnormal, violent fluctuations.

'An ambush?'

He pulled his lips into a cold arc, too lazy to even fully lift his eyelids.

Almost the instant his words fell—

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!

Four distinctly different yet equally incomparably powerful 'Dao Master Realm' pressures erupted suddenly from the Void Realm surrounding the fault, like four erupting volcanoes!

The pressure solidified, crimson, ice blue, dark green, and earthy yellow interlacing to instantly form a giant cage covering ten thousand zhang!

'Four Domain Heaven Sealing Formation—Activate!'

A vigorous shout echoed.

Immediately, dense figures stepped out from the spatial layers in all directions, numbering over fifty, each with a powerful aura, the lowest being High Sovereign Realm!

They were divided into four sides, vaguely led by four Elders with the most majestic auras.

Those four Elders were the source of the four-colored pressure.

One had red hair like fire, with thunder coiling around his body; one had white hair covered in frost, with cold air crystallizing with every breath; one was as burly as a bear, with beast patterns appearing on his exposed skin; the last one wore the iconic black Daoist robe of the Tianyan Alliance, his eyes sinister.

Tianyan Alliance, Thunder Fire Domain, Ice Seal Domain, Myriad Beast Domain.

The four hegemon-level forces of the Middle Universe Domain had actually joined forces to set an ambush here!

'Reverse Dao Practitioner Nightmare!' The Dao Master Elder of the Tianyan Alliance spoke first, his voice cold, 'You slaughtered our alliance's Cultivators and seized our alliance's Opportunity; you deserve to die! Today, our Four Domain coalition is here to ensure your Divine Soul is utterly destroyed as a warning to others!'

'Why waste words with him!' The Thunder Fire Domain Elder was hot-tempered, his red hair standing on end, 'A mere junior in the Dominator Realm, relying on some Reverse Path evil power, dares to run rampant in our Universe Domain? Today, I will let you know what it means to be out of your depth!'

The Ice Seal Domain Elder said nothing, just waved his hand, and the temperature within the ten thousand zhang space plummeted, causing even the flowing Origin to start condensing into ice flowers.

A low beast roar came from the Myriad Beast Domain Elder's throat, and several massive beast shadows—giant bears, wild lions, fierce eagles—vaguely appeared behind him, their bloodthirsty gazes locked onto Nightmare.

Four Dao Master Realm Early Stage, fifty High Sovereign Realm Peak.

Such a lineup was enough to sweep through any single force in the Middle Universe Domain.

At this moment, it was just to surround and kill one person.

Nightmare stood in the formation, his gaze calmly sweeping over the faces around him, some ferocious, some indifferent, some greedy.

Finally, his gaze returned to the Tianyan Alliance Elder.

'The Tianyan Alliance has no ability of its own, so you started calling for help?' His tone was flat, even carrying a hint of boredom, 'Finding three people to be buried with you is quite loyal.'

'Arrogant!'

'Seeking death!'

The four Elders shouted angrily at the same time.

The Four Domain Heaven Sealing Formation suddenly contracted, the four-colored pressure merging into a terrifying force of Chaos color, crushing toward Nightmare in the center like a millstone!

This force had already surpassed the mere Dao Master Realm Early Stage, vaguely touching the threshold of the Middle Stage, vowing to crush everything in the formation into powder!

Fifty High Sovereign Realm Cultivators also attacked simultaneously, the light of various Divine Abilities and Magic Treasures illuminating the fault space, merging into a destructive torrent that followed the pressure and blasted toward Nightmare!

Facing this absolute kill situation that would make any Dao Master Realm Mid-stage Cultivator change color, Nightmare finally moved.

He did not retreat, nor did he defend.

Instead, he stepped forward.

Just one step.

Hum—!

With the point where his toes landed as the center, an absolute, deep darkness that seemed to swallow all light and heat spread out silently!

Dao Reversal Ultimate Kill Domain, activate!

Within the Domain, the Laws were inverted, and order collapsed.

The crushing Chaos pressure, the moment it touched the dark Domain, was like ice encountering boiling oil, emitting 'hissing' melting sounds, its power sharply reduced!

And around Nightmare, the Hongmeng Reverse Dao Demonic Star Flame erupted completely, no longer in a simple flame form, but fused with the entire dark Domain.

He seemed to have become the Domain itself, the sole Dominator of this inverted world.

'Seal the Heaven?' Nightmare looked up, his pitch-black pupils reflecting the sky full of incoming Divine Ability brilliance, 'I will break your heaven first!'

He raised his right hand and grasped empty air in front of him.

Within the Domain, countless pitch-black Demonic Flame tentacles reached out from the Void Realm, not attacking those Cultivators, but fiercely piercing into the energy nodes of the formation base that constituted the 'Four Domain Heaven Sealing Formation' all around!

Crack! Crack! Crack!

Teeth-aching cracking sounds rang out one after another.

The seemingly unbreakable four-colored formation patterns, under the erosion of the Nidao Demonic Flame, actually shattered like glass, piece by piece!

'Not good! The formation is broken!' The Ice Seal Domain Elder's expression changed.

The moment the formation broke, Nightmare's figure disappeared.

It was not teleportation, but within the Domain he controlled, he had reached a speed that was almost 'omnipresent'!

The first target—the Thunder Fire Domain Elder!

'Old thing, you are the loudest.' A cold voice sounded in the red-haired Elder's ear.

The Thunder Fire Domain Elder turned his head in horror, only to see a fist wrapped in pitch-black Demonic Flame rapidly enlarging in his field of vision.

He roared, the Thunder Fire Origin around his body boiling, condensing into a giant shield intertwined with lightning and fire to block in front of him.

Boom!!!

The Demonic Flame fist smashed into the giant shield.

No stalemate, no explosion.

The shield shattered, the fist entered.

Puchi!

The fist punched through the Thunder Fire Domain Elder's chest without any flair, protruding from his back, clutching an Origin core that was still faintly beating and coiled with thunder and fire.

'Uh...' The Thunder Fire Domain Elder looked down at the hole in his chest, the vitality in his eyes rapidly dissipating.

Even in death, he did not understand why his Dao Master Realm defense was as fragile as paper.

Nightmare shook off the residue of the core on his hand and turned his gaze to the fifty High Sovereign Realm Cultivators.

At this moment, these powerhouses who were enough to dominate a region in the outside world were no different from ants in his eyes.

He waved his left hand casually.

Within the Domain, the Demonic Flame surged to the heavens!

It turned into countless ferocious Demonic Dragons, sweeping toward those fifty people!

'No—!'

'Run!'

Screams, wails, and desperate roars rang out in unison.

Where the Demonic Flame passed, the protective divine light of the High Sovereign Realm Cultivators annihilated like bubbles; their Physical Bodies and Divine Souls, under the terrifying Reverse Path burning, didn't even leave behind ashes.

Just three breaths.

Fifty High Sovereign Realm Peak Cultivators—all annihilated!

In the fault space, only the energy embers drifting in the sky remained, along with the other three dumbfounded, chilled-to-the-bone Dao Master Realm Elders.

'Monster... he is a monster!!' The Myriad Beast Domain Elder's voice trembled, no longer having any ferocity.

The ferocious beast shadows behind him were now all whimpering in fear.

'Split up and run!' The Ice Seal Domain Elder was the most decisive; before his words faded, he had already turned into a blue stream of light, shooting into the distance.

The Tianyan Alliance Elder and the Myriad Beast Domain Elder also reacted instantly, fleeing frantically in two other directions!

'Run?'

Nightmare stood in place, not even chasing.

With a thought, at the edge of the Domain, three pitch-black long ropes formed entirely of Demonic Flame, with ferocious barbs at the ends, crossed the space instantly like living poisonous pythons!

Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!

'Ah!'

'No!'

Two short screams rang out almost simultaneously.

The Ice Seal Domain Elder and the Myriad Beast Domain Elder were pierced through the heart from behind by the long ropes and dragged back forcibly, the Demonic Flame frantically eroding their Origin, preventing them from even self-destructing.

Only the Tianyan Alliance Elder seemed to have crushed some kind of life-saving Talisman, his speed increasing explosively, and he was about to rush out of the fault range.

Nightmare glanced at him, raised his hand, and a wisp of extremely condensed Demonic Flame shot out from his fingertip.

'Fall.' A light word.

The Demonic Flame was as thin as a hair, but it was faster than the concept of space, and the moment the Tianyan Alliance Elder was about to disappear into the Void Realm, it entered the back of his head.

The Elder's figure froze suddenly, the light in his eyes extinguishing instantly.

The corpse maintained the forward-rushing posture, floated forward a few more zhang, then fell weakly.

Nightmare beckoned, and the four Elders' storage Magic Artifacts and the core tokens representing their respective forces flew into his hands.

His Divine Thought swept over them roughly, and a large amount of information regarding the internal structure, resource distribution, and powerhouse intelligence of the Four Domain forces flooded into his mind.

He closed his eyes, digesting it slightly.

A few breaths later, he opened them.

His gaze seemed to penetrate layers of space, casting toward the vast starry sky of the Middle Universe Domain.

The next moment, a cold, domineering Divine Soul transmission containing endless killing intent spread out from him, instantly spreading throughout the entire Primordial Dao Palace Secret Realm, and even faintly penetrating the Secret Realm barrier, entering the perception of certain high-level members of the Four Domain forces in the outside world:

'The Primordial Dao Palace Legacy belongs to me.'

'Send more troops—'

'And I will exterminate their entire clan.'

The transmission echoed, carrying an absolute will that brooked no doubt, and along with the monstrous ferocity of having just slaughtered four Dao Masters and fifty High Sovereigns, it was deeply branded into the Divine Soul of every Cultivator who perceived this voice.

Inside the fault space, it was dead silent.

Nightmare dispersed the Domain, no longer looking at the energy ashes and corpses all over the ground, turned around, and stepped into the spatial crack leading to the fourth level of the Dao Palace.

The Nidao Guards appeared silently and followed closely behind.

Leaving behind only this dead zone soaked in blood and death, and that declaration that chilled one to the bone, slowly dissipating in the Void Realm.