368: Chapter 359 The Sixth Incarnation: Heavenly Venerable (Forty-Seven)

In the past, precise deductions and lock-ons based on clear heavenly secrets and Karma would have been possible, but against the current backdrop of Chaos in the heavenly secrets and the collapse of Karma, they were almost entirely ineffective!

The veteran Dao Lords were too busy looking after themselves; they were either participating in that terrifying great war or cowering in terror within their Dao Realms, reinforcing their defenses. Where would they find the spare energy or will to penetrate these layers of "chaotic fog" to accurately locate and risk taking action to hunt a "newly ascended Dao Lord" who might exist, but whose position, timing, and even existence were uncertain?

An opportunity!

A once-in-a-thousand-years opportunity!

An unprecedented and unrepeatable opportunity!

Almost at the same time, in different corners of the myriad worlds, in different secret places, and deep within different space-time faults, Peak existences whose auras had long reached the Peak of the Golden Core Ultimate Realm—but who had suppressed themselves like dormant volcanoes for hundreds or thousands of years—all opened their eyes in unison. Their gazes were burning, resolute, and carried a hint of frantic excitement!

They "watched" the apocalyptic scenes outside and felt the Dao turbulence and destructive fluctuations that were enough to cause a low-level Cultivator's Soul Flying Away and Spirit Scattering. Instead of fear, their faces showed expressions of relief, and even wild joy!

"The heavenly secrets are in Chaos, and the Great Dao is vibrating... If I do not attain the Dao now, then when?!"

A burly giant, living in seclusion deep within a lightning-blasted wasteland with purple lightning coiling around his body, suddenly stood up and let out a roar toward the sky that had been suppressed for far too long!

He no longer suppressed it, completely triggering the "Lightning" Dao Rhyme within his body that was already at Perfection and even overloaded!

A thick pillar of purple lightning shot into the sky, violently tearing through the barriers of the "Lightning Desolation," frantically devouring and assimilating the violent energy and shattered Laws of various attributes scattered by the great war outside, beginning the ultimate transformation!

"Hahaha! Let it be Chaos! The more Chaos, the better!"

Deep within the ruins of an ancient battlefield filled with endless slaughter and blood, an ancient existence consisting only of a skeletal frame, with ghostly green soul-fire burning in its eye sockets, let out a raspy and crazed laugh!

He devoured the negative auras of slaughter, death, and resentment permeating from the great war outside. Flesh and blood rapidly grew onto his skeletal body, and his aura climbed step by step!

"Where the Dao lies, though thousands may stand against me, I shall go!"

A middle-aged scholar with a lean face, wearing a Confucian robe and holding a book, stood in the air above a Mortal city that was about to be destroyed by the aftershocks of the great war. Looking at the despairing masses below, a flash of pity and determination crossed his eyes.

He threw out the book in his hand. The book unfurled, turning into an endless torrent of words shimmering with the light of civilization, enveloping the entire city. Simultaneously, his own aura resonated with the torrent of words and the Power Of Will for survival from the millions of lives in the city, beginning an attempt to condense an unprecedented new Dao Lord Fruit Position centered on "Enlightenment," "Civilization," and "Protection"!

One, two, three...

Like springs that had been compressed for too long, they rebounded frantically the moment the constraints were suddenly removed! Like a cluster of volcanoes that had been silent for eons, they erupted one after another in unison amidst the most violent tremors of the earth's crust!

The "Tribulation of Attaining the Dao," which previously required being cautious and treading as if on thin ice for fear of exposure, had become so "safe" at this moment! The previously clear Great Dao phenomena were perfectly concealed; the previously predatory hunters were too busy with themselves or found it difficult to locate targets!

One newly ascended Dao Lord after another would be born against the tribulation like bamboo shoots after a rain during this final moment where blood and Chaos intertwined!

The Dao Lord positions that the world lacked were being rapidly filled at this moment!

...

Wei An stood leaning against a railing, his plain robes snapping loudly in the chaotic heavenly winds that were billowing violently due to the aftershocks of the world-ending war in the distance.

He was not filled with panic and despair like ordinary Cultivators, nor was he filled with the wild joy and impulsiveness of those newly ascended Dao Lords seizing the opportunity.

Those eyes, which had settled through a hundred years of wind and frost, discerned the vicissitudes of the world, and faintly reflected the mysteries of his main body's "The Way of Man and Heaven," were as calm as a bottomless ancient well. Only in the deepest part of his pupils did a sharp light suddenly ignite, piercing through all restraint and stillness!

"A hundred years of lying low,"

He whispered to himself. His voice was not loud, yet it seemed to produce the deepest resonance with the vast Dynasty beneath his feet—which he had personally guided, reformed, and nearly controlled—and with the breath, Power Of Will, and Luck of the billions of lives within the invisible "Order Community" that radiated across most of the Mortal realm.

"Laying the foundations in the Mortal realm, organizing the way of humanity, perfecting the destiny dynasty, and accumulating Luck... everything was for today."

He clearly "perceived" that the Laws and heavenly secrets of the world, which had been stable for endless ages, had become unprecedentedly "loose" and "chaotic" due to that world-ending battle!

The previously clear lines of Karma and conspicuous Great Dao phenomena were all covered and confused by the violent battle aftershocks and disordered Dao Rhymes!

This was precisely the most perfect screen and protective charm he had waited a hundred years for!

"The Dao Lord position of Humanity has been vacant for a long time."

Wei An slowly raised his head, his gaze seemingly piercing through the dark and distorted sky above Yintian City caused by the great war, looking toward the phantom of the "Humanity" Dao Lord Fruit Position that floated in the unseen upper reaches of the river of fate and the Great Dao, emitting a warm and majestic glow.

That Fruit Position once belonged to the Su Yuan of his previous life; now it was masterless, yet it seemed to have been waiting for its true successor.

"Today, I shall attain the Dao of Humanity once more!"

He took a step forward, leaving the railing of the Star Gazing Pavilion, and stood suspended in the air ten thousand feet above Yintian City!

His aura, which was perfectly rounded and restrained at the Peak of the Golden Core Ultimate Realm, no longer hid itself in the slightest and erupted completely with a boom!

"Buzz—!!"

It was not a simple release of energy, but a majestic, heavy, and grand Dao Rhyme containing complex true meanings such as "Law," "Livelihood," "Enlightenment," "mutual aid," and "Order." Like a sleeping Dragon awakening, it shot into the sky from within Wei An's body!

This Dao Rhyme was completely different from the Dao of ordinary Cultivators who pursued individual transcendence and the ultimate in power!

It was more like the "soul" of a civilization operating in an orderly fashion, the "momentum" formed by the convergence of billions of individual wills under certain fair rules!

"With the 'Order' I have practiced for a hundred years as the bone!"

Wei An raised his hands into the air, as if embracing the entire world.

In Yintian City, the legal statutes engraved in various places suddenly glowed with a faint light; in the various government offices, the invisible threads of authority and responsibility emerged clearly; in the schools, the sound of rhythmic reading converged into ripples of civilization; in the marketplaces, fair trade and orderly labor emitted a burgeoning vitality...

The entire city seemed to transform into a massive and precise "Order" formation, producing a powerful resonance with Wei An's Dao Rhyme!

"With this city as the core, radiate across all territories!"

Wei An's voice was like a great bell, resounding in all directions.

It was not just Yintian City!

In the vast Mortal realm, countless cities, villages, and even those forces secretly attached to him, which were influenced by his philosophy and covered by his systems, all had faint lights of Order igniting at this moment. Wisps of humanity's Luck and the Power Of Will of all living beings crossed mountains and rivers, converging frantically toward Yintian City and toward Wei An like a hundred rivers returning to the sea!