416: Chapter 416 Resurrection (34)

In Wang Yun's palm, a cluster of brilliance, radiant to the extreme, hovered.

This was the Mandate of Heaven he had extracted from Ancient Path One's body.

It also represented the only emperor seat of this era.

It pulsed joyfully, emitting a sense of intimacy.

It was eager to achieve complete Fusion with Wang Yun, to help him ascend to that Supreme throne that countless Cultivators could never reach in their entire lives.

However, Wang Yun's gaze was incredibly calm, even carrying a hint of imperceptible indifference.

He reached out with his other hand, his fingertips gently touching the cluster of brilliance.

In an instant, he clearly perceived that this Mandate of Heaven, which should have been pure and flawless as the embodiment of the world's will, had been contaminated at some point by a strange power he found familiar.

It was no longer pure.

Forcing a Fusion might allow him to rule the world immediately, possessing matchless Imperial Dao power.

But that strange power would surely become like a maggot on a bone, the greatest hidden danger on his future path, and might even cause him to repeat the mistakes of his previous life, being eroded once again.

A flash of determination crossed his eyes.

Under the shocked, puzzled, and horrified gazes of all the spectators across the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands, Wang Yun made a decision even more insane and shocking than slaying an Emperor.

He grasped the cluster of brilliance with both hands and exerted sudden force.

He was going to tear this Mandate of Heaven apart with his own hands!

"Buzz!"

The golden cluster of light let out a shrill wail, it struggled violently and erupted with vast power of Law in an attempt to resist.

However, before Wang Yun's palms, which were capable of crushing a Saint Weapon and bore the power of a nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine zhang Dao Fruit, everything was in vain.

In the starry sky, countless powerful spectators fell into an unprecedented daze.

Some old monsters who had lived through several eras accidentally knocked over the ten-thousand-year tea cups before them, their expressions dazed.

Some Sect Masters of Immortal Forces stood up in horror, unable to believe their eyes.

"Crazy... He's crazy! That's the Mandate of Heaven!"

"Tearing the Mandate of Heaven? Is he declaring war on the Heavenly Dao? Unheard of since ancient times!"

"No!"

A roar filled with shock, anger, endless resentment, and despair echoed from that shattered starry sky.

It was Ancient Path One.

He watched helplessly as the "Mandate of Heaven," which he had regarded as his lifelong pursuit and which had just ruthlessly abandoned him, was now about to be destroyed by Wang Yun's own hands; his Dao Heart completely collapsed.

He could not accept it.

This was more painful than killing him.

"Stop! You lunatic! Stop!"

Ancient Path One roared frantically, dragging his broken body as he tried to rush over and stop it, but his power had long since been exhausted, leaving him only able to let out powerless wails in the Void Realm.

No one paid attention to the lamentations of this loser.

The eyes of the entire Universe were fixed intently on Wang Yun's hands.

They watched as the golden cluster of light, representing the uniqueness of the era, was torn apart bit by bit.

At the very moment the Mandate of Heaven's light cluster was about to be completely torn apart.

A Supreme power far exceeding a Great Emperor and reigning above all Daos descended without warning.

This power was a more terrifying form of "erasure."

It intended to completely wipe Wang Yun, this "anomaly" who dared to provoke the Heavenly Dao and tear the Mandate of Heaven, from the level of Karma.

Wang Yun's heart tightened as he felt a true crisis of death, and the Heart Heavy Pupils within his body warned him frantically.

A crisis—it was extreme danger.

This unknown power was likely even more terrifying than the remains of that mysterious Heart Sword Supreme in the Guixu Sea.

The nine-lotus dao lotus behind him shone brilliantly, and his Major Achievement Yin-Yang Indestructible Body was pushed to its limit, trying to resist this Supreme power of erasure.

However, before such absolute rules, all his resistance appeared pale and powerless.

Under everyone's gaze, Wang Yun's body began to dissipate bit by bit starting from his fingertips, turning into nothingness.

His Divine Soul, his Dao Fruit, and every trace of his existence were being completely erased from this Universe by this ruthless power.

All the spectators were awestruck by this might of the Heavenly Dao, their minds going blank and their Divine Souls trembling.

Was this the Heavenly Might?

Irresistible, unpredictable, and inviolable.

In another Supreme battlefield, Chen Yang and Gu Zhan, who were fighting bloody battles, also felt the earth-shattering change here, and their hearts were filled with dread.

"Brother Yun!"

Chen Yang let out a sorrowful cry, hoping that Wang Yun's "immortal and indestructible" trait would take effect once more.

However, several breaths passed.

Wang Yun's figure, along with his aura, completely disappeared from that Void Realm.

There was no sign of revival.

His "immortality" had failed for the first time under the absolute rules of the Heavenly Dao's erasure.

After confirming that Wang Yun had been completely erased, that Supreme power slowly receded.

The starry sky returned to a deathly silence once more.

That Mandate of Heaven, half-torn and dimmed in light, floated in the Void Realm for a moment.

Then, as if receiving some command, it returned to Ancient Path One's broken body.

Imperial might descended once again.

Ancient Path One felt the power he had lost and regained, even more majestic than before, and all the cracks in his Dao Heart were filled with a sense of euphoria and distorted victory.

He slowly stood up from the ground and roared at the sky, his laughter manic and distorted.

"Do you see! I am the one destined by the Mandate of Heaven! I am the ultimate winner!"

"Hahahaha!"

"Yun! You thought you won? You are nothing but a buffoon overestimating himself beneath the Heavenly Dao! And I am the one chosen by the Heavenly Dao!"

"Daring to defy the Mandate of Heaven! Heaven-Defying ones shall be executed!"

"From this day forth, I, Ancient Path One, shall be Great Emperor Dao Yi!"

He released his imperial might wantonly, enjoying this "lost and found" Supreme glory, his words filled with mockery for Wang Yun's overestimation and futile resistance.

He had won.

In a way he himself had never imagined, he had won this position of Great Emperor.

...

In everyone's perception, Wang Yun had completely perished.

An invincible legend who had dominated an entire era had thus come to an end.

Chen Yang and Gu Zhan fell into immense grief and despair; they repelled their opponents but could no longer feel that familiar aura.

However, within that absolute nothingness where Wang Yun had been erased, which no one could observe.

All time, space, Karma, and Law no longer existed.

But in the cracks of that Supreme rule's erasure, the core "Indestructible" Origin of Wang Yun's Major Achievement Yin-Yang Indestructible Body exhausted its last strength to preserve a sliver of "life force" smaller than a speck of dust amidst absolute death.

This sliver of life force was not Wang Yun's remnant soul, nor was it his consciousness.

Rather, it was an extremely tiny phantom of a "flower bud" on his nine-lotus dao lotus that shouldn't have existed, representing the possibility of the birth of a Tenth Lotus.

This flower bud was a brand-new "life" born within the ultimate "death" of being obliterated by the Heavenly Dao.

It was the seed of the "Tenth Lotus" that surpassed the limit of Nine Lotuses.

True hope was already quietly gestating in an unknown corner, within the Realm of death.