Chapter 1760: Control Until Death
If the Empress Dowager did not die, almost everyone in Yankang would be suppressed by her. Even the Ultimate Extreme Void of the Moon Venerable would be crushed by her completely.
The two divine abilities and one method that Xu Shenghua mentioned were indeed the only way to counter the Empress Dowager.
“My two little lovers, do you think it will still work now that you have spoken the method to deal with me right in front of me?”
The Empress Dowager couldn’t help but laugh out loud: “I have heard your words, and I will still fall for it? Don’t underestimate me too much, would you?”
Xu Shenghua said seriously, “Your Majesty, even if Lan Yutian and I discuss how to deal with you, and tell you every specific step and every detail without holding anything back, you still won’t be able to avoid it.”
There was a powerful confidence in his words, a confidence that the Empress Dowager had only ever seen in Qin Mu.
No matter how strong a person’s faith was, after spending too much time with Qin Mu, they would be beaten down until they were utterly defeated, their confidence far less than before.
The Empress Dowager had a deep understanding of this.
In the past, the Ten Celestial Venerables were lofty and aloof, but after coming into contact with Qin Mu, each of them had their Dao hearts shattered to the point of collapse. She was like this, and so was the Heavenly Emperor Hao.
But Xu Shenghua was an exception.
He was one of the few who could still maintain strong confidence and faith in front of Qin Mu, and he even believed that he was stronger and smarter than Qin Mu!
On the Ferry of Salvation, the three of them stood motionless.
Suddenly, Xu Shenghua activated his reincarnation divine ability. The Empress Dowager’s expression changed slightly as she unleashed all her power and charged toward Xu Shenghua. The reincarnation divine ability was indeed one of the few abilities that could affect her. Xu Shenghua used it first, trying to find her weakness.
The Guixu Dao-Seeker had no weaknesses in techniques or divine abilities; the only weakness was the heart, and the reincarnation divine ability excelled at controlling the heart.
At the same time, Lan Yutian stepped sideways to block in front of Xu Shenghua. The two fought at lightning speed, unleashing a barrage of divine abilities. In an instant, the Empress Dowager was hit by countless divine abilities again. However, even though Lan Yutian had become one of the strongest in the world, he could not harm her in the slightest. Instead, her power only grew stronger!
Just then, a halo of light suddenly passed through the various divine abilities of the two, and Xu Shenghua’s reincarnation divine ability erupted.
The halo reached the Empress Dowager. She did not dodge Lan Yutian’s divine abilities and instead focused all her power on the Guixu Great Dao to resist this halo.
Buzz!
The halo flashed past, and then was swallowed by her Guixu Abyss, vanishing without a trace.
“The path of reincarnation is useless against me!”
As soon as the Empress Dowager said this, Lady Yuanmu suddenly appeared from nowhere, laughing, “Sister, what nonsense are you talking about?”
The Empress Dowager was startled, but then she saw Taichu walking over from somewhere, his expression gentle as he said, “Zitong, I like both you and Yuanmu.”
“Scumbag!” the Empress Dowager scolded angrily.
“Mother!”
She then saw Xie Wuqi. The young Xie Wuqi was as cute as snow and ice, running toward her with open arms.
The Empress Dowager couldn’t help but bend down, wanting to pick up her son, but suddenly her face twisted with ferocity, and she shouted, “They’re all fake! Just illusions in reincarnation!”
She activated her Guixu divine ability, killing Yuanmu and Taichu. Only the young Xie Wuqi made her hesitate for a moment before she killed him too.
“Zitong, why did you do this?” Taichu appeared again, looking at her with confusion.
The Empress Dowager killed him again. Yuanmu appeared from nowhere, sneering, “Sister, do you really think you can kill me? We are one; another me lives inside your body. You will never get rid of me!”
The Empress Dowager roared in anger. The adult Xie Wuqi appeared, his expression sorrowful: “Mother, is power really that important to you?”
The Empress Dowager slaughtered in all directions.
In front of her, Xu Shenghua stood still, halo after halo of reincarnation continuously flowing from his brow.
She had fallen into his reincarnation divine ability. This ability was not an illusion of divine consciousness but a reincarnation of consciousness. His path of reincarnation was not as profound as Qin Mu’s, and the Empress Dowager had also cultivated the path of reincarnation. Making her fall into reincarnation was extremely difficult; he had to suppress her path of reincarnation.
Therefore, he used the reincarnation divine ability to cultivate other consciousnesses within her mind while continuously activating the ability, causing her to sink deeper and deeper into reincarnation.
Meanwhile, Lan Yutian continued to clash with the Empress Dowager. Although she was trapped in reincarnation, when she killed Yuanmu, Taichu, and others within it, she used divine abilities.
These abilities would be unconsciously executed by her physical body, so Lan Yutian had to ensure Xu Shenghua’s safety by blocking these abilities.
Xu Shenghua multitasked, mobilizing the five major ore veins in his divine treasury, trying to imitate the Red String Knot Seal with his own Dao and techniques.
The Red String Knot Seal was a technique from Miluo Palace, and its power source was the Hongmeng rune. The Hongmeng rune had been copied by Wei Suifeng and sent to Yankang. Many people had studied it, but few could cultivate the Hongmeng rune, let alone the Hongmeng primordial energy.
To cultivate the Hongmeng rune, one first needed to cultivate the Taiji, Taisu, Taishi, Taichu, and Taiyi runes, progressing step by step.
The same applied to cultivating the Hongmeng primordial energy.
When Xu Shenghua and Lan Yutian created the Ancestral Court Dao Realm system and cultivated to the World Tree, they had to cultivate the Five Tai runes, turning them into five ore veins.
Here, Lan Yutian had the deepest cultivation, but he had to block the Empress Dowager’s unconscious attacks, so only Xu Shenghua could execute the Red String Knot Seal.
The Ferry of Salvation soared into the sky, carrying the three of them higher and higher, rushing through layers of void toward the Ultimate Void.
Suddenly, spatial secret realms spread out, capturing the Ferry of Salvation. The Dao tree of the Joy Hall Master stood ahead. This Hall Master had now fully descended into the Seventeenth Era, and the Dao injury left by Shang Jun had healed, restoring her Hall Master demeanor.
Her divine ability erupted, and the Ferry of Salvation could not fly into the Ultimate Void, only shuttling through the various spaces formed by her Dao.
Suddenly, the sound of the Moon Venerable’s zither came, melodious, cutting through the Joy Hall Master’s divine ability.
Space became blades, thirty-six invisible blades slashing toward the Joy Hall Master.
The Joy Hall Master sneered. Countless leaves flew from her Dao tree, each turning into a Joy Hall Master, surging toward the Moon Venerable from all directions.
Her divine ability swept over the golden ship, pulling it back again.
Each Joy Hall Master transformed from the Dao tree leaves used different divine abilities—this was her strength!
The Moon Venerable’s zither tone vibrated. Spatial cross-sections stood everywhere, and suddenly, within each spatial cross-section, thirty-six Heavenly Palaces and seventy-two Divine Halls appeared, forming a vast and majestic Great Heavenly Court.
Under the Great Heavenly Court, Jiang Baigui’s figure emerged, charging out from these spatial cross-sections to battle the Joy Hall Master. Tens of thousands of Joy Hall Masters used different divine abilities, while tens of thousands of Jiang Baigui used different techniques to counter them!
The clash between two cultivators of the Ultimate Extreme Void was spectacular.
The Moon Venerable’s divine abilities were not much inferior to the Joy Hall Master’s in subtlety, but her cultivation was far behind. Jiang Baigui, however, had taken the path of acquired Dao attainment; he had not been affected by the Jade Capital Trap or the Lingxiao Trap, so his cultivation and strength remained intact.
The two complemented each other, greatly increasing the pressure on the Joy Hall Master.
Even so, the Joy Hall Master could still block the Ferry of Salvation while fighting both of them simultaneously.
Suddenly, the Moon Venerable’s zither tone changed, becoming fierce and murderous. She played continuously, transforming into the thirty-seven kills of Shang Jun’s Killing Dao Melody!
The Joy Hall Master’s hair stood on end. She immediately went into full defense, protecting herself. The Ferry of Salvation broke through the void and rushed into the Ultimate Void.
“You tricked me!”
The Joy Hall Master, not seeing Shang Jun, flew into a rage and struck viciously at the Moon Venerable and Jiang Baigui!
One of her Dao fruits flew from her Dao tree, plunged into the Ultimate Void, and headed straight for the Ferry of Salvation.
On the Ferry of Salvation, Xu Shenghua finally completed the Red String Knot Seal. He spread his five fingers and pressed them onto the Empress Dowager’s face. The Red String Knot erupted.
Inside the Empress Dowager’s mind, her consciousness was struggling in reincarnation, constantly breaking through layers of it, trying to escape.
Qin Mu had once taught her the path of reincarnation, but he had hidden flaws in it, causing her and Yuanmu’s consciousnesses to constantly clash and fight each other. However, it was extremely difficult for Xu Shenghua to trap her with the path of reincarnation. She had been caught off guard earlier, but now that she had figured out the mysteries of consciousness reincarnation, she no longer paid attention to the reincarnation divine ability and kept jumping out of each cycle.
Just as her consciousness was about to break free, five red lights suddenly drilled into the reincarnation, like a giant red handprint, pressing her down with one palm.
The Empress Dowager’s consciousness fell into the center of that palm, crushed down with a rumbling roar, passing through layers of reincarnation light, and in an instant, falling into countless cycles.
“Switch!”
As Xu Shenghua said this, he and Lan Yutian crossed paths. Xu Shenghua resisted the unconscious attacks of the Empress Dowager’s true body, while Lan Yutian used the reincarnation divine ability to control her consciousness.
Xu Shenghua’s Red String Knot had few variations. His knot seal would be easily broken by the Empress Dowager. If she broke free, the two of them would be in danger.
Moreover, his reincarnation divine ability had been figured out by the Empress Dowager, making it easier for her to break it each time.
However, Lan Yutian’s path of reincarnation was different from Xu Shenghua’s.
This path of reincarnation had no fixed form. It was created by the Nether Emperor and perfected by Qin Mu, but Qin Mu had not attained Dao through it, so it was not yet a complete Great Dao. Each person who cultivated it might comprehend different things.
With Lan Yutian executing it, the Empress Dowager would need more time to break it.
As for the Red String Knot Seal that Lan Yutian had comprehended, although it also had few variations, his variations differed from Xu Shenghua’s, which could also buy some time.
Xu Shenghua faced the Empress Dowager head-on, blocking all her unconscious attacks. The Empress Dowager’s Guixu domain began to disintegrate in the Ultimate Void.
At that moment, a Dao fruit flew over. Suddenly, it radiated brilliant light, shooting out beams of light. With one strike, it knocked the Ferry of Salvation out of the Ultimate Void!
The Ferry of Salvation crashed through layers of void, and the Dao fruit followed behind, shooting beam after beam of light, causing the domains of Xu Shenghua and Lan Yutian to tremble violently, making it difficult to resist the Empress Dowager’s Guixu domain.
The excellent situation collapsed!
Just as the Empress Dowager was about to wake up, suddenly, Shang Jun’s Killing Dao Melody sounded, accompanied by a blade of light that rose from below, slicing through the Joy Hall Master’s Dao fruit!
The first kill of Shang Jun’s Killing Dao Melody!
Shang Jun had truly arrived.
When the second kill of Shang Jun’s Killing Dao Melody sounded, the blade light was like a ribbon, cutting the split Dao fruit into pieces.
When the third kill sounded, tens of thousands of Joy Hall Masters were cut in half, blood spilling across the sky.
As the fourth, fifth, sixth, and other kills of the Killing Dao Melody sounded, the area around the Joy Hall Master became a sea of blood, littered with fallen and withered limbs.
The Joy Hall descended from the sky, crashing down with a roar onto that blade of light, shaking Shang Jun out of it and suppressing him beneath the Joy Hall.
The Joy Hall Master, covered in blood and wounds, stood in front of the hall and shouted, “Shang Jun, do you think you can ambush me twice? I am no longer the one who just descended…”
As she spoke, under the Moon Venerable’s zither, the Killing Dao Melody was pushed to the thirty-seventh kill, the murderous aura surging to its peak.
In the thirty-seventh kill, a blade of light split the Joy Hall!
A look of horror appeared on the Joy Hall Master’s face. Just as she was about to dodge, Jiang Baigui flew over, and the seventy-two halls and thirty-six heavenly palaces crashed down, suppressing her form!
At the same time, the Ferry of Salvation once again charged into the Ultimate Void. Xu Shenghua and Lan Yutian’s forms crossed, spinning around the Empress Dowager, their steps moving constantly. Sometimes Xu Shenghua blocked the Empress Dowager’s attacks, sometimes Lan Yutian did. Whenever they had an opportunity, they used the reincarnation divine ability or the Red String Knot Seal, keeping her tightly controlled.
The Ultimate Void and the Guixu domain clashed violently. These two were determined to control the Empress Dowager until she died!
—Happy birthday to Yu Xiaoqing and Sanshengyuan Ansheng, two alliance leaders!!