Chapter 1813: Nanxiang Dissolves into the Dao
When the Six Paths Heavenly Wheel rolled forward, it spun continuously. The three thousand Yan Kang cultivators on the wheel unleashed a rain of divine abilities like arrows, causing heavy casualties among the cultivators of Miluo Palace in an instant!
Dao trees shattered in the radiance of Dao techniques. Some Dao fruits had just risen into the air when they were pierced by ten thousand swords. Other cultivators, before they could even react, had their physical bodies smashed and their primordial spirits obliterated by dozens of Dao techniques and divine abilities.
As for the divine abilities they launched against the Six Paths Heavenly Wheel, their power often dissipated abruptly before they could even approach the Yan Kang cultivators on the wheel.
Even the hall masters of Miluo Palace, whose divine abilities could penetrate the Six Paths Heavenly Wheel and injure the Yan Kang cultivators upon it, found that the wheel would rotate once and heal the Dao wounds of the Yan Kang cultivators, restoring them to their peak state.
The crushing force of the massive wheel itself was also a terrifying attack.
Even more terrifying was the power of the Reincarnation Dao emanating from within the wheel.
Although Qin Fengqing, who controlled the wheel, was inferior to Qin Mu in terms of magical power, his understanding of the Reincarnation Dao surpassed Qin Mu's. When he activated the Six Paths Heavenly Wheel, any cultivator from Miluo Palace who drew near would involuntarily fall into reincarnation. Their physical bodies would be transformed, their primordial spirits altered, and even their Dao techniques and divine abilities would be changed.
As the Miluo Palace cultivators attacked from all directions, those who came slightly closer found their physical bodies, forged from the Great Dao, beginning to decay and their Dao collapsing!
Some who reached the edge of the Six Paths Heavenly Wheel had already turned into piles of white bones. Even their Dao trees began to wither, their Dao fruits turning yellow and falling off, losing all their power.
If this were the Six Paths Heavenly Wheel that Qin Fengqing had personally refined, it would not be so terrifying. This wheel was forged by Qin Mu after destroying the Abyss of Return to Nothingness, using the Chaos Stone he mined there. After thirty-five billion years of polishing and refinement, its power was almost comparable to the Dao weapons of the young masters.
This was precisely why the young masters, Lingxiao and Zixiao, had wanted to shatter the Six Paths Heavenly Wheel from the very beginning.
Without breaking the Six Paths Heavenly Wheel, it would be very difficult for the cultivators of Miluo Palace to achieve a decisive victory, and even their survival would be precarious.
The Reincarnation Dao was a brand-new Great Dao, one that had never been created by anyone in the past sixteen cosmic epochs. It was one of the fruits of the Yan Kang Reformation.
In those past sixteen cosmic epochs, the only one who had mastered this Dao was the Seventh Young Master, Chaos.
However, the Seventh Young Master, Chaos, had already fused this inconceivable Dao with his own Chaos Dao, making it even more bizarre.
Moreover, the Seventh Young Master's actions were mysterious and secretive, making it even more impossible to understand this Dao.
There were many cultivators in Jade Capital City, including as many as fifty-six hall masters. Each of these fifty-six hall masters had achieved the pinnacle in a specific field. Their cultivation and strength might not match those of the young masters, but each one's unique accomplishments were extraordinary!
The master of Miluo Palace and the seven young masters possessed remarkable abilities, but even they might not be able to achieve what the hall masters had accomplished.
Furthermore, Miluo Palace never prohibited its cultivators from learning its various Dao techniques and divine abilities. Therefore, every cultivator in Miluo Palace had achievements that allowed them to stand on their own!
Even so, facing the Six Paths Heavenly Wheel, they were utterly powerless to resist.
"First, break the Six Paths Heavenly Wheel!"
The fifty-six hall masters shouted in unison. With a fierce cry, fifty-six treasure halls soared into the air. The halls suddenly disintegrated, transforming into countless Dao patterns and Dao chains. Above were the blue heavens, below was the great earth, forming layers of the Luo Heaven Upper Realm of the Dao.
This was the Luo Heaven Upper Realm, surpassing the Dao tree system, belonging to the fortieth level of the Heavenly Dao realm.
The Great Daos of the fifty-six hall masters combined perfectly, and they jointly activated their Daos, unleashing a heaven-shaking, earth-shattering strike.
They had strong confidence. The foundation of Miluo Palace far surpassed what Yan Kang had developed over thirty-five billion years!
Although Yan Kang had developed the strange and unique Reincarnation Dao, Miluo Palace had faced countless enemies over the past sixteen cosmic epochs, including behemoths like Heavenly Capital City, and had come through safely.
Yan Kang was merely a single page in the long history of Miluo Palace. Although it was a brilliant page, writing an extraordinary chapter in this history, it was still difficult to shake Miluo Palace!
"Miluo Combined Dao!"
The fifty-six hall masters spoke as one. A vast, boundless power erupted from the forest of Dao trees. This was another type of combined attack technique.
The Miluo Dao Burial was a combined attack technique created by two young masters specifically targeting Qin Mu's techniques and divine abilities. It was highly targeted. The Miluo Combined Dao, on the other hand, was a great divine ability created by Miluo Palace to target beings of the young master level.
The Miluo Dao Burial, aimed at Qin Mu, had greater lethality when facing him, but it was less effective against others.
The Miluo Combined Dao mimicked the phenomenon that occurred when the master of Miluo Palace merged with the Dao. Although its power was not as strong as the Miluo Dao Burial, the Dao resonance of the master of Miluo Palace merging with the Dao had an extremely strong suppressive effect on any other Dao technique or divine ability!
The power of the Miluo Combined Dao expanded rapidly. Vaguely, within the forest of Dao trees, ten thousand Dao chains formed a massive phantom. This phantom slowly rose, and it was the phantom of the master of Miluo Palace!
As soon as this Dao technique was unleashed, the three thousand Yan Kang cultivators within the Six Paths Heavenly Wheel all felt an urge to prostrate themselves in worship. Their own Daos trembled and submitted!
Even the power of the Six Paths Heavenly Wheel was greatly reduced at this moment!
The fifty-six hall masters were about to activate the Miluo Combined Dao, shatter the Six Paths Heavenly Wheel, and kill the three thousand Yan Kang cultivators, when suddenly the power of the Miluo Combined Dao plummeted!
The hall masters were panicked, not knowing what had happened. A strange force was disrupting the Miluo Combined Dao, and this force came from among the fifty-six of them!
"Nanxiang Yuanjun!"
Hua Du Hall Master immediately pinpointed the source of this force. He was furious and let out a roar. At that moment, Nanxiang Yuanjun withdrew her own Great Dao, completely destroying the artistic conception of the Miluo Combined Dao.
The phantom of the master of Miluo Palace, formed by countless Dao chains, had just risen when it immediately collapsed and shattered.
Boom!
The Six Paths Heavenly Wheel rolled forward, charging into the midst of the fifty-six hall masters. Countless divine abilities sent the powerful hall masters flying. Xu Shenghua, Lan Yutian, Kaihuang Qin Ye, and other hall master-level figures immediately seized the opportunity to strike viciously at the various hall masters!
Nanxiang Yuanjun, having sabotaged the Miluo Combined Dao, immediately took advantage of the chaos to retreat and landed on the Six Paths Heavenly Wheel.
"I have been waiting for you for some time."
Qin Fengqing, controlling the Six Paths Heavenly Wheel, freed up two arms and greeted Nanxiang Yuanjun. "My younger brother said that Nanxiang Yuanjun would surely lend a hand at the critical moment. It seems his words were not false."
Nanxiang Yuanjun returned the greeting and said, "Nanxiang is not helping the Seventh Young Master, but helping Miluo Palace. The current Miluo Palace has lost the aura and bearing it had when the teacher was alive, and it has also deviated from the teacher's ideals. Gentlemen, please rest assured. After this battle, regardless of victory or defeat, Nanxiang will follow the teacher's example, dissolve all her Dao cultivation, and return to heaven and earth."
Qin Fengqing said, "Yuanjun can reincarnate. The future Yan Kang will also need someone like Yuanjun."
The formation of the other hall masters was scattered by the impact. After a fierce struggle, they finally managed to escape the crushing force of the Six Paths Heavenly Wheel. But in this short moment, six hall masters had lost their lives. Coupled with Nanxiang's defection, the fifty-six hall masters were reduced to forty-nine.
After this chaos, the number of dead and wounded cultivators was incalculable.
"Everyone has their own aspirations. There is no need to curse Nanxiang. She has chosen another path, and naturally, she has her reasons."
Hua Du Hall Master stopped the other hall masters from cursing and said, "Our struggle with the Seventh Young Master and Yan Kang is a struggle of ideals. There is no right or wrong. The forty-nine of us hall masters can still fight by using the Miluo Combined Dao! As long as we break the Six Paths Heavenly Wheel, we still have a chance of victory!"
The forty-nine hall masters stopped cursing Nanxiang Yuanjun and immediately activated the Miluo Combined Dao great divine ability again.
Although seven hall masters were missing, the power of the Miluo Combined Dao was still exceptionally terrifying. With one strike, Qin Fengqing immediately found it difficult to control the Six Paths Heavenly Wheel. The wheel collapsed, with the six great cycles of reincarnation either shattering or splitting apart, rolling away in all directions.
Lan Yutian, Xu Shenghua, and others quickly stepped in to save many Yan Kang cultivators, but many were still smashed to pieces.
The massive wheel rolled into the forest of Dao trees, also crushing many Miluo Palace cultivators who were too slow to dodge.
Even so, the number of Miluo Palace cultivators was still far greater than that of Yan Kang, and the number of hall master-level existences was also greater.
Lan Yutian, Xu Shenghua, and others gathered the people and descended. Xu Shenghua looked back and saw the Ancestral Court Chaos Cauldron assembled within Jade Capital City. The power of this heavy artifact was completely suppressed by Jade Capital City, rendering it useless.
Apart from the Six Paths Heavenly Wheel, the only thing they had to oppose Miluo Palace was the Ancestral Court Chaos Cauldron, but with the cauldron suppressed, their situation suddenly became very unfavorable.
Suddenly, Nanxiang Yuanjun said, "Jade Capital City is merely a strange treasure used to suppress the Calamity of Destruction and the Calamity of Creation. It does not actively attack. It was only because the power of the Chaos Cauldron was too strong that the two young masters activated the power of Jade Capital City to suppress it. If we leave Jade Capital City, we still have a chance to fight. The remaining hall masters and cultivators are not enough to control Jade Capital City."
As soon as she finished speaking, Xu Shenghua and Lan Yutian immediately retreated. The two of them placed their four palms together and struck the Ancestral Court Chaos Cauldron.
Whoosh!
The Ancestral Court Chaos Cauldron flew out of Jade Capital City with a roar. Xu Shenghua and Lan Yutian immediately turned back and charged in, rescuing the people and rushing out of Jade Capital City.
Nanxiang Yuanjun, after all, was also a hall master of Miluo Palace with formidable strength. She took advantage of the chaos to kill her way out of Jade Capital City and joined the group.
"Jade Capital City contains various strange treasures. There is a well in the city, refined by the First Young Master, Taishang, called Tongtian, which connects to past universes. The First Young Master is benevolent and tried to use this well to save the beings of past cosmic epochs."
Nanxiang Yuanjun spoke rapidly. "There is also the strange treasure Feiyan, a treasure refined by the Second Young Master when he dissolved his own Dao realm upon achieving Dao. The Third Young Master's strange treasure is Dayu. He hates evil as if it were his enemy and uses this treasure to suppress enemies. The Fourth Young Master's strange treasure is Huiguang Mirror, which can capture people..."
"Nanxiang!"
Hua Du led the group out of the city and, upon hearing this, shouted loudly, "Do you have to drive us, your fellow disciples, to our deaths? Although everyone has their own aspirations, do you not remember the friendship of our shared path?"
Nanxiang Yuanjun looked at the approaching crowd from Miluo Palace, all familiar faces. She sighed inwardly and also described the strange treasures of the Fifth and Sixth Young Masters. "Although these strange treasures are not Dao weapons, their power is extremely strong, and you must be wary of them. There is also the strange treasure of the Seventh Young Master in the city, hidden under the master of Miluo Palace's cushion. Find this treasure, and you will have a chance of victory."
She rose into the air, landed at the front of the formation, and bowed deeply to Hua Du Hall Master and the others. "Although I oppose you all due to a difference in ideals, I truly cannot overcome this barrier in my own Dao heart and cannot bear to strike against you. Since I have betrayed my fellow disciples, I should naturally dissolve into the Dao and depart. In the next life, I will no longer recognize you all." As she spoke, her entire Great Dao disintegrated, leaving only her soul.
A hall master was about to strike and destroy her soul to vent his hatred, but Hua Du stopped him, shaking his head. "It is merely a conflict of ideals. There is no right or wrong. Let her go."
You Tianzun raised his hand and collected Nanxiang's soul. "Fellow Daoist Nanxiang, we will meet again in the next life." With that, a divine ability escorted her soul, flying it towards the myriad realms.