Chapter 1201: Divine Soul Trembles! (Part 2)

The moment the words fell, the turbulent golden and white torrents within Xu Ran’s body suddenly halted!

Immediately following, a law of “Yi,” chaotic yet all-encompassing, emerged thunderously from the source of Xu Ran’s Divine Soul!

Once this law appeared, the originally incompatible traces of the Divine and Celestial laws seemed as if they had found their monarch, instantly becoming meek.

They no longer opposed each other, but instead began to revolve and merge slowly around the central “Yi” law, following an enigmatic trajectory!

The golden “existence” and the white “erasure” began to transform into one another under the True Essence of “change”!

Xu Ran’s body ceased its cycle of collapse and rebirth.

His left side, governed by the cold white law, gradually faded and transformed into a profound gray representing “the return of all things to silence.”

His right side, governed by the brilliant golden law, became restrained, turning into a color of chaos filled with endless vitality, representing “the beginning of all creation.”

Gray and chaos, life and death, yin and yang.

At his chest, where the two colors met, a brand new Dao Seal slowly took shape.

That seal was no longer a simple yin-yang symbol but a constantly rotating, three-dimensional Mobius Ring, containing countless possibilities of creation and destruction!

Reincarnation Dao Seal, Great Success!

BOOM!!!

An aura far surpassing the previous one, faintly brushing against the threshold of “Daoist Monarch,” erupted from Xu Ran’s body and soared into the sky!

The entire “Furnace of Ten Thousand Daos,” driven by this aura, increased in operational efficiency by a hundredfold!

The boundless Metal Tomb, countless remnants of warships, began to weather and disintegrate at a speed visible to the naked eye, transforming into the purest fragments of Dao Principles, which were devoured by the Grand Array and flowed into Xu Ran, becoming the foundation of his new Dao!

His cultivation skyrocketed at an unimaginable speed!

Daoist Master Early Stage!

Daoist Master Mid Stage!

Daoist Master Late Stage!

Daoist Master Peak Stage!

Only one step away from breaking through the bottleneck, defining a cosmos with his own Dao, achieving the position of “Daoist Monarch!”

“Endowment!”

Xu Ran’s eyes opened and closed, divine light shining. He shouted once and struck the void with a reversing palm.

The refined and purified “Path of Guardian” and “Indomitable Battle Intent” transformed into golden rain, penetrating the hull of the Pioneer with pinpoint accuracy, falling upon Zhen Shan and all the Gui Xu warriors.

“Ah!”

Zhen Shan let out a joyous roar, feeling an unprecedented power surging into his body, breaking through his long-standing bottleneck in cultivation. Originally blurred insights into Dao became crystal clear at this moment!

Not only him, all the kings and Gui Xu warriors found their aura soaring under this golden rain!

This is a grand fortune!

One man attains Dao, chickens and dogs ascend to heaven!

Yet, just as the entire furnace reached its peak and Xu Ran prepared to launch his assault on the Daoist Monarch realm.

A sudden mutation occurred!

At the core of the Grand Array, the Chaos Immortal Gold, serving as the Taotie’s great maw, suddenly emitted a cry of unbearable agony!

It had devoured too broadly, too deeply!

Beneath countless remnants of the Divine Court’s fleet, deeper within the layers, it touched upon… something not belonging to the Divine Court nor the Celestial Order!

It was a broken fragment, a bone finger of some unknown creature…

Only about a foot long wholly black as ink, it bore no runes or Dao traces, only an aura of primal, ancient savagery and ominousness.

When this bone finger was pulled out by the Grand Array’s power, a weak yet incredibly malicious and insane thought, spanning the barriers of time and space, exploded directly within Xu Ran’s mind!

“…A conspiracy… everything is a conspiracy! ‘Celestial Order’ is not the guardian, it’s a thief! It stole the ‘Fruit’… it pilfered the ‘Doomsday Fruit’ of all worlds!”

“…The way back ‘home’ is blocked by it… we can’t return…”

“…Find the ‘Primal Seed’… it’s the only… variable…”

Though chaotic and fragmented, the information contained in this thought struck Xu Ran like a thunderbolt!

The Celestial Order is a thief?

Doomsday Fruit? Way back ‘home’? Primal Seed?

These unfamiliar terms seemed to unlock a door, leading him to deeper layers of terrifying truths!

The war between the Divine Court and the Celestial Order might only be a trivial prelude on this cosmic stage?

BOOM!!!

The moment Xu Ran’s Heart Spirit trembled, that bizarre black bone finger seemed to be triggered by some taboo and suddenly exploded!

An aura far exceeding the Divine Court and Celestial Dao traces, filled with chaos, madness, indescribable pollution, erupted, instantly overturning the energy circuits of the “Furnace of Ten Thousand Daos!”

CRACK! CRACK!

The Chaos Immortal Gold at the core developed fine cracks on its surface!

The entire Grand Array came to a sudden halt!

Xu Ran’s process of breaking through to the Daoist Monarch realm was forcibly interrupted!

He suddenly spat out a mouthful of reversed blood mingled with gray and gold, his face turning pale.

Yet his eyes were brighter than ever.

He looked up, gazing at the deathly silent gray firmament.

Twenty-seven days had passed.

The final deadline was imminent.

Above the sky, a massive silver cross had appeared, rotating slowly…

That cross, cold and sacred, brimmed with absolute order and authority. Each rotation rigidified and strengthened the laws of this prison Star Domain.

An intimidating pressure far surpassing that of the previous Cleaner Fish and normal Daoist Monarchs descended slowly like the heavens collapsing.

The new “Executioner” had arrived.

“Just… in time.”

Xu Ran rose slowly, wiping away the blood from his mouth.

Though he failed in his assault on the Daoist Monarch, his gain was beyond imagination. His Reincarnation Dao had already reached Great Success, his power surpassing what it was eighteen days ago by more than tenfold!

More importantly, he had glimpsed a hint of the secret hidden behind the Celestial Order.

“A thief, huh…”

Xu Ran’s lips curled into a cold arc.

He extended his hand, gazing at the Reincarnation Dao Seal that spun in his palm, containing infinite possibilities.

“Let me see whether your so-called ‘Celestial Order’ is truly a sacred judge or a shameful thief!”

“Today, with my Reincarnation, I pronounce you… guilty!”

Once the words fell, he took a step forward, his figure disappearing from the Pioneer. When he reappeared, he was standing atop the ninth heaven, directly facing the slowly descending silver cross that carried out heaven’s punishment!

A battle deciding life and death, a final confrontation of Dao against Dao, unfurling now!

A battle deciding life and death, a final confrontation of Dao against Dao, unfurling now!

Starry skies, deathly silent, with no sound.

The gigantic silver cross hovered above the sky like a judgmental monument descending from the source of “Law.” It rotated slowly, suspended in the sky without releasing any energy fluctuation or awe-inspiring pressure, only exuding an extreme sense of “existence.”

It was as if there, it was the heavens, the earth, the sole law and truth.

Under its radiance, the concept of time and space redefined, becoming viscous and solidified. The lines of law constituting this prison Star Domain were forcibly twisted, corrected, aligning with the “absolute order” it represented. The irregular breaches on the floating metal wreckage began to emit a silver glow, showing a tendency to be “corrected” into perfect geometric forms.

This is a power more frightening than erasure—correction! To correct all “variables” and “irrationalities” from the root into the “truth” form it acknowledges.

On the Pioneer, Zhen Shan and others who had just experienced a boost in power trembled as if fallen into an ice cave, their Divine Souls quivering. In front of the silver cross, they felt like incorrect lines of code, or circles drawn skewely needing erasure and rewriting in the next moment.