Chapter 1207 - 551: Dao Principles Analysis! (2)

The touch at his fingertip was not the texture of metal, but a warm, jade-like smoothness that yet carried an endless sense of ancient vicissitudes.

At the very instant his fingers brushed the Turtle Shell, the Reincarnation Dao Seal behind his head trembled violently!

Boom!

A torrent of information so vast it was beyond imagination surged madly along his fingertip into his Sea of Consciousness!

It was not a Cultivation Technique, nor an inheritance, but fragments upon fragments of "prophetic" images from a distant past!

Xu Ran saw a star sea flourishing to the extreme. Innumerable beings in cyan Daoist robes, each with a Turtle Shell mark at their brow, sat cross-legged upon the star river, plucking at the strands of fate.

The scene shifted, and above the firmament, a silver cross descended!

That was... a Judicator! But countless times stronger than the γ-7 he had encountered!

"Heavenly Principle without Dao, you steal my fruit, you sever my path! The Xuantian Clan People shall never be slaves!"

A tragic roar of fury resounded throughout an entire epoch.

He saw countless Xuantian Clan People burn their own lives and Dao, pouring all their Power into this enormous Turtle Shell.

"With the blood of my clan, with the soul of my Dao, divine a single thread of life!"

"Divine... the variable!"

"Divine... the breaker of the game!"

On the Turtle Shell, every line lit up, radiating an unprecedented brilliance as it resisted the "correction" Power of that silver cross.

In the end, the image froze.

All the radiance on the Turtle Shell drew back, leaving only a final, blurry prophecy branded into the deepest layer of the shell.

That prophecy held only four characters.

"Reincarnation... breaks the game."

The information torrent abruptly cut off. Xu Ran jerked his hand back, shock filling his eyes.

So, at the final moment of its annihilation, the Xuantian civilization had actually used an entire civilization as the price to perform an ultimate divination, calculating that the key to breaking the future deadlock lay in "Reincarnation"!

They had calculated him?

No, perhaps not. They had only divined that only the paradoxical Dao of "Reincarnation" was the sole key to opposing the absolute order known as "Heavenly Principle".

"My Lord, you..." Zhen Shan saw the change in Xu Ran’s expression and asked with concern.

Xu Ran shook his head, his gaze once more falling upon that Turtle Shell. He could feel that within this Turtle Shell, besides that prophecy, there was sealed the last, and most refined, "divination Source" of the Xuantian civilization.

This Power was a tremendous tonic for his Reincarnation Dao!

His Reincarnation could rotate life and death, but his grasp of the "future" was still a blur. If he could devour this Source, his Dao would be able to step into the Domain of "fate"!

"Reincarnation Hall, stand guard for me!"

Xu Ran made the decision on the spot, sitting cross-legged before the Turtle Shell.

"Yes, my lord!" Zhen Shan and the others immediately piloted the Pioneer to hover nearby, activating all Defense Arrays and watching their surroundings with utmost vigilance.

Xu Ran drew in a deep breath. The Daoist Monarch manifestation of Reincarnation appeared behind him, and the enormous M?bius ring Dao Seal began to slowly rotate.

"Reincarnation, devour!"

An invisible suction force burst from the Reincarnation Dao Seal, enveloping the entire bronze Turtle Shell.

Buzz—

The Turtle Shell began to quake violently. Sensing a Dao Principles Power of the same Source yet utterly different, it instinctively resisted. On its surface, countless ancient divination Runes lit up, evolving all manner of illusory future calamities, trying to drag Xu Ran’s Heart Spirit into them, to have him sink there for all eternity.

"Playing with illusions in front of me?"

Xu Ran snorted coldly, his Dao Heart as steady as bedrock.

"My body is Reincarnation itself. All tribulations, once they enter my Reincarnation, become my nourishment!"

The Daoist Monarch manifestation behind him, that gray eye representing "death," suddenly opened, shooting out a beam of Annihilation Divine Light. Wherever the Divine Light passed, all calamity illusions shattered, turning into the purest Energy, which was absorbed by the Reincarnation Dao Seal.

The Turtle Shell’s resistance grew weaker and weaker.

In the end, with a sigh that seemed to drift from the primordial ages, strands of cyan "divination Source," as resplendent as a star river, were forcibly drawn out from the Turtle Shell, transforming into a long river of cyan light that surged unceasingly into Xu Ran’s Reincarnation Dao Seal!

Xu Ran’s aura climbed steadily higher!

His Reincarnation Domain expanded and perfected itself at an astonishing pace. In the world that had been only gray and white, strands of cyan threads representing "fate" and "variables" began to appear.

His eyes grew even deeper. His left eye was Chaos, his right eye ashen with death, and in the deepest part of his pupils, countless possible futures seemed to arise and perish in alternation.

Daoist Monarch First Heaven... Perfection!

He was only a single step away from the Second Heaven!

Yet just as Xu Ran finished devouring this Source and was about to achieve complete Perfection—

The entire Metal Tomb, this prison Star Domain that had lain in Deathly Silence for countless epochs, suddenly... moved!

Rumble—

A low roar so deep even a Daoist Monarch would feel trepidation rolled forth from the deepest part of this Star Domain.

It was not sound, but a rhythm of "awakening"!

As if a peerless Fierce Beast that had slumbered since antiquity had been completely awakened by Xu Ran’s wanton actions!

All the metal wreckage—whether that broken Divine Sword or that collapsed golden Divine Hall—at this moment began to gleam with a layer of cold, utterly lifeless metallic luster.

Their orientation began to slowly change.

Like countless loyal guards, they turned their broken "edges" from afar to aim at a single point—where Xu Ran stood!

An indescribable pressure, icy, deathly silent, filled with an absolute will to slaughter, surged in like an invisible tide from all directions!

Under this pressure, the Defense Arrays of the Pioneer emitted a wail of unbearable strain, and fine cracks actually began to appear across the hull!

"This is bad!" Cang Shi blanched in terror. "My lord has awakened the ’thing’ in this place! This pressure... far surpasses the previous Judicator! This is... this is the true Power of the ’graveyard’!"

Zhen Shan’s entire body of golden Battle Intent Law was suppressed until it dimmed to nothing. He felt as though his very Divine Soul was about to be frozen by this icy killing intent. He wanted to move, yet found his body—and even the surrounding space-time—completely imprisoned by an invisible Power!

Was this the might of the "graveyard Guardian"?

Just the aura of its awakening was enough to crush even the thought of resistance from them!

"Putting on ghostly airs!"

At this moment, Xu Ran’s eyes snapped open!

He had already devoured all the Source of the Xuantian Turtle Armor, his Cultivation reaching the peak of Daoist Monarch First Heaven!

Boom!

A brand-new Daoist Monarch might, fusing life and death, order, and fate into Reincarnation, erupted from within him, forcibly tearing open a fissure in that icy pressure!

Zhen Shan and the others instantly felt the weight lessen, their mobility restored. They gasped for breath, each drawing in huge lungfuls of air, and looked at Xu Ran’s back as if he were the only deity in existence.

Xu Ran rose to his full height, his gaze like lightning, piercing through the layered metal ruins to stare at the source of that pressure.

In his "causality observation" vision, he saw that at the very center of this Metal Tomb, a black hole so enormous it defied description was slowly opening.

It was no celestial black hole, but a lair forged entirely from pure "slaughter" and "Suppression" Laws!

An enormous, indescribable metal claw, its entire body cast from countless types of Divine Gold and the remnants of civilizations, was slowly extending out from that black hole!

This single claw alone was larger than a star!

Upon it were densely inscribed ancient divine characters for "suppress," "slay," "annihilate," and "extinguish." Each divine character seemed forged from the wails and blood of an entire civilization!

[Unknown life form detected: Guardian of the Graveyard · Prison Suppression]

"Threat level: Above Daoist Monarch, Realm Master (unknown)"

"Law analysis: absolute Suppression, Law obliteration, epoch imprisonment..."

"Warning! Target is locking on! Causality has been anchored! Escape impossible!"

The Daoist Monarch System issued the most urgent alert in its history!

"Go!"

Xu Ran decided in an instant, without a shred of hesitation.

He was strong, but not arrogant enough to believe he could fight such a monster, one that had slumbered for countless epochs, created specifically to suppress a cemetery of civilizations.

He grabbed the bronze Turtle Shell beneath him in one swift motion. This thing was the crystallization of the Xuantian civilization, its hardness on par with a Daoist Monarch Magical Treasure, and could not be left behind. Then his figure blurred, and he flashed back onto the Pioneer.