Chapter 574: [Within Sight, Nothing is Impossible]

BOOM—

“Wu Shi… you are doomed!!”

But in the instant the three Ancestral Candle Dragons began to transform, the celestial sound of the Great Dao erupted from the distant depths like a clap of thunder. It became a rumbling torrent, churning the Taichu Universe Sea into waves that threatened to submerge everything!

At the very edge of that all-consuming destruction,

the Taichu Universe Sea was ripped open. A boundlessly majestic, desolate dragon head, burning with ancient candle flames, shattered all of existence as it roared in fury!

A pair of terrifying black-and-white eyes opened!

Across the vast expanse of space-time,

they locked onto Wu Dao!

BZZZT!

In an instant!

Everything in Wu Dao’s perception, both macro and micro, flickered at a high frequency between darkness and light. Under the impact of a torrent that resembled the very core structure of the Great Dao, it all shattered, layer by layer, and was annihilated into nothingness.

The Candle Dragon Ancestor! A Primordial Ancestor!

“Wu Shi!!”

“No one can save you today!”

“Hahaha, you can’t escape!”

…

In that very same instant,

BOOM—

from the depths of the Mountain and Sea Territory in other directions,

the myriad Daos of the firmament were collapsing!

Torrents of Primordial Chaos surged and roared!

Primordial Ancestors who had been lying dormant within Mountain and Sea were awakening. They were from the Four Great Primordial Races, and their might was even more terrifying than that of the Candle Dragon Race’s Primordial Ancestor!

And all of them were Peak Ancestor Kings!

‘At any cost!’

‘Give him no chance!’

‘This is no empty threat!’

BOOM—

Under the irresistible impact of the Primordial Chaos torrent and the Great Dao, the pressure focused on a single point. The ‘panicked’ Wu Dao was instantly crushed into dust!

“Hmph, a petty trick!”

But this little ploy couldn’t possibly deceive the Primordial Ancestors of Mountain and Sea.

Faster than a thought,

the five Primordial Ancestors from Mountain and Sea crossed the vast Taichu Universe Sea and arrived at the spot where Wu Dao had just been standing.

With a cold sneer,

the Dao Wheels in their eyes pierced through layer after layer of the third-tier infinite space-time continuums, discovering Wu Dao fleeing for his life in the distant-most reaches.

“A Primordial Emperor Weapon? No wonder.”

The Primordial Ancestor of the Chaos Race was crimson and spherical. Within its round eyes, a Chaos Civilization churned, and it instantly discerned the method Wu Dao had used to escape.

‘A Primordial Emperor Weapon as a trump card.’

‘No wonder dozens of Peak Ancestor Kings died so mysteriously last time, leaving not a single trace of information behind.’

However,

it’s useless!

An Emperor’s Weapon can never compare to a Great Emperor.

And a Primordial Emperor Weapon can never compare to a true Primordial Chaos being. This is an immutable iron law!

‘If Mountain and Sea dispatches five Peak Primordial Ancestors at once and still can’t capture Wu Dao, we’ll truly have no face to show the Desolate Ancestor!’

BZZZT!

In the span of a thought,

the five Primordial Ancestors of Mountain and Sea took a single step forward.

The boundless Taichu Universe Sea ahead of them began to fold on its own. The endless, infinite collections of space-time dimensions seemed to not exist at all, as they caught up to Wu Dao in just one step.

But…

it was another fake incarnation!

The moment their might crushed Wu Dao,

the faces of the Mountain and Sea Primordial Ancestors darkened. They never expected that beings of their status would be toyed with by a mere Emperor of the All Heavens!

But the fact that Wu Dao possessed a hidden Supreme Treasure was undeniable.

Otherwise, it would be impossible for him to block their Divine Thought, which could trace things back to their source.

“Found him!”

Faster than a thought,

the Primordial Ancestor of the Taowu Race, who was a master of the Great Dao of space-time, swiped with a great hand.

The collections of space-time and all their phenomena ahead of them began to rewind rapidly, like the panels of a painted scroll. In the final panel—

was Wu Dao, fleeing at top speed.

‘Omnipotence as far as the eye can see!’

In that final panel of the scroll,

Wu Dao finally experienced the true greatness of a Peak Primordial Chaos being. They could truly control and manipulate everything within their sight with casual ease.

It was as if all the truths and orders of the world served them, revolving around them and being defined by them. They could do whatever they pleased.

‘But it’s not true omnipotence!’

‘In the Extraordinary Realm,’

‘everything is relative.’

‘Within a closed cognitive system of an infinite Grand Cosmos,’

‘a Great Emperor is omnipotent to those beneath them. The same logic applies further up the chain.’

Right now, he was far, far too distant from the level of Peak Primordial Chaos.

That was why it gave him the illusion that his opponents were omnipotent.

But even if it was just an illusion,

it was still something he absolutely could not contend with.

Therefore,

Wu Dao didn’t hesitate for a moment.

He immediately abandoned this incarnation.

He allowed the incarnation to be crushed into dust by the might of the Taowu Race’s Primordial Ancestor.

He knew very well.

‘Until they find my true body, Mountain and Sea will never give up. In that case, I’ll use myself as bait and lead them, step by step, to the Taichu Void.’

‘The Taichu Void,’

‘is not far from the territory where I chose to make my move!’

BOOM—

All of existence within the space-time of the Taichu Universe Sea folded, reversed, and receded at extreme speed!

After realizing they had been tricked,

the Primordial Ancestors gradually began to get serious. With grim expressions, they erased everything in sight, creating massive, artificial voids.

But Wu Dao was like a slippery loach.

Every time they caught him, it was just an incarnation he had placed in advance—a worthless one that shattered with a single touch.

“Damned spawn!”

The Primordial Ancestors felt like Wu Dao was walking them like dogs. But to avoid alerting Hongyuan prematurely, they didn’t dare to use their full power.

They even had to restrain themselves to a certain degree.

Otherwise,

if they went all out before locking onto Wu Dao and were detected by Hongyuan, they would very likely be intercepted by Hongyuan’s Primordial Giants.

They would fail and return empty-handed once again.

You chase, I flee; I flee, you chase.

The two sides continued their high-speed chase just outside the borders of Mountain and Sea, steadily approaching the location of the Taichu Void that Wu Dao had chosen.

They, too, had noticed.

Wu Dao was deliberately luring them toward a specific region, and it seemed he had some sort of scheme.

But so what?

Confidence comes from strength.

Five Peak Primordial Ancestors, carrying a powerful treasure, no less. Within the Nine Heavens Pass, aside from Hongyuan, there was no one with the power to stop them.

Any other power…

they looked down on it all!

「Meanwhile, at the Taichu Void!」

The boundless Taichu Void was like a cylindrical Black Abyss in the middle of a vast ocean, its edges devouring the endless ‘seawater’ of the Taichu Universe Sea that cascaded down into it.

Things were only seen going in, never coming out.

Within that dark and profound Abyss,

a behemoth that could devour all things seemed to be hiding in dormancy.

Now,

this behemoth sensed the aura of its prey. It began to awaken, opening its eyes and causing the Taichu Void to tremble and shake.

“Excellent, excellent! You refused the path to heaven and instead burst through the gateless doors of Hell!”

“A Primordial Ancestor from Mountain and Sea is hunting him!”

“A Primordial Ancestor? What’s that? If they’re that blind, we’ll hunt them all down!”

The Dragon Hunting Tower had locked onto Wu Dao as he approached the Taichu Void. All the Primordial Old Monsters grew excited and began to lay a Heaven and Earth Net, waiting for Wu Dao to walk right into their trap!

As for the Mountain and Sea Primordial Ancestor?

They didn’t consider it a big deal at all.

In the Nine Heavens Pass,

if the Dragon Hunting Tower got serious, it feared no faction. Any who dared to be impudent could forget about leaving once they arrived.

A Peak Primordial Ancestor.

That was something they dreamed of!

BOOM—

The Taichu Universe Sea was continuously being turned into voids.

Starting from the borders of the Candle Dragon Race, the five rampaging Primordial Ancestors forcibly plowed a pitch-black Abyss, turning countless third-tier space-time continuums into nothingness.

But Wu Dao’s incarnations seemed to be endless.

Every time one was evaporated,

a new one would always appear just within a safe zone, continuously guiding the five Primordial Ancestors toward the Taichu Void.

“The Taichu Void… what is he planning?”

The Primordial Ancestor of the Qiongqi Race frowned slightly.

Even though they hadn’t yet reached the Taichu Void,

for beings of their level, whose Dao Essence was fused with the Great Dao, their Power arrived before their path. They knew exactly what lay ahead.

“Could it be that he has some sort of backup plan hidden in the Taichu Void?”

The Primordial Ancestor of the Taowu Race sensed that the space-time field of the Taichu Void ahead was somewhat strange; it was dark and quiet to an almost eerie degree.

“Hmph, no matter what he has, he absolutely cannot escape today. We’ve even brought an Ancestral Artifact. It will be the same even if we alert Hongyuan!”

The Primordial Ancestor of the Taotie Race sneered.

Ancestral Artifacts.

This was the Mountain and Sea’s term for Dao Artifacts.

Strictly speaking, they weren’t true Dao Artifacts.

This was because only Innate Dao Artifacts could remain within the Dao. Postnatal ones would transcend along with the Daoist who forged them.

Mountain and Sea possessed the strongest Dao Artifact.

The one and only Dao Artifact.

It was formed from the synthesis of the eighteen scrolls of the Classic of Mountains and Seas.

The Ancestral Artifacts they spoke of

were actually Soldiers of the Close Path, one step above Primordial Emperor Artifacts but below Dao Artifacts, which had been forged by the Near-Path Seekers of Mountain and Sea.

Most of these Soldiers of the Close Path

originated from the most brilliant era of the All Heavens, the Second Tribulation, because that tribulation gave birth to multiple Daoists, and there were also many Near-Path Seekers vying for the Dao.

As for later eras,

Near-Path Artifacts basically ceased to exist.

Because there was only one Dao Fruit, no living being chose to walk the Near Dao path. They would generally achieve invincibility and attain the Dao at the Primordial Limit.

The only Alien Species

was the Slaughter Emperor of the Five Tribulations.

He forcibly took two steps.

Wu Dao had also considered the possibility that Mountain and Sea would bring an Ancestral Artifact. After all, the risks were too great, and he had to factor in every possibility.

However,

he was confident that the Dragon Hunting Tower was tough enough to handle Mountain and Sea’s Ancestral Artifacts.

Otherwise,

what right did they have to covet his body!

RUMBLE—

The sound of Dao Divine Thunder descending and exploding rang out.

It was the sound of space-time colliding and grinding as the seawater of the Taichu Universe Sea plunged into the Taichu Void.

Ahead,

a vast darkness replaced the bizarre and colorful Taichu Universe Sea. It was on such a massive scale that even with Wu Dao’s current perception, he couldn’t observe the slightest fraction of it!

The Taichu Void…

He had arrived!

At the same time,

the last guide-incarnation was destroyed.

Wu Dao’s true body emerged from a Magnetic Field. He glanced back at the five Primordial Ancestors of Mountain and Sea who were sweeping in to devour everything, made a friendly gesture, and leaped into the void with a toothy grin.

“You’re courting death!”

“How dare you be so arrogant!”

“Flatten this void!”

With the wisdom of the five Primordial Ancestors, how could they not know that Wu Dao was insulting them? Their expressions Sen Leng, the five ancestors descended upon the Taichu Void, preparing to suppress and refine the entire thing!

They had confirmed it.

The Wu Dao who had just leaped into the void

was his true body!

‘Trying to use the Taichu Void to pull something?’

‘How absurd!’

‘With our methods, breaking Ten Thousand Techniques with pure strength is easy. We’ll just refine this entire map of the Taichu Void and see what you can do then!’

It had to be said,

their plan was simple and crude, but effective.

This was also why

in the Extraordinary Realm, it was basically impossible for the weak to defeat the strong through strategy.

You could scheme and plot all you want,

but they could just slap you and your entire worldview out of existence. Playing mind games without matching power is a joke.

But just as the five Primordial Ancestors were about to make their move!

A sudden change occurred!!

“Hahaha, Burial Realm Demon King, you didn’t expect this, did you? We were hiding in your path of survival! You’re dead today, you bastard!!”

“The Dragon Hunting Tower! How could… No!”

The originally dead-silent Taichu Void

suddenly began to roar and tremble as if it were an Ancient Giant Beast awakening at Jingzhe, spewing forth an endless torrent of black light.

The surrounding Taichu Universe Sea

was hit by a super-earthquake and tsunami!

Countless great waves churned and surged,

thundering as they shattered the dim yellow Ancient Celestial Domain. It transformed into a supreme Abyss that swallowed everything, and the surging, back-flowing seawater instantly filled the channel that the five Primordial Ancestors had plowed out earlier!

“The Dragon Hunting Tower… This is bad!”

This completely unforeseen turn of events

caused the five Primordial Ancestors of Mountain and Sea to pale.

Especially when they heard Wu Dao’s shocked and terrified voice, their expressions instantly turned ugly to the extreme. Had their prize been snatched away?

How dare they!!

“Dragon Hunting Tower, you are truly courting death!”

ROAR!!

The Taotie Race’s Primordial Ancestor had the most fiery temper!

It opened its abyssal maw and let out a roar of Dao thunder, instantly shattering the countless layers of violently back-flowing seawater. It almost roared the Taichu Void itself into oblivion on the spot!

But the Taichu Void had completely changed!

A mysterious black tower, carrying the aura of the ancient, primordial wilderness, floated in the center. Its Dao Patterns shone brightly, releasing an extremely terrifying suppressive power!

The black tower gathered the power of the surrounding field,

making the originally fragile Taichu Void indestructible. It formed a pitch-black barrier that blocked the power of the Taotie Primordial Ancestor’s roar.

“Suppress him in the Burning Chaos Furnace and refine him!”

But the Supreme Primordial Chaos beings of the Dragon Hunting Tower showed no sign of smugness. They quickly arranged for the captured and suppressed Wu Dao to be sent to the bottom of the Dragon Hunting Tower.

‘When you catch a sheep, you eat it immediately!’

‘Too much ceremony,’

‘and you’ll never get to eat mutton in your life!’