Chapter 575: [An All-Out Brawl!]

‘Nothing ventured, nothing gained!’

Under the suppression of the Nine-Layered Black Tower.

Wu Dao appeared panicked, but inwardly he was terrifyingly calm. He knew full well that it was far easier to break something from the inside than from the outside.

CREEEAAAK—

But at the same time,

the Bitter Dust Robe’s shielding had reached its limit!

For the first time, Wu Dao felt that fear from the very root of existence at such close range!

In the depths of the Dragon Hunting Tower!

A majestic aura belonging to the Great Dao enveloped him, rapidly pulling and dragging him toward that dark, primordial source.

BOOM!!

Once again, Wu Dao felt what true “heat” was!

Spacetime and the myriad Daos blurred into one!

Everything was being refined!

A resplendent, colored Dao Divine Furnace!

Supreme and paramount, the very source of the Dao!

It floated in the void at the end of all darkness!

Its entire body was wreathed in countless layers of inextinguishable Chaos Divine Fire. As it burned tumultuously, it continuously released a Mighty Power that could incinerate any existence born from the ‘essence’ of the three fundamental Extraordinary Powers!

A Body Dao Treasure—

The Burning Chaos Furnace!

HISS!

Within the ever-intensifying Chaos Divine Fire,

an indescribable heat washed over him.

Even with his nascent Primordial Magnetic Great Body Physique, Wu Dao clearly felt the oppressive might of an absolute apex Hunter. The sense of crisis caused the Heart Lake Alarm Bell to ring so violently it nearly shattered!

The great power from the Dao Root Source,

was rapidly eroding his Primordial Magnetic Great Body; his Three Tribulations Dao Strings felt as if they would be refined until they burst!

CLANG! CLANG…

The sound of the furnace lid rising and falling exploded in his mind.

It was as if a ravenous Fierce Beast had spotted an unparalleled delicacy. Within the gaps, the Chaos Divine Fire was almost tangible, and through it, the shadows of countless Body Dao titans who had been refined to death in the past were revealed!

They roared in defiance!

They howled in sorrow and struggled within the Chaos Divine Fire!

Their inner civilizations burned to their very limits!

But when the Divine Fire surged, they were all refined into Great Medicine, with none spared!

This furnace…

It wasn’t just the bane of the Body Dao!

It was also a part of the Dao Burning Furnace!

It could truly refine even the Dao itself!

“Suppress!”

Wu Dao didn’t hesitate for a moment.

He immediately mobilized the power of the Extreme Dao Bell to resist the surging Chaos Divine Fire. If he didn’t react, he would be refined into humanoid raw material by the Chaos Divine Fire before he even made it inside!

“Hmph? A desperate struggle!”

Outside, the Supreme from the Dragon Hunting Tower who was controlling the Burning Chaos Furnace,

immediately sensed a resistant force emerging from within Wu Dao’s body. But because of the Bitter Dust Robe’s interference, He couldn’t determine what kind of power it was.

But it didn’t matter.

The Chaos Divine Fire of the Burning Chaos Furnace could refine even an Extreme Chaos Body!

Unless Wu Dao possessed something that surpassed a Primordial Supreme Treasure, otherwise, once he entered the Divine Furnace, he could forget about turning the tables, no matter how heaven-defying his abilities were!

But if he possessed such a Supreme Treasure, Wu Dao wouldn’t have been suppressed by them in the first place!

Right now, their focus was on dealing with the five frenzied Primordial Ancestors of Mountain and Sea!

The five Primordial Ancestors were simply too ferocious!

Despite being at the same Primordial Peak realm, the Dragon Hunting Tower needed all six of its old monsters at the Primordial Limit to handle Them, and even then, they couldn’t disengage for the moment!

However, they weren’t panicking.

As long as they suppressed Wu Dao inside the Burning Chaos Furnace and unleashed its power, no matter how ferocious the five Primordial Ancestors of Mountain and Sea were, they would have to immediately submit and accept their defeat!

“ROAR! The Dragon Hunting Tower will be destroyed today!!”

After attacking repeatedly, they still couldn’t shatter the pitch-black barrier erected by the Dragon Hunting Tower’s six Primordial Chaos experts. They had even been forced to watch as the prey within their grasp was snatched away.

The five Primordial Ancestors of Mountain and Sea were driven into a complete frenzy!

“Die!!”

The Primordial Ancestor of the Taotie Race gave a ferocious roar!

A forbidden aura from the Dao Root Source spread out!

He suddenly spat out an Abyss countless times more terrifying than the Taichu Void, dyeing the vast Realm Sea a shade of black and red!

Even in the distant Mountain and Sea City, one could clearly feel it.

That supreme aura pressing down on all living beings and the myriad Daos was reviving, spewing forth the divine light of the Great Dao!

Deep within the Taichu Universe Sea!

The ominous Taotie Dao was surging!

Black and red light flickered at an ultra-high frequency!

The fluctuations tore apart and annihilated the boundless Dao order of the Taichu Universe Sea, destroying all existence in that region in the shortest possible time. They formed the shadow of a terrifyingly colossal Taotie Fierce Beast that roared above Nine Heavens Pass, devouring all things!

“The Infinite Destruction Abyss!!!”

The various elders in Mountain and Sea City were abruptly startled.

Their eyes filled with shock and confusion.

They quickly suppressed the Taichu Universe Sea, which was rapidly collapsing under the influence of the Taotie Dao’s fluctuations, and stared at the core of the region. There, a crimson-black Abyss rumbled and spun, destructively devouring everything.

The Infinite Destruction Abyss!

This was the Ancestral Artifact of the Taotie Race!

It possessed the power of One Step beyond Primordial Chaos!

But to use an Ancestral Artifact at Nine Heavens Pass, no matter the reason, was an act of madness from the Taotie Race!

As long as Shanhai Pass remained unbreached, no matter how much territory Mountain and Sea eroded, the Primordial Path of the various Celestial Gates would still suppress the Mountain and Sea Dao. Every Celestial Gate had rules and an order that could not be defied!

At Nine Heavens Pass, power above the realm of Primordial Chaos was not allowed!

RUMBLE—

Sure enough!

The instant the Taotie Race unleashed the Infinite Destruction Abyss, they crossed a red line and enraged the unseen Primordial Path. In a flash, a dense canopy of Dao Divine Thunder covered the entire Nine Heavens Pass!

An Ancestral Artifact!

If fully unsealed, it possessed the fourth tier of Infinite Power.

It completely surpassed the Thirty-Third Layer limit of Primordial Chaos, reaching the Thirty-Fourth Layer!

The Thirty-Fourth Layer!

Pseudo-fourth-tier Infinite Power!

This terrifying power, if unrestrained, could effortlessly shatter the Taichu Universe Sea of Nine Heavens Pass!

KRA-KA-KOW—

It all happened in the span of a thought!

The Dao Divine Thunder covering Nine Heavens Pass cascaded down like a waterfall, converging on the area where the Infinite Destruction Abyss had erupted. It crushed and compressed the Abyss’s explosive Mighty Power, suppressing it from all directions!

“Rats, die!!”

But it seemed Mountain and Sea had truly gone mad!

BOOM!!

The Taichu Universe Sea was about to be flipped upside down!

The five Primordial Ancestors were still attacking!

The Infinite Destruction Abyss roared and spun, unleashing the world-overturning might of the Taotie Abyss. It forcibly resisted the Celestial Punishment and tore through the Dragon Hunting Tower’s blockade!

‘What is the Dragon Hunting Tower even worth!’

‘Even Hongyuan will be crushed and forced to submit under the iron hooves of Mountain and Sea! You’re nothing but a pest, a rat hiding in a sewer!’

‘You dare to defy and resist Mountain and Sea?’

‘You’re tired of living!’

Rats…

Hearing the Primordial Ancestors of Mountain and Sea’s derogatory term and seeing their disdainful gazes, the Supreme Elders of the Dragon Hunting Tower felt a rage in their chests that could collapse the Nine Heavens!

“Good, good, good! Today, we’ll let you feathered beasts see why our Dragon Hunting Tower is known as the Chief Calamity of Hongyuan!!”

In their extreme fury, the Supremes of the Dragon Hunting Tower spoke without restraint.

BOOM!

The instant the great might of the Infinite Destruction Abyss descended!

A monstrously violent torrent of Chaos Divine Fire erupted like an ancient volcano whose floodgates had been thrown open!

The fire was too incredible to behold!

It burned down the vast Taichu Universe Sea!

It burned down spacetime and the myriad Daos!

The heatwave rocked all existence across the All Heavens and myriad domains, shaking the vast Endless Chaos Sea and causing countless beings in the world to feel a chill run through their bodies as death loomed over them!

“The Burning Chaos Furnace!!!”

In the distant Heaven-Burning Fire, in the Ancestral Land of the Fire-Raising Sect!

A slumbering old monster of the Fire-Raising Sect was awakened by the fluctuations emanating from the Burning Chaos Furnace!

CLANG! CLANG! CLANG—

In the core of the Ancestral Land!

The flames of two Divine Furnaces, one gold and one white, began to spin out of control. Their lids vibrated madly, spewing forth a supreme-level qi. The Divine Dao fire and the black Chaos Essence Fire from the Burning Chaos Furnace resonated with each other from afar, dyeing the entirety of Heaven-Burning Fire!

“That damned Dragon Hunting Tower!!”

An old fossil from the Fire-Raising Sect shrieked and roared, his voice, filled with extreme fury, shaking the Sea of Chaos and reaching the vast Shanhai Pass.

The Immortal Burning Furnace and the God-Burning Furnace were in an uproar!

They were about to revive on their own, to charge into Shanhai Pass and merge with the Burning Chaos Furnace!

If they couldn’t be suppressed, the Fire-Raising Sect would surely face disaster. In that instant, their hatred for the Dragon Hunting Tower drove them to the brink of madness!

The Immortal Burning Furnace and the God-Burning Furnace were a single entity.

Their rank as Dao Artifacts was far higher than that of the Burning Chaos Furnace, which had been lost for several Tribulations. They could not fully master them and could only borrow their power. Otherwise, they would have immediately charged into Shanhai Pass to take back the Burning Chaos Furnace!

This was also why the Dragon Hunting Tower dared to bring out the Burning Chaos Furnace. This was the source of their confidence, as they had long known that the Fire-Raising Sect had not fully mastered the two Divine Furnaces!

“The Burning Chaos Furnace… It’s those bastards again!”

Mountain and Sea City!

The eight great elders of Hongyuan.

They watched with varying expressions as the Burning Chaos Furnace at the heart of the Taichu Universe Sea storm spewed endless Chaos Essence Fire, suppressing the Infinite Destruction Abyss. Most of them were gritting their teeth in anger.

The rank of the Burning Chaos Furnace was that of a damaged Dao Artifact.

Its essence was even higher than the Infinite Destruction Abyss.

Even in Nine Heavens Pass, which was under the suppression of Celestial Punishment, a Primordial Chaos expert wielding it could definitely unleash the complete power of One Tribulation for a short period!

“Act at once! We cannot allow them to continue this wanton behavior!”

The Second Elder from the Celestial Court spoke.

The Supreme Emperor Celestial Venerable of Taihuang Heaven!

His Emperor’s Might was boundless, his imperial authority limitless!

He held the golden Megrez Sword in his hand!

He spoke with the weight of a Celestial Decree, radiating an imposing aura without any anger.

The supreme majesty of one who ruled over all living beings in the All Heavens and Myriad Realms radiated from him naturally. He seemed like the Lord of Ten Thousand Heavens, emperors, and sovereigns descended upon the world, an existence that could not be profaned or gazed upon directly!

“If we let them continue their rampage, Nine Heavens Pass will be crippled by them long before the Great Dao Celestial Punishment has a chance to eliminate them!”

The elders from the other Celestial Domains also nodded in cold agreement.

Hongyuan had resisted Mountain and Sea for so many years.

How could they not possess Near-Path Artifacts?

BOOM!!

Faster than a thought could form!

The vast Mountain and Sea City began to tremble violently!

The sun and moon lost their light, and the All Heavens grew dim!

The shadow of a behemoth emerged from Mountain and Sea City, swiftly spreading to suppress the raging Taichu Universe Sea!

At this moment, all sentient beings in the world felt as if pillars had appeared between heaven and earth.

They were the Four Extremes Pillars that suppressed the Nine Netherworlds, their vastness and weight reaching an unimaginable degree.

But for those with sufficient cultivation, they would observe something else.

Those were no Four Extremes Pillars!

That was a cauldron!

One the color of the Azure Abyss and Yellow Springs!

It was a Great Cauldron that breathed in and out immeasurable amounts of Earth Evil Heaven Gang Qi. It expanded from the size of a mustard seed in Mountain and Sea City to the size of Mount Sumeru, towering into the Sea of Chaos. Its four feet, like Celestial Pillars, suppressed all rebellion and defiance as they pressed down toward the heart of the storm!

“The Qiankun Cauldron, a Second-Tribulation Near-Path Artifact…”

Deep within the Buzhou Root Vein, the Slaughter Emperor’s gaze was profound as he watched that Great Cauldron, which emanated the aura of the Azure Abyss and Yellow Springs, suppress the four poles and eight wilds and mobilize the Earth Evil Heaven Gang Qi of all heavens. He recalled the glorious years of the past.

The current master of the Qiankun Cauldron was the one from Taihuang Heaven.

He had crossed paths with Him back in the day. Very few knew that his Reversed Celestial Spirit technique had been inspired by the Qiankun Cauldron of Taihuang Heaven.

Later, He had even forged a replica, the Qiankun Bell.

“Heh, if it weren’t for the Great Celestial Venerable, perhaps you would have become the Lord of Ten Thousand Heavens. A pity.”

The Slaughter Emperor thought of the Supreme Emperor Celestial Venerable’s resentment and couldn’t help but let out a derisive chuckle.

How many people knew that the Celestial Court of the Second Tribulation was actually founded by the Supreme Emperor Celestial Venerable? The Great Celestial Venerable had simply swooped in and plucked the fruit of his labor, forcing the Supreme Emperor Celestial Venerable to play second fiddle for several Tribulations.

Furthermore, because their philosophies clashed, the Supreme Emperor Celestial Venerable later left the Celestial Court directly.

He had been standing guard at Shanhai Pass ever since.

He likely knew of the Great Celestial Venerable’s schemes, but because he was powerless to change anything, he could only choose not to associate with him.

‘In this Tribulation, He might just have a chance.’

The Slaughter Emperor observed the two strands of Dao Essence from the Supreme Emperor Celestial Venerable’s inner civilization, which were nearing a peak transformation, and he grew increasingly expectant of the exciting future.

However, whatever the future held, nothing was set in stone.

For now, He could no longer just sit on the sidelines.

“That little trick you pulled back then… I’ve always been so grateful, and I’ve been dying to repay the favor!”

Sensing the dark, forbidden aura gradually beginning to revive within the Dragon Hunting Tower, the Slaughter Emperor gave a vicious smile and retracted his gaze.

‘Using himself as bait… still as crazy as ever!’

However, before retracting his gaze, the Slaughter Emperor also sensed the Extreme Dao Bell gathering power inside the Burning Chaos Furnace, ready to strike. He couldn’t help but laugh and curse him as a madman.

To be fair, if it were him, he would never have taken such a huge risk, using himself as bait to enter the tiger’s den. He had no idea where Wu Dao got such nerve.

Was it simply a case of ‘fortune favors the bold’?

Unlikely.

He knew that Wu Dao never did anything he wasn’t confident about, and he always planned for the worst-case scenario.

In other words, even if He didn’t intervene, Wu Dao had a way to snatch the Burning Chaos Furnace?

“Has this kid been secretly setting something up ever since he arrived at Nine Heavens Pass?”

The Slaughter Emperor guessed.

Wu Dao’s backup plan was probably related to those arrangements. However, He truly couldn’t imagine what method could possibly allow a single All Heavens Emperor to challenge a group of experts at the Primordial Limit.

“I’d really love to see it for myself.”

The Slaughter Emperor clicked his tongue in regret.

He knew that if he intervened, Wu Dao wouldn’t reveal that trump card.

But was that even possible?

The karmic ties between him and the Dragon Hunting Tower were too deep.

The key to completing his three paths lay with the Dragon Hunting Tower!

If he could complete them ahead of schedule, his own plans would proceed much more smoothly. He wouldn’t be stuck like he was now, finding it difficult to make any progress!