Chapter 576 - 500: Great Battle at Nine Heavens Pass

Nine Heavens Pass!

In the Taichu Universe Sea, all existence was in turmoil!

The deployment of two Near-Path Artifacts and an Incomplete Dao Artifact had completely provoked the wrath of the Great Dao’s fundamental programming!

RUMBLE—

The Dao Divine Thunder roared and surged!

It reverberated through the sea of consciousness of every sentient and non-sentient being in the All Heavens and Myriad Realms. Accompanied by the divine thunder that blanketed the vast heavens, omens of imminent catastrophe spread like a web to the other Celestial Gates!

It even reached the Sea of Chaos and the Hongyuan Domains beyond Shanhai Pass!

The world flickered between light and dark, filled with an ominous air. Every living being could sense an indescribable, cold Great Dao program mobilizing an inconceivable Power, striking toward Nine Heavens Pass, seeking to suppress all rebellious chaos!

But both sides had gone mad! They were locked in a bloody battle over Wu Dao, refusing to retreat even under the threat of Celestial Punishment!

"Cough, cough... Die!!"

The Dragon Hunting Tower, having unleashed the Burning Chaos Furnace, suffered the most terrifying Celestial Punishment. The six Supremes seated around the furnace were constantly being charred black and coughing up blood, yet they remained ferociously powerful!

CLANG—!

As the Dragon Hunting Tower went all out, the lid of the Burning Chaos Furnace cracked open!

It released a forbidden aura of the Great Dao that would chill even a Peak Primordial Chaos expert to the bone. The Burning Chaos Furnace was about to open completely and incinerate all enemies!

BOOM—

In the next instant, under the horrified gazes from all directions, a great rift was burned into the vast, chaotic heavens!

An infinite torrent of Chaos Essence Fire surged down, shaking the All Heavens and Myriad Realms. An indescribably scorching light spread and raged, seeming to instantly evaporate the entire Taichu Universe Sea, blurring everything into a haze!

"Agh—you bastards!!"

Within the haze, the five Primordial Ancestors of Mountain and Sea were screaming in agony!

They had been hit by the deep-level Chaos Essence Fire that erupted when the Burning Chaos Furnace opened. The weakest among them, the Primordial Ancestor of the Candle Dragon Race, was nearly refined into a dried dragon on the spot!

An Incomplete Dao Artifact was still a Dao Artifact!

Moreover, the Burning Chaos Furnace was specifically designed to counter the Body Dao!

Its rank was far higher than that of a Near-Path Artifact!

The Chaos Essence Fire within it could not only incinerate an Extreme Chaos Body, but it could even burn and offer up your internal civilization’s Great Dao as a living sacrifice!

If this weren’t Nine Heavens Pass, where one could at most unleash the power of One Step into the Initial Tribulation while enduring the Celestial Punishment, the five Primordial Ancestors of Mountain and Sea would have been instantly sacrificed alive by the Burning Chaos Furnace!

"You are truly courting death!!"

The fur of the Taotie Race’s Primordial Ancestor was completely burned away, and his magnificent physique was charred and withered. But he was still roaring in a frenzy, showing no intention of backing down even in the face of the Burning Chaos Furnace!

RUMBLE—

After the first wave of impact, the five Primordial Ancestors of Mountain and Sea quickly joined forces and recklessly activated the Infinite Destruction Abyss!

The Abyss roared!

The Taotie Great Dao was reawakening!

An ominous light of black and red rose from within the torrent of Chaos Essence Fire, illuminating the vast Shanhai Pass. In an instant, it erupted with an unimaginable devouring force, actually starting to swallow the Chaos Essence Fire whole!

’How is this possible?!’

The Supremes of the Dragon Hunting Tower were aghast!

The Infinite Destruction Abyss was only a Near-Path Artifact. Its rank was incomparable to the Burning Chaos Furnace. How could it possibly contend with it?

"The civilization of a Near-Path Seeker!!"

Suddenly, one of the perceptive Supremes from the Dragon Hunting Tower spoke, his expression grim to the extreme.

The others were startled as well. Then, in the depths of the Infinite Destruction Abyss, they saw the fiercely burning Ancient Taotie Civilization!

Within the core of the civilization sat a blurry, magnificent Ancient Giant Beast, reigning over all with peerless power. With a roar, it swallowed the myriad daos of the heavens, exuding the archaic aura of a prehistoric Great Dao!

This prehistoric Taotie civilization! It had crossed the river of time to burn brightly in the present era, supplying the Abyss and unleashing the same power that had once dominated the All Heavens and Myriad Realms and devoured everything in its path!

It did not belong to the current era! It was a Near-Path civilization from a distant age!

It must have been a Near-Path Seeker that the Taotie Race produced during the Second Tribulation. Moreover, he was the master of the Infinite Destruction Abyss, and before passing away, he had left behind this foundation within the Abyss for the future generations of the Taotie Race!

The Second Tribulation. That was the most brilliant era in Hongyuan.

The Divine Race had abdicated, and the Ten Thousand Races were on the rise.

The fortune of the Great Dao was so incredibly dense that countless Dao Ancestor-level figures like the Martial Ancestor had emerged.

Even though they were eventually phased out by their respective civilizations, their contributions to the advancement of civilization have not been forgotten. Many of their names still resonate through the ages.

Take, for example, the first Primordial Ancestor of the Taotie Race. During the Second Tribulation, he established the subsequent path of civilization and the developmental foundation for the Taotie Race!

To call him the Taotie Dao Ancestor would be no exaggeration.

Now, the Taotie Race had actually played a trump card left behind by such a Dao Ancestor, which was enough to elevate the Infinite Destruction Abyss to its peak state.

In a special place like Nine Heavens Pass, contending with the Burning Chaos Furnace was not a problem!

RUMBLE—

After the Infinite Destruction Abyss reached its peak state, the erupting Power of the Taotie Abyss was no longer suppressed. Instead, it began to surge wildly, devouring the Chaos Essence Fire unleashed by the Burning Chaos Furnace!

For a moment, they were evenly matched!

But the clash of the two artifacts was still too terrifying. It took the vast Taichu Universe Sea from a blurry, shaking state to complete evaporation!

The Mountain and Sea Great Wall at the far end was shaking and trembling violently. If not for the suppressive power of the Dao Celestial Stele, it would have been instantly blasted into the ashes of tribulation by the aftershocks!

"Suppress!!"

But at this very moment, Taihuang Heaven’s expression was cold and majestic. He quickly revived the Qiankun Cauldron to its limit. The four legs of the cauldron transformed into pillars of the four poles, descending to mobilize the Heavenly Spirit and Earthly Fiend Qi from the All Heavens and Myriad Realms, suppressing the Taichu Universe Sea that was on the verge of completely exploding!

Not only that, the Qiankun Cauldron also became a third force in the battle, joining the fray.

However, it was obvious to everyone that Taihuang Heaven was mobilizing the Qiankun Cauldron against Mountain and Sea’s Infinite Destruction Abyss.

After all, although the Dragon Hunting Tower was overflowing with evil, one had to hold their nose and stomach the disgust, for they were still considered one of their own. He couldn’t have his own people fighting each other, nor could he join forces with Mountain and Sea to attack the Dragon Hunting Tower.

"Taihuang, you are audacious! Do you think you can bully my Mountain and Sea as if we have no Ancestors?!"

But just then!

From the depths of the vast Mountain and Sea Territory,