Chapter 787 - 42: From Beginning to End, the Primordial Dao

Chapter 787: Chapter 42: From Beginning to End, the Primordial Dao

[You think you can escape alive like this?]

As Gouchen was about to escape, Shanggui Star Monarch’s voice, filled with resentment, echoed in his ear.

Along with this voice, a curse originating from the stars also manifested.

As a Pathfinder with extensive connections, Shanggui Star Monarch naturally had knowledge in various fields, attempting to pursue the Daluo Dao.

Among these, curses cast with the power of stars were Shanggui Star Monarch’s forte, his most skilled ability before his pathfinding.

"What!?"

Instinctively glancing down at his chest, Gouchen’s eyes met a bizarre, pitch-black pattern.

It was neither any known talisman, charm, nor array recognized by the Mountain People but was an ancient proverb from the Wizard community, a symbolic representation of curses.

At the moment of the curse’s activation, Gouchen’s vision went black, and the array beneath his feet dispersed instantly.

"A goose hunter gets pecked by a goose in the eye, you brat are doomed after all!"

Reviving once more from Gouchen’s body, Fenglong also witnessed Gouchen being cursed.

Given the situation, Fenglong’s cursing halted, replaced by a faint regret and helplessness.

"I never expected... This Star Monarch was actually a Great Witch adept in curses before his pathfinding."

As he faced impending death at the star core, Gouchen unexpectedly formed a Dharma Seal with both hands, causing the nearly depleted Primordial Qi within him to surge again.

"Wait... What are you doing, you brat!?"

Upon sharply sensing the loosening of his contract with Gouchen, Fenglong exclaimed incredulously.

In the next moment, Fenglong’s Primordial Spirit was forcibly expelled from Gouchen’s body, transforming into a small ray of light that quickly disappeared from everyone’s view.

"He only targets me..."

"Take care of Laicai for me, and tell my parents their son died like a hero."

With an almost imperceptible sigh, Gouchen’s voice rang clear in Fenglong’s ears.

When everyone caught up to the situation, the explosive star core was already less than ten meters from Gouchen.

The raging starlight tore at Gouchen’s clothes...

The scorching heat began to char his skin...

Even the highly cultivated 36 Transformations could not adapt to such lethal wounds in a short time.

Death approached Gouchen bit by bit, as his Primordial Spirit began to disperse back into Seven Spirits.

Once the Primordial Spirit turned into Seven Spirits, it would mark Gouchen’s complete demise.

Due to Shanggui Star Monarch’s curse and soul damage, even if Gouchen were fortunate enough to reincarnate, he would be doomed to be handicapped or stillborn lifetime after lifetime.

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"Shanggui Star Monarch! How dare you!"

Glaring at Gouchen whose physical body was now dissipating, Lu Huaijin’s roar reverberated across the starry sky.

Empowered by Lu Huaijin’s wrathful will, the nearly vanished Shadow Evil Dharma Aspect reconsolidated, shrouding the once dim starlight in complete darkness.

Under the night sky, countless beings looked up at the heavens, only to see an infinite black curtain.

Despite Lu Huaijin’s profound anger and the rapid reunion of the Shadow Evil Dharma Aspect, there was no possibility of instantaneously shielding Gouchen from this fatal strike.

Equally enraged, Ying Long spread his wings, but was also powerless to prevent death’s arrival.

Boom!

At this crucial moment, a loud silent explosion suddenly emanated from the star core.

The initially intimidating star core was forcibly halted by an enormous unseen power in that instant.

"Tsk tsk tsk! Luckily, I came in time!"

With a slightly capricious voice, Li Xudou, driving the Nine-Dragon Fragrant Chariot, leapt in from the terminus of time and space.

Eight golden dragons continued pulling the vehicle through time and space.

Behind him, reflections of countless scenes from past, present, or future appeared.

Only one golden dragon head extended into this era, successfully freezing the time of this starry domain.

[Yuanshi Tianzun?]

Within this time-stopped realm, Shanggui Star Monarch tentatively revealed Li Xudou’s identity.

As for Gouchen, who was also trapped in this time-stopped domain, he stared blankly at the familiar yet unfamiliar figure.

"Brother Xu Dou?"

Gouchen had never interacted with Li Xudou, for he was the fifth-generation Mountain People.

To Gouchen, Li Xudou, who had long begun traversing various time and space dimensions, was merely a legend.

However, Gouchen faintly remembered a rumor among the Mountain People that whenever someone faced a life-and-death crisis, this legendary "brother" would descend from another time and space.

Of course, Gouchen had always scoffed at this.

Leaving aside the Mountain People’s self-reliant philosophy, it was impossible for them to embrace a legend akin to a "savior."

Judging simply by the abnormal death toll among the Mountain People each year, gou then firmly believed this was an utterly absurd gossip.

Yet when legends walk into reality, even Gouchen, who prided himself on his rationality, couldn’t help but fall silent.

"Don’t look at me like that, I know what you’re thinking."

Ignoring the close-approaching star core, Li Xudou simply winked at Gouchen and laughed.

"It was Big Aunt who called me here, sort of as a contingency she set up beforehand!"

"Moreover, even without Big Aunt’s arrangements, I would have appeared at this point in time."

"Since Master created the ’Three Souls and Seven Spirits’ system, curses that scatter souls have become a major taboo."

"So don’t blame me for not showing up earlier because I’m merely a ’firefighter’ too busy to leave the ground."

"In fact, even now, I won’t overly interfere with what has already transpired."

"From beginning to end, causality cycles, all changes originate from the heart, I stand alone beyond causality, thus proving the Yuanshi Dao..."

"Hence, I can only help you ’save yourself’..."

"Uh, this can barely count as ’self-rescue’, right?"

"Anyhow, since I’m the one deciding, it surely doesn’t violate anything!"

Mumbling ambiguously, Li Xudou snapped his fingers softly, causing the surrounding time and space to begin flowing ever so slowly.

Then, Gouchen’s Life Essence Qi within him... no, more accurately Gouchen Star Power surged into his colonial installation in an inconceivable manner.

Zzz...

The pure white colonial body enveloped Gouchen entirely, causing his charred skin to begin healing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

More crucially, Gouchen noticed his right arm was lifting uncontrollably.

As that right hand aimed at the near star core, a tranquil eye slowly opened within his palm.

The eye began concentrating Gouchen Star Power, amplifying it in a way Gouchen completely couldn’t fathom.

That kind of ultimate precision control, that kind of microscopic capability far beyond Gouchen’s imagination, left Gouchen in awe, while instilling fear in Shanggui Star Monarch.

Swoosh!

In an instant, the sublimed Gouchen Star Power full of killing intent and brutality penetrated the star core.

In the blink of an eye, the entire star core crumbled completely, breaking down into countless atoms.

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