Chapter 574: 6 Paths Divine Technique, Ordinary Dao Essence

The withered old man cackled endlessly. “Hehehehehe… You truly are a gift from the Celestial Dao! To think that someone like me would be blessed by its favor! Yours is the most perfect physical body. With your perception of the boundary between the illusory and the real, you can surely grasp the Celestial Dao and form a realm within your mind. Once I refine this Realm Spirit Heart, you will hand that body over to me. I will help you stand at the apex of the Great Thousand Realms!”

Chen Dong shook his head. “I’ll pass on such a good deal. Right now, you can’t kill me, but I… I want to kill you!”

A look of contempt flashed in the withered old man’s eyes. “On what authority? It’s true I can’t do anything to you while I’m in this ‘floating shadow’ state from refining the Floating Shadow Realm’s Spirit Heart. But with your pathetic level of cultivation, can you even harm a single hair on my head?”

“Where there is light, there is shadow! Where there is illusion, there is reality! Who says I can’t harm you?!”

As he spoke, the Dao Essence between Chen Dong’s brows flared, and a bolt of lightning struck down.

“A pathetic Dao Essence, a pathetic bolt of lightning…”

Before the old man could finish his sentence, a miserable howl erupted.

AAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!

“What Divine Technique is this?! What kind of Dao Essence?”

Chen Dong’s eyes narrowed. “The Six Paths Divine Techniques. And just ordinary Dao Essence!”

The withered old man refused to believe it. He had never even heard of any ‘Six Paths Divine Techniques’, and he certainly didn’t believe it was ordinary Dao Essence. ‘Ordinary Dao Essence can harm me?’ Even though he was just a wisp of a soul, he could stand in the middle of a Thunder Tribulation, and it wouldn’t be able to scratch him.

“Dao Essence is law. I simply appended my own laws to my Dao Essence!”

The withered old man’s eyes were filled with shock. How could a mere Nascent Soul Stage cultivator accomplish such a thing? Even at his own Realm, he couldn’t do it.

Chen Dong strolled closer. “Didn’t you say my mind could form a realm? You really are an expert—you guessed it in one. Since my mind can form its own realm, what’s so difficult about using my own laws?”

The old man was utterly dumbfounded. He had roamed through numerous worlds and had never encountered such an existence.

The lightning struck again, and another miserable howl rang out in response.

AAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!

“Stop! Stop striking me! Whatever your demands are, let’s talk about them.”

“I want the Realm Spirit Heart, and I want you to disappear from the Floating Shadow Realm!”

The old man fell silent. He couldn’t agree to this demand. A world without a Realm Lord was such a rare find. As long as he devoured this world’s Realm Spirit Heart, he could recover most of his power. Then, by using the spiritual essence of this world’s living beings, it wasn’t impossible for him to return to his former peak, or even surpass it.

“How could I be threatened by you? My Dao is one of contention, of devouring!”

With that, the old man immediately abandoned the Realm Spirit Heart he had half-refined and lunged toward Chen Dong.

Chen Dong instantly transformed his body into law to evade, but the old man pursued him relentlessly.

While transforming into lightning, Chen Dong simultaneously unleashed his Dao Essence to strike at the old man.

“Brat, I will make you beg for death and be denied!”

At that moment, Chen Dong bellowed, “Your impotent rage is just an illusion!”

Hearing this, the old man stopped. A Divine Light flared in his eyes, and Chen Dong’s figure was instantly exposed, unable to move a muscle.

“Is this an illusion, too? Forcing me to expend what little soul power I have left… you can be proud of yourself for a mere Nascent Soul.”

With that, the old man opened his mouth wide, intending to swallow Chen Dong whole.

Chen Dong’s eyes flew wide. ‘A soul swallowing a physical body? This old man is defying the natural laws!’

However, there was nothing Chen Dong could do. He was swallowed alive by the old man.

Afterward, the old man contentedly resumed refining the Realm Spirit Heart. Although he had wasted half his progress and had to start over, obtaining this brat’s physical body was truly a gift from the Celestial Dao!

The armies of the Human Race and the Demon Race merged, marching toward the final stronghold, Demon Abyss City.

Inside the city, however, Chi Huang showed no sign of worry. He had already taken care of an outlier within the Demon Race, and with the current strength of those two races alone, it was absolutely impossible for them to breach Demon Abyss City.

Facing the two-race allied army, Chi Huang and Chimei emerged, bringing the City Array with them. Behind them followed a vast and mighty legion of the Demon Race, stretching as far as the eye could see.

These were also elite members of the Demon Race, and behind Chi Huang and Chimei stood a massive force of two million.

Although the Human-Demon allied army still held the advantage in numbers, the Demon Race was on the defensive, and it was hard to say if this numerical gap was enough to secure a victory.

Furthermore, the Demon Race had a full fifty Divinity Transformation Stage experts, which was already double the number in the two-race allied army.

Seeing that the Demon Race still possessed such a trump card and this level of strength, the expressions on the allied army’s side turned bitter. ‘Are we supposed to just turn back and go home? If we keep fighting such a desperate battle, we might be completely wiped out.’

The gap in top-tier strength was too great to be bridged by numbers alone.

The allied army was completely baffled. Why would the Demon Race, with this kind of power, allow them to advance step-by-step all the way here?

Chi Huang couldn’t understand it either, just like the late Chi Xiao. However, since the order came from the Demon Lord, Chi Huang would simply obey without overthinking it.

In truth, the Demon Lord already viewed all the living beings in the Floating Shadow Realm as his private property. Once he refined the Realm Spirit Heart, he could devour them all. He considered slaughtering them now to be a complete waste, which was why he had his Demon Marshals hold their ground and delay.

With such a show of force and the City Array at his back, Chi Huang led the Demon Race out of the city to intimidate the enemy. His heart yearned for slaughter. He was restless and agitated, desperately wanting to disobey the Demon Lord’s command and massacre every last one of these humans and demons.

In the end, he still suppressed the impulse and announced loudly, “You will all wait right here! As long as you don’t run, we will not attack!”

The allied army was terrified. ‘Are they planning to imprison us here?’

At that very moment, Yun Mengshang suddenly heard a voice transmission: “Mengshang, the Frost Dream Realm!”