One After Another

"Here they come!" Yaoguang remarked inwardly, "And Void Dao Lords as well." "The Path of the Void is the most common. Not only does the God Race have Void Dao Lords, but they have two of them: the Void God Venerable and the Xuhuang God Venerable." Dao Lord Penglai's mind stirred. In their state of spiritual communion, her thoughts were known to Yaoguang in an instant: "Though Dao Lords of the Void Path are not adept at head-on combat, they are indispensable whether for pursuing targets or sealing off the void." "Then that makes things simple," Yaoguang said directly. "I'll leave the Destruction God Venerable and the other three God Venerables to you. As for these two Void God Venerables, I will deal with them before the other Void Dao Lords rush over." "Huh? Can you—" "Strike first!" Without giving Dao Lord Penglai a chance to react, Yaoguang abruptly reached out and took her through a Void Flicker. In less than a breath, they traversed the void separating them from the God Race battleship. And at this very moment, the God Race's void battleship had just fully exited its void traversal state. "So fast!" Dao Lord Penglai praised from the bottom of her heart. Traversing billions of li in less than a breath—such a thrill was something she had never experienced before. It was an unprecedented sensation. Yaoguang's realm in the Path of the Void... was truly enviable. "Strike!" Having arrived on the scene with Dao Lord Penglai, Yaoguang unleashed a Great Collapse Art without the slightest hesitation! The target of the Great Collapse Art was none other than the God Race battleship. At a time like this, they naturally could not bother being gentle to avoid damaging property. Simultaneously with Yaoguang's strike, Dao Lord Penglai mobilized the Grand Dao of Origin, instantly forming a sea of origin that blotted out the starry sky. The vast power of origin seemed to conjure a dazzling purple light across the cosmos, spreading across a radius of tens of millions of li in an instant, expanding outward at even greater speed toward hundreds of millions, or even billions of li. It had every intention of swallowing the entire expanse of space. "Yaoguang! Penglai! You are courting death!" The moment the battleship was pulverized, the six God Venerables inside appeared at once. Among them, the Destruction God Venerable shattered the majority of the Great Collapse Art with a destructive Dao art. The other God Venerables who rushed out swiftly assumed their duties. Three of them joined the siege against Yaoguang and Penglai. Another, the Void God Venerable, immediately began sealing the void, as if fearful that Yaoguang and Penglai would escape. The remaining Xuhuang God Venerable deployed a Dao artifact. The instant this Dao artifact appeared, visible ripples in space spread outward. These ripples seemed tangible, forming the array patterns of a formation with astonishing speed. With his mastery as a sixteenth-grade formation master, Yaoguang identified it at a single glance: this was a teleportation array. A teleportation array engraved and refined with a Dao artifact as its foundation. Anyone capable of pulling this off was definitely a powerful Dao Lord who combined artifact refining and formations into one, fully deserving to be hailed as a dual supreme master of arrays and artifacts. Pity... "I'll leave the Destruction four to you!" Yaoguang sent the message with a flicker of divine mind while clenching an empty hand toward the Xuhuang God Venerable. A power so formidable that it could nearly strip this God Venerable of his control over the Void Path descended upon him. The grand teleportation array nearly formed in the Xuhuang God Venerable's hands actually showed a visible stagnation. And the Xuhuang God Venerable activating the array realized something; his expression turned horrified, brimming with sheer disbelief. "The void power I control..." Buzz! Buzz! The void trembled! Collapsed! And in the next second, a terrifying chain reaction erupted. The space centered on the Xuhuang God Venerable seemed struck by a cosmic catastrophe of tearing and collapsing void. A terrifying void storm instantly engulfed and swallowed the God Venerable whole. The power within it that tore through and pulverized everything violently battered his divine body, and the radiance of high-grade Dao artifacts and protective treasures flashing across his body shattered one after another under this void strangulation. "Xuhuang?!" Destruction God Venerable let out a low shout and blasted a beam of Three-Color Destruction Divine Light toward Yaoguang. It was like a stellar destruction cannon fueled by the energy of an entire star. The might contained within the Three-Color Destruction Divine Light pierced heaven and earth, illuminating the galaxy. If allowed to unleash its full power, whether planets, stars, or primal caverns standing before it, all would be utterly annihilated. Under the conveyance of the Grand Dao of Destruction, its penetrating force could reach several hundred or even a thousand light-years. In other words, any target in its direct line of fire within a thousand light-years—regardless of the entity—would be completely destroyed by this Dao art. Yet, before an attack carrying such terrifying might could even touch Yaoguang, it was halted by the sea of origin cascading down from the heavens. Unending destructive power erupted from the Three-Color Destruction Divine Light, rapidly evaporating and obliterating the vast cascading sea of origin. Yet before it could vaporize the ocean of origin entirely, more origin power poured down in an endless torrent, forcefully withstanding the destructive fury of this dreadful Dao art. Ultimately... After stalemating for nearly a breath, the Three-Color Destruction Divine Light failed to pierce or evaporate the falling sea of origin after all, completely ground away and exhausted. While the Destruction God Venerable and Dao Lord Penglai were locked in a stalemate, Yaoguang's figure flickered and abruptly materialized right before the Xuhuang God Venerable. Another Great Collapse Art crashed down. "Watch out!" Thunder God Venerable bellowed. Radiance and destructive power swirled in his hand, manifesting thunder that—though not entirely pure—possessed the properties of two Great Daos, blasting straight toward Yaoguang. The thunder tore through space, transforming into a lightning sword. The roaring thunder within it tore through all matter in its path at near light-speed. Its fierce momentum was hardly inferior to the Three-Color Destruction Divine Light. Bearing an unstoppable momentum, the lightning sword crashed violently against Yaoguang, who neither dodged nor evaded, and then... It was like a colossal wave smashing into a reef. The gleaming lightning greatsword shattered into pieces in an instant, exploding into countless specks of light that dispersed into the cosmos. As for Yaoguang himself, his body did not even flinch. He maintained the Great Collapse Art, slamming it directly into the Xuhuang God Venerable's divine body. As life-saving items shattered one after another, terror surged into the eyes of this God Race Dao Integration expert. Void power erupted from him—a force so formidable that it carried an aura of absolute void control, forcibly seizing hold of a portion of void power to protect his body and pull him out of this starry sky. Yaoguang sensed it slightly; the explosive force—or rather, the sheer control over the void—was hardly inferior even when compared to ordinary immortals. In other words, relying on either the amplification of a treasure or a life-saving secret technique, the Xuhuang God Venerable possessed Dao control on par with an immortal at this moment. With such void control, no matter how perilous a situation he faced or how powerful the Dao Lord attempting to seal him with Dao arts or Dao artifacts, he would be able to escape once. Even against a semi-immortal artifact! Unfortunately... He was facing Yaoguang! A freak who possessed an Immortal Venerable-level realm! When he sensed the Xuhuang God Venerable detonating with all his might to flee this expanse of space, Yaoguang's degree of control over the Grand Dao of the Void reached its apex as well. "Suppress!" With a low shout, the void centered around the Xuhuang God Venerable seemed solidified to the extreme. The void power the God Venerable had cultivated for forty thousand years seemed to grind completely to a halt. No matter how desperately he tried, not a sliver of that void power would answer his call. He was like someone trapped in an ocean of absolute stagnation, absolute ice—no matter how skilled a swimmer he was, he could not use his techniques at all. "How can this be..." Disbelief filled the eyes of this God Venerable of the Void Path. He felt the shock of having his very understanding of the world overturned. Bang! The Great Collapse Art slammed down immediately after. With one hand, Yaoguang seized the Dao artifact capable of opening the void teleportation array, while with the other, he funneled all the void power he had stirred into the Great Collapse Art and smashed it down upon the Xuhuang God Venerable! With all void power aside from his own completely suppressed and immobilized, the Xuhuang God Venerable had no room left to resist. "This... this is definitely not a power that can exist in the mortal realm..." Amid a despairing wail, the God Race Dao Integration expert's entire divine body and soul were blasted to smithereens under this blow. In the midst of collapse, he was swept into nothingness. "Xuhuang!" The Destruction God Venerable roared in grief and fury. Compared to the Demon Venerables of the Six Demon Dao Sects, the God Venerables of the Ten Directions God Race were far more united. If a Demon Venerable from the Six Demon Dao Sects fell, the others might gloat or scheme over how to claim his territory. The Ten Directions God Race, however... Could truly advance and retreat as one, sharing a single heart and mind. "Yaoguang! You court death—" The Grand Dao of Destruction channeled by the Destruction God Venerable shook the starry skies. Yet before he could switch targets, the ocean of origin guided by Dao Lord Penglai intercepted him and the three God Venerables beside him, including Thunder: "Your opponent is me!" On the other side... Having slain the Xuhuang God Venerable, Yaoguang flickered and appeared before the Void God Venerable. At this moment, the Void God Venerable was still reeling in shock from the Xuhuang God Venerable's swift demise. Between the God Race's two Void Dao Lords, the Xuhuang God Venerable was a junior, yet his attainments in the Void Path had surpassed his predecessors. Today, his strength even surpassed that of this senior who had reached Dao Integration seventy thousand years ago. Backed by his Divine Kingdom, he was capable of suppressing renowned Dao Lords. And yet... Such a mighty God Venerable had been suppressed and slain by Yaoguang with effortless ease?! All his various divine abilities and methods seemed utterly ineffective before Yaoguang. At first glance, it almost looked as if he had deliberately held back, letting Yaoguang kill him! This spectacle was completely incomprehensible to him. Until... he actually faced Yaoguang himself! When Yaoguang arrived before him in a Void Flicker, he could clearly feel that the void power he controlled seemed... to be paying homage to Yaoguang! Like subjects greeting the return of their king! This feeling... Merely standing before Yaoguang, his power was already slashed by a massive margin. "How is this possible..." The Void God Venerable's pupils contracted violently. "I thought the Ten Directions God Race was responsible for luring me out while the Void Dao Lords hid in the dark waiting for their chance, but as it turns out..." Yaoguang glanced at the seized Dao artifact in his hand. "To prevent me from noticing anything amiss, they split into two separate locations and planned to link up using a teleportation array? Playing with teleportation arrays in front of a sixteenth-grade formation master?!" Being linked in spiritual communion, Dao Lord Penglai instantly grasped his meaning: "Then let us first wipe out these six God Venerables, and then execute the Void Dao Lords who arrive after!"