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"Youxu!" "It's Sect Master Youxu!" "A spatial Dao artifact? Does that Yaoguang have a spatial Dao artifact locking down this starry void!?" The eight Dao Lords who had rushed over looked at the figure struggling desperately to break out, instantly identifying him and grasping the situation before them. "A Dao Sovereign?! We know he's a Dao Sovereign... but if all of us swarm him at once, there's no way he can slaughter every last one of us!" "Quick, rescue Sect Master Youxu!" One Dao Lord after another prepared to charge forward. Yet Dao Lord Tianyan, looking at Vice Sect Master Youxu sealed and clearly suppressed within that stretch of void, and recalling the seven Dao Lords who had fallen one after another earlier—including Sect Master Dao Sovereign Jinguang—felt something click in his mind, and an involuntary shudder ran through his entire being. A creeping horror slithered through him like a venomous snake, instantly suffusing his whole body. The reason Sect Master Youxu and these Dao Lords had not fled was not that they saw hope of victory and wanted to fight Yaoguang to the bitter end. Rather, they were trapped within this void, utterly unable to escape. Just now, Youxu had staked his life to unleash his divine mind and transmit the message "He's a Dao Sovereign," and what he truly meant was plainly not what they had understood it to mean. Rather, it was... A Dao Sovereign! A true Dao Sovereign! Yaoguang was like their Xingri Sect's founding ancestor, Dao Sovereign Huanyin—a supreme powerhouse capable of overpowering an entire era, who treated ordinary Dao Lords like nothing, surpassed invincible Dao Lords by countless times over, and could sweep all before him even under siege by hundreds of Dao Lords! Only this could explain why their Sect Master, likewise hailed as a "Dao Sovereign," had died at Yaoguang's hands. Only this could explain why, even though the Sect Master had twelve other powerhouses at his side, including Vice Sect Master Youxu, they had still been reduced to souls claimed by this man's blade—struck down one by one until only six remained. Even those six survivors were trapped within this spatial Dao artifact... Or perhaps a spatial semi-immortal artifact, unable to break free, reduced to nothing more than walking corpses in a tomb with only death ahead! The Xingri Sect had run rampant and domineering for millions of years... And today, had they actually provoked a Dao Sovereign?! A true Dao Sovereign?! An unprecedented wave of terror and dread battered Dao Lord Tianyan's mind. Watching the Dao Lords boldly surging forward, intending to charge into that void to rescue Sect Master Youxu, he strained with all his might to get his paralyzed divine mind functioning again, swiftly transmitting a message that was somewhat hard to articulate clearly to everyone: "Run... Run, quickly!..." *Buzz!* Just as Dao Lord Tianyan shuddered and transmitted his divine mind to the other Dao Lords, a figure materialized from within that void. It was none other than Yaoguang, whom Qianjie, Wanjie, and the others had believed was trying to curry favor with them in order to join the Xingri Sect. With a single thrust of his hand, he manifested incomparable void power, forcibly slamming Dao Lord Youxu back. "Run!" Amidst Youxu's unwilling cry, his figure quickly vanished back into that expanse of void. Immediately following that, Yaoguang turned his gaze upon the Dao Lords who had rushed over. "You're here." With a wave of his hand, ripples of void spread outward. Amid bursts of invisible distortion, they enveloped every single Dao Lord charging toward him. "Since you are here, step into my Ten Directions Heavenly Realm for a chat." "Not good!" Dao Lord Qianjie and Dao Lord Wanjie simultaneously mobilized their Great Dao power, preparing to cast their Dao arts to shatter the void ripples constricting the Dao Lords. Meanwhile, Dao Lord Tianyan was already retreating frantically. As he fell back, he screamed with raw, near-hysterical desperation, "Run! A Dao Sovereign! He is a Dao Sovereign! Just like Ancestor Dao Sovereign Huanyin! A true Dao Sovereign who suppresses an entire era!" A true Dao Sovereign?! Dao Lord Qianjie and Dao Lord Wanjie, who had not truly been afraid upon hearing Dao Lord Youxu's earlier warning, felt their hearts jolt violently! A true Dao Sovereign like Ancestor Dao Sovereign Huanyin?! A supreme powerhouse who suppressed an era and looked upon ordinary Dao Lords like nothing?! How could that be?! In this world... How could such a being truly exist?! Every piece of data and analysis from the Xingri Sect proved that the world could not allow such figures to exist. The so-called power of a Dao Sovereign standing against a hundred Dao Lords was nothing more than an exaggerated rumor, inflated, magnified, and mythologized by lesser beings until it grew increasingly absurd. For all the data in their possession indicated that the cosmic starry sky could not accommodate power of that scale. With that slight hesitation, the power of the Ten Directions Heavenly Realm swept forward in a surge, instantly drawing both men inside. Still, the reactions of these two pinnacle Dao Lords were exceptionally fast. They channeled their Great Dao power without delay, aiming to blast this partitioned void world into dust. Yet... Yaoguang paid little heed to Dao Lord Qianjie. Just as Qianjie's Dao art was about to take shape, Yaoguang clenched his hand from afar. The Dao art Qianjie thought was about to coalesce instantly fell into chaos, and the power of the Grand Dao of the Void seemed to flee from him. Even when he pushed himself to the limit, raising his resonance with the Grand Dao of the Void to its utmost, the power he could mobilize was barely twenty or thirty percent. Such an immense drop and severe suppression caused this battle-hardened pinnacle Dao Lord, who specialized in hunting down Star Slayer Alliance Dao Lords, to widen his eyes in shock. "How could my void power be..." Still, Dao Lord Qianjie merely had his Dao art interrupted, requiring greater effort to gather a new one; Dao Lord Wanjie was Yaoguang's primary target. Unleashing five or six consecutive Great Void Arts in his battle against Dao Lord Jinguang had taken a toll on Yaoguang as well, so the void power he gathered now took the form of the less demanding Great Collapse Art. Even so, for Dao Lord Wanjie, who had just endured a life-or-death battle and had no time to recover, it was still an absolute lethal strike. The shattering of the void as the Great Collapse Art came crashing down made Wanjie's scalp tingle with dread. He realized in an instant: he could not block it! Deprived of all his life-saving methods, he could not withstand this strike! "Qianjie! Tianyan!" Wanjie roared, his divine mind shuddering as he channeled his Great Dao power while crying out to his nearby comrades for help. Yet even as the full disintegrating fury of the Great Collapse Art crashed down, he received no response whatsoever. Having also cultivated soul- and perception-type Dao arts, he realized something at once. He strained to look up and around him. Across this vast, blank, ethereal world, the Xingri Sect Dao Lords who had rushed over to reinforce them, along with his teammates who had just been swept inside, were all adrift in a hallucinatory daze. This phenomenon... Their perception had clearly been bewitched. This bewitchment targeted the soul. Unless a Dao Lord had also cultivated this category of Dao arts, others would not even realize they were being interfered with. Even Dao Lords who had dabbled in soul Dao arts were, at best, like him: aware that their soul and cognition were being disrupted, aware that they were trapped in such a warped space and world, yet completely at a loss as to how to break free of this space and escape this cage. Such overwhelming power... "A semi-immortal artifact?! No! Not even a semi-immortal artifact could possess such influence! This is..." Following the evidence before his eyes, Dao Lord Wanjie's thoughts swiftly arrived at the truth—a truth he dared not imagine, yet one undeniably real. "An immortal artifact!" *Rumble!* The Great Collapse Art slammed down. The Dao Lord could clearly feel his laboriously cast Dao art disintegrate, and the remaining destructive force smashed into his body with undiminished momentum, collapsing and shattering him along with the void around him. In the instant his body and consciousness were pulverized, he had only a single thought: *The Xingri Sect is finished.* *** After sequentially suppressing Qianjie and slaying Wanjie—two pinnacle Dao Lords—the Ten Directions Heavenly Realm expanded abruptly, sweeping in Dao Lord Tianyan as he retreated at full speed. Although Tianyan did not specialize in the Grand Dao of the Soul, he had cultivated many soul- and mind-oriented Dao arts. Upon entering the Ten Directions Heavenly Realm, he soon "saw" an immortal sword radiating terrifying sharpness at the very center of the realm, surrounded by endless Dao charm. As it absorbed this Dao charm, the immortal sword's sharpness grew ever fiercer—so intense that even Dao Lords whose souls were clouded could not help feeling a creeping dread, driving them to frantically attack everyone around them. It was as if only by attacking relentlessly and destroying every potential threat nearby could they shake off the menace projected by this immortal sword. Unfortunately... What they did not know was that their attacks were almost without exception redirected onto one another. The Xingri Sect's Dao Lords were completely slaughtering themselves. Once attacked, an extreme sense of insecurity drove them to unleash even fiercer offensives against those around them, which immediately provoked even more ferocious, lethal retaliation, spiraling uncontrollably. Until they were too badly wounded to launch another attack, at which point the master of this realm easily harvested their lives. This sight brought an uncontrollable agony into the eyes of the relatively "lucid" Dao Lord Tianyan. "No!" What brought him even greater pain and despair was that the Dao charm feeding the sword's ever-growing sharpness came directly from these Dao Lords. That terrifying, wicked Dao Sovereign Yaoguang appeared to be using the other Dao Lords to temper the immortal sword in his grasp, driving its continuous metamorphosis. The sharpness of that transformed blade... had clearly surpassed that of a semi-immortal artifact, reaching the level of a true immortal artifact. Even so, he continued tempering this immortal artifact, seemingly attempting to push it toward becoming a high-grade immortal artifact—something that had become a true legend in the lower realm. "A Dao Sovereign! A Dao Sovereign! This is the power of a true Dao Sovereign!" Watching the Xingri Sect's Dao Lords slaughter each other to the brink of utter ruin without Yaoguang even needing to lift a finger, Dao Lord Tianyan finally understood the true weight behind the title "Dao Sovereign." So a Dao Sovereign really could suppress an era single-handedly. So a Dao Sovereign standing against a hundred was not merely a legend. So ordinary Dao Lords truly possessed not the slightest power to fight back before a genuine Dao Sovereign. The legends passed down since ancient times... were all true. Alas... He would never have the chance to bring this news back to the sect and warn everyone. Not that a warning would matter anyway. They could not stop him! Before a Dao Sovereign, a tiny Xingri Sect had no way to stand against him other than begging for mercy. Watching Yaoguang—who had been systematically executing those who dabbled in the Dao of the soul—now hurling a Great Collapse Art toward him, the Commander of the Sky Patrol Guard gave up all resistance. "Dao Sovereign." The supreme among Dao Lords. Supreme and unsurpassed.