Right and Wrong

"What is going on? Why is the Xingri Sect so quiet?" "Someone over here seemed to feel the tremors in the Grand Dao from the fall of Dao Lords. It lasted for quite a while, which proves that kid Yaoguang fought another massive battle here against the Xingri Sect, and more than one Dao Lord perished." "Is the battle over? Who won?" "Wasn't it said that Yaoguang, that outsider Dao Lord, was already at the end of his rope? Where would he find the strength to breach the Xingri Sect?" "Could it be that the Xingri Sect was always just a paper tiger, easily pierced? According to the Alliance Master, Yaoguang ambushed and killed Jinguang, which means Jinguang's spatial storage artifacts naturally fell into his hands. Perhaps he learned the truth about how hollow the Xingri Sect's headquarters really was from those spoils?" As the battleships arrived, the Dao Lords of the Star Slayer Alliance—each hoping to profit as a fisherman while two tigers fought—were thoroughly bewildered. The situation truly felt off. Yet immediately afterward, an unknown Dao Lord shouted, "We have fully thirty-five Dao Lords gathered here, and another thirty or forty are rushing over at top speed! With a lineup like this, as long as we unite as one, even breaching the Xingri Sect in a frontal assault would be trivial! Why fear a mere outsider Dao Sovereign?" These words immediately resonated with many Dao Lords. "This old man has waited a hundred thousand years for a chance to ascend to the Immortal Realm! I originally planned to gamble on the elusive chance of traveling to other starfields to see if I could find another Gate of the Immortal Realm. Who would have thought such an upheaval would occur in the Xingri Sect? This time, no one will stop me from entering the Gate of the Immortal Realm and ascending!" "Storm the Xingri Sect! Slay their people and seize their treasures! Anyone who blocks my path dies!" "The Xingri Sect's Dao Sovereign inheritance must be mine! When the time comes, I will be the next Dao Sovereign!" Divine sense rippled through the void, and over a dozen Dao Lords broke away from the fleet, charging straight down toward the Xingri Sect below. Throughout the entire process, not one of them paid the slightest heed to Dao Lord Jiugong, the master of the Star Slayer Alliance. In his internal propaganda, Dao Lord Jiugong had made it sound as though Yaoguang were hanging by a thread, on the verge of breathing his last. Consequently, many Dao Lords harbored very little fear. Dao Lord Jiugong offered no warning. He even had the battleship carrying him pull back slightly. He only wanted to watch from behind and see just how much strength Yaoguang had left. Was he truly a spent force, or... Was he powerful enough to treat the Xingri Sect as nothing, obliterating Dao Sovereign Jinguang's entourage and every single Dao Lord defending the sect, including Dao Lord Changqing, with sweeping ease? A second later, Dao Lord Jiugong saw clearly. Just as twelve Dao Lords joined forces to charge the Xingri Sect's stronghold, they were met head-on by a figure soaring out from the headquarters veiled by the formation. It was none other than Yaoguang! The Yaoguang suspected of being a true Dao Sovereign! The instant the two sides made contact, the Dao Lords charging at the front appeared to fall into a momentary daze. Immediately following that, the Grand Dao of the Void violently trembled. The frequency of the tremor was not particularly great and did not reach the level of an immortal art, yet... Against several Dao Lords whose minds were in a daze, it was more than enough. Just like that, the foremost three Dao Lords were crushed into nothingness by successive Great Collapse Arts, obliterated into ash without the slightest power to resist. "It's a soul Dao art! Such power... Is he a Soul Dao Lord?!" Alarmed cries erupted from the remaining Dao Lords ahead. They recognized the technique Yaoguang had used. The quicker-witted Dao Lords immediately invoked defensive methods against soul Dao arts. Yet it was useless. Amplified by the Ten Directions Heavenly Abyss Pagoda, any Dao Lord facing Yaoguang's soul Dao arts would be affected—the only difference lay in how severely. Against those heavily affected, Yaoguang hurled a Great Collapse Art; against those less affected, he directly greeted them with the Great Void Art. Under an immortal art like the Great Void Art, even if those less-affected Dao Lords broke free from the soul interference at the earliest moment, they stood no chance of blocking a terrifying strike that served as an absolute lethal blow to any Dao Lord. Slaughter! One against twelve, yet there was no stalemate like the Dao Lords had imagined... Nor was it merely a scene of one side holding the upper hand. The battle before them was an outright massacre. A single Dao Lord butchering twelve others. This terrifying sight plunged Dao Lord Jiugong, who had still clung to a sliver of hope, into an icy abyss. Dao Lord Zhuanhe felt that same hair-raising terror resurface, just as when he had witnessed the battle between Yaoguang and Dao Lord Jinguang. "He... he isn't weakened! He isn't weakened in the slightest! Crushing the Xingri Sect's main force didn't weaken or injure him one bit... Formidable! He is still incomparably, unconquerably formidable!" This Dao Lord trembled from head to toe. Dao Lord Jiugong quickly snapped out of his freezing dread. "Retreat!" Without hesitation, he maneuvered his battleship—which had already been hanging back—and bolted at full speed toward the Star Gate. Yet just as he was about to rush into the Star Gate, another batch of Dao artifact-grade battleships suddenly warped out from within. They emerged with such sudden speed that they nearly collided with the battleships carrying Dao Lord Jiugong and his retinue, forcing them into a hurried evasion. "Alliance Master?!" "Alliance Master, what are you doing?" Confused divine sense transmissions echoed from the emerging battleships. Yet Dao Lord Jiugong and Dao Lord Zhuanhe had no time to explain. "Out of the way! Move!" By this point, the other Dao Lords had also caught on. Seeing Yaoguang slaughtering most of the twelve Dao Lords with overwhelming ease, and seeing Alliance Master Jiugong turn and flee without a second thought, how could they fail to guess that the one who had annihilated Dao Sovereign Jinguang and his companions was never Dao Lord Jiugong, but Yaoguang? The very Yaoguang whom they had discreetly learned through their own channels was suspected of being a true Dao Sovereign! In an instant, the Star Slayer Alliance fully demonstrated its nature as a rabble. Over a dozen people followed Dao Lord Jiugong's lead, staging a chaotic rout. "Don't panic! Don't panic! We have so many Dao Lords here! No matter how strong Yaoguang is, he can't possibly overpower all of us—" A Dao Lord with some fame among the unaffiliated cultivators bellowed. Yet the moment the words left his mouth, a Great Void Art detonated from Yaoguang's hand. The twelve Dao Lords who had charged first had already been wiped out in that brief span of time! Twelve Dao Lords! Twelve full Dao Lords! That was more than a third of all the Dao Lords present! Such a massive gathering of Dao Lords had been completely slaughtered by Yaoguang in mere moments?! The famous Dao Lord drew in a sharp breath of cold air, an unprecedented chill spreading through his entire body. Seeing that savage monster, having finished off the first twelve Dao Lords, charge toward them once more, the famous Dao Lord shuddered and snapped to his senses. "Out of the way! Get out of the way!" He erupted with full power, driving his battleship straight toward the Star Gate. He was not alone. The remaining Dao Lords completely lost their composure when they saw Yaoguang coming their way. Terrifying! Too terrifying! Twelve Dao Lords had been reduced to ash in just a dozen breaths! Such appalling combat strength stripped every single Dao Lord of the courage to confront Yaoguang. At this moment, all they wanted was to flee through the Star Gate at top speed and escape this battlefield. "Get lost! Don't block my way!" "Let me through first! Let me go first!" "Wait, that sector... Look out! A battleship is warping through... Evade the collision!" Bursts of divine sense crisscrossed continuously through the void, saturating the battlefield. In terms of the sheer number of Dao Lords and even overall combat power, the Star Slayer Alliance had always surpassed the Xingri Sect. However, these Dao Lords had never possessed a core figure capable of inspiring universal respect to unite them. Each fought for himself, and when danger struck, their mutual lack of trust ensured that their first instinct was always to sacrifice others to save their own skins. Utterly selfish, they collapsed into a rout the moment Yaoguang charged, despite having more than enough power to fight back! Dozens of Dao Lords jammed before the Star Gate in absolute chaos. Furthermore... As Yaoguang tore into their midst and began mercilessly slaughtering the Dao Lords on the periphery, some Dao Lords could no longer hold back from attacking those beside them just to break through to the Star Gate and escape this starfield at maximum speed! They cast Dao arts at the Dao Lords next to them solely to force them aside, desperate to be the first to plunge into the Star Gate and flee. Once the first strike was thrown, a second and third inevitably followed. Before long, the foremost group of Dao Lords had devolved into a brawl. They clearly possessed ample strength and courage to attack their own allies, yet not a single one dared turn around to face Yaoguang as he plunged into their ranks, reaping lives. One had to admit, the scene was profoundly ironic. Moreover, how staggering was the might of a Dao Lord's Dao art? Amidst the tremors of the Grand Dao, the destructive deluge born from clashing Dao arts slammed like a tsunami against the Star Gate, which, though protected by a formation, was of modest tier. Instantly... The Star Gate, which had still been spitting out warped battleships, shuddered violently, fractured inch by inch, and collapsed the next moment. In a single breath, the immense Star Gate lost its internal structural balance. Like a runaway black hole, it detonated with a blinding radiance that illuminated the surrounding starfield, perishing right before the eyes of all the Dao Lords. "No!" A cry of agonized despair burst from Dao Lord Jiugong's divine sense, though he had already entered the Star Gate's threshold. His grief lasted only a heartbeat before he realized that now was not the time for remorse. The master of the Star Slayer Alliance turned swiftly, intending to flee the battlefield. Yet as the phantom shadow cast by an enormous tower enveloped this expanse of starry sky, everyone felt as though they had been dragged into an entirely different dimension. Within this space, every single Dao Lord found their soul perception and judgment suppressed and disrupted, as if ensnared in a nightmare. Jiugong and Zhuanhe knew with just a glance that these people were essentially dead. Once Yaoguang finished executing the Dao Lords capable of withstanding the soul interference, he would find time to harvest them all, one by one. And unfortunately... They were precisely among the Dao Lords who had resisted the soul interference, keeping their minds clear only to watch death and destruction descend upon them. Seeing Yaoguang turn his gaze toward them after wiping out several Dao Lords who concurrently cultivated the Grand Dao of Souls using the Great Collapse Art and the Great Void Art, the master of the Star Slayer Alliance was filled with despair and regret. "We were wrong! We were wrong! Had we known, we would never have made an enemy of such a terrifying Dao Sovereign..." "No, you were not wrong," Yaoguang replied calmly. He thought of himself. He remembered the mistake he had recognized long ago when facing helplessness. And now, that same realization could be returned to this master of the Star Slayer Alliance. "Your only mistake was a single thing: you were not strong enough!" "Not strong enough..." Hearing Yaoguang's words, Dao Lord Jiugong let out a wretched laugh. "Indeed. There is no right or wrong. For life-forms at our level, right and wrong are utterly meaningless. The sole reason is—we lost."