Invincible

“This kind of power...” Yaoguang took a deep breath. He did not know whether the Time Dao Ancestor could truly reach such a level, but even if he could... It certainly could not be as comprehensive as his own. In other words... The plane where Higher-Dimensional Cognition resided was at least on par with the Ancient Immortal Realm and the Hunyuan Realm. Not a Dao Ancestor, nor the Lord of Yuanxi! It was on the same plane as the Ancient Immortal Realm and the Hunyuan Realm! And now, power of that caliber was held entirely in his hands... At this moment, an unprecedented yearning welled up in Yaoguang's heart. He wanted desperately to know what lay beyond the mist formed by the Hunyuan Realm. What kind of entity stood lofty in the higher dimensions, observing this great war between the Hunyuan Realm and the Ancient Immortal Realm like a mere spectator? And what role did he play in that dimension? Buzz! At that moment, an abnormal disturbance outside broke Yaoguang's contemplation. He looked up into the distance and saw that he had already traversed the second Star Gate, arriving in the starry expanse behind it. And here, another thirteen Dao Lords were assembling. Evidently, they formed the Yongsheng Sect's third defensive line. However, when Yaoguang had slain the seven Dao Lords earlier, he had used the power of the Spacetime Orb within the Grand Dao Pagoda to distort the spacetime feedback of that battlefield. As a result, these thirteen Dao Lords had not sensed any ripples of fallen Dao Lords at all, assuming the battle there was still underway. When Yaoguang actually traversed the Eternal Gate and emerged, the thirteen Dao Lords gathered here were still casually chatting with great interest. “So, does anyone want to guess who this ‘intruder’ really is? Could it be that he hasn't even heard of our Yongsheng Sect, to dare invade our sect's heartland alone?” a Dao Lord transmitted through divine sense. “The elders have already sent word,” another Dao Lord replied with a sneer. “Just as I guessed, since he could crush the Dao Lord guarding the Eternal Gate with overwhelming force, his strength isn't half-bad—he has indeed attained the realm of an invincible Dao Lord! Probably... because of that, he fancies himself invincible under heaven and dares to look down on our Yongsheng Sect.” He chuckled coldly. “An invincible Dao Lord? Laughable! Before our Yongsheng Sect, who dares claim invincibility? Even if a Dao Sovereign dares run wild in our Yongsheng Sect, we'd scatter his ashes to the winds!” “I'd actually prefer if the elders handling the first interception don't take it too seriously,” another Dao Lord remarked rather idly through divine sense. “It's been so long since we've had this kind of amusement. I almost hope the intruder breaks through their line so I can stretch my limbs a bit.” “Enough. He isn't weak. With a formidable enemy at hand, stay sharp. We—” a steadier Dao Lord spoke up. Yet just as his divine sense went out, a flash of light streaked past, and a figure materialized right before their eyes. Seeing this figure appear so abruptly, along with the lingering fluctuations of void power radiating from him, the expressions of many of the Dao Lords changed drastically. A Dao Lord?! And not a Dao Lord any of them recognized! Which meant... “He's here!” “The elders... failed to stop him?! And... he broke through so quickly?!” Their divine senses surged in shock. Many Dao Lords immediately channeled the Grand Dao, preparing to unleash Dao arts. There were also Dao Lords who grew exhilarated. “Just in time! Let me see what you're made of, you so-called invincible Dao Lord...” Shouting in unison, they surged forward, condensing their Dao arts. Yet before their Dao arts could fully coalesce, the power of the void was seized by a colossal force, swift beyond comprehension, churning up an unprecedented void tsunami. This near-absolute mastery over the Grand Dao of the Void drained the color from the face of a Void Dao Lord among them. “Not good! Void power on this scale... Watch out—” Before his transmission even finished echoing, the Great Void Art—an immortal-art-grade attack—had already formed in Yaoguang's hands. At this moment, his progress in the Dao of the Void had reached 1021/10000, an unequivocal Immortal King domain. Even without the Grand Dao Pagoda, a supreme sacred artifact, in the lower realm he was already a figure comparable to a Dao Sovereign. An origin Dao art of the Grand Dao of the Void and a void immortal art like the Great Void Art was something he could wield to his heart's content, if not effortlessly. The three Dao Lords who had charged forward to strike, blinded by the delusion of the Yongsheng Sect's invincibility and oblivious to reality, were completely engulfed by the Great Void Art. Coupled with the interference of the soul power rippling from the Grand Dao Pagoda, the three Dao Lords did not even have the chance to leave behind any last words. They were erased into nothingness by the Great Void Art, as if they had never existed in this world. “What?!” This horrifying sight made the remaining ten Dao Lords widen their eyes in disbelief. Even the flow of their divine senses momentarily froze. Three Dao Lords! A full three Dao Lords who were elders in the Yongsheng Sect and held dominion over entire star territories had been obliterated in a single exchange without putting up the slightest resistance! Such strength... Buzz! An invisible ripple spread outward from the Grand Dao Pagoda. Time ripples washed over the battlefield. The Grand Dao resonance triggered by the fall of Dao Lords was twisted entirely by spacetime power, unable to escape at all. This sight sent a bone-chilling dread through the elder Dao Lords, who had previously wondered why Yaoguang had breached the Star Gate defenses yet no word had come from the eight elders on that battlefield. Why had no message come out? Why had there been no Grand Dao resonance from the death of Dao Lords?! The power of time! This terrifying intruder could actually use a Dao artifact... No! It was definitely an immortal artifact! This terrifying intruder actually wielded a Time immortal artifact, using its power to forcefully distort all information and sever the battlefield they occupied from the starry sky perceived by outsiders, splitting them into two different spacetimes! Even though Dao Lords had fallen in this starry sky, because of the disparity in time, to outsiders, the deaths of Dao Lords here had not even occurred yet. Naturally, no one would notice that death had already arrived in absolute silence! “No!” “Quick! Break through this layer of time ripples! Get word out! This intruder... definitely has strength beyond that of an invincible Dao Lord! He is far more terrifying than we anticipated!” “A Dao Sovereign! A Dao Sovereign! He is a Dao Sovereign!” “A Dao Sovereign is attacking! We must mobilize more than half of the sect's forces to have any hope of crushing him! If we keep dispatching reinforcements wave by wave... the entire Yongsheng Sect risks being picked off one by one until total annihilation!” The remaining ten Dao Lords fell into sheer panic, frantically channeling their Grand Dao power to weave Dao arts. Those holding trump cards unleashed them without hesitation. Instantly, attacks of quasi-immortal-art caliber, rivaling the Flames of Dao Extinction in might, brewed in the hands of three Dao Lords. Attacks of this nature... If landed directly, already possessed the potency to kill other Dao Lords. And right now, three out of the ten Dao Lords wielded trump cards of such scale. From this alone, one could see the profound depths of the Yongsheng Sect's Dao Lords. Compared to Beihai Star, renowned Dao Lords probably accounted for thirty or forty percent of their ranks, and top-tier Dao Lords likely made up ten to twenty percent. Just as everyone played their trump cards and prepared to unleash their mightiest strikes, five Grand Daos—Space, Origin, Chaos, Soul, and Stars—surged with radiant light within the Grand Dao Pagoda behind Yaoguang. “Suppress!” The moment that word left his lips, the five Grand Daos descended like five majestic divine mountains with irresistible force. Soul turbulence! The void froze! All things reduced to chaos! Every pocket of chaos weighed as heavy as a star! Furthermore, the Grand Dao of Origin continually poured forth energy to sustain this state of suppression! In an instant, whether they were renowned Dao Lords unleashing quasi-immortal-art trump cards or ordinary Dao Lords employing all manner of life-saving measures, uncontrollable terror welled in every single pair of eyes. They watched helplessly as the vast divine majesty manifested by these five Grand Daos pinned them down, leaving them incapable of moving even an inch. And then... They could only let Yaoguang slaughter the ten Dao Lords one by one like reaping a harvest. That despair—watching the butcher's blade descend while paralyzed and powerless to resist—flooded their minds, making them yearn to scream toward the heavens in agonized fury. Yet... They could not even emit a ripple of divine sense. In the end, as Yaoguang's Dao art swept across them, the ten Dao Lords dissolved into the universe in utter silence. “Gate of the World, fully driving the Grand Dao Pagoda, can suppress thirty to forty Dao Lords in one go. If I don't use the Grand Dao Pagoda to sustain the suppression and rely solely on the intrinsic power of this composite immortal art, it can only suppress eight to ten Dao Lords.” Yaoguang arrived at a rough estimate. The Grand Dao Pagoda was not only the cultivation foundation of his Human Immortal path, but also an immensely powerful supreme sacred artifact. Attacking with this supreme sacred artifact in hand versus using it as a power source to execute immortal arts produced a night-and-day difference. After wiping out these thirteen Dao Lords, Yaoguang sensed his surroundings carefully for a moment. Then, turning around, he cast Sky Rift Streamer and traversed back toward the Star Gate he had just come through. Before long, as he emerged from the Star Gate, six Dao Lords had already gathered here. These were precisely the Dao Lords rushing to reinforce the position. Originally, he had planned to drive into the heartland of the Yongsheng Sect at maximum speed to prevent its Dao Lords from relying on the sect headquarters' immortal array against him. But now... He realized that was unnecessary. There was no need for tactics whatsoever. With his current strength, whether the Yongsheng Sect's Dao Lords banded together or fought to the bitter end backed by their headquarters' immortal array made no difference at all. With an attainment rivaling an Immortal King, he was already in no way inferior to any Dao Lord in history. Coupled with the supreme sacred artifact that was the Grand Dao Pagoda, in a certain sense, he was already the most powerful Dao Sovereign in history. Fighting one against a hundred or dominating an entire era was no longer his limit. Even if more than a hundred Dao Lords of the Yongsheng Sect united as one and fought him with the full power of an immortal array, the final outcome would not change in the slightest. The strength he commanded in the starry skies of the lower realm had already transcended mortal understanding of a Dao Sovereign—of a true Dao Sovereign. There was only one word that could describe his current state! Invincible! Truly invincible under heaven!