Chaos

"This is impossible!" The sheer disbelief in Immortal King Tianyu's mind felt as if it were about to detonate. His control over the power of the void had actually been stripped away?! How could that be possible?! As the foremost Immortal King of the void in the Ancient Immortal Realm—whose overall combat power ranked at least in the top twenty, and who was even capable of breaking into the top ten—his comprehension of the Grand Dao of the Void had long reached an unprecedented, peerless level. The void shares under his grasp alone amounted to three thousand nine hundred. Yes, not the thirty-five or thirty-six hundred known to outsiders, but a full thirty-nine hundred. Moreover, ever since acquiring Tier 19 clearance, he had devoted all his time and energy to deducing and refining the realm of the void. To this day, his attainment had reached the point of comprehending fifty percent of the void. At most, he could refine and accommodate five thousand shares of the void. This was the very foundation of his confidence that, upon slaying Immortal King Yuxiao, he would be fully capable of claiming all of Yuxiao's void shares for himself. A realm encompassing more than half of the Grand Dao of the Void, and possessing over a third of the Dao's total shares... Yet under these circumstances, at the crucial juncture of battling other Immortal Kings, his mastery over the Grand Dao of the Void had actually been stripped away?! How could anyone possibly achieve such a feat?! Unless... the Void Dao Ancestor had returned to life?! Wait, the Void Dao Ancestor returned to life?! Immortal King Tianyu suddenly recalled a rumor he had caught wind of over the years. This information had come from native ascenders under Immortal King Hongmeng who had recently joined their Tianyuan Group. According to them, this Immortal King Yuxiao had ascended through the Gate of the Immortal Realm from the Land of Dao Oblivion, just like them. Back in the Land of Dao Oblivion, he had already displayed peerless attainment in the Grand Dao of the Void, possessing a might that surpassed even the reincarnated Dao Sovereigns of past Immortal Kings. That defied common sense. On top of that, as soon as he ascended and joined the Creation Group, Chairman Xuanqing and the other directors had spared no effort in grooming him, pulling every trick to help him amass shares of the void, and even of time. And now, to help him deal with Tianyu, the entire Creation Group had mobilized en masse. At this moment, something as utterly preposterous as having his mastery over the Grand Dao of the Void stripped away had occurred. Everything pointed to an unbelievable yet highly likely, undeniable truth. "This is the power of the Void Dao Ancestor! You obtained the legacy of the Spacetime Dao Ancestor in the Land of Dao Oblivion?!" Immortal King Tianyu's divine consciousness was consumed by unprecedented jealousy. *Rumble!* What awaited him was the violent shockwave triggered by the swift collapse of Absolute Nihility. Having lost sufficient control over the power of the void, this supreme immortal art—his pride and joy, which could ensure his place among the top ten Immortal Kings of the Immortal Realm—shattered like shoddy craftsmanship. The concentrated barrage from the Creation Group's eight Immortal Kings crushed it into nothingness with overwhelming force, carrying onward unabated to slam directly into his immortal body. "Yuxiao!" Immortal King Tianyu let out an unwilling roar, and a strange artifact rippling with the mysteries of the soul materialized over his person. He curled his soul power completely, pouring it all into this odd relic while activating its might, intending to use its power to break away from this void entirely. This was a life-saving trump card! Yaoguang, who was practically within arm's reach, keenly perceived this. His brows furrowed slightly. If Immortal King Tianyu managed to escape even now, today's ambush would fall short of total success. In the future, when he fought other Immortal Kings and displayed strength far exceeding an ordinary void Immortal King, it would be difficult to explain. With this thought, the power of the Time "Dao Master" within Yaoguang silently rippled outward. At this moment, time before his eyes seemed to freeze. He quietly observed the shifts across Immortal King Tianyu's form and the distinctive concentric ripples emanating from that soul artifact. It might have been an eternity, or perhaps merely an instant. Yaoguang struck without warning, hurling an exceptionally subtle Spacetime Collapse Art straight at the soul artifact. The artifact was not forged as a top-tier immortal artifact, nor was it a supreme sacred artifact; it was hardly indestructible. Under the Spacetime Collapse Art, it was instantly annihilated. Eradicated along with it was Immortal King Tianyu's soul origin, which had retreated into the relic. The moment they made contact, Yaoguang could even sense the Immortal King's terror, fury, and bitter resentment. *Rumble!* In an instant, the soul artifact collapsed and was extinguished. Almost at the exact moment the relic was obliterated, the combined onslaught of the Creation Group's eight Immortal Kings crashed down upon Immortal King Tianyu's physical form. The mighty immortal arts unleashed by the eight Immortal Kings—who had built up their momentum and exerted their full strength together—crushed everything in their path like dry weeds. Even the patch of void where Immortal King Tianyu stood was reduced to nothingness, leaving behind not a trace. Vaguely, Xuanqing, bolstered by his Tier 19 clearance, seemed to sense something. Yet because that stretch of void had been utterly destroyed and scrambled by the eight Immortal Kings' joint strike, leaving nothing intact, he had no way to verify his faint intuition. In the end, he could only accept the fact that their eight Immortal Kings had indeed annihilated Immortal King Tianyu through their united blow. "Tianyu?! You actually killed Tianyu?!" "Xuanqing, have you lost your minds?!" "How dare your Creation Group lay a hand on an Immortal King with Tier 19 clearance?! I will report this to the Lord of Yuanxi! We will make your Creation Group pay!" By this time, Immortal King Longxiang, Immortal King Diyi, and Immortal King Wumu had descended onto the scene, sweeping in with the power of the Grand Dao. Yet none of them possessed the will to confront the Creation Group's nine directors. Instantly, they shifted from offense to defense. "Flee! Get out of here first!" The three Immortal Kings transformed into streaks of light, soaring toward the clouds. "Damn it! Tianyu has already exposed Yuxiao's legacy..." "Stop them! Under no circumstances can we let them leave with this news!" Xuanqing made a split-second decision. Once others learned that Yaoguang possessed the legacies of both the Time Dao Ancestor and the Void Dao Ancestor, covetous enemies would emerge in endless droves. Especially... after their group had just joined forces to surround and kill Immortal King Tianyu. Even if the Lord of Yuanxi lacked firsthand evidence, with this pretext, He could still order Immortal King Yuxiao to cooperate with an investigation. If things took a bad turn... He might use all manner of legitimate pretexts to force Immortal King Yuxiao to surrender the Time Dao Ancestor's legacy. They might as well go all the way. While the Lord of Yuanxi was unable to monitor this area, they would slaughter Immortal King Longxiang, Immortal King Diyi, Immortal King Wumu, and the others. Even if they could not kill them all, they would muddy the waters first. Just because the Tianyuan Group claimed they killed Tianyu, did that make it true? They could easily counter that Immortal King Tianyu had led Longxiang and the others to ambush Immortal King Yuxiao of the Creation Group; that Yuxiao had held out desperately while calling for reinforcements; and that once the board of directors arrived, they had combined their strength to eliminate Tianyu. If all went well, they could wipe out Longxiang, Diyi, and Wumu too. At worst, they would muddy the waters and frame the entire affair as a mutual brawl. Everyone had status and backing—who was afraid of whom? If the Lord of Yuanxi could still truly maintain supreme, absolute authority in the face of the Nine Great Groups, the Ancient Immortal Realm would not have remained unconquered after all this time. For them, when all was said and done, power alone did the talking. "Kill!" Killing intent flared in Xuanqing's eyes, and he held nothing back in his assault. The other Immortal King directors quickly grasped the stakes as well. Once more, they stirred the roar of the Grand Dao, unleashing their full might. Over the years, the Nine Great Groups had long engaged in covert and overt strife, though the fighting had usually been restricted to True Immortals, or at most Immortal Venerables. Their actions today might be somewhat extreme and cause the conflict between the Nine Great Groups to escalate, but... As long as they could hitch a ride on Immortal King Yuxiao's coattails to elevate their clearance to Tier 19, everything was worth it. The eight Immortal Kings of the Creation Group and the three Immortal Kings of the Tianyuan and Shenluo Groups plunged into an all-out war. As for Yaoguang... He was seizing the moment to swiftly absorb and refine Immortal King Tianyu's shares of the Grand Dao of the Void. With the power of the Void "Dao Master" Dao fruit, he could instantly absorb and refine all three thousand nine hundred void shares. However, since he was still waiting for the Immortal Kings of the Ancient Immortal Alliance to make their move so both sides would batter each other senseless, he did not immediately intervene, letting Xuanqing and the other ten Immortal Kings brawl as a chaotic melee. *Speaking of which... have the people from the Ancient Immortal Alliance really not made a move yet?* With a thought, Yaoguang glanced at the vast pool of energy accumulated on the Glazed Treasure Tree from slaying Immortal King Tianyu. With another thought, he channeled this energy directly into the branch of 【Dao Integration · Karma】. As the torrential energy flooded in, his comprehension of this Dao soared at breakneck speed. The energy an Immortal King provided for 【Demon Hunting】 was naturally countless times greater than that of a Dao Lord or an immortal. As a formidable powerhouse capable of ranking in the top twenty, or even top ten among Immortal Kings, Immortal King Tianyu instantly supplied a boundless torrent of energy. In a flash, it pushed his newly coalesced 【Dao Integration · Karma】 all the way to 9999/10000. Yet just as it was a hair's breadth from completion, the progress abruptly stalled. Yaoguang paused slightly at this result. He immediately raised his head to glance at the Gate of Karma hovering above, deep in thought. *Can a single world only have one Dao Ancestor who achieves absolute mastery over a given Grand Dao?* Still, that made sense. Whether a Dao Ancestor or a Dao Master, the title signified absolute control over that Grand Dao. If the control was not absolute, how could it be called absolute mastery? Thus, true absolute control could belong to only one person. Yaoguang retracted his gaze. Drawing upon his comprehension of the Grand Dao of Karma, he looked toward the battlefield of the Immortal Kings from the Creation, Tianyuan, and Shenluo Groups. Yet he sensed no karmic pull. Then another thought struck him. Within his mental world, 【Dao Integration · Karma】 resonated faintly with the Time and Void Daos that had already coalesced into Dao fruits. As these three forces resonated together, they drew forth the power of another Grand Dao. This power was interwoven into the battlefield in an extraordinarily subtle manner, driving all eleven Immortal Kings present to strike with lethal, unsparing fury. And the source of this hidden power... Was precisely the five Immortal Kings lurking in the direction of the Ancient Immortal Alliance. So they had already acted the very moment they arrived in this valley. In fact... Yaoguang sensed this enigmatic, nearly incomprehensible power encircling himself as well. *I am also within the scope of this power's target.*