A Dog Has Its Dao

The heavens had changed! This time, the world had truly turned upside down! The Iron-Eating Beast Emperor, the Space Beast Emperor, the Archaic Giant King, King Dazhou, the two balls, the Book Spirit, the Old Turtle, the Tea Tree, and the Ancient Hou—a total of ten combatants at the Dao Harmonizer level! And all of them stood on the side of the human race! On the side of the myriad races, there were the Immortal, Demon, God, Dragon, Phoenix, Ape, Spirit, Nether, Golden-Winged Roc, Tianyuan, and Marquis Jiantian—a full eleven Dao Harmonizers. With the addition of the two dead spirit Marquises, their count had reached thirteen, and counting the two who had fled earlier, the myriad races had effectively deployed fifteen Dao Harmonizers for this battle! Yet now, four of them were dead! The Ape Emperor was wounded and had fled! Among the top powerhouses across the myriad realms, very few had yet to intervene. The most renowned among them was probably the Destiny Emperor, yet he had never shown himself from start to finish. At this moment, Su Yu's side—the Human Realm's front—boasted six Dao Harmonizer-level powerhouses, while the opposing line held only four: the Dragon, Spirit, Nether, and Demon Emperors. The Ape Emperor had fled, but he had not truly departed; knowing he could not simply abandon the battlefield today, he quickly warped back through the void. Keeping his distance from the enemy Dao Harmonizers, he watched from afar in utter terror! Six against five! The crucial factor was that the Old Turtle was fighting one against two! Furthermore, he held an absolute advantage, battering both the Demon Emperor and the Nether Emperor until they coughed up blood continuously. If this went on, the Old Turtle might genuinely beat the two of them to death single-handedly! That would reduce it to five against three, and among those three, the Ape Emperor was already injured! At this moment, all traces of confidence vanished from the Dragon Emperor and his companions. The Dragon Emperor roared, "Ape Emperor, join up! Spirit Emperor, get over here at once!" They had to consolidate their forces to have any hope! Otherwise, once surrounded and picked off, death was certain. The Book Spirit and the Tea Tree regrouped with the Ancient Hou and charged straight toward the Dragon Emperor, while Su Yu shouted immediately, "Kill the Spirit Emperor!" "..." In the distance, the Spirit Emperor, currently battling the Iron-Eating Beast Emperor, experienced a drastic shift in expression. *Kill me?* She felt that she had hardly drawn much hatred from Su Yu—certainly far less than the Dragon Emperor. Why target her? Though frustration churned in her chest, she had no time to ponder it! She unleashed her full power at once and bellowed, "All Eternals of the Spirit race, assemble!" If this continued, catastrophe awaited them all! They had to regroup! They had to flee together. If no further Dao Harmonizers stepped up to fight and stem the tide, they would all perish. The Old Turtle was simply too strong! As for the Book Spirit and the Tea Tree, while unfamiliar to them, they had just witnessed the pair effortlessly slaughter the Golden-Winged Roc. How could anyone dare underestimate them? None of them were Tiangu! Tiangu and Marquis Jiantian were exceptionally formidable! The rest could not compare! While chaos consumed their front, far away in the Tianyuan Realm, Tiangu's expression also twisted. He barked furiously, "Marquis Jiantian, go over there! Leave Zhou Tianqi and Doubao to me!" He too was a top-tier Dao Harmonizer! Right now, he was capable of taking on two adversaries at once. One of the top powerhouses had to go and provide reinforcement, or everything would collapse. Yet Marquis Jiantian was unwilling. He said in a deep voice, "You go! I will deal with them!" Indeed, he would rather fight two by himself! He had no desire to go to that other battlefield! The Myriad Dao Canon! It unnerved his mind and soul. He did not want to go, could not go, and refused to go! Tiangu cursed under his breath. He could guess roughly what was happening; knowing that the Marquis was unsettled and likely stricken with dread, he recognized that fear. Marquis Jiantian had always feared King Wen—a fact known throughout the myriad realms. Since Marquis Jiantian was willing to take on two opponents alone, Tiangu pressed no further. This was absolutely not the moment to hold back. Otherwise, the moment disaster struck over there, calamity would swiftly follow here as well! *Boom!* Tiangu's coffin materialized, slamming into Doubao and knocking it backward. Doubao let out an *awuu* and lunged to swallow him whole. It wanted to devour Tiangu, yet it was simply outmatched; only by joining forces with its mate could it roughly hold its own against Tiangu. One-on-one, Doubao knew it was no match. Just as it had once told Su Yu, the Old Turtle ranked first, Marquis Jiantian second, and Tiangu third—each an absolute sovereign of the present age. "Hey, you, hit him!" Doubao shouted, calling out to King Dazhou. Nearby, the Space Beast Emperor and the others were locked in combat, and Doubao wanted King Dazhou to team up with it to finish off either Tiangu or Marquis Jiantian. Tiangu ignored it, intent on breaking away. "Thinking of leaving?" Having finally found an opening, how could King Dazhou let them slip away now? Marquis Jiantian and Tiangu were both extremely powerful; he knew this well. Yet... precisely because they were so powerful, they could not be permitted to leave! "Fellow Daoist Doubao, keep Tiangu tangled up. Marquis Jiantian, let us have a little fun!" At that moment, King Dazhou's aura erupted. With divine characters revolving above his head, he traversed the void and appeared beside Marquis Jiantian in an instant. *Boom!* His divine characters flared! Marquis Jiantian was an unparalleled powerhouse second only to the Old Turtle among the living realms. Yet right now, his mind was slightly unsettled. A golden booklet manifested, and a flicker of panic crossed his gaze. Quickly suppressing all extraneous thoughts and casting his anxieties aside, he roared in fury. The golden booklet blanketed the heavens and earth as he drove a palm toward King Dazhou. As the palm swept out, King Dazhou, who had originally shifted through the void to leave the spot, found the surrounding space collapsing. He was instantly jarred from the void and reappeared precisely where he had been, as if waiting to be struck! "Formidable!" King Dazhou marvelled. Truly formidable! The Dao of Fortune! Indeed—if it decreed you were unlucky, misfortune would strike at once! Only now did Marquis Jiantian reveal his true power and bizarre methods. Even King Dazhou's void traverse had been foiled, forcing him to take the palm strike head-on! *Boom!* A deafening explosion rang out. King Dazhou fell back, yet a light chuckle escaped him. In an instant, a divine character materialized before him as he smiled. "Solidify!" *Bang!* Marquis Jiantian frowned slightly. A barrier had appeared before King Dazhou. A single palm strike had unexpectedly failed to shatter it. "Open!" King Dazhou shouted once more, falling back swiftly as he carved open the void! "Block!" Another divine character surfaced. Behind him, Marquis Jiantian's massive palm pierced through the "Solidify" character and struck again, only to be stopped by another obstacle. "Detonate!" *Boom!* A thunderous blast erupted, tearing open the void. Flames surged across Marquis Jiantian's palm, scorching his flesh. Falling back across the distance, King Dazhou smiled and called out, "The Dao of Fortune may be bizarre, but my Dao of Divine Characters is second to none!" Marquis Jiantian's expression turned grim, his tone icy. "King Dazhou... are you truly a human from this tide?" He did not believe it! Those divine characters were far too powerful! And it was not merely one, but many! "Of course I am!" King Dazhou smiled. "Did you think one has to live an eternity to become strong? You are mistaken. The human race will always be stronger than you imagine!" With those words, a full eighteen divine characters manifested before him, each brimming with immense power. "Invert yin and yang, overturn the sun and moon!" Eight divine characters surfaced. In an instant, heaven and earth inverted, as though the entire myriad realms had been flipped upside down. "Reverse fortune, usher in calamity!" King Dazhou waved his divine characters, sending ripples of disruption through the rules of heaven and earth. *Boom!* Just as Marquis Jiantian was about to strike, his foot abruptly stepped into a spatial rift with a sharp *crack*, and fracture lines spiderwebbed across his limb! Marquis Jiantian's face fell once more! "You inverted my fortune!" Impossible! King Dazhou coughed up blood, his face pale. "Fortune? Fortune is nothing more than an auxiliary tool. If you truly rely on it as your trump card, you are courting death!" With that, he vanished, flashing through the void. *Boom!* Two Great Daos manifested in the sky, clashing instantly! King Dazhou jabbed a finger straight into one of the Great Daos. Marquis Jiantian snorted coldly, and in an instant, dozens of divine characters manifested around him as well. "This seat knows it as well!" With a cold sneer, his divine characters scattered outward, reversing the five elements of heaven and earth and collapsing space! Having served King Wen in ancient times, how could he not know the Dao of Divine Characters? Nearby, Tiangu, who was currently pressing Doubao in combat, glanced over and saw his gaze shift. These two... both exceeded his expectations in strength. Crucially, they were not relying on physical might, but on divine characters! King Dazhou had only just reached the Dao Harmonizer realm, yet through his divine characters, he had managed to invert Marquis Jiantian's fortune. As a result, Marquis Jiantian's greatest reliance was rendered largely ineffective against him! Tiangu had originally assumed that Marquis Jiantian holding off the two of them would be no problem at all, yet now, the Marquis could barely free his hands! This was unbelievable! King Dazhou had vaulted to the ranks of top-tier Dao Harmonizers in an instant! At the same time, fierce combat erupted around them as more than a dozen human Invincibles charged out from the Tianyuan Realm. Forced to join the fray, they rallied with the powerhouses of the Space Ancient Beasts and Archaic Giants, hurtling toward the other enemy Invincibles! A full-scale melee broke out once more! King Dazhou smiled. "Thinking of leaving? Is that even possible?" Could it be possible? Even with two formidable Dao Harmonizers present on this side, neither would be permitted to leave! As he smiled, Doubao let out a furious roar, incensed beyond measure. "Tiangu, you've pissed me off!" Tiangu had been suppressing it the entire time! It could not beat Tiangu alone! At this moment, Doubao was enraged. Above its head, a Great Dao manifested, devouring the void. In its fury, Doubao waved its little paws; as the Great Dao unfolded, time seemed to reverse! Gradually... Doubao shrank smaller and smaller, its aura beginning to wane. After an indeterminate span, under Tiangu's shaken gaze, a shadowy figure abruptly coalesced before Doubao! In the distance, Marquis Jiantian's expression changed drastically! The figure's features were indistinct, revealing only the familiar white robe. Doubao was thoroughly exhausted, yet bursting with delight. "King Wen, possess me! Beat Tiangu to death!" *Buzz!" The phantasm instantly melded into Doubao's body. Doubao's aura surged wildly as it laughed loudly, "Tiangu, I'm eating you today! Borrowing King Wen's power, I'll bite you to death!" *Boom!* The void collapsed. Doubao seemed to have become King Wen himself. Though it was merely borrowing ancient power, it was boundless in might. It snapped its maw forward, and Tiangu found himself momentarily paralyzed. Doubao took a ferocious bite. With a loud *crunch*, Tiangu tore through the void to escape his position, yet his hair knot had been bitten clean through. With his hair disheveled and falling about his shoulders, his face was filled with shock! Borrowing power from the ancient past! Unbelievable! Within Doubao's body seemed to reside the power of King Wen. That single bite forced Tiangu back, and in the next instant, it snapped its jaws toward Marquis Jiantian. Marquis Jiantian's face fell drastically, for at that very moment, a peculiar power erupted from Doubao, causing the golden booklet in the Marquis's hand to suddenly run wild, tying down a portion of his strength. Seizing the opening, King Dazhou smashed a divine character against Marquis Jiantian's Great Dao, setting it trembling. Just as the Marquis prepared to escape, Doubao clamped onto his arm. With a sickening *crunch*, blood sprayed outward! Marquis Jiantian thrust a palm strike forward, knocking Doubao back, and hurriedly warped through the void to regroup with Tiangu. Both were utterly appalled! Around them, the other Invincibles and Dao Harmonizers were equally shaken. Even King Dazhou was thoroughly astonished as he looked toward Doubao! *Holy shit!* *You can borrow power from the ancient past? You can even borrow the power of King Wen?* In the distance, a bloody bite mark marred Marquis Jiantian's arm. Glaring at Doubao, he said darkly, "So your path was never the Dao of Devouring, but truly the Dao of Time Reversal!" Doubao snorted. "Fortune Spirit, what do you know? Just because you followed King Wen for a few years, you think you understand everything? If you kill Tiangu right now and feed him to me, I'll plead for mercy on your behalf before King Wen! Otherwise, I'll eat you both!" Tiangu said coldly, "Doubao, how long do you think you can maintain this?" Reversing time to borrow ancient power did not mean turning back time itself; it was an inversion of will. Back in the ancient era, King Wen must have sensed something and lent his strength to Doubao—or perhaps at a certain moment, King Wen had felt Doubao's desperate call from this very day and left behind a measure of power in this place for Doubao to use! Such was the mystery of reversing time! At a particular moment, a powerhouse experiencing a sudden premonition might sense glimpses of the future! A transmission of will! The other party might not fully comprehend what would occur, yet guided by their own inclination, they would leave something behind. Doubao bared its teeth. "Only for a little while, but that's fine! Once they kill those guys over there, they'll come help me eat the two of you!" Both sides understood the situation, so there was no need to hide it. Borrowing power would only last a brief moment. No matter! *I will outlast you!* Once victory was decided on the other front, these two would be finished as well! Both Tiangu and Marquis Jiantian frowned. Further off, the God Emperor was similarly exasperated. He was immensely powerful, yet his opponent was the Space Beast Emperor, who constantly shifted through space, circling him relentlessly—landing perhaps one strike for every hundred exchanges and wearing down his patience completely! Meanwhile, the Phoenix Emperor and the Archaic Giant King were evenly matched. If this continued and they remained pinned down here, catastrophe would surely ensue! Tiangu and Marquis Jiantian, two peerless sovereigns, had genuinely been intercepted! While this clash had yet to reach a conclusion and Su Yu's front had not seen any massive reversals, an upheaval abruptly erupted in the central zone! A piercing roar resonated through heaven and earth. King Daqin, who had previously been besieged by three ninth-stage Eternals, swept his spear across the firmament. With a thunderous *boom*, his spear pinned an Immortal ninth-stage Eternal against the void! Even as the punches and kicks of the other two ninth-stage combatants tore flesh and blood from his body, he maintained a death grip on his spear. With a shattering rumble, he blew the ninth-stage Immortal apart! "The likes of you dare bar my path?!" Having slain an ancient veteran, King Daqin's blood vitality surged into the sky like an undefeated god of war. With a cold bellow, he swung his spear and charged toward the two terrified survivors! "Even if I am inferior to Old Zhou, I am not someone you can stop!" Aside from Su Yu's faction, this was the very first Invincible—a ninth-stage Eternal—slain since the battle had erupted! Once again, it was King Daqin! Every single time, before anyone else could claim a kill, King Daqin was the first to put a head on the board! Because... he was truly fierce! In the thick of war, he never cared about sustaining injuries. As long as he did not die, what did wounds matter? Whenever he attacked, his mindset was always: *Even if I take thirty percent damage, as long as I can kill you, I will do it!* He never stopped to consider whether he could survive after being gravely injured. As long as he did not drop dead on the spot, that was enough! It was precisely this sheer ferocity that allowed him to slay his opponents even when evenly matched! Right now, even though the human race held the upper hand, he still fought with reckless abandon. Enduring the incoming strikes of his foes, he had slain a top-tier powerhouse. Rain of blood poured down—another ninth-stage Eternal of the Immortal race was dead! A hush fell over all directions. Then, King Dazhou suddenly spat a curse: "Fuck!" His voice was deafeningly loud! Tiangu, after a brief pause, suddenly smiled. In the distance, King Daqin heard the curse and blinked in surprise. King Dazhou barked in frustration, "Idiot! Fuck! That was the tenth Immortal King!" Indeed, the tenth! Back in the Human Realm, Su Yu had slain nine. King Dazhou had kept count the entire time, watching for movements from the Immortal Realm. But King Daqin... in the heat of slaughter, he had paid it no mind. At that very moment, within the Destiny Realm, heaven and earth trembled. A massive face manifested! "Has the great war erupted?" This time, the Destiny Emperor did not step forth. Outside the Tianyuan Realm, Tiangu looked up at the sky and sighed softly. "I did not wish for them to return so soon... You... forced our hand!" In the next instant, a medallion materialized in his grasp, vanishing through the void. In the blink of an eye, the medallion appeared high above the Destiny Realm. "Descend and reinforce us! The Immortal race is in peril!" Tiangu's willpower fluctuated outward from the medallion! In the void, the massive face rippled slightly. A moment later, the void tore apart, and thunder roared! *Rumble!* Fierce crashes of thunder echoed across heaven and earth. Before long, two powerhouses of immense strength emerged, reeking of scorched flesh. These two top-tier figures coughed up blood continuously, yet paying no heed to their wounds, they flew swiftly out of the Destiny Realm and hurtled toward the myriad realms. Disaster had struck! Tiangu had summoned them to descend and fight! Both were heavily injured, but at this point, they could not afford to care. The thousand-year deadline had not arrived; descending now meant they would inevitably be targeted by the rules! As they departed, the Destiny Emperor manifested. He smiled, shook his head, and sighed. "Going to throw your lives away?" Two Dao Harmonizers—not top-tier ones, but Dao Harmonizers nonetheless—had joined forces to descend, sustaining severe injuries in the process. Truth be told, Dao Harmonizers from the upper realm were merely average. Tiangu and his peers had simply refused to ascend; otherwise, their status would have far outstripped these newcomers. As the two Dao Harmonizers rapidly flew out of the Destiny Realm, the Destiny Emperor gazed at the void and chuckled softly. "The Immortal race possesses true boldness after all. In contrast, the Tianyuan race's destruction was well deserved!" Look at the Immortal race: with a single cry of peril from Tiangu, two Dao Harmonizers had braved the perils to descend in person. That took real guts. Though the Destiny Emperor regarded it as walking into death, the courage and decisiveness were undeniable. Marquis Shenyuan had only known how to roar; his strength had actually surpassed these two, yet he had refused to descend to his dying breath—refusing even after Lingyuan was slain! Chuckling, the Destiny Emperor turned toward the direction where the two Dao Harmonizers had vanished, letting out an emotional sigh. "King Wen..." "The tenth tide..." Where should his Destiny race turn? Refusing to take a side right now was no great issue; at worst, their future gains would be smaller. But once the thousand-year deadline arrived, if they still took no side, the Destiny race might not escape this great catastrophe either! "A calamity even greater than the ninth tide!" "The final time!" he murmured to himself. He observed heavenly destiny; ninety-nine times out of a hundred, destiny told him the human race would perish. Yet that single remaining time told him the human race would rise once more, restoring its ancient glory! That solitary possibility alone kept him from making up his mind! The Destiny race was far from weak. A wrong choice meant total annihilation! The Destiny Emperor looked down toward the lower realm, seeming to peer across all the heavens, taking in everything with a melancholy expression. Not much time remained for him to choose. This time, the decision was far harder than the last! ... Not long after King Daqin slew his foe, the heavens trembled. The rules fluctuated! Every Dao Harmonizer sensed it. King Dazhou sighed helplessly. There was no helping it! In truth, even if King Daqin had not killed that one, another Immortal King would have fallen sooner or later. It was just that Su Yu had killed too many. Think about it—nine of them in one breath! Killing even one more would have alerted the upper realm. On Tiangu's side, a cold smile surfaced. In the next breath, his voice resonated across heaven and earth: "Go to the Human Realm and reinforce the battle! Quickly!" At that moment, two intense auras flared as the two powerful Dao Harmonizers flew out from the Destiny Realm, heading straight toward the eastern theater without a word! The great battle had erupted! They had sensed it! They had also detected the violent fluctuations and the celestial phenomena signifying the fall of Dao Harmonizers. Both figures wore solemn expressions! Meanwhile, in the void near the Human Realm, the Nether Emperor and his allies sensed them as well, instantly overjoyed. The Dragon Emperor roared, "King Fu, King Bing, hurry! Get over here!" He recognized them! Those were two Immortal Kings who had harmonized their Daos during the third tide. After harmonizing their Daos and defeating the humans back then, they had ascended to the upper realm. As for remaining in the myriad realms, first, it was harder to sense the power of rules; second, one had to sleep constantly; and third, one would be placed on the frontline against humanity in every tide. Not all Dao Harmonizers were willing to stay. Yet today, the Immortal Kings killed in the Immortal Realm had reached ten. Sensing this, the two had chosen to descend and assist! Thrilled, the Dragon Emperor quickly regrouped with the Spirit Emperor and Ape Emperor, bellowing, "Hold on, we still have a chance! Demon Emperor, is the previous Demon Emperor of your race truly dead? If not, summon him at once! Too many have descended from the upper realm now; the backlash from the rules will only grow heavier, preventing many more from coming!" Even with two newcomers, reversing the situation entirely remained difficult! They needed more Dao Harmonizers! Now that two Immortals had descended, a third would face far greater danger and might not dare make the attempt! Just as he spoke, the mother ball snapped forward with a sickening *crunch*, biting clean through his tail! The Dragon Emperor let out a shrill roar of agony! The mother ball's bite was no simple physical wound; it even partially shattered his sea of will! The pain was excruciating! In an instant, the two descending Dao Harmonizers arrived, wounded as they were. Just as they prepared to intervene upon seeing the mother ball biting the Dragon Emperor, the Book Spirit sighed, "Coming to the myriad realms at this hour—are you seeking death? With your Daos injured, you truly know no better!" Instantly, countless great nets swept out toward them! The Tea Tree likewise pierced through heaven and earth, lashing toward them! The two newly arrived powerhouses paled! In the next breath, Tiangu's booming voice rang across the myriad realms. "Immortals, open the Immortal Transformation Pool! Since the Gods and Demons are unwilling to exert their full strength, our race shall rescue our comrades and withdraw from the battlefield of the heavens!" At that moment, the Immortal Transformation Pool opened within the Immortal Realm! More than twenty ancient Immortals awakened one after another! Every one of them was formidable! Receiving their orders, they swiftly charged out from the Immortal Realm! Tiangu's icy voice echoed across the heavens! The Immortal race was going all out! In this battle, three Immortal Dao Harmonizers had taken the field, and nearly a hundred Immortal Kings had been deployed! They had contributed far more than anyone else! Tiangu had no desire to keep wrangling with the Gods and Demons. If they still refused to commit fully, he would genuinely withdraw! If this went on, the Immortal race's losses would be devastating! With three Dao Harmonizers leading dozens of Immortals, their chances of safely withdrawing from the battlefield were quite high! A soft sigh echoed from the Demon Realm. A figure manifested in the void and murmured, "Brother Tiangu, why be so angry? It is not that we refuse to fight... but having slept until now, I must be given a moment to awaken!" ... Su Yu was currently advancing his cultivation at breakneck speed. Hearing the voice, he frowned slightly. *Holy shit!* *The myriad races really have a lot of old fogies lurking around.* More importantly, people had actually descended from the upper realm! Hadn't they said the rules would punish them? Su Yu had assumed they would drop dead, but these two hadn't died at all—they were merely wounded, looking somewhat battered. Yet an injured Dao Harmonizer was still a Dao Harmonizer! Could this fight ever end at this rate? *Fuck!* Kill one and two more appear; kill two and four show up. Was there no end to this? At that very moment, the Old Turtle's voice boomed outward: "Two have arrived, but does a third dare descend? The rule barrier has not opened. With each one who descends, the punishment grows heavier. A third would have a nine-in-ten chance of dying, and a fourth... would face certain death! This old man would like to see just how many you can send down!" With that, he turned his gaze toward the distant Demon Realm and said indifferently, "So you truly are alive, Mo Ji! Yet even alive, your injuries are far from light! Come forth, and this old man will give you a fight to see how long you can last!" The Old Turtle radiated immense dominance! "Thirty thousand years ago, you took advantage of my inattention to barge into the dead spirit realm and stir up the Dead Spirit Heavenly River. I have yet to settle that score with you!" Above the Demon Realm, an ancient powerhouse slowly solidified. He said softly, "Brother Hongmeng, back then I merely sought to rescue a few kin. I meant no offense. Mo Yue is still young; if he has offended you, please forgive him!" Mo Yue was the current Demon Emperor! Right now, the current Demon Emperor was bleeding profusely from the Old Turtle's beatdown, his eyes rolling back. *Father, get over here already! Stop wasting words! If you talk any longer, I'm going to be beaten to death!* The Old Turtle remained composed, turning his head toward Su Yu. "Focus on your breakthrough; pay no heed to this! You have already done well enough. Even if Mo Ji and the others join the fray, they cannot harm us!" With that, he unleashed a barrage of attacks, forcing the Demon Emperor and Nether Emperor back as he fought his way toward the Demon Realm! If Mo Ji took the field, he would hold him off as well! This former Demon Emperor possessed considerable strength, but having been wounded during his venture into the dead spirit realm in ancient times, he might not have fully recovered. Otherwise, he would not have stayed hidden for so long, even feigning his death! Further away, Tiangu snorted. He had guessed as much! Otherwise, how could Mo Yue have ascended to the throne? Indeed, Mo Ji was not dead! He had certainly bided his time well—whether he had truly just awakened from his injuries or had been awake long ago and simply avoided serving as the vanguard of the great war. With Mo Ji's emergence alongside the two Dao Harmonizers, the pressure was instantly relieved. Tiangu glanced toward God Emperor Jiwu! The God Emperor spread his hands helplessly. "Do not look at me. The God race truly has no more Dao Harmonizers in the lower realm! If there were, I swear they would have taken the field already!" Looking at him would change nothing! He wasn't lying! Tiangu reluctantly believed him. "Summon the dormant Eternals! If we do not crush the human race's momentum today, we will not survive to see the thousand-year deadline—our races will be annihilated!" This time, the God Emperor raised no objections. A ripple of energy swept across heaven and earth. A moment later, several ancient figures bearing decaying auras flew out from the God Realm, looking somewhat bewildered and surprised. Had the war erupted already? The great war of the tenth tide? Why had it broken out so early? With a slight sense of the world, they realized the thousand-year deadline was far from due! Awakening from slumber now without their strength restored meant they could not survive for long. Though confused, the myriad realms were in total chaos, leaving them no leisure to ponder. They swiftly charged toward King Daqin in the distance—he was closest, so they would kill this human first! King Daqin took one look—seven or eight Eternals of the eighth and ninth stages—and immediately dropped his bravado, fleeing at full speed! On the Immortal Realm's side, several ancient figures similarly flew toward the Human Realm battlefield. With the battle escalating to this point, it could not end until one side was broken beyond endurance! ... Su Yu paid no attention to anyone. Break through! Since the Old Turtle said it was fine, then it was fine. He trusted that the Old Turtle could hold the line! As for failing to hold it... they would deal with that when it happened! At this moment, his origin apertures were rapidly fusing into one. His aura grew stronger by the second, and within his sea of will, his divine apertures were beginning to merge as well! He was going to advance to the Sunmoon Realm! Not only that, Su Yu took a stride forward and stomped his foot, tearing open a dead spirit passageway! Below, Hetu had been leading more than a dozen dead spirit monarchs in circles. Seeing the passageway open, he shot upward immediately. Behind him, the dead spirit monarchs surged out—not to aid Su Yu, but to kill Hetu! Hetu had been using the dead spirit Marquis's blood of death to lure them! Ignoring them, Su Yu stomped his foot once more, opening another dead spirit passageway in a different direction. In the same manner, Xia Chen swiftly emerged with more than a dozen dead spirit monarchs. Su Yu transmitted his voice: "You two, fly toward the Immortal Realm..." "Flying too far triggers punishment!" Hetu transmitted back hurriedly. "Are you out of your mind? If they get too far from your control and death qi runs rampant, you'll be punished by the rules!" *Nonsense, I know that!* *Precisely because I know, I want you to fly over there!* Punishment was good! Without punishment, how could the rewards and the rules arrive together, allowing him to fleece the system and make himself even stronger? Hetu and Xia Chen gave up questioning it. Since Su Yu had said so, what else was there to say? Charge! Carrying large amounts of the blood of death, the two flew toward the Immortal Realm. Behind them, nearly thirty dead spirit monarchs charged after them heedlessly... though truth be told, they were somewhat terrified. *Holy shit!* *There are so many big shots here!* Dead spirits might be clumsy, but they were not stupid. This place was no longer safe. Much as their slaughterous instincts burned, in the face of such presence... they were frightened! Even dead spirits felt fear! This damned place was hosting a war of the myriad realms! More than a dozen Dao Harmonizers were tearing each other apart here. Now that Su Yu had closed the dead spirit passageway, they looked around and thought: *Who cares, just follow Hetu and run!* At the very least, Hetu wouldn't deliberately run to his death, right? The monarchs possessed intelligence; running was the only option! Their band of dead spirits was not particularly conspicuous right now. It wasn't that no one saw them, but that everyone lacked the spare capacity to deal with them. As the battle raged, Invincibles were suffering severe wounds left and right. Under such circumstances, who had time to care about dead spirits? Hetu and Xia Chen swiftly led these dead spirits toward the incoming Immortal reinforcements! In reality, the dead spirits were fleeing for safety! This area was far too terrifying; seeking shelter was their only choice. Even though they could sense the approaching Immortals, they didn't care—those opponents were bound to be weaker than the monsters here. If they crossed paths, venting their fury and engaging in a fight was fine too! As the dead spirits flew into the distance, a blood tribulation materialized in the sky! In the distance, the Old Turtle turned his head and sucked in a breath of cold air! *What sheer audacity!* Back then, Hetu had done the exact same thing, causing the dead spirits to spiral out of control and resulting in his demise. The Old Turtle had slain him with his own hands! Now Su Yu was pulling the same trick again—was he not afraid of losing control? The rule punishment had arrived! If Su Yu could not withstand it and death qi ran rampant, the guardians would be punished as well! "Su Yu... don't play yourself into a corner!" Even the Old Turtle was unnerved! *Don't mess around!* The situation had not yet reached an irreversible stage; if Su Yu caused everyone's downfall through reckless antics, that would be true disaster! Su Yu smiled. "No matter. Rest assured, My Lord!" *Rest assured, my ass!* The Old Turtle had no more attention to spare, for a formidable presence tore through the void. Catching the battered Mo Yue, the newcomer looked at the Old Turtle and then at Su Yu in the distance, sighing, "Young people truly are mad. What immense courage!" Truly audacious! Using dead spirits to tie down the Immortals while preparing to shoulder the tribulation himself—was he certain he could survive? Su Yu's answer to him was: *Yes!* *I have experience!* And not just once, but many times. This time, heaven and earth convulsed as the blood tribulation grew even more terrifying, condensing into a humanoid figure—a figure of blood, spear in hand, striding down through the void. It even produced an audible decree: "Violation of council rules shall be punished! Slay!" A spear thrust straight toward Su Yu! At the same time, a golden cloud abruptly manifested in the void! The cloud drifted toward Su Yu in an instant, but with a shake of Su Yu's civilization chronicle, the cloud was directed toward the bloody figure instead! *Boom!* A colossal roar shook the surroundings! Meanwhile, Su Yu sent thirty divine characters soaring into the sky simultaneously! Within his body, all his origin apertures began to merge! He was stepping into the Sunmoon Realm! Formally entering the Sunmoon stage! Su Yu strode toward the bloody figure, opening his mouth wide to devour it directly. The blood tribulation was formidable, yet under the impact of Su Yu's rule rewards, it had weakened considerably! Su Yu swallowed it all! Be it rewards or punishments, as long as they clashed, mutually depleted each other, and continuously birthed new, absorbable rule power, that was all that mattered! He had no fear of heavy punishment! His divine characters were continuously tempered within the clash of rule punishment and reward, and Su Yu absorbed the energy unceasingly, strengthening himself! At this moment, Su Yu's strength had surged dramatically. The moment he entered the Sunmoon Realm and his origin apertures merged into one, his physical power felt as if it surpassed ninety million apertures of force. Only the heavenly gate aperture saw its amplification diminish, showing signs of fusing into Su Yu himself. The boost fell to roughly twenty percent. Even so, Su Yu's combat power had truly broken through the hundred-million mark! Of course, no matter how immense his power was, it remained brute strength! Without the power of laws, no matter how formidable he became, he could slay a ninth-stage Eternal, but he could never kill a Dao Harmonizer. One needed only to watch these Dao Harmonizers clash to understand: no matter how great your brute strength, catching up to them was impossible. The moment the River of Time stirred and the laws of the Great Dao were wielded, you might be immobilized in an instant! Brute strength could only provide an advantage when the power of laws was balanced. When equal laws canceled each other out, superior brute strength meant one could cleave the opponent in two with a single blade! Otherwise, it was meaningless. And that was precisely what Su Yu lacked. Yet he didn't care about that right now; after all, he was still weak, having only just stepped into the Sunmoon Realm! Devouring rule power, Su Yu observed the battlefield. His physical body was still strengthening. Seeing that the rule powers were on the verge of canceling each other out and dissipating, Su Yu suddenly flared his divine apertures, beginning the fusion of his nine divine apertures! *Advance my willpower to Sunmoon as well!* Advancing too quickly would leave his realm somewhat unstable, but Su Yu didn't mind. He could polish it slowly later; today, he intended to swallow Fat Ball's essence blood and see just how powerful it truly was! Could he slay a Dao Harmonizer or two?! His willpower boiled violently, and his divine characters grew mightier! Su Yu's divine characters rippled; his sea of will surged. In the distance, the Old Turtle bellowed. Encountering Mo Ji of the Demon race, he brought out his true capabilities, roaring as he reverted to his true form to suppress heaven and earth, fighting three Dao Harmonizers single-handedly! The clash tore the heavens and shattered the earth! Battlefronts raged everywhere! On the dead spirit side, spurred by Hetu's mischief, they collided with the Immortal reinforcements, sparking an immediate life-and-death clash. Even if some dead spirits realized they should be attacking Hetu, upon encountering living beings blocking their path who were not Dao Harmonizers, they fought! Further away, King Daqin fled at top speed, heading directly toward the God Realm's homeland. Terrified, several God race powerhouses had no choice but to wheel around and pursue him! To the west, King Dazhou and his companions were locked in fierce combat. Doubao, borrowing the power of King Wen, joined forces with King Dazhou and seemed to hold a slight edge over Tiangu and Marquis Jiantian. The battle was deadlocked. Only the Book Spirit and Tea Tree maintained a slight advantage. Although their two opponents were injured, the spirits had consumed considerable energy themselves and could not take them down immediately. ... Su Yu took in the entire battlefield. Unless the myriad races were beaten into submission today, there would be no ending this war! Now, everything hinged on whether Fat Ball's essence blood was powerful enough! If not... this war would drag on. If it was, the turning point of the entire battle lay in his hands. Having completed his physical breakthrough to Sunmoon, his sea of will was now advancing as well. Golden clouds appeared once more, battling the blood tribulation! Su Yu continued to swallow the energy! A short while later, he felt saturated. Within his mind floated three sealed drops of essence blood, all belonging to Fat Ball. Right now, the three drops circled near the golden booklet. Whether he could bear their power, Su Yu did not know. If he could, how much strength he could unleash was equally uncertain. *Time to test it!* In the next instant, a drop of essence blood merged into the golden booklet, sending violent tremors through the pages! Faintly, words surfaced. "Fat Ball... my family's pup, cultivates the Dao of the Dog..." Su Yu was dumbfounded! *What the hell is this?!* For the first time, he realized the Time Master had been a real person—and a rather unserious one at that. Records of other races were formal and orderly, yet when it came to Fat Ball, she wrote this nonsense! Moreover, Fat Ball's essence blood did not even require unlocking the booklet; it could be used directly! The Dao of the Dog? *Screw you!* What kind of name was the Dao of the Dog? What kind of Dao was that? Su Yu did not know, nor did he need to, because in that moment, a boundless, terrifying power erupted within him. With a sharp crack, his bones nearly snapped under the pressure! His sea of will convulsed violently! The newly advanced sea of will seemed incapable of bearing the strain. Su Yu's physical body began to fracture! Blood sprayed from all seven of his orifices. He felt as though he was on the brink of death! Impossible! *My body is this strong, so how could I fail to endure it?* *Just how strong is Fat Ball?!* Within his mind, faint words surfaced once more. "The Dao of the Dog... bites through the Great Dao!" "..." *Bite through?* *Damn it, I'm not a dog!* Su Yu's vision blurred. Before his eyes, scenes abruptly materialized, resembling massive webs blanketing the void. Above every Invincible's head hung a thread connecting to the void. And above the Dao Harmonizers, there hung a colossal, thick cord linking into the void. The laws of the Great Dao? Su Yu was shaken! So this was what Invincibles and Dao Harmonizers looked like through Fat Ball's eyes! All of them were connected to the rules! And Fat Ball's ability—its Great Dao power—was to bite through... no, to sever their connection to the Great Dao?! Shaken to his core, Su Yu felt as though he was about to explode! He had no time to think further! Severing the opponent's Great Dao connection and killing them was the only absolute truth! Fat Ball's essence blood was far too potent. At this moment, Su Yu was effectively armed with Fat Ball's might! With a glance, Su Yu shot straight toward the mother ball. *Dragon Emperor, I've hated the sight of you for a long time. I said I would kill you, and today, kill you I shall!* "Maggot, come fight!" Su Yu bellowed. In an instant, he traversed the void... yet with his power slightly out of control, he overshot, appearing directly behind the Dragon Emperor. The Dragon Emperor turned his head and nearly laughed out loud! Su Yu... had come to throw his life away! He had actually crossed past the Dao Harmonizers' defensive perimeter! Previously, the mother ball and the other Dao Harmonizers had shielded Su Yu, preventing the enemy from reaching him. Yet now... was Su Yu insane?! With Su Yu devouring essence blood while rule rewards and punishments struck him simultaneously, his aura was chaotic and indistinguishable. The Dragon Emperor hadn't paid it any mind; though he felt a sense of crisis, everyone on this battlefield felt endangered right now. Who would overthink it? Overjoyed, the Dragon Emperor roared, "Spirit Emperor, Ape Emperor, hold them for a moment!" He was going to kill Su Yu. Slaying Su Yu meant victory! Su Yu was also somewhat dizzy, his power running rampant. He had nearly flown out of the entire combat zone! Fortunately, the distance was short. Seeing the Dragon Emperor fly toward him, Su Yu was overjoyed as well. *Just what I wanted!* He hurtled toward the Dragon Emperor in turn! The Dragon Emperor grew increasingly bewildered and even somewhat apprehensive. *What is going on?* *Is Su Yu... truly mad?* *He really isn't running?* To see Su Yu charging toward him instead of fleeing left the Dragon Emperor deeply unsettled! Right at that moment, Su Yu's vision shifted, and a clear Great Dao manifested before his eyes! It resembled a dragon! The Dragon Emperor's personal Dao was merged into this Great Dao, perfectly aligned in dragon form. Clearly, this Dao had been established by a powerhouse of the Dragon race—likely an ancient Dragon Emperor! Yet... this Dao looked as though it had been bitten before. Su Yu wondered suspiciously: *Could Fat Ball have taken a bite out of it in the past?* There was no time to ponder it! Su Yu collided with the Dragon Emperor instantly! His Civilization Tombstone transformed into a blade, cleaving outward. At the same time, the power of a Great Dao erupted from his body. Above Su Yu's head, the phantasm of a dog seemed to roar forth! It lunged, snapping its jaws straight at that dragon-shaped Great Dao! In the void, a dog and a dragon slammed into each other! *Crunch!* "Roar!" A sky-shattering draconic roar echoed through heaven and earth! That was the sound of a Great Dao being wounded. The Dragon Emperor abruptly spewed a mouthful of blood, horror overtaking him. *What the hell is that?!* Not only him—the surrounding Dao Harmonizers glanced over, completely baffled. *What is happening?* At that very moment, in the void, the dog clamped its jaws shut with an *awuu*. The massive dragon convulsed, and the lesser Dao attached to it was bitten clean through! Biting the Dao! Just as the Time Master had written! With the small dragon severed, the Dragon Emperor coughed blood uncontrollably, his aura plunging drastically. He could scarcely believe what was happening. "Impossible... No... This is impossible... What are you... What are you..." *Slash!* Su Yu's blade swept down. Heaven-Cleaving! This strike illuminated heaven and earth! The firmament was split open! The void was reduced to nothingness; across the entire battlefield of the heavens, only this single blade remained. In the distance, King Daxia stared blankly. *That's my Heaven-Cleaving Blade, isn't it? Brat... how are you using it better than me?!* With a resounding crash, an enormous dragon was cleaved cleanly in two by Su Yu's blade! In the void, the little dog was still gnawing on the Great Dao! Very few could see it! Only a handful could witness that Great Dao being severed. The Dragon Emperor's personal Dao was broken, and the greater Dao it had anchored to was currently being chewed, causing the colossal dragon to shudder violently. Yet the little dog refused to let go! That was a true Great Dao of the rules! Even so, under the dog's relentless bites, it shook violently for a long time before finally repelling the little dog and vanishing instantly! Su Yu paid it no heed. The power of the Great Dao was beyond his control. His blade had cleaved the Dragon Emperor in two, yet the Dragon Emperor was not dead. The dragon head roared in agony, shrieking, "No, impossible! Su Yu... who are you? You are not Su Yu... Are you King Wen reincarnated? Or King Wen reborn? No... impossible, how could my Dao be severed..." He could not accept such an outcome! He had tumbled from the Dao Harmonizer realm! Cleaved in two by Su Yu's blade, unable to regenerate—this was impossible! "Maggot, I told you I would kill you with my own hands!" Su Yu barked coldly. *Boom!* He swung his blade once more! Cleaving heaven and earth! The Dragon Emperor's severed half fled desperately, still unable to accept reality, yet knowing he was in mortal peril! "No... Su Yu, don't kill me... You are King Wen! I submit!" "King Wen, my ass!" *Your entire family is King Wen! I am Su Yu!* Su Yu's blade fell, shattering the massive dragon head with a loud *crack*! In the next instant, his civilization chronicle blanketed the sky! With a sweep, it collected the Dragon Emperor's remains! *Rumble!* Violent tremors shook the heavens! The Dragon Emperor... was dead! "Emperor..." At that moment, several Dragon Invincibles froze in disbelief. But the guardians did not freeze. Tianmie swung his great club, smashing a giant dragon into meat paste! Further away, Xinghong thrust his sword forth, bisecting a golden dragon! Even further off, as if competing with Su Yu, King Daxia unleashed his Heaven-Cleaving Blade, slaying a white dragon on the spot! In an instant, the tide turned completely! The next moment, every surviving dragon roared and fled in terror! "Retreat!" "Fall back to the Dragon Realm! Preserve our strength!" "Our Emperor... has fallen!" Desolate cries echoed. The Dragon Realm shook violently, and a moment later, within the Dragon Realm's forbidden ground—the Dragon Tomb—giant dragons that had nearly turned to withered bones awakened. A powerful dragon gasped, "Seal the realm! Quickly, seal the realm!" "Ancestor, many of our ancestors have yet to return..." A dragon stammered in terror, gazing at the collapsing sky in sheer dread. "Seal the realm!" A mighty heavenly dragon flew forth, its aura leaking and tinged with death qi. It wheezed, "Pay no heed to anything else! Seal the realm at once!" In the next breath, near the realm passageway, several Dragon Invincibles, filled with despair and dread, turned themselves into stone sculptures, blocking the entrance! The massive heavenly dragon coughed and flew swiftly to the threshold, roaring, "Before the thousand-year deadline arrives, none may open the realm! Until a Dao Harmonizer emerges from our Dragon race, none may open the realm!" "With my broken body, I form the wall of our realm!" With a fierce cry, the colossal dragon transformed into an indestructible wall, sealing the passageway entirely! *Rumble!* Rain of blood poured from the sky as several Dragon Invincibles sacrificed their lives to erect a barricade, shutting the passage behind them! They had abandoned even the Dragon Invincibles stranded outside! Those who could survive would survive; those who could not would die! With the Dragon Emperor dead, they knew catastrophe was at hand! In this battle, the Dragon Realm faced total ruin! ... Heaven and earth fell dead silent. Everyone stared at Su Yu. Far in the distance, Marquis Jiantian's face turned deathly pale as he muttered, "I... I seemed to see that dog..." Tiangu's expression was grim beyond measure. "What dog?" He had no idea! Opposite him, Doubao blinked. The image felt faintly familiar. How had Su Yu... pulled that off? "King Wen's... true legacy disciple..." Marquis Jiantian murmured, unsure whether he was referring to Su Yu or Fat Ball. At this moment, genuine terror gripped him! Had King Wen truly died or not? A third Dao Harmonizer had fallen! The heavens had truly changed!