Shattering the Immortal Ascension Road

The ultimate Yin power, pure and so absolute it could not contain anything else, began to transform into a sliver of lesser Yin. Anchored by a drop of vital blood and a wisp of Primordial Spirit, life was being nurtured anew.

Thus, after the deepest night came the new moon.

Within that absolute darkness, a sliver of moonlight, representing life, quietly ignited.

The crescent, the first quarter, the waxing gibbous – the rotation of the moon phases signified the continuous growth of life.

When the final full moon arrived, it heralded the cycle of life and death. The colossal moon disc reformed into a figure.

He was tall and majestic, with a cascade of ink-black hair, sword-like eyebrows, and piercing eyes. A long saber hung at his waist. This was the being revered by countless humans as the Taiyin Human Emperor.

Having been dead for hundreds of thousands of years, he had now returned in his full glory!

A moon-like radiance bloomed as the Taiyin turned to face the block-shaped humanoid behind him, letting out a hearty laugh.

Immediately, the Taiyin Moon Blade at his waist was unsheathed.

Though only a fragment of its tip remained, it had been reforged by the Taiyin, thanks to the miraculous transformation of living out a fourth life. The Deity within the blade had also been fully reborn.

Just like the rising and setting of the sun, from life to death, and from death to life.

As the Taiyin Rebirth Method circulated, the Taiyin cycled through life and death. Relying solely on a tattered shred of resentment, he had clung to existence in the special environment of the Mighty Pass on the Immortal Ascension Road for hundreds of thousands of years without completely perishing. Then, through an external miracle, his Primordial Spirit was recondensed.

Having endured this tribulation, the Taiyin gained a completely new understanding of his own Dao. At this moment, his comprehension of the Great Dao surpassed his former peak. With time to settle, he was bound to achieve a new breakthrough.

As the Taiyin Moon Blade swung, the Taiyin Power, from life to death, transformed into absolute stillness, cleaving a path of pure black.

This path was formless and shadowless. Yang was the substance, Yin was the void. It was the ultimate expression of Taiyin Power, directly erasing space itself, completely obliterating the spatial path that should have existed. It bypassed the most fundamental process of time, achieving a hit the moment it was struck.

This saber strike was silent, yet it directly severed the bodies of tens of thousands of God-Demon Phantoms, severing the law chains that constituted them. Those who should have been able to regenerate countless times even after being shattered into pieces lay dead on the spot, their blood flowing freely.

These God-Demon Phantoms, though merely condensed from laws, possessed pure power that surpassed the Quasi-Emperor Ninth Heaven, faintly reaching the level of an ultimate combat power.

It must be known that the Quasi-Emperor Ninth Heaven and an enlightened Ultimate Supreme Being were separated by only a thin line, but this thin line was an insurmountable chasm.

Every Ultimate Supreme Being was a genius among geniuses, a miracle among miracles.

A low-level cultivator who could defeat enemies of a higher realm was said to possess the potential to break taboos.

Breaking through one minor realm was considered one taboo, and breaking through eight was almost the limit for a mortal.

The higher the realm, the greater the power jump between each minor realm, and the harder it was to defeat enemies across realms.

Only geniuses among geniuses, monsters among monsters, those with the potential to achieve enlightenment, could occasionally break absolute taboos and wield power in unimaginable ways.

Without any increase in raw power, combat strength would skyrocket. This was what was known as a Divine Taboo.

Every Ultimate Supreme Being could permanently maintain a Divine Taboo. Even after tens of thousands of years of death, a wisp of killing intent could, as long as it retained sentience, easily slaughter Quasi-Emperors of the Ninth Heaven who could not maintain a Divine Taboo, relying on the incredible power application of the Divine Taboo.

Although these God-Demon Phantoms possessed power beyond the Quasi-Emperor Ninth Heaven, being constructed from laws, their application of power was relatively hollow and rigid, only reaching the level of an Eighth Taboo.

However, between an Eighth Taboo and a Divine Taboo lay an absolute chasm!

With a single gentle strike from the Taiyin, tens of thousands out of millions of gods and demons were directly annihilated.

Even these God-Demon Phantoms, devoid of sentience and merely imprints of past powerhouses, were repelled by this terrifying strike. They waited for an opportunity, daring not to attack recklessly.

With one strike, millions of gods and demons were repelled. The Taiyin looked at Fang Zheng and laughed heartily, "Fellow Daoist, I have been resurrected. Wait until I shatter this half of the Immortal Ascension Road and blast open a path back to my homeland."

"Then, in my homeland, we shall drink and converse freely!"

Immediately, another saber strike was unleashed.

The world was filled with countless specks of light, the mournful cries of the Immortal Realm laws on the Immortal Ascension Road.

This vast Mighty Pass was like a sandcastle shattered by a child.

Millions of God-Demon Phantoms were slaughtered like clay chickens and pottery dogs under the Taiyin's saber.

Endless light filled the area and then dissipated. The entire Mighty Pass, amidst the changing moon phases, was swallowed by darkness, leaving only infinite void and a handful of existences.

In the void that was originally concealed by the Mighty Pass, lay half a corpse with graying hair.

There was no doubt that this was the body of an Ultimate Supreme Being. Having endured an excessively long period, its essence had almost completely leached away.

However, the face of the corpse was identical to the Taiyin's, only appearing a bit more aged.

The Taiyin wore a peculiar expression and raised his hand, turning the remains to ash. "I never expected to see half of my own corpse. This feeling is quite strange."

In a small pocket of space-time in front of the original Mighty Pass, several hundred void blocks remained, continuously spewing out chains of Dao principles that possessed the power of an Ultimate Supreme Being's strike every moment.

There were also a few square, stationary Bedrock blocks suspended in the void, enduring the onslaught of numerous Dao principle chains.

The Taiyin raised an eyebrow and lightly swung his saber. To his surprise, the peculiar blocks remained unharmed even when facing a strike that could cleave through time and space, firmly anchored in the space-time continuum.

Recalling the process of the Block Person placing blocks a few days prior, the Taiyin pondered the relationship between these blocks and his Block Person friend.

After a moment of thought, the Taiyin swung his saber horizontally again. However, he did not continue attacking the unharmed Bedrock blocks or the void blocks spewing Dao principle chains. Instead, he cleaved through space-time itself, slicing off that entire section of space and drawing it into his palm, placing it alongside the blocks that continuously emerged, providing him with some replenishment.

After tidying up, the Taiyin gazed at this void, sensing the difference between the laws of the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands and the Immortal Realm, observing the operation of the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth.

He could faintly sense, beyond this void, the ocean of fragmented, broken worlds with different rules, and the aura of the Immortal Realm, extremely close to the Immortal Ascension Road.

The Taiyin could feel that fragments of the Immortal Realm were circulating in that ocean. In a few years, at most ten, they would approach the boundary wall of the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands.

If he were to wait in this void after the Immortal Ascension Road collapsed, he might witness the Immortal Realm's approach and have a chance to enter the Immortal Realm.

However, the Taiyin recalled the intelligence obtained from the residual time imprints carved into the law phantoms when he had broken into the Immortal Road, at the Mighty Pass and its depths. He shook his head. "It's just a false hope."

After Taiyin lived out his third life, he realized that the Immortal Ascension Road would not appear in the Big Dipper Star Domain for hundreds of thousands of years.

If he didn't want to follow the path of those Supremes in the forbidden zones and self-sever his Dao fruit to slumber, he likely wouldn't see the Immortal Ascension Road open in his lifetime.

Therefore, after living out his third life and reaching the peak of his power, he chose to forcibly break through the Immortal Road at the wrong time and place.

At that time, he was unhurried and calmly gained a vast amount of intelligence from the Law Phantoms as he advanced.

The so-called Immortal Ascension Road was not a one-way path extending from the Immortal Realm to the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands.

Instead, it was a cross-realm passage built by Immortal King-level powerhouses from ancient times, jointly maintained by the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands and the boundary wall of the Immortal Realm.