Adding Another Dish

Almost without any hesitation, this Human Dao Sage made the most pragmatic choice.

Xian Tian had already turned his attention to him, and achieving Dao Integration was practically a done deal. Although he didn't know the current situation, what he was facing, or why he had come to a First-Rank cultivator, it didn't prevent him from thinking and making a decision.

The result of this reflection is the present moment.

His death is certain; this is his bitter fruit, for he provoked Zhu Fengdan before thoroughly investigating her background.

He thought he had found Zhu Fengdan's weakness, but unfortunately, she was more cunning than he had imagined, which directly led to his defeat and death.

He had nothing to say about such a failure; he was simply outmatched. He felt no regret, no sadness, and no resentment.

Once a choice is made, one must naturally bear the consequences; that's only natural.

However, a third-rank cultivator is not so easily destroyed. His remaining Daoist essence absorbed the almost inexhaustible power of the Immortal Heaven here, allowing him to be perfectly reborn. At this moment, he is in his complete state.

This is the third grade.

Immortal and indestructible, possessing absolute 'copyright', even merely imitating a third-rank master will directly attract the attention of that third-rank master. If someone practices the path of that third-rank master, then that third-rank master will never truly die.

If the Tao does not perish, the body will not perish either, and it will possess reality.

As long as his ideas continue to circulate in the world, even if a being like the Heavenly Demon creates a fake one, that fake one will instantly become real.

This is reality. The essence of reality is the same as the real world. To destroy a third-rank person, one must destroy their Dao. However, Dao is not a real thing. Dao is an ethereal 'principle', it is logic, thought, and even all things themselves.

You can break a piece of quartzite, but you can't eliminate the chemical formula SiO2. As long as this chemical formula remains, stones will continue to be born, and the three grades will continue to appear.

This is the fundamental reason why the third rank is immortal and indestructible.

What you need to do is make sure that quartzite never forms again in this world, and that the chemical formula SiO2 never exists again. Only then will you have truly killed a third-rank official.

It's very difficult, so it's rare for a third-rank cultivator to perish, unless it's a life-or-death battle for the Dao Lineage.

If a major battle were to occur, a second type of rank-three would emerge, leading to their demise.

That means someone took my place.

Yes, it's very simple and unassuming; he was replaced.

Why is your Great Way your Great Way?

Because you understand it most deeply, this is the principle you created, the foundation you perfected, the path you walked step by step, so naturally you know it best.

But what if there is someone who understands you better than you? He uses his own way to forcefully incorporate your way; if your way is an apple, then his way is the fruit.

You become part of the other party's collection, and are endocytosed by the other party.

In that case, is your path still your path?

In this way, one can directly knock down a third-grade cultivator's cultivation level, and then manipulate them however one pleases.

This is also the most common method used by the Dao Lineage to kill a third-rank character.

This third-rank Perfected Person is now facing such an end.

Xian Tian was clearly intrigued. His escape plan had failed, and he could clearly feel his Dao being eroded and about to be demoted.

So, let's kill Li Qi and Yao Ji now and inflict some damage on Wushen Mountain.

The cold-blooded calculation of costs and results never stopped, even when his own life was about to end. At the third rank, his mind was no longer affected by emotions.

Yes, they will still have emotions, such as happiness, fear, and anticipation, but these emotions will not have any impact on them.

Even for a fifth-grade cultivator, sometimes their hands tremble when they are overjoyed. Li Qi is often driven crazy by the torment, such as the countless billions of rewinds that caused Li Qi mentality to explode.

However, the temperament of those at the third rank is completely different. If they were to experience a billion times, they would become agitated, but it would absolutely not affect their mental state, not under any circumstances.

He earnestly unleashed two Technique Method, and two Divine Ability flew out.

Destructive energy fluctuations spread outwards.

A third-rank Divine Ability is absolutely impossible for a fifth-rank and a sixth-rank opponent to withstand; they are doomed.

Sure enough, without a doubt.

Li Qi and Yao Ji were directly annihilated.

Before he died, Li Qi shook his head.

Damn it, I never expected to fall like this. Who would have thought that the Heavenly Dao of the Immortal Realm would be such a terrifying and ugly monster? No wonder this First Rank World is no good.

So be it, I might as well die.

He used all his strength and every means at his disposal to protect his true spirit.

It's not certain that they can protect you, but if they could, then you should be able to be reincarnated.

If the true spirit perishes and cannot enter the cycle of reincarnation...

That's all we can do, there's nothing we can do about it.

Li Qi's body was destroyed, his soul was shattered, and his true spirit drifted out, seemingly wanting to enter the cycle of reincarnation. He also felt the pull of the underworld on all the dead after death.

If you accept this suction force, you will enter the gates of hell and head to the underworld.

However, it was too late. The fluctuations of the Divine Ability power had already covered or even suppressed the suction force of the underworld. The other party had no intention of letting Li Qi reincarnate at all.

"Yu'er, Shiwei..." Li Qi sighed, and his true spirit vanished.

Only--

In this instant, we rewind, and then begin anew.

This time, even that third-rank Perfected Person was traced back.

This surprised the other party.

How could that be? A third-rank character already possesses substantiality. Even if he is currently on the verge of being demoted, he still possesses substantiality and cannot be reversed!

His timeline is completely independent of the outside world; he possesses entirely autonomous spacetime! Theoretically, he is unaffected by time rewind.

This third-rank Perfected Person still possesses a realistic perspective, but his physical body and Divine Ability have already regressed.

However, he immediately realized that this was not a regression.

This is about erasing reality and then reshaping it.

The reality of 'a third-rank expert' has been erased, everything has vanished, and this causal link has been interfered with by an unknown creature and directly severed.

However, it wasn't entirely without a backtracking effect; at this moment, Li Qi and Yao Ji were the ones truly subject to the backtracking.

Li Qi also had a realistic perspective, watching his physical body and soul rapidly recover.

He took a deep breath and looked up at the sky with a face full of ecstasy.

He was very familiar with this move! He had used it back when he was adventuring in Baiyue.

The Chen's Qi! (See Chapters 155 and 156 for details)

In his ecstasy, Li Qi suddenly saw a young man in gold and red robes appear beside him.

He was handsome, frivolous, and dressed in the most fashionable attire of the Tang Kingdom, with black boots on his feet and gold and red clothes shimmering with wispy clouds.

He held a folding fan in his hand, on which were written four large characters, "Glorious Might Spirit".

Without a doubt, the visitor was Zhu Fengdan.

He reached out and patted Li Qi's head. "You're not crazy yet? You're so amazing?"

"I'm almost going crazy... and, teacher, it seems like you're losing your class." Li Qi said weakly.

Just moments ago he was ecstatic, but now he felt weak and listless.

The reason is simple: Li Qi suddenly discovered that after Xian Tian focused his attention on this area, Zhu Fengdan's cultivation and inner world also began to be eroded.

This guy is really indiscriminate with his customers. Since we're already here, let's order another dish.

Zhu Fengdan was much stronger than the previous Human Dao Sage, but she still couldn't escape the fate of merging with the Dao.

Arriving here is like entering the stomach of a celestial being, where you simply wait to be digested.

But Zhu Fengdan gently shook her folding fan and then asked Li Qi, "Do you know what these four characters mean?"

The four characters above are 'Glorious Might Spirit' (Guang Lie Wei Shen).

Then, Zhu Fengdan snapped her folding fan open, turning it into a stick, and pointed it at the sky. "Come out!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Li Qi immediately noticed that the Immortal Heaven had moved.

As soon as Zhu Fengdan finished speaking, a wave suddenly surged through the Immortal Realm, striking Zhu Fengdan directly!

Zhu Fengdan's multiple layers of protection, her inner energy, her passively existing layered worlds, and even the Chen's Qi that Li Qi believed was absolutely insurmountable and capable of erasing reality, were all easily destroyed.

His Divine Ability, his Dao Lineage, and his inner world were all shattered, directly reduced to fragments by this one blow!

The last bit of shockwave sent him flying!

Li Qi was horrified!

The immortals were moved; this first-rank official was serious.

This was the first time Li Qi had felt such direct malice from a First-Rank official; even the Heavenly Demon had never shown such direct killing intent towards Li Qi.

This first-rank official brazenly attacked Zhu Fengdan, giving him a severe lesson.

Zhu Fengdan was instantly severely injured. The only reason she didn't die was because she was incredibly lucky. If it had been that third-rank Perfected Person on the other side, he would have been killed by that blow.

After that, the Human Dao Sage was devoured. Li Qi watched with his own eyes as he was degraded, his great Dao was devoured, and his reality was stripped away.

Next was Zhu Fengdan...

Next was Yao Ji.

Li Qi wanted to resist, but he found himself unable to move.

Xian Tian's attack left no trace, and even Li Qi couldn't understand it. True Knowledge Dao Charm couldn't sense anything wrong either; she couldn't detect anything other than malice.

He wasn't even afraid.

Because... he was so terrified that he forgot how to be afraid. He was completely dumbfounded. Faced with the power of a first-rank expert, Li Qi was utterly bewildered, like a wooden doll.

The malice of Li Qi was terrifying. Li Qi's mind went blank. All his intelligence, wit, and ingenious ideas were frozen at this moment.

But he could see the Great Dao being stripped away and could sense his cultivation being lost.

Li Qi's inner world also collapsed.

But at that moment, everything went black before Li Qi's eyes.

All around, the Dao principles of the Immortal Heaven were rapidly moving away from Li Qi. The Immortal Heaven should not be moving, which means... it is himself that is moving?

What happened?

There have been too many changes and reversals, and Li Qi is almost numb to it all. But judging from this sign, could it be that someone is trying to take him away?

But in the next instant, Li Qi suddenly realized...

His feeling was right; he himself hadn't actually moved, it was just that the immortal was moving away from him.

Why did Xiantian leave?

Could it be—?

Li Qi looked up at this moment, and from his perspective, he could even see the void.

Beyond the void, the world he inhabited was being evacuated.

Such a vast world as the Immortal Heaven was actually leaving with a trailing tail, and it was this departure that directly caused Li Qi's perspective to be shaken.

Zhu Fengdan, the Human Dao Sage, Yao Ji, and Li Qi were also enveloped and began racing through the void.

But this high-speed chase didn't last long, probably only for a moment. Perhaps the celestial realm was just making room for the arrival of some being.

At this moment, Li Qi saw Zhu Fengdan raise her hand high, not stopping even as she was about to lose face, and laughing loudly, "Now you know fear?! Let me tell you—"

Before he could finish speaking, his head exploded, and he swallowed the rest of his words.

But then Li Qi saw an old man descend from the void.

This was the sorcerer god he knew, Witch Xian, who had initially helped him gain a perspective on reality.

At this moment— Li Qi looked at the folding fan that Zhu Fengdan had knocked aside.

The four large characters on the folding fan read: Glorious Might Spirit).

This story is quite famous, and Li Qi naturally knew it.

This was a grand ancient sacrifice, something that arose after a period of internal strife among the ancient Human Race.

The original text reads, "The enemy is not afraid of the Supreme God of Heaven and the great and mighty Glorious Might Spirit Witch Xian, and has even broken the curse of eighteen generations. They have led the armies of the feudal lords to attack us, intending to destroy our Altar of Earth and Grain and our people, and to seek the mercy of the Supreme God of Heaven and the great and mighty god Witch Xian. They offer sacrifices of jade and precious stones to them, and seek to seize the new moat of our border city."

This is a 'curse'. The general meaning is that the other party has violated the covenant, so I pray to the Heavenly Emperor and the Witch Xian to punish the other party so that I can take back the border.

The Supreme God of Heaven is also known as Haotian.

As for Witch Xian, he was the sorcerer god that Li Qi had once met.

He came down in person.

Then, the other party waved, and Zhu Fengdan and Yao Ji, in addition to Li Qi, were captured.

Li Qi stared, wanting to say something, but he couldn't open his mouth.

He wanted to say, "Witch God, it's me! It's me! It's me Li Qi! Take me with you!"

But the Witch God did not take him away; instead, he left him to stay inside the Immortal Heaven, taking only Zhu Fengdan and Yao Ji with him.

At that moment, Li Qi heard a voice.

That was the voice of Witch Xian. He said, "How is it? You beast that devours civilization, have you experienced true civilization?"

At this moment, Xian Tian also spoke up, "Cowardice... The people you chose, the only thing I see in the play I've witnessed is cowardice."

"Then why would you want to eat them? There must be something to them, right?" Witch Xian said with a light laugh.

"There are some, but... I will not cooperate with Haotian. Haotian is too cowardly," Xiantian said.

"Isn't he a coward?" Witch Xian pointed at Li Qi.

"He's alright. At least he showed me what you're following, and it can indeed bring about a powerful improvement, much better than what I've been messing around with," Xian Tian's voice continued.

"So, I want to see more. Let him fight your enemy. After all, strength is everything." Xian Tian's attention was focused on Li Qi and... that third-rank Perfected Person being.

Li Qi was taken aback.

I glanced to the side.

Wait, you want me and the Perfected Person to take action?