Destiny Like a Blade, Cleaving the Heavenly Dao!

Hongjun's expression darkened. These five innate spiritual roots were anything but ordinary. Each was of tremendous importance—one could even call them indispensable.

"Dao Friend, must you take them?" Hongjun asked gravely.

"I must."

Bai Yu nodded, utterly unconcerned by Hongjun's attitude.

Seeing Hongjun look as though he wanted to attack yet still hesitated, Bai Yu could not help feeling amused.

With a stir of his divine sense, the power of the many source laws under his control surged toward Hongjun like toppling mountains and overturning seas.

The river of time collapsed in an instant, unable to withstand the collision of so many terrifying source laws.

Hongjun wasted no more words. With the Heavenly Dao's power enveloping him, he set every source law in the entire world in motion, forming a violet qi river that pierced through the whole world. Bolstered by the Jade Plate of Creation, he resisted Bai Yu's source law power.

With the river of time shattered, Bai Yu and Hongjun appeared directly within heaven and earth.

They were now in the midst of the Witch-Demon Tribulation, and a great battle was raging between the Witch-Demon Clans.

The Demon Race's Stellar Great Formation of the Heavens had been activated and was clashing with the Witch Race's Twelve Divine Demonic Empyrean Cataclysm Formation. The Pangu True Form towered over the Primordial Wilderness, its pressure bearing down on all living beings.

Every mighty expert in the Primordial Wilderness was watching the battle between the Witch-Demon Clans. The two clans were clearly the undisputed protagonists of this era.

But just then, something unexpected happened.

A violet qi river suddenly pierced through all of heaven and earth. Both the Stellar Great Formation of the Heavens and the Twelve Divine Demonic Empyrean Cataclysm Formation collapsed in an instant.

The Twelve Ancestral Witches suffered grievous injuries and crashed to the ground, causing the land for hundreds of millions of miles around to sink tens of thousands of feet.

The Demon Race's two sovereigns, Emperor Jun and Eastern Emperor Taiyi, were also stricken with horror. They felt one... no, two unimaginably terrifying pressures descend in an instant.

"Pfft!!!"

DONG!!!

Dijun and Taiyi both spat out blood essence. A world-shaking peal rang through heaven and earth, filling them with the resonance of laws and the Dao—it came from the Eastern Emperor Bell in Eastern Emperor Taiyi's hand.

HUM!!!

Two Solar Golden Crows appeared, blotting out the sky and sun like two blazing suns suspended in the heavens.

Driven into a corner, Dijun and Taiyi had revealed their true forms.

Yet even then, they could not withstand the terrifying force of that pressure for so much as an instant.

Demon Saints and Demon Kings tumbled from the starry sky to the earth like dumplings dropped into a pot, suffering countless casualties.

Every mighty expert in the Primordial Wilderness was also suppressed.

The overwhelming might of heaven, the might of sages, and the pressure born from the collision of those terrifying source law powers imposed a burden that these beings, none of whom had attained sagehood, could not possibly resist.

BOOM!!!

The two Solar Golden Crows that blotted out the sky and sun also plummeted to the ground, barely clinging to life.

Within the violet qi river, Hongjun stood with the Jade Plate of Creation above his head. Source laws swirled around him and the Heavenly Dao's power raged as he gathered the might of heaven and earth to resist Bai Yu's source law power.

Bai Yu, shrouded in the divine radiance of laws, was encircled by a multicolored river. It was a river of laws formed from source law power, and it too pierced through all of heaven and earth. For a time, the two seemed evenly matched.

Of course, they were evenly matched only in Hongjun's mind.

In truth, Bai Yu had never taken this seriously. He was merely playing around. After all, this could be considered his first time taking action, and naturally, he did not want it to end so quickly.

"Dao Friend, could you stop here? I can let this matter go," Hongjun said, seemingly convinced that his opponent could do nothing to him either.

After all, he could do nothing to his opponent.

Hongjun felt utterly helpless. With the Heavenly Dao's power enveloping him, the Jade Plate of Creation above his head, and every source law in heaven and earth gathered to oppose his enemy, he still could not suppress him.

This... did he really have to be this powerful...?

How in the world had this fellow attained sagehood?! How could he be so terrifying!!!

Hongjun felt that continuing this fight would inflict terrifying destruction upon this world.

In truth, traveling upstream through the river of time, let alone changing everything that had happened in the past, required bearing an unimaginably terrible karmic burden.

Yet even this world's Heavenly Dao could do nothing to Bai Yu. So-called karma was laughable.

Bai Yu could bear all the karma of this world, because its karma source law could inflict no consequences upon him whatsoever.

Was Hongjun not already wielding every source law in the entire world against Bai Yu, the karma source law included?

Hearing Hongjun's words, Bai Yu smiled faintly, raised a hand, and closed it.

The source laws surrounding him surged at once, beginning to condense and merge. With the destiny source law as their core, the many source laws fused into it.

The multicolored river of laws became a single Destiny River shining with silvery-white radiance.

"This is bad!!!"

Sensing that unimaginably terrifying power of destiny, Hongjun's face filled with horror. He hurriedly drove every source law to its utmost.

The violet qi river that had enveloped all of heaven and earth instantly contracted to a mere million feet, yet became even more terrifying.

"Destiny like a blade, cleaving... the Heavenly Dao!"

Bai Yu casually made up a name. Then, with a stir of his divine sense, the Destiny River surrounding him condensed into the shape of a blade, towering between heaven and earth.

Even standing motionless between heaven and earth, it caused the whole world to begin splitting apart.

All destiny in this world began to fall into chaos—irreversible chaos. Everything seemed to begin changing, with anomalies too numerous to count.

The might it unleashed made even Hongjun shudder. That boundless power of destiny seemed poised to crush the entire world.

"Cleave!"

Bai Yu slowly swept his raised hand down, and the blade of destiny slashed downward.

In the next instant, every color between heaven and earth vanished, leaving only the silvery-white radiance of destiny.

That single slash severed all destiny in this world. Tracing it to its root, the blade cleaved apart this world's destiny source law itself, annihilating it between heaven and earth.

From that moment on, this world possessed no destiny law.

Heaven had lost its destiny.

Deprived of the destiny law, the Heavenly Dao was no longer complete. Forevermore, a piece of it would remain missing.

"..."

Hongjun stood where he was, gazing at Bai Yu in silence, bitterness filling his heart.

The violet qi river around him had vanished. Crack after crack had appeared across the Jade Plate of Creation above his head, which now emitted a dim radiance.

Looking at the silent Hongjun, Bai Yu remained composed. Then he waved a hand, sending a streak of white light toward him.

Hongjun reached out and caught it. Sensing the aura of the destiny source law, he put it away.

Then he bowed slightly to Bai Yu.

"Thank you, Dao Friend."

Bai Yu nodded faintly without speaking.

"Please."

Hongjun made an inviting gesture, then bowed once more. He vanished from the spot, entered the river of time, and returned to the future.

Of course, before returning to the future, Hongjun also restored everything in this period of time.

Everything was like a dream, an illusion, a bubble, a shadow.