After an unknown length of time, Xu Ying slowly awakened. He found himself surrounded by darkness. He was no longer on Qionghua Island, nor was this the past spacetime. Instead, all around him were crumbling ruins.
He had returned to the ruins of Longxing Temple.
Xu Ying staggered to his feet. Before he had passed out, he remembered that at the most dangerous moment, Taiyi Dao Lord had stood in front of him and blocked the impact of the soul-path's power.
The soul path was also an extremely profound Heaven and Earth Great Dao. It was encompassed by the Taiyi Great Dao and could be coordinated by the Reincarnation Great Dao.
All life in the world existed within the soul path. The stronger the life force, the more powerful the soul path became.
The might of such a Great Dao naturally could not be underestimated.
"To use karma and reincarnation to kill someone who has attained the Dao, you must first be able to withstand the ripples of his Great Dao."
Tianchengzi's voice came from nearby, somewhat hoarse. "Xu Ying, I thought things through too simply. Even if I learned your Dao arts and mastered your divine abilities, I still couldn't kill Hua Shengcheng and the others."
Xu Ying staggered over and saw Tianchengzi lying in a field of ruins. Dao Blood covered the surroundings, and fragments of spacetime rose from it, crystalline as glass, quietly floating in the air.
The fragments resembled mirrors. In them were incomplete landscapes that would surely have been breathtaking if pieced together.
Xu Ying walked over, helped him sit up, and leaned him against a broken wall.
"Hua Shengcheng is far stronger than I am. Dao Master Luo and Dao Master Lin are also much stronger than me. Even when I personally took action,