The Battle for the Great Dao

A killing chill hung in the air.

The dark sky loomed low over a chain of barren hills. The land lay empty in every direction, save for wind that swept across the exposed ridges like a blade.

Hiss! Hiss, hiss, hiss—!

Hundreds of long streaks of light, each a different color yet condensed until almost solid, tore through the gloomy sky. They descended from every direction with crushing pressure. Their mingled auras crashed down like an invisible tsunami, sending countless fragments of stone and dust surging upward—only for the vast pressure radiating across the sky to pin them back to the ground.

Cracks spread across the ridges, and the earth groaned beneath the weight.

Every streak of light in the sky was formed from a Wanhua Realm cultivator's Destiny True Qi.

There were no words, no standoff. The moment they appeared, the slaughter began.

And this was only one corner of the battlefield.

For in the next instant—

Hum!

The dark sky seemed to catch fire. Behind the clouds, the phantom of a blazing sun suddenly appeared.

Scorching white light swept outward. First the heavy clouds evaporated. The Wanhua Realm cultivators kept fighting until their Destiny True Qi and their very bodies evaporated beneath that sun as well.

At this moment, the battlefield did not belong to those Wanhua Realm cultivators.

It belonged to two cultivators at the peak of the Dao Integration Realm, both on the verge of entering the Ascension Realm, as they fought for the Great Dao.

Countless sword shadows appeared, rising like a glittering galaxy to meet the sun suspended in the sky.

Fierce Sword Qi melted beneath the blazing light that engulfed heaven and earth, but the galaxy of Sword Qi seemed endless. It pressed steadily closer to the sun.

High above, a towering figure