White Lotus Falls Silent, Qiongqi Appears; Dao Unravels the Fiend

Unlike Taotie and Chaos, Donghua could clearly feel that his connection to the Pure World White Lotus had been severed.

Not only had the other party broken through the Pure World White Lotus's suppression, it had even severed his connection in turn.

It had clearly escaped its predicament, yet had not come over. Interesting.

As Donghua's thoughts turned, Taotie and Chaos, seeing him remain motionless all this time, became even more convinced that victory was theirs.

"Heaven-Devouring Earth-Swallowing!"

Taotie hesitated no longer. With a thunderous roar, its innate Supernatural Ability erupted. Its enormous maw opened, transforming into a boundless abyss that devoured sky and earth, seeking to swallow Donghua, Taizhen, and the surrounding space into its body and trap them to death!

At the same time, Chaos silently spread like a dim, murky fog. Its feet did not move, nor did its body shift, yet wherever it passed, light and shadow fell silent and every sound vanished.

Two terrifying forces born of fierce beasts instantly struck toward Donghua and Taizhen.

Yet Donghua's face remained as still as an ancient well. Faced with this deadly situation, he merely stirred a thought.

A Bronze Ancient Door appeared out of thin air. Within it lay profound darkness, and an irresistible suction force surged forth, instantly swallowing the murky fog Chaos had become!

At the same time, Taizhen no longer held back. With a light tap of her jade finger, the Time Law swept forth alongside the supreme divine radiance of the Kunlun Mirror.

The attack became invisible shackles, freezing the roaring Taotie and its Heaven-Devouring Supernatural Ability alike within time and space.

Divine light flared in Donghua's eyes. Without hesitation, the Primordial Sky Measuring Ruler moved at his will, carrying the force of creation itself as it ferociously cleaved down at the firmly immobilized Taotie!

Within the frozen time and space, all the savagery and greed in Taotie's enormous pupils turned into unspeakable terror and despair.

It could only watch helplessly as the Sky Measuring Ruler in Donghua's hand, condensed with Primordial Qi, sliced through its neck as effortlessly as if cutting through a flimsy veil.

Without the slightest resistance, that ferocious head was completely severed from its massive body.

And this was only the beginning. In an instant, Taotie's enormous fleshly body was smashed apart, its blood and flesh bursting asunder.

Its Primordial Spirit was shredded, and its true spirit was utterly annihilated beneath the Sky Measuring Ruler.

This fierce beast, which had clung to life through countless primordial epochs since ancient times, finally perished in body and spirit upon this homeland it had once ravaged, returning to silent nothingness.

"What useless trash! Keeping them around is an insult to my Fierce Beast Dynasty."

A muffled explosion suddenly rang out, accompanied by the faint sounds of shattering bone and splattering pulp. The owner of that massive foot had directly crushed Taotie's remaining head to pulp.

"Still, no matter how useless they are, it is not for outsiders to kill them!"

Before the words had faded, an incomparably savage figure stepped out from the heart of the surging Sha Qi.

The thick, bloodlike Sha Qi was forced aside by the terrifying aura radiating from his body.

A tall, burly figure emerged, powerfully built, his muscles knotted as though they contained the strength to tear the heavens apart.

His entire face was written with undisguised arrogance and defiance. Most especially his eyes—his gaze was sharp as tangible blades, carrying an innate contempt that looked down upon all beings as ants, and it fixed directly upon Donghua.

"However," he said, changing his tone as a cruel, alms-giving curve lifted at the corner of his lips, "in consideration of your help in allowing this emperor to escape the Innate Great Array, I may grant you a kindness."

He raised a hand and pointed at the two of them, his voice carrying an irresistible will.

"Hand over your true spirits and acknowledge me as your master. This is your only path to survival."

"A mere vile beast that hides its head and conceals its tail, surviving to this day by devouring its own kind, dares spout such grandiose nonsense?"

A cold gleam flashed through Donghua's eyes. Without the slightest hesitation, the Primordial Sky Measuring Ruler in his hand transformed into a streak of purple-qi-wreathed radiance and swept out fiercely!

Boundless violet light burst from the ruler's body, as though it contained the supreme power to purify the world and remake earth, fire, water, and wind, sweeping down toward the figure before him!

Seeing this, the tall figure's sneer only deepened. He neither dodged nor evaded, merely raising his palm casually and spreading his five fingers.

At his fingertips, an incomparably profound and razor-sharp black claw radiance shot forth. Wherever it passed, even the void was torn open with five distinct marks.

The next moment, the claw radiance collided violently with the surging purple-gold divine light!

"Boom!"

A deafening blast exploded across heaven and earth. Yet the anticipated stalemate never appeared.

The instant the black claw radiance came into contact with the Primordial Sky Measuring Ruler, it shattered inch by inch like ice and snow beneath spring sunlight!

The aftershock of that terrifying power poured out without restraint. The tall, burly figure still wore a contemptuous sneer, yet his entire body was already sent flying by the irresistible blow like a kite with its string cut!

"Annoying ants, die!"

The tall figure unleashed a furious roar that shook the vault of heaven. The ferocity in its eyes surged, and its final shred of reason was completely replaced by brutality.

It no longer maintained its Innate Dao Body. Its bones and sinews let out a string of teeth-grinding explosive cracks as its body abruptly swelled amid surging Sha Qi.

It revealed its enormous, ferocious fierce-beast true form, brimming with primal violence: shaped like a giant tiger, with wings growing from its ribs, its entire body covered in pitch-black fur that seemed capable of absorbing light, while tangible blood-red Sha Qi coiled around it.

Having cast away even more of its reason, its attacks became pure and violent.

Its two claws swung wildly, drawing together the boundless surrounding Sha Qi. Each sharp claw was a bone blade formed from countless sins and white bones, carrying a terrifying aura capable of annihilating living beings and defiling all laws as they slashed down through the air at Donghua!

The Stream of Time, the Grade Nine Pure World White Lotus, and the Pure Yang Daoist Robe formed three layered defenses, shielding Donghua and Taizhen.

Though they trembled incessantly beneath Qiongqi's frenzied assault, swaying as though on the verge of collapse, they remained resilient and unbreakable.

"Qiongqi? No..."

Donghua's gaze narrowed, and a flash of realization passed through his eyes.

"Qiongqi was executed long ago. The Heavenly Dao's merit had already descended as well—there is absolutely no possibility of its rebirth."

"You're one of the Four Fiends—the ferocious beast Qiongqi!"

So that was it.

At last, every lingering doubt was laid bare. The other party had been suppressed beneath the Innate Great Array all along, yet it had still been able to use a secret art to manipulate the minds of its descendants, guiding him and Taizhen here step by step.

No one could resist taking a Top-grade Spiritual Treasure. Once the treasure was removed, the great array vanished, and the seal unraveled on its own.

"So after breaking free, you didn't reveal yourself at once. You waited to devour the descendants of Taotie, another ferocious beast, using them to replenish your Primordial Qi, reforge the origin of your fiendish Sha Qi, and restore your strength."

"You guessed right. Then die!"

Qiongqi let out a roar that shook the universe, Sha Qi boiling around its body as though it had substance.

It gathered every shred of ferocious Sha Qi it had gained from devouring Taotie, along with the resentment and sins accumulated over countless ages, into its claws.

"Ten Thousand Evils Fallen God!"

A pair of enormous claws that blotted out the sky and sun tore forth savagely. Their claw-light was black as eternal night, and within it, countless wrecked bodies of Gods and Devils seemed to wail. Wherever it passed, all laws withered away, carrying the ultimate malice that sought to annihilate all living things and laws as it crashed toward Donghua!

"Yang Yuan Dao Jie."

The vast Magic Power and laws around Donghua began to draw inward to the utmost extreme, ultimately pouring entirely into the ruler.

The Sky Measuring Ruler no longer shone with dazzling divine light. Instead, it became ancient and unadorned, with only a wisp of void-like fluctuation flowing along its edge—as if it could purify all things and return them to Chaos.