Dao Master—So What? What Can You Do to Me?

Everyone looked at one another, then all turned their gazes toward Zhongli Yue.

Quite a few people here knew Zhongli Yue well—Su Mei, Su Qingfu, Su Jiangxue, Yue Yao, and others. After all, Zhongli Yue had spent a century in the Wanhua Mountain Range, and he had also been the Wanbao Trading Company's Spokesperson in the Wanhua Mountain Range. Both the Spirit Deer Clan and the Demon Fox Clan had dealt with him often.

"Daoist Zhongli! Could you tell us what happened?" Su Mei was the first to speak.

"Of course." Zhongli Yue happened to be tired, so he simply stopped and told them the details concerning the Demon Evil.

After learning the situation, Su Mei frowned in thought before saying, "We must not separate too far. If we cannot defeat them, we can still come to one another's aid!"

As she spoke, she looked toward Yu Qingyi. Yu Qingyi nodded. "That's right. We should stay together as much as possible."

They had initially thought of overwhelming the few with the many, but now it seemed that even that was no guarantee. Those Demon Evils simply could not be killed and could only be exiled into the depths of Great Void.

Yet none among them could throw the Demon Evils into the depths of Great Void, nor could they lure them there. Otherwise, the Demon Evils might not become lost in Great Void's depths before they themselves got lost there first.

They could only trap the Demon Evils for now and wait for Yang Zhengshan to return and deal with them.

Now that those Demon Evils had scattered, they had been given the chance to defeat them one by one. So long as they did not face too many at once, they could still handle them.

After discussing it for a while, everyone began searching everywhere for the Demon Evils.

Zhongli Yue did not remain idle either and joined them in their actions.

Above Nameless Island.

A sharp sword edge, like a Rainbow Piercing the Sun, stabbed straight toward Jade Crown's chest. Its magnificent sword radiance vied with the sun and moon in brilliance; it could shatter the heavens, split the earth, cleave the sea—yet it could not pierce Jade Crown's chest.

Jade Crown made no move to evade. It simply allowed the sword to fall upon its chest.

It even watched the sword radiance crumble inch by inch, a cold smile appearing on its face.

"Your sword grows weaker and weaker!"

Heavenly Sword True Monarch's expression across from it was incomparably solemn, and his breathing had become somewhat disordered.

Sword Cultivators possessed super strong offensive power. Every strike carried an incomparably sharp edge. Yet Sword Cultivators had one fatal weakness: endurance.

Even Heavenly Sword True Monarch possessed this weakness.

This weakness could not be made up for through cultivation or Dao Intent, because it was precisely the greatest advantage of Sword Cultivators.

Their lack of endurance was not because Sword Cultivators were too weak. Quite the contrary, it was because they were too strong.

The utmost eruption of power naturally could not last.

Among all the Half-step Entering Dao experts present, Heavenly Sword True Monarch's cultivation and foundation should have ranked last. He was even inferior to Zhongli Xiayi. After all, Zhongli Xiayi had the entire Zhongli Family behind her, while Heavenly Sword True Monarch could rely only upon his own attainments in the Sword Dao.

Yet in terms of offensive power alone, Heavenly Sword True Monarch was the strongest among them. One sword breaking ten thousand laws was by no means an empty claim.

If anyone else had fought Heavenly Sword True Monarch—Wan Hong or the Dragon Princess, for instance—they likely would have been unable to withstand a single strike from him head-on.

But White Bone and Jade Crown could. Not only could they take one strike head-on, they could take over a dozen, until Heavenly Sword True Monarch's Sword Intent was exhausted and his Divine Soul Power ran dry.

At this moment, Heavenly Sword True Monarch had no interest in speaking. No matter how much he said, it would be useless. The fact that he could not kill Jade Crown was the most undeniable reality.

They were bound to lose this battle, for they had already reached the end of their strength.

Not far away, Zhongli Xiayi had swallowed three pills in succession, but she was still gasping for breath, her aura unstable.

She was draped in myriad rays of sunset glow, like an immortal maiden descending into the world. Yet fine sweat covered her forehead, her chest heaved violently, and her delicate face was exceptionally pale.

"True Monarch, do not worry about me. You should leave first!" Zhongli Xiayi's voice had become hoarse.

At this point, the scales of victory had completely tipped toward White Bone and Jade Crown. Wan Hong and the Dragon Princess had never managed to suppress White Bone. Of Wu Wei Zheng's five tails, only two remained, while his black robes had been dyed a dark crimson.

Heavenly Sword True Monarch was already at the end of his strength, while Zhongli Xiayi was At the End of One's Life.

Their original plan had been for Wan Hong and the Dragon Princess, the two strongest among them, to take down White Bone first. Wu Wei Zheng, Heavenly Sword True Monarch, and Zhongli Xiayi would then hold back Jade Crown.

Yet Wan Hong and the Dragon Princess had spent several days without being able to completely suppress White Bone, while they themselves had been dragged down by Jade Crown until they were exhausted beyond measure.

If this continued, only death awaited them.

Zhongli Xiayi and Wu Wei Zheng no longer had the strength to flee. Only Heavenly Sword True Monarch still had a sliver of opportunity.

"Leave? Where could we escape to? Once we lose today, there will no longer be a place for us in the entire Myriad Flower Domain!" Heavenly Sword True Monarch said softly.

"There is always hope!" Zhongli Xiayi said in a low voice.

She thought of someone—Yang Zhengshan, that figure she had never been able to forget.

"There is always hope!"

She repeated herself once more.

"Hope? Heh heh, today I will snuff out your hope!"

Jade Crown's figure suddenly appeared before Zhongli Xiayi. Heavenly Sword True Monarch's expression changed drastically. His sword rose again and stabbed toward Jade Crown's back.

Yet this sword still could not inflict the slightest injury on Jade Crown. It was like the bite of a mosquito; Jade Crown did not even turn around for a glance.

"Body into Rainbow!"

Zhongli Xiayi's body swayed and transformed into a rainbow. Under normal circumstances, once she became a rainbow, she could travel ten thousand miles in an instant like sunset glow.

But now she was At the End of One's Life. Before she could fully turn into rainbow light, Jade Crown's hand had already seized her body.

"Trying to run? Too late!"

A huge black palm with sharp claws gripped Zhongli Xiayi around the waist, forcibly knocking her out of her Rainbow Transformation State.

Zhongli Xiayi looked at the ugly face inches away from her, and a trace of despair could not help rising in her heart. Yet she still did not give up struggling.

Two dazzling rays of sunset glow Shot Out from her eyes. Jade Crown raised a hand before its face, blocking the dazzling light.

"The Way of Sunset Glow? Heh heh, your sunset glow cannot compare to that of the Sunset Glow Ancestor from five hundred thousand years ago!"

Jade Crown laughed wantonly. Having existed for a million years, it had two greatest pleasures. One was turning those who sought immortality into its companions. The other was wantonly humiliating those lofty cultivators, just as it was doing now—mocking, ridiculing, and suppressing them without restraint.

The sight it loved most was this sort of despair mixed with unwillingness.

The more you struggled, the more it liked it.

Zhongli Xiayi was utterly despairing. Like a chick, she was held in Jade Crown's grasp. Every spell and divine ability she possessed seemed incomparably feeble before Jade Crown. Even the Ten Thousand Mile Brocade was firmly suppressed by Jade Crown and could not react in the slightest.

"Cackle, cackle, cackle~~" Jade Crown laughed brilliantly. Even its incomparably ugly face seemed to become far more adorable because of its smile.

Suddenly, a voice rang out, and its laughter came to an abrupt halt.

"Is it funny?"

At some unknown moment, a figure appeared before it, standing between it and Zhongli Xiayi, one hand pressed against its arm.

A white robe was embroidered with dark green towering pines. Those pines gleamed brilliantly, brimming with boundless vitality.

It was a small figure, especially small compared to Jade Crown, for Jade Crown stood over a zhang tall.

Yet that hand pressed upon its arm seemed to contain inexhaustible strength, making it unable to Break Free.

Upon hearing that voice, the despairing Zhongli Xiayi abruptly raised her head.

She blinked in disbelief and stared at the figure before her.

"You came!"

The corners of Yang Zhengshan's lips lifted slightly. "Fortunately, I was not too late!"

As he spoke, he pried Jade Crown's fingers apart one by one. This fellow actually had only four fingers. Its skin was rough and dark and swarthy, and sharp claws extended from its fingers.

"Who are you?" Jade Crown asked.

"Yang Zhengshan!"

After opening Jade Crown's palm and freeing Zhongli Xiayi from its restraint, Yang Zhengshan turned to look at the towering Jade Crown.

"Yang Zhengshan!" An indescribable light flickered in Jade Crown's eyes. "Dao Master!"

"Ashamed to say, I am still far from reaching the realm of being master of a Dao in the Dao Realm!"

Dao Master—the master of a Dao.

What virtue or ability did he possess to dare call himself a Dao Master?

The higher one's cultivation, the more one knew how vast the Dao Realm was. The more one comprehended, the more one understood one's own insignificance.

Only frogs at the bottom of a well would be so self-righteous, believing they could see through the entire sky.

Those at Half-step Entering Dao believed they stood only one step from the Position of Authority of a Dao Master. Yet only after truly Entering the Dao did one understand that one had merely taken the first step. Ahead still lay a hundred steps, a thousand steps, ten thousand steps.

At this moment, Yang Zhengshan could not even imagine what a true Dao Master was like.

"So what if you are a Dao Master? What can you do to me?" Jade Crown said coldly.

It had not never seen Dao Masters. More accurately, it had seen many Dao Masters.

Over the past million years, many Dao Masters had appeared in the Myriad Flower Domain.

Especially during the Far Ancient Period. At that time, the Myriad Flower Domain possessed abundant spiritual energy and dense Dao Resonance, nurturing countless powerful beings, such as True Dragons, Phoenixes, and Dao Masters.

Even the Dao Masters of that era had been unable to do anything to it, much less the Dao Masters of today.

It was a Spirit of Artifact. Its Main Body was the Spirit Treasure known as the White Bone Jade Crown. So long as the White Bone Jade Crown was not destroyed, it was an immortal existence.

And the White Bone Jade Crown was an exceptionally special existence. Countless years had allowed it to transcend the level of a Spirit Treasure and become something nearly indestructible.

Even a Dao Master would find it difficult to take it for their own use or make it acknowledge a master.

Moreover, this was outside the White Bone Jade Crown. If they were within the White Bone Jade Crown—in the Land of Reincarnation—even Dao Masters would have to retreat three paces before them.

"I cultivate the Way of Great Void. More precisely, the Way of Void and Reality!"

"So What?"

"Have you not noticed? I have sealed you!"

"So What? You still cannot destroy me!" Jade Crown said without the slightest concern.

Yang Zhengshan's seal could only restrain it; it could not kill it. Though it was somewhat resentful, it did not feel panic or fear because of this.

"Ah, it seems you are not familiar with the Way of Great Void!" Yang Zhengshan sighed softly.

Jade Crown looked at him, somewhat unable to understand what he meant.

It actually knew a little about the Way of Great Void. Over the past million years, the Myriad Flower Domain had not lacked beings who cultivated the Way of Great Void. However, the Way of Great Void was far too difficult to cultivate. Even over a million years, no one had entered the Dao Realm through the Way of Great Void; at most, they could reach the level of Half-step Entering Dao.

Simply put, its understanding of the Way of Great Void was limited to the surface.

Yang Zhengshan did not explain the Way of Void and Reality to it. It had not even gained a deep understanding of the Way of Great Void, much less the Way of Void and Reality.

He reached into the Void with one hand. His slender fingers penetrated reality, and in the next instant, White Bone, who was a hundred miles away, appeared before him without warning.

White Bone and Jade Crown stood motionless before him, like statues.

White Bone still had no idea what was happening and asked in a muffled voice, "What is going on?"

Jade Crown said helplessly, "Dao Master!"

"Dao Master!" White Bone looked at Yang Zhengshan. "Release me!"

"No."

"Do not force me to get angry!"

"..." Yang Zhengshan looked at it with utter bafflement. "What can you do if you get angry?"

It was clear that White Bone held no reverence for Dao Masters.

"You—" White Bone seemed to want to do something, but it was bound so tightly that it could not do anything at all.

"You brainless thing, stop struggling. I already tried." Jade Crown said Annoyed.

"Just because you cannot do it does not mean I cannot!" White Bone shouted.

"Fine, then you do it. Move once and let me see!" Jade Crown rolled its eyes.

There was nothing wrong with this old companion of its, except that its brain did not work very well.

The passage of time had not made it smarter. Instead, it had made it even more idiotic.

At this moment, Wan Hong and the Dragon Princess also arrived. Both looked somewhat bedraggled.

Wu Wei Zheng also appeared, apparently emerging from the seabed. He was in an even more miserable state, his Scale Armor stained red with blood.

They all looked at Yang Zhengshan with strange expressions—astonishment, disbelief, envy, and jealousy.

At this moment, none of them had the mind to care about White Bone and Jade Crown. Their hearts were filled with doubt and shock.

"Dao Master! A true Dao Master?" Wan Hong muttered.

The Dragon Princess stared fixedly at Yang Zhengshan. "Your Excellency truly took that step!"

Yang Zhengshan took out a pill and handed it to Zhongli Xiayi. Zhongli Xiayi accepted it blankly.

Just now, she had not considered Yang Zhengshan's cultivation at all. She had only been overwhelmed with joy at his arrival, overlooking his cultivation and strength.

Only now did she finally come to her senses.

"Your Excellency should be His Majesty the Dragon Emperor of the South Sea Demon Court. I indeed took one step into the Dao Realm by sheer luck!"

Yang Zhengshan wore a gentle smile, bathed in an approachable aura that soothed the heart and calmed the mind.

The Dragon Princess's gaze shifted back and forth among Yang Zhengshan, White Bone, and Jade Crown. After a long while, she took a deep breath. "Ao Zhu of the Dragon Clan pays respects to Dao Master!"

"Greetings, Dao Master!"

Only then did everyone come back to their senses and bow one after another.

Yet their expressions varied. Wan Hong was still immersed in disbelief, Heavenly Sword True Monarch's eyes blazed, while Wu Wei Zheng appeared thoughtful.

Yang Zhengshan bowed in return. "Greetings, fellow Daoists!"

"May I ask whether Dao Master can teach me the method of Entering the Dao?" Heavenly Sword True Monarch asked impatiently.

Entering the Dao, Entering the Dao—it sounded simple, yet accomplishing it was harder than scaling the heavens.

They were willing to fight one another to the death for the Position of Authority, so naturally they were also willing to pay any price to Enter the Dao.

Yet they had no method by which to Enter the Dao.

Though they had all touched the threshold of the Dao Realm, that threshold was simply too high—so high that they could only gaze upon it and sigh before the vast ocean.

Yang Zhengshan shook his head. Just as he was about to speak, he raised his head toward the east.

To the east lay the Land of Reincarnation.

A concealed aura was flying out from the Land of Reincarnation.