'Self' Annihilation, The End of Dharma for All Realms

Second Great Profound Realm.

The void was filled with celestial debris and fragments of the Central Continent.

The entire Great Profound Realm had nearly been beaten out of existence. Only a few remnant stars remained in some extremely remote corners.

At the very center of the shattered world, a seven-colored crystal—infinitely vast yet seemingly infinitely tiny, formed from countless planes and edges, bearing the Dao of past and present—appeared to be on the verge of collapse.

Buzz~

After a slight tremor, it suddenly shattered, turning into streams of divine radiance that manifested endless shadows of ancient and modern times as they drifted away.

"Killed it again..."

Charm Ancestor slowly lowered her hand. Yet as she watched the drifting divine radiance, there was not the slightest hint of relaxation on her face.

When they had first faced this Dao Holding Soldier transformed from Gu, they truly had no way to deal with it.

No matter what methods they used, it could reproduce them with the 'shadow of the present,' then launch a counterattack.

In particular, the Sword Venerable shadow reproduced by the Dao Soldier possessed a Supreme Sword Path of Slaughter so ferocious and violent that the other True Immortals did not dare receive it head-on.

Yet the Dao Soldier was ultimately just a weapon that had lost its 'self.' It could only respond according to fixed patterns to the methods wielded by the True Immortals.

Thus, before long, through Remorse's fearless probing at the cost of life and death, they found a sliver of a flaw in the Dao Holding Soldier—

Once it had reproduced a True Immortal's shadow, the Dao Soldier would enter an exceedingly brief moment of 'solidification.'

Moreover, it would always reproduce a True Immortal's shadow first, based on the attack it had suffered!

Not only that,