It's Time to End

Manifesting a Dao Domain was not actually complicated; the essence of those secret arts all followed the same rule.

Use qi as flesh, the soul as bones, and Dao essence as marrow. Fuse the three together so they nourished one another, and a cultivator would possess the conditions to break through Mortal Shedding.

Xu Yuan was precisely like this.

The moment he awakened, he already possessed the conditions to break through Mortal Shedding. But there was still the most crucial step in the breakthrough—drawing forth a resonance with the Dao essence of heaven and earth.

The Dao essence integrated into a cultivator's body alone could hardly sustain the enormous expenditure of a Dao Domain, so one had to borrow the power of heaven and earth's Dao essence.

For ordinary cultivators, once they could merge qi, soul, and essence, mobilizing the Dao essence of heaven and earth would come as naturally as water flowing into a channel.

But Xu Yuan could not do it.

Because the Dao essence of death was special—more special even than the Dao essence of life.

Unlike the Dao essences that eternally existed in the present world, the Dao essence of death only manifested in this world when living beings died.

If he wished to unfold his Life-Death Dao Domain, he had to stand atop the corpses of countless living beings.

The more living beings that died, the greater the might of his Dao Domain.

In theory, the Dao essence of death dispersed by the beings who had perished in the war within Western Pacification Prefecture City was already enough for him to condense the most complete Life-Death Dao Domain. Unfortunately, that little brat Mu Nuo had snatched it away first.

Every dead living being had merged into Its Realm of Living Death, leaving not even the