The six Great Luo all turned to look at Zhao Gongming.
If a long-renowned Great Luo Perfection had said such words, they might have seriously weighed them.
But Zhao Gongming?
How long had it been since he had broken through to Great Luo?
Though his aura had already stabilized,
he was plainly only at the Early Great Luo stage.
An Early Great Luo
calling out six by name.
That was rather like not treating the Celestial Court's Great Luo as people at all.
"Arrogant!"
A white-haired Daoist was the first to attack.
He swept the whisk in his hand.
Its three thousand white strands instantly transformed into a silver river tens of thousands of zhang long, sweeping toward Zhao Gongming.
The other five did not truly adhere to any rules of single combat either.
The battle had already reached this point.
And Zhao Gongming himself had invited them to attack together.
Since someone had made the request,
they would oblige him.
For a moment,
six Innate Spirit Treasures rose into the sky at once.
Divine fire.
Lightning.
Sword light.
Frost.
Several Great Luo Laws intertwined, nearly sealing off the hundred-thousand-mile void around Zhao Gongming completely.
Yet Zhao Gongming showed not the slightest panic.
His greatest gain over these years had not merely been breaking through to Great Luo.
It was finding a path that truly belonged to him.
Worlds.
Twenty-four Sea-Calming Divine Pearls slowly rose.
The first pearl lit up.
A phantom heaven and earth appeared behind him.
The second pearl.
A second world manifested.
The third pearl.
The fourth pearl.
Until all twenty-four Sea-Calming Divine Pearls bloomed with azure divine radiance.
Twenty-Four Layers of phantom worlds hung behind Zhao Gongming at once.
Sky.
Earth.
Mountains and rivers.
The sea.
Though most of the scenery within remained vague,
and was still far from being true worlds,
Once the Twenty-Four Layers of space overlapped, an indescribable heaviness descended upon the entire battlefield.
The expressions of the six Celestial Court Great Luo changed simultaneously.
"What kind of divine ability is this?"
"It is not a divine ability."
Zhao Gongming smiled.
"It is this poor Daoist's Dao."
He pressed his right hand downward.
"Suppress!"
Boom—!
The Twenty-Four Layers of Heavens descended at once.
The six Great Luo divine abilities that had just reached Zhao Gongming's surroundings seemed to have suddenly fallen from a normal world into a space where gravity had surged countless times over.
The three thousand whisk strands were the first to halt.
Then they snapped apart one after another.
The divine fire filling the sky was compressed directly into a small clump.
The lightning grew slower and slower.
In the end, it even hung in midair, unable to fall any further.
The six Great Luo only felt as though the surrounding space had suddenly turned into solid divine iron.
With every movement,
it was as if they had to push forward beneath twenty-four vast heavens and earth.
"Break for me!"
One Great Luo roared in fury.
His mana erupted at full force.
An Innate divine axe above his head hacked down madly.
The first phantom layer of heaven shook violently.
The second layer immediately filled in.
The divine axe split open the second layer.
The third layer pressed down again.
That Great Luo's expression gradually turned ugly.
Why did this thing come layer after layer?
Would it never end?
Zhao Gongming likewise felt the mana within him draining rapidly.
Maintaining the Twenty-Four Layers of Heavens at once as an Early Great Luo placed far greater pressure on him than it appeared.
But the more so,
the brighter his eyes became.
It worked.
It really worked!
Previously, his Suppression Great Dao had only been a vague concept.
Now, however, the twenty-four Sea-Calming Divine Pearls seemed to have completely paved this path for him.
One pearl.
One heaven.
Twenty-four pearls.
Twenty-Four Layers of Heavens!
If every layer of heaven truly became a complete world in the future,
then when twenty-four worlds crashed down at once,
forget Great Luo of the same realm.
Even a Quasi-Saint would first have to consider whether his skull was hard enough.
"Again!"
Zhao Gongming burst into laughter.
The twenty-four Sea-Calming Divine Pearls suddenly scattered outward.
Each one suppressed a section of the void.
The originally overlapping Twenty-Four Heavens fully unfolded.
The space around the six Celestial Court Great Luo was immediately divided into entirely different regions.
Each person was trapped within four layers of heaven!
The Great Luo had originally still been able to support one another.
Yet in the blink of an eye, they were forcibly separated.
"Zhao Gongming!"
Someone's expression changed drastically.
"You dare divide the battlefield? Aren't you afraid your own mana will not hold out?"
Zhao Gongming naturally knew that.
But he had never intended to trap them slowly.
Four Sea-Calming Divine Pearls crashed toward one of the Great Luo at once.
Boom!
It was not the weight of four pearls.
It was four phantom worlds descending simultaneously.
The protective treasure tower that Great Luo had summoned lasted only an instant.
Crack!
Cracks appeared across the tower's body on the spot.
He himself was smashed directly from the air into the Eastern Sea.
"The first."
Zhao Gongming was in high spirits.
Elsewhere,
the remaining five Great Luo had completely changed expression.
An Early Great Luo.
One against six.
He had suppressed one first.
Had he really managed to show off?
But Zhao Gongming was far from the only one truly excited.
At the edge of Penglai,
a true Great Dao storm had already begun within Luxuan's Primordial Spirit.
This was Zhao Gongming's first time truly using the Twenty-Four Heavens in Great Luo-level combat.
How worlds overlapped.
How space was divided.
How the force of suppression multiplied through multiple layers of heaven and earth.
Every new change
entered Luxuan's Primordial Spirit through the Great Dao Sect's hundredfold return.
One insight was nothing.
Ten times.
A hundred times.
As Zhao Gongming continuously perfected the Twenty-Four Heavens through actual combat, the Primordial Unity Path Luxuan had only just touched in the past became increasingly clear.
The Space Great Dao formed the boundaries.
The Array Dao stabilized the structure of heaven and earth.
The Cloud Water Great Dao nourished them.
The Sword Dao became Slaughter.
The World Dao became the foundation that bore all laws.
For the first time, several Great Daos that had originally stood side by side truly began converging toward one core.
Not by cutting them away.
Not by entrusting them elsewhere.
But by integrating them all into himself.
Myriad Dao Unification.
Primordial Unity as one.
The mana within Luxuan, which had already reached the limit of Great Luo Perfection, began to change soundlessly.
Dongwang Gong noticed first.
He suddenly turned his head.
"Hmm?"
No vast spiritual energy vortex like the one that appeared when breaking through to Great Luo emerged around Luxuan.
Instead, it was so quiet that it felt rather eerie.
But the quieter it became.
The more Dongwang Gong felt that something was wrong.
Because he discovered that he was gradually becoming unable to accurately sense Luxuan's realm.
The other man was clearly standing right there.
Yet his aura seemed to be slowly "separating" itself from the heavens and earth of the Great Wilderness.
It was not disappearing.
It was a sensation of no longer being wholly reliant on the external Great Dao.
For the first time, a thread of genuine unease rose in Dongwang Gong's heart.
"Can't drag this out any longer."
He had originally intended to let the million-strong immortal army completely crush the Three Cloud Sisters and Zhao Gongming before using the complete Myriad Immortals Formation to fight Luxuan to the death.
But now.
The plan had to be moved forward.
"Immortals, heed my command!"
Dongwang Gong roared.
Dozens of Great Luo returned to their respective positions within the formation at once.
The immortal banners in the hands of the million immortal soldiers rose in unison.
The vast fortune that had originally been spread throughout the battlefield began frantically converging toward the center.
The complete Myriad Immortals Formation!
It finally truly activated.
Rumble—!
It was as if a second sky had suddenly appeared above the Eastern Sea.
The auras of the million immortal cultivators linked together.
A colossal violet-gold immortal phantom, so immense that its full outline was nearly impossible to discern, slowly rose from behind the boundless clouds.
Only half of it had manifested.
Yet that pressure had already far surpassed the embryonic formation Dongwang Gong had used last time.
Countless great powers watching from afar swiftly withdrew their divine senses.
"Dongwang Gong is getting serious."
"A million immortal soldiers, plus the complete Myriad Immortals Formation."
"This strike has likely truly reached the level of a Late Quasi-Saint."
Dongwang Gong stood at the very center of the formation.
The Dragonhead Staff was raised high.
All of the Celestial Court Fortune converged upon him.
"Luxuan!"
"Today, I will show you."
"What the Celestial Court's true foundation is!"
The violet light filling the heavens completely illuminated the Eastern Sea.
However.
Luxuan did not look up.
At this moment, he had no mind to spare for Dongwang Gong.
In the depths of his Primordial Spirit.
The final strands of Great Dao that had originally remained independent of one another finally fused completely.
Crack.
It was as though an utterly nonexistent shackle had silently shattered.
The next instant.
The Great Luo Dao Fruit within Luxuan's body suddenly contracted.
Formation.
Sword.
Space.
Cloud Water.
World.
The various Great Daos were not severed from his body. Instead, they all merged into the deepest depths of his Dao Fruit.
Boom—!
An aura utterly different from the Quasi-Saint method of Corpse-Slaying suddenly rose from Luxuan's body.
There was no good corpse.
No evil corpse.
Nor did he use an Innate Spirit Treasure to house himself.
He merely took one step forward.
The Great Luo Limit.
Was crossed just like that.
Early Primordial Golden Immortal!
The entirety of Penglai trembled at that moment.
Across the Immortal Island spanning hundreds of millions of miles, countless Innate Spiritual Roots lowered their branches and leaves of their own accord. Spiritual veins roared like dragons, and even the laws of heaven and earth that had been endlessly churning around the Eastern Sea briefly fell still.
Upon the battlefield.
Zhao Gongming abruptly raised his head.
Yunxiao, Qiongxiao, and Bixiao also looked toward Penglai almost simultaneously.
"Master broke through?"
The great powers observing from afar were collectively left speechless.
Especially those who had witnessed Luxuan's previous battle with Dongwang Gong. At nearly the same moment, an absurd thought arose in their hearts, one so ridiculous that even they found it hard to believe.
Last time.
Luxuan had truly seemed to be only a Great Luo.
And now.
He had finally crossed that step.
At the center of the complete Myriad Immortals Formation.
The sneer on Dongwang Gong's face gradually froze.
He had prepared for centuries.
Recalled all of the Celestial Court's main forces.
Brought a million-strong army to bear.
He had even finally completed the Myriad Immortals Formation.
Yet just as he was preparing for the true decisive battle.
His opponent broke through.
The fingers gripping the Dragonhead Staff slowly tightened.
For some reason.
An utterly absurd thought suddenly surfaced in his heart.
This time...
Had he come too late?
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