Supreme Art

"I'm curious. Where exactly did you come from?" Meng Chuan suddenly asked, with life and death hanging in the balance.

"This world is far vaster than you imagine. You cannot even conceive of the legacy we inherited!" An Xuan said, pride ringing in his voice.

Meng Chuan raised an eyebrow. Still putting on airs? If you four were that formidable, wouldn't you have killed me already?

"The surnames you four bear have..."

"You have some nerve, prying into a secret buried for all eternity!" Before Meng Chuan could finish, Kungu roared and attacked.

All four moved at once, controlling the Immortal Cauldron through their formation. Thousands upon thousands of mighty arts surged toward Meng Chuan, and in an instant, blood-red light filled the sky.

It was a killing blow that no one could withstand.

Meng Chuan roared in fury. He would not bare his neck for the blade. Great Dao Principles erupted, countless visions appeared, and he fought within the formation.

At that moment, he unleashed every secret art and divine technique he possessed. Boundless chaotic energy gathered around him, even producing a vision of his body becoming chaos itself.

But the Four Supreme Beings had formed an array with the wondrous Immortal Cauldron at its heart. Every attack they launched was greatly strengthened.

Meng Chuan fell into the most perilous situation he had faced since crossing over. Never had he been so helpless, and no human strength could overcome it.

Clang!

The Immortal Cauldron rang out and struck with deadly force, piercing straight through Meng Chuan's body. That was only the beginning. Attacks followed like a howling storm.

The killing intent of the four Supremes took physical form across the cosmos. Thunder boomed at the Cosmic Frontier: blood-red lightning born of killing intent!

For all Meng Chuan's world-shaking combat strength, he suffered wound after wound within the formation. Blood stained the cosmic stars red. Never before had four figures of the Emperor Dao joined in a grand formation, backed by an Immortal Artifact, to fight one person.

"So what if your combat strength approaches an immortal's? Today, I'll send you into reincarnation!" An Xuan's eyes were cold, his killing intent boundless.

Blood sprayed three thousand feet into the air. This was no figure of speech, but a true account of the battle. Trapped in desperate straits, Meng Chuan endured hundreds upon hundreds of supreme arts and suffered grievous wounds.

Meng Chuan was drenched in blood, his wounds horrific. More than twenty bloody holes pierced clean through his body. His Emperor blood scattered, each drop capable of piercing a Quasi-Emperor.

Meng Chuan had originally kept all four on the defensive by himself. But after they established a Peerless Grand Formation supported by the Immortal Cauldron, he was forced into a wholly defensive position and gravely wounded.

The Immortal Cauldron's power was unmatched, and this grand formation appeared to have been designed specifically for it. Amplified by the array, the four Supremes now possessed combat strength that surpassed even their peaks!

Together with an Immortal Cauldron that a Quasi-Immortal King had once refined, they battered Meng Chuan, leaving wounds all over his body.

Worst of all, the Daos of the four Supremes and the Immortal Cauldron remained inside Meng Chuan, seeking to grind his Emperor Body away.

"Dou!"

Meng Chuan shouted. His hands moved through countless forms as he activated Nine Secrets: Dou. A divine furnace, an Ancient Mirror, a keen Immortal Sword, a green pagoda...

Meng Chuan manifested all manner of Extreme Dao Weapons and hurled them against the formation, but none had any effect.

Clang!

The Immortal Cauldron rang and trembled. Time and space stilled. The Daos of the four Supremes soared into the heavens, merged with the Immortal Cauldron, and charged straight at Meng Chuan's Emperor body.

A flash of destructive light entered Meng Chuan's body. He shuddered violently and staggered backward, leaving bloody footprints in the void.

With the formation and Immortal Cauldron bolstering them, the Daos of the four Supremes became one. Their power had grown beyond measure, enough to shatter anything. The instant that Dao power entered Meng Chuan's body, he nearly burst apart.

The four pressed their advantage, unleashing heaven-shaking killing arts that blotted out the sky.

Meng Chuan struck back and shattered the beams, but facing four opponents and an Immortal Artifact at once left him struggling to keep up.

With a wet squelch, a beam pierced his shoulder. Others punched bloody holes through his waist, abdomen, chest, and thighs. His injuries grew still worse.

Finger marks, fist marks, and palm prints covered Meng Chuan's body. The Supreme Dao ravaged his Emperor Body, seeking to spread through every part of it.

Meng Chuan was trapped in desperate straits. The wondrous Immortal Cauldron and the formation built to complement it had utterly overturned the balance. He could scarcely break the array, and if this continued, he would be in mortal danger.

The bodies and Primordial Spirits of the four Supremes became beams of light that reached into the heavens and merged into the Immortal Cauldron. The formation's power erupted, shattering the void and leaving endless Great Dao Runes across the cosmos. It clashed fiercely with Meng Chuan, then blew him apart. Even his Emperor Body exploded.

Meng Chuan reconstituted his Emperor Dao body in an instant. His face was pale and bloodless.

That blow spread the Daos of the four Supremes and the Immortal Cauldron throughout his body. Meng Chuan's own Dao instinctively resisted them, grinding against them. Every second brought him immense pain.

Watching Meng Chuan reform his body, Kungu said, "You have some nerve. You're using us to absorb our Extreme Daos? Do you think you can turn the heavens upside down?"

With his level of cultivation, Kungu saw through Meng Chuan's condition at once.

"You're courting death!" An Xuan roared. To him, it was utterly impossible. They were all Supremes. Even if Meng Chuan was a little stronger, so what? Comprehending the Daos of four Supremes was wishful thinking!

Even given several thousand years, he might not manage it!

And even if he did comprehend them, what then? What belonged to others would always belong to others. Did he think he could simply take their Daos and use them?

Meng Chuan said nothing. Though the supreme formation left him feeling somewhat powerless, he had not despaired.

At that moment, the blood he had spilled earlier began to glow in the void. It arranged itself into strange patterns, manifesting the Dao Shi Dao's Great Dao Principles.

"You're forming a Great Dao divine seal with your own blood to help yourself gain insight? Wishful thinking!" An Xuan sneered. They were not dead men who would stand by and let Meng Chuan complete his plan.

Boom!

Meng Chuan knew, of course, that a Dao seal formed from Emperor blood alone could not succeed. His whole body began to shine. He unleashed his own supreme Emperor Arts, the Nine Secrets, and every Emperor Dao divine technique he had ever learned, weaving them together into divine patterns of the Great Dao.

Hum!

In the distance, the Great Dao Jade Disc, still entangled with the Stone Fetus Saint Spirit, gave a soft hum. It fired a ray of divine Dao light that pinned the Stone Fetus Saint Spirit in the void.

The Stone Fetus wailed without cease but could not break free. It struggled endlessly in the void.

The Forbidden Zone Supremes' faces changed. What sort of damned Emperor Weapon was that?

The Great Dao Jade Disc flew back to Meng Chuan's side and began to radiate divine light.

Then boundless chaotic energy surged. The Jade Disc, the divine patterns of the Great Dao, Meng Chuan's Emperor Body, and his Primordial Spirit collided. Their radiance pierced the Eternal, refining the void here and devouring the Heavenly Dao. They enveloped Meng Chuan and became a furnace. On closer inspection, a layer of murky Dao Fire burned across its surface.

Meng Chuan was manifesting his own Dao, transforming amid desperate straits. He took in myriad Daos to enrich his Dao Shi Great Dao, evolving it toward Chaos Limitless so he could ultimately transcend.

Through Furnace-Nurturing Myriad Sutras, Meng Chuan's Great Dao became flame, smelting the Daos of the four Supremes and the Immortal Cauldron to forge a new body.

The transformation encompassed everything. It was not only Meng Chuan's Emperor body; his Primordial Spirit and Great Dao were transforming too.

It was a terrifying change. The Myriad Daos of the universe resonated and became endless runes, feeding Dao Shi's Dao Fire like firewood. They tempered Meng Chuan's body and spirit and smelted his Great Dao, forging an eternal true self.

This was a supreme art Meng Chuan had derived from the Burning Art.

Dao Shi: the beginning of the Great Dao. The vision behind Meng Chuan's Dao pointed straight toward the origin of all Daos.

If one day his Dao Shi Great Dao could absorb myriad Daos and become that primal one, then give rise to the myriad once more, Meng Chuan would have achieved his Dao Fruit.

When Meng Chuan obtained the Burning Art, he discovered that it truly suited him. The Burning Art evolved by absorbing the Heavenly Flame of heaven and earth, while his Dao needed to continually take in the Myriad Daos.

After incorporating the essence of the Burning Art into the Dao Beginning Scripture, inspiration struck, and Meng Chuan created this supreme art!

Dao Fire Furnace!

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