As the Taiji Diagram transformed into a white jade golden bridge and came crashing down to suppress him, Minghe immediately felt his body sink. An incomparably terrifying force seemed to freeze everything in place.
It was going to suppress him on the spot. Such was the might of the Taiji Diagram, and also the might of the Heavenly Dao.
When the Taiji Diagram transformed into a white jade golden bridge, it could connect to the might of the Heavenly Dao and suppress all things!
And it was not only Laozi. At this moment, Yuanshi and Tongtian also seized the opportunity.
Yuanshi had already abandoned the Three Treasures Jade Ruyi. In its place, he wielded the Pangu Banner.
With a violent shake of the Pangu Banner, countless Chaos Sword Qi shot out from its surface.
As for Tongtian, he did not use the Four Swords of Zhu Xian. Though those four swords were formidable, unless formed into a sword array, their power might not surpass the Qingping Sword in his hand.
Tongtian directly sacrificed the Qingping Sword, turning it into a streak of sword light that fully displayed his attainments in the Sword Dao.
Tongtian's Sword Dao had already become unimaginably terrifying. Within the sword light, it seemed to expound all manner of great Dao of heaven and earth.
The sword was heaven, the sword was earth; the sword transformed into ten thousand laws, the sword transformed into the stars of the heavens! One sword was a heaven and earth, one sword was a world.
Its power did not fall short of Laozi and Yuanshi wielding Innate Supreme Treasures.
Among the Three Pure Ones, Laozi possessed the highest cultivation, while Yuanshi controlled the Innate Supreme Treasure with the strongest offensive power.
But Tongtian possessed the strongest and fiercest combat strength!
For a time, the Three Pure Ones surrounded him and attacked together, each unleashing their power to its utmost limit.
Minghe seemed to be assailed from all sides, facing unprecedented peril.
Yet even in the face of such danger, Minghe remained calm and composed.
Minghe stood atop the red lotus and held two swords in his hands. He had even put away the Hong Meng Sky Measuring Ruler.
Minghe was actually receiving the Three Pure Ones' ultimate attacks in this state, without choosing to use any other treasures.
Had he used other treasures, such as the Chaos Pearl, the God-Slaying Spear, the other two lotus platforms besides the Karma Red Lotus, and the three Five Directional Flags he had long since refined—
Minghe certainly could have blocked the Three Pure Ones' encirclement at this moment.
But Minghe did not. He chose a head-on clash.
It did not matter that the Three Pure Ones' treasures were stronger than his. What he relied on was his cultivation and strength.
The Three Pure Ones had attained Dao as the weakest kind of Saint of Merit.
But he—he had attained Dao through laws!
He was a Hunyuan Great Luo Golden Immortal who had proven his own Dao Fruit.
A difference of a single thread in cultivation could mean a difference as vast as heaven and earth.
Minghe intended to use his cultivation, which surpassed that of the Three Pure Ones, to crush them.
To defeat them.
To let them understand what Dao Proving Through Laws truly meant!
Even Saints should not dream of suppressing him!
Boom!
Suddenly, everyone saw a dazzling red light surge forth, and Minghe himself vanished.
In contrast, the two swords, the Yuantu Sword and the Abi Sword, transformed into two vast streams of blood-red light.
They resembled two Blood Rivers, brilliant and dazzling.
This scene was very similar to before, but previously, Minghe had only fused his primordial spirit into the two swords.
Now, both Minghe's primordial spirit and physical body fused into the twin swords.
Minghe had attained Dao through laws. One proof became three proofs; he refined both his primordial spirit and his physical body.
This meant that Minghe's cultivation was divided into two parts. One part was stored within his primordial spirit.
The other part was stored within his physical body.
Therefore, when Minghe had erupted earlier and used his primordial spirit to wield the twin swords to kill Zhunti, he had used only half his cultivation.
But now, facing the Three Pure Ones joining forces, Minghe used all of his cultivation.
Bolstered by the fusion of all Minghe's cultivation, the Yuantu Sword and the Abi Sword erupted with incomparably dazzling red light.
At the same time, they unleashed a monstrous killing intent.
The terrifying killing intent instantly made the entire world seem to dim.
The divine senses and gazes of the great powers observing the battlefield from every direction seemed to be struck by that killing intent.
They could not help but be cut off.
The golden bridge formed by the Taiji Diagram had originally suppressed all directions around Minghe so completely that not even water could pass through, freezing everything solid.
But now, the terrifying killing intent struck it, causing it to tremble and loosen.
An imperceptible crack appeared. That was the flaw.
Seizing this opportunity, the twin swords, infused with all of Minghe's cultivation, shot forth with a whoosh!
In less than one billionth of an instant, they followed that tiny gap and tore through it.
The white jade golden bridge collapsed with a thunderous crash, reverting to the Taiji Diagram's true form.
Before Laozi could recall it, the two streaks of sword light that Minghe had become had already surged before him.
Laozi's originally composed expression abruptly changed. He raised his crutch to block, but it was instantly severed into three pieces.
Its remaining force did not diminish and continued hurtling toward Laozi.
The Heaven and Earth Mysterious Yellow Exquisite Pagoda sent down streams of Mysterious Yellow Qi, its defenses peerless.
But the sword light Minghe had become was simply too terrifying.
The truth proved that no matter how powerful a treasure was, it still depended on who wielded it.
At this moment, Minghe's strength had completely surpassed Laozi's.
Even if Laozi activated the Heaven and Earth Mysterious Yellow Exquisite Pagoda,
he still could not stop Minghe's sword light from piercing through it.
The fierce, unmatched sword light shredded the blocking Mysterious Yellow Qi and entered the pagoda.
With a scream, one of Laozi's arms flew into the air, and Saint's blood splattered everywhere.
Laozi's cultivation was ultimately higher. He had not been slain by a single strike like Zhunti.
He had merely lost an arm.
It could not even be said that he had lost it. The moment it was cut off, Laozi retrieved it in the next instant.
He reattached it to his shoulder and drew down Heavenly Dao Power to heal himself.
Yet even so, Laozi's face was pale. His injuries were far from light, and with a wave of his hand, he retrieved the three broken sections of his crutch.
This crutch had been transformed from the red flower of the Twenty-Four-Grade Creation Green Lotus and was the Treasure of Attaining Dao.
Although it had been severed, Laozi still had methods to restore it.
But matters had reached this point, and Laozi already knew that Minghe could not possibly be suppressed.
It could not even be called suppression anymore. If they persisted, they might instead be killed by Minghe one after another.
Just like Zhunti had been before.
After all, who could have known Minghe would be so ferocious?
The first Hunyuan Great Luo Golden Immortal in the world was actually this terrifying!
Even Innate Supreme Treasures could not suppress him.
Could it be that Saints like them, who had attained Dao through merit, were truly too weak?
Regret rose repeatedly in Laozi's heart. Back then, he had been too impatient.
He had wanted to unite the three corpses and pursue Dao Proving Through Severing Three Corpses together with Dao Proving Through Merit.
In the end, the unification of the three corpses failed. He could not attain Dao through severing the three corpses and could only hastily attain Dao through merit.
Although his cultivation was still somewhat deeper than Yuanshi's, Tongtian's, and Nuwa's,
and he possessed two supreme treasures, allowing him to sit firmly as the senior brother among All Sages,
now Minghe had appeared—the first Hunyuan Great Luo Golden Immortal in the world.
Laozi had no idea by what method Minghe had attained Dao, but his strength far surpassed Laozi's.
Meanwhile, after Minghe severed one of Laozi's arms, his sword light continued to rampage. It abruptly changed direction and charged straight at Yuanshi.
All the Chaos Sword Qi Yuanshi had released earlier had missed their mark. Now that Minghe came slashing toward him as sword light, Yuanshi hurriedly swung the Pangu Banner and engaged Minghe in battle.
With a motion of the Pangu Banner, countless Chaos Sword Qi poured forth, only to be crushed and shattered by Minghe with irresistible force.
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