Under the stone stele's suppression, he felt as though he had become fish on a chopping block, helpless to resist the butcher's knife.
"You've been hiding your strength all along!?"
Shocked and furious, Xuan Sha found the terrifying aura radiating from his body crushed outright.
Bang-
With a thunderous crash, he dropped to one knee.
His knee slammed into the ground, and cracks rapidly spread across the earth like a spiderweb.
Li Dao could not help freezing at the sight. This was his first time using the divine ability he had comprehended.
He had never expected it to be so powerful.
Yet he felt somewhat puzzled. Though he knew this divine ability was terrifying, it should not have suppressed Xuan Sha to such an extent.
The Law-Suppressing Stele primarily targeted Dao arts and divine abilities.
Unless Xuan Sha was not human at all! Unless he was a manifestation of Dao laws!
Understanding flashed through his eyes. Holding back no longer, he coldly uttered a few words:
"All Laws Are Void!"
As his words fell, terrifying ripples burst from the Law-Suppressing Stele suspended in the air.
Wherever the ripples passed, all Dao arts dissolved into nothingness.
"No!!"
"Please, no!"
As terror filled Xuan Sha's face, the ripples gently swept across his body.
In a single instant, countless cracks covered the body of the previously imposing Xuan Sha.
Bang!
With a sky-shaking boom, he exploded on the spot, turning into streams of black mist that surged into the dragon skeleton behind him.
Li Dao slowly descended from the air. Looking at the dragon skeleton that had once shimmered with treasure light, he now sensed a trace of deathly stillness.
He immediately realized that Xuan Sha had merely been formed from the baleful energy accumulated on the dragon skeleton.
"It was gravely wounded by people from the Immortal Palace, then tainted by baleful energy."
"I have to say, this Yin-Yang Flood Dragon really was unlucky."
Without dwelling on it further, he stepped forward and removed the treasure bone radiating divine light from within the dragon skeleton.
Rumble-
Just as he removed the treasure bone, the dragon skeleton sprawled across the underground world suddenly began trembling.
Under Li Dao's somewhat astonished gaze, black baleful energy enveloped the dragon skeleton.
The next instant, it transformed into a spear, pitch-black from end to end like divine metal.
Beneath the spot where the dragon skeleton had lain, a three-tiered altar was also revealed.
But Li Dao's attention was entirely fixed on the spear, pleasant surprise glinting in his eyes.
The spear was black as ink, with a deep blood-red hue confined to its tip, as though a piece of blood-colored agate had been embedded there.
"The entire dragon skeleton was refined into a spear!"
"It looks like I came at just the right time. Had I arrived a little later, Xuan Sha would have broken through the light barrier overhead and escaped!"
He reached out and took the spear in his hand.
It felt cold to the touch. For a moment, myriad streams of baleful energy seemed to surge before his eyes, and then he felt its considerable heft.
It was as though he held a primordial divine mountain in his hand. If not for his terrifying strength,
he would have had some difficulty wielding this spear.
Bringing it before him, he carefully ran his fingers over it. The pitch-black shaft resembled ink jade and divine metal, gleaming with a glassy luster while possessing the texture of metal.
He twirled the spear at his side, and the void trembled faintly.
Even without infusing it with divine power, its terrifying weight alone could unleash considerable might.
"The Evil Dragon Spear? Fine, that's what I'll call it."
Feeling the imposing power emanating from the spear in his hand, Li Dao was delighted and had felt the urge to give it a name.
"Entering the Yin-Yang Pool really was the right choice. I've already found a weapon that suits me."
Previously, he had faced enemies with nothing but his fists. Having a weapon at his side would naturally improve his combat strength.
Whoosh-
His Cave Heaven manifested. After playing with the spear for a while, he stored it inside to nurture it and strengthen his connection with the treasure weapon.
After placing the Evil Dragon Spear inside his Cave Heaven, he turned his attention to the treasure bone in his left hand.
Strange runes were engraved upon it. The moment his divine sense touched them, two enormous dragons appeared before his eyes, spanning heaven and earth and entwining like a taiji diagram.
One was entirely black, wreathed in cold, sinister energy of the utmost chill, while the other was reddish-white, radiating the power of utmost yang.
This was the Yin-Yang Flood Dragon's treasure art, which could unleash twin yin and yang flood dragons to attack.
"Another treasure art. Now I have a few more ways to deal with enemies."
He tucked the treasure bone into his robes. Rather than immediately cultivating it, he turned his gaze toward the three-tiered altar.
He slowly approached, bringing the altar's entire appearance into view.
One tier bore carvings of mountains, rivers, and trees; another depicted birds, insects, fish, and beasts. On the uppermost tier were several figures with indistinct faces and divine light suspended behind them.
Li Dao slowly stepped onto the altar and climbed to the third tier, where he saw lines of wondrous runes engraved beneath his feet.
"Could this altar hold some kind of inheritance?"
He stamped his foot, and the divine power within his body poured like a tide into the altar beneath him.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh-
As his divine power flowed in, several divine pillars shot up from the altar, their radiant light instantly illuminating the underground world.
The next instant, a terrifying suction seized him. Li Dao's pupils contracted, and he was just about to leap down.
But the world blurred before his eyes, and he felt heaven and earth spinning around him.
When he opened his eyes again, he discovered that he was standing in an open clearing.
Before him lay a passage, with pieces of bone text embedded along both sides.
However, all this bone text was protected by a formation.
"Fellow Daoist, have you just arrived in the Void God Realm too?"
Li Dao paused slightly and turned his head. He saw a boy about his age gazing at the passage with eyes full of anticipation.
The Void God Realm? That altar was actually a passage leading to the Void God Realm.
Joy suddenly welled up in his heart. He had never expected to enter the Void God Realm in such a manner.
In the Void God Realm, the gains and insights acquired by one's primordial spirit could be transferred back to the physical body.
He had just been worrying about his lack of cultivation resources and the need to seek more. Who would have thought someone would deliver a pillow just as he grew sleepy!
Here, in
such a vast Void God Realm, how could I possibly fail to find resources?
Chu Yang, whose eyes were full of excitement on his first visit to the Void God Realm, noticed that Li Dao beside him had not answered.
Turning around, he saw the somewhat strange smile on Li Dao's face. Without thinking much of it, he nudged him.
"Fellow Daoist? Fellow Daoist?"
Feeling someone nudging him, Li Dao hurriedly set aside his tangled thoughts.
"Ahem."
"That's right. This is my first time in the Void God Realm, so I got a little excited."
"Please forgive me, fellow Daoist."
Seeing this boy, who was about his own age, behaving and speaking with such maturity and composure, Chu Yang
hastily cupped his hands toward him and said:
"No trouble at all. Since that's the case, fate must have brought us together."
"Let's go in together."
Li Dao nodded. After they introduced themselves, they headed toward the Initial Passage.
Passing through the passage of the Starting Ground, they immediately entered a new world.
A bustling scene unfolded before them, with crowds of people coming and going and cultivators of every race mingling together.
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