Great Dao Collapse, Inner Demon Emerges

This chapter went very slowly; the next chapter would be at ten.

Unable to move, unable even to muster the thought of moving, Shi Xuan possessed no resistance whatsoever beneath the pure Great Dao pressure of a Half-step Golden Immortal, just as a true Spirit Soul Stage Cultivator would fare in such circumstances. She had completely fused with the Great Dao; every gesture manifested it. She could not be mentioned in the same breath as a Heavenly Sovereign and was known as a Great Spiritual Power User.

Amid that terrifying pressure, one of the few thoughts Shi Xuan could still move suddenly recalled, in a flash of lightning and spark of flint, something Mo Jingqiu had once said with utmost solemnity:

"Fellow Daoist Shi, if—I mean if—you encounter Mu Jing or another Half-step Golden Immortal, never panic or give up in despair. If you do, it will be certain death."

"Do not panic. Do not give up in despair." Shi Xuan's scant few thoughts repeated those words. Her mind settled, and with great difficulty, she transformed the Taiji Diagram into the Other Shore Golden Bridge.

A vast and sacred Golden Bridge that encompassed all phenomena abruptly appeared within Shi Xuan's Primordial Spirit an instant later, blooming with boundless golden radiance. As the Earth Fire, Wind, Water, and Fire beneath the bridge calmed, Shi Xuan's entire mind recovered somewhat from that pressure.

Just as she recovered a little, Mu Jing gave a cold snort. Shi Xuan immediately felt her entire Primordial Spirit violently convulse. Within her complete Primordial Spirit of Three Thousand Great Daos, the Calamity Fate Great Dao suddenly overwhelmed every other Great Dao, including the Yin Yang Great Dao upon which her Primordial Spirit rested. In an instant, it seemed about to become a dim white auspicious cloud,