In the Unseen, Heaven's Will Prevailed!
"The Spirit Race!!"
The power of the Earth Virtue Dao Venerable surged several times over, and the phantom of a giant beast carrying mountains roared, shattering the void within a radius of tens of millions of miles.
But the emerald green hand remained motionless, its vitality and Daoist aura surging like a great river, firmly supporting the Earth Virtue Majesty.
Enraged, the Ultimate Force Ape Emperor laughed, and the golden ape phantom unleashed both fists, striking the palm. The moment the fist blast exploded, the emerald light trembled slightly, instantly dissipating the Ultimate Force Dao aura into nothingness.
Life Dao.
It can suppress all laws and nourish all things; yet it can also neutralize all laws, disintegrate all things, and even distort living beings to a certain extent.
"That old demon Fate Wielding, isn't content to stay in the Spirit Realm, he also wants to extend his reach into the Dao Realm?"
The Ancestor Egu's Barbarian Bone Dao aura surged, and his giant white bone claws tore through the void, reaching out to grab the emerald green hand, intending to destroy it.
There was no response. The hand remained motionless throughout, simply supporting and blocking.
Neither attack nor retreat, nor speak.
But that one block was enough.
On the Dao steps, Yan Zhen did not stop; the resonance between the Six Foundations Dao Rhyme and the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth became more and more intense, and the earthy yellow radiance around his body surged. The phantom of that Treasured Earth Dao Fruit had solidified to the point that it was almost touchable.
Only the last two steps remain!
We're almost there!
Shi Jian watched the climbing figure, a chill ran through him.
If Yan Zhen were to attain enlightenment, the Treasured Earth Dao Fruit would fall into the hands of the Li Yuan Giant Beast Clan; the first thing the newly born Treasured Earth Dao Venerable would do would be to cleanse the Treasured Earth Immortal Foundation imprint from the alien cultivators.
Shan Li.
The Ten-Thousand-Layered Edge she cultivated was Immortal Foundation beneath the Treasured Earth Dao Fruit.
With a single thought, the new Dao Venerable could erase her Immortal Foundation; with her Immortal Foundation destroyed, all her cultivation would turn to ashes, and she would perish on the spot.
When the Ancestor Egu attained enlightenment as Barbarian Bone, this was the case; all Barbarian Bone Immortal Foundation cultivators who were not of his race or who were not recognized by him were stripped of their mark.
Shi Jian's gaze was fixed on Yan Zhen, who stood atop the Dao Rank.
The three Dao Venerable were held back by that emerald green hand, even if only for a moment. If Yan Zhen took two more steps, he would have successfully attained the Dao.
By then, it will be too late.
At this moment, all the Spirit Transformation were locked in their own battles.
The assembled Nascent Spirit Transformation of the Beast Realm were locked in fierce combat with the few remaining Nascent Spirit Transformation of the Li Yuan Giant Beast Clan, and at that moment, no one noticed...
There is a gap on the side of the Dao staircase.
The gap was extremely narrow, a void rift torn open by the aftershocks of the battle between the three Dao Venerable, which happened to be on the east side of the Dao Steps, forming an unstable passage.
Ordinary Spirit Transformation would never dare to approach that area.
Wherever the Dao Venerable's influence reached, Spirit Transformation cultivators were nothing more than ants, dying instantly upon contact.
But Shi Jian made a move; he did not hesitate, nor did he even inform Shan Li.
The purple-gold lightning arc surged to its limit within his body, and the two immortal Immortal Foundation of Purple Pivot Lightning and Purple Firmament Lightning operated simultaneously, the two Dao of Lightning rhythms intertwined and poured into his right arm.
A thunder spear took shape in his palm.
This thunder spear is unlike any before.
The steadiness and weight of the Purple Pivot Lightning formed its core, while the condensation and penetration of the Purple Firmament Lightning formed its edge. The Daoist essence of the two Immortal Foundation merged at the tip of the spear, unleashing a faint purple light.
Shi Jian took a deep breath, and his massive bear body suddenly compressed into a figure only a few dozen feet tall; he stepped into the void rift.
The aftershocks of the Dao Venerable were like knives and swords, grinding in from all directions.
Shi Jian's bones cracked and popped, his flesh tore open, and blood gushed from countless wounds; the purple-gold lightning arcs desperately protected his body, but were still crushed to pieces by the aftershocks.
The unprecedented pain shattered Shi Jian's spirit!
But he didn't stop; instead, he became even more rapid.
In the blink of an eye, he had passed through the void rift and appeared on the flank of the Dao Steps, no more than ten thousand miles away from Yan Zhen...
Yan Zhen sensed something was wrong and suddenly turned his head.
In that instant, their eyes met.
Within Yan Zhen's pupils, the six foundational Daoist principles flowed like a galaxy, indicating he was only two steps away from attaining the Dao; deep within his pupils lay disbelief—how dare a mere Early Spirit Transformation appear here?
Shi Jian didn't give him a chance to think, and the thunder spear slipped from his hand.
A light interwoven with purple and dark purple tore through the void and headed straight for Yan Zhen's face.
The power of that thunder spear was nothing more than a tickle to a Nascent Spirit Transformation cultivator at the Six-Foundation Extreme Realm.
Yan Zhen didn't even lift a finger; he simply shook off the thunder spear with a burst of Treasured Earth Dao energy emanating from his body.
The lightning spear shattered, and its purple-gold light dissipated like smoke.
But what Shi Jian wanted was never this spear.
What he wanted was the moment Yan Zhen turned his head, the instant Yan Zhen's attention was diverted.
It was Yan Zhen's footsteps, that half-step pause.
At the very moment the thunder spear shattered, a long-dormant power within Shi Jian's body suddenly awakened.
That was a trace of Barbarian Bone Dao essence left in his body by the Ancestor Egu nearly a hundred years ago.
When the Ancestor Egu bestowed this technique upon him and left it within his body, it was merely to give him a trump card to save his life.
It's gone after one use.
He had hoped that this life-saving item would become his trump card for survival in the future.
Unexpectedly, this method has been used here today; perhaps this is the so-called the Unseen, a matter of destiny!
At that moment, Shi Jian detonated it without hesitation.
The moment the Barbarian Bone Dao Aura exploded within his body, Shi Jian's internal organs were displaced, and he coughed up a mouthful of blood.
But that power of the Dao Venerable burst forth from his chest like a caged beast breaking free!
A giant skeletal claw.
Its entire body was deathly white, with the Barbarian Bone Dao flowing through its joints, radiating the pressure of Dao Venerable level; a giant claw tore out from Shi Jian's chest, carrying a cloud of blood mist, traversing millions of miles of void, and grabbed Yan Zhen!
Yan Zhen.
The six foundational Daoist auras surged simultaneously, and the power of the Treasured Earth desperately resisted; however, the giant white bone claw contained the power of a single strike from the Barbarian Bone Dao Venerable.
No matter how powerful Spirit Transformation is, they are ultimately not Dao Venerable.
With a snap, the giant white bone claw closed its five fingers, and the Treasured Earth Dao aura around Yan Zhen shattered like paper, turning into Heavenly Light.
Yan Zhen was forcibly clamped down and dragged away from the Dao steps.
"No--!!"
Yan Zhen roared, his voice filled with resentment and madness.
He desperately activated the Six Foundations Daoist Rhyme, causing the radiance of the Treasured Earth around him to surge several times over, attempting to break free from that giant white bone claw.
The giant claw remained completely still; the difference between the power of Dao Venerable and the power of Spirit Transformation was like an insurmountable chasm.
Yan Zhen was gripped by the giant skeletal claws, his body plummeting further and further away from the Dao Rank; the illusory image of the Treasured Earth Dao Fruit above his head began to tremble and dim, and the resonance between him and Yan Zhen rapidly diminished.
The Dao Rank is collapsing.
Those earthen-yellow steps began to crumble from the top, turning into a shower of Heavenly Light and dust; without climbers, the steps lost their meaning.
The divine light in Yan Zhen's vertical pupils rapidly dissipated.
The backlash from the Great Dao is coming!
The path to enlightenment was forcibly interrupted, and the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth showed no mercy to anyone; the backlash was like an invisible giant hammer, crashing down from the void and directly crushing Yan Zhen's origin.
The Six Dao Immortal Foundation foundations of the immortals collapsed one after another due to the backlash.
Ten-Thousand-Layered Edge —Shattered.
Vast and Broad Earth -- shattered.
Earth Nurtures Spirit - shattered.
High Ramparts and Peace, Mountain Returns Qi, Fertile and Moist Governance, one after another, the Six Dao Immortal Foundation collapsed one after another like dominoes.
Yan Zhen's body was also disintegrating in sync, the golden-brown rock scales peeling away inch by inch to reveal the charred flesh beneath; beneath the flesh, the bones were cracked.
But he was still struggling.
The Barbarian Bone Dao aura within the giant skeletal claw was dissipating, and the hand began to become illusory.
Yan Zhen desperately raised his head, looking at the Dao staircase above him that was already half-shattered. The last ray of divine light in his vertical pupils suddenly shone brightly.
"I refuse to accept this!!!"
He roared, burning away all the remaining Dao essence of his shattered Immortal Foundation, transforming it into a final surge of power as he charged towards the top of the Dao rank.
But the remaining force of the giant skeletal claw pinned him firmly to the ground.
The second wave of the Great Dao's backlash was even more violent than the first; that force no longer crushed the Immortal Foundation, but directly tore apart the very origin.
Yan Zhen's body exploded in mid-air.
Golden-brown blood spilled into the void, transforming into a dazzling rain of light.
The Treasured Earth Dao essence contained within those raindrops of light was so rich that no one could receive it anymore. It scattered throughout the world, nourishing it and giving back to it.
The Six-Foundation Extreme Realm have reached their ultimate perfection; the last hope of the Li Yuan Giant Beast Clan.
He perished just like that!
The Dao Rank shattered completely, and the illusory image of the Treasured Earth Dao Fruit also dissipated, turning into countless earth-yellow dust particles that merged into the world.
The fruition has not disappeared; it has simply returned to the world, awaiting the next destined one.
The giant skeletal claw also vanished at the same moment.
Shi Jian lost all support and fell from mid-air.
A gaping hole the size of a bowl appeared in his chest, a wound torn open by the giant claw's charge; the purple-gold lightning flickered weakly, barely sustaining his breath.
Shan Li's figure rushed up to him.
Shi Jian glanced at her, grinned, and then his vision went black as he fainted on the spot; while further away, the emerald green hand withdrew from the void rift at the same moment.
Yan Zhen is dead; the position of fruit is vacant.
It had no reason to stop it anymore, and could only sigh in despair; it never expected such a twist of fate.
The Earth Virtue Dao Venerable stood in the void, silent for a long time.
The power of the three Dao Venerable still enveloped the entire world, but the three pillars of Xuanhuang light had all been extinguished.
Dao Venerable Liyuan vanished, the Yan Ji Yan Zhu exploded, Yan Zhen perished from the backlash of the Great Dao.
The last three supreme-level Extreme Realm Spirit Transformation of the Li Yuan Giant Beast Clan have all returned to dust.
The Ancestor Egu withdrew the illusory image of the giant white bone bear. His aged vertical pupils gazed in the direction where Shi Jian had fallen, and the corners of his mouth slightly turned up, but he said nothing.
The Ultimate Force Ape Emperor muttered, "That Spirit Race's reach is quite far."
Earth Virtue Dao Venerable did not respond.
His gaze pierced through the vast emptiness, fixed on the now-closed crack.
The Spirit Race's methods came quickly and ended just as fast, clearly planned from the beginning; their aim was to annoy the Beast Realm and make the situation even more chaotic.
But they never expected that a Lightning Bear at the Early Spirit Transformation would do something so crazy at that moment.
Let's clean up the mess.
"Regardless, our side has won this time!"
Earth Virtue Dao Venerable's emotions calmed down, and his figure gradually faded into nothingness and disappeared.
Above the ancestral temple, the few remaining Nascent Spirit Transformation of the Li Yuan Giant Beast Clan had all given up resistance; some slumped among the rubble, while others looked up at the empty sky, their faces ashen.
A dynasty built over millennia can crumble in a single day.
Before long, the few remaining Nascent Spirit Transformation were completely wiped out; on this day, heaven and earth mourned, and blood rain poured down...
The Li Yuan Giant Beast Clan was thus wiped out!