Whoosh!—
Fwoosh!—
Chen Yang stepped onto this path leading beyond the heavens, and did not forget to use Zhen Xuan to mend the rift he had opened behind him.
When he turned around, he could already feel the vast power of the Soul-Return Dao Art crashing toward him head-on.
Chen Yang looked up and saw that this entire passage had already been filled with the power of the Myriad Corpses Demon Lord's Soul-Return Dao Art.
Not long after he continued upward through the void, he saw two spatial vortices containing Dao essence appear within the passage.
"Divine Lord... they are those who fled into the Dao..."
Xu Cang reminded him at that moment.
Hearing this, Chen Yang immediately understood. "Ten Thousand Corpses Old Devil truly has some skill. No wonder the battle beyond the heavens has gone on for so long without a single Great Venerable returning to Azure Waves. So their path back was blocked by this Soul-Return Dao Art."
As he pondered this, two Dao Venerables who had fled into the Dao, around the middle stage of the Mystic Insight Realm, stepped out from the two vortices.
The era in which they had fled into the Dao was already extremely remote, and they belonged to figures who existed only in historical records.
The reason they had been willing to sacrifice their lives to appear during the Great Competition of Two Daos and guard these paths leading beyond the heavens was that, after dwelling within the Dao Gate for too long, all their former spirit had been worn away.
Restricted by the Dao laws of Azure Waves, once those who fled into the Dao hid within the Dao Gate realm, their Dao paths were completely severed, and they could never make any further progress.
No matter how exceptional their