Dijun's Defeat and Retreat

As he gazed at the boundless sea, which showed signs of churning and boiling once more beneath the blazing sun, Ao Changsheng's face abruptly darkened.

Having substituted his own heart for the heart of heaven several times within his cultivation ground, he was intimately familiar with every blade of grass and tree, every inch of land and sea within it.

So whenever Ao Changsheng grew bored and wanted to pass the time, he relied on the scenery and living creatures for countless miles around his cultivation ground.

Yet Dijun had unleashed sweeping attacks again and again, affecting a vast area.

"Just as I thought, my Great Sun Essence Wheel can't penetrate that area with its attacks. There really are quite a few arrangements throughout those billions of miles."

Dijun paid no attention to Ao Changsheng's dark expression, his gaze fixed instead on the billions of miles of cultivation ground where the workings of heaven had been concealed.

With a thought, he sent the blazing sun formed from the Innate Spirit Treasure, the Great Sun Essence Wheel, crashing straight toward Ao Changsheng.

"Eye of the Candle Dragon!"

A beam of black-and-white divine light suddenly shot from Ao Changsheng's eyes.

Black and white streams of light alternated as yin and yang cycled, piercing almost unhindered through the blazing sun hurtling toward him.

Then it continued, blasting toward Dijun behind the sun.

"This power... it's at the Quasi-Sage level!" Dijun stared in disbelief at the blazing sun that had been pierced before him.

Boom!

Quasi-Sage-level Law Power erupted without restraint as Dijun drove the pure Great Sun Principle to its limit.

A beam of divine sunlight erupted before Dijun, crashing into the black-and-white divine light before him.

Terrifying power erupted as the two beams of divine light collided, nearly shattering heaven and earth, but in the end, they clashed and annihilated each other.

My cultivation is still a little lacking, after all... Ao Changsheng looked at what the Eye of the Candle Dragon had achieved and felt slightly dissatisfied.

However, considering that he was currently no more than an avatar and had not yet drawn on the power of his cultivation ground, such power was already quite good.

Dijun, meanwhile, was truly alarmed. The attack of a mighty Quasi-Sage like him had actually fought a Daluo to a standstill.

Impossible... how could a newly ascended Daluo unleash Quasi-Sage-level power?

Dijun roared inwardly. The blazing sun rapidly restored itself and continued hurtling toward Ao Changsheng.

In the Primordial World, Innate Spirit Treasures were not indestructible. Many mighty figures could damage them if they struck with all their strength.

But... as long as the Innate Indestructible Divine Light within an Innate Spirit Treasure remained, the treasure would always restore itself, given enough Law Power or enough time.

The sight of a blazing sun crashing down was undoubtedly terrifying, even if it was not the real sun.

But driven by Dijun, a Great Sun Golden Crow, it was like a real miniature sun. Its boundless, brilliant light even tore straight through the dark night created by Ao Changsheng's Eye of the Candle Dragon.

"You... have you gone mad?" Ao Changsheng's expression turned cold.

If a mighty Quasi-Sage unleashed the full power of an Innate Spirit Treasure without restraint, the resulting force could shake the entire East Sea.

Let alone the sea for billions of miles around-even the waters for countless miles would be burned dry by that sun, leaving no living creature alive.

"Damn you!"

This was not the first time Ao Changsheng had taken action, but whether he had attacked Yangmei or fought more than a dozen Daluo Golden Immortals at the source of time, he had never encountered such a situation.

"Roar-"

Ao Changsheng twisted around and revealed his pure white dragon body. From the cultivation ground behind him, a pearl overflowing with Dragon Qi suddenly entered his body.

A continuous stream of Law Power poured from the Ancestral Dragon Pearl, filling the avatar's dragon body, while the Dragon Principle's power was unleashed in full to strengthen the avatar.

"Yin-Yang Millstone!"

Black and white spun rapidly in Ao Changsheng's eyes, forming an enormous black-and-white millstone in an instant, with the sun caught between its grinding surfaces.

"Turn!"

With a low roar, the enormous black-and-white millstone began to turn, furiously grinding away the boundless power of the sun caught within it.

Behind the sun, Dijun's pupils abruptly contracted.

"The Supreme-Grade Innate Spirit Treasure, the Ancestral Dragon Pearl!"

"Just as I thought, the Dragon Race's inheritance and treasures are in your hands!" Dijun shouted, and a black-robed Dijun suddenly stepped out from above his head.

A piercing cry rang out as boundless killing intent surged forth and ripples spread through the void. This was none other than the evil corpse Dijun had severed.

Even Dijun himself had not expected that the first time his evil corpse took action, it would be against a mere Daluo Golden Immortal.

"Hiss-"

Black True Sun Fire blazed around Dijun's evil corpse, setting even the void alight as he swept around one side of the black-and-white millstone and attacked Ao Changsheng.

"World of Ten Thousand Dragons!"

Ao Changsheng showed no urgency. He reached out a dragon claw, and a vast world seemed to appear, with countless divine dragons soaring within it.

Dijun's evil corpse, who was speeding toward him, was trapped directly within the World of Ten Thousand Dragons by Ao Changsheng.

A continuous stream of Law Power flew from Ao Changsheng's true body in the cultivation ground behind him and poured into the avatar, sustaining his dragon body and the two Divine Abilities.

"That cultivation ground again..." Dijun narrowed his eyes slightly. He had naturally seen the scene clearly as well.

But as he saw it, certain arrangements within the cultivation ground were likely sustaining Ao Changsheng's combat power.

I need to find a way to separate him from that cultivation ground. Dijun calculated inwardly, the River Diagram and Luo Book poised in his hands as he prepared to sever the Law Power channel between Ao Changsheng and the cultivation ground.

Meanwhile, within the cultivation ground.

Ao Changsheng's true body cultivated while watching the battle outside. His divine sense, possessing the power of a Sage, naturally took in everything on the battlefield.

"With a continuous supply of Law Power, this avatar's combat power has already drawn close to my own. But without the support of my inner world, its application of the Dao of the World is still a little lacking."

"It should have no trouble dealing with an ordinary Quasi-Sage."

"But against a Quasi-Sage like Dijun, who possesses several Supreme-Grade Innate Spirit Treasures, it still falls a little short."

Ao Changsheng watched Dijun throw out the River Diagram and Luo Book, creating a profound domain that directly severed the channel supplying his avatar with Law Power.

Time to end this! Ao Changsheng's heart stirred slightly, and black and white light shone in his eyes. The next instant, black-and-white divine light burst from the Eye of the Candle Dragon.

In an instant, it crossed billions of miles and pierced straight through the domain created by the River Diagram and Luo Book.

It pierced in succession through the sun formed from the Innate Spirit Treasure, the Great Sun Essence Wheel, and Dijun's evil corpse, who had broken free from the World of Ten Thousand Dragons.

Finally, it struck Dijun himself.

"Hm? He's not dead?"

Ao Changsheng suddenly gave a soft exclamation, looking in surprise at Dijun, who was gravely wounded but had not died.

"This is..."

Ao Changsheng narrowed his eyes slightly, and with a thought, another beam of black-and-white divine light shot forth, bearing the tremendous power to grind away all things as it blasted toward Dijun.

But the next instant, a divine bell wreathed in Chaos burst through the void and placed itself directly in front of Dijun.

Dong-

With a tremendous crash, the Chaos Bell, one of the three treasures of the creation of heaven, forcibly blocked the black-and-white divine light from Ao Changsheng's Eye of the Candle Dragon.

Even so, it was sent flying, carrying immense force as it slammed directly into Eastern Emperor Taiyi, who had caught Dijun.

"Pfft-"

The Chaos Bell's impact made no distinction for its own master. The moment it struck, Eastern Emperor Taiyi spat out a mouthful of blood.

His face was deathly pale; he had clearly suffered a grievous injury from the blow.

"Go!"

Forcing himself onward despite his injuries, Eastern Emperor Taiyi seized Dijun and the spirit treasures and immediately burned his body and Primordial Spirit.

He transformed into a streak of rainbow light and flew out of the East Sea in an instant, plunging into the Primordial World's starry sky and flying toward the Sun Star.