Chapter 688: Additional dishes

With almost no hesitation, this Human Race Utmost Person made the most pragmatic choice.

The Immortal Heaven had already cast its gaze over, and the Dao Integration was basically a foregone conclusion. Although he didn't know the current situation, what he was facing, or why he had ended up in front of a First Grade being, this didn't prevent him from thinking and making a choice.

The result of his deliberation was the present moment.

Death was certain; this could be considered the bitter fruit of his actions, having provoked Zhu Fengdan before thoroughly understanding her background.

He had thought he found Zhu Fengdan's weakness, but unfortunately, she was far deeper than he imagined, which directly led to his defeat.

Regarding this failure, he had nothing to say; he was simply outmatched. There was no regret, no sadness, and certainly no blaming heaven or others.

Once a choice is made, one naturally bears the consequences; it's a matter of course.

However, a Third Rank Supreme Being is not so easily extinguished. His residual Dao Resonance, having absorbed the almost infinite power from the Immortal Heaven at this location, allowed him to perfectly revive. At this moment, he was in a complete state.

This is what it means to be a Third Rank Supreme Being.

Undying and indestructible, possessing absolute 'copyright.' Even imitating a Third Rank Supreme Being would directly draw their attention. If someone practices the Dao of a Third Rank Supreme Being, then that Third Rank Supreme Being will never truly die.

If the Dao is not extinguished, the Physical Body is not extinguished, and it possesses substantiality.

As long as his thoughts continue to circulate in the world, even if an existence like a Heavenly Demon creates a fake one, that fake one will instantly become real.

This is substantiality. The essence of substantiality is equivalent to the real world. To eliminate a Third Rank Supreme Being, one must destroy his Dao, but Dao is not a physically existing thing. Dao is the ethereal 'principle,' it is logic, thought, and even the myriad things themselves.

You can break a piece of quartzite, but you cannot eliminate the chemical formula SiO2. As long as this chemical formula remains valid, rocks will continue to be born, and Third Rank Supreme Beings will continue to appear.

This is the fundamental reason why Third Rank Supreme Beings are undying and indestructible.

What you need to do is to ensure that this world will never again produce quartzite, that the chemical formula SiO2 will never again be valid. Only then can you truly kill a Third Rank Supreme Being.

It's very difficult, which is why Third Rank Supreme Beings rarely fall, unless there's a life-or-death battle between major Dao Orthodoxy.

If such a battle truly occurs, there will be a second way for a Third Rank Supreme Being to fall.

That is, to have their position taken.

Yes, it's very simple and straightforward: to have your position taken.

Why is your Great Dao your Great Dao?

Because your understanding is the deepest, this is the principle you created, the foundation you perfected, the path you walked step by step. Naturally, you understand it best.

But what if someone understands it better than you? What if he uses his own Dao to forcibly encompass your Dao? If your Dao is an apple, then his Dao is fruit.

You become a subset of the other, assimilated by them.

In that case, is your Dao still your Dao?

Through this method, a Third Rank Supreme Being can be directly knocked down from their Realm, and then they can be manipulated as desired.

This is also the most common method used by major Dao Orthodoxy to kill Third Rank Supreme Beings in battle.

The current Third Rank Supreme Being was facing such a fate.

The Immortal Heaven was clearly interested. His escape plan had failed, and he could distinctly feel his Great Dao being eroded, about to drop in grade.

In that case, at this moment, he would kill both Li Qi and Yao Ji, causing some losses for Shaman God Mountain.

A cold calculation of cost and outcome, which didn't cease even as his own life was about to end. The Heart-Nature of a Third Rank Supreme Being was no longer affected by emotions.

Yes, they would still have emotions—happiness, fear, anticipation—but these emotions would not affect them in any way.

Even for a Fifth Grade cultivator, sometimes their hands would tremble in extreme joy. Li Qi himself often went mad from torment, for instance, during the countless billions of previous reversions, which directly caused Li Qi's mindset to explode.

But the Heart-Nature of a Third Rank Supreme Being is completely different. If a Third Rank Supreme Being were to experience a billion repetitions, they would also feel annoyed, but it would absolutely not affect their mental faculties, under any circumstances.

He seriously cast two Daoist Art, and two Divine Ability flew out.

Destructive energy fluctuations spread out.

A Third Rank Supreme Being's Divine Ability, a Fifth Grade and a Sixth Grade, could absolutely not withstand it; death was certain.

Indeed, without a doubt.

Li Qi and Yao Ji were directly annihilated.

Before dying, Li Qi shook his head.

Damn it, he never expected to fall like this. Who would have thought that the Heavenly Dao of the Immortal Heaven was such a terrifying and hideous monster? No wonder this First Grade world was failing.

Forget it, if I die, I die.

He used all his strength and every means to protect his True Spirit.

He might not be able to protect it, but if he could, then he should be able to Reincarnation.

If the True Spirit is annihilated and cannot enter Reincarnation…

Then that's just how it is, there's nothing to be done.

Li Qi's Physical Body was destroyed, his Spirit Soul shattered, and his True Spirit floated out, seemingly wanting to enter Reincarnation. He also felt the pull of the underworld on all deceased after death.

Accepting this pull would lead him into the Ghost Gate, heading to the underworld.

However, it was too late. The fluctuations of the Divine Ability had already covered and even suppressed the pull of the underworld; the opponent had no intention of allowing Li Qi to Reincarnation.

"Yuer, Shi Wei…" Li Qi sighed, and his True Spirit was subsequently extinguished.

Only—

At that instant, the reversion restarted.

This time, even that Third Rank Supreme Being was reverted.

This astonished the opponent.

How could this be? A Third Rank Supreme Being already possessed substantiality. Even though he was on the verge of dropping in grade, he still possessed substantiality and couldn't be reverted!

His river of time was completely independent of the outside world; he possessed completely autonomous space-time! Theoretically, he should not be affected by reversion.

This Third Rank Supreme Being still possessed the perspective of substantiality, but his body and Divine Ability had already reverted.

However, he immediately realized that this was not a reversion.

This was the erasure of reality, followed by its reconstruction.

The reality of 'Third Rank Supreme Being attacking' was erased. Everything had dissipated. This Karma line was interfered with by an unknown entity and directly cut off.

But it wasn't without reversion; at this moment, Li Qi and Yao Ji were the true objects of reversion.

Li Qi also possessed the perspective of substantiality. He watched his Physical Body and Spirit Soul rapidly recover.

He took a deep breath, his face filled with wild joy as he looked up at the sky.

He was very familiar with this move! He had used it himself when he was adventuring in Baiyue.

The Qi of Chen! (For details, see Chapters 155 and 156)

As Li Qi was overjoyed, he saw a young Young Master in golden-red robes suddenly appear beside him.

His appearance was handsome, his demeanor frivolous, dressed in the most fashionable attire of Tang Nation, wearing black boots, his golden-red robes shimmering with ethereal clouds.

In his hand, he held a folding fan, on which were inscribed four large characters: "Guanglie Weishen."

Undoubtedly, the newcomer was Zhu Fengdan.

He reached out and touched Li Qi's head: "You're not crazy yet? That's impressive."

"I'm almost crazy… And, Teacher, it seems you're about to drop in grade," Li Qi said weakly.

Just a moment ago he was overjoyed, but now he was weak.

The reason was simple: Li Qi suddenly realized that after the Immortal Heaven' attention was drawn here, Zhu Fengdan's cultivation and Inner World also began to be eroded.

This First Grade being truly wasn't picky; since it had come, it might as well add another dish.

Zhu Fengdan was much stronger than the previous Human Race Utmost Person, but he still couldn't escape the fate of Dao Integration.

Coming here was like entering the stomach of the Immortal Heaven, just waiting to be digested.

But Zhu Fengdan gently waved his folding fan, then asked Li Qi: "Do you know what these four characters mean?"

The four characters on it were 'Guanglie Weishen.'

Then, Zhu Fengdan snapped his folding fan shut, turning it into a stick, and pointed it at the sky: "Come out!"

As soon as he spoke, Li Qi immediately felt that the Immortal Heaven moved.

After Zhu Fengdan finished speaking, a surge of power suddenly erupted from within the Immortal Heaven, striking Zhu Fengdan directly!

Zhu Fengdan's layers of defenses, those Qi energies, those passively existing layered worlds, and even the Qi of Chen that Li Qi thought was absolutely unbreakable and could erase reality, were easily shattered.

His Divine Ability, his Dao Orthodoxy, his Inner World, all shattered, directly broken into pieces by that single blow!

The remaining aftershock even sent him flying!

Li Qi's hair stood on end!

The Immortal Heaven had moved; this First Grade being was serious.

Li Qi felt the direct malice from a First Grade being for the first time. Not even the Heavenly Demon had ever revealed such direct killing intent to Li Qi.

This First Grade being brazenly attacked Zhu Fengdan, directly teaching him a harsh lesson.

Zhu Fengdan was instantly severely injured. The only reason he wasn't dead was that he was tough; if it had been the Third Rank Supreme Being from before, this blow would have surely killed him.

After that, the Human Race Utmost Person was devoured. Li Qi watched him drop in grade, his Great Dao devoured, and his substantiality stripped away.

Then it was Zhu Fengdan…

And then Yao Ji.

Li Qi wanted to resist, but he found himself unable to move.

The Immortal Heaven' attack left no trace, and Li Qi couldn't even comprehend it. True Knowledge Dao Resonance also felt no issues; he perceived nothing but malice.

He wasn't even afraid.

Because… he was so terrified that he forgot to be afraid; he was completely stunned. In the face of the First Grade's immense power, Li Qi was utterly bewildered, like a wooden puppet.

The malice of a First Grade being was too terrifying. Li Qi's mind was stiff, all his cleverness and ingenuity, all his brilliant ideas, were frozen at this moment.

But he could see his Great Dao being stripped away, and he could feel his cultivation dissipating.

Li Qi's Inner World also collapsed with it.

But at this moment, Li Qi's vision went black.

Around him, the Dao principles of the Immortal Heaven rapidly moved away from Li Qi. The Immortal Heaven should not be moving, which meant… he himself was moving?

What was going on?

There were too many changes, too many reversals. Li Qi was almost numb, but from this sign, could it be that someone was pulling him away?

But in the next instant, Li Qi suddenly realized…

His feeling was correct; he himself hadn't moved. It was just that the Immortal Heaven was moving away from him.

Why was the Immortal Heaven leaving?

Could it be—

Li Qi looked up at this point, his perspective even allowing him to see the Void Realm.

And beyond the Void Realm, the world he was in was retreating.

The Immortal Heaven, such a vast world, was actually dragging its tail and leaving. It was precisely this act of departure that directly caused Li Qi's perspective to be thrown around.

Zhu Fengdan, that Human Race Utmost Person, Yao Ji, and Li Qi, were all enveloped and began to speed through the Void Realm.

But such speeding didn't last long, perhaps only an instant. The Immortal Heaven might have just been clearing a space for the arrival of a certain existence.

At this moment, Li Qi saw Zhu Fengdan raise his hand high, not stopping even though he was about to drop in grade, and laughed loudly: "Now you know fear?! I'm telling you—"

Before he could finish speaking, his head exploded directly, and the rest of his words were choked back.

But Li Qi saw it then: in the Void Realm, an old man descended.

This was someone he knew, the Shaman God who first helped him gain the perspective of substantiality, Shamansan.

At this moment—Li Qi looked at the folding fan that Zhu Fengdan had been knocked away. The four large characters on the folding fan: Guanglie Weishen.

This allusion was quite famous, and Li Qi naturally knew it.

This was a Grand Ritual from ancient times, something that arose after the internal strife of the ancient Human Race.

The original text reads: "The enemy does not fear the August Heavenly Emperor, and the illustrious Great God Shamansan's Guanglie Weishen, but doubles the curses of eighteen generations. Leading the armies of the feudal lords, they approach us, wishing to destroy our altars, to destroy our people, seeking to violate the compassion of the August Heavenly Emperor and the illustrious Great God Shamansan. We offer sacrifices of jade and victims, to reclaim our border cities and new moats."

This was a 'curse text,' roughly meaning that the opponent violated the alliance, so they prayed to the August Heavenly Emperor and Shamansan to punish the opponent, allowing them to reclaim their border.

The August Heavenly Emperor is Hao Tian.

As for Shamansan, he was the Shaman God Li Qi had seen before.

He had personally descended.

Then, he saw the other party wave his hand, and apart from Li Qi, both Zhu Fengdan and Yao Ji were pulled over.

Li Qi stared, wanting to say something, but he couldn't open his mouth.

He wanted to say: "Shaman God, it's me! It's me! It's Li Qi! Take me with you!"

But Shaman God did not take him, but let him stay inside the Immortal Heaven, only taking Zhu Fengdan and Yao Ji.

At this moment, Li Qi heard a voice.

It was Shamansan's voice, and he said: "How is it? You beast that devours civilization, have you experienced true civilization?"

At this moment, the Immortal Heaven actually spoke: "Cowardice… The drama you chose for me to watch, I only saw cowardice."

"Then why did you want to devour them? There's still something commendable, right?" Shamansan said with a light chuckle.

"Somewhat, but… I won't cooperate with Hao Tian. Hao Tian is too cowardly," the Immortal Heaven said.

"Isn't he cowardly?" Shamansan pointed at Li Qi.

"He's alright; at least he let me see what you all follow. It can indeed bring sufficiently powerful improvements, stronger than the things I've been messing with," the Immortal Heaven' voice continued.

"So, I want to see more. Let him, and your enemy, fight it out, after all, power is everything." The Immortal Heaven' attention focused on Li Qi and… that Third Rank Supreme Being.

Li Qi was stunned.

He glanced to the side.

Wait, make himself fight a Utmost Person? (End of chapter)