Chapter 1078: Divine Authority
Chapter 1078: Divine Authority
The chaos erupted from within, as the demons were sown with the Dao Heart Seed.
Mr. Tu's Blood Baptism Ritual was interrupted, and the Dahuang Shamanic Art retaliated, severely injuring his divine essence. His physical body was also gnawed at by the frenzied Golden Core Demon, causing him to lose control over the ritual.
At the same time, within the Elder God's Nightmare.
The moment Mr. Tu's Blood Baptism Ritual was broken, the spiritual essence of the Xiao Family Ancestor suddenly began to distort, as if losing the "summoning" of some power, unable to maintain his existence within the nightmare.
The Xiao Family Ancestor roared in anger, but it was futile.
Soon, as the black mist shattered and a vortex appeared, the Xiao Family Ancestor's spiritual essence was pulled out of the Elder God's Nightmare by a blood-colored force.
Even the violent chaos in the grand hall, Mr. Tu's injuries, and the disruption of the Blood Baptism Ritual affected the real Blood Altar.
The entire Elder God's Nightmare began to fluctuate as a result.
This sudden change in circumstances startled Master Situ.
He didn't know what had happened, but the experience and expertise he had accumulated over the years in the dangers of the Divine Path allowed him to seize a faint opportunity in this critical moment.
A spark of hope reignited in his heart, which had been consumed by despair.
"No, there's still a chance!"
"The Elder God can still be killed!"
Master Situ's thoughts raced:
Trapped in the Elder God's Nightmare, he had no idea what had happened outside. He could only guess that cultivators from various sects had attacked the Blood Altar, affecting its operation and continuously pressuring Mr. Tu, causing him to make a mistake while presiding over the ritual.
The ritual's disruption had led to the Xiao Family Ancestor's corrupted spiritual essence being pulled out of the nightmare.
Given their current situation, isolated and without aid, this was the only explanation that made sense.
And with this, they still had a chance.
"The Xiao Family Ancestor is a Fifth Rank Cavernous Void Realm spiritual essence. Apart from the Xiao Family Ancestor, the Elder God's side has no other Fifth Rank divine essences."
"The only thing we, as divine essence cultivators, fear is the contamination of the Rules..."
"But now, we no longer need to fear it, because..."
Master Situ looked around, his heart heavy, "We are already... contaminated."
"Since we are already contaminated, there is no need to fear deeper contamination."
Master Situ turned his head, mustering his courage, and looked directly at the Elder God of the Great Wasteland.
With a mortal's body, he stared directly at the Elder God.
The Elder God's appearance gradually became clearer in his eyes.
It was a half-human, half-goat infant, covered in mucus and dripping with black water, with wrinkled skin, looking somewhat weak.
But its heart beat with a force that made one's heart tremble.
With each beat, a surge of evil power spread throughout its body.
Master Situ suppressed his fear, recited the heart technique of Mystic Valley, and forced himself to view the Elder God with absolute calm.
If he viewed the Elder God as a deity, Master Situ's heart was filled with boundless cold and an instinct to submit, leaving no room for the will to resist.
But when he viewed it as an infant, Master Situ felt an instant of insight.
This was a premature infant.
Moreover, because he had injured the divine embryo with the Seven Star Sword, this was also a cesarean birth.
A cesarean birth, a premature infant—surely it was inherently weak.
The Elder God's wrinkled skin and thick amniotic fluid confirmed Master Situ's suspicions.
In other words, there was still a chance!
At this moment, this was the weakest the Elder God of the Great Wasteland had ever been.
And they had nothing to lose.
With this thought, Master Situ immediately shouted:
"Everyone, there's no turning back. Let's give it our all!"
With that, he burned his remaining divine essence, drawing a Six Yang Crimson Gold Flame from the Six Yang Crimson Gold Lantern, and launched it at the Elder God, engulfing it in roaring flames.
This was a true attack on a deity.
Master Situ couldn't help but feel a surge of panic, but his gaze was icy and resolute, showing no sign of retreat.
On the other side, the Daluomen Ancestor, with a bitter expression, also activated the Daluomen Sword, slashing at the Elder God.
The Lingfumen Ancestor attempted to suppress the Elder God's true form with an Evil Suppressing Talisman.
The Xiaolingmen Ancestor used a spell.
The Kunzhou Sect Ancestor, wielding the Thunderwood Sword, aimed directly at the young Elder God's head.
However, when these four Cavernous Void Realm cultivators focused their eyes on the Elder God's true embryo and truly harbored the intent to kill, a bone-chilling fear suddenly descended upon them. Their spiritual essences all froze, and their attacks were abruptly halted.
In that instant, the eyes of the four Cavernous Void Realm Ancestors all widened in shock.
They dared not attack...
Dared not... slay the Elder God?!
This realization sent a chill down the spines of the four Cavernous Void Realm Ancestors, leaving them utterly incredulous.
Their mission was to slay the Elder God.
This was what everyone knew from the start.
But when they truly faced the gruesome scene of slaying an Elder God, it was a completely different matter.
They were not orthodox Divine Essence cultivators and had not undergone rigorous Dao Heart training from a young age. They simply lacked the courage to raise their swords against a deity of the dark path.
They wanted to kill, but their inner fear held them back.
"Is this... a god?"
The four of them looked at the newly born, deformed, and hideous true form of the Elder God, feeling a bone-chilling cold.
Master Situ sighed inwardly, sensing the situation.
He should have known that an Elder God was not so easily “killed.”
Even among all the cultivators present, the only one who could truly overcome his inner fear and harbor the intent to kill the Elder God was he, the Grand Elder of Mystic Valley.
But the current situation left no room for such considerations.
Master Situ exerted all his strength, invoking the Six Yang Crimson Gold Flame with his Yu Hua Realm Divine Essence, using the power of a supreme treasure to burn the Elder God’s true embryo. Even if he couldn’t destroy it, severely injuring it would be a good outcome.
The Elder God seemed to have a certain degree of fear towards Master Situ’s Six Yang Crimson Gold Flame.
Perhaps it was because this flame was the epitome of yang energy.
Or perhaps it was because Master Situ was a Yu Hua Realm Spiritual Essence.
The Elder God did not dare to sit and wait for its demise. Instead, it spewed out a cloud of black mist to counter Master Situ’s Six Yang Crimson Gold Flame, and the two forces were locked in a stalemate.
Master Situ’s eyelids twitched.
This Six Yang Crimson Gold Flame was a Divine Essence flame he had refined with all his might, using a supreme treasure of the Divine Path. Its power was immense.
Yet this Elder God’s true embryo, a mere Third Rank that had just been born and was inherently weak, managed to hold back his Divine Essence-refined Six Yang Crimson Gold Flame with nothing more than a mouthful of black mist.
Master Situ felt an inexplicable panic.
If he allowed this true embryo of the Elder God to grow, he had no idea what kind of existence in this world could possibly slay such a terrifying deity.
"It must be killed!"
Master Situ immediately summoned his last ounce of strength, igniting the Six Yang Crimson Gold Lantern. Even his divine soul began to burn, determined to eradicate this great world disaster in its cradle.
The four elders of the Daluomen Sect, realizing they dared not harbor the intent to kill the Elder God, felt a deep sense of guilt. They turned their attention to the three Embryo Demons and the numerous Companion Demons that had hatched from demon eggs, creating conditions for Master Situ.
Leveraging their Fifth Rank Divine Essence advantage, their sword lights, spells, and talismans swept across, decimating large groups of demons.
In the past, they would have been cautious about their Divine Essence being “contaminated.”
But now, with the Elder God reborn and most of them already contaminated, they had nothing to lose and could unleash their full might, unleashing a merciless slaughter.
Their Dao Hearts had not been tempered, so they dared not kill the Elder God. But they did not hesitate to slay other demons and Embryo Demons.
The Daluomen Sect elder engaged in close combat with the Corrupted Embryo Demon, covered in rotting flesh, using the Great Unity Sword. Each slash of his sword severed several of the corrupted demon’s tentacles.
The foul blood that splattered on him corroded his Divine Essence, but he paid no heed.
This might be his last, all-out battle in his life.
The other Cavernous Void Realm elders also began to target the Embryo Demons.
The Lingfumen Sect elder used the Evil Suppressing Talisman to suppress the evil aura; the Xiaolingmen Sect elder unleashed various spells that pierced through the void; and the elder from Kunzhou wielded the Thunderwood Sword, causing wind and thunder to surge, turning any evil that touched it to ashes.
The remaining Yu Hua Realm Divine Essence cultivators, centered around Wenren Wan, formed an array to assist in repelling the tidal wave of demons.
In an instant, the tide of battle began to turn.
Countless demons fell under the killing prowess of the Cavernous Void Realm Spiritual Essences.
The Elder God’s true embryo, which was inherently weak, was gradually being worn down by Master Situ’s all-out attack, its foundation being slowly eroded.
All things in the world are at their most vulnerable when they are born.
The Elder God was no exception.
If this continued, once its essence was damaged, even if it truly revived, it would suffer a severe blow.
The true embryo of the Elder God was enraged.
These “worthless curs” had truly provoked Him.
And the anger spurred the true embryo’s transformation, awakening its most crucial and innate “power.”
The true embryo suddenly spewed out a large cloud of black mist.
Master Situ was already on his last legs, with little remaining power, and could only temporarily retreat. Just as he was about to reignite the Six Yang Crimson Gold Lantern to suppress the true embryo, he saw ancient, mottled, and obscure patterns begin to glow on the true embryo’s body.
Master Situ’s face changed drastically.
Before he could do anything, the true embryo slowly spoke, its voice sharp and raspy but carrying a mysterious resonance:
"Before a deity... all beings are equal."
As soon as those words were spoken, the laws within the nightmare underwent a profound change, as if the principle of "Word as Law" had been invoked.
It seemed an irresistible force of law had taken hold, and Master Situ's expression turned frantic.
He could feel that the divine essence realm he had cultivated for a lifetime was...
Slowly falling!
From thirty-nine patterns to thirty-eight, thirty-seven... thirty, and then breaking through a major realm in reverse, continuing to fall to twenty-nine, twenty-eight...
In the end, it fell to twenty-five patterns.
Mid-Golden Core, twenty-five patterns of divine essence!
This Grand Elder of Mystic Valley, a Yu Hua Realm True Daoist, saw his divine essence plummet from the peak of thirty-nine patterns in the Yu Hua Realm to the Golden Core Realm in the blink of an eye.
Not just Master Situ, but the other four Cavernous Void Realm Ancestors and the Yu Hua Realm True Daoists, who were now within the Elder God's realm, also saw their divine essence realms drop, finally settling at various levels between Mid-Golden Core and Late-Golden Core.
An indescribable horror surged in everyone's heart.
Even Master Situ found it hard to believe.
"Is this... the power of a true deity?!"
"Is this the law of divine authority?!"
Before a deity, the gap in realms was erased, "Equality of All Beings", placing all divine essence entities within the divine authority realm at the same level.
Master Situ's heart turned to ashes.
"Is this... what a god truly is..."
He knew that this time, it was truly over.
He had given his all, fought to the utmost, and this was the result.
But the power of the true god in the divine essence world fundamentally transcended his understanding.
From beginning to end, the rules were entirely controlled by the Elder God.
They had no chance to fight back.
And indeed, the situation collapsed in an instant.
At the same realm, a cultivator's divine essence could not possibly match the corrupted demons and the more powerful embryo demons, which possessed the power of contamination.
The Ancestors of Daluomen and Xiaolingmen, now reduced to the Golden Core Realm, were successively corrupted by the decayed embryo demons, their physical bodies rotting away.
The Ancestor of Lingfumen was terrified by the man-faced spider demon and was devoured by other demons.
The Cavernous Void Realm cultivator using the Thunderwood Sword was kissed on the neck by a pink-skinned embryo demon, gradually losing his Dao heart and resistance.
The "defenses" of the Cavernous Void Realm cultivators crumbled.
The remaining Yu Hua Realm divine essence cultivators could not support them.
The old woman summoning the Six Ding and Six Jia saw her last few force warriors torn apart by the demon army, leaving her to be devoured by the demons.
Without the peachwood sword, the Daoist was no match for the demons, his arms ripped off by the demons.
The White-robed Female Daoist, having exhausted her divine essence, could no longer drive the Three Pure Bells, and could only protect Wenren Wan behind her.
Wenren Wan, grateful for her protection, said, "Recite the spell and leave quickly."
The White-robed Female Daoist's face was pale, and she smiled bitterly. "There's no way out."
With the Elder God's rebirth, the energy of the seven stars stirred, and they could no longer rely on the power of the Mystic Heaven Northern Dipper Seven Star Formation to forcibly leave the nightmare.
Wenren Wan's heart ached.
In the next moment, a pale, deformed human face suddenly appeared before her, roaring at her with a blood-curdling scream.
Wenren Wan felt dizzy and disoriented. When she opened her eyes again, the White-robed Female Daoist had already fallen into the mouth of the man-faced spider demon.
Her spiritual essence was entangled in spider silk, unable to move. Her jade-like limbs were being gnawed by the faces on the spider, leaving them bloodstained.
Wenren Wan's heart was torn apart.
At this point, she was alone.
The only one left was Master Situ.
Master Situ's face was filled with helplessness and bitterness, but even in the end, he still harbored a glimmer of hope. He summoned his last bit of divine essence, ignited the Six Yang Crimson Gold Lantern, and unleashed a blazing fire towards the Elder God's true embryo.
This was the last thing he could do.
But now, his divine essence was only at the Golden Core level, and he was no match for the Elder God's true embryo.
The true embryo, as usual, spat out a cloud of black mist, which completely extinguished Master Situ's Six Yang Crimson Gold Flame.
Not only that, the black mist was heavy with the power of the Elder God, not only extinguishing the Six Yang Flame but also eroding the entire crimson gold lantern.
The Six Yang Crimson Gold Lantern shattered.
Master Situ spat out a mouthful of life soul blood, and with a bitter smile, he felt some regret. If the Mystic Valley's supreme treasure, the Heaven-Earth Clear Light Lantern, were still there, perhaps it could have restrained the Elder God, giving him a better chance of victory, and the outcome might have been different?
Unfortunately... the Heaven-Earth Clear Light Lantern had been used to save that person's life.
Perhaps this was the cause and effect of fate.
Saving one person meant another had to die.
Since he had forced the continuation of that person's destiny from the heavens, it was natural that he would have to pay with his own life.
The Dao is indeed the most impartial...
Master Situ's heart grew dark.
(End of Chapter)
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