The mortal's candle dragon opens the sky

After Xu Yang finished dealing with Dao Ancestor Chi Rong and absorbed all the true fire into his body, the Ten Calamities Mountain Range beneath his feet, which had already exceeded the area of ​​several spirit realms, was replaced by a deep, dark bubble world.

The foundation upon which space and time depend no longer exists. The primordial energy of heaven and earth encounters an invisible chasm here. The originally straight path of light is forced to bend as it passes through this place, like a bottomless black hole suspended in mid-air. It lies not far from Golden Rhinoceros City, neither expanding nor shrinking, maintaining a delicate balance with the origin of the True Immortal Realm.

"Ok?"

Xu Yang, who had just recovered from the Mother Qi Cave, let out a soft exclamation upon seeing this. He used 30% of his strength to gently create a fist wind and struck the edge of the 'black hole' from afar. Seeing that the 'black hole' swallowed the fist wind without acknowledging it, without even a ripple on its surface, he immediately understood.

"It was Heaven's intervention that stopped the 'black hole' from growing uncontrollably and placed a barrier around it. Now, without the power of a Dao Ancestor, it is impossible to break through this barrier!"

In the Demon Realm, besides the Accumulated Scale Void Realm, there will be another 'Void Void Realm'. However, there are no opportunities here. Even if a Great Luo Immortal accidentally enters it, without external spiritual energy to replenish it, he will not escape death when his Dao Pill and Blood Elixir are exhausted, unless he suddenly becomes powerful inside and comprehends some Chaos Laws. However, the chances of this are too low and there are too many prerequisites.

Without external intervention, the chance of death is infinitely close to zero, unless a being similar to the 'Nine-Flame Dragon' appears again billions of years later.

With his current mastery of many laws, especially the laws of Yin and Yang and space, Xu Yang knew that if he was willing to expend some of his origin, he could fill this 'Void Realm' back.

He can do it. As the supreme being of all realms, the will of Heaven can certainly do it too. There is no doubt that it can. As the original will that supports the existence of the True Immortal Realm in the chaotic space, and the 'mother' that nurtures and protects trillions of countless beings, 'He's' power must exceed that of the Dao Ancestor by at least several orders of magnitude.

But Heaven did not do that. After thinking about it for a moment, Xu Yang understood. At this moment, although Heaven's will did not appear, Xu Yang still reached a subtle understanding with 'He'.

From this day forward, the 'Void Realm' will be irrefutable proof that there is a path ahead, a ladder to climb upwards, a desperate place to 'seek life amidst death,' and the burial ground for countless beings aspiring to the laws of chaos.

"Then let this 'Void Realm' remain here! Let all living beings know that there are heavens beyond heavens, and know the existence and concept of chaotic space! Let them regain their awe and understand their own insignificance! This way, they won't keep shouting that there is no way forward, only knowing how to fight among themselves and destroy each other!"

Xu Yang shook his head and then flew away.

He did not want to set up barriers to the path in the True Immortal Realm. The higher one climbs, the colder it gets, and loneliness is meaningless. Without any guidance, the possibility of comprehending the chaos is basically zero. It would be good to leave something for future generations to remember.

In the short time that followed, while suppressing the five Heavenly Court Grand Luo Immortals, Yan Shuzi was also diligently keeping an eye on the movements in the Central Immortal Realm. Seeing that there was no unusual activity from the Heavenly Court, he immediately took the lead in making contact and notified Chen Ruyan, Xuanwu, and the powerful demons in Golden Rhinoceros City.

"Heavenly Fiend Thunder!"

The next moment, the shouts of the powerful demons resounded through the void. On the city wall, the pitch-black lightning ball filled with destructive aura had accumulated to the size of a mountain. Although the destructive aura it contained was far less than that of the mysterious object that had appeared before, it was not much less than the Great Sun Spirit Domain of Dao Ancestor Chi Rong!
With a shout from the powerful demons, the black lightning ball blurred slightly and then disappeared from the spot!

At the same time, the Qiankun World that suppressed the White Cloud Dao Ancestor suddenly cracked open, and mountains, marshes, water, fire, wind, and thunder surged and spread out, instantly creating a passage that exposed the old Daoist's Dharma body formed by the endless clouds.

The Taoist was tightly bound by hundreds of weak water pillars. Just as he saw a crack appear in the universe and his face showed hope of escaping, a huge black lightning ball appeared in front of him and he was hit head-on!

Amidst the roar of the Heavenly Thunder, countless pure white clouds dissipated in mournful cries. The Grand Steward, who had been in charge of the affairs of the Heavenly Court for billions of years, had his Dharma body directly shattered in two by a single blow!
"Please, Fellow Daoist Jiuyuan, spare my life! I believe the Supreme One will pay a price that satisfies you to protect me! A Celestial Bodhi Dao Fruit! A First-Grade Profound True Dao Pill! You can have anything you want! Just don't kill me! I don't want to die!"

Baiyun Daozu's primordial spirit was severely injured by the Heavenly Yin Thunder of the Heavenly Fiend Capital. In addition, Chen Ruyan sealed the heaven and earth, making it impossible for him to gather the cloud energy again. He could only hold on to his last glimmer of hope and scream in despair.

But his response was the complete eruption of the Heavenly Yin Thunder of the Heavenly Fiend Capital, along with even more Weak Water Pillars that swept over and entangled him.

"Hahaha! Baiyun! Gu Huojin ran away this morning, and you, the abandoned one, are still indulging in wishful thinking! When you were building countless 'barbaric immortal prisons' in countless immortal realms and exterminating the true spirit races, did you ever think about today?"

"Don't worry! You won't die. Your three corpses aren't with you. Killing you so easily would be too lenient! I'll leave you alive and suppress you in the 'Weak Water Heavenly Prison' specially set up for you, torturing you for billions of years. When your soul is worn down to its limit, I'll let your evil corpse devour your primordial spirit!"

The Xuanwu Dao Lord laughed heartily, having suppressed two Dao Ancestors stained with the blood of True Spirits in one fell swoop. The exhilarating pleasure was indescribable. Repaying evil with kindness was not in the nature of True Spirits, so he prepared to use the most vicious means at hand to deal with this Heavenly Court steward.

"Hehehe! And me too! The power of inner demons needs to be nurtured! On the road to the Heavenly Demon Realm, one cannot lack powerful and delicious primordial spirits. I think Senior Baiyun's primordial spirit is excellent, and it is also worldly-wise and its state of mind has been tempered over a long period of time, making it more than capable! One is worth billions of cultivators! I don't want to leave a bad name in all realms like the extraterrestrial Heavenly Demons, affecting the reputation of the True Dragon Clan, but I can't be unambitious either. So I can only ask Senior and your colleagues to help me achieve the Great Dao!"

Nightmare Shu also joined in the fun, letting out a mournful, eerie laugh around the White Cloud Dao Ancestor.

"Hehe! It seems you're still useful, Baiyun. Hmm, come and try my Weak Water Eight Bitternesses first!" Xuanwu Daozhu readily agreed to Yan Shuzi's suggestion, and with a strange laugh, he stirred up another layer of Weak Water to rush over.

Baiyun Daozu was utterly desperate, watching helplessly as he was submerged, unable to utter a sound any longer.

In the center of the Water Spirit Realm, Chen Ruyan emerged from the Water Element Heavenly Pearl with a strange expression. At the request of Yan Shuzi, she maintained the Water Spirit Realm's seal on the Ten Calamity Mountains. At this moment, however, her beautiful eyes were fixed on the void in front of her.

There, a young Taoist priest in purple robes and a jade belt walked out step by step from the gradually healing spatial storm with a smile on his face. He bowed slightly in greeting, and his elegant smile added a touch of brilliance to the dim center of the battlefield.

"Chen Ruyan, the true dragon wanderer, greets the Dao Lord of the Dragon Clan. I do not yet know how to address you."

"No need for formalities. The Xuanwu Dao Lord has given me the honorific title of Nine Flames Dao Lord, but I usually don't use it. You can just call me by my Daoist name, Xuyangzi." Xuyang looked this former True Dragon traitor up and down with a strange expression.

Chen Ruyan's appearance was among the best in Xu Yang's travels through various realms, but that wasn't what caught his attention. What he was really interested in was her youthful vitality. To be fair, Chen Ruyan's age wasn't much younger than that of Dao Ancestor Chi Rong, but while the latter had wrinkled skin and white hair, showing signs of old age, Chen Ruyan was like the first rays of dawn, full of energy. The two seemed like beings from completely different eras.

It seems that although beings theoretically possess immortality after refining to the void, they are limited by heavenly tribulations, ascension tribulations, and the decline of the immortal realm, as well as the subsequent erosion by the heavenly Dao, so theoretical immortality has never been realized.

The length of their lifespan becomes similar to that in the Little Southern Continent, where a true spirit's life, from birth to old age, is often equivalent to the combined lifespan of a dozen or even dozens of generations of Nascent Soul cultivators of the same level.

A million years is only enough for the Golden Dragon Elder to slumber a few times, but the human race of Fengyuan Continent has seen more than a dozen Mahayana cultivators come and go.

The Xuanwu Dao Master, who has lived from the 'Taiyi Ancestral Court' era to the present, not only does he not need to go into seclusion and slumber, but he can even pull the Baiyun Dao Ancestor into his own Qiankun World with the help of Chen Ruyan.

No wonder the Three Corpse Path suppressed and even tried to exterminate the True Spirit Clan after establishing the Heavenly Court. With such an exceptionally powerful and extremely long-lived racial alliance constantly looming over them, who among them with even a little ambition would willingly submit?

What about the future?

After he merged with the Chaos, needless to say, no one among the True Spirit races who were close to him by blood would dare to provoke him.

Although most of the higher-level true spirits, other than the fierce spirits, prefer quiet and solitude and look down on low-level cultivation resources, he should take the fate of the Taiyi Ancestral Court as a lesson.

“Running water never stagnates, and a frequently used door hinge never rusts! There’s probably no point in staying in the True Immortal Realm and lording it over others. After I achieve Dao, perhaps I should take my close True Spirits and venture into the Chaos Space to see the outside world.” For a moment, Xu Yang’s thoughts drifted far ahead.

Chen Ruyan saw Xu Yang looking at her, her gaze shifting slightly, but she couldn't guess what he was thinking. After a moment of surprise, she seemed to remember something, and after a few moments of fumbling around at her waist, she took out a huge scroll that was three zhang tall.

The scroll's gold and jade handle is carved with nearly a thousand dragons, each depicted as soaring, coiling, or intertwining. The details, colors, and auras of each dragon are different, as if it were a treasure from a celestial realm. The bodies of these true dragon spirits are all contained within it, encompassing almost all the dragon species that have appeared in the myriad realms of the True Immortal Realm.

The exceptionally rich aura of a true dragon immediately drew Xu Yang's attention. He saw Chen Ruyan's expression turn solemn as she held the scroll aloft with both hands, saying:
"Ruyan knows that she has a bad reputation and is no longer worthy to take charge of the original oath of the Heavenly Dragon. She asks the Daoist Master to select another virtuous person, find a good place to settle her properly, and continue the blood sacrifice offerings."

Xu Yang subconsciously wiped his hands, then stepped in front of Chen Ruyan and gently covered her with his palm.

The next moment, a small dragon soul emitting golden light flew out from Xu Yang's body and entered it. The scroll immediately lit up with a soaring light that shot straight into the sky, and even the water domain could not stop it.

At the same time, nearly a thousand dragon shadows at both ends of the pole detached from the pole and hung in the air, swimming wildly. Judging from their aura, each of them had reached at least the Soul Forging Realm in their previous lives, with the majority being at the Mixed Realm.

As the scroll slowly unfurled, and Xu Yang's name was truly recorded, the already exceptionally powerful aura of the scroll instantly multiplied several times over. The dazzling golden light it emitted was almost impossible to look directly at for a moment. Chen Ruyan, who was directly in the center, subconsciously closed her eyes slightly, feeling shocked, and murmured, "No wonder it is a true dragon that can slay a Dao Ancestor even if it is above its level!"

This is the power of the branch of the Heavenly Dragon Oath signed by Xuyang on Dragon Island. It immediately encountered the main branch of the Upper Realm. Under the sensing of the aura, the aura was also recorded and engraved in the original document in Chen Ruyan's hand.

Xu Yang squinted slightly, following the contact of his palm, silently sensing the dragon whose name was recorded in the Oath of the Heavenly Dragon.

Of the more than 300,000 names, only about 800 still exude varying degrees of power; the rest have all faded into obscurity.

Xu Yang had anticipated such a tragic situation. Instead of being disappointed, he was pleasantly surprised. He had thought that Chen Ruyan had brought the last batch of true dragons, but he did not expect that there were still six or seven hundred of them hiding in some corner, surviving the repeated bloodbaths in the Heavenly Court.

The Oath of the Heavenly Dragons also serves to restrain members of the same race from killing each other. Xu Yang immediately sensed from the scroll that among the more than eight hundred true dragons whose names were still recorded in the scroll, none of them had ever killed members of their own race.

At this moment, among these names, two stood out as particularly bold and eye-catching, ranking at the top of the list. These were Xu Yang and Chen Ruyan, who were facing each other at this moment.

"Perhaps there were true dragons who attacked their own kind before, but they have probably all been eliminated by this one! That's good!"

Xu Yang withdrew his hand without any emotion, and the scroll simultaneously dimmed its light, returning to its original state and falling back into Chen Ruyan's palms. She blinked her clear eyes and tilted her head to look at Xu Yang with a puzzled expression.

Xu Yang smiled slightly and took over the authority of the Dragon of Dragons without hesitation. He said in a deep voice, "I have already understood the information recorded in the Oath of the Heavenly Dragon. You have no guilt or misdeeds. When the clan was in trouble, you protected the clan and preserved its vitality. You have made a contribution by keeping the original Oath of the Heavenly Dragon intact and preventing it from being taken away by the Heavenly Court. You suppressed your nature and compromised for the sake of the clan. At the critical moment, you turned against the enemy and helped me suppress Chi Rong. That is another merit."

Chen Ruyan's eyes welled up with tears, and she was slightly moved. Just as she was about to say something, Xu Yang changed the subject and chuckled:

"Unfortunately, I have nothing of value to offer you as a reward! Not only that, now that the Xiaonan Continent lineage has merged with the Longyuan Immortal Domain lineage, in addition to continuing to hold the original copy of the Heavenly Dragon Oath and the Ascending Dragon Hall, you must also, within a thousand years, find all the other seven hundred-plus clansmen whose names are recorded in the original copy, together with the Xuanwu Dao Lord! Hehe!"

"Very well! Then I will shamelessly continue to manage for a while longer."

Chen Ruyan felt Xu Yang's sincerity. Given the current difficult situation, she had no reason to refuse and nodded emphatically in agreement.

Xu Yang nodded slightly, signaling Chen Ruyan to put the sacred object away. The next moment, his gaze shifted with a hint of amusement as he looked in another direction. (End of Chapter)