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Outside the Divine Capital

Mo Xie wielded the Myriad Paths Halberd in her hand, single-handedly blocking the Undying Emperor and his tens of thousands of subordinates.

As the halberd swept out, the long river surged with towering waves, engulfing the "Primordial Myriad Paths Technique" of the Undying Emperor, the roar of the wild beasts of the royal family, and the illusory images of the Heavenly Palace of the worshippers.

The river of laws surged forward, and the battle formations of the ten legions collapsed like paper. Those battle banners, which were hailed as "immortal," were torn to shreds by the power of the laws, and the three-legged golden crows on the banners cried out in despair as they turned into specks of light and dissipated into the void.

A royal prince, riding a nine-headed dragon, rushed forward, only to see Mo Xie flick his finger, a golden light flash, and all nine heads of the dragon exploded simultaneously, turning into a rain of blood—law-related wounds that even a Hunyuan Realm expert would find difficult to heal.

The Emperor's pupils constricted as he finally saw why Mo Xie's Myriad Dao Halberd could withstand an army of thousands single-handedly: countless tiny faces were densely engraved on the halberd, each representing a suppressed Heavenly Dao. At this moment, these faces opened their mouths simultaneously, emitting deafening sounds of law, which twisted and deflected all the attacks from the Divine Dynasty cultivators.

"You actually use the Heavenly Dao as a weapon?!" The voice of the Undying Emperor was filled with horror. He finally understood why the expansion of the Boundless Heavenly Palace was so unstoppable. While others were still struggling with the laws of the Heavenly Dao, Mo Xie had already refined the Heavenly Dao into a weapon and stood at the commanding height of the rules.

Mo Xie shook his head: "It is not that I use the Heavenly Dao as my weapon, but that the Heavenly Dao should be wielded by the stronger." He raised his hand and waved his hand, and the River of Laws suddenly split into six giant waves that crashed into the ten legions of the Divine Dynasty.

With each wave that recedes, thousands of cultivators are broken down into the purest Dao essence by the power of the laws, which flows into the five energy planets behind Mo Xie. "Your Majesty, we both know that the cycle of the primordial universe is approaching. If you wish to protect what you hold dear, the only way is to become a transcendent being."

The Undying Emperor gritted his teeth, his body erupting with dazzling golden light—the "power of faith" accumulated over millions of years by the divine dynasty. His body instantly expanded to ten thousand feet tall, and in his hand materialized the "Emperor Sword of All Beings," forged from the power of faith, its blade inscribed with the prayers and blessings of the divine dynasty's people. "Even if I am destined to perish, I will fight for a glimmer of hope for the Undying Divine Dynasty!"

Seeing this, Mo Xie's eyes flashed with a hint of respect. He raised his hand and summoned back the River of Laws, gripping his halberd with one hand to meet the giant sword that carried the faith of billions. The moment the Myriad Dao Halberd collided with the Emperor Sword of All Beings, a huge Tai Chi diagram suddenly appeared on the ground of the entire capital of the Divine Dynasty, with the eyes of the yin and yang fish in the diagram being the figures of the two facing off.

"The myriad paths of primordial chaos are nothing more than this," Mo Xie murmured. The Heavenly Dao face on the halberd opened its mouth simultaneously, devouring all the power of faith on the Emperor Sword of All Beings. The Undying Emperor was horrified to discover that his proud natal divine sword was rapidly withering, and the prayer patterns on the sword were being stripped away one by one by the power of the laws.

"Why... why is my Dao heart wavering?" The Undying Emperor murmured to himself, watching his hands gradually become transparent. He finally realized that in the face of the absolute power of rules, even the strongest faith is nothing more than a candle flickering in the wind.

Mo Xie pressed the tip of her halberd against the other's throat, but did not immediately attack: "Because your path is 'protection,' while my path is 'transcendence.'"

"Protection requires relying on the world, but transcending..." He gazed into the depths of the universe, where the primordial eye of reincarnation could be faintly seen slowly opening. "We need to become a new world."

The Undying Emperor suddenly smiled, a smile filled with relief: "So that's how it is... If there truly is reincarnation, I hope that in the next era, the Undying Dynasty, under your protection, can usher in true immortality."

Before he finished speaking, he stepped forward, letting the tip of the halberd pierce his brow. In an instant, all the faith imprints connected to him within the Divine Dynasty lit up simultaneously, transforming into golden streams of light that flowed into Mo Xie's River of Laws.

Among these powers of faith are children's longing for peace, elders' prayers for a bountiful harvest, and warriors' pursuit of glory... Each strand is pure and flawless, and in the long river of time, they condense into crystal-clear "Taoist essence crystals".

Mo Xie raised his hand and stored the crystal in the core of the Heavenly Domain. Looking down at the now silent capital of the Divine Dynasty, he sighed softly, "Rest assured, your people will remember that there was once an emperor who was willing to face the invincible Heavenly Dao in order to protect them."

He turned and looked towards the myriad realms, where countless guardians like the Undying Emperor were fighting for their respective beliefs. But Mo Xie knew that the bell of reincarnation had already rung, and only by gathering enough Dao essence could he secure a glimmer of hope for the Boundless Heavenly Palace in the restarted universe.

"Next stop," he gripped the Myriad Dao Halberd tightly, the river of laws surging behind him, "time to the Heavenly Dao Alliance's lair."

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Tiandao League

"Damn it! Damn it! Where did this Boundless Heavenly Palace come from?! In less than a thousand years, it has more than a dozen Creation Realm experts! There are also several Origin Realm experts! And the Palace Master of the Boundless Heavenly Palace! Even the first Emperor of the Undying Divine Dynasty was no match for them!"

Inside the council hall of the Heavenly Dao Alliance, nine stone pillars engraved with Heavenly Dao emblems trembled violently. The central "Myriad Realms Karma Disc" was riddled with cracks, as if it might shatter completely at any moment. Leading the group was an elderly man in gray robes—the leader of the Heavenly Dao Alliance.

"More than just the Undying Divine Dynasty?" A hoarse female voice came from the left. Qin Ruoxi, the vice leader of the Heavenly Dao Alliance, looked at the intelligence in her hand with a solemn expression and her eyes were full of gloom.

The leader of the Heavenly Dao Alliance raised his hand and placed it on the Causal Disc, attempting to stabilize the disordered Heavenly Dao lines. Suddenly, the golden emblem of the Boundless Heavenly Palace appeared on the disc, each tile composed of suppressed Heavenly Dao elements. His expression changed drastically: "Have you noticed? Recently, the resonance of the laws of all the heavens and myriad realms has been unusually strong, as if... as if something is forcibly merging all the rules."

Qin Ruoxi frowned, her fingertips tracing a projection of the River of Time in the void. The golden light representing the Boundless Heavenly Palace was frantically devouring other light points: "According to the timeline, Mo Xie is collecting Daoist essence. The cycle of the primordial universe is approaching, and he wants to..."

"Transcendence!" Thunder God, the Third Elder of the Heavenly Dao Alliance, suddenly realized, "Legend has it that only those who have condensed their own Great Dao into the 'Invincible Realm' can transcend reincarnation, and condensing the Great Dao requires a massive amount of Dao essence—he's using the entire universe as nourishment!"

A deathly silence fell over the council hall, broken only by the clear cracking of the Causal Disc. After a long while, the leader of the Heavenly Dao Alliance sighed and pulled a jade slip, its surface covered in cracks, from his robes—the alliance pact between the Heavenly Dao Alliance and the Chaos Temple: "Now, the only option is to appeal to the 'Original Heavenly Dao' of the Chaos Temple. Legend has it that they possess the primordial chaos energy from the birth of the original universe; perhaps they can…"

"Alliance Leader, be careful!" Qin Ruoxi suddenly exclaimed. In the projection of the River of Time, a golden sword light was tearing through space. Everyone looked up and saw Mo Xie holding the Myriad Dao Halberd, stepping into the air. The dripping from the halberd tip was not blood, but golden power of law, each drop corroding the Heavenly Dao emblem of the hall.

"The Boundless Heavenly Palace! The Lord of All Paths! Mo Xie! I have come to seek your guidance!"

As Mo Xie's icy voice rang out, the entire Heavenly Dao Alliance was plunged into endless panic. The Alliance Leader looked solemnly at Mo Xie, who remained expressionless in mid-air.

The leader of the Heavenly Dao Alliance gritted his teeth and waved his hand to summon the "Heavenly Dao Furnace," within which fragments of the rules of all the heavens and myriad worlds burned: "Mo Xie, do you think I am unprepared? Even if you can devour the Dao essence, you cannot withstand the power of the origin!"

"The power of origin? Heh! How dare you, like that fool Lord of the Star Sea Palace, try to block me with such rubbish?" A mocking glint flashed in Mo Xie's eyes as he looked at the Heavenly Dao Furnace burning with fragments of rules.

"Boundless Heaven - Dragon's Punishment!"

Mo Xie's voice, like shattering glaciers, resounded in the "Rules Hub" where the Heavenly Dao Alliance headquarters was located. The Myriad Dao Halberd, suspended in the void, suddenly erupted with the radiance of billions of laws. The "Heavenly Dao Emblem" on the halberd resonated with the core of the Boundless Heaven Domain, and actually condensed into a "Myriad Dao Dharma Image" that was millions of miles high behind it. The Dharma Image held a miniature model of the Boundless Heaven Domain in its left hand and held the Myriad Dao Halberd burning with chaotic fire in its right hand. Every strand of hair was flowing with the power of the rules of all the heavens and myriad worlds.

The Heavenly Dao Alliance leader's pupils constricted sharply. The "Heavenly Dao Furnace" in his hand was originally a primordial magic weapon forged with the life's blood and sweat of three thousand Heavenly Dao Guardians. Now, under the pressure of Mo Xie's Dharma form, spiderweb-like cracks appeared on the furnace's body. The burning fragments of rules inside the furnace throbbed wildly, as if trying to escape in fear.

"Boundless Heaven? Dragon's Punishment!"

Mo Xie let out a soft shout, and the right hand of the Myriad Dao Dharma Image suddenly swung its halberd. In an instant, nine golden dragons appeared in the sky. Each dragon was woven from billions of laws of power, and its body was wrapped with the trajectory of stars and the chain of cause and effect. When the dragon's head opened, it revealed not sharp teeth, but densely packed Heavenly Dao runes.

Nine giant dragons roared in unison, their roars containing seven supreme laws, including "judgment," "destruction," and "rebirth." Wherever the sound waves passed, the spatial barrier of the rule center shattered like paper, revealing the collapsing alternate dimension behind it.

The leader of the Heavenly Alliance exerted all his strength to activate the furnace, and the primordial fire spewing from it transformed into a wall of fire in an attempt to stop the dragon horde. But the moment the first dragon touched the wall of fire, it melted away like ice and snow meeting the scorching sun. The dragon's claws easily tore through his protective laws, leaving three deep, bone-revealing wounds on his chest—each wound oozing golden blood, a sign of the loss of primordial power.

"Impossible! How could you possibly use the Origin Law directly?!" The Alliance Leader stared in horror at his rapidly withering arm. He knew that the Origin Law was the exclusive domain of a Primordial Realm expert, and ordinary cultivators would die upon touching it. Yet Mo Xie was able to use it in the form of a materialized dragon.

Mo Xie's Dharma form strode through the air, each step causing the very foundation of the rules' core to tremble. Nine giant dragons intertwined in the air to form a "cage of ten thousand paths," completely surrounding the Heavenly Dao Alliance headquarters.

The beams of law shooting from the dragon's eyes swept across the ground, and the ancient buildings that symbolized the authority of the Heavenly Dao collapsed, turning into the purest Dao essence which was absorbed by Mo Xie.

"I told you, your preparations are in vain." Mo Xie's voice came from the Dharma Form, carrying the majesty of the creation of the world. "The Heavenly Dao Furnace? It's nothing more than a tool for collecting Dao essence."

He raised his hand, and the furnace suddenly broke free from the Alliance Leader's control, flying into the hand of the Myriad Dao Dharma Image. The Boundless Heavenly Domain model in the Dharma Image's palm opened, swallowing the furnace like a giant maw. The fragments of rules and the primordial fire within the furnace were directly refined into pure Daoist essence, flowing into Mo Xie's body along the Dharma Image's arm.

The alliance leader knelt on the ground in despair, watching his natal magic weapon being devoured, his primordial power flowing out like a burst dam. He looked up at Mo Xie, only to see the other's Dharma Image suddenly open its eyes, reflecting the fate of the entire Heavenly Dao Alliance—countless points of light were rapidly dimming, the life flames of the Heavenly Dao Guardians under its command were being extinguished.

"Please...please leave the Heavenly Alliance a chance to survive..." The Alliance Leader's voice trembled, devoid of its former majesty.

Mo Xie remained unmoved. He raised the Myriad Dao Halberd in his hand once more, the power of law condensed at the tip of the halberd compressed into a small black dot, which was the "Point of Dao Extinction" that was enough to annihilate the origin.

"Each era can only have one invincible being, and that person—"

The tiny dot exploded, transforming into a sky-covering storm of laws, proclaiming, "It can only be me."

After the storm, the core of the rules had vanished into nothingness. Mo Xie dispersed his Dharma form, gazing at the shimmering ball of Daoist light in his hand, a hint of solemnity flashing in his eyes. He could sense that as the Daoist energy accumulated, the power of reincarnation in the primordial universe was also rapidly coalescing, as if the Great Dao was wary of this being attempting to transcend.

“Just one last step…” he murmured to himself, his fingertips tracing the void, opening a passage to the “Chaos Temple.” There slumbered the most ancient Daoist principles of all the heavens and myriad realms, and it was also the key to his breakthrough to the invincible realm.

Meanwhile, the six legions of the Boundless Heavenly Palace had swept through 70% of the Heavenly Dao forces, and battle reports from the Imperial Sons poured in like snowflakes. Mo Xie knew that his time was running out—when the power of reincarnation fully descended, even a Primordial Chaos Realm expert would not be able to withstand it. Only by condensing his own "Path of Transcendence" could he protect the Boundless Heavenly Palace in the catastrophe.

"Wait for me, Mo Fan, He Xi, and all the members of the Heavenly Palace." He said softly, his figure disappearing into the darkness of the Burial God Star Tomb. "I will become the invincible one who transcends eras, and let the banner of the Boundless Heavenly Palace fly forever in all the heavens and myriad realms."

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Chaos Temple

"Your Excellency! The Heavenly Dao Alliance!" An apostle dressed in black robes knelt on the ground, his voice filled with undisguised terror: "The Heavenly Dao Alliance has been defeated by Mo Xie!! The first emperor of the Undying Divine Dynasty died in battle! The Boundless Heavenly Palace has already led its army to attack my Chaos Divine Palace!"

"Has it finally come to us? Transcendence! What a beautiful word! But how cruel it is! Countless lives exist in all the heavens and myriad worlds, yet in the end only a few million can survive?"

Deep within the Chaos Temple, the swirling chaotic mist suddenly surged violently, and the "Chaos Dao Patterns" on the twelve dragon-carved pillars simultaneously glowed with blood-red light. The Chaos Lord, who was deducing the Heavenly Dao with his eyes closed, suddenly opened them, his eyes filled with resentment and helplessness.

"Boundless Heavenly Palace! Invincible! Transcendent! Hahahaha!! Come on! Now that you have collected all the Dao essence, let's fight! I have seen countless geniuses, like golden carp crossing a river! How many have I seen?!"

The Great Dao is fifty, the Heavenly Cycle is forty-nine; if one escapes, there lies the glimmer of life! But how cruelly cruel is this seemingly merciful glimmer of life?!

As the Chaos Lord's words grew increasingly resentful, his once indifferent eyes began to fill with crimson blood vessels.

He became frantic and resentful.

"Come on! Lord of All Paths?! Then let me see if you truly deserve the title of Lord of All Paths!?!"

As a final, furious roar echoed throughout the entire Chaos Temple, the Chaos Lord abruptly stood up and issued a decree: "From this day forward, the Grand Elder shall succeed to the position of Chaos Lord!"

I hereby proclaim to all realms! I, Mo Xie, hereby issue a challenge to Mo Xie one day from now! The location is the Annihilation Forbidden Land!! If I succeed, my Chaos Temple will become the transcendent power of this era!

If I fail...! The Chaos Temple will submit to the Boundless Heavenly Palace! How many will survive depends on your own fate!

As the Chaos Lord's command spread throughout the myriad realms, the six legions of the Boundless Heavenly Palace immediately halted their advance toward the Chaos Temple.

Powerful beings above the Heavenly Void Realm throughout the myriad realms began to frantically head towards the Annihilation Forbidden Land, which they usually feared immensely.

One day later

Mo Xie, surrounded by five Primal King Swords, calmly looked at the Chaos Lord before him.

He stood in the surging void of primordial mist, his body entwined with chains of law interwoven with ink and crimson gold, each chain gleaming with a world-destroying, eerie light. Nine pairs of twisted, dark gold horns grew from the sides of his skull, their tips dripping with starlight-like fragments, resembling crushed remnants of a star field.

His face was hidden beneath a veil woven from shadows and lightning, with only a pair of vertical pupils piercing through the chaos—his left eye was a solidified black hole, devouring all light; his right eye was a boiling star, overflowing with dazzling dark purple flames. As his pupils moved, countless worlds could be seen being born and dying in the depths of his irises.

His skin surface flowed with liquid metal-like patterns, and the grooves were filled with a viscous substance that was a mixture of stardust and blood. Every breath he took was accompanied by a muffled sound like mountains and rivers collapsing.

The shoulder armor was forged from the melting of millions of skulls, and gray-black karmic fire still seeped from between the teeth, winding down the hunched back and burning the chaotic sea beneath his feet with sizzling scorch marks.

He held a bloodstained half of a scepter in his right hand, the head of which was inlaid with three shattered world cores, one of which was still pulsating weakly, and the wails of millions of living beings could be faintly heard seeping from within it.

What was most chilling was the aura surrounding him: it was an existence more hollow than nothingness, a majesty more deathly still than eternity. When he raised his hand, a jet-black amniotic sac poured out from the crack in his palm, as if encasing an unformed cosmic embryo; and where he stepped, chaotic energy condensed into countless distorted human faces, opening and closing and emitting meaningless shrieks, like ancient beings imprisoned in a time-space cage, uttering desperate cries through his body.

He is the embodiment of chaos, the rebel against the laws. When he opens his eyes, the entire primordial universe trembles under his gaze—it is neither the mercy of God nor the ravages of demons, but a "cancer of existence" that is older than all beginnings and colder than all ends.