545: Chapter 546 The Age of Dharma's End!

At this very moment, the Martial Dao Luck in the ethereal Realm manifested, forming a cloud of celebration that enveloped Lu Ming.

Following this, a strange and profound power began to surge wildly into Lu Ming's body.

This power flowed, swirled, and fused within him, intertwining with his own Qi and blood, will, and Martial Dao True Body.

It felt like countless warm streams flowing into the same lake, then extending toward deeper and wider directions.

It gave one the feeling of a Fairy who was originally cold, arrogant, and dismissive toward you, finally falling in love with you, becoming proactive, and even burning with passion.

Lu Ming closed his eyes, letting that profound energy envelop him.

A sense of floating came over him, as if countless invisible hands were pushing him upward in Ascension.

His body rose, his consciousness expanded, and his perception extended.

Gradually, Lu Ming seemed to "see" many things.

The Origin of the Qianyuan Domain, the Origin of the Martial Dao, and the deeper secrets of this world.

It was as if a long-sealed door was being slowly opened.

At that moment, Lu Ming finally understood.

"So that's how it is."

Although the Martial Dao Luck is an Acquired orthodoxy, it exists in reliance on the Heavenly Dao, just like the Immortal Dao.

It is like offspring born; some are the legitimate eldest sons, clever and favored.

Others are born of concubines, or even treated like illegitimate children, unacknowledged and unwanted.

But the connection of Bloodline can never be severed.

Therefore, at the inception of these orthodoxies, they carried a portion of the Heavenly Dao's information.

It was precisely this information that allowed Lu Ming to systematically understand for the first time what the Heavenly Dao is, and also allowed him to glimpse some of the world's secrets.

So this world is named "Xuanxiao Realm-Heaven," which is a mid-tier Realm.

But due to the limitations of its status, for the living beings within it, the Dao Venerable of Spirit Transformation is already the limit.

Higher up, there are even higher Realms and true worlds.

For instance, the Heavenly Monster Realm, the Earth Immortal Realm, the True Demon Realm…

When these names emerged one by one from the Martial Dao Luck, Lu Ming seemed to feel a sense of antiquity and weightiness.

It was like an echo from some distant era.

It made his Divine Soul sink suddenly, even causing a momentary trance.

This was actually incredibly unbelievable!

One must know that his Divine Soul is at the Nascent Soul level, and its strength rivals that of the Middle Stage Nascent Soul!

Yet now, merely receiving a few names caused a sense of oppression.

This shows just how astonishing the secrets contained in this information are, to the point of having substantial [weight].

Fortunately, because the Qianyuan Martial Dao counts at most as an illegitimate child, it does not know much, nor does it understand what those Realms and true worlds represent.

But Lu Ming is certain that these Realms are absolutely incredibly powerful, far exceeding the Xuanxiao Realm-Heaven.

Perhaps, that might be the legendary place of Ascension!

At the same time, he also understood the ultimate goal of the Heavenly Dao.

The Heavenly Dao is not a sentient being in the conventional sense, but more like the instinct of the world.

Just as humans have a desire to survive and ambition, the world also has a desire for transcendence.

It also wants to ascend, to upgrade from a Realm-Heaven to a higher existence.

Therefore, the Heavenly Dao suppresses Cultivators because the Cultivators' method of Cultivating by seizing the fortune of heaven and earth only becomes a burden, making the process of the world's upgrade slower.

Hmm, I must explicitly criticize the Asura Clan here!

It was these fellows who ruined the atmosphere of Immortal Cultivation!

And the later generations of Nascent Soul True Monarchs also didn't learn well, all becoming bloodsuckers clinging to the Xuanxiao Realm-Heaven!

Therefore, it is reasonable for the Heavenly Dao to detest Cultivators.

As for the ownership of the orthodoxy's Luck, the Heavenly Dao actually does not care.

It is not important which of the offspring below ultimately wins; it only cares about who can truly help it transcend.

If the Martial Dao can suppress the Immortal Dao, or even go a step further, the Heavenly Dao would also be happy to see it happen.

It's just that the Immortal Dao started early, has deep accumulation, and is powerful and deeply rooted.

And although the Martial Dao has potential, before it could grow up, it was targeted by True Monarch Yuji Sitian.

Its room for progress was locked directly, and a gatekeeper was found, giving it no chance at all.

"How miserable."

After accepting the message transmitted by the Martial Dao Luck, Lu Ming felt some sympathy.

"Truly unloved by father or mother, and bullied by brothers and sisters in all sorts of ways."

Lu Ming sighed with compassion, "It's just that you met me..."

Seemingly sensing the emotion in his words, the Martial Dao Luck affectionately rubbed against Lu Ming.

But immediately, he heard him say in a faint tone,

"Otherwise, you could have been liberated sooner!"

Martial Dao Luck: "!!!!!"

Not good, danger!!!

That power, which was originally extremely affectionate toward him, seemed to realize something, suddenly shrinking violently like it had been electrocuted, and began to desperately withdraw.

Damn it, it originally thought it had found a reliable ally, but it turned out to be a scumbag who pulls up his pants and refuses to acknowledge anyone after the deed!

Just after tricking it into his hands, he immediately turned hostile; he is simply not a decent person!

In an instant, Lu Ming felt the Martial Dao Luck, which was originally extremely affectionate, now behave like a frightened rabbit, becoming incredibly agitated.

It looked like it wanted to quickly cut ties and flee.

But is Lu Ming the kind of person to let meat that has reached his mouth get away?

"Want to run? Too late! Hehehe..."

Lu Ming let out the laugh of an evil supervillain, then, quick as a flash, his hands violently formed Seals.

The sealed Immortal Dao power was unsealed in an instant, surging like a tidal wave around him, turning into an invisible cage that locked the Martial Dao cloud of celebration that was trying to escape.

The Martial Dao cloud of celebration crashed around inside the cage, looking just like a little beast that had wandered into a trap, desperately hitting the four walls.

But the Immortal Dao power Lu Ming used was inherently higher in status than the Martial Dao, and because it had entrusted itself to the wrong person earlier, it had handed over a portion of its own authority.

This resulted in it being to no avail no matter how it struggled.

Every time it hit the wall of the cage, it would be bounced back by an invisible force, and even the recoil force would make the cloud of celebration tremble slightly, but it could never break through the blockade.

And at this moment, Lu Ming was like an old lecher.

While letting out strange "hehehe" laughs, he approached it step by step, muttering to himself.

"Don't struggle anymore, the more you struggle, the more excited I get."

And the Martial Dao cloud of celebration was like a frightened Fairy, trembling inside the cage, curling into a ball, not daring to move anymore.

Lu Ming was not polite either, reaching out to grab that cloud of celebration, wanting to refine it directly.

But the Martial Dao cloud of celebration seemed to sense the crisis of annihilation and began to struggle and twist desperately, looking like a slippery loach.

Several times it almost slipped out of Lu Ming's palm.

Then, realizing it really couldn't escape, the Martial Dao cloud of celebration suddenly stopped struggling.

But before Lu Ming could praise it as a "person who knows the times," he saw this little ball suddenly shrink and then bite hard on Lu Ming's fingertip.

Like a little beast driven to a dead end, using its last bit of strength to make a futile resistance.

Lu Ming was also a bit dumbfounded.

"Yo ho, this little thing is quite unyielding."

However, he is not a soft-hearted person. Don't be fooled by how cute this cloud of celebration looks; it is actually the external manifestation of the Martial Dao Origin.

Peel away the exterior, and it's actually nothing!

So, Lu Ming just chuckled, and then no longer held back.

He slowly closed his eyes, his mind connecting with his main body in seclusion in the Qingwei Grotto-Heaven.

That connection instantly pierced through the void, crossed hundreds of millions of miles, and landed on his main body.

A moment later, a greyish power descended from the void, following that connection and re-entering this descent body.

It was precisely the power of the Hunyuan Law!

Lu Ming spread his five fingers, light gathered in his palm, then transformed into a greyish palm, gently pressing down toward the Martial Dao cloud of celebration.

There was no earth-shattering momentum, nor any deafening roar.

There was only a sense of order where all things return to their Origin and all laws return to one.

The Martial Dao cloud of celebration seemed to realize it had no way to escape, emitted a silent wail, and stopped struggling, becoming completely quiet.

Like a tamed little beast, it curled up in Lu Ming's palm.

Lu Ming looked down at the cloud of celebration that had been compressed to the size of a glutinous rice ball, and without hesitation, slowly guided it into the Seven Sheets of Holy Words.

This treasure of Luck finally played its role at this moment.

The Seven Sheets of Holy Words flashed with seven-colored phantom brilliance, and with each flash, hundreds of millions of runes emerged from the wall of the heart.

They intertwined and wound around each other, forming a precise sealing Formation.

It wrapped around the Martial Dao cloud of celebration, dragging it bit by bit into the Seven Sheets of Holy Words.

Then the runes layered one upon another, as if putting layer after layer of protective shells on it.

When the last rune fell, the light of the Seven Sheets of Holy Words converged, returning to calm.

Looking at it from the outside, it appeared somewhat unremarkable, even plain and simple!

But Lu Ming knew that this object had completely suppressed the source of the Martial Dao Luck.

Once he took it back and handed it to his main body, he could refine it directly and fuse it into the Hunyuan Law.

And at the very moment the Martial Dao Luck source was suppressed and sealed.

Outside, the entire Qianyuan Domain seemed to have been pressed with a pause button.

Pedestrians on the road stopped, Martial Artists in meditation suddenly opened their eyes, and even those fighting others stopped simultaneously.

Between heaven and earth, all things stagnated.

From deep within the earth came a muffled tremor, as if the heart of this world, after one last beat, slowly stopped pulsating.

Then, the changes began.

Everywhere, those Martial Artists who were breaking through suddenly felt the Qi and blood in their Dantian stagnate, as if they had encountered an invisible wall.

No matter how hard they tried, they could no longer climb upward in the slightest, and could only, in their unwillingness, announce the failure of their Breakthrough.

There were also those Martial Artists who were Cultivating, who at this moment felt the power within their bodies slowly draining away, like grains of sand in an hourglass, irreversibly sliding downward.

No matter how they tried to remedy it, it was to no avail.

In the end, they could only watch helplessly as the Martial Dao cultivation they had painstakingly cultivated for years, or even decades, collapsed and fell within a short time.

Even those Body Integration and Void Shattering Realm Great Grandmasters who had realized the True Meaning of the Martial Dao discovered that the Martial Dao momentum that was once within reach between heaven and earth was rapidly moving away, blurring, and finally dissipating.

No matter how they tried to comprehend it, they received absolutely no feedback at all, and they instantly felt empty inside.

Of course, there were also those young people who had just come into contact with the Martial Dao, longing for the future where they could also fly, burrow into the earth, and move mountains and seas like the Seniors in the Jianghu rumors.

They also suddenly discovered that they could no longer sense the call of the Martial Dao.

The Martial Dao, which was clearly close at hand just before, needing only one more step to enter the hall, was now like a natural chasm, standing before them.

Obviously, after the source of the Martial Dao Luck disappeared, Martial Artists bore the brunt of it.

But they were not yet aware of it.

In the future, no matter how they Cultivate, they will never make another inch of progress.

Don't look at the fact that their Realms haven't dropped yet; their upper limits have been locked.

And without replenishment, as time passes, their cultivation will be like duckweed without roots, and one day it will dissipate completely.

As for those who haven't even entered the door, they can't even touch the threshold.

But they haven't realized it yet, or perhaps they have, but they don't know exactly what happened.

Only those Martial Dao Grandmasters and Great Grandmasters seemed to have a sense of it.

Streaks of blood-Qi phenomena soaring into the sky rose from every corner of the Qianyuan Domain.

Like a flash in the pan, those blood-Qi phenomena circled in the sky for a moment, then slowly dissipated.

It was like the curtain falling on a great play, signaling that the Age of Dharma Decline was coming.

Qianyuan Domain, from today on, there is no more Martial Dao.

"I don't know what the situation is outside now."

After Lu Ming put away the Seven Sheets of Holy Words, he shifted his gaze to the outside world.

He was a bit curious about what changes would occur in this domain after losing the source of the Martial Dao Luck.

Since the Martial Dao Luck had already been suppressed and sealed by him, he naturally didn't need to suppress his Immortal Dao cultivation anymore.

His Nascent Soul Divine Sense spread out in an instant, like an invisible giant net, covering half of the Qianyuan Domain.

Thus, he saw the scene of Martial Artists everywhere with stagnant Qi and blood, and their Realms collapsing.

The corners of Lu Ming's mouth twitched wildly.

"Such demonic Cultivator behavior, did I really do this?"

He guessed that there might be a chain reaction, but he didn't expect the consequences to be so severe.

Those blood-Qi phenomena that once made this world unique, those Martial Dao Divine Abilities, those legends of fists shaking mountains and rivers, will all become history.

Perhaps a hundred years from now, no one will remember what the Martial Dao is.

A thousand years from now, no one will even mention the two words "Martial Dao."

The Age of Dharma Decline is descending.

However, at the moment he took action, Lu Ming actually realized this.

Come to think of it, without the Martial Dao Luck, the Martial Dao is like duckweed without roots, lacking a foundation to stand on, and will naturally decline.

Of course, some Martial Artists will not lose their power instantly at the beginning, but as time passes, their cultivation will flow away, and they will eventually return to being Mortals.

Not to mention, there will be no fresh blood to replenish it, and the path of the Martial Dao will be extinct from here on.

However, so what?

Lu Ming does not have the heart of a saint; even if he were given another chance, he would still choose to do so.

If one is not for oneself, heaven and earth will destroy them.

For his own path, sacrificing some unrelated people is a very worthwhile deal.

Besides, this group of people had decades of short-lived glory and splendor, so they should be content.

Moreover, even if he didn't act, the Martial Dao would only be lingering on for a few days, and the outcome would not change.

If you want to blame someone, blame that True Monarch Yuji Sitian; it's all his fault!

Lu Ming thought shamelessly.

As long as he has no morals, his conscience will not be condemned.

However, principles are principles.

Although his conscience will not be condemned, the backlash of Karma will arrive as scheduled.

After all, the evil he created is a sin that harms the living beings of a domain.

Its Karma backlash will naturally not be absent.