576: Chapter 577 Assistance!

Lu Ming never expected that after going around in circles, he would step foot into this familiar sealed land once again.

The ash-white firmament shrouded the barren earth, and fierce gales carrying Evil Qi whistled through the stone forest, everything being completely identical to when he first left.

Suddenly, an incredible thought popped into his mind.

Could it be that the Law of Reincarnation sensed by the Soul-Devouring Demon Lord was actually none other than the human emperor banner in his embrace?

After all, didn't the human emperor banner undergo several transformations and evolve on its own into the Law of Reincarnation?

If that were truly the case, it would be a colossal misunderstanding.

The Soul-Devouring Demon Lord painstakingly laid out schemes for thousands of years, ultimately drawing the true body of True Monarch Chiyan Yinglei to hunt him down, causing True Monarchs from several Grotto-Heavens to cast their gazes over—only to find out in the end that they were being chased over the human emperor banner?

If this joke were to spread, it would probably cause the entire Xuanxiao Realm to laugh their teeth off.

Lu Ming lowered his head to look at the human emperor banner again, pondered for a moment, and then slowly shook his head.

No, that shouldn't be the case.

The Law of Reincarnation comprehended and Cultivated by the Soul-Devouring Demon Lord far exceeded the embryonic form of the Law within the human emperor banner in terms of depth.

Furthermore, the Dao of Law is always compatible upwards and suppresses downwards.

If the Soul-Devouring Demon Lord could only sense Reincarnation fluctuations at the level of the human emperor banner, he wouldn't have reached this step today.

What could make him so certain to follow the induction and clear the passage all the way must be a more foundational and much more massive existence.

Then there is only one answer.

The true Law of Reincarnation is extremely likely to be within this sealed land.

" Ah, this… "

Lu Ming raised his eyes to look at the barren earth shrouded by the ash-white firmament, an indescribably complex expression emerging in his eyes.

He suddenly felt that although his guess sounded somewhat bold, it was inexplicably reasonable.

Looking across the entire Xuanxiao Realm, is there any place safer, more secret, and harder for outsiders to touch than the Seal of the Dao Venerable of Spirit Transformation?

The answer is clearly negative.

If someone wanted to hide a Dao within the Seal of a Dao Venerable of Spirit Transformation, that would be almost the most foolproof choice.

Not to mention that a Nascent Soul True Monarch cannot enter, even if they could, who would dare to act presumptuously within the Seal of this Dao Venerable?

If one accidentally released the existence within that Seal, wouldn't that be pressing a supreme figure above one's head?

Therefore, looking at it this way, the Law of Reincarnation that the Soul-Devouring Demon Lord went through untold hardships and exhausted countless schemes to find, which had been hidden by the Heavenly Dao for countless years...

is most likely sleeping somewhere in the barren earth beneath his feet.

Thinking of this, Lu Ming couldn't help letting out a low chuckle, carrying a somewhat wry and bewildered tone.

" This is truly… Heaven is helping me! "

If it is truly as he guessed, he will have to reluctantly accept this heaven-sent Opportunity.

However, he didn't have the idea of acting immediately.

Aside from anything else, his Clone, Jiang Wunian, had stayed in the sealed land for some time now, yet he hadn't noticed a single clue about the Law of Reincarnation.

This in itself was enough to explain the problem!

Presumably, that Dao was hidden extremely deeply and secretly; even if it were right before his eyes, he might not necessarily be able to perceive it.

Moreover, with the meager power of his Clone, even if he found the Law of Reincarnation on his own, wanting to refine it would be no different than daydreaming.

Therefore, in the end, he still had to rely on the Soul-Devouring Demon Lord.

Lu Ming only needed to follow behind, wait for the Soul-Devouring Demon Lord to find the Law of Reincarnation, and then find a way to Seal and suppress it; only then would it be an Opportunity to reap the spoils as a fisherman.

However, there was a big trouble right now!

The true body of the Soul-Devouring Demon Lord seemed to be held back by someone, and even this Clone had completely fallen silent, having no capability to do anything at all.

How could this be allowed!

Without a laborer working hard ahead for him, when would he ever see the true face of the Law of Reincarnation?

Furthermore, this matter should be done sooner rather than later.

Once the other True Monarchs were given enough time to react, it probably wouldn't be so easy for the Soul-Devouring Demon Lord to approach this Seal again.

If several True Monarchs joined forces to blockade this area, Lu Ming himself would also be helpless against it.

Therefore, he had to find a way to make the Soul-Devouring Demon Lord put his attention back on this passage.

Business is the most important; fighting and killing, what kind of behavior is that!

However, make no mistake, Lu Ming had no intention of lending a hand to help the Soul-Devouring Demon Lord deal with True Monarch Chiyan Yinglei.

The actions of the Soul-Devouring Demon Lord this time could be described as cutting himself off from the Xuanxiao Realm, and he was bound to be a thorn in the side of the other True Monarchs.

If he were to help him, he would inevitably be implicated and become an enemy of the Righteous Path forces throughout the Xuanxiao Realm.

Besides, the one who would ultimately profit would still be the Soul-Devouring Demon Lord; Lu Ming would never do such a losing business.

Not to mention that with the Soul-Devouring Demon Lord's extremely vile temperament, he might even turn hostile afterward and bite back.

Therefore, both logically and emotionally, Lu Ming would not lend a hand to help him.

On the contrary, Lu Ming was going to openly and righteously assist True Monarch Chiyan Yinglei.

Blow the matter up and lay out the schemes of the Soul-Devouring Demon Lord in the open.

When the other True Monarchs enter the fray at that time, no matter how strong the Soul-Devouring Demon Lord's strength is, two fists cannot rival four hands.

By that step, his only way out would be to make a desperate gamble and place all his chips on the Law of Reincarnation.

Only by obtaining that Dao would he have a chance to turn defeat into victory.

This is an open scheme.

The Soul-Devouring Demon Lord simply had no second path to choose from.

However, this was not something a Clone could participate in; his true body had to take action personally.

With this thought, Lu Ming had already made up his mind.

Deep within Qingwei Grotto-Heaven, inside the white jade palace suspended at the intersection of the Qi of Yin and Yang, Lu Ming's true body suddenly opened his eyes.

Within those eyes, chaotic mist continuously churned, eventually evolving into black and white twin fish.

He slowly stood up, the Qi of Yin and Yang around his body swirling and looping around him like two swimming dragons, his Daoist robe fluttering without any wind and making a slight rustling sound.

" Very well, my true body hasn't moved around in a long time. This time, let's turn things upside down! "

Lu Ming murmured softly.

The reason for his action this time could be described as justified and proper.

True Monarch Chiyan Yinglei naturally belonged to the Righteous Path faction, and dealing with the Soul-Devouring Demon Lord was a matter of course.

What was even better was that True Lord Qingxu openly Cultivated the Yin-Yang Law; it looked different from the Soul-Devouring Demon Lord's Law of Reincarnation, but in reality, their essences were close.

Yin and Yang are the Dao of Heaven and Earth, the code and discipline of all things, the myriad phenomena of changes, and the Origin of Life and Death.

The circulation of Yin and Yang, the alternation of Life and Death, and the Reincarnation of all things had intricate connections with the Dao of Reincarnation at their roots.

The so-called extreme Yang gives birth to Yin, extreme Yin returns to Yang, the living must die, and the dead can live.

How similar is the core of this cyclical Law to the true meaning of Reincarnation?

The two were like coming from the same source but flowing into different streams, with extremely close affinities.

Therefore, in a sense, the Soul-Devouring Demon Lord could be considered True Lord Qingxu's "Dao Enemy".

The closer the Law affinities between Cultivators, the easier it was for a Dao contention to arise.

As the saying goes, peers are enemies; when walking to the extreme on this path, ultimately only one person could reach the summit.

Therefore, True Lord Qingxu's action to deal with the Soul-Devouring Demon Lord had extremely sufficient reasons and would not make anyone feel abrupt in the slightest.

What's more, True Lord Qingxu already had a grudge with the Soul-Devouring Demon Lord.

Back then, the Soul-Devouring Demon Lord had secretly plotted against True Lord Qingxu, a debt that several True Monarchs had witnessed.

If it had progressed normally, True Lord Qingxu would have perished in that scheme, and what Lu Ming currently occupied was merely his identity and status.

Therefore, it is very reasonable for me to avenge True Lord Qingxu, right?

Lu Ming's mouth hooked into a slight arc.

Then he took a step out, the Qi of Yin and Yang violently surging within the white jade palace, and the entire Qingwei Grotto-Heaven trembled slightly at that instant.

The next moment, his figure seemed to merge into the mist where Yin and Yang circulated, disappearing silently from the spot.

The next moment, he had already stepped outside the battlefield that was turning upside down.

He saw purple-cyan lightning and dim-yellow Reincarnation light intersecting and tearing at each other in the distant sky.

Two True Monarch-level forces tore the entire Void Realm in two, exposing the churning chaotic turbulence within.

Lu Ming stood within the Void Realm, gazing afar at the battlefield where Laws were shattering, his gaze as calm as water.

In the distant sky, the purple-cyan lightning and dim-yellow Reincarnation light were intersecting and tearing, every collision causing the Void Realm to fracture with spiderweb-like cracks.

Law fragments drifted and fell in all directions like flying snow across the sky.

Two True Monarch-level forces tore the local Void Realm in two, as if Heaven and Earth itself were being split in half.

Just after the two forces violently collided once more, the two figures retreated respectively, opening up the distance.

True Monarch Chiyan Yinglei had lightning circulating indefinitely around his body, but his gaze suddenly captured a figure standing upright within the distant Void Realm.

That figure was draped in a moon-white Daoist robe, with the Qi of Yin and Yang swirling around his body like swimming dragons, and his facial features were refined and indifferent—it was precisely True Lord Qingxu, who hadn't appeared in the world for a long time.

True Monarch Chiyan Yinglei was slightly startled at first, and then a trace of surprise flashed across the depths of his eyes.

That True Lord Qingxu had accidentally dropped in Realm previously and was later plotted against by the Soul-Devouring Demon Lord was something known throughout the entire Xuanxiao Realm.

Logically speaking, this person should be in closed-door seclusion to recuperate from injuries right now; why would he appear here?

But surprise aside, when True Monarch Chiyan Yinglei saw the other party, a surge of joy still welled up in his heart.

If he could win the other party over and gain one more helper, it would mean an extra fraction of winning odds.

He did not choose Divine Soul sound transmission, but immediately spoke out loud.

" Fellow Daoist Qingxu, you've come at just the right time! This fiend practices the Dao of Reincarnation and disrupts the order of Heaven and Earth; if you and I join forces, we will surely Seal and suppress him here! "

On the other side, the Soul-Devouring Demon Lord also noticed the newcomer.

His eyes, churning with dim-yellow light, coldly swept across Lu Ming, his mouth pulling into an undisguised sarcastic arc.

" True Lord Qingxu, instead of properly recuperating in closed-door seclusion, what kind of excitement are you running over here to join? What, do you feel that your Origin is recovering too quickly? "

In his view, True Lord Qingxu's move was nothing more than deliberately coming to give him trouble.

Back then, he had plotted against this person, causing the other party to almost perish; even if he managed to return by luck afterward, his Origin must have been damaged.

True Lord Qingxu would definitely hold a grudge over this debt.

Now, running over to stick a foot in while he was entangled in a fierce battle with True Monarch Chiyan Yinglei clearly meant kicking a man when he was down and using public office for personal revenge.

Otherwise, he really couldn't think of any reason for the other party to appear here.

However, Lu Ming couldn't even be bothered to give him a straight look.

He didn't come here to bicker with others.

The more he said, the greater the risk of exposure.

After all, he wasn't the real True Lord Qingxu; he still understood the principle that speaking too much leads to mistakes.

Rather than wasting breath, it was better to act directly.

The Qi of Yin and Yang began to surge around Lu Ming's body.

Those two streams of Qi slowly oozed out from within his body, one as black as ink and the other as white as snow, entwining and swirling like two swimming dragons circling and moving around him.

The aura of the Yin-Yang Law permeated outward along with it, crisp and vast, like the very first strand of Origin power that differentiated all things when Heaven and Earth first opened.

Come to think of it, when he initially disguised himself as True Lord Qingxu and replaced the other party's identity and Karma, if he had acted rashly, he would have more or less exposed some flaws.

But after these days of precipitation and gradual Fusion with Qingwei Grotto-Heaven, that Karma had been completely undertaken and refined by him.

Now, even if he urged the Yin-Yang Law with all his might, it would be difficult for anyone to see through the clues.

The only hidden trouble was that his combat style completely differed from True Lord Qingxu's.

After all, True Lord Qingxu was a veteran Nascent Soul True Monarch; his attacking habits and Divine Ability routines naturally had their unique aspects.

And Lu Ming hadn't fully pried open True Lord Qingxu's memories at the moment, so naturally he couldn't imitate him vividly.

But this wasn't actually a big problem.

The number of times Nascent Soul True Monarchs fought each other was already countable on one's fingers, and outsiders simply had no way of knowing what trump cards and methods they hid from one another.

Not to mention that True Lord Qingxu was originally a reclusive figure, even if it were a True Monarch from another family, they might not necessarily clearly know what the other party's bottom-box Divine Ability looked like.

Therefore, even if Lu Ming displayed some Divine Abilities and Spells different from True Lord Qingxu's usual routines, others would at most just think that this person had been in closed-door seclusion for many years and gained new insights, and would never think that the person beneath the skin had already been replaced.

With this thought, Lu Ming had no more scruples.

He slowly raised his hands, his ten fingers flying as he formed one extremely complex Seal after another.

The Qi of Yin and Yang wildly condensed and compressed with his movements, like an invisible furnace tempering all Law powers into a pure sharp edge.

That sharp edge slowly formed in his palm, presenting a color that was neither black nor white, neither light nor dark, just like the colors of clarity and turbidity when Chaos first opened.

Contained within that light was the supreme profound principle of the birth and death of Yin and Yang, and the transformation and birth of all things.

It seemed as if with just a gentle touch, all Laws could return to the most primitive "Two Instruments" state.

Lu Ming closed his hands, gathering that light into his palm, and chanted a mantra in a low voice.

" In the beginning, there was the Dao; the Dao divides into the Two Instruments, Yin and Yang generate each other, and all things transform and mature! "

This was the Divine Ability [Divine Light of Two Instruments Annihilation].

On the other side, seeing that Lu Ming completely ignored his words, the Soul-Devouring Demon Lord's expression also turned completely gloomy.

Within those pupils churning with dim-yellow light, killing intent condensed and formed like substance.

" Since you want to meddle in this… "

His voice was frigid and stern, like a whisper coming from the depths of the Nine Netherworlds.

" Then go die together! "

Before his voice had faded, he waved a single hand, and a dim-yellow beam of Reincarnation light smashed head-on toward Lu Ming like a long river, carrying the power of Laws that shredded everything.