277: Eighth Ancestor Shakes the Sky

Seeing a chain develop a crack, the Eight Ancestors didn't care at all.

They were no longer the Ancestor Realm experts they once were, so naturally, activating Ancestor Artifacts didn't possess the same power as back then.

What's more, one of them was missing, preventing the formation of a cycle.

Their original goal was not to seal the Heavenly Dao.

Using those items was merely to buy time.

This time, they wanted to completely eliminate the Heavenly Dao, leaving no future troubles.

Now, as the world continued to perfect itself, the Sky Dome Continent would become even more prosperous in the future.

Therefore, if this Heavenly Dao remained, the harm to all living beings would only be greater.

The Heavenly Dao continued to struggle against the chains, and finally, with his efforts, the first chain broke.

Several chains were interconnected and mutually amplified; if one broke, the others would also become fragile.

That is to say, breaking the first chain was the most difficult and took the longest time.

Crack…

Sure enough, the second chain took less than half the time of the first to snap.

But along with the second chain, the Nether Asura Scarred Blade in the Heavenly Dao's hand also broke.

The Heavenly Dao held the broken half of the blade, and Ming Ya's appearance was reflected on its surface.

This blade was originally on the same level as the other seven.

Under the Heavenly Dao's reckless hacking, it naturally couldn't last much longer.

To perish with two Ancestor Artifacts of the same level as himself was worthy of his status.

Having lost this blade, the Heavenly Dao's attack efficiency was clearly much lower.

However, the third chain still took less than two-thirds of the time the second chain took.

Next came the fourth… and the fifth…

Each was more fragile than the last, and each broke faster than the last.

The last chain, the Heavenly Dao only needed a hundred or so strikes to completely shatter it.

At this point, the Heavenly Dao finally had his hands free to deal with the Eight Ancestors' preparations.

The Eight Ancestors had already taken up eight different positions around the Heavenly Dao, forming an octahedron.

They firmly surrounded the Heavenly Dao inside the octahedron.

They interconnected with each other, forming a special force field within the octahedron.

This caused the Heavenly Dao, at the center of the octahedron, to look down at his own body.

He saw something dissipating from his hands and various parts of his body.

After these things left him, the Heavenly Dao actually felt a few points purer.

Looking at everything before him, the Heavenly Dao felt a sense of calm indifference.

It was as if he was unconcerned with all this struggle.

Rationality, he had become even more rational.

Soon, the Heavenly Dao realized the problem: the Eight Ancestors wanted to remove his selfishness.

This made the Heavenly Dao recall a scene from a million years ago.

At that time, the Eight Ancestors also used a similar method, attempting to purify him.

They believed that the Heavenly Dao had been contaminated.

As long as the part that the Hundred Ancestors had brought to him was completely purged.

Then the Heavenly Dao would surely return to its original state.

But how could the Heavenly Dao at that time agree?

To remove the Hundred Ancestors' will and revert to a completely unconscious existence, what was the difference between that and killing him?

Therefore, the Eight Ancestors, as expected, failed.

The power gap between them and the Heavenly Dao at that time was even greater than it was now.

If not for borrowing the Heavenly Dao's own rules, they would have died long ago.

The Eight Ancestors tried many methods, all of which ended in failure.

Finally, after drawing all lessons and experiences, they created the "Eight Ancestors Heaven-Shaking Devil Art."

However, this method was actually quite complete back then.

It was just that the gap between them and the Heavenly Dao was too immense.

Removing humanity from the Heavenly Dao was also much more difficult than directly severing that part of the Heavenly Dao.

But at this moment, the Eight Ancestors used such a method.

What did this represent? It represented that this time, the Eight Ancestors truly wanted to completely eliminate him.

If the Eight Ancestors truly succeeded, then he wouldn't even be able to leave behind fragments with his own consciousness, as he did a million years ago.

So, he also went mad; this was truly the final battle.

If he won, no one on the Sky Dome Continent would be able to stop him.

If he lost, he would lose all his chances.

"Hundred Ancestors Root Source Flow!"

A terrifying attack struck the gap between the Eight Ancestors, and the Heavenly Dao's figure followed closely behind.

Sure enough, even the gap between the Eight Ancestors had some obstruction.

The Heavenly Dao's strike caused a barrier to appear, firmly blocking it without a single trace escaping.

However, the Heavenly Dao's furious strike left a crack on the barrier.

This crack came and went quickly, healing and disappearing in the blink of an eye.

It was just that the Eight Ancestors' figures seemed to have become a bit more ethereal.

Seeing this, the Heavenly Dao also understood that the Eight Ancestors couldn't hold on for much longer.

"You want to completely cut me off, to leave me no possibility of reappearing.

But at this moment, how long can you support yourselves, how long can you persist?"

Sure enough, understanding this point, the Heavenly Dao began to furiously unleash attacks on the Eight Ancestors.

Although all attacks would eventually be neutralized by the Eight Ancestors' barrier.

The Eight Ancestors' condition also grew worse, their figures becoming increasingly ethereal.

So, the Eight Ancestors went all out, directly merging into it, no longer maintaining their physical forms.

Thus, each of the Eight Ancestors completely transformed into one face of the octahedron, firmly enveloping the Heavenly Dao.

From the outside, it looked like a person was enclosed inside an octahedron with different colored faces.

This person was still inside, continuously bombarding the inner walls of the octahedron.

As he attacked, the Heavenly Dao's power grew stronger, but he also felt less and less inclined to attack.

The octahedron, being attacked by the Heavenly Dao, now seemed to be on the verge of collapsing.

Its surface constantly trembled, clearly becoming unstable.

Realizing he was about to succeed, the Heavenly Dao's calm state of mind was suppressed a bit, and his attacks became even more ferocious.

At this moment, the people of the three clans also arrived; seeing the scene before them, they naturally knew that the critical moment had come.

Everyone looked at each other, not knowing what to do.

They all wanted to help the Eight Ancestors suppress the Heavenly Dao, but they didn't know how, and they feared making things worse.

But at this moment, one of the purple faces of the octahedron lit up once.

A surprised voice came from within, "Eh?"

The voice wasn't loud, but everyone heard it with exceptional clarity.

Xiao Dou immediately understood that the Xiao Ancestor had something to instruct, "Xiao Ancestor, what should we do?"

The purple face pondered for a moment, then another flash of light appeared, "First, bring all the Heaven and Earth Oddities you have with you."

Hearing the Xiao Ancestor's command, everyone unhesitatingly passed over all the Heaven and Earth Oddities they possessed.

For those already refined, they forcefully severed the connection from their bodies, enduring the backlash to retrieve the oddities.

Countless oddities gathered together, moving towards the octahedron in the sky.