310: Fifth Incarnation: Heavenly Physician (102)

"Kill—!"

The core of the Deep Dream Marsh had already turned into a forbidden zone where Great Dao Laws collided and annihilated each other!

Golden light, gray radiance, a sea of blood, and Death Qi intertwined and clashed; every impact caused the Void Realm to crack and the rules to mourn!

Xu Yuan was covered in blood, his Dao robe was tattered, and his body was covered in gray spots corroded by the Dao of Nirvana, wounds torn by the Slaughter Sword Qi, and festering marks spread by the power of decay.

The light of his "humanity golden elixir" was no longer as brilliant as it was at the beginning, and fine cracks had even appeared on its surface—a sign that his Dao Foundation was damaged!

The "dao transformation" dao patterns accelerating around him had crawled all over his Golden Core and Divine Soul like living creatures, their binding with the Order of heaven and earth reaching a point where they were almost born of the same body!

The price was heavy!

But the Battle Intent and madness in his eyes burned to the extreme!

"Suppress!"

He roared, ignoring the erosion of the decay Domain behind him as his hands formed seals; the "humanity seal" carried a wisp of the "Slaughter True Intent" Origin forcibly stripped from the Slaughter Blood River, turning into a majestic heavenly might that smashed ruthlessly toward the attacking Dao Lord of Nirvana!

Simultaneously, he distracted himself to control the Kingdom of Order Domain, as countless contract chains entwined around the blood river formed by the Slaughter Dao Lord, forcibly "ceasing weapons" to weaken its offensive!

"Dreamlike Nirvana—Eternal Emptiness!"

The Remnant Spirit of Dao Monarch Huanmeng had dimmed to the point of being almost transparent, yet it was still burning its last sliver of spiritual light to perform its ultimate secret technique!

Endless dreamlike flowing light gathered, not as an attack, but turning into a layer of "Time Dust" that was both real and illusory, enveloping the three Dao Lords in an attempt to drag them into the most "silent" and "final" Concept fragments of their respective Great Daos, intensifying their dao transformation backlash!

"Pfft!"

Xu Yuan once again endured a heavy blow from the Dao Lord of Nirvana, his chest collapsing as he coughed up a large mouthful of blood, but his eyes were terrifyingly bright!

For he felt that the aura of the Dao Lord of Nirvana, whom he had repeatedly "seized the Dao" from to feed back to the world, had finally shown obvious decay and disorder!

The dark gray light on his Dao body was no longer stable, instead showing a tendency to collapse inward and return to nothingness!

This was a sign that the dao transformation had accelerated to its critical point!

"Now is the time!"

Xu Yuan roared, pouring all of his understanding of "Order," his insights into "Reincarnation," his desire for "new life," and the massive amount of world feedback power he had just received into the "humanity seal"!

The seal erupted with an unprecedented light, and a golden contract rune, so complex it seemed to contain the ultimate truths of heaven and earth, condensed; it no longer just stripped away parts of the Dao Laws, but... pointed directly at the Dao Lord of Nirvana's Dao core!

Seizing the Dao, Mending the Heavens!

"No—! This seat is eternal and indestructible; how could I fall by your hand!"

The Dao Lord of Nirvana let out a roar of despair and unwillingness, struggling frantically, but with his Dao Laws repeatedly seized, his Dao Foundation damaged, his dao transformation accelerated, and his mind interfered with by the power of Illusory Dreams, he was momentarily unable to break free from the contract's lock!

"Buzz—!"

The contract was established! Golden chains of Order, like a heavenly net, entwined around the Dao Lord of Nirvana layer by layer!

The Nirvana Dao Laws within his body began to boil, peel away, and turn into a pure torrent of Origin uncontrollably, surging toward the Law gap in heaven and earth that symbolized the "ultimate end" and "the return of all things to nothingness"!

"Ah—!"

The Dao Lord of Nirvana let out one last shrill scream as his Dao body disintegrated inch by inch, his consciousness rapidly dissipating under the dual effects of dao transformation and the contract, eventually... completely turning into a majestic Nirvana Dao Source and merging into heaven and earth!

The world shook violently!

Feedback power surged toward Xu Yuan like a tsunami!

The injuries all over his body healed rapidly, and his aura surged once again as he gained a deeper understanding of the Reincarnation True Intent between "ending" and "new life"; his aura surged once more!

But correspondingly, the "dao transformation" dao patterns on his Golden Core and Divine Soul also suddenly brightened several times, their spreading speed increasing drastically!

Of his thousand-year Lifespan, less than five hundred years likely remained!

"Fellow Daoist Nirvana!" Seeing this, the Slaughter and Decay Dao Lords were shaken to their cores, both shocked and enraged! They hadn't expected that Xu Yuan could actually slay the true body of an ancient Dao Lord! In their shared grief, their offensive became even more frenzied, but also... more impatient and filled with openings!

"Next!"

Xu Yuan wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, his gaze as cold as ten-thousand-year-old ice; carrying the momentum of his great victory, he turned and lunged toward the Slaughter Dao Lord!

The subsequent battle was even more tragic, but the scales of victory had begun to tilt!

Relying on the strength increase brought by the continuous feedback from heaven and earth, as well as his increasing proficiency in the technique of "Seizing the Dao, Mending the Heavens," Xu Yuan cooperated with the nearly dissipated Remnant Spirit of Huanmeng, trading injury for injury and accepting the cost of accelerated dao transformation to stubbornly withstand the frantic counterattacks of the two Dao Lords!

"Slaughter Contract—Ordered Conquest, Cease All Weapons!"

"Decay Contract—Cycle of Growth and Decay, Reappearance of Life!"

One after another, contracts containing the True Intent of supreme Order were branded onto the Dao cores of the Slaughter and Decay Dao Lords like shackles of fate!

The blood river formed by the Slaughter Dao Lord was forcibly guided to feed back into the world's scars of "uncontrolled conquest," finally collapsing and disintegrating amidst endless phantoms of weapons!

The Domain of dead silence formed by the Decay Dao Lord was twisted by the power of the contract, guiding the Dao Laws of "all things returning to silence" toward the Reincarnation blockage of the Origin gap, finally being completely annihilated in the light and shadow of the cycle of life and death!

When the true body of the last Dao Lord of Decay turned into nourishment for heaven and earth amidst a roar of unwilling curses, the entire core of the Deep Dream Marsh fell into an eerie silence.

Between heaven and earth, the mourning and rejoicing of the Great Dao intertwined!

The death of three ancient Dao Lords' true bodies in succession, with their majestic Dao Origins feeding back into heaven and earth, made this broken world feel like it had encountered sweet rain after a long drought, letting out a comfortable "groan"!

A small portion of the rule network was repaired, a sliver of spiritual opportunity was revived, and a flavor of vitality began to quietly permeate.

Feedback power poured into Xu Yuan's body like a tide; his cultivation Realm had already reached an unprecedented height, and under the feedback of heaven and earth, his control over the "humanity" Order had reached a level where every thought was followed by myriad Laws!

But the price was... the "dao transformation" dao patterns around him had become as dense as a spiderweb, completely enveloping his Golden Core and Divine Soul!

The sense of Fusion of "I am the world, and the world is me" grew stronger and stronger, while the independent consciousness belonging to "Xu Yuan" was like a candle in the wind, flickering and unstable.

Lifespan... likely less than three hundred years!

As the true body of the last Dao Lord of Decay turned into flowing light to nourish the world and the core of the Deep Dream Marsh fell into dead silence, the green halo representing the Remnant Spirit of Dao Monarch Huanmeng, already dimmed to the point of being nearly transparent, also emitted one last faint ripple.

"Little friend..." Dao Monarch Huanmeng's faint intent, carrying endless liberation and relief, reached Xu Yuan's mind like a candle in the wind, "This old man's... remnant spirit is about to dissipate. Rather than letting this last bit of Origin return to nothingness, why not... gift it to you, to help your humanity... reach a higher level..."