365: Chapter 356 The Sixth Incarnation: Heavenly Venerable (Forty-Four)

At this moment, seeing his close friend encounter an incomprehensible killing blow, and his own concealment exposed by the indiscriminate suppression of the "heaven refining cauldron's" absolute Domain, Dao Lord Chiyang no longer cared about his own terrible state and secrets. He unhesitatingly burned his already scarce and unstable "Heaven Burning" Origin, even triggering the collapse of his Dao Foundation, erupting in a final strike that far exceeded his current state—a near-suicidal blow!

"Open!"

Dao Lord Chiyang roared madly, his figure merging with the violent crimson flames, turning into a World-Burning Fire Meteor that pierced the Domain, scorched the Void Realm, and even briefly disturbed some of the "heaven refining cauldron's" descending "Order" dao patterns, desperately crashing into the weakest point where the cauldron's phantom body and the Chaos dao patterns enveloping the Domain met!

Boom! Boom! Boom!—!!!

An unprecedentedly violent explosion erupted inside the absolute Domain of the "heaven refining cauldron"!

Dao Lord Chiyang paid the price of his total erasure of Dao and Soul, and the instantaneous annihilation of his Heaven Burning Grand Dao Origin, to release a final destructive power. Its intensity and abruptness far exceeded the "heaven refining cauldron's" preset suppression Rank against the single target "Flowing Shadow"!

The Domain of the "heaven refining cauldron" shook violently!

Although it was not truly broken, its flawless isolation and concealment suffered a momentary, extremely minute "ripple" and "lag" due to this internal explosion of energy that exceeded expectations!

It was in that very instant!

Flowing Shadow Dao Lord, being pulled by the suction, felt his eyes nearly burst. He seized this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity—the only chance his friend had traded his life for—and made the most resolute choice!

He no longer tried to break free from the suction. Instead, he took the vast majority of his "Light and Shadow" Grand Dao Origin, along with the unique and violent "Heaven Burning" Dao Rhyme aftermath scattered upon Dao Lord Chiyang's fall, and used a forbidden secret technique that destroyed the Dao Foundation to forcibly compress and blend them. This formed a special information stream containing all the unwillingness, horror, resentment, and warning intent of the two Dao Lords before their deaths, possessing the extreme speed of "Light and Shadow" and the explosive characteristics of "Heaven Burning"!

Then, in the moment the "heaven refining cauldron's" Domain produced a "ripple" from the internal explosion, he "threw" this information stream through the gap in the ripple, regardless of the cost or consequences!

It was not cast toward a specific target. Instead, using the characteristics of his "Light and Shadow" Grand Dao, he "refracted" it into the Grand Dao Law networks of all the heavens and worlds related to "Light and Shadow," "Flame," and "Karma"!

"Ancient Venerables... joining forces... hunting Dao Lords... with a cauldron... a great tribulation..."

The blurred fragments of will, filled with extreme fear and warning, accompanied by the flickering of "Light and Shadow" and the embers of "Heaven Burning," were like a giant stone thrown into a calm lake. Like a plague, they spread and transmitted frantically through the invisible network of Grand Dao Laws!

The Domain of the "heaven refining cauldron" quickly stabilized, the lag disappeared, and the suction was restored.

Flowing Shadow Dao Lord, along with his broken Dao Realm, ultimately failed to escape and was sucked into the cauldron, refined in an instant.

Dao Lord Chiyang had long since had both his form and spirit extinguished.

From the results, the hunting operation had still "successfully" slain two Dao Lords.

However—

"Hmm?"

The will of the "death" Dao Lord was the first to convey a trace of cold displeasure.

"There was a hidden one? A final counterattack at the brink of death..."

"That fluctuation just now... it seems information has leaked."

The will of the Time Dao Lord flowed, carrying a hint of scrutiny.

Buzz—!!

Boom—!

"What?!"

There were mighty figures skilled in the Dao of Light and Shadow who "saw" those fleeting warning fragments while in quiet Cultivation;

There were giants who deeply studied the Law of Flame who sensed the wailing and the information carried within the "Heaven Burning" Dao Rhyme before its abnormal annihilation;

There were existences who Cultivate the Dao of Karma, Heavenly Secrets, and Divination whose hearts were suddenly shrouded in boundless blood-red light. Their divinations fell into Chaos, showing the terrifying omen of "fellow Daoists falling like rain, a great tribulation is upon us";

There were even other Dao Lords who had crossed paths with Flowing Shadow and Chiyang, or whose Dao Realms were adjacent and whose Grand Daos resonated, who received that deathbed message full of despair and warning with absolute clarity!

"Flowing Shadow and Chiyang... fell at the same time?! They were... hunted?"

"Ancient Venerables joining forces? Hunting Dao Lords with a cauldron?!"

"What cauldron? To be able to slay Dao Lords silently and without a trace?!"

"A great tribulation... Is this the great tribulation predicted by the revival of the Ancient Venerables a hundred years ago?! A purging aimed at us?!"

"..."

In countless places throughout the heavens and worlds, especially in those Dao Lord abodes, ancient Secret Realms, and places where the Grand Dao manifested, fluctuations of will and tremors of the Dao rang out simultaneously—some in shock and anger, some in horror, and some in disbelief!

"Hmph." The will of the "death" Dao Lord remained cold, that sliver of displeasure quickly transforming into deeper killing intent and resolve. "Since it has leaked, there is no need to hide anymore. While they haven't formed a force yet, first slay the nearby enemies to make an example of them!"

"Good." The will of the Time Dao Lord flowed, carrying a sense of accelerated progress. "The spread of information takes time, and uniting takes even more time. Right now is when they are most panicked and isolated."

"Lock onto the coordinates of the three nearest Dao Lords, centered from here."

The will of the Space Keystone was heavy and swift, instantly manifesting three flickering space-time coordinates on the star map above the "heaven refining cauldron." They were not far from each other, and all seemed to have their Dao Realms shaking and their auras exposed due to the previous warning, currently in a state of suspicious alertness.

"Kill!"

"Fully activate the heaven refining cauldron, no need to worry about fluctuations. Settle this quickly," the will of the Destruction Dao Lord carried a determination to burn everything to ash.

"Let the blood of these three proclaim to the heavens that those who defy our will have only one path: to fall."

Shangqing Dao Lord spoke calmly, and the resonance between the seven-colored Dao Rhyme behind him and the "heaven refining cauldron" suddenly intensified several times!

The decision was made in an instant.

Since "secrecy" was lost, they would use absolute force and terrifying speed to reduce the number of prey to the greatest extent and destroy their will to resist before they could truly unite!

"heaven refining cauldron—Open!"

It was no longer a silent descent. This time, the wills of multiple Ancient Lords poured their great power in together, and the "heaven refining cauldron" shook thunderously!

On the cauldron's body, the ten-colored dao patterns shone with unprecedented brilliance, intertwining with each other to manifest a phantom of a "Heavenly Net" above the cauldron's mouth that enveloped the vast Star Domain and froze the Soul!

The center of the Heavenly Net was precisely the Dao Realm coordinates of the three locked-on, nearby Dao Lords!

Beneath the cauldron, it was no longer a silent dimensional rift, but three giant spatial portals that suddenly tore across the Void Realm, emitting overwhelming killing intent and the aura of imprisonment!

The other ends of the portals ignored the barriers of time and space, directly connecting to the area above the core of those three Dao Lords' Dao Realms!

"Not good!"

"It's that cauldron?! It's coming!"

"Join forces to resist the enemy!"

The three Dao Lords were shocked awake almost the moment the "heaven refining cauldron" was fully activated and the spatial tears manifested!

Their Dao Realms shook violently, and the warnings of the Grand Dao roared frantically!

However, just as every thought of resistance arose—

"Suppress! Suppress! Suppress!" Three cold edicts rang out simultaneously through the three spatial portals!

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The projection of the "heaven refining cauldron" was no longer a phantom, but a solidified portion of the cauldron's true power. Carrying the superimposed suppression of multiple root Dao Rhymes such as death, slaughter, destruction, spatial imprisonment, and Order chains, it was like three Immemorial Divine Mountains carrying different doomsday scenes, ruthlessly suppressing the cores of the three Dao Lords' Dao Realms at the same time!