He was never an ordinary demon or evil spirit, born with power that transcended this realm. Though he had to restrain himself in this realm, at this moment that power flowed out irrepressibly. As his hands tore to both sides, black hairline cracks actually appeared around his body!

Clearly these were spatial rifts!

This meant that the power he was now wielding had reached the extreme limit of what this realm could bear. Even a fraction more might cause great disaster!

All methods of escape became useless in this situation!

In slight bewilderment, all light vanished from Lord Qin Guang’s eyes. Only a “ripping” sound was heard as His entire shell split open from the brow!

It wasn’t like tearing apart a living person, but rather like ripping open a sandbag!

In that instant, Lord Qin Guang’s body dissolved into nothingness, and countless archaic, obscure dark gold characters flew out from the tear like flowing sand!

Fu Chaosheng’s brow immediately furrowed.

When he had reached toward Lord Qin Guang’s brow earlier, he had already easily discovered that the opponent’s shell was merely an external manifestation. What was hidden inside wasn’t flesh, bones, and organs, but his rule essence!

So he should have expected this and not been too surprised.

However, the moment these rules were exposed, an aura that made him extremely wary faintly emanated from the countless golden glows of these rule characters!

Coming from the vast universe.

Coming from mysterious primordial times.

Coming from the origin of time!

Very familiar, but definitely not close. Instead, it made him feel several degrees of guarded hostility, as if this was an intuition and instinct deeply carved into the souls of the entire mayfly race!

—What exactly was it?

Doubts immediately emerged in Fu Chaosheng’s mind, just like when he had suddenly discovered traces of Shao Ji in Mingri Xinghai long ago.

It was a confusion about “where do I come from, where am I going?”

In the vast darkness, something seemed to pull him, bind him, guide him, constantly approaching certain things, constantly exploring certain things, seeking some answer he knew nothing about.

His nearly snow-white robes were billowed up by fierce winds from the horizon and illuminated by the burning earth’s core fire in the sky, actually resembling red snow covering mountain peaks—both tragic and gorgeous, yet revealing an inexplicable, fearless intensity!

Lord Qin Guang’s transformation was swift, but his response was equally fast!

When those endless archaic golden characters surged toward him like a tide, he formed a seal with one hand, blocking in front of him while already withdrawing backward!

“Rumble!”

With Fu Chaosheng’s hand seal as the center, the surrounding ten zhang of void became completely still. No wind could be heard, nor could any air movement be felt!

At this moment, inside and outside the ten zhang range were clearly two different worlds!

Space frozen!

This was clearly a method that cultivators could only use after reaching the “bounded” realm—comprehending laws and manipulating space!

Simultaneously, hundreds of deep green glorious lights flew from his sleeves, striking toward the attacking Lord Qin Guang!

“Puff!”

Rays of light instantly pierced through that golden glow.

But they caused no substantial damage!

How could physical attacks harm formless laws?

From that tide-like mass of golden light came laughter tinged with contempt hidden in anger. When it reached the ten zhang of frozen space, it didn’t pause for even a moment, allowing itself to crash right in!

“Splash!” The dark gold light spread over like flowing water, trembling and distorting before gradually taking the vague form of a human body.

Only it looked different from before.

The previous Lord Qin Guang had looked no different from an ordinary person, but now He looked completely like a statue constructed entirely of dark gold ancient characters, even His eyebrows and eyes outlined by these dark gold symbols.

Though in this condition, His facial expression couldn’t be clearly seen, or perhaps there was no expression at all.

But the moment their gazes met, Fu Chaosheng could already sense it.

That was a naturally superior gaze looking down upon all living beings, not bothering to look at everything in this world, because He controlled everything about them, and everything was nothing but ants to Him.

This wasn’t any acquired arrogance, but the indifference that came from the rules themselves!

“I am originally an avatar of rules. What makes you think that the laws of space and time in this realm could constrain me?”

Without human form, naturally there was no human voice.

When Lord Qin Guang spoke, His voice was extremely strange.

Like metal striking metal, yet also like wind across plains, filled with a contradictory mixture of the illusory and the real.

But the meaning in His words was crystal clear.

“From ancient times to now, in all directions and dimensions, through the six paths of samsara, no one can escape! Even you are the same!”

“Hum!”

The instant His words fell, Lord Qin Guang had already extended His hand to point at him from afar!

The entire Extreme Domain seemed to shake.

The next moment, interwoven golden light appeared throughout the entire Extreme Domain, like a net covering heaven and earth, thread by thread, connecting all things in heaven and earth, all living beings in this realm!

Standing within it and looking around, it was simply like being in a brilliant galaxy.

However, at this moment Fu Chaosheng clearly realized the danger!

That aura that made him wary suddenly clung to every golden thread around him, as if the slightest touch could tear apart one’s soul!

With his eyesight, how could he not recognize this?

These countless golden threads that pierced from heaven to earth connected the fates of countless beings in this realm controlled by samsara!

They interwove with each other, entangled with each other, intricate and complex.

At a glance, they were all ups and downs, life and death!

The moment they appeared, they carried the same natural indifference as Lord Qin Guang, wandering and weaving through heaven and earth. In just an instant, they detected something and all burrowed toward him together!

Fate’s binding—born at dawn, dead at dusk!

Beings like him should originally be within samsara, unable to turn over, but he had broken free from samsara and safely passed through every day and night, naturally becoming the target attacked by the endless strings of fate in this heaven and earth!

In such a moment, Lord Qin Guang’s gaze actually didn’t fall on Fu Chaosheng, but instead fell on the countless wandering golden threads between heaven and earth. In His dark gold pupils, there was vaguely a strange smile.

Fu Chaosheng actually felt very cold.

Not only because of Lord Qin Guang’s transcendent attitude at this moment, but also because of the feeling these countless golden threads gave him.

A kind of…

Malice.

Among all living beings in heaven and earth, how many existed in obscurity, living mediocre lives? All living creatures were nothing more than being born and destroyed under the manipulation of fate as thin as harp strings!

Heaven and earth are not benevolent, treating all things as straw dogs.

If that was the case, why would they allow a mayfly that should be born at dawn and die at dusk to gain eternal life?

And why wasn’t the one who gained eternal life any one of them?

Human nature, demon nature, all were evil nature.

They weren’t driven by Lord Qin Guang at all, but attacked him on their own, as if wanting to obliterate such an existence that exceeded the ordinary!

Unfairness, jealousy…

All normal and abnormal emotions surged up madly at this moment, clinging to every thread, attacking him!

The half star in Fu Chaosheng’s chest suddenly accelerated its beating, stirring his trembling in this instant. He was suddenly somewhat slower, and though his form quickly became void, avoiding the golden threads that suddenly drilled toward his heart from heaven and earth, his neck was still grazed slightly.

Just like an ordinary person having their skin scraped.

But what flowed out wasn’t fresh blood, or even demon blood, but wisps of substantial black qi!

If anyone who had fought with Shao Ji were standing here, they would probably recognize at a glance: these wisps of black qi were exactly the same as that primordial deity Shao Ji!

Unfortunately, most of the Extreme Domain’s seventy-two cities had already been destroyed, the Jiushijiu Zhou cultivators were still on their way, and in the hasty battle it was already difficult to notice such small details, not to mention that Fu Chaosheng’s demon body was naturally born, with extremely fast recovery speed. That small wound disappeared without a trace in an instant.

So even Lord Qin Guang didn’t notice.

He only clearly saw that in the instant Fu Chaosheng avoided these endless strings of fate, his face showed a moment of pallor.

That was brought by the golden thread that had just cut his neck.

It really couldn’t be considered any substantial damage, and he couldn’t even feel any pain. However, the feeling at that moment was hair-raising!

Those incredibly vivid yet incredibly ugly emotions drilled into his body through the wound!

In just an instant, they reached his heart!

A sharp shriek thus rang in his ears, carrying infinite twisted unfairness and unwillingness: “Why, why, why, among the six paths of samsara, why are you alone eternally immortal! Die, go die—”

“Hahaha…”

As if completely seeing through the impact Fu Chaosheng was currently suffering, Lord Qin Guang had already burst into laughter. Knowing that the struggle between Him and Fu Chaosheng was all about so-called “Dao” and so-called “heart,” He thus didn’t need any earth-shaking exchanges, only clapped His hands meaningfully.

“How does the taste of human nature feel?”

Fu Chaosheng only felt that the consciousness that invaded his body along with the golden threads was cold and disgusting. With his strength, just a slight movement of thought extinguished it in his powerful demon consciousness. However, that insect-like sticky, cold feeling clung like a bone-deep malady that couldn’t be dispelled!

His brow immediately furrowed tighter, and his ink-green pupils suddenly turned pale.

As his form spun rapidly, he strenuously avoided these nearly omnipresent lifelines weaving through heaven and earth. But at the same time, the demonic evil qi buried deep in his soul also exploded in this predicament of being pressed step by step!

Without him needing to say another word, the Kun floating in mid-heaven already understood his intention. In such an instant, it forcibly crashed through those countless lifelines like a net covering heaven and earth, diving down from the heights of this void!

It was simply like the sky was falling!

The enormous shadow approached from far to near. When Lord Qin Guang had almost all His attention focused on Fu Chaosheng, it had already effortlessly approached that “black lotus” constructed from the twisted dozen or so cities!

“Boom!”

The great fish’s tail swipe!

How enormous was the Kun’s true body? Even these living cities that appeared terrifyingly massive in others’ eyes were nothing more than small fish before it.

Black scales flashed under the light, and the terrifyingly large fish tail had already slapped down!

“Crack crack crack—”

It was completely a crushing that ignored rules and ignored power!

No matter how strong Lord Qin Guang was, He was only strong in being able to use samsara’s rules to check opponents, but regarding power and other rules themselves, He had no restrictions.

So even though the cities below were also His avatars, at this moment they were completely collapsed under the pressure!

They were directly crushed to powder!

“Rumble…”

At the position where Bafang City originally stood, not even a single standing stone could be seen. That giant “black lotus” was deeply pressed into the ground, and all the outer “lotus petals” formed by the twisted cities of the Extreme Domain cracked, crumbled, and collapsed!

With the place where the Kun’s giant tail struck as the center, a huge pit actually appeared on the ground!

Its scope completely covered the original Bafang City, even spreading toward the surroundings, collapsing layer after layer…

And the secret that had originally been hidden beneath was finally revealed.

At the deepest part of Bafang City’s underground was actually a dark lake. The boardwalks in the lake had all been destroyed in the recent shaking, but the giant axe at the end of the boardwalk, in the center of the lake’s whirlpool, remained unharmed.

Only at this moment, both yin and yang qi simultaneously wrapped around it, making it difficult to see clearly.

Only a black and white bead on the axe’s spine was gradually taking shape, its outline clear, almost about to become substantial!

The golden lights that had previously appeared on Lord Qin Guang’s body also appeared on the axe body, and thousands upon thousands of lifelines wound around the axe!

However, under the power of the Kun’s tail, the heavy axe body also suffered vibration.

With just that light tremor, all the golden threads between heaven and earth suddenly brightened, then flickered unstably, actually breaking and disappearing without a trace in an instant!

Lord Qin Guang was immediately shocked and furious!

Shocked because after several rounds of fighting with Fu Chaosheng, the opponent seemed to have never noticed the movements below at Bafang City, so He thought He had already held the opponent back, not expecting the opponent to suddenly strike;

Furious because the refinement of the Ghost Axe was at a critical moment, even just a little bit away, and if something went wrong at this moment, all previous efforts would be wasted, with unimaginable consequences!

How could He still care about using these thousands of lifelines trapped in samsara to target Fu Chaosheng? Without thinking, He wanted to turn back to defend, intending to block the Kun’s further attacks below.

But how could Fu Chaosheng let Him have His way?

From beginning to end, he had been very clear-headed!

Though this battle with Lord Qin Guang was unavoidable, Jian Chou’s purpose in staying at the mortuary to face enemies alone so that he could come here was truly to stop His secret schemes.

The key lay in the Reincarnation Pool below!

When Lord Qin Guang wanted to withdraw, he didn’t stop Him, only pointing from afar toward the Reincarnation Pool below at the moment He was about to arrive!

In an instant, the huge pit disappeared without a trace!

What appeared before Lord Qin Guang had become ruins of cities!

And the previous Reincarnation Pool and that huge pit had appeared out of nowhere in the southeast of the earth!

Manipulating space, shifting forms and changing shadows!

With just this one finger, Lord Qin Guang struck empty air!

When He sensed that faint spatial fluctuation, He had already realized something was wrong. At this moment, with archaic golden text floating on His face, He formed hand seals intending to likewise wield spatial power and have a proper magical battle with Fu Chaosheng to move the Reincarnation Pool back.

Who would have expected that just as He formed the seals, a jade-green bamboo staff descended from heaven!

“Rustle rustle rustle…”

Between heaven and earth, there actually seemed to be the swaying sound of wind blowing through bamboo forests.

The next moment, endless verdant bamboo forest phantoms, accompanying this nine-sectioned bamboo staff’s descent, without explanation enveloped Lord Qin Guang within!

Simultaneously, a towering and precipitous rust-red sword qi thunderously struck down from dozens of li away. Without the person approaching, without the sword approaching, that profound and domineering sword intent already shrouded all directions!

Heaven gave me talent for a purpose, when gold is spent it will return again!

Even if rotten wood, even if iron rust, as long as the heart remains, one dares to be a sword!

Those coming to aid—

Two great powerhouses!

Yashan’s Fudao, Kunwu’s Hengxu!