Post-Mythical Era: I don't want to die in the third reincarnation

Chapter 1245 - 1238: Sacrificial Dao

In just half an incense stick's time, Jia Baihe realized no matter how she tried to escape, she couldn't outrun the speed of the withering heaven and earth.

At most, in just two or three hours, she and Yi Jie would inevitably be swept into this decaying world.

Despair flickered in Jia Baihe's eyes. She had come to the First Universe to search for Ding Huan.

Now that she hadn't found Ding Huan, nor had she stepped into the ninth step of the Great Dao, she would be inexplicably taken away by the withering heaven and earth.

"Mistress, I feel we are doomed." Yi Jie also realized that today might be the day they lost their lives here.

Jia Baihe sighed. How could she not know they were doomed today?

Knowing that sending a message to Ding Huan was pointless, Jia Baihe still took out a Communication Bead and sent a message.

"Mistress, are you sending a message to Mr. Huan?" Yi Jie's voice quivered slightly.

Despite its usual fearless demeanor, facing such a certain death situation, it was equally flustered.

"I fear I won't have a chance for reincarnation. If one day you can reincarnate with memory, tell Ding Huan that I perished in the Eightfold Expanse Canyon..."

"You know Ding Huan?"

Before Jia Baihe could finish her sentence, a sudden voice interrupted her.

Immediately, a purple-bearded man abruptly appeared before her.

Having reincarnated once, Jia Baihe knew it was difficult to reincarnate with memory a second time, so she was leaving instructions to Yi Jie.

Yet, unexpectedly, in this desolate place, someone heard her words.

"Who are you?" Jia Baihe stared in shock at the man before her.

Just now, under her Divine Will, there was absolutely no one.

Moreover, while the purple-bearded man spoke, he seemed entirely unconcerned about the impending withering heaven and earth.

Before the purple-bearded man could speak, another voice suddenly arose: "He should be called Jiqiong."

Then another person appeared here.

The newcomer was of medium build, with ordinary looks, carrying a Hua Ji on his back.

Jia Baihe couldn't sense any Daoist Rhythm from this person, immediately realizing he was equally extraordinarily powerful.

"Is it you?" The purple-bearded man looked at the newcomer with a slight frown.

Jia Baihe hurriedly retreated tens of meters with Yi Jie.

She didn't flee; she knew escaping in front of these two was a joke.

The newcomer chuckled at Jiqiong, then turned to Jia Baihe and said, "Fellow Daoist, do you indeed know Mr. Ding Huan?"

Jia Baihe calmly replied, "Ding Huan is my husband."

"Good."

After the newcomer said one word, he reached out and grasped the Hua Ji: "Jiqiong, today I am determined to protect this lady. If you have enmity with Ding Huan, go directly to him.

To deal with his Dao companion is not the demeanor of a Daoist."

The purple-bearded man laughed wildly: "An Ting, do you seriously think that while I am in the declining Dao process, I can't handle you?"

Jia Baihe looked doubtfully at the purple-bearded man, then at the cultivator named An Ting.

She didn't know either of them, nor had she heard of them.

One thing she was certain: both Jiqiong and An Ting knew Ding Huan.

Moreover, Jiqiong had enmity with Ding Huan, and An Ting seemed to want to help her after learning she was Ding Huan's Dao companion.

An Ting said casually: "Indeed, I do think you can't handle me.

If your true self were here, I would have to avoid it. Right now, you're at most a shadow, what can you do to me?"

After speaking, An Ting took out a Flying Shuttle: "Fellow Daoist, you and your Beast Pet, board the shuttle now, we're leaving. He can't do anything to us."

After knowing Jia Baihe knew Ding Huan, An Ting wanted to help her escape.

Above the Great Dao, there's no eternal hatred.

Besides, he and Ding Huan aren't even considered enemies, times change.

He absolutely trusted his judgment and vision; otherwise, he wouldn't have given the Primordial Dao Principle to Ye Sha.

If he hadn't let Ye Sha have the Primordial Dao Principle, he would be one of the three in the vast Dao.

Facts proved his choice was not wrong.

If he merged with that Primordial Dao Principle, he would be forever confined to this vast realm, never able to escape it.

Now, with the vast realm about to change drastically, he qualified to leave it.

This time he equally trusted his vision.

Ding Huan's strength he'd seen with his own eyes, stronger than himself.

Moreover, Ding Huan had two friends equally stronger than him.

Ding Huan, having just stepped into the ninth step of the vast Great Dao, was stronger; in the future, he would surely not be weaker than Jiqiong.

The vast realm is about to transform, even collapse.

Everyone, including him, is searching for a way out.

Future beings capable of countering Jiqiong can only be Ding Huan and his friends, only those few people.

Because their Great Dao seemed to have avoided the rules and all Origin Principles under the vastness.

If he didn't join Ding Huan's side, he could only join Jiqiong's side.

Who is Jiqiong?

This guy would never put his life in his eyes even with An Ting joining.

To Jiqiong, even the vast realm is disposable, would he care about ants at his side?

Originally, he was thinking about how to find Ding Huan and make acquaintance with him.

He even envied Jian Tian's good foresight more than once.

Now this good opportunity appeared, how could he miss it?

Jiqiong stared at An Ting, his eyes full of mockery.

An Ting felt a vague unease rise in his heart.

Just as he was about to speak, Jiqiong calmly said: "Do you think that was done by my Decline Dao?"

An Ting looked up at the depleting heavens drawing closer, furrowing his brows.

In fact, he only knew that for Jiqiong to take the grand ninth step, he must decline and sacrifice Dao.

Based on his understanding of the Grand Dao and Grand Source Principle, this was a tiered Dao process.

This means that to take the grand ninth step, sacrifice Dao must follow decline Dao.

How can one sacrifice Dao without first declining it?

The Decline Dao affects oneself.

Even a fool wouldn't use their real body to enter the process of Decline Dao.

Therefore, An Ting believed that although Jiqiong before him was in Decline Dao, this wasn't Jiqiong's physical self, but rather a projection sacrificed for the Decline Dao.

After all, Jiqiong only needs to decline his own Grand Dao, not his physical body.

This was the main reason he did not dread this Jiqiong in front of him.

No matter how powerful Jiqiong is, he's just a mere projection, what can he do to me?

However, now Jiqiong let him look at the withering state of Heaven and Earth, which was clearly not something Decline Dao could achieve.

Decline Dao declines oneself, Sacrifice Dao sacrifices the firmament.

"Are you in Sacrifice Dao?" An Ting suddenly realized.

Upon saying these words, An Ting felt a tingling on his scalp, and his whole body began to tremble.

Since it was Sacrifice Dao, the Jiqiong before him must be his real self.

Although An Ting considered himself no less capable than any of the Three Daos, he was well aware that before Jiqiong's true form, he might not even have a chance to escape.

Originally, An Ting was planning to seize the opportunity to control the Flying Treasure and escape rapidly.

But if Jiqiong's true form was here, not to mention escaping, he probably couldn't even reach his Flying Treasure.

At this moment, he could only desperately fortify his Dao Domain, contemplating a means of escape.

"Not entirely foolish."

After Jiqiong spoke, he pointed forward.

An Ting felt his Dao Domain disintegrating wildly, with the endless aura of death from below enveloping him.

An Ting could not break free in the slightest.

He could only call upon his Hua Ji, burning the Taoist Rhythm and cleaving forward with a strike.

Even in death, he wouldn't die disgracefully.

Perhaps he could seize the chance to flee.

Boom!

An Ting's Dao Domain rendered no resistance against this point, and the killing aura of his halberd shattered instantly.

An Ting's face was ashen.

...

Outside the Eightfold Expanse Canyon, a golden Star Core came to a stop.

The Star Core was controlled by Ye Xuan, and apart from Ye Xuan, there were also Mo Wuji and Lan Xiaobu standing on it.

Upon receiving the message from Ding Huan, Mo Wuji and Lan Xiaobu immediately brought the eight Vast Star Maps to the Vast Dao Ruins.

However, at this moment, the eight Star Maps were sealed on Ye Xuan's Vast Star Core, and not incorporated into their own universe.

"Wuji, Xiao Bu, do you see, is Eightfold Expanse Canyon withering?" Ye Xuan pointed to the endless yellowing. After the yellowing, the void continued to disappear, his voice tinged with unease.

After all, he was a ninth-step Grand Dao cultivator and had never seen such a terrifying scene.

The vastness withered, then disappeared into the universe, it was simply appalling.

At least with a Calamity, one could see the fracturing of Heaven and Earth rules, the collapse of all things…

But before them, they only saw the dissipation of Heaven and Earth.

It seemed as if Heaven and Earth Rules, the Law of All Things, the Cosmic Origin Principle all did not exist.

If this continued, the entire vastness would dissolve, let alone the first universe.

Mo Wuji and Lan Xiaobu, naturally, noticed this horrifying scene.

"Someone wants to sacrifice the first universe…" Mo Wuji instantly recognized that someone was in Sacrifice Dao.

Lan Xiaobu drew out the Longevity Halberd: "It must be Jiqiong, this bastard. He probably intends not just to sacrifice the first universe, but the entire vastness."

Only Yi Yuan Jiqiong could be in Sacrifice Dao.

"Shall we go?" Ye Xuan asked.

"Isn't it obvious?" Mo Wuji also drew out the Mortal Halberd.

All the way here, they constantly set up various Teleportation Arrays.

Since the central hub of the first universe was too far from the Vast Dao Ruins, and the Grand Source Principle fluctuations were irregular.

It was impossible to set up a one-time Teleportation Array.

They could only keep setting mid-route Teleportation Arrays so they could promptly return to the central hub of the first universe, the Void City, if needed.

This Void City, which they painstakingly established, although it was the second Void City.

In the future, it will surely surpass the Shifang Universe City and become the first Universe City.

For Mo Wuji and Lan Xiaobu, they had long regarded the first universe as their backyard.

If someone wanted to sacrifice their backyard, it wasn't acceptable even if it was Yi Yuan Jiqiong, let alone ten of him.

Ye Xuan drew out the Vast Star Sword, and the Vast Star Core vanished from its original spot, reappearing between Jiqiong and An Ting.

At this moment, a bloodline appeared at An Ting's forehead.

Blood continued to seep out, and the Taoist Rhythm of his Dao disintegrated frantically.

Just one move earlier had left him critically injured, even when Jiqiong hadn't intended to kill him.

By now, he was certain that this was indeed Yi Yuan's true form before him.

(Good night, fellow Daoist!)