novelraw Chapter 899 - 892: An Even More Ruthless Existence
Chapter 899 - 892: An Even More Ruthless Existence
Feng Gu appeared very old, no longer embodying the elegance he once had in the Tianmeng Tribe.
The decay of the Dao caused him to deteriorate quickly.
Nonetheless, he was the stabilizing force of the Tianmeng Tribe and currently the clan leader.
After Zai Xun and other Tianmeng Tribe powerhouses left the Great Universe, the tribe managed to survive under his protection.
Cang Jizhi proposed using the Tianmeng Tribe's Supreme Treasure, the Heavenly Meng Pearl, to ward off chaos and protect the tribe, a decision he made.
"Ji Zhi has come to see the clan leader." Cang Jizhi knocked on Feng Gu's closed retreat cave mansion, her tone exceedingly respectful.
Although she was only at the seventh step of the Great Dao, in terms of battle prowess now, she should have surpassed Clan Leader Feng Gu.
Feng Gu was indeed at the eighth step of the Great Dao. At that time, he was instrumental in driving chaos, was personally involved, and constantly defended the Tianmeng Tribe's borders.
Being in a space where chaos and Calamity Laws mixed, Feng Gu experienced the most severe Dao decay.
After Cang Jizhi paid her respects, she suddenly remembered that their Tianmeng Tribe had another eighth-step Great Dao powerhouse, Ti Yu.
It seemed Ti Yu Taishang went to the Wandao Mountains seeking a solution to Dao decay. After so many years, why was there no news?
No, there were only two eighth-step Great Dao powerhouses in the Tianmeng Tribe. Why did she overlook Ti Yu Taishang?
"It's Ji Zhi, how is your Great Dao?" Feng Gu's voice was also very elderly.
Cang Jizhi immediately set aside the matter of Ti Yu Taishang again and respectfully said, "Clan Leader, I always feel something is strange.
Previously, my Dao decay issues were suppressed, yet recently they have started to decay again. I've tried every solution to no avail, and moreover..."
Cang Jizhi frowned, what was she about to say?
She remembered that once her Dao decay was suppressed, they were to leave here for something very important.
But she was constantly entwined with the decaying Dao, how did she forget this matter?
Feng Gu sighed, "After the cosmic calamity, it's already remarkable that our Tianmeng Tribe managed to survive here.
However, recently, the rules of heaven and earth have abruptly changed, as if the chaotic aura is leaking out, infiltrating our place of survival, causing our Dao to decay once more.
Just like you, I find it difficult to suppress this decay, sigh..."
After hearing Feng Gu's words, Cang Jizhi's sense of unease intensified.
Clan Leader Feng Gu spoke in a garbled manner, not understanding what she wanted to convey.
There was definitely something very important she wanted to discuss, yet she couldn't recall at the moment.
That's right, she was supposed to undertake that matter only after her Dao decay was suppressed. Now that her Dao has started to decay again, she must put that matter aside.
For now, set it aside, after all, solving the Dao decay is the most important task.
"Clan Leader, do we need to go into seclusion to solve the Dao decay issue now?"
Feng Gu reached out and took out a Cosmic Dao Fruit, "Ji Zhi, take this fruit. Even though it has fewer Dao patterns, it should still help with your Dao decay."
"Clan Leader, I can't take it. You need this Dao fruit more."
"No need, I fear my Dao might never recover. Once you are well, lead our Tianmeng Tribe away... Hmm, perhaps leave this world..."
Feng Gu frowned, once again immersed in deep thought.
Cang Jizhi sighed, taking the Dao fruit as she stepped out of the Clan Leader's cave mansion. She must first address her own Dao decay.
...
Ding Huan was already standing in the chaos.
Ahead of him was a massive barrier, enshrouded by chaos. Even standing at its edge, Ding Huan's divine will couldn't cover the entire barrier.
When his divine will landed on this barrier, Ding Huan couldn't help but admire Hou Yucheng.
He couldn't perceive whether billions of Calamity Laws were enclosed within this barrier, nor did he understand how Hou Yucheng knew.
Ding Huan didn't understand barriers, but all are composed of laws, much like the Cosmic Wall.
This barrier before him was made up of countless Chaos Laws.
Few could refine such a barrier made of Chaos Laws, right?
But he should be capable.
He had already passed through the Cosmic Wall and integrated billions of its laws. How could he be worried about refining a single barrier?
The worst consequence would be the barrier exploding, and billions of Calamity Laws rampaging.
Even then, he had the Eternal God Wheel to protect him.
Merging universal Calamity Laws and Chaos Laws can easily lead to Dao decay.
Ding Huan wasn't concerned; he could resolve Dao decay for others, so why fear his own?
The Great Universe Technique Circulation succeeded, bringing not only the barrier into his Great Universe Cycle but also the surrounding chaos space.
Having already integrated nine-tenths of the chaos law in the chaotic outskirts of the Great Universe, this impure chaos posed no threat to Ding Huan's Dao.
For Ding Huan, never having encountered a barrier before, the barrier space before him seemed impervious.
His Great Universe Technique could sense the law fragments of the barrier but couldn't penetrate it.
With each cycle passing, Ding Huan became entirely fixated on the barrier.
Whatever attribute law inhibition, cutting law, eroding law, void law...
Anything applicable, Ding Huan tried.
For law issues, using laws to solve them was Ding Huan's approach.
This barrier, made of Chaos Laws, was still a law.
Ten years later, when Ding Huan captured the first law forming the barrier, a whole new cosmic picture unfolded before him.
If the cosmic wall is a point constructed by billions of laws, then the barrier can be said to be a plane formed by such countless cosmic walls.
A hundred years passed, and Ding Huan became utterly immersed in the profound laws of fusion within the barrier, unable to extricate himself.
Even though a century had passed, Ding Huan was still wandering outside the Quantitative Tribulation Barrier, not even touching the laws of quantitative tribulation within.
His Chaos Law Sea was continually expanding, and the endless new chaos laws were being comprehended by Ding Huan, then filled into his Chaos Law Sea.
Ding Huan was sure these chaos laws were brought by the tribulation and did not originally exist within chaos.
Immersed in the formation of the barrier, Ding Huan completely forgot his purpose.
He came to comprehend the laws of quantitative tribulation, not to understand the barrier.
He once thought that beyond the Divine Array was the Dao Array.
When he arranged the Dao Array, no one taught him; from start to finish, he explored and advanced on his own.
Upon touching this natural Quantitative Tribulation Barrier, Ding Huan realized that the barrier was the ultimate endpoint of all protecting arrays.
No matter how the Dao Array is arranged, there are always traces to follow.
If one can arrange the barrier completely, it truly leaves no trace.
If there is a trace, it is one's own great Dao trace.
...
Hou Yucheng had been in seclusion cultivating in the Wan Dao Mountain Range, always keeping an eye on the Wan Dao Abyss, while waiting for Ding Huan to emerge.
To his disappointment, a hundred years passed, and Ding Huan didn't even leave a trace.
What excited him was that although Ding Huan hadn't appeared, the Tian Meng Clan in the Wan Dao Mountain Range had truly become extinct.
After personally witnessing two Tian Meng Clan cultivators' Great Daos collapse and perish, Hou Yucheng wholeheartedly believed Ding Huan's words.
That was, Ding Huan not only set the collapsing Dao law against the Tian Meng Clan here but also arranged the Genetic Slaughter Law targeting the Tian Meng Clan.
The collapsing Dao law alone could only cause the Great Dao of the Tian Meng Clan cultivators to vanish.
But the Genetic Slaughter Law, besides causing the Great Dao of the Tian Meng Clan cultivators to vanish, could also slaughter the Tian Meng Clan cultivators.
Truly strong.
Hou Yucheng admired deeply; he felt that besides Wu Ji, Ding Huan was the strongest in comprehension of the Great Dao he had ever seen.
Understanding the terrifying nature of Ding Huan's genetic slaughter, Hou Yucheng simply hid at the edge of the Wan Dao Abyss.
Whenever he saw a Tian Meng Clan cultivator trying to escape into the Wan Dao Abyss, he would directly ambush and kill them.
Because Ding Huan's collapsing Dao law and Genetic Slaughter Law were so strong, over the years, Hou Yucheng had only ambushed twice.
Most Tian Meng Clan cultivators never even reached the Wan Dao Abyss.
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Tian Meng Clan.
Clan Leader Feng Gu suddenly opened his eyes and then stood up in terror.
Upon again touching his thought of the eighth step of the Great Dao, he suddenly remembered something.
That was, long ago, the Tian Meng Clan, under his and a few other strong people's consultation, made a decision.
After suppressing the Dao's collapse, they would immediately leave the Wan Dao Abyss, wipe out all Human Clan cultivators in the Great Universe, and then enter the Great Universe.
Only in a broader place could the Tian Meng Clan completely solve the issue of the collapse.
But he somehow forgot this matter, not only that, he also remembered that long ago, the Daoist Venerable Cang Jizhi of the Tian Meng Clan had come to him, and it seemed to be about this matter too.
Cang Jizhi might not have been clear, but Feng Gu was well aware.
Before the Great Universe's calamity, the reason the Tian Meng Clan almost annihilated the Human Tribe was because of the Forgetting Dao Principle.
Now he was sure that someone had laid the Forgetting Dao Principle in the space where the Tian Meng Clan was located.
Feng Gu was trembling all over; he knew this was his great Dao's final flash, meaning his days were numbered.
If he didn't get this message out in time, perhaps after his fall, no one in the Tian Meng Clan would remember about the Forgetting Dao Principle.
The fact that someone in the Human Tribe could lay the Forgetting Dao Principle was truly horrifying.
The opponent's arrangement of the Forgetting Dao Principle was specifically targeting the Tian Meng Clan to forget the existence of the Human Tribe. To achieve this, how well must they have mastered the Heaven and Earth Dao rules?
This was every bit as devastating as the Forgetting Dao Principle they once arranged against the Human Tribe...
"Quick, call Ti Yu, Cang Jizhi Daoist Venerable, Han Yi Daoist Venerable, and Ao Chui Daoist Venerable all here..." Feng Gu's voice was urgent and panicked.
He was clearly a strong person of the great Dao's eighth step, now like a wilted candle about to be extinguished in the wind.
No one responded to him. Feng Gu was in a daze for a while, seeming to forget the matter again.
Suddenly, he grabbed a long black needle and stabbed it into his brow.
Feeling invigorated, Feng Gu immediately activated the Tian Meng Clan's survival gathering order.
Under the harsh sound of Dao's call, Feng Gu's face grew more uneasy.
Not only the Forgetting Dao Principle but also the Collapsing Dao Principle.
This was a collapsing Dao principle specially targeting the Tian Meng Clan, capable of unraveling the Great Dao of Tian Meng Clan cultivators.
He remembered long ago. Yes, before the calamity, two ruthless individuals appeared in the Human Tribe.
Countless strong people of the Tian Meng Clan fell at their hands.
Yet, however ruthless, they did not lay a Collapsing Dao Principle for the Tian Meng Clan...
It was over. The Tian Meng Clan had encountered someone even more ruthless this time.