CHAPTER 1658: CHAPTER 1599: OBSERVING THE TRUE SPIRIT, REITERATING DAO TECHNIQUES!

Amidst the raging power, the illusory axe shadow emerged from the seated skeleton, condensing into a pitch-black battle axe with every breath.

However, the battle axe was covered in dense cracks, and some places had already collapsed. Yet, even so, it exuded an incomparable aura, as if it aimed to cleave open heaven and earth.

"The Chaos Divine Crystal and Battle Axe have merged. Besides, although the casting material used for forging the battle axe is not as good as Chaos Divine Copper, it is still a very precious main casting material. As for extracting the Chaos Divine Crystal from it, I believe there’s no need for me to intervene!"

Luli nodded affirmatively, and immediately the Mountain River Seal shone with a green light, directly suppressing the battle axe. In an instant, a terror-striking ferocity surged skyward from the battle axe.

Even in its broken state, it still carried a splendor that seemed to tear heaven and earth apart, with nothing able to make it cease its slaughter.

"Slaughter!"

In the next moment, the Ancestral Emperor of Ancient Desolation softly chanted, and the immense ferocity erupting from the battle axe abruptly halted.

Following that, it vanished in the blink of an eye, as if it had never appeared, replaced by a series of mournful wails, like a child crying out, causing one’s heart to tremble.

The battle axe floated and circled around the remnants of the Ancestral Emperor of Ancient Desolation’s body, continuously wandering, emitting a series of hums, even reaching out to touch the remains of the Ancestral Emperor of Ancient Desolation, crying as if lamenting, emanating a sense of desolation.

"Dust to dust, earth to earth, slaughter, slaughter, slaughter!"

Buzz!

In an instant, the battle axe let out a mournful cry, as if it had lost all vitality, falling directly to the ground, devoid of any spirit.

Crack!

The sound of shattering followed closely, and along the fine cracks, the black battle axe completely shattered. However, that mournful wailing lingered for a long time, never falling, penetrating time and space and echoing into the distance.

"I’m quite puzzled as to how you managed to survive. Although your body is somewhat damaged and the true spirit is in slumber, how did you manage to escape the great calamity? The Celestial Clan would not allow such an existence to escape!" After a long time, the Ancestral Emperor of Ancient Desolation spoke again.

"The Celestial Immortal Civilization advocates the Nature of The Dao, ascending to immortality, seeking the Dao with a clear heart. Before the final epoch-ending battle, my previous master sensed the approaching end and, with a single thought, took me, already severely injured, across endless time and space, bringing me to a desolate star in the deepest reaches of the starry sky. Later, after countless years of evolution, with changes as vast as seas turning to mulberry fields, the star revived..."

At this point, Luli fell silent, but the Ancestral Emperor of Ancient Desolation had already understood, and with a sense of solitude, he gently waved his hand.

Yet he suddenly realized, he was no longer that sovereign who once dominated heaven and earth, the founding Human Emperor who had inaugurated the Human Era. What remained was merely a will’s projection, exiled in the river of time. Despite possessing supreme great power, he had long become a different existence.

Once a companion in arms from the human clan’s strongest, was buried in the river of time, with even their bones turned to ash. And he, staying amidst the river of time, constantly looking back, was just waiting for the ultimate arrival.

The Mountain River Seal burst forth with a green light, collecting the shattered axe within, and Luli followed, merging inside, leaving the Mountain River Seal suspended in the void, continuously flickering with green light.

In the desolate space, a skeleton sat, the remaining will’s projection circulating the surroundings in solitude, eyes carrying the decay of time, along with desolation.

"Boundless Humanity Dao!"

A sigh seemed to penetrate the boundless years, traversing the long river of time, echoing for a long time, never falling. Finally, the deep, declining eyes turned towards that blood-colored heart.

At this moment, Xiao Chen, who had previously plunged into the blood-colored heart, was already in a daze. It wasn’t a momentary tremor of the soul that caused his mind to shake.

More like he was entirely in an indescribable state, like being illusory, yet able to sense his surroundings. In his perception, he seemed to be trapped in boundless mire, his entire body engulfed within, unable to find a foothold.

"The Ancestral Emperor of Ancient Desolation stated that the Primordial Spirit is an existence that steps into Chaos. Even if fallen with only the heart remaining, it still bears the unique imprints of the Dao from the initial opening of heaven, and may even retain scenes of its battle in Chaos."

This is a conquest surpassing the true spirit of the emperor. Observing such imprint scenes would be supreme fate for anyone.

The Primordial Spirit can be regarded as the embodiment of the Dao, imprinting oneself in the Chaotic World during a battle, giving rise to the Great Dao. This can be said to be the primordial method, the purest law.

"How to evoke these residual imprints?"

At this moment, Xiao Chen began to ponder. After all, he was now within the body of a Primordial Spirit, likely the last Primordial Spirit in the Desolate Wilds between heaven and earth.

"Resonance of the Dao!"

Quickly, Xiao Chen understood. Since it is the beginning of all Dao, naturally the basis of Dao law is the Dao. So one with Dao law can naturally resonate with the Dao. Speaking of which, post-archaic civilizations, and countless beings within them have been emulating the way and law belonging to the Primordial Spirit.

Even the Celestial Clan, throughout these civilizations spanning countless eras, follows suit. This is the beginning of the destiny of the Dao.

In an instant, Xiao Chen ignited with Heavenly Divine Light across all Heavens, forty-nine paths of the Great Dao Law converged into divine power, like a lamp in the darkness, bringing him a touch of warmth amidst the darkness.

Roar!

In an instant, at the moment when the heavenly divine light ignited, a roar seemed to traverse across heaven and earth, coming from endless ages ago, reaching Xiao Chen’s ears from afar.

Buzz!

At this moment, Xiao Chen’s eyes were no longer dark. Under his feet, boundless airstreams swirled, and as he walked, it seemed as if he could cross the entire starry sky with a single step, as if the stars were shifting.

The surrounding dark space seemed to be rapidly merging, transforming into a scene from another dimension. Under his feet appeared a shimmering blue light, with one great star after another circulating, exuding an indescribable brilliant starlight. Star rivers progressed, connecting star domains, yet these ancient stars were not round.

They appeared as if newly born, with bizarre shapes and jagged edges, some even as shattered lands, and the starry sky was extremely chaotic, constantly experiencing stellar collisions that burst into dazzling brilliance.

When Xiao Chen saw the blue light beneath his feet, it was a land exuding desolate aura, suspended in the vast spacetime, and its size was beyond his ability to measure.

No matter how hard he strained his eyesight, he couldn’t see clearly to what extent this aqua blue continent stretched; it seemed that wherever there was a starry sky, there was land.

It’s utterly unimaginable what kind of great power must have forged such a world-turning scene.

Roar!

Finally, that voice that shook his heart resounded again. From the aqua blue continent, a vague outline appeared, and as his divine light squinted slightly, he saw the full form of this hazy figure—an enormous ape, but with two heads and four arms.

In the next moment, this true spirit in the form of a giant ape stood on the aqua blue continent, and its head already reached the pinnacle of the endless sky vault; the entire heaven and earth weren’t even up to its shoulders, and the upper half had already penetrated into the void.

Four massive arms reached straight up, crushing several connected star domains directly.

And in the depths of the endless chaos, there was also a roar. It was a true spirit in the shape of an alligator but with nine tails, which transformed into nine star river divine whips, sweeping down directly.

There was no attempt to dodge, nor any overflow of law power; just like this, the giant ape and the alligator collided directly.

Roar!

The giant ape’s hand grabbed one of the alligator’s tails, intending directly to tear it off, while the alligator’s nine tails wound tightly around the giant ape.

The terrifying power shook, tearing heaven and earth into a series of terrifying great rifts, spreading into the distance, devouring countless stars and constellations.

The alligator opened its mouth, biting directly onto one of the giant ape’s heads, while the giant ape tore off one of the alligator’s tails. In an instant, blood colored the vast seas, and a gigantic tail, longer than even the longest star river in the starry sky, fell straight from the nine heavens.

Boom!

It fell directly onto the aqua blue continent below, followed by an explosive roar from the continent. A succession of blue lights burst open, and violent forces swept out, splitting the continent with a great rift stretching thousands of miles long, and a piece of land the size of a star domain detached from the main continent, crashing straight into the depths of the endless starry sky.

The impact caused heaven and earth to tremble directly.

Yet this was just the beginning. The hand-to-hand combat between the giant ape and the alligator continued to break through space-time, occasionally revealing heads from out beneath the chaos, letting Xiao Chen catch glimpses of their appearances.

The boundless and vast land beneath his feet kept crumbling with the outburst of power, and even one stomp from the giant ape shattered a section of the continent into thousands and thousands of pieces, which then surged into the starry sky.

Roar!

From deep within the continent, there was an earth-shattering roar, and the two primordial true spirits also roared in unison.

In the next moment, the scene before Xiao Chen’s eyes shifted, showing the two true spirits leaving the continent and plunging into the boundless chaos, commencing the most direct of collisions once more!

The terrifying power ceaselessly traversed through his body, and even though it was an influence left an unknown number of years ago, it still rendered him immobile.

"The nine-tailed alligator true spirit should belong to the Dao of Earth, to be able to maneuver so effectively."

Even under boundless oppression, Xiao Chen’s eyes were exceptionally bright. From that nine-tailed alligator-like true spirit, he sensed a familiar Dao technique.

The alligator true spirit seemed to be the embodiment of the Dao of Earth, the original source of earth; it counterattacked the giant ape, its body continually flashing with mysterious yellow light.

"No transformation of Dao techniques, but directly the most primordial essence attack of the laws; it seems my Dao is too entangled, overly ornate yet lacking a certain purity of power."

Gazing at the ongoing slaughter of afterimages, Xiao Chen felt his own insight within his mind, yet the massacre in front of him became increasingly violent. The two towering true spirits shattered the earth, stirring gigantic waves even in the chaos.

At this moment, he closed his eyes and concentrated, no longer watching the combat of the two great true spirits, for even the most straightforward physical clashes were too overwhelming for him.

What seemed to be a simple collision required him to painstakingly absorb. A few breaths later, within Xiao Chen’s soul world, an imprint of a nine-tailed alligator emerged. Although it was merely a vague glow, it allowed the Dao of Earth within him to stand out among the forty-nine great Daos!