Master of Strange Dao

Chapter 1691 - 456: Ruthless and Merciless, Elderly People

He was certain the Mountain Lord would definitely make a move, so he made one of the four fragments clearly larger than the others.Once the Mountain Lord stopped that largest piece, he definitely wouldn't be able to stop the other three that had split off.

And the places those three pieces would fall were precisely Dazhen, Dali, and Dadui.

Those three pieces couldn't destroy the material world, but severely wounding the Three Divine Dynasties' vitality was still very likely.

Old Emperor Qian was already paving the way for what would come next.

Yu Ziqing's face was grim as he looked toward Yang.

Yang's face was as dark as water as he spoke.

"There's no chance to intercept them in the Void anymore."

"I'll head back first."

"Go back. He can't do anything to me."

Yu Ziqing took one last look at Old Emperor Qian in the distance. The White Bone Divine Bridge rose under his feet; he directly opened the Bridge of Fairyland and returned to the material world.

A strange gleam flashed in Old Emperor Qian's eyes. He knew that Emperor Dui could make it in time, so the fragment falling toward Dadui would definitely be useless.

Emperor Dui had ways to act as a final safeguard.

But as for Dazhen and Dali, that was far from certain.

Old Emperor Qian's expression was calm, his gaze indifferent; he simply did not care how many people died.

The original path could no longer be walked; he needed to return to the material world to break through, and given the current situation, he would certainly be the enemy of the entire world.

When he attempted his breakthrough, countless people would inevitably come to stop him.

He wasn't afraid, but if risks could be avoided, it was best to avoid them in advance, to let his path to breakthrough be a bit smoother.

And in passing, he would lay the groundwork for what he planned to do afterwards.

He glanced at Yang, pondering whether he was confident enough to keep the True Dragon there as well.

But just as the thought arose, he saw Yang put away the Light Halo Compass in his palm and vanish in an instant, so he pressed the thought down.

He no longer had the chance.

As for the strongest, the Mountain Lord—he had never cared about him from beginning to end.

He had gone deliberately to that dead world to draw on the remaining divine charm of the Ancient Gods there, step by step, calculating everything with perfect clarity.

It was precisely because he knew clearly that by walking the Ancient God's Dao there, he no longer had to worry about dying at the Mountain Lord's hand.

With that bottom line guaranteed, and with the Mountain Lord already having personally acted once this time, then next time, no matter how strong the Mountain Lord's power was, it would not be of much use against him.

Once they were in the material world, the restrictions on the Mountain Lord would be even greater.

Because the Mountain Lord simply did not dare display, in the material world, the power he had unleashed in the Void. One only had to look at that dead world to understand.

The Mountain Lord was that one who possessed world-destroying power.

If the material world completed its evolution, and one wanted to destroy it and utterly annihilate the Ancient Gods, only the Mountain Lord could do it.

When Old Emperor Qian first learned of the Mountain Lord, he even felt a trace of envy. What an unimaginably mighty power that was—how could a human reach such a level?

Later, as he learned more and more, and as he himself grew stronger and stronger—

The existence of the Mountain Lord made him understand another truth.

Humans have limits.

Since ancient times, the strongest in sheer power still had limits.

Even the Mountain Lord, whose power was so great that even he himself could not fully control it.

So many sages of the past, in terms of pure strength, not one had reached the Mountain Lord's level; they had all walked other paths.

The path Old Emperor Qian chose was the Ancient God's Dao.

...

Yu Ziqing walked off the small bridge and lifted his head. Above the sky dome, light had already begun to appear.

Not only over Dadui's sky—in the northwest direction, light could be seen emerging as well.

Yu Ziqing's face was grave. He took a single step, and his figure vanished.

As for Dali and Dazhen, he couldn't do anything about them; he could only manage Dadui's side.

He didn't plan to use the Dadui Sealing Skill either. Since that thing had been forbidden, unless it was absolutely necessary, he wouldn't use it.

In the sky above Jinlan Mountain, a pitch-black rift appeared, and Yang walked out from within, shouting loudly toward Jinlan Mountain.

"Old man, get out here and work."

A blurred afterimage below, wrapped in detonating booms, shot straight upward.

The village chief appeared beside Yang. The two of them raised their heads together, looking up at the light gradually brightening on the sky dome.

"Let's go, old man. Give the youngsters a little shock, teach them a lesson."

The village chief glanced up, then laughed loudly, slapping a hand on Yang's shoulder.

In an instant, Yang took a step and vanished, while the village chief followed closely, by half a step with his Divine Skills, always staying within one step's distance of Yang.

The two old geezers charged into the Gang Wind Layer, ignoring the bone-scraping Gang Winds around them, watching that falling fragment collide fiercely with the Gang Wind Layer as Thunder Fire Gang Wind surged without cease.

A gigantic fragment stretching thousands of li was tumbling downward.

"Old man, can you shatter it in a single strike or not?"

"I'm afraid not." The village chief thought for a moment, then shook his head honestly.

"Alright, wait then."

Yang's body shook, transforming into his Black Dragon form. With a furious roar he charged straight up, his body turning into a streak of Divine Light as he plunged directly into the region of explosive, chaotic power.

He coiled around that enormous fragment, circling again and again. The surging Thunder Fire Gang Wind began to slowly diminish.

The already violently fluctuating space there began to ripple even more intensely, and the area shrouded by black light started to grow larger and larger.

Immediately afterward, within the range covered by the black light, a corner of that enormous fragment started to slowly shrink.

The shrinking area rapidly spread across the whole fragment. By the time the black light swept over once—

That colossal fragment of several thousand li in size had already had its diameter reduced by a full one-fifth.

The speed at which the black light swept grew faster and faster. After it swept over again, the fragment's diameter looked to have shrunk by another one-fifth.

After a third time, the gigantic fragment was only thirty to forty li in diameter.