The tearing of the Dao Basis signified inevitable demise.
Gu Jing's life had already begun its final countdown.
His face, originally pale and withered from the damage to his Dao Basis, now took on an additional layer of ashen death. The slight, uncontrollable tremor in his fingertips was the external sign of his Dao Basis collapsing, his Spiritual Platform disintegrating, and his Dao essence flowing away.
However, he did not direct his final sharpness towards Caiyun and Sun-Eroding, who were right before him.
Gu Jing's gaze suddenly locked onto Lou Ye in the distance, who was locked in fierce combat with Qiu Siruo.
Countless emerald-green vines imbued with the meaning of withering and flourishing sprang into existence out of thin air, instantly traversing the battlefield to entangle Lou Ye, who was channeling Immortal Qi with all his might.
Crimson-gold flames that could burn the heavens and boil the seas clashed violently with Qiu Siruo's glazed sword light.
This sudden sneak attack caused his expression to change drastically.
In haste, he could only forcibly split his focus, break through the restrictions of the world's laws, and summon several wisps of Dao essence to defend against Gu Jing's ambush, while his body retreated to its absolute limit.
Immediately after, Gu Jing gave Qiu Siruo a look.
No words were needed; Qiu Siruo understood perfectly.
Qiu Siruo used her sword to slash a dark rift in the void, then transformed into a glazed-colored rainbow light and plunged into it.
Her figure turned into a brilliant, glazed long rainbow and without the slightest hesitation, she fled into the rift and vanished.
"Dare you!"
Realman Sun-Eroding's eyes widened. He immediately slashed out a strand of Dao essence, attempting to sever the causal connection between Qiu Siruo and that rift, thereby preventing her from escaping this Heavenly Summit Mountain.
Gu Jing acted once more.
The dark rift that had originally appeared in the palm of his left hand began extending to his left wrist. The laws of heaven and earth began to collapse further. The Dao essence slashed out by Realman Sun-Eroding was instantly annihilated by the disintegrating laws.
"Today, I must ask you all to slumber here forever."
The dark crack continued to spread from Gu Jing's wrist towards his arm. At this rate, it probably wouldn't be long before his entire body was completely devoured and replaced by the dark fissure.
"Is Realman Gu truly so confident?"
Lou Ye, the True Person Xuzhou of Lingxiao Temple, snorted coldly, then continued:
"With just Realman Gu alone, forget about perishing here, I'm afraid you won't even be able to harm the slightest bit of our foundations."
Immediately after, Lou Ye flipped his palm, and the Great Sun Seal, the treasure that guarded Lingxiao Temple, appeared in his grasp.
Next, the old man wearing the deep cyan Mirage Palace daoist robes also flicked his sleeve.
A silver blade appeared in his hand.
Added to the slowly rotating bronze tower—
Three Ascenders: Caiyun, Sun-Eroding, and Xuzhou.
Plus three immortal artifacts: the Abyssal Tower, the Thousand Clouds Blade, and the Great Sun Seal.
And their opponent was just Realman Lingxuan, Gu Jing, empty-handed, destroying his own Dao Basis, fighting with all his might.
"Is that so?"
Gu Jing's expression remained unchanged, calm and composed.
Suddenly, Realman Sun-Eroding's face changed drastically. He looked up at the churning sky above:
"How is this possible?"
They saw that pure white palace, originally suspended high in the firmament, symbolizing the supreme authority of Heavenly Summit Mountain, was now descending with a terrifying posture that seemed slow but was actually unstoppable, a descent that caused space itself to congeal!
"Has anyone ever told you all that the dao artifacts of my Heavenly Summit Mountain are not limited to just the Heavenly Summit Mirror..."
Gu Jing said lightly.
There is also, the Heavenly Summit Palace.
...
Fierce winds cold enough to freeze the soul howled past his ears.
Chen Yan felt like a leaf caught in a storm, swept along by an irresistible force, tearing through the cloud layers and skimming over shattered mountains and rivers at a terrifying speed that his thoughts could barely keep up with.
The common people were plunged into an abyss of misery.
The collapse of the world's laws triggered by the battle between great powers of the Immortal Ascension Realm was affecting every inch of land on Chenping Continent.
Gripped in the hand of Realman Shuangyu, Chen Yan was flying south across Chenping Continent at a speed he found unimaginable.
Below, the vast Southern Region of Chenping Continent receded rapidly in his vision, mountains, rivers, lakes, and seas turning into blurred patches of color.
At this current speed, in no more than a dozen breaths, he could traverse the tens of millions of *li* distance of the entire Southern Region of Chenping Continent from Heavenly Summit Mountain and arrive at Fusheng Island.
Why?
Chen Yan still did not understand why Kong Yang had given him True Person Minghua's Dao Basis, nor did he understand why Realman Shuangyu had intervened to snatch him away from Heavenly Summit Mountain and send him to Fusheng Island.
If Mr. You was manipulating everything behind the scenes, but...
The boundless expanse of azure sea at the southernmost border of Chenping Continent appeared before Chen Yan's eyes.
Then, in the blink of an eye, he was casually tossed onto the sand by Realman Shuangyu, Yin Xia.
"Cough, cough!"
Chen Yan coughed with difficulty a couple of times.
Then he raised his head. The city that appeared before his eyes, which he had seen before, was precisely Fusheng City on Fusheng Island.
The absolute forbidden land of the Chenping Continent cultivation world.
"... That person told me to send you here."
Realman Shuangyu said:
"Time is short. Hurry and go inside."
Chen Yan said nothing. He just climbed up from the ground with considerable effort, then looked at Fusheng City before him and shook his head:
"I can't enter."
"What do you mean?"
Yin Xia asked.
"To enter this Fusheng City, one must use the Dao Basis of an Immortal Ascension Realm cultivator as a key."
Chen Yan explained:
"Originally, I obtained True Person Minghua's Dao Basis, but on the way to Fusheng Island, the Dao Basis was seized by Pure Dust True Person..."
"Why didn't you say so earlier?"
Yin Xia wasn't questioning Chen Yan, but rather complaining to Mr. You.
At that very moment, a sudden change occurred.
Before Yin Xia, a dark rift split open without any warning, but soon the edges of the rift were covered by flowing, glazed light flames.
Glazed sword energy slashed out from the void. Realman Shuangyu's eyes turned sharp, and she immediately broke through the laws of heaven and earth, using her Dao essence to directly withstand Qiu Siruo's glazed sword energy.
The next instant, Qiu Siruo's figure manifested from the rift.
Her body was still covered with numerous cracks, and glazed-colored light flames slowly flowed from within them.
Violent spiritual energy of heaven and earth surged incessantly towards Qiu Siruo's direction. This was her method of resisting the backlash and wear on her Dao Basis from the laws.
"So that's it. The reason you went to such great lengths to obtain Minghua's Dao Basis was to enter Fusheng City?"
Qiu Siruo shook her head:
"A pity. True Person Minghua's Dao Basis has already been refined by me into the Heavenly Summit Palace. So, no matter what you are plotting, it should all end now."
The scene fell into silence, until it was broken by that clear, young cultivator's voice:
"Is that so? Could it be that in this world, there is only True Person Minghua's Dao Basis?"
Mr. You, with his hands clasped behind his back and a composed smile on his face, had appeared at some point in a corner to the side, as if he had been watching everything all along. Then he turned his gaze onto Chen Yan:
"Aren't there two Dao Bases right here, available for you to enter Fusheng City?"
Upon hearing this, Chen Yan was momentarily stunned, but quickly realized what Mr. You was referring to.
Yin Xia and Qiu Siruo behind Chen Yan also clearly understood what this young cultivator before them meant, and their expressions instantly became as if facing a formidable enemy.
The Dao Bases of Realman Shuangyu and Pure Dust True Person could also become keys to enter Fusheng City!