Chapter 513 - 499: The Limit
Great Void Technique!
Origin Immortal Technique!
It is the most intuitive manifestation of the power of the Great Dao.
This is the true power of an Immortal.
At this moment, although Alkaid had yet to become a true Immortal, relying on the Dao Lord's peak control of the Dao and a realm application comparable to that of an Immortal Venerable, he prematurely displayed the power of an Immortal Level.
And this power...
It's the watershed between Dao Venerables and Dao Lords.
Perhaps at this moment, he hasn't reached the stature of those ancient Dao Venerables who suppressed an era, but when he fully unleashed his power, he could release a force comparable to that of a Dao Venerable, that is, an Immortal Level force.
Under this power, Dao Lord Xuan Mang couldn't resist at all.
Especially since his cultivation of the Mind Soul Dao wasn't good at direct combat.
The Great Void Path even stripped away his perception between him and the Mind Soul Dao.
As the basis for all Dao manifestations, this Great Void Technique directly deprived the Mind Soul Dao of the conditions to manifest in time, abruptly dropping this Dao Lord from his high status to a realm where even mind, void, and all other powers couldn't be sensed.
To some extent, his control over power plummeted to the Golden Core Realm where even the Void Force could not be invoked.
At most...
He was just an incredibly powerful Golden Core.
This is the terror of the Void Path!
When the Void Path truly transformed into an Origin Dao Technique and evolved into an Immortal Technique, it finally revealed its true power as one of the four greatest Supreme Daos!
Especially under the circumstances of realm suppression, this power climbed to its peak.
There was no suspense at all.
Dao Lord Xuan Mang perished on the spot.
In his haste, he invoked the Mind Soul Dao to release the Mind Blast Path Technique, but since there was no Void to carry the "Mind Soul Dao," it was overwhelmed at its inception by the Void and couldn't be used at all.
"Xuan Mang!"
The shocked and angry cry of a Dao Lord echoed.
Yet, more than shock, fear dominated his heart.
Because, just now when Alkaid executed the Great Void Technique, this Void Dao Lord could clearly sense the absolute control and domination of the Void Path, leaving him powerless.
It was like a mighty emperor, who suddenly lost all control over the empire's army and finances, a ruler whose single word could determine the fates of millions being toppled to the dust, reduced to merely a mortal of flesh.
"This power..."
He felt his soul trembling.
"Dao Venerable! Dao Venerable! This is the power of a Dao Venerable!"
"Buzz buzz!"
As this Dao Lord plunged into endless panic, Alkaid had already gathered the Void Force again, and unleashed another Great Void Technique.
This Immortal Technique, reaching directly to the origin of the Dao, freely demonstrated the characteristics of the Void Path, making it impossible for the other Great Daos of the world to even manifest.
It was as if in a clash between two armies, he first deprived the opponent of command, forcing the opponent to confront his army single-handedly.
This marvel fully exhibited the domineering nature of the Supreme Dao!
Under the Great Void Technique, in an instant, several Dao Lords who had dual cultivated the Soul Dao Technique were all annihilated.
The entire process was as swift as uprooting deadwood.
However, continuously executing the Great Void Technique was somewhat taxing for the current Alkaid.
After all, he was not a true reincarnation of an Immortal King.
Nor was he a true Dao Venerable.
The three Semi-Immortal Artifacts he possessed hadn't even completely transformed into Immortal Artifacts.
However...
This was only temporary!
With the four Dao Lords who had dual cultivated the Soul Dao annihilated, and the remaining nine Dao Lords trapped in the Eight Desolates Heavenly Territory unable to escape, what followed...
He clearly had enough time and leisure to evolve the three Semi-Immortal Artifacts on him.
"Ritual Path, Evil Technique..."
Alkaid wouldn't actively hunt other Dao Lords to evolve Dao Artifacts or Semi-Immortal Artifacts, but in this situation...
How could one distinguish what is righteous and what is evil?
In the end, it's all about survival of the fittest, putting everything to its best use.
"Buzz buzz!"
The next moment, the true body of the Eight Desolations Celestial Mirror revealed itself.
As Alkaid operated the Ritual Path Method, the Dao forces remaining from the Dao Lords he had just slain resonated as if the powers of their cultivated Daos were being drawn into the Eight Desolations Celestial Mirror.
With the infusion of these Dao forces, the Eight Desolates Heavenly Territory underwent violent changes, with the dense Dao essences emanating from this Semi-Immortal Artifact.
At the forefront, the gray fog enveloping this section of the void began to transform.
Previously, this area was merely a zone of gray fog, and even if the Dao Lords' perceptions were confused, wildly releasing large-scale, powerful destructive Dao Techniques could still potentially disperse the fog.
Even some Dao Lords who dual cultivated the Soul Dao Technique and remained conscious could just run in one direction and quickly escape the extent of the fog.
But now...
The gray fog was gradually transforming into a distinct space!
A completely independent world!
This world, akin to a prison, trapped all beings within it; even if they could see through the interference of this Heavenly Realm on their cognition and soul, they still might not be able to break free from this space.
Moreover, as time progressed, the power to disrupt and interfere with the cognition of other Dao Lords kept intensifying, until even Dao Lords who had dual cultivated the Soul Dao Technique could no longer escape, ultimately falling into this trap, allowing the controller of the Immortal Artifact to seize the opportunity and assassinate them one by one.
"Ten Direction Heavenly Realm."
Alkaid declared.
Sealing space and disturbing souls were merely ancillary effects of this immortal artifact.
The true function of this immortal artifact lay in soul defense and curse defense.
However, even if they were not the main effects, the power of the Ten Direction Heavenly Realm could be formidable when used against ordinary Dao Lords...
This demonstrated the extent of power a true battle-focused immortal artifact could achieve.
"It's a pity, my next immortal artifact will not be the Limitless Sword,"
Alkaid muttered to himself.
Meanwhile, on a top-tier Dao Artifact warship waiting outside this world, a figure materialized.
Shao Hua.
As this figure appeared, a top-tier Dao Artifact resembling a treasure bead was thrown over.
The bead contained a river of time, seemingly infused with the essence of accumulated years.
This was...
"The Space-Time Treasure Orb."
Alkaid looked at this top-tier Dao Artifact.
It was a piece he had specifically crafted on his way from the Northern Sea Star, capable of evolving into an immortal artifact.
Based on the Power of Time, it could disrupt the space-time information of a region, causing temporal disturbances.
This disruption occurred at the temporal level.
Just as supernova explosions seen in the cosmic starry sky might have occurred ten thousand years ago, the Space-Time Treasure Orb could use the Power of Time to twist and conceal messages of battles in this region, making them undetectable to others until decades, centuries, or even millennia later.
The specific timeframe, depending on the orb's power and the investigator's cultivation.
This was Alkaid's preparation for that terrifying being, suspected to be an Immortal King from the Immortal Realm, who had been monitoring the Northern Sea Star.
He chose to distort space-time using the Power of Time rather than hiding the scent through the Soul Dao, mainly because the Immortal King was a Void Immortal King.
Heaven knows what level a being at the Immortal King level can utilize the Void Force.
The Time Dao and Time Immortal Artifact, both belonging to one of the four supreme Great Dao, seemed more reliable after all.
Moreover, although his clone, Shao Hua, hadn't achieved Integration Dao, his realm was comparable to that of Immortals; using a Time Immortal Artifact to distort an Immortal King's perception of space-time for decades or centuries wasn't out of question.
And with decades or centuries, he would have already traveled tens or hundreds of billions of light-years away.
During these thoughts, Alkaid's hands were steadily busy.
Among the remaining nine Dao Lords, there were numerous powerful figures.
Among them was a top-tier Dao Lord.
But as they were divided by the Ten Direction Heavenly Realm one by one, only managing one-on-one battles with Alkaid, they were quickly slain by relying on the power of immortal techniques and immortal artifacts.
In the process...
There was hardly any grave danger.
The only thing that could be considered perilous was when the leader, the top-tier Dao Lord, attempted to detonate the Hundred Tribulations Realm Refinement Formation surrounding this Stellar Sect, drawing all the energy that was meant to be absorbed by the Gate of the Immortal Realm and releasing it.
If he had succeeded...
Whether this method could have killed Alkaid was still an unknown, but the burst of energy in an instant would certainly have shaken the starry space.
Furthermore, with the continuous fall of Dao Lords in the area...
It would likely attract numerous Dao Lords to investigate.
By then, the secrecy of this Gate of the Immortal Realm could no longer be maintained.
Fortunately, Alkaid was constantly monitoring and deciphering the formation during the battle.
When he detected that the top-tier Dao Lord intended to undertake a mutual destruction, while suppressing the operation of the Hundred Tribulations Realm Refinement Formation, he unleashed two Great Void Techniques in rapid succession, completing the fatal kill on the top-tier Dao Lord and nipping the danger in the bud.
As the remaining nine Dao Lords fell, the Dao charms on their bodies were absorbed and refined by the Space-Time Treasure Orb, and the top-tier Dao Artifact predictably completed its transformation into an immortal artifact.
"Too fast."
Alkaid felt the Time Dao drifting from the Space-Time Treasure Orb and was inwardly alarmed.
This transformation...
Was too fast.
Ordinary Dao Lords...
No!
Forget Dao Lords.
Even genuine Immortals, and those with Sixteenth Level Artifact Refining Technique, would typically need thousands to tens of thousands of years to craft an immortal artifact.
And yet...
How long had it been for him!?
Using nine Dao Lords in a Ritual Path, he directly elevated the original top-tier Dao Artifact, the Space-Time Treasure Orb, to an immortal artifact!
This efficiency was shockingly fast.
"No wonder there are so many who follow the Demonic Path, Evil Path... compared to honestly earning materials and meticulously crafting an immortal artifact, the efficiency of crafting an immortal artifact through slaughter and ritual path is too rapid..."
Alkaid's mood was somewhat somber.
But his actions were not slowed; the power of the Space-Time Treasure Orb was rapidly activated, pulling the Power of Time and washing over the starry space.
And seizing this opportunity, Alkaid quickly refined the shares of the three Void Dao Lords.
Just as he had guessed.
This time, as the share of the Void Dao exceeded nine, a change had already occurred.
He felt a pulling force.
At this moment, if he made a full effort using the Great Void Technique to shatter the void, he could use the Void Dao, following this pulling force, to reach another world.
As Alkaid refined more shares, the pulling force grew stronger.
Once his refined share reached 9.9, he even had to utilize the Power of the Void Dao to stabilize himself, otherwise he might inadvertently shatter the void and be pulled away by the force.
"So, who says ascending to the Immortal Realm necessarily requires the Gate of the Immortal Realm?"
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