Chapter 1634: Deepening into the Borderland Stronghold Again
The Mahayana cultivator gazed into the depths of the stronghold. His eyes, condensed with threads of cause and effect, seemed to penetrate through layers of chaos and directly see the core hidden in the boundary membrane.
"There are indeed some tricks," the Mahayana cultivator whispered, and then said to Zhang Xuan and the other two, "Follow me closely."
After saying that, he took the lead and stepped into the stronghold in that bizarre borderland.
Henry Zhang, Zhan Wushuang, and Chief of the Yushen Guards looked at each other, took a deep breath, and followed closely.
This time, they have a Mahayana cultivator who holds the authority over the rules of the Great Dao. No one can predict whether the road ahead will be good or bad.
As soon as you step into the border stronghold, a suffocating feeling of oppression surges from all directions.
Unlike the dead silence outside, the interior of the stronghold is filled with violent energy turbulence, and broken fragments of time and space are cutting through everything.
Thick resentment and death energy condensed into all kinds of twisted illusions, emitting screams and whispers that pierced the soul, trying to stir up the inner demons and pollute the heart of Tao.
Zhang Xuan, Zhan Wushuang, and Chief of the Yushen Guards immediately activated their own Dao Laws to protect their surroundings.
Compared with last time, Zhang Xuan's cultivation has improved, and he is a little more calm in dealing with it, but he still dare not be careless.
However, the Mahayana cultivator from the Hongmeng Divine Realm seemed completely different.
The hazy Dao light that enveloped him formed a world unto itself. The space-time storms and fragments of the laws that could tear apart the protective aura of a combined cultivator melted away like ice and snow in the sun when they came into contact with the Dao light. The disturbing resentful illusions could not even approach him.
"Follow closely, don't stray."
The Mahayana cultivator's voice came calmly. He did not look back, but an invisible force field always enveloped Zhang Xuan and the other two, sharing most of the pressure from the surroundings for them.
The four of them headed deeper into the stronghold.
The deeper you go, the clearer the rhythm of the membrane's "breathing" becomes.
The entire space seemed like the abdominal cavity of a living creature, constantly wriggling and contracting.
In the void, you can occasionally see Taoist corpses floating.
"Senior, based on our last experience, the stone female Taoist corpse transformed by Fellow Daoist Xue'er first appeared in an area near the periphery, but was later attracted to a deeper area to participate in the siege. Should we start searching from the periphery first?" Zhang Xuan suggested.
The Mahayana cultivator pondered for a moment and said, "Well, since you have seen her, I will let you sense and guide her. I will block out the chaotic secrets here and help you perceive."
After saying this, he didn't make any movement. Zhang Xuan only felt his whole body lighten. The chaotic and mixed force that had been interfering with his spiritual detection and causal perception was suppressed by a more powerful force.
Zhang Xuan immediately started the wheel of cause and effect, supplemented by the law of cause and effect and the law of time, and carefully sensed the causal connection with the stone woman's corpse.
However, the cause and effect are vague at first, and for a moment, it is impossible to sense the specific direction.
After traveling for a distance in the outer area of the stronghold, the number of combined Taoist shadows floating around gradually increased.
Some of them seemed to sense the presence of strangers, their empty eye sockets moved slightly, emitting a subtle hostility.
Perhaps because of the presence of the Mahayana monks, they did not launch an attack immediately.
Suddenly, the seemingly calm void in front suddenly collapsed, forming a huge black vortex.
In the center of the vortex, a corpse with a dim dragon aura wrapped around it slowly floated up and down - it was the remains of the Nine Dragons Venerable!
The difference from the last time was that this time, the empty eye sockets of the Nine Dragons Venerable did not move, but the nine residual images of dragon energy on his body instantly raised their heads and exploded with a "boom".
With the dragon's aura that could annihilate everything, he directly locked onto the four people.
Especially the Mahayana cultivator whose aura was the most "conspicuous" roared and attacked him directly!
"Be careful!" Zhan Wushuang shouted softly, and the law of space was already ready to be unleashed.
However, the Mahayana cultivator only glanced at the nine incoming dragon energy afterimages and uttered a single word:
"Disperse."
There were no earth-shattering explosions, no brilliant magical powers.
At the moment when the word "disperse" was uttered, the nine dragon energy afterimages that were enough to make the peak-level fusion cultivators on high alert suddenly stopped moving forward. The Taoist rhyme and energy that made up their forms collapsed and dissipated in an instant like a sand castle in the wind.
Follow your words!
Zhang Xuan and the other two were shocked.
This is the authority of the great Dao rules of the Mahayana cultivators!
Instead of relying on brute force, he directly used the rules that he controlled to deny the foundation of the opponent's magical powers and cause it to collapse at the rules level.
This method has already gone beyond the scope of simple energy confrontation.
After the dragon energy dissipated, the body of the Nine Dragons Venerable seemed to have lost some kind of support and slowly sank into the depths of the vortex, no longer moving.
The Mahayana monk didn't even look at the vortex and continued to move forward.
On the rest of the journey, they were attacked by several waves of Taoist corpses.
There's the Wufeng Divine Lord who controls billions of Gengjin sword energies, and the ancient witch corpse who can cast strange curses...
These Taoist corpses were all geniuses in their lifetime. With the blessing of the boundary membrane, they retained their fighting instincts and powerful magical powers. They even became more fearless and their attacks became more bizarre and brutal because of the erosion of resentment and death energy.
However, in front of this Mahayana monk, their attacks seemed so pale and powerless.
Zhang Xuan and the other two followed behind, and they hardly needed to take any action. They just needed to protect themselves with all their strength to avoid being affected by the aftermath of the battle.
They witnessed with their own eyes how the Mahayana monks used their absolute strength to carve out a safe path in this dangerous place.
"The power of Mahayana is so great..." Zhang Xuan murmured, with a fiery light flashing in his eyes.
He believed that he had extraordinary fighting ability, but in front of this senior, he felt like a child dancing with a sword. It seemed sharp, but in fact, he had not touched the root of the Tao at all.
Following behind this Mahayana monk, he sensed and observed carefully.
He noticed that although this Mahayana monk was powerful, he seemed to be intentionally controlling the release of his power to avoid causing too much noise.
Obviously, this Mahayana monk was also afraid of the possible existence of the "Eye of the Boundary Membrane".
After clearing out several waves of Taoist corpses and gradually going deeper into the stronghold, Zhang Xuan's causal perception finally captured a faint connection.
"Senior, I'm sensing something!" Zhang Xuan pointed to an area of gray mist in front of him on the left. "In that direction, the causal line is fluctuating. Although it's extremely weak, it has the same origin as the aura of the barren Taoist corpse!"
Upon hearing this, the calm aura of the Mahayana cultivator finally showed a noticeable fluctuation.
The Taoist light around him flowed slightly, and the speed suddenly increased.
"Follow!"
The four of them quickly passed through the gray mist.
In the mist, spiritual consciousness was greatly suppressed.
The surroundings are filled with a strange power that can petrify the souls of living beings.
Zhang Xuan and the other two had to use all their strength to activate the Dao domain to fight back.
The Mahayana monks simply ignored this obstacle.
His eyes were as sharp as torches, piercing through the thick fog and locking onto a vague outline deep in the mist.
It was a stone mountain suspended in the broken void, with a rugged body and a dead grayish-white color all over.
And on the top of the stone mountain, a figure was sitting quietly.
She was dressed in palace clothes and had a slim figure, but her skin, hair, and even clothes had completely turned into the same gray-white rock as the stone mountain.
Her hands were placed on her knees in a mysterious seal, and her face still vaguely showed the beauty she had in life, but her eyes were a hollow lime-gray color, without any spirit.
It was the stone female Taoist corpse that Zhang Xuan had seen that year - Xue'er!
Around her, there were three other Taoist corpses of different shapes. One was burning with eternal black flames, one was like a twisted shadow, and the other was made up of countless metal fragments.
They guarded the stone mountain, emitting a powerful aura of peak fusion.
"Xue'er..."
The moment the Mahayana cultivator saw the corpse of the stone woman, his breath, which had been steady until now, finally began to fluctuate violently.
Although he had already learned from Zhang Xuan that his daughter might have turned into a Taoist corpse, seeing this tragic scene with his own eyes still made it difficult for him to control himself.
However, just as the Mahayana cultivator's emotions were fluctuating and his aura was leaking out—
"Om-"
The entire border stronghold was shaken violently!
The originally regular "breathing" rhythm suddenly stopped.
Instead, there was a completely enraged and awakened terrifying will!
Above the void, the boundary membrane barrier that originally reflected the birth and death of stars and the cycle of life began to distort violently.
Countless fragments of rules, spiritual energy and even the floating remains of Taoist corpses were pulled by the invisible force and rushed madly towards a certain point.
In the blink of an eye, the outline of an extremely huge "eye" condensed on the membrane.
The huge "eye" slowly opened!
That eye was cold and indifferent.
No emotion at all.
Deep in the pupils, there is swirling chaos and broken rules.
The moment this eye looked at them, Zhang Xuan, Zhan Wushuang, and Chief of the Yushen Guards felt their souls frozen, and their Dao domains trembled violently, almost collapsing on the spot!
A most primitive fear that came from the instinct of life gripped them!
This eye of the boundary membrane has awakened!
After it woke up, it immediately locked onto the Mahayana cultivator with the most powerful aura in the field!
"Sure enough...it still alarmed it."
The Mahayana cultivator raised his head and looked at the huge eye of the boundary membrane. The Dao light that was vibrating around his body quickly calmed down, and was replaced by an extremely solemn fighting spirit.
He glanced at the stone statue of his daughter on the top of the stone mountain, which showed no reaction, and then glanced at the pale-faced Zhang Xuan and the other two beside him, and said in a deep voice:
"You guys step back and protect yourselves. What happens next is beyond your control."
Before he finished speaking, a gray beam of light shot out silently from the pupil of the Eye of the Boundary Membrane, aiming directly at the Mahayana cultivator!
Wherever the beam of light passed, the void was not torn apart, but was directly "annihilated", turning into the most primitive nothingness!
The Mahayana cultivator, facing this attack that would have terrified any ordinary Mahayana cultivator, snorted coldly and advanced instead of retreating. The hazy Dao light surrounding him suddenly grew blazing, and for the first time, a vast authority and rule that transcended all things was unreservedly displayed before Zhang Xuan and the other two!
"break!"
He put his fingers together like a sword and pointed at the annihilation beam from a distance.
No sound, no explosion.
There is only the collision of rules and the confrontation of authority!
The gray beam of light shot out from the Eye of the Boundary Membrane seemed slow, but in fact it transcended the limitations of time and space. It arrived in front of the Mahayana cultivator almost at the moment he uttered the word "break".
The moment the Mahayana monk's finger containing the power of "destruction" came into contact with the annihilation beam.
An area of absolute "silence" suddenly spread out with the contact point as the center.
The light, sound, energy fluctuations, and even the most basic spatial structure in that area were completely wiped out by the power of rules of the confrontation between the two, turning it into a frightening dark domain of nothingness.
Although Zhang Xuan, Zhan Wushuang, and the chief of the Yushen Guards had retreated quickly as instructed, they were still shaken by the ripples of rules that swept across the edge of the silent dark domain, causing their blood to boil.
The three people's avenue domain flickered and almost collapsed.
They could only desperately activate the vision of the Great Dao, stabilize their bodies, and stare intently at the center of the battlefield that determined life and death.
Under the impact of the power of "destruction", the front end of the gray annihilation beam began to disintegrate bit by bit and turned into nothingness.
But the chaotic vortex in the pupil of the Eye of the Boundary Membrane turned slightly, and the beam of light seemed to have received endless support, condensing again, and moving forward with a more ferocious and thorough intention of annihilation!
The Dao light around the Mahayana monk flickered violently, and his arms, with fingers clasped together, trembled slightly, obviously under unimaginable pressure.
The power of "destruction" he wields is indeed powerful, but the Eye of the Boundary Membrane is born from the rules and energy accumulated over countless years at the border strongholds of the entire divine realm.
Its power level and total amount have reached an incredible level, almost a part of the origin of heaven and earth!
"Humph! You dare to stop me with a mere barrier!"
The Mahayana monk roared angrily, raised his other hand suddenly, spread out his five fingers, and clenched them hard towards the void!
"All laws return to the abyss, and the rules collapse!"
boom--
With him as the center, an even more terrifying and destructive aura erupted!
This time, it is no longer aimed at that beam of light, but directly acts on the rules of the world itself!
Visible to the naked eye, the violent turbulence of time and space, the broken fragments of laws, and even the pervasive death and resentment, all quickly melted and disintegrated at this moment!
The four Taoist corpses at the peak of their combined power that were guarding the stone mountain didn't even have time to resist before their bodies silently collapsed and were forced back into the abyss!
Even the gray-white stone mountain began to shake violently and countless cracks appeared.
The Eye of the Membrane seemed to be enraged by this full-scale outbreak of destructive power.
The giant eye blinked suddenly.
In an instant, the energy in the entire stronghold seemed to be drained away and gathered in the pupils.
The next moment, not just one, but thousands of gray beams that were smaller but more condensed than before shot towards the Mahayana monk!
Each beam of light contains the power of annihilation that is enough to seriously injure a Mahayana cultivator!
At the same time, deep in the huge eye, the chaotic vortex spun faster and faster, and an extremely cold spiritual will crushed towards the Mahayana cultivator's soul!
This is an attack directly targeting the origin of the soul, ignoring most physical and magical defenses!
Faced with this double blow of physical and spiritual power, the Mahayana cultivator finally demonstrated his full strength as the top power in the Hongmeng Divine Realm.
He remained motionless, and an illusory shadow of branches appeared above his head.
The branch was a dilapidated gray-black color, with countless fine and mysterious runes flowing on it, which was the true manifestation of the "destruction" rule authority that he wielded!
The branches of authority sway gently.
"The Realm of Destruction, establish!"
