studiobondurri Chapter 849: Damage to the Heavenly Dao
Chapter 849: Damage to the Heavenly Dao
Chapter 849: Chapter 849: Damage to the Heavenly Dao Seal the Samsara Sea?
Xu Lai couldn’t help but laugh.
The forbidden lands of the Immortal Domain are each different; some are man-made, like the Snowflower Forbidden Grounds or the Nine Kings’ Palace.
Because powerful souls exist there, forbidden lands are born.
Places like the North Sea Eye, where a Giant Whale slumbers, also fall into this category.
Once the souls leave, the forbidden land dissipates.
Another kind of forbidden land is naturally formed, with little to no man-made involvement.
Such as the Boundless Sea in the Southern Immortal Domain, and the Samsara Sea.
Even beings at the Emperor Realm cannot stay long in the Boundless Sea.
If not for the help of Snowflower at the time, even Xu Lai would not have found the Second Realm Gate, nor would he have known that the two Other Shore cultivators guarding it had long since vanished.
The Samsara Sea.
It is even more terrifying.
It is derived from the Heavenly Dao of the Immortal Domain, controlling the life and death reincarnation of all souls within it.
In epochs past, countless Immortal Venerables, Quasi-Emperors, and those at the Emperor Realm, upon nearing the end of their lifespan, would choose to enter the Samsara Sea.
They do so in hopes of finding a sliver of life at the origin of life and death.
But.
No one has ever succeeded.
The Samsara Sea has countless Emperor’s Corpses floating within it, becoming unconscious puppets.
Two of them even became the "magical treasures" of the Tian Gui Tribe, manipulated by the Celestial Clan’s Quasi-Emperor Shi Lan to attack the Heavenly Court, which is truly lamentable.
As Xu Lai laughed, Baize laughed along.
But as they laughed, they both stopped.
Xu Lai asked, "The Tian Gui Tribe has a way to influence the cycle of the Heavenly Dao."
Otherwise.
Even if the Seventeen Holy Lands, led by Purple Star Palace, multiplied in number by ten, they couldn’t shake the Samsara Sea in the slightest.
"I don’t know."
Baize shook his head.
The Tian Gui Tribe only issued the order; they did not reveal any specific details or processes.
No matter how hard they pressured Zi Tianxuan’s divine soul, this former master of the Holy Land couldn’t provide any other information, simply because he didn’t know.
Xu Lai’s face was expressionless.
If the Samsara Sea truly gets sealed, even for just a day or two, it will bring unimaginable disaster.
It means not only that the souls of the dead cannot reincarnate but also that the Heavenly Dao will collapse into chaos.
The existing order of the Heavenly Dao will collapse in an instant.
Immortal Domain will fall into great turmoil.
Now with the Heavenly Dao in chaos, Xu Lai cannot predict anything, but that doesn’t mean he has no means to find clues.
"Sikong Jiu!"
"The Supreme Emperor, I’m here, I’m here."
Sikong Jiu’s figure instantly appeared in Haitang Court.
"Can the Samsara Sea be sealed?"
"What a joke! That’s formed by the Heavenly Dao rules of the entire Immortal Domain, how could it be..."
Sikong Jiu suddenly paused, his expression changed slightly: "The Supreme Emperor, could it be that the old folks in the Nine Kings’ Palace are planning to take action against the Samsara Sea?"
"It’s Tian Gui Yuan Yin."
"Yuan Yin..."
Sikong Jiu furrowed his brow deeply.
As part of the Heavenly Dao, he couldn’t figure out a way to seal the Samsara Sea.
It’s like an ant on Earth suddenly claiming to stop the Earth’s rotation and revolution...
Exactly.
In the emotionless eyes of the Heavenly Dao machine, the Emperor Realm is no different than an ant.
"What makes him dare to utter such bold words."
Sikong Jiu’s brow never relaxed: "But I understand this man, he never does anything without certainty."
"But why does he want to seal the Samsara Sea?"
This is the question Xu Lai, Baize, and Sikong Jiu all have at this moment.
No soul does anything without some profit, whether direct or indirect.
As they were talking.
Xu Lai suddenly raised his head to look at the sky.
At almost the same time, Sikong Jiu’s body trembled violently, and Baize realized the change in the world only after two breaths.
"Part of the Heavenly Dao laws have collapsed, something’s wrong with the Samsara Sea," Sikong Jiu said in a deep voice.
"Wife, the rib soup will be ready in fifteen minutes, I have to go out for a bit."
Xu Lai looked at his wife, who was sitting beside him reading a fashion magazine, and spoke softly.
"You’re not eating at home then."
"No."
"Be careful on the road."
Ruan Tang didn’t ask where her husband was going or what he was going to do.
Xu Lai nodded slightly and disappeared from Haitang Court with Sikong Jiu.
Ruan Tang was silent for a while, staring blankly at the sky where Xu Lai had just looked.
Who knows...
What she was thinking.
...
Samsara Sea.
It controls the Six Paths of Reincarnation, the beginning and end of life and death.
Xu Lai had been here once before, battling the Emperor’s Corpses within the Samsara Sea.
This is his second time coming.
But the Samsara Sea, which once required his serious attention — with more than ten Emperor’s Corpses — has now vanished into thin air, leaving no trace of its existence.
"Where is the Samsara Sea!"
Sikong Jiu gaped in shock.
Three breaths ago, feeling that something was amiss with the Samsara Sea, The Supreme Emperor and he had arrived here, and then...
The Samsara Sea was gone!
If not for the countless souls drifting here from various parts of the Immortal Domain, not disappearing with the Samsara Sea, Sikong Jiu might have doubted whether The Supreme Emperor had gone the wrong way.
Countless souls of various races.
Without the guidance of the Heavenly Dao laws, these souls, having lost all memories and power, stand blankly, looking foolish.
Quasi-Emperor Realm...
No.
Cultivators of the Immortal Venerable Realm and above in the Four Immortal Domains vaguely sensed damage to the Heavenly Dao, hesitating.
But many Quasi-Emperors turned their gaze to the distant Samsara Sea.
They knew.
The problem originated there.
But aside from Xu Lai and Sikong Jiu, no other cultivators flew towards this direction.
Firstly, the shadow of the destruction of the Sixteen Holy Lands still loomed over the minds of the various forces in the Immortal Domain.
Secondly, if the Heavenly Dao is damaged, recovery naturally takes a long time, but there’s also a quick way to restore it, which is the Immortal’s Demise.
When cultivators in the Immortal Venerable Realm and above die, they transform into a meteor shower that travels from the place of their death to the depths of the universe.
The fruit of their lifetime cultivation scatters, nourishing the star systems along the way, supplementing the damaged Heavenly Dao laws.
Take from the Heavenly Dao, return to the Heavenly Dao.
So no one dares approach the Samsara Sea now, fearing to become the ’material’ for mending the Heavenly Dao.
...
No one coming is a good thing, at least there won’t be any disturbances.
In the starry sky, Xu Lai saw a multitude of Human Race souls, wrapping them in his divine sense.
Sikong Jiu also found hundreds of thousands of Earth souls, a minority of which were Human Race, the majority were various kinds of animals.
Like the Supreme Emperor.
Sikong Jiu gently probed with his divine sense, intending to use these ’eyes’ to figure out what happened to the Samsara Sea.
But.
Nothing could be seen within the souls.
Sikong Jiu gritted his teeth and said, "This must be Yuan Yin’s conspiracy!"
"Using some unknown means, he actually sealed the Samsara Sea, causing damage to the Heavenly Dao. He wants to force us to continue the slaughter in the Immortal Domain, using the blood of the Holy Lands’ powerhouses to fill the gaps in the Heavenly Dao laws."
Sikong Jiu grew angrier as he spoke: "Whether the Heavenly Court annihilates the Holy Lands, or the Heavenly Court is wiped out by the Holy Lands, his Tian Gui Tribe stands to profit either way, a true act of watching the tigers fight while sitting on the mountain."
Xu Lai did not get angry but instead asked an unrelated question:
"Tell me."
"Without the Samsara Sea, where will the souls of the dead in the Immortal Domain go?"