The myth begins with the Lotus Lantern

Chapter 316 Beheading
"Well, can you still be so arrogant now? I restrained myself in every way before, just to use Fu Hai to lure you out and eliminate you completely. I thought ordinary methods would be enough to deal with you, but I didn't expect you to be so troublesome. Well, can you still be so arrogant now?"

Xiang Liu said that his face had returned to calm, but the killing intent in his heart was becoming more and more intense. Since he became Taiyi, he had been in a position of great prestige and had not been injured for many years. Now, not only had he been injured, but it was in front of the junior he valued most. Even if he killed this junior now, he probably could not fully recover the face he had lost.

"Thank you," Ding Lin nodded and said earnestly, "Although I knew about the changes that happened in the Heavenly Court a few years ago, I have been busy in seclusion these days and do not know about the aftermath. So that's how it is."

"Ancestor, kill him!"

Nine-Headed Insect cried out, and before he knew it, he had hidden behind Xiang Liu again. Xiang Liu's demeanor gave him confidence. His eyes were fixed on Ding Lin, still filled with fear, but even more so with resentment and malice.

"Then you can go die."

Xiang Liu said that since he had fully revealed his realm, he naturally regarded Ding Lin as a fish to be slaughtered. He waved his hand, and the mysterious formation composed of nine laws above his head descended.

Between heaven and earth, a beam of light shone forth, magnificent and vast.

Ding Lin stood there, seemingly unmoved as before, but when the spiritual light appeared, his figure suddenly became abrupt, as if he had deliberately used his body to block the path of the attack after the nine laws merged.

The space trembled.

Behind Ding Lin, Qingyi suddenly took a step forward, wanting to stand shoulder to shoulder with Ding Lin, but Ding Lin raised his hand and blocked her back. She did not insist, but fell half a step behind and quietly looked at Ding Lin's profile.

On the other side, Princess Wansheng was pale, holding her stomach with both hands, feeling flustered and confused.

Actually, with Ding Lin blocking the wall, Xiang Liu's attack had not yet affected Princess Wansheng. However, while Ding Lin could block Xiang Liu's aura, he could not dispel the fear in her heart. The little life in her womb was quiet, and she unconsciously rubbed her belly.

In the end, was this another wrong gamble?

Suddenly, a wave of despair washed over me.

So be it, either way, it's just death.

Ding Lin straightened his back and carefully felt the impact. When he was at the Golden Immortal realm, he had received a blow from the Big Dipper Star Lord, but at that time he had not yet entered the Taiyi realm. He only sensed that in addition to the overwhelming force, there was another layer of power. Now, as his realm has risen, he is finally able to clearly sense the blow of the same level again.

He could clearly feel that he was being rejected.

The Taiyi realm allows one to attempt to construct and form their own Dao.

The rejection and discomfort he felt stemmed from the malice of the nascent Xiangliu Daoze.

This is a higher level than laws, a level of Tao and reason.

There's no escaping it, no hiding from it.

Unless... it's the same level.

Ding Lin remained calm, seemingly lost in thought.

This composure caught Xiang Liu's eye, and for some reason, he suddenly felt a sense of unease.

disturbed?

how come.

He has now fully revealed the demeanor of a Taiyi. On the other side, although the little immortal had shown a variety of tricks just now, in the end, he was only a Golden Immortal. No matter how many tricks he had, how could he withstand the might of Taiyi?

It may happen once or twice, but it will never happen a third time.

unless--

The thought flashed through my mind and disappeared in an instant.

It was immediately rejected.

But the next moment, Xiang Liu's eyes widened suddenly, the composure in them vanished, replaced by horror.

He saw that the same spiritual light emanating from the fairy opposite him was also rising from her body.

No.

It's even more profound than him! Eight laws intertwine, the central law, seemingly both a unified whole and distinctly separate, interdependent yet slowly rotating in a state of obscurity. This is…

"Taiyi..."

Xiang Liu's pupils suddenly dilated, and his voice became strained.

At its core is still... the Yin-Yang principle!
The Taiyi realm requires a higher-level law to explain the principles, and only in this way can one achieve it.

However, since even the higher-level laws vary in strength, the Taiyi realm also has its limits. The higher-level laws can be roughly divided into three categories, with the first category being the four supreme laws of time, space, destiny, and causality.

Any one of the four supreme laws is sufficient to support the explanation of the Dao and principles all the way up to the realm of a sage or a Primordial Golden Immortal.

Below this are the top-tier laws of Yin and Yang, destruction, etc. Although they are not enough to support the Saint Realm, they can still serve as the foundation of the Great Luo.

The remaining rules are the general higher-level rules, which are no longer further subdivided and are the lowest level.

Even when these higher laws are fully developed, they can transcend the scattered numbers and support the fruition position. However, in terms of realm alone, a Taiyi Golden Immortal is still just a Taiyi, far from being a Daluo.

The superior principle upon which Xiangliu relied to achieve Taiyi is called the Five Elements.

When Pangu separated heaven and earth, he refined earth, fire, wind, and water. Earth, water, wind, and fire are the foundation of existence. Each of them has a series of lower and middle-level laws, which are like the top-level laws of Yin and Yang.

The Five Elements—metal, wood, water, fire, and earth—are also derived from earth, water, wind, and fire. Although they are not as complex as earth, water, wind, and fire, they are still quite complicated. Moreover, due to their inherent deficiencies, even if one comprehends them, they can only be classified as ordinary, which is actually quite useless.

However, there is also a clever way: taking the mutual generation and restraint of the five elements as the core, one can take the sharpness of metal, the flexibility of wood, the non-competitiveness of water, the explosiveness of fire, and the weight of earth. In this way, one can simplify the complex. By simply comprehending the five laws, one can mix the five elements and obtain a superior law.

However, this method is ultimately a trick, or even deliberate. This superior law is naturally the lowest level, named the Five Elements. It sounds impressive, but in reality, it barely crosses the threshold of a superior law.

The spiritual light unleashed by Xiang Liu flashed with five colors, as he desperately tried to withdraw his attack and escape. The Dao and reason he had barely formed were only the weakest level, how could they compare to the rudimentary form of the Great Dao that Ding Lin had built with Yin and Yang as its core?

Ding Lin's brilliance had barely begun to emerge when it completely overshadowed Xiang Liu's brilliance, like a firefly compared to the bright moon.

We can't beat them!
escape!
The sooner the better!

However, the clash between Taiyi realm cultivators is a debate over their respective principles, which are the foundation of a Taiyi cultivator. Once these principles are unleashed, how can they be easily taken back?

Xiang Liu hesitated to use his Taiyi Realm techniques in order to lure Ding Lin out. Ding Lin was doing the same thing; after achieving Taiyi, he became engrossed in the new realm and became obsessed. Although he immediately came out of seclusion after realizing something was wrong, it was too late. Qingyi had already been injured by Xiang Liu.

At that time, he could certainly reveal his cultivation level directly, but in a battle between people of the same cultivation level, it was easy to determine the winner and loser, but difficult to decide life and death.

Ding Lin had been concealing his true strength, waiting for this very moment, waiting for Xiang Liu to exhaust his techniques and leave him with no way to avoid it.

Before the two beams of light collided, the spatial laws flashed above Ding Lin's head, and he appeared behind Xiang Liu. At this moment, Xiang Liu's Taiyi Dao was outside, and Zhou Sheng only had a mid-level law protecting him. He was easily defeated by the spatial laws. The spatial laws rotated around Xiang Liu's neck, and the next moment, a fine head fell to the ground. Ding Lin's earlier words about beheading were not a joke, but not a drop of blood flowed from the wound on Xiang Liu's neck. A white mist of pure energy spewed out from his chest cavity, and a new head grew out.

On Xiang Liu's headband, a vibrant snake head immediately withered.

Only then did the two beams of light finally meet in mid-air. The one belonging to Xiang Liu was immediately annihilated, but this momentary obstruction was not entirely ineffective.

Ding Lin's lock-on was also successfully broken.

Xiang Liu was tricked by Ding Lin's hidden scheme and lost his life. His face turned pale, but things returned to their original course. His eyes were ferocious and terrifying. Seeing this opportunity, he didn't say a word, and with a flash, he took off and fled to the north.

As for the nine-headed worm.

Bloodline and descendants, successors—all of that was thrown to the back of their minds at this moment.

You are the future of your community!
"..."

After defeating Xiang Liu's Taiyi Dao principles, Ding Lin's Dao principles, constructed with Yin and Yang, dimmed slightly. He still swept towards the area where Xiang Liu had been, but missed, only shattering the space.

"Where to escape!"

Ding Lin shouted, and he too rode his escape light, chasing after Xiang Liu in the direction he had fled without hesitation.

(End of this chapter)