The Heaven-shattering: I and Wu Shi compete for the throne

Chapter 828 Sacrificial Ceremony is Not a Half-Step Primordial Realm

Furthermore, being located on a strange plateau, the dark matter is extremely concentrated and of very high quality. Even the Desolate Emperor dared not absorb the dark matter to replenish himself, lest he be contaminated by it. He would have to expend even more effort to expel and obliterate the dark matter.

While it's not impossible for the Desolate Emperor to draw pure power from the outside world across the eerie plateau, he couldn't do it during his bloody battle with the Dark Ancestor.

This plunged the Desolate Emperor into an even greater predicament.

The two sides fought a bloody battle for another ten or twenty thousand years. By then, the Desolate Emperor was covered in wounds and seriously injured.

However, the Desolate Emperor truly lived up to his reputation as a peerless emperor born for battle. Even though he was severely injured and exhausted, he fought with increasing ferocity, constantly breaking the limits of the Immortal Emperor realm. His aura grew stronger and stronger, as if he was about to break through the Immortal Emperor realm and enter a higher realm at any moment.

They simply haven't grasped the direction to reach a higher level yet, and are unable to do so for a long time.

Although the Desolate Heavenly Emperor could still hold on at this point, the six Celestial Emperors of the Heavenly Realm could not hold on for much longer.

Sensing the situation of both sides, the Desolate Heavenly Emperor and the six Celestial Emperors of the Heavenly Realm decided not to continue the battle. They wanted to retreat and hide to recover from their losses and injuries in secret, and then fight the strange dark race again when they were confident of defeating them.

But how easy is it to simply retreat and hide? The ten Immortal Emperors and the mysterious progenitor of the dark race will not stand idly by and watch them escape.

Finally, after some discussion, everyone decided to let the many Quasi-Immortal Emperors lead the True Immortal and Immortal King armies to retreat first.

Subsequently, the Desolate Emperor's avatar outside the eerie plateau unleashed its full power, blocking ten Dark Immortal Emperors and covering the retreat of Willow God and six Celestial Emperors.

Finally, the Desolate Emperor will have his three avatars burn out everything to block the strange progenitor and the ten strange dark immortal emperors, buying time for his true body to escape.

After the discussion ended, the six Immortal Emperors, including the Desolate Heaven Emperor, Willow God, and the Celestial Emperor, did not linger and immediately took action.

At first, everything went very smoothly. Many Quasi-Immortal Emperors led their armies of True Immortals and Immortal Kings into the depths of spacetime, hiding in secret locations that many Immortal Emperors had prepared long ago.

Subsequently, Liu Shen and the six Celestial Emperors of the Heavenly Realm also escaped safely under the cover of the Desolate Heavenly Emperor's avatar.

However, the Strange Ancestor and the Strange Dark Immortal Emperor were not fools. Upon seeing this, they naturally knew that the Desolate Heaven Emperor and the others wanted to escape.

They didn't care about the large army of quasi-immortal emperors, true immortals, and immortal kings, or even about Liu Shen and the six immortal emperors of Shang Cang.

Even if they all escape, as long as the Desolate Emperor is left behind, they won't be able to cause any trouble.

However, if the Desolate Heavenly Emperor escapes and comprehends the mysteries of breaking through to the Sacrifice Dao realm, and successfully breaks through to the Sacrifice Dao realm, then with his combat power, he will definitely be a formidable enemy.

In an instant, the ten Dark Immortal Emperors returned to the Strange Plateau, formed a great array, mobilized the power of the Strange Plateau, sealed it off, and prevented the Desolate Emperor from escaping.

With their escape route blocked and surrounded by the eerie Dark Ancestor and ten eerie Dark Immortal Emperors, even the mighty Desolate Heaven Emperor was finding it difficult to hold on.

In less than five thousand years, the Desolate Emperor was severely injured and on the verge of death, and the Great Dao was about to collapse.

Barring any unforeseen circumstances, the Desolate Emperor will soon perish in the eerie plateau.

However, an unexpected event occurred. The Willow God and the six Celestial Emperors, who had safely retreated under the cover of the Desolate Heavenly Emperor's avatar, suddenly returned. They all knew perfectly well that no one but the Desolate Heavenly Emperor could stand against the strange, dark race. They could die in battle, but the Desolate Heavenly Emperor could not!
If the Desolate Emperor were to die in battle, the eerie dark race would certainly do everything in its power to erase all traces of his existence and try to suppress him so that he could not be resurrected smoothly.

If the Desolate Emperor truly cannot be resurrected after his death in battle, then there is truly no hope for Heaven!

When Liu Shen and the six Celestial Emperors returned, they directly burned their physical bodies, primordial spirits, and even the origin of the Great Dao, unleashing their full power to break through the great formation formed by the ten strange and dark Celestial Emperors. With the formation broken, the seal naturally ceased to exist.

In an instant, Liu Shen stormed into the eerie plateau, carried the Desolate Emperor out, and handed him over to a Celestial Emperor from the heavens, instructing them to take the Desolate Emperor away.

Then, outside the eerie plateau, they covered the retreat with the two strongest Immortal Emperors from the heavens.

In order to stop the eerie progenitor and the ten eerie dark immortal emperors, the three of them did not stop burning their physical bodies, primordial spirits, and the origin of the Great Dao. They were all giving their all and sparing no expense to unleash their power.

Even with the three of them burning everything and unleashing their power at all costs, the Eerie Ancestor and the ten Eerie Dark Immortal Emperors were unable to break through their obstruction in a short period of time.

This allowed the remaining four Celestial Emperors to successfully lead the Desolate Emperor out of the encirclement and into hiding.

He was taken away and hidden by the four Celestial Emperors of the Heavenly Realm, and the Desolate Heavenly Emperor was filled with grief and indignation.

Once again, he could only watch as his guide, his closest confidant, died for him!
In his grief, the Desolate Emperor even wanted to burn all the Great Dao rules, sacrifice his own evolutionary path and supreme Great Dao, in exchange for gaining unparalleled combat power in a short period of time, killing the strange progenitor and ten strange dark immortal emperors, and rescuing Liu Shen.

This thought arose in his mind, and he recalled the mysterious power of the strange progenitor when he fought the bloody battle with him, which was half a step beyond the realm of the Immortal Emperor.

For some inexplicable reason, as if struck by a sudden inspiration, he gained boundless insights and realized how to take a half-step beyond the realm of the Immortal Emperor.

That is to sacrifice one's own path of evolution and the supreme Dao to this universe, without being assimilated by it, but completely becoming a part of it, thus achieving true sublimation.

Yes, this is the true realm of sacrificial rituals!
As for Li Daoming's breakthrough to the "Sacrifice Dao Realm," although he had taken a half-step beyond the Immortal Emperor Realm, he had still managed to do so.

Strictly speaking, however, that was not the realm of sacrificial rites, but rather a half-step into the Primordial Chaos realm.

Although the Half-Step Primordial Realm and the Sacrifice Dao Realm are at the same level, they are two different methods of breakthrough.

However, before this, Li Daoming obtained the breakthrough method of the Primordial Chaos Realm from the fragments of the Jade Disc of Creation. He was prejudiced and thought that the Primordial Chaos Realm was above the Sacrifice Dao Realm, and that half-step Primordial Chaos Realm was the Sacrifice Dao Realm.

Even recalling the original descriptions of the sacrificial path realm and beyond, I still believe that the book cannot be entirely trusted and may contain errors.

Moreover, it must be said that, despite the preconceived notions, there are indeed some similarities between the Sacrifice Dao Realm and the Half-Step Primordial Chaos Realm.

Half-step to Hunyuan means fusing one's essence, energy, and spirit into one, and sacrificing one's own Great Dao to Hunyuan Dao power, thus merging with Hunyuan Dao power into one.

The sacrificial realm is to offer one's own path of evolution and the supreme Dao to the universe, which is essentially equivalent to merging one's own Dao into the universe.

However, the description of the Sacrifice Dao realm in the original novel of Sacred Ruins is not clear. It only says that one needs to sacrifice one's own evolutionary path and the supreme Dao, but it does not say who one should sacrifice to. Given this preconceived notion, it is no wonder that Li Daoming had a misunderstanding.

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