Simultaneous travel: Starting from returning to the main god space.

Chapter 573 Has the Consciousness of the Heavenly Dao Really Disappeared? (Seeking monthly votes! Seeking further subscriptions!)

In the Great Feng World, there are many cultivation systems. Apart from the sorcerers created by the Heavenly Dao for itself, the ultimate goal of all other cultivation systems is to reach the Super Grade, possessing immense power comparable to the most outstanding gods and demons of ancient times.

However, there are two outliers in these systems—the Confucian Sage and the God of War.

Their combat power is exceptionally fierce. Both their numerical values ​​and mechanics surpass those of other systems, and they can even ruthlessly crush their opponents in one-on-many situations.

Leaving aside the Confucian sage for the moment, because those who are blessed with good fortune cannot live forever, their strength, though formidable, is fleeting like fireworks, and is of no concern to the near-immortal super-grade beings.

Only the Martial God, after advancing to the Super Grade, can become immortal and indestructible. The mysterious runes within his body will also combine to form an unparalleled array, creating a world of its own, independent of the Nine Provinces Continent. Therefore, no cultivation system born on the Nine Provinces Continent can affect him.

In other words, if another super-grade character punches him, the Martial God might be completely unharmed, but the Martial God can easily inflict severe damage on a super-grade character.

If you add a weapon similar to the Taiping Dao, you can even kill a super-grade enemy directly, which is all about disregarding martial ethics.

Therefore, there is only one way to defeat the God of War: to surpass the God of War in pure strength and to have the ability to disregard the rules of the Taiping Blade.

Under normal circumstances, such a thing would not happen, because such a being could not be born on the Nine Provinces Continent. Otherwise, the Heavenly Dao consciousness would not have chosen the Martial God to be its gatekeeper.

The problem is, this is the normal situation, but Wu Xian has cheated. Ever since he awakened his cheat ability, he has never been normal.

Although he had not reached the highest level and his cultivation had stopped at the half-step Martial God stage, his basic stats, thanks to the support of Wu Xian, had already far exceeded the limit of the half-step Martial God.

Even though he was bound by the shackles of the martial arts system in terms of output, when the light of his mind, [He Transforms Freely], was activated, he could still crush any who dared to object. Who could Xu Qi'an possibly reason with?

Thus, Xu Qi'an, who had just been promoted to Martial God, thought he would have the most glorious battle of his life, stepping on the shoulders of his fellow villager to rise to the top and become the strongest martial artist in the Nine Provinces Continent, and from then on be invincible.

However, reality slapped him hard in the face and told him a cruel truth.

The battles between time travelers are never about brute force, but about who has the strongest and most ruthless cheat codes.

Clearly, Wu Xian's cheat code is even better than his!
……

"What, have you given up resisting? Where did your arrogance go?"

Beyond the Nine Provinces, in the outer starry sky.

The starry sky is dazzling and magnificent, yet it contains a chilling killing intent.

Within the Zhou Tian Star Array, which incorporates the Four Symbols, Five Elements, and Eight Trigrams, Wu Xian held a trembling, buzzing Taiping Blade in one hand and grabbed Xu Qi'an by the throat with the other, lifting him high. A mocking smile flashed in his eyes, which were burning with golden flames.

"Cough cough!"

Xu Qi'an, whose head had already been beaten into a pig's head, vomited blood and was extremely weak. But after hearing this, he couldn't help but roll his eyes and mumbled, "Kill me or torture me, it's up to you. Why all this nonsense?"

"Ha! So tough, or do you think you're immortal as a Martial God and that I can't do anything to you?"

As he spoke, Wu Xian glanced downwards, then grinned and said in a very nasty tone:

"As a fellow townsman, you should know about the history of the Ming Dynasty, right? I'm currently considering establishing an organization similar to the Eastern Depot in the Great Feng Dynasty. It's lacking someone like you. Would you like to consider it?"

"This is too much!"

Upon hearing this, Xu Qi'an felt a tightness in his groin, and then flew into a rage. The strength he had lost surged back, and he wanted to fight Wu Xian to the death.

However, it was all for naught. In less than three breaths, Xu Qi'an was thrown to the ground. Then, fists, palms, fingers, and claws flew everywhere, pressing him down like a sandbag and beating him mercilessly. He had no power to fight back and was completely at Wu Xian's mercy.

"Stop! Stop hitting me! I surrender... I surrender, okay?!"

Xu Qi'an clutched his head and cried out, feeling utterly devastated.

This wasn't the story he imagined. The God of War was supposed to be invincible, so why was he beaten like a dog? Where did things go wrong?

"Enough with the nonsense, hand over the essence of the Heavenly Dao, or I'll make you an eunuch right now!"

Wu Xian kicked Xu Qi'an to the ground in the void of the formation, then took the struggling, trembling Taiping Blade and pressed it against Xu's inner thigh, seemingly ready to force him to cultivate the Sunflower Manual at the slightest utterance of "no." "Do you still want to become a Martial God?"

Upon hearing Wu Xian's request, Xu Qi'an's expression turned strange. He thought to himself, "You can already beat me, a Martial God, so what's the point of advancing to Martial God?"

"Martial God? Ha! Just a watchdog, who cares?"

Wu Xian's face showed a hint of disdain, which immediately made Xu Qi'an's face turn ashen.

"Steamed bun, are you not convinced?"

Wu Xian sneered, "The martial arts system is a trap. It sounds impressive to only cultivate oneself, but in reality, it cuts off one's own path. Have you thought about how to proceed after becoming a martial god and how to strengthen one's inner world?"
But the problem is, how do you grow stronger, and what enormous amount of energy do you need, and where do you get that energy from? You can't even absorb the power of heaven and earth!

"Face reality. The so-called Martial God is nothing more than a tool created by the Heavenly Dao consciousness for itself. Its purpose is only to protect it, prevent it from being replaced by other super-grade beings, and allow it to continue to evolve and transform until one day, the Heavenly Dao becomes so powerful that it no longer needs the Martial God. Guess what your fate will be then?"

After hearing these words, Xu Qi'an's forehead was slightly sweaty, and his face was full of disbelief.

"That's impossible. My teacher said he had already given me the spiritual essence, and from then on, the Heavenly Dao had no consciousness..."

"You believe him just because he said so?"

Wu Xian shook his head and looked at Xu Qi'an with an expression as if he were looking at an idiot: "You're a transmigrator, you should have read the novel 'Tomb of the Gods,' right? Do you really think that a Heavenly Dao that has developed self-awareness would destroy itself for the sake of so-called selflessness? Is that reasonable?"

Xu Qi'an was speechless.

Yes, the claim that the Heavenly Dao consciousness disappeared was made by the Supervisor himself, and no one can prove it. After all, he had already died once before, but quickly returned. Who knows if he really died this time?

"Teacher...no, is Heaven deceiving me? Is it the real mastermind behind all this?"

Xu Qi'an murmured softly, finding it hard to accept such a thing.

"Perhaps. I can't rule out the possibility that I have a dark side, but as long as you give me the essence of the Heavenly Dao, I should be able to know the truth of the matter."

At this moment, Wu Xian sheathed his Taiping Blade and then stretched out his left hand, as if to pull Xu Qi'an up from the void.

After a moment of silence, Xu Qi'an asked, "And what about you? What is your ultimate goal? Is it to replace the Heavenly Dao and control the Nine Provinces Continent like those Super Grade beings?"

"Is there a difference?"

Wu Xian raised an eyebrow and countered, "As powerful as I am, the life and death of all living beings in the Nine Provinces are in my hands. What difference does it make whether I become the Heavenly Dao or not?"

Xu Qi'an was speechless again, then stood up with a wry smile, and raised his right hand to reach into his chest.

There was no scene of flesh and blood being torn apart. Ripples spread across Xu Qi'an's chest like the surface of a lake. As his aura rapidly weakened and he fell from the Martial God to the Half-Step Martial God, a ball of clear light was pulled out from it.

Rumble————! ! !
Just then, a thunderclap ripped across the starry sky.

The flashing lightning wove a net, stirring up a huge vortex of energy, like a purple eye slowly opening, looking down at the two people in the star array below, and the overwhelming rage within could be vaguely seen.

"roll!!"

Wu Xian let out a sharp shout, and the next second, an incomparably dazzling pillar of sword energy rose up, instantly dispelling the thunder in the sky.

At the same time, he reached out and took the ball of clear light from Xu Qi'an's hand, swallowing it directly and absorbing the spiritual essence and laws within it.

Buzzing—!
In an instant, a strange fluctuation erupted from Wu Xian's body, and boundless radiance emanated from it, as if it were constructed from countless indestructible runes. At this moment, it was forming an array at a speed imperceptible to the naked eye, transforming into an independent world.

Xu Qi'an was very familiar with this; it was a sign that a half-step Martial God was about to advance to Martial God.

But the next second, his expression froze slightly, because the ritual of the runes forming the great array suddenly stopped.

(End of this chapter)