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Chapter 543 Analysis of the Dao Principles!

Chapter 551

The voice wasn't loud, but it seemed to possess a magical power that made words come true.

As soon as he finished speaking, the giant skull warship at the head of the ship, along with the maniacal divine thought emanating from it, suddenly froze!
Time seemed to have been paused at that moment.

Immediately afterwards, to the horrified eyes of all the members of the Black Skull Pirate Gang, their powerful leader, the Blood Slaughter Dao Master, began an incredible “reversal” of his physical body and soul!
His imposing and ferocious body was rapidly "rejuvenating," transforming from an incomparably domineering middle-aged giant into a young man, a teenager, a child... Finally, under everyone's horrified gaze, he turned into a mass of primordial life essence, and then with a "bang," he completely vanished into nothingness, as if his entire life had been forcibly rewound and then completely erased!
From existence to non-existence, it all depends on Xu Ran's single thought.

"My path is reincarnation."

Xu Ran's calm voice resonated in the souls of every space pirate, yet it sounded like a demonic chant from the deepest hell.

"Life and death are both within my control."

"Now, I grant you... death."

As soon as he finished speaking, the Samsara Domain silently enveloped the entire battlefield.

Those arrogant space pirate warships, along with the thousands upon thousands of space pirates on board, did not explode, did not cry out in agony, and did not even leak a single bit of energy.

They are just... withering away.

The sturdy ship's hull, like rocks weathered over millions of years, quietly transformed into the most basic particles, dissipating into the starry sky. Those vicious space pirates, whether powerful generals or ordinary henchmen, all perished at the same moment, their souls returning to silence, their bodies turning to dust.

The whole process was eerily quiet.

It was as if they had never existed, merely a stain on the canvas of the universe, gently wiped away by an invisible hand.

With a single thought, a notorious pirate crew was wiped out!
This is the might of the Dao Lord!
On the Pioneer, you could hear a pin drop.

Zhenshan, Cangshi, and all the former members of the Divine Court stared in disbelief at this scene, their shock even surpassing that of Xu Ran's confrontation with the Holy Arbiter.

The confrontation with the Holy Arbiter is a thrilling battle of principles, a clash of wisdom and courage.

But at this moment, it is pure, unreasonable, and a crushing defeat on a life level!

"This...this is the Dao Lord..." Zhenshan murmured to himself, his eyes filled with fervent worship. He finally understood that the difference between a Dao Lord and a Dao Master was not a river, but an endless universe!

Xu Ran slowly withdrew his gaze, as if he had only done a trivial little thing.

"Azure Stone".

"Your subordinate is here!" Cang Shi was startled and quickly bowed.

“Using this place as the starting point, scan the entire ‘cemetery’.” Xu Ran’s gaze fell upon this vast and boundless metal mausoleum. “The Arbiter called this place a ‘cemetery’. I want to see what exactly is buried here.”

"As ordered!"

Cang Shi immediately sprang into action. Although the Pioneer was damaged, its core detection array could still barely function. Soon, a vast star map slowly unfolded in the center of the bridge.

It was a breathtaking sight.

Countless enormous, unimaginable pieces of metal debris, like continents, floated silently in this imprisoned star field. Some resembled broken, celestial swords, their blades still bearing the undying sword intent, untouched by eons of time. Others were like collapsed golden temples, still radiating a sacred and solemn aura even in ruins. Still others were the wreckage of warships larger than stars, each unique in style, representing long-gone, supremely glorious super-civilizations.

This is the graveyard of civilization!
Each piece of debris represents an era that was harvested by "natural law"!

“My lord, look here!” Cangshi pointed to a special coordinate on the star map. “The energy reaction here is the most peculiar. It belongs neither to the Divine Court nor to any of the destroyed civilizations we know of.”

Xu Ran turned his gaze over there.

It was a ruin made of bronze, ancient and desolate in style. In the center of the ruins, a huge stone tablet stood silently.

No, that's not a stone tablet, but a... tortoise shell!
A massive, asteroid-sized, cyan tortoise shell was covered with naturally formed, mysterious patterns resembling the traces of the Great Dao. Even from a great distance, one could still sense a vast aura that could see into the past and foresee the future.

"Go and have a look."

Xu Ran took a step forward and vanished from the bridge. The next moment, he traversed the endless void and landed before the enormous bronze tortoise shell. Zhen Shan and the others, piloting the Pioneer, followed closely behind.

Standing before this tortoise shell, Xu Ran could feel its extraordinary nature even more.

Those patterns were not carved later, but were formed innately, as if they were traces left by the first traces of the principles of "destiny" and "divination" that manifested in the world at the beginning of the universe.

"These are... the remains of the 'Xuantian Civilization'!" Cang Shi exclaimed in shock aboard the Pioneer, analyzing the artifacts through the divine array. "Ancient records state that the Xuantian Civilization existed three eras before the Divine Court, and its divination skills were unparalleled throughout the heavens. It is said that its supreme treasure, the 'Xuantian Dao Armor,' could predict the rise and fall of an era! I never imagined... they would also perish here!"

Xu Ran reached out and gently touched the cold tortoise shell.

What I felt at my fingertips was not the texture of metal, but a warm, jade-like quality, yet imbued with a sense of endless vicissitudes.

The moment he touched the tortoise shell, the Samsara Seal on the back of his head trembled violently!
boom!
An unimaginably vast torrent of information surged wildly into his mind's sea along his fingertips!

Those were neither techniques nor inheritances, but fragments of "prophetic" images from the distant past!
Xu Ran saw a starry sea of ​​unparalleled prosperity, where countless beings dressed in blue Taoist robes and bearing tortoise shell marks between their brows sat atop the galaxy, manipulating the threads of fate.

The scene shifts, and a silver cross descends from the sky!

That was... the Holy Arbiter! But it was countless times more powerful than the Gamma-7 he had encountered!
"Heaven has no justice! It has stolen our fruits and cut off our path! The Xuantian Clan will never be slaves!"

A tragic roar echoed throughout the entire era.

He saw countless Xuan Tian clansmen burning their lives and the Great Dao, pouring all their power into this huge tortoise shell.

"With the blood of my people, with the soul of my path, I will divine a glimmer of hope!"

"A divination...a variable!"

"The one who will break the deadlock!"

On the tortoise shell, all the patterns lit up, radiating an unprecedented light, resisting the "corrective" power of the silver cross.

Finally, the picture freezes.

On the tortoise shell, all the light faded, leaving only a final, faint prophecy imprinted deep within. That prophecy contained only four words.

"Reincarnation...breaking the deadlock."

The information deluge was interrupted, and Xu Ran abruptly withdrew his hand, his eyes filled with shock.

It turns out that in the final moments of its demise, the Xuantian civilization conducted an ultimate divination at the cost of its entire civilization, discovering that the key to breaking the deadlock in the future lay in "reincarnation"!
Did they foresee their own downfall?
No, perhaps not. They simply calculated that only the paradoxical path of "reincarnation" is the only key to countering the absolute order of "natural law."

“My lord, you…” Zhenshan asked with concern when he saw that Xu Ran’s expression was different.

Xu Ran shook his head, his gaze falling once more on the tortoise shell. He could sense that within the tortoise shell, besides the prophecy, the last and purest essence of the Xuan Tian civilization, the "source of divination," was sealed.

This power is a great tonic for his cycle of reincarnation!

His cycle of reincarnation allows him to go through life and death, but his grasp of the "future" remains vague. If he could devour this source, his path would be able to enter the realm of "destiny"!

"Those who belong to the Samsara Palace, protect me!"

Xu Ran made a quick decision and sat cross-legged in front of the tortoise shell.

"Yes, sir!" Zhenshan and the others immediately piloted the Pioneer, hovering to the side, activating all defensive formations, and vigilantly watching their surroundings.

Xu Ran took a deep breath, and the Dharma Image of the Reincarnation Dao Lord appeared behind him. The huge Möbius strip seal began to slowly rotate.

"Reincarnation, devour!"

An invisible suction force emanated from the Samsara Seal, enveloping the entire bronze tortoise shell.

hum-

The tortoise shell trembled violently, seemingly sensing a power of the same origin yet entirely different Dao principles, and began to instinctively resist. Countless ancient divination runes lit up on it, evolving into various illusions of future calamities, trying to drag Xu Ran's mind into them and condemn him to eternal damnation.

"Playing illusions in front of me?"

Xu Ran snorted coldly, his Dao heart as firm as a rock.

"My body is the cycle of reincarnation; all kinds of calamities, entering my cycle of reincarnation, become provisions!"

His Daoist Dharma form, with its gray eyes that represented "death," suddenly opened, shooting out a beam of annihilating divine light. Wherever the divine light passed, all illusions of calamity shattered, transforming into the purest energy, which was absorbed by the Reincarnation Dao Seal.

The tortoise shell's resistance is getting weaker and weaker.

Finally, with a sigh that seemed to come from ancient times, the blue "divination origin" that was as dazzling as a galaxy was forcibly extracted from the tortoise shell and transformed into a long river of blue light that flowed continuously into Xu Ran's reincarnation seal!
Xu Ran's aura was rising steadily!
His Cycle of Reincarnation was expanding and perfecting at a rapid pace. In the world that was originally only gray and white, wisps of cyan began to appear, representing "fate" and "variability".

His eyes grew even deeper. His left eye was chaotic, his right eye lifeless, and in the deepest recesses of his pupils, it seemed as if countless possibilities for the future were arising and ceasing in constant flux.

Dao Lord First Heaven... Peak!
They're only one step away from reaching the second level!
However, just as Xu Ran was about to successfully absorb this source, he was about to achieve his goal.

The entire Metal Cemetery, this prison-like star field that had been silent for countless epochs, suddenly... stirred!
Rumbling--

A deep, rumbling sound, so profound that even a Dao Lord felt a chill run down his spine, came from the deepest part of this star field.

That wasn't a sound, but a rhythm of "awakening"!

It was as if a peerless ferocious beast that had been sleeping for countless ages had been completely awakened by Xu Ran's unbridled actions!

All the metal fragments, whether it was the broken divine sword or the collapsed golden temple, began to gleam with a cold, lifeless metallic luster at this moment.

Their orientation began to change slowly.

Like countless loyal guards, they pointed their broken "sharp edges" in the same direction—the place where Xu Ran was!
An indescribable, cold, deathly pressure, filled with an absolute killing intent, swept in from all directions like an invisible tide!

Under this oppressive force, the Pioneer's defensive array groaned in despair, and fine cracks began to appear on the hull!
"Not good!" Cang Shi exclaimed in horror, "Our lord has awakened the 'thing' here! This pressure... far surpasses that of the previous Holy Arbiter! This is... this is the true power of the 'Graveyard'!"

Zhen Shan's golden battle intent was suppressed to a dim, lifeless state; he felt his very soul being frozen by the chilling killing intent. He tried to move, but found that his body, along with the surrounding space-time, was completely imprisoned by an invisible force!

Is this the power of the "Graveyard Guardian"?
The mere presence of their awakening was enough to prevent them from even having the thought of resistance!

"Pretend to be a ghost!"

Just then, Xu Ran suddenly opened his eyes!
He has completely devoured the essence of the Xuan Tian Dao Armor, and his cultivation has reached the peak of the first level of Dao Lord!

boom!
A new power of the Reincarnation Dao Lord, which combined life and death, order and destiny, surged from his body and forcefully tore a hole in the cold pressure!
Zhenshan and the others immediately felt the pressure ease and regained their ability to move. They were all panting heavily as they looked at Xu Ran's back as if they had seen a god.

Xu Ran stood up, his gaze sharp as lightning, piercing through the layers of metal ruins, and looked toward the source of that oppressive aura.

In his "causal observation" perspective, he saw that at the very center of this metal cemetery, an indescribably huge black hole was slowly opening.

That wasn't a black hole, but a nest made up of pure laws of "slaughter" and "suppression"!
A gigantic, indescribable metal claw, forged entirely from countless divine metals and remnants of civilizations, slowly emerged from the black hole!
Its claw alone is larger than a star!
It is covered with dense ancient divine characters representing “suppressing”, “killing”, “annihilating”, and “extincting”. Each divine character seems to be cast with the wails and blood of a civilization!

[Unknown life form detected: Graveyard Guardian - Prisoner]

Threat Level: Above Dao Lord, Realm Lord (Unknown)

"Analysis of the Dao: Absolute Suppression, Law Annihilation, Epoch Imprisonment..."

"Warning! Target locked! Cause and effect anchored! Escape is impossible!"

The Daojun System issued its most urgent alarm in history!
"go!"

Xu Ran made a decisive decision without any hesitation.

He was strong, but not arrogant enough to think he could fight against this monster that had slumbered for countless epochs and was specifically used to suppress the graveyard of civilizations.

He grabbed the bronze tortoise shell beneath him; this object was a crystallization of the Xuan Tian civilization, its hardness comparable to a Dao Lord's magic weapon, and he couldn't leave it behind. Then, in a flash, he returned to the Pioneer.

(End of this chapter)