Chapter 918: Fall of Heavenly Dao

Becoming a Transcendent is a leap from being bound by rules to wielding them.

High above in the sky, Zhou Huai hovered in the clouds, feeling the changes within his body.

Previously, although he could burst forth with formidable combat power, he was always borrowing the authority of his Clone to leverage external Law, and such strength was ultimately an external thing.

Now, everything was different.

As the origin sacred tree inside his body completely took root, the Law Origin of all Clones—thunder, flames, space, and Karma—were all fused into his flesh and Soul, transforming into a part of his own Origin.

He no longer needed to chant, no longer needed cast bars, and didn't even need to consume mana.

He himself was the Law.

Zhou Huai opened his eyes and looked at the opposite Mr. Duan Clone.

Previously, when facing this Clone, he could still feel a sense of high-dimensional oppression, but now it was completely gone.

In the vision of the Transcendent rank, the black Law patterns circulating on Mr. Duan's Clone were incomparably clear.

Where the nodes of power operation were, where the flaws in defense were, and even the sense of sluggishness in the opponent's internal energy flow were all visible at a glance.

Mr. Duan's Clone stared fixedly at Zhou Huai, his historically calm face sinking, his eyes filled with undisguisable shock.

"You actually took this step…" Mr. Duan's Clone gritted his teeth, his voice sounding as if it were squeezed out from between his teeth.

He abruptly raised his hand, recalling the cane that had been blown away.

"Even if you step into the Transcendent realm, you must die here today!"

Accompanied by a furious roar, Mr. Duan's Clone drove the High-Dimensional Law he could mobilize to the extreme.

"Boom—!"

The ten-thousand-meter high altitude suddenly darkened.

A pitch-black Law storm whipped up with him at the center, devouring even the light.

He gripped the cane with both hands and slashed out with a stick!

This strike had no fancy special effects, only pure Law of destruction, tearing a huge gap several thousand meters long across the sky, intending to grind Zhou Huai and the surrounding space into powder together.

Within the Holy City below.

Countless Holy Knights of the Vatican and the elite of the Dawnbreaker Guild controlled by the Parasite collapsed onto the ground.

They looked up at the sky, feeling only that the apocalypse had arrived, and even their breathing seemed to have stagnated.

"Th-This… What power is this? Is the sky collapsing?" A level 70 Holy Knight Commander's legs went soft, and he directly knelt on the ground, trembling uncontrollably all over.

"Too terrifying! With this kind of pressure, we don't even have the qualification to look straight at it!" An SS-rank assassin of the Dawnbreaker Guild had an ashen face, his teeth chattering loudly.

Everyone thought that under such a heaven-destroying blow, that newly Breakthrough youth would definitely be blasted until not even dust remained.

However, facing this black storm that tore through the sky.

Zhou Huai simply raised his right hand.

He extended his index finger and poked it out toward the roaring, destructive strike.

There was no skill collision.

Nor was there a rain of elemental light.

Zhou Huai's fingertips merely exuded a wisp of Chaos-colored origin sacred tree Origin.

"Hiss—"

An extremely slight sound rang out.

That wisp of Chaos Origin directly penetrated the raging black storm.

Without encountering the slightest obstacle, it easily split Mr. Duan's Clone's full-power strike in half from the middle, completely disintegrating it!

The black storm instantly dispersed into spots of light filling the sky.

"What?!"

Mr. Duan's Clone's pupils shrank violently, the expression on his face completely freezing, filled with utter disbelief.

Before the opponent could react.

Zhou Huai had already appeared in front of him.

There were no spatial fluctuations, nor any movement trajectory, just as if he had been standing there all along.

Zhou Huai raised his right hand, pressing his palm directly onto the opponent's chest.

"Boom!"

The devouring authority of the origin sacred tree erupted from Zhou Huai's palm!

Mr. Duan's Clone shuddered violently, substantive shock, anger, and fear flashing in his eyes.

He desperately urged the Origin within his body, wanting to break free, but discovered with despair that the faint connection between himself and his main body was forcibly severed by Zhou Huai.

The black High-Dimensional Law surrounding him retreated step by step in the face of the sacred tree's power, instantly melting away.

"Impossible—!"

"I am a Transcendent's Clone! How could you…"

Mr. Duan's Clone's roaring abruptly stopped.

Zhou Huai's palm flashed with a brilliant, faint light.

This Clone, possessing half-step Transcendent strength, began to violently twist in body.

Starting from his limbs, his flesh, bones, and clothing all turned into pure Law energy.

These energies compressed rapidly in mid-air, finally gathering into a pitch-black fruit radiating a rich high-dimensional aura.

The black fruit drifted toward Zhou Huai, merged into his body, and steadily hung among the branches of the sacred tree at his Dantian.

Having subdued this Clone, Zhou Huai closed his eyes and sensed it for a moment.

His understanding of the Law controlled by Mr. Duan increased by another fraction.

The crowd in the Holy City below was completely dumbfounded.

Tens of thousands of high-tier Professionals were utterly silent, dead quiet.

"One… One-shotted?"

"That monster capable of tearing the sky apart was slapped into a fruit by him?!"

Everyone looked at each other, their gazes towards that figure high in the sky resembling those looking up at a creation deity.

Right at this moment, his mother's voice suddenly rang out in Zhou Huai's mind.

"Zhou Huai, there's no time!"

"I can clearly sense that Mr. Duan is about to completely control my main body; we must immediately go to the Far North to stop him!"

Hearing his mother's urging, Zhou Huai furrowed his brow slightly, a trace of hesitation welling up deep in his heart.

He turned his head to look in the direction of the Far North.

Although he had already stepped into the Transcendent realm now, he was ultimately only at the initial entry of this tier.

And that old monster Mr. Duan had precipitated in the Transcendent realm for countless epochs, devouring the Origin of who knows how many top powerhouses, and now even occupied his mother's Origin body, capable of mobilizing the complete power of the origin sacred tree.

"Mom, although I am now a Transcendent, I'm afraid I am still not Mr. Duan's match," Zhou Huai calmly analyzed in his mind.

"Furthermore, he occupies your main body; his strength will only be stronger than mine. If I go over now, the odds of winning aren't high."

His mother's voice softened, carrying a determined power:

"That's not necessarily the case."

"Huaier, do you know what your biggest trump card is right now?"

Zhou Huai was stunned: "What trump card?"

"It's not Heavenly Dao, nor is it your God-level Clone System."

"Rather, it is your identity as the third fruit of the origin sacred tree!"

Zhou Huai's heart shook violently.

"This matter—Mr. Duan actually didn't know about it from beginning to end."

His mother's voice continued to come over: "Back then, I split off from the main body's consciousness and secretly escaped with a wisp of Origin. He only thought I defected to save my life, but he had no idea what my ultimate purpose was."

"I gave birth to you in a human body precisely to wait for you to grow up and take back my main body!"

"Therefore, it's not just Mr. Duan who can use the power of my main body; you can too!"

"With my consciousness assisting from the side, you can even leverage more Origin authority than he can!"

Hearing these words, Zhou Huai's heart suddenly became enlightened.

So this was his mother's true intention in insisting that he come find her.

She had laid out a scheme long ago, burying the key to victory for him.

At this time, Chun, who had been silent all along, also spoke up in Zhou Huai's Sea of Consciousness.

"Now, you should finally understand."

"I never deceived you from beginning to end."

Zhou Huai was silent.

"My power has become weaker and weaker; it no longer poses any threat to you or Mr. Duan."

Chun's tone calmed down, as if she were arranging her final affairs.

"I'll gift you this last bit of Origin power."

"Wishing you… can defeat Mr. Duan and give this world a different ending."

Before the words faded!

"Rumble—!"

A loud sound suddenly erupted above the firmament.

The originally clear sky instantly turned into a patch of Chaos, and following closely, a huge deep purple thunderbolt slashed down from the Nine Heavens!

This thunderbolt steadily landed on Zhou Huai.

But it didn't have any destructive power.

The moment of contact, it directly transformed into a massive Heavenly Dao Origin!

The power flowed along the Meridians, crazily surging into Zhou Huai's Dantian like a river.

The origin sacred tree inside his body that had just fused received nourishment, bursting forth with blinding light.

The sacred tree began to wildly sprout branches and scatter leaves.

The huge tree canopy propped open Chaos, and the thick roots pierced through the Law.

Zhou Huai only felt the power inside his body climbing step by step, forcibly pushing his Foundation of just entering the Transcendent realm up another tier.

Zhou Huai looked down at his own hands.

His fingertips lingered with purple-golden thunder arcs, and every gesture carried the heavy majesty of the Heavenly Dao Law.

As the last wisp of power was channeled into his body.

Chun's aura completely dissipated between heaven and earth.

No trace of it could be found anymore.

At the same moment.

"Crack—!"

The entire world began to vibrate violently.

Zhou Huai looked down; in the Holy City beneath his feet, the walls of countless buildings constructed of gold and marble cracked and collapsed.

Deep pits were torn open on the distant wilderness, and magma gushed out from underground.

The defensive barriers of the human city-states shattered one after another.

Screeches of fierce beasts came from the mountain forests.

Looking up again.

Dense black cracks emerged above the firmament, and the entire sky was tottering and crumbling.

The Heavenly Dao of the Ninth World had completely dissipated.

Losing the core rules maintaining the operation of the world, the entire era was irreversibly heading towards destruction!

Zhou Huai hovered between the collapsing heaven and earth, gazing at the world below that had fallen into panic and wailing.

A bitter smile hooked the corners of his mouth.

"Damn it, Heavenly Dao, you really are ruthless. Using the entire world as a burial companion to force me into a life-and-death struggle with Mr. Duan."