Master of Strange Dao

Chapter 1835: Chapter 499: Acting in Heaven’s Stead, I Don’t Want To (5k)_3

The Mountain Lord once again entered the Endless Darkness, the giant tiger moved its paw, revealing the Greedy Devil King crushed beneath it.

"What exactly do you want to do?"

Without the suppression, the Greedy Devil King, overwhelmed as if on the brink of a mental breakdown, screamed out.

The response was an explosion of infinite radiance in the darkness.

"Again and again, is it never-ending?"

The exploding radiance nearly illuminated the entire world of Endless Darkness.

After the radiance slowly faded away, the Greedy Devil King, already without true form or shape, transformed into a mass of mud-like substance, resignedly floating there.

He dispersed into an unknown number of mud-like shapes, still trying to coalesce.

This filled him with complete despair, unable to live, unable to die.

The Mountain Lord silently watched, and when the Greedy Devil King recovered once again, he couldn’t help but sigh.

"Slower recovery compared to last time, but still far from enough."

The Mountain Lord had already come to regard the remaining Greedy Devil King here as a test subject.

Whenever he felt progress, he would come to test it.

Although he still couldn’t take down the Greedy Devil King completely, he could clearly feel his own improvement.

The moment he could truly kill the Greedy Devil King might not be far off.

He recalled his earlier strike, introspected, feeling that the light was still too much, which indicated poor power control.

He continued with the process of retracting power, needing to stop temporarily, as the speed of power retraction had exceeded what he could control.

He met the village chief, personally feeling the chief’s control, and envied it with eyes turned blue.

He learned a lot, but clearly, he would hardly raise his own power control to the level of the chief.

His power was too strong, too immense, impossible to control to such an absurd extent.

Yet, he certainly gained some insights, especially in observing the chief’s process of unleashing Ten Directions Divine Skills, yet able to stack the power six times while still maintaining control.

The chief liked the Mountain Lord, for he could strike freely without fear of killing him.

The two hit it off, over the years they sparred in the Void or Abyss numerous times.

Not on Jinlan Mountain or in the present world, fearing accidental large-scale destruction.

Each time he made progress, the Mountain Lord would come to the Abyss to test on the Greedy Devil King, making him wish for death rather than living.

Because the Greedy Devil King could feel the Mountain Lord’s terrifying progress, already capable of wounding him, yet unable to kill him, which was the most excruciating.

To this day, the Greedy Devil King would rather die and at least be free of this torment.

The current torment was far more severe than the countless years before, delving much deeper, starting to touch his core.

The present Mountain Lord was no longer the same as during the time when several Great Devil Kings were imprisoned together.

The Mountain Lord trained beneath the Mountain Abyss, constantly seeking progress, seeking for one day to effortlessly kill an entity of All Gods by simply acting.

He saw hope, with greater focus than anyone, now even rarely listening to storytelling, focused on cultivation.

Meanwhile, Yu Ziqing stayed in Jinlan Mountain for two months, settled and recuperated before leaving.

Returning to the underground cave where he discovered the name of the Primordial Lord.

Once more before the stone wall, after losing his vision, he sensed the letters on it differently.

The cracks beyond the words, various natural patterns, in his perception, seemed to have Life Force, forming some faint imprints that only those particularly familiar with runes could understand.

Yu Ziqing was familiar with these, as this was the Primordial Lord’s means of communication.

The words formed roughly a sentence.

"You shouldn’t have tried to peer into him; losing your vision is fortunate."

"It’s not a big deal, can recover slowly in the future," Yu Ziqing replied.

"He will descend within ten years, and when he does, the Dao he guards will also descend."

"What consequences will it have?"

"Previously, he had to guard it; after consuming countless years, he has guarded it and can carry it.

If he descends into the present world, the biggest issue would be a situation of binary splitting.

The Dao he guards, standing in the center, will definitely affect the present world.

It would affect everyone, gradually stepping into a situation of Divine versus Devil opposition.

The wonder of All Gods is never just about strength."

"Even putting aside the identity of the human race, the conflict between him and I is already irreconcilable, naturally opposed. I will do my utmost."

Yu Ziqing quietly replied.

There’s nothing much to say, being part of the human race, the conflict with Cliff Divine King was already irreconcilable.

As the king of hungry ghosts, it was a never-ending natural opposition.

Disregarding all this, purely on personal grievances, Cliff Divine King would wish nothing more than for him to drop dead on the spot, crush his bones to ash, finally erasing his name.

"I once took away a part of his Dao, and over the years, he also continued to split the Dao into Refining God Dao.

What I initially felt fairly confident about now seems entirely assured.

He stands between God and Devil, both are and are not.

Before he completely determines which he is, he remains undying and immortal.

What I can do is use the link between the Daos to determine it.

In that moment, it will be his most vulnerable time.

At that moment, his undying and immortal will become uncertain.

We only have one chance."

Looking at the information formed by patterns, Yu Ziqing remained silent for a long time.

"Forgot to tell you, I previously stepped into the Seventh Major Realm of Dayan Preface.

Even though I forced my way there, compared to you, it should be particularly clumsy.

But the instinct is still there.

I guess we only have one chance because from then on, you will also be exposed.

Exposure means you must also completely disappear.

I have great respect for predecessors who face death fearlessly.

But since I’ve come.

I do not wish to see outcomes I dislike."