Chapter 262: Dao Artifact
The Yaoguang World... has been destroyed?! Who would go out of their way to destroy an entire vassal world for no reason?! The thoughts of Susan, Yang Han, Hera, and the others lingered for only a brief moment before the answer became clear.
"He... has already arrived."
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Beside the Star Gate at Longxiang City, everyone raised their heads and looked upward, witnessing a fleeting burst of brilliant light deep within the starry sky.
Due to the vast distance, the light they saw had actually occurred long ago. Yet many could still judge from that radiance...
"A world... has been shattered."
A world had been crushed. And that location...
Reacting quickly, Tang Fenghua glanced at the Star Gate beside him. Connecting it with the reason the Star Gate could not be activated, his eyes widened as he stared toward the distant horizon.
At the same time, his psychic mind immediately contacted Murong Hui, hall master of the Heavenly Palace Hall. "Quick! Check which position in the starry sky above the Cangwu World corresponds to the Yaoguang World!"
Murong Hui did not delay. He quickly investigated and responded, "The Yaoguang World corresponds to the position in the sky above Cangwu at—"
Before he could finish, violent fluctuations surged through his psychic thought. "Wait! This is—"
"What happened, Hall Master Murong? Answer me!" Tang Fenghua urged anxiously.
Only then did Murong Hui recover from the shock of the scene he had just witnessed.
His psychic thought trembled as he replied, "S-Something terrible has happened... The Yaoguang World... has been destroyed!"
Tang Fenghua, who had already suspected the truth, felt his heart plunge into an abyss upon hearing those words.
He looked at the Star Gate... Then recalled how, over the past few days, even Huang Wei had personally attempted recalibration, yet still failed to lock onto the Yaoguang World’s coordinates...
Even as Murong Hui’s repeated murmurs of "How is this possible..." echoed in his mind, no matter how unbelievable it seemed, he had no choice but to accept it.
The Yaoguang World... was gone.
Tang Fenghua turned toward Yaoguang, his face filled with concern. But Yaoguang simply continued to gaze upward at the heavens.
Tang Fenghua knew that with Yaoguang’s strength, even without relying on the Heavenly Palace Hall, he could see beyond the nine heavens and into the vast starry sky.
In other words, he already knew. He knew the world that had given birth to him had turned into cosmic dust. And yet, he showed no reaction at all.
"Perfected Master Yaoguang..." Tang Fenghua called out softly, wanting to offer comfort, yet not knowing what to say.
The destruction of Yaoguang’s homeworld, one of the sect’s pillars, was a catastrophe!
Murong Hui immediately reported it to the other pillar of the sect, Li Hanqiu. But Li Hanqiu did not respond.
Murong Hui quickly contacted the sect master, Li Qingshan.
Upon receiving the news, Li Qingshan wasted no time and immediately reached out to Yaoguang through the Void Psychic World. "Yaoguang, you—"
"I saw it." Yaoguang interrupted. "He's here."
Hearing this, Li Qingshan’s heart sank.
Not only had the enemy arrived, but he had directly destroyed the entire Yaoguang World.
Clearly, in his eyes, once the Jiang family was gone, the Yaoguang World had no reason to exist.
From this alone, one could see just how domineering that True Disciple Jiang was.
If he were to arrive in the Great Cangwu World and discover that Yaoguang had been the one to exterminate the Jiang family...
"Hide for now." Li Qingshan said.
"Where would I hide? In the Great Cangwu World? Aren’t you afraid they’ll destroy it as well?" Yaoguang replied.
"That’s impossible. The Great Cangwu World is the foundation of the Cangwu lineage. As long as it exists, it continuously provides talent and spirit stone resources. No matter how furious Heavenly Venerable Jiang is, he would never destroy it," Li Qingshan said firmly.
"Perhaps he can’t destroy the Great Cangwu World, but destroying the Nine Cauldrons Sect would not be a problem," Yaoguang said.
"I’ll have the core members of the Nine Cauldrons Sect disperse and go into hiding." Li Qingshan looked at him. "As long as the foundation remains, there will always be a future. With your talent, your achievements will not fall short of Heavenly Venerable Jiang. When that day comes, you can rally everyone and restore the sect’s glory."
"Give the order," Yaoguang said.
He directly instructed Li Qingshan to issue the order for the Nine Cauldrons Sect to disperse into fragments, hiding throughout every corner of the Great Cangwu World.
But he also knew that even so, many would not escape the coming purge. Because behind Heavenly Venerable Jiang stood the entire Cangwu lineage.
When the time came, with a single command, all sects across the Great Cangwu World would unite and hunt down every hidden member of the Nine Cauldrons Sect.
In fact, he might not even need to give the order.
From the way Golden Core cultivators of the Infinite Star Palace and the Immortal Alliance had rushed to the Great Cangwu World, attempting to curry favor by rebuilding the Artifact Sect, it was clear just how much weight he carried within the Taiyi Immortal Sect.
By then, even if Heavenly Venerable Jiang left directly, those sects, eager to please him, would still take the initiative to slaughter every Nine Cauldrons Sect disciple hiding across the world.
"Azure Golden Core!" Yaoguang rose into the air, traversed the void, and arrived directly at the mountain where the Purple Firmament Institute was located.
The moment he landed, Lei Yun and the others responsible for his daily life came forward to greet him.
They clearly had no idea that the Yaoguang World had already been destroyed.
And Yaoguang had no intention of explaining it to them.
With a wave of his hand, he went straight into his workshop.
Although the workshop in his residence was not as vast or well-equipped as the Purple Firmament Institute’s specialized facilities, it still spanned a thousand meters, filled everywhere with blueprints of flying swords.
Yet standing here now, he felt an inexplicable emptiness.
The members of the Su family. Old man Su Chiming. And other familiar faces... He could not claim deep emotional bonds, but to have them all vanish in an instant still left a hollow feeling in his heart.
But he knew clearly that now was not the time to dwell on that emptiness.
The Yaoguang World was already gone. What truly mattered now was the survival of the Nine Cauldrons Sect and his own life.
"The Azure Golden Core Realm, one step away from the true Void-Piercing Realm..."
No time. There was no time. No matter how he cultivated next, he would not gain the strength needed to contend with such an existence.
A figure of this level could very well possess the power to directly confront Void-Piercing Realm experts from the era of the Lunar Fiend Empire war. The only path he could think of to break this situation...
"Void-Splitting Disk." Yaoguang took out this top-tier spirit treasure once more.
The Void-Splitting Disk possessed the power to kill a Radiant Sun Golden Core cultivator. If it could advance further and evolve into a Dao Artifact, even killing a Void-Piercing Realm expert would not be impossible. Only if it completed this transformation would he have a sliver of hope against Heavenly Venerable Jiang.
Originally, I planned to dismantle it. With materials of this level, I might have refined two or even three Dao Artifacts in the future, but now... I can only take this risk. As he thought that, Yaoguang drew in a deep breath.
Now, his only option was to gamble everything using his Dao Entry divine ability.
Previously, two spirit treasures had already been sacrificed in failed attempts. Although the Void-Splitting Disk was of the highest quality, no one could be certain of instantly transforming a top-tier spirit treasure into a Dao Artifact.
This was truly a gamble. Yet even as he thought, his movements did not slow.
As his Dao Entry divine ability activated, the Void-Splitting Disk trembled slightly, ripples spreading outward from its body.
And the intensity of those ripples far surpassed the previous spirit treasures, even exceeding that of the Chaotic Heaven Ruler.
As the ripples spread, they were followed by resonance with the Great Dao.
It was a power that even Yaoguang, whose true spirit was nearly condensed, could only faintly perceive.
Within the Chaotic Heaven Ruler, five forces had manifested: life, death, illusion, mind, and soul.
But within the Void-Splitting Disk, the forces were far fewer. Only two remained: space-shattering and traversal.
The moment he grasped these two aspects, Yaoguang immediately guided its potential toward space-shattering.
Space-shattering. Even without explanation, one could tell that it meant shattering the void. If even the void itself could be shattered, its lethality would be unimaginable.
But this guidance lasted only a moment before Yaoguang realized that the Dao resonance within the artifact could not sustain such a transformation.
"Crap! It’s going to break!" Without hesitation, he withdrew his guidance and instead focused on channeling its potential toward traversal.
As this shift occurred, the Void-Splitting Disk rapidly expanded. Its size surged to thirty meters across, ripples spreading outward as if to swallow the surrounding void.
The devouring force was overwhelmingly tyrannical. The arrays within the workshop were like paper, instantly getting shredded into pieces.
"I can’t let it transform here!" At once, Yaoguang unleashed his true origin, using a stellar force field to restrain the transforming Dao Artifact. Carrying it, he shot upward into the void.
Even as he ascended, the Void-Splitting Disk continued to expand! Thirty meters... sixty... one hundred... three hundred... one thousand...
Before he even broke through the Blazing Solar Lightning layer and reached the heavens, the artifact had already expanded to ten thousand meters.
Its overwhelming energy distorted everything around it. Even the surrounding clouds twisted and warped, as though a black hole had formed at its center...
No, not a black hole but a wormhole!
"The Void-Splitting Disk has completed its transformation, evolving into a Dao Artifact! And due to the quality of its materials, enhanced through Dao Entry, its performance ranks among the best even among Dao Artifacts..."
Yaoguang calmly perceived its newly awakened properties, quickly grasping its true capabilities.
"Once activated, it will directly form a wormhole, allowing me to traverse the universe, just like those Void-Piercing experts."
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