The Shi Tian Supreme naturally made his decision. His primordial spirit mirrored the laws of heaven and earth, and the aura of death surged upwards, gradually suppressing Qing Hua's vitality.
Mu Gong's expression turned grim. His primordial spirit was not inferior, its power at the eighteenth heaven of the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm. Although only two heavens higher than Shi Tian Supreme, he had a hidden injury that prevented him from exerting his full power.
However, as a great being of heaven and earth, the word "death" had nearly vanished from his life.
The immeasurable embrace of the Great Luo, the incorruptible and immortal nature of the Golden Immortal, when combined, transcended time and space, leading to eternal freedom!
Let alone being defeated by Shi Tian, even if two or three more Shi Tian Venerables appeared, killing him would be a joke.
Only in the ancient legends of heaven and earth, during a cataclysm that erupted in the primordial era, had Great Luo Golden Immortals died, and many of them. Apart from that, he had never heard of any great beings perishing. Even the Dragon and Phoenix clans had only managed to destroy the physical bodies of Great Luo Golden Immortals at a tremendous cost, leaving their primordial spirits intact.
As long as it was not that legendary cataclysm and the intervention of several beings who had stepped into the Half-Step Hunyuan realm, no one could destroy him.
This was also why Mu Gong, despite losing in the Great Dao struggle, did not turn and flee.
Heaven and earth, the profound and the obscure, life and death intertwined. Mu Gong feared nothing, Shi Tian Supreme would not retreat, and the two paths of life and death in heaven and earth would not dissipate.
Innumerable Dao rules were constructed, and laws profoundly altered the rules of a world.
Even the two Supremes had to go all out to achieve such a creation and transformation of heaven and earth, a divine ability of creation!
Qing Ling, with his human body and serpent's tail, stood in the void. Above his head floated a black and white world, divided into life and death. The energies of life and death connected with the Great Dao of life and death in this world. A Xuan Tian Dao Vine gradually grew, reaching towards heaven and earth. At the boundary of life and death, a green vine surged towards the sky of the small world.
The Great Dao of life and death, flourishing and withering, was grafted onto this Xuan Tian Vine. It was this Xuan Tian Vine that maintained the balance of the boundary between life and death. Life and death converged into wood, flourishing and withering with measure, controlled by me.
Qing Ling's primordial spirit was now merged with the Great Dao, nearly becoming one with it. "I am the Dao, the Dao is me."
This was a profound and mysterious Dao realm. At this moment, as he absorbed the self-contained world of the two Daos of life and death, he was infinitely approaching the primordial spirit of the Great Luo!
Below, Luo Hua's gaze was already stunned. She knew this innate deity was extraordinary, but she hadn't expected him to be *this* extraordinary.
The fragmented primordial spirit of Mu Gong within the Tai Xu Illusionary Cocoon gradually lost its ability to resist. Suppressed by the Great Dao of life and death, he sank deeper into the infinite illusion, unable to break free. The Great Dao of Life within him was gradually being extracted by Qing Ling, thread by thread, into his body.
Time flowed by, a thousand days and a thousand nights of absorbing life and death. Life led to the Wood Dao, strengthening himself. Death entered the Wood Dao, causing the wood to wither and decay, then returning to the earth, and rebirth after death.
The Xuan Tian Vine grew vigorously, ten thousand, then ten thousand more, and then yet another ten thousand. The vine grew taller and taller, supporting the sky and establishing the earth.
Heaven and earth opened and closed, turbid qi sank heavily, and clear qi floated upwards. The heavens were vast and boundless.
With every zhang the green vine grew, the sky rose a zhang higher, the earth thickened by a chi, and the Dao Scripture world expanded by a fraction.
The Dao Scripture Realm became the Great Luo Dao Scripture Realm. The small world within his body was as vast as Mount Sumeru. Layer upon layer, the cosmos gradually evolved into a Minor Thousand World.
It was at this moment that Qing Ling's primordial spirit roamed at the limit of the Dao. The shores of the Great Luo were within sight. His primordial spirit was nearly that of a Great Luo, and the three flowers of Heaven, Earth, and Man bloomed, hovering above his head. His primordial spirit was like the Dao.
He entered the Dao with his primordial spirit, approached the Dao with his primordial spirit, nearing the Great Luo. The profound mysteries of the laws of heaven and earth, all entered his sight. The vast universe, all within his gaze.
Qing Ling's eyes instantly peered into the myriad secrets of heaven and earth. He saw, in the far south, beneath a colossal divine tree with fiery red light and leaves like blood, countless flowers bloomed and swayed, dazzling red, deathly still black, with life slowly emanating.
On the colossal divine tree, half an incomplete divine seal was inscribed, vaguely resembling the character "Spring".
A thousand reds and a thousand leaves rustled, as if sensing Qing Ling's gaze, the branches and leaves danced.
Beneath the tree, flowers bloomed, and within the heart of each flower stood small elves, kneeling respectfully, praying to the tree.
His mind was clear, and his twin souls felt a connection.
That was where Qing Ling was destined to go, the place where his life was first conceived. To see the tree was to see a lifetime.
Qing Ling withdrew his divine consciousness, his primordial spirit returned to the Dao, and he said directly, "Fellow Daoist Luo Hua, make your move!"
Luo Hua was startled, then reacted immediately. Without hesitation, she pointed to the Xuan Guan on her forehead, and a giant blood worm flew out. It absorbed Luo Hua's vital essence to strengthen itself, its blood-red shadow vast and its aura surging.
The nine-legged worm emitted a strange chirping sound, and its entire body ignited with a massive flame, transforming into a blood-red lotus. Its petals unfurled, heavy with karma, striking fear into all living beings.
The red lotus bloomed, burning through the void. Cracks appeared in the fabric of the world, and in a mere few breaths, a hundred-zhang-wide maw was truly opened.
Qing Ling immediately withdrew his primordial spirit, grabbed the unconscious Luo Hua, and rushed towards the maw.
In the sky, Mu Gong and Shi Tian Supreme instantly halted their battle. Countless tendrils of life and death, and chains of heavenly laws, emerged from the world and entangled Qing Ling.
The surging life force surged towards Qing Ling, while the lingering death qi moved towards the life force.
Qing Ling's primordial spirit unleashed a long-accumulated strike. Behind him, a complete green vine connected heaven and earth, propping up the sky and establishing the ground, magnificent and vast, suppressing all heavens, and breaking through a sliver of hope!
Green light flickered. Amidst the countless terrifying tendrils and chains, he struggled, flew out, passed through the rift, and escaped.
Behind him, the world's walls sealed shut, and everything was left in that world.
As Qing Ling emerged, he immediately flew straight into the Nine Heavens of Gaofeng Wind, flying at extreme speed, not daring to stop for a moment. He traversed the Mi Tian Net, moving as fast as light, unstoppable.
In the Life and Death Realm, all the life force was suppressed in a corner, while the aura of death enveloped the entire sky.
Shi Tian Supreme manifested, withdrawing from the union with the Dao, and laughed uproariously, "Hahaha~
Mu Gong, so my opportunity was within a junior."
Mu Gong said coldly, "Shi Tian, you let this junior go today. In the future, he might be your demise!"
"Hmph, Fellow Daoist need not worry. This world is mine. You should worry more about how you yourself can escape!"
Mu Gong's primordial spirit merged with heaven and earth, yet was suppressed by heaven and earth. His Dao was trapped in death. He was imprisoned in this world. Because he was distracted in the struggle within the laws of heaven and earth and lost to Shi Tian, this world became his restraint.
It would take tens of millions of eons for Mu Gong to be able to extricate himself.
Qing Ling, who had escaped to safety, flew for several years without stopping. Only when his Great Being divine sense could no longer probe such a vast expanse did he finally stop.
Qing Ling stopped on a mountain peak in a chaotic region. Looking at the still unconscious Luo Hua, he couldn't help but say, "Fellow Daoist, we are out of mortal danger now. You don't need to pretend to be asleep anymore."
Hearing this, the unconscious Luo Hua opened her eyes, a hint of embarrassment on her face. "So Fellow Daoist already knew."
"Fellow Daoist's disguise was truly brilliant, but you still revealed a slight trace in front of me. Your heart betrayed you," Qing Ling said casually with a half-smile.
Luo Hua's expression froze for a moment, but she quickly regained her composure. She smiled and said, "Thank you, Fellow Daoist, for keeping your promise and taking me out of danger.
For this great kindness, I am willing to repay you with myself."