Among the four Daoist clan members before him, two appeared as if humans had absorbed and refined the essence and blood of other alien races, undergoing some unknown evolution. Previously, Ye Yun had observed from their appearance that they had shed most of their human characteristics.
One of them had even undergone a grotesque mutation of its head.
"Does your meaning imply that the death of Elder Wu Xing and his disciples from my Heavenly Dao Sect was your doing?"
Ming Daozi's voice was clear and cold. As his true essence fluctuated, a series of talismans materialized in the air. Under his control, they formed a formation, ready to attack Ye Yun the moment he confessed.
"Talisman attack? How interesting." Ye Yun flicked his finger, and the thousands of talismans controlled by Ming Daozi instantly lost their support, falling like leaves from the sky.
"A mere Divine Sense cultivator in the Fourth Realm, do you think you can control me just because you have more weapons?"
"You even sent Wu Xing to demand I withdraw from the Emperor's Road? Now it's perfect. Since you've already colluded with the demon butterflies, my visit here is just to wipe you all out in one go."
Ye Yun's divine sense, imbued with a trace of Nine Flavors True Fire, surged towards the four of them.
The Heavenly Dao Sect had ten Supreme Elders. By now, only five had revealed themselves. The remaining five were buried underground in the small world, on one hand absorbing and refining endless spiritual energy, and on the other hand attempting to use the earth's energy to block the sensing of the ascension tribulation.
Their age and strength had reached an extreme point. Once they appeared, they would inevitably be targeted by the ascension tribulation, making it difficult to evade later.
However, what surprised Ye Yun most was Ming Daozi, who referred to himself as Tai Yi, the Grand Supreme Elder. Logically, his strength should be the strongest in the entire Heavenly Dao Sect. Yet, he had not buried himself underground to avoid the tribulation's sensing, but instead appeared before Ye Yun.
Hum...
A phantom flashed behind Ye Yun and then quickly retreated back into his body, converging in his eyes. Instantly, Ye Yun's eyes turned as black as ink, emanating a mysterious aura.
Heavenly Desolation Dharma Image! It can see through all illusions. After players use it, all attributes are increased by 80%, with a duration of five minutes!
As the Dharma Image manifested, immense pressure surged. The four Supreme Elders of the Heavenly Dao Sect no longer possessed their former composure, their figures retreating tens of thousands of miles.
"Interesting, cultivating the Heavenly Dao through the art of divination, and then using perfected spatial laws to conceal your ultimate cultivation aura."
Under the Heavenly Desolation Dharma Image, all of Ming Daozi's hidden aspects were laid bare before Ye Yun.
"You... you..." Ming Daozi's entire body trembled at Ye Yun's words, his face filled with terror.
Divination was mysterious and difficult to cultivate. Even if successfully cultivated, reaching a certain level was as arduous as ascending to heaven. For cultivators like Ming Daozi, who entered the Dao through divination and reached the Extreme Realm or even the Quasi-Emperor level, he was the foremost among divination cultivators in the entire history of the Ten Directions Heaven and Earth spanning countless years!
"Tsk, tsk. No wonder you betrayed the human race. It turns out that to enter the Dao through divination, you needed to cleanse the karmic forces upon you with the essence and blood of your own kin. Moreover, since you are human, the head of all spirits, your karma is far greater than that of other races. Thus, you cleansed your karma with human blood while also absorbing and refining the essence and blood of other alien races to gradually distance yourself from humanity."
Ye Yun spoke as if he hadn't noticed Ming Daozi's grim expression. He hadn't expected that to elevate his cultivation to its peak, Ming Daozi not only hunted his own kind but also hunted alien races, simultaneously cultivating the Heavenly Dao and allowing himself to be assimilated by it.
If this continued, this fellow might truly forge a different cultivation system, transform into the Heavenly Dao, and achieve a state of boundless Dharma and longevity equal to heaven. He would become an supreme existence in the Ten Directions Cosmos, surpassing the Great Emperors.
To transform into the Heavenly Dao, to wield the power of the Heavenly Dao with one's own consciousness, what a terrifying existence that would be!
Unfortunately, he had not yet transformed into the Heavenly Dao.
"You court death!" Ming Daozi roared. With a flick of his whisk, a Bagua formed by true essence instantly covered an area of a thousand miles. Countless spirit stones immediately surged, transforming into specks of golden light that injected into the bodies of all cultivators within the Bagua formation.
"Heaven and Earth are unfeeling, the Great Dao is limitless, immeasurable spiritual energy, immeasurable Dharma! Strengthen me!"
Boom...
As the golden light entered their bodies, the energy within all cultivators within a thousand-mile radius instantly surged. Their cultivation rapidly increased with the injection of golden light, most of them breaking through a minor realm.
Kill!...
A fierce aura erupted, and tens of thousands of Monarch Realm cultivators charged towards Ye Yun.
"You want to kill me yourself? So you're sending these pawns to their deaths?" Ye Yun coldly snorted. His divine sense was like a blade, and with almost no effort, he annihilated all the Heavenly Dao Sect disciples who intended to kill him.
"Fire, come!" Ye Yun flicked his finger, and Nine Flavors True Fire rained down from the heavens, instantly turning the entire small world into a sea of fire. Nearly a hundred thousand cultivators of the Heavenly Dao Sect, within the space of a single encounter with the Nine Flavors True Fire, were reduced to ashes before they could even scream.
The Nine Flavors True Fire was a top-ten exotic fire in the entire Ten Directions Cosmos, formed after the previous exotic fire, Ice Lye, evolved twice. It now covered the entire small world. Let alone Monarch Realm cultivators, even Extreme Realm cultivators were instantly annihilated. The humans and various alien races being held captive also turned to ash in the sea of fire.
"You dare!"
Four roars echoed through heaven and earth. Four thousand-meter-tall mountains exploded, revealing four ancient figures.
They were the remaining four Supreme Elders of the Heavenly Dao Sect who had buried themselves underground in slumber. If they hadn't reacted in time, they would have truly slumbered beneath the earth within a few breaths under the Nine Flavors True Fire.
Thus, nine of the Heavenly Dao Sect's ten Supreme Elders were exposed to Ye Yun.
"Who dares to be so presumptuous in my world!"
Just as Ye Yun was about to kill the eight Supreme Elders of the Heavenly Dao Sect before him, the sky suddenly changed, and an extremely oppressive aura permeated the entire small world. Even Ye Yun's Nine Flavors True Fire was extinguished under this oppressive aura.
But as this voice sounded, all eight Supreme Elders of the Heavenly Dao Sect revealed expressions of joy. The Kunlun Mirror spirit, dormant for tens of millions of years, had finally appeared!