When the bubble of boasting was pricked by a single finger, the boastful Grand Pure Sage finally realized how weak he was and how powerful Fang Ming truly was!
But he had no chance to ponder these thoughts! The Grand Pure Sage knew that if he continued to dwell on them, he would surely perish, killed by Fang Ming's strike before all beings in the Primordial World!
"No time for regrets!"
"Heaven and Earth Profound Yellow Exquisite Pagoda, protect me!"
"Tai Chi Diagram, emerge!"
A pagoda, radiating boundless golden light of merit and virtue, possessing the greatest defense in the Primordial World and containing two-tenths of the Heaven-Opening Merit, descended to envelop the Grand Pure Sage himself!
Fang Ming's strike, which could have directly annihilated the Grand Pure Sage, a cultivator at the early Saint stage, instead struck the Heaven and Earth Profound Yellow Exquisite Pagoda. It merely stirred up intense white light and made the pagoda tremble violently, but it did not breach its defenses!
Hiding within the Heaven and Earth Profound Yellow Exquisite Pagoda, the Grand Pure Sage laughed heartily, "Fang Ming, you underestimate the power of the supreme treasures in my Primordial World!"
"This pagoda, imbued with Heaven-Opening Merit, is the number one defense treasure in the Primordial World! How can you break it..."
Fang Ming scoffed at his words, "Taiqing Daoist, this is where your knowledge falls short! What of the supreme defense treasure?"
"My Emperor's Dao Seal, attacking the pagoda, does it not generate a recoil force?"
"Can you avoid the recoil force generated by the pagoda's vibration? Learn more about the science of recoil in your next life. Farewell!"
Fang Ming struck repeatedly, unleashing hundreds, even thousands, of Emperor's Dao Seals within a single second!
Dozens of times, hundreds of attacks! For Fang Ming, if he couldn't destroy it in one blow, he would destroy it in a hundred! In any case, the outcome would be the same!
"Ah!"
Inside the pagoda, the Grand Pure Sage bled from all seven orifices, his primordial spirit dimming! The Heaven and Earth Profound Yellow Exquisite Pagoda was indeed top-tier in defense, but after enduring dozens of Fang Ming's full-power assaults, it had not yet fractured. It could likely withstand another ten thousand or a hundred thousand rounds.
However—the recoil force generated by the pagoda's vibration from Fang Ming's attacks was something the Grand Pure Sage could not withstand!
"My Saint's primordial spirit, my Saint's body..."
The Grand Pure Sage's Saint's primordial spirit was shattered by the impact! His Saint's body was also broken! The Grand Pure Sage, hailed as the foremost Saint and leader of all Saints, was utterly incapable of retaliating or resisting Fang Ming!
When Fang Ming unleashed another Emperor's Dao Seal upon the Heaven and Earth Profound Yellow Exquisite Pagoda...
The Grand Pure Sage let out his final scream. His injuries were so severe that his Saintly power, primordial spirit, and physical body were all annihilated. He had finally... fallen!
A Saint had fallen! The Grand Pure Sage, the leader of all Saints, the savior of the Primordial World, had fallen!
Blood rain began to fall from the sky! A mournful aura permeated heaven and earth!
Heavenly blood rain, heaven and earth in sorrow, a Saint has fallen! Some beings in the Primordial World touched the falling blood-red rain.
He muttered to himself, "A Saint has fallen, heaven and earth mourn, blood rain from the sky..."
"This is the legendary phenomenon that occurs when a Saint falls!"
"It's over! It's over!"
"The savior of the Primordial World, the Grand Pure Sage, has been killed by an extraterrestrial demon! The last hope of the Primordial World is gone!"
"Even the most powerful Saint has fallen..."
"What hope is there for the Primordial World?"
This being trembled in anguish. He looked at Fang Ming as if he were the most wicked demon. With an extraterrestrial demon invading the Primordial World and defeating the mightiest of Saints, the Primordial World had no future. The savior had fallen! Who could save it now?
"Saints rule the myriad universes, enduring countless tribulations without perishing, untouched by karma, existing alongside heaven and coexisting with the Dao..."
"How could they fall? How could they fall!"
"Are the words 'all below Saints are ants' truly false? Truly false?"
Some beings in the Primordial World, unable to bear the mental pressure, completely collapsed! Even the Saints had fallen, shattered by a mere hundred-odd moves! And this was while he was protected by the Heaven and Earth Profound Yellow Exquisite Pagoda!
Faced with such a tragic and brutal reality, how could the beings of the Primordial World have any confidence left in the Grand Pure Sage, or in the ultimate realm of the Primordial World, the Saint realm? Their confidence was utterly gone!
"No!"
Some beings in the Primordial World cried out in defiance.
"The Grand Pure Sage has not fallen! He has not fallen!"
"Have you forgotten? Saints, by virtue of the Primordial Violet Qi, have their primordial spirits entrusted to the Heavenly Dao, making them immortal and indestructible!"
"How can he fall after being destroyed once?"
"Even if all the previous boasting was false, this indestructibility cannot be false!"
"Primordial Saints are inherently immortal. Their most fundamental primordial spirit core resides with the Heavenly Dao. What Fang Ming destroyed was merely the outer core of the Grand Pure Sage's primordial spirit; the inner core remains!"
"As long as the Heavenly Dao endures, Saints do not perish!"
As if to confirm this being's words! In the Primordial World, at the location of the Heavenly Dao, a new life fluctuation began to condense!
It turned out that when the Heavenly Dao Saints achieved their status, they had already entrusted the core of their primordial spirits to the Heavenly Dao. This core, the most fundamental part of the primordial spirit, entrusted deep within the Heavenly Dao, ensured the immortal and indestructible nature of Heavenly Dao Saints. The Saint's primordial spirit that appeared within the Saint's physical body in the Primordial World was merely the outer core of the primordial spirit.
When the Grand Pure Sage's Saintly primordial spirit was annihilated, it was only the "outer core" of his Saintly primordial spirit's combat power that was destroyed! The destruction of the outer core did not harm the Grand Pure Sage's true life, nor could it cause him to truly fall! This was because, without the outer core, the Heavenly Dao could condense its own energy to reconstruct a new outer core for the Grand Pure Sage.
As long as it was entrusted to the Heavenly Dao, and the Saint's primordial spirit core remained intact, and no one forcibly entered the Heavenly Dao to destroy the Grand Pure Sage's true primordial spirit core, his most fundamental essence, then the Grand Pure Sage would be truly indestructible, surviving eternally as long as the Heavenly Dao endured!
Just as it was at this very moment, high in the nine heavens, within the Heavenly Dao, the Grand Pure Sage's primordial spirit core resided. The Heavenly Dao was slowly regenerating a new outer core for the Grand Pure Sage's primordial spirit, based on his inherent characteristics. A Saintly primordial spirit was being reformed! The Heavenly Dao was generating a Saintly physical body based on the Grand Pure Sage's characteristics! A Saintly physical body was being reformed! The Heavenly Dao was generating Saintly power! All the power of the Grand Pure Sage that Fang Ming had annihilated was being regenerated at the Heavenly Dao's location! Saintly power was being reformed!