Just like the geniuses of opposing factions, Granny Lishan naturally showed no mercy.
With a flick of her finger, a golden lotus emerged, its faint golden light illuminating infinite great chiliocosms. Upon closer inspection, one would find great chiliocosms within great chiliocosms, realms within realms, and realms nested within realms.
This lotus contained energy a hundred times that of an Immortal King's supreme giant, and it surged towards Fang Ming.
Fang Ming, however, was not flustered in the least, for he was not alone.
The Jie Sect also had its share of powerhouses, and they would naturally not allow Granny Lishan to act so wantonly against a junior.
At this moment, above the Nine Heavens, a long rainbow emerged from the origin of endless spacetime, piercing through all heavens and universes. The four fundamental laws of Metal, Wood, Water, and Fire enveloped all metaphysics and principles.
It was Elder Li who arrived, intercepting the attack for Fang Ming.
Elder Li, Li Daofu, whom Fang Ming had visited before coming to participate in the battle, was also the one who had bestowed Fang Ming with his token.
Naturally, he appeared here now, to settle old scores with Granny Lishan.
"Granny Lishan, you actually attacked a junior. Do you still have any face left?"
A stern rebuke echoed through endless spacetime, infinite timelines, and worldlines.
Another female voice sounded simultaneously in the past and future.
"Li Daofu, didn't you also attack my disciple last time? We're all in the same boat!"
Li Daofu and Granny Lishan were both powerhouses who had constructed four fundamental worlds.
Both were at the peak of Great Enlightenment Golden Immortal.
At this moment, in countless high-dimensional parallel spaces, among countless sentient beings, and across numerous great universes in the past, present, and future, they were continuously being enveloped and recreated by the battle between the two Great Enlightenment Golden Immortals.
Time was inverted.
Space was inverted.
The five fundamental laws of Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, and Earth forcefully manipulated the laws of time and space, treating them like mere toys.
Fang Ming clearly saw the flaws in the battle between these two peak Great Enlightenment Golden Immortals.
Manipulating time and space with the five fundamental laws, while effective and far superior to the methods of King Chi who attacked across timelines, was still not the fundamental laws of time and space themselves.
There were still loopholes. In Fang Ming's view, the so-called Great Enlightenment Dao, in terms of its technique for interfering with timelines, was far inferior to the system in "A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality" and was merely a semi-technical method of interfering with time.
Although there was no great karma to obstruct it, it inherently possessed flaws.
Fang Ming pondered briefly before letting go of his thoughts.
Currently, both the Great Enlightenment Golden Immortals who had constructed four fundamental worlds, and the much weaker Great Enlightenment Golden Immortals who had constructed three fundamental worlds, had found opponents of similar caliber and were engaging in combat.
Fang Ming naturally had to find an opponent of similar caliber to engage.
The battlefield of Great Enlightenment Golden Immortals was the battlefield of Great Enlightenment Golden Immortals.
Fang Ming naturally joined the fray of Great Enlightenment True Immortals.
The first person he sought out, or rather, the one who sought him out, was the Blood Dao Styx.
"On Granny Lishan's orders, I am here to kill you."
Blood Dao Styx stated concisely and clearly. Fang Ming also recognized Blood Dao Styx.
Unlike Shennong Shi and Yang Jian, whom he had encountered before, and who were brought to the upper realm by the stewards of the Five Elements Heavenly Palace before reaching the Hunyuan Da Luo Golden Immortal cultivation, Blood Dao Styx, as the Styx of a certain chaotic epoch, had cleansed the entire Primordial World with his endless river of blood, causing all souls and primordial spirits, including the Six Saints of the Heavenly Dao and Patriarch Hongjun, to sink into the sea of blood and be assimilated by it.
His cultivation had reached the half-step Great Dao realm, just one step away from his own transcendence, before he was brought to the upper realm by the stewards of the Five Elements Heavenly Palace.
Although he was not a Great Dao Sage or a self-transcended being, and only managed to transcend the chaotic epoch with the external force of the Five Elements Heavenly Palace, Blood Dao Styx, having reached the half-step Great Dao realm before transcending, was naturally not comparable to Tai Shang Tian Zun or Shennong Shi.
He had already managed to cultivate to the half-step Great Dao realm in the lower realm. Upon reaching the upper realm, he cultivated to the initial Profound realm, advanced to Great Enlightenment True Immortal, and even constructed two fundamental worlds. Although his journey was not entirely smooth, he was far superior to trash like Tai Shang Tian Zun.
Blood Dao Styx constructed two fundamental worlds with the Metal and Water fundamental laws. Since he lacked the fundamental law of Slaughter, he simulated and wielded the divine abilities of the Blood Dao and Slaughter Dao with the Metal and Water fundamental laws.
His combat power was considered extremely strong among peak Great Enlightenment True Immortal cultivators, ranking in the first tier of powerhouses below Great Enlightenment Golden Immortals.
He possessed the strength of an Immortal King giant.
However, for Fang Ming, this was not particularly strong.
Even if he discarded the condensed Metal fundamental world, Fang Ming was still far stronger than Blood Dao Styx.
And with the addition of the Metal fundamental world... he was truly the number one below Great Enlightenment Golden Immortals, and he even had some confidence in defeating those Great Enlightenment Golden Immortals who had constructed three fundamental worlds.
"Although I have some confidence, it's not much. I'll deal with the many Great Enlightenment True Immortals first," Fang Ming thought.
Blood Dao Styx was a ruthless individual. The moment he saw Fang Ming, he uttered a single sentence and swiftly launched his attack.
He was a peak Great Enlightenment True Immortal cultivator, with two fundamental worlds of Metal and Water within him.
He now drew upon the power of the Metal and Water fundamental laws, evolving them into an endless sea of blood, fully embodying the Dao of Slaughter.
Initially, the river of blood was just a small stream. However, with the flash of the Yuan Tu and Abi swords, this small stream rapidly expanded, engulfing all high-dimensional spaces and infinite parallel universes.
The river of blood surged, cleansing the world, slaughtering all beings, and proving my Dao.
Within the sea of blood, Fang Ming saw the wails of sentient beings across countless time and space, including immortals, Buddhas, demons, and ordinary people...
The number of Blood God Sons was not merely eighty quadrillion, but infinite, spreading across countless realms.
The sea of blood is not alone, Styx is immortal.
"The Dao of Slaughter, exterminating all beings, to ultimately achieve Dao?"
Fang Ming, immersed in the sea of blood, saw Blood God Sons emerge one after another, attempting to obstruct him. However, Fang Ming's profound spiritual energy enveloped the concept of the Blood God Sons, rendering them into nothingness.
In this short period, Fang Ming had annihilated tens of quadrillions of Blood God Sons, but the number of Styx's Blood God Sons was already incalculable. Even 10 to the power of 80 was but a drop in the ocean compared to Styx's Blood God Sons.
Fang Ming frowned, realizing that his method of annihilating Blood God Sons was incorrect and that his understanding of Styx's Dao of Slaughter was flawed, leading to this outcome.
He carefully analyzed Styx's Dao from within the sea of blood using the Metal fundamental law within his body.
After a period of time.
Fang Ming smiled.
"So that's how it is."
"No wonder my method of annihilating Blood God Sons was wrong."
"It turns out, Styx, your Blood Dao, your Dao of Slaughter, at the end of slaughter, contains the greatest compassion."
"Seemingly slaughtering all beings, yet never truly killing a single one."
"This is the Dao of Slaughter, and also the Dao of Non-Slaughter."