The sect leaders listened to the two men’s conversation, bewildered. Why would Qin Shang say not to worship heaven when Chen Luo asked?
Some sect leaders, who had finally submitted, even felt a strange urge to witness the former number one person in the world become a laughingstock.
When Ni Cangtian fought you, Qin Shang, you only won by a narrow margin.
Now, even after Ni Cangtian’s breakthrough, he was defeated. Do you still want to fight him?
Are you too lacking in self-awareness?
By now, the sect leaders no longer viewed Chen Luo as a junior in the Dao Path realm.
He was a monster, impossible to measure by cultivation or realm!
But upon hearing Qin Shang’s words, Chen Luo’s eyes flashed, and his smile grew even more radiant:
“Oh? I am not heaven, merely a senior who seeks the Dao. What do you mean by that?”
The golden sunlight gradually receded, and after a moment, a completely enclosed dark gold armor was revealed.
At the helmet’s position, two beams of golden light fixedly gazed at Chen Luo, and a calm voice slowly spoke:
“You know what I am saying!”
“Formation Dao, Artifact Dao, Technique Dao! No matter how many supreme Daos you display, they cannot truly conceal your origins from me!”
“What you truly cultivate is the Heavenly Dao!”
“How can the human heart replace the will of heaven? You seem to control all Daos with the means of the Heavenly Dao, but at its core, you are merely a puppet of the Heavenly Dao!”
Chen Luo was stunned, and then he couldn’t help but burst into laughter:
“Good eyesight, worthy of being in the same Supreme realm!”
“Although I want to say I am not a puppet of the Heavenly Dao, you probably wouldn’t believe me. But I am also curious.”
The white-clothed youth casually waved his hand, his gaze burning as he looked at the mysterious number one person in the world:
“Qin Shang! What Dao do you truly cultivate?”
The dark gold armor remained silent, while the cultivators in the distance erupted!
“Grandmaster cultivates the Heavenly Dao? This Heavenly Dao can be comprehended?!”
“That’s right! The Heavenly Dao encompasses everything, all principles of the primordial earth are contained within it. No wonder Master Chen has so many methods!”
“Heavenly Dao? Heavenly Dao! Is Master Chen truly a puppet of the Heavenly Dao?!”
“What are you talking about, Martial Maniac?!” My master said he isn’t, so he definitely isn’t!” Tao Xian glared, as if ready to fight Wu Santong.
But a sect leader from the Dao Xuan Sect quickly intervened:
“Tao Xian, don’t be anxious! Fellow Daoist Wu has a point. You and I are both sect leaders, we should understand how grand the paths of heaven and earth are.”
“To master any Dao requires us to expend immense effort to harmonize with it. In fact, from ascending to immortality, going through the stages of Rainbow Transformation and Dharma Body, all are for the ultimate purpose of carrying the power of a Dao.”
“And precisely because the Heavenly Dao is all-encompassing, I truly cannot imagine how Master Chen, at the Dao Path realm, comprehended the supreme Heavenly Dao!”
Tao Xian frowned. She was also a sect leader and naturally understood the logic, but logic was logic, and Master was Master!
“I don’t care! Anyway, if he says he isn’t, he isn’t. Besides, what’s wrong with being a puppet! Who cultivates immortality without relying on the Heavenly Dao! Anyway, I, Tao Xian, will only recognize this master!”
Looking at the unreasonable Tao Xian, the sect leaders were helpless, but they were only speaking their minds. Since everyone had already submitted, they naturally had to be obedient disciples.
In the distant sky, upon hearing the white-clothed youth’s question, Qin Shang, encased in the dark gold armor, did not answer directly.
As all the profound Dao light was completely absorbed into his body, the oppressive aura of the dark gold armor did not diminish but rather intensified. All surrounding light seemed to bend as it passed him,
as if Qin Shang’s existence were heavier and more real than the entire world.
Sensing the increasingly soaring battle intent within the dark gold armor, Chen Luo gradually withdrew his smile:
“Initially, seeing your son Qin Su, I thought you were just an arrogant cultivator at the ninth level of Ascending Immortality.”
“But the moment we saw you sect leaders, I realized you were different from everyone else!”
“I cultivate the Heavenly Dao, but with the power of the Heavenly Dao, I can see through all the methods of other sect leaders.”
“Only you, Qin Shang, in my perception, are a blank slate!”
“So, I ask again! Qin Shang, what Dao do you truly cultivate?!”
The field fell silent, all eyes converging on the two figures.
Even the turbulent vast sea calmed down at this moment,
This scene of all things being still was like the calm before a storm!
Hum!
A high-pitched sword cry shattered the silence of heaven and earth!
The dark gold armor reached out and slowly drew a plain iron sword from its waist. However, the iron sword seemed to bear a thousand layers of inexplicable patterns.
As the iron sword was drawn, an indescribable aura of killing intent continuously rose in the field.
Long Ji and Ling Long in the distant vast sea sky felt an indescribable instinctive chill.
Long Ji gently touched her chest, where the sword wound, healed by Chen Luo’s close contact, still lingered. She murmured with a complex expression:
“The number one Dao weapon in the world! Dragon Slaying Sword!”
Clang!
The long sword was unsheathed!
Qin Shang slowly raised the sword in his hand, pointing directly at Chen Luo, who had asked the question:
“My Great Zhen has nothing to say to the Heavenly Dao!”
“If you wish to know my Dao? You must first ask the Dragon Slaying in my hand!”
Qin Shang lightly swung the iron sword in his hand, like an ordinary swing from a beginner.
But both Chen Luo, who mastered the supreme Heavenly Dao, and Mei Yingxue, who had become a Sword Dao grandmaster, looked extremely solemn.
“This sword…”
Hum!
In an instant, everyone felt a flash of white light before their eyes, and all things became invisible.
And in their ears, they seemed to faintly hear a crisp tearing sound.
In a moment, as the white light dissipated and the cultivators regained their vision, they were all so shocked by what they saw that they were speechless.
The endless vast sea was now split into two from the center.
On both sides of the smooth cut, the flowing seawater still refused to fall.
And deep within the cut, as they gazed, they could only see bottomless darkness.
One sword! Split the vast sea!
Mei Yingxue’s voice trembled as she said, “Supreme Sword Dao?!”
“No, this is not Sword Dao!” Hearing this, everyone looked, only to see that at the very starting point of the sword cut, the white-clothed youth still stood proudly in mid-air.
Chen Luo wiped the blood from his cheek in surprise. That sword strike had actually broken his skin, and the phenomenon of the sea being split was merely a residual effect.
A peculiar will was contained within the wound on his cheek, and Chen Luo’s mastery of the Heavenly Dao power was unable to completely eliminate them for a time.
Chen Luo, relying on the sword strike he had taken, confirmed that the Dao Qin Shang mastered was something that existed below the Heavenly Dao.
Even the power of this Dao seemed to restrain the power of the Heavenly Dao!
And Qin Shang in the sky, looking at Chen Luo, who only had a grazed cheek, the atmosphere became increasingly solemn:
“Heavenly Dao is unfeeling! I, Qin Shang, shall fight against heaven today!”