Chapter 432
by fanqienovelChapter 432: The Lunatic
Boom!
As the Path of Oblivion activated, Mad Daoist’s cultivation paths began harmonizing. Five Elements, Yin-Yang, Chaos, Wind-Thunder—all were devoured by the Path of Oblivion, refining his power into absolute purity.
Unperturbed by these transformations, Mad Daoist remained calm.
The Path of Oblivion represented techniques of the transcendent realm, leagues above his own art. Whenever the Path of Oblivion overwhelmed other paths, assimilation was inevitable.
He couldn’t care less.
Even if his paths were fully assimilated, his profound understanding remained intact. Upon Ascension to Hongmeng Dao Realm, he could always rebuild them.
In fact, Mad Daoist willingly sacrificed all his paths.
Under his deliberate urging, within the time it takes a stick of incense to burn down, the Path of Oblivion consumed Mad Daoist’s force of the Great Dao. He dissolved entirely into the Oblivion Calamity, becoming one with it.
"Heavens Wudao! Obliteration Mysterious Yellow!"
Mad Daoist roared, channeling his divine power. His mouth gaped open like a Taotie’s maw and swallowed the Dao fruit whole.
Boom!
Terrifying power surged through him, instantly annihilating his flesh and extinguishing his primordial spirit.
Yet Mad Daoist showed not the slightest fear.
He circulated his arcane techniques, sending streams of obliteration divine patterns flooding into the essence Dao fruit.
Bang!
The Dao fruit’s power ceaselessly corroded Mad Daoist’s body and primordial spirit.
Within moments, his physical form crumbled to ashes.
His primordial spirit flickered toward oblivion.
"Hehehe…"
Mad Daoist cackled with delight. His original body had housed numerous conflicting energies; even with the Path of Oblivion forcibly unifying them, flaws were inevitable.
This utter annihilation of flesh and spirit perfectly suited his aims.
Like pages of gilded scripture, characters from the Path of Oblivion surged into the Dao fruit.
The imprint of the Path of Oblivion itself followed them in.
Great Dao remains unbroken; so long as the Dao endures, the Daoist cannot perish.
Mad Daoist’s ambition wasn’t merely to refine the Dao fruit of obliteration—he intended to wield it, reshaping both body and spirit through the Path of Oblivion itself.
Amidst the Chaos, the sound of the Dao whispered seductively, like a demon god’s murmur.
Slowly, a human face materialized upon the surface of the Dao fruit.
He had nearly succeeded.
By evolving this Dao fruit of obliteration into a Great Dao World, he would ascend as Sovereign of the World—transcending mortality itself.
"Devour the heavens and devour the earth!"
Yet Mad Daoist chose otherwise.
He hadn’t forgotten the second method Ye Xu revealed to him:
Devour the cosmos.
This universe was eroded by the Oblivion Calamity, permeated with the aura of the Path of Oblivion. The entire universe was utterly forged from the Path of Oblivion.
Once he refined the Dao fruit and devoured the universe, it could absolutely lift him to a higher echelon.
Mad Daoist was a lunatic.
He would never forsake any method that could strengthen him.
Not even if there was danger.
Mad Daoist roared, and the Dao fruit expanded violently, growing increasingly vast and enveloping the cosmos; the terrifying Origin Dao pierced through the cosmic barriers, and as the Dao fruit rotated, it began to absorb the decaying universe.
Crack! Crack!
Under the Dao fruit’s suppression, the barriers of the decaying universe shattered inch by inch, seemingly compressed intensely; fragments of the universe were devoured by the Dao fruit, transforming into energy.
"My belly is so bloated…"
Facial features emerged on the human face, and Mad Daoist cried out in distress.
"I refuse to believe this python of mine can’t swallow an elephant."
"Path of Oblivion!"
"Heavens Wudao!"
With the empowerment of the transcendent-level techniques and the Dao fruit of obliteration, Mad Daoist’s magical powers surged; storms of oblivion swept across the universe, tearing it apart.
His strength had reached an utterly terrifying degree.
Even the number one on the Golden List of the Unparalleled Rankings from former times, Yi Tianxing, was not comparable.
One Dao fruit and one set of transcendent techniques brought about an essential transformation in Mad Daoist.
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
Under the sweep of the great divine power of Heavens Wudao, the universe collapsed and disintegrated explosively, and Mad Daoist consumed more and more.
"Burp…"
A good while later, Mad Daoist truly couldn’t eat any further, rolling his eyes.
"Hold on."
Mad Daoist felt extremely uncomfortable.
Devouring an entire universe was an immensely arduous task.
He now felt like he was going to burst from swelling.
"I truly am a fool…"
Suddenly, Mad Daoist’s expression shifted, "I haven’t yet formed a body, nor have I crafted a primordial spirit, much less forged a Great Dao World; the energy of this universe happens to help us complete these three steps."
"I can devour the universe while forging the Great Dao World."
"Smart all my life, I nearly became foolish for a moment."
Mad Daoist chuckled darkly.
Boom!
Path of Oblivion immediately activated; the power of the Path of Oblivion surged, beginning to condense a Great Dao body—first the head, then the facial features, skeletal frame, flesh and blood, limbs…
At the same time.
The power of the Dao fruit surged wildly and began to reshape the Great Dao primordial spirit.
Boom! Rumble!
In an instant, that overwhelming feeling of fullness diminished significantly. Mad Daoist divided his focus to handle multiple tasks and kept activating his divine abilities, slowly devouring an entire universe into the Dao fruit.
After that, he refined the universe, converting its power entirely into the Path of Oblivion through the Dao fruit, and forged his physical body and primordial spirit.
Slowly.
A perfect Great Dao physical body gradually took shape, floating in the boundless chaos, immune to all magic.
Not long after, the Great Dao primordial spirit was reshaped too.
The entire universe was completely devoured by Mad Daoist, leaving no stars, no sun or moon, no void.
Only the boundless chaos remained.
The place he occupied couldn’t even be considered a chaotic area; it resembled primordial chaos more.
An entire universe had become Mad Daoist’s nourishment.
His power was stronger than ever before.
"Hahaha… Compared to refining the Dao fruit, this old man’s strength has doubled now," Mad Daoist declared with great delight. Although devouring the universe nearly overwhelmed him, his perseverance paid off in the end.
"Now to forge the Great Dao World."
Mad Daoist calmed his mind, flew the Dao fruit into his Purple Palace, and unleached the Origin Dao torrentially.
A cold, barren world started to reveal a faint outline.
This process was destined to be lengthy.
In the primordial chaos, time passed unnoticed.
Mad Daoist was utterly alone.
After an unknown period, a desolate, lifeless world formed within Mad Daoist’s Purple Palace, with the Dao fruit suspended in the void and primal divine patterns imprinted onto the Great Dao World.
This world had not a shred of vitality.
At that instant, the constraints that had bound Mad Daoist for ages suddenly vanished, flooding his heart with countless insights.
He had taken the first step towards transcendence.
He had become the Sovereign of the World.
"Success…"
"This old man has finally succeeded."
Even with Mad Daoist’s resolve, in that moment, he wept tears of joy.
In his first life, he was the Witch Ancestor and reached the Three Yuan Proof through the Witch Path, becoming a powerful being, but his progress halted at the peak of the Three Yuan Proof, unable to advance further.
Therefore.
Mad Daoist reincarnated and started over.
Reincarnation after reincarnation, disappointment after disappointment.
To outsiders, he appeared profoundly knowledgeable and worldly.
But only the Mad Daoist knew he was driven by necessity.
He had reincarnated too many times, creating countless world-shaking techniques, all in pursuit of a way to transcend and break free from the constraints of the Pangu universe, ascending to a vaster cosmos.
Yet repeated failures had gradually twisted the Mad Daoist’s mind, turning him into a complete madman.
To achieve his goal, he would stop at nothing.
Today, he had finally succeeded.
Hum!
Deep within his consciousness, a grand sound of the Dao resonated.
It was the voice of the Dao of heaven.
Transcendents must not linger in the lower planes.
"Three days?"
The Mad Daoist frowned. The Dao of heaven granted him only three days.
"Why did Old Bai get seven days for his Transcendence through Merit, while I only get three?" He glared skyward, cursing. "Who are you looking down on?"
"Better make the most of these three days."
Upon attaining the transcendent realm, he could instantly sense the Pangu universe across the boundless cosmos.
Naturally.
But unlike Yi Tianxing, his return held no sentimental desire to gaze upon the Pangu universe one last time.
He was bound by a promise to Ye Xu.
Now that he had transcended, the Heavenly Emperor Sword and Primordial Ancient Mirror held no value to him. Why not gift them to Ye Xu and earn his favor?
"The Master is destined to return to the Hongmeng Dao Realm,"
the Mad Daoist reflected.
"In time, our paths will cross often within the Hongmeng Dao Realm."
Bang!
With a thunderous crash, the Mad Daoist shattered a cosmic barrier and streaked toward the Pangu universe.
Boom!
Abruptly,
the heavens underwent a great change.
A supreme, all-encompassing will locked onto the Mad Daoist.
He froze, realization dawning instantly.
"Damn it, the Dao of heaven…"
"Is this divine punishment?"