Chapter 1798 — Two Arts, One Plan

At this moment, Lan Yutian had indeed regained the bearing and grace of Heavenly Venerable Yu — composed, wise, elegant, peerless — no longer as callow as Lan Yutian.

"You've become Heavenly Venerable Yu again.

" The Empress was like a Guixu herself; any divine art that struck her quickly turned into chaotic qi, becoming part of her cultivation. She smiled with satisfaction: "But unfortunately, you have not yet attained the Dao.

Any attack of yours will only become my nourishment.

Heavenly Venerable Yu, I am no longer the Empress of those years. I admire you, but I will not hold back from killing you. Within my Guixu domain, you will grow weaker and weaker, and in the end you will die here. " The collision of their domains grew ever more violent; in a short time, Lan Yutian's domain was suppressed by the Empress, its operation growing sluggish. But he did not grow weaker as the Empress expected; instead, his aura grew stronger and stronger.

The Empress was right: Guixu Dao-attainment did indeed counter the Dao realm system, but Lan Yutian's Ancestral Court Dao realm system was fundamentally different from the traditional Dao realm system.

The traditional Dao realm system founded by Kaihuang Shenye attained the Dao externally, entrusting itself to the void.

Though Lan Yutian also cultivated the Dao realm, his Dao realm attained the Dao internally. If both cultivated the same method, the difference in attainment would not create much gap in strength — but attaining the Dao externally meant destruction when the Ultimate Void was destroyed, while attaining it internally did not.

If one encountered a Guixu Dao-attainer like the Empress, external attainment would be greatly suppressed; once the Empress's Guixu Abyss was unleashed, there was no Ultimate Void within Guixu, and even the Great Luotian could not stand, cultivation strength would be greatly reduced. Likewise, if a Guixu Dao-attainer like the Empress were pulled into the Ultimate Void, her cultivation strength would also suffer greatly.

But attaining the Dao internally carried no such hidden danger.

One's Dao realm was hidden within the divine treasury; after attaining the Dao, the Ancestral Court within the divine treasury became the Great Luotian, and the World Tree became the Dao Tree.

Falling into Guixu would not affect it in the slightest. Though Lan Yutian had not yet achieved internal Dao-attainment, his Dao realm was extremely profound, possessing a thirty-five-layered heavenly Dao realm; his attainment in the Dao realm was even one level deeper than Shen Mu's. His method was the great synthesizer and pioneer of past and present; the natural holy lands throughout the Ancestral Court became places of his enlightenment.

Shen Mu alone bore the crushing weight of the Heavenly Court, giving him the space and time needed to fully grow, allowing his cultivation strength to advance by leaps and bounds.

In each of the thirty-five layers of the Ancestral Court Dao domain, Five Tai ore veins suppressed and stabilized it; the Dao was dense, and each natural holy land — such as the Four Great Heavenly Gates, the Jade Pool and Jade Terrace, the Nine Hells Terrace, the Heavenly Sea, the God-Slaying Terrace — erupted with Dao resonance, different resonances forming different phenomena. With this he suppressed the Empress's Guixu domain. The World Tree was equivalent to his Dao Tree; though he lacked the final Dao realm compared to the Empress, he was equivalent to half a Dao-attainer, with the strength to contend against the Empress.

Yet compared to the Empress, he was still far inferior. His only advantage lay in the exquisite refinement of his divine arts, but his divine arts could not inflict much harm on the Empress.

In this battle, he might die. Suddenly, another person appeared on the Golden Ship of Salvation. Xu Shenghua passed through layer after layer of domains and landed behind him, his expression still calm and unruffled.

His World Tree appeared, his Dao realm unfolded, joining Lan Yutian to resist the Empress's Guixu domain. "Lan Yutian, after you became Heavenly Venerable Yu, you lost your calm. " Xu Shenghua said calmly, "You need someone like me, utterly calm.

" Lan Yutian nodded and said gravely, "Brother Xu, how do you think we should deal with the Empress? " "Two divine arts, one method.

" Xu Shenghua raised one finger: "The first: the Red Rope Knot Seal that Sect Master Shen once used, specifically countering the Guixu Dao.

" He raised another finger: "The second: the Dao of Reincarnation perfected by Sect Master Shen, to plunge the Empress into reincarnation and disrupt her mind.

" Lan Yutian stared fixedly at the Empress, not daring to relax for an instant, and said, "And the one method?

" "Heavenly Venerable Yun's method.

" Xu Shenghua stepped forward and stood shoulder to shoulder with him, saying gravely, "Send the Empress into the Ultimate Void and kill her there!

But you cannot do it alone, so we join forces.

Two divine arts, one method, used together to slay the Empress!

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