This was Lan Xiaobu’s second visit to the outskirts of Heavenly Mechanism Dao City. Though the dao array laws remained unchanged, they no longer posed a threat to him.
In Heavenly Mechanism Dao City, he feared no one except Heavenly Mechanism Sage. While the sage’s dojo was at Heavenly Mechanism Bone and he rarely stayed here, Lan Xiaobu was certain that any disturbance would bring him back instantly.
Entering the trapping-killing array’s range, Lan Xiaobu immediately spotted Peng Yuan and Eternal Night Sage, hung outside the city walls.
Their heads drooped, bound by soul-locking dao threads, yet faint signs of life remained.
Suppressing his rage, Lan Xiaobu took a deep breath. Today, he would rescue them, even if it meant exposing the Seven Realms Stone.
But something felt off. Heavenly Mechanism Sage, having soul-searched Peng Yuan and Eternal Night Sage, likely knew about the Seven Realms Stone. By sparing them and displaying them here, he was luring Lan Xiaobu.
The Seven Realms Stone was a treasure of immense value. Was Heavenly Mechanism Sage the only one who cared? Would other Creation Sages ignore it?
Lan Xiaobu quickly concluded that was impossible. If other sages coveted the Seven Realms Stone, yet Peng Yuan and Eternal Night Sage remained under Heavenly Mechanism Sage’s control, it meant he hadn’t told other Creation Sages about the stone.
This realization energized Lan Xiaobu. If only Heavenly Mechanism Sage knew, and the captives were bait for him, then attacking the city wouldn’t immediately alert other Creation Sages. Heavenly Mechanism Sage wouldn’t share news of his rescue.
Lan Xiaobu was confident in his deduction. Unlike his last visit, which carried a deathly aura, this time he felt no threat.
As a cultivator of his own dao, he trusted this instinct.
Why no threat now? Perhaps because he’d reached Creation Dao Sage Realm, or because Heavenly Mechanism Sage wasn’t here—or couldn’t harm him.
Originally, Lan Xiaobu planned to set up arrays and use tactics to free Peng Yuan and Eternal Night Sage. But sensing no danger, he changed his approach.
Without hesitation, he summoned the Longevity Halberd, unleashing two halberd strikes. The entire Heavenly Mechanism Dao City seemed caught under two cosmic-rending dao laws. Every cultivator within felt the peril.
It was as if lingering a moment longer would let these laws tear apart their lives, daos, and bodies.
“Run! It’s the Grand Cutting Technique, a cosmic-opening divine ability!” someone shouted in terror.
In a lower plane, Lan Xiaobu’s Grand Cutting Technique might not have caused such panic. But here, knowledge bred fear.
The Grand Cutting Technique was a cosmic-opening divine ability, capable of shredding universes and planar domains effortlessly. Heavenly rules and dao laws crumbled like breath, and destroying a cultivator’s body was a mere gesture.
With such a terrifying aura, anyone slow to flee would be cut down. Who dared use this technique in Heavenly Mechanism Dao City? Staying was suicide.
Instantly, countless cultivators fled, some using escape talismans.
Lan Xiaobu raised his hand, and two Grand Cutting Technique strikes severed the soul-locking dao threads binding Peng Yuan and Eternal Night Sage. He sent them into his Universe Dimensional Model.
The threads, set by Heavenly Mechanism Sage, would’ve resisted other methods. Only the Grand Cutting Technique made it so effortless. Other approaches might’ve failed before Heavenly Mechanism Sage returned.
Boom! Boom!
Two earth-shattering cutting dao lines split the city’s spatial array restrictions, dividing Heavenly Mechanism Dao City into three.
Two chasms, hundreds of thousands of feet deep, carved through the city. Shops and streets along them vanished.
“Is that Lan Xiaobu?” Someone recognized him, gripping the Longevity Halberd.
Some fleeing cultivators paused. Lan Xiaobu—a Nine-Turn Sage once hunted in the Immortal Land, possibly now a Creation Dao Sage. But why flee from a mere Creation Dao Sage?
Others continued escaping. They knew Lan Xiaobu was hunted by Creation Sages yet evaded capture, now boldly attacking Heavenly Mechanism Dao City.
Mo Wuji’s precedent heightened their caution. Upon proving the Immortal Realm, he destroyed Wan Dao River and slew Wan Dao Sage Heavy Sword Shan before countless witnesses.
Lan Xiaobu, as renowned as Mo Wuji, was another untouchable figure hunted by Creation Sages. Could he be trifled with? What was there to gain by staying?
“Lan Xiaobu, you’ve got guts, causing trouble in Heavenly Mechanism Dao City…” A Derivative Realm cultivator, recognizing him, didn’t flee. He stepped forward, summoning a treasure to attack Lan Xiaobu, his Derivative Domain expanding wildly.
Lan Xiaobu was known to carry treasures. Why else would Creation Sages hunt him? This cultivator, a Derivative Realm Sage, believed he could overpower a newly minted Creation Dao Sage.
Someone dared attack? A Heavenly Mechanism Sage loyalist? Regardless, Lan Xiaobu aimed to end this Derivative cultivator swiftly, lest more join in.
Ignoring the incoming treasure, Lan Xiaobu unleashed the Longevity Halberd, sending out dao pattern wheels. His Longevity Domain surged.
Since reaching Creation Dao Realm, his Longevity Domain was nearly tangible. It couldn’t crush the opponent’s attack but could stall it for a breath.
A breath was enough.
Vast Longevity Reincarnation dao patterns, carried by the halberd, enveloped the Derivative cultivator, halting his divine ability.
The cultivator’s face paled. He’d assumed Lan Xiaobu was fresh to Creation Dao, emboldening his attack. He hadn’t expected his Derivative Realm domain and laws to be so outmatched. What dao was this, so resilient?
Retreat. But as the thought formed, he felt six dao laws binding him. His soul and body were ensnared by a vast reincarnation dao, forced into another’s cycle, not his own.
He struggled frantically, resisting the reincarnation channel.
Lan Xiaobu was pleased with his Reincarnation dao laws. He hadn’t used the Reincarnation Bridge, which could’ve forced a cycle in a breath. His Longevity Halberd would end the cultivator’s three lives.
Perhaps seeing Lan Xiaobu wasn’t invincible, as he clashed with a Derivative cultivator, hundreds of cultivators—down to a Nine-Turn Sage—rushed him.
Lan Xiaobu smiled, showing no mercy. He swung the Longevity Halberd, unleashing another tearing dao pattern—Grand Cutting Technique.
This time, it wasn’t to cut soul-locking threads or save lives but to kill. The strike shrouded the space in a violent death aura.
Splatter! Blood sprayed. The technique tore countless cultivators in half, grinding them to fragments.
The hundred-plus attackers bore the brunt, none surviving. The technique extended, slicing thousands behind them. Lan Xiaobu followed with waves of spatial dao laws, forcibly tearing open world after world.
He didn’t relish killing innocents but wasn’t naive. Those who stayed, hesitating, clearly sought to profit from him. Why spare them?
Witnessing Lan Xiaobu’s slaughter, effortlessly claiming the worlds of hundreds of proven cultivators, no one dared assume he was merely a Creation Dao Sage anymore.
