In the shortest time possible, Lan Xiaobu altered the spatial rules around the sixteenth teleportation array, and not only that, he carefully modified its teleportation destination. Changing the array’s spatial rules and destination took little effort. From now on, the array could still teleport, but only to his world.
“Mengyuan, come out for a moment,” Lan Xiaobu called her out after transforming the array’s spatial rules into his Longevity Dao principles.
“This is Great Dream Star’s void plaza?” Mengyuan said upon emerging, spotting the four guards nearby and the dozen-plus teleportation arrays.
Lan Xiaobu smiled, “No need to worry. Under my rule space, they can’t see you with their cultivation. Hui Zhi was too confident in this place, otherwise he wouldn’t have sent a few fourth-step Great Dao cultivators to guard the gate and arrays.”
“Did you secure the warehouse?” Mengyuan asked eagerly, knowing Lan Xiaobu had spent so much time for Mengmu Dayan’s warehouse.
Lan Xiaobu nodded, “It’s nearly done, but we can’t linger. We’re at the array to the vast cosmos. Disguise yourself as an array flag and hide here. I’ll deal with Great Dream Tower and destroy Great Dream Star. Once I return, activate the array immediately, and we’ll teleport away.”
“Got it,” Mengyuan nodded, her divine sense already on the activation slot. Apart from finding Great Dream Star, she hadn’t contributed much. Since Lan Xiaobu tasked her with activating the array, it meant urgency, requiring an instant teleport.
Returning to Great Dream Star, Lan Xiaobu made no attempt to hide, directly tossing out a pile of array flags. The moment he locked Great Dream Tower, alarms blared across the planet.
A dozen sixth-step and a few seventh-step Great Dao experts charged toward him, but Lan Xiaobu had already activated the array. In the next moment, he locked Great Dream Tower, forcibly uprooting it from Great Dream Star and sending it into his Longevity Realm.
Boom! As divine techniques bombarded him, Lan Xiaobu rushed out of Great Dream Star, his Longevity Halberd unleashing a ferocious wave of destructive energy toward the planet.
This was the first time Lan Xiaobu had so recklessly used the Great Destruction Technique, and it targeted a populated planet.
A chilling aura of destruction seeped into the souls of every cultivator still on Great Dream Star. Those chasing Lan Xiaobu no longer dared to continue, frantically trying to escape the planet. Unless they were fools, they could sense this was the primordial divine ability, the Great Destruction Technique.
If the Great Destruction Technique destroyed the planet while they were still on it, they’d perish with it.
But as they reached the planet’s edge, trapping-killing array patterns blocked them.
“No, it’s a trapping-killing array!” At that moment, every cultivator on Great Dream Star was gripped by panic. Someone who could set up such an array unnoticed, even taking Great Dream Tower without refining it, was stronger than anyone here.
“Everyone, strike together! This array won’t hold us long…”
Before the cultivator could finish, the destructive aura from Lan Xiaobu’s Longevity Halberd engulfed Great Dream Star. Under its annihilating Dao principles, bodies exploded, and primordial spirits were shredded.
Even the seventh-step Great Dao expert couldn’t escape the terrifying destructive principles.
Mengyuan, her divine sense witnessing Great Dream Star’s destruction, paled. Though ready to activate the teleportation array, the Great Destruction Technique terrified her. Under it, no life would remain.
She finally understood Lan Xiaobu’s earlier words: he could do what Mengmu Dayan did but chose not to out of disdain.
“Who’s there?” As Lan Xiaobu stepped back onto the void plaza, the four guards finally noticed him. But before they could say more, his killing Dao principles cut them down.
“Go…” Lan Xiaobu stepped onto the array to the vast cosmos, but before he could finish, Mengyuan activated it.
“Well done!” Lan Xiaobu exclaimed. Once activated, the plaza’s arrays were largely independent of their origin, with only slight positional shifts causing spatial disorientation upon arrival.
His guess was spot-on. The moment the array to the vast cosmos activated, teleporting him and Mengyuan away, the entire Great Dream Star plaza began to collapse.
All the arrays were torn apart, including the sixteenth.
After an unknown time, with a thud, Lan Xiaobu and Mengyuan were flung out by spatial rules. The collapse of the plaza’s arrays had caused them to lose control under the spatial rules.
They spun rapidly in the void like tops. Normally, such spinning could kill an ordinary Great Dao saint. But Lan Xiaobu stabilised after a few spins, grabbing Mengyuan and pulling her to his side.
“Thank you, Lord Lan,” Mengyuan said, sensing the nearby cosmic rules, indicating they were close to the vast cosmos.
Lan Xiaobu laughed, “I should thank you. Without you, I wouldn’t have found Great Dream Star or returned to the vast cosmos’ outskirts so quickly.”
In high spirits, Lan Xiaobu had sealed the spatial Dao connections between his Longevity Realm and the outside. A stone house had appeared in his realm, undoubtedly Mengmu Dayan’s warehouse. His plan had succeeded; after altering the teleportation rules, the warehouse had been sent to his Longevity Realm.
The stone house was covered in restrictions, clearly a top-tier spatial treasure. No matter, Lan Xiaobu would examine it slowly later.
Mengyuan hesitated before saying, “Lord Lan, though I’ve escaped Mengmu Dayan’s control, my strength is still too weak. I plan to find a place to improve it.”
Having roamed the cosmos for years, Mengyuan knew good cultivation spots. With her rapid progress in the Seven Cosmos Creation Technique, a period of seclusion could push her to the sixth step of the Great Dao.
“Good, let’s part ways here. The vast cosmos is now controlled by the Tianmeng Clan. Unless necessary, don’t return there,” Lan Xiaobu advised.
Even without his warning, Mengyuan wouldn’t dare. Beyond the Tianmeng Clan, Mengmu Dayan’s influence in the vast cosmos was enough to keep her away. Though their lair was destroyed, Mengmu Dayan itself wasn’t eradicated.
After parting with Mengyuan, Lan Xiaobu used the control array to guide the Seven Realms Stone toward the vast cosmos. Though close, it would take about three days at the stone’s speed to reach the outskirts.
While the Seven Realms Stone advanced, Lan Xiaobu returned to his Longevity Realm. He immediately opened the stone house’s restrictions, and upon seeing its contents, he was truly stunned.
In Mengmu Dayan’s warehouse, he saw hundreds of top-grade Dao veins stacked like mountains. Mid-grade Dao veins were countless. As for Dao crystals, only top-grade ones qualified for this warehouse.
But these were the least valuable items. Beyond the Dao veins, Lan Xiaobu found a Cosmic Heart, Primordial Dao Seeds, various cosmic-grade flames, and chaotic worlds.
He even spotted a strand of Primordial Dao principle from the cosmos’ creation.
Most shocking was a grey net, resembling a spiderweb, about a foot in diameter, without a base.
When his divine sense touched the net, he felt an immense, boundless aura. Neither his Seven Realms Stone nor any of the six Chaos Path components carried such a vast presence.
Grabbing the net, Lan Xiaobu knew it was a chaotic supreme treasure.
He hadn’t expected to find such a treasure in Mengmu Dayan’s warehouse.
If he was mistaken and it wasn’t a chaotic supreme treasure, it was at least a post-chaotic supreme treasure.
This trip to Mengmu Dayan’s warehouse was absolutely worth it.m
