Lan Xiaobu had no time to ponder how the Weiju World had incorporated his Longevity Dao principles into the rule library of their rule-breaking cannons, or whether they could tear through his Great Dao domain by fusing Longevity Dao principles into the cannons. He needed to find a solution in the shortest possible time, or he was doomed.
Boom! Boom! Two more blue beams shot toward him. Clearly, there were only two cannons capable of targeting his Longevity Dao principles.
The surrounding space was locked by the blue beams, as if all of Lan Xiaobu’s Great Dao principles were being disintegrated under these rule-breaking cannons.
With no time to think, Lan Xiaobu raised his hand and unleashed several wheel-like patterns.
Rule-Splitting Wheel Patterns—Lan Xiaobu had rarely used them since advancing to the fifth step of the Great Dao. As soon as he deployed them, the rules of the space became instantly clear.
He then pinpointed the two blue beams. Within them, he neither saw nor sensed any rule-breaking charm targeting his Longevity Dao principles.
That made sense. If his Great Dao principles could be collected by the Weiju World’s rule library, what was the point of cultivating his Dao?
But the beams carried a rule-based aura that seemed capable of tearing through any heaven-and-earth rules, breaking all Dao principles. Even his Longevity Dao principles would be shredded under this blue beam’s aura.
Compared to his earlier shock, Lan Xiaobu was now utterly stunned by the aura of the two blue beams. He threw another punch, his mind racing. He was certain the rule-breaking cannons firing these blue beams must have incorporated some top-tier rule-breaking treasure, capable of tearing through any Dao principles. However, its flaw was equally glaring—it could be easily detected by his Rule-Splitting Divine Ability and shattered with a single punch.
Of course, if he hadn’t identified the cannons’ flaw in such a short time, he would have been torn apart by them. Cannons of this level could rip through his physical body but couldn’t destroy it, let alone kill him.
Boom! The terrifying collision of Dao principles split the void, creating several pitch-black chasms. Lan Xiaobu’s hand bones emitted a series of cracking sounds, shattering inch by inch.
But he paid no heed to his hand, instead activating the Cosmic Mill, which had been lying in wait. Two colossal grinding discs appeared in the vast void, enveloping all the Tianmeng Clan and Weiju World cultivator armies beneath the massive Cosmic Mill.
As the Cosmic Mill slowly rotated, a suffocating aura of death filled the space. Under its terrifying killing Dao principles, cultivators below the seventh step of the Great Dao couldn’t even move, let alone escape. As the mill ground through the void faster and faster, the space grew ever more stifling.
“Bang!” The first blood mist exploded, and panic gripped the million-strong army.
At that moment, they could only await death, waiting for the Cosmic Mill to grind them all into blood mist—no, into nothingness.
“Fang Yu, you wretched woman, are you mad? Who told you to attack?” the tall Tianmeng Clan powerhouse roared furiously.
Though they had a million-strong army, their task was only to hold Lan Xiaobu here for a day or two. But that foolish woman’s cannon fire had shattered the balance. What he hadn’t anticipated was Lan Xiaobu’s terrifying methods, leaving them no chance to escape.
In his mind, even if Lan Xiaobu was strong, a million troops wouldn’t be wiped out so quickly.
The woman who had ordered the rule cannons to fire, Fang Yuli, was now pale. A nine-star tech-Dao powerhouse from the Weiju World, she had sworn to tear Lan Xiaobu and Mo Wuji to pieces because they had killed Fang Can, the most important person in her life.
But she also knew the Weiju World’s rule cannons couldn’t kill these two, as they cultivated their own Great Dao, and the Weiju World’s tech rule library held no data on their Dao principles.
Yet she believed she would eventually exact her revenge. She had been researching Rule-Breaking Gold for nearly a hundred thousand years. After learning of Fang Can’s death, her Rule-Breaking Gold had taken shape.
Forged from over a hundred top-tier chaotic materials, this Rule-Breaking Gold could be integrated into rule-breaking cannons. Even without the target’s Dao principles in the rule library, the cannons could use the gold to tear through their Dao principles, blasting them to pieces.
But reality had slapped her hard. Apart from catching Lan Xiaobu off guard with the first two shots, the rule-breaking cannons infused with Rule-Breaking Gold seemed to have little effect.
“Crack!” The sound of bones shattering rang out. Fang Yuli knew it was her own bones breaking. Her heart turned cold. If there were a next life, she would never touch technology again. Even the eighteenth-level tech universe’s creations were like eggs against stone when compared to true Great Dao powerhouses. Tech rule-breaking? Hah, just a gimmick, reliant on the rule library built with the Tianmeng Clan’s help. The Weiju World had been beholden to the Tianmeng Clan from the moment they started building that library.
The Cosmic Mill had become a life-reaping machine. At first, blood mist still exploded in the space, but later, only nothingness remained under the mill. Not just flesh and bone, but even rings and entire worlds vanished within it.
The million-strong cultivator army besieging the Seven Heavens’ void plaza in the Great Cosmos was wiped out in less than an hour.
After an hour, Lan Xiaobu retracted the Cosmic Mill, leaving the void plaza in ruins. Though the rule cannons hadn’t fired many times, they had torn the plaza to pieces, leaving no part intact. Fragments of laws still drifted in the void.
An hour ago, a million troops and a hundred colossal warships had surrounded the plaza. Now, nothing remained but devastation.
Slaughtering a million lives didn’t faze Lan Xiaobu in the slightest. What surprised him was that his contingency plan hadn’t been needed. He had assumed the Tianmeng Clan and Weiju World’s tech army waiting here would include at least a few seventh-step Great Dao powerhouses, perhaps even an eighth-step one.
He had set up a trapping-killing array to prevent their escape, but the strongest here was merely that sixth-step Tianmeng Clan cultivator.
If not for their rule-breaking cannons capable of tearing his domain, he wouldn’t have needed the Cosmic Mill to crush the million-strong army effortlessly.
“Senior Lan…” The sixteen surviving guards hurried over, bowing respectfully.
Looking at the mere sixteen survivors, Lan Xiaobu said apologetically, “I was careless earlier, letting that woman’s sneak attack succeed, causing heavy losses.”
Had he unleashed the Cosmic Mill to grind them down from the start, the rule-breaking cannons that tore his domain wouldn’t have had a chance to fire.
The surviving guards quickly said it wasn’t his fault. Without Lan Xiaobu, not even one of them would have survived, let alone sixteen.
“Senior, we actually can’t open this entrance,” one guard cautiously explained.
Lan Xiaobu nodded, “I know you can’t open it, and I’m not planning to go in just yet.”
He was certain that since Hui Zhi had sent the Tianmeng Clan army to intercept him here, Hui Zhi himself would arrive soon. In that case, he’d prepare a welcoming ceremony for Hui Zhi.
Grabbing a handful of array flags, Lan Xiaobu even considered using one of his heaven-opening treasures. He intended to completely lock down this void, ensuring that if Hui Zhi came, he wouldn’t leave.
But after placing just a few array flags, Lan Xiaobu paused. If Hui Zhi arrived and saw the void plaza in ruins, with no trace of the million-strong army, would he still come to the plaza?
Lan Xiaobu began to regret not leaving a survivor. But he soon realised that even if he had, he likely wouldn’t have gleaned any useful information.
The million-strong army was here only to block the Seven Heavens’ human cultivators, so no strong powerhouses were present. For the Tianmeng Clan, as long as the army could delay the human cultivators for half a day, that was enough.
Lan Xiaobu stepped out of the void plaza and stopped about fifty thousand li away.
If he were Hui Zhi, this would be the safest distance. He wouldn’t land directly on the Seven Heavens’ void plaza but would observe it from here.
This was where he’d set up his array.
With that in mind, Lan Xiaobu began inscribing array patterns, tossing out array flags and using a Myriad Jun Lock as the array’s core.
The Myriad Jun Lock, a heaven-opening treasure, had come from Hui Zhi’s ring. Lan Xiaobu wondered what Hui Zhi would think if he knew his own treasure was being used to trap and kill him.
Lan Xiaobu didn’t expect this trapping-killing array to definitely take down Hui Zhi. But what if? If Hui Zhi acted as he predicted and was trapped here, he wouldn’t escape.
