Just as Lan Xiaobu deduced the identity of the being restraining the Reincarnation Saint, four chains of law surged toward him, their formidable power crashing down. Lan Xiaobu immediately activated his escape technique.
Though only a Third-Turn Saint, he had immense confidence in his escape ability. His mastery of Spatial Mirror Teleportation was instantaneous, a mere flicker of thought.
Even so, he was a fraction too slow. As the first law chain locked around his waist, the other three swiftly bound his legs and one arm.
Watching from afar, the Reincarnation Saint’s heart sank. With Lan Xiaobu also ensnared, their fates seemed sealed—they’d both perish here.
To bind Lan Xiaobu so swiftly, this had to be an Eternal Saint.
Would he have to wait for another reincarnation? The Reincarnation Saint sighed inwardly. Unlike Lan Xiaobu, he had proven himself through reincarnation. Even if killed, he could retain his memories and reincarnate. He didn’t know what Great Dao Lan Xiaobu cultivated, but unless it was reincarnation or he had proven it, Lan Xiaobu was likely doomed here.
The moment the law chains locked him, Lan Xiaobu didn’t hesitate—he unleashed the Great Severing Technique. He had a gut feeling that under such terrifying restraints, even a half-breath’s delay would mean he’d never get the chance to use it again.
The Great Severing Technique was his only means to break free from these law chains. Even his Longevity Halberd, powerful as it was, was useless against them.
A cutting law capable of tearing through the cosmos descended with Lan Xiaobu’s hand seals. Even the distant Reincarnation Saint shuddered instinctively. The aura of this primordial divine ability sent chills down his spine.
Then, the Reincarnation Saint stared in shock at the void. In the vast Great Wilderness Divine Realm, few could claim broader experience than him, yet even he had never witnessed the Great Severing Technique up close like this.
Thanks to Lan Xiaobu’s precise control, the Great Severing Technique was confined to a specific range, allowing the Reincarnation Saint to clearly see everything it sliced apart in the void: space was severed, the rules within space were cut, the countless laws forming those rules were divided, the attributes composing those laws were split, and even the infinitesimal particles within those attributes were cleaved…
In that moment, he forgot he was still bound by law chains, gaining a wholly new insight into the Great Dao of Reincarnation—one he’d never grasped before.
*Crack, crack, crack!* The Great Severing Technique effortlessly severed the law chains binding Lan Xiaobu. As he stepped back, he unleashed another wave of the technique, this time to free the Reincarnation Saint.
After cutting through the restraints on the Reincarnation Saint, he saw the man still dazed. With a flick of his divine sense, he pulled the Reincarnation Saint to his side.
“Phew!” Lan Xiaobu exhaled deeply, casting out void array patterns to shield the surrounding space.
He was quite pleased with his performance. He rarely used the Great Severing Technique, but as his cultivation grew, his understanding of it had leapt countless levels. Especially after proving his Third-Turn Saint status through the laws of the vast cosmos, his mastery of the technique had reached an unprecedented height.
The Great Severing Technique was a top-tier primordial divine ability capable of rending the cosmos. Yet Lan Xiaobu wielded it with such finesse—like a master butcher carving an ox—leaving no trace. It didn’t affect the Great Wilderness Divine Realm or even ripple beyond the Wangshuang Desert Sea. Outside this confined space, no one would sense a thing.
The Reincarnation Saint remained in a trance, his aura surging as the charm of the Great Dao of Reincarnation grew clearer. He was clearly on the verge of becoming a Fifth-Turn Saint.
Lan Xiaobu tossed a few top-grade divine spirit veins to him, then raised his hands, summoning a torrent of wild divine energy.
The Wangshuang Desert Sea was part of the Great Wilderness Divine Realm, and he was its Dao Lord. For someone to heal here, in his domain, and dare attack him—if he let this slide, he wouldn’t be Lan Xiaobu.
As his furious dao charm erupted, the area was engulfed in a terrifying aura of destruction. But that wasn’t all—woven into it was a divine ability that snuffed out all life.
Lan Xiaobu was truly enraged. After using the Great Severing Technique, he unleashed both the Great Destruction Technique and the Great Death Technique.
Others might use these techniques to obliterate a planet or a realm, but Lan Xiaobu wielded them solely to annihilate this single space and every living thing within it.
Of course, he knew there might only be one lifeform here—the Eternal Saint healing in hiding.
The destructive aura was contained within this space, not leaking a sliver outward. Mingled with it was the ultimate death law of the Great Death Technique.
*Boom, boom, boom!* The space tore apart, then tore again…
A gray shadow seeped from the void. Before it could fully emerge, Lan Xiaobu’s Longevity Halberd unleashed a storm of killing intent.
He refused to believe an Eternal Saint, no matter how strong, could intimidate him in his own domain while gravely injured. The earlier binding had caught him off guard, but if he was ambushed again despite being prepared, he’d deserve it.
The gray shadow retaliated with a burst of gray light. Before Lan Xiaobu’s Seven-Tone Killing Technique from the Longevity Realm could fully activate, the gray light struck him head-on. The explosive clash of dao charms and the destructive divine ability fused, nearly reducing the area to nothingness.
The void ripped open, and the shadow darted out, vanishing without a trace.
Lan Xiaobu wiped the blood from his lips, inwardly shocked. So powerful—truly powerful.
Even ambushing with the Great Destruction and Great Death Techniques hadn’t killed the foe. Worse, a casual counterattack had left him lightly injured. Fortunately, the enemy feared him—likely as the Dao Lord of the Great Wilderness Divine Realm—and fled, knowing that killing him would come at a steep cost.
With a wave, Lan Xiaobu dispersed the vast dao charm of the Great Destruction and Great Death Techniques. Though the Wangshuang Desert Sea appeared unchanged, he knew a chunk of space had been obliterated.
The natural laws of the realm quickly repaired the void, and soon it seemed as if nothing had happened.
Lan Xiaobu reached out and grabbed something—a formation disk appeared in his hand. Anything that survived his Great Destruction Technique was undoubtedly a treasure.
The disk’s aura rivaled his fortune array disk, exuding profound spatial law energy. Lan Xiaobu’s eyes lit up—he recognized it as an innate treasure, a Spatial Array Disk.
The foe must have been using it to heal or for some other purpose. Caught off guard by his Great Severing and Great Destruction Techniques, they’d fled without reclaiming it.
At least he’d gained some interest on this encounter. Staring at the direction the powerhouse had fled, Lan Xiaobu knew they’d only return if they regained full strength and launched a direct assault. Otherwise, the Great Wilderness Divine Realm’s naturally formed protective array was impregnable.
He tossed the Spatial Array Disk into his Cosmic Dimension Model. It likely bore the Eternal Saint’s mark, and they’d clash again someday. Having suffered a major loss and lost this disk, that powerhouse wouldn’t let it go easily. He needed to ascend to a higher saint tier quickly, or even the Great Wilderness Divine Realm might not hold once the enemy recovered.
Turning, he saw the Reincarnation Saint’s aura growing ever more vast. Lan Xiaobu decided to wait.
As the Reincarnation Saint’s presence intensified, Lan Xiaobu sensed he’d grasped the reincarnation laws of the cosmos’s infinitesimal elements, proving his Fifth-Turn Saint status.
Half a month passed in a flash. The Reincarnation Saint’s aura stabilized, clear law patterns orbiting him. Lan Xiaobu’s eyes brightened—he felt the unmistakable clarity of reincarnation laws. At that moment, he was nearly certain that if he chose reincarnation, he could prove his Fourth-Turn Reincarnation Saint status within a century.
A century was but a breath to a Third-Turn Saint like him.
“Hahaha…” The Reincarnation Saint burst into laughter. He hadn’t expected to comprehend the reincarnation laws of infinitesimal elements through Lan Xiaobu’s Great Severing Technique, propelling him into the Fifth-Turn Saint rank.
“Thank you, Dao Friend Lan. Your Great Severing Technique helped me step into the Fifth-Turn Saint realm,” he said, bowing sincerely. He truly appreciated Lan Xiaobu—without him, forget grasping those laws, he’d likely be dead.
At this moment, he grew more convinced of Lan Xiaobu’s extraordinary potential. Though he hadn’t clearly seen Lan Xiaobu’s later moves, he knew he’d driven off that Eternal Saint with the Great Destruction and Great Death Techniques.
“It was only a matter of time, Dao Friend. You were already on the cusp of the Fifth Turn—even without my Great Severing Technique,” Lan Xiaobu said modestly, then asked, “Reincarnation Dao Friend, do you know who that healing figure was? Or which ancient saint they might be?”
