A floating island, completely swept clean.
This was a ‘miracle’ never before achieved by cultivators in the Heart Realm Continent throughout history! Even the likes of the Xia Emperor and the Undying Nether Emperor could only hope to fight a ‘Monarch’ to a standstill—killing one was far beyond their reach! The Undying Nether Emperor might have had a chance if he had successfully forged the ‘Deathwalker,’ but he failed.
Among all the cultivators of the Heart Realm Continent, only Dongbo Xueying could accomplish this!
This was the killing move of the ‘Illusory Path of the Void’—a direct assault on the soul and will!
Soul-based techniques were terrifying. Even with supreme secret arts, supreme treasures, or Deathwalkers, none of it mattered! Against soul attacks, one could only rely on their own soul. If they could resist, they might only expend some mental effort. If they failed, they would fall into oblivion—their life and death in the hands of their opponent.
“The first time I entered the Broken Tooth Mountain Range, my illusions weakened a ‘Monarch’ of a floating island by thirty percent,” Dongbo Xueying mused. “Now, I’ve finally created a true killing move, one that even carries a hint of perfection—enough to make an ordinary ‘Monarch’ succumb completely.”
The opponent he chose to test this on was, according to the intelligence provided by the Bloodflame Clan, an average Monarch—the most common level among the countless floating islands of the Broken Tooth Mountain Range.
“My illusory killing move is most effective here in the Broken Tooth Mountain Range.”
Gazing at the countless floating Deathblight beings around him, even the massive Monarch now slumbering in the void, Dongbo Xueying felt a surge of triumph!
With the island swept clean, its treasures were now his for the taking.
“Not just this island, but many others as well.” Dongbo Xueying was eager. If he could conquer this one, it meant many more were within his reach!
Only in the Broken Tooth Mountain Range could he be so unrestrained.
When it came to resisting illusions…
Cultivators were the strongest! The native inhabitants were far weaker, and the Deathblight beings even more so!
Among cultivators, those at the Ultimate level had fully perfected their paths, reaching the pinnacle of their Daos. Their souls were formidable, their wills reaching unfathomable heights. Though Dongbo Xueying’s current illusory killing move was powerful—even carrying a sense of partial perfection—he estimated that against an Ultimate-level cultivator, the chances of outright ensnaring them were low. At best, it would force them to divert some mental effort.
“Still, it’s already impressive. Whether facing an ordinary Ultimate or an invincible existence, my illusory killing move will make them suffer,” Dongbo Xueying thought to himself.
The likes of the Nightfall Patriarch, the Fan Patriarch, and the Moonflower Monarch—their souls and wills were no different from ordinary Ultimates!
“Hmm?”
Using his illusions, Dongbo Xueying probed the slumbering Monarch’s consciousness for information. “Are the Deathblight beings truly this foolish? Their intelligence is so crude?”
What he discovered shocked him. The Deathblight were indeed a bizarre race.
Most were little more than beasts, with pitifully low intelligence. The elite among them, though slightly wiser, remained savage—concerned only with eating, fighting, and killing! Only their highest-ranking Kings and Monarchs had any awareness of the outside world, knowing of nearby native realms, the might of the ‘Five Supreme Rulers,’ and the ‘Eight Great Saints.’
The native inhabitants had detailed intelligence on many floating islands.
But the Deathblight? Their knowledge was vague at best, limited to rough assessments of strength—and only because their Monarchs occasionally ventured out to hunt and devour.
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His hopes of obtaining detailed intelligence from the Deathblight were utterly dashed.
Still, Dongbo Xueying managed to gather some rare treasures from the floating island.
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In the following days, he ventured to island after island.
He sought out every floating island mentioned in the Bloodflame Clan’s intelligence—those rumored to possess the mysterious eyes. He even revisited islands where he had previously failed, for this time, he relied on sheer strength!
On any given floating island, only a ‘Monarch’ stood a chance of resisting his illusory killing move.
Among ordinary Monarchs, even those of similar strength varied in willpower. Some, with stronger wills, could maintain a sliver of awareness—enough to swat Dongbo Xueying’s avatar aside. With even a fraction of their monstrous physical power, they could easily obliterate him.
Those with weaker wills, however, succumbed completely.
Even against those who retained a shred of consciousness, Dongbo Xueying often manipulated the lives of the surrounding Deathblight to negotiate, buying time. Though his avatars were eventually destroyed, he usually managed to record the illusory structure of the mysterious eyes before then.
In just half a year, he had successfully documented the illusory compositions of 506 mysterious eyes—329 gray and 177 gold—out of the 522 islands mentioned in the intelligence.
Though he had recorded so many, many were obtained through stalling tactics. In truth, the Monarchs of over two hundred islands had retained enough awareness to strike back.
“If I had brought the Hunyuan divine weapon ‘Qinghe,’ I could have claimed even more treasures,” Dongbo Xueying mused.
Those Monarchs, with only a sliver of their power, would have been manageable with the weapon in hand. But he dared not risk losing such a treasure—and besides, he cared little for material gains. With his illusory killing move, he was already the undisputed master of treasure hunting in the Heart Realm Continent.
Beyond a certain point, rare treasures lost their value.
‘Cultivation realm’ was the true foundation!
“I would trade all those treasures for my Void Path to reach the Ultimate,” Dongbo Xueying sighed inwardly. Though his soul techniques had placed him among the supreme experts of the Broken Tooth Mountain Range, he still yearned for his Void Path to reach perfection—for only then could he save his loved ones before the destruction of their world.
“Ultimate…”
“I’ve already created five killing moves in the Void Path and possess supreme secret arts. When will I finally reach the Ultimate?” he wondered. “Perhaps it’s time to retreat into seclusion and focus on cultivation.”
Having traversed over five hundred islands and encountered numerous Void Path opportunities, he had yet to truly settle and refine his insights. The Swordmaster, for instance, had achieved his breakthroughs through deep meditation.
“Before leaving the Broken Tooth Mountain Range, I should visit my old friend, the Lord of the Starlight World,” Dongbo Xueying smiled. When the Undying Nether Emperor had attacked Snowfall City, the Lord of the Starlight World had stood by his side.
Whoosh!
With a single teleportation, he crossed vast distances, arriving at one of the native worlds—the Starlight World.
The Lord of the Starlight World had long ago shared its location with him, and his recent conquests had provided enough scattered intelligence to map the general distribution of worlds. The Starlight World was a fairly renowned realm among the natives.
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