Chapter 4438: 'Dao' Descends
The sudden appearance of the spectral figure made it clear to all that the Chaos Divine Water Beast was not dead.
It roared in the void, its terrifying pressure rippling across the West Pole Pure Land. The earth in the central region split open, terrible forces surging from underground.
A colossal soul flame rose from the fissures.
Lin Moyu had only seen such a size a few times in his life the last was the Chaos Desolation Beast.
Suddenly, Lin Moyu understood. At the same time, deep in his own soul, he heard both Little Tree and Chaos Child yell: "Master, be careful! He's coming!"
Then, in his ear, a familiar voice spoke: "Conceal your aura, play dead!"
Lin Moyu's heart leapt it was the green robed elder, unmistakably.
He instantly suppressed his aura, becoming as lifeless as a corpse.
Little Tree and Chaos Child did the same and feigned death.
The massive pressure of the Pure Land crashed down on Lin Moyu; he endured with difficulty, his flesh cracking, but he had no choice he had to hold on.
By now, he knew who was arriving. Only one being could terrify both Little Tree and Chaos Child, and merit a personal warning from the green robed elder.
From the far void, a gargantuan eye opened, reflecting the entire West Pole Pure Land. Time froze, space itself halted.
Lin Moyu could not move his body at all only his soul consciousness retained freedom.
Everything in the Pure Land was shackled; Lin Moyu's body no longer suffered the world's crushing pressure, in fact, he felt a little relief.
The recently revived, awe inspiring Chaos Divine Water Beast now revealed terror in its eyes.
It struggled, its soul flame jittering violently, but to no effect.
With the suppression of that eye, escape was impossible.
A beam of light shot from the eye and blasted down onto the Pure Land.
"What the hell!"
Lin Moyu cursed as devastation rained down. The attack, though aimed at the Chaos Divine Water Beast, also snared all living things in the West Pole Pure Land.
Regardless of realm, even Full Completion experts at this moment, all treated equally.
This was the true meaning of "the Dao is impartial." Only, the method was cruel.
Lin Moyu watched his own body and soul dissolve in the light. Then, violet light flickered he did everything to delay his rebirth.
Two seconds later, the violet light pulsed and he reformed.
The first thing he did after rebirth was look toward the void the eye was gone.
'Dao' came quickly and left just as fast perhaps one or two seconds total.
But in that time, the event…
The Pure Land became hushed, as if much life had vanished.
The Chaos Divine Water Beast was utterly erased almost all the attack had focused on it.
Even in perfect health, it could not have survived a strike from 'Dao.'
Long ago, before 'Dao' obtained that wondrous flower, 'Dao' surpassed it now, even more so.
It was reborn for mere seconds, then annihilated completely.
Countless others perished with it.
'Dao's' mercilessness was starkly revealed in less than a two second span.
Using his Undead Eye, Lin Moyu glimpsed a few soul flames drifting.
Some Full Completion experts had survived 'Dao's' true target was not them, so they only endured the aftershocks; paying a heavy price, they managed to live.
Almost everyone else was not so fortunate.
In Lin Moyu's soul, Chaos Child muttered, "Scared me to death he's terrifying."
Little Tree added, "He's even stronger than before."
Chaos Child replied, "Of course the flower's his now, he's advanced. If I'd gotten it, I'd be this strong, too!"
Little Tree snorted, "Stop talking nonsense before he hears us."
Chaos Child jumped and fell silent.
After that blow, the Pure Land's pressure vanished and began slowly to recover.
Little Tree stretched out a branch, using time space power to shield Lin Moyu.
The chaos divine water surrounding them had been utterly scattered by 'Dao.'
Lin Moyu float flew into the air, surveying the land.
The earth was shattered and scarred, a single blow nearly breaking the Pure Land.
From some cracks, chaos divine water was already starting to seep so long as the Pure Land persisted, it would replenish itself in time.
Above a gigantic pit the spot where the beast had emerged, also the site of 'Dao's' attack Lin Moyu hovered.
The pit's surface was polished smooth as a mirror the handiwork of 'Dao.'
No trace of the beast remained completely erased, not even a whiff.
But Lin Moyu, fully aware after the ordeal, now understood everything.
For survival, the beast once triggered the Pure Land's latent power and repaired the broken world; in doing so, it split itself apart, leaving a portion of blood and flesh deep beneath the earth.
Its lingering resentment seeped from that blood, growing into obsession hence, the deeper, the denser.
The beast was always born from the West Pole Pure Land; relying on its power, it left a final sliver of hope and strove to return.
To repair the West Pole with its own power was a bid to become a totem and reap faith.
With time, faith increased, and combined with the Pure Land's resources, let it revive.
But to come fully back, it needed much more and always split some strength off into avatars to appear in the world and gather more belief, while its true self hid and recovered.
Not very clever or self aware, but still shrewd enough to realize it must keep a low profile else disaster would follow.
But with its avatar slain, its obsession destroyed, and its faith supply cut off by Supreme Xingquan, its plans failed.
Mad hatred took hold; it emerged, was discovered and 'Dao' descended, erasing it with overwhelming force.
And not just it countless lives in the Pure Land perished with it.
At the pit's bottom, Lin Moyu found uncountable cracks stretching away.
This was where 'Dao's' attack had landed; all Lin Moyu had felt was the faintest aftershock.
Even now, dread energy still billowed faintly there.
Guided by intuition, Lin Moyu selected one fissure and entered it felt like the center of 'Dao's' power.
Little Tree's roots extended ahead to scout.
He wandered a month, never seeing sunlight, seemingly with no end.
At last, one day, the Cause Seeking Ring began to hum...
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