Chapter 1308: A Single Thought of Reincarnation

"Sorry, I lost my composure..." Zi Ling said somewhat apologetically.

"It's fine. Did you notice anything unusual?" Han Li asked, his gaze steady.

Zi Ling did not speak, only silently shook her head, her expression somewhat dim.

It was then that Han Li noticed that the woman's aura had greatly diminished, her cultivation having fallen from the original Taiyi peak to the Taiyi中期.

"Your cultivation..." Han Li couldn't help but say.

"It's fine." Zi Ling showed no great surprise, only shook her head and said.

"Her realm and cultivation were originally forcibly elevated through the immortal's灌顶 technique, so her foundation was not stable. Now that she has traversed reincarnation, a drop in realm is not unusual." The Reincarnation Palace Master said.

Hearing this, Han Li cast a questioning look at Zi Ling.

"The reason Shi Chuankong and I made such great progress in cultivation was that the Crab Immortal used the灌顶 secret technique to strip the law powers of others with similar cultivation methods and forcibly pour them into us... So the current situation is not necessarily a bad thing." Zi Ling did not answer directly but transmitted her voice.

Hearing this, Han Li was somewhat relieved, but he still wondered what past life memories Zi Ling had seen under the effect of the Six Paths Reincarnation Disk that had moved her so deeply as to cause a drop in realm.

"Who's next?" the Reincarnation Palace Master asked.

"Fellow Daoist Zi Ling's power has regressed rather than advanced. I think... I'd better not use this reincarnation secret technique." Shi Chuankong frowned slightly, hesitated, and then said.

Han Li knew that Shi Chuankong's realm elevation was the same as Zi Ling's, a method akin to pulling up seedlings to help them grow, so he transmitted a reminder:

"Brother Shi, I know your method of realm elevation is the same as Zi Ling's, both suffering from unstable cultivation that could affect your future path. You might as well take this opportunity to solidify your realm."

"With turmoil imminent, if I drop in realm, I don't know when I'll be able to return to the Great Luo. Besides, the Crab Immortal once said that with diligent cultivation, once the realm stabilizes, one can truly be a Great Luo powerhouse." Shi Chuankong replied via voice transmission.

Hearing this, Han Li did not press further.

"Then it's just me left." Gold Devouring Beetle said.

"You are indeed the one most in need of using the Six Paths Reincarnation Disk." The Reincarnation Palace Master glanced at the Gold Devouring Beetle and said.

The Gold Devouring Beetle said nothing more, eagerly striding toward the pool and immersing herself in it.

The Reincarnation Palace Master then began to perform the spell, submerging her in the liquid.

The Gold Devouring Beetle felt her consciousness slowly sink, then enter a void of darkness, with no further sensation.

Just then, as if she had suddenly choked on water, she burst up from the water, only to find herself falling into a vast, turbulent sea.

When she came to her senses, a tremendous roar reached her ears.

The surrounding void seemed about to shatter, and though no real shockwaves assailed her, her mind was stirred, and for a moment she was even dazed.

"Qu Lin, the net has been cast; you have nowhere to flee. If you do not surrender and submit, you will surely be annihilated." A cold, stern shout came from the nine heavens, rolling like thunder.

The Gold Devouring Beetle's ears were scalded by the sound. She quickly looked up and saw, hundreds of miles away, a naked man standing, his entire body as green and translucent as jade, tens of thousands of feet tall.

He had short hair and a bare torso, a face like a vajra, eyes wide with anger, muscles knotted all over his body, and behind him shone a yellow halo like a divine light, blazing bright like flames, emanating an unprecedented powerful土 attribute law aura.

Just looking from afar gave her a heavy pressure like a mountain bearing down, as if that man were a primordial deity standing between heaven and earth, indestructible and unstoppable.

"Is this... a Dao Ancestor?"

The Gold Devouring Beetle was frozen, experiencing for the first time what true pressure meant. Yet, strangely, instead of fear, an inexplicable flame rose within her heart.

"Haha, Xuan Yuan Jie, I simply refuse to bow to the tyranny of your Heavenly Court. What can you do to me? If not for a bunch of petty scoundrels clamoring on the sidelines, would you alone be enough for me to gnaw on a few times?" Just then, an extremely arrogant shout rang out from beneath the sea at the other end.

The Gold Devouring Beetle felt a resonance and quickly looked over, seeing a huge bulge rising slowly from beneath the sea surface, stirring up towering waves tens of thousands of feet high.

Rolling waves surged toward her, and the Gold Devouring Beetle was swept up by the giant waves. She quickly flew up, leaping into the sky tens of thousands of feet high.

As her gaze fell, she saw a sight that horrified her.

Below, what she had thought was a sea turned out to be a lost continent floating in the vast void, its edges jagged with fractures, clearly broken off by an external force.

The canopy of clouds above was only a thin layer, beyond which lay pitch-black outer space. Above this lost continent, thousands of high-cultivation Heavenly Court cultivators were scattered across the entire sky.

Above the clouds, the hundreds of cultivators radiated thick earth-attribute law power, shrouded in a cyan light that condensed into a colossal jade city, pressing down on the heavens.

Outside the four city gates, hundreds of thick jade chains hung down, extending to the bottom of the broken continent, like cables suspending the shattered land.

Such a powerful suppression array was clearly a meticulously laid ambush!

Just then, rumbling sounds came from the continent below. The huge water bulge in the sea began to churn with muddy slurry, becoming chaotic.

The edges of the broken continent also started to crack with enormous fissures, gradually disintegrating.

With a thunderous boom,

the huge water bulge in the sea finally burst, and the continent completely shattered.

A golden beetle, tens of thousands of zhang in size, flew out. Its six golden wings flapped, sending out golden cyclones with a deafening roar.

"This aura, could it be..." Golden Child recognized at once that the golden beetle was of the same origin as himself—a Devourer Gold Beetle, but its cultivation far surpassed his, seemingly a Devourer Gold Immortal Ancestor.

However, the Devourer Gold Immortal's golden armor was shattered, its crystal wings broken, and massive jade chains coiled around it, connecting to the jade city above.

As soon as the golden beetle appeared, the chains on the jade city tightened, and the city slowly descended, pressing down on the beetle.

The jade giant named Xuan Yuanjie stepped forward, raised a fist, and green light bands converged from all directions into a massive green vortex, smashing straight at the beetle's head.

"Heh, come on."

The golden beetle roared, unafraid, and met the giant fist, biting down on it.

With a sharp clang, all the green light shattered, and half of the giant's arm exploded. The ensuing ten-thousand-zhang gale whipped the jade chains on the beetle into a clatter.

At the same time, the jade city finally landed on the golden beetle, emitting a towering green light.

Golden light burst from the beetle, and pieces like golden body fragments peeled off, like old plaster falling from a wall, decayed and pitiful.

"Haha... Xuan Yuanjie, you want my golden body? Impossible. When I return to the Heavenly Court, that will be the end of you 'Seven Hounds of the Heavenly Court.' Just wait." The golden beetle laughed wildly.

The next instant, a dazzling golden light blazed from it, and a tremendous explosive shockwave erupted, sweeping in all directions. The jade city cracked under the golden light, and hundreds of Heavenly Court cultivators inside exploded into pieces.

"Don't think you can escape!"

Xuan Yuanjie bellowed, his regenerated arms spreading wide. A green net appeared in the void, enveloping the golden light.

But within the golden light, a tall woman's figure emerged, her hands parting heaven and earth, tearing apart Xuan Yuanjie's net and the jade city.

Even the broken sky was split in two by this force, revealing a massive void rift.

Countless tiny golden rays, carrying Devourer Gold Beetle larvae, poured into the rift like a golden river, swept away by spatial storms, scattering across the vast immortal realm.

No one knew where these larvae, like dandelion seeds, would drift.

Golden Child, watching as an observer, felt his blood boil. His previous life in this cycle had been forced to self-destruct his golden body and scatter across the horizon.

When the last trace of golden light vanished, the woman's figure formed by the light gradually faded.

Xuan Yuanjie, seemingly enraged, threw a punch. An indescribable force roared forth, shattering the blurry woman's phantom into nothing.

The golden light, like dying embers, scattered through the void, falling upon Golden Child, then finally extinguished completely.

Golden Child's eyes turned bloodshot, a complex emotion rising in his heart. A layer of golden light enveloped him, and he shot forward, charging at Xuan Yuanjie.

But as he plunged into the void ahead, the space suddenly twisted, like a water curtain appearing out of nowhere, and he fell through it.

Then, he felt a dizzying spin, and his figure floated up from beneath the water.

When he opened his eyes again, the Six Paths Reincarnation Disk hung above him, now still.