Chapter 1012 - 527: Heavenly Dao Mark

Chapter 1012: Chapter 527: Heavenly Dao Mark

"Prepare to devour it. We only have one shot at this."

Li Mu gave a low, grave order to the Five-Colored Flood Dragon as his hands flew, weaving seals in rapid succession, driving the Spiritual Power in his body to its utter limit.

The Treasure Mansion Spirit received Li Mu’s command and responded instantly. It soared into the air, form turning ethereal as it expanded at high speed, its eyes locked unblinkingly on the cluster of black palaces that was about to detach from the Dark Spirit Star.

After months of grueling labor, Li Mu had spent vast effort to refine the entire black palace complex, fusing it into a single Spirit Realm. Now, at the most critical juncture, the Spirit Veins imprisoned within it were being completely severed from the Dark Spirit Star.

These Spirit Veins were the very essence of the Dark Spirit Star. Once stripped away, it would inevitably plunge the entire planet into irreversible decline, and the Celestial Dao Will of this realm would never tolerate such a thing.

However, with the End of the Dharma Era—when Spiritual Qi would run dry—approaching, Li Mu had no choice but to make preparations ahead of time for that impending future.

Besides, the Vitality of this Tier Eight Cyan Dragon Egg had already been bound to the black palace. If no other means could be found to save this precious Dragon Egg, Li Mu could only resort to this desperate gambit—first pack the entire palace up and haul it into the Treasure Mansion.

"Rise!"

Li Mu barked in a deep voice. Spiritual Power surged through his whole body as he threw everything into activating the Grand Array.

In the next instant, the entire black palace cluster was lifted by an invisible force, slowly ascending as it began to peel away from the ground. Countless Spirits of the Spiritual Vein manifested one after another, unable to bear the separation from the Dark Spirit Star, struggling madly, attempting to break free from the imprisonment of the black palaces.

To strip away the Spirit Veins was no different from carving out the heart of the Dark Spirit Star. The consequences of such an act were immeasurably dire.

At this moment, the Dark Spirit Star shuddered violently. The earth roared in fury, the firmament howled in grief. The Star Power lost its former balance, Chaos Qi rampaged, and Heaven and Earth plunged into turmoil. On the surface of the Dark Spirit Star, gigantic fissures spread like spiderwebs, releasing a deep and terrifying aura—that was the wail and struggle of the planet’s Power of Origin.

Array Power surged through the entire palace complex, flashing with a dim, mysterious sheen as it forcefully suppressed the Resistance of the Spirits of the Spiritual Vein, ensuring they could not escape this final shackle. Each Spirit Vein was like a colossal python granted life, writhing and screaming, yet before this overwhelming Array Power, their strength seemed pitifully small.

As Li Mu and the black palace cluster gradually detached, the Spirits of the Spiritual Vein that had once nourished the entire planet now let out cries and struggles like tears of the stars, scattering into the endless Void. At the same time—

At this time, the Celestial Dao Will above the Dark Spirit Star was also stirred. In the sky, dark clouds gathered thickly, thunder and lightning intertwined. Purple Thunder Light roamed the heavens like giant dragons, and deafening booms crashed one after another.

Seeing this, the Five-Colored Flood Dragon, though fearful of the Celestial Dao Thunder Tribulation, could barely restrain its excitement. Its colossal body tumbled endlessly in midair, its bright, piercing eyes fixed firmly on the rising black palace. It was impatient to swallow it into the Treasure Mansion.

"Treasure Mansion, now!"

Li Mu shouted sharply, successfully activating the Isolation Array to separate out the black palace, then decisively issued the order to the Treasure Mansion Spirit.

"Yes, Master!"

The Five-Colored Flood Dragon was overjoyed. It threw back its head in a long, sky-shaking roar as multicolored radiance erupted around its body, transforming into a resplendent gigantic Dragon Shadow. It opened its blood-filled maw and lunged to swallow the black palace whole.

A tremendous suction burst from the mouth of the Treasure Mansion Spirit, coalescing into a massive vortex that sought to slowly drag that already unified and refined black palace into its jaws. Yet the keening and Resistance of the countless Spirits of the Spiritual Vein converged into a force that could not be ignored. Though bound, that indomitable defiance born of this realm’s own will made the devouring process abnormally arduous.

The tug-of-war between the black palace and the Treasure Mansion Spirit was like a fierce clash of two ancient powers in the Void, stirring layer upon layer of Spiritual Power ripples that shook the surrounding Space. The black palace, this giant formed from the gathered Spirits of the Spiritual Vein, had dark and profound light flowing across its surface, as if it contained the collective will of the Dark Spirit Star itself, unwilling to be stripped away.

The Treasure Mansion Spirit, for its part, displayed the might and authority befitting a Tier Eight Grotto Heaven Treasure. That enormous vortex was like a black hole capable of swallowing everything. Yet in the face of the black palace’s stubborn Resistance, the vortex’s pull seemed somewhat diminished, the dragging process unusually strenuous.

At the same time, the Celestial Dao Thunder Tribulation also made its move. The first purple Thunderbolt, like an arrow of divine punishment, tore through the dense layers of dark cloud, carrying a Power of Destruction as it crashed down toward the Painting Realm Treasure Mansion that was in the midst of devouring, seeking to halt the process.

This Thunderbolt carried the fury and judgment of the Heavenly Dao against an act of defying the heavens. Its might was enough to chill the soul of any living being, and it was only the beginning—far more terrifying Thunderbolts were already primed.

At the critical instant when everything hung by a hair, Li Mu’s Divine Thought stirred, and the Grand Array for defending against the Thunder Tribulation activated. Its light burst forth as a gigantic barrier woven from Spiritual Power instantly unfolded around Li Mu and the Five-Colored Flood Dragon, like a resplendent starry sky shield that blocked the destructive force of the purple Thunderbolt outside.

How could the Celestial Dao Thunder Tribulation be so easily blocked?

With the first purple Thunderbolt repelled, the dark clouds above grew even denser, thunder and lightning tangled more violently, and a vastly more terrifying aura brewed within. The second, the third... more and more purple Thunderbolts crashed down like raging tidal waves, bombarding the Defense Array constructed by Li Mu one after another.