The Heavenly Dao Exploded

"Overconfident? Hehehe..." The Heavenly Demon Avatar suddenly burst into maniacal laughter.

"And what are you supposed to be? Even if this venerable one has only sent an avatar, crushing you is still effortless!"

Before the words even faded, the Heavenly Demon Avatar stopped wasting time and struck immediately.

Demonic energy surged violently around its body, then rolled forward like towering waves, crashing toward the Heavenly Elephant Ancestor.

Though his expression was grave, the Heavenly Elephant Ancestor showed no fear. With his palms pressed together, monstrous power erupted from him, and in an instant, a colossal divine elephant phantom, ten thousand feet tall, materialized behind him. The phantom strode forward, shaking heaven and earth with each step, charging straight at the Heavenly Demon Avatar.

In that moment, the battle between the two erupted!

Trapped within the Qiankun Seal, Gu Qingfeng watched the two combatants unleash what seemed like world-destroying power, nearly drooling with greed.

How he longed to break free, to plunge into the vortex of their clashing energies and seize a wave of explosive growth! But alas, the damned Qiankun Seal still held him firmly locked away.

The two exchanged blow after blow, locked in fierce combat, neither yielding an inch.

The surrounding space suffered terribly—cataclysmic shockwaves erupted endlessly, reducing the floating ruins of buildings in the sky to nothing but dust.

Within a thousand-foot radius of the two fighters, a vacuum had formed, filled with an endless storm of violent energies clashing, canceling each other out, annihilating, exploding...

"Such a waste! All of it wasted! Let me out, damn it!"

Inside the Qiankun Seal, Gu Qingfeng howled in frustration, pacing like an ant on a hot pan. But due to the isolation array, his voice couldn’t escape, nor could he move freely. He could only watch helplessly.

Gu Qingfeng felt like he was missing out on a fortune!

After a while, both combatants wore solemn expressions—clearly, neither could gain the upper hand.

The Heavenly Demon Avatar seemed to grow impatient, occasionally glancing at the void as if worried that lingering too long would attract unwanted attention from certain entities.

Abruptly, the Heavenly Demon Avatar spoke.

"If this venerable one isn’t mistaken, you’ve been hiding here to refine the Heavenly Dao, haven’t you? Rest assured, I have no interest in seizing the Heavenly Dao of this minor realm. Hand over that human, and I’ll leave immediately."

The Heavenly Elephant Ancestor’s eyes narrowed as a realization struck him.

The secrets this boy holds must run deeper than I imagined. Even a being like the Heavenly Demon has come to claim him.

And the demon claims no interest in the Qing Realm’s Heavenly Dao—what does that mean?

It means this boy’s value surpasses even the Heavenly Dao of the Qing Realm. Otherwise, why would the Heavenly Demon take notice?

With that thought, the Heavenly Elephant Ancestor became even more unwilling to surrender Gu Qingfeng.

"Impossible," he replied. "This boy is fated with me. I cannot hand him over."

"Do you truly seek death?!" the Heavenly Demon Avatar roared.

The Heavenly Elephant Ancestor remained unmoved. "Spare your threats. As a Heavenly Demon from beyond this realm, lingering here too long will draw the attention of the Cangming Realm’s Heavenly Dao. When that happens, your avatar will be in peril. I may not be able to defeat you, but I can certainly hold out until then."

"You damned insects! Every last one of you dares to defy me! Today, even if it costs me this avatar, I will teach you a lesson you’ll never forget!"

The Heavenly Demon Avatar was furious. As a supreme being, when had it ever endured such humiliation? The human who had repeatedly mocked him was right there—after expending tremendous effort to send an avatar across countless realms, only to be thwarted again and again, it could no longer tolerate this.

"Demon’s Descent!"

With a furious roar, the Heavenly Demon Avatar’s body suddenly expanded violently. A monstrous demonic shadow engulfed the entire space, plunging it into darkness!

"Manifestation of the Divine Elephant!"

Not to be outdone, the Heavenly Elephant Ancestor transformed into a ten-thousand-foot-tall divine elephant, its body as white as flawless jade, and charged at the Heavenly Demon Avatar.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

The space around them quaked violently under their clash, on the verge of collapse.

Gu Qingfeng watched the battle rage on, his anxiety burning like fire.

And then, as the two fighters grew increasingly ruthless, the residual energy from their clash intensified.

Suddenly, a devastating surge of power shot straight toward Gu Qingfeng’s location.

His face lit up with joy—finally, a chance to break free!

But the next second, his grin froze.

Because standing between him and the Qiankun Seal was the Heavenly Dao Cocoon.

The destructive energy struck the cocoon dead-on, absorbed entirely by it.

Damn it!

Gu Qingfeng nearly cursed aloud. What kind of luck was this? Ever since coming to the upper realm, had his fortune turned this rotten?

CRACK!

A fissure split across the Heavenly Dao Cocoon where the energy had struck.

It pulsed violently, as if on the verge of breaking open.

Seeing this, the Heavenly Elephant Ancestor’s expression changed abruptly. He immediately shifted his stance, trying to shield the cocoon.

But in a battle between experts, hesitation is fatal. Seizing the opening, the Heavenly Demon Avatar forced the Heavenly Elephant Ancestor back with a single strike, then unleashed a relentless barrage of attacks toward the Heavenly Dao Cocoon.

The Heavenly Phenomena Ancestor’s eyes nearly burst from fury as he desperately tried to intervene, but the Heavenly Demon Avatar stubbornly held him back, even at the cost of injury. In the end, the surging demonic energy struck the Cocoon of Heavenly Dao.

"No!!"

Amidst the Heavenly Phenomena Ancestor’s furious roar, the Cocoon of Heavenly Dao began to crack incessantly.

Countless fissures spread across its surface.

And then—finally—the Cocoon of Heavenly Dao exploded!

An overwhelmingly terrifying wave of energy erupted, intertwined with countless Daos and laws clashing against one another.

The world fell silent in that moment.

The heavens and earth lost their color.

Space itself collapsed.

It was as if the universe had undergone a cataclysmic explosion—everything was on the verge of annihilation!

At the critical moment before the explosion could spread further, the Heavenly Phenomena Ancestor, realizing the futility of resistance, activated a secret technique. Ignoring the strain on his body, he forcibly tore through the already chaotic space, attempting to flee.

But the Heavenly Demon Avatar, lurking nearby, had no intention of letting him escape.

"Trying to run? Perish alongside this venerable one’s avatar!"

The Heavenly Demon Avatar clearly understood the destructive power of this explosion and intended to drag the Heavenly Phenomena Ancestor and Gu Qingfeng down with him.

After all, it was just an avatar—its destruction meant little beyond some loss of power.

"Get out of my way!" the Heavenly Phenomena Ancestor bellowed in panic.

And then… there was no "then."

The explosion swallowed everything. Whether the two of them escaped or not, Gu Qingfeng had no idea. All he knew was that he, damn it all, couldn’t run!

He was the closest to the blast, still sealed in place—where could he possibly go?

The supposedly indestructible Qiankun Seal didn’t even last a second under the force of the explosion, vanishing as if it had never existed.

In an instant—too fast for Gu Qingfeng to react—he was engulfed by the explosion.

Right up to the last moment, Gu Qingfeng was still wondering: Does this even count as an attack from a demon?

Soon, the system provided an answer.

Ding!

Host has been attacked by the Heavenly Dao Demon.

Heavenly Dao Origin +100+100+100+......

Heavenly Dao Demon!?

Gu Qingfeng suddenly realized—previously, the people of the Dark Realm had mentioned that the Heavenly Dao had grown demonic because the Sacred Clan’s mighty experts were continuously refining it. Now, the system was telling him he had been attacked by the Heavenly Dao Demon.

The answer was obvious: the Heavenly Phenomena Ancestor had refined the Heavenly Dao into a demon. The Heavenly Dao was no longer close to demonic—it was a demon now.

Heavenly Phenomena Ancestor… this venerable one truly thanks you!