Chapter 917: The Conflict of the Heavenly Dao

As Su Che finished speaking, a burst of golden light appeared in the sky, with streams of golden rays descending—exactly three thousand in number.
The three thousand golden rays were extremely dazzling, turning the entire sky of the Earthly Immortal Realm golden. Soon after, these rays coalesced into three thousand giant golden figures, each towering a thousand feet high, floating high in the air and glaring down at Yu Huangtian with fury.
Though the three thousand golden giants had different appearances, they all exuded a sacred and majestic aura, filled with an overwhelming sense of supremacy.
Su Che, Tian Yin, and Yu Huangtian could all see that these three thousand golden figures represented the three thousand great paths, with each figure embodying a technique of one of these paths.
The Punishment of the Great Paths!
In this universe of immortals and spirits, the most powerful divine spells were the three thousand great paths. And these were not techniques wielded by some immortal lord, but rather the authority of the heavens themselves.
All three thousand great paths appeared together to punish Yu Huangtian, the traitor. This was the strongest heavenly punishment the universe’s Dao could inflict—something that had never happened since the creation of the universe. Even when the Dao punished all the ancient demon gods, it had never resorted to such severe measures.
“Three thousand great paths?”
Yu Huangtian remained calm, unpanicked, and simply said to the heavens, “I expected this day long ago. If you have three thousand great paths, so do I!”
Whoosh!
The pure black destructive force surrounding him suddenly changed, turning back into three thousand streams of golden light. These were the three thousand great paths he controlled, all of the same nature.
“Yu Huangtian, do you acknowledge your guilt?”
A roar erupted in the sky—not human speech, but the voice of the universe itself, supreme above all else.
“Indeed. In your eyes, I am guilty. But even so, who can punish me?”
Yu Huangtian laughed as he looked up at the sky. The three thousand golden rays surged dramatically, charging toward the three thousand golden figures in the air.
“This guy is really bold,” Lao He muttered.
“He indeed has the confidence for it,” Su Che sighed softly. “I must admit, I really admire him. He dares to confront the power of the universe’s Dao all by himself.”
Boom!
The three thousand golden figures unleashed their power in unison, bending down and pointing at Yu Huangtian.
The punishment of the great paths descended upon him.
Yu Huangtian stood unshaken. The three thousand golden rays he emitted met one of the golden figures head-on—Great Prophecy against Great Prophecy, Great Plunder against Great Plunder, Great Decomposition against Great Decomposition…

Three thousand paths with identical attributes clashed head-on, to see which one had greater power. In the initial moments, the golden light against the golden figures seemed evenly matched, with no clear advantage. But in the blink of an eye, the three thousand golden figures transformed their fingers into palms and seized the golden light belonging to Yu Huangtian. Roar! The three thousand golden figures shouted in unison, pulling at the golden light together—it felt as though they were trying to forcibly drag out Yu Huangtian’s three thousand paths from his body. “Oh?” Su Che’s mind stirred as he realized that the Heavenly Dao had used a trickery, not intending to use force against force, but rather trying to reclaim the three thousand paths under Yu Huangtian’s control. The three thousand paths that Yu Huangtian possessed were originally obtained from the Heavenly Dao of this universe through various means. If they were taken back, his perfectly crafted divine demon realm would be shattered, reducing his strength by at least half. Once his realm was broken, he would become much easier to deal with. “It’s not that easy!” Yu Huangtian must have anticipated this. His aura suddenly changed, and strands of black energy were transmitted through the golden light to the three thousand golden figures, aiming to corrode their golden bodies with the destructive power of the Origin Demon Clan. “We can’t give him a chance.” Su Che quickly ordered the Bat-Winged Vajra to rush forward and disrupt Yu Huangtian, ideally preventing him from using all his strength to resist the Heavenly Dao’s punishment. Whoosh! Whoosh! The two super fighters dashed forward. Bat-Winged Vajra used his overwhelming destructive power to form a black hand that plunged into the golden light, reaching for Yu Huangtian. Meanwhile, Vajra swung his staff, creating a powerful sucking force that sought to draw out the black energy from the golden light, taking on Yu Huangtian’s destructive power on behalf of the Heavenly Dao. Back in the Holy Light Universe, the chaos caused by Vajra’s staff could completely disrupt the universe’s laws within a certain range. Naturally, the sucking force at this moment was nothing to underestimate. Yu Huangtian’s expression remained unchanged. With a wave of his hands, thousands of mirror-like light gates appeared instantly, forming a dense barrier that isolated Bat-Winged Vajra’s disruptive forces. These oval light gates were clearly different from the realm gates that appeared earlier; they must be a powerful defensive technique. Thousands of light gates opened and closed rapidly. Each time they opened, they absorbed much of Bat-Winged Vajra’s disruptive force, and when they closed, they expelled it through a corresponding gate on the other side.

On the surface, it seemed somewhat similar to the Great Transformation Technique, but Su Che knew it was far more sophisticated than that alone. The destructive power of the Bat-Winged Vajra was immense, yet it couldn’t even shatter any of the light gates. “How is this guy so hard to deal with?” Old Hei still couldn’t figure it out. Just a mere Yu Huang Tian, who was originally only at the level of an Immortal Lord and had never even seen the Great Chaos Realm—how could he possess such formidable strength? Su Che explained in a low voice, “Although he doesn’t yet have his own universe, his Divine Demon Realm has already created an extremely complete path of creation. With all three thousand paths combined within him, his power is no weaker than that of the Heavenly Dao of an entire universe. On top of that, by integrating the true form of a supreme demon from the Origin Demon Clan, his divine and demonic powers are perfectly combined, allowing him to achieve the ultimate evolution he envisioned—only lacking a creation artifact like the Immortal Prison Pagoda.” Old Hei asked in surprise, “So, if he were to create a universe, it would be almost perfect within chaos, eternal, and even surpass the Holy Radiance Universe?” “Very likely.” Su Che nodded seriously. “Creation and destruction are perfectly fused—what other force in this world could destroy him? It seems I should learn something from him as well.” “I also think it’s pretty impossible to kill him,” Old Hei said, lacking confidence. Though the destructive powers of the Bat Wings and Vajra were isolated and couldn’t cause direct harm to Yu Huang Tian, they still had some disruptive effects. Within the golden light of the three thousand paths, the strands of black energy representing destructive magic were significantly weakened, reducing the resistance from the Heavenly Dao’s punishment. The power of the three thousand golden figures pulling at the golden light became even stronger. “My realm is not something you fools can destroy!” Under such circumstances, Yu Huang Tian still had the leisure to turn to Su Che and say coldly, “Su Che, don’t think you can keep me here just like this. If I want to leave, I can do so at any time unharmed.” “Is that so?” Su Che nodded in reply. “Then why don’t you leave? Are you staying here to threaten me, or for your precious daughter?” Just as he spoke, the main clone, who had already merged with the Dao, finally found the hiding place of the spirit vessel Xue Yu inside the Immortal Prison’s internal space. “Found it!”

She was hidden at the highest level within the inner space of the Immortal Prison. If a location had to be specified, it could be described as the peak region of the Immortal Prison Pagoda, even higher than the ninth layer—extremely concealed, a place that neither Su Che nor Lao He had ever reached.

There was nothing particularly mysterious about this place. The reason it had never been accessed was surely because Xue Yu had sealed it off using her status as the spirit of the artifact.

“Come out!”

With a thought, Su Che used the power of the Immortal Prison’s Heavenly Dao to pull Xue Yu, who was like a sleeping beauty, out of that dark and hidden place into the cosmic starry sky on the first layer.

Her true form—the appearance she had after Su Nian’er merged with Fairy Xue Yu not long ago—was extremely beautiful, breathtakingly stunning. Yet in Su Che’s eyes, such beauty was merely an outer shell, leaving him completely unimpressed.

“Master, do you intend to kill her or use her to negotiate with Yu Huang Tian?” Lao He’s true form asked in a deep voice inside the Immortal Prison.

“Let’s talk first,” Su Che replied. “Anyway, I can’t possibly keep her here as a potential threat. Even if I kill her, I must take her outside and utterly erase her.”

Soul enslavement would definitely not work on her, as she was the main spirit of the Immortal Prison itself, with control over its inner space second only to Su Che after he achieved harmony with the Dao. Soul enslavement had no effect on her.

Even if it were possible to enslave her, Su Che wouldn’t dare keep her in the Immortal Prison anymore. Even if he couldn’t kill her right away, he would lock her up with Bat Wing or Vajra, ensuring she never had another chance to get close to the Immortal Prison Pagoda.

Swish!

Su Che created a mirror in midair, showing the image of Xue Yu asleep. He said to Yu Huang Tian, “Xue Yu is now in my hands. I wonder, as her father, do you care about her life or death?”

“What do you want?”

A beam of golden light responded from Yu Huang Tian.

Su Che had hoped to shake his resolve, causing him to show weakness under the pressure of Heavenly Dao’s punishment and the interference of Bat Wing and Vajra. But Yu Huang Tian’s combat readiness remained unchanged, proving that threatening him with Xue Yu’s life or death was utterly impossible.

Like himself, he was also someone unshakable by threats. The difference was that Su Che only had the courage to risk everything, while Yu Huang Tian was indifferent to everything, including the blood ties between father and daughter.

Still, Su Che released Xue Yu’s true form from the Immortal Prison. Gripping her head in his hand, he said coldly, “I give you ten breaths. If you can’t give me a satisfactory answer, I’ll have to erase her.”

“There’s no need to wait ten breaths; we can act now.”
Yu Huangtian remained unmoved and replied coldly and mercilessly, “From the day Xueyu became a spirit of a weapon, she prepared for the worst. Even if you don’t kill her, she will end her own life.”
“Damn it!”
Lao He cursed loudly in his puppet voice, “Yu Huangtian, are you even human? How can you say such things?”
“Human?”
Yu Huangtian laughed and looked up at the sky, “It’s not just me. You, all of you here—who among us is still human?”
Can a being that can defy the heavens, a being that can create its own laws of fate, still be called human?