Not good!
Chen Dong’s gaze snapped downward.
The already pitch-black chaotic void had now plunged into absolute darkness.
This darkness wasn’t something his radiant golden light could pierce; instead, his light was confined to a small area around him.
There was only one possibility… the giant hand had enveloped the surrounding chaotic void.
He wasn’t standing in the chaotic void anymore—he was standing in the center of that giant hand’s palm!
“What a move. Using the Eternal Green Lotus, with Radiant Glow and Jianmu as bait, they silently set up this palm-world around me without the slightest hint of detection.”
Chen Dong instantly pieced together the entire sequence—it was all for this giant hand’s ultimate move: the Palm-World.
A deception so seamless that even the entities within him hadn’t noticed.
Rumble…
Almost simultaneously, the chaotic void around him erupted in a dull roar.
Chen Dong quickly scanned his surroundings, only to see five colossal fingers, far larger than any mountain he’d ever known, rising from the ground.
Or rather… the giant hand was closing, its fingers curling toward his position.
The overwhelming, terrifying pressure made even the phrase “heaven collapsing, earth crumbling” seem inadequate.
As the hand closed, the chaotic void around him vanished.
“In my Palm-World, do you still have a way out?” the voice of the Primordial Spirit Seed boomed.
“There is!”
Chen Dong let out a sharp shout. The golden Taiji Eight Trigrams above his head and below his feet spun rapidly, extending upward and downward. The golden chains and purple Dao qi linking the two Taiji symbols twisted faster as they spun, glowing brilliantly like a spiraling hurricane.
Boom!
A surge of vast demonic qi erupted from Chen Dong, merging with the aura around him.
Within him, the Emperor’s qi, the world’s fortune… all stirred violently.
As the giant hand’s five fingers closed in, Chen Dong shot upward, his speed so fast that everything blurred in a mix of golden light, purple qi, and demonic qi.
“You can’t escape. In this Palm-World, even a Source Dao Seed must abide by its rules!” the Primordial Spirit Seed of the giant hand sneered.
As Chen Dong sped upward to escape the Palm-World, Jianmu, Radiant Glow, and the Eternal Green Lotus closed in from the other side.
Unlike Chen Dong’s linear flight, the three Primordial Spirit Seeds flickered and instantly teleported outside the Palm-World.
It wasn’t that Chen Dong couldn’t teleport, but as the giant hand’s Seed had said, within the Palm-World, even his state of merging with the Dao and returning to the origin was affected.
It was as if countless invisible threads in the Palm-World wrapped around him, tightly restraining him.
Though he seemed to be flying upward quickly, these “threads” drastically slowed him.
Or rather… these “threads” were the so-called rules of the Palm-World!
A Source Dao Seed, on the verge of becoming the Dao itself, was restricted by the “rules” of the Palm-World—this was what shocked Chen Dong most.
He was about to transcend into the circle of the Dao, yet the giant hand, still within that circle, used its Palm-World to impose a counter-dimensional restriction on him!
The terrifying power of the strongest Primordial Spirit Seeds was now crystal clear to Chen Dong!
“My rules are the true rules!”
In Chen Dong’s deep, chaotic eyes, a surge of purple, gold, and black light erupted.
Boom!
The chaos around him trembled, and his speed surged again.
He was on the verge of breaking through the Palm-World.
Suddenly—
Boom!
Jianmu, which had teleported beside the Palm-World, took the form of a colossal dragon and blocked Chen Dong’s path overhead, crashing down with immense force.
Clang!
“Break for me!”
Chen Dong didn’t dodge. Raising his right hand, he swung the Emperor’s Sword.
A majestic sword qi stretched eighty thousand miles, its overwhelming sword aura colliding with Jianmu.
But it only halted Jianmu in place!
The golden sword light clashed against Jianmu’s descent.
Meanwhile, the Eternal Green Lotus and Radiant Glow struck simultaneously, their vast green light and dazzling glow converging on Jianmu before crashing down.
Boom!
A deafening roar.
Jianmu shuddered, breaking the stalemate and descending toward Chen Dong with unstoppable force.
“Your grave is in my Palm-World.”
Rumble…
The five fingers, carrying absolute darkness, were now just a hundred miles from Chen Dong.
Such a distance, for both Chen Dong and the Primordial Spirit Seeds, was practically nothing—a mere step from the ends of the earth.
“Roar!”
Chen Dong let out a skyward roar, boundless demonic qi surging from his left hand.
While resisting with the sword in his right, he raised his left hand, transforming the endless demonic qi into a giant hand that seized the descending Jianmu.
“Break… for me!”
Veins bulged on Chen Dong’s face as he let out a hoarse roar.
Boom!
The falling Jianmu shuddered, then slowly rose, forcibly pushed upward by Chen Dong.
Or rather, he was lifting not just Jianmu but also the Eternal Green Lotus and Radiant Glow.
At the critical moment.
Chen Dong felt the “threads” restraining him weaken.
“Defy the rules!”
With a clear shout from his mouth and nose, the golden Taiji Eight Trigrams above and below him flashed, and he vanished from the spot.
Boom!
The Palm-World’s five fingers closed completely, but Chen Dong, clad in golden armor, stood towering above the Palm-World, Jianmu, Eternal Green Lotus, and Radiant Glow.
“Come fight!”
Right hand wielding the sword, left hand surging with demonic qi, Chen Dong roared and charged toward Jianmu, its green light, and Radiant Glow.
Bang, bang!
The green light and Radiant Glow dissipated in the air.
Jianmu, under the overwhelming pressure, crashed onto the closed giant hand of the Palm-World.
“Rise!”
“Boom!”
Almost simultaneously, the roars of the giant hand’s Primordial Spirit Seed and Jianmu’s master rang out.
The giant hand, bearing Jianmu, rose from the “ground” and charged at Chen Dong.
Radiant Glow and the Eternal Green Lotus flanked him from both sides, carrying a terrifying force of laws that could shake the entire Upper Heaven Realm, converging on Chen Dong.
“Roar!”
“Fight!”
“Come on!”
“For the rise of the Human Path!”
“Dao!”
Clad in armor, Chen Dong’s roar was joined by several voices from within him.
Immediately.
Towering, mountain-like figures appeared one by one above and behind him.
An old man riding a bull, an Ancestral Demon shrouded in black qi, the majestic Yellow Emperor with kind eyes, and the towering Human Ancestor Chiyou…
Above the golden Taiji Eight Trigrams over Chen Dong’s head sat a middle-aged man with flowing hair, eyes like stars, exuding a stern and mysterious aura.
“Are these… the manifestations of the Sages?”
The shocked cries of Jianmu’s master, Radiant Glow’s master, the giant hand’s master, and the Eternal Green Lotus echoed through the chaotic void.
Even their advancing assault paused momentarily in astonishment!