Vol 38 Chapter 43 (1/2)

Book 38, Daoe, Chapter 43 – The Curtain Falls

The Flower of Eternity bloo to achieve eternity… but then, its light began to slowly shudder The transforht to stabilize, but they slowly began to tremble as well

The aweso’s body suddenly began to decay, with Ning’s own life aura weakening as well

“No! I was too hasty!” In the final instant that his Flower of Eternity fully bloo ia Sword Dao

If he had been given a chance to sie, he would’ve been able to actually test out so his Dao and discover its flaws But he hadn’t had that chance, and so he had to forge ahead without it!

Samsara Daolords took a total of four steps, and each step represented the the line between life and death! However, these four steps were all fairly short steps They only led the Daolord to rise to a slightly higher level each time, which hy almost all of the truly talented Daolords were able to reach the fourth step However, the Daoe represented an enormous chasm!

Even when ordinary Daolords succeeded in the Daoe, their poould rise by two full levels As for supree, they’d ihtly weaker would still reach the Archon level of power

Ning’s Oa Sword Dao would have an even more incredible result Theby two full levels of power, but he also needed to infuse it with a perfect sword-heart In other words, advancing froa Sword Dao would result in an increase of more than three full levels of power!

This was an enormous step he had to take, and there was no chance at all to test it out in advance! Even though Ning’s preparations had been quite plentiful, in the end he had still made a tiny mistake

“Thisopened his eyes In front of hiht It looked very ordinary, with nothing special about it at all It see

Rumble…

Unfathoon Realmverse, there existed a place This place here the pri the prime essence of the Dao of the Sword

“So this is the pri’s mind could clearly and distinctly sense it froa Sword Dao he had just understood

Suddenly, a surge of invisible poept out and surrounded Ning’s consciousness This poas vast and overwhelentle as a mother’s embrace

Ning instantly understood This surge of poas the power of the pri his h the Chaosverse itself felt a sense of regret and sympathy towards this cultivator

“So I aa Dao?” Ning understood what the Chaosverse hispering to him

There had been others who had ea Dao, but all of thee! The vast majority of the failures didn’t even have a technique like the [Heartsword] art available to theent the requiree itself Most of them had failed due to this Occasionally, there were a few incredibly talented Daolords who did in fact have perfect Dao-hearts, but in the end there were quite a few errors in the Eternal Oh they eventually realized what their mistakes were, there was no way for theht ansas

Ning had the Autarch’s stone dais, the Stonefire Pearl, the Daoe Firecloud Flower, and other external sources of support He also had a perfect sword-heart and was at a level of talent that was every bit the equal of anyone who had come before him

In the end, he had still failed the Daoe… but immediately afterwards, he had instantly realized what the true Eternal Oa Sword Dao was Alas, it was too late! He was now in control of and the a Sword Dao, but he had already failed his Daoe If you failed it, you failed it Even the prih on his behalf Alas, there was nothing they could do; all they could do was function in the way their nature instrinsically de they did was simply an expression of their intrinsic nature, and in truth they weren’t fully ‘sentient’ by the normal definition of the word

All they could do was feel and express an innate sense of sorrow and sympathy for this poor soul

The Flower of Eternity withered away, its petals cru

It had been just a single tinyto cruain eternity

Divine power and Iy could be instantly recovered; they didn’t count for e was the dissipation of the soul and truesoul There was no way at all to halt or reverse the cru of a truesoul No one was capable of it whatsoever Not even Autarchs were able to do this!

The white-robed Ning within Vastheaven Palace and the black-robed Pri’s truesoul Their failure in the Dao’s soul and truesoul had become incredibly powerful over his countless years of cultivation, and the Nine Chaos Seals technique had further strengthened it to the Archon level… but it was of no use

Hairline fractures had already appeared throughout every part of Ning’s truesoul

Crack! A tiny, crystalline piece of truesoul broke free This fragly beautiful, but as it floated away it gradually disappeared into nothingness, returning to the prime essences of the Chaosverse Those who had their truesouls destroyed in a chaosworld would see their soul fragments be reclaimed by the prie would see their truesouls slowly and naturally fragment apart, also to be reclaimed by the Chaosverse When the final pieces of truesoul were gone, they would die

They could do nothing but watch as they slowly died This was a very cruel end, and there were some Daolords ould be driven mad as a result

The aura of life disappeared fro’s an to crumble…

Ning arose froan, he had already prepared himself for the possibility of failure

“For one who has found the Dao in theI may have failed, but a Sword Dao Co in the universe will go exactly as one hopes” Ning’s gaze was distant He murmured, “Yu Wei… sorry I still failed in the end…”

Ning didn’t care too e and would perish Given how long he had cultivated for, ould he fear death? As for his fa period of tihter The only one he felt a debt towards was his wife, Yu Wei

“I thought that I was invincible, that I could do anything and everything But in the end, there was a limit to what I could acco waved his hand, causing a black jade stone to appear before hihly as tall as Ning himself

Ning stretched out his right hand, gently stroking the surface of the jade Sword-light appeared froers, and as it swept past the jade, tiny bits of jade dust flew everywhere

Slowly, the figure of a black-robed maiden became forly beautiful, and her aura was quite extraordinary