“Sorry, I was a bit out of sorts…” Zi Ling said, sounding somewhat embarrassed.

“It’s nothing. Did you notice anything unusual?” Han Li asked, his gaze slightly narrowed.

Zi Ling didn’t speak, but silently shook her head, looking a little dispirited.

Han Li then noticed that the aura around her had weakened considerably. Her cultivation had even dropped from the peak of the Grand Zenith Heaven to the middle stage.

“Your cultivation…” Han Li couldn’t help but say.

“It’s nothing.” Zi Ling wasn’t too surprised, simply shaking her head and saying.

“Her realm and cultivation were forcibly raised using the Immortal Empowerment Technique, so her foundation wasn’t particularly stable. Now, having gone through this Reincarnation, it’s not surprising that her cultivation has fallen,” Lord Reincarnation said.

Hearing this, Han Li cast a questioning glance at Zi Ling.

“The reason Shi Chuankong and I progressed so much was that Xie Daoren used the Empowerment Secret Technique to strip the power of laws from others whose cultivation methods were similar to ours and forcefully infused it into us… So the current situation isn’t necessarily a bad thing,” Zi Ling said via voice transmission, not answering directly.

Hearing this, Han Li felt slightly relieved. However, he was still puzzled as to what memories Zi Ling had seen under the effects of the Six Paths Reincarnation Disk, causing her such great shock that her cultivation fell.

“Who’s next?” Lord Reincarnation asked.

“Daoist friend Zi Ling’s power has regressed instead of advanced. I think… I’ll forgo this Reincarnation Secret Technique,” Shi Chuankong said, his brow slightly furrowed and hesitating slightly.

Han Li knew that Shi Chuankong’s realm had been raised in a similar way to Zi Ling’s, and that his cultivation was unstable, potentially affecting his future path. He reminded him via voice transmission:

“Brother Shi, I know your realm was raised in a similar way to Zi Ling’s, and that your cultivation is unstable, potentially affecting your future Great Dao. You might as well take this opportunity to solidify your realm.”

“With the turmoil imminent, if I were to regress, who knows when I’d be able to return to Grand Luo? Besides, Xie Daoren once said that as long as I cultivate diligently and gradually stabilize my realm, I’ll be a true Grand Luo powerhouse,” Shi Chuankong replied via voice transmission.

Hearing this, Han Li stopped trying to persuade him.

“Then that just leaves me,” Jin Tong said.

“You are indeed the one who should use this Six Paths Reincarnation Disk,” Lord Reincarnation said, glancing at Jin Tong.

Without another word, Jin Tong strode excitedly towards the pool and immersed herself in it.

Lord Reincarnation then began to cast his spell, submerging her in the liquid.

Jin Tong felt her consciousness slowly sink, and then she entered a void of darkness, losing all sensation.

Just then, she seemed to suddenly choke on water, abruptly bursting out of the water, only to find herself in a vast and turbulent sea.

As she came to her senses, she heard a series of deafening roars.

The surrounding void seemed to be on the verge of cracking. Although no actual shockwaves assaulted her, they still stirred her mind, causing her to lose herself for a moment.

“Qu Lin, the net of heaven and earth has already been laid. You have nowhere to escape. If you don’t surrender and submit, you will surely be reduced to ashes!” A cold and lofty voice came from the Ninth Heaven, booming like thunder.

Jin Tong’s ears felt hot from the vibrations. She hurriedly looked up and saw, hundreds of miles away, a muscular man with emerald green skin and a height of hundreds of thousands of feet.

He had short hair and was bare-chested, with a face like a Vajra, eyes wide with anger, and bulging muscles. Behind him was a halo of light like a treasure, blazing brightly like flames, yet emanating an unprecedentedly powerful earth-attribute law aura.

Even from a distance, she felt a crushing pressure as if a mountain were collapsing, as if that person were an ancient deity standing between heaven and earth, indestructible and unstoppable.

“Is this… a Dao Ancestor?”

Jin Tong felt ice-cold all over, sensing true pressure for the first time in her life. But for some reason, she felt not the slightest fear, but a nameless fire rising from within.

“Haha, Xuan Yuanjie, this Ancestor simply refuses to submit to your Heavenly Court’s tyranny! What can you do to me? If it weren’t for a bunch of petty people interfering, you alone would be enough for this Ancestor to gnaw on a few times!” Just then, an extremely unbridled shout rang out from beneath the sea on the other side.

Jin Tong felt something and quickly looked over there. She saw a huge bubble bulging beneath the water surface, slowly rising from the sea, instantly stirring up waves tens of thousands of feet high.

The roaring waves surged, and Jin Tong’s figure was swept up. She quickly flew up, leaping into the sky tens of thousands of feet high.

Her gaze fell and she saw a horrifying scene.

The area she had thought was a sea was actually a lost continent floating in the vast void. The edges of the continent were jagged with fracture marks, clearly having been forcibly broken off by external forces.

The cloud canopy overhead was only a thin layer. Beyond that was a pitch-black, boundless outer space. Above this lost continent, there were thousands of Heavenly Court cultivators with profound cultivation, scattered throughout the sky.

Above the clouds, those hundreds of cultivators were all surging with thick earth-attribute law power. A layer of azure light enveloped them, condensing into a vast emerald city, suppressing the firmament.

Outside the four gates of the city, hundreds of thick emerald chains hung down, extending to the bottom of the fractured continent, looking like hanging ropes, suspending that shattered land.

Such a powerful suppression formation, this was clearly a carefully planned ambush!

Just then, rumbling sounds constantly came from the continent below. The huge bubble rising from the sea began to churn with muddy sediment, becoming chaotic.

And the edges of that fragmented continent began to develop huge cracks, disintegrating little by little.

With a deafening crash, the huge bubble rising from the sea finally burst, and the continent finally shattered completely.

A golden beetle with a body tens of thousands of feet in size flew out from it, its six golden wings fluttering incessantly. Golden whirlwinds swept out from it, shaking the heavens.

“This aura, could it be…” Jin Tong recognized at a glance that this golden beetle shared the same origin as her, also being a Gold Devouring Insect, but its cultivation realm was far above hers, seemingly a Gold Devouring Immortal Dao Ancestor.

However, the golden armor of this Gold Devouring Immortal was broken and tattered, and only remnants of its crystalline wings remained. Each part was entangled with a huge emerald chain, connected to the emerald city above.

As soon as the golden beetle appeared, the chains on the emerald city in the sky immediately tightened, and the entire city slowly descended, suppressing the golden beetle.

The emerald giant named Xuan Yuanjie also stepped forward, raising a fist. Green light bands gathered from all directions, condensing into a huge green vortex, smashing straight towards the golden beetle’s head.

“Heh, come on.”

The golden beetle roared, fearlessly meeting the attack, biting down on the giant fist.

With a crisp sound, all the green light shattered directly, and half of the giant’s arm exploded. A hurricane of tens of thousands of feet stirred up, causing the emerald chains on the beetle’s body to ring incessantly.

At the same time, the emerald city finally landed on the golden beetle, lighting up the sky with green light.

The golden light on the golden beetle’s body shattered. Pieces of gold-like fragments constantly peeled off from its body, looking like peeling paint from an old wall, decayed and miserable.

“Haha… Xuan Yuanjie, wanting this Ancestor’s golden body is impossible. When this Ancestor returns to the Heavenly Court, it will be the time of the destruction of you ‘Seven Dogs of the Heavenly Court’. Just wait and see.” The golden beetle laughed wildly.

In the next instant, a dazzling golden light lit up from its body, and a tremendous explosive impact suddenly bloomed from within, sweeping wildly in all directions. The surface of the emerald city was cracked by the golden light, and hundreds of Heavenly Court cultivators within instantly exploded, turning into fragments.

“Don’t think about escaping…”

Xuan Yuanjie roared even louder, his arms, which had regenerated, suddenly opened. A vast green net seemed to appear in the void, engulfing the golden light.

However, within the golden light, the figure of a tall woman emerged, her hands opening up the sky, splitting to the left and right, directly tearing Xuan Yuanjie’s net and the emerald city apart.

Even the fragmented sky was split in two by this force, revealing a huge void fissure.

Countless tiny golden rays of light, wrapped in Gold Devouring Insect larvae, poured into the void fissure like a golden river, swept by the spatial storm, scattered throughout the vast Immortal Realm.

No one knew where these larvae, like dandelion seeds, would drift.

As a bystander, Jin Tong witnessed this scene and felt the blood in her body boiling. Her previous life in this Reincarnation had actually been forced by others to destroy her golden body and scatter to the ends of the earth.

When the last trace of golden light disappeared, the woman’s figure condensed from golden light gradually became illusory.

Xuan Yuanjie seemed extremely enraged, delivering a punch. An unspeakable force swept out, completely shattering the blurred woman’s phantom.

The sparks of golden light, like embers, scattered with the void, falling on Jin Tong’s body, eventually extinguishing completely.

Jin Tong’s eyes turned blood-red. A complex and inexplicable emotion rose in her heart, and a dazzling golden light enveloped her body. Her figure shot out, rushing towards Xuan Yuanjie.

However, as she crashed into the void in front of her, the entire void suddenly twisted, as if a layer of water curtain had appeared out of thin air. She crashed into it and fell inside.

Then, she felt dizzy, and her figure gradually floated up from the water.

When she opened her eyes again, she saw the Six Paths Reincarnation Disk hanging above her head, having stopped spinning.