Modern World's Martial Dao Human Immortal

Another Void.

The thirty-one Dao Lords of the Slaughter Star Alliance stood still, quietly perceiving the changes around them.

Nine Palaces, Zhuan He, and others even pushed their Perception Dao Arts to the limit.

The fall of a Dao Lord would cause a tremor in the Great Dao.

Although the fall of multiple Dao Lords could compound these tremors, making it difficult for cultivators far away to judge the exact number of Dao Lords who had fallen, careful perception could still allow a Dao Lord to discern this.

But at this moment...

"It has stopped."

Zhuan He Dao Lord said.

Nine Palaces Dao Lord nodded slightly, "The battle has indeed ceased."

Having said that, he glanced at the others at the site, "I request that those skilled in exploration among us go and find out the situation there."

However, these words elicited no response from any Dao Lord.

Many Dao Lords even had a hint of fear in their eyes.

This scene made Nine Palaces Dao Lord frown slightly, and eventually, he turned his gaze to a Dao Lord who cultivated the Darkness Dao, "Long Ying, the Darkness Dao you cultivate is mysterious and unpredictable. Even when facing top-tier Dao Lords, you can withdraw calmly. Please, take this task."

Top-tier Dao Lords!?

But those involved in the conflict are of the Venerable Dao Level!

Didn't you "see" that the Sun and Star Sect's people were almost completely annihilated by his hands?

In just half a day, more than a dozen Dao Lords had fallen.

He couldn't guarantee that once targeted by Alkaid Dao Lord... Dao Venerable, he would still be able to retreat unharmed.

With this in mind, he showed difficulty, "Hierarch, it's not that I am unwilling to make an effort, but after the intense battle just now, I have repeatedly invoked the Power of the Great Dao to perform Dao Techniques, and already feel my essence fluctuating unstably. I can't perfectly conceal myself using the Darkness Technique anymore. If I were to investigate in this state, it's inevitable that Alkaid would notice, startling the enemy and spoiling your grand plan. Please find someone more capable."

Upon hearing this, Nine Palaces Dao Lord's brow furrowed.

It was then he realized that the gazes many Dao Lords directed at him were somewhat flickering.

If it weren't for the risk of being treated as a scapegoat for speaking out and withdrawing at this time, perhaps some Dao Lords would already have fled the battlefield.

It was even foreseeable that unless the Sun and Star Sect were completely destroyed after today, it would be practically impossible for him, as the Hierarch of the Slaughter Star Alliance, to rally over forty Dao Lords as he did today.

After all...

The losses today, they were too great.

Eleven Dao Lords!

They had lost eleven Dao Lords from their side!

The casualty rate was nearly thirty percent!

Had it not been for securing a partial victory, the remaining Dao Lords would likely have already collapsed and scattered on the spot.

But things having reached this point, Nine Palaces Dao Lord couldn't back down. If he couldn't produce a strong battle result, after today, the Slaughter Star Alliance might exist in name only.

He then turned his gaze to another Dao Lord skilled in movement technique.

However, before he could speak, this Void Dao Lord had already preemptively said, "Hierarch, in fact, it's simple to judge whether Alkaid Dao Venerable still possesses combat strength. We just need to know if he will launch an attack on the Sun and Star Sect. He has killed so many from the Sun and Star Sect, it seems even Jin Guang Dao Venerable, the Sect Master of the Sun and Star Sect, died at his hands. There's no question of reconciliation between them. Under such circumstances, if he has any strength left, he will definitely pursue a victory and crush them before the other strong cultivators of the Sun and Star Sect gather. If he does nothing, it proves... he is also at the end of his rope, and at that time, we can make our move."

This statement immediately gained the recognition of many Dao Lords.

However, in Nine Palaces Dao Lord's view, this was but a display of their fearfulness.

Without even the courage to move forward and explore the situation, even if Alkaid was at the end of his tether, so what?

Who would dare to intercept and kill him?

Moreover, even if Alkaid truly was at the end of his tether, if they did nothing now, wouldn't the opponent have already recovered by then?

Therefore, no matter what, he had to find out the specific situation of Alkaid at this moment.

"Let us go together, I don't believe that he, after going through such an intense battle, can still stand against all thirty-one of us Dao Lords! If that really is the case, then Alkaid, indeed, is unmatched under the heavens, and any resistance will be futile. We will wholeheartedly acknowledge him as the master of the universe."

Nine Palaces Dao Lord stated categorically.

His gaze even swept over everyone present, subtly carrying a hint of coercion.

Clearly, he intended to take this opportunity while his authority still held sway to make a final push with everyone.

Some Dao Lords, despite wanting to resist, knew well the principle of staying safe and what it meant to make oneself a target.

When everyone thinks this way, it naturally equates to no one standing up against it.

Nine Palaces Dao Lord clearly understood this principle too, which was why he dared to issue such a forceful order.

Then, he led the thirty-odd Dao Lords straight toward the starry sky where Alkaid and the Sun and Star Sect's Dao Lords were clashing.

...

Within the Ten Direction Heavenly Realm.

Alkaid looked at the Limitless Sword, which although had revealed its edge, was still insufficient for a transformation, without surprise.

"The cultivation of Immortal Artifacts, much like a Dao Lord's cultivation, theoretically requires the sacrifice of ten Dao Lords to upgrade a Dao Artifact to an Immortal Artifact. And to refine an Immortal Artifact into a Superior Grade Immortal Artifact, probably would require the sacrifice of a hundred Dao Lords. Of course, unlike the factions required for an Immortal to Ascend to Immortality, the common Immortal Artifact transforming into a Superior Grade Immortal Artifact, demanding the sacrifice of hundreds of Dao Lords, could be substituted with various Immortal Artifact materials. If each piece of Immortal Artifact material is refined properly, it's equivalent to one Dao Lord."

With the realm and Artifact Refining proficiency that Alkaid currently possessed, it was easy for him to discern the requirements for transforming the Limitless Sword into a Superior Grade Immortal Artifact.

However, this wasn't the main point. The main point was...

"Having previously annihilated four Dao Lords of the Slaughter Star Alliance, and successively eradicated thirteen Venerables and eight Dao Lords of the Sun and Star Sect... The experience necessary to advance the 'Artifact Refining' branch to the next level is finally sufficient."

Alkaid took a deep breath.

His focus concentrated on the [Artifact Refining] branch.

Without a moment's hesitation, whether it was the experience accumulated on the [Demon Hunter] branch or the [Businessman] branch, at this moment, it was all infused into the [Artifact Refining] branch.

Under the massive infusion from numerous branches, countless Top-Tier Immortal Artifact refinement techniques surfaced.

When one path is mastered, all paths are opened.

Once he mastered one of the Great Dao's Top-Tier Immortal Artifact refinement techniques, learning the refinement techniques of other Great Dao categories' Top-Tier Immortal Artifacts became merely a matter of time.

Just like now, he has almost mastered the refinement techniques of numerous Great Dao's Top-Tier Dao Artifacts.

Although the number of top-tier Immortal Artifacts that could be chosen from each Great Dao was dwindling, they all existed nonetheless.

Yes!

All of them!

Alkaid had seen the mysterious Art of Refinement for the top-tier Immortal Artifacts of the Reincarnation Path within the Core Dao.

He had also seen how the top-tier Immortal Artifacts of the Time Dao were nurtured.

He even glimpsed the true essence of crafting the top-tier Immortal Artifacts of the Causality Dao and the Destiny Dao.

Unfortunately…

Since he had never truly touched or comprehended the Dao of Causality and Destiny, even though he possessed the methods to craft their top-tier Immortal Artifacts, his understanding was only superficial.

Moreover, compared to the methods of crafting other Immortal Artifacts, the crafting methods for these two required far more external materials by many multiples.

It felt not so much like teaching one to craft these top-tier Immortal Artifacts of the two Daos, but rather like directly searching for the Innate Treasures that bore these two Daos when the Universe was first born.

This difference made Alkaid quickly realize something.

"My guess is true."

Alkaid whispered softly, "The Causality Dao and Destiny Dao both already have their Daoist Ancestors. These two Daos have been mastered to such an extent that there is no method of crafting their Immortal Artifacts deriving or passing down. Even my 'High-Dimensional Cognition' cannot search them out."

What could be searched were merely these methods of crafting that weren't considered Art of Refinement.

This result slightly shook him.

However, at this moment, as the influx of knowledge finished depicting the "crafting" methods of top-tier Immortal Artifacts of the Causality and Destiny Daos, it trembled slightly.

The next moment, he clearly felt his mind being elevated.

It was like he was looking at an electronic map and suddenly enlarged the scale – streets became cities, cities became provinces, countries, continents, stars, solar systems, even the entire galaxy…

The vast and distant spans were crossed in an instant with the elevation of this visual dimension.

Only then did Alkaid realize that his Artifact Refining branch had, unbeknownst to him, broken through the shackles of Eighteenth Level, reached the Nineteen Level, and continued to evolve forward.

And in this evolution, Alkaid finally glimpsed the domain beyond top-tier Immortal Artifacts!

It was…

Combination.

A combination of different Daos with each other.

And this involved a key issue that Alkaid had long realized but had never been able to delve deeply into.

"The Three Thousand Great Daos form the foundation of the entire world. They are never independent but an entirety!"

The crafting of the Nineteen Level Supreme Holy Artifact was established under this logic.

Combination!

A cap on the quota of one Dao?

Then use the combination of two Daos!

If two are not enough, then try three, four, six, ten, a hundred, even a thousand or three thousand!

The Daos are interconnected and integrate with each other.

The power to do that, to integrate all Daos…

Only has four kinds!

"Destiny, Causality, Time, Void," Alkaid murmured to himself.

Supreme Dao.

Destiny, governing the Three Thousand Great Daos.

Causality, linking the Three Thousand Great Daos.

Time, representing the process of the Three Thousand Great Daos' operation.

Void, bearing the foundation of the Three Thousand Great Daos.

At this moment, he finally understood the significance of the Supreme Dao.

He also understood why the Nineteen Level Immortal Artifact was referred to as the Supreme Holy Artifact.

"Only by reaching the Supreme Dao, using the Supreme Dao as a guide, can one forge the Supreme Holy Artifact."

At this moment, Alkaid thought of Dual Cultivation.

Cultivators often engage in Dual Cultivation of different Dao Techniques during the Shattered Void stage.

Dao Lords, Immortals, and Immortal Venerables are even more so.

Some long-lived Immortals cultivate dozens or hundreds of Daos.

They combine these Dao Techniques to amplify the power of their Origin Immortal Techniques, forming entirely new Immortal Techniques.

This is the domain involved in the battles of those above Immortals, the Immortal Venerables.

"Integration of Dao Techniques… it was already so when about to step onto the Heavenly Immortal Dao."

Alkaid realized something.

He faintly understood why the immortals of the Immortal Realm felt that the path of the Heavenly Immortal was indeed the most correct path.

This path was truly the strongest and most hopeful.

Because, if there was a new Realm above the Daoist Ancestor…

It must be one where a cultivator could integrate the Three Thousand Great Daos as one.

It was the Realm of controlling the Three Thousand Great Daos and the entire Universe.

It was…

"Universe Overlord!"