Mount Cloud.

At some point in time, the sky had grown dark as the inky shades of the eternal night quietly spread across the cosmos.

The silent and stifling atmosphere underwent a subtle change at this moment.

"It's finally unable to hold back..."

Profound light surged in Ruo Su's clear eyes as her tension seemed to ease.

Li Xuanwei thoughtfully said, "If ‘he’ can't remain calm, it must mean that he’s not absolutely certain this time."

Xue Ya frowned and muttered, "But we aren’t fully confident either. It’s hard to say who will win this time..."

Jun Huan nodded. "Senior Brother Xue Ya is right. Before thinking about winning, one should first consider defeat."

Pu Zhen didn't say anything. His expression was very stern and serious.

Lin Xun didn’t speak either because he didn’t know what his senior brothers and sisters were talking about.

He only knew that the subsequent clash would be more terrifying than ever before!

The crowd of Emperors in the distance and the ancients silently waiting in the dark seemed to breathe a sigh of relief at this moment.

They also looked towards the depths of the cosmos with varying expressions.

Only a few ancients who had participated in the Dao War of Emperors knew that this same phenomenon had occurred back then as well.

It was the moment when the Fangchun Mountain disciples started dying one after another!

The sky was soundlessly covered by ink-black darkness.

Everything went dark as if the eternal night had descended.

The oppressive and heart-palpitating aura of the taboo spread from the depths of the pitch-black darkness.

At this moment, every living being in the vast Primordial Chaos World, regardless of cultivation level, trembled.

At this moment, the darkness covered the entire world.

Countless eyes scattered across the cosmos inwardly shivered as the same thought emerged in their minds — after nearly a hundred thousand years, was the taboo order power returning?

Mythical Huang Dao Court.

Atop a mountain peak, Taishu Hong gazed at the sky with a complicated expression. After some time, he sighed, "Isn’t this no different from facing the very heavens themselves?"

Taboo power!

Lin Xun’s blood ran cold.

He had encountered taboo calamities when he reached the Supreme King Stage, Supreme Saint Stage, and Supreme Quasi-Emperor Stage.

In fact, he had already witnessed its horrifying power as early as when he obtained the rotten Bodhi wood in the Ancient Wasteland Domain.

According to the golden cicada, the three taboo calamities covering the Ancient Wasteland Domain came from an almighty being known as the Nameless Esteemed Emperor.

Later on, Lin Xun learned that the taboo power of order was merely controlled by the Nameless Esteemed Emperor, and no one knew its origin.

The ink-black darkness that covered the cosmos seemed to cast a deathly silence over the world. It felt as if everything was trembling as the terrifying taboo aura engulfed the air, making it difficult to breathe.

At this moment, even Ruo Su and the other disciples revealed grave expressions.

Rumble!

A muffled boom broke the silence.

A huge vortex emerged from the depths of the cosmos, resembling an inverted funnel and a gateway to the heavens.

Dark and obscure taboo order power flowed in the vortex like numerous dancing snakes, flickering with the supreme aura of calamity.

Merely looking at it from afar made one’s scalp tingle and one’s heart thud loudly in fear.

"It’s finally about to happen..."

The ancients lurking in the dark felt relieved as feverish anticipation arose in their eyes.

The taboo was the utmost supreme like the dao!

At the very least, no one in the cosmos could resist the taboo-like calamity order power!

Amidst the incomparably tense atmosphere, Ruo Su smiled and asked Lin Xun, "Junior Brother, do you know why cultivators always curse the heavens when they encounter misfortune?"

Before Lin Xun could answer, Li Xuanwei explained, "The path we cultivators take goes against the will of the heavens. Hence, we naturally regard the heavens as our enemy. It is not unreasonable for us to curse the heavens."

Jun Huan continued, "However, there is one misconception regarding this. We cultivators seek understanding from heaven and earth to wield the dao. In that sense, our power comes from the dao.

"The dao is a nameless concept that is hidden in all things. The origin and beginning of chaos, the cycle of all things, the change of worldly affairs, the life and death of living beings...are all imprinted with the mysteries of the dao.

"That is what people call the heavenly dao.

"While the taboo order power is also a type of dao, it is the mortal enemy of us cultivators!"

Xue Ya added, "As cultivators, we will encounter many tribulations. Unlike these tribulations, however, the taboo order power represents strangeness and unpredictability that brings unimaginable destruction when violated.

"This strange and unpredictable power is the true taboo order power!"

Toward the end, Senior Brother Pu Zhen concluded, "The heavens we curse isn’t the heavenly dao nor the tribulations we face on the road of cultivation, but the strange and ominous taboo power."

At this point, Lin Xun finally understood.

The heavenly dao was the dao that covered the world and was hidden in all things. On a similar note, the taboo order power was also classified as a kind of dao.

However, the taboo order power represented a foreboding strangeness and was a terrible calamity that surpassed ordinary disasters!

Lin Xun’s mindset was completely different when he looked at the strange vortex in the sky again.

Rumble!

In the sky, the slowly revolving vortex seemed to tear and distort the ink-black darkness as terrifying thunder rumbled across the skies of Primordial Chaos World.

"What’s...happening?"

"Has doomsday arrived?"

"What a dreadful aura. Could this be a calamity that will affect the entire world?"

"Such a terrifying calamity has only occurred during the Dao War of Ten Directions and the Dao War of Emperors..."

The number one world of the Ancient Nebula Road, the Primordial Chaos World, consisted of forty-nine states. Each state was as vast as a world of its own.

Presently, countless cultivators and living beings across all forty-nine states were deeply horrified as they screamed out in fear and lay on the ground trembling.

The taboo calamity aura was simply too dreadful.

Even titans like the Great Six Courts and the Great Ten Battle Clans were on high alert. Although they didn’t fully lose their composure, they felt suffocated by an incomparably stifling sensation.

Although this taboo-like heavenly pressure had only appeared twice since the dawn of time, it had caused monumental changes each time it appeared!

Its first appearance brought an end to the primeval era.

Its second appearance brought an end to the ancient era.

Would this mean that its third appearance was going to mark the end of yet another era?

At the moment, everyone in the Primordial Chaos World was in a state of panic.

The situation wasn’t much better in the rest of the cosmos either.

Almost no one had anticipated the treasure hunt in the Ancient Immortal Forbidden Zone to end up in this scenario.

Only a few ancient orthodoxies were aware that this was merely a continuation of the Dao War of Emperors.

The goal was to wipe out the remnants of Fangchun Mountain!

Ling Kezi anxiously asked, "Master, you’ve already been watching for so long. Why aren’t you going over to help?"

He and his master, Emperor Ancestor Chantu, were using a secret method to observe from a very distant zone.

Pah!

Emperor Ancestor Chantu slapped Ling Kezi's bald head and unhappily said, "I’ve never seen a disciple like you who wants his master to die. Don’t you have any conscience? " That’s the taboo order power. I’ll be screwed even if I go."

Ling Kezi hugged his head and disappointedly said, "Then what should we do..."

"Disciple, do you know that it’s precisely due to that taboo order power that the path to the other side of the cosmos is blocked? This is also why the Ancient Nebula Road does not truly live up to its namesake."

Emperor Ancestor Chantu inadvertently divulged a secret, "At the beginning of the primeval era before the taboo order appeared, anyone who proved one’s dao and became an Emperor had hopes of reaching the other side of the cosmos."

Ling Kezi blurted out, "So the taboo order power is the culprit that blocks the path to the other side of the cosmos?"

"It appears that you're not overly stupid."

Emperor Ancestor Chantu said, "As such, whether you can go to the other side of the cosmos in the future will depend...on who wins this game..."

Toward the end, his gaze became fleeting and distant.

The taboo order power was akin to supreme heavenly power that was filled with a foreboding strangeness. It was a zenith power that no one had managed to defeat even in the Dao War of Ten Directions and the Dao War of Emperors.

𝒇𝒓𝒆𝒆𝙬𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝒎

Will the Fangchun Mountain disciples…succeed this time?

……

Rumble!

Deep in the cosmos, the churning vortex released power that shook all of reality, making it feel as if doomsday was approaching the entire Primordial Chaos World.

Wisps of golden light faintly flickered deep within the vortex of taboo power.

"Little Nine."

At a zone extremely far from Mount Cloud, a tall and majestic, god-like figure emitted an air of dominance as if he was the sole supreme in the world.

It was the head of the Xuan Clan, Xuan Shangchen!

Oppressive dao light flickered in his eyes as he gazed into the distance and said in a low voice, "Haven't you always wanted to know how your Uncle Xuan Kong died? I’ll tell you now…he died to that blasted taboo order!"

Pain flashed in the depths of his eyes.

Xuan Shangchen took a deep breath before he continued, "If he hadn't died, he would have been the most formidable individual in our Xuan Clan. Even I, your father, who became an Emperor long ago, could never have achieved as much as he could have in the future. Unfortunately...he was killed by that godforsaken taboo power!"

Next to him, Xuan Jiuyin's expression changed indeterminately. His usually mischievously smiling face was filled with hatred.

Xuan Kong, the forty-ninth disciple of Fangchun Mountain, had been known as invincible among the Saint Stage!

However, almost no one knew that Xuan Kong wasn’t his Dharma name but his real name.

Moreover, no one could have imagined that Xuan Kong was also the Xuan Clan Head’s younger brother and Xuan Jiuyin’s uncle!