“My First Severing cut away the Resurrection Lily, and carved out freedom. That was my direction!
“My Second Severing cut away the past, and carved out my Dao Fruit!
“My Third Severing… will cut away the Devil in my heart! I will carve away my desire to become Devilish. That is Devil Severing!
“I must… Sever the Devil and Seek the Dao!” When he looked up, an intense glow could be seen in his eyes. He took a deep breath and began to rotate his cultivation base. He used all of the power of his cultivation base to stimulate the blade of the Third Severing!
In Spirit Severing, there were three blades. As long as one was confident of the Dao, and one’s spirit was ready, the blades could link with Heaven and Earth to cause a Dao blade to descend!
If the Severing was correct, then the cultivation base would experience a breakthrough. If the Severing was incorrect, the body would perish and the Dao would dissipate!
Spirit Severing cultivators who were not 100% confident would not easily perform a Severing. What they feared most was realizing at the last minute that they had Severed incorrectly. Their fate would then be death.
The First Severing was difficult, and the Second was incredibly dangerous. As for the Third Severing… that was the most critical of junctures!
If the Severing was correct, then the cultivator would step into Dao Seeking. If it was incorrect, the cultivator would die. If the Severing was somewhere in between, neither correct nor incorrect, the result was an existence of being crippled. No further advancements would be possible, and they would forever remain in the Third Severing stage until their longevity ran out and they returned to the dust.
As for what was correct and what was incorrect, the answer could only be found in the heart of the cultivator!
If the heart was correct, everything was correct. If the heart was incorrect, so everything else would be!
It had been a profound mystery since ancient times, and even in modern days, no one completely understood the matter.
Meng Hao’s cultivation suddenly surged out. It was irrelevant that he was in a cage, or that he was sealed. The Dao was amorphous, and although places existed in Heaven and Earth where there was no Dao, clearly… this cage was not one of those places!
Almost as soon as Meng Hao’s cultivation base exploded out to call his blade of the Third Severing, lightning and thunder crashed in the world outside. Rumbling filled the air, and the sky split. A vortex appeared, and the power of a great Dao suddenly emerged.
This great Dao power descended from the starry sky, nearing the lands of South Heaven, and the battlefield on the Southern Domain!
In the blink of an eye, virtually all of the cultivators down below could sense the power of the great Dao. One by one, looks of shock appeared on their faces.
“That’s… a great Dao of Spirit Severing!”
“Who’s calling to a Dao of Spirit Severing!?”
“Don’t tell me someone is about to break through to Spirit Severing right in the middle of the battlefield!?”
Despite the fact that battle was raging, the appearance of the power of a great Dao made it impossible for people to remain calm. From the expressions on the faces of the peak Dao Seeking experts of the three territories, it was clear that they were thoroughly astonished.
Their gazes swept about, but none of them could see anyone who seemed to be attaining Spirit Severing enlightenment.
It was at this point that suddenly, the rumbling great Dao power intensified by tenfold. The vortex up above seemed to be completely obscured. It was as if nothing were left in the world except for the great Dao.
Even the cultivators who were locked in vicious combat suddenly found that it was extremely difficult to utilize any magical techniques or divine abilities. It was as if they were being assimilated by the great Dao.