Chapter 1823: Lan Daozu Breaks Through the Heavenly Well

The chaotic energy vanished, revealing an ancient lamp. It was a simple oil lamp: a small bowl containing a little clear oil, with a wick draped over the rim.

The lamp was unlit, and there wasn't much oil in it.

Hua Du and the other six Hall Masters' eyes flickered. Suddenly, they all charged towards the oil lamp. But just as they moved, Lan Yu Tian had already snatched the lamp.

Hall Master Hua Du abruptly stopped, but saw the four other Hall Masters still lunging towards Lan Yu Tian. He immediately shouted, "Don't go! Retreat quickly!"

He retreated, but the four Hall Masters were too late to pull back.

As Lan Yu Tian held the oil lamp in his palm, it spontaneously ignited. The light glowed with an eerie purple, swiftly illuminating the entire treasure hall.

Hall Master Hua Du had retreated to the hall's entrance. When the purple light struck him, he felt completely exposed, as if his entire cultivation, all his divine arts and abilities, were laid bare and fully understood.

Startled, he quickly exited the hall.

In that fleeting glimpse, he perceived the lamp's flame as extremely peculiar, resembling a purple evil eye with dozens of concentric pupils.

It was called an evil eye because its purple pupils were vertically aligned, similar to Qin Mu's vertical eye between his brows. Including the center of the flame, there were forty-one layers of pupils, all purple, while the very center of the flame was a chaotic void.

Anyone illuminated by its light felt as though their divine arts and abilities were completely seen through by the purple-eyed evil eye, leaving no secrets.

The moment Hall Master Hua Du left the hall, the four Hall Masters inside simultaneously screamed, and then fell silent.

Hall Master Hua Du's heart twisted in pain, but he dared not linger, and swiftly fled.

Inside the hall, Lan Yu Tian held the oil lamp, staring blankly at the flame.

The scene that had just unfolded was truly bizarre. When the oil lamp lit up, its flame became a purple-eyed evil eye. The eye rotated within the light, its gaze falling sequentially upon the four Hall Masters.

Almost simultaneously, the four Hall Masters were struck by the evil eye's light. Their entire Great Dao rapidly transformed into smoke, and even their Dao trees, Dao fruits, and treasure halls dissipated into wisps of smoke.

These four Hall Masters had only enough time for a single scream before they completely evaporated before his eyes.

"Strange! Truly strange!"

Lan Yu Tian exclaimed, almost dropping the lamp.

When the light shone, he could see everything about the four Hall Masters through the flame: their divine arts and abilities, their Dao trees, Dao fruits, and Dao halls. Everything was broken down into the most minute runes, as if deconstructed to their smallest particles.

However, he had not anticipated how terrifying the evil eye within the light would be when it shone.

"My brother's lamp was created by stealing the Master of Mi Luo Palace's Dao rhythm to form the oil when he lectured here, by stealing the profound insights he explained during his teachings to form the wick, and by using his Way of Chaos to form the evil eye."

Lan Yu Tian carefully inspected the oil. He saw that a small portion of it had been consumed after the four Hall Masters were killed by the evil eye. He felt a chill: "When the Master of Mi Luo Palace teaches, no one, whether a Mi Luo Palace Achiever, Hall Master, or Young Master, can surpass him in divine arts or Dao methods. Therefore, when illuminated by this lamp, they have no secrets. However, the lamp oil is limited, and this lamp cannot stay lit for too long. I must deal with the other six exotic treasures before the oil runs out! But..."

He swiftly exited the hall and headed directly for the Ancestral Court Primordial Cauldron.

"Can this lamp truly counter the six exotic treasures?"

The oil lamp was an exotic treasure, but the Well of Heaven's Pass, the Flying Smoke and Purple Haze, the Great Prison, and the Mirror of Returning Light were also exotic treasures refined by the Young Masters of Mi Luo Palace. Lan Yu Tian lacked confidence that the oil lamp could handle all six.

When Lan Yu Tian entered the Ancestral Court Primordial Cauldron, he saw Xu Sheng Hua leading the Eternal Peace Achievers to resist the Mi Luo Palace Achiever army. Around the six exotic treasures, battle raged fiercely.

The power of the six exotic treasures completely suppressed the Ancestral Court Primordial Cauldron, preventing it from exerting any of its might. Furthermore, the Hall Masters and Achievers of Mi Luo Palace gathered around these six treasures, whose immense power permeated in all directions, inflicting severe injuries upon Kai Huang, Qin Feng Qing, and others.

The First Young Master Tai Shang's Well of Heaven's Pass was the most formidable. It not only pierced through the Primordial Cauldron but also created a massive hole through the entire Ancestral Court. It hung straight up and down in the center, like a colossal tornado, stirring winds and clouds, causing the Ancestral Court's opening to continuously expand.

The immense power of the Ancestral Court Primordial Cauldron, spanning millions of miles, was entirely absorbed by this well.

This well was a treasure that traversed the Calamity of Destruction. From the outside, it appeared immaterial, its composition utterly indiscernible, yet its power was overwhelming.

Kai Huang and his allies fought their way to the edge of the well, engaging in fierce combat with the Mi Luo Palace Achievers and Hall Masters.

From time to time, Eternal Peace Achievers beside him were struck into the well, letting out earth-shattering screams as they plunged into the Calamity of Destruction of past universes.

Kai Huang himself was in precarious danger, liable to be cast into the well at any moment.

On the other side, the Second Young Master Wu Ji's Flying Smoke and Purple Haze raged across the sky. Several Mi Luo Palace Hall Masters stood upon it, moving like the wind. This Flying Smoke and Purple Haze was a treasure transformed from the Second Young Master Wu Ji's thirty-six layers of Heavenly Dao realm. From time to time, it erupted with the heat death winds of Gui Xu. These gusts of heat death wind swept through, eroding the sky and land of the Ancestral Court and undermining the power of the Primordial Cauldron. Xing Han led the Eternal Peace Achievers into the Flying Smoke. Nearly all his companions perished within it, and Xing Han's physical body was repeatedly destroyed.

The Great Prison, the Mirror of Returning Light, and other exotic treasures also possessed terrifying power, making them unbearable even for Eternal Peace's Hall Master-level existences, let alone the Achievers.

The mountains and rivers within the Ancestral Court Primordial Cauldron shattered. This first-tier artifact, refined over thirty-five billion years, was on the verge of destruction under the assault of the six exotic treasures.

Lan Yu Tian, holding the oil lamp, rushed towards the nearest exotic treasure.

That particular exotic treasure was refined by the Sixth Young Master Zhan Ji. When activated by the Mi Luo Palace Hall Masters and Achievers, it appeared as chains. These chains expanded, resembling black dragons covered in bony spikes, traversing the mountains and rivers of the Ancestral Court and breaking apart the Ancestral Court Primordial Cauldron.

As the black dragons writhed, countless bone-spike spears shot out in all directions, destroying Dao trees, piercing Dao fruits, and annihilating the Ancestral Court's Grand Overarching Heaven, encountering almost no resistance.

Furthermore, Mi Luo Palace Hall Masters and Achievers stood on the backs of the black dragons, relentlessly slaughtering Eternal Peace powerhouses.

Lan Yu Tian activated the oil lamp, his heart heavy with worry: "Whether this oil lamp can stand against the Sixth Young Master Zhan Ji's exotic treasure, and whether Eternal Peace wins or loses, rests on this one action!"

The oil lamp's flame suddenly flared brilliantly, becoming exceptionally dazzling. Purple light radiated in all directions, and the flame itself appeared immense, like a torch magnified a billion times.

Lan Yu Tian looked past the flame and saw that the purple-eyed evil eye had also grown incredibly large. Within its forty concentric purple pupils, the chaotic evil eye slowly rotated, shining upon the black dragon chains.

In the sky and on the ground, the interwoven black dragon chains, constantly ravaging the Ancestral Court Primordial Cauldron, suddenly began to disintegrate in the lamplight, turning into wisps of smoke.

The Mi Luo Palace Hall Masters and Achievers standing on the black dragons lost their footing and plummeted. However, as the purple-eyed evil eye's gaze swept over them, they immediately evaporated into smoke.

"What a waste of oil!"

Lan Yu Tian was both surprised and delighted, yet his heart ached for the consumed oil. He quickly withdrew his magic, noting that a significant amount of oil in the bowl was gone.

There wasn't much oil to begin with. Now, he wasn't worried about the lamp's power, but rather whether there was enough oil to deal with the other five exotic treasures.

While the lamp was highly effective for killing Mi Luo Palace Hall Masters and Achievers, there wasn't enough oil to eliminate all of them. It had to be reserved for the exotic treasures of the Mi Luo Palace Young Masters.

To him, wasting the lamp oil on Mi Luo Palace Hall Masters and Achievers would be a true pity.

He immediately picked up the oil lamp and pursued the next exotic treasure. Just then, Hall Master Hua Du suddenly arrived, leading many Achievers to block his path.

Clearly, Hall Master Hua Du had observed the lamp's mystery and grasped its crucial point. Although he feared dying from the lamp's strange power, if they could exhaust its oil, Eternal Peace would have no chance of victory!

Lan Yu Tian grew frantic, fighting desperately to protect the oil lamp. However, more and more Achievers surged forward, trapping him tightly. Even more arrived, clearly intending to risk their lives.

At that moment, lotuses bloomed in the void. Xu Sheng Hua stepped forth, a lotus appearing with each stride, each flower a miniature Ancestral Court. He entered the fray and solemnly declared, "I will hold them off; you quickly destroy the other exotic treasures!"

With Xu Sheng Hua holding back Hua Du and the others, Lan Yu Tian gained a moment to breathe and immediately broke free.

Soon, the Great Prison, Flying Smoke, Mirror of Returning Light, and other exotic treasures dissipated under the lamp's illumination. The pressure on Eternal Peace's Achievers significantly decreased, but the battle had inflicted heavy casualties.

The landscapes within the Ancestral Court Primordial Cauldron were shattered. Looking around, the scene was one of utter devastation and wreckage.

The oil in the lamp in Lan Yu Tian's hand was almost depleted. His heart sank, and he swiftly made his way to the last exotic treasure, the Well of Heaven's Pass.

The Well of Heaven's Pass was growing ever larger, causing the Ancestral Court Primordial Cauldron to continuously collapse. Beneath the cauldron lay the vast Calamity of Destruction, and the Ancestral Court's terrain was constantly falling into the well.

The First Young Master Tai Shang's exotic treasure possessed truly astonishing power.

Lan Yu Tian activated the last of the oil, and the lamp's light shone towards the ever-expanding Well of Heaven's Pass.

As the light fell upon the Well of Heaven's Pass, wherever the purple-eyed evil eye shone, the well continuously annihilated, dissolving into wisps of smoke. However, the great well also continuously regenerated, causing Lan Yu Tian's heart to sink.

For every amount of the Well of Heaven's Pass that the purple-eyed evil eye eliminated, an equal amount would regenerate. He truly had not anticipated this phenomenon.

Finally, the oil ran out. The lamp's light gradually dimmed, and the wick steadily shortened as it burned down.

Panic seized Lan Yu Tian. Without a wick, what use was this lamp?

"Right, this lamp can reveal the mysteries of all people and objects! Before the light goes out, I can observe all the secrets of the Well of Heaven's Pass!"

He immediately widened his eyes and looked through the lamp's light at the Well of Heaven's Pass. In the light, the well appeared as countless continuously changing primordial runes, exhibiting infinite transformations and ceaselessly self-generating.

Lan Yu Tian frantically memorized them, but the wick burned out, and the lamp's light gradually extinguished.

"I can remember them! I can comprehend all the mysteries of the Well of Heaven's Pass! I will never forget those transformations! I can find the well's weakness!"

Lan Yu Tian cried out, closing his eyes tightly and deeply imprinting the process of the Well of Heaven's Pass's billions of primordial rune transformations into his mind.

"That's it! The Well of Heaven's Pass can be blocked!"

Suddenly, he opened his eyes, cheering internally. At that moment, he saw a flaw in the Well of Heaven's Pass. With a swift motion, he threw the small bowl of the oil lamp!

The small bowl whizzed into the well. At the same moment, Lan Yu Tian leaped into the well, following closely behind the bowl.

Just as the small bowl was about to fall into the Calamity of Destruction, Lan Yu Tian's body swayed. Countless arms shot out in all directions, pointing at the four walls of the Well of Heaven's Pass, stabilizing the primordial runes one by one.

The well's rune operation paused for an instant. Simultaneously, the small bowl expanded, sealing the bottom of the well!

The Well of Heaven's Pass immediately ceased functioning.

Lan Yu Tian's legs gave way, and he collapsed onto the bottom of the bowl, weeping tears of joy.