189: Nine Heavens Gale, Reversing Heaven and Earth

"You want to compete with me in attrition? Old dog, you're not worthy!"

A cold and arrogant voice was uttered by Shen Yuanmo.

The tone was not loud, yet it contained an absolute will capable of piercing metal and stone and ignoring the Law, penetrating the roar of the sea of fire and the wail of space, clearly reaching Song Xuanyi's ears high up in the sky.

"Death is imminent, yet you still dare to be stubborn!"

Song Xuanyi was stunned for a moment, and then the cruel sneer on his face intensified, a cruelty akin to a cat playing with a mouse, certain of victory.

He increased the output of his magical power, veins bulging on his aged hand, injecting the majestic magical power of a Half-step Soul Transformation without reservation into the War Magic Treasure beneath his feet!

Instantly, the power of the purple sea of fire covering Prefecture City increased by another thirty percent, burning more fiercely and violently!

The purple flames even condensed into the form of ferocious Vicious Beasts, frantically biting and smashing against the light barrier!

He seemed to already see the sturdy turtle shell below being completely burned through, and that Little Beast who didn't know the immensity of Heaven and Earth, along with all the humble Bloodline clansmen behind him, silently and despairingly turning into ashes within his Heaven Burning Purple Flame.

However, the next moment.

The cruel sneer on his face suddenly froze, like a scroll painting covered in ice.

Below, atop the Pavilion, a determined, maniacal flame was burning in Shen Yuanmo's eyes.

He made a decision.

A decision that, in the eyes of Song Xuanyi, this fifteen-hundred-year-old Old Monster, was even more absurd, more subversive of common sense, and more incomprehensible than before!

"Formation, rise!"

"Reverse Yin and Yang, overturn the Universe!"

"Draw the power of the Nine Heavens, for my use!"

Shen Yuanmo quickly formed seals with both hands in front of his chest. His ten fingers turned into afterimages, and profound seals flashed like streams of light, each seemingly containing the Ultimate Truth of Heaven and Earth capable of overturning the world's operation!

When the last seal fell.

"Buzz—!"

A buzzing sound, as if originating from the Primordial Great Desolation, echoed deep within everyone's Divine Soul!

His majestic Divine Sense, comparable to the Late Nascent Soul Stage, instantly transformed into billions of invisible tentacles, achieving an unprecedented depth of complete fusion with the core of the entire [Great Five Elements Cycle Array]!

At this moment, he was no longer just the controller of the Formation.

He was the Formation! The Formation was him!

The energy circulation mode of the entire Grand Formation abruptly reversed under his will!

All the flowing divine light on the Five-Colored Light Barrier, which had been struggling under the Purple Flame, suddenly poured back towards the central, enormous phantom image of the Five Elements Millstone!

Immediately afterward, the sky-shrouding Five Elements Millstone began to rotate wildly in the opposite direction, with a determination that seemed to tear through eternity!

Boom!

A terrifying suction force, capable of swallowing Heaven and Earth, erupted from the center of the reversing millstone, transforming into an invisible Sky-Reaching Pillar of Light that shot up into the sky!

The suction force was formless and immaterial, yet it was like an awakened Abyssal Maw, opening its mouth greedily.

Its target was not the surrounding Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi.

But... beyond the clouds of the Nine Heavens!

It was the cold, desolate... Chaos Gale Layer that separated the Mortal Realm and the endless Void Realm!

Crack!

Crack! Crack!

Crisp cracking sounds echoed through the sky!

Above Prefecture City, the space warped by the Heaven Burning Purple Flame was pulled by this terrifying suction force, tearing open pitch-black Spatial Fissures like a fragile mirror!

The fissures were deep and desolate, seemingly leading to the end of all things, bottomless!

The next moment, a scene unfolded that utterly terrified Song Xuanyi and all the Song Family Members aboard the [heaven burning tower ship], shattering their courage and striking fear into their Souls!

Endless gray-white air currents, carrying the pure aura of destruction and desolation, were forcibly dragged down from those pitch-black Spatial Fissures by an irresistible great power!

That was not wind!

That was the Nine Heavens Gale, powerful enough to easily tear apart the Dharma bodies of Nascent Soul Cultivators and corrode and infect the Divine Souls of Cultivators!

Mixed within it were strands of even colder and more terrifying power, originating from the depths of the endless Void Realm... the Power of Extinction of Outer Domain Stars!

These destructive energies, so violent that even Spirit Transformation True Monarchs had to carefully avoid them, now gathered like the Heavenly River finding an outlet, forming a gray-white Death Storm that blocked the sunlight, roaring as it descended from the sky!

"Madman! You are a complete and utter lunatic!"

For the first time, Song Xuanyi's turbid old eyes erupted with a bone-deep horror and shock originating from the depths of his Soul!

He had lived for fifteen hundred years, yet he had never witnessed such a sight! Never seen such a madman!

He finally understood!

He finally understood what this Little Beast in his eyes truly intended to do!

Drawing the Nine Heavens Gale to counteract his Heaven Burning Purple Flame!

This was playing with fire! No! This was playing with two forces capable of destroying Prefecture City!

This was taking the lives of hundreds of thousands of sentient beings in the entire Prefecture City and placing them on an unprecedented, unthinkable, world-shaking Gamble!

If either of these two forces lost control, let alone Prefecture City, the surrounding thousand miles would turn into a Dead Zone, where not a blade of grass would grow for ten thousand years!

"Aren't you afraid of burying this city, along with those Ants behind you?!" Song Xuanyi roared, his voice distorted by shock and rage, even laced with a hint of trembling!

"Bury?"

Shen Yuanmo raised his head, his deep eyes penetrating the sea of fire below and the storm above, coldly pinning Song Xuanyi as if they were two Peerless Divine Swords.

"Old dog, you overestimate yourself."

"And you underestimate me, Shen Yuanmo!"

The moment his voice fell, his mind moved, and his will was like Heaven!

The Violent Gale and Star Power that had been forcibly drawn down were instantly swallowed, regulated, transformed, and restrained by the reversing Five Elements Millstone the moment they entered the Grand Formation's range!

They transformed into Energy Torrents of gray-white energy filled with the aura of ultimate tearing and final destruction, violently colliding with the purple sea of fire raging upward below!

RUMBLEEEEE—!

This time, it was no longer the silent annihilation of Laws.

But a true, earth-shattering, Apocalypse-Level violent clash!

For a moment, a Catastrophic Spectacle unfolded above Prefecture City that anyone who witnessed it would never forget!

The Firmament was clearly divided into two by a thin Five-Colored Light Barrier!

The lower half was the Boundless Purple Flame, incinerating all things and representing ultimate "Destruction"!

The upper half was the Gray-White Gale, tearing apart everything and representing ultimate "Desolation"!

Two completely opposing yet equally terrifying Origin powers clashed, bit, and swallowed each other frantically, using the thin Five-Colored Light Barrier as the boundary!

Every collision erupted in an Energy Storm terrifying enough to make even a Great Perfection of Nascent Soul Stage tremble, feeling as though their Divine Soul was about to be torn apart!

The Five Elements Light Barrier violently twisted and deformed under the frantic pressure of these two World-Destroying Forces, its light flickering at an unprecedented frequency, as if it would completely shatter the next second!

But, ultimately, it held!

It was like the sturdiest Boundary Marker separating life and death, stubbornly isolating these two forces into two worlds: inside the city and outside the city!

Temporarily, a balance was formed—one that was incredibly fragile, yet incredibly bizarre!

Song Qingyun and the other thirty Ziyang Battle Guards were already pale with fright, their Divine Souls trembling at the sight of this Battle Between Gods and Devils.

They felt as if they weren't watching a battle, but were caught between two World-Destroying Millstones about to close, having lost even the courage to breathe, ready to be ground into the most Primitive Particles by a single stray ripple of aftermath!

"O... Old Ancestor... this... this..."

Song Qingyun's voice was hoarse and distorted by extreme fear. He wanted to speak, but found his throat completely uncontrollable, only able to emit meaningless guttural sounds.

He finally understood why the Old Ancestor regarded This Child as his greatest enemy in life!

What the hell was this golden core ant?!

This was clearly a Peerless Fiend Demon, wearing the skin of a Golden Core, looking as if he had walked out of the Primordial Great Desolation, treating Heaven and Earth as his playthings!

"Hmph! Just putting on a show!"

Song Xuanyi's face twitched violently, his features practically twisted together, but he was a Half-step Soul Transformation after all, with a will as hard as iron.

After experiencing the initial shock and loss of composure, he forcefully calmed his mind and suppressed the absurd feeling of dread.

He stared intently at Shen Yuanmo below, whose temples were already beaded with Fine Cold Sweat and whose face was slightly pale, a ruthless glint flashing in his eyes!

He could tell!

This Heaven-Defying method, though seemingly world-shattering, placed an unimaginably Astronomical Figure of Mental Energy Consumption on the Formation controller!

How violent was that Nine Heavens Gale? Wild and untamed!

What terrifying Divine Sense and Control were needed to tame it, precisely manipulate it, and turn it against his Heaven Burning Purple Flame?

He was merely a Golden Core; no matter how strong his Divine Sense was, how much stronger could it be? This was merely Strong on the outside, weak on the inside, Drinking Poison to Quench Thirst!

He definitely couldn't last long!

"Little Beast, This Seat would like to see how long your Divine Soul can hold out!"

Song Xuanyi hardened his resolve, holding nothing back, and hysterically poured his Half-step Soul Transformation magical power into the core of the [heaven burning tower ship] as if it were worthless!

Boom!

The power of the purple sea of fire surged by another thirty percent, counterattacking wildly upward with the will to incinerate everything!

Atop the Pavilion, Shen Yuanmo's body violently shook, and he let out a suppressed groan.

A terrifying pressure, several times heavier than before, descended with a crash, as if the entire Firmament had collapsed!

His Sea of Consciousness was currently like a cloth being frantically wrung by two invisible World-Destroying Great Hands; every thread of his Divine Soul power was squeezed to the limit, emitting an unbearable, stinging pain!

He knew Song Xuanyi was right.

If the stalemate continued, he would definitely be the one whose Divine Soul was first drained and whose Dao Foundation collapsed!

He must break this deadlock before his Divine Soul completely collapsed!