195: Dismantle the great formation and use your body as a shield.

The moment that dark purple destructive "star" condensed into form, Shen Yuanmo's pupils suddenly constricted to needlepoints at the top of the pavilion!

A shadow of death, a hundred times more intense than when he had previously withstood the soul transformation realm-breaking talisman, transformed into countless ice needles, piercing directly into his Divine Soul Origin!

Even his Sea of Consciousness, comparable to the Late Nascent Soul Stage, churned with monstrous waves under this pressure!

His body, locked by that seemingly world-destroying power, began to tremble slightly, uncontrollably.

This was not fear.

It was the most primal, most instinctive tremor of life facing a power capable of completely erasing itself from the world!

"A Mid-stage Soul Transformation strike..."

Shen Yuanmo's Adam's apple bobbed, and his voice was incredibly hoarse as he spoke each word.

He stared intently at the destructive star slowly descending in the sky, each inch of its descent twisting and shattering space, and his mind was filled with a surging tempest.

The Venerable Elder of the Ziyang Song Clan's soul transformation realm-breaking talisman was merely a one-time Talisman that sealed five-tenths of a Soul Transformation Cultivator's power, having its form but lacking its true essence.

What stood before him was the result of that old madman Song Xuanyi burning fifteen hundred years of cultivation, sacrificing his Half-step soul transformation dao fruit, and blood-sacrificing an entire fifth-order war Magic Treasure, in exchange for a truly… full-power strike comparable to a Mid-stage Soul Transformation Cultivator!

Its might was more than ten times stronger!

Could the Great Five Elements Cycle Array block it?

It couldn't!

This conclusion flashed through Shen Yuanmo's mind, crystal clear.

He could clearly perceive that the fourth-order spirit vein, serving as the Formation's foundation, was wailing under the unbearable strain, its Spiritual Qi circulation already chaotic, and fine cracks had begun to appear on the Formation's light barrier!

To defend rigidly was a path to certain death!

If the Grand Formation broke, he might barely be able to protect himself and escape, severely injured, relying on his Physical Body, which had cultivated the seventh stage of the Vajra Glazed Body, and the great five elements destruction glazed armor on his person.

But the Qingzhou City behind him, his father, his Old Ancestor, and the tens of thousands of Shen Family clansmen connected to him by Bloodline, would undoubtedly be annihilated by this strike, leaving not even a wisp of remnant Soul!

"Yuan Mo!"

"My son! Run! Don't worry about us!"

Inside the City Lord's Mansion, Shen Qiming and Shen Zongdao's eyes were bloodshot, finally breaking free from the shackles of that apocalyptic pressure.

They looked at the destructive star slowly falling from the sky, bringing endless despair, and at the solitary yet towering figure on the pavilion under the Divine Might, letting out heart-wrenching roars!

In their eyes were tears of blood, endless despair and pleading.

In their view, this situation was a certain death! The Shen Family was finished!

They didn't seek to live, only that Shen Yuanmo, the Shen Family's sole Qilin, its only ember, could escape!

As long as Yuan Mo lived, the Shen Family would have a day to rise again!

"Run?"

Listening to the desperate cries of his father and Old Ancestor, Shen Yuanmo's lips slowly curved into an arc of ultimate resolve, even tinged with a hint of madness.

Where can I go?

Behind me is my root, my home.

Behind me is everything I've fought with all my might to protect!

If I retreat, what meaning does my cultivation of this immortal life have?!

What is the meaning of my Rebirth here?!

A Battle Intent, burning like magma and raging like thunder, exploded from deep within his chest, shattering all dams named reason!

His deep eyes now shone astonishingly bright, as if two unyielding blazing suns burned within them!

If there's no retreat, then don't retreat!

If there's no escape, then don't escape!

You want to use this world-destroying strike to bury my entire Shen Family!

Then I will use this body of flesh and blood, and this sword in my hand, to show you!

What true despair is!

Shen Yuanmo raised his hands and suddenly formed an abstruse and complex hand Seal in front of his chest, one that no one had ever seen before.

The two words he uttered, like Nine Heavens thunder, terrified Shen Qiming and Shen Zongdao.

"Grand Formation, disperse!"

Buzz—!

As the words fell, heaven and earth responded!

That gigantic five-colored divine light curtain, which had stubbornly resisted and kept the catastrophe at bay, at this instant, did not explode outwards, but instead collapsed and imploded inwards in an inconceivable manner!

It did not dissipate into a sky full of light rain!

Instead, it reversed into a majestic torrent, like an ancient flood, a terrifying energy so violent it could overturn all cognition!

Within the torrent, there was not only the vast Spiritual Qi from the entire fourth-order spirit vein being instantly drained!

It also carried the Nine Heavens Astral Wind and chaotic Star Power, full of dead silence, coldness, and destructive aura, which he had previously drawn down but had not yet been fully refined by the Grand Formation!

This energy was already a forbidden power that no Nascent Soul Cultivator could touch!

And at this moment, this forbidden torrent found its only outlet!

Under Shen Yuanmo's will, it surged madly towards the small figure clad in ferocious battle armor at the top of the pavilion, like all rivers flowing into the sea!

"Yuan Mo! No—!"

Shen Qiming was horrified and his eyes were about to split open. He wanted to rush forward, but he was firmly confined by an invisible force field, unable to move even a single finger!

He didn't know what his son was going to do, but he knew that such a violent energy infusion would be something even a true Spirit Transformation True Monarch would never dare to withstand! It would cause one's body and Soul to be utterly destroyed!

Boom!!!

The energy torrent, without any reduction, solidly crashed into Shen Yuanmo's body and poured into the great five elements destruction glazed armor he was wearing!

"Crack! Crack!"

That was the wailing of bones! The seventh stage of the Vajra Glazed Body was activated to its extreme at the first instant, golden glazed light frantically flowed beneath his skin, yet it was still stretched and cracked inch by inch by the violent energy!

Unspeakable agony nearly tore his consciousness apart!

But, he endured it!

And at this moment, the battle armor on his body let out an excited hum, like an ancient Vicious Beast awakening!

Buzz—!

On the battle armor, every gray, mysterious Dao pattern was instantly ignited, frantically devouring the surging energy!

The slowly rotating Yin and Yang fish symbol on his chest transformed into a bottomless energy vortex, erupting with a scorching brilliance that was impossible to look at directly!

Shen Yuanmo's aura, at this moment, surged wildly at a speed that defied the common sense of the cultivation world!

Peak Nascent Soul Mid-stage!

Late Nascent Soul Stage!

Peak Late Nascent Soul Stage!

Great Perfection of Nascent Soul Stage!

Finally, his aura barely stopped when it infinitely touched the legendary threshold of Half-step Soul Transformation! But that imposing might was still climbing steadily!

A terrifying pressure, no weaker than the destructive star in the sky, swept out from his not-so-towering but seemingly heaven-supporting body, fiercely clashing with the Divine Might from above!

"This... this is impossible!"

High in the sky, within the remnants of the heaven burning tower ship, Song Xuanyi's bloody face froze completely, the Divine Soul flames in his eyes flickering violently, as if they could extinguish at any moment!

What did he see?!

That Little Beast, he... he actually voluntarily dispersed the clan-protecting Grand Formation and swallowed all that violent energy that even Soul Transformation Cultivators would dread?!

Is he mad?! How is this different from suicide?!

How could his mere Golden Core Cultivator Physical Body possibly withstand it?!

How dare he?! How did he do it?!

However, Shen Yuanmo did not explode!

Not only did he not explode, but he even used this power to forcibly raise his cultivation to a terrifying Realm that even he, a Half-step Soul Transformation who had sacrificed everything, trembled and was horrified by!

"Monster! You are a complete and utter monster!"

For the first time, Song Xuanyi felt a trace of regret welling up from the depths of his Soul.

He regretted why he had provoked such a Prodigy, one who simply could not be measured by common sense, by Realm, or by any ironclad rule of the cultivation world!

However, it was too late to regret! Once the arrow is shot, there is no turning back!

He had sacrificed everything!

"Die! No matter what kind of monster you are! Just die!"

Song Xuanyi used his last bit of Divine Soul power to let out a final roar, pouring it all into that destructive star!

The star's descent suddenly accelerated dramatically!

Below, at the top of the pavilion.

Shen Yuanmo felt the vast, mighty power within him, capable of tearing stars and trampling mountains and rivers, and slowly raised his head.

He gave up all defense.

He wagered all his power, all his hope, all his unyielding spirit and will, entirely on this one, final sword strike!

Using his body as the Formation!

Using his body as the shield!

And even, using his body as the sword!

To confront this world-destroying strike head-on!