243: A chaotic battle raged, with all the magic and power resounding.

"Attack!"

Accompanied by Ji Changkong's roar, filled with determination and unwillingness, the string that had been stretched to its limit finally snapped!

Boom!

Above the Nine Dragon Carriage, his purple-gold Imperial Robe flapped wildly, agitated by boundless magical power. A supremely domineering Human Emperor Dragon Qi, seemingly meant to execute Heaven's punishment and judge all life, transformed into a visible pillar of purple-gold light and violently shot into the sky!

He held nothing back. The Great Perfection of Soul Transformation magical power within him surged out like a breached celestial river, rushing for a thousand miles!

"Aang—!"

That supremely domineering Human Emperor Dragon Qi did not attack the enemy; instead, it maniacally poured into the nine Nascent Soul Flood Dragons pulling the carriage!

The nine Great Perfection of Nascent Soul Stage Flood Dragons, which were originally just pulling the carriage, emitted roars of pain mixed with excitement under the infusion of Human Emperor Dragon Qi!

Their flesh and blood were burning, and their bodies were expanding and mutating at a visible speed!

Flood Dragon scales the size of bowls shattered amidst extreme agony.

Immediately, stronger and more majestic Dragon Scales, bearing a sacred purple-gold luster, forcefully pierced out from deep within their flesh!

In just a few breaths, these nine Flood Dragons, catalyzed by the Human Emperor Dragon Qi, forcibly broke free from the shackles of their Bloodline, shed their flood dragon bodies, and transformed into nine massive creatures a thousand zhang long.

They were ferocious Giant Dragons, covered completely in purple-gold Dragon Scales, with sharp horns and heads, exuding the genuine pressure of the Nascent Soul Initial Stage!

"Kill!"

Ji Changkong's eyes were bloodshot, his killing intent materialized into substance, as he pointed towards Old Monster Cang Xuan, who stood leaning on his staff like an eternal bedrock!

The nine newly born Soul Transformation purple-gold Giant Dragons let out earth-shattering roars, tearing apart the restricted Void Realm.

Carrying majestic Dragon Might capable of crushing a Small World, they formed a Battle Formation and violently charged Old Monster Cang Xuan from all directions!

Ji Changkong did not go to seize the Heart of Chaos.

He knew better than anyone that without breaking Old Monster Cang Xuan's unpredictable Spatial Restriction, everything else was just empty talk!

He intended to use these nine Soul Transformation Giant Dragons, forcefully cultivated through a Secret Method, to break through Old Monster Cang Xuan's Domain and create a sliver of opportunity for himself!

"Heh heh heh! Ji Changkong, I'll give you credit for having some guts!"

Ancestor Xuan Ming, the Demon Path Colossus, let out a bizarre laugh that pierced the eardrums, the sound waves spreading out as tangible black ripples.

He also understood that if they didn't join forces now, they would all be relegated to spectators of this feast, unable to even claim the leftovers!

"Ten Thousand Devils Devour Heaven! Swallow it for this Old Man!"

Ancestor Xuan Ming's figure flickered, and he directly transformed into a monstrous Devil Shadow, ten thousand zhang tall, towering between heaven and earth!

The Devil Shadow had three heads and six arms, a blue face, and tusks, and was wrapped in billions of pitch-black chains twisted from pure resentment and endless Devilish Qi.

He struck out with all six arms; in the center of his palms, six portals to the Nine Nether Demonic Domain seemed to open!

Countless ferocious Devil Heads, refined from the Divine Souls of Cultivators, roared and howled, converging from his palms into a black torrent capable of polluting the entire Guixu Divine Palace and corrupting the very Laws!

Ancestor Xuan Ming's target was not Old Monster Cang Xuan.

Instead, he bypassed the frontal battlefield and charged straight toward the restricted Heart of Chaos!

He actually intended to use the power of ten thousand devils to pollute the Divine Item and swallow it directly, seizing the moment Ji Changkong was restraining Old Monster Cang Xuan!

"Old Devil Xuan Ming! How dare you!"

On the other side, True Monarch Fu Hai was furious upon seeing this! Having fought this Old Devil for over a thousand years, how could he not know of his insidious cunning!

"Celestial River Reverses, Flood the Seven Armies!"

True Monarch Fu Hai violently flicked the Whisk in his hand. Three thousand silver threads rose against the heavens, each one crystal clear, instantly transforming into three thousand vast and ceaseless Celestial Rivers!

That was no ordinary water, but water condensed from the purest Water Law. A single drop was as heavy as a mountain, and a handful could crush a Nascent Soul!

The three thousand Celestial Rivers converged in mid-air, not creating a massive roar, but instead silently forming an immense, boundless, and bottomless Water Domain.

It did not attack anyone; instead, it sought to package and sweep away the Heart of Chaos along with the surrounding restricted space!

"Roar! All of you, scram for this Emperor!"

Dragon Emperor Ao Guang was already seeing red. Ignoring everything, he directly revealed his thousand-zhang Dragon-Human True Body!

Dark-gold Dragon Scales covered his entire body, each one glinting with a metallic cold light.

His knotted muscles bulged like mountains, filled with explosive power. Simply standing there caused the surrounding space to twist under the unbearable pressure.

The Square-Sky Halberd in his hand was the Dragon-Human Clan's inherited treasure, the Star-Shattering Halberd.

Infused with his Spirit Transformation Late Stage peak Demonic Power, the halberd blade pulsed with a terrifying sharpness capable of tearing the firmament!

"One Halberd, Shatter the Stars!"

Ao Guang exerted all his strength, pushing his Physical Body power and Demonic Power to the limit, and brought the halberd down!

There were no fancy Law changes, no mysterious Divine Ability manifestations, only the purest, most extreme terrifying power, enough to cleave a real star in two!

His target was also the Heart of Chaos!

He intended to use this supremely domineering strike to shatter Old Monster Cang Xuan's Spatial Restriction along with the Divine Item!

Then, relying on the unparalleled strength of the Dragon-Human Clan's Physical Body, he would snatch the largest fragments in the ensuing Chaos!

"Heh heh heh... How could this Lord miss out on such a feast?"

The Master of the Evil Nether Hall, who had been hiding in the shadows, let out a bizarre laugh that made one's Soul tremble.

His figure actually transformed on the spot into billions of flickering, ghastly green Ghost Fires!

These Ghost Fires ignored the barriers of physical space and the violent energy turbulence. They seemed not to exist in this dimension at all, silently penetrating toward the restricted Heart of Chaos!

This was precisely the most bizarre Divine Ability of the Evil Nether Hall—the Netherworld Submergence!

It allows the caster to temporarily transform their existence into a Soul Body state, situated between reality and illusion, granting immunity to most physical and Spell attacks!

In an instant, five great Soul Transformation masters struck simultaneously!

Imperial Dragon Qi, Ten Thousand Devil True Intent, Celestial River Great Dao, Star-Shattering Power, Netherworld Ghost Fire!

Five completely different, yet all having reached the peak of the Soul Transformation stage, terrifying powers violently detonated within this small space!

The fragmented space surrounding the Guixu Divine Palace let out a cry of unbearable strain under the impact of these five forces!

Countless fragmented landmasses, caught in the aftermath of this battle of gods, instantly turned to dust!

Spatial fissures appeared in swathes, only to be torn wider by even more violent forces, as if this world could completely collapse and return to Chaos at any moment!

Only two people remained completely unmoved amidst this world-destroying melee.

One was Sword Venerable Ye Gucheng, standing with his sword embraced.

He merely watched coldly. Within three feet of him, all energy turbulence and Law storms automatically bypassed him, as if that spot were an absolute Sword Domain.

Yet, the Sword Intent around him was climbing, condensing, and purifying at an astonishing speed, as if accumulating a world-shattering, Karma-severing fatal blow!

The other was naturally Shen Yuanmo.

He still stood at the entrance of the Ancient Medicine Garden, as if the Soul Transformation melee before him, worthy of being recorded in history, was merely a fireworks display unrelated to him.

But deep within his Sea of Consciousness, monstrous waves had already been stirred up!

Perfect Deduction!

His Golden Finger was, at this moment, being pushed to an unprecedented extreme!

Jik Changkong's Imperial Dragon Qi—its essence being how it condenses the faith of all living beings into the Laws of the Human Dao... Ancestor Xuan Ming's Ten Thousand Devil True Intent—its core being how it pollutes the Divine Soul for his own use... True Monarch Fu Hai's Water Great Dao—its essence lying in conquering the rigid with the soft and evolving myriad phenomena... Ao Guang's Star-Shattering Power—the crudest and most direct application of the Law of Power... The Master of the Evil Nether Hall's Netherworld Submergence—involving profound Laws across both the spatial and Soul dimensions... The full-strength, unrestrained strikes of these five Soul Transformation masters were, in Shen Yuanmo's eyes, five open, top-tier "Great Dao Textbooks"!

Their Dao, their Spells, and the profound mysteries of their Divine Abilities, which they had spent their entire lives comprehending, were peeled away, dismantled, analyzed, and absorbed layer by layer under the analysis of Perfect Deduction!

Ultimately, they transformed into the purest and most abundant resources for Shen Yuanmo's own Great Dao Foundation!

Just as Shen Yuanmo was frantically absorbing Great Dao Insights, feeling an unparalleled ecstasy, the situation on the battlefield underwent a dramatic change.

Faced with the siege of five major powerhouses, Old Monster Cang Xuan, who was Half-step Void Return, finally showed a trace of genuine impatience on his old face, which resembled dried orange peel.

"A bunch of ants who don't know their place, disturbing this Old Man's leisure."

He let out a cold snort, and with the Deadwood Staff in his hand, he casually drew a circle in the Void Realm before him.

An ordinary, even slightly crooked circle.

Buzz—

There was no earth-shattering noise, only a soft chime, as if from the Source of the Great Dao.

A Domain, only a hundred zhang in diameter, entirely grey, without any energy fluctuations or Law aura, instantly unfolded centered around that circle!

The nine roaring Soul Transformation Giant Dragons!

The overwhelming billions of Devil Heads!

The three thousand ceaseless Celestial Rivers!

All the terrifying Divine Abilities that entered this grey Domain vanished into nothingness, silently and without stirring a single ripple, like melting ice or bubbles in a dream!

They were not blocked!

They were not defeated!

They were... erased!

As if they had never existed! As if the world-destroying scene just now was merely an illusion!

"Void Return Domain! This is a true Void Return Domain! No... Impossible!!"

Above the Nine Dragon Carriage, Ji Changkong let out a roar mixed with shock and rage, his face ashen white, spitting out a mouthful of Congested Blood that stained his Imperial Robe!

He discovered in horror that his connection with the nine Soul Transformation Giant Dragons, and even his connection with the Great Qian Immortal Dynasty, had been severed at the root before the opponent's grey Domain!

Was this the insurmountable Heavenly Chasm between Soul Transformation and Void Return?!

The other masters also turned deathly pale, feeling as if they had fallen into an ice cavern, their attacks abruptly ceasing.

Their proudest, strongest strikes were so vulnerable, so... laughable, before their opponent!

Just as everyone was completely stunned by Old Monster Cang Xuan's god-like methods, and their minds froze in a moment of despair.

Sword Venerable Ye Gucheng, who had been standing still like a statue with his sword embraced.

Drew his sword!