371: Sword Formation Condenses Spirit, Chaos Breaks Law
"I respectfully summon—"
"The Taiyi Sword Spirit!!!"
Jian Wuya's hoarse, madness-filled roar exploded like a blood-colored thunderclap above Tianfeng City!
As his final syllable fell...
"Pfft!"
"Pfft!"
"Pfft!"
"Pfft!"
Led by Jian Wuya, the five Void Return Stage experts who had deployed the Taiyi Immortal Slaying Sword Formation...
Simultaneously opened their mouths and spat out a large mouthful of life-essence blood, as deep red as blood diamonds!
This was no ordinary essence blood; it was the life essence they had painstakingly cultivated for thousands or even tens of thousands of years, closely linked to their own Dao Origin!
The moment the five streams of essence blood left their bodies, the auras of the five Void Returning Great Experts stagnated.
Their faces turned pale instantly, but the madness and determination in their eyes burned to a peak!
The five blood arrows did not fall; instead, they traced eerie arcs in the air, splashing with pinpoint accuracy onto the five Heaven-Piercing Sword Pillars that pierced the sky and earth!
Sizzle—!
Like boiling oil poured into a raging fire!
The entire Taiyi Immortal Slaying Sword Formation completely boiled over the moment it touched the life-essence blood of the five Void Return Stage experts!
Boom—!!!
The five Heaven-Piercing Sword Pillars erupted with unprecedented brilliant light. The Law dao patterns interwoven on the pillars seemed to come alive, frantically moving, devouring, and fusing!
A destructive aura, ten times more terrifying than before—older, more primitive, and purer—slowly awakened from the deepest depths of the sword Formation!
Tianfeng City was trembling!
The firmament was wailing!
Hundreds of millions of Geng Metal Sword Qi, previously obliterated by the Chaos Domain, now re-condensed and surged in an even more violent manner!
They were no longer a scattered storm but were gathering frantically toward the center of the sword Formation under the guidance of a powerful will!
Condensing! Compressing! Sublimating!
Under countless horrified gazes, a translucent giant composed of pure killing Sword Qi and Laws slowly took shape and rose in the center of the Formation!
A hundred zhang!
Five hundred zhang!
A thousand zhang!
Finally, a terrifying spirit entity, a thousand zhang tall, with its head touching the firmament and its feet treading on the Void Realm...
Holding a giant light sword that seemed capable of splitting the heavens and earth, it fully manifested before the eyes of the world!
It had no facial features; its face was a blur of light.
But everyone could feel an indifferent, cold gaze that viewed all things as straw dogs projecting down from that halo.
Every breath caused the surrounding Laws to tremble, emitting deafening sword hums!
Its power had already surpassed the limits of the Void Return and was faintly touching the threshold of the Hedao Realm!
This was the ultimate form of the Taiyi Immortal Slaying Sword Formation: the Taiyi Sword Spirit!
Sacrificing the essence blood of five Void Return Stage experts, using a sixth-grade Dao Artifact as its bone and the Laws of heaven and earth as its flesh, the Taiyi Sword Spirit was summoned!
"This time, Elder Shen might be in danger..."
Outside the battle circle, Qing Xuzi, who had already retreated to a safe distance, felt as if all his strength had been drained the moment he saw the thousand-zhang sword spirit take shape.
He slumped into the Void Realm, his face looking terrible.
"Thirty thousand years ago... the one who killed the Early Stage Hedao Realm Devil Head, Blood Slaughter Old Ancestor... was this move..."
His voice was as faint as a mosquito's buzz, filled with the shivering of chattering teeth.
That dusty Sect secret now vividly surfaced in his mind.
Thirty thousand years ago, Blood Slaughter Old Ancestor wreaked havoc in the Eastern Region. This Devil Head was a genuine Dao Union Great Power who cultivated a Demonic Technique using the essence blood of billions of living beings.
His fierce reputation was overwhelming. Several top Sects had joined forces to surround and suppress him, but all were defeated and fled in panic, leaving behind rivers of blood.
Finally, the previous Sect Master of the Taiyi Sword Sect led four Grand Elders.
With their Late Void Returning Stage cultivation, they set up this Formation and summoned the Taiyi Sword Spirit.
That battle shook the heavens and split the earth, turning the sun and moon dark.
Ultimately, they forcibly slew that invincible Dao Union devil under their swords!
Using the Void Return Stage to slay the Hedao Realm!
This was the true, illustrious, and fearsome reputation of the Taiyi Immortal Slaying Sword Formation!
And today, to deal with a single Shen Yuanmo...
Jian Wuya actually did not hesitate to pay the price to recreate this forbidden killing move of the Taiyi Sword Sect!
In the center of the sword Formation.
The shadow of the thousand-zhang sword spirit completely enveloped Shen Yuanmo's figure, which was as tiny as a speck of dust.
The strong visual contrast rendered the pressure of this crisis to the extreme!
The sword spirit slowly lowered its head, the blurred halo staring at the ant below.
No words, no roars.
Only the purest and most direct will to obliterate.
It raised the Heavenly Sword in its hand, condensed from infinite Sword Qi and Laws, high into the air.
One sword, slashing down!
This strike did not have an earth-shattering momentum.
But as it fell, the entire space around Shen Yuanmo was instantly drained, turning into an absolute void!
Where the sword edge pointed was enough to easily tear apart a Small World!
Boom!!!
Before this powerful sword dao will, Shen Yuanmo's Chaos Domain was compressed, shrinking inward frantically and making an overburdened creaking sound!
A hundred zhang, fifty zhang, thirty zhang... At the edge of the Domain, the gray chaotic airflow and the invisible sword dao Laws collided and annihilated frantically, erupting with extremely blinding light!
Shen Yuanmo's figure flickered rapidly under the pressure of the sword light, but he showed no sign of distress.
Deep within the eyes covered by the chaos myriad dao armor, there was no fear; instead, an unprecedentedly brilliant divine light lit up!
Countless golden runes, billions of times more complex than the stars, frantically flickered and flowed in his pupils!
[Heaven-Defying Comprehension] had already been pushed to its limit by him!
In his vision, the essence of this seemingly perfect and powerful Taiyi Sword Spirit was stripped away layer by layer.
It was five streams of sword dao Laws from the same source, yet each bearing its own unique imprint!
One stream was overbearing and matchless, like an emperor presiding.
One was sharp and fierce, specializing in a single point.
One was long and distant, like an endless river.
One was strange and ever-changing, impossible to guard against.
And one was grand and majestic, upright and peaceful.
These five wills were forcibly kneaded together by the Formation; they seemed harmonious, but there were flaws!
"Or so it seems..."
At the moment the sword spirit's strike was about to crush the Chaos Domain and land on his head, a whisper that only he could hear escaped from the corner of Shen Yuanmo's lips.
He found it!
He found the most uncoordinated node among those five wills forced into Fusion, which even produced a microscopic rejection!
The sword dao true intent belonging to one of the Grand Elders, due to his own personality and Cultivation Technique, while pursuing strangeness and change...
...had a natural conflict with Jian Wuya's overbearing Sword Intent!
Usually, it was fine, but in this state of being pushed to the limit to forcibly summon the sword spirit, this flaw was infinitely magnified!
In Shen Yuanmo's eyes, this flaw was like the only blemish on a piece of perfect white jade!
So conspicuous!
Facing the second world-destroying blow about to fall as the sword spirit gathered its strength again...
Shen Yuanmo neither dodged nor avoided it.
Qiang—!
A clear sword hum resounded through the void.
The [great evolution immortal slaying sword], its body covered in star patterns and seemingly containing a miniature Universe, unsheathed itself and hovered before him.
He did not make any posture of building up strength to meet the blow head-on.
He simply extended his right hand, covered in the Chaos armor, and flicked the ancient sword's body with his long index and middle fingers joined.
Ding!
A gray Sword Intent as thin as a hair and so dim it could hardly be captured by Divine Sense was silently shot from the tip of the great evolution immortal slaying sword!
It had no terrifying power, no grand momentum.
It simply followed a mysterious and unpredictable trajectory, gracefully bypassing the edge of the sword spirit's sky-blocking giant sword.
In the instant before anyone could react, it shot with pinpoint accuracy toward an extremely subtle Law node on the thousand-zhang sword spirit's right shoulder blade!
That was precisely the core where the Sword Intent Laws of the Grand Elder who cultivated the strange and ever-changing Sword Intent converged with the other four!
The gray Sword Intent flashed and vanished.
There was no earth-shattering explosion.
No roar of Law annihilation.
At this moment, time seemed to stand still.
The thousand-zhang sword spirit, which pressured the heavens and earth and was about to swing its sword again, suddenly stagnated!
On the Law node hit by the gray Sword Intent, a tiny crack, almost invisible to the naked eye, quietly emerged.
The next instant!
"Pfft—!!!"
In one of the five positions of the sword Formation, one of the Taiyi Sword Sect Grand Elders with white hair and beard suddenly shuddered as if struck by Nine Heavens divine thunder!
His eyes widened, filled with incomprehensible horror and pain, and he opened his mouth to spit out a large amount of golden blood mixed with shattered internal organs!
His aura instantly withered to the extreme!
The Taiyi Immortal Slaying Sword Formation, claimed to be perfect and having once slain a Dao Union expert, showed a flaw for the first time!
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