421: A single finger shatters the formation, chilling the Sword Sect to the bone.

"Too weak."

Those two words were like two loud slaps, striking hard across the faces of Jian Wuya and everyone in the Taiyi Sword Sect.

Too weak?

That was a terrifying blow capable of instantly killing those in the Hedao Realm.

In his eyes, it was actually just too weak.

"You... what exactly did you do?!"

Jian Wuya roared, his outward bluster masking inner fear, his voice filled with terror and confusion.

He didn't understand; he didn't understand at all.

That punch had no fluctuations of Dharmic power, no traces of Law; it was just like a punch thrown by a Mortal.

But why did it possess such terrifying power?

Shen Yuanmo did not answer his foolish question.

His gaze had shifted from disappointment to indifference.

He had originally thought that the Taiyi Sword Sect's Sect-protecting Formation, a Legacy passed down for hundreds of thousands of years, could bring him a little surprise.

Now it seemed he had overthought it.

"Since you aren't making a move, then it's my turn."

Shen Yuanmo said indifferently.

During the contact of that punch just now, his Divine Sense had already...

...completely seen through the energy flow, Law structure, and Formation Nodes of the entire Taiyi Covering Heaven Sword Formation.

The intelligence provided by the Daoist Xinghe was static.

But what he saw now was dynamic.

Thirty-seven fatal flaws weren't even the end of it.

After the death of Jian Xuanji and the internal turmoil of the Sect...

...the Elders presiding over the Formation were already unsettled, and their circulation of Dharmic power had become sluggish.

In his eyes at this moment, this seemingly impregnable sword Formation had at least a hundred fatal flaws all over it.

It was like a decaying giant, magnificent on the outside but rotten within.

It couldn't withstand a single blow.

"What nonsense are you talking!"

Hearing Shen Yuanmo's words, Jian Wuya felt as if he had heard a massive joke. Forcing down the fear in his heart, he grinned hideously.

"Your turn? Shen Yuanmo, do you think that just because you blocked an attack with one punch, you can break through my Sect's Mountain-protecting Formation?"

"This Formation was left by the Mahayana ancestor of our Taiyi Sword Sect. It constitutes its own world and is impervious to all techniques! Unless you can destroy the entire Taiyi Mountain Range in one blow, don't even think about..."

His words came to an abrupt halt before he could finish.

Because Shen Yuanmo moved.

Shen Yuanmo slowly raised his right index finger.

A wisp of gray, inconspicuous Chaos airflow swirled around his fingertip.

Then, he casually pointed toward a seemingly ordinary corner in the southeast of the Formation's canopy.

"The first spot."

A thread of gray Sword Qi, thin as a hair, shot out from his fingertip.

There was no world-shaking power, no aura of tearing through the Void Realm.

It silently cut through the sky and shot toward the golden canopy composed of endless Sword Qi.

"Hahaha! Ridiculous! Truly utterly ridiculous!"

Seeing this, Jian Wuya couldn't help but laugh maniacally.

"You want to break our Sect's Formation with such an attack that wouldn't even count as an itch? Shen Yuanmo, have you been scared stupid?!"

The other Elders and Disciples also wore expressions of disdain and mockery.

However, in the next second...

...everyone's laughter stopped abruptly, as if their throats had been seized.

They saw that the gray Sword Qi was not shredded by the violent Sword Qi the moment it touched the golden canopy.

*Chiii—!*

A soft sound rang out.

At the point where the gray Sword Qi struck, the golden canopy within a hundred-foot radius suddenly dimmed.

Immediately after, as if a chain reaction had occurred...

*Rumble!!!*

A world-shaking explosion echoed from a Sword Peak in the southeastern corner of the Taiyi Sword Sect.

That ten-thousand-foot-tall Sword Peak was one of the 99,999 Formation Bases that made up the entire Taiyi Covering Heaven Sword Formation.

At this moment, it actually exploded violently from the inside.

Countless rocks flew everywhere, and dust billowed into the sky.

*Pfft—!*

Within the Formation, the three Void Return Elders responsible for presiding over that area were struck as if by lightning.

They suddenly spat out a large mouthful of blood, their faces instantly turning pale as their auras withered.

They discovered in horror that their connection with that Formation base peak had been forcibly severed by an incredibly brutal force.

A gap appeared in the Taiyi Covering Heaven Sword Formation.

Although this gap was insignificant to the entire massive sword Formation and was quickly filled by surrounding energy...

...it had indeed been breached.

It had been breached by a single finger, by that seemingly inconspicuous gray Sword Qi.

Dead silence.

The atmosphere was oppressive to the extreme.

If Shen Yuanmo dispersing the ten-thousand-foot sword pillar with one punch before had brought them shock and confusion...

...then at this moment, his breaking a corner of the Formation with a single finger brought them fear that penetrated to their very marrow.

The unknown was the most terrifying thing.

They didn't understand at all how Shen Yuanmo had done it.

That position was ordinary, being neither the Formation Eye nor an energy node; why would it collapse from a single strike?

"No... impossible... this is just a coincidence! It must be a coincidence!"

Jian Wuya muttered to himself, his face as pale as paper and cold sweat dripping from his forehead.

He didn't believe it! Even if he were killed, he wouldn't believe it!

That someone could find a flaw in the Taiyi Covering Heaven Sword Formation with just a single glance.

However, Shen Yuanmo did not give him much time for self-consolation.

He withdrew his finger and turned his gaze in another direction.

"The second spot."

Again, he pointed with a finger.

Again, it was a thread of gray Sword Qi, thin as a hair.

*Swish!*

The Sword Qi cut through the sky, shooting toward the western side of the sword Formation's canopy.

"Quick! Stop it!"

Jian Wuya let out a terrified scream.

This time, no one dared to mock him anymore.

All the Elders presiding over the Formation frantically channeled their Dharmic power.

They mobilized the Sword Qi in that area, wanting to intercept and strangle that gray Sword Qi mid-flight.

Endless golden Sword Qi transformed into sharp sword nets, sealing off the gray Sword Qi's path layer upon layer.

However, an eerie scene unfolded.

That gray Sword Qi seemed as if it had no physical form, or as if it possessed its own life.

It traced an inconceivable arc in the air, skillfully bypassing all the sword nets.

Then, it struck the canopy again with incomparable precision.

*Rumble—!*

Another massive explosion!

This time, in the west, two adjacent Sword Peaks were snapped in half simultaneously and collapsed with a roar.

*Pfft! Pfft!*

Two more Elders spat out blood, their auras withering.

The entire sword Formation canopy shook violently, its light dimming by several degrees.

If the first time was a coincidence, what about the second?

Panic spread through everyone's hearts like a plague.

"A monster... he's a monster..."

A young Disciple couldn't withstand this extreme terror.

His spirit broken, he dropped his dharma sword and turned to flee.

"Flee? Who dares to flee! Kill them without mercy!"

A Deacon Elder shouted sternly, slaying the Disciple with a single sword strike.

But his hand was also trembling slightly.

Shen Yuanmo paid no heed to the commotion below.

His figure began to slowly stroll through the air around the entire Mountain Gate of the Taiyi Sword Sect.

Every hundred steps, he would raise his finger and tap lightly.

"The third spot."

*Rumble!*

"The fourth spot."

*Rumble!*

"The fifth spot."

*Boom!*

One world-shaking explosion after another, like the drumbeats of death, rang out continuously from all directions of the Taiyi Sword Sect.

One Sword Peak after another, serving as Formation Bases, was precisely destroyed.

One Elder after another presiding over the Formation spat blood and fell to the ground.

That golden canopy, which was originally indestructible and radiant...

...now flickered erratically and teetered on the brink of collapse, with one shocking gap after another appearing upon it.

Under Shen Yuanmo's leisurely pointing, the entire Taiyi Covering Heaven Sword Formation was dismantled and dismembered step by step.

And with every spot Shen Yuanmo destroyed, he would softly announce a number.

That flat voice, transmitted via Dharmic power, clearly reached everyone's ears.

"The twenty-first spot."

"The twenty-second spot."

"Aaaah! Shen Yuanmo! I'll kill you!"

Jian Wuya had completely lost his mind; he watched helplessly as the Sect's Foundation was destroyed inch by inch.

Seeing the Elders fall one by one with severe injuries, the despair of powerlessness drove him to the brink of madness.

He gave up on maintaining the entire Formation's defense and, in a desperate gamble, gathered all the power he could still mobilize.

He concentrated it all, transforming it into a ten-thousand-foot golden giant sword that was even more solid and terrifying than before.

"Die! Just die!"

Controlling the giant sword, he slashed frantically toward Shen Yuanmo's figure with reckless abandon.

However, Shen Yuanmo only spared him an indifferent glance.

With a flicker of his body, he appeared a thousand feet away as if teleporting, easily dodging that desperate strike.

And the countdown from his mouth continued.

"The thirty-sixth spot."

He raised his finger and pointed at the last overt Formation flaw he had deduced.

*Rumble!*

With the destruction of the last critical Formation base peak...

...a fatal rupture finally appeared in the energy cycle of the entire Taiyi Covering Heaven Sword Formation.

*Buzz—!*

The golden canopy covering the sky let out a wail, its light instantly dimming to the extreme as if it would extinguish at any moment.

*Pfft—!*

As the primary controller of the Formation, Jian Wuya suffered the most severe backlash.

As if struck by a heavy hammer, he suddenly spat out a large mouthful of blood mixed with fragments of his internal organs.

He was sent flying backwards through the air and slammed hard onto the main peak's square, his aura instantly plummeting to rock bottom.

It was broken... The Taiyi Covering Heaven Sword Formation, claimed to be impervious to all techniques and capable of slaying those at the Hedao Realm Great Perfection, was broken just like that?

All the surviving Taiyi Sword Sect Disciples stared blankly at the figure strolling leisurely in the sky, their minds a total void.

Their faith, their pride, their final barrier...

...had been shattered by that man at this moment.

However, at this time, Shen Yuanmo came to a halt.

He frowned slightly, looking at the sword Formation canopy that, although dim, had still not completely dissipated, appearing somewhat surprised.

"Oh?"

"There's actually a hidden Core Formation Eye..."

He seemed to be talking to himself, yet also as if speaking to someone.

"Interesting."

"Very well then... let's expose your final trump card as well."

No sooner had he finished speaking...

...than deep within the Taiyi Sword Sect's Forbidden Ground, those three Sword-shaped Peaks that had remained silent suddenly erupted with three beams of blood-red light reaching the sky.

A pressure ten times more terrifying than when the sword Formation was at full power—filled with tyrannical, ancient, and destructive auras—instantly enveloped the entire world like an awakening Primeval Vicious Beast.

"Junior! You... have successfully enraged us!"

An old and furious voice came from deep underground, causing the entire Taiyi Mountain Range to tremble violently.