282: Chapter 282 Breaking the Formation

"Let's go, to the next location."

Gu Changge did not linger. He led the two and stepped out once more.

Space and time shifted, and they instantly vanished from above the decaying ancient star.

In the time that followed, Gu Changge followed the coordinates and pathways obtained from the Supreme's memory, traversing the remote and even desolate corners of the Xuanhuang Great World with Little Hei and Little Bai.

They reached the silent star remains floating deep within the star sea, where, inside a stellar fragment comparable to a continent, they discovered a Formation extracting Void Realm energy.

They infiltrated the bottom layer of the Nine Nether Abyss, and beneath the cover of endless Devilish Qi and Evil Qi, they uprooted a sinister Formation that converted dead energy.

They even visited the core of a solar star that had long since cooled and gone dark, and in its deepest recesses, they shattered an ancient Formation Plate that was greedily drawing the star's final residual heat.

The locations of these Formation nodes were incredibly cunning, all hidden within desolate, deathly places that ordinary people could neither perceive nor wish to approach, yet they echoed one another across vast distances.

They constituted an invisible and malicious giant net covering the entire Xuanhuang Great World, continuously stealing sustenance from the world's "capillaries" and funneling it toward an unknown destination.

Gu Changge moved with lightning speed, precise and highly efficient.

No matter how concealed the Formation was, or how closely integrated with the local environment, it had nowhere to hide before his gaze that penetrated all Laws and his absolute power.

As node after node was uprooted, Little Hei and Little Bai clearly felt the pervasive, subtle, yet continuous loss of Origin throughout the entire Xuanhuang Great World gradually diminishing, and the Spiritual Qi between heaven and earth seemed to become slightly more dynamic and lively.

Finally, after clearing all known secondary nodes, Gu Changge halted his steps.

He looked up, his gaze seemingly piercing the endless Void Realm, aimed toward the world's ultimate, most desolate edge.

"The source is right there."

As his voice faded, he took Little Hei and Little Bai and performed the final, and most distant, spatial jump.

The scene before them abruptly changed!

They stopped before a stretch of absolute nothingness.

This was the boundary of the Xuanhuang Great World!

Beyond this lay the cold, dead, and Law-incomplete Chaos barrier.

Ordinary Cultivators could not reach this place; even a Great Emperor would not lightly tread upon this desolate land where even space and time were nearly solidified.

And precisely here, at the weakest point where the Chaos barrier and the Xuanhuang Great World's Laws intersected, a Formation of unimaginable scale, resembling a massive, translucent dark golden spiderweb, was tightly affixed to the World Barrier!

The Formation slowly rotated, countless extremely complex Immortal Dao runes flickered, emitting a terrifying devouring power that made the Soul tremble.

It was like a massive straw, plunged directly into the Xuanhuang Great World's lifeblood, greedily and continuously extracting the purest, most core World Origin!

All the Formations they had destroyed previously were nothing more than tiny branches compared to this!

This was the true core of the mastermind's scheme!

"Just as I thought."

Gu Changge gazed at the colossal Formation, his expression tranquil, showing not the slightest hint of surprise.

Little Hei and Little Bai were startled upon hearing his words.

Judging by their master's tone, it seemed he had already fathomed the mysteries of this Formation?

A few months ago, Gu Changge had traveled here with the Nirvana Great Emperor.

At that time, he had sensed the complexity of this Formation and how deeply it was interwoven with the World Barrier—disturbing one part would affect the whole—thus he did not act rashly.

Later, through several deductions, he had fully grasped the Formation's operational mechanism, energy nodes, and even the hidden Karma behind it.

Gu Changge stood with his hands clasped behind his back, his sleeves gently swaying in the Void Realm.

His gaze gradually sharpened like a sword, and a faint Dao Rhyme began circulating around his body.

"Since we have arrived, we should thoroughly resolve this hidden danger."

He murmured softly, his tone tranquil yet carrying firm resolve.

"It is time to uproot this malignancy that has lain dormant for ages. I want to see which divine being dared to set up such a malicious Formation to steal Origin within the Xuanhuang Great World."

At this moment, in the depths of his eyes, it seemed as though an ancient glacier had suddenly cracked open.

Since reaching the Peak of this realm, it had been too long since he encountered anything worth treating seriously.

And this mastermind, who had planned for ages, finally sparked a bit of his interest.

Gu Changge stared at the vast and intricate Formation on the World Barrier, his gaze like a torch, having long since analyzed it layer by layer.

This was not a singular Formation, but a composite grand Formation formed by the core Formation for stealing Origin, a defensive Killing Formation, an Illusion Formation for concealing aura, and several other intricately linked grand Formations!

The design was extremely ingenious and vicious.

Should anyone attempt to forcibly break the core Formation eye from the inside, they would inevitably trigger the alarm, which would then detonate the terrifying Killing Formation containing an attack comparable to the full power of a Peak Great Emperor!

Moreover, at the Formation's core, five Puppets radiating cold Emperor might stood like stone statues, clearly serving as the Formation's protective force.

"The defenses are so strict, with murderous intent lurking, clearly they feared internal sabotage."

Gu Changge murmured plainly, "It seems the previous battle scars and shattered Emperor artifacts were related to a massive confrontation with this Formation."

This stringent arrangement was sufficient to make any Great Emperor Realm expert retreat in fear or perish on the spot, which explains why this Formation has endured for ages.

Yet, a trace of calm, all-knowing realization appeared on Gu Changge's lips.

"Pity. Although the Formation setter's calculations were meticulous, they could not have foreseen that I would be the one arriving today."

The instant he made his move, a vast and icy will, as if startled from beyond the endless Chaos, pierced the World Barrier and swept across the location!

That will carried a hint of disturbed anger and condescending indifference.

Immediately afterward, a whisper filled with disdain, as if traversing the eternal starry sky, directly penetrated the grand Formation and entered:

"Hmph... another ignorant insect seeking its own demise!"

This was clearly a contingency left by the Formation setter; once the grand Formation was disturbed, it would trigger his awareness.

The Great Emperor who perished previously likely experienced this exact scene.

Gu Changge did not even lift an eyelid, completely ignoring the will and the whisper emanating from outside.

Why pay attention to the clamor of a petty clown?

His ten fingers fluttered like butterflies, tracing mysterious and profound trajectories, and the Great Dao runes flowing from his fingertips shone brilliantly, as if weaving the most fundamental order of heaven and earth.

These runes did not forcefully strike, but, as if possessing life, precisely permeated every subtle structure of the composite grand Formation, seeking ingress and heading straight for the core.

They cleverly bypassed all the trigger nodes for the alarms and Killing Formations, silently reaching the entire grand Formation's most fundamental energy nexus!

"Break."

A single word was softly uttered, what was said became Law, containing the undeniable power of Law.

The terrifying Killing Formation, which stood ready but unactivated, had its runes brighten only to suddenly dim, and the condensed destructive energy instantly collapsed and vanished into thin air, as if the fuel had been pulled from beneath the cauldron.

Simultaneously, the fierce red light in the eyes of the five standing Emperor might Puppets flashed only halfway before being completely extinguished.