204: Chapter 206 A single strike enters the formation, the Black Tortoise cracks.

The moment the white light pillar was split open, the sky above the entire Heavenly Mountain Sect fell silent for an instant.

It wasn't that the sound had disappeared.

It was that everyone's minds were suppressed by that single blade strike until they came to a halt.

The white light pillar condensed by the Xuanwu Array had, when it first erupted from the mouth of the ten-thousand-zhang Xuanwu, seemed almost like a silver river piercing through heaven and earth.

Wherever it passed, space cracked.

Clouds were pulverized.

Even the Spiritual Qi between heaven and earth in the Nine Provinces was forcibly pushed to both sides.

But now.

That white light pillar had split down the middle.

A pitch-black blade light seemed to rise from the deepest part of the deep sea, and also seemed to slash from the end of the world.

There was no earth-shattering explosion.

There was no dazzling, blinding brilliance.

There was only a straight line that was almost cruelly level.

Passing right through the center of the white light pillar.

Then, the white light split into two halves.

Boom!

The delayed sound of the explosion finally erupted.

The white light pillar, split in two, grazed past Lin Yi's side and slammed into the distant sky, shattering the entire sea of clouds for hundreds of miles.

Within the Heavenly Mountain Sect, countless Martial Artists looked up at this scene, their faces pale and their bodies stiff.

Old Ancestor Yan Hui's hand holding his longsword tightened slightly.

The Myriad Phenomena Tower Master, the Buddhist World-Honored One, and Zuowang Daoist Venerable also stared fixedly at the sky.

They knew Lin Yi was strong.

They also knew Lin Yi was no longer a figure who could be measured by the standards of the Nine Provinces' Martial Artists.

But they hadn't expected that even when facing a great Formation formed by eleven beyond-the-heavens Divine Body Realm Triple Stage Peak powerhouses, Lin Yi could still break the move head-on like this.

It wasn't an evasion.

It wasn't a trick.

And it certainly wasn't relying on the Yuanhe Divine Palace to escape the disaster.

It was a head-on blade strike that split it open.

"This is impossible!"

Inside the Xuanwu Dharma Image, San Shan Wuhai's pupils shrank violently.

The arrogance on his face finally froze at this moment.

Sanshan Wuya also stared fixedly at the pitch-black long blade in Lin Yi's hand, his white beard and hair dancing wildly in the Formation's air currents.

His gaze was no longer the condescending scrutiny from before.

Instead, it was shock and doubt.

It even carried a trace of chill that he himself was unwilling to admit.

An Innate?

A Small World native?

On what basis could he split open the head-on attack of the Xuanwu Array?

This was a great Formation jointly activated by eleven Divine Body Realm Triple Stage Peaks!

Even an Undying Realm First Stage Early Stage powerhouse couldn't just casually ignore it.

"Steady yourselves!"

Sanshan Wuya shouted sharply.

"He is only borrowing the advantage of a divine weapon, plus his level of dao concept is high. In terms of true Foundation, he is still just an Innate!"

These words seemed to be for the other Elders.

And they also seemed to be for himself.

Rumble!

The ten-thousand-zhang Xuanwu Dharma Image roared at the sky, tortoise and snake intertwining, its massive limbs treading upon the Void Realm.

Layer upon layer of earthy yellow, black, and white divine light emerged from the Xuanwu's carapace.

That was the sign that the Formation's defense was fully deployed.

Sanshan Wuya didn't dare to underestimate Lin Yi anymore.

He had to stabilize first.

As long as the Formation didn't break, they still had a chance.

As long as they stalled Lin Yi, once they saw through his trump cards and found his flaw, the final winners would still be them.

After all, there were eleven of them.

And Lin Yi was only one.

But in the next moment, Sanshan Wuya's expression changed again.

Because Lin Yi moved.

He didn't stay in place, nor did he use the momentum after that blade strike to retreat.

Instead, he held his blade and moved forward.

With one step forward.

The sound of water suddenly rang out between heaven and earth.

The sound was very light at first, like a mountain spring flowing in the distance.

Then it grew louder and louder.

The stream became a river.

The river entered a grand river.

The grand river's waters converged into a sea.

By the end, the entire sky seemed to be covered by an invisible ocean.

Lin Yi's black clothes fluttered; there was no water beneath his feet, but everyone felt as if he were treading upon a boundless deep sea.

The heavy pressure emitted by the Xuanwu Array fell, enough to crush an ordinary Divine Body Realm First Stage into meat paste.

But when that power fell upon Lin Yi, it was like a giant boulder crashing into a vast ocean.

The water's surface sank.

Vortexes spread.

Then all the power was swallowed, dispersed, and neutralized.

Lin Yi looked up at that ten-thousand-zhang Xuanwu.

"Before you came to the Nine Provinces, did no one tell you?"

His voice wasn't loud, yet it passed through the Formation and entered the ears of every Sanshan Family Elder.

"This place is not your Sanshan Family's hunting ground."

As his voice fell.

The pitch-black long blade in Lin Yi's hand slashed out once more.

This blade strike didn't target San Shan Wuhai, nor did it target Sanshan Wuya.

Instead, it slashed toward the thickest piece of carapace on the back of the Xuanwu Dharma Image.

Sanshan Wuya's eyelid twitched.

That was the strongest point of the Xuanwu Array's defense.

It was also the core of the Formation that he had intentionally exposed.

According to common sense, anyone wanting to break the Formation should not attack there first.

Because it was the hardest.

So hard that it was enough to make an enemy's attack backlash against themselves.

But as Lin Yi's blade fell, Sanshan Wuya suddenly had an extremely ominous premonition.

The pitch-black blade light slashed onto the carapace.

There was no earth-shattering explosion.

There was only a very light 'crack'.

Like ice splitting open.

The next instant.

On that carapace, which was enough to withstand the full-force strike of a Divine Body Realm Triple Stage Peak, a fine crack actually appeared.

The crack was only a few zhang at first.

Then it rapidly spread.

A hundred zhang.

A thousand zhang.

Ten thousand zhang!

The entire carapace seemed to be sliced open from the inside by a single blade.

"Not good!"

Sanshan Wuya's expression changed drastically.

"What he slashed wasn't the carapace, it was the node where the Formation's power flows!"

Lin Yi's blade was too accurate.

So accurate that it didn't seem like he was attacking a great Formation he was seeing for the first time.

It was more like he had already seen through every single flow of power inside the Xuanwu Array, and then slashed at the position that should least be hit.

This was Myriad Laws Penetration.

This was the Water Dao Body.

This was also the terror of the divine body chapter of 'One Blade Slashes One World' after reaching Major Achievement.

Lin Yi didn't need to understand the Sanshan Family's Xuanwu Array.

He only needed to understand how the power flowed.

And water is what is best at flowing.

No matter how profound the Xuanwu Array was, as long as the Formation's power was circulating, there would be traces.

As long as there were traces, they could be seen by him.

As long as they could be seen, they could be severed.

Boom!

The first piece of carapace exploded.

The massive body of the Xuanwu Dharma Image shook violently.

The eleven Elders within the Formation groaned simultaneously.

One grey-robed Elder's face turned pale, and a trace of blood seeped from the corner of his mouth.

"Steady the Formation!"

Sanshan Wuya roared.

But Lin Yi's second blade strike had already arrived.

This time, he didn't slash the Xuanwu's carapace.

Instead, he slashed at a hidden undercurrent of Formation power that had been exposed after the carapace split.

The pitch-black blade light drilled into the body of the Xuanwu Dharma Image along the crack.

Like a black swimming fish, silent, yet fast to the extreme.

That grey-robed Elder's heart pounded with a warning of danger.

Just as he wanted to pull away and change the Formation, a streak of black light suddenly appeared before his eyes.

"No—"

Before his voice could fully leave his mouth, his body froze in mid-air.

Between his brows, his chest, and his Divine Body Origin, a straight line of blood appeared simultaneously.

The next instant.

This Sanshan Family Elder at the Divine Body Realm Triple Stage Peak was directly sliced into two halves by a single blade strike.

Not just his Physical Body.

Even his Divine Body Origin was sliced open.

Boom!

His corpse exploded into a mist of blood within the Xuanwu Array.

The Xuanwu Dharma Image followed with a shrill roar, and its massive body suddenly collapsed at one corner.

A gap in the Formation was broken.

An Elder had fallen.

The remaining ten Elders of the Sanshan Family all fell silent for a moment.

When they came, no one had thought they would die.

In their eyes, the Nine Provinces was just an ownerless Small World.

The strongest person here was nothing more than a native who had obtained a Legacy by a stroke of luck.

What they were truly wary of was that so-called 'Grotto Heaven Realm Legacy Immortal Cave'.

It wasn't Lin Yi.

But now, a Divine Body Realm Triple Stage Peak Elder had died right before their eyes.

Died within the great Formation.

Died under their joint protection.

Veins bulged on San Shan Wuhai's forehead, and for the first time, fear appeared in his eyes.

"How could he possibly kill Wuyue?"

"The information Sanshan Chong sent back was wrong!"

Another Elder gritted his teeth.

"This is definitely not an ordinary Grotto Heaven Realm Legacy; an ordinary Grotto Heaven Realm Legacy couldn't cultivate such a monster!"

Sanshan Wuya's white hair danced wildly.

His expression had become gloomy to the extreme.

The stronger Lin Yi was, the more he feared.

But at the same time, the greedier he became.

At the Innate Realm, reverse-killing a Divine Body Realm Triple Stage Peak.

Such a Legacy, how could it be just Grotto Heaven Realm?

If the Sanshan Family could obtain it, forget the rise of the Baichuan Branch, even the San Shan Lord of the main family would go crazy for it.

"Stop thinking about holding back."

Sanshan Wuya's voice was cold.

"The Opportunity on this boy is even greater than we imagined."

"If we let him live today, it will be our Sanshan Family that dies."

"Burn the Formation!"

The remaining ten Elders' expressions changed slightly.

Burning the Formation meant burning their Divine Body Origins to forcibly push the Xuanwu Array to a higher level.

This was a desperate measure.

But they took one look at Lin Yi, then at the grey-robed Elder who had just fallen, and in the end, no one objected.

Lin Yi stood in front of the Xuanwu Dharma Image.

The pitch-black long blade hung at his side.

A drop of blood slid down the blade's edge; before it could fall, it was swept away by invisible water vapor.

He looked at the Origin divine light beginning to burn on Sanshan Wuya and the others, his expression remaining calm.

"Finally learned to be afraid?"

He walked forward.

With every step he took, a ripple of water spread out in the void.

"But it's too late to be afraid now."

Boom!

In the next moment, the Xuanwu Dharma Image completely changed.

The originally black-and-white interwoven Xuanwu divine light was dyed red by the blood-colored Origins.

The massive cracks in the carapace began to forcibly close.

The snake's head hissed at the sky.

A pressure far more terrifying than before erupted from within the blood-colored Xuanwu.

Above the Heavenly Mountain Sect, the entire sky seemed to be dyed dark red.

Sanshan Wuya stood at the center of the Formation, killing intent and greed intertwining in his eyes.

"Lin Yi!"

"Today, no matter what Legacy is behind you, no matter what divine weapons or secret techniques you have, it won't change one thing."

"You are only an Innate."

"And we are ten Divine Body Realm Triple Stage Peaks!"

The blood-colored Xuanwu roared and raised its giant claw.

As this claw fell, the void collapsed layer by layer.

It was as if an entire blood-colored world was pressing down toward the top of Lin Yi's head.

Lin Yi looked up.

He slowly raised the pitch-black long blade horizontally.

He didn't refute Sanshan Wuya's words.

Because there was one point Sanshan Wuya hadn't said wrong.

He was indeed still an Innate.

So he could not retreat even more.

Once he retreated, no one in the Nine Provinces behind him could block these ten crazed Divine Body Realm Triple Stage Peaks.

Deep in Lin Yi's eyes, a wisp of cold Battle Intent slowly ignited.

The sound of water rose again.

This time, it wasn't just the sky that had the sound of water.

Upon the land of the Nine Provinces, countless rivers, lakes, and seas simultaneously rippled.

The Luolong River, the grand river of Dongshan Prefecture, the Heavenly Mountain Snow Lake, the ten thousand miles of waves in the South Sea...

All water veins seemed to hear the summon at the same moment.

Lin Yi slashed out with his blade.

The blood-colored giant claw pressed down.

The black blade light rose against the heavens.

Between heaven and earth, only a single streak of black light remained.

Boom!