The starry sky was brilliant and colourful, with stars exploding from time to time, releasing light that could travel for hundreds of millions of miles.
The Heaven and Earth Grand Formation, set up by Zhang Ruochen and Xu Tian using the Heaven and Earth Cauldrons, was like a millstone capable of containing a great world. It spun at extreme speed, colliding head on with the Black Hand.
The Earth Cauldron manifested the Primordial World, using origin as the earth to bear the power of all cultivators within the formation.
Panyuan Ancient God stood at the centre of the Primordial World holding his axe, resembling a towering sacred mountain. The divine realm world manifested behind him was dark red, possessing a magnificence no less than that of the Primordial World.
Above the Wuding Divine Sea, many cultivators watched this scene, feeling an unprecedented shock.
This was the proactive strike by the current generation of cultivators against the Immortals. It was a manifestation of strength, courage, and determination. Regardless of victory or defeat, it could bring tremendous encouragement to everyone.
“Boom!”
The Thunder God Hammer clashed with the Heaven Cauldron.
Lightning passed through the Heaven Cauldron, entering the Heaven and Earth Grand Formation, and struck every cultivator within it.
Standing beneath the Sword Origin Divine Tree, Xu Tian’s body was illuminated brightly by the lightning as he roared, “It is just one hand. Let us see how strong you can be.”
“Light of Destiny, Divine Light of Heaven. Cauldron and formation clash, defying the invincible.”
Xu Tian raised both hands, and his Gate of Destiny manifested. Heavenly Venerable level divine energy continuously overflowed from it.
Afuya, with her tall and graceful figure, stood on the edge of the Heaven Cauldron. Beneath her feet was jade light and divine radiance. The mysterious and pure Ancestral Qi stimulated the destiny power of the Heaven Cauldron.
Xu Tian and the Selfless Lamp, who had profound attainments in the Dao of Destiny, were activating the Heaven Formation, causing the power of the Heaven Cauldron to erupt to a greater extent.
The Heaven Formation and Earth Formation combined.
The Heaven Cauldron and Earth Cauldron constructed an impregnable formation world.
The Heaven and Earth Grand Formation withstood this strike from the Black Hand, spinning and flying backwards, before redirecting the lightning power into the boundless starry sky.
This head on clash greatly boosted the morale of everyone.
Even a figure like Panyuan Ancient God was profoundly shocked.
With his cultivation and experience, he had an extremely profound understanding of half ancestor power. In his view, the combat power the Black Hand had unleashed in this starry sky of the Wuding Divine Sea, wielding the Thunder God Hammer, even surpassed Haotian before entering the Netherworld Dungeon.
Haotian was practically invincible at the same realm. Even though he had only been a half ancestor for a short time, Panyuan Ancient God firmly believed he could absolutely stand at the forefront of all half ancestors since ancient times.
The fact that the Black Hand could give Panyuan Ancient God such a feeling showed that His power had already reached the pinnacle beneath the Ancestors.
However, the Heaven and Earth Grand Formation composed of the Heaven and Earth Cauldrons could actually withstand a single strike from Him. This was the true reason for the inner shock of Panyuan Ancient God.
No other combined attack formation possessed such an ability.
Panyuan Ancient God could keenly perceive that the Heaven Cauldron was continuously weakening and softening the impact and lightning power entering the formation.
The Earth Cauldron, on the other hand, absorbed a great deal of this power, decomposing some of it into origin particles and converting some into the interior of the formation. Instead, this made the formation even stronger!
It was precisely because of these two cauldrons that they inside the formation remained completely unharmed.
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After flying tens of millions of miles away, the Heaven and Earth Grand Formation halted its retreat and once again flew towards the Black Hand like a millstone.
The solidity of the Wuding Divine Sea formation and the might of the Heaven and Earth Grand Formation both exceeded the expectations of the Black Hand.
However, He did not retreat because of this.
Because whether it was the Wuding Divine Sea formation or the Heaven and Earth Grand Formation, they could only resist Him and were far from threatening Him.
“Boom!”
“Boom!”
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The Thunder God Hammer struck again in a series of blows, hitting the bronze divine tree.
Lightning and half ancestor level dark divine power spread along the bronze branches, leaves, trunk, and roots. In the Wuding Divine Sea, many spatial cracks appeared, and the defensive formation showed signs of collapse.
Zhang Ruochen stared fixedly at the Black Hand, feeling order spreading and space showing signs of becoming formless and intangible.
He was like a hand from the heavens, controlling the life and death of all living beings in the universe.
“We can only risk our lives now!”
Zhang Ruochen stood at the top of the Earth Cauldron, his gaze growing increasingly resolute.
He stepped down heavily, and the yang attribute power in the Mysterious Foetus gushed out, exceeding the limits of his bodily endurance, increasing the might erupted by the Heaven and Earth Cauldrons by another fraction.
The two cauldrons operated at high speed, manifesting a Taiji pattern and forming an overwhelming offensive momentum.
Facing this attacking power, even the Black Hand hesitated. Instead of continuing to attack the bronze divine tree, He chose to dodge and disappeared in front of the Heaven and Earth Cauldrons.
“Swish!”
A moment later, the Black Hand appeared above Guixu, swinging the hammer once more.
“Roar!”
Panyuan Ancient God let out a long howl, and a spatial teleportation formation subsequently appeared beneath his feet.
Zhang Ruochen held his hands in a virtual embrace, condensing mental power and spatial rules, and pushed forward fiercely. In an instant, Panyuan Ancient God was teleported away, appearing opposite the Black Hand.
Truly facing the Black Hand alone, Panyuan Ancient God finally felt that oppressive aura of destruction, as if all the darkness in the universe had gathered here.
“The master of the Dark Dao is probably nothing more than this!”
This thought flashed through the mind of Panyuan Ancient God, and following it, his long charged axe fiercely cleaved out, colliding with the incoming Thunder God Hammer.
“Boom!”
This strike was even more dazzling than the light formed by a stellar explosion.
“This big guy… actually dares to clash head on with half ancestor level power…” Xu Tian clicked his tongue, his eyes narrowing into thin slits.
The Heaven and Earth Grand Formation flew over, catching Panyuan Ancient God as he flew backwards.
Panyuan Ancient God crashed into the Primordial World, shattering countless mountains. Countless bolts of lightning flowed across his body, and much of his skin and muscle had turned charred black.
Yet, a wild laugh burst from his mouth, as if it was still not satisfying enough.
“Boom!”
The second strike of the Thunder God Hammer fell heavily above Guixu. It could not be stopped at all. Large areas of space collapsed, and the light curtain of the formation swayed precariously.
Already, a great deal of lightning power and dark bizarre qi was pouring into the Wuding Divine Sea like waterfalls.
Many sea areas boiled because of it.
“Is He truly the incarnation of the great tribulation? If He wants to destroy the world, can no one stop Him?” Countless cultivators looked at the tattered sky, feeling disheartened and falling into despair.
They had already risked everything, gathering the power of all living beings from a thousand worlds, but they could still only delay the tribulation, unable to stop it.
The Star Sea Angler stood on his own dilapidated wooden boat, watching the black waterfalls hanging from the sky. His expression grew increasingly calm. Finally, he withdrew all his mental power into his body and stopped activating the formation.
“Great Grandmaster!”
On the wooden boat, Xu Wenzhi showed a puzzled expression.
“We cannot hold it anymore!”
The Star Sea Angler smiled bitterly and shook his head. He glanced at the fishing rod hanging on the black canvas and said, “Hand this boat and that rod over to your master. The future path must be walked by yourselves!”
“No matter how strong the Black Hand is, I do not believe He can remain completely unharmed if this old man detonates my ninety second level Perfect Heavenly Circle divine heart.”
“Swish!”
With his hands behind his back, the Star Sea Angler tore through the air and rose up. Like a meteor, he pierced through the light curtain of the formation, heading straight for the Black Hand.
Many cultivators saw this scene.
Zhang Ruochen was deeply moved and felt very distressed, but he also understood that when facing an existence at the level of the Black Hand, if no half ancestors appeared, there were simply no other effective countermeasures besides detonating one’s divine source and divine heart.
Xu Tian said, “Yu Pusheng certainly has guts, but the divine soul of the Black Hand is extremely strong. It is impossible to give him the chance to detonate his divine heart. Let us go and clear the way for him.”
The Heaven and Earth Grand Formation operated, catching up to the Star Sea Angler and heading towards the Black Hand above Guixu.
The Black Hand obviously knew their purpose and naturally would not give them a chance to trade one for one. Even though He was confident He could withstand the power of the Star Sea Angler detonating his divine heart, He did not want to take any risks.
Space oscillated, and He disappeared.
When He appeared again, He was already above the Heavenly Dragon World.
The spatial coordinates where the Heavenly Dragon World was located were a crucial hub for all the formations in the Wuding Divine Sea. If He could uproot the Heavenly Dragon World, all the formations above the Divine Sea would collapse, and there would be no more power to stop Him.
The Five Dragon Divine Emperor, wearing divine armour, stood at the top of a golden temple. His eyes burned like torches as he said, “The dragon race is the king of all spirits. We fear no enemy. Fight!”
The Heavenly Dragon World was filled with thunderstorms, and ten thousand dragons galloped.
They spat out beams of light from their mouths simultaneously, converging into a light curtain surging upwards.
“Boom!”
The Thunder God Hammer fell, scattering all the light pillars.
The dragons fell downwards like rain.
Some dragons turned into bloody mud, some fell into deep pits wailing, and some, with their bodies burning in angry flames, charged back into the sky.
The Heavenly Dragon World was an eternal and indestructible great world. Its world body defence was strong enough, and the rule divine patterns left by divine dragons of past generations withstood this wave of attacks.
Just as the Black Hand was about to strike a second time, a Progenitor Dragon roar echoed from the depths of the continent in the Heavenly Dragon World, amidst the dense forests.
The Progenitor Dragon roar contained a profound Dao essence that broke all the rules of the world. It actually spread throughout the Heavenly Court Universe and the Hellish Realm in an instant, allowing cultivators far away in the Eastern Universe and the Abyss of Darkness to faintly hear the dragon chant.
It was as if the gates of time and space had been opened, two eras overlapping, and the Progenitor Dragon was about to descend.
Panyuan Ancient God knew many deep secrets. A smile appeared in his giant eyes, which were like divine pools. “It is the power left behind by the Progenitor Dragon. We are saved now! The Black Hand should not have, of all things, attacked the Heavenly Dragon World.”
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“It came from the Dragon Nest.”
The Dragon Lord, full of heroic spirit, stood outside the Dark Temple. He had originally been ordered to guard the six stone figures.
Just as the Progenitor Dragon roar sounded, his arm trembled slightly.
His palm became burning hot. He opened it to look, and the Progenitor Dragon scale in his palm was constantly flashing with brilliant light, releasing ancient and profound Ancestral Qi.
“Whoosh!”
The Divine Dragon Sun and Moon Chaos Tower flew out automatically from his sleeve, rushing out of the Sword World and Guixu, flying towards the Heavenly Dragon World.
“What is going on? A method left by the Progenitor Dragon for future generations?”
There was some special connection between the Progenitor Dragon scale and the Divine Dragon Sun and Moon Chaos Tower, pulling the Dragon Lord to follow and arrive above the Heavenly Dragon World.
The long golden hair of the Dragon Lord swayed in the wind. Feeling a certain power deep within his bloodline being stimulated, he looked at his palm once more.
He saw that around the Progenitor Dragon scale, similar scales had appeared, wrapping his entire palm and spreading towards his wrist, arm, neck, extending to his whole body.
“Whoosh!”
From the Dragon Nest, a thick chaotic rosy light rushed out, enveloping the Dragon Lord and the Divine Dragon Sun and Moon Chaos Tower.
“It is the Progenitor Dragon Qi!”
In the Heavenly Dragon World, many dragon race cultivators who had taken human form stood by the seaside, overjoyed.
Even more aquatic cultivators knelt on the ground and kowtowed.
The Dragon Lord felt the Progenitor Dragon Qi surging from the Dragon Nest most profoundly. The Progenitor Dragon scale in his palm was so burning hot it felt as if it would melt his body.
As he absorbed more and more Progenitor Dragon Qi, his entire body was actually covered in a layer of scales.
“Progenitor Dragon Armour!”
These three words surfaced in his mind.
From above, an extremely oppressive wave of destruction was transmitted.
The star sized Thunder God Hammer compressed space into a depression, striking downwards rapidly.
“Boom!”
Within the chaotic rosy light, the Divine Dragon Sun and Moon Chaos Tower manifested a sun and a moon, steadily blocking the Thunder God Hammer.
Sensing the ancient power transmitted from the Progenitor Dragon Armour on his body, the blood of the Dragon Lord boiled. Following this, he raised one hand.
A giant, brilliantly golden dragon claw manifested above the Dragon Nest, colliding with the Black Hand in the starry sky.
“Boom!”
An even more terrifying energy wave erupted subsequently, tearing the space above the Wuding Divine Sea into pieces. Large swathes of the starry sky were collapsing.
It was as if the Progenitor Dragon had descended across time and space, battling the dark and bizarre entities.
“All dragon race members, heed the order. Spit out dragon breath to converge on the Divine Dragon Sun and Moon Chaos Tower, assisting the Dragon Lord in facing the enemy.” The Five Dragon Divine Emperor transmitted the order once more.
The sound of war drums rang out across the Heavenly Dragon World.
The entire dragon race of the Heavenly Dragon World transformed into a massive army, charging towards the firmament and spitting out dragon breath. Under the illumination of that sun and moon, it was extremely spectacular and shocking.
Faced with such changes, the Star Sea Angler naturally did not detonate his divine heart. Unable to return to the Wuding Divine Sea temporarily, he had to enter the Heaven and Earth Grand Formation and jointly control the formation with Zhang Ruochen and Xu Tian.
Thus, above the Wuding Divine Sea, three forces capable of resisting the Black Hand emerged.
The four sides competed, turning the world upside down as they engaged in fierce magical battles.
The weakest of these was precisely the already fragmented defensive grand formation. Because it lacked the activation of a ninety level mental power cultivator, it was extremely dangerous.
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“Swish! Swish! Swish!”
Xiao Hei, Luo Ji, and Kong Lanyou transformed into three great streaks of light, flying over the sea surface. They finally crossed an unknown number of billions of miles of sea domain, arriving beneath the bronze divine tree.
“The situation of our Great Grandmaster is somewhat off.”
The mental power of Xiao Hei had reached the eighty fifth level. He keenly sensed something, so he stopped Luo Ji and Kong Lanyou from continuing forward, walking alone on the sea water towards the base of the tree.
The mental power of the Master of the Godfall Island had clearly been exhausted, yet the lightning power previously released by the Thunder God Hammer through the bronze divine tree could not harm him in the slightest.
It was all blocked by his mental power domain.
Beneath the Master of the Godfall Island, flowing paths of light appeared in the sea water.
These paths of light seemed to be gathered from countless points of light, continuously spreading into the distance and slowly rotating.
Just as Xiao Hei was tiptoeing and about to reach the front of the Master of the Godfall Island, the latter suddenly opened his eyes.
“Great Grandmaster, are you… alright… The situation is very critical right now. We are about to lose our defence. Please think of a way quickly…” Xiao Hei was both worried and anxious.
“Something has changed at the Dark Temple!”
The eyes of the Master of the Godfall Island, which had originally lacked spirit, suddenly bloomed with brilliant rosy light. His figure swiftly soared into the air.
The paths of light that had originally been hidden beneath the water appeared in the void, spinning at extreme speed and transforming into long ribbons stretching for trillions of miles across the entire Wuding Divine Sea.
In this star domain, all gods and spirits sensed that an extremely powerful mental consciousness had been born.
Like the morning sun rising at dawn, it brought infinite hope to people.