The World-Sealing Grand Formation and the Chaos Daofruit
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Within the desolate wilds of Baiji Commandery.
The war between the Seamless Gate and the Grand Xia had reached a fever pitch. The two sides were almost perfectly matched in strength.
The Grand Xia's Xingtian God, Ji Ning, and the Seamless Gate's True Immortal Chibing were locked in a stalemate, each restraining the other.
The other five Grand Xia Xingtian Gods and five golem Xingtian were being besieged by two White-Faced Flood Dragons, six golem Xingtian, and a number of Bloodcloud Golems from the Seamless Gate. The Bloodcloud Golems in particular, with their ghostly, unpredictable movements, had the five Xingtian Gods in a very difficult position. They were only barely holding on thanks to the assistance of other Empyrean Gods and True Immortals.
The Xia Emperor himself was the one holding back the majority of the Bloodcloud Golems; without him, the Grand Xia would have already lost another Xingtian God.
The strongest assets on the Grand Xia’s side were the three divine-spirit armies.
However, one of these armies was being held back single-handedly by True Immortal Baiji. Another was locked in a brutal melee with the Venomous Clown White-Faced Flood Dragon. The last was completely entangled by eight golem Xingtian from the Seamless Gate. These black golem Xingtian were slower than the Bloodcloud Golems, but they were incredibly difficult to destroy and had managed to tie down the entire army.
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For a time, the battle was a scene of utter chaos.
It had settled into a stalemate. Neither side could crush the other. A new force would be needed to shatter this fragile balance.
Of the six Xingtian Gods, Ji Ning was the most frustrated, as he was being completely stalled by the True Immortal Chibing.
“Hm?” Ji Ning suddenly felt a terrifying fluctuation in the natural energy of heaven and earth. He looked up into the sky.
He was not the only one. Every cultivator on the field sensed this terrifying power.
All of them were drawn to the sight unfolding in the sky above.
“Rumble…”
An incredibly dangerous energy gathered in the upper atmosphere, coalescing into dark red clouds. They resembled tribulation clouds, within which flashes of red light flickered. The power contained within was enough to chill anyone’s heart.
“The World-Sealing Grand Formation!”
“It’s the World-Sealing Grand Formation!”
“The Xia Emperor has activated the World-Sealing Grand Formation!”
For a moment, the forces of the Seamless Gate were stunned, while the Grand Xia forces were filled with excitement.
The fame of the Grand Xia’s World-Sealing Grand Formation was truly immense. Even Ji Ning had heard about it back during the Immortal Fortunes Assembly, though he hadn’t understood the details at the time. It was only after he had risen in status that he learned the specifics. This ‘Grand Xia World-Sealing Grand Formation’ used the Tianmang Hall Imperial Palace as its focal point. The capital cities of the three thousand six hundred commanderies served as its auxiliary nodes, gathering the power of all these cities and enabling it to attack any point within the entirety of the Grand Xia world!
Once the tribulation clouds appeared, space itself was frozen.
Any target it selected would be unable to escape!
Its power was immense…
Celestial Immortals were as good as dead. Empyrean Gods and True Immortals, relying on their powerful divine bodies and defensive divine abilities, might have a chance to survive. As for a Pure Yang True Immortal, death was almost certain! This power surpassed the Xia Emperor’s own strength. It was the establishment of this ‘Grand Xia World-Sealing Grand Formation’ that had deterred the countless feudal lords from ever daring to rebel. As long as they were within the Grand Xia world, no one could escape the formation’s attack. They all remembered the time it had been activated to kill the rebellious Pure Yang True Immortal, ‘True Immortal Quhai’.
“Finally using it.” True Immortal Baiji looked up, a cold smile on his lips. A gray fruit appeared in his hand. Suddenly, he crushed it.
Whoooosh.
Countless streams of gray mist surged out from the crushed fruit. In an instant, the vast, rolling torrent of gray mist shot up into the sky, completely enveloping the dark red tribulation clouds!
“Hmph.” The Xia Emperor’s brow furrowed, then he let out a cold laugh. “Chaos Force? Baiji, do you really think a mere wisp of Chaos Force, broken up into mist, can block my grand formation?”
It was a power that one could only begin to grasp after starting to comprehend the Heavenly Dao of Chaos. It was the highest, most supreme power within the Three Realms. Generally speaking, only True Gods and Daofathers, after mastering a Heavenly Dao, would begin to slowly explore the Heavenly Dao of Chaos. Of the Ten Heavenly Daos, the Heavenly Dao of Chaos was the absolute highest. To completely comprehend it was to become the supreme ‘Pangu God’. Pangu himself had mastered this one Heavenly Dao. As for Mother Nuwa, she was even more extraordinary, having mastered nine of the Ten Heavenly Daos.
There was a saying that there were one hundred and eight thousand Daos in heaven and earth.
Mother Nuwa had mastered eighty-four thousand of them.
This showed her level of achievement!
It wasn’t that Nuwa couldn’t comprehend the final Heavenly Dao; it was that the Heavenly Daos were, by their very nature, incomplete. It was impossible to fully comprehend all Ten Heavenly Daos. Mastering nine was the absolute limit!
“Haha, I admit your World-Sealing Grand Formation is powerful. This Chaos Force is indeed just a sliver.” True Immortal Baiji laughed heartily, a trace of mockery in his eyes. “But a sliver is still Chaos Force! After penetrating this Chaos Force, how much power will your grand formation have left? Besides… this ‘Grand Xia World-Sealing Grand Formation’ is so powerful and covers an entire major world. It far exceeds what a True Immortal should be capable of. I imagine the cost of activating it, even for you, is not small.”
The Seamless Gate had obtained intelligence.
The Xia Emperor could only activate the World-Sealing Grand Formation at most twice in a century. True Immortal Baiji had even personally asked his master, the Godking, who had said: “The scope of this formation has already surpassed the means of a normal Empyrean God or True Immortal. For an attack to be able to cover an entire realm is already the method of a True God or Daofather. This formation was forged by Yinglong primarily as a deterrent. Since the intelligence says the Xia Emperor can only activate it twice in a century at most, then I suspect… the Xia Emperor can only activate it once. If he is willing to pay an enormous price, he might be able to do it a second time. I shall bestow upon you a Chaos Forcefruit; use it to weaken his grand formation.”
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“Hmph.” The Xia Emperor glared coldly below.
The tribulation clouds of the World-Sealing Grand Formation possessed enough power to kill any of the Pure Yang True Immortals of the Seamless Gate below. An Empyrean God, relying on their divine body and defensive divine abilities, might survive an attack from the tribulation clouds. But a Pure Yang True Immortal was almost certainly doomed. The Xia Emperor’s original plan was to attack True Immortal Baiji directly. But now that the tribulation clouds were wrapped in ‘Chaos Force’, after penetrating it… their power would be severely weakened!
Powerful beings like True Immortal Baiji were easy to drive back, but hard to kill.
The life-preserving methods of Empyrean Gods and True Immortals were all formidable…
“I guessed the Seamless Gate would have a countermeasure,” the Xia Emperor thought to himself with deep resentment. “But who would have thought the Daofather behind him would directly give this True Immortal Baiji a condensed Chaos Daofruit? That Daofather is truly generous.” The Chaos Forcefruit, also known as a ‘Chaos Daofruit’, was not something a True God or Daofather could casually produce.
If it were that easy, they would condense fruits wildly, letting their own Chaos Force recover, and soon Chaos Daofruits would be everywhere.
But in reality…
To condense a Chaos Daofruit, one had to excise a sliver of their own comprehension of Chaos from their soul, cutting it away entirely. Only then would the Chaos Force within that comprehension naturally condense on its own, allowing it to exist independently. The Chaos Force within a single fruit was thus incredibly small. In the midst of this great tribulation, even if the great powers of the Seamless Gate were willing to excise their own Chaos comprehension for the sake of their realm’s fortune, they would only sacrifice a tiny, tiny amount. They could spend a bit more time to cultivate it back. If they excised too much, it would be very difficult to restore.
A single sliver of Chaos Force was enough to weaken these tribulation clouds.
“Go.” A cold light flashed in the Xia Emperor’s eyes.
The tribulation clouds in the sky suddenly turned into a single beam of rainbow light that shot downwards.
Zzzz…
The gray mist tried its best to resist. Although its quality was astonishingly high, it was still just a sliver of Chaos Force transformed into mist. It was consumed in the blink of an eye. The original beam, which had been a hundred zhang wide, was weakened to a mere ten zhang in width. Only one-tenth of its original power remained. This single beam of rainbow light was as fast as lightning.
Whoosh!
One of the White-Faced Flood Dragons, which had been fighting the Xingtian Gods below, let out a furious, terrified roar. It even tried to block with its claws.
“Pfft.”
The rainbow light pierced through it in an instant, leaving a massive hole in its chest. Many of the Celestial Immortals and Loose Immortals inside were killed instantly. The entire White-Faced Flood Dragon immediately collapsed, and the countless Celestial Immortals and Loose Immortals within fled in panic.
“Kill!”
The Xingtian God who had been fighting it, Gonghe, naturally did his best to slaughter them.
From a distance, True Immortal Baiji watched this scene with a cold, indifferent gaze. He had prepared for all of this. To endure an attack from the ‘Grand Xia World-Sealing Grand Formation’ at the cost of several hundred Celestial Immortals was a good trade. If not for the Chaos Daofruit, even he himself might have died! After all, the Grand Xia World-Sealing Grand Formation was far too terrifying, approaching the might of a Daofather.
“Xiamang, you have used your World-Sealing Grand Formation. You probably only have your Yinglong Guard left now,” True Immortal Baiji transmitted with a laugh. “You have already lost this war.”
“Come out!”
True Immortal Baiji suddenly let out a loud roar.
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
Suddenly, four colossal figures appeared in the air. They were four White-Faced Flood Dragons, each radiating an aura of overwhelming, surging power. They were all savage and brutal beyond measure.
“What?!”
“Four more?”
“Four White-Faced Flood Dragons?”
The hearts of everyone on the Grand Xia side sank like stones into the sea.
Heavens.
One White-Faced Flood Dragon represented a thousand Celestial Immortals and a hundred thousand Loose Immortals. This meant the Seamless Gate had dispatched at least another four thousand Celestial Immortals. It was hard to say how strong these four White-Faced Flood Dragons were; there might even be one as powerful as the Venomous Clown White-Faced Flood Dragon.
“So the Seamless Gate has seen fit to pay me this much respect.” The Xia Emperor let out a cold smile. “Since you want my Yinglong Guard to appear, then I shall oblige you.”
Whoosh.
A massive divine dragon, truly colossal in size, appeared in midair. This dragon was unusual. Compared to a normal dragon… it had an enormous pair of wings. This was the legendary form of the divine beast ‘Yinglong’. Daofather Yinglong was a divine beast, one who had been extraordinary since birth. After undergoing fierce battles in the primordial era, he had eventually achieved the level of a True God and Daofather.
“ROOOAR!!!” The massive Yinglong dove downwards.
“Haha, come then.”
One of the White-Faced Flood Dragons let out a wild roar and charged directly to meet it.
Bang! Bang!
The Yinglong and the White-Faced Flood Dragon began to fight directly. Although the Yinglong was slightly stronger, the White-Faced Flood Dragon could still hold its own.
“What? That White-Faced Flood Dragon is that strong? It must be led by an Empyrean God or True Immortal.” A chill ran through the hearts of those on Ji Ning’s side.
Their Yinglong Legion was only a match for a single powerful White-Faced Flood Dragon.
As for the other three White-Faced Flood Dragons… could it be that there was another super-powerful one? If so, they would be in serious trouble.
The Xia Emperor watched everything with cold eyes. He was well aware that the war against the Seamless Gate would be difficult. Their intelligence network was far too formidable; all of his methods had been uncovered one by one by the Seamless Gate. As for the Seamless Gate’s methods, he knew almost nothing. He had now deployed all his forces, and it seemed he was still at a disadvantage!
“Xiamang, you have lost,” True Immortal Baiji declared, his momentum overwhelming and his arrogance boundless. “This Grand Xia is now my Baiji’s Grand Xia. No, by then it will not be called the Grand Xia World. It should be renamed the Baiji Great World!”
(A/N: Going out to attend a classmate's wedding, managed to squeeze out a chapter early in the morning.) (Finally— Tomato earnestly asks for your monthly votes.) (Please cast your monthly votes for Tomato!) (We are… very far behind right now!)