The Formation Breaks

Falling behind only a few steps, the Ancestral Divinities and leaders of Heavenly Demons touched down on the lands of the West Continent for the first time since the final battle started. The hulking forms of Di Jiang and his siblings caught sight of Mt Sumeru and immediately understood.

"Let's join hands and form the Pangu Genesis Formation. Our power will magnify to the amount needed to context with Luohu," Di Jiang ordered. The others commented how wise he was.

"Didn't you need Houtu for that?" Di Jun reminded him with a sour look. "As far as I can see there are eleven of you."

"That is…" the other divinities were speechless but Zhu Jiuying was different.

"We needed her bloodline as all of us are full manifestations of our bloodline splitting from Pangu's own," the candle dragon said. "Chi You."

"Yes ancestor," a bull headed divinity greeted. He was one of the first spawns of Houtu, a great divinity who inherited a large portion of her her bloodline.

"You want him to substitute our sister?" Xuangming was sceptical to Chi You's ability. After all, he only held roughly one eighth the purity of Houtu herself.

"We have no choice," Di Jiang reminded her. He ordered the others into formation and began chanting. As energy pulsated through their body, the natural Dao Laws pushed their full power into their bodies again. Their bloodline roared as Pangu's physical form emerged from their unity.

The demon leadership could only marvel at how spectacular this looked. Di Jun turned to Taiyi and the latter understood what the former wanted.

The two Golden Crows flew into the sky and pulled. Di Jun released the Sun Chakram and the shadow of a shining sun appeared in his place. His demon generals looked up feeling unstoppable warmth penetrating the Great Wilderness.

"It's the Solar Star!" Someone called out.

Just as Wangshu pulled the Lunar Star, the two brothers pulled the Solar Star. As one of Pangu's eyes, it's fiery gaze spilled through the skybox in the form of a beam. In the distance, it barrelled it's way into Mt Sumeru. Unlike Wangshu who'd only used the Lunar Star to send power. Di Jun used the Solar Star as an orbital weapon.

The Four Symbols Divine Beast simultaneously held an angry expression. The Heavenly Dao directing their bodies had felt the constant tremors caused by both stars unleashing their power. This wasn't even mentioning the dual Da Hai and Luohu was engaging in.

Around the Great Wilderness, the chaos was still roughly contained inside the Immortal Extermination formation. But tremors were spreading out causing massive earthquakes and tsunamis.

With the light of the Solar Star piercing through, the West Continent was practically set ablaze. As the Pangu Genesis formation formed from the Ancestral Divinities plus Chi You, it's presence caused another massive tremor felt throughout the realm.

More and more high level individuals pushed through back to the Great Wilderness. They were half horrified and half ecstatic. While Luohu looks to be contained, it looked like the apocalypse was occurring.

Inside the Immortal Extermination Formation, Da Hai pushed towards Luohu alongside his chief disciple and Zufeng. In a sea of swords, destruction, seawater, alternating dimensions, and numerous natural transformations these great immortals continued to clash.

Da Hai felt all his hate directed at Luohu to the point where thoughts of Hongjun was ignored. The Devil Ancestor looked upon Da Hai with a similar expression. Memories of their first meeting leading up to Huoyun's death sprung up in their minds.

To Da Hai, Luohu really was the root of all his despair, the idol of his hate. In his current fighting stance, the 12 Petals White Lotus did not glow with purifying lustre, but a haunting chill. The Xuanyuan Water Control Flag gripped in one hand and worked with the Heavenly Cloud Gathering Sword to force a standstill with Luohu's spear.

CLANG!

Da Hai grit his teeth feeling his muscles ache from the clash. Magical power coursed through he and his weapons, just barely withstanding the world destroying power held inside Luohu's God Killing Spear. After all, that thing was still a chais spiritual treasure and the stem of a former Dao artefact.

Scales and fire broke out from the corners of his vision. Zufeng and Zulong seemingly formed a perfect harmony to snipe at Luohu's head. Despite his superior cultivation, the Devil Ancestor was one step too slow and suffered the blow head on.

He snarled despite suffering no damage. Da Hai could see untold trillions of tiny blades resisting their attack. He took a quick glance Wangshu's way and prayed she'd hurry up, he cannot wait any longer.

The corners of the sword formation was a chilling sight. Wangshu approached the Immortal Ending Sword un interrupted by it's sword light. The others reached for their targets as well, continuing to draw the total sword light away from the epicentre where Luohu fought.

"Damn it!" Luohu knew he was in a bad spot. The combine force of Da Hai's group was far more troublesome than Yang Mei by himself.

THOOM!

THOOM!

THOOM!

The Devil Ancestor sucked in his breath uttering, "Pangu?" But he realized his mistake after seeing the Pangu Genesis formation and the Solar Star's assault. He grew tremendously angry.

"Bunch of newborn ants, what right do you have to interfere?"

The Pangu Genesis formation was gigantic, it pulled at the outer areas of the Immortal Extermination formation. It's appearance was identical to the real Pangu, so much so that all godfiends present felt a chill.

"Come on out and die!" A voice roared from within the giant. High above, the two Golden Crows unleashed hell from the Solar Star. The Four Symbols got out of the way as heavy rains of fire poured across the Four Swords.

"RAGH!" Luohu slammed his palms down. Drawing from his connection to the west, he forcibly drew all its vitality towards his formation. Expressions of the sword's might extended out to forcibly stop the two faction leaders from making their advance.

"Using the west's vitality? How can you be so cruel?" It was none of these people who said that. Rather, a devil cultivator from within Hundun's protection said out of despair. They watched from within the void still inside Hundun's protection. "Were our efforts for nothing?"

Da Hai meanwhile aimed for Luohu's downed palm. Hoping to take the limb quickly, he used his movement technique to greatly increase his speed.

"Hmph," Luohu clenched his fist to call back the four swords. Da Hai widened his eyes at the same trick Luohu was pulling. For his part, Luohu began to smile. This feature of his version of the four swords never appeared in the future he saw, he doubt anyone could counter it.

"NO!" Declared a union of voices. "We will not let you dispel it so easily!"

Lunar qi froze across the Immortal Ending Sword's path. Despite it suddenly spinning in an arc, Wangshu caught it's blade in a moment of exposure. Sensing danger, the sword unleashed hideous primordial beast like incarnations from its handle. The absolute hunter of immortals during a bygone era.

One bit into Wangshu's shoulder while another skewered through her chest. The goddess didn't appear startled however. She gabbed these monsters with roots emerging from her back to further her hold on the blade. At her level, the sword did not have the power to truly damage her.

It wanted to break out above all else. It's siblings all desired the same thing. But Yang Mei, Qiankun, and Qi An were using their own means to intercept the swords and hold them in place. Luohu's gambit had inadvertently pushed his swords into an exposed position where the formation could be distrusted.

"No." Momentarily distracted, his body became trapped in Zulong's coil. Da Hai smashed his flag pole across the trapped Luohu's face for some satisfaction before performing his own trapping spells. Zulong grabbed the exposed God Killing Spear and began wrestling with Luohu. Were it not for the formation still in place, Da Hai would've sliced that arm off already.

THOOM!

One of the Pangu Genesis' punches left a sizeable dent in the weakening Immortal Extermination formation. It started at its fist in wonder before grinning. Before doing more punches, it's controllers decided to grab some earth and mould it into an axe. Then it used that to start slicing into the formation.

While the eleven Ancestral Divinities within roared with approval, Chi You panted. The formation was an incredible experience, but the substitute was not ideal.

Inside the formation, envelopments of sword light was opening up to reveal the outside air. Da Hai stopped to look at it and laughed maniacally. "So much for invincible formation."

The Immortal Ending Sword was encased in spherical ice alongside Wangshu. The Immortal Slaying Sword could not exert it's will anymore buried beneath layers of peaceful karma under Qi An. Yang Mei's sword was constricted in spacetime, isolated it from the others. Without these pillars of control, the formation was collapsing in on itself.

The sole pillar remaining belonged to the Immortal Trapping Sword currently combating against Qiankun and his Cosmic Ruler. The spiralling galaxy the godfiend transformed into took up an enormous amount of space. Qiankun looked like a blackholes trying to suck in the Immortal Ending Sword while his ruler beat its back.

Luohu screamed in agony but did not let go of his spear. Sword light flickered throughout his body and suddenly the dragon's claw made brief contact with skin. Both immortals widened their eyes in urgency.

'I don't want to do this. Last time was an emergency. This time is even more so an emergency. Curse you Hongjun, curse you Da Hai!' Luohu starting burning his Nascent Soul for fuel. It was an act that could cause irreparable damage to his existence, but he was left with no choice.

Da Hai stabbed forward but Luohu had already breathed out toxic mist. Empowered by his act, he caused Zulong's scales to dim as they lost much of their vitality. He instinctively loosened his body in a jerk. "Master, I'm sorry."

Luohu leapt out of the grip but immediately raised an arm to block Zufeng's fire breath. She switched tactics and unleashed numerous elemental energy attacks towards him in the form of rainbow light. This caused the skin of Luohu's fleshy body to start peeling off.

Da Hai roared at Luohu and reached for the devil. Chaotic Sword Qi rose out from his sword like smoke. Now it was even more dangerous to Luohu without the Immortal Extermination Formation's full defensive capabilities in place.

"Burning his Nascent Soul? What of the Dao?" Da Hai heard Yang Mei gasp. Luohu already had previous injuries, with this burning it would be doubtful if he could ever recover. Nevertheless, the power boost it gave him made him a different monster entirely.

BANG!

Sword and flag was in a crossed position in it's clash against Luohu's spear. Unlike previously, Da Hai felt his heart skip several beats. He leaned back and narrowly missed Luohu's breath attack.

"Worry about someone else then!" Luohu in his empowered state created a phantom replica of his God Killing Spear. Raw destructive energy emerged in the shape of a dragon, rousing such a presence that a spectre of the Great Wilderness disintegrated on the spot. Echoes of this phantom carved lines throughout the world, causing the Pangu Genesis Formation to jump.

Luohu chucked it at Zulong's dimming form. "You own stupidity for bringing another disciple into battle. But hey, he can accompany the others in oblivion right?" He was in so much pain from the burning that he sounded like a crazed maniac.

Da Hai blinked out of his rage, he was determined not to repeat what happened again as well. So he threw the 12 Petals White Lotus, his sole defensive treasure towards his most beloved son. This flower wrapped itself around the dragon who immediately took control of it for the sake of his own survival.

The two forces met causing a destructive clash that quickly spilled out onto the Great Wilderness. The returning experts gasped at how much power was being thrown around. The Four Symbols had a stoic expression as chunks of the Great Wilderness was ripped asunder as a result.

When Haotian returned alongside Dong Wanggong and Xi Wangmu, he was horrified at the destructive battle. Yuanshi, Tongtian, Jieying all stepped out and all three held grim expressions after feeling the chaotic air.

Da Hai observed the destruction dragon being held back. He flipped his attention back to see Luohu punching aside Zufeng's claw. It was obviously broken from the angle the impact left it in.

Luohu's head meanwhile bit into Qiankun's incredibly size. The yelp from the old man signalled the quivering of the spiralling galaxy. Luohu took immediate advantage and dug a huge wound inside his fellow godfiend. His free hand landed on the Immortal Trapping Sword's pummel.

"No! How could you even use such a risk." Qiankun's emerging body was fearful as he spoke. He couldn't comprehend the burning of oneself the first time and still didn't understand how some people could be so mad. At that point, they might as well give up on cultivating the Dao. And for what? Some extra combat power?

"Haven't you learned? Risks are needed to our journey," Luohu spat with disgust. 'When did godfiends get so cowardly?' Before Da Hai, Yang Mei, Wangshu, or anyone else could reach him, he drove the spear into Qiankun's head.

The Cosmic Ruler fell from Qiankun's grasp. The giant godfiend groaned from the piercing strike. The momentum caused him to fall so hard on the ground that spiderweb like cracks came about across the entire Great Wilderness.