Chapter 861: Great Battle Against the Through-Arm Great Sage
Chapter 861: Great Battle Against the Through-Arm Great Sage
Whoosh!
The true form of the Through-Arm Great Sage was the monarch among the ape race—the Through-Arm Ape Monkey. It could seize the sun and moon, shrink a thousand mountains, and toy with the universe!
Having cultivated to the peak of the seventh-rank, comparable to a human Integration stage Perfected cultivator, its heavenly demon qi surged, forcing even ordinary Integration stage cultivators to flee in disarray.
What's more, the black staff in its hand was a fragmented Immortal Abode Rare Treasure—the "Sea-Pounding Staff"!
Although this Immortal Abode Rare Treasure was incomplete, it was highly compatible with the Through-Arm Great Sage's inherited cultivation method. When unleashed, it could display more than half of its full power, earning it the reputation of "foremost in combat"!
Even the Hunyuan Great Sage, that Heavenly Phoenix of yesteryear, was slightly inferior in combat prowess before her breakthrough to the Mahayana realm.
Now, with a single strike, it truly possessed the power to overturn rivers and seas.
Upon the black staff, circles of Immortal Abode secret sigils lit up, emitting a murky black radiance.
Moreover, the power of laws sealed the void, making it impossible for him to use tools like the Great Void Teleportation Talisman to escape!
He had no choice but to take this strike head-on!
"Under this one strike, an ordinary early-stage Integration cultivator, no, even a mid-stage Integration cultivator, would probably be beaten into a pulp, wouldn't they?"
Fang Xi's eyes flickered slightly, and a gray-white bead appeared in his hand.
Light flickered upon the bead, and a skull emerged.
This skull grew with the wind, instantly expanding to an acre in size, its body wreathed in ghost qi. The cries of countless souls emerged, making the surrounding hundred li seem like a netherworld realm!
It was none other than the Yellow Springs Heavenly Ghost at the peak of the Integration stage!
"If you wish to contend with me, you must first defeat my ghost slave!"
Fang Xi laughed heartily.
Though ghost cultivators were inherently weaker in magic power, even the weakest Yellow Springs Heavenly Ghost was still at the Integration stage Perfected level!
Coupled with some ghost dao secret arts and his own demonic cultivation, it would be no problem for them to jointly hold back this Through-Arm Great Sage for a moment!
"This is. . . the Yellow Springs Heavenly Ghost?"
The Through-Arm Great Sage actually recognized the Yellow Springs Heavenly Ghost, suggesting it might have previously clashed with the Zizai Tianmo Wang.
Now, with a furious roar, its tusks protruded, revealing its true form as a ferocious ape. A ray of earthen-yellow radiance shot forth from its mouth.
Wherever the yellow light passed, a large number of lone spirits instantly dissipated into streaks of white light.
It spat out a mouthful of essence qi, which landed on the "Sea-Pounding Staff," causing a ferocious ape head to suddenly appear at the staff's tip, letting out a roar.
Bang!
The "Sea-Pounding Staff" struck the ghastly white skull directly, and countless murky yellow wisps of qi diffused.
Crack!
A crack appeared on the skull, then rapidly expanded in all directions, before bursting apart with a loud crash.
Clatter!
The acre-sized skull instantly crumbled, transforming into ten thousand ghastly white bone relics.
These bone relics rapidly grew, from head to torso, limbs. . . then transformed into bone divine demons.
These bone divine demons, holding spirit artifacts, sat cross-legged on bone lotus flowers, subtly forming an array.
"Myriad Ghosts Netherworld Bone Great Array!"
The Yellow Springs Heavenly Ghost smiled faintly and shouted, "Rise!"
A void space, resembling a netherworld realm, opened, swallowing the Through-Arm Great Sage whole. . .
After completing all this, a bone skull flew back to Fang Xi's side, transforming into the image of an old servant in yellow robes, his face full of bitter smiles: "That ferocious ape nearly tore my old bones apart. . ."
Truthfully, if Fang Xi had only been at the mid-stage Integration realm, this ghost slave might have even rebelled.
Although both were at the peak of the Integration stage,
Could a ghost cultivator be compared to a demon race Great Sage wielding an Immortal Abode Rare Treasure?
This was sending it to its death!
But thinking of the Divine Dao Emperor behind its master, and the "Six Heavens Ancient Ghost General divine decree" on its own body, the Yellow Springs Heavenly Ghost obediently endured.
"This array. . . is quite good. . ."
Fang Xi's eyes lit up when he saw that this Netherworld Great Array could actually trap the Through-Arm Great Sage.
"This is my trump card, laid out by drawing upon the omnipresent power of the 'Netherworld'. . . thus it contains a portion of the Netherworld's laws. Within it are countless living souls, even Yellow Springs ghost creatures of the Integration stage, and it possesses Yellow Springs power that can confuse divine consciousness, capable of trapping a Great Sage!"
The Yellow Springs Heavenly Ghost said with a hint of self-satisfaction.
"Indeed, quite good. . ."
A flicker of spiritual light appeared in Fang Xi's eyes, and he fell into thought.
The Netherworld was an extremely strange realm, possibly overlapping with the entire Earthly Immortal World, and even connected to "reincarnation."
However, cultivators didn't believe in such things.
The so-called "Netherworld" might just be a somewhat special Middle Thousand World, suitable for ghost cultivators and ghost creatures to live in.
But this Yellow Springs Heavenly Ghost's ability to borrow the power of the Netherworld made Fang Xi look at it with new respect.
It truly deserved to be a ghost slave that could cultivate to the Integration stage Perfected level; its combat experience and trump cards were quite abundant.
Unfortunately, the Yellow Springs Heavenly Ghost's laughter didn't last long before turning into a gasp of alarm!
Roar! Roar!
Accompanied by a desolate ape cry, streaks of Yellow Springs power were torn apart on the Myriad Ghosts Netherworld Bone Great Array, revealing two hairy, rough hands.
The two hands grabbed the array's light barrier and suddenly ripped it!
Whirr!
Countless restrictions shattered, and bone lotus platforms turned to ash, revealing a giant ferocious ape ten thousand zhang tall!
This ape was covered in black fur, with two thick, strong arms growing from its back. It was these two arms that had directly torn apart the great array.
It had a single head and four arms; two of them wielded the "Sea-Pounding Staff," which also became incredibly massive, like a sky-propping black pillar.
This was the true form of the Through-Arm Ape Monkey!
At this moment, the furious ferocious ape shook its entire body!
Hairs flew from its back, transforming into black flying swords that pierced through the hearts of the bone divine demons one by one!
This was the "Through-Arm Ape Monkey's" innate divine ability, capable of refining all its hairs into powerful magical treasures. Combined with the Through-Arm Great Sage's sword array art, when unleashed, ten thousand flying swords truly transformed into a sword array, sword qi crisscrossing three thousand li, possessing astonishingly immense power, completely breaking the Yellow Springs Heavenly Ghost's Myriad Ghosts Netherworld Bone Great Array.
Not only that, the remaining thousand-plus flying swords surged like a torrent towards Fang Xi!
Fang Xi snorted coldly, also revealing his Myriad Transformations Demonic God Form, and spat out a blood-red flying sword from his mouth. This was none other than his life-bound artifact—the Divine Infant Sword!
The sword's surface was covered in countless blood-colored sword marks. With a rumble, it also transformed into a giant sword, held by the Demonic God Form's two hands.
He seemed somewhat dissatisfied, and spat out another mouthful of Six Paths Demonic Flame, causing a layer of black demonic flame to ignite on the Divine Infant Sword.
After Fang Xi advanced to the Integration stage, both the Divine Infant Sword and the Six Paths Demonic Flame had naturally been upgraded to the seventh-rank level.
At this moment, with demonic flame burning on the blood-red giant sword, a black-red sword light fiercely met the torrent of flying swords.
Clang! Clang! Clang!
Countless sword qi tangled and dissipated. . .
On the body of the Divine Infant Sword, countless black flying swords fell like buzzing mosquitos, making sounds like rain hitting banana leaves.
Blaze! Blaze!
The demonic fire boiled, transforming like a black giant python, biting onto flying swords one by one.
Those flying swords let out a sudden wail in the Six Paths Demonic Flame, reverting to their essence as ape hairs, then were incinerated into ashes.
And at this moment, the Yellow Springs Heavenly Ghost, who had actively gone to obstruct the Through-Arm Great Sage, was sent flying by a single strike from the ferocious giant ape.The ape roared but did not pursue the Yellow Springs Heavenly Ghost. Its colossal body took a step forward, pressing down like a giant mountain, and the immensely massive "Sea-Pounding Staff" in its hand smashed down head-on!
...
On the battlefield, Jin Gangzi and the Toothless Great Sage had disappeared to who knows where.
Mo Yunzi and the Nine-Tailed Great Sage were still locked in fierce combat.
On the other hand, the Five Elements Child, with five Integration-stage avatars forming a Five Elements Great Array around him, jointly wielded the "Five Elements Bell," actually suppressing the Black Scale Great Sage.
He swept his gaze across the battlefield, seeing that after the seventh-rank demon race experts made their move, the human race was ultimately at a disadvantage.
The Five Elements Child sighed inwardly, slightly easing his efforts, yet still entangled with the Black Scale Great Sage.
Roar!
Accompanied by a dragon roar, a terrifying blue flood dragon appeared on the battlefield.
Its scales were like blue jade, its dragon horns branched, its claws had five digits, and there was a reverse scale at its throat.
Strictly speaking, it was already very similar to a true dragon.
It was the flood dragon true form of the "Heaven-Overturning Great Sage"!
With a flick of its tail, the "Three Immortals Ring's" radiance instantly extinguished, and then the Gao family's three brothers flew backward. The third brother of the Gao family's body even disintegrated in mid-air, only his Nascent Soul narrowly escaping by using a teleportation technique.
"Hahaha. . . where is the Flying Ox Army?"
The Heaven-Overturning Great Sage roared.
From within the demon race army, a peculiar army appeared.
Most of these were transformed ox demons, clad in heavy armor, with black ox horns on their heads covered in various rune lights, wielding various heavy weapons.
"Moo!"
At this moment, led by a seventh-rank demon cultivator, they all let out furious roars.
"Charge the formation with me!"
The Heaven-Overturning Great Sage let out a long cry, pressing down with its dragon claw.
Above Tianyuan City, the thick array light barrier trembled.
Where the aftershocks passed, several spirit cannons were instantly destroyed.
...
Inside the Heavenly Mechanism Chamber.
Ji Feixue looked a bit overwhelmed: "The array core of the Grand Five Elements Sumeru Divine Mountain Great Array is shattered! Immediately activate the backup array core. . ."
"Flying Ox Army? A fresh force from the demon race? The Celestial Brahma Army is already tied up; at this point, we can only let the Five Elements Child's Five Elements Dao soldiers engage them for a bit. . ."
"And the Heaven-Overturning Great Sage. . ."
Looking at the flood dragon furiously attacking the array, Ji Feixue couldn't help but feel a sense of powerlessness.
Although there were still several human Integration stage cultivators, they were even weaker than the Gao family's three brothers, clearly no match for the Heaven-Overturning Great Sage.
"If Long Qingzi were still here. . ."
At this point, even she couldn't help but feel resentment towards Long Qingzi.
Just then, among the numerous array masters sitting cross-legged, an array master in a white robe with a white veil covering his face suddenly raised both hands.
Whoosh! Whoosh!
Black beads shot out in all directions. Among them were balls of burning flames, with countless Immortal Abode secret sigils churning within.
Rumble!
Li Rulin and Wang Lingying watched in horror as a Heavenly Mechanism Chamber within Tianyuan City violently shattered, and several streaks of spiritual light shot out from it.
"You are not Grandmaster Hao!"
A white silk ribbon guarded Ji Feixue's body. She looked at the heavily injured array masters, then at "Grandmaster Hao," her eyes almost spitting fire.
The white-robed Array Master Hao, however, smiled faintly: "Fellow Daoist Ji. . . I have always been Hao Ren. When he was at Foundation Establishment, it was already him. . ."
"A Heart Clan member?"
Ji Feixue immediately thought of something, her heart filled with horror.
The Heart Clan members among the alien races could perfectly possess others and mimic the original host's aura.
She never imagined that this individual had secretly infiltrated the human race so early, and buried himself so deeply, advancing all the way to the Integration realm, and even becoming a famous array grandmaster, passing numerous examinations to enter the core of this array deployment.
Everything was for this day!
Boom! Boom! Boom!
With the destruction of the Heavenly Mechanism Chamber, this array hub, mournful cries echoed throughout Tianyuan City.
Array cores disintegrated one by one. The Heaven-Overturning Great Sage outside was even more ecstatic, spitting out balls of azure light from its mouth, landing on various parts of Tianyuan City.
Rumble!
Tianyuan City's city-protecting great array was violently breached!
"You deserve to die!"
Ji Feixue unleashed a snow-white flying sword, intending to kill Hao Ren.
Hao Ren shot backward rapidly, laughing loudly: "Instead of chasing me, Immortal Ji might as well go check on the backup second hub. . . You wanted to create the illusion of the array being breached at a critical moment, luring your opponents into a trap, then use the second hub to rebuild the array and annihilate them. I had already considered your plan. . . Now, that place is probably. . . hehe. . ."
"What?"
Hearing this, Ji Feixue's face turned ashen.
A jade pendant appeared in her hand. Just as she was about to say something, a bloody hue appeared on the jade pendant, and an anxious voice emerged: "Elder Ji. . . something terrible has happened, the second Heavenly Mechanism Chamber was interfered with by a mysterious array and exiled to the Great Void. . ."
"Moo!"
A black-armored, ox-headed demon lightly leaped onto the ramparts of Tianyuan City, looking up to the sky and letting out a roar filled with bloodthirsty intent!
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