Records of Mysterious Things in the Southern Dynasties

Chapter 542 God-Slaying Formation
"Don't waste your energy." Ren Yuan's voice suddenly rang out from the chaos.

Hou Jing looked closely and saw that the boy had returned to human form, his divine armor gleaming, without a single wound. The wings on his back had also been restored.

Ren Yuan spread his wings and flew freely through the chaos without the slightest hindrance. He suddenly flew in front of Hou Jing, and before Hou Jing could react, he was kicked to the ground!
Hou Jing angrily got up, wanting to retaliate, but Ren Yuan had already flown far away.

In Ren Yuan's eyes, Hou Jing's movements were like slow motion, posing absolutely no threat...

"Why aren't you affected?" Hou Jing asked angrily as he clumsily attacked.

"Nonsense, I am the God of Chaos! This is my home turf!" Ren Yuan laughed loudly, beckoned with his finger, and a deafening roar erupted from the depths of chaos. Sharp rock spikes suddenly rose from the pitch-black 'earth'. These rock spikes were not ordinary soil or rocks, but dark black crystals formed from the laws of destruction.

Hou Jing tried to dodge, but his movements were too slow, and he was still stabbed in more than a dozen wounds. Even worse, after the crystal entered his body, it continued to grow wildly, causing countless bone spurs to sprout all over his body, making even the slightest movement excruciatingly painful.

Ren Yuan waved his hand again, and a crimson torrent tore through the chaos, each flame leaping with the destructive will of the primordial chaos. Hou Jing opened his blood-red maw, spewing forth god-slaying fire to counter it!

The two flames collided violently. The God-Slaying Flame was dissolved into chaos, while the Creation Flame flowed upstream along Hou Jing's divine breath and poured directly into His gaping maw.

Hou Jing was immediately consumed by rage and howled as he rolled on the ground in agony.

"It's too hot, let's cool it down." Ren Yuan chuckled and snapped his fingers. A deep blue, weak water poured down from the chaos.

The weak water, carrying the power of time reversal, caused Hou Jing's divine body to begin to grow in reverse the instant it touched the black Qilin's scales... The scales quickly shrank, revealing newly grown flesh, only to be corroded into bones in the next second.

Hou Jing frantically shook his divine body, scattering the Weak Water into countless droplets. However, those dark blue droplets were like a persistent ailment, impossible to shake off, slowly and continuously corroding His ancient divine body.

"Let me fan you again!" Ren Yuan waved his hand casually, and a sharp whistling sound suddenly rang out in the chaos, as an invisible hurricane carrying the primordial elements rushed in.

The hurricane ripped countless wounds across Hou Jing's body, instantly shredding his flesh and blood into dust. His screams of pain were distorted...

However, the ancient god's power was beyond imagination. Hou Jing was able to grit his teeth and endure the immense pain, gathering divine power to protect himself! But he discovered in despair that this would trigger an even more frenzied attack from the earth, water, fire, and wind.

In this chaotic realm containing the energy of the entire universe, earth, water, fire, and wind are inexhaustible, and so are the attacks...

In this timeless chaos, Hou Jing's divine body suffered countless attacks...

His divine body was already teetering on the brink of collapse, with large patches of scales peeling off, and the divine blood overflowing from his wounds was stained a strange bluish-black by chaos. His body was filled with chaotic forces of earth, water, fire, and wind, which condensed into ice crystals and bone spurs, burning his internal organs and freezing his meridians to the point of near rupture.

Even the divine shell that encased the divine core was covered with cracks, showing signs of imminent collapse.

The terrifying God-Slaying Array is dragging this ancient god of slaughter into an abyss of eternal damnation...

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"The Immortal Slaughtering Formation is terrifying..." Hou Jing, while being brutally beaten by Ren Yuan without any chance to fight back, said with a face full of indignation, "I don't believe you can activate it to this extent on your own!"

"Nonsense," Ren Yuan said calmly. "The Immortal Slaughtering Formation requires at least two deities to preside over it at its core before it can be activated."

"Who else is there besides you?" Hou Jing asked angrily.

"And me!" Tao Hongjing's voice rang out from the chaos.

"Aren't you the monk Zhenshan from Guangzhai Temple?" Hou Jing's eyes widened when he saw him standing on the white fish-eye. Although he had only been in Jiankang for a short time, he knew Tao Hongjing's name. "Wrong, I am Tao Hongjing, the eighth-generation leader of the Shangqing School of Taoism!" Tao Hongjing wore a lotus crown and a celestial robe, with white hair and a youthful face, and a long, flowing beard, looking every bit the enlightened Taoist.

"Hmm, this outfit looks better." Ren Yuan nodded in satisfaction.

"Don't worry, Uncle-Master, I will never pretend to be a monk again!" Tao Hongjing laughed loudly, his divine power surging as he activated the formation.

Seeing Ren Yuan moving freely within the formation, constantly manipulating earth, water, fire, and wind to attack him, Hou Jing asked incredulously, "You weren't presiding over the formation?"

"Nonsense," Ren Yuan laughed, "I need to free up my hands to beat you up!"

"Then who else?" Hou Jing asked in shock. He never imagined he had fallen into a trap set by the gods!
“Me too!” A voice etched deep within Hou Jing’s soul rang out.

Chen Qingzhi's white-haired, silver-armored Dharma form appeared on the black fish's eye, and it actually regained its divine power!

"Weren't you crippled by the God-Sealing Arrow twenty years ago?" Hou Jing's soul began to tremble; the psychological trauma Chen Qingzhi had left on him was simply too heavy.

"You said it yourself, it was twenty years ago," Chen Qingzhi said with a faint smile. "So, I can't be unsealed after twenty years?"

"No, it's impossible!" Hou Jing cried out in despair. He had completely given up resisting and only wanted to escape!

"Break!" He was a decisive person, and without hesitation, he roared to the sky and deliberately broke open the divine shell protecting the divine core, releasing all his divine power.

Hou Jing's bloodthirsty aura surged into a crimson dome, attempting to shatter the chaos directly!

The bloodthirsty aura and the chaotic aura clashed fiercely, and Hou Jing's reckless attacks actually gained the upper hand!

"Hold on!" Seeing that Chen Qingzhi and Tao Hongjing had already given their all, Ren Yuan couldn't care less about attacking Hou Jing anymore. He quickly unleashed his chaotic power to help them suppress Hou Jing...

As expected of the ancient gods, the three gods worked together and relied on the God-Slaying Formation, yet they only managed to fight Hou Jing to a draw.

Neither the bloodthirsty aura nor the chaotic aura could overcome the other, and they actually reached a state of equilibrium...

But if this continues, Ren Yuan and the other two will definitely be in trouble, because the ancient gods' endurance is much stronger than that of the three ordinary gods.

Seeing that things were not going to go well, Tao Hongjing shouted, "Uncle-Master, what should we do?"

"Don't worry, reinforcements are coming!" Ren Yuan said, then shouted, "Stop watching and come help!"

Then a lazy female voice chuckled, "Three heroes fighting Lü Bu, still no match?"

"Please, he's an ancient god!" Ren Yuan spat.

“Well, the ancient god is indeed remarkable.” The woman revealed herself; she was the witch who shared a body with Chen Lingzhi.

Despite the teasing, He didn't slow down at all. A surge of dark gray divine power erupted, joining the effort to maintain the great formation!
Like the last straw that broke the camel's back, the evenly matched situation was instantly shattered. Hou Jing's all-out attack on the Blood Fiend Dome trembled violently under the strangulation of the four divine powers, and quickly cracked into a spiderweb pattern at a visible speed...

"Break!" Ren Yuan roared, and the Chaos Blade flew out, transforming into a ten-thousand-foot-long blade of light that completely shattered the fragile Blood Fiend Barrier!
(End of this chapter)