Daqin Zhentiansi

"Slay again!"

The phantom of the god showed no emotion as he raised his longsword once more.

This time, the illusory image of the Sky-Locking Chains, entwined with blades, wriggled like a living thing.

An even stronger sealing power, specifically designed to counter the might of gods and demons, condensed upon it!

The blade strikes harder and faster!

"boom--"

The heavens and the void seemed to be cleaved open by this single strike!

Zhang Yuan looked up, and the space around him seemed to be torn apart and distorted.

Instead of retreating, they're advancing!

He formed an ancient hand seal in front of him, and the flow of power within the Xuanwu Divine Image suddenly accelerated.

He was no longer passively receiving the power, but actively guiding the vast power of the array into his body!

"Buzz!"

The dark gold runes on his body seemed to be burning!
The immense physical strength of those above the tenth rank surged wildly under the power of this great formation!
He felt as if he had transformed into a chaotic god or demon who could bear the weight of heaven and earth, and every move he made contained the power to destroy galaxies!
However, this power was too immense, like a raging dragon surging through his meridians. Every time he guided and impacted it, it was accompanied by excruciating pain that felt like his bones were about to break and the risk of losing control!
That was his goal!
Borrowing the divine general's sword and the power of the great formation, I temper myself and integrate with the formation!
Each strike from the divine general was like a heavy hammer, slamming down on Zhang Yuan, this "chaotic divine iron," and also tempering the compatibility between the three thousand martial guards and the great formation!
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

The divine general's longsword was like a giant axe that could split the heavens, each strike heavier than the last!

Zhang Yuan either punched the blade's edge head-on, sending sparks flying and fragments of space flying everywhere.

Or it could trigger the Black Tortoise's head to spew out annihilating black light to counter the chain seal.

Or they could transform themselves into a shield to withstand the immense shockwave!

Every collision is a thrilling trial.

His control over the power of the great formation became increasingly proficient and seamless at an astonishing speed.

The three thousand guards behind Zhang Yuan went from initially trembling and vomiting blood, to gritting their teeth and enduring, to having their eyes become increasingly sharp and resolute.

Their vitality and will were highly concentrated on the edge of life and death.

Unbeknownst to them, their resonance with the great formation became increasingly close!
The martial arts of the Great Qin Dynasty have quietly condensed into something as hard as a reef in this primordial world!

"Ok?"

The phantom of the divine general paused slightly.

He seemed to sense that something was wrong as well.

This ant-like mortal and the battle formation behind him are growing rapidly in battle?!

A hint of anger seemed to flash across his blurred face.

With his final strike, he gripped the sword with both hands, and the illusory image of the Heaven-Locking Chains wrapped around the blade solidified completely, as if to drain all the remaining sealing power of the entire Divine Elephant Mountain.

"boom--"

The blade transformed into a golden-black aura that tore through the chaos, carrying supreme majesty that could imprison souls and crush laws, and slashed down fiercely!
This strike is determined to completely erase the Xuanwu Divine Image, along with everything it protects!
Faced with this fatal blow, there was no trace of ambiguity in Zhang Yuan's eyes.

He became completely familiar with this power!

He stepped out of the protective range of the Xuanwu Divine Image, and the dark golden divine light around him shone brightly to the extreme, like a chaotic god walking among mortals!
"break!"

He uttered a cold syllable, and his right hand shot out like lightning, neither dodging nor yielding, directly grabbing the chain blade wrapped in golden-black blade energy that was powerful enough to cleave stars!
A look of disbelief, absurdity, and fury flashed in the god's eyes—how dare an ant catch a divine blade with its bare hands?!
"clang--!!!"

A deafening roar, like the shattering of a divine bell, resounded throughout the universe!

Time seemed to freeze at this moment!
Zhang Yuan's hand, burning with dark golden divine flames, with its five fingers like chaotic divine pincers, actually grabbed the huge blade that was wrapped with materialized Heaven-Locking Chains and exuded an aura of world-destroying destruction!
The destructive power and the sealing power of the chains on the blade's edge frantically impacted his palm, emitting a teeth-grinding "hissing" sound.

Space collapsed into a black hole at the point of contact!
However, Zhang Yuan's hand remained as steady as a rock!
The Chaos God-Demon Body, which had been tempered by destructive thunderstorms and Phoenix True Flame above the Ten Great Stars, now revealed its "indestructible" essence!

Dark gold runes swirled wildly beneath his skin, desperately resisting the corrosive force of the blade!

The power of the chains, strong enough to imprison gods and demons, wrapped around his arm, but it was as if it had encountered its nemesis, emitting a mournful cry and disintegrating inch by inch!

Zhang Yuan suddenly exerted his strength!

"Snap! Snap!"

That blade of law, compressed by the divine mountain and bound by the Heaven-Locking Chain, was actually shattered inch by inch by his bare hands!

Countless fragments of the laws scattered and flew in all directions like meteors!
The phantom of the divine general trembled violently, and for the first time, a clear expression of horror appeared on his blurred face: "No... impossible... a mortal body... how could this be..."

Before he finished speaking, the phantom, along with the shattered longsword, collapsed under Zhang Yuan's indifferent gaze, turning into countless golden and black light spots. In the end, they were completely purified and devoured by the pure golden light surging from the depths of the stone wall!
Deep within the crack, the pure golden light suddenly intensified a hundredfold!
An ancient and melodious elephant call, filled with relief and joy, seemed to have traveled through countless ages, resounding deep within the hearts of Zhang Yuan and his three thousand guards!

Just as Zhang Yuan crushed the Divine General's illusory blade of law, a magnificent golden light suddenly erupted from the core of the ancient, silent Divine Elephant Mountain deep within the cracks in the dark stone wall!

An ancient elephant's cry, full of liberation, seemed to traverse the torrent of time and space, and resounded directly in the depths of Zhang Yuan and the three thousand guards' souls!
The dazzling golden light was no longer a scattered ripple, but transformed into a condensed, tangible golden torrent that crashed into Zhang Yuan's body!

This force is as heavy as a mountain, as vast as a starry sea, carrying the boundless power and indomitable will of creation.

Zhang Yuan's body trembled violently, and the dark gold runes on his Chaos God-Demon Body shone brighter than ever before, as if every cell was greedily devouring and merging this gift from the Primordial Ancestor.

His bones emitted a rumbling sound like ancient divine mountains rubbing together, his muscles bulged like coiled dragons, and a terrifying sense of power, enough to suppress all hells and bear the weight of the heavens, arose spontaneously—the power of the divine elephant was bestowed upon him and nourished him!
At the same time, the "Prison Suppression" primordial inheritance aura that had been sealed for ten thousand years deep in the stone wall seemed to have found its final destination, transforming into countless mysterious and obscure law runes flowing with dark golden light. Like living things, they broke off from the stone wall and rushed to imprint themselves on Zhang Yuan's bones, blood, and even soul!
These runes are incredibly profound, containing the supreme mysteries of controlling gravity, sealing space, and condensing the Xuanhuang Heavy Domain.

He possesses a trace of the Prison Suppression Inheritance's power!
Zhang Yuan's aura instantly underwent a transformation, as if he himself had transformed into an eternal divine prison capable of suppressing the heavens and the earth.

This dual power was not limited to Zhang Yuan alone.

Through the condensed "Xuanwu Qingtian" battle formation, the magnificent life essence of the divine elephant and the fragments of the laws of the prison were like a rushing river, surging back into the bodies of the three thousand Qin warriors behind him!
"Om-!"

Three thousand heavily armored figures in black simultaneously unleashed a blinding light!
Without warning, mysterious spiritual patterns appeared on the exposed skin of every warrior—on their foreheads, arms, and even between the seams of their heavy armor!
These spirit patterns flowed like lava, with a luster that intertwined dark gold and red gold, and they came in various shapes.

Some resemble the giant feet of a divine elephant, bearing the imprint of the earth's weight.

Some are like the chains that guard the mountains, binding them with the solemnity of sealing off the area.

More importantly, it is a unique mark that combines the martial guard's own blood and thunderous will.

An overwhelming sense of power, accompanied by the generation of spiritual patterns, swept over every martial guard. Their aura suddenly soared, and the flames burning in their eyes seemed capable of incinerating the heavens.

A spirit rune appeared on everyone's body!
At the very instant that the core power of Shenxiang Mountain was activated and the spirit patterns appeared on Wuwei's body—the Rift Sky Plain.

The aura of the Bull King Lieqiong, who had just broken through to the third level of the Venerable Realm, surged violently once again!
The natural, mysterious runes on his enormous bull horns were fully illuminated, like burning golden hoops, causing the evil energy of the entire wasteland to boil.

Countless savage bull warriors roared to the sky, their muscles bulging violently. Their already ferocious power surged exponentially under the ancient call from the depths of their blood.

Many of the Bull Demon Warriors also had blood-red totems resembling bull horns faintly appearing on their bodies!
Shenyue Valley.

The White Elephant King "Chenyue" suddenly sank its mountain-like body, its four legs sinking deep into the altar rock layer!

A "prison-suppressing power" far purer and more profound than before suddenly spread out from him, and all the White Elephant Clan members in the valley raised their heads and roared in unison!

The ground beneath their feet seemed to come alive, rising and falling with their breath.

The young soldier's bones cracked like popping beans as his strength surged.

The old elephant's cloudy eyes became clear and sharp, and its control over the power of the earth became exquisite.

The potential of the entire ethnic group was completely ignited and elevated at this moment!
Throughout the wasteland, there dwellings of withered vine demons, cave crocodiles, and sand wolf tribes...

In the land inhabited by all races, countless golden or dark golden beams of light of varying strength shot into the sky!

The dormant shackles of bloodline shattered, and power surged wildly in resonance!

Above the wasteland, an invisible, indomitable will transformed into a tangible battle cry, surging like a tidal wave.

The power of the wasteland tribes has increased!
……

Above the nine heavens, in the Hall of Ten Thousand Spirits' Annihilation of the Patrol Division.

The light screen representing the "Northern Wilderness, Nine Shepherds Wasteland Suppression Node" was no longer the insignificant flicker it had been before.

At this moment, it was like a lake surface where a giant rock had been thrown in, suddenly bursting out with a blindingly bright light that intertwined gold and black!

The light screen trembled violently, emitting a sharp, strained buzzing sound.

On it, the originally stable star trajectory runes were twisted, disintegrated, and extinguished in large swaths!
"Crack!"

A floating glass lamp next to the main seat was cracked by the invisible shockwave that emanated from it!
The Venerable One in the moon-white star-patterned robe, who had been indifferently closing his eyes and deducing the stars, suddenly opened his eyes!
For the first time, a clear look of astonishment and disbelief appeared on his usually placid face!

"This fluctuation... the Divine Elephant's primordial aura has been fully awakened?! And... the Prison Suppression Law has been activated?! Who could possibly shake the core node locked by the Celestial Venerable?!"

He gasped softly, his voice trembling slightly, a tremor he himself was unaware of.

He could no longer sit still.

He suddenly stood up!

The wide sleeves of the robe stirred up a fierce gust of wind, scattering the chaotic star map and its light and shadow before them.

"Issue the order to dispatch 30,000 patrols to the Divine Elephant Mountain in the wilderness."

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The heart of Shenxiang Mountain.

The crack that had swallowed the phantom of the divine general slowly collapsed and expanded inward after the golden and black light merged to their extreme.

Amidst the stunned gazes of everyone—

The true core of Shenxiang Mountain opened its doors to Zhang Yuan.

"boom--"

Zhang Yuan stepped into the open crack of Shenxiang Mountain.

What lay before me was not the cave I had imagined, but a shattered world forcibly compressed and frozen in boundless darkness!

The space here appears as cracked glass, shimmering with an unstable, eerie light.

The passage of time also becomes viscous and chaotic.

In the center of this desolate universe, curled up is the silhouette of a massive, suffocating skeleton—the last remains of the Prison Guardian Elephant!

It was not a pure skeleton, but rather a dark golden mountain range forged from the essence of the earth condensed to its extreme and an indomitable will.

Its enormous body, even when curled up, is as vast as the stars, its bones rugged, each exuding a heavy sense of suppressing all worlds.

However, this divine body, which should have been immortal, was wrapped with countless dark golden chains as thick as mountains!
These chains are not made of solid metal, but are formed from the purest laws of Heaven and sealing runes, with cold star patterns and an inextinguishable divine light of imprisonment flowing across them.

They were deeply embedded in every inch of the elephant's skeleton, even penetrating its enormous heart, the symbol of its power source, locking it firmly within this solidified void prison.

Even more shocking is that around the skeleton, there are thousands of enormous figures, densely packed and suspended, surrounding the prison-suppressing divine elephants!
Ice Crystal Phoenix, Lava Giant Turtle, Mountain-Shaking Ancient Ape, Nine-Headed Hellhound, Six-Winged Thunder Roc...

These are all the remains of powerful divine beasts that once dominated the primordial world, or their original forms that have fallen into eternal slumber!

They were also bound by dark gold chains, like stars caught in a spider web, unable to move.

Fine yet irresistible threads of runes drew primal power—essence blood, soul power, fragments of laws—from the bodies of these slumbering divine beasts, converging into colorful yet lifeless trickles.

All the streams eventually converge at the core of the skeleton, where a heart beats slowly.

There, it was transformed into a purer, dark golden torrent of energy.

This magnificent and desperate torrent of energy, like a Styx flowing upstream, silently and continuously surged into the deepest part of the void, disappearing into an absolute darkness that could not be seen.

That place is the ultimate site used by the Heavenly Palace to maintain some kind of enormous existence, or to draw upon the primordial origins of the world.

Zhang Yuan's entry was like a pebble thrown into a stagnant pool.

Outside him, the phantom of the Prison-Suppressing Divine Elephant, originating from bloodline resonance and the Prison-Suppressing Inheritance, automatically appeared. It was enormous and majestic, emitting a silent, mournful cry, and resonated strongly with the main skeleton in the center, which was bound by chains.

The entire sealed space trembled.

"Om-!"

At the core of the skeleton's heart, the torrent of energy that had been continuously flowing paused slightly.

A figure materialized from the light projected from the core, standing suspended in the void, bound by chains of law. (End of Chapter)