After guarding the gates for a hundred years, I drove the Heavenly Saint to madness.

Amidst the churning crimson aura, Xiao Wuji's words echoed like an utterly absurd joke in the ears of several powerful figures from the Chan Sect and the ancient demon master.

The deathly silence lasted only a moment.

"Ha ha ha ha!"

The demon master Kunpeng suddenly let out a piercing laugh like a night owl. His expression, which had been filled with fear, turned into wild joy. His triangular eyes were fixed on Xiao Wuji, and his eyes were filled with cruel mockery.

"You brat, you have indeed exceeded my expectations. To actually gather the essence of the twelve ancestral witches to forge these twelve golden statues, you certainly have the right to be arrogant."

Kunpeng stopped laughing, the muscles on his face twitching slightly from extreme killing intent.

"But you're too inexperienced! Your biggest mistake was stepping out of the formation's absolute concealment just to get a quick tongue, thus revealing your true form!"

Before he finished speaking, Kunpeng suddenly waved his long sleeve.

Om-!

Two extremely profound beams of light shot into the sky from his sleeves. They were an ancient tortoise shell depicting celestial phenomena and a scroll of illustrations emitting a faint glow.

The supreme innate spiritual treasures: the Hetu and the Luoshu!

As soon as these two treasures appeared, they instantly intertwined to form a vast, primordial starry sky phantom above Kunpeng's head.

Countless black and white dots of light danced wildly, forcibly analyzing the operational nodes of the Twelve Capital Heavenly Gods and Demons Array at a speed that ordinary people could not comprehend.

As the creator of the ancient Heavenly Court's Zhou Tian Star Array, once Kunpeng locks onto the array's core and Xiao Wuji's true location, the situation can be reversed instantly by capturing the leader first!

"Antarctica! Burning Lamp! Guangchengzi!"

Kunpeng rapidly formed hand seals, veins bulging on his forehead, and roared at the immortals of the Chan Sect behind him.

"If you don't want to die, stop holding back and give me your full strength to protect me for ten breaths! As long as the Hetu Luoshu locks onto the array's core, I will annihilate him, body and soul!"

At this critical juncture of life and death, the immortals of the Chan Sect naturally understood the principle of mutual dependence.

If Kunpeng dies, they will have to be buried with him.

"Form a protective array!"

The Old Man of the South Pole's expression hardened, and without hesitation, he raised the coiled dragon dove staff high in his hand.

On the staff, the coiled azure dragon carving seemed to come alive, letting out a deafening dragon roar.

Endless azure longevity laws cascaded down like a waterfall, transforming into an indestructible barrier of wood-elemental vitality, protecting everyone within.

Guang Chengzi bit his tongue, spat out a mouthful of blood essence, and summoned the twin swords, which transformed into two sword-qi dragons that could annihilate everything.

The Taoist Ran Deng pushed the accompanying Lingjiu Palace Lamp to its limit, and the Netherworld Ghost Fire transformed into a gray-white wall of fire, protecting everyone in the center.

Manjushri and Cihang also used all their magical treasures, just to hold Xiao Wuji back as much as possible.

The five powerful beings joined forces to defend, managing to withstand the divine lightning and spatial blades from all around, buying Kunpeng those crucial ten breaths of time.

Three breaths... five breaths...

The black and white light spots on the Hetu Luoshu swirled faster and faster, and finally, with a "click," all the light spots suddenly converged into a dazzling beam of light, which was fixed firmly in a certain place in the void!

"I've got it! I've found you!"

Kunpeng let out a sinister laugh, his eyes flashing with bloodthirsty madness.

He suddenly opened his mouth, and a dark, inky light burst forth from it.

Northern Darkness Divine Light!

This is Kunpeng's ultimate killing technique, containing the destructive laws of the extreme cold of the Northern Darkness.

This divine light was extremely fast, directly following the energy locked by the Hetu Luoshu, and instantly pierced Xiao Wuji's eyes.

This attack was unavoidable!

As the divine light was about to pierce Xiao Wuji's head, Kunpeng, Guangchengzi, and the others even showed signs of wild joy in their eyes.

However, Xiao Wuji's expression did not change at all.

"Yin and Yang reversed, turned around."

He silently chanted in his heart, and the spatial power within the Twelve Heavenly Gods and Demons Formation reversed, causing the void around him to instantly fold in an extremely strange manner.

Swish!

The Northern Darkness Divine Light pierced Xiao Wuji's body, yet no blood splattered. The figure slowly dissipated like a reflection in water.

The real Xiao Wuji had already appeared in another void a hundred feet away.

Even so, the Northern Darkness Divine Light flew past his original spot, still managing to shave off a corner of his black Daoist robe, which instantly turned to ashes in mid-air.

Xiao Wuji glanced down at the missing hem of his robe, his eyes turning completely cold.

Inside the great formation, the gale ceased and the thunder stopped.

A chilling, deathly silence quietly spread.

Xiao Wuji looked down at the Kunpeng, who was on high alert, and the Chan Sect immortals who were desperately defending themselves. He showed no angry roars, nor any shame or annoyance at being ambushed.

He simply shook his head slightly, letting out a cold and regretful sigh.

Why bother?

Xiao Wuji's voice wasn't loud, but it clearly reached everyone's ears, carrying a sense of superior pity and coldness.

"I intended to spare your lives, so we could each get what we wanted, but you insisted on courting death..."

Actually, if he could, Xiao Wuji wouldn't want to ignite the Ancestral Witch's blood essence, since it was a trump card, and each use would reduce its availability.

But now, with the Chaos Bell lost and Kunpeng proving to be a formidable opponent, he can no longer afford to be careless.

In the void, Xiao Wuji raised his hands and formed an ancient, weathered, and even somewhat tragic witch clan seal in front of his chest.

"Since you're in such a hurry to be reincarnated, then I'll grant your wish."

"The Twelve Golden Men—the essence and blood of the Ancestral Witches, ignite!!"

Rumble—!!!

With a roar from Xiao Wuji, the twelve hundred-zhang-tall golden figures buried deep within the twelve nodes of the Jiepai Pass earth veins simultaneously let out a mournful and indignant roar that shook the heavens.

Immediately afterwards, the essence of blood sealed inside the golden man, under Xiao Wuji's forceful urging, burst forth with its most brilliant light, like a star being ignited!

In an instant, the crimson baleful energy within the entire formation was forcibly compressed and transformed by this violent primal force, turning into a nearly solidified black-red chaotic flow of energy.

At the core of the great formation, the phantom of Pangu suddenly had two terrifying bursts of blood-red light in its eyes.

An immense, indescribable pressure, centered on Xiao Wuji, descended upon everyone's shoulders like a collapsing sky.

This aura shattered the barrier of a Great Luo Golden Immortal and tore apart the limits of a Quasi-Saint.

Deep within this oppressive aura, there was a faint trace of Primordial Holy Might that would make all the myriad paths of the primordial world submit!

"Click..."

The dragon-shaped staff in the hands of the Antarctic Immortal let out a mournful cry, and the layer of blue light was instantly suppressed and made dull and cracked.

The Hetu Luoshu above Kunpeng's head trembled violently, and the newly constructed star map disintegrated in an instant.

Faced with this terrifying power that was almost saintly, Kunpeng's legs went weak uncontrollably.

He looked up at the all-powerful black figure, and his Dao heart completely collapsed.

"No...this is impossible!"

"Pangu's oppressive aura... How could he possibly borrow Pangu's power?"