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

Jiepai Pass, the deepest, most secret underground chamber of the General's Mansion.

The twelve-petaled Pure White Lotus emitted a soft, clear glow, while Xiao Wuji, sitting cross-legged on the lotus platform, was undergoing a violent transformation within his body, a transformation akin to the creation of the world.

Since sending Xuanming away, swallowing that drop of Pangu Jade Marrow and circulating the Nine Revolutions Profound Technique, his physical body has become a frenzied battlefield.

The Nine Revolutions Profound Technique is a supreme body-refining method passed down from the Great God Pangu.

This technique is extremely powerful. The first five stages correspond to the Heavenly Immortal to the Taiyi level, the sixth stage corresponds to the Great Luo Golden Immortal, the seventh stage corresponds to the Quasi-Saint, and the eighth stage corresponds to the Primordial Saint.

If one can cultivate to the ninth level, one can directly point to the origin of the Great Dao and break through the heavens with force.

Xiao Wuji already possessed twenty-four minor worlds within his body, and his physical foundation was unparalleled in the entire prehistoric world.

However, the primordial energy contained in the Pangu Jade Marrow was far too violent, like giant chaotic dragons crashing into the twenty-four inner worlds along his meridians.

The domineering Xuan Gong path is gradually crushing his original flesh and bones, and then forcibly reshaping them with an incredible density.

"The foundation is too profound; a single drop of jade marrow as a seed is not enough. A massive amount of spiritual energy is also needed as fuel!"

Xiao Wuji's eyes were tightly closed, his veins bulged all over his body, and fine beads of blood seeped from his forehead.

Without the slightest hesitation, he activated the system space with a thought.

Splash!

All sorts of odds and ends he had accumulated from daily check-ins over the past six months were now being dumped out like garbage.

There are thousands of kilograms of ancient stalactites, hundreds of innate spiritual fruits of different years, and even a few innate spiritual objects containing innate energy.

These things might not seem impressive under normal circumstances, but at this moment, they have become the best fuel.

"Great Five Elements Technique, swallow it!"

Xiao Wuji's body was enveloped in five-colored divine light, which transformed into a huge vortex that shredded all the treasures and turned them into a torrent of pure spiritual energy that poured into his body.

With the support of this massive amount of spiritual energy, the raging Pangu Jade Marrow was no longer water without a source.

"Thump...thump..."

When all the power converged to the critical point, a muffled, slow, yet strangely rhythmic sound resounded in the deepest part of Xiao Wuji's consciousness.

With the rhythm of the sound, Xiao Wuji seemed to traverse an endless river of time and space, arriving in a hazy void.

A majestic, indescribable phantom figure, wielding a giant axe, suddenly cleaved forward!

"scold--!!!"

An ancient and desolate roar, seemingly capable of shattering all the heavens and myriad worlds, exploded in Xiao Wuji's ears.

The echoes of Pangu!

This drop of chalcedony actually retains a trace of the Daoist sound imprint from when the Great God Pangu created the world!

Upon hearing this sound, the raging energy within Xiao Wuji's body instantly became incredibly docile, perfectly aligning with the circulation path of the Nine Revolutions Profound Technique.

Flesh and blood are reorganizing, bones are turning into jade, and twenty-four small worlds resonate joyfully within the body.

After an unknown amount of time, when the last trace of spiritual energy was completely drained, the earth-shattering roar within Xiao Wuji's body gradually subsided.

After a long while, Xiao Wuji slowly opened his eyes.

He sat quietly on the lotus platform, his aura restrained to the extreme, like a round stone that had been washed by a stream for millions of years, simple, natural, and without any sharpness.

Returning to simplicity.

Nine Revolutions Mystic Technique, Seventh Revolution, Minor Success!

At this moment, his physical body broke free from the Great Luo Shackles imposed by the Heavenly Dao, undergoing a complete transformation.

His physical strength alone is already perfectly comparable to that of a Primordial Golden Immortal who attains enlightenment through the laws!

"This feeling of power is truly captivating."

Xiao Wuji stood up and clenched his fist slightly.

The void between the fingers vanished silently, like fragile thin ice, turning into pure nothingness.

At this moment, he was even confident that he could smash Guang Chengzi's Heaven-Turning Seal back with just his bare fist, without relying on any formation!

After the initial excitement, Xiao Wuji's eyes regained their rationality.

He looked inward at himself and then experienced the outside world.

"Although we now have the confidence to sweep away anything below the level of a sage, we should delay as long as possible. The longer we delay, the more advantageous it will be for me."

"Especially that Primordial Pure Land, it's best not to expose it if possible. The later it's exposed, the later the Sages are likely to intervene. Otherwise, if they think that only a Sage can break through it, this matter may become more unpredictable."

Xiao Wuji knew very well that the Primordial Chaos Pure Land was reserved for sages. Exposing it to the Golden Immortals and Quasi-Saints of the Chan Sect would only invite unnecessary complications.

"It looks like we have to keep dragging this out; the framework of the Twelve Heavenly Gods and Demons Formation can't collapse."

Having made up his mind, Xiao Wuji walked to a corner of the secret room.

With a wave of his sleeve, a mountain of top-grade refining materials, such as divine iron and star sand, poured out.

Without the original twelve Ancestral Witch Golden Men as the core of the formation, the outer formation, though still in shell, would break easily. He had to work through the night to create twelve lifelike fake Golden Men to replace them.

"Fire!"

Xiao Wuji flicked a ball of Samadhi True Fire from his fingertip, and in conjunction with the fire law of the Great Five Elements Technique, began to frantically melt these divine materials.

The refining techniques of a Grand Luo Golden Immortal are extremely fast. In just a few hours, twelve humanoid prototypes, each a hundred feet tall and shimmering with a dark golden luster, were formed.

But appearance alone is not enough; the core of the Twelve Heavenly Gods and Demons Formation lies in the Ancestral Witch's malevolent energy. Ordinary inanimate objects simply cannot suppress the surging malevolent energy within the earth's veins.

Standing before the twelve rough-hewn figures, Xiao Wuji's eyes hardened, and he drew his fingers like a sword, slashing a deep gash on his wrist that revealed the bone.

"Pfft!"

Dark golden blood gushed out.

He once fused with the blood essence of a great witch, and now he has cultivated the Nine Revolutions Profound Technique to the seventh revolution. Although the blood in his body is not the blood of the ancestral witch, in terms of aura, it is extremely close to the ancient and vast legacy of Pangu!

Xiao Wuji forced out twelve wisps of qi and blood, flicked his fingers, and sent them into the brows of the twelve golden figures.

Om-!

The golden figure, having absorbed the vital energy, instantly developed strange, blood-red patterns on its surface.

A fierce aura emanated from their bodies. Although it couldn't compare to the real Ancestral Witch Golden Man, it was more than enough to fool the Great Luo Golden Immortals outside.

"become!"

Xiao Wuji's face was slightly pale, but he nodded in satisfaction as he looked at the twelve lifelike substitutes in front of him.

He formed hand seals and directly slammed the twelve golden figures into the twelve earth vein nodes beneath the General's Mansion.

Rumble!

Outside Jiepai Pass, the crimson mist, which had been somewhat weakened by the loss of its core, began to churn violently once more, as if injected with a stimulant.

The ancient malevolent energy soaring into the sky enveloped the entire pass once again, making it appear even more ferocious than before.

From the outside, this formidable formation still appears impregnable.

Seeing this, Xiao Wuji nodded in satisfaction.

"That's good. In this way, it's enough to fool people for a short time."