Mortal: My divine sense has mutated.

Upon hearing this, Ji Yin murmured, "Starry Sky Sword Formation? You're from the Star Palace?"

Chen Liang, in his Mo Lu form, shook his head and said, "No, this sword formation was created by me."

With a chilling smile, he said, "Self-created? Then it's perfect for my use."

Having said that, Ji Yin suddenly transformed into a streak of light and attacked, attempting to capture Chen Liang, who was in the formation.

Chen Liang suddenly vanished from the spot, leaving only a faint gray mist, causing Ji Yin to return empty-handed.

This is the "Heavenly Fiend Shadowless Escape" recorded in the "Heavenly Fiend Technique," which allows one to teleport using the surrounding fiendish energy and spiritual power. It is a terrifying battlefield supernatural ability.

The next moment, Chen Liang appeared in another void. As he formed a sword incantation with his hands, some of the sword shadows in the surrounding celestial domain transformed into a sword tide that surged towards the extreme Yin.

Seeing this, Ji Yin casually released two Nascent Soul level demonic fire serpents to meet the surging tide of swords head-on.

Unfortunately, two ordinary Nascent Soul level demonic fire serpents were no match for the sword tide of the Starry Sky Sword Formation, and they were quickly swallowed up by the sword tide.

Ji Yin had no choice but to finish off the tide of swords with a Heavenly Corpse Fire.

Then, Chen Liang changed his sword technique. More sword waves surged in from all directions, encircling and attacking Ji Yin.

Seeing this, Ji Yin no longer dared to be stingy with his spiritual power. He quickly unleashed several balls of Heavenly Corpse Fire towards the dense sword shadows in all directions, thus weakening the surrounding encirclement.

Even so, Ji Yin could only use her most treasured protective artifact—the White Rhinoceros Pendant—to protect herself.

As the dense sword shadows enveloped the protective light barrier generated by the White Rhinoceros Pendant, Ji Yin felt his spiritual power flowing out uncontrollably like water.

Just as Ji Yin was sweating profusely and thinking about how to break the deadlock, under Chen Liang's will, some of the sword shadows surrounding Ji Yin transformed into a terrifying, drill-like weapon.

The sword-shaped drill attacked the protective light barrier created by the white rhinoceros pendant under Ji Yin's terrified gaze, frightening Ji Yin into activating the white rhinoceros pendant with all her might, trying to withstand the attack head-on.

However, under the fierce attack of the sword shadow drill, the protective light barrier generated by the white rhinoceros pendant still developed cracks at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Ji Yin gritted his teeth and decisively detonated the White Rhinoceros Pendant, thus forcing back the surrounding sword shadows and escaping.

Having barely escaped death, Ji Yin realized that he could not attack the Starry Sky Sword Formation head-on, but could only outsmart it. So he turned his gaze to the physical flying swords that were roaming around the surrounding sky.

These physical flying swords are all different. Among them, there are three Nascent Soul level flying swords, and the rest are either Pseudo-Nascent Soul level or close to Pseudo-Nascent Soul level.

Just as Ji Yin spotted one of the weaker flying swords and unleashed a Heavenly Corpse Fire at it, he unexpectedly stirred up a hornet's nest.

The surrounding sword shadows spontaneously gathered together, blocking the Heavenly Corpse Fire.

Moreover, several physical flying swords gathered around, drawing in numerous sword shadows, and quickly forming a sword dragon covered in sword blades.

At the same time, sword dragons also emerged from three opposite directions. These four sword dragons exuded the aura of the peak early Nascent Soul stage and attacked Ji Yin together.

Ji Yin finally couldn't hold on any longer. He was only close to the peak of the early Nascent Soul stage, and being surrounded by these four sword dragons meant certain death.

Therefore, Ji Yin no longer cared about the dignity and dignity of a Nascent Soul cultivator. He hurriedly took Wu Chou, who was already dumbfounded, and used a Yin Fire Thunder to break through a weak point in the Starry Sky Sword Formation.

Having broken through the formation, Ji Yin glanced back at the terrifying sword array below, his face grim, and said, "Fellow Daoist Mo, I admit defeat today. But don't be smug; this matter is not over yet!"

Then, without looking back, Ji Yin, along with Wu Chou, transformed into a dark green cloud and quickly disappeared into the distance.

Chen Liang transformed into a streak of gray-blue light and appeared above the Starry Sky Sword Formation, watching Ji Yin disappear into the distance.

At the same time, the Starry Sky Sword Formation transformed back into flying swords and returned to Chen Liang's dantian, making the crowd below envious and even reluctant to part with it.

However, some clever cultivators from Jiyin Island began to flee, causing a major rout of Jiyin Island's forces, which were then fiercely pursued by the forces of Miaoyin Sect and Yinsha Sect.

Until most of the people from Jiyin Island perished in the waters off Scorpion Island, with only a small number of Jiyin Island cultivators escaping, both the forces of Miaoyin Sect and Yinsha Sect couldn't help but cheer for this hard-won victory, which had been fraught with twists and turns.

Sun Xie was especially excited because his invincible master had finally been defeated, and defeated by his own scheme.

What they didn't know was that Chen Liang could only unleash up to 90% of his full strength due to his illusion technique.

Moreover, Chen Liang never used the spiritual power in his dantian, but only the spiritual power in his meridians, so the strength he displayed was equivalent to that of an ordinary late-stage Core Formation cultivator.

Under these circumstances, Chen Liang's Starry Sky Sword Formation was incomplete, which gave Ji Yin the opportunity to escape. A complete Starry Sky Sword Formation consists of at least one hundred and eight flying swords, and this was only the Lesser Heavenly Cycle Starry Sky Sword Formation.

Even so, Chen Liang's achievements today are enough to go down in history.

Therefore, Zhou Yuan, Zi Ling, Fan Jingmei, Zhuo Ruting, and even Chen Qiaoqian quickly stepped forward, bowed, and offered their congratulations.

"Congratulations, senior, on your successful start."

Chen Liang, in his Mo Lu form, turned around and said, "I haven't truly advanced to the Nascent Soul stage yet, so Sect Master Zhou and Fellow Daoist Chen don't need to address me as 'senior'."

Zhou Yuan hesitated for a moment before saying, "Then... I shall take the liberty of addressing you as Brother Mo, and congratulate you on defeating a Nascent Soul cultivator with your Core Formation stage. Such an achievement is truly unprecedented in my life and is truly admirable."

Chen Liang: "As long as one possesses great supernatural powers, top-tier magic treasures, or top-tier formations, any Core Formation cultivator can exchange a few blows with a Nascent Soul cultivator."

For a Core Formation Peak cultivator like myself, who possesses a top-tier sword formation, defeating a Nascent Soul cultivator who isn't particularly strong is not surprising.

Such deeds are unlikely to be passed down through generations, which is why Sect Leader Zhou has never heard of them.

Upon hearing this, Zhou Yuan, Zi Ling, Fan Jingmei, and Zhuo Ruting could only respond with wry smiles. Even Chen Qiaoqian felt that her husband was a bit like Versailles.

Under normal circumstances, how could powerful supernatural abilities, top-tier magic treasures, and top-tier formations fall into the hands of Core Formation cultivators?

At this moment, Sun Xie, who had just vented his pent-up resentment, also flew over, cupped his hands and said, "Brother Mo, I will never forget your great kindness today."

However, since I dragged Brother Mo into this mess today, I'll offer this fragment of the Void Heaven Map as an apology. Please accept it.

After saying this, Sun Xie took out the fragment of the Void Heaven Map from his body and presented it with both hands.

Chen Liang didn't say much about it, simply accepting the fragment of the Void Heaven Map. Although he was mentally prepared to fight Ji Yin, he figured he might as well take what was free.

Afterwards, although the victorious Miaoyin Sect and Yinsha Sect did not deliberately publicize it, the details of the Scorpion Island Battle quickly spread.

The news that the infamous Nascent Soul cultivator, the Extreme Yin Old Demon, was defeated by a rogue cultivator at the peak of the Core Formation stage immediately caused a great stir throughout the cultivation world of the Chaotic Star Sea.

On this day, almost all the cultivators in the Chaotic Star Sea remembered the name "Mo Lu".

Although Ji Yin deliberately promoted the idea that "the Starry Sky Sword Formation can fight Nascent Soul cultivators" in an attempt to save face, many Nascent Soul cultivators still used this as an opportunity to ridicule Ji Yin and secretly regarded Mo Lu as an equal.

As for the Thunder Bamboo that could grow mentioned in the news, everyone selectively ignored it, because Mo Lu was qualified to possess Thunder Bamboo.