The Ancestor Manifests His Divine Power

"Ah! Help!"

"Zhou Yi, come help!"

More monsters attacked. Everyone forgot about forcing Zhou Yi to hand over his treasure and hurriedly begged him for help.

Even Liu Yunzhi, who had always been picking fights with Zhou Yi, shrank back and hid to one side.

"You all, get behind me."

Zhou Yi waved his hand and sent out a sword beam, killing the Divine Crocodile that had just charged over, then instructed the others.

"Clang! Clang! Clang!"

Streams of black light burst from the storm beyond the light barrier. A huge swarm of Divine Crocodiles surged forward like a tide.

"Ah! Help! Help!"

"Zhou Yi! Come quickly!"

"Save me! Zhou Yi, hurry!"

The Divine Crocodiles kept charging through the light barrier and slamming heavily into everyone. Though the golden light had not yet shattered, it was already on the verge of collapse. Everyone cried out in panic.

"There are so many?"

Zhou Yi kept swinging his sword and killing them, but the Divine Crocodiles came in an unending stream. He was beginning to struggle.

"Your Majesty, you may exchange for a Glass Heart Lamp spell."

"Glass Heart Lamp? Exchange it, exchange it now."

"Glass Heart Lamp, burn away all evil!"

A moon-white blaze shot from Zhou Yi's hand. With a whoosh, it swept across the entire Five-Colored Altar.

"Roar..."

The flames swept through like a wildfire. All the Divine Crocodiles around the Five-Colored Altar immediately shrieked miserably as they were incinerated into heaps of black ash.

"So powerful!"

Seeing the tide-like swarm of Divine Crocodiles turned to ash in an instant, Zhou Yi stood there with his mouth open in shock.

The others looked at Zhou Yi with complicated expressions, but fear outweighed everything else. Only Liu Yunzhi's eyes were filled with venomous hatred.

"Roaaar..."

Suddenly, a world-shaking roar came from within the storm, drowning out even the thunderous sandstorm. It was as though some primordial beast had broken free of its shackles and let out an earth-shattering bellow.

"What is that?"

"Could there be other monsters on Mars?"

"With such a presence... that monster must be terrifying!"

Everyone's faces turned deathly pale, and they began trembling uncontrollably.

"Roar..."

Another earth-shattering bellow rang out, seeming to disperse even the storm itself.

"Boom!"

A tremendous crash shook the earth and mountains.

Everyone felt the ground quake violently. A thousand meters away, a savage, brutal, terrifying aura surged into the heavens, shaking the world!

A pair of blood-red eyes hung high in the sky like two lanterns.

Even through the sandstorm, everyone could clearly feel a terror rising from the depths of their souls, making them shudder all over.

"Boom!"

Like a volcanic eruption, countless rocks shot in every direction. A massive boulder the size of a house smashed down beside the Five-Colored Altar with heaven-shaking force, terrifying everyone into trembling.

"What kind of monster is this?"

Zhou Yi's heart pounded like a drum. Even he was badly frightened by that overwhelming presence.

"Your Majesty, that is the Crocodile Ancestor, a Demon Saint!"

"A Demon Saint? What level is that?"

Zhou Yi froze. The word "Saint" made him deeply uneasy.

Anyone with "Saint" in their title was an incomparably terrifying figure! The Great Sage Equal to Heaven, for example—it was far too easy to make that connection.

"Saints are beings capable of tearing apart the sky and shattering planets!"

"What?"

Zhou Yi shuddered violently. Shattering planets? Did it have to be this insane? Could I possibly afford to provoke something that powerful? Even having a system wouldn't save me! This time, I'm really done for!

"Buzz..."

The Five-Colored Altar rumbled, and five-colored radiance shot into the sky.

Ancient runes in five colors appeared overhead. The Taiji Eight Trigrams Diagram faintly emerged, and the Starry Sky Ancient Road was about to open.

"It's about to activate! Great!"

"Hurry! Hurry! Get us out of here!"

The Five-Colored Altar lit up, giving everyone renewed hope of escaping alive.

"Buzz! Buzz! Buzz!"

The Five-Colored Altar trembled and hummed as the Taiji Eight Trigrams Diagram in the sky took shape.

Qian, Kun, Xun, Dui, Gen, Zhen, Li, Kan—the eight trigram symbols lit up one after another. Around them, space twisted and the light grew hazy.

However...

The trigram runes kept flashing and rearranging themselves, yet they never lit up all at once. Their glow slowly dimmed again, and the enormous Taiji Eight Trigrams Diagram trembled as though it would soon collapse.

"How could this happen..."

"It can't activate? What's going on?"

Seeing this, everyone was plunged into despair. If the Five-Colored Altar could not activate, they were dead for sure!

"Rustle! Rustle! Rustle!"

Thousands upon thousands of Divine Crocodiles charged over once more, their black scales rising and falling like a pitch-black tide.

"Damn it!"

Zhou Yi's face went pale. With a wave of his hand, he scattered a sheet of moon-white fire, desperately holding back the tide of Divine Crocodiles.

"Roar..."

A colossal creature shot into the sky, its enormous roar shaking the heavens!

Two huge blood-red eyes like lanterns rapidly approached through the darkness! Its monstrous fiendish aura shook heaven and earth.

"Ah..."

That aura alone made everyone go cold all over, as if their souls were about to scatter. They staggered, nearly falling onto the Five-Colored Altar.

"How are we supposed to deal with something this powerful?"

Despair filled Zhou Yi's heart. Is my journey ending here? I haven't even seen the heroes of the Big Dipper Starfield, much less fought across the world. Am I really going to die here? I refuse to accept this!

"Your Majesty need not worry."

"Hm? You have a way? Quickly! Tell me!"

Zhou Yi's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly pressed the Heavenly Book Spirit for an answer.

"Your Majesty, have you forgotten who gave you the Supreme Heavenly Book?"

"Ah? The Supreme Heavenly Book... the Dao Ancestor! The Dao Ancestor! Of course! The Dao Ancestor possesses boundless divine powers. Dealing with this demon would be nothing to him! Hahaha! We're saved! We're saved!"

Overjoyed, Zhou Yi immediately fell to his knees and kowtowed reverently. "Dao Ancestor above, your disciple Zhou Yi offers his sincere obeisance. Please manifest your divine power, Dao Ancestor, and subdue demons and exterminate devils!"

"Clang!"

In the distance, a streak of sword light shot into the sky, accompanied by a piercing sword cry that shook the heavens.

A figure tore through the air and arrived.

With short hair and blue robes, a youth of about sixteen strolled step by step through the storm as though Moses had parted the sea.

The storm raged across the sky, yet around him all was calm. It was as though even this storm Shading the Heavens and Covering the Sun did not dare act recklessly before him.

"It's him?"

Li Xiaoman covered her mouth, her face full of delighted surprise. "Supreme? If he's here, we're saved!"

"It's him?"

Ye Fan looked at the youth, his expression shifting uncertainly. He vaguely felt as though he had missed something.

"Dao Ancestor!"

Zhou Yi wept with joy and bowed heavily to the ground.

"Before chaos first divided, the Dao came first; through being and nonbeing, nature was attained.

Purple Qi Comes from the East for thirty thousand li; Hangu Pass was first crossed five thousand years ago."

Li Yu strolled into the Five-Colored Altar with a smile, nodding to everyone. "This Daoist, Taishang, greets you all."