At the summit of the demonic mountain, baleful aura and killing intent intertwined.
The sky had been dyed an ominous blood-red.
Luohu's eyes were crimson, and four peerless fiendish swords of different colors revolved around him.
The sharpness of the Immortal Slaying Sword!
The savagery of the Slaughtering Immortal Sword!
The treachery of the Trapping Immortal Sword!
The annihilation of the Absolute Immortal Sword!
Four extreme Paths of Slaughter intertwined, forming an absolute domain of death.
"Hongjun, did you think I had already lost just because the Three Pure Ones attained the Dao?"
Luohu's voice was hoarse and crazed.
"Today, I will show you what the greatest killing formation of the primordial world truly is!"
"Immortal Slaying Sword Formation, arise!"
At his command, the four fiendish swords transformed into four streams of light and shot toward the east, south, west, and north.
They vanished into the void in an instant.
Immediately afterward, the entire demonic mountain and the space stretching billions of miles around it were shrouded by a blood-colored curtain of light.
Within the curtain, sword qi crisscrossed while killing intent filled every corner.
Countless phantom images of Chaos Demon Gods wailed and roared within it.
It was as though the place had become an Avici Hell.
As Hongjun looked at the formation before him, a trace of gravity finally appeared on his otherwise impassive face.
He could sense that this formation had already connected with the earth veins of the entire Western Continent.
It had drawn upon the boundless resentment of all living beings who had fallen since the Dragon-Phoenix Calamity.
Within the formation, a world had formed unto itself.
Even the laws of the Heavenly Dao were shut out.
"It cannot be broken without four great powers of the same realm..."
Holding the Jade Staff of Creation, Hongjun spoke calmly.
"Luohu, you truly have some skill."
"Hahaha! Realizing that now is already too late!"
Luohu stood at the eye of the formation, his aura merging with the entire grand formation.
The momentum that Pangu's Will had originally wounded actually rose steadily under the enhancement of the killing formation.
"Hongjun, enter the formation!"
"Let me see what ability you, the Orthodox Xuanmen and future Dao Ancestor, have to break my formation!"
Luohu's voice was filled with confidence and venom.
He admitted that the Three Pure Ones attaining the Primordial Unity Dao had caused him to lose the initiative.
But as long as he killed Hongjun here and seized his Jade Plate of Creation and all his treasures, he might still have a chance to turn things around!
By then, with the Four Swords of Zhu Xian in hand, a treasure pagoda upon his body, and the Jade Plate of Creation to comprehend—
Who under heaven could stand against him?
The Three Pure Ones?
They were merely three brats who had only just broken through!
Once he had completely refined Hongjun's origin, he would deal with them one by one!
Hongjun watched Luohu's crazed expression and gently shook his head.
"Foolish child."
"You have long been blinded by the Dao of Slaughter, unable to see the true greater tide."
Without the slightest hesitation, he took a step forward.
His figure vanished from where he stood, entering that blood-red world of death of his own accord.
The moment he entered the formation, Hongjun sensed the difference.
Endless killing sword qi surged toward him from every direction.
Every strand of sword qi was enough to severely wound a Grand Unity Golden Immortal.
These sword qis were not merely energy attacks; they also contained a strange power capable of severing the primordial spirit and eroding one's Dao Fruit.
At the same time, countless demonic voices flooded his ears, attempting to disrupt his Dao Heart.
"Hongjun, you cultivate the path of following Heaven and speak of being Pure and Inactive, but when has this world ever known true tranquility?"
"Only slaughter is eternal!"
"Look at those dead beings. They struggled, they wailed, and in the end, did they not all become dry bones beneath my feet?"
"Your Dao cannot save them, nor can it save yourself!"
Luohu's voice echoed through the formation, carrying boundless power of temptation.
Hongjun's expression did not change. He merely lightly tapped the Jade Staff of Creation in his hand.
With a crisp chime.
A ring of azure ripples spread outward from him.
All killing sword qi and demonic voices approaching him vanished soundlessly within those ripples.
"Luohu, you are wrong."
Hongjun's voice was calm and clear, spreading throughout the entire sword formation.
"The Heavenly Dao is merciless, yet it is also merciful."
"A calamity is a cleansing, but it is also rebirth."
"You see only destruction, yet fail to see the vitality that follows it."
"Your Dao went astray from the very beginning."
"Fine words and a pretty tongue!"
Luohu roared.
"Within my Immortal Slaying Sword Formation, your Great Dao is nothing but a joke!"
"Die!"
With a thought, the Immortal Slaying Sword at the core of the formation let out a hum.
A blood-red sword light that reached from heaven to earth came crashing down upon Hongjun's head!
This strike had condensed the killing power of the entire formation.
It was enough to cleave apart heaven and earth and dim the sun and moon!
Hongjun raised his head to look at the world-destroying sword light, his gaze still calm.
Above his head appeared a canopy of auspicious clouds.
Upon those clouds, a damaged jade plate rose and fell, emanating the aura of the three thousand Great Dao laws.
It was the incomplete Jade Plate of Creation.
"Heavenly Dao, defend!"
Hongjun gave a soft cry.
The Jade Plate of Creation shone brilliantly, and Divine Chains of Law flew out one after another.
They interwove before him into an incomparably massive shield of laws.
Boom—!
The blood-red sword light struck the shield of laws with tremendous force.
A deafening boom that shook the entire primordial world rang out.
The Immortal Slaying Sword Formation trembled violently!
Countless cracks even appeared across the blood-red curtain of light.
The shield of laws also dimmed, with dozens of divine chains upon it snapping apart.
After a single clash, neither side had gained the upper hand!
"How is that possible?!"
Luohu could not believe his own eyes.
That was an attack from the main sword of the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation!
Yet Hongjun had blocked it so easily?
How could his strength have reached such a terrifying level?
"Luohu, though your formation is powerful, its foundation is flawed."
Hongjun's voice rang out once more.
"You draw upon the resentment of the calamity for your own use. It may seem powerful, but it is impure and muddled."
"My methods, however, originate from the Heavenly Dao—vast and righteous."
"How can your Demonic Path contend with the Heavenly Dao?"
As Hongjun spoke, he raised the Jade Staff of Creation in his hand once more.
"Today, I will show you what true Orthodox Xuanmen methods are."
He lightly swept the Jade Staff of Creation through the void.
A seemingly ordinary beam of azure light flew forth.
Yet within that azure light were contained endless transformations of laws—birth, aging, illness, death, formation, abiding, decay, and emptiness.
The azure light entered the formation without attacking Luohu.
Instead, it landed upon the phantom images of demon gods condensed from resentment.
The pain and hatred on the faces of those demon god phantoms began to fade after being swept by the azure light.
What replaced them was liberation and peace.
They slightly bowed toward Hongjun.
Then they transformed into specks of light and dispersed between heaven and earth.
"You... you are delivering them from suffering?!"
Luohu was both shocked and enraged.
That resentment was the source of power for his grand formation!
Hongjun was actually using such a method to undermine the very foundation of his formation!
"Those who remain stubborn shall enter reincarnation and gain new life."
Hongjun spoke indifferently.
"Not a chance!"
Luohu roared as he activated the sword formation again.
The Slaughtering Immortal Sword, the Trapping Immortal Sword, and the Absolute Immortal Sword emerged together!
Three sword lights of different colors, yet equally terrifying, sealed off every path of retreat available to Hongjun.
They slashed toward him!
"Useless."
Hongjun shook his head, and the Jade Plate of Creation above him shone brilliantly once again.
More Divine Chains of Law flew out, constructing a perfect defensive system around him.
At the same time, the Jade Staff of Creation in his hand continuously pointed outward.
Beams of azure light containing the power of deliverance scattered in every direction.
The power of the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation was steadily being weakened.
Luohu's expression grew uglier and uglier.
He discovered that the primordial world's greatest killing formation, which he had been so proud of, was restrained at every turn before Hongjun's unreasonable Heavenly Dao laws.
Hongjun was like a locksmith holding a master key.
No matter how intricate the locks Luohu set, the other man could easily unlock them.
The feeling drove him mad!
It left him utterly stifled!
"Hongjun! You forced my hand!"
A trace of resolve flashed through Luohu's eyes.
He suddenly bit the tip of his tongue and spat out a mouthful of his essence blood.
It splattered into the eye of the formation.
"Demonic Path without bounds, blood sacrifice of all living beings!"
"Explode for me...!"
He actually intended to detonate the formation and perish together with Hongjun!
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