Stillness! Disintegration!

"Run! Split up and run!"

With a mournful roar, the three members of the Yuan Sect suddenly transformed into three streaks of light, charging towards the ancient formation that enveloped the world.

Jiang Ran was gambling, betting that he could break through the Ancient Qiankun Formation and escape before the old monster Little Marten, who was at the Death Mysterious Stage, caught up with them. Xia Yan and Shen Yun were just bait he had thrown out; the power of the Nine Yuan Nirvana Stage was not enough to shake the great formation.

"I said, you are dignified experts of the Yuan Sect, how can you run away so easily?"

A sharp smile subtly curved Lin Dong's lips as he pointed a finger at Xia Yan and murmured, "Stasis!"

"Buzz!"

As soon as he finished speaking, an unusually profound and invisible wave surged forth from the Niwan Palace between his eyebrows, heading straight for the Yuan Sect, the Spirit General at the Nine Yuan Nirvana Stage.

Xia Yan, who was rushing towards the sky, suddenly froze, frozen in place in a strange pose, as if the surrounding space had fallen into Stasis, creating a rather eerie scene.

"The Ancient Qiankun Formation, reverse!"

Lin Dong raised his arm and swung it downwards. The sky-covering light array that had enveloped the entire world immediately began to reverse and rotate, condensing a mysterious transparent beam of light in the center of the array.

"Call out!"

As soon as the mysterious beam of light took shape, it suddenly roared in, accompanied by a chilling wave. Xia Yan's body disappeared inch by inch under the beam's influence, leaving not a trace of flesh or blood behind, as if it had been completely disintegrated.

"Forget it, you do it, I'll cover for you."

The Little Marten, who was about to make a move, shook its head and withdrew its foot.

"Leave it to me. Come to think of it, I've never killed Life Mysterious Stage expert before."

Lin Dong smiled slightly, took a step, and disappeared from his original spot with the help of the great formation, his figure moving mysteriously to the horizon.

"Xia Yan actually died just like that, that strange power..."

As Shen Yun fled north, he caught a glimpse of this scene out of the corner of his eye and was instantly terrified. Just as he was about to speed away, a tall, slender figure silently appeared in front of him, pointing a finger at him and softly chanting, "Stasis! Decompose!"

"No!!!"

Shen Yun's body suddenly froze as his pupils dilated instantly. The next second, he was plunged into endless darkness, and his aura completely dissipated in this world.

"There's only one mouse left, and it's the biggest one."

Lin Dong shifted his gaze slightly, smiling as he looked at the gray-robed elder who had flown to the edge of the great formation and was launching a frenzied attack on the Ancient Qiankun Formation. He slowly raised his arm.

"Stasis!"

Jiang Ran and the surrounding space froze instantly, but this Stasis lasted for less than a second before the scene shattered like a mirror.

He actually managed to break free of his restraints thanks to his powerful Origin Energy cultivation.

"You want me dead, huh? Then you little beast, you won't live either!"

In despair, Jiang Ran's face turned fierce. Ignoring the presence of Little Marten, a powerful expert in the Death Mysterious Stage, he charged towards Lin Dong.

"As expected, with my current strength, I can manage to use the Stillness Plate to imprison experts of the same level, but imprisoning Life Mysterious Stage, Great Achievement expert of a higher level is still a bit of a stretch. So..."

Lin Dong's expression remained unchanged. His clasped hands suddenly formed a series of profound hand seals, and his right palm slammed down onto the earth. "Descend! Great Desolation Scripture!"

"Boom!!!"

The earth suddenly began to tremble violently, and a bizarre wave rapidly spread outwards from its center.

Under the cover of this strange fluctuation, the entire world quickly turned yellow and withered, the earth cracked, and the entire Demonic Sound Mountain was transformed into a Desolate Land by that strange fluctuation, with no more greenery, and the barrenness spread outwards very quickly.

All the power in the entire world seemed to have been drained away by some inexplicable means, and a desolate aura gradually spread to every corner of the world.

"Boom!"

The overwhelming Desolation Power roared out from the ground like a volcanic eruption, transforming into dozens of rapidly surging gray earth dragons that continuously rushed into Lin Dong's body.

Under the relentless influx of energy, Lin Dong's already peak aura surged once more, instantly propelling him into the realm known as the Life Mysterious Stage.

"This is the Great Desolation Scripture? You're a powerful figure from the Dao Sect?!"

Jiang Ran, who was launching a desperate charge, suddenly froze, staring blankly at the astonishing phenomenon that covered dozens of miles. This scene was so familiar.

A hundred years ago, when he was still Spirit General of the Yuan Sect, he hid under the Yuan Sect's protective formation and trembled as he watched that man turn nearly a thousand miles of the Yuan Region into a wasteland.

"Hahaha, the one who will kill you Lin Dong of the Dao Sect!"

Lin Dong had briefly entered the Life Mysterious Stage with the help of the Great Desolation Scripture, burst into laughter and swung his raised arm down sharply.

"The Ancient Qiankun Formation! Reversal!"

The Ancient Qiankun Formation, having received an exceptionally large infusion of Origin Energy, suddenly burst forth with extremely dazzling light, directly condensing into an unprecedentedly thick and mysterious beam of light, which then hurtled down.

"Ahhh! Heavenly River Art, Great Heavenly River Body Protection!"

Jiang Ran's heart was pounding wildly. He forcibly suppressed the urge to turn and run away, and conjured a hand seal that struck out with lightning speed.

"Splash!"

A vast celestial river, like a white dragon, roared out from the void, coiling above its head with extreme cold and frigidity, madly raising its head and roaring.

"Call out!"

A massive beam of light swept across the sky, piercing through the vast Milky Way in an instant, and then disintegrating Jiang Ran inch by inch.

"Hehe..."

Jiang Ran opened her mouth listlessly, but quickly lost the ability to speak, because her head had disappeared.

Head, shoulders, abdomen, waist, thighs... a powerful expert at the Life Mysterious Stage, Great Achievement was forcibly dismembered in this way.

Primordial Sect Elder, a powerful expert at the Life Mysterious Stage, Great Achievement, Jiang Ran is dead!

"Phew~"

Lin Dong face was somewhat pale, let out a breath of turbid air and lightly landed on a mountain peak below, where he haphazardly swallowed a few pills refined from Ancestral Stone.

Don't be fooled by the fact that he killed a powerful expert at the Life Mysterious Stage, Great Achievement with just a wave of his hand. It seemed quite easy, but the Ancient Qiankun Formation, which he unleashed at full power, almost instantly drained all the Origin Energy from his body.

If an ordinary Nine Yuan Nirvana Stage expert were to activate the Ancient Qiankun Formation, let alone kill someone by activating the power of decomposition, he would probably be drained into a dried-up corpse on the spot, his life extinguished and his cultivation dissipated.

What's this called again?

Yeah, showing off is fun for a while, and it's fun if you keep showing off!

"Tsk, your Ancient Qiankun Formation must be a divine artifact of heaven and earth that was famous in ancient times. The power of the reverse formation can actually kill a powerful expert at the Life Mysterious Stage, Great Achievement in an instant."

With a flash of light and shadow, Little Marten and his two companions swept over.

"The Ancient Qiankun Formation ranks fifth on the Ancient Divine Artifact Ranking."

Lin Dong smiled, and the sky-wide array of light that had enveloped the entire world suddenly rushed down, rapidly Minor Achievement a bowl-shaped array about ten feet in size, which then trapped the group upside down inside.

Maintaining such a large-scale Ancient Qiankun Formation is extremely Origin Energy.

P. S.: Some readers have mentioned the specific cultivation levels of the Yuan Gate Three Little Kings, so I'll go into details.

In the original novel, during the Sect Competition, only three young people entered the Life Mysterious Stage: Ling Qingzhu, Yuan Cang, and Chen Kui (Qing Tan's senior brother).

In other words, among the Three Little Kings, Yuan Cang is a true Life Mysterious Stage, while Ling Zhen and Lei Qian are Half-step Life Mysterious Stage, with their combat power decreasing in that order.

The content of Chapter 214 that I wrote earlier is Ying Xuanzi's personal speculation. He does not know the true strength of the Three Little Kings, but it is ambiguous and easy to misunderstand.

So I made some changes so as not to affect your reading experience.

Also, thank you to that fellow reader for the reminder.