The red, azure, yellow, white, and black radiance of the Great Five Elements Sword Formation resembled a colossal millstone expanding at a constant speed through the Outer Chaos. Layer by layer, it broke down and refined the Chaos Beasts pouring into its range, turning them into pure law fragments that merged into the Great Desolation World's ascension.
Hong Yun kept moving at a steady rhythm at the center of the sword formation. The five divine swords revolved around him like patterns being continuously woven, steadily expanding the formation's reach.
After merging into the Great Desolation World, the fragments of the beasts processed by the sword formation nourished it like a wheat field under constant irrigation, making the golden halo along the world's boundary steadily thicken.
At the edge of the sword formation's reach, however, another pack of Chaos Beasts approached in a more scattered formation, attempting to slip around its frontal coverage with more agile movements.
They were smaller than the beast generals being processed by the sword formation, but more numerous and faster. Like a scattered school of fish slipping through gaps in a sieve, they trickled past the formation's edges.
From the center of the sword formation, Hong Yun briefly glanced toward the scattered pack, but he did not redirect the formation. The power about to intervene was approaching that area even faster.
Zhen Yuanzi rose from the direction of the Great Desolation World's barrier, clad in an azure-and-yellow Daoist robe and holding the Earth Book, his lean face calm and composed.
He moved through Chaos like a mountain range being slowly lifted, advancing steadily toward the scattered pack.
An azure-and-yellow halo woven from wu earth force and yi wood force surrounded him. The Earth Book's pages turned at a regular pace in his hand, like an ancient