Several days earlier, divine light had suddenly overflowed from Azure Flame Valley, and Law Power had permeated the air. Quite a few cultivators had been drawn in by the divine radiance and rushed over. Yet when they arrived, they found that what they had assumed to be the emergence of some Heavenly Treasure was actually a grand formation!
From outside, they could not see what lay within the formation at all. However, Law Power radiated from it, so it had to be a Venerable Tier formation. Never mind what might be inside—this Venerable Tier formation alone was an invaluable treasure.
For a time, even more cultivators arrived. Yet none of them dared act rashly against the formation. How could a Venerable Tier Grand Formation be so easily breached? What would they do if they carelessly triggered its attack?
The strongest among the cultivators who had come to investigate were merely Saint Kings. If they were attacked by a Venerable Tier Grand Formation, they might be wiped out to the last man.
What were they supposed to do? They decided to wait for a month. If they still had no solution after a month, they could only summon their sects' Supremes.
The Supreme experts of super forces generally remained in seclusion, sometimes even entering death seclusion. Unless their sect stood at the brink of life and death, they would not emerge lightly. Their Lifespan was nearly exhausted, and they could only cling to a lingering breath through such methods.
Still, a Venerable Tier Grand Formation was no trivial matter, so it was worth taking the risk. As for whether their sects' Supremes would come, they did not know. After all, not every Supreme had dabbled in the Formation Dao.
Yet only seven days later, the Venerable Tier Grand Formation unexpectedly revealed its true face. They saw what was inside: two cultivators. One was at the early Feather Ascension Realm, while the other was merely at the late Divine Passage Realm.
"That's the Zhou Clan's Young Master, Zhou Qiongtian!" a Saint King from the Great Sun Divine Sect cried out. The Great Sun Divine Sect and the other four super forces had previously wanted to capture Zhou Kuang's children alive as leverage, but they had made no progress.
And now Zhou Qiongtian had actually delivered himself right before him. A pillow had arrived just as sleep overtook him!
That Saint King of the Great Sun Divine Sect was immediately overjoyed. If he captured Zhou Qiongtian alive, he would earn a heaven-shaking merit!
The next moment, he actually attacked the Venerable Tier Grand Formation, intending to forcibly break it.
Besides him, several Saints and Saint Kings from the Great Sun Divine Sect also attacked the Venerable Tier Grand Formation!
Apart from the Great Sun Divine Sect, there were also the Mystic Heaven Hegemony Sect, Azure Profound Divine Palace, Nine Heavens Cloud Palace, Violet Heaven Holy Land, and others present. Coincidentally, nearly all the cultivators here had more or less attacked the Zhou Clan, whether openly or in secret.
For a time, dozens of Saints and Saint Kings attacked the formation. Though it was a Venerable Tier formation, if a Supreme expert controlled it, there would naturally be no problem. They would never be able to breach it and might even be slain in return.
But Zhou Qiongtian was only at the early Feather Ascension Realm. Although his attainments in the Formation Dao had reached Quasi-Supreme Grandmaster, his cultivation was too low for him to unleash the Venerable Tier Grand Formation's true might.
The Venerable Tier formation could still hold for now, but if this continued, it would sooner or later be broken!
Moreover, sects such as the Great Sun Divine Sect and Mystic Heaven Hegemony Sect had already sent word back to their sects. Before long, those sects would likely dispatch powerful experts to capture Zhou Qiongtian alive.
When that time came, Zhou Qiongtian would be in danger.
Although Zhou Qiongtian had also sent word to the Zhou Clan at once, the Zhou Clan was a considerable distance from Azure Flame Valley. They would likely arrive later than the people from the other factions, and the experts from those sects would certainly delay the Zhou Clan's reinforcements.
Zhou Qiongtian's expression instantly darkened. Was this Lin Tian's luck striking back? It truly was troublesome!
However, there was now one best solution!
The Venerable Tier formation could hold them off for a while longer. That was enough time for him to do something.
Zhou Qiongtian instantly rushed out and charged at Lin Tian. The Venerable Tier formation diverted part of its power to render Lin Tian unable to move, unable to circulate the Spiritual Power within his body, while his flesh constantly endured immense gravity—a whole stack of debuffs had been maxed out.
With lightning beneath his feet, Zhou Qiongtian moved as swiftly as a thunderbolt. In no more than an instant, he arrived before Lin Tian and threw a punch, smashing Lin Tian's head apart!
It had been too easy—so easy that Zhou Qiongtian could scarcely believe it. Lin Tian was dead?
Zhou Qiongtian's expression suddenly changed. Although Lin Tian's life force had vanished, the system had not delivered any notification of "Lin Tian slain."
The next moment, a sudden change erupted.
Zhou Qiongtian nearly ground his teeth to pieces. Again? Was this ever going to end? Couldn't he just obediently go die?
A terrifying aura brimming with intense aggression erupted from Lin Tian's body. Dark blue flames roared forth and devoured Lin Tian's flesh, and Zhou Qiongtian's face changed drastically as he swiftly retreated from Lin Tian.
A figure walked out from the dark blue flames. Zhou Qiongtian's eyes widened. The person before him seemed to have no connection whatsoever to Lin Tian. If Zhou Qiongtian had not witnessed it with his own eyes, he would never have linked this figure to Lin Tian.
He stood a full three meters tall, like a small giant. His skin was crimson and radiated a terrifying heat. Zhou Qiongtian stood ten meters away from him, yet still felt a dreadful wave of heat crashing into his face.
He had long dark blue hair and two savage, sharp horns atop his head. He stared coldly at Zhou Qiongtian, his gaze as deep as an abyss. At once, Zhou Qiongtian felt his scalp go numb.
"Damn it, why is he so weak? I finally managed to reside within this man's body, only to find that he was such trash. If I hadn't preserved a thread of his life force, he would have died long ago."
He was a Demon God. Once, after suffering grievous wounds and nearing death, he had condensed all his power into a Demon God Core before his fall, preserving his consciousness and Divine Soul within it as he waited for someone to fuse the Demon God Core into their body.
Then, as that person continually used the Demon God Core's power, they would be eroded by him, allowing him to seize their body and revive.
But after finally encountering a host, he had never expected that the host would be besieged to death before even fusing the Demon God Core into his body.
Only by relying on Lin Tian's cultivation as a Great Emperor in his previous life, along with his own power within the Demon God Core, had he been able to bring a wisp of Lin Tian's Divine Soul into the River of Time and travel upstream. That was also the reason for Lin Tian's rebirth.
The Demon God looked at Zhou Qiongtian coldly. He remained silent and said nothing, yet this alone brought Zhou Qiongtian an incomparably terrifying sense of oppression. This feeling was even more dreadful than the Savage Great Emperor, who had shattered the Heavenly Tribulation on the spot!
How could Lin Tian possibly have such a thing inside his body?!
Zhou Qiongtian was panicking now. He had thought it was a lamb awaiting slaughter, but it had turned out to be a gigantic dragon!
The Saints and Saint Kings outside the formation were also dumbfounded. Who was that terrifying fellow inside, the one who made them feel suffocated?
They looked at one another, not knowing what to do for a moment. They wanted to run.
Little did they know that the Demon God was even more panicked than they were. The pressure he now radiated came from the power he had left behind in the Demon God Core back then, but his current cultivation was only at the great completion of the Divine Passage Realm.
Though his current appearance looked intimidating, his body was fundamentally still Lin Tian's. Even though the Demon God Core belonged to him, this body could not withstand the Demon God Core's power at all.
Right now, he was very weak!
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