"Hong means vast, and Yuan means origin. Hong Yuan should be the universe's great origin!"
Xu Ying gazed at that mass of Hong Yuan Qi. It was hidden within the Sea of Chaos, drawing strength from the chaos and constantly growing stronger on its own. Judging from the arrangement of these stone swords, Sword Master Tongtian must have been suppressing the power of Hong Yuan, allowing it to continuously grow by borrowing the strength of the Sea of Chaos.
Presumably, when Sword Master Tongtian came here back then, the Hong Yuan Qi had not been this large.
"The stone steles resist the Sea of Chaos, the sword formation suppresses the stone steles, and Hong Yuan refines the power of the Sea of Chaos to grow on its own. This is truly ingenious."
Xu Ying had just thought this when the ground suddenly shook violently. The strange Dao powers in the ruins from before abruptly grew several times denser, and it seemed that something was reviving in many of the ruins.
These things had originally been suppressed by the stone-sword formation, but now they all revealed themselves.
These incomparably ancient ruins had each formed their own world. They contained the Heaven and Earth Great Dao of the Former Court Era, but for some unknown reason, it was extremely incomplete and twisted, filled with an aura of decay and corruption that made people deeply uncomfortable.
The stone-sword formation trembled endlessly under the impact of this power. Seeing this, Xu Ying immediately activated the formation, but he was not Sword Master Tongtian, after all. Although he had understood the formation's principles, he still fell far short in the Sword Dao.
Suddenly, black qi surged from underground in a ruin not far away, billowing like thick smoke. Within the black qi, a humanoid creature