"Zhunti! You're asking for death!!!"
Just as Zhunti's golden hand, vast enough to blot out the sky, was about to reach into the Nine Bends Yellow River Formation, a roar filled with boundless killing intent rang out from the horizon!
Immediately afterward, the Taiji Diagram, whose light had dimmed and which had been on the verge of vanishing, suddenly shuddered—and forcibly halted in midair!
"Boom!"
The Taiji Diagram stopped shrinking. Instead, it unfurled once more, its black and white energies churning wildly as they formed an indestructible barrier, blocking Zhunti's golden hand from the Nine Bends Yellow River Formation!
"Bang!!!"
A deafening crash shook the heavens and earth!
Zhunti's golden hand, powerful enough to shatter stars, slammed into the barrier formed by the Taiji Diagram.
Yet the seemingly indestructible hand melted away like snow the moment it touched the Taiji Diagram, effortlessly dissolved into nothing by the swirling yin and yang energies.
"Taishang! You?!"
Zhunti's expression changed dramatically as he stared in disbelief at Grand Supreme Elder Laozi, who had suddenly intervened.
He couldn't understand it. Hadn't Taishang been ready to withdraw? Why had he suddenly stepped in to stop him?
Meanwhile, as Nuwa watched, an almost imperceptible smile of triumph appeared on her cool, composed face.
This was the moment she'd been waiting for!
"Senior Brother Taishang, what do you mean by this?"
Nuwa's voice carried just the right touch of "confusion" and "displeasure."
"Daoist Zhunti was going to save those who have no affinity with the East at my invitation. This is a meritorious deed. Why did you intervene?"
Grand Supreme Elder Laozi didn't answer Nuwa.
At this moment, he too was filled with doubt and uncertainty.
His move to stop Zhunti had been almost instinctive.
He absolutely couldn't let Zhunti take the Twelve Golden Immortals of the