White Lotus Suppresses Taotie, Victory in Hand

Taotie's blood-red pupils flared wide, Sha Qi surging around its body like a boiling sea of ink, layer upon layer condensing into heavy armor.

With a roar that tore through the void, its body merged with the Sha Qi, transforming into a sharp blade that lunged straight at Donghua!

Donghua's gaze was cold as the Primordial Sky Measuring Ruler flew from his hand.

The ruler blazed with primordial purple light, descending with the might of splitting heaven and earth.

"Clang!"

The sound of shattering metal and stone rang through the skies as the bone armor broke apart.

Taotie crashed into the earth like a collapsing mountain, and monstrous baleful mist erupted from the rift.

"As long as Sha Qi exists, I am immortal!" Before the words had faded, Taotie struggled up and leaped out of the rift once more.

Its joints cracked explosively, while the savage Bone Whip upon its back writhed like living serpents. Its Sha Qi-soaked scales gleamed with ominous blood-red light.

This Taotie's regenerative power was truly astonishing.

Donghua's thoughts turned, and he immediately judged the crux of the battle: if he wished to utterly grind it away with the Sky Measuring Ruler, he would need at least the time it took to burn an incense stick, continuously wearing down its origin before he could succeed.

At that moment, turbulent auras rose from the battlefield on the other side, accompanied by heaven-shaking booms.

His divine sense swept over it, revealing Taizhen locked in fierce battle with the two beasts, Chaos and Qiong Taotie.

Though Taizhen had not yet fallen behind, facing two ferocious beasts alone was ultimately risky.

Having made up his mind, Donghua traced a seal through the air. The Primordial Sky Measuring Ruler hanging in the heavens instantly split into countless ruler-shadows, falling like a rain of stars.

Every strike landed precisely upon Taotie's crown, forcing the ferocious beast to stagger back as black blood streamed from its shattered bone armor.

"I'll let you live a little longer. Once I have destroyed the other two beasts, I'll return and slay you." With that, Donghua immediately brought forth a spiritual treasure.

"Pure World White Lotus, suppress!"

A gentle yet sacred white light bloomed from between his brows, beginning as a pearl before bursting into full blossom.

The Twelve-petal Pure World White Lotus swayed into view, every petal crystalline and luminous, its body flowing with purifying Dao charm capable of cleansing all evils.

The white lotus hovered above Taotie, pouring down endless divine light of purification.

The endlessly roiling ferocious Sha Qi melted like snow upon meeting the light. Taotie released an enraged and unwilling roar, its massive body bound and pressed down by billions of threads of light. No matter how it struggled, it was like sinking into a mire of light, unable to move.

Seeing Taotie temporarily suppressed by the white lotus's divine radiance, Donghua flashed away, transforming into a clear rainbow as he shot toward Taizhen's battlefield.

Donghua became a streak of clear light, tearing through the churning sea of baleful clouds and arriving at another stretch of sky in an instant.

The moment he steadied himself, a terrifying aura woven from chaos and devouring crashed toward him.

Looking closely, he saw Taizhen standing suspended in the void, peerless in bearing.

Clear Radiance flowed from the Kunlun Mirror in her hand, reflecting the myriad phenomena of the heavens.

A hazy river flowed around her as well. It was not true water, but a stream formed from countless glimmers of passing years. Fragments and phantom images of past and future rose and sank within its ripples, emanating a heart-palpitating Dao charm of time.

This treasure was the Stream of Time. After Taizhen comprehended the Time Law, Donghua had given this spiritual treasure to her.

Standing opposite Taizhen were the two great ferocious beasts.

One resembled a giant dog, with neither mouth nor nose upon its face. Only the origin of Chaos twisted space around it. It was Chaos.

Wherever its power reached, all laws retreated and order ceased to exist.

The other had the body of a sheep and the face of a man, with eyes beneath its armpits, tiger fangs, and human claws. Its enormous maw seemed capable of devouring heaven and earth—it was Qiong Taotie.

Whenever its great mouth opened and closed, even light twisted, vanished, and was swallowed by it.

Chaos stirred boundless disorder, annihilating supernatural abilities and laws, while Qiong Taotie opened its maw to swallow the heavens, madly biting at the Stream of Time in an attempt to turn even time itself into food within its belly.

As Donghua arrived, all three at the heart of the battlefield sensed it at once, and their movements paused.

Taizhen turned toward him, Clear Radiance flashing in her eyes as the pressure upon her suddenly eased.

The reactions of the two ferocious beasts were even more intense.

The aura around Chaos's distorted face churned as it gave a muffled hiss. Qiong Taotie, meanwhile, bared its enormous maw and roared with mockery and fury:

"That useless Taotie! It couldn't even hold him back for a moment! Just like the fallen Qiongqi, it is nothing but trash!"

Their furious shouts were not directed at Donghua's arrival, but sprang from rage and contempt for Taotie's utter incompetence.

Among ferocious beasts, there was no such thing as affection—only the strong devouring the weak.

Hearing this, Taizhen's lips curved into a cool smile as she said to Donghua, "It seems they have begun fighting among themselves first."

Donghua's gaze swept over the two beasts. The Primordial Sky Measuring Ruler already hung before him, its frigid killing intent soaring into the heavens.

The Sky Measuring Ruler and the Kunlun Mirror's brilliance instantly echoed one another, and the situation changed at once!

Seeing Donghua and Taizhen attack them, the two ferocious beasts showed no fear. Instead, they roared sharply, boundless ferocious Sha Qi sweeping in all directions like an erupting tsunami.

"First, tear this Daoist apart!"

Blood-red light burst from Qiong Taotie's huge eyes beneath its armpits. It suddenly opened its heaven-devouring maw, and a terrifying suction force capable of annihilating all laws abruptly formed.

In an instant, wind and clouds reversed, space twisted, and it not only swallowed light and spiritual qi—even the protective Clear Radiance immortal light around Donghua's body swayed, as though it would be forcibly ripped away and devoured!

At the same time, Chaos's indistinct body suddenly expanded, and the laws of chaos around it spread at extreme speed like invisible ripples.

Wherever it passed, the laws twisted and space-time grew unstable. The Stream of Time flowing around Taizhen was disrupted by this force, instantly sending up violent ripples!

One devoured all laws; the other threw the rules into chaos.

The two ferocious beasts displayed astonishing battle instincts and coordination. The moment they struck, they unleashed a lethal combined attack, each targeting Donghua and Taizhen's core Supernatural Abilities, seeking to crush them in one blow!

A biting killing intent had already locked firmly onto the two of them as though it possessed substance.

Facing Taotie's terrifying suction that devoured heaven and earth, immortal light swayed around Donghua, yet he stood unmoving like an ancient divine mountain.

"Sun Wheel Slashes Delusion!"

His Daoist shout rang out like an edict that split open heaven and earth.

The Primordial Sky Measuring Ruler moved in response. The radiance along its body instantly drew inward, gathering upon its blade and transforming into an incomparably condensed arc of golden light!

This was not the blazing light of a great sun, but the first ray of dawn that tore through Chaos's darkness at daybreak, bearing the Dao intent to sever all falsehood.

The golden sun wheel ignored the barriers of space and ignored that suction which devoured all laws. Wherever it passed, laws retreated.

It slashed straight at Taotie's giant maw that devoured everything!

For the first time, shock appeared in the enormous eye beneath Taotie's armpit. From that seemingly gentle dawnlight, it sensed a fatal threat capable of utterly annihilating its origin!

"Roar!"

Taotie let out a heaven-shaking roar mingled with pain and fury.

Its maw, which could swallow anything, was struck head-on by the Dao intent of the sun wheel. Its fangs shattered, its origin was wounded, and its massive body was violently hurled away by that irresistible power of creation.

Taotie shot backward like a falling star, smashing through several peaks of Sha Qi before being buried beneath the ruins. On the other side, Chaos came tumbling down as well, sending towering black waves surging into the air.

Only after a moment did the two battered beastly figures struggle free.

The ferocious aura around them had visibly dimmed, and they were covered in wounds.

"This is bad..." The giant eye beneath Taotie's armpit flickered with uncertain light as it stared fixedly at the distant Donghua, whose aura was as deep as an abyss. A thought of retreat had already arisen within the transmission of its divine sense.

"That Daoist is formidable. Withdraw first!"

"Damn it... let's leave first and talk later!" A wave of agreement also came from Chaos's chaotic will.

The two ferocious beasts reached a consensus in an instant. Today's situation could no longer be salvaged; they could only flee first and make further plans afterward!

However, just as they gathered their remaining Sha Qi and prepared to tear open space to escape—

"ROAR!!!"

A terrifying roar filled with fury and defiance erupted from the direction where the Pure World White Lotus was suppressing its target, like hundreds of millions of thunderclaps exploding at once! It was Taotie's roar!

The two beasts exchanged a glance. Ferocious light flashed in their eyes, their desire to retreat vanished, and their overwhelming Sha Qi flared anew. Once Taotie broke free, it would be three against two—the advantage would be theirs!