"You idiot, I seized it with my own ability. Why should I give it back just because you told me to?"
Styx jabbed at Eastern Duke, ignoring the scrutinizing gazes of the others.
He knew what everyone besides Eastern Duke was thinking: why had he not been injured?
In truth, it was not that he had not been injured. He had simply used Three Lights Divine Water to instantly recover from his wounds.
But Styx would not tell them that. Sometimes, making others unable to fathom him and elevating himself to something mythical was a good thing.
He had risked being injured by the golden dragon's explosion to suppress the Dragon Head Crutch. It could be said that he had severed one of Eastern Duke's arms.
Eastern Duke also came to his senses and realized just what a foolish question he had blurted out in his panic.
But he was unwilling to accept this and said to the others, "Fellow Daoists, are you still not going to make a move?"
He had been the one exerting himself all this time, while the others had barely done anything.
Styx ignored them and instead shifted his gaze to the Seven Treasure Mystical Tree within the formation.
This frightened Zhun Ti into immediately withdrawing the Seven Treasure Mystical Tree.
Styx found it rather regrettable.
The others ignored Eastern Duke.
It was Eastern Duke's spiritual treasure that had been stolen, not theirs.
Why should they be in a hurry?
Eastern Duke was so furious that he could not speak. He directly formed a hand seal and activated the formation.
Soon, a rotating Universe Chart appeared above the formation and pressed down.
This Universe Chart had been unleashed with the combined power of eight Quasi-Sages. Before it even reached Styx, he could already feel immense pressure.
But a mere Universe Chart could not suppress Styx. The Profound Origin Water Control Flag transformed into an enormous battle flag and confronted the Universe Chart head-on, preventing it from approaching Styx.
Seeing this, Eastern Duke added another layer of Universe Charts, but it still could not break through the Profound Origin Water Control Flag's defenses.
Only after he added five layers of Universe Charts in succession was the Profound Origin Water Control Flag pressed down by an inch.
Seeing that it worked, Eastern Duke was overjoyed and prepared to add more Universe Charts.
Once all eight layers of Universe Charts were in place, he refused to believe that they could not suppress the Profound Origin Water Control Flag!
Just as Eastern Duke was brimming with excitement, a sudden sense of dread enveloped him.
What was going on?
He looked toward Styx and saw that the Dragon Head Crutch in Styx's hand was struggling fiercely, yet it could not escape his grasp.
But Styx's actions...
"Styx, what are you doing?"
Eastern Duke shouted in terror, drawing everyone's attention.
They saw wisps of Creation Power flowing from Styx's hand, continuously covering the Dragon Head Crutch.
Styx's forty-five percent Creation Power was already extremely close to that of a Grand Dao Golden Immortal. The Dragon Head Crutch naturally could not withstand such power at all.
It was no wonder Eastern Duke was afraid. If the spiritual treasures of the others were treated this way by Styx, they would be frightened as well.
Styx smiled broadly. "I do not like the way this Dragon Head Crutch looks, so I am going to give it a complete makeover!"
Styx was going to destroy the Dragon Head Crutch!
Eastern Duke's terror deepened. Disregarding everything else, he reached one hand toward Styx inside the formation.
Perfect!
Styx secretly praised him.
Eastern Duke had truly let his concern cloud his judgment.
Putting everything else aside, the Dragon Head Crutch was still a Top Grade Innate Spiritual Treasure. How could Styx possibly destroy it? Even if he had no use for it, he could save it to prop up a table leg in the future.
He was exploiting Eastern Duke's concern for the Dragon Head Crutch to lure him into attacking!
Seizing the opportunity, Styx thrust Yuantu and Abi simultaneously at Eastern Duke's massive hand, directly nailing it to the center of the formation.
Eastern Duke cried out in pain and swung his massive hand around, trying to break free from the two swords' restraints.
Just as Styx was about to press the advantage and cripple Eastern Duke first, he suddenly sensed movement in the wind behind him.
He hurriedly turned around. Kunpeng had made his move.
At the same time, the other great powers attacked as well.
However, having learned from Eastern Duke's example, none of them dared use their spiritual treasures. All kinds of divine abilities instead surged toward Styx.
Even Eastern Duke fired a stream of Pure Yang Purple Fire.
This time, Styx still did not dodge.
A gentle stream of Creation Power flew out and wrapped itself around Styx.
All the attacks were absorbed into that Creation Power, then continuously compressed into a small sphere in Styx's hand.
Everyone was shocked.
The attacks of eight Quasi-Sages had been neutralized just like that?
Laozi saw through Styx's technique. "Styx cultivates the Dao of Creation, which is infinitely mysterious. But there is no way it could so easily break our attacks!"
As if to verify Laozi's words, Styx's left hand trembled slightly, as though he had suffered backlash.
Laozi precisely seized that moment and attacked again, sending a fierce Taiqing Divine Lightning toward Styx.
Yuanshi and Tongtian followed Laozi's lead. Jade Pure and Supreme Pure divine lightning merged with Taiqing Divine Lightning, becoming the even more powerful Three Pure Ones Divine Lightning.
But after Laozi saw through the flaw in his Creation Power, Styx was not nervous in the slightest.
Instead, he sneered and directly tossed out the small sphere in his hand.
If Laozi could see through him that easily, then what was the point of him still making a name for himself?
The Three Pure Ones Divine Lightning struck the sphere precisely, instantly releasing the attacks that had originally been wrapped in Creation Power.
The astonishing might made everyone present instinctively retreat a step.
But instead of retreating, Styx advanced toward the direction from which the attacks were unleashed!
Had Styx gone mad?
That was everyone's first reaction.
But soon, terror filled them.
As Styx advanced, the entire formation, along with Laozi and the other eight people controlling it, was continuously drawn closer to the center of the unleashed attacks.
Zhun Ti immediately shouted, "Eastern Duke! You created this formation. Quickly stop it!"
They had set up this formation to trap Styx to death, not to be dragged along by him to their deaths!
Although the attacks they had just unleashed were not full-power strikes, they had attacked together. Not just anyone could withstand that kind of power.
Even if they did not perish, they would very likely be stripped of a layer of skin!
Naturally, they could not sit still and await death. They all took out defensive spiritual treasures in preparation for the worst.
Eastern Duke was equally terrified. The horrifying power of eight Quasi-Sages' attacks was obvious to all.
And they were the primary controllers of the formation. They moved with the formation, and the formation moved with Styx's actions.
Simply put, wherever Styx went, the formation went. Wherever the formation went, they went.
And now Styx was charging toward the attacks above, so naturally they were as well.
Eastern Duke shouted, "No! I have to be at the head of the formation to dismantle it!"
When they had first established the formation, Laozi had adamantly refused to let Eastern Duke occupy the position at its head. In the end, Eastern Duke could only yield and let Laozi take that position.
Laozi had not expected such a situation to arise. Everyone was clearly beginning to harbor some resentment toward him.
If Laozi had not insisted on being at the head of the formation, they would not have been unable to dissolve it.
At the critical moment, a "click" came from Tongtian's position within the formation.
Everyone was overjoyed!
Right, how could they have forgotten Tongtian?
His study of formations was famous throughout the Primordial Wilderness!
As Tongtian secretly dismantled part of the formation, the others also exerted their strength at once and shattered the remaining portions together!
Luckily, luckily—they escaped at the very last moment before Styx went mad and flew into the center of the attacks.
Eastern Duke also heaved a sigh of relief, but immediately became even more wary of Tongtian!
Tongtian had so easily comprehended his ultimate trump-card formation?
Unfortunately, before he could think further about it, a metallic sweetness rose in his throat and he spat out a mouthful of blood.
Then his expression withered. The others were bewildered. What had happened to Eastern Duke?
"Styx, you deserve to die!"
Eastern Duke cursed furiously before fainting.
The remaining seven exchanged glances.
What had Styx done?
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