Swatting Cockroaches

The Blood Codex Ten Absolute Formations, also known as the Heavenly Annihilation Formation, is the foremost of the Ten Ultimate Formation. It is the most powerful weapon in the Blood Record Heavenly Book and the supreme method of the Primordial Spirit Path.

The key to this formation lies in refining the so-called Heavenly Annihilation Immortal Light! It is the ultimate move that the God Lord used to sweep across the world back then!

As everyone knows, the God Lord does not like to personally engage in fighting and killing, because he has no hands, cough cough, because he became famous throughout the world by relying on the groundbreaking method of the Primordial Spirit.

It should be noted that the cultivation Cultivation Method of the Primordial Spirit are also powerful and require a long time to develop. In the early stages, they mainly use illusions to bewitch people and interfere with the Primordial Spirit. In the middle and later stages, they use brainwave invasion and possession. They are quite similar to the puppets, ECM, and electronic countermeasures technology of hackers on the system side.

This Heavenly Annihilation Immortal Light is a supreme technique that can only be cultivated when the Divine Sect's Primordial Spirit Technique has reached its highest level of mastery! In a sense, it has already surpassed the technology of the system, and is a super energy attack that directly converts spiritual power into thermoelectric radiation! This has even broken through the rules of physics, and is far more fantastical than immortal techniques!

According to a gossip source named Saintess Sarilang who wished to remain anonymous, this annihilating light was actually a divine technique specially developed by the God Lord to annihilate the Immortal Emperor!

While the Divine Lord's primordial spirit technique was indeed powerful, the Three Great Sects were not entirely ignorant of the divine soul. The ancient Immortal Palace already had the Luo Feng Immortal Prison to suppress demons and monsters.

Even experts in the Xuanmen sect, such as Li Fan, when they reach the Divine Transformation stage, have already cultivated various second, third, and fourth primordial spirits in their divine court. They observe the stars Moon Worship, and construct various profound techniques such as the Celestial Pivot Star Palace and the Seven Luminaries of the Northern Star in their divine court to protect their true spirit and strengthen their divine soul. They are not afraid of the Blood God Child of the Divine Sect invading and seizing their bodies.

Moreover, great cultivators at the Dao Lord and Immortal Emperor levels can even create tens of millions of clones, countless divine thoughts, and an unyielding soul. Their top-tier Dao bodies can be restored in an instant. Even if their main body is destroyed, they can use a unique method to reshape their bodies with a wisp of divine thought from their clones!

Every generation of rulers will produce a chosen one, but if you can't defeat me, you can run away; if you can't escape, you can be reborn!

Therefore, the God Lord went to great lengths to seek revenge back then. He devised the Blood Talisman Ten Ultimate Formation to capture and kill those Dao Lords and Immortal Kings!

According to Sarilang's boastful claims, above these ten extraordinary abilities, the Divine Lord has devised an even more powerful Immortal Slaughtering Formation, specifically designed to deal with celestial Heavenly Immortal on earth who are at the level of Feather Transformation Immortal!

This Heavenly Annihilation Formation is the prototype of the even more powerful Immortal Slaughtering Formation! The Heavenly Annihilation Immortal Light is merely an initial introductory Cultivation Method! The truly powerful ultimate move is at the very end! The Blood Talisman Immortal Light that destroys heaven and earth and shatters the void!!

However, in the era of the God Lord, there was no one who could force him to use the Ten Ultimate Formation, let alone complete the Immortal Slaughtering Formation. Therefore, apart from the Immortal Slaughtering Light being learned by the Saintess, none of the other secret techniques were passed down. The God Lord then shattered the void and ascended away. So, the Saintess, who is the mouthpiece of the Divine Cult, is just making things up, but we don't know if it's true or not...

In short, under the illumination of the Heavenly Annihilation Immortal Light, even Feather Transformation Immortal could be annihilated by the light, its soul damaged and its body shattered! Even the Feather Transformation Immortal Body of this Immortal Cockroach was gradually disintegrated and destroyed under the intense beam of the Immortal Light, reduced to ashes!

Of course, something like the Heavenly Annihilation Immortal Light comes at a price. This technique is not only the ultimate secret of the Primordial Spirit Technique, but it also consumes a great deal of spiritual power, or rather, primordial spirit power!

Each senior martial arts master could probably only glare at someone for eight or nine seconds before exhausting their energy and being replaced...

Well, they can even switch people, probably because they're trapped by the Red Sand Formation and there are a lot of them. The old men have no worries and can just unleash their full power with the Heavenly Annihilation Formation.

So the nine of them formed a battle array, some firing short bursts, some longer bursts, all firing with all their might until they were exhausted. Then they shifted positions, in twos and threes, and four waves of people took turns firing the Heavenly Annihilation Immortal Light. Meanwhile, those outside who were activating the Crimson Sand Array were not letting up either, waving their Blood Banners with all their might. The crimson wind and blood light turned the cockroaches into a bloody mess! The cockroaches' immortal bodies were shattered and obliterated at a speed visible to the naked eye! It was truly incredibly powerful!

But that's not enough!

"Help me--!!"

Just as the Heavenly Annihilation Formation was changing its personnel, a sudden change occurred! Amidst a shrill howl, the humanoid form, half-formed within the cockroach's body and still possessing wings, antennae, compound eyes, and mouthparts, suddenly burst forth! The cockroach pounced! Despite being battered by the red sand and riddled with holes, it still managed to break through the red sand formation!

Among the Divine Lords who retreated from the Heavenly Annihilation Formation, their primordial spirits were at their weakest. Moreover, they lacked Li Fan's 'calm' defense, and one of them actually fell victim to it! He screamed and roared wildly, flailing his arms and legs as if desperately trying to swat away cockroaches on his face, before falling from the clouds!

"Help me--!"

Well, the cockroach immortal naturally hoped for this opportunity, so he pounced straight at the god who was being harmed by the primordial spirit technique. He was as fast as lightning, and in an instant, he was ready to break through the formation!

But to everyone's surprise, these old Xuanmen were even more ruthless! Before the cockroach could even pounce on him, a flash of cold light appeared! The person who had been hit was suddenly appeared beside Wang Hu, who was holding a blood-stripping banner, and was cut in two with a single stroke!

Then, Wang Hu waved the blood banner, and the red sand array opened, revealing four preparatory deities. They raised their magical treasures, and the treasures shone brightly, striking the cockroach immortal squarely on the head! It staggered and fell back into the red sand wind!

Then, Zhang Bao tossed the blood banner to someone else, leaped out of the closed red sand array, and landed in the Heavenly Annihilation Array to fill his position. He opened his blind eyes and, with a "whoosh!" shot out a torrent of Heavenly Annihilation Immortal Light! It sent the cockroach immortal back to its original position and continued to strangle it!

Li Fan watched from the sidelines as the cockroach immortal nearly broke through the formation in this fierce battle.

It wasn't that he didn't want to help, but these were all secret manuals from the Blood Record Heavenly Book, and he certainly didn't know how to use them...

After all, Li Fan's divine sect Cultivation Method and blood refining methods were all pieced together from bits and pieces through stealing and deduction. Although he had been completing missions with the Qiongqi Ghost Guiche for ten years, he was still a long way from achieving a first-class merit...

Holy crap, I already thought it was outrageous enough that the Xuanmen possessed the Ten Ultimate Formation Diagram and the secret recipe for refining the Bloodbreak Sand. But they actually know the ultimate immortal technique from the Blood Record Heavenly Book?!

Doesn't that mean there are at least nineteen old Xuanmen here who have reached the level of Venerable Master in the Divine Sect, so they can efficiently complete high-merit missions and exchange them for secret manuals like the Extermination of Immortal Light in the Blood Record Heavenly Book, which can only be obtained with first-class merit? What demonic sect, you're all one family! A branch sect of the Blood Talisman God Sect, damn it!

While he was complaining, Li Fan had already recovered.

Yes, fearing that the aftershocks of the immortal light would damage his primordial spirit, he used his Blood God Child clone to forcefully break through the Red Sand Formation. Fortunately, the non-Newtonian fluid model worked, and he could replenish his Three Flowers energy by consuming his mood limit. The Blood God Child clone escaped after being hit by the Bloodbreak Sand with about 30% of its energy remaining. This outer 30% of divine blood, seeped into the Red Sand, had its Dao Breath sluggish and became as heavy as a thousand pounds, making it impossible to control and refine. It could only be discarded directly.

It only tumbled around the edge of the Red Sand Formation and still managed to knock away 30% of his cultivation. This is truly the Ten Ultimate Formation.

Then Blood Shadow fell backward, recuperating within the Star Core, while Qingyue's true form rose from the shadow once more.

To be honest, Li Fan really didn't expect the battle to evolve into this situation. While deduction and calculation are certainly a way to predict the future, a person's free will can also determine the course of the unknowable future to a considerable extent.

Often, we can choose our own path.

However, Li Fan realized that he had overestimated the limits of these old Xuanmen sects.

Or rather, he set the moral standards of Xuantian and the Three Elders and Four Ancestors of Emei as the lower limit of the old Xuanmen sect, which is really setting the threshold for the bottom line too high.

No matter how crazy these old men are, they are still universally recognized as models of righteousness. Most of the Xuan Sects don't even reach the moral standards of Xuan Tian!

Therefore, Li Fan miscalculated this time. He originally thought that at most, the Xuanmen would just smear the Divine Sect, and the theft of the Immortal Silk would be at most a one-person or small-team level battle of magic and swordsmanship, slaughtering a dozen or so royal families, and then this calamity would be over.

Little did anyone expect that when these people shed their righteous facade as members of the Xuanmen sect and donned the skin of 'Devil Sect Dharma Protector,' they truly abandoned all moral boundaries as well.

This move couldn't be described as a 'pretending' crime by the Blood Talisman God Sect! They were ruthless and cruel, no description could be an exaggeration. They unleashed the Ten Ultimate Formation, a world-destroying, land-altering ultimate technique, right there and then!

Is this some kind of emergency tactic that can be used casually?

To set up a formation of the Ten Ultimate Formation level, the sheer complexity of the preparations—including the ritual instruments, the magical Magic Treasure, and the earth's veins—is self-evident. Just the three buckets of Bloodbreak Sand for the Red Sand Formation alone are sect-level strategic treasures; how could individual cultivators possibly possess them! Let alone setting up two at once!!

It's likely that these two Ten Ultimate Formation were trump cards prepared in advance by this group when they were planning to make their move at the Three Palaces. It's just that the traps that were originally meant for the Grand Tutor have now been exposed by the cockroaches. And seeing how decisively they threw out these two formations, it's hard to say whether they have other trump cards of this or that they're saving for the Grand Tutor.

Not long ago, when Emei was still around, the Xuan Sect God Sect even held a battle contest, carefully selecting the time and place for fellow Daoists to spar. It was like a gathering of immortals, inviting all fellow disciples to set up their formations. They would set up their formations and then challenge each other, adhering to rules and showing courtesy. Soldiers would fight soldiers, and generals would fight generals. They even specially chose to set up their formations in the desolate mountains and wilderness outside the pass. Although the battle in the immortal Immortal Realm was earth-shattering, it did not cause too much damage to the mortal realm.

But now, these old guys, empowered by both demonic sects and cults, don't care about your status as the ancient capital of the Three Realms, the important Wang Jing capital, the heart of the Central Plains, or the capital of the imperial court.

Rather, it's more accurate to say that the Ten Deadly Formations, the Bloodbreak Sand, and the Immortal-Slaying Light were all prepared by the Xuanmen with great effort and energy. Wouldn't it be a waste to just hold onto them and never use them?

Since it's necessary and we have the cards in our hand, we should just play them. What's there to hesitate about?

As for the Three Wang Jing engulfed in flames, and the Purple Palace shrouded in blood and smoke, did the old Xuanmen sect not foresee this magnificent yet tragic scene when the Ten Ultimate Formation were unleashed?

Of course we knew that; which sect doesn't know the power of the Ten Ultimate Formation? But so what?

Even if the Grand Tutor currently in charge of the Immortal Palace is a friendly ally of the Xuanmen, so what?

In chaotic times, everyone is a potential enemy or opponent. Given the opportunity and any weakness, one must strike with all one's might.

Even within the Xuanmen (Daoist sect), they are ruthlessly exterminated; how much more so for the Grand Tutor, who isn't even a member of Xuanmen? If there's an opportunity to take advantage of his illness and kill him, why not?

One whale falls, and all things come to life.

A chaotic, collapsing, and near-extinction Immortal Palace is, in the eyes of the Xuanmen (mystical sect), the best Immortal Palace.

Yes, when war begins and the most basic rules and bottom lines are broken, people will do anything to maximize their interests.

So it was only natural that this group of 'Devil Sect Dharma Protector' would immediately throw out two Ten Ultimate Formation and bombard the Immortal Insects with a barrage of attacks, aiming for the highest possible output and the greatest possible firepower.

As for the collateral damage caused by the magic circle, the casualties who were caught in the crossfire were not even considered.

After all, we live in chaotic times, and who can truly remain uninvolved?

I guess that's just fate.

Life is as worthless as grass; this is what a chaotic world is like.

Li Fan took a deep breath, rubbed his head, and cleared his mind of the chaotic thoughts and distractions.

There is no room for intense emotions such as guilt, sadness, and anger to interfere with thinking or affect judgment.

Now that things have come to this, the first priority is to get rid of this "fairy cockroach" before considering anything else.

After all, two formations have already been deployed, leveling nearly half of the Three Enclosures. If this isn't enough, there are still eight more formations to be deployed, one after another, and it's not impossible that they could turn the Central Plains into a wasteland.

Therefore, Li Fan used his true form, the battle mode of the Tai Sha Star Core.

Yes, he certainly didn't just spend the last ten years doing practice problems. Those previous Microdust Avatar, the Blood God Child avatars, the Qiongqi Guiche Moth, etc., were all just for fun, used to deduce other unorthodox methods.

The combat mode that can unleash the true power of the Tai Sha Star Core has been continuously developed and updated under the system's simulation. However, those trash demon gods couldn't even withstand a single move from him, and the Moon Soul could be easily killed, so there was no way to test it. But this time, there is finally an opportunity.

That cockroach! I can fight it! Tai Su Dao Body, Stage One! Transform!

Suddenly, the humanoid face of the dust-like Dao body that Li Fan had sculpted melted away like melted butter or paraffin wax. Its flesh and skin melted and evaporated rapidly under the scorching sun, and it was swallowed into the void and disappeared. What remained was only a faint, indistinct humanoid shadow.

It was a moonlit night, the sky shrouded in red sand and dust, with flickering flames casting refracted light and shadow Fourth Department. Without careful observation, the indistinct human figure was almost impossible to discern with the naked eye. At the heart of the figure was a black, round hole the size of a sword pellet, from which pale purple stardust continuously spewed forth, gradually filling the humanoid shadow and making its outline increasingly clear, revealing a faint, shadowy form.

Then, in the blink of an eye, the shadow became clearer and clearer, like ink spreading on white paper, or like the moon's shadow cast through a windowpane, appearing in this world.

Yes, what stands here now is no longer a shell formed by the transformation technique using the dust of heaven and earth, but Li Fan's true form within the Tai Sha Star Core.

However, calling it a phase of transformation is not quite accurate; a more appropriate and fitting description is a 'countdown'.

To put it more bluntly, Li Fan himself is now a time bomb whose countdown has begun.

Through years of practice in the Void Abyss, Moon Worship, and devouring the Tai Su Devil Domain, Li Fan can now release his true form by slowly controlling the ejection of the star core, rather than directly opening the closed string barrier to reveal his true form. This allows him to release the collapsed and superimposed Tai Sha Star Core to a certain extent, restoring his true form.

However, this is a matter of rate control. If the operation and calculation are not done well, Li Fan will transform into the Tai Sha Star Core, devouring the entire Earth just like he devoured the Tai Su Devil Domain. If the battle drags on for too long, or if he loses control of his emotions, the Tai Sha Star Core will devour the entire plane. If he is seriously injured and loses consciousness due to a spiritual shock, the Tai Sha Star Core will devour...

Anyway, you know, transformations have time limits.

However, the risk was worthwhile because it is indeed very powerful.

Li Fan then performed a membranous leap, directly jumping into the Red Sand Formation! He grabbed the Cockroach Immortal, who was trying to escape the burning immortal light by switching positions during the Heavenly Annihilation Formation! His Ghost Hand unleashed tremendous power, shattering stardust and tearing apart the Feather Transformation Immortal!

Tear open the cockroach's mouthparts! Create a gaping wound right in front of it! Raise it high amidst the Heavenly Annihilation Array's divine light! Let the nine beams of annihilating divine light pour into the cockroach's mouth all at once!

"Help--!"

"Die, you cockroach!!"

In the silent, intense light, the cockroach fairy's mouth and lungs were torn in two, and with a scream, it spat out the candlestick inside its abdomen!

So at this moment,

The nine beams of Heavenly Annihilation Light instantly extinguished, the crimson sand whirlwind ceased immediately, and as the blood sand fell, a large group of old Xuanmen cultivators emerged from the blood-red aura in the sky! They rushed into the formation to grab and seize the opportunity!

A bunch of bastards!

This time, Li Fan broke down, and his mood dropped a bit.

As the cockroach was torn open at chest level, its internal organs burst open, spraying out hundreds of cockroach eggs like a burst of magma!

Li Fan roared, unleashing a burst of Tai Sha Sword Rainbow that instantly shattered dozens of egg sheaths.

However, among the gods who rushed to snatch the lanterns, six or seven people suddenly changed their expressions, abandoned the candlesticks they were about to obtain, and abruptly turned around. Each of them grabbed an egg-shaped sheath, stuffed it into their mouths, and then vanished!

Damn it! All our efforts were in vain!