Within the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation.
Zhunti's pupils contracted sharply. The Seven Treasures Wonderful Tree in his hand flickered erratically, and the rainbow light it cast fell three times slower than before.
It wasn't that he didn't want to move faster.
He simply couldn't.
He stared fixedly at the Pangu Phantom outside the formation, at the giant axe in its right hand, formed from the fusion of three treasures, and at the World-Opening Axe Patterns flowing across its blade. Buddha Light churned violently around him.
"The Pangu Axe..."
Zhunti's voice was hoarse. Each word seemed to be forced through clenched teeth, filled with barely contained horror.
"It can actually bring the Pangu Axe back?"
Jieyin said nothing.
He only murmured a Buddhist invocation as the Buddha Light on the Jieyin Divine Banner in his hand flashed rapidly. Cracks spread across his golden body once more.
His eyes, which had shown compassion for countless eons, now held nothing but unfathomable solemnity.
The Pangu Axe.
The divine weapon that had created the world.
In ages past, Great God Pangu had used this axe to split Chaos, separate the clear from the turbid, set Earth Fire Water Wind in motion, and give form to all things in the Great Wilderness.
The axe's might was enough to cleave open the heavens.
And now, it had appeared once more.
Though Pangu himself did not wield it, though it was merely a phantom formed by the fusion of the Three Pure Ones' treasures, though its power was nowhere near what it had been when the world was created—
The supreme might it drew from Pangu and World Creation still sent a bone-deep chill through Jieyin.
Because the axe was not aimed at him.
It was aimed at the Zhou Tian Star Dou Great Array.
But what if