With Great Sage Lieyun's assistance, He Ping secretly employed a secret art, using Ryomen Sukuna—refined into a "Nine-Death Substitute Witch Puppet"—to exchange positions with himself. It was a move that had taken everyone completely by surprise.
Even this incarnation of an immortal-god-level expert, who had unleashed the "Scale-Slaying Heaven Vast Star Calamity," had not anticipated that He Ping would use such a method. In an instant, the situation changed completely.
This spatial shift brought an unforeseen reversal. At the very moment Ryomen Sukuna was shattered, He Ping's true Primordial Spirit moved before the Great Vehicle Dharma Body.
Although this Primordial Spirit Dharma Body of his had been struck by an immortal-god-level expert, leaving it riddled with holes like a torn sack leaking water.
The "Golden Lotus Jade Root Great Vehicle Dharma Body" jointly condensed by Gongyang Wuwang and the Golden Lotus Holy Mother was in no better condition. Moreover, this development had wholly exceeded the pair's expectations.
"HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"
He Ping's grievously wounded true Primordial Spirit let out a wild laugh. His mana merged with the divine sand passageway, triggering another transformation within the "Ten Thousand Miles Divine Sand Transformation."
In but a moment, a colossal wind howled in fury between heaven and earth, while flying dust surged high. Heaven and earth seemed ready to overturn; gray mountains and seas of sand filled the skies, and the boundless sandstorm charged in like ten thousand galloping horses.
Xie Chongsheng and the "Ancestral Dragon Dao Aspect" had been preparing to rescue them when the endless sandstorm around them suddenly curled up. The layers of sand heaved like a tsunami, becoming more than ten times denser. Countless grains of sand condensed into a sphere, wrapping them within.
In that instant, the battlefield was split apart. Xie Chongsheng and the "Ancestral Dragon Dao Aspect" were