Breaking the Immortal-Slaying Sword, Hongjun's Confusion

At the eastern formation eye of the sword formation, a green longsword hung in the air.

Li Yi's figure flashed as he arrived there, gazing at the sword overhead and preparing to reach out and take it.

Yet as though it had sensed an outsider entering the formation eye, the Immortal-Slaying Sword instantly transformed into a streak of green light and shot toward Li Yi.

Li Yi extended his palm with great interest. The next moment, a sharp gash suddenly appeared across his finger.

Seeing that even his Quasi-Saint body had been cut open by the Immortal-Slaying Sword, Li Yi's eyes revealed a trace of admiration.

"The Immortal-Slaying Sword cuts, the Immortal Slaying Sword kills; wherever the Trapping Immortal Sword goes, red light rises. The Exterminating Immortal Sword holds endless transformations; Great Firmament immortals stain their robes with blood."

Of the four swords, the Immortal-Slaying Sword was the sharpest. Even without someone presiding over the formation, it could still cut through any Quasi-Saint's flesh! Even his Demon God body was no exception!

After this test, Li Yi decisively brought out the Cosmos Cauldron. The Heaven-Earth Dao Cauldron expanded in the air. Just as the Immortal-Slaying Sword was about to shift according to the Formation Dao, Li Yi seemed to have foreseen it, and the cauldron appeared in advance where the sword flashed.

In an instant, Li Yi firmly suppressed the Immortal-Slaying Sword with the Cosmos Cauldron. As an Innate Supreme Treasure, no matter how sharp the Immortal-Slaying Sword was, it could not break free!

After putting away the Immortal-Slaying Sword, Li Yi did not linger. He turned and headed south according to the Formation Dao.

Not long after Li Yi left, a flash of Spirit Treasure light suddenly flew over. Upon arriving, the treasure transformed into a white-robed Daoist who looked exactly like Hongjun—it was his Kind Corpse.

Hongjun's Kind Corpse looked at the empty formation eye, confusion rising in his eyes.

Did I come to the wrong place!?

No, that can't be right!

The Creation Jade Disc's deductions couldn't possibly be wrong!

But the formation eye is here. Where is the Immortal-Slaying Sword that was supposed to suppress it!? Where did such a huge Immortal-Slaying Sword go!?

At the same time, within the Twenty-Four Star Lodge Killing Formation, Luohou's expression also changed drastically.

He had lost his connection to the Immortal-Slaying Sword. Had it been taken?

As the thought flashed through his mind, Luohou's face filled with urgency. He wanted to get out early as well, but the killing formation Heaven-Earth Daoist had set up was incredibly formidable. Even he could not break it in a short time!

It would have been fine if he could locate the formation eye, but now that he could not find it, even his God-Slaying Spear was powerless.

Unless he was willing to expend the God-Slaying Spear's source power and forcibly activate its effect of piercing all things, ignoring the formation eye and destroying the treasure sustaining the formation!

He had originally feared that there would be a hard battle ahead and had not dared consume the God-Slaying Spear's source power. But now, he could no longer care about that.

Just as he raised the God-Slaying Spear with immense mana and prepared to forcibly destroy the blood-red star Spirit Treasure in the sky by consuming its source power, the blood-red star suddenly descended slowly. It shrank into a Star Bead and flew back toward the distant formation diagram. Once the Star Bead that maintained the formation left, the Twenty-Four Star Lodge Killing Formation dissolved on its own.

Seeing the formation disperse automatically, Luohou was stunned. Then, without time to think further, he immediately flew toward the Immortal Slaying Sword in the west.

Heaven-Earth Daoist had too many Spirit Treasures and was not easy to provoke. Besides, he had already taken the Immortal-Slaying Sword, so there was no use seeking him out! The urgent matter was to kill someone first, lest all four swords be broken at once!

Yang Mei's mana was profound, while that old Daoist Hongjun was far too skilled at karmic schemes. Neither would be easy to kill! The easiest target should be Yin-Yang Daoist!

In the western area, Yin-Yang Daoist had a Dao Diagram suspended above his head. The diagram glowed with circling colors. Within a radius of ten miles around him, earth, wind, water, fire, and even countless sword qi were frozen in the air, unable to advance another inch.

Sensing the earth, wind, water, and fire around him being held in place, Yin-Yang Daoist could barely conceal his smile.

This Taiji Diagram was a treasure from the creation of heaven and earth, and it could not have been more compatible with the Yin-Yang Dao he cultivated.

Unfortunately, his fortune was not deep enough for him to obtain this treasure of creation. The finest treasures in his possession were merely the Innate Five Direction Flags.

When Hongjun came to find him afterward, he had used this item to invite him into action.

Originally, Yin-Yang Daoist had feared Luohou's might and had not wished to involve himself in this karma. But when he saw the Dao Diagram Hongjun had produced, he instantly lost his usual composure.

With one glance, he knew that this was the object with which he could attain the Dao, a Sage's treasure! Given time to fully comprehend the Yin-Yang Dao within it, he would certainly attain the Dao through the Yin-Yang Law!

This battle was dangerous, but compared to this Taiji Diagram that perfectly matched his own Dao, it was nothing!

As these thoughts passed through his mind, Yin-Yang Daoist looked around. The smile on his face faded slightly, replaced by a trace of irritation.

He was not skilled in the Formation Dao. Though he knew how to deduce, he still could not calculate the location of the formation eye. He had already wasted quite some time in this formation for nothing. Luohou had gone to find Heaven-Earth Daoist earlier, but there had been no movement since. He did not know whether Heaven-Earth Daoist was dead or alive.

If he is dead, I only hope Luohou goes after the other Daoists first...

Just as he thought this, a streak of light suddenly flew toward him. Before the black streak reached him, its terrifying baleful aura had already crashed down upon Yin-Yang Daoist.

Yin-Yang Daoist's expression changed drastically. He activated his Innate Spiritual Treasure, the Dao Seal, and hurled it forward in an attempt to block the enemy. Yet the black streak did not slow in the slightest. A flash of cold black light appeared, and a spear wrapped in endless baleful qi thrust forth. The Dao Seal, a High-grade Innate Spirit Treasure, instantly shattered in midair!

Pfft!

His bound Spirit Treasure had been destroyed, and Yin-Yang Daoist immediately spat out a mouthful of blood essence!

Without time to think, Yin-Yang Daoist activated all his mana and threw out the Five Direction Dao Flags, shrouding Luohou within them.

Luohou's eyes turned red as he looked at the formation surrounding him.

This trick again!?

He had previously been trapped by Heaven-Earth Daoist's formation for some time because he had been reluctant to expend the God-Slaying Spear's source power! He would never make the same mistake now!

At the same time, seeing Luohou enclosed within the Innate Five Direction Formation, Yin-Yang Daoist sighed softly in relief.

"This Innate Five Direction Formation should be able to trap this devil for a while..."

No sooner had he settled on that thought than a streak of black spear light pierced through one corner of the formation. The Plain-Colored Cloud-Realm Flag in the west let out a mournful cry. A hole had been punched through its banner, and its grade instantly fell from a High-grade Innate Spirit Treasure to a Mid-Grade Innate Spiritual Treasure!

With one formation flag lost, the Innate Five Direction Formation was instantly broken!

Luohou broke out of the formation with the God-Slaying Spear in hand. On closer inspection, the source aura on the spear's body was slightly weaker than before.

Of course, Yin-Yang Daoist had no mind to distinguish such matters now. Looking at Luohou emerging from the broken formation, fear filled his heart, and he instinctively transformed that fear into anger.

Luohou had come here, so Heaven-Earth Daoist must be dead, right? He had originally hoped that man would exhaust some of Luohou's methods, but in the end, he had not consumed anything at all? What an utter waste! That Mid-stage Quasi-Saint trash should never have been allowed in. Now he had dragged him down for nothing.

His anger rising, Yin-Yang Daoist could not help but curse.

"What a useless Heaven-Earth Daoist! He failed to exhaust even a single one of your methods before being slain by you, devil!"

It would have been better had he said nothing. Luohou, who had just been disgusted by Li Yi, grew even angrier upon hearing this.

This Daoist called Qiankun useless. Then what did that make him, the Demon Ancestor who had been trapped by Qiankun's formation for so long and had one immortal sword taken without even seeing his opponent?

With that thought in mind, Luohou charged into the Yin-Yang space opened by the Taiji Diagram with his spear raised. The Taiji Diagram did not possess the ability to ward off all laws!

"Qiankun fought me to a standstill. After losing one move, he already fled. You call him useless? What arrogance!"

Naturally, he was too embarrassed to admit that he had not exchanged a single move with Li Yi before Li Yi trapped him with a formation, so he could only claim that the two had fought for a long time.

Upon hearing this, Yin-Yang Daoist was initially stunned.

Qiankun fought the Demon Ancestor to a standstill? And even escaped? Was he that weak? Suddenly, the Demon Ancestor doesn't seem as terrifying as I thought...

As the thought flashed through his mind, Yin-Yang Daoist steadied himself. His hunched body slowly straightened.

That little Demon Ancestor—if Qiankun could fight him, why couldn't I?

"Good! Today, I, Yin-Yang Daoist, shall uphold justice for Heaven and eliminate you, devil!"