Nine-Li Divine Lord and his wife raced from the South Sea to the skies above the Yuan River, seeking Fire Wuhai to avenge Old Demon Fu Guaba.
Fire Wuhai was then fighting Gu Chen with all his strength. Gu Chen's Profound Yin Soul-Refining Formation was formidable. Though it fell short of the Two-Polarity Dust-Mote Formation, under Gu Chen's control it could still produce countless wondrous effects. It had also been one of the three supreme arts the Heavenly Lust Cult Master had relied upon to roam unchallenged across the world.
Fortunately, Fire Wuhai had the All-Heaven Blazing Fire Formation that Shi Feiyang had helped him refine.
Even the version of the All-Heaven Blazing Fire Formation obtained by Mount Hua had been incomplete. Fire Wuhai had seized only the flags; Shi Feiyang had guided him in working out how to deploy the formation and manipulate its transformations. The resulting formation differed from the original of ancient times, and also from the versions devised by Mount Hua's Patriarch Blazing Fire and Grandmaster Taiyi Hunyuan.
Fire Wuhai spread the All-Heaven Blazing Fire Formation around the Solar Divine Pearl and reversed its gates. Where it had originally discharged fire inward, it now discharged fire outward, countering the Profound Yin Soul-Refining Formation closing around it.
At the innermost layer, Fire Wuhai used the All-Heaven Blazing Fire Formation to seal off the inside from the outside, trapping Gu Chen's second primordial spirit in an unrelenting battle. He intended to destroy it first, then fight Gu Chen's true body to the death. Outside, Gu Chen used the Profound Yin Soul-Refining Formation to seal everything in, intending to refine both the Solar Divine Pearl and Fire Wuhai into flying ash.
At this critical juncture, Nine-Li Divine Lord and his wife came charging in. Not only did he possess