Ever since Qi Shouming had obtained the Imperial Mansion Heavenly Script Tusita True Edict, his Dao practice and magical power had advanced by leaps and bounds, bringing him into the ranks of supreme masters. Through a thousand years of arduous cultivation and several lifetimes of reincarnation, he had refined the purest power of the Nine Heavens Profound Scripture. With several magic treasures added to that, he could hold his own even against Deng Yin.
Deng Yin's cultivation of the Nine Heavens Profound Scripture was mixed and impure, and he had obtained only half of the Evil Book of the Blood God Scripture. Yet his talent was extraordinary, and by making Daoist and demonic arts complement each other, he had gained fresh insights into both.
In this clash of magic, both men struck with incredible speed. Every streak of Blood Shadow Divine Light and every strand of Invisible Sword Qi moved faster than lightning. Deng Yin himself consisted of three blood shadows, and his movements dazzled the eye. Under his fierce charges and rapid attacks, Qi Shouming gradually found himself unable to hold out. Relying on the Nine Precepts Immortal Banner to protect him, he retreated at speed.
He lured Deng Yin into the Gate of Annihilation, raised his hand, and unleashed a thousand golden thunderbolts. Their rolling crashes shook the immortal formation, and vast clouds of colored mist surged from the ground. Within the mist, space and time twisted, numerological patterns fell into chaos, and an oppressive aura of slaughter arose.
The Gate of Annihilation stood at Due East and should have corresponded to eastern Jia-Yi wood, yet the Two-Polarity Dust-Mote Formation used east and west to generate the murderous austerity of due west.
The formation shifted, trapping Deng Yin's three blood shadows in three separate Small Worlds:
The first