Clang!
The ringing of a sword being drawn.
It rang out from Lei Zu!
At that moment, Lei Zu wore the black silk she had invented, her majestic, regal bearing as the mother of all under heaven undiminished.
Just as she drew the Qian Kun Sword, which her Ancestral God, Lin Tian, had forged and refined into a Chaos Supreme Treasure within the Qian Kun Cauldron in his celebratory cloud.
And instantly arrested the violently shifting formation patterns and energies within the Heaven-Deceiving Formation, where wind and clouds had changed color.
Xuan Yuan sat beside her, composed and steady, utterly unruffled.
The instant Lei Zu drew her blade, she used the Xuan Yuan Sword, a Chaos Supreme Treasure that had ultimately transcended time and space and weathered the ages of the Chaos Law.
To wrest away thirty percent of the laws within the Heaven-Deceiving Formation, which had been entirely controlled by Eastern Emperor Taiyi, the holder of its formation diagram!
She stabilized their situation, stopping the formation from immediately refining and devouring them.
Di Jun and Eastern Emperor Taiyi both exclaimed in surprise.
They had already settled on the belief that Xuan Yuan possessed, at most, the Chaos Supreme Treasure known as the Xuanyuan Chariot and its complementary Any-Dimension Qian Kun Technique. That pairing of chariot and technique alone had already driven Di Jun to take a desperate risk.
He had been willing to use the Heaven-Deceiving Formation contained in the brocade pouch Daoist Zhunti had left hundreds of thousands of years ago, a formation originating from the Daoist School Lineage, to strike immediately at Xuan Yuan, the Human Race's Human Sovereign, and his wife.
Now.
When Di Jun saw the human empress beside Xuan Yuan, who had always remained quiet and unassuming, suddenly draw her sword and stand before