The patterns of the Four Fiends Formation peeled away layer by layer beneath the coverage of Boundless Myriad Phenomena.
Taotie's devouring patterns broke first, followed by Hundun's distortion, Taowu's severing, and Qiongqi's reflection.
Fragments of the four patterns scattered in midair, losing their reason to exist the instant they lost their tension.
Qi Wu stood where he was, keeping the domain of Boundless Myriad Phenomena steadily expanded.
The blue-gold and pure-white spiral structures continued to turn, covering the entire battlefield.
His breathing was a little faster than before, but remained under control.
The sustained output of the fused domain consumed more energy than he had expected, but it was not yet beyond what he could bear.
The fragments of the formation's patterns had yet to dissipate completely.
Just then, Di Tian's projection suddenly began to change.
Cracks spread across his surface, but rather than widening further, they stopped just short of shattering.
Those cracks neither healed nor deepened, as though some force had fixed them in a state of "imminent collapse."
The next second, Di Tian's projection began to contract. It was not dissipating, but compressing inward, as though something were pulling it back into his true body.
Qi Wu's Six Eyes caught that instant of change.
Di Tian was drawing the remaining fragments of the Four Fiends Formation back into himself.
Or rather, swallowing them back down.
He was inhaling the formation's remaining energy structures into his body as though they were matter.
The fragments of the formation's patterns formed a constantly rotating dark-red halo around Di Tian's projection, then sank into the surface of his body layer by layer. They rearranged themselves between his bones and muscles, forming patterns embedded within his body.
Those patterns were no longer the framework of a formation. They had become part of