"Clang-"
The Nine Provinces Cauldrons rang and trembled, their deafening peal spreading through Kunlun Mountain's countless peaks and ravines in an instant, as though heaven and earth were being created.
Below Jade Void Peak.
Cao Jinxing and the others were leading the army against the Taiping Five Elements Formation. Looking up at the sound, they saw the enormous gate standing between heaven and earth atop Jade Void Peak. Lü Fu, Song Chengxi, and the Sword Venerable were all stunned by the sight. Hearing was nothing compared to seeing-the fanciful theory Heavenly Secret Twenty-Five had proposed was actually true!
"Quick! Break the formation!"
Lü Fu grew anxious. This gate could appear, but it should not have appeared here and now, much less have been opened by the fiends of the Demon Cult!
Without another word from him, Lu Bing unleashed a killing move. One swing of his axe split the earth for three li, blade light and axe shadows slamming into the Taiping Five Elements Formation.
"Change formation!"
Standing at the formation's core, Zhang Wanqing formed a hand seal and roared hoarsely.
The Taiping Five Elements Formation was simple, but its effects could stack endlessly with the number of participants. As its power erupted, the subsidiary formations changed first. The person at the center of each switched from the water element to the wood element, then the main formation's core unified and released their power, tens of thousands acting as one.
Zhang Wanqing shouted and struck the ground with his palm. Earthly energy surged, and a hundred-zhang swamp instantly became a forest. Century-old trees sprouted branches and leaves beneath the earth and shot upward, blocking the axe light!
The Five Elements shifted: water generated wood!
The true qi remained the same, but its form had changed.
Lu Bing's enormous axe was