With a whoosh, a colossal, deep purple Fate Soul Wheel suddenly appeared above the entire Blue-Gray Mountain Plain. The wheel's edge was covered with ancient Shangguan Dao patterns, and twelve silver-white halos slowly rotated around it. Within each halos, thousands upon thousands of slender sword shadows were reflected, intertwining to form a vast and boundless galaxy of swords.
Shangguan Wan'er slowly rose up, her long hair spreading out completely amidst the raging energy, her deep purple robe billowing in the wind, her eyes reflecting countless sword shadows. She raised her right hand, her five fingers slowly opening towards the direction of the beast tide, her voice clearly resounding throughout the entire formation.
"The Shangguan Lineage's divine power—" "Stillness Heaven Wheel Slash!"
Clang! A sword cry that pierced the heavens and earth suddenly rang out. Twelve silver-white halos rotated simultaneously, and the deep purple Fate Soul Wheel of Destiny suddenly burst forth with dazzling light. Tens of thousands of sword shadows shot out from the halos.
Then, it continued to differentiate in the high sky, becoming hundreds of thousands, millions, and tens of millions, eventually converging into a vast sword tide covering hundreds of thousands of miles of mountains and plains. Every sword shadow in the sword tide was wrapped with the Source Dao rhyme of the Eternal Silence Realm · Supreme. Wherever it passed, the clouds were neatly torn apart, the tops of the mountains were shaved off by the aftershocks of the Sword Qi energy, and even the True Annihilation Dao Flame surging above the beast tide was forcibly cut into a large blank space.
"Stop!!" Shangguan Wan'er suddenly swung her right hand down.
Rumble--! A torrent of swords suddenly poured down. Hundreds of divine beasts at the forefront were the first to be hit. A black-armored ancient beast at the True Annihilation Realm · Intermediate Stage had just raised its head when thousands of sword shadows pierced through its head and chest at the same time, and its huge body exploded on the spot.
Another purple-black divine beast, with eight wings on its back, attempted to soar into the sky, but its eight bone wings were severed one after another by dense sword light. Subsequently, its entire body was pierced by the sword tide and turned into a sky full of blood mist.
Dozens of ancient dragon supreme beings simultaneously spewed out dragon breath, and the crimson-gold beast flames collided head-on with the deep purple sword tide. Boom!! The dragon breath was instantly torn into countless fragments, and then tens of thousands of sword shadows crisscrossed between the dragon bodies, and the huge dragon bodies collapsed one after another, with blood cascading down like a waterfall.
A divine beast with ten thousand horns on its forehead suddenly raised its head, and the starry sky between its horns spun wildly. Thousands of ancient stars fell at the same time, trying to stop the sword tide. However, Shangguan Wan'er tightened her right hand fingers again, and the sword shadows in the sky suddenly gathered into dozens of giant sword wheels that spanned the heavens and the earth.
Clang! The sword wheel crashed down, shattering thousands of stars in succession. The divine beast supreme with ten thousand horns on its forehead was pierced from its head to its abdomen by one of the sword wheels, and its massive body was split in two.
Further away, nine dark moons rose simultaneously behind the Pale Bone Armor Divine Beast Supreme, pouring down vast expanses of pale moonlight in an attempt to block the sword tide. However, twelve silver-white halos had already descended from the heavens, and countless sword shadows intertwined to form a massive purple sword domain. The nine dark moons were successively torn apart by the sword light. The Pale Bone Armor Divine Beast Supreme let out a mournful roar, its bone armor crumbling inch by inch, and was ultimately completely engulfed by countless sword shadows.
Boom! Boom! Rumble--! The entire Blue-Gray Mountain Plain was engulfed in unprecedented violent tremors. One after another, enormous beast bodies fell—hundreds, thousands, even tens of thousands.
Those divine beast supreme beings that were originally charging wildly under the divine sense of Gongpiluo Huang were now collapsing in large numbers amidst the vast sword tide. The divine beast supreme beings from the True Annihilation Realm · Initial Stage were almost unable to withstand it, and even some of the colossal beasts at the True Annihilation Realm · Supreme perished one after another under the continuous slashes of dozens of sword wheels.
Blood of beasts rained down, and shattered armor pieces and massive bones fell to the ground. The originally densely packed crimson beast eyes rapidly diminished, and Shangguan Wan'er single-handedly carved out a vast open area spanning tens of thousands of miles at the forefront of the beast tide.
However, as the sword tide continued to expand outward, Shangguan Wan'er's face also turned pale rapidly. Her originally abundant Fate Soul essence was being lost at an alarming rate. Every time the deep purple Fate Soul wheel rotated, it would draw a large amount of essence from her body. The depths of her Fate Soul, which had been previously eroded by the Beginningless Ancient Rhyme, were constantly being stinged. A very faint gray-white mark gradually appeared between her brows, and her arms began to tremble slightly uncontrollably.
"Wan'er! Enough! Stop now!!" Elder White Brow shouted sternly, "Quickly withdraw your divine power! Your Fate Soul can't hold on any longer!"
Shangguan Wan'er gritted her teeth, blood already trickling from the corner of her mouth, yet she remained fixed on the still-fragile horde of beasts in the distance, her right hand pressing down once more. "Slash again!!"
Clang! The final wave of the vast sword tide crashed down. Dozens of giant sword wheels swept wildly along the center of the beast tide, annihilating large numbers of divine beast supreme beings one after another. Their enormous beast bodies collapsed like mountains. The thousands upon thousands of divine beast supreme beings that had been charging madly had been mostly wiped out by this wave of divine power. The remaining beast horde was forced to disperse, and the previously continuous assault finally showed a clear pause.
At that very moment, the deep purple Fate Soul Wheel behind Shangguan Wan'er trembled violently. Crack! The twelve silver-white halos dimmed one after another, and the countless sword shadows quickly dissipated. Her body shuddered violently, and she suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood. Her figure, which had been suspended high in the air, could no longer maintain its balance and staggered backward as she fell.
"Junior Sister Wan'er!" Elder White Brow and two other elders rushed forward at the same time, supporting her shoulders and arms on either side, and brought her back to the vicinity of the main array eye.
Shangguan Wan'er's face was deathly pale, blood kept sliding down her lips, and her deep purple robe was stained red on the chest. The source of her Fate Soul was obviously much weaker, and the originally perfect flow of the Eternal Stillness Dao Rhyme had also become sluggish in several places. She slowly raised her head and looked at the large number of fallen divine beasts in the distance. Her chest heaved violently, and the sharpness in her eyes still lingered.
"The... the formation..." Her voice was hoarse, and she coughed up blood again before she could finish speaking. Elder White Brow held her tightly, his eyes filled with anxiety. "Stabilize your Fate Soul first. We'll handle the formation!"
Shangguan Wan'er shook her head with difficulty, her fingers still tightly gripping Elder White Brow's sleeve. Her gaze swept past everyone towards the southeast of the great formation, where large areas of the formation's patterns had been damaged, and several layers of light screens were teetering on the verge of collapse. Although she had temporarily repelled the beast tide, the entire defensive formation was still on the verge of collapse at any moment.
In the distance, Gongpiluo Huang still hovered quietly in the depths of the beast tide. Its left eye was slightly open, while its right eye remained closed. Its gray-white fur swayed gently with the primordial energy, and among its twelve star-shaped markings, the rat-shaped marking still emitted a faint glow. It showed no obvious change despite Shangguan Wan'er's annihilation of most of the divine beast supreme beings.
The slender tail continued to sway slowly, its tip constantly disappearing and reappearing. On the bluish-gray mountain plain, countless pieces of beast blood and broken bones were slowly falling. The tens of thousands of disciples of the Shangguan Lineage gazed at the corpses of the divine beast supreme beings scattered across the heavens and earth.
There wasn't much joy on their faces from surviving a calamity, because everyone knew that although the terrifying divine power just now had wiped out most of the beast tide, it had also caused considerable damage to Shangguan Wan'er's Fate Soul essence. And the truly terrifying Primordial Beast Luminary in front of them had not yet made a real move.
Above the bluish-gray mountain plains, the blood mist had not yet dissipated, and the enormous corpses of thousands of divine beast supreme beings lay scattered across the crumbling earth. The white bones of the giant beasts crushed the layered mountain ranges, and dark red beast blood gushed out along the crisscrossing earth's fissures. The earth-shattering battle that had just taken place had already rewritten the landscape of the surrounding thousands of miles.
In the center of the battlefield, the Shangguan Lineage's vast defensive array was broken and suspended. The once layered and radiant Fate Soul light curtain was now cracked and dim. Several core array eyes in the southeast had completely collapsed, and the multiple outer defensive barriers had all melted away. The ancient bell, sword soul and mountain and river map that hung high in the sky were mostly silent and covered in dust.
The remaining array patterns barely circulated, and each convergence of the primal forces caused the entire light screen to tremble violently and roar incessantly. Of the tens of thousands of clan disciples who survived this bloody battle, only a few thousand remained, including the elders and deacons.
Broken blades and remnants of soldiers were scattered everywhere in the crevices of the rocks. The wounded clung to their fellow disciples, their Fate Soul waning. Those who remained standing were covered in blood, their eyes filled with exhaustion and deep fear from repeated battles.
Shangguan Wan'er was helped to stand beside the main formation by Elder White Brow. Her deep purple robe was stained with crimson bloodstains on the chest, and her once neat black hair was disheveled, with a few strands of wet hair sticking to her pale, bloodless cheeks.
She pressed her right hand tightly against her chest, the Fate Soul essence of the Eternal Silence Realm · Supreme struggling to circulate within her body. The severe injury left by forcibly activating "Purple Heaven Myriad Manifestations - Stillness Heaven Wheel Slash" had not healed for a long time, and a continuous, subtle, stinging pain emanated from the depths of her Fate Soul. Every time she mobilized the power of her life essence, a throbbing, dizzying sensation would appear between her brows. She gritted her teeth and looked into the distance. The sharp edge that had just shattered most of the beast tide had not yet faded, but it was completely covered by an even deeper layer of chilling vigilance.
At the end of the beast tide, the palm-sized gray-white beast remained suspended in the void, not moving an inch. Gongpiluo Huang was surrounded by a thin gray-white primordial energy, his left eye was fully open, and in the depths of his eye lay an ancient abyss whose origin could not be traced. His long tail feathers swayed slowly, the tips of which were sometimes real and sometimes illusory, sometimes appearing and sometimes disappearing.
The remaining ancient divine beasts and supreme beings all bowed their heads in submission. Thousands of scarlet beast eyes frequently looked at the human race's great formation, but not a single ferocious beast dared to take half a step in front of it. The entire beast tide was suppressed and locked down by it alone, lying in deathly silence.
Just as the elders were staring intently on guard, Gongpiluo Huang's lips curled up slightly, forming an extremely faint and cold arc. The gray-white beast head did not show any ferocity, but four blank sharp teeth were quietly revealed between its lips, and the primordial energy flowing around it suddenly fell silent and solidified. Immediately afterward, its right eye, which had been tightly closed, slowly trembled and slowly opened.
Elder White Brow's face froze instantly, his throat tightened abruptly, and his aged hand gripping the bronze staff trembled uncontrollably. His eyes churned with Ultimate horror, and his voice was dry and trembling. "The right eye... it's about to open its right eye!"
Shangguan Wan'er was shocked, and her already pale face lost even more color. She had glimpsed the ancient secrets of Gongpiluo Huang in the incomplete ancient books of the Shangguan Lineage: the left eye seals the Beginningless, and the right eye suppresses the Endless. On the day that both eyes open, the beginning and end of all things in heaven and earth will be in chaos, and the laws of time and the foundation of cause and effect will collapse into disorder.
Ancient texts only record its name, not its power; they never document the unprecedented sight of both eyes opening simultaneously, nor leave a single word of defense. Buzz—