Xingtian Wields Ganqi

Above the sky.

Led by the Nine Heavens Mystic Maiden, a group of heavenly soldiers and generals escorted the Great Witch Wind Master, the Great Witch Rain Master, and Chi You towards the South Gate of Heaven.

Sudden.

"Release my Great Witch of the Witch Race!"

With a thunderous roar, the 100,000 heavenly soldiers and generals were so stunned by the shout that they collapsed from the clouds.

Then a gigantic hand, obscuring the sky, reached out from beneath the clouds and grabbed at them.

"How dare you!"

At the forefront of the heavenly soldiers and generals, the Mysterious Maiden of the Nine Heavens Mystic Maiden roared, and the Great Dao immediately manifested, unleashing boundless Daoist magic and divine Divine Ability towards the giant hand.

As one of the few remaining representatives of the Heavenly Court at this time, the Mysterious Maiden of the Nine Heavens's strength was clearly that of a powerful cultivator at the Quasi-Sage Realm.

The overwhelming palm collided with the boundless Divine Ability, unleashing terrifying might, causing the heavens and earth to change, and the clouds within a radius of hundreds of millions of miles were directly torn apart.

Below, the terrifying figure that stretched out its colossal hand that blotted out the sky was also revealed. Its feet were Tongtian planted on the ground, its body seemed to reach the heavens, and it appeared to touch the sky with a raised hand.

"Xingtian!" Looking down at the Tongtian giant below, the Mysterious Maiden of the Nine Heavens's expression suddenly turned grim.

As Quasi-Sage, she also came from the era of the liches.

Among the Witch Race, Xing Xingtian, though Great Witch, possessed heaven-defying combat power comparable to Quasi-Sage. How could she not recognize him? However...

"Release my clan's Great Witch!" Xingtian stood firmly on the ground, looking straight at the Mysterious Maiden of the Nine Heavens in the sky, his voice deep and resonant, like muffled thunder.

The cold voice of the Nine Heavens Mystic Maiden rang out. "By imperial decree of the Heavenly Emperor, bring Chi You, the Great Witch Feng Bo, and the Rain Master, who instigated the war between humans and witches, to Heaven to be punished."

Looking at Xingtian before her, the Mysterious Maiden of the Nine Heavens showed no fear whatsoever.

The Witch Race of today is no longer the Witch Race that once dominated the Primordial World, and she is no longer Rogue Cultivator, but a cultivator backed by the Heavenly Court.

A Great Witch whose combat power is comparable to Quasi-Sage is not worth his fear.

Xingtian could naturally tell what the Mysterious Maiden of the Nine Heavens was like, and his anger intensified.

"Hand over our clan's Great Witch, or die!"

Xingtian roared, and the black and red Sha Qi in his hand condensed, slowly revealing the Ganqi, which pointed at the Mysterious Maiden of the Nine Heavens.

"Delusional!"

Before the Mysterious Maiden of the Nine Heavens could finish speaking, Xingtian's great axe shot straight into the sky, its black and red Sha Qi condensed and slashing upwards towards the Mysterious Maiden of the Nine Heavens.

"Snort!"

The Mysterious Maiden of the Nine Heavens's eyes turned cold. She formed hand seals, and an Innate Spirit Treasure appeared behind her, accompanied by the Great Dao and radiating divine light, shining towards Xingtian.

Xingtian paused in his axe swing, but then the black and red Sha Qi on the axe blade surged, shattering the divine light, and slowly but firmly continued to attack the Mysterious Maiden of the Nine Heavens.

"This..."

The Mysterious Maiden of the Nine Heavens's expression changed slightly, and the hand seals in her hands kept changing, urging the Seven-Colored Divine Pearl to transform.

However, no matter how it changes, its power increases.

Xingtian's axe never stopped, hurtling towards her at breakneck speed.

"How is this possible?" The Mysterious Maiden of the Nine Heavens was greatly shocked. With a wisp of divine light, she swept away the heavenly soldiers and generals behind her, as well as the Fengbo, Yushi, and Chiyou.

The look in their eyes as they looked at Xingtian now held a hint of disbelief.

The Innate Spirit Treasure she summoned Convergent Light Treasure Pearl, while not a Supreme-Grade Innate Spirit Treasure, was still of superior quality.

As fellow Quasi-Sage, how could they be broken through so easily?

Unless...

Xingtian is already close to becoming Twelve Ancestral Witches of yesteryear!

The Mysterious Maiden of the Nine Heavens's expression turned solemn.

In this era, the Great Dao is in chaos, making cultivation difficult. However, just as the Human Race has the Innate Eight Trigrams created by Fuxi, which they use to cultivate and comprehend the Dao.

The Witch Race, having neither comprehended the Great Dao nor cultivated Divine Ability, is naturally unaffected by this era.

Millions of years have passed since the end of the Lich War, and it is not impossible for a Great Witch who was already at the Peak Daluo to break through.

But it broke through to the level of the Twelve Ancestral Witches of that time.

That's absolutely impossible...

Although the Twelve Ancestral Witches relied on the Twelve Heavenly Gods and Devils Great Formation Primordial World.

However, his own cultivation level is comparable to that of Two-Corpse-Severing Quasi-Sage, in addition to his powerful Ancestral Witch body.

Its combat power is simply phenomenal.

But what merit or ability did Xingtian possess to catch up with the Twelve Ancestral Witches in just a few hundred million years after breaking through to the level of the Ancestral Witch?

How could the Mysterious Maiden of the Nine Heavens know?

When the Houtu element was reincarnated, it discovered the errors and omissions in the previous cultivation practices of the Witch Race and found the cultivation method most suitable for the Witch Race.

If the Lich War hadn't started so quickly and suddenly back then, and had dragged on until now, the Twelve Ancestral Witches would probably all be powerful beings comparable to Quasi-Sage Perfection at their peak.

Back then, there were no Demon Race, and no Human Race as we know it today.

Seeing the shattered void after the axe swept across, the Mysterious Maiden of the Nine Heavens's face was extremely solemn. Her Law Power surged, directly waking up the unconscious heavenly soldiers and generals.

"Set up the formation!"

A loud shout rang in the ears of the heavenly soldiers and generals who had just regained consciousness.

The next instant, the celestial soldiers and generals, who were still scattered in disarray, suddenly exuded a completely different aura.

Like a king's army, their commands were obeyed without question. In an instant, they were arranged in perfect order, and an incomparably profound formation slowly emerged around the many heavenly soldiers and generals, connecting them.

The heavenly soldiers and generals that the Mysterious Maiden of the Nine Heavens led on this expedition were not the Dazhong soldiers of the Heavenly Court, but elite troops that she personally selected and trained.

There were 100,000 heavenly soldiers and generals, with Golden Immortal as soldiers, Taiyi as generals, and even several Daluo.

The Immortal Maiden of the Nine Heavens's face was solemn, and the Great Dao appeared behind her. She slowly merged into the heavenly army formation, and various complex formations, including Qimen Dunjia and Taiyi Dunjia, changed rapidly.

The formation, which was originally just among the many heavenly soldiers and generals, suddenly expanded to encompass the surrounding billions of miles of heaven and earth.

"Array space!" Xingtian's eyes narrowed suddenly as he looked at the changed world around him, a solemn expression appearing in his eyes.

As a war Great Witch who has fought against the Demon Race for hundreds of millions of years, Xingtian may not be very proficient in formations, but his eye for formations is by no means low.

None of the large formations that can form an independent array space in the Primordial World are simple.

Xingtian raised his large shield to protect his true form, gazing at the Mysterious Maiden of the Nine Heavens and the 100,000 heavenly soldiers and generals in the sky.

"Heavenly Fire!"

The cold voice of the Mysterious Maiden of the Nine Heavens echoed throughout the array space.

Within the array space, clusters of fire suddenly lit up, densely filling the entire space.

The flames illuminated all directions, and Xingtian, in the center of the formation, felt an almost indescribable extreme heat suddenly emanating from his body.

Even the powerful Great Witch True Body was on the verge of being ignited and burned by the flames.

"Roar!"

Xingtian roared, and endless black and red Sha Qi emanated from his body, obscuring him and the flames in the Xingtian.

The firelight illuminated all directions, relentlessly burning the black and red Sha Qi. However, this Sha Qi seemed inexhaustible, spreading rapidly and almost filling the entire array space.

Furthermore, Xingtian was continuously summoning Sha Qi, filling the array space, as if he intended to use this Sha Qi to directly crush the array space.

Above the sky, the Mysterious Maiden of the Nine Heavens Mystic Maiden, with a serene expression, watched Xingtian below without a trace of anxiety, and let out a soft exclamation.

"Black Wind!"

In the Unseen, the void in all directions began to surge, and a wind, a pitch-black wind, rose up.

In an instant, the black and red Sha Qi that filled the entire array space was stirred by the gale, surging and howling.

The clusters of heavenly fire that filled the array space quietly merged into the Black Wind as it Black Wind.

A pitch-black flame ignited in the wind.

Almost instantly, flames engulfed the entire world, and the seemingly endless Sha Qi was burned away.

The wind fanned the flames, and the fire fueled the wind's power; the Black Wind, carrying the pitch-black flames, howled towards Xingtian in the center.

Faced with the raging inferno, Xingtian suddenly roared and shouted, wildly swinging his Ganqi.

The attacking fire wolves and Black Wind were scattered and shattered, and the wildly swirling Ganqi instantly formed a solid defense in front of Xingtian.

The flames were firmly blocked, preventing even a single spark from touching and burning Xingtian's body. Meanwhile...

Countless axe flashes flew from the wildly Ganqi, heading towards the Mysterious Maiden of the Nine Heavens and the hundred thousand heavenly soldiers and generals in the sky.

The protective array in front of the Mysterious Maiden of the Nine Heavens trembled and rippled under the relentless bombardment of Xingtian's axe beams, as if it might collapse at any moment.

However...

Neither the Mysterious Maiden of the Nine Heavens nor the 100,000 heavenly soldiers and generals wavered or showed any fear. Their hearts were as solid as divine gold, their eyes as sharp as torches, and they devoted themselves wholeheartedly to maintaining the operation of the formation.

"Divine Thunder!"

The voice of the Mysterious Maiden of the Nine Heavens rang out once more.

The next instant, the entire array space trembled violently and rapidly contracted, instantly condensing into a single point.

Whether it was endless Black Wind or heavenly fire, at this moment, they all coalesced into a tiny point in front of Xingtian.

"Not good!"

Xingtian's expression changed drastically as he looked at the black light in front of him, a strong sense of impending death rising in his heart.

But the formation was forming too quickly, and... at such a distance, he simply couldn't dodge it.

A fierce glint flashed in his eyes, and with a sudden swing of his hands, the axe and Ganqi in his hands instantly dissipated into endless Sha Qi, and a weapon, a divine axe, appeared in Xingtian's hands.

As Xingtian swung his hands, he slashed fiercely at that point of black light.

At this moment, the point condensed by the entire formation suddenly erupted, and a black lightning bolt suddenly burst forth, its terrifying power like divine thunder splitting the heavens, raging wildly in all directions.

It is believed that even a quasi -Quasi-Sage powerhouse would likely not survive within the range of this black lightning eruption.

However...

Xingtian swung his divine axe down, and the seemingly ordinary axe blade, devoid of any divine brilliance, easily cleaved the terrifying black lightning in two.

A faint divine light revealed a terrifying defensive power that rivaled its unassuming appearance, and the black lightning that had been erupting in all directions suddenly developed a gap.

Far away, on the horizon, the Mysterious Maiden of the Nine Heavens gazed at the scene before her. Her face, already weakened from activating the powerful array's killing move, paled even more.

Her beautiful eyes were fixed on the scene in the distance, filled with extreme resentment.

Behind her, 100,000 heavenly soldiers and generals had already fallen. If it weren't for the fact that the divine cloud they were standing on was a refined spiritual treasure, they probably wouldn't even have the strength to fly in the sky.

Although the violent black lightning burst forth with terrifying power, its duration was extremely short, lasting only a brief instant before it devoured everything within a radius of 100,000 miles.

But... that giant standing on the empty earth was so eye-catching, so dazzling.

As he watched the ten thousand miles of void around him being erased and then violently restored, Xingtian's face showed lingering fear.

Although the area of 100,000 miles that was erased was not large, it was extremely small even for a battle between Quasi-Sage.

But...

Its danger was so great that it almost caused Xingtian to perish on the spot.

If it weren't for this Heaven-Opening Divine Axe.

Xingtian looked at the Heaven-Opening Divine Axe in his hand, a hint of relief in his eyes.

This Heaven-Opening Divine Axe is a fragment from when Pangu Axe shattered and evolved into the three Innate Supreme Treasure.

Although it did not evolve into a powerful Innate Supreme Treasure like the three great Innate Supreme Treasure, it was precisely because of this that it was able to inherit the original material of Pangu Axe.

It was later obtained by the Twelve Ancestral Witches, who pieced it together and repaired it into the Heaven-Opening Divine Axe. None of the Twelve Ancestral Witches used an axe as a weapon.

At that time, none of the Great Witch could wield the divine axe, so it was always enshrined in the Pangu Hall.

It wasn't until the end of the Lich War that Xingtian, Great Witch who wielded an axe, truly broke through to the level of Ancestral Witch, and obtained this divine axe, which he then used for protection.

"Your strength... I, Xingtian, acknowledge it!" Xingtian gazed at the Mysterious Maiden of the Nine Heavens in the distant sky, a solemn look in his eyes.

Among the powerful women in the primordial world, aside from Houtu and Xuanming among the Twelve Ancestral Witches, there is also the Great Witch Jiufeng, who has now also broken through to the level of Ancestral Witch.

Among his enemies, there were only the Sage Nüwa and the Sun God Xihe of the Demon Race. Now, a third powerful woman whom he acknowledged has appeared.

From afar, Xingtian gazed at the Mysterious Maiden of the Nine Heavens with reverence in his eyes. Suddenly, he gripped the divine axe in his hand and swung it at the Mysterious Maiden of the Nine Heavens without the slightest hesitation.

My beloved woman! Let me send you off with this divine axe!

The Mysterious Maiden of the Nine Heavens saw the meaning hidden in Xingtian's eyes, and her face immediately darkened.

The emotions between cultivators are not shared; I just think you're crazy.

The Mysterious Maiden of the Nine Heavens Mystic Maiden stared at Xingtian in the distance with a dark expression, gritting her teeth, but she showed no fear or despair of death.

Because...

A figure appeared before the Mysterious Maiden of the Nine Heavens and the 100,000 heavenly soldiers and generals, extending a hand to grasp the divine axe, which was tens of thousands of feet in size, in Xingtian's hand.

The Great Witch True Body, hundreds of thousands of feet tall, and a million feet tall

His palms were broad and fair, and the giant axe blade slashed at them without leaving a single scratch or even a dent.