Dao Companion Crippled, Coveters Move

"With Pavilion Master Fu's words, I will risk my life to protect our Dao Sect!"

"Exactly!"

"We are willing to fight to the death with Elder Xiao!"

Voices of agreement rose one after another, and the once heavy atmosphere turned passionate.

Seeing this, Xiao Jiuxing knew the time was right. He turned to the Yin Yang Saint Master beside him, who wore a purple veil, and said, "Saint Master Yin, let's begin the array!"

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BANG!

BANG—!!

The earth trembled and mountains cracked as if a great dragon was turning over beneath the ground.

However, this was no earthquake. It was merely the aftershock from a sky-scraping Giant God taking a step as it walked the mortal world!

'The people of this era... are too weak.'

'It's starting to get a little boring.'

The black and gold Horned Giant God looked up, its long silver hair fluttering in the wind, resembling a solitary, peerless Demon God.

Inside the Giant God, the perfectly sculpted, naked body of Ji Shenyun was lost in bored contemplation.

'Once I capture Pei Yuhang—that guy who dared to suppress me and repeatedly ruin my plans... how should I deal with him to maximize Qing Yueqiu's suffering?'

'Kill him? Too boring. Besides, Pei Yuhang is Yuan Tianming's disciple, and I still have some things I need Yuan Tianming to do...'

'And such a handsome man poses no threat anyway. It wouldn't be bad to keep him as a collectible. It would be a shame to destroy him.'

For some reason, Ji Shenyun suddenly recalled the Illusion Realm in the Zhao Kingdom. She remembered the look of absolute despair, a pain worse than death, on Little Yueqiu's face as she toyed with Pei Yuhang right in front of her.

'Defiling the disciple in front of the master...'

*Hiss...* 'Now that... sounds very interesting.'

'And this desire to conquer both man and woman... it's a completely different sense of accomplishment from what I felt leading the Asura Race to conquer the world!'

Ji Shenyun's red lips curled into a vicious smile.

'That's the one~ Pei Yuhang, once you fall into my hands, I must discipline you properly. I'll mold you into my shape.'

'When Qing Yueqiu sees you again, she'll surely cry out in shock and anger~'

Suddenly—

Ji Shenyun's gaze sharpened. She looked at the vast mountains all around her. The sea of trees, surging like ocean waves, made her feel inexplicably uncomfortable. She instinctively sensed that something was wrong.

'Something's not right. What's the problem?'

As the Empress of a dynasty, Ji Shenyun lacked neither wisdom nor acuity.

But when faced with a problem, she usually didn't bother thinking about its weaknesses. After all... she possessed a superpower that transcended super intelligence!

'Scheme all you want; I can shatter any plan with absolute force!'

Without hesitation, the Horned Giant God raised its fist and then threw a punch.

The mountain-sized fist seemed slow, but in reality, it was faster than lightning.

The land for a thousand miles around collapsed as if struck by a meteorite. Wherever the fist's shockwave passed, like the blast from a nuclear explosion, it ripped countless trees and the very turf from the ground.

After the world-shaking upheaval, the vast sea of trees was gone, the expansive forest replaced by a dusty basin.

A single punch to reshape mountains and rivers.

This was the apex of power!

Seeing all the green vegetation beneath her feet vanish, the sense of unease that had risen in Ji Shenyun's heart was swept away.

She snorted coldly and directed the Horned Giant God to continue stepping forward.

But beneath the Horned Giant God's feet, upon the desolate land destroyed by the punch, countless tiny green sprouts slowly broke through the earth.

Far away in a safe location, Xiao Jiuxing held a jade-green Tiger Talisman. Three large words were carved upon it—Cyan Emperor Order.

"Hmph, she's quite perceptive. The array hasn't even fully activated, yet she's already noticed something is amiss."

"But the Five Elements Grand Array is only just beginning. Enjoy it!"

Five Directions Celestial Pillar Array—Wood begets all things, Eastern Cyan Wood Pillar!

"Cyan Emperor Mu Wei, Heaven-Locking Prison!"

As Xiao Jiuxing let out a muffled grunt, the Void Refining True Monarchs behind him also secured their positions at their respective array cores.

After consuming the Spirit Pills from the Dan Yun Pavilion's Pavilion Master, their auras all reached their peak. In an instant, a tsunami of surging Spiritual Qi was channeled by Xiao Jiuxing into the Tiger Talisman, activating the Grand Array.

THUD!

Ji Shenyun had just directed the Horned Giant God to take a step. When she tried to take another, she found she couldn't lift its leg. Countless Divine Vines had shot out from the ground, binding its leg tightly and spreading up toward the rest of its body.

"A boring array. Although it's much more ingenious than the arrays of the Human Race from my era, it's meaningless in the face of absolute power."

Ji Shenyun abruptly exerted her strength, shattering all the Divine Vines. But after breaking free, the ground to her east cracked open, and with a tremendous RUMBLE, a Cyan Wood Celestial Pillar erupted from the earth.

This Celestial Pillar was over ten thousand zhang tall. Its body was entwined with the Innate Wood Divine Vine, and every single leaf on the vine was covered in ancient Dao Patterns. One could faintly glimpse the magnificent sight of myriad trees striving for the heavens in the primordial era.

At the same time, a vast voice rang out from the sky above.

[Wood steams into green clouds, infusing fire to become a rosy mist! The Divine Wood gives birth to Celestial Fire!]

The next moment, the sea of trees that Ji Shenyun had just shattered ignited with sparks. The sparks instantly became a prairie fire, transforming into a raging sea of flames.

A Vermilion Bird Divine Bird burst forth from the sea of flames on beating wings, charging straight for the Horned Giant God.

The Vermilion Bird incinerates the heavens, its flames falling into the nine abysses!

"Insignificant tricks."

Ji Shenyun snorted coldly. She lifted a delicate hand, and the Horned Giant God followed her movement, throwing two heavy punches that blasted the fiery Vermilion Bird to smithereens.

Amidst the scattered sparks, she keenly sensed another crimson pillar rising to her south—the Southern Li Fire Celestial Pillar.

[Fire falls to melt metal, congealing earth into ore! The Celestial Fire gives birth to the Earth!]

The Central Earth Pillar!

As an Earth Pillar erupted from the ground, the land churned. Countless torrents of mud and rock surged, converging into a ferocious Yellow Dragon that roared, seeking to completely bury and devour the Horned Giant God.

Ji Shenyun directed the Horned Giant God to dodge the Yellow Dragon's bite, leaping away from the quaking earth in an attempt to escape the area encompassed by the three Celestial Pillars.

[Earth transforms into flowing metal, tempering blades in the west! The Earth gives birth to Geng Metal!]

The voice from the sky continued. The next moment, to Ji Shenyun's west, a Geng Metal Celestial Pillar erupted. From a distance, it looked as if it had been forged from hundreds of millions of sharp swords stacked together.

And atop that Geng Metal Celestial Pillar, the hazy phantom of a White-clothed Sword Fairy appeared.

It was Nangong Jin's projection within the array. She gathered the power of the Grand Array, elevating her Sword Dao to the Mahayana realm. The moment she slashed out with her sword, even the Moonlight in the sky dimmed!

"Break!"

The Horned Giant God threw a punch. The terrifying might of its fist collided with the Sword Qi, and in that instant, the very air was shattered by the two powerful torrents of energy.

'Hm? I didn't shatter that sword-wielding phantom with a single punch?'

Ji Shenyun narrowed her eyes as she looked at the phantom of Nangong Jin holding a sword.

At the beginning, she had used one punch to shatter the Cyan Wood Divine Vine and two punches to blast apart the Celestial Fire Vermilion Bird.

She had directly avoided the Earth Yellow Dragon, not engaging it in battle, but based on her feeling, it was definitely harder to kill than the Vermilion Bird. It would probably take three punches to smash.

And now, the aura of this sword-wielding Sword Fairy phantom was even greater than that of the Earth Yellow Dragon.

Faintly, Ji Shenyun began to understand something.

'The five elements generate one another. With each change in attribute, the strength of the next array produced is stacked. This Array of the Celestial Pillar of Geng Metal has stacked the previous attributes of wood, fire, and earth. Its strength is on a completely different level compared to the initial Cyan Wood Array.'

Just as Ji Shenyun saw through the mystery, the voice in the sky rang out once more.

[Metal gives birth to water's mist, all streams return to their origin! Geng Metal gives birth to Profound Water!]

Black Tortoise Abyss!

In an instant, Nangong Jin drew her sword, summoning thousands of streams of Sword Qi to slash at the heavens. The Sword Qi entered the Cloud Sea like dragons, and in the blink of an eye, a torrential downpour began to fall.

The heavy rain accumulated on the ground, quickly turning into a surging flood that sealed off all directions, forming a water-abyss Barrier to prevent Ji Shenyun from directing the Giant God to leave the area.

And within the torrent to Ji Shenyun's north, the Northern Gui Water Celestial Pillar also slowly rose.

With this, all five Celestial Pillars of the five directions were present.

Ji Shenyun looked around and suddenly let out a derisive laugh.

"Is this all? I can only praise this array for being somewhat ingenious, but to me, it's merely the difference between needing three punches and needing five."

"If you can't crush an ant with one press, you just press it again. It makes no difference."

As if hearing Ji Shenyun's disdainful words, Xiao Jiuxing's voice slowly sounded from the sky.

"Your Excellency, perhaps you underestimate the magic of our Xuanyuan Dao Sect."

"Today, we will open your eyes!"

[The Black Tortoise carries the wood, water moistens the eastern wastes! Profound Water gives birth to Divine Wood!]

In an instant, rolling Divine Vines grew from the surging floodwaters, threatening to engulf the Horned Giant God in a flash. Both their growth speed and their toughness were nearly five times that of the previous Divine Vines!

At this moment, Ji Shenyun finally raised her eyebrows in slight surprise.

The Five Elements Grand Array, generating endlessly. With each cycle of the five elements, the array's power increased exponentially by five times!

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