In the Dragon Trapping Formation, Li Mu sat cross-legged, his Divine Sense spreading outwards, performing multiple tasks simultaneously.
He kept a real-time watch on the battlefield, the situation of the Seventh-Order True Spirit - Azure Thunder Beast of Purple Firmament within the Demonic Formation, and the condition of the Yu Ling Sect members. At the same time, more Divine Sense and Spiritual Qi were poured into the Cave Heaven Spirit Treasure - Painting World Treasure Mansion, assisting the three spirit beasts in besieging the Nascent Divinity Demon Lord who had been sucked into the Cave Heaven Spirit Treasure.
Under the guidance of the star wood Puppets, the Yu Ling Sect Disciples, who had been scattered by the Undead, regrouped, barely managing to turn the tide of their defeat.
Within the Demonic Formation, the Seventh-Order True Spirit - Azure Thunder Beast of Purple Firmament and the high-ranking members of the Yu Ling Sect were still able to hold on under the encirclement of high-grade Undead wearing demonic armor and fearless of death. However, within the Demonic Formation, Devilish Qi filled the sky, and one high-grade Undead after another held the home advantage, their Aura like a rainbow, their demonic flames soaring. If this continued, the destruction of the Yu Ling Sect would only be a matter of time.
Li Mu sighed and calmed himself, dedicating all his energy to the Nascent Divinity Demon Lord inside the Cave Heaven Spirit Treasure. Only by dealing with him first could he free up his hands to aid Venerable Lei Hong and the others.
Otherwise, allowing a Nascent Divinity Demon Lord to roam freely in the world of the Cave Heaven Treasure Mansion meant that the planted spirit plants and various rare spiritual items could all be destroyed by him.
Among the three spirit beasts, only the Fifth-Order Azure-Eyed White Ape could inflict some damage on that Nascent Divinity Demon Lord. Little Gold and Little Tile were still at the Peak of the Fourth Order, lacking sufficient power. Even with Magical Artifacts, the damage they inflicted on the thick-skinned Nascent Divinity Demon Lord was very limited.
No, he must be dealt with quickly; he cannot be allowed to continue resisting.
Li Mu's expression turned serious. He took out the remaining twenty star wood Puppets and nearly a hundred Fourth-Order star wood self-destructing spider Puppets from the nine storage spiritual pearl. He activated their Puppet Formation patterns, imbued them with Divine Sense, and then sent them into the Painting World Treasure Mansion to launch a concerted attack on the Demon Lord.
Suddenly, a strange fluctuation spread, and a large group of Puppets was teleported out.
The Corpse Yin Demon Lord, suppressed by the Cave Heaven Spirit Treasure, was startled. Before he could react, the Battle Puppets joined the fight, delivering heavy Puppet punches to his body.
“Bang, bang!” sounds echoed.
The Corpse Yin Demon Lord had cultivated his body to be incomparably tough, comparable to a Sixth-Order Yao Beast's body. However, under the combined assault of more than twenty star wood Battle Puppets, the sound of bones cracking resonated, and blood flowed from the corner of his mouth.
A tiger fallen into the plains, bullied by dogs!
This roughly described the Corpse Yin Demon Lord's current situation. Under the suppression of the Cave Heaven Spirit Treasure, the Corpse Yin Demon Lord's Nascent Divinity Demon Lord strength was severely weakened. His body became heavy, making it impossible for him to perform suitable evasion movements, leading to his current predicament of being ganged up on.
However, the Corpse Yin Demon Lord was, after all, an experienced Nascent Divinity Demon Lord. Having exhausted his Undead, he threw out several Demonic Artifacts to defend himself and then took out an ancient bronze coffin, intending to burrow into it for shelter.
How could Li Mu let him succeed? Several nearby Battle Puppets moved in unison, blocking his path, grabbing his hands and feet, and binding his body.
More than a dozen spider Puppets swarmed him, embracing the Corpse Yin Demon Lord tightly like octopuses.
The Corpse Yin Demon Lord felt a great sense of unease. His entire body's Soul Transformation True Qi surged as he tried to break free from the Puppets' restraints.
However, at this very moment, a violent spiritual essence suddenly erupted from the Puppets' bodies!
“No!” the Corpse Yin Demon Lord screamed in terror.
“Boom!” With a thunderous sound, a sky-reaching thunder-fire instantly engulfed the Corpse Yin Demon Lord.
The raging thunder-fire instantly incinerated him, leaving no trace. Even a Soul Transformation Cultivator could not withstand the combined power of more than a dozen Fourth-Order and Fifth-Order thunder talismans and fire talismans activating simultaneously.
“Seeing” that the Nascent Divinity Demon Lord was reduced to nothing, Li Mu, from the outside, couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief and shifted his attention to the Demonic Formation.
Looking at the sky-filling Devilish Qi, covering an area of more than ten miles, Li Mu began to observe it carefully.
The Demonic Formation was rapidly generating a large amount of Devilish Qi, quickly filling the gap that had been breached by the two Fifth-Order Purple Firmament Myriad Thunder Talismans earlier.
However, under the Divine Ability Talent - Identifying Myriad Spirits, the detailed information of the Demonic Formation was still presented.
Li Mu's eyes lit up, and he immediately made a significant discovery.
This Formation was called the Undying Gathering Demon Formation, guarded by three Nascent Divinity Demon Lords. Sacrifices and a high-grade Undead were placed at the center of the grand Formation to activate its Devilish Qi and gather the Heaven and Earth's most evil Devilish Qi.
The three Nascent Divinity Demon Lords formed a triangular Formation, echoing each other and forming a self-contained entity. The Formation possessed the ability to gather Devilish Qi and had a comprehensive amplification effect on the Demonic Lords wearing demonic armor.
Furthermore, it had negative effects on the outside world, such as shielding Divine Sense, disrupting the five senses, and counter-invading with demonic thoughts, and so on.
After reading the detailed information of the Demonic Formation, Li Mu's eyes darted around, and he thought of a very simple method to break the Formation.
This Demonic Formation was not difficult for Li Mu, who had obtained the Legacy of the Nine Dragons Immortal Slaughtering Formation, to break.
It should be known that the Nine Dragons Immortal Slaughtering Formation was passed down from the Immortal Spirit Realm. Although it had been simplified, it was a genuine Immortal Realm Formation.
Its profoundness, whether in breaking Formations, observing Formations, or setting up Formations, far surpassed any other Formation. Li Mu had raised the Nine Dragons Immortal Slaughtering Formation to Level Five.
His vision was naturally much, much higher than before.
After carefully observing the Demonic Formation again, Li Mu found that their arrangement was too crude, and the Formation Master was clearly not a master of Formations.
Several obvious loopholes appeared, which, if exploited, could directly counter-control the Formation and suppress the Devilish Qi.
Li Mu carefully considered the steps to break the Formation, rehearsed them several times, and confirmed that there would be no mistakes before immediately taking action.
First, he withdrew the Dragon Trapping Magical Artifact. Li Mu summoned the Bloodthirsty Mad Flood Dragon and Bihai Mad Flood Dragon, two sets of flood Dragon bones, from the nine storage spiritual pearl.
Li Mu took out one red and one blue Formation Flag, formed a Formation seal with his hand, and sent a stream of Spiritual Qi into the two Formation Flags.
The next moment, the red and blue flags instantly burst into brilliant light, swiftly flying out and merging into the Dragon heads of the two sets of flood Dragon bones.
Li Mu waved his hand, and a pile of High-Grade Spirit Stones appeared out of thin air, transforming into a surging torrent of spiritual power in the sky, drilling into the Formation Flags atop the Dragon bones.
The flood Dragon bones, which had originally been mere skeletons, instantly grew dense Spiritual Qi 'blood vessels,' and 'Dragon scales' on their surface grew at a visible speed, quickly covering their entire bodies.
In a short while, two lifelike, complete flood Dragons floated in mid-air, exuding a powerful Dragon Might.
Seeing this, Li Mu was slightly pleased. He imbued the Dragon Souls into the two flood Dragons. The Formation Flags in his hand stood against the wind, and under Li Mu's control, they accurately landed on every weak point of the Demonic Formation.
“Two Dragons Binding Immortal Formation, rise!”
Li Mu raised his hand, and a brilliant light erupted. Violent Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi surged wildly towards him, with him as the center of the Formation.
A Formation even larger than the Demonic Formation actually enveloped it tightly, forming a Formation within a Formation.
Good heavens!
The consumption of Spirit Stones is too great!
Just to activate a Formation, ten thousand High-Grade Spirit Stones were consumed, and only the bodies of two flood Dragons were sculpted. As soon as the Formation started, the surrounding Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi was not enough to absorb!
Li Mu gritted his teeth. This time, he would definitely get the Yu Ling Sect to reimburse him for the consumption.
Li Mu scattered one hundred thousand High-Grade Spirit Stones into the heavens and earth, transforming them into a surging torrent of spiritual power that merged into the Formation.
“Twin Dragons Seize Formation, go!”
Li Mu stood in the air, his two fingers pressed together like a sword. With a sway, the twin Dragons let out deafening Dragon roars and crashed into the weak points of the Formation.
Instantly, the Formation rippled, and a cracking sound emanated from the weak point, splitting open a crack.
“Who?!”
“Who is that person? How does he know the Demonic Formation's weakness?!” Blood Yuan Demon Lord asked in horror, his voice filled with rage.
The black-robed Demonic Lord, who was in charge of the Demonic Formation, had an ashen face, watching helplessly as the Demonic Formation underwent changes, yet powerless to intervene and stop it.
Damn it!
Who is that person? How can he discern the Undying Gathering Demon Formation's weakness? And how does he know the method to break the Formation?!
Besides the twin Dragons furiously bombarding the weak points of the Formation, they also seemed to be subtly setting up another grand Formation outside the main Formation, enveloping the entire Demonic Formation, using a grand Heaven and Earth Formation to break the Formation with a Formation.
What kind of method is this? It can even break Formations like this.
The Silent Demon Lord, who was leading the Demonic Formation, was dumbfounded.
Li Mu controlled the twin Dragons to once again unleash Dragon breath, corrosive liquid, and extreme cold currents towards the most vulnerable central part of the Formation.
The twin Dragons' attacks were extremely strong, but their power was still somewhat lacking, and the Demonic Formation could still maintain itself.
Seeing this, Li Mu sent out a Fifth-Order Thunder Scroll again, throwing the remaining Fifth-Order Thunder Talismans into the sky. In an instant, thunder rolled, and endless lightning bolts struck the Formation, deeply tearing open a gap in the Formation.
Everything happened too suddenly. The Silent Demon Lord's face changed drastically, and he anxiously shouted, “Quick, quick, quick! Stop bothering with the Yu Ling Sect! Cooperate fully to consolidate the Formation! Where in hell did that Corpse Yin Demon Lord go?!”
At the Silent Demon Lord's command, the other three Demonic Lords also grew anxious. They had finally managed to trap the core forces of the Yu Ling Sect in one fell swoop. If they waited a little longer, they could have annihilated all of them here.
As a result, the disruption from that Formation Master outside directly shattered their hopes.
The situation was urgent, and they no longer had time to overthink. The three Demonic Lords poured their powerful and constant strength into the Demonic Formation, barely managing to maintain it.
Just now, they were only concerned with stabilizing the overall situation and had not paid attention to that Nascent Soul cultivator. But as a result, the Nascent Soul cultivator was completely unharmed and continued to break the Formation outside, while the Corpse Yin Demon Lord, who had gone to kill the enemy, mysteriously disappeared without any response.
The three great Demonic Lords were distraught, unable to figure out where the Corpse Yin Demon Lord had gone. They had never imagined that the Corpse Yin Demon Lord had already been killed.
With a loud “boom,” the gap created by the exploding Fifth-Order Thunder Talisman was just wide enough for the twin Dragons to enter.
The Dragon breath sprayed out again, directly targeting the most important Formation Flag in the center of the Formation. The Formation Flag could not withstand the outpouring of power and instantly burst into flames.
Inside the Demonic Formation, Devilish Qi surged, and the ground shook. Venerable Lei Hong and the others, who were fighting within the Formation, felt the restrictive power of the Formation on them greatly weaken, and they all breathed a sigh of relief.
Hidden within the Formation, the Devilish Qi of the demonic armor that had originally Entanglement around the Nine Demon Sect Disciples receded, and the Devilish Qi was no longer supplied continuously.
This sudden change instantly startled these Nine Demon Sect Disciples. Without the Formation's blessing, their strength dropped by more than one level.
“It's Li Jianxian! He's destroying the Demonic Formation.”
“We're saved! We're saved! All Disciples, listen to my command: break through in the direction of Li Jianxian with all your might.”
“Everyone gather together and charge forward together.”
The commotion above attracted everyone's attention.
Venerable Lei Hong and Revered Qing Wei were overjoyed and both ordered a breakthrough.
The Yu Ling Sect Disciples, who had been trapped and besieged within the Formation by the Nine Demon Sect, instantly regrouped their somewhat scattered morale. The desire for survival ignited all their combat power.
For a time, hundreds of Golden Core Disciples, led by dozens of Nascent Soul True Lords, charged forward with overwhelming Aura, bravely slaying the enemy.
The forty-odd Nascent Soul True Lords dispatched by the Nine Demon Sect exerted their full strength, attempting to obstruct them.
The Seventh-Order True Spirit - Azure Thunder Beast of Purple Firmament was already heavily wounded, but a lean camel is still bigger than a horse. Seeing hope for survival, it roared and swiftly lunged at the forty-odd Nascent Soul Demon Lords.
Its speed was so fast that people couldn't react. It bit seven Nascent Soul Demon Lords into its mouth in one gulp, and a terrifying dark purple lightning erupted in its mouth. The seven Nascent Soul Demon Lords didn't even have a chance to scream before they instantly turned to dust.
With the loss of Devilish Qi support for the demonic armor and the suppression of endless Devilish Qi, the strength of both sides underwent a dramatic change.
Venerable Lei Hong and Revered Qing Wei had both been suppressed by the Formation, their strength restricted. To protect their Disciples, both of them had suffered considerable injuries.
Now that the Demonic Formation could no longer launch effective attacks against them, the two consumed healing Spirit Pills. After consolidating their injuries, they charged towards the Nascent Soul Demon Lords like tigers descending from the mountain.
Even a wounded Soul Transformation powerhouse was absolutely not something a Nascent Soul True Lord could contend with. The two moved as if in an uninhabited realm.
Wherever they went, lightning exploded, and screams rose and fell, with no one able to stop them.
This scene further boosted the morale of the Yu Ling Sect's many Elders and Disciples.
The originally overwhelming situation began to tilt to the other side.
“Old Ancestor, save us! Save us!”
“Old Ancestor, quickly activate the Formation...”
The heartbreaking screams of the Nine Demon Sect Disciples finally alerted Blood Yuan Demon Lord and the others. Their faces all changed dramatically.
“Black Bone, you continue to control the Formation and besiege them. Green Ghost and I will stop that despicable brat.”
Blood Yuan Demon Lord gnashed his teeth. Seeing the situation change drastically, he now felt somewhat powerless in controlling the Formation.
The culprit behind all this was that Nascent Soul Stage True Lord outside the Formation. Damn that Corpse Yin, where in hell did he go?!
Blood Yuan Demon Lord wished he could flay the opponent's skin and drink his blood. This time, their efforts were on the verge of failure, all thanks to that Nascent Soul cultivator outside the Formation!
Blood Yuan Demon Lord's crimson eyes stared intently at Li Mu, wanting to engrave his appearance firmly in his mind!
Li Mu noticed the opponent's venomous gaze, smiled slightly, and met his gaze, completely unafraid.
He continued to exert more force, fully intending to tear a larger opening in the Demonic Formation.
Now, with two fewer Demonic Lords supporting it, after the Demonic Formation was breached, the Devilish Qi dissipated accordingly. The twin Dragons charged into the Demonic Formation, spewing Dragon breath and attacking the Nine Demon Sect Disciples.
The Undying Gathering Demon Formation was on the verge of collapse.
The Silent Demon Lord exerted his full strength, extracting the last bit of power from the Demonic Formation, condensing it into demonic blades that slashed at the twin Dragons.
However, the twin Dragons' bodies were severed into countless pieces at the waist, but in the next second, they healed completely. Even after suffering violent bombardment, they could recover instantly.
Endless life, eternal existence.
This made Blood Yuan Demon Lord, who was jointly maintaining the Formation, as anxious as an ant on a hot pan, but he was helpless.
He couldn't understand why these two flood Dragons, being mere Fifth-Order creatures, could revive after having their bodies severed?
What kind of demonic art was this, after all?
However, his doubts received no answer. Inside the Formation, the Purple Azure Thunder Beast unleashed its Divine Might, and lightning struck everywhere. The Demonic Formation was on the verge of collapse and could no longer hold on.
With a loud “boom,” the Undying Gathering Demon Formation finally couldn't hold on and suddenly exploded.
Inside the Formation, the dishevelled appearances of both sides were revealed.
