# Chapter 1941: Earth Master Duel
## Earth Master Duel
Ming Gu had originally thought that on his home turf, he could easily deal with Lu Baiming, but now it seemed things were not so simple.
"Dragon and Tiger Struggle for Supremacy."
Ming Gu growled lowly, fully controlling the Four Symbols Locking Heaven Formation.
"Roar."
The Azure Dragon and White Tiger flew out simultaneously, emitting earth-shaking tiger roars and dragon cries.
As the saying goes, wind follows the tiger, clouds follow the dragon.
As the dragon and tiger moved, wind and clouds changed color, and an enormous vortex formed, descending from the sky to take away all the sacred swords.
The vortex was formed by the gathering of wind and clouds, connecting with the heavens. Both the Azure Dragon and White Tiger were hidden within the vortex, with only their sounds audible, their forms invisible.
"Hum."
The fifty-four sacred swords all trembled, emitting bursts of sword cries.
The suction force of the vortex was truly too terrifying. If not for the close connection between the fifty-four sacred swords, they would likely have been sucked in instantly.
The Azure Dragon and White Tiger extended their claws from the vortex, striking at two of the sacred swords.
"Clang."
The two sacred swords suffered heavy blows, with clear cracks appearing on their blades, nearly breaking.
Before Lu Baiming could shift the positions of the two sacred swords, the Azure Dragon and White Tiger appeared again, launching a fearsome attack.
Both the Azure Dragon and White Tiger possessed extremely terrifying power, enough to rival experts at the Threshold Path Realm. On the Heavenly Court side, probably not many could withstand their attacks head-on.
"Crack."
The two sacred swords could not withstand the second strike and immediately shattered.
Seeing this, a smile appeared on Ming Gu's face. He truly didn't believe he couldn't deal with Lu Baiming.
As long as a flaw appeared in the sword formation, breaking it wouldn't be too difficult. He intended to seize all one hundred and eight formation flags as well.
With Ming Gu's eyesight, he could naturally tell that the material of those one hundred and eight formation flags was extraordinary, each one worth a fortune.
If he could seize them and refine them anew, they would serve him well, enough to greatly enhance his strength.
Above the head of the Primordial Demon Jiao, Lu Baiming remained calm, completely like an observer.
The two broken sacred swords completely disintegrated, turning into two masses of sacred light that merged into the adjacent sacred swords.
At the same time, the other sacred swords also merged with each other.
In the blink of an eye, the number of sacred swords in the formation was halved again, leaving only twenty-seven.
The twenty-seven sacred swords shrank significantly, each becoming only a hundred zhang long.
Correspondingly, the sacred swords became increasingly solid, with countless heavenly and earthly rules contained within their blades.
Seeing this, Ming Gu's expression changed slightly: "They can still merge? Are these swords going to combine into one in the end?"
He could sense that although the number of sacred swords decreased with each fusion, the power of the formation was continuously increasing, now able to shake the Four Symbols Locking Heaven Formation.
Most terrifying of all, the sword formation seemed to be peeling away the Four Symbols Locking Heaven Formation, cutting off all sources of power, causing the Four Symbols Locking Heaven Formation to collapse on its own.
"Can't let this continue."
Ming Gu's eyes sharpened as he reached out and gently pressed down on the altar beneath him.
A massive amount of Death Evil Qi was released from the altar, mixed with a large number of undead spirits.
These undead spirits had no fixed form, all being black shadows, emitting a strange and terrifying aura.
The next moment, the undead spirits gathered together, transforming into a ferocious Death God several hundred zhang tall.
This Death God was formed by the formation, quite different from the Death God Shadow formed by Death Thought Power.
To refine this altar and condense the formation, Ming Gu had slaughtered countless Heavenly Court cultivators on the Merit Battlefield, extracting their sacred souls, refining them into special undead spirits, and storing them within the altar.
Originally, there were hundreds of thousands of undead spirits in the altar. After devouring each other, only nine hundred and ninety-nine remained, each extremely powerful, enough to rival Nine-Step Saint King experts.
Under the effect of the formation, the ninety-nine undead spirits condensed into a Death God, whose power doubled, even stronger than the Four Symbols Divine Beasts formed by the Four Symbols Locking Heaven Formation.
Under Ming Gu's control, the Death God flew out of the Four Symbols Locking Heaven Formation.
"Whoosh."
The Death God's scythe swung, actually cutting through the sword formation constructed by the twenty-seven sacred swords.
This was mainly because the Four Symbols Locking Heaven Formation was restraining the sword formation, leaving it without enough power to confront the Death God.
The Death God soared into the sky, swinging its scythe, rapidly attacking Lu Baiming.
Lu Baiming's expression was calm as he very peacefully extended a hand and pointed forward.
One formation seal after another appeared, a total of twenty-four, layered on top of each other.
Each formation seal was a high-rank formation, and the twenty-four formation seals stacked together formed twenty-four linked formations.
"Bang bang."
The Death God's scythe shattered the formation seals one by one, unstoppable.
However, it ultimately could not shatter all the formation seals. After its power was exhausted, seven formation seals remained, landing on the Death God.
The Death God continuously retreated backward, the Death Evil Qi outside its body trembling, nearly breaking its form.
Lu Baiming reached out and pointed forward again. A huge formation seal appeared, from which a Primordial Wild Bull charged out, crashing straight into the Death God.
The Primordial Wild Bull erupted with terrifying brute force, seemingly capable of breaking even a Primordial Divine Mountain.
"Bang."
Half of the Death God's body shattered, reverting into hundreds of undead spirits.
Just as these undead spirits were about to gather together again, Lu Baiming waved his hand and produced a very ancient formation diagram.
A massive amount of Spiritual Power surged from Lu Baiming's brow, pouring into the formation diagram.
Immediately, the formation diagram awakened, and countless mysterious formation patterns emerged, condensing into bolts of lightning that struck toward the Death God.
The lightning bolts that emerged from the formation diagram were of various colors, encompassing all five elements. They were the Five Elements Sacred Thunder.
The five elements gave birth to and restrained each other, and the Five Elements Sacred Thunder derived from them also had wonderful connections with each other, with astonishing power.
"Boom."
Dozens of bolts struck the Death God consecutively, causing its form to completely explode.
Not only that, the undead spirits that made up the Death God were restrained by the Five Elements Sacred Thunder. In an instant, dozens of undead spirits were destroyed by the Five Elements Sacred Thunder.
"Come back."
Ming Gu was extremely anxious, frantically urging the altar, trying to recall the remaining undead spirits.
To cultivate these undead spirits, he had expended enormous effort. Having even one destroyed pained him greatly.
Lu Baiming naturally wouldn't let Ming Gu easily recall the undead spirits. He fully activated the formation diagram, and more Five Elements Sacred Thunder struck out, blasting the undead spirits into oblivion.
In the end, Ming Gu only managed to recall half of the undead spirits, and many of them were injured by the Five Elements Sacred Thunder.
"Lu Baiming."
Ming Gu's eyes flashed with murderous intent. He hated Lu Baiming to the bone.
If he had known that Lu Baiming possessed such a terrifying formation diagram that could restrain undead spirits, he would never have used the Death God Formation.
It was only because Lu Baiming had hidden too deeply. Before this, no one had ever seen him use this Five Elements Formation Diagram.
"Senior Brother Lu's formation mastery is truly terrifying." A trace of surprise appeared in Zhang Ruochen's eyes.
He had fought with Divine Cliff Master and witnessed his formation techniques, which were already terrifying enough. But compared to Lu Baiming, Divine Cliff Master was undoubtedly far inferior.
Now he somewhat believed what Ji Fanxin had said. Perhaps Lu Baiming really had hope of becoming a Formation Heavenly Master before becoming a Spiritual Power Great Saint.
At this moment, the formation covering Immortal Mechanism Mountain had changed again, from twenty-seven swords to fourteen, and then from fourteen to seven, with power multiplying.
At this point, the seven sacred swords stopped merging further, as if they had reached their limit.
Anyone could see that the power of the seven sacred swords was extremely full. If they continued to merge, they might self-destruct due to loss of control of power.
Lu Baiming didn't force it either. Using Spiritual Power to manipulate the seven sacred swords, he arranged them into a strange formation and slashed down, unleashing a world-shaking strike.
Seven sword beams merged into one, thousands of zhang long. From afar, it looked like a beautiful rainbow hanging in the sky.
"Boom."
The Four Symbols Locking Heaven Formation was shattered in an instant. The Four Symbols Divine Beasts broke apart, and the many formation patterns engraved on the mountain body were erased in a flash.
The entire Immortal Mechanism Mountain experienced a great earthquake at this moment. Many mountain peaks collapsed, and a long gully appeared on the ground, reaching a hundred zhang deep.
"Damn it."
Ming Gu was furious, his eyes practically spitting fire.
Everything happened too fast, leaving him no time to act and stop Lu Baiming from breaking the Four Symbols Locking Heaven Formation.
Now that the foundation of the Four Symbols Locking Heaven Formation was damaged, restoring it in a short time was simply impossible.
"The Four Symbols Locking Heaven Formation is broken. Now it's your turn to act."
Lu Baiming turned around and said to the Heavenly Court cultivators on the dozens of warships.
"Kill."
Without any hesitation, the dozens of warships immediately charged into Immortal Mechanism Mountain.
Which camp each would attack had already been decided.
Upon entering Immortal Mechanism Mountain, the dozens of warships immediately scattered, with four ships forming a group, divided into eight teams, each attacking one camp.
This was the second line of defense arranged by the Death Clan in Immortal Mechanism Mountain. Only by breaking through it could they approach the Death Altar.
Because of the eight camps, the sword beam just now had only caused huge damage to the outer area of Immortal Mechanism Mountain. The central area of Immortal Mechanism Mountain was completely unaffected.
"Anyone who dares to set foot in Immortal Mechanism Mountain will die." Ming Gu roared.
He released powerful Spiritual Power, activating the many formation patterns engraved on the ground in advance, trying to destroy all dozens of warships.
Lu Baiming struck out with the Five Elements Formation Diagram, activating the complex formation patterns contained within, actually suppressing the formation patterns Ming Gu had arranged, preventing them from functioning.
"Ming Gu, your opponent is me." Lu Baiming said calmly.
Ming Gu's eyes flashed with cold light: "Lu Baiming, don't think I'm afraid of you. Although you broke the Four Symbols Locking Heaven Formation, that doesn't mean you've defeated me. Next, I'll have a good fight with you and see who is the strongest Formation Earth Master."
Earlier, he had thought to rely on the Immortal Mechanism Sect's Four Symbols Locking Heaven Formation to save some effort.
Since the Four Symbols Locking Heaven Formation couldn't be relied upon, he would rely on his own true ability. He didn't believe he couldn't defeat Lu Baiming.
Since his debut, he had never lost to anyone in the way of formations.
Not in the past, and not now.
Lu Baiming smiled faintly: "Then show me all your abilities. Don't disappoint me."
"You won't be disappointed." A strong killing intent emanated from Ming Gu.
Now he no longer wanted to concern himself with other matters. Whether Immortal Mechanism Mountain could be defended no longer mattered to him. The only thing he wanted to do was to defeat Lu Baiming with formations, letting everyone know that he was the strongest Formation Earth Master below Great Saint.
This battle could only be won, not lost. Otherwise, Lu Baiming would become his inner demon, forever unable to be dispelled.