# Chapter 3030: Directly Battling a Great God
"Great Slaughter War God Emperor, as a fellow deity of the Hell Realm, aren't you afraid that by kicking someone when they're down like this, the Destiny Temple will arrest you and send you to the God-Beheading Platform?" A true god of the Darkness Temple roared, hatred burning in his heart.
Blood Butcher drained the divine blood of a Darkness Temple false god, dug out the divine source, and preserved the divine corpse, planning to auction it at the Star Sea Black Market.
He said with righteous indignation: "The Slaughter Heaven Young Master is the son of my clan's Ice King. You surrounded and attacked him, seeking to kill him with the most vicious means. I, this emperor, acted righteously to save him—what crime is there in that? Fight! For this cruel world, fight for justice!"
Blood Butcher manifested a star-sized divine body and grabbed a false god who was burning divine blood in an attempt to flee.
The false god's divine body exploded, turning into a mist of divine blood that Blood Butcher inhaled through his nostrils.
Putting away the second divine source, Blood Butcher, perhaps too excited, became somewhat delirious with arrogance and laughed wildly: "I, this emperor, am the Destiny Temple! Who dares to arrest me?"
The gods of the Darkness Temple had long since activated their life-saving forbidden arts, fleeing in all directions.
But Xiao Hei's divine formation was formidable, encompassing a vast starry domain. Even true gods found it as difficult as ascending to heaven to break through the formation.
On the other side, Li Xiao Great God, trapped within the Nine Yin Escape Formations, had dark divine energy and divine pattern rules surging wildly outward as he released his divine realm world. The divine realm world, covered in white bones, expanded from a thousand miles to ten thousand miles.
Then, a hundred thousand miles...
He intended to use the divine realm world to break through the Nine Yin Escape Formations.
The two forces—the space divine formation and the divine realm world—clashed against each other, causing this dark void to transform into a dazzling and bizarre spectacle, with continuous rumbling sounds.
Li Xiao Great God knew very well his current situation. He had to go all out. He roared: "Ten Directions Bone Army, follow me into battle!"
The countless bones in the divine realm world awakened, crawling up from underground—some humanoid, some beast-like, including sacred bones and even divine bones. They lined up neatly, flew into the void, and attacked the nine divine formation worlds derived from the Nine Yin Escape Formations.
Li Xiao Great God, using the Bone Ancestor Divine Art, could wound the Middle Stage Taiyi Realm Ancestor Realm World Venerable with a single sword strike. One could imagine how formidable his combat power was at this moment.
His thousand-zhang-tall sacred bone body wielded a dark light sword, slashing straight at a space divine pagoda that Zhang Ruochen had manifested.
"Boom!"
The space divine pagoda was split apart by the sword strike, and the corresponding space divine formation showed signs of shattering.
Li Xiao Great God's killing intent was fierce: "So this is all the Nine Yin Escape Formations amount to? Zhang Ruochen, today I'll show you how terrifying a great god's wrath can be."
"Dark Sword Art—One Sword, Lost Soul!"
Li Xiao Great God gripped his sword with both hands, billions of sword dao rules flowing around the sword body, strands of dark energy twisting between the sword dao rules. Countless black sword shadows manifested alongside them.
Zhang Ruochen naturally knew that the Nine Yin Escape Formations he had refined could not compare to the one Fangcun Grandmaster had created. It would be very difficult to suppress Li Xiao Great God after he had activated the Bone Ancestor Divine Art.
At this moment, Li Xiao Great God could probably contend even with a Late Stage Taiyi Realm great god.
But as long as he could stall him, that was enough.
Once the Bone Ancestor Divine Art wore off, Zhang Ruochen could easily deal with him.
"Boom!"
Li Xiao Great God's sword strike shattered the space divine gate formed from piled stars. Countless meteorites fell from the sky, and the formation inscriptions collapsed.
The second space divine formation was thus damaged.
"You're just a seventy-sixth-rank spiritual power deity. Did you think that by relying on formations, you could oppose a Taiyi great god? How naive and laughable."
Li Xiao Great God was unstoppable, sweeping through the Nine Yin Escape Formations. His dark light sword shattered space divine temples and destroyed space black holes. Any formation attack Zhang Ruochen initiated was utterly useless against his sword.
But Li Xiao Great God did not linger in battle. He knew very well that he could not maintain this level of power for long. He kept looking for an opportunity to break out of the formation.
Zhang Ruochen remained very calm, continuously repairing the space divine formations, trapping Li Xiao Great God tightly.
No matter how strong he was now, as long as he couldn't escape the Nine Yin Escape Formations, the outcome was still uncertain.
Gradually, Li Xiao Great God grew uneasy. He found that while a single space divine formation was easy to deal with, when the nine space divine formations were combined, he simply couldn't break through no matter what.
The Ancestor Realm World Venerable had already refined the dark sword energy that had invaded his body, and the sword wounds on his body had healed.
Watching the battle within the Nine Yin Escape Formations, he was secretly shocked: "Zhang Ruochen's formation mastery is actually this high. Using only spiritual power thoughts, he can continuously inscribe formation inscriptions. The nine space divine formations are like nine chains wrapped around Li Xiao Great God. He breaks one, but Zhang Ruochen reconnects the previous one."
"The attack power of the Nine Yin Escape Formations cannot threaten Li Xiao Great God's life, but it can trap him tightly."
The Ancestor Realm World Venerable calculated in his mind: if he were the one trapped in the formation, would he have the ability to break out?
The Ancestor Realm World Venerable naturally also possessed secret arts and some impressive trump cards. He concluded that as long as Zhang Ruochen's spiritual power hadn't broken through to the seventy-seventh rank, the Nine Yin Escape Formations could not threaten him.
But with Zhang Ruochen's rate of spiritual power advancement, breaking through to the seventy-seventh rank wouldn't take long.
"The younger generation is formidable," the Ancestor Realm World Venerable thought, these four words surfacing in his mind.
In the dark void, countless formation inscriptions floated, coalescing into clusters of colorful clouds tens of thousands of miles wide—gorgeous and magnificent.
Within the formation, Li Xiao Great God grew increasingly desperate. He roared: "Du'e Divine Dragon Pearl!"
A fist-sized pearl flew out and exploded above Li Xiao Great God's head, forming a blinding light. A winding divine dragon flew out from the pearl, charging upward, forcibly breaking through the Nine Yin Escape Formations.
"Zhang Ruochen, you've made me lose a Du'e Divine Dragon Pearl. I will definitely repay this grudge in the future."
Li Xiao Great God followed closely behind the divine dragon, rushing out of the formation.
The Du'e Divine Dragon Pearl was Li Xiao Great God's most important life-saving trump card, containing a sealed powerful dragon soul. But if it was detonated to release the dragon soul, the pearl would be destroyed, and the dragon soul would dissipate into the world.
Zhang Ruochen watched Li Xiao Great God break through the formation and flee, feeling secretly regretful. With his current spiritual power, killing a great god was indeed still too difficult.
Every great god could be the ruler of a powerful world.
"Thinking of leaving? It's not that easy."
The Ancestor Realm World Venerable used a secret art to intercept Li Xiao Great God's escape route. An ancient hall manifested before him, with a massive divine shadow faintly visible sitting inside.
The Ancestor Realm World Venerable certainly dared not let Li Xiao Great God escape. Naturally, he had to fight with his life on the line.
"Boom!"
The two clashed and were both sent flying.
Li Xiao Great God fell back into the Nine Yin Escape Formations, cursing incessantly. Finally, using his divine soul to control the divine dragon light shadow that had flown out, he shouted explosively: "Shatter Space!"
The divine dragon light shadow used its last strength to crash through space, sending countless spatial cracks spreading outward.
Space collapsed, shattered into pieces, and the Nine Yin Escape Formations fell into the Void World.
Clearly, Li Xiao Great God intended to use the move he had mentioned at Seven Peaks Ring Mountain. By dragging the Nine Yin Escape Formations into the Void World, Zhang Ruochen would be unable to use his spiritual power to mobilize the world's spiritual energy and sacred energy to maintain the formation's operation, and the formation would collapse on its own.
After the Nine Yin Escape Formations fell into the Void World, the formation inscriptions were continuously eroded by the void, and the formation was dissipating.
Li Xiao Great God's face was ferocious, his laughter carefree: "As a spiritual power deity, your weakness is too obvious!"
"Is that so?"
Zhang Ruochen looked up and saw that the Ancestor Realm World Venerable had been knocked flying and hadn't yet chased into the Void World. So he summoned the six divine swords.
Under the stimulation of divine energy, the six divine swords blazed with light, shining like stars.
"This... this isn't spiritual power sword control..."
Li Xiao Great God's voice changed in shock. He immediately raised his dark light sword and frantically mobilized the divine energy within his body.
But after that clash with the Ancestor Realm World Venerable, the Bone Ancestor Divine Art had already begun to dissipate. His aura had fallen back to the level of Early Stage Taiyi Realm.
And it was still declining.
Growing weaker and weaker.
"Six-in-One Sword Startling Divine Formation!"
Zhang Ruochen controlled the six divine swords, activating the divine sword formation, and instantly attacked Li Xiao Great God.
"Dark Sword Art—One Sword, Lost Life..."
Li Xiao Great God had only just thrust out his dark light sword when the six divine swords shattered the sword body, turning it into a ball of light mist.
"Slap!"
The six divine swords struck his brow, sending Li Xiao Great God flying backward.
Hundreds of trillions of protective divine patterns emerged on the great god's divine bones, but they could not block the Six-in-One Sword Startling Divine Formation.
The divine bones shattered.
The six divine swords attacked into the divine sea within Li Xiao Great God's skull, intending to pierce through the divine source in one strike and severely wound him.
But after the six swords tore open the divine sea, they found it vast and boundless, making it impossible to locate the exact position of the divine source in a short time.
"So your martial dao wasn't crippled after all! Damn it, how can this be?"
Li Xiao Great God punched out, striking at Zhang Ruochen.
At such close range, there was no way to avoid it. Zhang Ruochen could only hastily form a palm seal, manifesting dragon shadows and elephant forms, and clashed with Li Xiao Great God.
"Boom!"
Both flew backward simultaneously.
Li Xiao Great God's head was split apart by the six divine swords, shattering into pieces of bone. A massive amount of divine energy poured out from the divine sea.
A great god's divine sea was already a form of field domain. Li Xiao Great God merely moved his mind, and the shattered bones re-coalesced, the divine sea reformed, as if he had never been injured at all.
"A great god's divine sea is boundless, and the divine source is hidden in formlessness. Do you think you can destroy a great god's divine source? You're dreaming," Li Xiao Great God said.
In truth, that strike had already severely wounded Li Xiao Great God's divine soul.
But having escaped the confinement of the Nine Yin Escape Formations, Li Xiao Great God was now fearless. In this Void World, even if he couldn't defeat Zhang Ruochen, escaping would be effortless.
"Zhang Ruochen, you've brought me too many shocks today. But you won't have another chance to grow."
Li Xiao Great God directly burned ten thousand years of lifespan, erupting with incredible speed as he fled deep into the Void World.
"Come back!"
Zhang Ruochen shouted, pressing his palm forward.
Instantly, space twisted, and time shifted.
Li Xiao Great God was flying straight ahead, but under the influence of space and time within the Taiji circle, his flight trajectory became curved. He drew a circle in the Void World and returned to Zhang Ruochen's front.