Chapter 3833: Myriad Forms Formless Seal
Although Void Heaven possessed considerable courage, he was also cautious and did not rashly break Second Confucian Ancestor's seal. First, he arranged a sword formation around the black mountain range, then had Zhang Ruochen inform the Undying Blood Clan deities outside the Myriad Beasts Treasure Mirror to activate the city-protecting divine formation of the Divine City, preparing for both contingencies. This way, even if their suppression failed and the hand-eye of the dark anomaly escaped the Myriad Beasts Treasure Mirror, it could not flee Undying Divine City.
Before this, Zhang Ruochen had already evacuated all the sacred beasts and divine beasts from the Myriad Beasts Heavenly Palace.
"Are you ready?"
Void Heaven stood at the center of the sword formation, a resplendent Gate of Destiny suspended above his head, its divine light of fate dispelling darkness and illuminating the entire Myriad Beasts World. Only the black mountain range ahead remained decayed and foul, unaffected by the divine light of fate, continuously releasing the aura of dark anomaly.
Zhang Ruochen stood at the northwest corner of the black mountain range, beneath his feet a Taiji Four Symbols Diagram Seal spanning a hundred miles in diameter. He stood atop the Earth Cauldron, with the projection of the Primordial World hovering above his head. The other four cauldrons stood at the four directions of the seal formation.
A hand-eye that even an Ancestor had failed to obliterate—one could imagine how terrifying it was. The two dared not be careless in the slightest.
"Myriad Swords Burial Dao, rise!"
Void Heaven formed a sword seal with his right hand, drawing forth endless sword qi like a white sea of light, directly attacking the black mountain range.
"Clatter!"
Within the black mountain range, the calligraphic characters left by Second Confucian Ancestor manifested once again, clashing against the endless sword qi. A terrifying energy tide swept through the Myriad Beasts World. Space trembled violently, and countless fissures appeared in the earth.
Zhang Ruochen felt some concern—could the Myriad Beasts Treasure Mirror withstand such powerful energy fluctuations?
Battered by divine power, the world edges of the Myriad Beasts World revealed layers of celestial realm projections, with billions of Ancestral divine patterns weaving through them.
"It's the Great Venerable's power—he has locked the Myriad Beasts World."
Zhang Ruochen felt relieved, but at the same time wondered: would the activation of the celestial realm projections and Ancestral divine patterns also lock him and Void Heaven inside the Myriad Beasts World?
"Roar!"
Void Heaven let out a long cry, using his sword soul to control the Seven Star Divine Sword as it rose above his head. The Seven Star Divine Sword released immense heat, divine flames burning, light shining in all directions. With overwhelming divine artifact might, it struck a world-destroying sword strike, crushing countless characters above the black mountain range into nothingness.
Zhang Ruochen, along with the seal formation beneath him, was blasted a hundred miles away by the shockwave of this power.
"This old ghost Void Heaven is truly formidable—melting nothingness into the sword path, even erasing the characters left by Second Confucian Ancestor."
Zhang Ruochen admitted to himself that none of the trump cards he currently possessed could withstand this sword strike.
"Boom!"
"Boom!"
...
After dozens of consecutive strikes, Void Heaven broke through the characters left by Second Confucian Ancestor. The Seven Star Divine Sword landed on the black mountain range, splitting the mountain body as it collapsed, leaving behind shocking sword scars. From those scarred canyons, black blood surged forth like waterfalls.
Suddenly, the mountain body shook violently, splitting from south to north with numerous cracks. From these cracks, a blinding light interwoven with white, blood-red, and black radiance escaped.
"It's coming out!"
Void Heaven's eyes widened, and the divine pattern rules within his body continuously burst outward, seemingly endless, filling the Myriad Beasts World.
"Boom!"
The black mountain range completely collapsed. From below, a powerful light burst forth that even Zhang Ruochen could not withstand. Following this, a powerful spatial shockwave struck the Taiji Four Symbols Diagram Seal.
Zhang Ruochen was prepared, placing the Universe Cauldron in front to block the spatial impact.
When Zhang Ruochen opened his eyes again, using his Truth Divine Eye to observe, he discovered that Void Heaven had already rushed out of the sword formation, chasing after a several-thousand-meter-long stick...
No.
Not a stick—a brush.
This brush seemed cast from black iron, without bristles, only a sharp, spear-like tip.
"Is this the Celestial Mechanism Brush? Such a strong aura of blood and killing intent—no wonder it's a divine object capable of slaying an Immortal." Zhang Ruochen thought to himself.
The Celestial Mechanism Brush's speed was astonishing; even Void Heaven could barely keep up. Void Heaven laughed excitedly with a strange cackle, wrapping his arms around the brush shaft, but immediately let go as if avoiding a venomous snake.
"What's wrong, Senior Void Heaven? Can't even suppress a brush?" Zhang Ruochen asked with a smile.
Void Heaven's divine voice transmitted back: "What do you know? This Celestial Mechanism Brush slew an Immortal, absorbing its blood aura and killing intent. After being nurtured here for millions of years, its artifact spirit has transformed into a new malevolent entity. This brush now possesses strength no less than a cultivator at the Indestructible Infinite level. Of course, it cannot escape my suppression!"
"The stronger it is, the more excited I am! Haha!"
Void Heaven refined the dark killing aura that had invaded his palm, then directly manipulated the Gate of Destiny to suppress the Celestial Mechanism Brush. The brush trembled violently, causing the Myriad Beasts World to shake incessantly, but the power gap was obvious—it could not break free from Void Heaven's control.
Void Heaven channeled divine light of fate into the brush's back, preparing to tame the artifact spirit.
"Something's wrong—where is the Immortal's hand-eye? Could it have been obliterated by the Great Venerable?"
Zhang Ruochen released his divine consciousness to probe the shattered black mountain range.
The moment his divine consciousness spread out, Zhang Ruochen felt a strong sense of crisis and immediately warned Void Heaven: "Be careful—something even more terrifying is coming out!"
He didn't need Zhang Ruochen's warning; Void Heaven had been using his spiritual power to lock onto every detail of the Myriad Beasts World. He looked upward.
The black clouds dispersed, revealing a strange circular seal radiating white light, its Dao resonance infinite, as if the laws of heaven and earth were manifesting in the world. It resembled an eye, but was certainly not a real eye.
As this seal appeared, both Void Heaven and Zhang Ruochen felt an overwhelmingly powerful spatial pressure bearing down on them. They could only desperately support their divine light to resist. The sensation was extremely deadly—as if once the divine light was crushed, they would be flattened into bloody paper-thin sheets.
"Myriad Forms Formless Seal!"
Void Heaven gritted his teeth, seemingly both fearful and excited, his eyes filled with boundless fighting spirit.
Zhang Ruochen also recognized the Myriad Forms Formless Seal.
The ultimate realm of the Way of Space was "Boundless and Infinite," a state no one had ever achieved. Once attained, one could control the universe and stand equal to heaven and earth. Myriad Forms Formless was the realm second only to Boundless and Infinite.
Throughout history, only the disciple of the Space-Time Human Ancestor, one of the Nine Great Witch Ancestors, Bai Yuan, had reached that level. Bai Yuan was both the forger of the Universe Cauldron and the first ancestor of the Space Divine Temple.
During the battle at Buzhou Mountain, Yu Jingzhen had activated the ultimate foundation of the Space Divine Temple, using the power of Myriad Forms Formless to severely wound Zhang Ruochen.
Of course, the Myriad Forms Formless power left at Buzhou Mountain was already very diluted.
But the Myriad Forms Formless Seal now suspended in the sky was undoubtedly the source of Myriad Forms Formless power—the two could not be compared.
"Sword Twenty-Three!"
Void Heaven temporarily pressed the Celestial Mechanism Brush into the Gate of Destiny, then, holding the Seven Star Divine Sword, charged straight into the sky, continuously breaking through the Myriad Forms Formless power, striking the seal with his strongest attack.
The sword qi dispersed the clouds, finally revealing that the Myriad Forms Formless Seal was located in the palm of a tens-of-thousands-of-meters-long black hand.
Seeing this hand, Zhang Ruochen felt a sharp pain between his brows, recalling what Chi Yao and Bore had seen in the Pool of Fate—his fate was to be killed by an infinitely enormous hand.
Could this be that very hand?
Zhang Ruochen shook his head, his will firm. He absolutely refused to believe his fate was already predetermined. Even if this hand possessed endless divine power capable of annihilating myriad realms and all heavens, he would not fear it.
"Boom!"
The black hand slammed down, Myriad Forms Formless power surging forth in waves, striking Void Heaven, who had executed Sword Twenty-Three, back to the ground, crashing into the earth.
But Void Heaven was formidable—he immediately flew out from underground, shouting to Zhang Ruochen: "Get out of the Myriad Beasts World immediately! This thing can only be suppressed using the city-protecting grand formation of Undying Divine City."
As he spoke, Void Heaven did not forget to retrieve the Gate of Destiny, since the Celestial Mechanism Brush was still suppressed inside it.
Zhang Ruochen stared at that black hand. Before him, time and space twisted, revealing a familiar yet unfamiliar young figure.
That figure was handsome and unrestrained, tall and extraordinary, standing beneath the black hand, striking out divine light with a single palm.
From within the black hand, piercing screams and wails continuously sounded, but they could not escape the divine light.
"This is... the Great Venerable..."
Zhang Ruochen stepped forward step by step, but between him and the Immovable Bright King Great Venerable, increasingly dense time rules appeared. The closer he got, the denser the rules became. Finally, the rules liquefied, forming a river.
The Immovable Bright King Great Venerable looked across the River of Time and said: "Time is short—I can only obliterate its divine soul and spiritual will. But if it was truly severed from an Immortal's body, its flesh and blood substance must be extraordinarily sinister. It may give birth to new consciousness in the future. Its original body is likely not dead, and may one day recall it, restoring its vitality."
With these words, the scene before Zhang Ruochen began to fade, and the River of Time and the Immovable Bright King Great Venerable vanished.
It was a projection left behind ten eons ago, crossing the River of Time, seen by Zhang Ruochen.
"Do you want to die? What are you rushing over for?" Void Heaven's voice came from afar.
Zhang Ruochen snapped awake, realizing he had already appeared right before the black hand. But there was no fear on his face—only a surging fighting spirit eager to try.
"Since the Great Venerable has already obliterated its former divine soul and spiritual will, even if a new consciousness has been born, it cannot be very powerful."
"Good—then I'll seal its consciousness."
Zhang Ruochen took out the Mani Pearl.
In the distance, Void Heaven stared intently at Zhang Ruochen, discovering that this kid truly had no regard for his life, daring to face the hand-eye of an Immortal head-on. Such spiritual will was truly extraordinary!
As the black hand pressed down toward Zhang Ruochen, Void Heaven could already imagine Zhang Ruochen being crushed into nothingness. It was clearly too late to intervene and rescue him now!
"I shouldn't have let him stay in the Myriad Beasts World—this is trouble... Eh..."
Void Heaven was racking his brains over how to explain this to Heavenly Mother, Nutian Shenzun, and Yunshen Daozhu, fearing they would think he had schemed to kill Zhang Ruochen. But to his astonishment, the black hand that had been about to strike Zhang Ruochen suddenly stopped.
Then, Zhang Ruochen used the Universe Cauldron to suppress the black hand.
"How is this possible?"
Void Heaven was completely stunned, rubbing his eyes, thinking he was hallucinating. He, at the peak of Indestructible Infinite, could not withstand a single blow from that black hand, yet a cultivator at the peak of Great Unbound Infinite had suppressed it?