Chapter 3905: Indestructible Infinite
The death thought force was scattered.
After the Selfless Lamp flew out of Zhang Ruochen’s Xuan Embryo, the radiance it released illuminated a billion miles of the Bone Sea. All undead beings within this range fell into an unconscious state, collapsing to the ground.
Even Kuai Lianghuang’s spiritual power was affected by the lamp’s light, his consciousness momentarily dazed.
“Whoosh!”
The Selfless Lamp, carrying rings of energy ripples, launched a consciousness attack, hurtling toward Kuai Lianghuang.
“Formation, rise!”
Kuai Lianghuang roared while resisting the consciousness attack. Immediately, dense formation inscription patterns emerged beneath his feet, interweaving to condense into a light cocoon a thousand zhang in diameter.
“Boom!”
Under the heavy impact, the formation light cocoon carried Kuai Lianghuang backward.
During this process, his consciousness fully awakened.
Kuai Lianghuang extended his right hand, his palm lines transforming into majestic mountains, rivers, and lands, teeming with fish, insects, plants, and trees. A purple divine river, formed from converging formation inscription patterns, surged out from between the mountains and rivers, colliding with the Selfless Lamp.
“Let me take it.”
After all, it was not the Life Ancestor driving the Selfless Lamp; its power was limited. Entangled by the formation divine river, it flew toward Kuai Lianghuang’s palm.
It had to be said, Kuai Lianghuang’s formation mastery was second only to one other in this era. Without Yunshen Daozhu, he would be the formation grandmaster of this age.
“Thank you, Life Ancestor, for granting the lamp!”
Kuai Lianghuang deliberately sought to provoke Gong Nanfeng, laughing wildly like this.
The Selfless Lamp drew closer and closer to his hand.
“Whoosh!”
Talisman light flickered, swift as lightning.
Zhang Ruochen’s spiritual power thought body, wielding the Imperial Talisman, descended from midair, his body like a heavenly blade, severing the formation divine river Kuai Lianghuang had unleashed.
Then, the Selfless Lamp and the spiritual power thought body attacked Kuai Lianghuang from left and right, both crashing into the formation light cocoon.
With a “boom,” the formation light cocoon shattered.
Kuai Lianghuang pressed one hand against the Selfless Lamp, stopping it three inches from his palm.
With the other hand, he clashed with the fist force unleashed by the spiritual power thought body.
As the three forces contended, space grew increasingly distorted.
Fighting two opponents alone, Kuai Lianghuang did not retreat half a step. His black robe billowed, and divine light blazed in his eyes, clearly showing he had plenty in reserve.
The spiritual power thought body, driving the Imperial Talisman, was ultimately inferior to the original body, its power falling short.
Suddenly, the spiritual power thought body sensed something amiss. Looking up, its eyes sharply contracted.
There, another divine lamp descended from the sky, emitting a dark green radiance.
It was the Life-Death Lamp.
The light of the Life-Death Lamp carried no heat, yet it pushed the power of life and death, the two aspects of fate, to their extreme.
In this region, countless undead cultivators turned to ash in an instant.
The spiritual power thought body immediately retreated, evading the Life-Death Lamp’s attack.
The Life-Death Lamp struck the ground, causing the earth to sink zhang by zhang, with dust surging upward.
“Where do you think you’re going? A treasure like the Imperial Talisman can only unleash its true power in my hands, so as not to disgrace the reputation of the Unperplexed Ancestor. Besides the Imperial Talisman, Zhang Ruochen, I’ll take your spiritual power thought body first!”
Kuai Lianghuang released his spiritual power, drawing on the power of heaven and earth.
A Gate of Fate manifested from within space, blocking the spiritual power thought body’s path.
At the same time, the Life-Death Lamp, carrying the ultimate forces of life and death, emitted wisps of flame, attacking the spiritual power thought body from the front.
Clearly, Kuai Lianghuang’s strategy was to first destroy Zhang Ruochen’s spiritual power thought body, seize the Imperial Talisman, and then deal with the Selfless Lamp.
The spiritual power thought body decided not to retreat, instead fully driving the Imperial Talisman to crash into the Life-Death Lamp.
The spiritual power thought body understood well that Kuai Lianghuang might have the ability to suppress either it or the Life-Death Lamp in a short time. But if they joined forces and attacked with all their might, Kuai Lianghuang would not find it so easy to handle.
“Boom!”
The moment the Imperial Talisman’s light collided with the Life-Death Lamp, space and time shook, talisman light scattered, and life light and death light spread in all directions.
The spiritual power thought body and the Selfless Lamp abandoned any thought of retreat. From left and right, they poured all their power into attacking Kuai Lianghuang, actually forcing him back several steps.
“Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh…”
Kuai Lianghuang condensed twelve Gates of Fate, linking them in a line, and sent them flying continuously toward the spiritual power thought body and the Selfless Lamp, blasting both backward.
Seizing this brief moment, Kuai Lianghuang gazed at the star sea, his pupils releasing terrifying spiritual power, summoning a formation planet hidden in the stars.
This formation planet was his Divine Throne Planet, thirty thousand miles in diameter.
Kuai Lianghuang had spent many years carving profound formation inscription patterns onto this planet, filling it with divine formations one after another. Inside the planet, it was packed with divine stones and sacred crystals, providing a continuous supply of energy.
The formation inscription patterns were not aimed at the Selfless Lamp or the spiritual power thought body. Instead, like a meteor, dragging a long tail, they hurtled straight toward Zhang Ruochen’s true body.
All the undead cultivators hidden in the Bone Sea saw the increasingly massive fiery meteor in the sky, feeling an oppressive atmosphere like doomsday.
Countless bone clan cultivators, unable to bear the crushing force, prostrated themselves on the ground.
Yuan Sheng and Yuan Jieyi, located directly below the formation planet, both wore grim expressions. At this moment, they finally felt the terror of a spiritual power cultivator at the ninety-second rank.
If this formation planet crashed down, not only they, but the entire Bone Sea might not have a single cultivator left alive.
One strike could destroy heaven and earth, burying all living beings.
Zhang Ruochen’s true body remained calm. “Feng Tian, forget about the Soul-Devouring Lamp. Deal with Kuai Lianghuang first.”
Before he finished speaking, Zhang Ruochen released the Gate of Death hidden within his body, sending it flying toward the sky to meet the formation planet emerging from the dark, oppressive calamity clouds.
“Shua!”
Feng Tian transformed into a streak of flame, flying out from the Xuan Embryo, pressing one hand beneath the Gate of Death.
Using the Gate of Death as a shield, she mobilized the death rules of heaven and earth with her Death Esoterica, colliding with the formation planet tens of thousands of zhang above the ground.
The next moment, Feng Tian directly manifested her phoenix true form, unleashing infinite divine power from within. Every feather flowed with lightning, as divine qi and death rules continuously burst outward.
“Boom! Boom!”
The phoenix’s claws struck the ground, digging two deep pits, finally managing to barely stop the formation planet.
At this moment, Zhang Ruochen’s true body was directly beneath the phoenix’s belly, protected like a young cub.
“I truly did not expect this.”
Gong Nanfeng let out a long sigh, his gaze no longer as firm as before.
Zhang Ruochen’s divine soul body said, “Did you not expect that I still had the Gate of Death as a trump card? Or that I would willingly expose the Gate of Death to deal with Kuai Lianghuang?”
“I did not expect that someone like Feng Caiyi would go this far for you. She was not like this before.”
“The people around you are all willing to die for you. The people around me are all those who want me dead. You are successful, and I… am too much of a failure. In the past, and now. Haha!”
Gong Nanfeng let out a long laugh, tears in his laughter, filled with infinite desolation.
“Hmph!”
The formation planet being blocked infuriated Kuai Lianghuang. Driving the Life-Death Lamp, he sent Zhang Ruochen’s spiritual power thought body and the Selfless Lamp flying, then personally charged into the prohibition set by Gong Nanfeng.
“Life Ancestor, look at this.”
Kuai Lianghuang took out a divine source, holding it in his palm like a small divine sun.
Its aura was profound, its light scorching.
The divine source released wisps of Ancestor Divine Qi, once again blasting back the pursuing spiritual power thought body and the Selfless Lamp, sending them tumbling into the Void World.
“No wonder you were confident you could wear down my spirit and consciousness. So it was in your hands. You intend to use it to absorb my spiritual consciousness, don’t you?” Gong Nanfeng’s voice came from within Zhang Ruochen.
“You searched your whole life for something you never found. Did you think it wasn’t in my hands?”
Kuai Lianghuang held the divine source in one hand while forming a finger seal with the other. A purple formation divine river appeared beneath his feet, scattering all the divine abilities unleashed by Yuan Sheng and Yuan Jieyi.
Gong Nanfeng said, “Who gave it to you?”
“That you do not need to know,” Kuai Lianghuang replied.
That divine source was none other than the Life Ancestor Divine Source.
Seeing Kuai Lianghuang drawing closer, with Yuan Sheng, Yuan Jieyi, the spiritual power thought body, and the Selfless Lamp unable to stop him, Zhang Ruochen said, “Yuan Sheng, I need to release the Shura War Soul Sea. Aid me.”
Release the Shura War Soul Sea?
The Shura War Soul Sea was Luo Tuoluo’s true body. It had taken great effort to suppress her. Why release her again?
Just as Yuan Sheng was puzzled, a Taiji Four Symbols Diagram Seal suddenly burst forth from Zhang Ruochen, rapidly expanding outward.
The next moment, the heaven and earth rules and qi of the universe surged toward Zhang Ruochen, turning the Bone Sea within millions of miles into a vortex of rules and divine qi.
Massive landmasses flew within the vortex.
Zhang Ruochen’s aura continuously rose, his divine soul rapidly strengthening.
From only thirty percent of his divine soul, within a few breaths, his soul’s intensity doubled.
And it continued to increase.
“Breaking through?”
Yuan Sheng’s beautiful eyes shimmered with joy.
Soon, she understood why Zhang Ruochen had to release the Shura War Soul Sea. The yang qi within his body was too domineering, the heat radiating from him melting the ground.
Flames and scorching essence continuously leaked from the Xuan Embryo.
Yuan Sheng rushed into Zhang Ruochen’s Xuan Embryo, entering the divine qi light sea.
She found that Zhang Ruochen had already unsealed the Universe Cauldron. The Shura War Soul Sea, originally suppressed within the cauldron, now covered the surface of the divine qi light sea, with towering waves and surging demonic qi.
The five yang-attribute stars Zhang Ruochen had condensed in the Lesser Derived Central Palace were wrapped by the Shura War Soul Sea, using Luo Tuoluo’s water to suppress the heat and destructive force.
The Shura War Soul Sea was boiling.
Luo Tuoluo continuously let out sharp cries and angry shouts, repeatedly trying to recondense her body to escape the refining of the Lesser Derived Five Stars, but the Universe Cauldron kept striking her back into liquid form.
Zhang Ruochen’s voice sounded again: “Suppress her for a moment! I need to free my hands and deal with Kuai Lianghuang together with Feng Tian.”
Without hesitation, Yuan Sheng dissolved her body into the form of heaven and earth rules, charging into the Shura War Soul Sea.
Outside.
Zhang Ruochen’s true body’s eyes blazed with sharp light. He recalled the spiritual power thought body, holding the Imperial Talisman in one hand and the Mani Pearl in the other.
In one hand, talisman light filled the sky; in the other, Brahma fire blazed hot.
Blood qi surged within him as he strode forward to Kuai Lianghuang, throwing both fists simultaneously.
“Zhang Ruochen, even if you break through, you are only at the initial stage of Indestructible Infinite. What makes you think you can challenge me?”
Kuai Lianghuang struck out with one hand, his palm manifesting a nine-layered ring-shaped divine formation.
“Boom!”
Zhang Ruochen’s power exceeded Kuai Lianghuang’s expectations. His body shook violently, and he was forced backward.
In that instant, Kuai Lianghuang understood!
Although Zhang Ruochen had just broken through to the initial stage of Indestructible Infinite, with his First-Rank Divine Path, powerful physical body, the Mani Pearl, and the Immovable Wisdom King Fist, he had elevated his combat power to a height that even ordinary Indestructible Infinite middle-stage cultivators could hardly match.
The other fist, driven by ninety-rank spiritual power and the Imperial Talisman, also possessed power comparable to the Indestructible Infinite middle stage.
In other words, although only Zhang Ruochen stood before him, Kuai Lianghuang faced what was essentially two Indestructible Infinite middle-stage cultivators.