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Chapter 1980: Twelve
That dazzling radiance, as if it were a living thing, directly engulfed the form of 【Chaos】!
The next moment, Su Zhe and Lu Baoyou only felt their bodies lighten, automatically floating up from within that radiance. Twelve colossal stone statues were drawn from the void, the Earth's Anchor positioned right at the center, and an extremely ancient aura suddenly spread forth!
【Primordial Ancestral Formation】—Activate!
The twelve stone statues completely encircled 【Chaos】 within. Twelve ancient stone chains shot out from the Earth's Anchor, ignoring space itself to directly lock down that pitch-black figure. The latter had no time to react before being死死 suppressed onto the stone platform by the Ancestral God aura!
【Chaos】 was covered in stone chains, the诡异 aura emanating from its body suppressed by the surrounding Ancestral God aura. It could only condense a black ghost realm within several hundred meters around itself. Countless teeth-grinding scratches and Yiyu sounds echoed from within, as if from a maddened world.
"What a nauseating aura…" 【Chaos】 coldly spoke.
It tried to break free from the stone chains upon its body, shaking them against each other, producing dull rumbling sounds like thunder, continuously washing over its consciousness. Even Lu Baoyou and Su Zhe, who had already flown outside the 【Primordial Ancestral Formation】, frantically covered their ears upon hearing this sound. Traces of blood seeped from their ears…
【Chaos】 attempted to break free from the stone chains to no avail. The surrounding black ghost realm then frantically writhed, slowly expanding toward the positions of the twelve stone statues, like a black writhing beast.
"Primordial…"
Just as the black ghost realm began writhing, a sonorous voice resounded through the clouds.
Twelve voices overlapped as one. With just a single syllable, it swept across heaven and earth like a surging tide. The clouds above the sky and the churning seawater around were forcibly pushed aside. A vacuum domain with a radius of a hundred li suddenly expanded!
Within the vast void, the countless laws of this world manifested like silk threads around the Ancestral God Temple, each connecting to the base of the twelve stone statues below, as if they were the sources of twelve ever-flowing rivers.
These twelve Ancestral Gods represented the origins of the world's laws!
"Origin…"
The second syllable echoed across the sky, its momentum even more immense than the previous one!
The moment this sound appeared, clusters of light ignited at the bases of the stone statues!
Fire Ancestral God, Thunder Ancestral God, Earth Ancestral God, Darkness Ancestral God, Hunt Ancestral God, Life Ancestral God, Space Ancestral God, Ocean Ancestral God, Time Ancestral God, Light Ancestral God, Death Ancestral God, Hurricane Ancestral God…
Some Ancestral God statues had origins beneath their feet, some did not. But at this moment, as these laws merged into the bases, the ancient power from the distant era forcibly revived, intertwining into a dazzling pattern that extended toward 【Chaos】, who was sealed at the center by the stone chains!
These patterns slowly tore apart the black ghost realm surrounding 【Chaos】. The closer to the center, the denser the patterns became, the more complex the designs.
Perhaps due to the Ancestral Gods not yet having restored their full strength, the spread of these patterns through the black ghost realm was not swift, yet they continued to slowly advance toward 【Chaos】's vicinity, like countless execution blades from all directions about to sever the head of the chained criminal!
"None…"
With the third syllable ringing out, the auras of the twelve stone statues had already been pushed to their limit!
The spread of those patterns accelerated once more, now merely a dozen or so meters from 【Chaos】. But simultaneously, the black ghost realm enveloping 【Chaos】 also maddenedly thrashed about!
Clang—Clang—Clang!!!
The twelve stone chains coiling around 【Chaos】's body collided with each other as they were shaken, producing deafening sounds!
At the center of that black ghost realm, a black face battered and mangled by the vibrations suddenly lifted its head, glaring狰狞ly at the twelve stone statues and roaring:
"Ancestral Gods!! If you were at your peak, I would never dare step into this formation… But now, you a bunch of old, broken wrecks—what makes you think you can suppress me?!"
The words fell. The writhing black ghost realm surrounding 【Chaos】 had expanded to its limit, like a beast opening its gaping maw to bite at the Earth's Anchor floating above!
The black ghost realm swallowed the Earth's Anchor in one gulp. Countless whispers and howls instantly isolated it from the outside world. At the same time, 【Chaos】 at the center of the formation raised its hands, bound with chains, and violently smashed them against the stone platform!
Boom—!!!
Dense cracks spread across the surface of the ancient stone platform. The twelve stone chains extending from the Earth's Anchor were instantly shattered into fragments!
The aftershock of the shattered chains washed over 【Chaos】's body. It violently vomited a mouthful of blood, its form rocketing skyward!
【Chaos】 was very clear that once the 【Primordial Ancestral Formation】 fully formed, it would annihilate any existence within the formation—even it was not exempt. Therefore, its only way to break the formation was to slay the twelve Ancestral Gods before the Primordial Ancestral Formation could take shape!
The twelve Ancestral Gods of today were no longer what they once were, their strength merely a fraction, perhaps one or two tenths of their peak. 【Chaos】 was confident enough to slay them all before the Primordial Ancestral Formation could complete!
In the future described by the 【Key to the Gate】, it had done exactly this—and succeeded.
This was also why 【Chaos】 dared to accept Su Zhe's provocation and voluntarily enter the formation.
【Chaos】 shot upward like a black thunderbolt, instantly crossing the stone platform to arrive before one of the stone statues. A wisp of darkness gathered in its palm and abruptly slapped against the statue's surface!
Bang—!!
A crisp, thunderous report echoed through the Ancestral God Temple!
With one palm strike landing, 【Chaos】 showed not the slightest hesitation, immediately dashing toward the next one—the Fire Ancestral God—and another precise palm strike descended!
Earth Ancestral God, Darkness Ancestral God, Hunt Ancestral God, Life Ancestral God… In merely two seconds, 【Chaos】 had landed a palm strike on each of the twelve Ancestral God statues. Its form shot back to the stone platform like lightning.
Twelve consecutive palm strikes, each a killing blow. Even with 【Chaos】's current physical condition, it simply could not sustain such consumption. Blood wildly flowed from all seven orifices!
But there was not a shred of pain on its face—instead, it burst into wild laughter!
Immediately after, the dark cracks covering the surfaces of the twelve Ancestral God statues suddenly spread at rapid speed, covering every statue within a blink, then violently exploded!
Twelve plumes of blood mist scattered and burst forth.
"I told you long ago! What does it matter that it's the 【Primordial Ancestral Formation】?? You schemed endlessly to set this trap to kill me, but in the end, it was all for nothing!!!"
【Chaos】 beheld the twelve Ancestral God stone statues shatter, laughing maniacally, as if all the resentment and fury from being mocked by Su Zhe earlier had dissipated along with the explosion of the twelve Ancestral Gods…
"Extreme…"
The moment the fourth syllable rang out, 【Chaos】's laughter suddenly froze on its face.
"The formation wasn't interrupted? How is this possible???" 【Chaos】 stood atop the patterns that had completely connected into one, eyes wide in disbelief. "I killed all twelve groups of gods—how can the formation possibly continue?!"
It turned its head in astonishment, gazing at the twelve fragments of blood mist that had burst from the stone statues… only then did it discover that what emanated from that blood mist was not Ancestral God aura at all!
Within the blood mist, twelve Great Xia Divine Beast phantoms were now being勾勒而出!!