# 1993
Chapter 1993: Twelve
那道璀璨的光辉，仿佛是活物一般，直接将【Chaos】的身形吞没其中！
下一刻，Su Zhe与Lu Baoyou只觉得身体一轻，自动从这光辉中漂浮而起，十二座巨大无比的石像从虚无中勾勒而出，Earth Anchor位于正中央，一股极其古老的气息骤然蔓延！
【Primordial Ancestor Formation】 begins!
The twelve massive stone statues completely encircle 【Chaos】 within. Twelve ancient stone chains shot out from the Earth Anchor, ignoring all spatial constraints to directly bind that pitch-black figure. The latter had no time to react before being firmly pressed onto the stone platform by the Ancestral God energy!
【Chaos】 was covered in stone chains, its诡异 aura suppressed by the surrounding Ancestral God energy, only able to condense into a black ghostly realm within a few hundred meters. Countless teeth-grating scratches and Yiyu sounds emerged from within, as if describing a manic world.
"What a nauseating aura…" 【Chaos】 sneered.
It attempted to break free from the stone chains, shaking them so violently that they collided with each other, producing a沉闷 yet thunderous roar that continuously washed over its consciousness. Even Lu Baoyou and Su Zhe, who had already flown outside the 【Primordial Ancestor Formation】, frantically covered their ears as streaks of blood seeped from them…
【Chaos】 tried to break the chains to no avail, so the surrounding dark ghostly realm wildly writhed, gradually expanding toward the twelve stone statues like a black writhing beast.
"Ori…"
Just as the dark ghostly realm began to writhe, a resonant voice shook the heavens.
Twelve voices overlapped into one. A single syllable alone swept across heaven and earth like a surging tide, forcibly pushing away the clouds above and the churning sea waters below. A vacuum domain spanning a hundred miles in radius abruptly expanded!
Within the endless void, countless laws of this world manifested like threads around the Ancestral God Temple, connecting respectively to the bases of the twelve stone statues, as if twelve inexhaustible river sources.
These twelve Ancestral Gods represented the origins of worldly laws!
"Primordial…"
The second syllable echoed across the sky, its momentum even more immense than the first!
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 Gods had origins beneath their statues; some did not. But now, as these laws fused into the bases, ancient powers from primordial times forcefully revived, intertwining into a dazzling array of patterns that extended toward 【Chaos】 imprisoned at the center by the stone chains!
These patterns gradually tore through 【Chaos】's surrounding dark ghostly realm. The closer to the center, the denser the patterns and the more intricate the designs became.
Perhaps due to the Ancestral Gods not yet having fully recovered their strength, these patterns' spread through the dark ghostly realm was not rapid, but they continued to creep toward 【Chaos】's body, like countless execution blades from all directions about to sever the head of a chained criminal!
"Null…"
As the third syllable sounded, the auras of the twelve stone statues had been pushed to their limit!
The patterns' spread accelerated once more, now merely a dozen or so meters from 【Chaos】. But simultaneously, the dark ghostly realm enveloping 【Chaos】 also struggled violently!
Clang—Clang—Clang!!!
The twelve stone chains coiled around 【Chaos】 collided with each other as they shook, producing deafening sounds!
At the center of the dark ghostly realm, a black face battered and bloodied, abruptly lifted its head and let out a ferocious roar at the twelve stone statues:
"Ancestral Gods!! If you were at your peak, I would never dare step into this formation… But now, you一群又老又残的废物，凭什么以为自己能镇住我？！"
No sooner had the words fallen than the dark ghostly realm swirling around 【Chaos】 had expanded to its extreme, like a beast opening its maw to bite at the Earth Anchor floating above!
The dark ghostly realm swallowed the Earth Anchor in one gulp. Countless whispers and howls instantly cut it off from the outside world. Simultaneously, 【Chaos】 at the center of the formation raised its hands, bound by chains, and violently slammed them into the stone platform!
Boom—!!!
Dense cracks spread across the ancient stone platform's surface. The twelve stone chains extending from the Earth Anchor were instantly shattered into pieces!
The aftershock of the shattered chains washed over 【Chaos】's body. It violently spat a mouthful of blood as its form rocketed skyward!
【Chaos】 was very clear—once the 【Primordial Ancestor Formation】 fully formed, it would annihilate anything within the array. Even 【Chaos】 could not survive. Therefore, its only way to break the formation was to kill the twelve Ancestral Gods before the Primordial Ancestor Formation took shape!
The twelve Ancestral Gods today were no longer what they once were, possessing only a fraction—perhaps one or two tenths—of their peak power. 【Chaos】 was confident it could slaughter them all before the Primordial Ancestor Formation completed!
In the future described by 【Key to the Gate】, 【Chaos】 had done exactly this—and succeeded.
This was why 【Chaos】 dared accept Su Zhe's provocation and willingly 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 the statue's surface!
Bang—!!
A crisp, thunderous report echoed through the Ancestral God Temple!
One palm strike landed, and 【Chaos】 showed not a moment's pause before rushing to the next statue—the Fire Ancestral God—and another palm strike精准落!
Earth Ancestral God, Darkness Ancestral God, Hunt Ancestral God, Life Ancestral God… In merely two seconds, 【Chaos】 had slapped all twelve Ancestral God statues. Its form flashed like lightning back to the stone platform.
Twelve consecutive palm strikes, each a killing blow. Given 【Chaos】's current condition, such exertion was utterly unsustainable. Blood wildly poured from its seven orifices!
But its face showed not a trace of pain—only wild laughter!
Immediately after, the dark cracks on the surfaces of the twelve Ancestral God stone statues suddenly spread frantically. Within a blink, they covered the entire statues before exploding into fragments!
Twelve plumes of blood mist scattered.
"I said it long ago! What does the 【Primordial Ancestor Formation】 matter?? You exhausted every scheme to lay this trap for me, but in the end, it was all for nothing!!!"
Seeing the twelve Ancestral God stone statues shattered, 【Chaos】 laughed maniacally, as if all the resentment and spite from Su Zhe's earlier mockery had dissipated along with the Ancestral Gods' explosion…
"Ulti…"
The moment the fourth syllable sounded, 【Chaos】's laughter suddenly froze on its face.
"The formation wasn't interrupted? How is this possible???" 【Chaos】 stood atop the patterns that had fully connected into a single sheet, eyes wide with disbelief. "I killed all twelve Ancestral Gods—how can the formation still be continuing?!"
It turned its head in astonishment, gazing at the twelve fragments of blood mist that had崩碎 from the statues… only then did it realize that the auras emanating from those blood mists were not Ancestral God energy at all!
Within the blood mist, the illusory forms of twelve Great Xia Divine Beasts emerged!!