# 1994
# Chapter 1978: A Trap Within a Trap Within a Trap
The blood-red mist scattered in the howling wind, and between the twelve shattered stone statues, twelve young figures gradually dissolved into nothingness…
Luan Lie's remaining head laughed heartily in the void.
"Surprised? Caught off guard??"
【Chaos】saw this, and his pupils slightly contracted…
Could it be…
"As Lord Fate said, you really are a self-righteous fool…" The fourth brother's body slowly dissolved, similarly mocking. "Stumped, aren't you? Who told you that the twelve people trapped inside the stone statues had to be the Ancestral Gods? Hahahaha…"
"We aren't Ancestral Gods, you know. We're the Twelve Golden Immortal Representatives of Great Xia!"
"If that name's too long, we gave ourselves another one too…"
"The one who slayed you: Twelve Human Immortals of Great Xia!"
"Our lives in exchange for killing one Walking 【Chaos】—worth it!"
"The brothers shall meet again in the next life!"
"Big black idiot, weren't you the one who looked down on humans the most? How does it feel to be taken down by us??"
"…"
Those shattered figures, using every last spark of vitality and spiritual power, laughed into the howling wind.
Their bodies dissolved into bloody mist, and shadows of Great Xia Divine Beasts stepped forth from the blood fog—those were their Golden Immortal Representative tokens, and also their souls!
With the剧烈 trembling of the stone platform beneath their feet, the entire Ancestral God Temple flipped upside down凭空! Below the twelve shattered Ancestral God statues, twelve even taller stone statues slowly rose!
These two sets of stone statues were like two sides of a mirror. At this moment, 【Chaos】 stood on the "reflection" side of the mirror… and both sets of mirror-symmetric statues stood on the same base, with those spheres of light connecting to the Laws all emanating from this base!
From the beginning, the twelve Ancestral God statues before 【Chaos】 never contained the Twelve Ancestral Gods… but rather the Twelve Golden Immortal Representatives of Great Xia.
The identical quantity, the identical vitality sealed within the stone statues—all led 【Chaos】 to completely mistake them for the Ancestral Gods. Using only the remaining strength left after breaking free from the stone chains, 【Chaos】 had slain them all… But even so, the twelve Ancestral Gods on the other side of the mirror could still complete this 【Primordial Ancestral Formation】!
After all, who could have imagined that hidden within the Ancestral God Temple's twelve Ancestral God statues weren't the Ancestral Gods at all, but twelve Golden Immortal Representatives?
【Chaos】 stared at these twelve shattered blood shadows, as if having realized something, his expression turning grim!
He understood now…
At first, he had only thought this was a crude, uninteresting trap… But now it was clear—this was an elaborate scheme designed specifically against him. A trap within a trap within a trap!
From the moment he broke through space and arrived outside the Ancestral God Temple, he had already been caught in this game!
The 【Demon】 Squad's attack, the sacrifice of those four people, that拙劣的引诱 which 【Chaos】 considered laughably clumsy… When he stood outside the Ancestral God Temple, mocking Lu Baoyou and the Ancestral Gods, the first ring of this trap had actually already been completed.
The mastermind's purpose with that first ring was to make 【Chaos】 let down his guard against this crude scheme… to make him believe the future he'd heard from the 【Key to the Gate】 was absolutely trustworthy!
At that time, 【Chaos】 was completely沉浸在 in the thrill of slaughtering the 【Demon】 Squad and tormenting Lu Baoyou's mind, not noticing at all that he had already taken the bait.
Then, the mastermind let 【Chaos】 leave the area around the Ancestral God Temple, creating the illusion that "the scheme ends here."
Following that came the second ring of this trap—the real "luring kill"!
That insult-filled livestream was meant to lure back the already unguarded 【Chaos】. At that time, 【Chaos】 was already drowning in blind confidence, trusting that in the future the 【Key to the Gate】 had described to him, he would break free from this predicament.
He was like an enraged gambler, overly confident in his card-counting skills, not noticing that the real dealer had quietly changed the dice under the cup…
Just as he was about to break free according to his own logic, the mastermind's true killing intent finally surfaced…
The third round: the Twelve Human Immortals' Death-Substitution Formation!
From the very beginning, this mastermind had anticipated that 【Chaos】 might receive information about the future from the 【Key to the Gate】. Taking advantage of this, he set up the Twelve Human Immortals' Death-Substitution Formation… With this, 【Chaos】 failed to interrupt the Primordial Ancestral Formation at the critical moment as the 【Key to the Gate】 had described in the future, thus falling into a truly fatal situation!
From the first ring—the fall of 【Demon】 Squad, to the second ring—the online enticement, to the third ring—the human immortal death substitution… The mastermind's thinking was always one step ahead of 【Chaos】, completely playing him like a fiddle.
No…
Perhaps the start of this scheme was even earlier than he imagined!
Since the mastermind had long anticipated that the 【Key to the Gate】 might send 【Chaos】 information, that meant… his "sneak attack" of bringing the 【Black Goat】 and Cthulhu Faction forces around the south and attacking directly from the north was also part of this plan?
The entire northern battlefield was a lure he had set up in advance for this very moment??
The deeper 【Chaos】 contemplated, the more intense his shock grew. If this were true, this mastermind's ability to scheme and plan was terrifying beyond measure…
"Lord Fate?!" 【Chaos】 seemed to have thought of something, suddenly looking up toward the distant void, his mangled body roaring with rage, "Was it you? Was this your scheme?! In Great Xia, no one else could have schemed against me to this extent… It must be you!!"
"You're too late to realize, 【Chaos】."
In the blood mist, a broken young man riding a white tiger slowly spoke, "The Primordial Ancestral Formation is complete… Today, you will die without a doubt!"
ROAR—!!
In the boundless blood mist, the twelve Great Xia Divine Beast shadows let out a simultaneous roar at 【Chaos】!
The next moment, the twelve Ancestral God statues shook violently, the Ancestral Gods' life force rapidly draining away, and the patterns covering the stone platform lit up all at once!
Above 【Chaos】, in the void, a thumb-sized white aperture spun open!
That single small aperture instantly devoured all the strength and vitality of the twelve Ancestral Gods, and the surrounding spacetime collapsed with a thunderous roar!
The primordial essence from the moment of the universe's creation passed through that aperture, crossing over spacetime, like a pale sea that instantly swallowed the entire Ancestral God Hall!!
Blinding white light devoured all things. The broken young man riding the white tiger looked at the oncoming white radiance and murmured to himself:
"I'm coming… Zhenzhen."