parentshiftbook Chapter 2020: All things vanish in silence, all thoughts are empty!
Chapter 2020: All things vanish in silence, all thoughts are empty!
Chapter 2020: All things vanish in silence, all thoughts are empty!
The Soul-Eroding Technique can erode and wear down an opponent's magic power and soul strength, weakening their attack power and rapidly disintegrating their defense.
The Filthy Treasure can corrupt and weaken the spirituality of an opponent's divine weapon or even their natal object, causing its power to decline.
Damage to one's Dao foundation is the most terrifying. Once an attack containing the evil energy of the Nine Netherworlds invades the body, it will be like a bone-deep infection, directly corroding and damaging the opponent's Dao foundation.
For someone like Lian Guanlin, who has forged the Heavenly Origin Dao Foundation, this characteristic poses a great threat, requiring the opponent to expend extra effort to guard against it.
Chen Fei didn't actually need to damage the opponent's Heavenly Origin Dao Foundation; making the opponent expend extra power would be enough.
With a solid foundation, the output ports also need to be transformed.
The original Myriad Formations Flowing Backwards Formation primarily served to unify, amplify, and circulate the power of various formations, forming a combined force. Although its power was immense, its energy attributes were ultimately complex. When facing truly top-tier powerhouses with perfect defenses or special countermeasures, it might be divided and weakened, making it difficult to kill them in one strike.
All things are extinguished, and all thoughts are empty!
Chen Fei changed his handprint again, his expression solemn.
"Buzz!"
The core array pattern of the Myriad Manifestations Returning to the Flow Array burst forth with unprecedented light. It was no longer merely a flow and amplification, but transformed into a massive vortex of return to the void, seemingly capable of devouring everything.
The ferocity of the Five Elements Extinction Divine Light, the sharpness of the Immortal Slaughtering Sword Qi, the weight of the Earth Vein God Slaughtering Spear, the suppression of the Yin-Yang Collapse Heaven-Shattering Force Field, the corruption of the Nine Netherworld Demonic Qi, and even the majestic might of the Immortal Slaughtering Stars in the Sky...
All the energies, with their diverse attributes and forms, gathered by the Myriad Phenomena Returning to the Flow Array, were forcibly stripped of all external attributes and stripped of all outward appearances and Daoist rhymes the moment they entered this Void Returning to the Void vortex, returning to their most original state, closest to "nothingness".
A strange, gray energy, seemingly capable of devouring all light and sound, slowly emerged and condensed at the center of the vortex.
It has no temperature, no fluctuations, no properties, but wherever it goes, space itself seems to "disappear".
The primordial form of the "All Things Return to Nothingness and Annihilation Array" is beginning to take shape.
This formation is the ultimate form of the Myriad Flows Formation. It guides the myriad streams gathered by the Myriad Flows Formation to the final annihilation.
This power of annihilation can ignore most attribute defenses and Daoist protections, because in essence, it attacks and erases the very foundation of the opponent's existence.
Of course, gathering and driving the power of annihilation consumes a huge amount of energy, and it is an extreme test for both the formation itself and the caster's mind.
But at this moment, with the support of the Nine Netherworld Demonic Qi, Chen Fei can control this power.
With both offensive and defensive systems and ultimate killing moves strengthened, Chen Fei's thinking has not stopped.
When facing a powerful opponent like Lian Guanlin, the suddenness, unpredictability, and absolute accuracy of the attack are equally crucial.
The opponent's movements are unpredictable and their escape techniques are superb. If we cannot effectively limit their evasive space or ensure that our attacks hit accurately, even the strongest attacks may miss.
If you can contain Mount Sumeru within a mustard seed, then the eye of calamity will naturally appear!
A flash of silver spatial runes appeared in Chen Fei's eyes.
The Earth Vein Void Array was originally used to stabilize space, assist in teleportation, and interfere with the enemy's escape techniques, but now Chen Fei wanted to develop it for a more aggressive purpose.
Chen Fei pressed his hands down, and an invisible spatial force rippled outwards from him like waves, perfectly merging with the entire enhanced linked array.
With a slight thought, the structure of space within the area shrouded by the array seemed to become more flexible and malleable.
The Void Calamity Eye is a new ability conceived by Chen Fei. It is not a fixed formation, but an application technique derived from the spatial control of the Void Formation based on the earth veins.
The principle behind this is that by utilizing the absolute control of the array over the space within the domain, a miniature spatial singularity, or a void eye, can be instantly created at any location and at any time.
This eye of calamity itself does not possess direct offensive power, but it is a perfect spatial coordinate and energy transmission channel.
Chen Fei could unleash the Five Elements Extinction Divine Light, the Immortal Slaying Sword Qi, the Earth Vein God Slaying Spear, and even the newly condensed Annihilation Power directly from this Calamity Eye through the connection between the formation and his own mind, ignoring spatial distance and conventional defenses.
To achieve true, precise, cross-space targeting.
The opening and closing of the Eye of Calamity happens in an instant and is extremely difficult to detect in advance.
Furthermore, the location of the Eye of Calamity can appear at any point within the array's domain at will, and multiple Eyes can even be activated consecutively in a very short period of time.
The Nine Netherworld Demon Devouring Array provides an almost limitless energy source with terrifying properties, while the Myriad Phenomena Return to Nothingness Array serves as the ultimate output port, refining the power of annihilation that obliterates existence.
The Void Eye of Calamity provides an unpredictable and distance-insensitive attack method, which can be supplemented by the existing Five Elements, Yin Yang, Star, and Earth Vein formations for conventional suppression, restraint, and attrition.
A three-dimensional, multi-dimensional ultimate interconnected array system has already taken clear shape.
Chen Fei's hand seals suddenly accelerated, leaving afterimages flying everywhere. Profound and ancient array patterns seemed to have a life of their own, flowing from his fingertips and merging into the boiling array foundation beneath his feet.
The Nine Netherworlds are the source, the evil spirits devour all heavens, the formation begins!
All things return to the flow, ultimately entering stillness, and the formation is complete!
The Void Eye of Calamity, a thought triggers the killing, the formation unites!
The entire area where the killing arena is located experienced a violent disruption and resonance of the natural energy and the rules of the Dao.
As Chen Fei focused his mind and began to integrate his new array concepts, such as the Nine Netherworld Demon Devouring Array, the Myriad Phenomena Returning to Nothingness Array, and the Void Calamity Eye, into his original innate linked array, the light barrier of the linked array, which was originally as stable as a mountain, began to shake violently and flicker, as if it might collapse from the inside at any moment.
This unprecedented chaos and fragility fell into the eyes of the nine late-stage fifteenth-level demonic cultivators who had been forcibly summoned into the arena.
The nine demons immediately saw the figure in green robes standing silently at the center of the formation. Fear gripped their minds instantly, but in the next moment, the instinct for survival and the ferocity of their demonic nature overwhelmed their fear.
"The formation is unstable; strike while the iron is hot and finish him off."
"Let's attack together, break this formation, and kill him!"
The Nine Demons reached a consensus in an instant, requiring almost no communication.
This was the only possible chance of survival in this desperate situation. They roared and burned their life-bound demonic energy, even activating forbidden techniques that damaged their foundations, to boost their combat power to its peak.
In an instant, nine attacks, each possessing the life's work of a late-stage fifteenth-level demonic cultivator and varying in attributes yet equally ferocious, slammed into the violently shaking light barrier of the linked array from different directions, like a raging torrent of prehistoric beasts bursting its banks.
"Boom, boom, boom!!"
The explosion was deafening, and the energy shockwave swept in all directions like a tsunami.
The light was blinding, overwhelming everyone's vision. The Nine Demons' faces were filled with madness and anticipation. They firmly believed that under these internal and external difficulties, this damned formation would surely break.
However, as the light faded, the Nine Demons' pupils shrank, and the madness on their faces froze instantly.
The light barrier of the linked array indeed shook more violently, with ripples spreading wildly across its surface, and even fine, spiderweb-like twisted light traces appearing...
However, it did not break; not only did it not break, but not even a solid crack appeared.
Despite the violent attack, the seemingly crumbling light barrier stubbornly maintained its overall structure, preventing all the destructive energy from entering.
"No...impossible!"
"How could this be?"
A chilling coldness shot from the tailbone of the nine demons straight to the top of their heads. They couldn't understand why the combined, desperate attack of nine late-stage fifteenth-level demon cultivators couldn't even break through a formation that was in internal chaos.
What made them even more uneasy was that they had no way of knowing whether the violent shaking of the formation was caused by their attack or by changes within the formation itself.
This uncertainty has brought about a deeper fear.
If they attack with all their might, and all that happens to this formation is a tremor... then what will they face?
"Continue the attack!"
"Break it! It must be broken!"
After a brief period of shock came an even more hysterical frenzy.
Nine Demons was unwilling and dared not think about that despairing possibility.
They roared hoarsely, once again frantically channeling their power, launching an even more ferocious and reckless attack.
They unleashed all sorts of forbidden techniques they had kept hidden away.
Demonic flames, poisonous water, bone spurs, soul howls... a dazzling array of destructive energies rained down relentlessly on the light barrier of the linked array.
"Boom boom boom!"
The explosions continued unabated, turning the entire killing arena into a purgatory of energy. The array's light barrier continued to shake violently, its light flickering like a candle in the wind.
However, this flickering candle was exceptionally resilient. No matter how fierce the wind and rain, it remained unmoved.
The Nine Demons' attack, apart from making the light barrier shake more violently and the energy ripples spread more spectacularly, did not produce any substantial effect.
The feeling was like trying to push a seemingly flimsy iron door with all your might, but apart from the door groaning under the strain, you couldn't budge it an inch.
Despair, like a cold tide, began to slowly erode the defenses of the Nine Demons.
Their attack frequency continued to increase, and their power grew stronger, but the ominous premonition in their hearts grew stronger and stronger.
Just as the Nine Demons were wavering, Chen Fei, who had been keeping his eyes closed and hands in a mudra at the center of the formation, seemingly unaware of any external attacks, slowly opened his eyes.
In an instant, it was as if two solidified bolts of cold lightning shot out from his eyes, instantly piercing through the raging energy turbulence and the shaking light barrier, sweeping across the nine demonic cultivators in the arena.
That gaze was calm and utterly undisturbed. There was no anger, no contempt, not even murderous intent, only a sense of absolute, superior control.
"All set up?"
All the madness, all the wishful thinking, vanished completely in that one glance.
The reason the enemy allowed them to attack was not because they were unable to resist, but because they simply didn't care. His real focus was entirely on the arrangement of the formation itself.
And now, the setup is complete!
Chen Fei looked at Jiu Mo, a thought stirring in his mind.
In an instant, the color of heaven and earth changed.
The previously violently shaking and flickering array suddenly stabilized.
"Boom, boom, boom!"
With Chen Fei at the core of the array, an indescribable new array field, a mixture of the chilling stillness of the Nine Netherworlds, the desolation of all things in the Void, the unpredictable nature of the void, and the boundless vitality and destructive aura of the Five Elements, Yin and Yang, stars, and earth veins, suddenly spread out.
Under this oppressive force, the nine demonic cultivators all groaned in unison, feeling as if the space around them had solidified into a mountain, and their demonic energy circulation was extremely sluggish.
They looked up in horror, and in a daze, they seemed to see a fifteenth-level ultimate expert who had forged the Heavenly Origin Dao Foundation, staring straight at them.
Unable to resist!
This thought, like a nightmare, grew uncontrollably from the depths of their hearts, instantly taking over their entire minds.
"Chucky!"
Without warning, dozens of tiny spatial cracks appeared in various locations of the Nine Demons' Void Eyes.
In the next instant, the Five Elements Extinction Divine Light, which condensed the Nine Netherworld Demonic Qi and possessed the properties of corrosive and defiled treasures, shot out from it at a speed that surpassed the reaction of divine sense.
"Puff puff!"
The protective demonic light was easily pierced like paper. The demonic cultivators were terrified and tried to dodge or block, but the attacks from the Calamity Eye came from all directions and were impossible to defend against.
In an instant, three people were pierced through vital points by the divine light, letting out shrill screams and spitting out demonic blood.
"Boom!"
Above the sky, several Immortal-Slaying Stars, burning with pitch-black Netherworld Demon Flames and far larger than before, ignored spatial distance and seemed to have been there from the beginning, crashing down fiercely.
Before the stars arrived, the annihilating aura of annihilation had already caused the remaining demonic cultivators to be scattered and their souls dispersed.
"Crack!"
The Yin-Yang Collapse Force Field suddenly contracted, like an invisible millstone, forcibly separating and suppressing the demonic cultivators who were trying to get close, and the Earth Vein God-Slaying Spear burst out from the shadows beneath their feet.
The entire killing arena was transformed into a deathly inferno, and the nine demonic cultivators were like insects caught in a spider web, all their struggles appearing pale and powerless.
Roars, howls, desperate curses, the sound of protective magic light shattering, flesh being torn apart, and the wails of souls being eroded... all kinds of sounds intertwined, composing a cruel symphony of death.
Eight breaths!
Just eight breaths later, all sounds abruptly ceased, and the arena fell silent.
The nine late-stage fifteenth-level demonic cultivators had been completely annihilated, leaving only nine clusters of pure demonic energy and fifty-three slowly rotating primordial lotus seeds floating in mid-air.
Chen Fei flicked his sleeve and collected all the spoils of war. The new formation, in its first test, had already shown its sharpness and its power met expectations.
After putting away the spoils, Chen Fei did not launch another round of summoning.
He slowly raised his head and looked up at the high-hanging sun in the sky.
"General..."
Chen Fei spoke, his voice clear and resonant, carried out distinctly by the power of the rules, "Your subordinate is ready!"
"it is good!"
After a brief silence, a gentle voice rang directly in Chen Fei's ear; it was Kuang Yezhou.
Meanwhile, at the Sky Arena.
"boom!"
The last cultivator's protective magic finally shattered under Lian Guanlin's ferocious attack. He crashed into the barrier of rules like a meteorite, spitting out blood and his aura weakened to the extreme. He had no choice but to utter the words "I admit defeat" with great difficulty.
A flash of light, and the cultivator was teleported away, while dozens of primordial lotus seeds flew toward Lian Guanlin.
Lian Guanlin reached out and took the lotus seed; the dark red demonic flames around him had dimmed considerably compared to before.
But as he felt the four hundred lotus seeds resonating with the rules, and the killing mark slowly forming on the back of his hand, a ferocious smile still appeared on Lian Guanlin's lips.
"Finally... I got it!" A bloodthirsty glint flashed in his eyes. "Now, it's my turn to hunt. Those peak fifteenth-tier cultivators... not a single one will escape!"
Lian Guanlin exhaled, intending to use his newly acquired killing mark authority to target the fifteenth-tier peak expert on the cultivator side, launch a bloody revenge, and reverse the unfavorable situation in the Demon Lotus Realm.
However, just as he had the thought formed and before he could truly activate the mark, a cold voice exploded directly in his soul; it was Liao Ruiheng.
"Lian Guanlin!"
Upon hearing the voice, Lian Guanlin immediately composed himself and listened respectfully.
"I have arranged a life-or-death duel for you."
Liao Ruiheng's voice was devoid of any emotion, "The opponent is that junior array cultivator at the late stage of the fifteenth level just now."
Upon hearing this, Lian Guanlin was taken aback, almost thinking he had misheard.
"General, I've just obtained the Killing Mark. Now I can hunt down those peak fifteenth-tier cultivators and turn the tide. Even that junior..."
"Shut up!"
Liao Ruiheng interrupted him coldly, his tone tinged with impatience.
"In this battle, you are only allowed to win, not lose!"
Liao Ruiheng's voice was chillingly cold, "If you win... I will grant you a portion of the Evil-Repelling Wildfire."
The words "warding off evil and wildfire" made Lian Guanlin swallow back the words that were on the tip of his tongue.
Ward off evil spirits with wildfire!
This item is an unparalleled treasure for a fifteenth-level demonic cultivator.
It doesn't directly improve cultivation level, but rather it can greatly purify demonic essence, suppress inner demons, and solidify the foundation of one's Dao when demonic cultivators attempt to break through to higher realms, especially when breaking through the insurmountable barrier of the 15th to 16th level Tai Cang Realm, thus significantly increasing the success rate of the breakthrough.
Although demonic cultivators do not rely as heavily on spiritual materials to break through as cultivators, they still need unimaginable accumulation and opportunities to advance to the sixteenth level of the Tai Cang Realm. Moreover, the risk of backlash from inner demons and instability of the Dao foundation is extremely high during the process.
A single wisp of the Evil-Repelling Wildfire is enough to drive any demonic cultivator at the fifteenth level limit mad.
Previous hesitations and considerations for the overall situation seemed so pale and powerless in the face of the Evil-Repelling Wildfire.
Lian Guanlin's mind flashed with Chen Fei's image, recalling the scene where the other party fled without a fight at the Sky Dome Martial Arts Arena, and the other party's seemingly powerful formation...
"Even though I have burned some of my origin and my strength has been diminished... the foundation of my Heavenly Origin Dao Foundation remains!"
Lian Guanlin raised his head slightly. Even a strong person of the same level as Fu Yinglan had been defeated by him, let alone a late-stage fifteenth level expert.
"Very well! I will surely slay this scoundrel and live up to the general's high expectations!" Lian Guanlin agreed decisively without hesitation, his voice filled with killing intent and a determination to succeed.
"Very good." Liao Ruiheng's voice seemed to soften slightly. "Fight well, and don't disappoint me."
As soon as he finished speaking, Liao Ruiheng's will receded like the tide.
Almost at the same time, opposite the Sky Arena, ripples appeared in the void, and a figure in a green robe materialized slowly, which was Chen Fei.
"Fellow Daoist Chen?"
Why did he go up again?
Inside the canyon, Le Boyang and Zheng Hongtao, who had been watching Chen Fei, widened their eyes slightly when they saw Chen Fei suddenly appear in the Sky Martial Arts Arena and face Lian Guanlin from a distance. Their faces were filled with astonishment and confusion.
Their attention was mostly focused on the killing arena in the canyon, but they also paid attention to the battle in the sky arena.
I witnessed firsthand how Lian Guanlin, with absolute dominance, successively defeated and forced back top experts from the cultivator camp, such as Fu Yinglan and Wu Fanyu.
Its sheer power is astonishing.
"Oh no, why is Fellow Daoist Chen going up to fight Lian Guanlin?"
"Could it be enforced by the rules? That shouldn't be the case..."
Not only Le Boyang and Zheng Hongtao, but all the cultivators who observed the situation at the Sky Arena felt a sudden unease and became anxious.
The atmosphere inside the Sky Arena was heavy and somber.
"Junior, you were allowed to escape by the rules just now! This time, let's see where you can run to!" Lian Guanlin looked at Chen Fei, who was calm on the other side, his voice filled with undisguised mockery and killing intent.
"escape?"
Chen Fei looked at Lian Guanlin and gently shook his head, "Why did you run away?"