Dongbo Xueying and his team, consisting of only three squads, flew out of Chiyun City to carry out the rescue mission.
With Dongbo Xueying deploying soul techniques that enveloped the surroundings, the Hunyuan lifeforms posed no threat. Three squads were more than enough for the rescue. They accelerated to their utmost speed, while on the other side, the Abyssal Sea Master commanded a vast number of Hunyuan lifeforms and charged forward himself, determined to intercept and annihilate them.
“The Abyssal Sea Master has gone mad—he’s even revealed his true form!”
“Of course he’s desperate. If he fails this time, he’ll lose his chance to intercept us. Once the cultivators from all five cities unite, dealing with him will be much easier.”
Dongbo Xueying and the others were in high spirits.
They had successfully devised a simplified large-scale battle formation. With the contributions of Emperor Qianqu and Emperor Tianchun—two of the original five creators of the ‘Five Elements Annihilation Formation’—alongside numerous other formation experts, they had finally simplified the formation. This new version sacrificed many defensive measures against group attacks, focusing primarily on offense.
“Hurry, hurry! The Abyssal Sea Master is going berserk!”
“Haha… here they come!”
Dongbo Xueying’s team narrowly managed to rendezvous with the six squads from Chengguang City and Hanyue City. The challenge was greater now, as the number of Hunyuan lifeforms surrounding Chiyun City had drastically increased—likely accounting for nearly thirty percent of all such creatures in the entire Sacred World of Cultivation. Combined with the Abyssal Sea Master’s frenzied assault, the journey for the Chengguang and Hanyue teams had been even more perilous.
Fortunately, they succeeded in joining forces.
“Now that we’ve united, the Abyssal Sea Master is doomed!”
“Let’s return to Chiyun City immediately and form the large-scale battle formation!”
“Quickly! I can’t wait any longer!”
“We’ve been waiting for this day for far too long!”
The cultivators were exhilarated.
The nine combined squads swiftly retreated toward Chiyun City, while the Abyssal Sea Master, his eyes burning with fury, strode toward them.
“He still hasn’t fled?” Dongbo Xueying and the others, while retreating, kept a wary eye on the Abyssal Sea Master. They had assumed he would flee immediately upon failing his interception. But they were confident—with the combined strength of five cities and the newly devised battle formation, their speed would surpass his, ensuring they could hunt him down and eliminate him in one decisive strike.
“Even better if he doesn’t run. Makes things easier for us.”
“Is he really that arrogant?”
Many cultivators exchanged whispers, though a few felt an uneasy premonition. Yet, with the five cities united and the battle formation ready, there was no reason to hesitate.
Whoosh!
The nine squads landed in Chiyun City, where the other six squads awaited them, equally excited.
The cultivators immediately began assembling and preparing the large-scale battle formation.
“Hahaha…”
A thunderous laughter suddenly boomed across the heavens. “Excellent! All the cultivators from the five cities have gathered!”
The cultivators in the city, busy with the formation, froze. Dongbo Xueying’s heart clenched. Some had already sensed something amiss when the Abyssal Sea Master didn’t flee, but they dismissed it, believing everything was under control. Now, his maniacal laughter sent chills down every cultivator’s spine.
“This is bad.”
“What does he mean?”
“Has he been waiting outside Chiyun City all this time not to intercept us, but to lure us all together?”
“But why? If he had the power, why not just wipe us out earlier?”
“Impossible! He’s bound by suppression and punishment, and Flying Snow Emperor has neutralized the threat of ordinary Hunyuan lifeforms. How could he alone pose a threat to so many of us? That would make this no longer a trial!”
Countless thoughts raced through their minds.
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“Magnificent! The chosen from all five citadels have assembled!” The Abyss Lord’s voice reverberated across the realms as his form underwent a terrifying metamorphosis. His stature swelled exponentially—from twelve hundred leagues to ten thousand, then a hundred thousand… His wounds sealed themselves, replaced by eldritch azure runes shaped like the primordial symbol “Well” crawling across his flesh. The very essence of the Sacred Realm quaked as torrents of primal energy violently funneled into his being.
To be precise, the Abyssal Sea Master was forcibly absorbing the world’s energy, defying the Sacred World’s suppression.
The surrounding rules began to warp. The Abyssal Sea Master existed on the same level as an entire world—he was a source of existence unto himself. Now, his power had grown terrifyingly stronger, pushing back against the Sacred World’s suppression and even altering the local laws.
“What… what’s happening?”
“This…”
Nearly twenty thousand cultivators stared upward, their faces pale with dread.
The Abyssal Sea Master’s colossal form continued to expand, his mere presence distorting the rules. Chiyun City was engulfed in this altered reality, and even Dongbo Xueying felt an involuntary urge to submit. The sheer disparity in power was despair-inducing.
“Crack—”
The surrounding void shattered, revealing countless chains of arcane runes behind the dimensional membrane. These chains sealed the entire Sacred World of Cultivation.
The Abyssal Sea Master’s altered rules clashed violently with the world’s natural order.
“This… this is no ordinary high-level Hunyuan lifeform. No high-level being could wield such power within the Sacred World!” Wu Xiao trembled as he watched the Abyssal Sea Master’s transformation.
“Disaster approaches. We must leave now!” Northriver Emperor wasted no time, attempting to activate the escape mark on his wrist.
Buzz—
The altered rules suppressed his attempt, rendering it futile.
The Abyssal Sea Master, mid-transformation, cast a disdainful glance at Northriver Emperor and sneered. “Oh? A clever escape technique? Useless.”
Though this method had been bestowed by ‘Meta’ within the Serpent Fang Corridor of the Broken Tooth Mountain Range, it was a mass-produced gift—hardly capable of breaking free from the influence of a World-Class Hunyuan lifeform’s rule manipulation.
“Insolence!” A furious roar resounded through the Sacred World.
A towering, gaunt figure clad in black robes materialized in the sky—the artifact spirit of the Reception Hall. Glaring at the Abyssal Sea Master, he activated the countless chains embedded within the creature’s body. Golden light erupted as the chains unleashed their full power, forcibly shrinking the Abyssal Sea Master’s expanding form.
Dongbo Xueying and the others watched with bated breath, hopeful as the enemy’s size diminished.
“A mere artifact spirit dares to bark orders at me?” The Abyssal Sea Master snarled, resisting fiercely, yet his body continued to shrink under the overwhelming suppression.
These were the restraints laid down by the great lords to imprison Hunyuan prisoners. Though originally designed for high-level Hunyuan lifeforms, the formations’ power reached World-Class—a testament to the lords’ meticulous preparations.
“Buzz—”
The chains sealing the Sacred World blazed with light, absorbing Hunyuan energy from the surroundings to fuel their maximum output. The Abyssal Sea Master’s body shrank relentlessly until it stabilized at eight thousand li tall.
“What?!” The black-robed artifact spirit was stunned. Even at full power, the formations could only suppress the enemy to this extent. An eight-thousand-li-tall body, brimming with boundless might, was far beyond anything they had faced before.
“Grinning, the Abyssal Sea Master taunted, “What else can you do, little spirit? This puny training ground for ants wouldn’t have a World-Class guardian stationed permanently, would it? Hah! You’re powerless.”
The artifact spirit’s heart sank.
A World-Class guardian? Impossible.
Hyuan lifeforms were akin to worlds themselves—splitting off a weaker clone would diminish their main body’s strength. Their primary forms were always deployed to critical battlefronts. No lord would waste such power guarding a mere training world.
“How… how could this be? Advancing from a high-level to a World-Class Hunyuan lifeform is already astronomically difficult. For a prisoner under constant suppression to achieve this… his body wasn’t even at the pinnacle of high-level! Had he reached that stage, he would’ve been executed long ago!” The artifact spirit was baffled.
He realized the truth—the Abyssal Sea Master must have comprehended the pinnacle of high-level Hunyuan lifeform power without physically reaching it, then forcibly grasped the method to ascend to World-Class.
This was unprecedented defiance.
Moreover, the Abyssal Sea Master’s noble bloodline—chosen specifically to pressure cultivators—allowed him to achieve this feat despite the Sacred World’s suppression.
“A noble-blooded high-level Hunyuan lifeform breaking through to World-Class under such conditions?” The artifact spirit despaired. In the entire history of the Sacred World, such a thing had never occurred. The odds were beyond minuscule—yet here stood the seventh Abyssal Sea Master, defying all logic.
“It’s over.”
“The cultivators of this world… are doomed.” The artifact spirit knew he was helpless.
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