togophonebook Chapter 486 The Power of the Life and Death Intent! The Sealed Entrance is Closed!
Chapter 486 The Power of the Life and Death Intent! The Sealed Entrance is Closed!
Chen Fan looked up at the slowly descending eight-colored light net, his eyes still calm.
The smile on Tianxiangzi's face before she died flashed through his mind.
"The sky is high... the earth is thick..." he repeated in a low voice, a faint smile curving his lips. There was no smile in that smile, only endless coldness. "Then let's see if your formation is tougher, or if our Life and Death Intent is more ruthless."
Before he finished speaking, he suddenly lifted his hands upwards!
The life and death wheel tai chi diagram in front of him, which was about ten feet in size, suddenly expanded!
Three zhang, five zhang, ten zhang!
The gray and black colors are spinning wildly, and the yin-yang fish eyes in the picture are even starting to rotate in reverse!
"Life and death cycle endlessly, all things return to stillness!"
Chen Fan let out a low shout, his arm muscles bulging, and he forcefully pushed the Taiji diagram, which had expanded to ten zhang, towards the descending eight-colored light net!
"boom!!!"
The moment the two forces collided, the entire side hall trembled violently!
The dilapidated rooftop cascaded down, scattering rubble and dust. The suspended spheres of inheritance light were struck by the shockwave and shattered, scattering jade slips, silk scrolls, and magical artifacts everywhere!
The eight-colored light net was pushed upward by the Taiji diagram, and its surface light flickered wildly. The eleven Nascent Soul cultivators groaned at the same time, their faces turning red!
"Such powerful materialization of intent!" Daoist Shangqing gritted his teeth, a trickle of blood spilling from the corner of his mouth. "We can't let him break the formation! Suppress him with all our might!"
"Suppress!"
The eleven Nascent Soul cultivators roared in unison, pouring their spiritual power into the formation without reservation!
The eight-colored light net shone brightly and slowly pressed down again!
The ground beneath Chen Fan's feet cracked inch by inch. He bent his knees slightly, but held on tightly to the Tai Chi diagram, preventing the net of light from falling.
Grayish-white and pitch-black energies overflowed from his seven orifices, merging into the Tai Chi diagram and stalemating with the eight-colored light net.
But as Qinglian Daoist said, although his intent was strong, he was ultimately only at the mid-stage of the Nascent Soul realm.
The combined spiritual power of the eleven Nascent Soul cultivators, including late-stage Nascent Soul cultivators like Qinglian Daoist and Zhou Shan, as well as mid-stage Nascent Soul cultivators like Shangqing Daoist and Tiansha Ancestor, far exceeded his by dozens of times!
The stalemate lasted less than ten breaths before cracks began to appear on the surface of the Tai Chi diagram!
"He can't hold on much longer!" Young Master Wang, hiding outside the formation, was overjoyed upon seeing this and shouted sharply, "Give it your all! Crush him!"
As Chen Fan stared at the cracks spreading across the Tai Chi diagram, the deathly stillness in his eyes deepened.
He looked down at his hands.
The grayish-white color that had appeared on his palms from withstanding the fist imprint of the Mountain-Opening Ancestor was slowly fading away, revealing the pale skin underneath.
That was a sign of life slipping away.
His mastery of the Life and Death Realm allowed him to briefly unleash combat power comparable to the Great Perfection of the Nascent Soul stage, but ultimately he was not a true Great Perfection of the Nascent Soul stage.
Even the strongest artistic conception needs spiritual power to support it and a physical body to bear it.
His spiritual power had been more than half depleted during the process of breaking the seal, killing three people, and withstanding the great formation.
His physical body, under the backlash of the life-and-death experience, began to show signs of collapse.
"As expected... it's still not enough," Chen Fan murmured.
But in his eyes, there was no regret, only a sense of calm.
From the very beginning, he never thought he would leave alive.
Tianxiangzi is dead. What's the point of him living?
Since I can't protect her, I'll go with her.
But before you leave, you should take a few more down with you.
"Young Master Wang..." Chen Fan raised his head, his gaze piercing through the eight-colored light net, locking onto the face distorted with excitement, "Even if I die, I will send you on your way first."
As soon as he finished speaking, he actually removed the support from the Tai Chi diagram!
"puff!"
The Tai Chi diagram shattered with a crash, turning into countless gray and black specks of light!
The eight-colored light net, now unobstructed, crashed down and slammed solidly into Chen Fan!
"Bang!"
Chen Fan was forced to kneel on one knee by the pressure of the light net, spitting out blood, and his bones creaked under the strain!
But he was smiling.
His laughter was ferocious, his laughter was insane.
"Now!"
He plunged his hands into the ground, pouring all the remaining spiritual power in his body, along with the materialized life and death conception, into the earth without reservation!
"The cycle of life and death, the reverse flow of the earth's veins!"
"Boom!!!"
The entire side hall floor shook violently. The earth vein power that was originally suppressed by the formation was forcibly activated by Chen Fan with his life and death intent, and surged upwards!
The Eight Extremes Spirit Locking Array is set up by relying on the earth's veins. When the earth's veins flow backward, the foundation of the array is shaken instantly!
"Not good! He's triggering a backlash from the earth's veins!" Daoist Qinglian's expression changed drastically. "Quickly stabilize the formation!"
But it was too late.
The earth veins surged backward into the formation, clashing violently with the spiritual power of the eleven Nascent Soul cultivators!
"Pfft pfft pfft!"
Several Nascent Soul stage elders with slightly weaker cultivation vomited blood on the spot, and the formation positions loosened!
The eight-color light grid fluctuated violently, and cracks appeared everywhere!
Chen Fan seized this fleeting opportunity, his figure darting out from the crack in the light net like a ghost, heading straight for Young Master Wang!
"Stop him!" Young Master Wang was terrified and retreated frantically.
Qinglian Daoist and Zhou Shan reacted the fastest and attacked at the same time!
The Azure Lotus Sword Dragon and the Bronze Seal hurtled toward Chen Fan from the left and right!
Chen Fan neither dodged nor evaded, but simply raised his right hand, the Death Wheel reappearing in his palm, and slammed it hard against the Azure Lotus Sword Dragon. His left hand turned the Life Wheel to meet the bronze seal!
"Bang! Bang!"
With two muffled thuds, the Azure Lotus Sword Dragon cried out and dissipated, while the bronze seal flew back!
But Chen Fan also paid a price!
His right arm bones were completely shattered, and his left shoulder was grazed by the seal, leaving it a bloody mess!
But his momentum only increased, like a moth drawn to a flame, with only Prince Wang in his eyes!
"die!"
Chen Fan shouted sharply, barely raising his shattered right arm, his fingertips gathering the last trace of death intent, and pointed at Young Master Wang's brow!
If this finger strikes, Young Master Wang will surely die!
Despair filled the young master's eyes.
Just as your fingertips are about to touch your brow!
A sudden change has occurred!
Outside the side hall, the blood-red light gate that had been steadily open suddenly began to tremble violently!
On the surface of the light gate, the flowing sealing runes seemed to be wiped away by an invisible hand, quickly dimming and disappearing!
Immediately afterwards, the light gate began to contract inward at an extremely fast speed!
"The seal entrance... is closing?" someone exclaimed.
"Impossible! The time hasn't come yet!" Zhou Shan looked at the light gate in horror.
But the facts are right before our eyes.
The crimson light gate shrank at a visible speed, rapidly shrinking from several feet wide to about ten feet, and then to about a foot...
In less than three breaths, the portal closed completely and vanished without a trace!
It was as if it had never existed.
"The passage... is gone?" a Nascent Soul elder murmured, his face deathly pale.
This means they are trapped in this sealed land!
Before everyone could recover from this unexpected turn of events!
"Thump!"
A deep, resounding thud, as loud as a heartbeat, came from the depths of the Soul Refining Sect!
The sound wasn't loud, but it seemed to strike directly into everyone's soul!
The eleven Nascent Soul cultivators, including Chen Fan, froze simultaneously, their souls trembling!
"This is..." Daoist Qinglian suddenly turned his head and looked at the core area of the Soul Refining Sect, his eyes filled with unprecedented fear.
"Thump!"
The second heartbeat sounded.
This time, the sound was louder and deeper.
The entire sealed space trembled slightly with the sound of that heartbeat.
On the dark, iron-like rocks on the ground, the patterns that had remained unchanged for thousands of years began to glow with a faint blood-red light.
The ancient and desolate atmosphere that permeated the air was quickly replaced by a cold, violent, and malevolent aura that seemed to have been asleep for eternity!