Tai Shi Mountain.

Within the void, countless spatial rifts form pathways from which an incessant stream of demons emerges.

Even… several pathways merge, forming a terrifying black hole-like exit, from which blob after blob of inky-black creatures pour forth.

Boom!

A formidable and savage aura of a Great Evil instantly sweeps across the battlefield.

"It's a Great Evil!"

"A Great Evil Demon!"

"We can't defeat it, let's run!"

The cultivators on the defense line fell into chaos. After manipulating the spirit cannons and spirit crossbows…and finding them ineffective, a few cultivators exchanged glances and suddenly fled without saying a word.

However, before they could escape the defense line, their bodies fell to the ground like kites with broken strings, dead…

It wasn't the doing of the [Shadow Manipulation King], but the Daoist talisman within them directly took their lives!

"Those who desert in battle will be executed without mercy!"

High-ranking cultivators from the Zhengyi and Fang Xian sects flew out with the wind, scanning the entire scene: "A mere Great Evil will be dealt with by our Fang Dasheng!"

Yet, as they spoke, the shadow beneath an elder from the Fang Xian Dao similarly coiled up, grasping his neck.

Puff!

This time, the elder's entire head exploded.

Like a signal, countless cultivators controlled by shadows began killing each other or committing suicide...

A Great Evil Demon is just that terrifying and despair-inducing!

Crash!

The black liquid that fell from the black hole continued to expand. Wherever it passed, anything solid above the shadows slowly began to sink.

It seemed as if the shadows themselves belonged to another world.

Crash!

The inky liquid struck the fortress walls, causing the spiritual light and runes atop to flash violently, shaking the entire defense line.

"Bold monster!"

At this moment, in the void, a flash of multicolored, hazy light appeared as Meng Nanhua arrived first, swinging down a sword.

Puff!

Countless black liquid evaporated instantly, revealing a long trench on the ground.

"It's the Great Saint!"

"Nanhua Saint!"

"And another, seems to be the legendary Fang Lang Great Saint…we're saved!"

The cultivators on the defense line, regardless of alignment, cheered immediately.

"Indeed a newly-born Great Evil Demon, likely just born from the [Shadow of Taichu]..."

Zhong Shenxiu muttered to himself, looking up at the sky.

In an instant, the sun set and the moon rose, a brilliant silver moon hung high in the sky, emitting infinite light that transformed into a shimmering longsword.

"Taiyin Corpse Disintegration, like Taiyi's decree!"

He flicked the sword with his finger, branding the [Taiyin Corpse Disintegration Talisman] onto the blade, along with a mysterious rune that attracted the power of some great being in the void.

Puff!

The moonlike sword light fell, and many black liquids disappeared in an instant.

From the void came the strange shriek of the [Shadow Manipulation King].

The flickering sword light even pierced directly into the black hole, annihilating an unknown number of demons.

With this one strike, the Great Evil Demon seemed…to have fallen?

"This..."

Amidst the fortress defense line, a Great Saint wearing a crimson magic robe looked on in shock: "Slay a Great Evil with one strike? That's impossible..."

Earlier, if Meng Nanhua hadn't arrived, he was ready to intervene.

But as a Daoist Great Saint, he was well aware that he could at most entangle with the [Shadow Manipulation King], forcing it out of the area with great difficulty, let alone slaying it.

Yet now, before his eyes, a Great Evil Demon of incomparably bizarre and peerless means had just died like this?

"No, it's not his power, but the borrowed…backing of the Dao Ancestor!"

This Great Saint, with keen insight, glanced at the longsword in Zhong Shenxiu's hand: "Like Taiyi's decree…this peripheral Great Saint actually received the favor of the Fang Xian Dao Dao Ancestor?"

At this moment, all his pride as a Daoist Great Saint seemed shattered by that one sword.

"Good, fellow Daoist's sword strike against the Great Evil has greatly boosted our morale."

Meng Nanhua praised, then slightly furrowed his brows: "In past Heavenly Demon Tribulations, Great Evil Demons only occasionally appeared midway, why has one crossed over at the very start this time?"

"Without achieving Dao Ancestor status, even as Great Saints, they are but pawns…perhaps the [Shadow Manipulation King] is just a probing attempt?"

Zhong Shenxiu replied with a faint smile.

Precisely because of this, he didn't personally intervene. He merely crafted a talisman to borrow the power of Time's Ouroboros to slay the Great Evil in one fell swoop!

Only he could do this; any ordinary Daoist Great Saint would likely have to kowtow thousands of times to borrow a sliver of power for descent.

However, supplicating for auxiliary assistance, like the Ziyi Great Saint, was relatively effective.

Zhong Shenxiu understood this was part of the calculations of those two.

After all, the demonic invasion of this world was essentially an internal war! An internal war within a person's body!

Allowing the natives to kill the Great Evil was the best solution.

If outsiders like them intervened, it could easily lead to some negative consequences.

Hence, those two preferred to act as support or healers rather than descend directly or borrow power to obliterate the Great Evil.

Yet, Zhong Shenxiu's face, they had to honor.

'However, doing this does have its aftereffects…'

Zhong Shenxiu murmured as he looked at the void pathway.

The pathway had been slashed by his sword light, slaughtering an unknown number of demons, and for a time, no demons emerged.

But a palpable crisis began rapidly brewing.

Crackle!

The originally vast void pathway began expanding once more.

"Not good!"

Meng Nanhua exclaimed: "I sense…on the other side…there seems to be an entity…striving to open up this place..."

He almost recited the name of the 'supreme being', the [Shadow of Taichu].

Yet at this moment, this would inevitably bring about some negative effects.

'Is the [Shadow of Taichu] on the other side furious? Sensing the aura of Time's Ouroboros here?'

Zhong Shenxiu wore a smile as he watched the endless shadows pour out from the pathway, taking the form of two ferocious giant hands, holding the sides of the void pathway.

It was as if a Great Han was struggling with a crack in the door, trying to 'squeeze into' this world.

The mere sight of these webbed fingers made countless cultivators scream, transforming into shadows one after another.

Only a few Great Saints could barely maintain themselves.

'No wonder it's a seal arranged by powerful entities and maintained by those two…truly extraordinary.'

Zhong Shenxiu's eyes flashed with brilliance; his spirit seemed already linked with the moon in the sky, turning into an eye to observe the entire world.

He saw in the depths of the ocean, a huge rift tearing open, with an infinite sea of life trying to squeeze in, yet wrapped by a loop of time, stuck in an infinite cycle of entering and exiting.

He saw other Heavenly Demon Battlefields, with terrifying faces greedily eyeing this world, only to be transferred by doors into endless time-space.

He saw…out there in the world right in front of him, that supreme being.

The former Taishi Dao Ancestor.

The present—[Shadow of Taichu]!

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