Once ancient gods, the old gods—Innate Five Greats!

They have transformed into today's destroyers of the world: the Mysterious Lord, the Deceitful Master, the Shadow of Taichu, the Heavenly Elder, and the Star God!

Zhong Shenxiu suddenly found it somewhat ironic.

At the same time, he saw through everything on the battlefield as if it were daylight.

'Time's Ouroboros is intercepting the Heavenly Elder in the deep sea, and the Lord of the Gate is contending with three ancient gods on the other battlefields; is he really that strong? No... It's due to the cracks in the world's fabric!'

The Heavenly Demon Battlefield in the deep sea had never been sealed or maintained, constantly expanding, probably the largest of all passages, allowing the Heavenly Elder to exert most of her power, thus requiring Time's Ouroboros to personally intervene!

The channel at Tai Shi Mountain is next and under my watch.

The remaining Heavenly Demon Battlefields have insignificant cracks in the crystal wall system, which only occasionally leak some power of great beings, but the omnipresence of the Lord of the Gate makes them easy to defend.

'So the strongest one still left is the great power protecting the world with the membrane of heaven and earth, or the crystal wall system...'

'However, these five ancient gods do not seem harmonious... even though the Heavenly Elder might have birthed Black Tai Sui with the Mysterious Lord... Well, how would five madmen know about cooperation? What they desire most is to destroy the world first themselves...'

'This might represent the future direction and degree of madness of that great power...'

'For instance, if the Heavenly Elder were to destroy the world first, that great power would undergo a crazy Dao transformation, becoming nothing but a mass focused only on reproduction and proliferation... Or if the Shadow of Taichu were to destroy the world first, that great power would transform into an orderly shadow, the dark side of the heavens?'

Though it was just a guess, Zhong Shenxiu felt he had grasped the truth.

Those five ancient gods might collaborate when dealing with outsiders, but regarding the grand matter of destroying the world, they must be competing against each other, unwilling to lag behind.

For example, the Shadow of Taichu in front of them!

"Yin and Yang unite, merge into one!"

"From one comes form!"

"Form with no substance!"

...

Just a pair of hands passing through the world's gap, and Zhong Shenxiu's ears rang with continuous chanting.

——Tai Shi Zhenjing!

In the chanting, at once high-pitched, low-pitched, murmured, and whispered, even the world itself began to change.

Nine Heavens Pure Qi descended, and the Nine Netherworld Muddied Qi combined in Yin-Yang unity, forming a mass from which something was gestating.

Bang!

Suddenly, this mass exploded, forming from one a shape, which was a 'shadow' possessing form yet lacking substance!

This figure seemed thin, yet incomparably tall and grand... like the transcendent Tao!

The Daoist Great Saint merely glanced at it, and his eyes exploded like firecrackers, screaming: "Fellow Daoists beware, this is the manifestation of the Shadow of Taichu!"

The true body of the Shadow of Taichu was still outside the membrane of heaven and earth, but merely chanting a verse, he forged an avatar in this world, a power even overwhelming enough to burst a Great Saint's eyes!

"Great Saint pinnacle, with supreme divine thought occupied!"

Meng Nanhua let out a long howl: "Kunpeng Technique!"

Whoosh!

Beneath him, endless shadows from the dreamscape turned from the unreal to the real, like a Kun Fish leaping out of the sea.

"In the Beiming is a fish... transformed into a bird, whose name is Peng... Rising waves up to three thousand miles, soaring ninety thousand miles upward... breaking through cloud layers, bearing the blue sky, then pointing to the south!"

The Kun Fish leaped high, growing wings mid-air, transforming into a Roc, and swooped down, its target was prominently the avatar of the Shadow of Taichu!

The next moment, the enormous Kunpeng suddenly shrank, turning into a fluttering butterfly, easily pinched in the shadow's hand, dissolved into dots of light, and dissipated.

Puff!

Meng Nanhua spat out a mouthful of blood, his whole body immediately became blurry.

Zhong Shenxiu saw clearly; the Shadow of Taichu had used his control over twisted order to regress the Kunpeng Technique to its initial state and effortlessly shattered it.

Even more so, Meng Nanhua suffered from the backlash of Daoist Skill, and being severely injured was a minor issue.

The truly terrifying part was his disrupted and twisted inner balance... falling back into the state of becoming the Dao once again.

"Taiyin Refining, Great Liberation Sword!"

At this point, Zhong Shenxiu struck boldly, a sword light descended from the sky, slashing across the Shadow of Taichu's avatar, leaving a profound wound.

The shadow looked like a torn paper figure, nearly drifting away, but stretched a hand over the wound, gently stroking it.

The original injury was immediately distorted and disappeared without a trace.

Only Zhong Shenxiu saw the opponent reducing the wound to a tiny bean-sized dot before transferring it elsewhere.

The shadow coldly glanced at the Great Saints present, but did not pursue the advantage, instead turning to face the enormous spatial rift, seemingly intending to use its strength to collaborate from within and without, aiding the actual body to arrive!

"We absolutely cannot allow him to open the channel, or humanity will perish!"

The Great Saint in the crimson magic robe, though his eyes had burst, experienced rapid regeneration of flesh threads in the sockets, sprouting new eyes, though no longer daring to directly gaze at the avatar, roared angrily, stepping forward, with his aura swelling abruptly, Dao-transformed power furiously invading in turn.

One step, two steps... after three steps, this Great Saint had already turned into a blazing fireball, with a faintly emerging face within it.

This face bore a struggling expression, yet still threw itself toward the Shadow of Taichu's avatar.

The shadow paused in movement, feeling the intense danger evidently.

A full-strength Dao-transformed strike from a Daoist Great Saint required cautious handling from him.

After all, this was still not his true form!

The shadow extended both hands, intending to twist the order of space to keep the flames forever from arriving.

But the next moment, a dreamscape descended, forcing him to first contend with the assault from the dream world.

It was Meng Nanhua!

The previously grievously injured Great Saint had, unbeknownst to anyone, fully recovered!

"Taiyin Corpse Dissolution, like Taiyi Command!"

At the same time, Zhong Shenxiu also appeared at his side unawares, the Taiyin moonlight coalesced into a longsword, slashing down!

The previous Meng Nanhua was, of course, rescued by Zhong Shenxiu.

After all, once polluted by his light of order, Meng Nanhua facing another supreme being's contamination merely required adjusting the status bar—quite simple.

The avatar of the Shadow of Taichu, faced with attacks from the three Great Saints, responded instantaneously.

The shadow lifted one hand, turning the dreamscape into nothingness, while the other continued distorting the flames' advance. Though the flames were but a hair's breadth away from the shadow, this difference seemed insurmountable.

Seeing this, despair crept over the face in the flames.

Yet a ray of moonlight like pure radiance struck this shadow, causing it to lurch forward.

The hair's breadth was instantly breached.

Roaring flames and sword light engulfed the shadow in no time...

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