Beneath the Reverse Yin-Yang Array, the complete Qie Tian Pill had already taken shape.
Next, it only needed to be guided into Chu Yang’s body.
But the next scene left everyone dumbfounded.
Yin Su swallowed the pill into her own belly in one gulp.
Immediately after, the outer Phosphorescent Light moved. Seven, ten, twenty – countless Demonic Beasts stepped out from the darkness one by one.
Walking at the very front was a creature shaped like a mantis with sickle-like forelimbs.
Its two sickle blades dragged on the ground, making a fine rustling sound as they cut through the dark red soil.
Its compound eyes reflected Shen Mo and Chu Yi’s figures, and its antennae trembled in the air, as if tasting their fear.
Behind it, more beast pupils were like a river of stars fallen to the ground, slowly closing in from all directions.
Shen Mo and Chu Yi stood back-to-back before the silver halo that was about to be completely surrounded.
The Rot-Scale Lion Python crept along the ground, the Six-Winged Crimson-Tailed Lion folded its wings to reduce its target, and the Purple-Eyed Blood Bat hung upside down in silence.
“This old woman’s chess game is too straightforward.”
In his Divine Sense, Xie Shilan’s tone was still so casual.
“We agreed it was inviting the lord into the urn, but she instead drives and hunts them together, not even leaving the prey a chance to breathe.”
In the southeast, the white Sword Light was already lingering at the edge of Myriad Beast Forest, but was repeatedly pushed back by the outer maze formation.
Behind the Sword Light, the dark purple Demonic Qi was farther away, temporarily blocked in the thunderstorm region of the Northern Border.
Farther away, an old but sturdy Magical Tool was still taking a detour.
“Aren’t you afraid Yun He’s sword is too fast, and her formation will be pierced through before it closes?”
As soon as the words fell, the wind and clouds changed.
Silver light bloomed on the horizon, then rapidly collapsed in less than ten breaths as it covered a thousand-li radius.
The entire Myriad Beast Forest was dead silent.
Suddenly, a bright flash.
Not sunlight, not moonlight.
It was a golden Sword Gleam spanning the sky, falling from beyond ten thousand li of layered clouds, cleanly splitting the sky-blocking tree canopy open in a hundred-zhang-long rift.
The astral wind pouring into the rift pressed all the low-level Demonic Beasts flat on the ground.
Even the single eye of that Deity Transformation-level Beast King had to narrow a fraction.
Above the rift, there was a person.
She stood on the clouds, robes flapping, long hair unbound.
Around her coiled the golden Spiritual Pressure unique to the peak of Deity Transformation, forcing the miasma that had not dispersed in Myriad Beast Forest year-round back into a huge vacuum circle.
Yun He’s face was about thirty percent similar to Chu Yi’s, but between her brows and eyes was an extra layer of thousand-year weariness and unmatched sharpness.
She had no sword in her hand.
She did not need one.
Her gaze passed over the Beast King, over the Corpse Puppet, over the dark red soil of Myriad Beast Forest, and first landed on Chu Yi’s face.
“I told you long ago, Yin Su’s lifespan is almost over. She needs the Qie Tian Pill to defy fate and change her destiny. The promise was false. She wants your pill.”
She laid out her deductions methodically.
“Yin Su’s Water Mirror can monitor every corner of Myriad Beast Forest. She must have been watching the whole time these three days. The Teleportation Array being off was not a mistake. She needs them to stay in this trap.”
Chu Yi’s expression was as usual.
She had known long ago.
Yun He was stunned for a moment. “You did this on purpose? You hate me that much?”
The Qie Tian Pill takes seven days to digest.
Even if she ate it, it would only be an incubator.
“Hate, but not enough to kill you. Hey, you can’t even beat an old woman?”
Yin Su understood.
Her face turned blue and white in turns.
Chu Yi was playing her.
“This old one entered Deity Transformation three thousand years ago, touched the threshold of Heavenly Man Five Decays a thousand years ago, spent eight hundred years seeking a way to extend life, and two hundred years setting up this game. How could you break it so easily?”
Enraged, she formed hand seals. The entire Myriad Beast Forest suddenly shook, and the sound of crushed tree canopy came from all directions at once.
Not Demonic Beasts – it was the earth itself breathing.
One after another, silver Array Patterns emerged from every patch of soil, every tree root, every underground river in Myriad Beast Forest.
Dense and crisscrossing, they turned the hundred-li forest into a huge, three-dimensional Formation.
This was the grand formation Yin Su had laid for a hundred years.
With all of Myriad Beast Mountain as the formation base, all Demonic Beasts in Myriad Beast Forest as pawns, and the core territory of the Deity Transformation-level Beast King as the formation eye, it was enough to trap and kill any Soul Transformation Cultivator.
Yun He stood within the formation, her robes snapping loudly as the formation wind tore at them.
Her expression did not change. She only tilted her head slightly and said one sentence to Chu Yi.
Her voice pierced through beast roars and formation resonance, landing clearly in Chu Yi’s ears.
“Are you afraid to die?”
Chu Yi was stunned for a moment, bit her lip. “Not afraid.”
“Good.”
Yun He stepped down from the clouds for the first step.
The space beneath her feet shattered into countless golden cracks the moment she stepped down.
An overwhelming pressure crushed toward the entire Myriad Beast Forest with her as the center.
The horde of Demonic Beasts retreated in unison.
Even that Deity Transformation-level Beast King let out a low roar mixed with fear.
The grand formation activated.
Starting from the maze formation at the very edge of Myriad Beast Forest, every Array Pattern contracted toward the core, like a giant net closing.
The center of the net was Yin Su’s training grounds, and the first big fish in the net – was Yun He.
The old woman’s bones made a dry grinding sound, and her spine slowly straightened.
With every inch she straightened, her robes emitted new silver light.
That silver light seeped out from beneath her skin – her body itself was the final formation eye of the grand formation.
“Yun He.” The corners of her mouth slowly split into a dry smile. “A thousand years, and you are still this arrogant.”
The next second, the world of Myriad Beast Forest was torn open.
Not a metaphor.
It was literally torn open.
From the moment Yun He shattered the clouds, the golden Spiritual Pressure coiled around her forcibly split the thousand-year tree canopy dome of Myriad Beast Forest into two halves.
The rift was a hundred zhang long, and its edges were still burning.
It was not ordinary fire, but void flame self-ignited when a Deity Transformation cultivator’s Spiritual Power overflowed.
Golden, cold, and everywhere it passed, even the air was burned into twisted transparent seams.
Yun He’s long hair was unbound, strands flying like butterflies in the golden light of the void.
“Driving Mountain Ape.” She called out the Beast King’s true name, her tone casual as if calling the descendant of a watchdog.
“Your grandmother was cut by my sword three thousand years ago. Her right horn still lacks a piece. You are far inferior to your grandmother.”
The Driving Mountain Ape let out a deafening roar.
Its troublesome single eye suddenly widened, the vertical pupil going from narrow to wide. Dark red blood threads appeared in the amber depths.
It recognized this human.
Three thousand years ago, Yun He was not yet at the peak of Deity Transformation.
She was only a young cultivator who had just entered Deity Transformation, yet she could cut off the right horn of the previous generation Driving Mountain Ape with one sword.
That sword mark was still carved into the bloodline memory of the Driving Mountain Ape clan, passed down from generation to generation.
“Yin Su.” Yun He’s voice was not loud, yet it clearly pierced through the entire Myriad Beast Forest. “How many years of lifespan do you have left?”
The depths of Myriad Beast Forest were silent for a moment, then a hoarse old woman’s voice sounded from all directions at once, as if every tree, every stone, every inch of soil were answering for Yin Su.
“Two years, perhaps three?”
“So you gamble on this.”
“Yes.” There was actually a trace of laughter in Yin Su’s voice, dry as weathered bark.
“A hundred years laying the formation, twenty-three years waiting for one pill, and this final gamble. If I win, I live another thousand years. If I lose, I lose nothing. This old one has lived too long, so long that even death feels fresh.”
Yun He moved.
At the same instant ten thousand Array Patterns lit up together, she stepped out the third step.
The space beneath her feet shattered into countless golden ice veins as she took the third step – the Deity Transformation domain unfolded, crushing in all directions with her as the center.
The golden domain collided with the silver Array Patterns, giving off a harsh, deafening sound.
The entire Myriad Beast Forest was shaking.
Dozens of thousand-year ancient trees had their roots snapped and crashed down.
Chu Yi did not hesitate. She grabbed Shen Mo’s wrist and dragged him north.
Out of the corner of her eye, she glanced at the sky.
That hundred-zhang sky rift was slowly being sewn shut by formation light.
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