Qin Renhuang just became an immortal, and you told me this is the prehistoric time

The quick-moving cultivators could no longer contain themselves and transformed into streaks of light, rushing towards the Purple Mountain in the Northern Region, eager to find out what was going on.

Meanwhile, other factions were urgently discussing and sending out spies, and for a time, the entire Beidou system was in turmoil.

Tai Xuan Gate, Zhuo Feng.

The gaunt old man, Li Ruoyu, naturally also heard the primordial bell that pierced through the void.

His cloudy old eyes looked toward the Northern Region, a hint of surprise flashing across his face at first, then he seemed to understand something, and an undisguised look of anticipation and admiration appeared on his face.

"They actually... attacked Zishan? And forced Wushizhong to leave with that black dog?"

Li Ruoyu muttered to himself, a hint of amazement in his voice.

"What spirit! What skill! Even the Boundless Bell couldn't break through his array treasure directly... This boy's strength is indeed unfathomable, far exceeding what is apparent on the surface!"

He seemed to see a glimmer of hope for the rise of humanity. Although his cultivation was considerable, his lifespan was limited, and he was constrained by the environment and his own path, making further breakthroughs difficult. The future of humanity needed new and stronger pillars to support it! Ying Xuan's appearance and the overwhelming power he displayed ignited unprecedented anticipation in Li Ruoyu's heart.

"I hope... he can truly hold up the sky for humanity. After I die, perhaps someone will be able to shoulder this heavy responsibility for our people..."

Li Ruoyu murmured, a hint of relief and determination flashing in his eyes.

Just then, another unexpected event occurred in the direction of Zishan!

A cold, sharp, and venomous female voice, filled with endless resentment and hatred, as if emanating from the deepest part of the Netherworld, suddenly pierced through part of the Heavenly Gang and Earthly Fiends Formation and swept out like a cold wind!

The sound itself was not particularly loud, but the terrifying Dao principles and killing intent it contained caused ripples to spread throughout the space for tens of thousands of miles. If it weren't for the Heavenly Gang and Earthly Fiend Array, a supreme treasure of this level, suppressing and dissolving most of its power, the spread of this sound alone would probably have been enough to tear apart a large area of ​​the void in the Northern Region!

Ying Xuan felt a chill run down his spine as he sensed the terrifying pressure contained within that cold voice, a pressure far exceeding that of an ordinary quasi-emperor. The spatial structure of this realm was indeed incredibly fragile, only managing to avoid complete collapse thanks to the relatively sound foundation of the laws of his predecessor. However, it could no longer withstand the rampant impact of power of this magnitude.

"Senior Li."

Ying Xuan's voice reached Zhuofeng Li Ruoyu's ears directly.

"At the core of Purple Mountain lies the wife of the Undying Emperor, the former Queen of the Primordial Clan. I will deal with her. However, Purple Mountain will surely be in an uproar, attracting many demons and monsters who have heard the news or have been lurking nearby. Even other forbidden zones may cast their gazes and send out their henchmen to test the waters. I will need to trouble you, senior, to take action and shield me from these people."

His words were calm, yet carried an undeniable air of arrangement.

Inside the wooden house at Zhuofeng, upon hearing this, Li Ruoyu's previously somewhat cloudy old eyes suddenly shone brightly, as if two divine lamps had been lit!

"The Immortal Emperor's...wife?!"

Li Ruoyu's voice trembled slightly with excitement.

As a veteran powerhouse of the human race, he knew all too well what the words "Undying Emperor" meant! That was the supreme deity of all ancient races, a shadow that had weighed on the hearts of humanity for eternity! His wife, even if not an emperor, was definitely at the top level of the royal path! Even the Great Emperor Wushi was unable to completely eliminate her back then, only suppressing and sealing her!

Now, Ying Xuan is actually going to directly confront such an existence?

"Good! Good! Good!"

Li Ruoyu said "good" three times in a row. Instead of fear, his face was filled with an indescribable sense of pride and fighting spirit.

"If I could witness the younger generation of humanity slay this formidable enemy, I would die without regret! Rest assured, young friend, outside of Purple Mountain, anyone who dares to approach or interfere, regardless of their origin, whether human, demon, or ancient race, I will ensure they never return!"

He had already made up his mind that this battle was not only to help Ying Xuan protect the Dharma, but also to announce to the entire Beidou that a new strongman of the human race had risen!
If we can use Ying Xuan's killing of the Undying Empress to attract the attention of other forbidden zones, even if it only makes them hesitate and buys humanity a few thousand years of breathing room, it will be enough to allow a new generation of human prodigies to grow! This deal is worthwhile!

Ying Xuan could sense the excitement and deeper calculation in Li Ruoyu's words, but he didn't care.

He was merely a passerby in this world, acting only according to his own conscience and interests. Helping the human race was simply a transaction and a choice of stance. As for what Li Ruoyu wanted to gain for the human race, he didn't care, as long as it didn't interfere with his own actions.

With the arrangements made, Ying Xuan no longer hesitated. His figure flickered, as if teleporting, and he directly disappeared into the "Heavenly Gang and Earthly Fiends Formation" that covered the sky and earth below, entering an independent space completely sealed by the formation.

The scenery inside the array space is completely different from that outside.

Here, the starlight is as bright as day, and the blue waves are as vast as the sea. One hundred and eight enormous "star islands" move slowly along mysterious trajectories, scattering endless starlight and life essence.

At the very center of the space, an area heavily enveloped and refined by the power of dazzling starlight and azure waves, is the core of Purple Mountain—the dark purple mountain body, and the massive, semi-transparent barrier surrounding it that stubbornly resists, flowing with the two Dao principles of the Undying Emperor and the Primordial Emperor!

Within the barrier, roars, howls, and crashes filled the air, clearly indicating that the Undying Empress and her followers were frantically attacking, attempting to break through the formation and refine it.

The Heavenly Gang and Earthly Fiend Formation, like the most patient hunter, operates continuously, refining the vast earth and stone essence, earth vein energy, and even the pure fiend energy and life energy absorbed from the broken bodies of those red-haired monsters obtained from the outer mountains of Purple Mountain.

All of it was transformed into nutrients for the formation itself, and continuously injected into the 108 "Star Islands".

Ying Xuan could even clearly see that on each "island," the phantoms of spiritual roots and herbs that he had transplanted or that the formation itself had generated were growing and transforming at an astonishing speed!
In a short period of time, the spiritual power and medicinal properties it contained increased by the equivalent of decades of hard work in the outside world!
If he weren't so eager to uncover the secrets behind the formation of the nine dragon veins of Purple Mountain, and even more wary of the possibly still-living ancient deity—the Undying Emperor—he would have loved to remain in seclusion here for an extended period, using the massive energy he gained from refining Purple Mountain to nurture this grand formation and the spiritual plants within it to an unimaginable level. Time waits for no one.

Ying Xuan took a deep breath, and in a flash, he appeared at the very core of the array space, which was the control center and energy convergence point of the entire "Heavenly Gang and Earthly Fiends Array".

He sat cross-legged, his hands forming a mudra. The next moment, a figure almost identical to his original body, but surrounded by pale golden pure yang energy, appearing even more ethereal and majestic, slowly rose from above his head—it was his Earth Immortal-level primordial spirit!
His primordial spirit left his body and stood opposite Ying Xuan's physical body. The two shared the same origin, yet they subtly formed a peculiar complementarity and resonance.

"Om-!"

As Ying Xuan's true form and primordial spirit simultaneously raised their feet and gently stepped downwards, a massive, intricately detailed array diagram, covering the entire core area of ​​the formation, suddenly appeared beneath their feet! The array diagram was divided into Yin and Yang, derived from the Eight Trigrams, and aligned with the celestial cycle. Ying Xuan's true form stood at the Yang eye, and his primordial spirit at the Yin eye, their energies perfectly connected and amplified through the array diagram!
"Charge!"

Ying Xuan's true form and primordial spirit spoke simultaneously, their voices overlapping, carrying a soul-shaking majesty. His four hands simultaneously formed hand seals, moving so fast they left countless afterimages!

"Boom—!"

Outside, the sky over the entire northern region of the Big Dipper Starfield, centered on Purple Mountain and spanning hundreds of thousands of miles, suddenly turned pitch black! It wasn't that dark clouds were obscuring the light, but rather that all the light seemed to be swallowed and suppressed by some invisible force!
An indescribable, terrifying, and oppressive aura, seemingly originating from the primordial chaos and the very source of heaven and earth, swept across the entire Beidou Continent in an instant, like an invisible tsunami!
At this moment, throughout the Big Dipper, deep within the seven forbidden zones of life, countless gazes, dormant for millennia and cold and indifferent, were startled by this aura and slowly "opened," turning towards the direction of Purple Mountain in the Northern Region.

Although their vision was mostly blocked by the Heavenly Gang and Earthly Fiends Formation, the terrifying aura that stirred the origin of heaven and earth and touched some kind of limit of this world still made them feel a trace of... threat?
"check!"

Who has stirred up the murderous intent of heaven and earth?

“Purple Mountain…the Beginningless Bell has just left…”

Short, yet imbued with supreme authority, commands were silently transmitted from the various restricted areas.

Immediately afterwards, countless hidden powerful auras began to rise from all directions of the Big Dipper. Figures, some as swift as lightning, others as steady as mountains, flew out from deep mountains, ancient caves, great swamps, and temples, all converging on Purple Mountain in the Northern Region! Among them were some beings with obscure auras and ancient eyes, clearly spies sent by certain forbidden zones or affiliated forces.

This sudden burst of murderous aura, reaching some kind of limit of heaven and earth, was enough to make even those ancient supreme beings who had committed suicide wary. They had to find out exactly what had happened at Purple Mountain!
Within the array space, Ying Xuan seemed oblivious to all of this, or rather, he didn't care at all.

His entire focus was on refining the Purple Mountain Barrier and dealing with the Undying Heavenly Empress who was about to break free from the seal!

"Lei Lai!"

Ying Xuan's true form and primordial spirit shouted simultaneously, and his hands, which were forming hand seals, suddenly pointed down at the huge semi-transparent barrier!
"Snap! Snap!"

Above the array space, in the "sky dome" that was simulated, guided, and mixed with Ying Xuan's own pure Yang thunder Dao principles by the Heavenly Gang and Earthly Fiend Grand Array, countless blindingly bright white lightning bolts suddenly lit up!

In the next instant, millions of terrifying bolts of lightning, of varying thickness but all containing the aura of destruction and purification, poured down like a celestial river overflowing its banks, or like divine punishment descending upon the world, with the momentum to tear everything apart and annihilate all things, madly pouring down towards the huge barrier that covered the core of Purple Mountain below!

This is the strongest area-of-effect attack that Ying Xuan can unleash in his current state by perfectly combining his own pure Yang thunder law with the star power and spatial confinement power of the Heavenly Gang and Earthly Fiends Formation, and then by having his main body and primordial spirit work together to activate it at the Yin-Yang Formation Eye!
"boom--!!!!!"

An indescribable roar and light instantly engulfed everything! The entire array space seemed to transform into a sea of ​​thunder, and the blinding white light forced Ying Xuan to squint.

The incredibly tough ancient barrier, which incorporated the Dao principles of two powerful emperors, melted and vaporized rapidly under the continuous bombardment of millions of terrifying lightning bolts comparable to heavenly tribulations, like ice and snow under the scorching sun, emitting a "sizzling" sound!
In just a few breaths, the barrier completely vanished! This revealed the dark purple core of Purple Mountain below, and around it, countless figures with hideous and bizarre appearances, exuding a soaring aura of malevolence and resentment!
There were ancient warriors clad in tattered armor, monsters with twisted forms and covered in red fur, and ancient beings with exceptionally powerful auras, seemingly rulers!
"Roar--!!!"

"Kill! Kill this human!!"

The barrier shattered, and these beings, suppressed and corrupted for countless years, roared like ferocious beasts released from their cages. Their crimson eyes were fixed on Ying Xuan in mid-air, filled with boundless hatred, as they pounced on him relentlessly! They wanted to devour his flesh and drink his blood to vent their eternal hatred!
Faced with the terrifying enemies surging like a tidal wave, Ying Xuan remained calm. A Nascent Soul cultivator would indeed be at a disadvantage in a head-on confrontation with a Body Refinement cultivator of the same level, but with sufficient preparation and the help of formations and Dao techniques, it was not impossible to kill enemies of a higher level.

He had already set up the Heavenly Gang and Earthly Fiend Formation, an unparalleled killing formation, and further activated it with the combined power of his main body and primordial spirit, pushing the power of his Daoist arts to its current limit.

"Fall again!"

Ying Xuan and Yuan Shen shouted coldly again, changing their hand seals.

"Boom—!"

The second wave, even larger in scale and more terrifying in aura, did not descend from the sky, but was forcibly drawn from the depths of the earth and gathered from all directions of the Beidou Continent! This strike almost drained all the spiritual energy and earth vein energy that could be mobilized in the Northern Region and even the surrounding areas in a short period of time!

"what--!!!"

The countless figures rushing down from below were the first to be hit, and under the second, even more violent wave of lightning, they instantly erupted in even more shrill screams! Those with slightly weaker cultivation were directly turned into ashes in the lightning, while those with slightly stronger cultivation were also cleaved in two, their aura weakened, and their charge halted!
However, that's not all!

Just as the lightning had not completely dissipated, the 108 "star islands" that had been moving slowly suddenly accelerated!
Like a meteorite legion that had received a command, they no longer fell slowly, but transformed into huge phantoms trailing starlight and flames, crashing with overwhelming force towards the strongest surviving figures in the sea of ​​lightning with unparalleled precision!
"Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!..."

A series of muffled impacts, as dense as raindrops, resounded! Each impact of the "island" contained the stellar power and spatial suppression force of the Heavenly Gang and Earthly Fiend Array operating at its limit, and its power had already reached the limit of what this world could bear!

Those powerful beings, equivalent to saints, saint kings, or even higher levels, were like eggs hitting a rock under this unreasonable "star collision." Their protective divine light shattered, their physical bodies exploded, and they let out desperate and unwilling roars. They were then annihilated, their bodies and souls turned into pure energy and absorbed by the island!
In an instant, starlight and blood light intertwined within the array space, screams and roars mingled, resembling a doomsday battlefield.

At the heart of this chaos, a figure shrouded in a cold, dark mist, whose features were obscured and only the outline of a woman could be vaguely discerned, was flashing and dodging within the array space at an unpredictable speed! (End of Chapter)