Controlling the Five Thunders and the Two Worlds

Eight Directions Cloud Thunder Mantra.

This is already the second-tier thunder technique in the "Divine Firmament Jade Pivot Five Thunder Slaying Technique". The name is taken from the Eight Directions Cloud Thunder General. Above that are the Capital Thunder God Mantra and the Five Emperors Thunder Mantra.

As Gu Zhao chanted the incantation, the five-colored thunderclouds in the sky grew deeper and thicker, with the figures of divine generals appearing and disappearing in the clouds, as if they were projections from beyond the heavens.

Thunderclouds flashed with five colors, thunder roared, the outer layer changed in all directions, the five elements flowed within, the aura climbed to the highest point in the world, and the spirit was like a god descending to earth.

The next moment, a bolt of lightning descended and exploded within the formation, then one begets two, two begets three, three begets all things, spreading out almost in the blink of an eye, transforming into a sea of ​​lightning.

The three Lords of the Desire God Temple all changed their expressions. They felt a deep threat; this sea of ​​lightning was capable of engulfing them!
With a long roar, the Divine Firmament Saint Lord unleashed a surge of ethereal energy mixed with extraterrestrial demonic energy, forming a stairway to heaven to protect his body as he broke through the sea of ​​thunder.

The Heavenly Ladder plunged into the five-colored thunderclouds, drawing in the ethereal energy of the heavens, stirring up the wind and clouds, and attempting to break the foundation of the thunderclouds.

The Earthly God King looked at the endless sea of ​​lightning, then at the Four Symbols Grand Array rising from below, and without the slightest hesitation, his figure flickered, actually crossing space and disappearing straight into the earth beneath the Green Luo Mountain.

The Lord of the Desire God Palace also swayed his body, splitting his ghostly and divine form into six, which became the Six Desire Divine Thoughts and merged into the Six Desire Demon Array.

The Six Desires Demon Array was just showing its power, but as soon as the Four Symbols Nine Palaces Eight Trigrams Array appeared, it was directly impacted and became shaky. The eighteen demon gods were shaken and their ghostly bodies became unstable.

However, after the Lord of the Desire God Palace transformed into the Six Desires Divine Thoughts and blessed the demonic array, it instantly stabilized. The eighteen ghosts and gods seemed to have taken a super tonic pill. The array resisted the Five Thunder Dragon Imprisonment Array from above and suppressed the Zhou Tian Star Array from below. The Six Desires Thoughts swept across and at the same time withstood the Four Symbols Grand Array.

Although the thirty-six Taoists who formed the Four Symbols Formation all had stable Taoist hearts and extraordinary mental states, the Lord of the Desire God Temple was too powerful, almost transforming into the true thoughts of the Six Desires. Even if they were not careful, they would inevitably be pulled into the illusion of the Six Desires.

Although they are not completely lost, it is not easy for them to wake up from the illusion. If there is even a slight flaw, the formation will be compromised.

The Six Desires Demon Array is not just a mental attack. If the array is broken and they are accidentally separated and then caught in the demon array, then it will truly be a matter of life and death.

Therefore, Daoist Mingyu, Daoist Yansong, Daoist Yihong, and Daoist Qingyuan tacitly switched from offense to defense, manipulating the grand formation to wear down the Six Desires Demon Formation.

Among the three—the Lord of the Desire God Palace, the Earth God King, and the Divine Firmament Saint Lord—the Lord of the Desire God Palace possessed the highest cultivation. Now, having merged into the Six Desires Demon Array, he was held back by their combined efforts, thus eliminating one of the opponent's important combat forces.

As for the other two, the Divine Firmament Saint Lord and the Earthly Origin God King, although their cultivation was comparable to Gu Zhao's, the old Taoists did not believe that Gu Zhao would be unable to defeat them in a two-on-one fight.

Just kidding, when facing demons and monsters, Taoist masters are best at fighting opponents of higher levels.

However, the Lord of the Desire God Palace and his group were not to be underestimated. After seeing the methods used by the Great Luo Palace in their response and Gu Zhao's strength, they immediately changed their battle plan.

The Lord of the Desire God Temple, having merged with the Six Desire Demon Array, possessed the strongest power and suppressed the Four Symbols Grand Array.

Although the Divine Firmament Saint Lord is a ghost, he cultivates the ethereal energy from beyond the heavens, which allows him to draw in demonic energy from beyond the heavens. He uses the Six Desires Demon Array to protect himself and fights Gu Zhao in the Five-Colored Thunderclouds.

As his name suggests, the Earth God King can also hide in the mountains and rivers. In the southern border, he destroyed countless cities and fortresses under the guise of a mountain god. Now, he has hidden himself at the foot of Cui Luo Mountain, intending to shake the earth's veins, destroy mountains and shatter peaks, and first destroy the foundation of the Great Luo Palace.

However, the Five Thunder Dragon-Trapping Formation's base connects to the earth's veins, stretching for hundreds of miles, and it's not just for absorbing spiritual energy.

At this moment, it was Zhuo Qingyan who was in charge of the Five Thunder Dragon Imprisonment Formation. After sensing the abnormal movement of the earth veins, she immediately knew that the other party had made a move. So she said to the remaining disciples, elders and guardian star officials in the hall, "An enemy has escaped into the earth veins. Bless me." At this time, seventeen of the twenty-eight guardian star officials were in place, scattered in all directions, and also in the four cardinal directions, standing next to Zhuo Qingyan.

The East is dominated by Jiao Mu Jiao Bi Ying Ying, the South by Yi Huo She Ye Ru Yan, the West by Lou Jin Gou Huang Yuan, and the North by Wei Yue Yan Miao Yun Ji.

The four combined the power of the guardian star officials to strengthen the Five Thunder Dragon Imprisonment Formation and stabilize the earth's veins.

In addition, six people—Gu He Daoist of Fengyue Sect, Xiu Jing Daoist of Lingbao Sect, Zi Hui Daoist of Qingcheng Mountain, Zi Ting Daoist, He Xin Daoist of Yuxian Sect, and Zong Hua Daoist of Nanwu Sect—led six other disciples from Daluo Palace who had broken through to the next realm to descend underground and use the Five Elements magic to help stabilize the earth's veins in the formation.

The remaining Taoists who had not yet broken through also contributed their own strength under the leadership of Daoist Yixiang of the Longmen School and Daoist Longqin of the Shangqing School, among others, to enhance the Five Thunder Dragon Imprisoning Formation.

Knowing that the Di Yuan God King, who had fled underground, might not be a match for Gu Zhao, and that the Lord of the Desire God Palace was also tied up by the Four Symbols Formation, the chance of victory or defeat was in his hands. So he immediately shook the earth and rocks, and disturbed the earth's veins.

However, the foundation of the Five Thunder Dragon Imprisonment Formation far exceeded his expectations, with abundant and extremely stable earth vein spiritual energy.

Moreover, the power of the entire formation suddenly increased after he shook the earth veins. An extremely strong force mobilized the spiritual energy of the earth veins, making these thick earth veins extremely difficult for him to shake.

But what shocked him the most was that he discovered twelve more auras had entered the ground and, with the support of the formation, were actively searching for him. They guided the formation to mobilize the earth's spiritual energy, causing the five elements to flow and transform into earth-attribute spiritual energy, which pressed down on him like an impregnable wall.

Even the Earthly God King was stunned!

It should be noted that the art of earth-遁 (earth-遁术) is not something that ordinary cultivators can master. Apart from demons such as earth dragons and pangolins who possess this innate supernatural ability, even ghosts and gods find it difficult to move underground.

Although he was a ghost, he unexpectedly merged with the spirit of a strange rock, which caused his ghost body to change. He gained the ability to escape into the earth and became close to the spiritual power of the earth's veins, which is how he cultivated to his current level.

The battle between ghosts and gods was so difficult; he had never seen a human mage who could burrow underground in his entire life!
But now he saw twelve at a glance!

The Earth God King's mentality is a bit broken. How can the method of escaping underground be so readily available in bulk?

The senior Taoist priests of the Great Luo Palace pooled their wisdom and efforts to make certain life-saving and self-protection methods mandatory for inner disciples, including the Golden Light Divine Mantra and the method of earth-遁 (earth-遁 is a type of magic that allows one to escape into the ground).

However, while the Golden Light Divine Mantra is easy to learn, the method of earth-遁 (earth-遁 is a type of magic that allows one to escape from the earth) is difficult to master. Apart from being exceptionally talented, one would need to break through five hundred years of cultivation to master the earth-遁 method.

Otherwise, what he would be seeing now would not be the twelve elders of the Great Luo Palace led by Daoist Gu He, but hundreds of inner disciples.

"boom!"

The earth veins rumbled, but this was not due to any disturbance of the soil and rocks. Rather, it was because Daoist Gu He and others guided the formation to mobilize the spiritual power of the earth veins, and used the Great Dragon Locking Talisman and the Shangqing Great Dragon Binding Talisman to transform the spiritual power into an earth dragon, which swept towards the Earth God King.

Their magical power was indeed far inferior to that of the Earth God King, but the purity and richness of the spiritual energy of the thousands of miles of earth veins far surpassed that of the Earth God King.

For a time, even the Earthly God King was powerless against them. (End of Chapter)