My little sect, which disappeared a thousand years ago, has become a sacred site!

Gu Changyuan looked up at the swaggering beast above him.

Then, he frowned slightly.

The slight interest in his eyes vanished completely in an instant.

With such a grand display, I thought you guys were going to come up with something really impressive.

result……

That's it?

He carefully examined the strange beast—it had three eyes, a mouthful of fangs, and a body covered in scales; it certainly looked quite intimidating.

But it's just for show.

That menacing aura, in his eyes, was as crude as a child's scribbles. The so-called oppressive aura was utterly laughable.

"Ugh."

Gu Changyuan sighed softly, his tone full of helplessness and disdain.

That sigh, though not loud, pierced through all the chaos and roars, clearly reaching the ears of everyone present.

Upon hearing their master's sigh, Ye Qingxue, Lin Jingyu, and Yue Lingxi exchanged a glance, wondering what was going on.

Behind him stood Zhuge Dancheng, Gongsun Xiangming, and Xuanyuan Feiyue, along with the five family heads and elders on the high platform.

Attention was instantly drawn to the sigh, and the composure on my face was gradually replaced by worry.

Is it... really that difficult to solve?

Ye Qingxue hesitated for a moment, then asked softly:

"Master, what happened?"

Gu Changyuan shook his head slightly, his tone tinged with regret:

"It's nothing. It's just that my expectations were a bit high."

Was all that...just wishful thinking?

Everyone was taken aback.

Before they could react, Gu Changyuan had already raised his right hand.

Bring your index and middle fingers together and point them at the ferocious beast above.

He spoke, his voice not loud, yet it resounded like thunder:

"Taotie"

As his voice fell, a huge, pitch-black magic circle instantly appeared in the sky.

The magic array was entirely black, with runes flashing an eerie dark red light. It was even larger and more ferocious than the black array of the imperial court.

Within the array patterns lay the overwhelming pressure of an ancient ferocious beast, fierce, violent, and domineering. It intertwined and collided with the eerie aura of the imperial court's array, yet instantly suppressed it.

The formation took shape extremely quickly, becoming completely stable in just a few breaths. Immediately afterwards, a beastly roar that shook the heavens and the earth erupted from the formation.

The next second, an enormous phantom of a living being suddenly burst out from the dark magic array—that was the phantom of the Taotie.

It has the body of a sheep, the face of a human, the teeth of a tiger, and the claws of a human. Its eyes are located under its armpits, resembling two enormous blood-red suns.

The moment the phantom of the Taotie appeared, without the slightest hesitation, it opened its blood-red maw, which contained a terrifying suction force capable of devouring heaven and earth, and charged wildly toward the strange beast summoned by the imperial court.

High above, the three Imperial Court Immortal Kings turned deathly pale upon seeing the Taotie phantom that suddenly appeared below, their eyes filled with disbelief and terror.

What... what kind of ferocious beast is this?! Why does it possess such terrifying ancient malevolent energy?!

Without a second thought, they instinctively activated the crystal cores within their bodies, using all their strength to control the strange beast and launch a frenzied attack on the illusory Taotie.

"roar!"

Sensing the deadly threat posed by the Taotie, the beast let out a ferocious roar, wielding its two enormous, scale-covered claws with the power to tear through space, and viciously clawed at the Taotie's head.

However, the Taotie phantom remained completely calm in the face of the beast's attack, easily dodging its claws with a slight shift of its body.

Before the beast could react, it suddenly bit down hard on the beast's arm.

"Snap—!"

A crisp cracking sound instantly echoed through the sky as the beast's arm was bitten off by the Taotie, black blood gushing out.

Without pausing, the Taotie bit and tore the beast's entire arm off its body.

"boom!!!"

The beast let out a heart-wrenching roar of pain, its massive body trembling violently.

The Taotie raised its head and swallowed the severed beast arm in one gulp, its throat bobbing once.

Then it pounced again!

This time, it's another arm!

"Snap!"

Another bite!

"Pfft!"

Another tear!

The beast's other arm was also torn off.

The three members of the imperial court looked ashen-faced.

They desperately activated the formation, trying to make the beast retaliate and escape—but the Taotie phantom was too fast, too fast for them to react at all.

The phantom of the Taotie did not stop.

Its size swelled up again!

It opened its enormous maw, large enough to swallow the heavens and the earth, and swallowed the entire upper body of the strange beast—along with the still-operating black array—in one gulp.

"BOOM—!!!"

The black array shattered violently inside the Taotie's mouth.

Countless fragments scattered and flew everywhere, turning into countless points of light.

The strange beast didn't even have time to let out a scream before it completely disappeared into the endless abyss.

Just as the Taotie was about to completely devour the three Imperial Court Immortal Kings, Gu Changyuan's voice rang out again, calm yet carrying an undeniable command:

"Keep them alive."

The illusory image of the Taotie, which was clearly just a phantom without any independent consciousness or life force, seemed to understand Gu Changyuan's command and paused slightly.

It raised its head and glanced in Gu Changyuan's direction with its eyes that shone as brightly as the sun and moon.

Immediately afterwards, its phantom image shattered and vanished into the air.

At the same time, three figures, like kites with broken strings, fell from the sky.

It was those three Imperial Court Immortal Kings.

Now they were covered in blood, barely breathing, and had long lost their former imposing manner.

The implanted crystal core was now dull and cracked.

With that one bite, the Taotie not only swallowed the strange beasts, but also shattered their crystal cores.

Gu Changyuan raised his right hand.

A small black coffin appeared out of thin air in his palm.

The small coffin was only the size of a palm and was completely black.

He waved it gently.

The small coffin flew out and grew taller in the wind.

In an instant, it transformed into a huge black coffin several meters long.

The coffin lid opened automatically, and a powerful suction force surged out of the coffin, drawing in the three falling figures.

"Bang!"

The coffin lid was closed.

The black coffin rapidly shrank, returning to the size of a palm, and flew back to the palm of Hui Changyuan.

As for the secret formation of the Imperial Court, he naturally learned it as well.

Although this formation is far inferior to the ancient formation in his possession, appearing rather crude and useless.

Even without the four fierce beasts and six elephants working together, a single Taotie could easily destroy it.

However, when they destroyed the Ten Thousand Demon Alliance, one demon would have been enough. But in order to broaden the horizons of his disciples, he chose to use a cannon to kill a mosquito.

However, the array displayed by the Imperial Court Immortal King is, after all, a property of the Imperial Court, and it will always be useful to keep it.

If he were to encounter the people of the Imperial Court in the future, he would use this set of formations belonging to the Imperial Court to deal with them.

The expressions on their faces must have been quite interesting.