Soul Town: Claiming the throne? You've asked my Tian Ce Army, haven't you?

Yang Che raised his hand, a small, dazzling ball of light appearing in his palm, and said in an unfriendly tone, "In terms of seniority, you are not qualified to address me like that!"

As the orb of light exploded, a wave of intense heat rushed towards them. Hill spun around, spear in hand, his icy shield blocking the attack. The wave of heat crashed into the shield, and steam instantly engulfed both of them.

"Again!"

After several close-quarters exchanges, Hill dodged and weaved, his spear aimed straight for vital points.

Yang Che didn't just defend; her protective shield was both offensive and defensive, and even the ice rock shield could be burned through wherever her fingertips grazed.

The spear and the fire clashed again. Hill took two steps back, a scorch mark appearing on his holy armor gauntlet, but Yang Che seemed completely unharmed.

"Stop playing!"

Hill planted her spear in the ground, and a hundred-foot-tall phantom of the goddess rose up behind her.

The goddess is surrounded by lotus flowers, and her four arms hold a lotus flower, holy water, a trident, and a rosary. This is the compassionate form of Parvati.

Parvati raised his hand, and the snow fell heavily again, covering the sky and earth. Ice peaks rose from the ground and pierced towards Yangche.

"This seems to be getting more interesting..."

Yang Che's entire body turned crimson, and divine power surged into the sky, with the ancient drought goddess Nüba emerging behind her.

"Chidi Qianli!"

The scorching divine power of Nüba clashed violently with the extreme cold divine power of Parvati in the air, with ice and snow and heat waves tug at each other wildly, and the entire street was shrouded in water vapor, like a thick fog.

No, if we delay any longer, we might have to wait until the reinforcements return!

Hill's eyes narrowed, and divine power gathered around him. "Parvati, it's time to get serious!"

Parvati was immediately enveloped in a brilliant golden light, and his compassionate expression instantly transformed into a ten-armed golden body, the Durga Demon-Slaying Incarnation clad in crimson-gold armor.

"Durga the Ten-Edged Demon Slayer!"

Parvati simultaneously wielded the divine artifacts with her ten arms, and ten golden-red demon-slaying holy blades cut through the wind and snow, carrying a mountain-like heavy power, and slashed at Nüba and Yangche.

Nuwa suddenly raised her hands upwards, and a small sun appeared in the sky. The sunlight was so bright that people couldn't open their eyes, and the surrounding trees were scorched into charcoal by the high temperature.

"The sun shines brightly, burning the heavens!"

A beam of blazing white light erupted from the center of the small sun and crashed into the ten holy blades.

"boom--"

A devastating shockwave erupted from the center of the collision, sending Hill flying backward. His Ice Rock Armor cracked in half, and a trickle of blood escaped from the corner of his mouth.

Yang Che breathed a sigh of relief. He hadn't expected that dealing with such a human would require so much of his divine power. Fortunately, he hadn't suffered a defeat like he had in the Underworld...

"You're not human, are you?"

Hill realized this at that moment; it couldn't be, otherwise why would he be having such a hard time?

"I am indeed not the kind of human you describe..."

Yang Che stepped forward. "Now it's time to answer my question. You're not from the Tian Ce Mansion, are you?"

If they were Li Moxuan's subordinates, then his opponents would be the celestial deities who had descended to the mortal realm, not this Parvati he had never even heard of...

"That's right, we're from the Western Heaven Alliance, which is another force!" Hill was quite honest. Anyway, Ji Haoxuan would find out later, so there was no need to hide it.

"Then why did you invade the Emperor's Palace?"

Hill shrugged. "Isn't it obvious? Draw your attention and then raid your base!"

Stealing someone's house?

Yang Che was startled when a violent explosion suddenly rang out in the palace where Su Xuanwei and her daughter were...

Chapter 471: Feng Hou's Eight Trigrams Formation

The Hall of the Human Emperor, the Path of the City God.

Yao Xiaolin originally wanted to go to Yangche to check on the situation, but he was stopped halfway by Bai Yucun, who had already killed all the soldiers around him.

"Get out of the way!"

He understood that the fact that the other side was able to send people to intercept them was enough to prove the urgency of the situation on Yangche's side.

In this situation, he had no intention of engaging in a prolonged fight. He swung the jade compass in his hand to create a wind barrier and turned to leave from the flank.

But Bai Yucun reacted faster than the wind, and the figure of his guardian deity Takemikazuchi solidified behind him.

The katana, crackling with lightning, swept towards Yao Xiaolin, forcing him to do a backflip in mid-air to dodge.

Bai Yucun simultaneously flung out the Divine Decree with his left hand, and three lightning talismans nailed to the stone railings on both sides in a triangular shape. The purple lightning net instantly stretched out, sealing off all the gaps on the sides completely.

"Want to go? Fine, beat me first!"

Bai Yucun stood firmly in the City God's Path. He knew very well what his mission was: to stop Yao Xiaolin. He didn't need to worry about anything else.

Therefore, he did not rush forward or pursue. When Yao Xiaolin changed direction to the left, Lei Ren blocked to the left.

As they broke through to the right, lightning bolts struck to the right, each one precisely hitting Yao Xiaolin's path of advance.

Yao Xiaolin made several attempts to break through, but was forced back by the dense thunderstorms, and the corners of his robe were scorched in several places by the lightning.

He quickly realized that the other party was aiming to intercept him. Even if he managed to get through this section, Bai Yucun would relentlessly pursue him, leaving him vulnerable from both sides and making things even more troublesome.

Instead of forcing our way in, we should first find a way to trap Bai Yucun here, so that we can go and rescue people with peace of mind.

Suppressing his anxiety, Yao Xiaolin's expression gradually calmed down. He lightly tapped the ground with the compass in his hand, and two light blue array patterns quietly spread along the stone steps, disappearing into the cracks in the stone under the influence of the wind.

He no longer rushed to break through, but instead adopted a defensive strategy to maneuver against Bai Yucun.

At the same time, Feng Hou's black robe fluttered, and his fingertips first set up the Cloud Hanging Array, which is the "Deceptive Array" in Feng Hou's Eight Arrays of Qimen.

By gathering clouds as a barrier, Bai Yucun could not only obscure his vision and senses, but also use the cover of the clouds to quietly bury his position throughout the City God Road.

Bai Yucun's interception remained flawless. He raised his hand and summoned the Thunderstrike Summoning Technique, activating the armor-piercing power of the Shattered Thunder Pearl. Several bolts of heavenly lightning precisely shattered every visible array pattern.

The eight Thunder God Pearls floating to his left lit up alternately, namely Thunderclap Pearl, Shattering Thunder Pearl, Swift Thunder Pearl, Heavy Thunder Pearl, Burning Thunder Pearl, Sealing Thunder Pearl, Illusion Thunder Pearl, and Poison Thunder Pearl.

These eight Thunder God Pearls operate in alternation, and the lightning net on the front is so dense that even the wind cannot pass through.

Bai Yucun only thought that Yao Xiaolin was struggling to defend himself, and he didn't notice at all that the broken array patterns shattered by the thunderstorm were quietly reconnecting.

An invisible net is slowly closing in beneath his feet...

After several rounds of back and forth, Yao Xiaolin finally discovered a small flaw in Bai Yucunyi's body during a gap in the wind blade's feint attack.

He seemed to focus more on the front line of defense, which made his side-stepping defense always a step behind. And these fleeting gaps were the key to Yao Xiaolin breaking the deadlock.

Seizing the opportunity, Yao Xiaolin concentrated all his divine power on the compass: "Feng Hou Qi Men, all eight formations open!"

The gilded wind feather armor unfolded on Feng Hou's body, twelve wind wings spread out in the air, and the Xuan Yu axis eight-formation diagram spread down the thousand-step stone steps.

The eight array gates—Heaven, Earth, Wind, Cloud, Dragon, Tiger, Bird, and Snake—lighted up simultaneously, and the complete Feng Hou Eight Arrays were fully deployed.

The fierce winds of the Heavenly Covering Formation pressed down from above, forcefully suppressing half of the thunderous momentum of the Thunder God. Yao Xiaolin stood on the core of the formation, assuming a posture of fighting to the death.

"The true form of the Tianjin God!"

Bai Yucun's eyes flashed coldly, and eight lightning wings unfurled behind Takemikazuchi.

The eight Thunder God Pearls spun around his body, and the Heavenly Thunder Prison roared open, with purple lightning weaving into an impenetrable electric net along the stone steps, firmly resisting the advance of the Eight Formations.

The roar shook the entire City God's Way. Bai Yucun activated the Eight Thunder Slashes, with eight Thunder God Pearls empowering the katana in turn, unleashing eight thunder blades of different attributes.

First came the shattering lightning to break through defenses, then the heavy lightning to suppress the enemy, followed by the thunderous explosion, the burning lightning to scorch, the sealing lightning to lock the formation, the poisonous lightning to corrode the spirit, the illusory lightning to disturb the mind, and finally the swift lightning to finish it off.

The eight-fold burst of damage caused each strike to dim the array patterns slightly.

Yao Xiaolin then activated the Eight Formations in a cyclical manner: the Earth Bearing Formation withstood the frontal impact, the Cloud Hanging Formation dissipated the residual power of the lightning, the Wind Rising Formation launched a counterattack, and the Dragon Flying Formation took the strongest lightning blade head-on.

The four orthodox and four unorthodox elements cycled repeatedly, releasing force and regenerating, while the wind array continuously replenished itself, never allowing the lightning net to cross the line even slightly.

Bai Yucun was completely focused on the frontal defense, assuming that Yao Xiaolin was making a desperate gamble with divine power, but he did not notice the array patterns slowly lighting up beneath his feet.

Yao Xiaolin never wanted to break through his defenses head-on, but rather to lock him firmly in this small space.

Seeing that the formation was complete, Yao Xiaolin immediately pretended to be exhausted.

The array barrier suddenly trembled, and he staggered half a step to the right, his feet scattering, revealing his posture as he desperately tried to break through from the flank.

Bai Yucun fell for the trap as expected. He immediately unleashed his full power, transforming into a bolt of purple lightning as he lunged to the right, his katana unleashing a heavy slash of lightning towards Yao Xiaolin.

With that step, he stepped right into the core of the array that Yao Xiaolin had set up.

This is the moment!

A sharp glint flashed in Yao Xiaolin's eyes, and he slammed the compass ruler in his hand into the ground, shouting, "Guide to Soul Fixation Strike!"

The wind then propelled the Bird Flight Formation to its maximum speed, causing all twelve wind wings to retract and condense into a thin, hair-like cyan wind spear that shot out into the air.

The wind gun pierced through the thin lightning shield and slammed heavily into Takemikazuchi's left shoulder armor, cracking a thin line in the gilded armor.

This attack was not intended to injure the enemy, but only to interrupt his divine power circulation for half a breath.

In that split second of delay, Yao Xiaolin formed a hand seal and shouted sharply:

"The earth seals the spirit, the snake coils to lock the soul, the sky covers and presses down, the clouds hang low and sever the boundary—the eight formations combine to trap!"

All the hidden arrays beneath the City God's Path lit up simultaneously, and the cyan-gold array patterns spread upwards along the cracks in the stone, instantly weaving a closed-loop cage, with the four core arrays exerting their power in unison.

Realizing something was wrong, Bai Yucun's expression changed drastically, and he hurriedly activated the Eight Thunder God Pearls of the Guardian God Takemikazuchi to bombard the array wall with all his might.

Thunderstorms exploded wildly within the array, causing the entire cage to tremble violently, yet the array walls remained as stable as Mount Tai, showing no sign of breaking down.

After several unsuccessful attempts to break through, Takemikazuchi's divine power gradually stagnates, and the formation tightens more and more, with the divine locks within the formation already binding Takemikazuchi's wrists and neck.

Although Bai Yucun was not defeated, he was trapped in this small formation and it would be difficult for him to escape in the short term.

"You just stay here and behave yourself!"

Having successfully trapped him, Yao Xiaolin breathed a sigh of relief, turned around, and continued on his way back, hoping it wouldn't be too late...

Chapter 472: Moon Goddess Chang Xi

Xuanling Hall.

This is where Su Xuanwei and her mother Su Yuqing live. Zhu Qingchan and Yang Che are usually responsible for guarding this place.

But now that Zhu Qingchan has left, Yang Che has been drawn away, the people from the Holy Covenant Church have been recalled, and Zhang Heng'an, who is leading a large army to confront the soldiers of the Tian Ce Mansion, is unable to return in time.