Wuling Realm, a deserted mountain with no human habitation.
Xu Chong stood on the top of the mountain, closely watching An Ya's actions through the authority of light.
On the surface, he seems to be calm and composed, but in fact, he is worried inside and can never calm down.
Because only he himself knew that what he said and the scene just now were just bluffing.
The mountain under his feet was neither swallowed up nor melted, nor did it grow again from beginning to end.
Although the Devouring Talent can indeed swallow a mountain, and the Five Elements Authority can indeed create a mountain, whether it is swallowing or re-creation, it is impossible to complete it within a dozen breaths.
The scene that An Ya saw was completely forged by the authority of light.
The good news is that An Ya believed it.
The huge body was frozen in place, probably struggling mentally between staying and leaving.
The saying 'fraudulent authority cannot be deceived' has once again been proven to be a lie.
The bad news is that An Ya just believed it.
Not retreating at the first moment shows that greed and fear are almost equal.
And the longer you hesitate and struggle, the easier it is for greed to overwhelm fear.
Unfortunately, Xu Chong had no way to deal with this.
He had done everything he should have done. Now there was nothing he could do except keep a close eye on Anya's movements.
Time passed in this silent confrontation.
One stick of incense, one hour, two hours...
In the blink of an eye, it was the time when the sun rose and the moon set, and day and night changed.
At this time, Xu Chong no longer had any hope in his heart. He even held the Emperor's Order in his hand, ready to activate the Demon-Slaying Formation at any time.
However, at this moment, An Ya finally moved.
The huge body slowly turned around and then disappeared from the spot in a flash.
The next time he appeared, he was nearly five thousand feet away.
"Done?!"
Xu Chong's eyebrows suddenly raised.
Although the direction of An Ya's movement was not very accurate, it was definitely heading towards the boundary gate.
The reason for the deviation is probably due to lack of wisdom and inability to recognize the road.
But, is it really so easy to scare away a first-class person?
Xu Chong's heart, which had almost sunk to the ground, was suspended in midair again.
As he observed, An Ya paused for a moment after landing, and then moved almost instantly again.
We have arrived at the boundary gate.
In front of Anya's exaggerated size, the already small boundary gate became as small as dust.
Just move once more and you can completely leave the Five Spirits Realm.
However, An Ya's movements suddenly slowed down at this point.
The body fell to the ground, and the huge arms that were originally used to support the body slowly rose up, then fell down, reaching towards the gate.
"Break the limit of the gate... No! No!!!"
As soon as Xu Chong's doubts arose, they were suddenly replaced by horror.
Because the isolation, body inspection, blockade and other effects of the gate had long been destroyed in the process of An Ya entering the boundary.
Now, anyone or any object, as long as they move towards the boundary gate, can penetrate the barrier of the Five Spirits Realm and enter the Great Ruins without any hindrance.
From this perspective, An Ya's target is more likely to be below the boundary gate...
The head of the Five Elements Emperor!
"Damn it, he should have believed me. Even if he didn't leave now, he should have increased his swallowing speed. Why would he attack the eye of the battle?"
"How did he find the center of the formation, and when did he destroy it?"
"If you discovered it at the beginning, why wait until now to take action?"
Xu Chong stared with his eyes wide open, his heart feeling as if it was falling into the abyss.
The Demon-Slaying Formation is his last trump card and also his last chance of survival.
Shui Yunzi revealed this to him alone.
The person who opens the formation holding the Emperor's Order can be immune to 99% of the damage caused by the formation.
Of course, the prerequisite is that the sacrifice is sufficient and the opener does not need to sacrifice himself.
The reason why Shui Yunzi gave the Heavenly Emperor's Order to Xu Chong was not only because Xu Chong was the most suitable person to open it, but also because only Xu Chong had a chance to survive.
After all, the Demon-Slaying Formation is said to mean mutual destruction, but in reality it means killing oneself and severely damaging the evil demon.
Currently, the only one who can break the law that 'nothingness cannot be killed by reality' is Xu Chong. Huoyunzi and others cannot do it, and the formation left by the Five Elements Emperor cannot do it either.
In short, if anyone else were to preside over the formation, even if they survived, they would be unable to escape from the darkness.
Only if we can kill Xu Chong, the void, there is a glimmer of hope.
However, this glimmer of hope depends on An Ya's complete entry into the Five Spirits Realm.
In the current situation, even with the full power of the Demon-Slaying Array, it can only destroy half of An Ya's body.
Half of the first-class status...
Even if Xu Chong remained in his prime and lived to the end, he would not be a match for An Ya.
"It seems that the last hope is gone."
Xu Chong smiled bitterly, "I lost it myself..."
Once the Demon-Slaying Formation is activated, the vast majority of creatures in the Five Spirits Realm will die.
He didn't want to see this happen, so he made the two attempts of 'phantom swallowing' and 'bluffing'.
Unexpectedly, these two attempts not only failed to produce any results, but also caused An Ya to stop sending the rest of his body into the Five Spirits Realm.
"Well, rather than being devoured by the evil, it is better to transform into strength and die in battle."
Xu Chong sighed and spread out his palms.
Five-colored light shone through his body, like smoke, and instantly formed a rotating roulette wheel.
"Everyone, have a safe journey..."
Xu Chong slowly closed his eyes and released his right hand.
A beam of light was projected from the center of the roulette wheel, pulling the token into the air.
At this moment, the passage of time seemed to be slowed down countless times.
The big hand moved closer to the gate little by little, and the token moved closer to the roulette wheel little by little.
If there are no new factors that forcibly interfere, the Demon-Slaying Array will be activated before the center of the array is touched by Anyi.
Then, the Five Spirit Realm will be enveloped by the power of the Five Elements Heavenly Emperor, completely isolating the inside and the outside.
Then, the vitality of Shui Yunzi and others will be completely drained within a quarter of an hour.
Then, the sky collapsed and the earth split, and all living beings wept blood...
But, that new factor appeared!
Just at the ten-thousandth moment before the Heavenly Emperor's Order was about to be sucked into the roulette wheel, a huge hand blocked the two and pulled the Heavenly Emperor's Order back.
"Fuck you..."
Xu Chong couldn't help but swear.
It was naturally him who pulled back the Emperor of Heaven's order, but the new factor that prompted him to stop activating the formation at the critical moment... was An Ya.
An Ya’s target is not the center of the formation below the boundary gate!
But the gate itself!
"It was close, it almost opened..."
Xu Chong was frightened for a moment, and then he became confused, "That's not right, what does he want to do with the boundary gate? The functions of the boundary gate are obviously ineffective, he can just leave if he wants to... Isn't he going to leave?"
Just when I was wondering, An Ya spoke.
"Little devil! I know you must be hiding in the corner and peeking, right?"
An Ya placed his big hand on the gate, raised his head and laughed strangely, "Because what you just said was all false!"
"!!!"
Xu Chong's pupils suddenly shrank.
"If I'm not mistaken, you haven't eaten anything except that mountain. You've been watching my movements."
An Ya seemed to have transformed into a wise man, and he continued confidently, "You want to see me scared, you want to see me leave, because... you can't bear to let me go!"
"Reluctant?"
Xu Chong was stunned for a moment, and probably understood what An Ya was thinking.
really.
"You are reluctant to let this space be destroyed, and reluctant to let your fellow tribesmen die, so even though your eating speed is much faster than mine, you don't want to do this at all."
"You are not willing to expose your devouring ability and 20% of your authority, but that doesn't mean you really want to fight me to the death."
"Everything is done to preserve this space."
"I have to say, you are quite smart, because my spell has lost its effect. Once I leave, even if I can find this place again, I don't know how long it will take."
"pity……"
"Compared to me, your wisdom is pitifully scarce!"
As soon as he finished speaking, An Ya's big hand suddenly exerted force.
——Crack!!!
There was a shocking explosion.
The boundary gate is broken.
Just like the Tianxuan Realm in the past, a terrifying huge gap appeared where the gate to the realm was originally located.
Deep darkness, harsh wind, and...
That endless black fog!
"I admit that half of my body can only come together to prevent your sneak attack."
An Ya retracted his hand and said calmly, "But what if my entire body is here?"
“Bodies can share perception with each other.”
"As long as I keep half of my body as it is now, and the other half continues to disperse..."
"It can greatly increase the speed of eating, and it can also protect me from a cunning little devil like you."
"Ha ha ha ha!"
"You, do you still dare to come?"
As soon as he finished speaking, gray fog rushed in frantically from outside the world, falling to the ground and transforming into solid gray-skinned monsters.
“…”
Xu Chong was silent for a while.
An Ya only guessed the part about "reluctant" correctly. He neither saw through his bluff nor discovered the core of the Demon-Slaying Array.
Moreover, allowing all bodies to enter the Five Spirits Realm will undoubtedly maximize the value of the Demon-Slaying Array.
This is already a huge turn for the better. At least from being hopeless, there is hope again.
But Xu Chong was not happy at all.
Because of this turning point, it just changed from 'everyone died and An Ya became the winner' to 'he is the only one alive and has a chance to turn the tables'.
"I still can't avoid this step."
Xu Chong's face was calm, and there was no ripple in his heart.
After all, I had already prepared myself mentally once, so I was familiar with it the second time.
And this time, those 300 million lives will die more meaningfully.
"An Ya, you pissed me off!"
A phantom that was closer spoke up and shouted towards An Ya: "Let's see who can eat faster!"
Bang.
Unsurprisingly, this phantom body was shattered by Anya's successive teleportations.
"You cunning and disgusting little devil, if you want to compete, then compete!"
An Ya became furious and controlled the remaining gray fog to rush in with all his strength.
In fact, wasn't there some bluff in what he said just now?
There was at least one thing he deliberately avoided talking about.
——Eating speed.
With half of the body gathered together and the other half scattered, can its eating speed be faster than that of eating a mountain in ten or so breaths?
Even if it can exceed, how much can it exceed?
How much food can you grab?
Is the remaining food enough for that little kid to be promoted to the first-class status?
These questions are obscured by the darkness of most information and have no clue at all.
"No, we can't just focus on eating. We have to split a small portion and scatter to look for that little devil."
An Ya calculated in his heart, "As long as I can find him, even if my clone cannot stop him, I can observe his progress of swallowing and improvement. Once I find that he has signs of breaking through to the first level, I can leave immediately... Okay, let's do it."
Thinking of this, the gray fog surged even more violently, rendering a large area of ​​the sky extremely gloomy.
At the same time, on the other side, Xu Chong kept observing Anya and sent out his phantom body to the five holy places.
The others didn't say anything, their faces were calm, and they simply said take care to Xu Chong.
Only Mu Fangfang looked hesitant, as if she wanted to say something but hesitated.
"You are not afraid of death, and you will never back down at this time... So, do you have something to tell me?"
Xu Chong raised his eyebrows and asked.
"Why……"
Mu Fangfang sighed heavily and bowed, "Friend Xu, I apologize for offending you before."
“No, no.”
Xu Chong avoided the bow, waved his hands repeatedly, and said: "First of all, everything you do is for the Five Spirit Realm and for the inheritance of the Five Spirit Realm. How can you say you have offended me?"
"Fellow Daoist Huo is right. You have a broad mind that is unmatched by ordinary people."
Mu Fangfang sighed again, straightened up, and asked, "What's next?"
"Secondly..."
Xu Chong thought about it, his face suddenly became serious, and he said seriously: "The time I spent in the Five Spirit Realm was not long, but I understood the true meaning of the word 'Daoyou'... Since you and I are both Daoyou, what's the big deal even if you offend me?"
“Fellow Daoist…”
Mu Fangfang was stunned, and all her emotions were released in an instant. After a moment, she bowed again.
This bow was not deep, probably only reaching to the chest. It was often seen in both the Five Spirits Realm and the White Jade Capital. It was a courtesy used when people of equal status met or parted ways.
"Fellow Daoist Xu, take care."
"Friend Mu..."
Xu Chong returned the greeting and said, "Goodbye."
The phantom body dissipated.
On the other side, Xu Chong's real body, which was synchronized with the perception of this phantom body, had a strong murderous intent in his eyes.
…
…
Since the boundary gate was completely destroyed, it was much easier for the gray fog to enter the boundary. After only three days, the last wisp of gray fog also floated into the Five Spirits Realm and landed on the ground and became solid.
At this time, an area of ​​nearly 100,000 miles in radius was completely filled with gray-skinned monsters.
The surface of one hundred thousand miles almost disappeared, leaving only the last space membrane separating the Five Spirits Realm and Daxu.
"It's time to go find that brat."
An Ya felt confident and waved his hand.
In an instant, tens of millions of gray-skinned monsters stopped swallowing and began to spread in all directions.
Although not many , this number is enough to find Xu Chong's location in a very short time.
Unfortunately, Xu Chong didn't intend to give Anya this time.
Still on the same mountain top, the Emperor of Heaven ordered the players to throw themselves into the roulette wheel.
——Buzz!
The first thing that happens is pressure.
Huge pressure.
The sky hung low and the earth trembled.
Countless mortals exploded into bloody mist in an instant, and countless practitioners were crushed and seriously injured, lying on the ground unable to move.
Then, colorful lights of white, green, black, red and yellow surged into the sky from the five mountains on the border of the Five Spirits Realm.
It looks somewhat similar to the time when Xu Chong cultivated the Five Elements Body Tattoo...
If you don't count that extremely calm and majestic voice.
"What evil spirit dares to disturb my sleep?!"