Chapter 1407: The Terrifying Array Coordination of the Nine Great Disciples

The Ancient God Dao's Tian Cang Pavilion.

For hundreds of thousands of years it had been utterly tranquil, but now, turmoil has arrived.

Meteor-like stones fell from the sky in a stream, scattering in all directions, quickly triggering numerous prohibitions within Tian Cang Pavilion; one by one, corpse-refined puppets crawled out from beneath the ground, pouncing on any living being daring to step into the Ancient God Dao's forbidden lands.

In the southeast direction, the Nine Great Disciples of the Nine Spirit Domain descended upon a wasteland of grass and grave soil.

Jiang Ding glanced around.

Mountains and rivers cracked open, lakes and rivers dried up, and bones covered the ground; among them were spider-shaped, ant-shaped, crane-shaped, ox-shaped, and human-shaped remains. The corpses of various creatures piled up like mountains, covered in tooth marks and tearing scars, as if they had endured a cruel battle.

"This place seems to have been something like a Spirit Beast Garden in the past..."

Jiang Ding murmured to himself.

The Ancient God Dao is famous for commanding numerous beast-soldiers; naturally, their inheritance grounds contain related legacies, but now they appear abandoned. Hundreds of thousands of years have changed far too many things.

"Roar!"

"Hiss..."

The earth split open; numerous zombies and fierce ghosts burst through the soil, forming military formations and charging toward them.

These zombies and fierce ghosts were mostly crafted from black-horned ants, weaving sky spiders, flying cranes, sheep-beasts, and other common races of the Ten Thousand Clans Alliance; in the past, they were servants of the Ancient God Dao, and after death, they underwent further processing.

"Hundreds of thousands of corpse-refined puppets, including over ten thousand Soul Transformation-stage beast corpse-refined puppets, twenty-one Void Refinement-stage corpse-refined puppets, and one Void Refinement Late-stage weaving sky spider zombie!"

"These corpse-refined puppets also form military formations!"

The Heavenly Mechanism Disciple formed a hand seal, his expression immediately turning grave.

Under the restriction of the Ancient God Dao's Yama Hell Equal King Yin-Yang Inversion Great Formation, all intruders are limited to the Soul Transformation stage; surrounded by so many Soul Transformation and Void Refinement corpse-refined puppets, death is almost certain, with no chance of survival.

This rule-like, creation-born great formation is the secret foundational legacy of the Ancient God Dao; it appears to offer a sliver of hope, but in reality, it is a dead end.

The Heavenly Evolution is fifty, with one escaping.

In this world, demanding absolute perfection is actually an error.

Under equal power, pursuing perfection everywhere instead creates weaknesses everywhere, turning the formation into an mediocre eighth-rank array.

That escaped 'one' is not the Ancient God Dao's sages granting enemies a chance of life, but the very essence of this formation; it greatly amplifies the power of the Yama Hell Equal King Yin-Yang Inversion Great Formation, allowing it to dominate the eighth rank while simultaneously reducing the formation's cost—a design of exquisite brilliance.

"Roar!"

Over twenty Ancient God Dao Void Refinement corpse-refined puppets roared, joining hundreds of thousands of beast-soldier corpse-refined puppets around them to form a sinister, yin-energy-laden great formation; numerous cold rule-forces floated and sank within it, forging a rule-net that froze everything.

The rule-net surged toward all the Disciples of the Nine Spirit Domain.

This single strike is enough to severely injure a peak Void Refinement cultivator!

Yet, such power is being used against a group of Soul Transformation cultivators.

This is the reason why so many Dao-Integration Divine Lords of the Ancient God Domain are so pessimistic.

They believe that sending their Disciples, Bloodline Holy Sons, into the Tian Cang Pavilion's Yama Hell Equal King Yin-Yang Inversion Great Formation carries enormous risk; many might die. Therefore, they did not hesitate to join forces and issue threats, forcing the Nine Great Immortal Sects of the Nine Spirit Domain to send their Disciples as hostages, or else face a joint siege by all forces of the Ancient God Domain.

"Attack."

"Do not reveal individual power exceeding the early Void Refinement stage."

Jiang Ding said calmly.

He raised his hand and slashed out a sword strike.

This sword strike was agile and lively, bright and brilliant, filled with the spiritual beauty of the Dao of Arrays; it radiated streams of Jin Chong Guang runes, enveloping all cultivators of the Eight Great Immortal Sects' Disciples.

Instantly, the Heavenly Mechanism Disciple and others' expressions changed slightly.

They discovered that at this moment, they could instantly sense the power fluctuations and soul magic power fluctuations of the surrounding Disciples; if they cast a combined formation, its might would be several times stronger than before!

"... Understood."

The Heavenly Mechanism Disciple and others fell silent for a long time, then let out a long sigh.

The Nine Great Disciples formed the Nine Spirit Domain's traditional Nine Spirits Shooting the Sun and Slaying Heaven Formation, with Yu Yu Qianzi's flying sword as the spearhead, charging directly into the great formation of zombies and cold rule-forces.

The moonlight sword beams crossed, charging at the forefront; occasionally, those not cut down by the sword beams included a mid-stage Void Refinement beast zombie shaped like a crane, leading an army of yin corpses that surged into the formation. Its sharp beak was dark as cold iron, infinitely sharp, piercing through the rules and rushing toward Yu Yu Qianzi's back, arriving in an instant.

Yu Yu Qianzi, charging at the forefront, could not react in time.

This was inevitable; although she was a Disciple, her strength was only at the early Void Refinement stage, and bearing all the pressure at the front left her no spare energy to attend to other areas.

However, she did not seem panicked; she possessed the ability to escape.

That ability to escape need not be displayed now.

"Kill!"

Brother Brother Xuanwu, the Disciple, shouted lowly.

Holding a golden shield like the sky with both hands, he alone charged at the crane-shaped corpse-refined puppet, intercepting the cold sharp beak aimed at Yu Yu Qianzi at the very last possible moment.

Ding!

The instant the Void Refinement black crane corpse-refined puppet's beak touched the Sky-Shielding Great Shield, Jin Chong Guang erupted; the great shield developed fine cracks. Clearly, Brother Brother Xuanwu's strength was inferior to this mid-stage Void Refinement black crane corpse-refined puppet leading numerous subordinates; he merely barely held it off and sustained injuries.

This was already astonishing: with early Void Refinement strength, he withstood a mid-stage Void Refinement expert without suffering severe injury.

"Taiyi Wood..."

Ji Liuyue waved out streams of emerald green light, landing on Brother Brother Xuanwu and the Sky-Shielding Great Shield; Brother Brother Xuanwu's injuries instantly healed, and the cracked Sky-Shielding Great Shield instantly sealed shut, leaving no wounds.

She waved the emerald branch in her hand again.

Branches shimmering with the power of life order spread out, landing on all the Disciples around them, forming a layer of emerald vine armor on their bodies; while providing powerful defense, it also offered a greatly accelerated power recovery speed.

Not only Ji Liuyue, but An Tuzi also acted; a world domain of Five Elements order unfolded, causing all beast corpse-refined puppets to slow slightly, while all Disciples' magic power recovery speed increased again, and the might of their spells rose by at least thirty percent.

The Heavenly Mechanism Disciple unfolded his calculating-chip world; all Disciples' divine sense reaction speed surged significantly, often allowing them to foresee a corpse-refined puppet's attack before it happened, escaping a step ahead or predicting a sword strike to seal the throat.

The Ten Thousand Beasts Disciple charged forward; numerous strange beasts manifested, forming a great formation to intercept the corpse-refined puppets, sharing some of Yu Yu Qianzi's pressure.

The Shadow Demon Disciple hid in the void, appearing suddenly from time to time; every attack landed squarely on the head of a Void Refinement beast corpse-refined puppet, either sealing its throat with a single sword strike or shattering a node of the cold rule-formation within a group of corpse-refined puppets...

The Nine Great Disciples, some tasked with offense, others with defense, others with recovery and healing, others with heavenly mechanism calculations... all such roles, cooperating with perfect intimacy and flawlessness; even if a Dao-Integration Divine Lord from the Ancient God Domain came personally, he could find no flaw, surpassing his capabilities.

The nine Dao Children each had their assigned role—some handled offense, some defense, some recovery and healing, some divination and the workings of fate… All of these were coordinated with seamless, flawless precision; even if a Divine Monarch of the Dao Merge from the Ancient God Domain came here in person, they could find no fault—it was beyond his ability to do so.

It was as if their coordination had endured for hundreds of thousands of years!

At the cost of countless blood and countless wisdoms, such exquisite coordination was honed; this is a basic survival skill for the Dao Sons of the Nine Spirit Realm.

An Tuzi, Ji Liuyue, and others, who clearly possessed only early-stage Void Refinement power, under such array coordination, actually held their ground against this peak sixth-stage Void Refinement great array composed of hundreds of thousands of Nascent Soul, Soul Transformation, and Void Refinement beast corpses.

Not only that, after holding their ground for a moment, they began to push back!