Chapter 366: Who Claims Immortality and Invincibility?

The destructive sword light, cold and grim, illuminated dozens of kilometers and slashed into the core of the Boundary-Setting Formation.

"This is bad!"

"The Eastern Sea still needs me; I cannot die here."

Xiang Jia's heart grew cold; he connected his divine sense to the great formation, preparing to teleport.

He intended to offer slight resistance, put up a passable fight, and then immediately flee to the Eastern Sea.

Then,

he despairingly discovered that the teleportation capability of the Boundary-Setting Great Formation had been sealed.

"You cannot do this."

"I am a Candidate Dao Son; I possess the potential to advance to Soul Transformation!"

He understood instantly.

Just as he had countless times coldly commanded his Foundation Establishment cultivators to charge to their deaths with soul-sealing prohibitions, disregarding whether they possessed the potential to advance to Jin Dan or even Nascent Soul.

The high ranks of the Heavenly Palace had made an equally cold decision.

Either victory!

Or death!

This was the belief of Brother Brother Xuanwu's Heavenly Palace.

They only needed Candidate Dao Sons who constantly achieved victory, whether through luck, strategy, or anything else; they only needed the result of being a victor.

Otherwise, even if their aptitude matched that of a Candidate Dao Son or was even superior, as long as they failed,

the Heavenly Palace had no use for them!

This was the system of Brother Brother Xuanwu's Heavenly Palace.

To outsiders, it appeared cold and iron-blooded, inhumane, abandoning a Candidate Dao Son cultivated with countless resources due to a single failure.

Moreover, his failure was not due to lack of combat ability; a Candidate Dao Son should never have faced a Dao Son, with no fairness whatsoever.

In this regard,

Brother Brother Xuanwu's Heavenly Palace and the sword cultivators of the Great Sun Sword Pavilion, who actively exposed their weaknesses to enemies, displayed a startling similarity.

Outsiders found it hard to understand.

For countless ten-thousand years, except for a very few Soul Transformation cultivators who violated these rules at great personal cost due to family bonds, this cold system of regulations had been executed with unyielding determination, largely isolating those with extremely deep backgrounds from competing for the positions of Dao Son and Candidate Dao Son.

If one's strength was insufficient, becoming a Dao Son was merely volunteering to die.

"No!"

"I will not die!"

With his retreat completely cut off, Xiang Jia instantly sobered up; all fear vanished from his heart, and his divine sense operated with an efficiency never before seen in his life.

Immediately, countless lifelines surfaced in his mind.

"The Formation!"

"The formation in my hand can completely bridge the gap between a Dao Son and a Candidate Dao Son; if I slay him first, everything can be won.

I do not even need total victory; if I kill the Great Sun Sword Son, the Heavenly Palace's teleportation array will surely reopen."

In an instant, countless thoughts rose and fell.

Xiang Jia calmed down completely, looking at that blue-gold sword coming from beyond the heavens.

"I will not die!"

He bit his tongue, spat out a mouthful of refined blood, and let it fall upon the formation disk in his hand; he refined it with his vital blood, granting it effects similar to a Ben Ming Fa for a period of time, increasing his control efficiency by fifty percent.

"Appear!"

Xiang Jia poured his divine intent into the various formation cores of the Boundary-Setting Formation, formed complex hand seals with his fingers, and shouted in a low voice:

"Four Poles · Bai Hu!"

Countless formation patterns within the Fifty-Kilometer Four Poles Boundary-Setting Formation of Brother Brother Xuanwu flickered, voraciously swallowing dozens of kilometers of heaven and earth's spiritual energy, transforming into sharp, pure white threads of metal that converged toward the formation core.

Pure white formation threads, wrapped in runes, strand by strand, wove into a lifelike black-striped white tiger; within its basin-sized pupils, cold killing intent was deeply concealed.

"Roar!"

Facing that blue-gold flying sword, the black-striped white tiger opened its grim maw; star-killing intent gathered rapidly, and with a wild roar, a pillar of starlight killing intent, the size of a human body, shot forward violently.

The blue-gold sword light and the black-striped giant tiger, in the gaze of ten thousand, unleashed their power and collided with a boom.

Ding!

Although it was a pillar of star-killing intent from the tiger's mouth colliding with the blue-gold flying sword, a sharp metallic tremor erupted, shaking hundreds of kilometers, as a great spray of sparks flew in all directions.

Crack...

After a moment of stalemate, amidst a terrible sound of metal shattering, a corner of the star-killing intent pillar was missing, the black-striped white tiger's giant maw was torn open, and it roared repeatedly.

The blue-gold flying sword flew out from the gap, whirling backward, drawing myriad magnetic field spiritual energies to gather and kill the formation patterns.

"It works!"

Xiang Jia rejoiced wildly and roared: "The Great Sun Sword Son is not invincible; follow me and kill!"

"Kill!"

He formed hand seals, and a continuous stream of star-killing intent surged from the starry sky; the black-striped white tiger rolled on the spot, generating a mighty wind once more, with killing intent overflowing, and the crack at its corner vanished.

"Kill!"

"Kill them, and in the future achieve True Disciple status, achieve Jin Dan, achieve Nascent Soul!"

Xiang Jia's words inspired the two thousand-plus Foundation Establishment cultivators around him.

One by one, their eyes bloodshot, they each formed Jin Dan battle formations and, under the combined protection and shelter of the Four Poles Boundary-Setting Formation of Brother Brother Xuanwu, charged toward the cluster of tank forces not far away, meeting a sky full of armor-piercing shells.

At this moment, under the gaze of many high-ranking cultivators from the Heavenly Palaces beyond the heavens, the soul-sealing prohibitions throbbed faintly with pain; there was no retreat left!

If not victorious, then death!

"The power of the formation is indeed extraordinary."

Jiang Ding said coldly, "But, Daoist Xiang, your time is running out."

Boom!

Boom!

Millions of tanks fired their cannons in unison; aside from reserving a few cannons to pin down numerous Foundation Establishment cultivators and prevent them from interfering with the main battlefield,

the rest were all fired at the calculated bases of the Brother Brother Xuanwu Four-Pole Boundary-Setting Formation. The sound of armor-piercing shells exploding roared.

Amidst the smoke, thirty-six towering pillars swayed unsteadily, their spiritual light dimming continuously.

Even the Black-Striped White Tiger, whose starlight fur had only shone brilliantly for a moment, immediately dimmed again, looking lifeless and heavy.

Xiang Jia's face turned pale.

Boom!

Against the backdrop of heavy artillery bombardment, the infinite electromagnetic power within the muzzle of the super aerospace fighter was restrained, granting the Blue-Gold Flying Sword extreme speed until it vanished.

"The formation..."

Under the locked gaze of the magnificent Annihilation Sword Intent, Xiang Jia's heart trembled as he manipulated the Great Boundary-Setting Formation.

"Roar!"

The Black-Striped Star White Tiger flashed and shifted to appear before him, its giant mouth inhaling endless heavenly spiritual energy, then spitting out a destructive beam of Star Synthetic Synthetic Gengjin Evil Qi.

Ding!

Amidst the sparks, the Flying Sword appeared again, the Annihilation Sword Intent spreading, the pure gold mesh patterns of Po Fa Xian Jin on the blade shining brilliantly.

After a brief clash, it pierced through the beam of Star Synthetic Synthetic Gengjin Evil Qi, passing straight through the head of the Star Black-Striped White Tiger.

Bang!

The Star Black-Striped White Tiger froze for a moment, causing the starry spiritual light filling the sky to collapse.

"Condense!"

Xiang Jia roared.

Moments later, infinite starlight gathered, and a smaller Black-Striped Star White Tiger emerged from within, vivid and lifelike.

As long as the formation does not perish, the White Tiger does not die!

"Does not die?"

Jiang Ding frowned, then relaxed: "There are many things in the world that claim to be immortal, but among them, the one that truly deserves the title is certainly not this mere third-tier Great Formation."

Whoosh!

The Blue-Gold Flying Sword arrived again; this time, it did not even need to draw upon the Magnetic Field Spiritual Energy Gathering Killing Array of the super aerospace fighter to build momentum. Relying solely on its own sharpness and Annihilation Sword Intent, it pierced through the head of the newly formed Black-Striped White Tiger, shattering all its magical structures within.

Azure did not stop; carrying extreme speed and the intent to annihilate and break spells, it flew straight toward Xiang Jia's head.

Ding!

A burst of sparks bloomed on the terrified Xiang Jia's forehead, causing the thirty-six towering pillar bases extending from the Brother Brother Xuanwu Four-Pole Boundary-Setting Formation to trem violently.

The formation did not perish.

Even the sharpness of Po Fa Xian Jin and the power of the electromagnetic main cannon were dispersed in all directions, unable to harm the formation master.

"Daoist Xiang, you truly possess excellent formation expertise."

Jiang Ding smiled and praised him.

Boom!

Amidst millions of armor-piercing shells,

a Blue-Gold Great Sun rose in the sky.

Infinite scorching heat and sharp light spread in all directions, sweeping every dark corner and changing every place within dozens of kilometers.

(End of this chapter)