Chapter 430: Blasting the Ruined City

In that instant, the originally mirror‑calm formation totem patterns suddenly flared with blinding red light, as if ignited.

Countless sword glints surged like raging waves, continuously gushing forth from deep within the formation.

The sword glints, like meteors, converged at astonishing speed toward the hilt of Yuan Yao's sword in her hand.

In the blink of an eye, the Phantom Spirit Sword, after absorbing countless sword glints, rapidly expanded and ultimately became a huge sword.

The huge sword, carrying the momentum to destroy heaven and earth, swept straight toward where Wei Yueze stood.

Boom!

The might of this sword is indescribable; its length nearly spans the entire ruined city! Wherever it passed, the void was torn into black fissures.

Rumble!

The ground could not bear this immense pressure and burst apart.

Wei Yueze's face changed dramatically; he instantly gathered palm power to block the massive blade about to fall on him!

Boom!

A deafening explosion sound came.

Only to see Wei Yueze actually catch the formation's huge sword with his bare hands!

Yuan Yao gritted her teeth and shoved down hard!

"Just with a Saint‑stage formation, you think you can kill me? You really underestimate me!" Wei Yueze snorted, then he exerted all his strength to shake the formation's huge sword apart!

Yuan Yao suddenly laughed, "One Saint‑stage formation isn't enough—how about two?!"

"Blast open the ruined city for me!"

As her words fell, at the central spot of the ruined city, a conical spiritual artifact instantly blossomed like a flower, and in the blink of an instant its formation totem patterns connected with it.

Immediately, a tremendously terrifying formation power erupted.

Boom boom boom—

The central position of the ruined city began to explode, then rapidly spread outward!

The undead beasts fled outward, but most of them were caught by the shockwave of the exploding formation power and were torn apart by the formation's force.

At this moment Wei Yueze finally changed expression; he exerted all his strength to smash the formation's huge sword, then, unable to contain his anger, he flashed toward Yuan Yao and slammed a palm fiercely at her.

In the nick of time, Yuan Yao used a teleportation scroll to escape.

Bang!

The palm print instantly landed on the city wall, and in a moment the wall burst apart and then collapsed.

Wei Yueze discovered that Yuan Yao had actually escaped using a teleportation scroll, and his expression grew ever uglier.

At this time, the formation power was still destroying the ruined city.

The undead beasts transmitted cries of misery.

Seeing this, Wei Yueze quickly formed seals and exerted spatial power to break open this Saint‑stage formation!

At the same time—

Suddenly, a figure appeared behind him.

"Thousand Myriad Laws, Heavenly Phoenix Flowing Fire Blade!"

Wei Yueze withdrew his hand seals, then turned, raised his palm and struck out fiercely.

The two forces collided violently!

Wei Yueze saw that Yuan Yao had actually come back again, and his gaze grew increasingly sinister.

Yuan Yao raised an eyebrow and said, "Seeing me makes you unhappy, huh."

"Courting death!"

Wei Yueze's whole body erupted with an extremely terrifying pressure aura; everything around froze instantly, and even Yuan Yao could not move.

Yuan Yao's expression shifted slightly; she wanted to use her mental power to break this spatial binding.

But the next instant, the spatial blade controlled by Wei Yueze shot fiercely toward her head.

Yuan Yao's pupils contracted slightly; the first thought that rose in her mind was—

She would have to waste the life‑saving talisman her master gave her again.

But at that moment she was tackled to the ground by someone.

The two rolled several times.

Yuan Yao took a clear look—it was Xie Yan.

At this moment the white‑clad youth was almost covered in blood, with multiple deep wounds down to the bone, his face deathly pale, cold sweat pouring, looking extremely disheveled.

"Xie——" her heart jolted, she almost shouted his real name.

"Brother Xie!"

Xie Yan lifted his eyes and gazed deeply at her; in his eyes Yuan Yao's little face was pallid, her eyes bright, her injuries were not light either, and that palm was still dripping with blood.

Just as Wei Yueze was about to continue attacking them, several figures suddenly flickered into view around them.

Wei Yueze looked and saw that it was Qian Yunzhou and company again.

Wei Yueze burned with rage, his voice low: "Today, none of you will think of leaving!"

Qian Yunzhou chuckled lightly, "Today is your day of death!"

Seeing them repeatedly provoke him, Wei Yueze's face darkened to the point of dripping ink, his chest rising and falling slightly.

Suddenly, he sensed something, and his expression changed abruptly.

With a single flicker, he vanished from the spot, turning into a wisp of black smoke that sank into the ground.

Meanwhile, the ruined city was still collapsing.

Yuan Yao and Xie Yan rose to their feet and exchanged a glance with Qian Yunzhou and the others.

Yuan Yao smiled and said, "We have broken the balance."

Next, Wei Yueze will have to endure the wrath of the heavenly fire.

Suddenly, a blast sound came from the central area of the ruined city.

Looking from afar, one could see the heavenly fire shooting up from the ground and then spreading rapidly to other parts of the ruined city at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Wei Yueze appeared in midair, forming hand seals with both hands, quickly manipulating spatial power to stop the heavenly fire from spreading.

"Go!"

They quickly headed toward the central area.

Qian Yunzhou conjured a jade flute in his hand, brought it to his lips, and quickly played it.

The power of the sound attack penetrated through the air and reached Wei Yueze's front.

Boom!

Yuan Yao, Xie Yan, Feng Xuanji, Ao Jiayu, Xiao Zhufeng, and Dongfangxiu — six people — swiftly leapt up and then surrounded Wei Yueze.

And a small black thing also emerged from the heavenly fire on the ground.

That small black thing is the heavenly fire.

The heavenly fire's body suddenly swelled to dozens of times its size, huge enough that one could only look up at it; it opened its mouth and fiercely inhaled toward Wei Yueze.

"Return the primordial power to me!"

Wei Yueze's face drastically changed; he immediately unleashed a spatial technique——

"Space Domain, unfold!"

"Distort!"

Everyone sensed the spatial airflow beginning to twist, and their physical bodies were also being forcibly twisted along with it.

"Not good!" Xiao Zhufeng exclaimed; before his words even fell, a heart-rending, lung-tearing pain surged through his viscera, blood trickled from the corners of his mouth, and his flesh began to be mercilessly squeezed.

At this moment, Yuan Yao gritted her teeth, enduring the tearing and crushing pain throughout her body; her fingers fluttered like a butterfly as she quickly formed hand seals for a spell, and in an instant a barrier like a transparent shield enveloped all of them.

"Space Realm, Bind!"

But the Space Realm spell she cast could not hold for long.

Yuan Yao shouted loudly: "Heavenly Fire, hurry!"

Upon hearing that, the heavenly fire immediately extended its tiny short hand, punched and shattered the focal point of the space domain, and in the next instant it actually vanished outright.

Wei Yueze realized something and pleaded softly: "Heavenly Fire, are you really trying to put me to death?! We've known each other for over nine hundred years—how can you be so heartless?!"

Yuan Yao said in a deep voice: "Heavenly Fire, don't believe his lies; if he could deceive you once, he can deceive you again!"

The heavenly fire, which had been somewhat hesitant, after hearing Yuan Yao's words, resolutely made up its mind.

It opened its mouth and bit.

"Ahhh..." Wei Yueze suddenly let out a miserable scream, his whole body convulsing nonstop.

Only see, at the back of his neck, there was a black thing the size of a mosquito.

The heavenly fire clamped onto his lifeline, frantically sucking back the primordial power he had deceived and taken over the years.