Chapter 2020: Dark Night Demonic Shadow

The five of them were still discussing the matter of the Formless Heavenly Demon.

"Then you didn't contact the palace?"

"I already contacted them, but recently the palace couldn't spare anyone; those above the rank of Immortal Elder are all tied up, so we have to wait."

"Then that's all we can do; ensure the Immortal Formation has no issues in the short term."

"Recently, keep a close watch on some formations."

"Let us five take turns guarding to ensure the formation is flawless."

"Yes."

The five came up with a countermeasure, but they completely failed to notice that a strand of black light that had followed them out had silently sunk into the ground.

Beneath this courtyard lies a formation eye.

And this formation eye is precisely the eye of the Immortal Formation that imprisons the Formless Heavenly Demon.

The formation and its eye were set up in two separate places precisely for safety.

Normally, once trapped within the formation, the Formless Heavenly Demon would have no chance of even touching the eye, let alone damaging it.

But over the years, whenever the Formless Heavenly Demon gets a chance, it forcibly tears out a strand of its own soul origin.

Know that damage to the soul origin is extremely severe, and the pain endured during it is torment beyond what ordinary people can bear.

Yet the Formless Heavenly Demon personally bit by bit tears its own soul origin, and has remained undiscovered all this time.

In order to break free from the Immortal Formation's bonds, it doesn't even care about its soul origin anymore—this is irreversible damage.

Once lost, it's lost forever; even with greater cultivation, it cannot be regenerated, completely unlike flesh and soul, akin to the loss of a tree's roots.

The black light sank underground and quickly found the formation eye; at the same time, as if summoned, hundreds of strands of black light densely sprouted from within the eye.

"The chance to break free is tonight."

At the formation eye, the Formless Heavenly Demon's voice whispered softly.

Immediately, those hundreds of soul origins quickly coalesced and then surged violently toward the formation eye.

At the moment the soul origins violently collided with the formation eye, the eye erupted with a terrifying force, as if trying to forcibly erase the soul origins.

Unfortunately, the Formless Heavenly Demon has prepared for years, unknowingly accumulating enough soul origin at the needle eye.

So the formation eye was unsuccessful; the soul origins forcibly rushed into its interior.

The next second, cracks began to appear on the formation eye,

the cracks spread rapidly, instantly covering the entire formation eye.

Within the cracks, a faint white light mixed with black emanated.

After holding on for about ten breaths, the formation eye finally reached its limit, could no longer endure, and with a shattering sound, it completely broke apart.

As soon as the formation eye shattered, a golden light shot straight up into the sky.

Outside, in the small courtyard where the five were, the ground suddenly shook violently, and then beams of light began to flash from the cracks in the ground, drawing nearer.

"Oh no, something's wrong with the formation eye."

"The Immortal Formation..."

"Damn it."

The five all realized at once that things were dire, but it was already too late—the formation eye was broken, and there was nothing they could do.

The light from the formation eye tore through the ground, shot straight to the horizon, and bathed the Four Directions Immortal City in the night as if it were daytime.

Numerous cultivators in the city were jolted awake from their Xiūliàn; in the Gōulán, the men and women originally entwined cried out in shock and sprang to their beds.

The gazes of all the cultivators in the city were fixed firmly on the white light in the sky.

Nobody understood why, all of a sudden, this white light appeared from nowhere.

Fortunately, the white light came quickly and went just as fast.

It lasted less than a hundred breaths before slowly dissipating; the white light faded, and darkness once again shrouded the immortal city.

Seeing that everything seemed to have returned to calm, the many cultivators finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Although they were still full of doubt, not knowing where the white light came from, it seemed to cause no harm.

It caused no serious consequences and then disappeared.

But others didn't know that the five middle-aged men hidden high above already had faces grim to the extreme.

The disappearance of the formation eye's light signified that the formation eye was gone entirely; without its eye, can the Immortal Formation still trap the Formless Heavenly Demon?

Although the five said nothing, the answer was already obvious.

The Four Directions Immortal City is doomed; this is an outcome the five all know in their hearts.

In the mysterious space, iron chains were being frantically pulled, and in the darkness it seemed as if a 'giant beast' were about to burst forth.

Those iron chains strained with all their might to bind that 'giant beast', but even after exerting everything, as the light of the surrounding formations gradually dimmed and the gang wind and stone fragments weakened bit by bit,

The first iron chain snapped.

With the breaking of the first iron chain, it was as if Pandora's box had been opened; the remaining chains, under that brute force, snapped one after another.

Within the entire space, an extremely evil aura rose bit by bit, and in an instant it filled the whole space.

At the same time, the Formless Heavenly Demon's head, like a sun and moon, once again protruded from the darkness.

But this time, it was filled with an oppressive evil.

"Hahaha, after a thousand years of preparation, my liberation is today."

The few remaining iron chains cannot possibly stop the Formless Heavenly Demon; breaking the seal is now inevitable.

The space trembled, and above the Four Directions Immortal City, after the white light faded, the many cultivators had just breathed a sigh of relief, preparing to carry on with whatever they were doing.

The next second, as the sky had just regained calm, accompanied by a tremendous roar, a rift tearing through heaven and earth was ripped open.

"What now?"

Someone frowned and looked up, but upon seeing that tiny tear in space, they were instantly stunned.

Such a huge spatial rift, this.......................

And as the spatial rift appeared, that extreme evil aura also followed into the Immortal Realm.

In the next second, a black big hand simply grabbed the edge of the spatial rift.

That was a black big hand directly gripping the space.

Just a glance at the volume of this hand gives an overwhelming sense of oppression.

The palm alone is larger than the entire Four Directions Immortal City.

In other words, the Four Directions Immortal City could be leveled with a single slap before this palm.

And as one of the Twenty-Four Immortal Cities, the Four Directions Immortal City naturally covers a large area.

Even a single palm is this huge, hard to imagine; how large could whatever lies behind this spatial rift be?

"What is it?"

"I don't know."

"Something is about to come out."

"What's going on with this aura?"

"My Línglì.............."

Many cultivators were still watching the excitement, but someone suddenly exploded without any warning, turning into a ball of blood mist, with flesh and blood splattering all over the ground.

This sudden scene left the surrounding people stunned, standing there dumbstruck as if struck by lightning, momentarily forgetting how to react.