Chapter 1054

Both the suppression of the Five Directions and Five Elements Array and the suppression of the Time Dao's true spirit were instantly severed.

At the same level, nothing can bind a powerhouse whose main path is the Dao of the Sword.

The Dao of the Sword cuts through all things.

Even the Dao itself can be severed.

After severing his own suppression, Saint Tongtian wished to sever the suppression on Luo Fu and the Twelve Ancestral Wushu.

Before he could act, Saint Tongtian sensed his own suppression slowly recovering.

That single sword strike, though it broke his own suppression, only treated the symptom, not the root.

Within the Twelve Zodiacs' Small Heaven, the suppression from the Five Directions and Five Elements Array and the suppression from the Time Dao's true spirit flowed endlessly.

The Dao of the Sword at the Hunyuan layer can indeed sever suppression, but only temporarily.

It is like using a sword to cut a river.

With sufficient strength, one can indeed divide rivers and sever seas—but one can only part them, not permanently cut them off.

Water is liquid, not solid.

Once a solid is cut, it cannot easily restore itself. Liquid is different: as soon as the obstruction vanishes, it flows back together.

The suppression from the Five Directions and Five Elements Array and the suppression from the Time Dao's true spirit are endless liquids.

Unless Saint Tongtian maintains his sword qi continuously, the severed suppression will eventually restore itself.

Continuously maintaining sword qi is not impossible.

Saint Tongtian, too, holds the Saintly rank and can channel Heavenly Dao energy.

With Heavenly Dao energy bolstering him, Saint Tongtian could waste magic power freely.

Thinking of this, Saint Tongtian immediately began communing with the Heavenly Dao.

The next instant, Saint Tongtian froze slightly.

His connection to the Heavenly Dao was suddenly blocked by an invisible force.

This invisible force only blocked his connection to the Heavenly Dao—it did not sever it outright.

That meant he was still a Saint, but had lost the Heavenly Dao's blessing.

The only one capable of this was Ancestor Hongjun.

When he acted, Saint Tongtian knew this day would come sooner or later.

He just never expected it to come in this form.

Ancestor Hongjun had not directly stripped his Saintly rank—he had chosen to seal it.

With his Saintly rank sealed, Saint Tongtian's combat power plummeted drastically.

Without the Heavenly Dao's blessing, Saint Tongtian had no confidence he could fully block the suppression from the Five Directions and Five Elements Array and the Time Dao's true spirit.

If they could not dispel the suppression from the Five Directions and Five Elements Array and the Time Dao's true spirit, Saint Tongtian saw their defeat as inevitable.

With the Five Directions and Five Elements Array and the Time Dao's true spirit bolstering them, the existing gap between both sides had been amplified more than tenfold.

With such a vast disparity, even Saint Tongtian, no matter how confident, had no assurance he could overcome them.

His gaze turned to Luo Fu, a questioning light flickering in his eyes.

He wanted to know if Luo Fu had any countermeasures.

If Luo Fu had none, then they had only one choice.

That was to unleash all their power and shatter the Twelve Zodiacs' Small Heaven.

As soon as the Twelve Zodiacs' Small Heaven was shattered, all suppression would vanish.

After shattering the Twelve Zodiacs' Small Heaven, they would immediately flee into the Chaos Void.

Once inside the Chaos Void, offense and defense would instantly reverse.

The Twelve Zodiacs' entire power drew almost entirely from the Heavenly Dao.

Once deprived of the Heavenly Dao, they would lose nearly all their strength.

Of course, Saint Tongtian's plan could only succeed if Ancestor Hongjun did not stop them from entering the Chaos Void.

For this, Saint Tongtian had no absolute certainty.

Therefore, Saint Tongtian still hoped Luo Fu had some means to break their suppression.

Luo Fu did not speak, but his gaze sharpened as he began communing with the Hunyuan Eternal Open Heaven Sword.

The next moment, a gray sword shot forth from the Hunyuan Eternal Open Heaven Sword and slashed toward the Time River above with lightning speed.

Splash!

Infinite waves surged wildly through the Time River, turning the entire river into a frenzy.

As a result, the difficulty of communing with the Time River rose again.

Drawing upon the Time River's power became extremely difficult.

Instantly, the world of Luo Fu, the Twelve Ancestral Wushu, and Saint Tongtian slowed once more.

The Time Dao's blessing upon them had not been fully dispelled, but its effect had dropped from fourfold to less than onefold.

Likewise, the blessings upon their past and future selves were also greatly weakened.

Luo Fu's price was the immediate collapse of the Time River behind him.

For a short time, Luo Fu could not summon the Time River again.

Unless Luo Fu revealed his true mastery of the Time Dao and forcibly summoned the Time River.

Although Luo Fu, unlike the Time Dao's true spirit, lacked infinite magic power to continuously maintain the Time Dao's blessing and suppression, he could still destroy it.

The Time Dao's true spirit's realm was not his own—he possessed it only through the Time River.

What is not one's own always has flaws.

The Time Dao's true spirit's most obvious flaw was the Time River.

A normal True Spirit of the Time Dao relies on its own Dao power to manifest divine abilities.

The True Spirit of the Time Dao summoned by the Twelve Yuan Chen is different—it requires the Time Dao and the Time River of the Primordial World to manifest its divine abilities.

Therefore, merely disrupting the Time River can render the True Spirit of the Time Dao useless.

After neutralizing the True Spirit of the Time Dao, the next target to eliminate is the suppression of the Five Directions, Five Elements Great Array.

As for this, Luo Fu was well practiced.

Splash!

Behind Luo Fu, the Five Elements Dao appeared likewise, also at the Hunyuan layer.

His method of weakening the True Spirit of the Time Dao was to disrupt the Time River.

This technique did not require constant maintenance.

For a short time, Luo Fu could not summon the Time River again, and the Hunyuan-layer Time Dao lost its effect.

Thus, Luo Fu replaced the Dao upon the Hunyuan Eternal Open Heaven Sword with the Five Elements Dao.

The Five Elements flowed and spread instantly throughout the Twelve Yuan Chen's small realm.

Under Luo Fu's manipulation, the two streams of Five Elements Dao began to entangle.

The operation of the Five Directions, Five Elements Great Array was immediately disrupted.

The suppression covering the entire Twelve Yuan Chen's small realm was greatly diminished.

Moreover, the aura of the past forms of the Five Sacred Beasts also weakened considerably.

This clearly showed that the operation of the Five Directions, Five Elements Great Array had been heavily affected.

This was the result Luo Fu could have achieved while holding back.

If Luo Fu wished, not merely weakening it, but outright shattering the Five Directions, Five Elements Great Array would be but a thought away.