Chapter 1056

Under duress, the Twelve Yuan Chen could only begin to activate their past and future selves for attack.

Luo Fu had merely made a simple move, yet he had already weakened the suppression from the Five Directions Five Elements Great Array and the True Spirit of the Time Dao by a great deal.

If Luo Fu continued to act, no one knew what might happen.

Boom!

Two torrents of heavenly murderous qi began to rise.

The Twelve Celestial Murderous Qi Great Array began to activate, and soon, two Pangu bodies appeared within the Twelve Yuan Chen's small realm.

As soon as the Pangu bodies appeared, their primal, tyrannical aura became unmistakable.

Luo Fu, the Twelve Ancestral Witches, and Saint Tongtian all felt a sudden heaviness across their bodies, as if subjected to some invisible suppression.

Of course, Luo Fu, the Twelve Ancestral Witches, and Saint Tongtian all understood that this suppression originated from the spiritual level.

Though merely condensed by the Twelve Celestial Murderous Qi Great Array, the Pangu body carried a trace of Pangu's aura.

Pangu was a figure of immense stature; even a trace of his aura could impose tremendous pressure.

Even Luo Fu's true self would feel pressure when facing Pangu.

Pangu was a half-Dao-level powerhouse.

Luo Fu's accumulation was extraordinarily profound; even without breaking through to the Hunyuan layer, his combat power was no less than that of a typical Dao-level cultivator.

But Dao-level cultivators? Pangu had killed countless of them in his time.

Ordinary Dao-level cultivators were no more than chicks before Pangu.

"First Form of the Nine Heavenly Opening Forms: Axe Sweeps the Demons!"

The past and future selves were reflections of past and future, identical to the present self; whatever the present self mastered, the past and future selves also mastered.

What the present self had not mastered, the future self had mastered.

Of course, under normal circumstances, the gap between the future self and the present self was not large.

Under normal conditions, the temporal span between the summoned past and future selves and the present self was never great.

The greater the temporal span, the greater the pressure endured.

Especially the future self—summoning the future self was equivalent to peering into a future tributary.

The longer the exploration, the more future possibilities were glimpsed.

To the Time River, this was forbidden.

Thus, the temporal span between the past and future selves and the present self was generally no more than one or two days, even just a few hours.

The past had already occurred and could not affect the present.

As for the future, the Twelve Yuan Chen summoned only one branch of a possible future.

The future had countless branches; losing one had no effect.

Indeed, the absence of this time branch might give rise to countless new branches.

The Twelve Celestial Murderous Qi Great Array allowed the Twelve Ancestral Witches' past and future selves to wield the Nine Heavenly Opening Forms—naturally, they could also wield them.

Two colossal axe lights, moving too fast for the naked eye to discern, slashed down toward Luo Fu, the Twelve Ancestral Witches, and Saint Tongtian.

Originally, the Pangu body's speed was not fast.

The Pangu body was merely condensed by the Twelve Celestial Murderous Qi Great Array, with obvious flaws—it was bound by the array's limitations, could not freely unleash its power, and was not strong in all aspects.

Pangu's path was one of proving the Dao through brute force; his physical body was immensely powerful.

The Twelve Celestial Murderous Qi Great Array inherited this trait; the Pangu body it condensed was extraordinarily strong in power and physical resilience.

Even a Saint would retreat three steps upon encountering a Pangu body.

In contrast, the Pangu body's speed was significantly inferior.

After all, Pangu was not skilled in speed.

At Pangu's realm, pure speed had lost all meaning.

Under the suppression of Dao-force, speed could not be unleashed at all—you could only be slaughtered at will.

The Twelve Ancestral Witches had not reached that realm; speed was still crucial to them.

Speed was a weakness of the Pangu body.

To resist a Saint with only a Semi-Saint body was already extraordinarily difficult; one could not demand the Pangu body excel in every single aspect.

Yet under the Twelve Yuan Chen's control, this weakness of the Pangu body was compensated for.

With the augmentation of the Time Dao, the Twelve Yuan Chen's manipulated Pangu body moved four times faster than the Twelve Ancestral Witches'.

Thus, as the two sky-obscuring axe lights were about to strike, the Twelve Ancestral Witches had barely managed to swing one axe light.

This was the strength of the Twelve Yuan Chen's small realm.

Summoning identical past and future selves through the Time Dao was already beyond what most could handle; the Twelve Yuan Chen could still apply buffs from the sidelines.

No other buffs were needed—merely time acceleration and deceleration could let the past and future selves brutally overwhelm the present self.

Boom!

The axe light swung by the Twelve Ancestral Witches collided with one swung by the past and future self.

The collision between them caused no unexpected issues.

Due to suppression from the Five Directions Five Elements Great Array, the axe light swung by the Twelve Ancestral Witches was slightly weaker than that of the past and future self—but not by much.

Thus, the result of their collision was mutual annihilation in the void.

The augmentation of the Time Dao merely sped up or slowed down the flow of time; it did not affect speed itself, nor did it alter the axe light's power.

The Twelve Ancestral Witches had only time to swing one axe light, and only one axe light was annihilated in the collision.

One other axe light was still hurtling toward Saint Tongtian.

Swoosh!

Riiiiip~~~

At that moment, Saint Tongtian acted.

The Dao of the Sword descended; a brilliant blade of light bloomed from the Qingping Sword. Saint Tongtian raised the Qingping Sword and slashed at the falling axe light.

A blade of light, thinner than a cicada's wing, suddenly shot forth from the Qingping Sword.

Saint Tongtian's Dao of the Sword had also broken through to the Hunyuan layer.

Unlike the Twelve Yuan Chen and Luo Fu, Saint Tongtian's Dao of the Sword was genuinely at the Hunyuan layer—not barely achieving it through amplification.

Because he had broken through himself, Saint Tongtian could perfectly control the Dao of the Sword.

After five hundred years of contemplation, Saint Tongtian had nearly fully mastered the Hunyuan-layer Dao of the Sword.

The Dao of the Sword's trait of severing all things, Saint Tongtian could also perfectly unleash through his sword qi.

In fact, when Saint Tongtian had just severed the suppression, he had already activated this trait.

With the appearance of the thin-as-cicada-wing blade of light, all suppression upon Saint Tongtian was torn apart in an instant.

The thin-as-cicada-wing blade of light sliced through layer upon layer of void, appearing directly before the axe light, then effortlessly piercing through it.

Crack!

A faint, barely audible snap rang out—the axe light split cleanly in two.

Moreover, torrents of sword qi raged from the fracture.

In but a moment, the axe light was utterly dissolved.