Chapter 19: Battle the Ferocious Tide, Taiyi Is Injured

Following that conversation with Nüwa, the two also exchanged much afterward, but it basically ended without incident.

More than half of a Great Cycle passed in an instant.

At this moment, the surroundings of Cloud Dream Marsh were completely surrounded by ferocious beasts.

The ferocious beasts' strength was more than double what it was before; previously, tens of thousands of zhang ferocious beasts were few, but now they are everywhere.

There were also many ferocious beasts over a hundred thousand zhang, and even several exceeding two hundred thousand zhang.

Over these years, countless ferocious beasts have died around Cloud Dream Marsh, and most of their corpses have become food for the evolution of their kind.

"At most ten thousand years, and Cloud Dream Marsh will have completely survived this calamity."

Qi sighed.

Since the ferocious beasts' great evolution began completely ten thousand years ago, basically each of them now possesses the strength of a Heavenly Immortal, with about one layer even comparable to a Golden Immortal.

A small portion of the ferocious beasts exceeding two hundred thousand zhang actually have strength not much different from theirs, already possessing the battle power of a Great One Realm.

They simply cannot fully unleash it.

Lacking spiritual intelligence, they can only rely on instinct, which dooms them to being unable to maximize their advantages.

They can only rely on their brute physical bodies to attack, and the timing of using divine abilities is hard to grasp.

Even their own physical strength cannot be fully exerted, but occasionally they still have a stroke of genius that causes massive destruction.

The ferocious beasts' current attack formation no longer randomly uses divine abilities as before.

They simultaneously unleash divine abilities from the twelve directions of Cloud Dream Marsh, attacking the relatively weak points in the formation.

After all, we are only at the Great One Realm, still insufficient to construct a truly perfect grand formation.

But the current formation is already the limit of what they can achieve.

At this moment, the Primordial Cloud Dream Grand Formation is also sufficient to be called one of the top five formations of the Primordial Era.

In the future it might not rank, but for now it is supreme in the Primordial Era.

Yet at this moment, the Primordial Cloud Dream Grand Formation shimmers with ripples, as if it might rupture any second.

Seeing this, Qi was about to rise, but Taiyi pressed him down.

"You first repair the formation with Fuxi; this time I'll go."

Taiyi said, rose, and prepared to leave; relying on the formation's transmission, he can now flexibly appear at any corner of Cloud Dream Marsh.

"You've only just rested; perhaps I should go instead."

Facing Qi's concern, Taiyi confidently smiled and said:

"I hold the Chaos Bell in hand; under heaven, few can oppose me!"

"These mere beasts without spiritual intelligence cannot even harm me."

Hearing this, Qi felt it reasonable, after all Taiyi's battle prowess is unmatched in this world.

Now some weak points of the grand formation have been blasted out by the ferocious beasts.

Whenever the formation changes, they first unleash a wave of divine abilities to sweep the ground, then observe the loopholes.

In the end it has become like this now: only people can be sent out to attack the beast tide, drawing attention.

To buy time to repair the formation and add some new variations.

It's just a pity that the ferocious beasts are outside; we cannot make major changes, otherwise we wouldn't be so passive.

Outside the grand formation.

Taiyi stood with his hands behind his back, the Chaos Bell hovering beside him.

Only see Taiyi extend his right hand, lightly extend his right hand, and tap the body of the Chaos Bell.

Instantly, a visible sound wave spread toward the beast tide.

The divine abilities originally attacking the grand formation were instantly interrupted; all beast clans at the sound wave's center were reduced to ashes, leaving not a trace.

Hearing this terrifying bell roar, the beast tide emitted a howl, and three ferocious beasts over two hundred thousand zhang tall charged at Taiyi.

As they walked, the earth shook and mountains trembled, with waves of foul wind.

One beast resembled a horse, with a lion's head and deer antlers, spikes on its back, a howl like a wolf's, yet had a pig's tail.

One beast resembled a pig, with three pairs of tusks, and eight ox tails continually striking the ground.

One beast resembled a tiger, with flesh wings on its back, crimson eyes, no fur, and tiny wings, making it the only one of the three ferocious beasts that cannot fly.

The three ferocious beasts, upon seeing Taiyi, visibly paused their running.

But they had no choice but to surround Taiyi, circling around him.

The tiger-shaped ferocious beast suddenly vanished when it walked behind Taiyi, becoming invisible and inaudible.

Seeing this, Taiyi furrowed his brow; this evil beast's concealment technique has advanced again.

Now neither the naked eye nor spiritual sense can detect where it is.

Suddenly an idea came to mind; Taiyi summoned a spark of true solar fire and hurled it at the ground.

The true fire instantly spread out; the ferocious beasts' bodies were too large, forcing them to reveal their true forms.

The three ferocious beasts' bodies began to shrink, becoming roughly the same size as Taiyi.

Their massive size was only a burden and a target; after shrinking, although their destructive power decreased, their threat increased greatly.

Taiyi found their three‑way siege merely annoying, not taking it to heart.

Together, the three are roughly comparable to Di Jun or Fuxi, still somewhat lacking compared to Nüwa.

However, they now cooperate seamlessly, fear death not, and their thick skin and tough flesh make them troublesome.

But for some unknown reason, he felt an ominous premonition.

Taiyi again activated the Chaos Bell, but no sound was emitted, only fine ripples spreading out.

These ripples are a phenomenon formed by distorted space, one of the Chaos Bell's abilities.

The ripples spread outward; wherever they reached, space shattered piece by piece, giving the surrounding area an unreal feeling at this moment.

The ripples seemed to have touched something.

Taiyi raised his head and looked, discovering that the surrounding space was merely twisted, without shattering.

Suddenly, more than ten figures appeared in that space, with ferocious beasts hiding among them.

No one knew when they had appeared, but they caused the people paying attention in the great formation to rise one after another, anxiously spreading the word outward.

The moment those ferocious beasts revealed themselves, they gathered their divine abilities and attacked Taiyi.

When Taiyi just saw those ferocious beasts, he was somewhat shocked, but he instantly reacted, invoking the Chaos Bell to protect himself.

Before the ferocious beasts' divine abilities arrived, a ray of spiritual light emanated from Chaos, enveloping Taiyi.

Under the onslaught of many divine abilities, Taiyi hastily defended himself, but was struck down to the ground.

Before the assassin could continue attacking, the pure light of the World-Opening White Jade Node smashed down.

"Taiyi!"

Everyone shouted in unison.

"It's fine, these beasts can't kill me; I just might need to rest for a while after this battle."

Taiyi floated up from the ground, his golden robe slightly torn, his complexion faintly pale, with traces of blood trickling from the corner of his mouth.

Overall, it was no serious hindrance; his injury was not particularly severe.

Only then did everyone withdraw their gazes and aim at the ferocious beasts.

He no longer spoke; the anger in his heart could only be released through blood.

Qi raised the World-Opening White Jade Node and waved it; the World-Opening White Jade Node transformed from a short whip into a long whip.

The pure light extended with the whip's length, attacking the ferocious beasts; anything that obstructed it would shatter upon contact.

With this whip, Qi struck out in anger, and the pure light condensed into substance.

It struck the head of a ferocious beast; instantly its skull burst, and juices sprayed everywhere.

This whip actually blew apart the head of a ferocious beast comparable to a Taiyi Golden Immortal in a single strike, leaving it utterly lifeless on the spot.

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