"How dare you!"

A roar of anger, thunderous as a dragon's chant, reverberated!

The evil dragon head, which had just opened its gaping mouth, intending to unleash the resentment in its heart, trembled in shock upon hearing that roar.

The dark green flames jumping in its eyes, with a WHOOSH, were extinguished on the spot.

The dragon head, vivid as if alive, decayed at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Scales flaked off, flesh became ash.

Even the bones became a heap of fragments.

The revival of this evil dragon head was wholly sustained by a bundle of spiteful and unresigned resentment.

But at this moment, a roar from the Dragon Binding Rope directly hooked the deepest fear within the evil dragon head, instantly dousing that wisp of resentment.

Having lost the fundamental basis of its existence, the evil dragon head immediately suffered the erosion of years and dissipated into nothingness.

A single roar killed these several evil dragon heads.

The Golden True Dragon that the Dragon Binding Rope had transformed into once again concealed itself behind Qi Xiu's back.

Gazing down at the fragments on the ground, Qi Xiu's eyes flickered. With a casual grasp, he drew them into his palm and stored them inside the Golden Cry Jade Beads.

These fragments were what the evil dragon heads had turned into.

Though eroded by years and largely diminished in power, they still belonged to the Dragon Clan and might be of some use in the future.

The episode with the evil dragon heads did not delay Qi Xiu for too long.

Traveling on wind and thunder, and after about half an hour, Qi Xiu abruptly stopped in front of a vast, empty plain that stretched about ten miles to the left and right.

Billowing white smoke was coming off his body. Qi Xiu covered his mouth, coughing violently. With every breath, one could still see lightning and thunder flashing in and out.

If it weren't for the transfer and backlash by the Immortal Blood Body, I fear my flesh would have already been charred by the electricity.

Gradually calming the receding sharp pain within his body, Qi Xiu exhaled a breath of turbid air, feeling a sense of relief.

"Is this the Riding Dragon Grand Array?"

After catching his breath, Qi Xiu took a few steps forward, looking intently at the gigantic formation that stretched out over an area of ten miles ahead of him.

The entire array, like a massive map, unfurled across the ground. It consisted of numerous sub-formations of varying sizes and functions, all interwoven, interdependent, and together forming a vast, complex, and complete system.

The luminescent glow flowing in the depths of the Array Patterns, when viewed from the sky above, made the formation seem as though it was quietly breathing.

"One hundred and eight formation nodes; it won't be easy to reactivate this grand array."

Gathering his sleeves, Qi Xiu quietly surveyed the entirety of the Riding Dragon Grand Array.

He had mastered the long-lost Talisman Array Tao and thus had a holistic understanding of formations as well.

This Riding Dragon Grand Array had an ancient layout, utterly different from current array configurations, but the overall system was not too divergent.

Despite the passage of endless years causing the grand array to lose all its power and drop into deep silence, the formation pathways remained intact.

As long as sufficient power could be supplied by channeling it through the one hundred and eight formation nodes, the array could be successfully revived.

And the reason Qi Xiu mentioned it wasn't easy was because, although the range of the grand array wasn't particularly large, its network of formation pathways was over thirty times more complex than that of a normal formation. He wasn't sure if all formations related to the divine marvels of the Cosmic Bi were like this, or if it was because this grand array was just too ancient. In short, to channel through all one hundred and eight formation nodes, the energy required would be enormous.

"How come it feels... like it was designed especially for me?"

Unbidden, the image of that old ghost, Elder Shui, surfaced in his mind. Qi Xiu's eyes narrowed slightly, and a trace of suspicion arose in his heart.

However, with the arrow already on the string, this was not the time for hesitation and doubt.

Stepping onto one of the formation nodes, Qi Xiu bent down to press his palm upon it.

「The next instant!」

All three hundred and sixty-five Hunyuan Apertures surged to life simultaneously!

BOOM!

The void trembled violently, as if an invisible colossal storm had been stirred up in the cosmos, drawing in endless streams of air into the Hunyuan Apertures.

In a blink, above Qi Xiu's head, unending hues of color spread like a noble canopy, continuously drawing in the essences of the heavens into his body.

After cultivating the Innate Mixed Yuan Holy Body and forging the three hundred and sixty-five Hunyuan Apertures, this was the first time he had revived all his power.

For a moment, his eyes were nearly filled with the radiance of those hues.

His entire being seemed to transform into a deity descending upon the earth; his veins and blood arteries appeared to flow with crystalline hues.

"Hunyuan Essences, enter my magical body! Rise!"

With a light shout, Qi Xiu instantly injected the roaring torrent of immense true essence within him straight into the Riding Dragon Grand Array below!

HUMMM—

Long desiccated and withered from disuse, the formation suddenly received such tremendous true essence. The dim and silent formation pathways lit up slightly, and the whole formation shook abruptly.

Watching as one formation pathway slowly filled up, spreading slowly outward, Qi Xiu frowned slightly.

"This is too slow."

With the index and middle finger of his left hand raised, Qi Xiu formed a Daoist Incantation and shouted lowly, unlocking all the restraints at once.

Three hundred and sixty-five points of light suddenly blazed all over his body!

Beams of light burst forth from the Hunyuan Apertures, shooting up into the sky. Then, like a meteor shower falling from the Nine Heavens, they ferociously bombarded the formation beneath him.

CRASH! BOOM!

With the strength of one person, he forcibly revived this extremely ancient and massive array.

The dull and withered Riding Dragon Grand Array shed layer upon layer of accumulated ash, revealing the pure and gleaming silver base of the Array Plate below.

Just as Qi Xiu was preparing to push through and connect all one hundred and eight formation nodes, a thick, unbearable stench of blood and decay swept over. The heavy scent of corruption in the air seemed to want to pull all living beings into decaying coffins.

"Finally… found you…"

Leaning on the wall with one hand, his body almost reduced to a skeleton with only half his face flesh remaining, Nie Biao's blood-red, frenzied eyes fixed on Qi Xiu, and his fangs visibly grew at an alarming rate!

"Even if I die today, I will take you down with me!"

Nearly killed by Qi Xiu, having detonated his protective golden armor and exhausted all nine of his Immortal Blood Bodies, Nie Biao had no other thoughts left in his mind. His only desire was to kill this treacherous, utterly detestable Daoist!

"Take me down with you? With you in your current state?"

Glancing at the pathetic Nie Biao, Qi Xiu let out a cold laugh, his Ancestral Aperture at his brow faintly lit.

His Divine Soul stepped out with a sweep of his sleeve and a stride.

If it had been ten days ago, indeed, he was no match for this Blood-Stained Peak aberration clad in a protective golden armor. But now, Nie Biao was gravely injured, his nine lives all but extinguished, his protective armor gone. And although he was still at the First Heavenly Layer of Blood Stain in terms of Cultivation, he had achieved the Realm of True Spirit of the Soul. The gap between the two men was long gone!

Leaving his physical body to continue channeling true essence into the Riding Dragon Grand Array and connect the formation nodes, Qi Xiu confronted this aberrant corpse demon directly with his spiritual body!

"Divine Soul True Spirit… you've actually obtained such fortune?"

Seeing that Qi Xiu had already achieved Divine Soul True Spirit, jealousy and resentment flickered more intensely in Nie Biao's eyes.

Attaining Divine Soul True Spirit at Bloodstained LayerOne. Such an excellent seedling indeed. This fine seedling must be killed early; otherwise, once he grows up, he will surely be a formidable enemy to us Demonic Evil Cultivators!

He added another reason to kill Qi Xiu to his mind.

Nie Biao wasted no words. Two lumps of flesh suddenly swelled on his back. With a SQUELCH, mucus flowed as hideous and ugly meat-wings sprouted. His terrifying physique turned into a bolt of light, shooting straight toward Qi Xiu.

With a casual gesture, the Golden Cry Jade Beads from the physical body's wrist abruptly fell into Qi Xiu's hand.

"[Suppressing Talisman · Eighteenfold Suppression and Annihilation]"

Eighteen dazzling golden Talisman Scripts surged out, suddenly turning into eighteen domineering and turbulent golden beams, furiously slamming into Nie Biao.

The Suppressing Talisman held three Divine Marvels: Suppress, Defend, Destroy!

The one Qi Xiu used most often was the Marvel of Suppression, followed by the Marvel of Defend.

But the initial Divine Marvel of the Suppressing Talisman turned out to be the least used: the Marvel of Destroy!

The reason for its rare use was that his calligraphy-related Divine Marvel was not of a high level in the past, and the power of the Suppressing Talisman correlated directly with his Divine Soul Realm. Back then, the force of Destruction was far inferior to the Shenxiao Thunder Skill and the Gourd Sword Skill.

But now that his calligraphy-related Divine Marvel had reached the Sixth Realm, and Qi Xiu's Divine Soul Realm had advanced into the True Spirit Phase, the Divine Marvel of Destruction could finally reveal its truly domineering and majestic nature.

One flash of annihilating golden light after another passed through Nie Biao's Pinnacle of the Bloodstained Realm physique like a knife through tofu.

The lingering gold at the edges of his wounds acted like relentless maggots, constantly eroding his flesh.

"ARRGGHH!!!"

The pain of being forcibly eroded by the annihilating golden light was excruciating. Nie Biao screamed miserably but didn't slow down in the slightest; instead, he charged more ferociously than ever.

"[Dematerialize]"

His figure became blurry and ethereal as Qi Xiu activated the Divine Marvel of the Mo Jiao, looking emotionlessly as Nie Biao passed through his body.

"What?"

Startled by the continuously flickering and blurring figure of Qi Xiu, Nie Biao was about to activate his Dharma Gate to turn and attack again.

But a fierce and cold black river had already engulfed him, with turbulent waters rapidly rising to his neck.

Underwater, numerous powerful skeletal arms frantically tore at him, intending to drag him deep down and drown him in the icy depths.

"ROAR!"

With a heavenward roar, an infinite surge of corpse-evil energy suddenly shredded through the Tong Tian He Fu Zhen array. The air filled with an unbearably thick stench of blood. Bending his body to gather strength, Nie Biao stomped mightily.

BOOM!

The ground shook violently as the corpse demon burst through the air like a meteor shell, astonishing in its momentum. In the blink of an eye, he rocketed towards Qi Xiu, his right hand fiercely thrusting out.

His hand had somehow become withered and ghastly, as if belonging to a dried corpse, covered in a thick, ominous aura of curses.

This was a fearsome power that could permeate the void, impossible to evade!

BANG!

But just then, five terrifying fists, each as large as a city gate, simultaneously bombarded him. Wind and thunder surged around them, an unstoppable, mountain-collapsing force crushing down. Nie Biao's eyes widened instantly. After a deafening CRASH, he was thrown back like a ragdoll.

Standing with his sleeves gathered behind the imposing figures of the Five Thunder Demon-Subduing Grand Deity, Qi Xiu smiled gently at Nie Biao, who was struggling to stand, shaking his head.

Turning his palm over, one Rune Array after another appeared, endlessly emerging.

"No rush," he said. "We can play slowly."

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