The Chaos Bell sensed the restraint and rumbled of its own accord. Xuanhuang qi erupted, attempting to shatter those dark chains.
However, there were far too many chains, an endless stream of them, and they were further empowered by the grand formation of the foreign domain, making them incomparably tough.
Though the Xuanhuang qi could annihilate them in great swathes, new chains immediately filled the gaps, clinging like a disease in the bones, constantly coiling around it!
The Chaos Bell’s vibrations began to grow sluggish. The falling Xuanhuang qi was compressed, and the images of sun, moon, stars, earth, water, fire, and wind flowing across the bell’s surface seemed to be interfered with as well, slowing down!
The connection between it and Lu Xuan also seemed to be partially isolated and weakened by the power of this Myriad Weapons Grand Formation!
Lu Xuan immediately felt the pressure on him soar!
The Chaos Bell was his greatest reliance. Now that it was temporarily restricted, though his connection to it had not been completely severed, the might he could mobilize was greatly reduced.
The Blade King’s incomparably sharp blade intent surged over like a tide in an instant, causing the chaotic currents protecting Lu Xuan’s body to tremble violently. Even his skin felt that bone-piercing edge!
“Haha! Let’s see how long you can keep relying on that broken bell!”
Seeing this, the Red King let out a smug sneer. Together with Wushang, his offensive grew even more urgent, firmly holding back Time-Space and Annihilation.
The Blade King’s eyes were icy. Seizing this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, he held two fingers together like a blade. Emperor Light radiance condensed at his fingertips, and an ultimate blade intent locked onto Lu Xuan, whose aura had shown the slightest disorder!
“It’s over.”
Before the blade light even arrived, that extreme sharpness had already made Lu Xuan’s primordial spirit sting, and the very foundation of his Great Dao wavered!
Crisis!
An unprecedented crisis!
The hearts of the kings of the Immortal Domain rose to their throats. Could it be that this hope which had just risen was about to fall here?
However, in the face of this desperate situation, feeling the Chaos Bell’s struggle and the sluggishness of their weakened connection, feeling that Emperor Light blade intent powerful enough to be fatal—
Not only was there no fear in Lu Xuan’s eyes, a strange gleam flashed through them instead.
All along, he had mostly been using the Chaos Bell, relying on its supreme might.
Now, when that external power was temporarily restricted, it was as though the hardest shell around him had been stripped away. Instead, he felt his own Great Dao even more clearly, and felt the power within his body that originated from Donghuang Taiyi’s inheritance!
At this moment, there was no longer the slightest trace in Lu Xuan’s eyes of dependence on external objects. Replacing it was an absolute confidence and majesty that came from his bloodline, from the source of his Dao!
“You think that by restricting my bell, you can do anything to me?”
Lu Xuan’s voice was calm, yet it carried an ancient rhythm, like an echo from the primordial starry sky.
He no longer tried to forcibly control the Chaos Bell. Instead, he drew all of his mind and power back into himself!
Within his body, the inheritance imprint belonging to Donghuang Taiyi grew scorching and brilliant at an unprecedented speed!
“Li—!!!”
A piercing cry that seemed capable of tearing apart the eternal heavens suddenly erupted from Lu Xuan’s body!
This cry belonged to no bird of the mortal world. It carried the resplendent might of the great sun and the mystery of chaos at the dawn of creation!
Crimson-gold divine light, dazzling to the extreme, shot out from every pore of his body like the first flame at the birth of the universe! His body rapidly transformed within the radiance!
His feet became golden talons capable of tearing apart the void. His arms turned into heaven-shrouding wings burning with eternal true fire.
His body was covered in radiant feathers flowing with solar essence, and his head transformed into the head of a Golden Crow that looked down upon all heavens!
In the blink of an eye, a Chaos Golden Crow so vast as to be unimaginable, its outstretched wings enough to cover a galaxy, stretched across the battlefield at the border pass!
This was not an ordinary Golden Crow dharma form, but the Taiyi Golden Crow True Body that Lu Xuan had condensed by fusing Donghuang Taiyi’s inheritance and taking the Golden Crow bloodline of this world as its foundation!
Upon its feathers was not merely pure true solar fire, but chaotic currents intertwined with it. Every single feather seemed to carry a miniature star, and also seemed to contain a newly opened chaos within!
As its twin pupils opened and closed, scenes of the universe’s birth and destruction flowed endlessly!
A terrifying pressure, even more primordial and even closer to the source of the Great Dao, swept outward like a storm!
“This is... the Golden Crow True Body?! How could it possess such might?!”
An Immortal King of the Immortal Domain cried out in shock. He had seen experts of the Golden Crow race manifest their true forms before, but compared to this Chaos Golden Crow before him, which seemed to have stepped out of myth itself, they were simply fireflies before the bright moon!
“His bloodline... has evolved! No, it’s atavism! It has reverted to an unimaginable level!”
Immortal King Qingwei’s beautiful eyes shone with repeated flashes of brilliance as she sensed that pressure originating from the very source of life.
On the side of the foreign domain, those Immortal Kings were even more horrified, their expressions changing drastically. From this Chaos Golden Crow, they sensed a terrifying pressure not the slightest bit inferior to the Blade King’s!
In fact, that grand and righteous aura faintly suppressed their dark origin!
The Blade King’s pupils also shrank slightly. He sensed that Lu Xuan’s aura had undergone a qualitative transformation!
He was no longer merely relying on that bell. His own Great Dao and power had already risen to a level where he could contend with him head-on!
“Playing tricks! Be severed!”
Though the Blade King was shocked, he did not panic. The dignity of an Emperor Light Immortal King allowed no provocation!
He slashed again with his fingers held together. A gray, hazy blade qi, as though capable of cutting off the river of time, silently appeared above the Chaos Golden Crow’s head!
This blade contained his ultimate understanding of the law of “severing,” enough to easily split apart a great universe!
“Buzz!”
In the Chaos Golden Crow’s right eye, chaotic currents spun wildly, as though becoming a vortex that devoured all things.
It did not dodge. Instead, it raised a sharp talon burning with chaotic true fire and reached directly toward that gray, hazy blade qi!
Upon the talon, chaotic Dao patterns originating from Donghuang Taiyi’s inheritance coiled. Every single line seemed to expound the mysteries from before heaven and earth were opened!
“Chi—!”
When the blade qi collided with the talon, there was no earth-shaking explosion, only a sound like laws being forcibly erased!
That Emperor Light blade qi, capable of severing anything, was actually seized firmly by the Chaos Golden Crow’s talon. The Dao laws of annihilation contained within it madly canceled out against the chaotic Dao patterns on the talon!
Chaos encompassed all things, and could also dissolve all things!
“Shatter!”
The Chaos Golden Crow that Lu Xuan had transformed into let out a majestic cry, and its talon suddenly clenched shut!
“Crack!”
That gray, hazy blade qi was actually crushed by him through sheer physical body and Great Dao power!
It turned into specks of light and dissipated amid the chaotic currents!
“What?! He crushed my Emperor Light blade intent bare-handed?!”
The Blade King’s expression finally changed dramatically, revealing disbelief for the first time!
This completely overturned his understanding!
At the Immortal King level, how could there be such a powerful physical body and Great Dao?!
“Your blade cannot sever my chaos!”
Lu Xuan’s voice resounded through the universe like a great bell.
With a beat of his wings, endless chaotic true fire swept toward the Blade King like a tsunami. This flame burned not only matter, but also laws, even concepts!
At the same time, brilliant divine light erupted from his left eye. The law of the sun was pushed to its limit—not simple light and heat, but the triggering of the mighty power of the sun that existed in the unseen across all heavens and myriad worlds!