Dropping several strips of robe, he fashioned an illusion of being incinerated into ash by the heavenly lightning. The Goddess Jixiang whipped her head around in a fury, only to see Gu Xichen howl once before dissolving into dust, his slightest trace vanished from heaven and earth. The four formidable brothers of Mo Liqing manifested from the void; the Hun Tian Umbrella shimmered, and the surrounding space instantly collapsed. The power of the Four Symbols surged out, transforming into countless storms that swept in all directions, completely obscuring any residual aura Gu Xichen might have left behind.

The brothers Xin Long'er and Xin Yuan'er charged furiously toward the four Mo Liqing brothers, shouting in rage as they thrust their spears. A sheet of lightning rained down from the void, and the two brothers let out agonizing cries as they too turned to ash within the glow. The Qingyun Sword slashed down from above, accompanied by a wild surge of the primordial forces of Earth, Water, Fire, and Wind, churning the area where the brothers vanished into a chaotic mess.

The six brothers of Hong Wu had long been mentally prepared. Seeing Gu Xichen, Xin Long'er, and Xin Yuan'er seemingly 'scatter their souls' within the great formation, the six brothers immediately roared and charged forward with their long spears, yelling fiercely, "Soldiers, avenge our honored protectors!"

Goddess Jixiang wrenched at the Monkey's neck with one hand, flicking her other hand away, and chastised softly, "Nonsense! With just your paltry cultivation?"

With a flick of her long, flowing sleeves, a flash of spiritual light enveloped the six brothers of Hong Ya, and Goddess Jixiang used her immense divine power to toss them clear out of the Tianluo Diyong Grand Formation, instantly returning them to the front of Iron Water Black Stone Mountain. The Goddess Jixiang's cold laugh still echoed in their ears: "Consider this a debt settled, on account of that $ treasure pearl. I have saved the lives of you little demons this time, and we are square from now on!"

Having used her divine power to save the six Hong Ya brothers because of the pearl, Goddess Jixiang completely ignored the thirty thousand elite demon soldiers of the Heavenly Wolf Palace.

Countless chaotic heavenly soldiers poured out from all sides, slaughtering the thirty thousand Heavenly Wolf Palace demon soldiers clean, like cutting squash and vegetables.

The eight Great Golden Immortals under Iron Water Black Stone Mountain let out a long roar, transforming into eight streams of purple energy and golden essence, ready to break out of the formation.

The Tianluo Diyong Grand Formation, famed as the number one confinement formation in the Three Realms, would not allow them to escape once trapped. Countless boundless divine chains whistled down from above, stirring up colossal whirlpools formed by the power of the Five Elements. The eight Great Golden Immortals plunged headlong into the whirlpools, their bodies instantly spinning violently, completely beyond their control. After a dizzy spell, they had no idea where they were.

Innumerable Five Elements Divine Thunders rained down on them, striking the trapped eight Great Golden Immortals until their bodies were sputtering with sparks of fire. While the power of the Five Elements Divine Thunder wasn't overwhelming, the sheer number of strikes was unstoppable, like a swarm of army ants gnawing on an elephant. Layer by layer, the protective immortal light of the eight dizzy Great Golden Immortals was torn to shreds. Then, countless immortal weapons whizzed in, hacking them into meat paste.

With the leading Great Golden Immortal dead, the hundred thousand little demons of Iron Water Black Stone Mountain hadn't even grasped what had happened before they were swept up, crushed, and instantly reduced to fine powder by the grand formation.

The Monkey, who had just smashed the White Flood Dragon Demon to death with a single strike, let out a 'cackle' and spun around everywhere like a whirlwind, easily dodging Goddess Jixiang's capture. Goddess Jixiang's slender hand never left the Monkey's neck, but she was perpetually short by the barest fraction of an inch, unable to firmly grasp him.

The Monkey brandished his Sang Men Cudgel and began a wild, all-directional smashing spree. Endless cudgel shadows whistled down, crushing the demons and ghosts belonging to the Pit of Immortals at the Bottomless Cave until their flesh and bones cracked apart. It was like a single stone—no, a hundred millstones—rolling into a heap of beans, grinding them into dust that flew everywhere.

Pitiable were these demons and ghosts from the Pit of Immortals at the Bottomless Cave; their commanding Great Golden Immortal had also been annihilated by the Tianluo Diyong Grand Formation. Facing the Monkey, whose cultivation had firmly entered the Upper Grade Great Golden Immortal realm, they lacked even the strength to strike back, let alone the ability to utter a final wail before death.

The Monkey spun his Sang Men Cudgel into a ball of black light, whirling madly throughout the sky. Wherever it passed, countless demons and ghosts had their bodies shatter. Before his infinite divine might, these demons were like clay figurines, like tofu pudding—utterly vulnerable. Countless demon bodies exploded, and along with them were pulverized their frail divine souls.

Blood sprayed everywhere as the Monkey laughed shrilly, dragging Goddess Jixiang whirling through the sky.

Seeing her meticulously planned affair on the verge of complete ruin, Goddess Jixiang nearly choked on blood from anger.

She roared in fury, suddenly brought her hands together, and the surrounding void solidified; the Monkey's body abruptly froze in mid-air. Goddess Jixiang enveloped the Monkey in a hug, trailing a faint, ethereal fragrance, her body faintly shimmering with light, projecting an unsettling aura toward the Monkey.

"This Old Sun practices the cultivation of the Pure Boy, untouched by female desires!"

The Monkey laughed out loud, his body suddenly shaking, and countless hairs on his tail shot out. With a series of 'bang, bang, bang,' bursts of green smoke erupted, and tens of thousands of laughing monkeys materialized, dragging their cudgels and beginning a chaotic barrage of smashing and beating against Goddess Jixiang.

The space sealed by Goddess Jixiang’s spiritual light shuddered. The Monkey's true form transformed into a massive Ape ten thousand zhang tall, tearing through the void and shooting toward the high heavens. The Ape, with three heads, six arms, and covered in golden fur, swung its six long arms, causing the earthy-yellow spiritual energy in the void to solidify. Dozens of mountains, each a hundred li high, instantly took shape, roaring toward Goddess Jixiang with immense sound.

Goddess Jixiang’s divine powers were profound, but the Monkey's attacks were overwhelmingly brutal, lacking any trickery—pure, unadulterated violence meant to destroy everything.

Her face, infinitely more delicate than any flower, changed. Goddess Jixiang waved her hand, releasing three streams of pale golden Buddha light that blasted the Monkey's thousands of hair-clones far away. Then, her figure flashed, and she appeared at the edge of the Tianluo Diyong Grand Formation, casually reaching out to snatch a few immortals struggling within the array.

It was estimated that no sane being in the Three Realms would willingly take on the mountains smashed by the Monkey. Goddess Jixiang was not foolish, so she avoided a direct confrontation.

The dozens of mountains roared past the Tianluo Diyong Grand Formation. The tens of thousands of Heavenly Soldiers guarding that side turned pale, hurriedly summoning thousands of boundless divine chains to intercept the mountains. A tremendous crash was heard, and the soldiers were sent flying in dizzying spirals, a truly miserable sight.

The three brothers of Kongsang Ri, guarding the void, were so angry their noses practically crooked. They had never seen a monkey so violent, shattering a corner of their own grand formation just to flaunt his strength?

With a cold snort, a stream of pure qi shot up from above the heads of the three Kongsang Ri brothers, and three golden figures shot out from it. Leveraging the secret technique of the Three Pure Ones severing their corpses, the three brothers released their one severed corpse's primordial spirit, resulting in a total of six Heavenly Generals attacking Goddess Jixiang.

Goddess Jixiang’s target was the extra-large capacity storage rings carried by those immortals.

The Dharma Protector Gao Shangtian genuinely needed these materials to repair Du Kate's countless Three-Linked City clones. [He needed to rely on Du Kate's unique ability to recast the Three-Linked City.] Thus, the heavenly materials and earthly treasures within those storage rings absolutely could not be lost. Goddess Jixiang could not afford to tangle with the Monkey; she was wholly focused on securing the accumulated materials from the past sixty years before these immortals from the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths were killed.

Her delicate hand was mere an inch away from those storage rings when a distant Sanskrit chant suddenly rang out.

In the void, the Monkey had already revealed his true Buddha form as the Victorious Fighting Buddha. He let out a sinister laugh, unleashing immeasurable Buddha light from both hands toward this side.

The minuscule distance between Goddess Jixiang and those storage rings—less than the width of a single hair—suddenly became the span of heaven and earth, an unreachable distance. This divine ability of the Mustard Seed Universe, where the near becomes the far, was a specialty of Buddhism. The Monkey, cultivating both Buddha and Dao paths as the Victorious Fighting Buddha, possessed unsurpassed mastery over such divine restrictions.

Flashing his form three times, Goddess Jixiang employed her divine powers, instantly traversing a distance equivalent to one entire layer of the Thirty-Three Heavens. Yet, despite her swiftness, the Buddha light flickering in the Monkey's palm only halved the distance between her and the storage rings. Her fingertips were still short by half a hair’s breadth from the rings.

Three loud shouts echoed from the air. The three Kongsang brothers, along with their primordial spirit avatars, swooped down enveloped in surging green light and golden haze.

Two long halberds shot out like dragons emerging from water, trailing countless rainfalls of light toward Goddess Jixiang's chest and abdomen, vital points.

Two long spears, like long rainbows piercing the sun, carried an unstoppable, fierce killing intent straight toward Goddess Jixiang's heart and brow.

Two long swords, like tigers spreading their wings, conjured masses of sword light that formed towering mountains of blades, aggressively rolling toward Goddess Jixiang's entire body.

Goddess Jixiang was enraged. She roared, shot a cold glare at the distant Monkey, and her body suddenly flickered, causing three identical Goddesses Jixiang to appear simultaneously before the three Kongsang brothers. Goddess Jixiang sneered, "The Daoist art of the One Qi transforming into Three Pure Ones? Or perhaps you simply severed a corpse for your primordial spirit? Although your Daoist sect has marvelous techniques, do not underestimate my transformation abilities!"

The three Goddesses Jixiang held translucent golden Mandala flowers in their left hands and brandished long, flowing sleeves in their right. As their forms twisted, they generated boundless golden light and auspicious radiance. Countless graceful heavenly maidens, holding pipa, guzheng, flutes, and other instruments, performed a celestial demon dance, rushing out from the golden light and auspicious aura.

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Three furious shouts erupted. A green haze shot out from the cinnabar fields of the Kongsang brothers, instantly flooding their bodies. Their forms became gloriously green, scattering countless emerald-green spiritual wood leaves everywhere. Upon contact with the illusory heavenly maidens, auspicious clouds, or golden light, these leaves rapidly transformed into spheres of cyan lightning the size of a basket and exploded violently.

This cyan lightning contained a strand of Innate Taiyi True Qi; its nature was firm and fierce. Once it exploded, countless cyan light spots scattered wildly, possessing the supreme power to exterminate evil and shatter demons, blasting the myriad heavenly maidens until they shattered, dissolving into large clouds of smoke and mist scattering everywhere.

Having broken Goddess Jixiang's spell, the Kongsang brothers hurriedly opened their eyes and looked around, only to see Goddess Jixiang had already vanished to another section of the Tianluo Diyong Grand Formation, reaching out toward two demon immortals heavily bound by boundless divine chains.

Kongsang Ri roared, and the halberd in his hand transformed into a shocking long rainbow, sending large swathes of light cascading down toward Goddess Jixiang's head.

Goddess Jixiang snorted coldly, summoning the void with her backhand. A hundred li area of space behind her suddenly solidified, then quietly fractured like a mirror surface. The long rainbow formed by Kongsang Ri's halberd was imprisoned within that solidified space. When the void shattered, the halberd itself violently vibrated, and ten finely detailed grooves were carved onto its surface.

Kongsang Ri grunted, summoning the halberd back. A trickle of blood ran down the corner of his mouth.

Kongsang Yue and Kongsang Xing roared in unison, their hands shooting out cyan lightning like lightning bolts. Dots of Taiyi True Qi burst across the sky, the deafening thunder tearing the void apart. Countless huge holes were ripped open in the void behind Goddess Jixiang, within which a faint green haze moved, as if some entities were about to drill out.

Her graceful figure twisting, Goddess Jixiang easily evaded the Kongsang brothers' cyan lightning. Smiling carelessly, she lightly reached out and grasped a large-capacity storage bracelet, instantly crushing the wrist of the demon immortal wearing it and snatching the bracelet.

Just as she was triumphantly giggling, a streak of golden light flashed from the side. The Monkey, in his Victorious Fighting Buddha form, rode a white elephant and charged over. The Victorious Fighting Buddha held a lotus-empowered divine pestle and, with a wave of his hand, silently shot out an invisible, colorless light of annihilation, which struck precisely where Goddess Jixiang held the storage bracelet, blasting it into powder.

The bracelet shattered, and the mountains of heavenly materials and earthly treasures within instantly burst out, showering down everywhere.

Goddess Jixiang cursed in anger, biting her silver teeth and glaring fiercely at the Monkey: "Victorious Fighting Buddha, must you obstruct us at every turn?"

The Monkey grinned and nodded repeatedly: "Yes, obstruct you! Hahaha, what can you do to this Old Pest?"

Before Goddess Jixiang could speak, a hundred dragons, purely coalesced from the Eastern Green Wood spiritual energy, crawled out from the breaches in space blasted open by the Kongsang brothers' cyan lightning. These hundred-li-long dragons, carrying ear-splitting dragon roars, transformed into streaks of cyan long rainbows and pounced down toward Goddess Jixiang.

The closer these dragons got to Goddess Jixiang, the faster they shrunk. By the time they were ten li away, the hundred-li-long dragons had transformed into foot-long, crystal-clear darts carved like green jade.

The darts, shimmering with faint green light, looked exquisite and lovely, yet they tore massive holes in the void, rushing toward her with an aura of absolute destruction.

Goddess Jixiang, already fuming to the point of smoke issuing from her seven orifices, paused for a moment. Unwilling to meet these darts head-on, she activated her innate divine ability, her figure flickering slightly to evade their trajectory, even moving far away from the Monkey, who was as sticky as cowhide candy.

The flying darts whistled past, narrowly grazing the Monkey's body as they shot toward the Tianluo Diyong Grand Formation. Within the formation, rays of light flashed, and tens of thousands of boundless divine chains shot out haphazardly, stirring up whirlpools composed of the Five Elements primal energy to draw the darts in, reducing them back to Green Wood spiritual energy.

Goddess Jixiang gnashed her teeth and swept toward the opposite end of the Tianluo Diyong Grand Formation, avoiding the hundred layers of thunder and fire attacks, dodging the entanglement of thousands of boundless divine chains, and evading the stabs of tens of thousands of blades, spears, swords, and halberds. She rapidly approached five demon immortals trapped in towering flames, unable to move.

Completely ignoring the sharp cries for help from the five demon immortals, Goddess Jixiang coldly swept past them, snatching the storage rings and bracelets they wore.

Before Goddess Jixiang could secure these bracelets and rings to her person, a streak of dazzling silver light flashed across, and Yang Jian, holding the three-pointed, double-edged saber, rushed in on the clouds, splitting the bracelet and rings in her palm precisely in half with a single strike.

Again, countless heavenly materials and earthly treasures rained down, causing Goddess Jixiang's face to twitch violently.

A dog's bark sounded, and the Howling Celestial Dog behind Yang Jian rushed out like a ghost, fiercely biting toward Goddess Jixiang's thigh.

Goddess Jixiang became furious, roaring, "Shameless! Vulgar!"

The Howling Celestial Dog remained silent, focused only on its target. Its two rows of brilliant white teeth shone brightly under the surging Five Elements spiritual light of the grand formation, strongly refuting Goddess Jixiang's previous claim that it had no teeth.

Goddess Jixiang's form remained still, but a slender foot suddenly shot out from the void beside the Howling Celestial Dog, kicking it flying with brutal force.

Yang Jian immediately flew into a rage; this was truly attacking the master through the dog. Yang Jian narrowed his eyes, and a beam of red light shot out from the vertical eye on his brow.

Goddess Jixiang snorted coldly, pointing her hands twice. Layers upon layers of mirror-like space barriers stacked up before her, instantly forming tens of thousands of spatial barriers in front of her. However, the vertical divine light from Yang Jian's eye was incredibly fierce; with a series of 'crackling' sounds, it pierced through all tens of thousands of spatial barriers.

With a delicate shout, Goddess Jixiang laughed coldly, "True Lord Erlang Shen, you truly have skill!"

Dozens of golden heavenly flowers drifted out from her original position, and Goddess Jixiang's form instantly vanished. When she reappeared, she was behind Yang Jian. She casually drew a lotus flower and savagely struck Yang Jian on the back of his head.

Even with his divine abilities, Yang Jian hadn't detected how Goddess Jixiang got behind him. The seemingly tender lotus, which looked as if it would shatter at the slightest touch, struck the back of his head with a sound like a massive bell ringing. The pink lotus bud sprayed out vast amounts of scarlet flame light, immediately causing Yang Jian to stagger forward, nearly falling headlong to the ground.

Goddess Jixiang smiled charmingly, her smile beautiful, but her tone carried an icy killing intent.

"A bunch of creatures who don't know when to quit! Since you insist on ruining our plans, don't blame me for being ruthless."

"Hmph, today I will shatter this Tianluo Diyong Grand Formation and show you that some matters are not for trash like you to meddle in!"

A faint black mist silently rose behind Goddess Jixiang. The Corpse Emperor, clad in black armor and holding a long sword, slowly emerged from the black mist.

Goddess Jixiang suddenly shrieked, feeling an overwhelming sense of danger approaching. Almost instinctively, she activated her innate divine ability, intending to flee. But a gust of green wind and a ball of red fire whistled down. A Wind-Fire Cushion shot out, emitting ten thousand zhang of firelight that tightly enveloped her form, locking the space around her body for a minuscule fraction of a second.

The Corpse Emperor's long sword vanished in an instant; the concept of distance became meaningless before the blade. The sword struck, passing straight through Goddess Jixiang's heart.

The Gu Wuchen, who had been hiding above the Tianluo Diyong Grand Formation waiting for an opportunity, immediately struck. The Pangu Banner shook, and a stream of chaotic energy transformed into a sword gleam that whistled out, fiercely blasting toward Goddess Jixiang's lower abdomen. Simultaneously, the Cang Sheng Seal followed, carrying a torrent of profound yellow and dark colors, crashing down upon her head.

Goddess Jixiang let out a delicate, pitiful scream. Her figure suddenly broke free from the Wind-Fire Cushion's restraint and vanished without a trace.

With a 'sputter,' the long sword in the Corpse Emperor's hand suddenly pierced through Gu Wuchen's body.

With a 'bang' and a loud crash, the Cang Sheng Seal heavily slammed onto the Corpse Emperor's forehead.

Gu Xichen spat out a mouthful of blood and was sent flying back several hundred li. The Corpse Emperor's eyes glazed over, and he fainted on the spot, rolling his eyes.

The chaotic sword qi unleashed by the Pangu Banner, inexplicably, whistled down from the high heavens and struck the Tianluo Diyong Grand Formation precisely, blasting nearly half of the formation into fragments. Tens of thousands of heavenly soldiers and generals setting up the array were swept across by countless shards of chaotic sword qi, and the immortal armor on their bodies was covered in countless cracks.

Gu Xichen, the Monkey, Yang Jian, and the Kongsang brothers all cried out in shock.

Goddess Jixiang's divine abilities were truly bizarre. (To be continued. To know what happens next, please log on to F)