The Demon-Suppressing Nail was deeply embedded in the ancient seal formation eye. Dark gold rune chains like living veins rapidly spread, covering the originally ferocious cracks, forcefully stemming the source of gushing demonic energy. From the depths of the earth came unwilling groans, that was the earth vein being re-stabilized, demonic energy passages being forcefully closed lament. Thesuffocating'sdemonic atmosphere in the air became visibly thinner. Surviving demonic beasts, having lost their power source, rapidly defeated and died under the Alliance cultivators' cheers and counterattack.
The dawn of victory seemed to havedescended upon this ravaged'swasteland.
However, just as everyone thought the crisis was temporarily resolved and their minds slightly relaxed---
"Boom---!!!"
A roar, not from the human world but from deep within the souls, as if the entire heaven and earth were roaring in anger, exploded!
The sky that had just recovered some clarity suddenly darkened like ink, deeper and more oppressive than when covered by demonic energy! Lead-colored cloudsmadrotating, forming a huge vortex that seemed able todevouring everything. At the vortex center was endless darkness and chaos!
An indescribable, surpassing all present cultivators' understanding of terror, like a substantial mountain, forcefully descended! This will was filled with the purest evil thoughts, destruction and violent rage. Merely being swept by it caused countless lower-grade cultivators' spirits to shake violently, spit blood, and those with weaker cultivation directly fainted! Even Ao Zhan, Ling Shuang, and other Golden Core cultivators felt their souls like being struck by a heavy hammer, their faces instantly pale, their spiritual power circulationstagnant!
"What happened?!"
"So... so terrifying an aura!"
Cries of alarm and fearful screams were instantly overwhelmed by that omnipresent terrifying pressure.
Tang Xiao Qi wasbear the brunt!
He floated above the seal formation eye, just feeling the stable Dao rhyme of the Demon-Suppressing Nail gradually integrating with the earth vein. This sudden terrifying will, like billions of cold poisoned needles, instantly pierced toward his sea of consciousness! Far more powerful and violent by hundreds of times than the whispers he heard at the seal crack before!
He hummed, his surrounding Green Lotus Dao rhyme autonomously stimulated to its extreme, clear radiance flowing,struggling to resist thatomnipresent'sspiritual erosion and pressure crushing. Hesuddenly raised his head, his gazestared fixedly at that sky vortex's deepest point!
There, endless darkness and chaotic energymadgather, vaguely outlining a blurry yet enormous enough to cover the sky silhouette! That silhouette was not physical, more like formed by the purest demonic thoughts, negative emotions, and forcibly extractedheaven and earthresentment power: a projection!
A pair ofgiant eye like blood-colored abysses slowly opened on that blurry silhouette. No emotions existed, only ice-cold destruction of everything and... extreme rage at being provoked by ants!
Those two enormous eyes, instantly locked onto that small figure below holding Green Lotus power, reinforcing the seal, repeatedly ruining his plans: Tang Xiao Qi!
"Ant... how dare you obstruct me?!"
A terrifying demonic voice mixed with countless soul screams and space-tearing sounds, not transmitted through air but exploding directly in all living beings' minds! Lower-grade cultivatorsbleeding from all seven orifices on the spot, clutching their heads inmiserable howl!
This was the demonic entity's true body's angry projection! Although its true body was still sealed by Green Lotus power somewhere in endless void, this projection containing part of its power and will already possessed devastating might! The seal's reinforcement had thoroughly enraged this sleeping (sealed) fierce god!
The projection slowly raised a huge claw composed of darkness and lightning. Seemingly slow yet as if ignoring space and time, it pressed down toward Xiao Qi below and that nail just inserted into the formation eye!
Before the claw arrived, its terrifying pressure had caused space to distort and crack with fine black marks! The earth below began to fissure and sink. The just-stabilized seal formation eye shook violently again. Dark gold rune chainsemittedunable to bear the burden'smournful cry!
Ao Zhan, Ling Shuang, and others stared wide-eyed, wanting to help, yet pressed down by that pure hierarchical pressure like being nailed in place, finding it extremely difficult to move even a finger! This was an absolute gap in hierarchy!
Xiao Qi faced this devastating blow head-on. He felt his smallness like a candle in a windstorm. But his eyes showed no retreat or fear, instead burning witheven more intense'sbattle intent!
He knew this was not merely a contest of power but of will! If he retreated now, not only would he die, the just-reinforced seal would instantly collapse, and the entire Northwest front and even wider regions would be completely destroyed by this demonic entity's projection!
"Demonic entity! Your true body is still sealed. A mere projection, how dare you act wildly?!"
Xiao Qishouted violently, his voice like thunder, trying to break demonic might with hisDao heart! He fully stimulated his Green Lotus Golden Core. The hazy Green Lotusphantom behind him was unprecedentedly substantial. Purifying Dao rhyme surged upward like a tsunami, opposing that pouring destructive will!
At the same time, his both hands gripped, not any weapon, but connected all his mind and power with the nail just inserted below and the entire "Demon-Suppressing Spirit-Locking Formation's" remaining ancient Dao rhyme!
"Majestic Heavenly Dao, righteous energy endures eternally! Seal demons, suppress evil, protect all creation! Demon-Suppressing Nail, aid me!"
He seemed to merge with the sealed earth below, with that nail dormant for ten thousand ages and now revived, becoming one! Dark gold divine light erupted from the formation eye again. But this time, it was not merely suppressing demonic energy but transformed into aextremely condensed, containing the entire ancient seal's remaining willdark gold light pillar, like an unyielding spine, forcefullyfacing that slowly pressing demonic claw projection!
On one side was the demonic entity's angry strike, carrying supreme demonic might of destruction and chaos!
On the other side was a small cultivator borrowing ancient divine treasure and seal remnant power,condensed'slight of protection and purification!
Light and darkness, righteousness and evil, above the Northwest wasteland sky,unfolded a battle transcending cultivation realms's,concerning the fate of countless beings'searth-shattering standoff!
Heaven and earth lost color, all things fell silent! Only that dark light column and sky-covering demonic claw, insolidified'sspace-time, conducted the most intense collision!