The five-elent giant crashed into the ground, causing the land to change. Rivers sprouted, vegetation grew, rocks turned to magma, and iron sand materialized. From above, Tai Wuling reared his fists back and unleashed a barrage of punches upon the five-elent giant.
The very air shattered, as did the land beneath the five-elent giant. Cracks appeared on the shell encasing the five-elent giant; it appeared as if the giant would beco a pulverized pulp soon after. However, the mont one of Tai Wuling's fists punctured the five-elent giant, the five elents exploded forth like a tidal wave, blasting Tai Wuling back.
When Tai Wuling regained his bearing, he stared at the ss of elents that had once been the five-elent giant. Outwardly, Tai Wuling's sphere-headed form only appeared slightly injured. Sparks of ember lingered on his torso, vines grew from his earth first, sand diluted the water fist, shards of tal dotted his body, and slick sli covered his legs.
"Finally died," Tai Wuling said with a sneer. Just as he turned around to help his fellow sect mbers, he paused. "Stubborn bastard."
The sludge of elents bubbled, and a humanoid figure arose out of it. He donned black robes and possessed elegant features that none could denounce. Most striking was the lack of scratches or even a ruffled fold on his robe.
"Impossible, how are you unhard?" Disbelief tainted Tai Wuling's voice.
"I have my ways," Ba Shifang said.
"Not for long. I don't believe you have enough qi to form another giant!" Tai Wuling shouted as he rushed at Ba Shifang.
Ba Shifang retreated, fleeing in essence. His actions only confird Tai Wuling's conjecture that he didn't have much qi left. Ba Shifang did his best to resist, but the spells he cast only bounced off of Tai Wuling's body, and it didn't take long for him to catch Ba Shifang in his grip. "Any last words?"
The captured Ba Shifang gazed at Tai Wuling with an eerily calm expression. "Idiot."
The mont he spoke those words, Ba Shifang's skin turned clay-like, and his hair turned into vines. Tai Wuling's eyes widened as the puppet fell limp, not that anyone could tell with his current spherical head. He scanned the surroundings, searching for Ba Shifang's true whereabouts. "Where are you? Co out, you coward!"
Tai Wuling's question was answered by a loud bang. Ten thousand ters away from him, another five-elent giant had ford. However, instead of reengaging with Tai Wuling in battle, the five-elent formation charged after the Eight Trigrams Emperor War Formation commanded by Yang Linyin.
"You bastard!" Tai Wuling shouted as he rushed toward the Eight Trigrams Emperor War Formation.
Ba Shifang snorted inside the five-elent giant. Only an insane person would repeat the sa act over and over again. He had the confidence to outlast Tai Wuling, but it would be far more productive to take down other threats first. Then, they could all focus on dealing with Tai Wuling.
The five-elent giant tackled the Eight Trigrams Emperor War Formation from behind, knocking the war formation off balance and interrupting its attack. Then, the five-elent giant clasped his arms around the war formation and started deforming.
First, a layer of rocks and soil shrouded the Eight Trigrams Emperor War Formation. Beneath the layer of rocks and soil, the war formation's surface started turning to stone. Still, it continued to struggle, but Ba Shifang wasn't done.
The layer of rocks and soil started turning red as intense heat radiated into and off of the war formation. Then, a film of water covered it next and imdiately turned to steam, but before it could be evaporated, tree roots bounded and covered the war formation, leaving no gaps. Finally, a tal shell in the exact shape of the Eight Trigrams Emperor War Formation trapped it.
The tal shell creaked and screeched as the Eight Trigrams Emperor Formation resisted. Nothing the war formation did could escape the five-elent shell. In turn, nothing Ba Shifang did in the short term would bring it down, but at that mont, an eerie and haunting tune filled the battlefield.
A shining orb of silver appeared a thousand ters away. Inside, Jiang Daoyi sat in a lotus position with a zither on her lap. Her hands plucked the strings in a srizing motion. It was as if one could hear the song just from the movent of her hands alone.
The air in the battlefield trembled as the musical tones echoed. They penetrated the five-elent shell encasing the Eight Trigrams Emperor War Formation, and the sound of screeching tal stopped.
"Use this chance well! Take down the rest of the Eight Pillar Sect mbers now!" Ba Shifang ordered.
The Buzhou Immortal Sect mbers complied. Without the Eight Trigrams Emperor War Formation's aid, the current mbers of the Eight Pillar Sect fell to an extre disadvantage—one that snowballed as their numbers fell at increasingly higher rates with each passing second.
As for Ba Shifang, he summoned another five-elent giant onto himself. And not a mont too soon as Tai Wuling slamd into him. "Out of the way."
Naturally, Ba Shifang wouldn't allow Tai Wuling to succeed. The five-elent giant grappled Tai Wuling and attempted to hold him down. Keyword, attempted to.
Tai Wuling swiped his arm and launched the five-elent giant off its feet. He ignored the downed elental giant and rushed toward the trapped Eight Trigrams Emperor War Formation, but he halted to a stop as vines exploded forth from the elental giant and wrapped around his ankles.
"Annoying!" Tai Wuling shouted as his flaming arm slashed the vines wrapped around him. The vines beca brittle and black, but not long after, the burnt parts fell off to reveal healthy vines.
Ba Shifang successfully prevented Tai Wuling from aiding Yang Linyin and the Eight Trigrams Emperor War Formation. The latter released an enraged roar and attacked the forr with all his might. And contrary to their previous clash, Ba Shifang was severely suppressed.
The five-elent giant's movent had beco stiff. Not only that, where it would have taken ten punches to damage it, now, Tai Wuling only needed one. Still, whatever damage dealt to the five-elent giant was imdiately regenerated.
Tai Wuling tried nurous tis to disengage from the battle and save Yang Linyin, but Ba Shifang always pulled him back. As the two giants battled, the magnitude of Jiang Daoyi's music increased, further weakening the war formations deployed by Eight Pillar Sect. More and more war formations collapsed due to the immortals forming it receiving soul damage.
Reaching dire straits, Tai Wuling ignored the five-elent giant's attacks as he raised both arms above his spherical head. The mont the two hands clasped together, the five elents rged, and Ba Shifang felt the charm of the Law of Five Phases rolling off.
It was a crude fusion with nurous flaws, but it had unimaginable power. Ba Shifang launched nurous attacks, including the Supre Chaos Cannon, that landed on Tai Wuling's body, dealing him nurous injuries, but he powered through them all as power continued to accumulate in his fists.
"Die!" Tai Wuling shouted, bringing the rged fist down like a divine hamr. The air bood, and space distorted.
The five-elent fist shredded the upper torso far faster than it could heal. Stripped away of the elents protecting it, the black core where Ba Shifang resided revealed itself. Without any hesitation, Tai Wuling split apart the rged fist and unleashed a torrent of punches.
His punches hamred the dantian region, where the black core resided. The five-elent giant couldn't regenerate fast enough to protect its core. Thus, a crack appeared after tens of punches. With a roar and one more punch, Tai Wuling punctured the core.
He felt sothing crack and turn to mush under his fist, and the black core disintegrated like a shattered mirror. Along with it, the elents forming the giant also fell apart, either dissipating or becoming a useless pile of mud or the like.
Tai Wuling didn't confirm the kill. He needed to save Yang Linyin, now!
The sphere-headed giant rushed toward the trapped Eight Trigrams Emperor War Formation. Tai Wuling stopped upon reaching it, unsure of how to crack the shell. If he were to tear into it recklessly, he might cause more harm than good.
Finally, the water arm transford into a torrent that covered the entire tallic outer shell. Soon, rust started to appear, causing the tal to beco brittle that easily broke with a few taps. Steam blasted out without the tal shell trapping it, and the tal arm ford a sharp-clawed appendage that sliced through the wood.
For the layer of magma, Tai Wuling doused it with water, causing it to cool and harden. Although the cooled rock still emitted a fiery heat, it was nothing to the current Tai Wuling. He tore through the rock and saw nothing but empty space. There wasn't even a shadow of the immortals that ford the Eight Trigrams Emperor War Formation, much less the formation itself.
His heart sank. "Linyin! Where are you?!"
Just as anger was about to cloud his mind, the air rippled and split apart, revealing Yang Linyin holding the Eight Way Mirror. Behind her were the hundreds of immortals that ford the Eight Trigrams Emperor War Formation.
"You're okay!" Tai Wuling said in relief. His smile did not last long as he saw the pale faces of Yang Linyin and the rest of the immortals. Compared to before, their numbers had dropped, and they no longer had enough people to form the war formation again.
"The situation is disadvantageous to us, we should flee," Tai Wuling said.
Yang Linyin shook their head. They directed their gaze to the distance where the Eight Trigrams Sovereign War Formation battled with the Voidink Empress War Formation and Eternal Night Emperor. "We can't leave without Grand Elder Infinity. If he falls, it'll be practically over for the Eight Pillar Sect."
"Alright," Tai Wuling said. "You flee first, and I'll try to think of a way to distract the enemy and give Master a chance to flee."
Tai Wuling's body tensed as he saw a gigantic shadow overhead. He looked up to see a flaming teor over a thousand ters long crashing toward him. Red, black, yellow, green, and white vapors leaked off it as it continued downward.
"Get beneath !" Tai Wuling shouted as he stood tall and raised both hands. His figure stood valiantly against the incoming catastrophe.
Then the teorite landed. Tai Wuling's leg sunk into the ground as his back hunched from the force of the descending teor. Monts later, he was brought to his knees, and just as it seed that he would be flattened, adrenaline filled his body.
Tai Wuling groaned as he strained his body. Still, slowly, he was pushing the teor back up. Before the triumph and relief could set in, the teor started exuding an all-encompassing golden light.
"Ah, no!" one of the Eight Pillar Sect immortals shouted in fear as his body started to petrify into stone. He wasn't the only one, as nurous others also experienced the sa effect.
The Eight Way Mirror in Yang Linyin's hand exuded a bright white light that cascaded over the Eight Pillar Sect mbers. The petrification slowed, but her face paled as her qi reservoir plumted.
"Hrah!" Urged by a sense of crisis, Tai Wuling pushed the teor back into the air and unleashed a flurry of punches that shattered the teor into smaller rocks that fell harmless onto the destroyed land.
"Honestly, I'd hoped you ran out of qi by now."
Tai Wuling snapped his gaze toward the voice. There, he saw Ba Shifang floating in the air. He was clutching his right shoulder, and his right sleeve fluttered in the air, devoid of anything. Blood dripped from the sleeves, but Ba Shifang showed a calm expression as if he hadn't lost an arm.
"You!" Tai Wuling shouted. "I should have made sure you were dead!"
"Don't mistake my continued life as your carelessness. Even if you tried, you couldn't kill , at least not without my main body's consent," Ba Shifang said to Tai Wuling's confusion. "Enough. I grow tired of this, I shall end you now."
"Just as I wanted," Tai Wuling said as energy started to roll off his body. Although he didn't show it, his qi was running near empty, and the only reason he could continue to fight was the energy released from the Wuxing Core supporting him.
A talisman in the shape of turtle shells with wings attached to both sides appeared in Ba Shifang's hands. He raised it and stopped, snapping his gaze toward the distance.
Tai Wuling raised his guard, fearing a trick from his foe. However, he soon noticed sothing amiss. A second later, he realized the haunting lody had disappeared. He turned his head, and confusion appeared.
A sword was sticking out of Jiang Daoyi's chest, but that wasn't what made him confused. Tai Wuling would have congratulated his sect mber for stopping one of the greatest dangers from the Buzhou Immortal Sect, but the problem was that it wasn't anyone from the Eight Pillar Sect.
The person behind Jiang Daoyi who had impaled her was none other than her fellow sect mber, Xia Yushan!
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