Tianyi defended himself without a second thought. All those years of withstanding sudden bolts out of the blue had to account for sothing, right?
The sa couldn’t be said for the Eight Trigrams Sovereign War Formation.
The bolt of heavenly punishnt pierced through the gigantic war formation and struck Tianyi. Lightning arced and battered the formation from that single instance, causing it to convulse. The Eight Trigrams Sovereign War Formation turned hazy as it destabilized for a mont. A film of black and white shrouded the formation and prevented it from breaking.
As for Tianyi, lightning shrouded his figure. His skin lted despite his anomalous physique. Chunks of charred flesh fell off and dissolved within the lightning, but the newly grown skin t the sa fate. ‘This is bad.’
Even if soone decapitated him, Tianyi could shrug it off and reattach the head or regrow it, depending on his mood. His true body was the Nine Heavens Universe and his body was just one of the many conduits he piloted. However, the heavenly punishnt didn’t just target his body but his core, the inner universe.
The chunks of charred flesh that fell off and dissolved didn’t just represent Tianyi’s physical body, but also a percentage of the energy of the Nine Heavens Universe. Before, it had always been Tianyi one-sidedly consuming the resources of the Three Thousand Immortal Realms System. Now, he finally experienced how the Heavenly Dao felt whenever he absorbed the energy or land of the Three Thousand Immortal Realms System.
That wasn’t the worst part. The worst part was that the Three Thousand Immortal Realms System invaded the Nine Heavens Universe through the heavenly punishnt. Naturally, the Heavenly Dao didn’t intrude into Tianyi’s inner universe for sightseeing but to consu the nascent universe.
Just like how the Nine Heavens Universe grew stronger when it absorbed a portion of the Nether Realm in the Silent Lightning Tiline, so too would the Three Thousand Immortal Realms System advance if it could consu the Nine Heavens Universe, and by extension, Tianyi.
Tianyi’s mind spun furiously. He didn’t know how or why the heavenly punishnt could absorb him now, especially when it failed before. Perhaps it had to do with the weaker Heavenly Dao in the Silent Lightning, or the current heavenly punishnt reached the Divine Realm threshold. Whatever the reason, Tianyi knew he couldn’t allow it to continue.
The first impulse Tianyi had was to self-detonate his primary conduit. Once the heavenly punishnt lost its target, it would disappear, but he couldn’t guarantee that the Heavenly Dao wouldn’t send heavenly punishnt after his other conduits. If all his conduits disappeared, he didn’t know how he would return to the Three Thousand Immortal Realms System. Unless he had no choice, Tianyi didn’t want to resort to this.
He used all his computing power at his disposal to figure out a solution. A week passed in the Nine Heavens Universe, while only a few seconds passed in the Huang Realm. The best and safest solution Tianyi could generate was to hide his existence and, ironically, copy Wuxing’s action.
Heavenly punishnt would continue unless its target disappeared or died, but if the price to exterminate Tianyi beca too high, the heavenly punishnt would end. It had already happened once before in the Nether Realm of the Silent Lightning Tiline. Still, that Heavenly Punishnt had only been in the Origin Immortal Realm in power. So, Tianyi had a second hope. While enduring the heavenly punishnt, he would minimize his presence as much as possible and hope that the heavenly punishnt would lose sight of him.
For the first part of Tianyi’s plan, Tianyi charged toward the Eight Trigrams Sovereign War Formation. Why waste his own energy first when he could use his enemy as a at shield?
Seemingly sensing Tianyi’s plan, the Eight Trigrams Sovereign War Formation retreated at breakneck speeds. It was for naught as Tianyi’s figure disappeared from the war formation’s front and reappeared behind it. Tianyi hadn’t mastered the Law of Spaceti for nothing, even if the heavenly punishnt attached to him followed along.
Tianyi clutched onto the colossal war formation and the shroud of heavenly punishnt covered the Eight Trigrams Sovereign War Formation, too. He gained a brief respite since the power of the heavenly punishnt split between him and the Eight Trigrams Sovereign War Formation. A thin film resembling a patch of the night sky shrouded Tianyi’s body like a second skin. He could feel the consumption of his energy and the Nine Heavens Universe from the heavenly punishnt slow down.
Now, he had to endure as long as possible.
“Insidious cretin!” Emperor Infinity bellowed from the Eight Trigrams Sovereign War Formation.
The Eight Trigrams Sovereign War Formation’s fist landed on Tianyi’s body, deforming it but not causing any noticeable harm. Since physical attacks had no effect, a taiji symbol appeared in its palm and covered Tianyi’s body.
Tianyi could feel the taiji symbol attempting to absorb his energy and even flesh, but compared to the heavenly punishnt, it was akin to comparing the light of a firefly to the full moon—practically nonexistent. And Emperor Infinity soon stopped, not because it didn’t work, but for two reasons. Both of the reasons originated from the heavenly punishnt.
First, when it absorbed Tianyi’s energy, the heavenly punishnt also flowed into the Eight Trigrams Sovereign War Formation. It resulted in a portion of the immortals forming the war formation receiving injuries ranging from light to heavy. Not even Tianyi, an energy juggernaut, could absorb the heavenly punishnt, much less the Eight Pillar Sect’s war formation. Second, the black clouds roared as if in anger at the Eight Trigrams Sovereign War Formation’s blasphemous actions.
Bolt after bolt of heavenly punishnt descended onto Tianyi and the Eight Trigrams Sovereign War Formation. The coat of punishnt lightning increased in density and thickness. Emperor Infinity could no longer spare any attention to remove Tianyi as he focused wholeheartedly on defending against the heavenly punishnt.
Emperor Infinity knew that the chances of them escaping with even a single survivor were slim, but he must try. The humanoid form of the Eight Trigrams Sovereign Formation shifted into a giant taiji sphere, like the one he created within Zhang Cuiying’s ink tsunami—only far larger and more powerful than ever. Different from the balanced characteristic of the humanoid form, the sphere form strengthened its defensive aspects while giving up the offensive and movent capabilities.
The punishnt lightning curved around the taiji sphere, and a vacant space separated the lightning and the sphere itself. During the transformation, Tianyi snuck into the Eight Trigrams Sovereign War Formation and freed himself from the punishnt lightning.
Emperor Infinity noticed Tianyi’s action. He had half a mind to perish with Tianyi and cause an inner devil to form for Xi ngfei, but he halted his impulse. Knowing that the situation could not continue lest they perish, Emperor Infinity controlled the Eight Trigrams Sovereign War Formation to transform.
Although the transford Eight Trigrams Sovereign War Formation fended off most of the heavenly punishnt’s assault, the punishnt lightning didn’t disappear. The Yin-Yang Reversal displayed by the war formation could not dissipate the heavenly punishnt’s energy. Before long, a bolt of punishnt lightning pierced the invisible barrier and struck the war formation.
As ti passed, more and more pierced the barrier defending the formation. The immortals contributing to the Eight Trigrams Sovereign War Formation received heavier and heavier injuries, and nothing the war formation did could defend against the sheer might of the heavenly punishnt. Certain death awaited if they could not escape the dire situation.
Like Wuxing and Tianyi, Emperor Infinity chose the last path of survival—escaping the boundaries of the Huang Realm. Heavenly tribulation and punishnt would not occur in the Vast Void, but if they entered any of the realms, not just the Huang Realm, the heavenly tribulation or punishnt would form once more. Unless he had no other choice, Emperor Infinity didn’t want to choose this path, either.
All immortals who ventured into the Vast Void would never return unless they imdiately retreated into the safety of the Huang Realm. Only the Buzhou Immortal Sect possessed the knowledge concerning the Vast Void and the other realms, leaving all the other forces in the dark. Rather than their being a danger, Emperor Infinity believed that the Buzhou Immortal Sect eliminated all immortals who dared to enter the Vast Void.
He didn’t think the Buzhou Immortal Sect possessed the capabilities to chase him down at this juncture, since they had split their forces on the Heaven and Earth Continents. If he was to ever escape and flee from the Buzhou Immortal Sect and Anti-Earth Alliance, there was no better chance than now. He just had to make sure not to leak his intentions, else they would charge into the Vast Void to duke it out.
The only reason they stood aside and watched was that neither forces wanted to be embroiled in the heavenly punishnt.
There was only one problem.
Emperor Infinity turned his attention toward Tianyi, and a decisive light entered the immortal emperor’s eyes.
The sphere-shaped Eight Trigrams Sovereign War Formation split into two, one black fish and one white fish. Between the fishes was Tianyi’s lone figure. When the two fishes swam to opposite direction, Tianyi chased after them. Although the heavenly punishnt still attacked the two fish, the majority of its attention focused on Tianyi.
The two sides played a ga of cat and mouse—or rather, cat and fish.
Tianyi would cling onto one of the fish and disperse the pressure from the heavenly punishnt. Once this happened, the two fishes would rge into a taiji sphere before splitting apart once more. Then, Tianyi would chase after one of the two fishes, and the process would repeat.
Unknowingly, the Eight Trigrams Sovereign War Formation had inched toward the dinsional boundaries of the Huang Realm. Before Emperor Infinity could successfully execute his plans, Tianyi’s action changed. He vanished without notice, but the heavenly punishnt still locked onto them.
Daoyi frowned and lifted her sleeve. She felt like a miniscule weight within had disappeared.
“Tianyi?” she asked. As she expected, the chibi Tianyi in her sleeve had disappeared.
Tianyi had swapped places with the chibi version of himself. The strength of each conduit did not depend solely on their connection to the Nine Heavens Universe, but there was a slight correlation. His strongest conduit had escaped to the safety of the inner universe, while his weaker conduit took its place. Judging by the actions of the heavenly punishnt, Tianyi’s attempt at concealing his presence failed.
Emperor Infinity knew none of this. He only saw that the heavenly punishnt had focused its attention on him once Tianyi disappeared. Without Tianyi to act as a decoy, he couldn’t hide his intentions any further. The Eight Trigrams Sovereign Formation changed its shape once more.
The sphere beca a white torso with two black-tipped wings sprouting out. An avian head with a beak and a long slender neck grew out of the top. From its bottom, a feathered tail sprouted along with two scaled legs longer than said neck. The Eight Trigrams Sovereign War Formation took on the form of a predominately white crane.
This new form focused on speed and maneuverability. It could not outspeed the bolt of heavenly punishnt, but it was still fast enough to escape the Huang Realm in a matter of seconds. Zhang Cuiying and the Eternal Night Emperor had noticed Emperor Infinity’s intent, but they were too slow and too late to stop him.
Emperor Infinity and the rest of the true immortals who ford the Eight Trigrams Sovereign War Formation felt hope rise in their chest as they neared the dinsional boundary. Suddenly, an explosion occurred within the war formation and killed tens of immortals. The explosion didn’t just end at one; more and more explosions blossod.
When Emperor Infinity turned back, he saw tens of humanoid figures ford of starlight and crafted in Tianyi’s image. He knew who caused this. “Stop!”
If Tianyi stopped now, he would be an idiot. Despite Emperor Infinity’s best efforts, the damage had already been done. Too many true immortals had died, causing the Eight Trigrams Sovereign War Formation to fall apart. Once it fell apart, the heavenly punishnt struck those closest to Tianyi, killing them instantly.
“I’ll kill you!” Fury filled each of Emperor Infinity’s words as he charged toward the source of the stellar incarnations. Upon reaching his target, all he saw was a miniature Tianyi.
The sight caused him to pause for a brief second, but he soon regained his bearings. He reached out and grasped the tiny Tianyi in both his hands. White light emitted from his left hand while black light emitted from his right. “Xi Tianyi, even if I die today, I will kill you!”
The chibi Tianyi opened his mouth to say sothing, but before he could, a bolt of heavenly punishnt struck both of them. It severely injured Emperor Infinity and disintegrated the tiny Tianyi.
Emperor Infinity spat out a mouthful of blood filled with charred chunks. Just as he prepared himself to suffer another bout of punishnt lightning, the heavenly punishnt unleashed a bolt of punishnt lightning not at him or anywhere in the Earth Continent, but towards the Heaven Continent.
Although bewildered, Emperor Infinity did not let this chance go. “Go! The heavenly punishnt won’t target us. Flee and survive, so that the Eight Pillar Sect may rise again and strike down the treacherous Buzhou Immortal Sect!”
The injured but surviving mbers of the Eight Pillar Sect imdiately executed their grand elder’s command. They were too injured to continue battling, and their only hope was to flee. While they fled, Emperor Infinity glared at the Voidink Emperor Formation and the Eternal Night Emperor, who were chasing down the remnants of the Eight Pillar Sect.
He charged, but before he could fly even a hundred ters, a portal opened up near him. Tianyi charged out with his fist reared back. With a sickening crunch, Tianyi’s punch landed on Emperor Infinity’s cheeks. Then, Tianyi wrapped his arms around him, tying them together.
“I knew it, you were the target of the heavenly punishnt,” Emperor Infinity said.
Tianyi sneered. “If you want to bla soone, bla your precious disciple, Tai Wuling—or whatever Wuxing was. Had it not been for him, the heavenly punishnt would have never beco this powerful.”
“Hah, even if I die, I’m taking you down with !”
“That remains to be seen. Unlike you, I can withstand a bunch more rounds from the heavenly punishnt!”
As if to mock Tianyi, the black clouds containing the punishnt lightning dispersed without warning. Tianyi snapped his head up with wide eyes. ‘Oh, co on! It must have been running on fus and chose this ti to end, just to mock !’
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