Chapter 1631: Leaving

Losing its more powerful energy supply and facing the onslaught of thousands of berserk demonic beasts, this force seemed unable to hold out much longer.

Xu Yang had very little time left to defeat the Stone Idol Totem. If he failed to eliminate the absolute ruler of the Fourth Forbidden Zone within the allotted time, these thousands of demonic beasts would instead gain the upper hand.

Then widespread damage would be unavoidable.

"I don't have time to keep playing with you like this. Let's decide this with one strike."

The next moment, Xu Yang directly flung out the Heaven-Charting Divine Artifact in his hand, while rapidly forming hand seals with both hands.

A powerful Yin-Yang Tai Chi Totem quickly condensed in his palm, and under Xu Yang's spiritual guidance, it continuously expanded to a diameter of nearly a hundred meters.

It immediately locked onto the Stone Idol Totem's main body. "Let me show you the power of my Tai Chi Dao Laws! You will experience an unprecedented sensation within it, an experience of countless struggles between life and death that you will never forget!"

At this moment, Xu Yang was like a demon king in control of everything. As he fiercely pushed out the Tai Chi Totem from his palm, and the immense totem power locked onto the stone idol's body, the opponent's soul seemed to instantly sever from its massive stone body.

"How can this be? My soul feels like it's being desperately torn apart in two directions by two extreme forces simultaneously. I've never encountered such bizarre power."

The Stone Idol Totem was almost instantly on the verge of collapse. It had never witnessed the power of Xu Yang's sword arts. Even the high-and-mighty Human Spirit Six Veins and Ancient Living Fossils would likely be helpless against Xu Yang's self-created Dao methods.

Tai Chi's black and white, Yin and Yang, the two ultimate sources of power, began to evolve relentlessly. Every second the Yin-Yang Totem operated, it would massively devour the Stone Idol Totem's life force.

In just a moment, its colossal stone body, originally over three meters tall, had developed countless cracks.

It seemed on the verge of collapsing at any moment. "Now I'll give you one last chance: immediately stop controlling the life force of these demonic beast embryonic forms, or you'll understand the consequences."

Xu Yang stood there, single-handedly holding his sword. In front of everyone, he issued the final command to the ruler of the Fourth Forbidden Zone, the Stone Idol, regarding the control of the embryonic forms. Yet, the opponent, amidst this extreme pain, seemed to maintain a rare shred of lucidity, pushing its almost distorted will to resist to the absolute limit.

"Do you think suppressing me with just power will save your army of hundreds of thousands? Don't dream. I'm merely a puppet cultivated by the Supreme God. What does it matter if you make me endure endless suffering?

Fulfilling the Supreme God's will is the sole purpose of my existence."

"Enough! Your words fill me with rage. You no longer have a chance to choose your own end."

Xu Yang was enraged. He slowly brought his open right palm together towards the center. As his five fingers clenched tightly, the Tai Chi Totem, originally a hundred meters in diameter, rapidly converged inward. The Yin and Yang poles merged into a tiny, unvanishing speck of light, unaware that this speck was a minuscule space that had swallowed the Stone Idol Totem's massive body.

The opponent's entire life force was compressed by Xu Yang and his Tai Chi Dao into this sesame-sized speck of light. It was then directly absorbed into Xu Yang's palm. He didn't crush it immediately but instead rubbed it back and forth in his hand.

"How does this feeling, worse than death, make you regretful?"

The Stone Idol Totem truly proved stubborn even unto death. Its soul aura had become incredibly faint. If Xu Yang wished, a single squeeze would make all traces of its life vanish, annihilating it in the void.

Unfortunately, the creature showed no sign of repentance. Xu Yang had no intention of giving it any further chances. With a cold chuckle, he immediately crushed the malevolent speck of light into oblivion.

From that moment, the absolute ruler of the Fourth Forbidden Zone met its demise. Simultaneously, in the outer regions of the Fourth Forbidden Zone, the Golden Giant Crab King's body rapidly withered away.

Endless yellow sand began to fall continuously from the void above the entire Fourth Forbidden Zone. This sand was, in fact, the essence of the Golden Giant Crab King's life force.

Once the ruler of the Fourth Forbidden Zone was annihilated, the Golden Giant Crab King had no reason to exist. Collapse and destruction became its only option.

"Hahaha, just as I expected! By crushing the absolute ruler of this Fourth Forbidden Zone, although we can't directly control the life and death of these awakened demonic beast embryonic forms, we've inadvertently caused the space of this Fourth Forbidden Zone to collapse prematurely.

It seems we no longer need to entangle ourselves with these thousands of demonic beast embryonic forms. As long as we all leave this dreadful place before it completely collapses, we'll have completed the trial ahead of schedule."

Xu Yang's voice instantly reached every living being in the army of hundreds of thousands of demonic beasts, immediately giving the warriors there hope for rebirth.

As expected, the next moment Xu Yang reappeared above the hundreds of thousands of demonic beasts. He immediately activated the Ghost Valley Esoteric Formation. A massive Ghost Valley formation totem enveloped the hundreds of thousands of soldiers below.

However, activating this formation required a triggering process. Xu Yang needed to gather sufficiently strong spiritual energy to activate the entire formation at once.

Meanwhile, countless berserk demonic beast embryos in the outer area were accelerating the destruction of the life force laws above.

If, before Xu Yang's Ghost Valley Esoteric Formation activated, the demonic beast army tore apart the protective aura formed by the life force laws, then Xu Yang's plan to lead hundreds of thousands of demonic beasts in a strategic retreat would fail.

It was now a race to see whether Xu Yang or the thousands of demonic beast embryonic forms would achieve their objective first. Everyone grew increasingly tense at this moment. They all ceased their struggles, collectively looked up, and gazed at Xu Yang's majestic figure in the void above.

"Oh heavens, boss, you must succeed this time!"

Feeling the frantic roars and bellows of the millions of demonic beasts around them, and witnessing the protective aura of life force continuously crack, everyone's forehead was now covered in sweat.

They were all plunged into extreme tension, waiting for the moment Xu Yang would create a miracle.

Finally, just as the protective aura of the life force laws completely shattered, Xu Yang finally gathered enough spiritual energy to successfully activate the Ghost Valley Esoteric Formation once more.

"Let's go!!"

Two words, brimming with confidence, escaped Xu Yang's lips. At that critical, hair-raising moment, Xu Yang ultimately did not disappoint anyone who trusted him.

The Ghost Valley Esoteric Formation activated simultaneously with the disappearance of the life force aura, finally leading the army of hundreds of thousands in an impossible escape from certain death.

"Hahaha, we succeeded!!"