Chapter 1289: Taiji Counterattack

Tai Shi, still within the egg, waited anxiously. The round egg spun around, yet there was no sign of Tai Yi. He thought to himself, "Didn't he say he was coming to help? Should I escape?"

Apothecary and the others were brimming with confidence, believing they could confront the powerful being from the previous universe. However, Tai Shi knew how terrifying that person truly was.

The being's divine bow, when held by Qin Mu, could unleash power comparable to an Emperor's Throne weapon. Qin Mu's magical power was at the level of a divine devil in the Jade Capital realm. His combat strength lay in the exquisite mastery of his divine arts and techniques, not in his magical power, which had not reached the Numinous Sky realm.

This meant that even with Jade Capital realm magical power, the divine bow's power could be elevated to the level of an Emperor's Throne weapon. One could only imagine how astonishing its full power would be when unleashed.

And as the owner of that divine bow, how terrifying must their true strength be?

Such a being, even with severed arms, would be far beyond what anyone in the valley could contend with. They would simply be massacred.

Not even with Tai Shi from the egg joining them.

Although Tai Shi, still in the egg, wanted to flee, a second thought made him realize there was nowhere in the vast world for him to go.

The Tai Shi ore veins were in the hands of Consort Yan Tian, and the ancestral court's entrance was blocked by the Ten Celestial Venerables. He couldn't even fly out of the ancestral court.

He was just an egg; where could he possibly run?

If he ran around aimlessly, he might even be caught by those vile void beasts, cracked open, and eaten.

Qin Mu had rescued him from Zhaoyang Palace, but wasn't the outside world an even larger cage?

Furthermore, with the powerful being from the previous universe now free, could he truly remain uninvolved?

Those prehistoric powerhouses would likely eliminate the Five Grand Primordials first, and then the other ancient gods.

"Tai Yi transcended, yet he remained here," Tai Shi mused, "probably sensing the responsibility of us Five Grand Primordials."

He quieted down, abandoning his plan to seize the opportunity to escape.

The anomaly reappeared.

The being from the previous universe drew closer to the cliff face. The moment its hand broke through the cliff, its skin began to rot, exposing stark white bone.

Yet, the being inside the cliff remained oblivious to Apothecary's potent poison. Its arm continued to reach outward.

Apothecary's virulent poison corroded its skin texture, flesh structure, and invaded its bones. Such a strong and fierce poison was something even Qin Mu had never witnessed.

In the path of medicine, Apothecary had indeed blazed a trail unprecedented in history.

Finally, one full arm of the being from the previous universe extended out. The arm that emerged had already turned to white bone.

"Attack!" Apothecary roared.

Blind Elder's small body shook violently as his Formation Heavenly Palace emerged behind him. A celestial river flowed from the Formation Heavenly Palace, piercing through his other major divine treasures, coiling around his body like a dragon.

Countless magnificent formation runes spread out from him, dazzling and brilliant. These runes, centered on the Heavenly Palace, unfolded layer by layer, swiftly forming a thirteen-layered Heaven Formation that drew upon the spiritual energy and essence of the world.

As a grandmaster of formations, one's cultivation level alone was not the benchmark for measuring combat prowess. A grandmaster of formations could leverage timing and terrain to unleash even greater power.

Blind Elder's mastery of formations had, unknowingly, surpassed Yan Yunxi. Compared to Celestial Venerable Han, the Heavenly Court's foremost formation master, his formations were in no way inferior; in fact, he had even surpassed him in the path of formations.

After all, he had already begun to explore the frontier of constructing a Heavenly Court using formations.

"Dragon's Edge!"

Holding his Black Dragon Divine Spear, Blind Elder's surrounding thirteen-layered Heaven Formations suddenly rose. His eyes became incredibly bright as he gazed at the arm through the thirteen heavens.

The Black Dragon Divine Spear in his hand moved fluidly, thrusting forward.

A dragon's roar reverberated, echoing throughout the valley.

With all his might, Blind Elder's Dragon's Edge Divine Spear moved like a gale and lightning. In an instant, it thrust out countless times, striking the withered bone arm repeatedly with a flurry of rapid sounds.

Faint cracking sounds continuously emanated, and tiny fissures immediately appeared on the surface of the withered bone arm.

Although Blind Elder mobilized the thirteen-layered Heaven Formations, drawing upon the spiritual energy and essence of heaven and earth for enhancement, his own aura rapidly diminished with each thrust of his spear.

The rate of his aura's decline was alarming.

Simultaneously, Mute roared, and thunder exploded in the valley, deafeningly loud. It was clearly audible even across the Hundred Thousand Black Mountains of Great Blackwood. The thunder reverberated back and forth between the peaks, its echoes long and lingering.

In the valley, it was as if a sun was slowly rising, growing increasingly brighter.

That was Mute's Forging Heavenly Palace, ablaze with scorching fire. Amidst the sunlight-like radiance, Mute's primordial spirit surged from the Heavenly Palace, growing progressively taller and larger.

At the same moment, Mute's physical body also swelled. He, who had originally appeared as a weathered old blacksmith, now had bulging muscles and a formidable physique, his body gradually overlapping with his primordial spirit.

Within the brilliant flames, this giant swung his blacksmith's hammer. The blazing, sun-like fire actually flowed into his great hammer.

Mute brought his hammer down. This strike employed both microscopic and macroscopic forging techniques.

Who says a blacksmith can only forge iron?

Mute could not only forge iron but also use incredibly violent means to destroy others' divine weapons.

He was a grandmaster in forging, and equally a grandmaster in destroying divine weapons.

With his Forging Heavenly Palace now complete, to others, he was a walking, humanoid divine weapon of destruction.

Destroying divine weapons was even harder than destroying physical bodies, yet under his hammer, nothing was unbreakable.

As his hammer descended, the arm instantly shattered, sending countless bone fragments flying. These fragments then continued to break down further under his terrifying strike, as if countless invisible giants wielding hammers were meticulously crushing every particle of bone.

The hammer struck the ground, and the valley shook violently.

Mute lifted his hammer, revealing a look of joy. At the same time, smiles also appeared on Apothecary's and Blind Elder's faces.

They had finally succeeded.

However, the next moment, their smiles froze.

Despite having both arms severed, the emaciated figure on the cliff face continued to move forward. Its face and one leg had already emerged from the cliff.

An expression of immense rage appeared on its face, which then began to rot—Apothecary's poison was taking effect.

The leg it stepped out of the stone wall was also rotting, revealing bone. Apothecary's poison was too virulent; it not only attacked the physical body and destroyed bodily functions but also targeted its cultivation, causing the Grand Dao it had cultivated to disintegrate, its Dao chains to break, its Dao patterns to crumble, and its runes to shatter into indivisible minute particles.

However, its power was so immense that its face quickly stopped rotting, and the toxins in its leg were forced out of its body.

Blind Elder forcefully plunged the Dragon's Edge Divine Spear into the ground, and formation runes erupted. He then pulled out Dragon's Edge, grabbed Apothecary with one hand, and retreated rapidly. Mute also began to fall back.

At the same time, Yan'er stepped forward with Celestial Venerable Yue's lantern, moving past them and activating its power.

Dragon Qilin rotated the Lapis Lazuli Azure Sky Bell. The various heavens within the Azure Sky Bell spun open, and the brilliant heavy treasures inside them began to glow like stars.

The heavens ascended, sweeping up everyone in the valley.

The emaciated figure's eyes became incredibly bright. Its head had now fully emerged from the stone wall, and behind it, on the stone wall, the shadow of a drawn bow appeared.

The shadow drew the bowstring. Although it was just a shadow, it radiated overwhelming power.