Chapter 279 - 246: The Collapse of Luck and the Leakage of Dragon Qi
Yuan Shi Immortal Monarch schemed against the Various Heavens, yet he hadn’t anticipated that the Various Heavens would deliberately comply with his scheme, instead uncovering Laozi’s true body and location. They revealed the projections they had earlier hidden among the Four Great Continents, intending to destroy both his and Laozi’s physical forms.
The Heaven-Penetrating Sect Hierarch arrived in time to seize one Heaven-Avoiding Coffin, but there was another Heaven-Avoiding Coffin still up for grabs. The three grand projections from the Various Heavens struggled to obtain it, each with a fair chance of succeeding.
Among his brothers, Heaven-Penetrating might not have possessed the highest mana, yet once he deployed the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation, everyone, save for the Four Saints, was compelled to retreat three measures. This sword formation could not be broken by anyone other than the Four Saints!
With the deployment of the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation, killing intent surged skyward, humming intensely, and caused the Queen Mother’s Yao Pond to tremble chaotically, with countless Flat Peach Trees withering away.
As Sect Hierarch Heaven-Penetrating set up the sword formation, facing off against three at once, the key was ensuring that they could not harm the flesh within the Heaven-Avoiding Coffin. If it were a direct slaughter, the three projections would indeed struggle significantly against Heaven-Penetrating’s Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation. After all, regarding combat power among the Saints, Heaven-Penetrating was, perhaps, the strongest! The Saints represented the pinnacle of cultivators, equivalent to the existence of the Heavenly Dao itself, standing shoulder to shoulder with the Nine Heavens.
These three grand projections had lain in wait for countless ages before infiltrating the world of the Heavenly Dao. The nine grand projections were directly summoned by the Tathagata using the Guiding Great Formation, so naturally, their mana could not be compared. The mana of these three projections fell short of the other nine by several tiers of heaven!
A single inch in mana translates to a hierarchy of heaven, and the difference was estimated to be just that few inches... a case of a miss being as good as a mile.
Sect Hierarch Heaven-Penetrating boasted the strongest combat power among the Saints. Facing three opponents alone, he fought fiercely, his vital essence billowing like beacon smoke, reaching high into the sky and obscuring the heavens and the earth.
The Immortals above the Yao Pond, sensing this terrifying sword intent and killing aura, had long since hidden themselves away, to say nothing of coming to watch the battle.