Aspiring to the Immortal Path -
Chapter 1182: The Decisive Battle of Skybrink Ridge (3)
The Eight Ocean Mountains was not like other formations. It had never been meant to kill enemies, but to support.
Even so, it was still considered to be one of the seven most effective formations in the chiliocosm against the demons of Primordial Fog.
As Tang Jie spoke, the battlefield once more shifted.
A massive golden light erupted from the front, covering the entire battlefield.
In this golden radiance, all the black demonic energy was expelled and neutralized, the corpses and gore carpeting the earth flashing with a white light before melting away like snow.
Melting away with them was the black blood within the soil.
The earth regained its original hue, and Immortal energy began to billow out of the ground, gathering in the sky in a great cloud.
In the blink of an eye, all demonic energy had been banished, and that world of darkness had been replaced with the brightness of humanity.
“Yaaaah!” All the humans cheered.
At the same time, a voice rang out: “Shit! It’s the Eight Ocean Mountains! Retreat at once!”
Just as the humans had developed a deep understanding of the demons, the demons were no strangers to the humans. The failed attempts to infiltrate the Rosecloud Domain before the main invasion weren’t a strong indicator of anything, since there were far too many surveillance formations capable of this. But this sudden development more than proved that they were dealing with a terrifying formation that, despite appearing only three times before in prior Primordial Fog Calamities, had dealt devastating damage each time.
“Bastards! Retreat! Retreat now!” That Demon Lord’s roar resounded across the lands.
His words were not for the demon soldiers down below, but for the high-tier devils, because he knew that the demon soldiers were doomed.
The moment the Immortal Spirit white fog reappeared, everything was doomed.
The solid ground once more turned to a vast ocean of sand. As the Sand Ocean Formation reactivated, so did the Gold Ignis Astral Wind Formation, the two of them combining into a furious sandstorm, clearly much stronger than before.
But this was only the beginning.
The lightning formation also combined with the sands to create a hellish storm of sand and lightning. At this moment, every grain of sand had the fury of lightning, the speed of the wind, and the ferocity of flames in addition to the coarseness of sand.
And then a new formation emerged on the battlefield. The abandoned art relics and weapons, and even the metal ore hidden in the earth soared into the sky. They shattered into metal fragments and merged with the sandstorm.
The last piece was in place.
All the formations merged together into a brand-new formation: the Five Elements Reversal Formation.
The sandstorm exploded in power and grew to consume the entire battlefield.
No longer did black demonic energy run rampant, only the raging fury of nature, letting all beings understand how terrifying it was.
Let alone Violet Palace devils, even Immortal Platform devils were unwilling to take it on.
Vast numbers of demons were slain, Demonhorns and Ironbones vaporizing under the winds. In a single gust of wind, hundreds of demons that had been standing there collapsed in gushers of blood. Red Bats and Silver Pyros tumbled from the skies, disappearing into nothing the moment their corpses hit the ground.
This was the function of the Eight Ocean Mountains.
Although it did not possess the ability to kill enemies, its ability to accept offerings allowed it to treat demons as nutrients, in addition purifying all their contamination. In addition, it could help formations fuse together and enhance them, allowing them to generate levels of power far beyond normal.
It was precisely because of this support ability that could counter demonic energy that it was considered the best formation to deal with demons.
But the immense cost of the Eight Ocean Mountains was its weakness. Besides the cost of setting up the formation, activating the formation also cost resources.
Besides this cost, its merging and enhancing abilities required the offering of large amounts of life force. Humans naturally couldn’t be offered, so they could only use demons. Thus, unless enough demons were offered, the Eight Ocean Mountains was of limited use.
The Primordial Fog demons also knew of the Eight Ocean Mountains and were well aware of its advantages and weaknesses. If they had known that their foe had this formation, they would definitely have employed specific countermeasures against it instead of ordering a large-scale assault.
This was why Tang Jie had only one opportunity. To maximize the use of the formation, he had waited and endured until a large number of demons had entered the designated battlefield.
The combined power of the five formations was so great that even some devils were barely able to counterattack. The demon armies’ combination abilities that could make even Immortals wary were useless before the might of nature. The lightning sandstorm created by the Five Elements Reversal Formation was neverending, while the demon army could not keep up their combined defenses forever, and the stronger the combination, the higher the requirements. This constant pressure ripped demon after demon from their linked state, instantly pulverizing them.
Powerful barriers seemed to be made of paper, and even the Shadow Nagas could only cry out in despair as the tornadoes bore down on them.
Their tough bodies and powerful combination spell arts were all feeble and weak before the wrath of the world. The Shadow Nagas were torn to shreds and absorbed by the Eight Ocean Mountains, converted to fundamental energy which was linked to the world and then transferred to Yun Tianlan and Tang Jie. The two of them felt themselves growing stronger and stronger, and if not for their already formidable strength, they would have found it impossible to accept and digest this terrifying torrent of energy.
Not even the high-level devils were all able to escape.
The high-level devils tried to flee the sandstorm.
But the humans wanted to ensure that they stayed.
Various Divine Connections were unleashed, but rather than attacking the devils, they were meant to restrain them. Fairy Gu Ye’s Spatial Labyrinth, Huang Wuji’s Immeasurable Earth, the Jewel Immortal Sovereign’s Gale of Dancing Void, Jin Wuyu’s Godhead Shackles, Blossom Queen Ran Qing’s Yearning Entanglement, Shi Xinchan’s Immovable Pure Heart Mantra, and also the Seven Absolutions Sect’s sealing Dao armaments, the Skybind Chain and Starsnatch Net, were all used, transforming the battlefield into a prison that was intended to keep the enemy here no matter the cost.
This situation finally forced the demons to reveal their own secret techniques.
A six-armed demon bellowed and revealed his true form, growing to a height of more than three thousand feet. His six arms punched at the sky, causing Fairy Gu Ye’s Spatial Labyrinth to crack and shatter.
A two-headed devil began to spew out ice and flame, the energies fusing together and exploding into an annihilating shockwave that blew apart the labyrinth and impacted against the Immeasurable Earth. Fairy Gu Ye’s face paled, but the heads of that two-headed devil sagged. The attack just now had expended the energy needed for an Immortal to revive three times.
A bull demon returned to its original form and charged at the Immeasurable Earth, making the entire world shake as if it had rammed into the ramparts of the heavens. As it charged and charged again, the devils in the rear barraged the Immeasurable Earth with spell arts, and it finally broke under the load.
A Moon Spider devil shrieked and spat out countless small Moon Spiders, which attempted to break out through the rear. A net of spatial blades sliced through them, but with each Moon Spider slain, the spatial blades would lose their luster, as if something was affecting them. As the power of the Great Dao faded, the blades began to disappear, and when all the Moon Spiders died, few of the blades were left.
The Godhead Shackles, Yearning Entanglement, Immovable Mantra, and Skybind Chain were all broken.
But in this time, one high-level devil after another had been slain by the sandstorm, and even an Immortal Platform devil had been killed once. He had sustained a particularly powerful attack from the Five Elements sandstorm, and only after killing him once did it finally seek another target.
The high-level demons were trapped by the humans, and every extra second they spent here was another second in peril. All they could do was wait until the Demon Lords broke their cell and opened a path to escape.
The Demon Lords were doing everything they could to accomplish this.
Finally, a one-horned Demon Lord took on his true form, towering seven thousand feet tall, and attacked that Starsnatch Net that covered the heavens. The shockwaves were so intense that even the sandstorm paused for a moment.
Just when it seemed like the net was about to break, Tang Jie suddenly snorted.
He finally made his move.
The Myriad Yin Yang Furnace flew out, spinning in the air as it focused its intense light on the horned devil, rendering the Demon Lord immobile.
He then swung the Sovereign Blade, slicing the Demon Lord in half with a wave of energy. He had struck at the precise moment the Demon Lord had made impact with the net and was enduring the counterattack from the stars embedded within it, which was what had allowed him to so easily slay the Demon Lord.
All of the other Demon Lords were stunned by this blow, and their offensive paused for a moment. Meanwhile, the human Immortals once more took action, reapplying the spell arts that had been broken before. After all, the humans were just as desperate to keep the devils there as the devils were to break out. They wouldn’t get another chance to take down so many demons.
At this moment, there was a light grunt.
A pair of hands appeared in the sky.
Smooth and white, as glossy as jade.
These hands appeared outside the Starsnatch Net. Seizing the net, they ignored the crackling lightning unleashed by the stars and tore it apart.
At the same time, a black streak of light fell out of the heavens and landed in the center of the battlefield, sinking into the largest and most terrifying sandstorm.
The raging sandstorm came to a screeching halt.
Time seemed to freeze.
“Hurry and retreat!” a majestic voice rang out.
The devils came to their senses and began to flee.
Tang Jie swung the Sovereign Blade, but this time, he failed to take the life of any other devil.
A black stream of energy wrapped around the Sovereign Blade, preventing it from moving any further.
Tang Jie peered through the darkness and saw a pair of cold and emotionless eyes looking back.
“Demon Lord Libido!” Tang Jie called out.
“Tang Jie!” that voice in the demon fog responded.
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