Within a core world of the Tianmen Sect headquarters, seven figures radiating powerful auras of energy appeared. These were the seven Sovereign Gods of the Tianmen Sect.
“It’s the Dark Faction. And it’s their master, the Dark Queen, personally leading the Dark Faction army to invade our Tianmen Sect!” one of the Sovereign Gods said angrily, looking at the vast army of the Dark Faction charging relentlessly into the Tianmen Sect headquarters from outside.
“That cheap little whore is pushing too far! She actually brought her army straight into our headquarters!” said an old man with white hair and beard at the lead. His face was filled with rage, teeth gritted.
“Come, let us out to deal with her!” The elder waved his hand, about to lead the Tianmen Sect's several Sovereign Gods out to fight.
“Ancestral Master, I suggest we first activate the sect-protecting grand formation to prevent the Dark Faction army from attacking further. We must not let the headquarters become the battlefield for this conflict; we should block the Dark Faction's forces outside. Otherwise, regardless of victory or defeat in this battle, our Tianmen Sect headquarters will suffer severe damage,” another Early Stage Sovereign God beside him quickly advised.
“Well said. Activate the formation first, then go out to face the enemy.” The ancestral master of Tianmen Sect nodded. He then took out dozens of Formation Flags and threw them towards different locations.
These flags grew as they met the wind, quickly transforming into large banners fluttering in the breeze, inserted into different points in space.
At the same time, the ancestral master pressed seals formed by his hands onto the positions where the flags were inserted.
Boom...!
Soon, a gigantic formation began to manifest, enveloping the entire Tianmen Sect headquarters.
“I never expected the Tianmen Sect headquarters to possess an ancient sect-protecting grand formation, and from the look of its aura, its grade and power are quite decent,” Hun Lao remarked as Ye Yunfei and Lü Dandan were walking into the Tianmen Sect headquarters when they suddenly saw the massive formation appear.
“That's the kid! He killed many of our Heavenly Gods! Attack together!”
At that moment, over a dozen Heavenly Gods of Tianmen Sect spotted Ye Yunfei and charged towards him from all directions.
Ye Yunfei gave a cold smile, extended his palm, and performed a Body Art, instantly transforming it into a giant hand that grabbed towards the dozen or so Heavenly Gods.
Terrifying physical strength erupted from Ye Yunfei's palm. Wherever it passed, the Heavenly Gods were sealed one after another. Ye Yunfei's physical strength had long surpassed the Sovereign God level. Using purely physical force, he could easily battle Sovereign Gods, let alone these Heavenly Gods.
In less than two breaths, more than a dozen Heavenly Gods were all seized, sealed, and imprisoned within the Illusory Void Pagoda.
“How… how is that possible? That youngster's strength is this terrifying?”
More Tianmen Sect Heavenly Gods were about to charge towards Ye Yunfei, but seeing this, they all halted.
The strength displayed by Ye Yunfei was too dreadful. These Heavenly Gods no longer had the courage to approach him.
“Your opponents are me! Come on, come fight me!”
Huang Shang had already rushed before Ye Yunfei. Looking at the Heavenly Gods who had intended to surround and attack Ye Yunfei, his eyes gleamed as he emitted a sinister ghostly howl.
A surge of ghostly fog erupted towards the Heavenly Gods.
Huang Shang's glossy black ghost form was terrifyingly fast, instantly arriving in front of one Heavenly God. With ease, he yanked the soul body right out of the Heavenly God's Soul Sea.
“If we want to enter the Tianmen Sect headquarters, we must break this grand formation. The strength of the Tianmen Sect is not particularly great, but I never imagined they possess a formation of such decent grade,” Lü Dandan said, lightly frowning after sensing the grand formation before her.
“A mere formation cannot hinder the advance of our army. Let me handle it,” Ye Yunfei replied with a smile.
Ye Yunfei then released his Soul Power to perceive and study the formation before them.
In a Spatial Ring gifted by Elder Lu, there was a jade slip specifically containing inheritance of Formation techniques and ancient formation diagrams. Studying and cultivating it over this period had elevated Ye Yunfei's formation skill level once more.
Although this Tianmen Sect grand formation was quite advanced, it paled in comparison to the formation inheritance recorded within that jade slip. Therefore, Ye Yunfei quickly understood the principles governing this formation's arrangement and its key weak points.
“Let me use swordplay to break it,” Ye Yunfei said coldly as he took out a simple, ancient-looking saber.
As the words fell, he slashed out.
A single strike severs Yin and Yang!
A black-and-white sword light slashed forth, continuously expanding. The space ahead was severed into a black-and-white world of Yin and Yang.
As his sword art level constantly rose, the power of the sword technique Ye Yunfei executed now was far greater than before!
“What is that?”
Inside the Tianmen Sect headquarters, the seven Sovereign Gods were about to charge out to face the enemy when they saw the thick, black-and-white sword light ruthlessly hacking towards them, turning their faces pale with horror.
Boom…!
Under the black-and-white sword light that spanned heaven and earth, the Tianmen Sect's sect-protecting grand formation emitted a final groan of burden beyond its capacity and violently shattered.
Fragments of light poured down like torrential rain, riddling the continuous mountains and halls within every world in the headquarters. Dust mixed with dissipated spiritual qi soared skywards.
Because this grand formation was interconnected with every world within the headquarters, its destruction caused damage to each and every world.
“Attack!
Destroy the Tianmen Sect! Let all beings in this void know our Dark Faction is not to be provoked!”
Seeing Tianmen Sect's grand formation shattered by Ye Yunfei's single strike, Lü Dandan's spirits immediately soared. She waved her hand and coldly commanded.
“How is this possible? Our Tianmen Sect's formation was passed down from ancient times! It has protected our headquarters for an eternity and has endured countless trials in actual combat! Yet now it was shattered by this kid's single strike. Impossible!”
The seven Sovereign Gods of Tianmen Sect roared with unwilling disbelief, unable to accept what they had witnessed.
“Slay!”
Like breach of a ghostly river, the Dark Faction army, upon hearing Lü Dandan’s icy order, surged in with fury and a murderous aura.
The armies of both sides officially clashed!
The cold gleam of weaponry instantly replaced the shattered light of formations. Roars, screams, explosions of divine energy collisions, the shattering sounds of collapsing structures within each world—the group of worlds instantly grew lively.
The Tianmen Sect headquarters transformed into a grinder of flesh and blood. Every moment, countless living beings perished.
“Let's go in.”
Lü Dandan spoke to Ye Yunfei and then took the lead, stepping into the Tianmen Sect headquarters.
In the chaotic battlefield, Lü Dandan strode with purpose, profound Darkness Energy as deep as night swirling around her, making her appear even more noble and mysterious.
Swoosh!
Her jade-like hand lifted slightly, and an extremely condensed black beam shot forth silently, piercing through a Tianmen Sect elder who dared to approach her for an attack, turning him and his magical artifact into scattered dust. Her movements were graceful yet deadly, the majesty of the Dark Queen fully on display.
“Truly worthy of the Dark Queen. She grows more regal and powerful,” Hun Lao said, chuckling.
Ye Yunfei stepped through the air alongside Lü Dandan, not personally engaging in slaughtering ordinary Tianmen Sect members.
Ye Yunfei's icy, sharp gaze had long since locked onto the Tianmen Sect's seven Sovereign Gods.
By now, chaos reigned within the Tianmen Sect headquarters. The Tianmen Sect army's resistance rapidly crumbled. Many disciples were being encircled and killed or routed in defeat; clearly, defeat was imminent.
The forces of corpse soldiers and ghosts released by Huang Shang had terrifying lethality. Wherever they went, they massacred Tianmen Sect troops like harvesting straw.
Ye Yunfei had also released a horde of puppets that charged at the forefront. They slaughtered so savagely that ghost cried and wolves howled wherever they passed.
The Dark Faction's overall strength was inherently superior to Tianmen Sect’s. Moreover, with the aid of Ye Yunfei, Huang Shang, the Golden-Horned Dragon Silkworm, and Hu Miao, the Tianmen Sect army became utterly powerless to resist.
“We must act now! If this continues, our Tianmen Sect is truly going to perish!”
The seven Sovereign Gods of Tianmen Sect, seeing their own forces already on the brink of collapse, grew utterly panic-stricken and simultaneously furious to the extreme. The leading elder gritted his teeth as he spoke.
After his words, he soared into the air, charging toward Lü Dandan with astonishing speed.
Lü Dandan gave a cold smile, remaining stationary as she waited.
The Dark Queen Lü Dandan stood confronting the ancestral master of Tianmen Sect.
“You cheap whore from the Dark Faction! Daring to invade my peaceful Tianmen Sect! Today, I shall make you know the immensity of Heaven's might!” roared the white-haired, white-bearded Tianmen Sect ancestor. Clad in a Daoist robe adorned with the eight trigrams and wielding a magnificent whisk glowing with flowing light, he exuded pure spiritual air—an immaculate, transcendent Daoist demeanor. Contained within his eyes was thunderous fury.
Before his echo faded, he swished his whisk, executing a Tianmen Sect foundational, peerless technique: the Nine Heavens Summoning Thunder True Mantra.
Instantly, clouds surged high in the sky as giant, dragon-sized arcs of purple divine lightning tore through the heavens, carrying an imposing divine authority. Weaving into a lightning net covering heaven and earth, they thundered downward to trap Lü Dandan.
The thunder deafened; the lightning dazzled, as if intending to cleanse all worldly malevolence.
Facing this ultra-Yang, extreme lightning assault, Lü Dandan’s expression was chillingly serene, only depthless darkness in her pupils.
“Darkness is the eternal refuge.” Her red lips parted slightly, a cold declaration.
Then, lifting her jade hand, majestic darkness energy around her surged forth like a tide. Above her head, it condensed instantaneously into a giant, slowly rotating black lotus.
“That’s one of our Dark Faction's core heritage techniques, the Hidden Darkness Sacred Lotus. I never dreamed the Dark Queen would master it so quickly,” cried a Dark Faction elder in excitement.
The petals were inscribed with countless revolving Dark Runes, seeming capable of devouring all light, heat, and energy.
The raging purple divine lightning struck the Hidden Darkness Sacred Lotus—only to sink as a clay ox entering the sea, stirring faint ripples before being swallowed and annihilated by the endless darkness without harming Lü Dandan in the slightest.
“A level of strength like this, yet he dares provoke Miss Lü? Overestimating himself,” Hun Lao laughed.
“Let us kill that young pretty-face first. It’s said he has an intimate relationship with the Dark Queen. Perhaps he’s her illicit lover. Capturing or killing him will surely disturb the Dark Queen’s heart,” another among Tianmen Sect's remaining five Early Stage Sovereign Gods, their gazes fixed on Ye Yunfei. They couldn’t intervene in the terrifying battle between the Sect Ancestral Master and Lü Dandan.
Tianmen Sect had another Intermediate Stage Sovereign God, and at that moment, he charged toward the Dark Faction army, having observed the Dark Faction gaining the upper hand with Tianmen Sect troops constantly retreating and suffering grave casualties. Relying on his Sovereign God strength, he aimed to turn the tide.
However, Huang Shang and the Golden-Horned Dragon Silkworm both targeted him simultaneously, flanking him from left and right.
“Then I’ll resolve you five first,” Ye Yunfei said coldly, his gaze turning towards the five Early Stage Sovereign Gods charging his way.
With Ye Yunfei’s current strength, dealing with Early Stage Sovereign Gods was simple.