WebNovel Chapter 969: Not a Single One Will Leave!
Chapter 969: Not a Single One Will Leave!
…The moment the word "Open" fell.
It was as if time itself stopped flowing at this instant.
The entire Endless Deep Sea suddenly fell silent!
First the Sea God Temple, then the entire expanse of the Endless Sea.
Even the waves that had surged for countless millennia froze at this moment, the splashing spray hanging motionless in mid-air.
*Shing! Shing! Shing!—*
Boundless sword qi abruptly rose from all directions.
Countless, innumerable strands of sword qi connected into one, forming a silver-white sword curtain that enveloped the entire Great Formation.
First, the corridor leading to the secret realm vanished within the sword curtain.
Then, the chamber constructed by Poseidon using his Sea God power also crumbled within the sword curtain.
Over a hundred deities were imprisoned within this circular space composed purely of sword qi in the blink of an eye.
"This… what is this?!"
A deity who tried to escape via teleportation found he couldn't sense the spatial anchor points of his Divine Kingdom at all.
This silver-white sword curtain had actually severed space itself, creating a true 'chamber' isolated from the outside world.
Another deity, refusing to believe it, reached out to touch the silver-white sword curtain.
But the moment his finger made contact with the sword qi, it was severed cleanly at the root the next second, golden divine blood spraying out.
With this deity serving as a cautionary example, the other deities dared not move again.
They looked around, hoping to find a way out.
But all they could see was a field of silver-white and wildly crisscrossing sword qi.
And… at the very center of the space, that figure suspended in the air, his pale hair dancing wildly.
Chen Huaian looked down indifferently from above at the deities below with their varied expressions, sword radiance slowly igniting in his eyes.
Layer upon layer of sword qi bloomed behind him like a peacock spreading its tail.
"Heaven and Earth as the furnace, Fortune forges the edge;
The four pillars overturn, calamity's fortune shifts west and east.
Slay, Slaughter, Trap, Annihilate, suppress and lock the Primordial Chaos;
The sword rises not to the heavens, the formation descends nine layers deep!"
As his words fell.
Chen Huaian's eyes widened in fury, he pointed downward and uttered a low roar: "Kill—!"
With that single word, his word became law!
Above the dome, the connected silver-white sword curtain suddenly reversed its flow and poured down.
The nine heavens shattered, the star river overturned!
Billions upon billions of blindingly bright silver-white sword qi madly plummeted from the sky, carrying supreme, overwhelming pressure, brutally piercing through the entire space of the Great Formation.
Within the field of vision, nothing remained.
No sky, no earth, no vast ocean or deep sea.
Only an expanse of white so extreme it was tragic!
Every inch of air, every wisp of dust… even the very Laws and concepts of this realm were forcibly filled, torn apart, and shredded by that incomparably sharp sword qi!
And this power had already transcended a true Slaying Immortals Sword Formation.
A normal Slaying Immortals Sword Formation required four top-tier sword-type treasures to activate.
But at this moment, what activated the entire sword formation was Chen Huaian's Sword Dao.
Using the Dao to set the formation.
This sword formation was naturally ferocious.
The slaughter began.
Those lower deities at the bottom rung of godhood didn't even have time to beg for mercy or scream.
In just an instant!
Violent sword light passed through their bodies.
Those supposedly indestructible divine bodies were like porcelain before the sword qi, instantly ground into dust!
Divine flames extinguished! Form and spirit both destroyed!
And even powerful Chief Gods like Augustus, before this sword formation, could only manage to experience a few more seconds of the terror of death.
"No—!!!"
Augustus's eyes nearly burst from their sockets, roaring as he burned his origin, exhausting all his divine power to protect himself.
But that divine power, which seemed as vast as the sea to other deities, the moment it touched the silver-white sword qi, melted away like remnants of snow under a blazing sun.
Crisscrossing silver-white ribbons instantly swallowed him, as if being sliced by a thousand blades!
The first sword sliced away flesh and blood, the second severed divine bones, the third tore apart the divine soul!
Augustus wailed miserably in despair, watching helplessly as his immortal body was sliced apart inch by inch by the sword qi.
Every drop of divine blood, every piece of flesh was stripped away and melted bit by bit within that sword light.
In the end, only a Divine Spark, specifically left behind by Chen Huaian, remained.
Everything else had utterly returned to nothingness.
In just a few short breaths, a hundred deities were completely slaughtered!
And at the center of this silver-white hell.
Poseidon was being protected within a secondary formation core by a strand of origin sword qi separated from the Great Formation.
The wildly raging sword qi around him seemed to have eyes as it howled past his sides, ten thousand swords giving way, not harming a single hair.
Even though he was protected, he felt as if he had fallen into hell itself.
One of the Chief Gods who ruled the Endless Seas, his legs were now trembling uncontrollably.
If not for his hands propping him up on the Sea God's Trident, his legs would have likely gone so weak he'd have knelt on the ground.
His eyes wide, he stared dumbfounded at the world-ending scene before him where gods were slaughtered like dogs, his mind utterly blank.
…
Poseidon's thoughts couldn't help but drift back to three days ago.
Also in this chamber.
Chen Huaian sat cross-legged on the ground, pinching sword qi between his fingertips, slowly driving it into the surrounding void.
With each strand of sword qi that fell, imperceptibly faint sword patterns would ripple in the void, undetectable if one didn't look closely.
At the time, Poseidon stood to the side, watching Chen Huaian work for half the day.
He wasn't unfamiliar with formations.
But in his view, no matter how exquisite a formation, before an absolute gap in divine power, it was all illusory.
Over a hundred deities, among them Chief God-level existences…
If a real fight broke out, forget one formation, even if the entire Sea God Temple was refined into a formation, it might not hold them back.
Deep down, he hadn't held much hope.
Now that his daughter's curse was lifted, the Golden Dragon King would find out sooner or later.
When that time came, what awaited him and the Endless Sea would only be utter annihilation.
Setting up this trap, he had already steeled himself for a last-ditch effort.
Coupled with Chen Huaian's strength being above his, he hadn't raised any objections to Chen Huaian setting up a formation.
He had only offered a slight reminder:
"When the situation gets chaotic, if those deities fight with the desperation of cornered beasts, I'm afraid a single formation won't be enough to suppress them."
Chen Huaian didn't even look up, only leisurely driving another strand of sword qi into the void, his tone flat:
"No matter. Leave it to This Venerable One."
"Once This Venerable One's formation is set, whoever enters… not a single one will leave."
Back then, Poseidon had taken it as the arrogance of a top-tier powerhouse. He had even thought that if they couldn't trap or kill these deities, he would pull in Hades, Eve, and Prometheus to help.
After all, a Great Formation was ultimately something reliant on the Laws of Heaven and Earth, and deities were the very embodiment of those Laws.
Using a Great Formation to kill deities, or trap them, was in itself a meaningless endeavor like 'using one's own spear to attack one's own shield.'
But now.
Poseidon finally understood just how wrong he had been.
He thought he had already estimated Chen Huaian's strength to its highest possible point.
Yet he never imagined that this person's power had long since exceeded all his understanding of the very words "divine power."
With a formation like this, forget a hundred deities, even if the Five Great Chief Gods were stuffed inside, they would likely only be shredded by the sword formation.
…
The sky-filling sword light gradually dissipated.
Not a single deity remained.
Only that figure with wildly dancing pale hair stood at the formation's center, treading the void, like a god of slaughter descended upon the world!
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