"Take him down!"

"Charge!"

Nine Zhuyuan Great Emperors gripped their Zhuyuan Blades, each with a Zhuyuan Flowing Cloud Jade Ruyi hovering above their heads, and they led the charge straight at Peng Niu!

Peng Niu snorted coldly—how dare they close to melee with him?

A massive axe materialized in his hands, and he swung it at the Zhuyuan Great Emperors.

The two sides exchanged blows millions of times in an instant.

All nine Zhuyuan Great Emperors were hacked and flung outward.

The Zhuyuan Flowing Cloud Jade Ruyi trembled violently, but still held the defense steady.

As the Zhuyuan Great Emperors were repelled, the others naturally surged forward to fight Peng Niu as well.

The battle was ferocious.

Chaotic Energy was pushed outward by their combat, retreating significantly toward the periphery.

One of Taiyi Sage Lord’s clones was actually cleaved to death by a single blow from Peng Niu’s axe!

But among the remaining eight clones, one immediately produced a new clone, restoring their number back to nine.

Seeing this, Peng Niu shouted in disbelief, "Impossible! What sort of divine technique is this?"

Taiyi Sage Lord laughed heartily, offering no explanation.

He and the others exchanged a look, all of them smiling knowingly.

This was merely a low-grade Tao technique, yet it had rattled an invading mid-Tai Chi powerhouse so much—who knew from what crooked corner it had surfaced.

Peng Niu instantly attacked that Taiyi Sage Lord clone with his axe.

At that moment, Taiyi Sage Lord bellowed internally, "Seven-Star Tao Technique: Big Dipper Seven Stars!"

In the next instant, the nine clones combined, forming the Big Dipper Formation;

a seven-star domain coalesced.

Peng Niu’s strike landed on the Big Dipper Formation, but the formation’s defense forcibly absorbed the blow.

"This is a mid-grade Tao technique!" Taiyi Sage Lord's eyes brimmed with confidence.

Peng Niu's face registered shock and confusion: "How can one person form a formation? What formation can so easily raise defense by an entire small realm?"

After blocking the attack, Taiyi Sage Lord used the Big Dipper Tao technique to reflect Peng Niu’s blow back.

Caught off-guard, Peng Niu was knocked flying, tumbling through the chaos for a great distance, then pummeled repeatedly by the others.

A layer of purple crystal armor covered Peng Niu;

after sustained attacks from the strong opponents, it visibly dimmed.

Peng Niu realized he could not continue like this. His bull eyes suddenly flashed with spiritual light as he locked onto the true body of Epoch Primordial Dragon and swung his axe.

Epoch Primordial Dragon’s pupils constricted;

without hesitation, he activated a top-tier Tao technique he had kept hidden.

"High-Level Seven-Star Tao Technique: Origin Burn!"

When Origin Burn began, Epoch Primordial Dragon’s aura surged by dozens of times, leaping from early Tai Chi Realm straight into mid Tai Chi Realm!

The cultivation requirement for this Tao technique was harsh—it required grasping temporal rules. Epoch Primordial Dragon had mastered them and, after breaking through Tai Chi Realm, devoted himself to this technique and succeeded in entering the doorway of the art!

With his aura skyrocketing, Epoch Primordial Dragon produced his Dragon Pearl treasure and collided it with Peng Niu’s axe.

Boom!

The Dragon Pearl and axe struck within the chaos, tearing open a massive void space—rules collided, laws spawned, a world birthed—and then, under the intense aftershock, it vanished into nothingness.

Peng Niu looked at Epoch Primordial Dragon in stupefied amazement.

After delivering that strike, Epoch Primordial Dragon’s aura sank back to early Tai Chi Realm.

"Something’s off! This group’s Tai Chi combat power is clearly far stronger than a normal early Tai Chi level! What are those divine techniques?" Peng Niu could not comprehend.

At that time, Su Yuan, watching from a distance, revealed a faint smile. What people called Tao techniques were simply major Dao divine arts Su Yuan had generated by simplifying his tag abilities.

The tag abilities that became his life tags were fully Su Yuan’s own power, and of course he could impart these powers to others.

But others could at most learn simplified tag abilities, and without system assistance it was almost impossible for them to reach consummation;

even if they lucked into consummation, what they achieved would still be a weakened form of the tag ability.

Even so, for everyone else these abilities were already outrageously broken!

The low-grade Tao technique of multiple clones derived originally from the True Spirit Clone tag that had been seized from the Immortal-Demon Realm Sea—what looked like an ordinary multi-clone technique was actually an utterly astounding ability.

If others perfected it, they could at most split into ninety-nine clones, while Su Yuan could split into an unlimited number—as long as he had enough energy, he could produce clones indefinitely!

This was the origin of the Tao techniques and the reason many Immortal-Demon Realm Sea powerhouses were so terrifyingly strong.

Peng Niu obviously did not know the reasons behind it, and the Zhuyuan Great Emperors and others who had learned the Tao techniques would not reveal this secret to outsiders.

So Peng Niu grew more alarmed the longer he fought, more puzzled the harder he resisted, and by the time he realized he could not break their encirclement, thoughts of retreat had already begun to seed.

"Retreat!"

Without hesitation, Peng Niu chose to withdraw.

With a flash, he transformed into a streak of light and fled, vanishing into the chaos in the blink of an eye.

From Peng Niu’s perspective, time and space were indistinguishable inside the chaos—escape seemed simple.

But then Zhuyuan Great Emperor snorted coldly and said, "Trying to run?"

Immediately he unleashed one of his Tao techniques: "Seven-Star Tao Technique: Seven-Star Tracking!"

A beam of star-light shot into the chaos, locking onto Peng Niu’s escape trajectory.

"Go!"

Zhuyuan Great Emperor called out.

Six of them instantly plunged into the chaos and pursued Peng Niu.

Peng Niu raced through the chaos for what felt like hundreds of billions of light-years, thinking he had left danger behind.

But after he passed through a turbulent patch of chaotic current, he collided head-on with six Zhuyuan Great Emperors flying toward him!

Seeing the group ahead, Peng Niu’s face turned utterly ashen.

"How could you possibly catch me!" Peng Niu roared.

"Kill!"

The Zhuyuan Great Emperors gave no idle words. Knowing they could catch him, they had prepared their killing techniques and without hesitation slashed at Peng Niu.

Peng Niu was struck squarely by the sudden joint assault.

Several dozen segments of his purple crystal armor were shattered immediately.

Using the moment their attacks created, Peng Niu once again surged away and vanished without a trace.

The Zhuyuan group exchanged looks and without hesitation continued the pursuit.

What followed was a relentless chase by six Zhuyuan Great Emperors that lasted for millions of years. Because time in the chaos is uncounted and its flow varies wildly, spending vast time in the chaos often meant only a short span passed in the realm seas.

At last, after millions of years of chase, Peng Niu was cut down by the Zhuyuan Great Emperors. With their Zhuyuan Blades they severed his Tai Chi Dao Fruit and killed him on the spot!

Peng Niu’s final roar rang out, "I will return! Just wait!"

His words were swallowed by the chaos and utterly dispersed.

The Zhuyuan Great Emperors felt their nearly exhausted Tai Chi power and sighed: "So strong! Mid Tai Chi is still so hard to kill! We almost got dragged out by him! But in the end, we are the victors!"

They glanced at one another and all of them wore expressions of unalloyed satisfaction.