Yuan Ming couldn't bear to look away, he kept his gaze fixed on the Haotian Divine Tower, continuously absorbing the True Sun Fire, its golden spherical crown emitting a radiance no weaker than the sun.

At the same time, circles of red flame patterns emerged on the tower's body, as if some kind of forbidden restriction had been activated, releasing a soul-stirring spiritual pressure.

At this moment, the three Returning Void Elders simultaneously began chanting, raising their hands to perform sealing gestures, directing them towards the Haotian Divine Tower.

Beneath the towering structure, a golden light pillar entwined with flames descended abruptly, fiercely striking towards the Black Demon Calamity Heart Formation.

Meanwhile, the Black Evil Sect below was prepared, with cultivators stationed at various formation points around the island, each exerting their full force, making the light on the pillars even more dazzling and bright.

Originally appearing as a mere mass of dark clouds, the Black Demon Calamity Heart Formation suddenly surged with mist, within which a giant demon shadow emerged, with wings on its back, horns on its head, and ferocious features.

Its body was several tens of feet tall, opening its blood-red maw to silently roar at the sky, spewing out a black light pillar straight into the void, colliding with the golden light pillar.

"Boom, boom, boom"

A series of thunderous sounds erupted, causing the surrounding void to shake violently.

The moment the two light pillars collided, a massive ring-shaped shockwave exploded, centering on Black Mo Island, spreading out and causing hundreds of feet-high stormy waves on the sea.

The Cross-sea Giant Ship, controlled by numerous cultivators, swayed back and forth like a small boat amidst the waves.

A momentary explosion did not yield a result.

The Haotian Divine Tower and the Black Demon Calamity Heart Formation found themselves in a stalemate, neither side prevailing. Always read from the source: *.

However, this momentum did not last long before a change occurred once more.

The cultivators of the Black Evil Sect on Black Mo Island seemed to have other tricks up their sleeves. Once unleashed, the towering stone pillars on the island suddenly turned from black to red, and the light pillars emitted gradually shifted from dark black to blood red.

The black mist in the high sky turned into a blood mist, and the giant black demon shadow seemed to be clad in a layer of blood armor, becoming even more formidable.

Yuan Ming sensed a vague hint of danger.

He observed intently for a moment and then loudly exclaimed, "The demon cultivators of the Black Evil Sect have activated the Blood Sacrifice Technique. The defensive array is turning from defense to attack."

Everyone's attention was focused on the stalemate in the high sky, and no one spoke, so his voice was immediately heard by almost everyone.

Yun Luo Fairy was startled, quickly moving to the ship's edge to look down, only to see a surge of blood energy on the island, her expression changing rapidly.

Yuan Ming's call also drew Huangfu Jue's attention. He glanced over here and then directly soared up, arriving above the Haotian Tower.

At this moment, the black demon shadow clad in blood armor had blood-red eyes, and the black light it spewed out transformed into blood color, its power exponentially increasing.

The existing balance was instantly shattered, the golden radiance of the Haotian Divine Tower continuously fractured, being corroded by the blood-colored light pillar, the light forced to retreat upward, seemingly about to be breached.

"Everyone, lend some mana." Huangfu Jue shouted loudly.

Upon hearing this, everyone quickly responded, hurriedly channeling their mana towards the Haotian Tower.

Streams of light flowed into the Haotian Tower, and its golden radiance immediately grew twice as strong, the decline halting abruptly, once again entering a stalemate with the Black Demon Calamity Heart Formation.

But just at this moment, from the direction of Black Mo Island below, an eerie, cackling laughter suddenly resounded, accompanied by a voice:

"Haha, you fools of Dongji Palace, I've been waiting for this moment."

As the voice fell, blood-red ripples suddenly shot out from the eyes of the blood-armored demon shadow, layer upon layer, like ripples on a lake, continuously spreading.

All the cultivators transferring mana to the Haotian Tower simultaneously flinched, their eyes glimmering with red light.

To varying degrees, they were all subjected to the influence of the blood-armored demon shadow, falling into illusion.

Yuan Ming, whose Word Witch Realm was already stable, only felt an external force trying to invade his sea of consciousness but remained unaffected.

He hesitated on whether to use his divine skills to help others break free from the illusion when suddenly he felt a shudder throughout his body, his hairs standing on end.

The air around him suddenly turned scorching, causing everyone's hair to stand unruly on end, as faint, imperceptible currents of electricity fizzled in the air.

Feeling a sense of foreboding, Yuan Ming looked up, seeing Huangfu Jue suspended in mid-air, his robe fluttering wildly, shrouded in a golden electric light, hair swirling, eyes brimming with golden electricity, exuding an awe-inspiring and powerful pressure.

At this moment, he resembled an ancient thunder god, filled with an irrefutable authority and majesty.

"Is this the pressure of a Peak of Returning Void cultivator? Such terrifying strength..." Yuan Ming couldn't help but feel swayed.

Then, he saw Huangfu Jue raise both hands high, grasping the void, as a golden giant axe appeared, electricity swirling on its surface, arcs of lightning crackling loudly.

"Ghost Wood, you may want to play the turtle, but I shall break through your shell." Huangfu Jue shouted.

As the words rang out, his raised hands swung down forcefully, and the golden giant axe erupted with a brilliant electric light, piercing straight into the depths of the sky, tearing through with a golden lightning bolt like a sky-splitting slash.

As the golden giant axe descended with the electric glow, it was like a sky-splitting light blade cutting into the black clouds above Black Mo Island.

Within the black clouds, the Blood Armor Demon Shadow opened a massive hand, reaching towards the golden lightning.

"Boom boom boom"

The moment the two forces touched, a continuous sequence of crackling thunder resounded.

The golden lightning sliced directly into the hand of the Blood Armor Demon Shadow, the exploding electric light nearly instantly shredding its entire arm, and it continued without any pause into its body.

The black cloud rolled violently, thoroughly disrupted.

At this moment, the Heavenly Divine Tower finally regained its momentum, unleashing a blazing sunlight that crashed into the sea of clouds.

With the combination of these two forces, the black clouds in the sky quickly dissipated, and the Blood Armor Demon Shadow, after holding on for a moment, could no longer resist, being torn apart by the golden lightning and rapidly vanishing under the burning sunlight.

On Black Mo Island, the sound of "bang bang" kept echoing, as one stone pillar after another could not stand against this force and finally exploded one after another.

The defensive great array covering the entire island was instantly torn open, one opening after another.

"Everyone, the opportunity for great achievements is right before us, charge!" Huangfu Jue raised his arm and called.

The people on the cross-sea boat erupted with excitement, one after another flying out, rushing towards Black Mo Island.

"Fellow Daoist Yuan, shall we go together?" Yun Luo Fairy withdrew her gaze from Huangfu Jue and asked Yuan Ming.

But as she finished speaking and turned her head, she found that Yuan Ming was already nowhere to be seen.

"Fine, we were supposed to go together..." She looked around but could not find any trace of Yuan Ming, suddenly stomped her foot in annoyance, and flew out, heading towards Black Mo Island.

"Huangfu Jue, you've gone too far, dare you have a life-and-death fight with me?" At this time, an angry voice came from the island.

Immediately, a pitch-black figure, wrapped in a mass of black dense clouds, flew up from Black Mo Island, soaring straight into the sky.

"Elder Sanqi, I'll leave this place to you." Huangfu Jue instructed the three people, then immediately flew up, chasing after the black figure.

The two strongest combatants on each side tacitly chose to move away from the island, going to battle over the sea.

On Black Mo Island, sounds of killing and shouting rose up, light of magic treasures and divine skills clashed everywhere, and the battle entered a fever pitch from the start.

The initially planned tactics lost much of their meaning after close combat began; now, there was only fighting.

Yuan Ming landed, moving like lightning, using the powerful physique of the Body of Wanxiang, like a mountain-opening knife, directly plunged into the ranks of the Black Evil Sect cultivators.

He did not hide his body cultivation strength, launching the Demon Image Prison Suppression Skill at full force, his whole being like a moving copper wall, toppling everything in his path.

Unlike the elite group of cultivators from Dongji Palace that came for this battle, the demon cultivators of the Black Evil Sect were numerous but mixed, with vastly differing strengths.

The slightly weaker demon cultivators who encountered Yuan Ming didn't even need him to make a move; solely relying on that overwhelming force, they were knocked to pieces, dying on the spot.

Yuan Ming, in fact, was not here to fight, but only wanted to break through and leave the battlefield as quickly as possible. So he paid no mind and carved a blood path through hundreds and thousands of demon cultivators in no time, disappearing into the demon cultivator army.

This scene startled the Dongji Palace cultivators who landed with him.

"Who was that fellow Daoist just now, fighting so... bravely?" an elderly cultivator with white hair and beard asked in amazement.

In fact, he wanted to say how reckless.

"Rushed so fast that I didn't see clearly." Another person shook his head.

"Probably a cultivator from the main island of Dongji Palace, truly a model for us!" someone else admired.

After the conversation, they too plunged into the demon cultivators' ranks without looking elsewhere.

Yun Luo Fairy initially intended to search for Yuan Ming, but as the battle became increasingly intense, she could no longer care for anything else, urging her magical treasure to fight with all her might.

Little did she know that in just a few moments, Yuan Ming had already cut a path through the demon cultivators' battlefield.

A demon cultivator stationed at the rear with a face of bluish-black and fleshy visage, a bald one, saw Yuan Ming's arrogance, immediately wielded two massive black Vessel Gold Hammers, blocking his path and swinging the hammers at him.

This bald demon cultivator was a Nascent Soul peak elder of the Black Evil Sect, not weak, and the two giant hammers in his hands were also powerful high-level magic treasures.

As he swung the hammer, black light burst from the Vessel Gold Hammers, suddenly rising two somewhat blurry demon beast shadows, with the wind sound carrying two demon beast roars.

This sound had immensely strong penetration, carrying a power capable of intimidating the Divine Soul; if an ordinary Nascent Soul cultivator heard it, they would undoubtedly momentarily lose focus, and what awaited them next would be a heavy hammer strike.

But this level of Divine Soul attack was trivial to Yuan Ming.

Yuan Ming didn't even blink, immediately raising his fists and pounding towards the Vessel Gold Hammers.