Whenever a spatial turbulence strikes, Rong Jiaojiao and Fairy Qingli must quickly dodge it while continuing their repair work.
Qingli Fairy's soul became increasingly solid within the passage, and her azure light patterns complemented Rong Jiaojiao's spatial runes, producing remarkable effects.
However, even with their perfect teamwork, the consumption of spiritual energy was still astonishing.
Before midnight, Rong Jiaojiao had already rested twice.
As time went by, the restoration work continued to deepen.
The spatial turbulence within the passage became even more violent, and the fissures grew larger.
Each repair requires more spiritual power and more precise control.
The cultivators maintaining the great formation were also exhausted, but they gritted their teeth and persevered because everyone knew that this was a battle that would determine the future of the entire cultivation world.
Qing Xuanzi and Han Yunshen continuously allocated resources from various sects, sending precious spirit stones, pills, and magic treasures around the formation to ensure that the cultivators could continuously output powerful spiritual energy.
Various factions sent over many cultivators with a good understanding of spatial power, giving the displaced cultivators time to recover by absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, and the saved pills were sent to Rong Jiaojiao and the others.
Three years later, deep within the ascension passage.
The spatial turbulence within the passage had become so violent as to be suffocating, with crimson lightning flashing intermittently through the dark rifts, as if the void itself was roaring in anger.
Rong Jiaojiao stood on Zi Ling's back, the spatial runes condensed at her fingertips were more refined than three years ago, each containing power that was almost a law.
“The 9,800th node…” she murmured, her voice hoarse.
In the past three years, she has lost count of how many times she has changed her Taoist robes. Now, this robe, woven from silkworm silk and stardust, is also covered with cracks.
Qingli Fairy's soul was actually more solid than before—nourished by the continuous Soul-Replenishing Pills and the special spatial power within the passage, her primordial spirit had almost returned to its peak state.
"Watch out! It's a spatial storm!" Fairy Qingli suddenly shouted.
The passage ahead suddenly twisted, and a pitch-black vortex with a diameter of over a hundred feet appeared out of thin air, swallowing even light in its path.
Zi Ling let out a long cry, spread her wings to their fullest extent, and carried the two of them back rapidly.
Rong Jiaojiao formed hand seals, and three hundred and sixty spatial runes instantly formed a golden light net that collided violently with the vortex.
"boom--"
The terrifying shockwave sent the two people and the beast flying hundreds of feet.
Rong Jiaojiao's mouth was bleeding, but she used the force of the recoil to flip in mid-air, and suddenly a bronze ancient mirror appeared in her hand. It was the Void Mirror contributed by the Starry Sky Sect.
The mirror reflected the core of the vortex, refracting part of the spatial storm back into the passage barrier, triggering a series of explosions.
The large formation below shook violently, and all thirty-six cultivators on duty simultaneously coughed up blood.
Suddenly, a blinding blood-red light shone from the location where Mo Bai was standing—he had actually burned his life essence to stabilize the formation!
Upon seeing this, Jun Yuangui did not hesitate to slash his wrist, and the crimson blood line transformed into a phoenix phantom and disappeared into the array base.
“They won’t last long.” Fairy Qingli wiped away the cracks that had appeared on her soul. “We must break through the storm zone in one go.”
Rong Jiaojiao gazed towards the end of the passage. Beyond countless spatial turbulences, a barrier radiating a soft golden light could be faintly seen—the legendary "Heavenly Gate Restriction," the final hurdle in repairing the passage.
Rong Jiaojiao bit her tongue, spitting a mouthful of blood onto the Void Mirror.
Intricate star trail patterns immediately appeared on the mirror, resonating mysteriously with the Zhou Tian Star Array. She turned to Fairy Qing Li and said, "Senior, may I borrow a wisp of your natal soul fire?"
Qingli Fairy understood and condensed a shimmering blue flame at her fingertips.
The flame appeared weak, yet it contained the essence of a primordial spirit accumulated over ten thousand years.
Rong Jiaojiao guided the soul fire into the mirror, and the bronze mirror immediately displayed the extraordinary phenomenon of the sun and moon shining together.
"Purple Spirit!" With the call, the little beast transformed into a hundred-foot-tall behemoth, its entire body bursting with dazzling purple lightning.
Rong Jiaojiao leaped onto its back, holding the precious mirror as if it were a command flag: "Fellow Daoists, help me open the heavens!"
Her voice was like a decree descending from the heavens, and the great formation below responded accordingly.
Suddenly, the dragon pearl in Yueying's hand split into thirty-six beams of moonlight, which landed precisely on the foreheads of each cultivator.
Han Yunshen exclaimed in surprise, "This is... the Moon Flower Initiation!"
All the array cultivators' auras surged instantly, and the pillar of spiritual energy condensed into a solidified crystal pillar.
"boom--"
The crystal pillar and the Void Mirror simultaneously struck the spatial storm.
Amidst a teeth-grinding cracking sound, a passage was forcibly torn open at the eye of the storm.
With a long howl, Zi Ling carried the two of them like an arrow and pierced through the air.
The Heavenly Gate Restriction at the end of the passage was within reach, yet its surface was shrouded in a dense aura of bloodlust.
Fairy Qingli roared in anger, "Damn it! That demon not only shattered the ascension passage back then, but also left a backup plan here. Otherwise, the power of the laws would have slowly repaired the passage long ago."
Rong Jiaojiao laughed and said, "Senior, don't be angry. Isn't that what you expected?"
"The fact that we are here now means that the evil's scheme has ultimately failed."
Fairy Qingli was taken aback upon hearing this, then smiled and said, "That's right. Today we will break through this last obstacle!"
After a short recovery, the two were in top condition.
They glanced at each other and saw encouragement in each other's eyes.
A nine-colored dragon stele appeared in Qingli Fairy's hand, which was none other than the original Nine Dragon Town Tombstone.
As soon as the Twelve Zodiac Formations were activated, the twelve illusory images of the zodiac divine beasts roared with earth-shattering fury. The roars of dragons, howls of tigers, and barks of dogs intertwined, as if they were about to shatter this distorted void.
Rong Jiaojiao formed hand seals, and twelve array beads spun rapidly, forming a mysterious spatial vortex in front of her, absorbing all the spatial turbulence around her.
Fairy Qingli then raised the Nine-Colored Divine Dragon Stele high above her head. Nine dragons leaped on the stele, spitting out azure spiritual light that shone brightly with the runes on the stele.
She uttered a soft cry: "Nine Dragons Suppress the Heavens!"
The Nine-Colored Divine Dragon Stele instantly transformed into the size of a mountain, crashing down upon the Heavenly Gate's restrictions.
However, the bloodthirsty aura lingering on the surface of the barrier surged like a living thing, condensing into a three-headed, six-armed demonic shadow, wielding a giant black axe, and fiercely confronting the Nine-Colored Divine Dragon Stele.
With a deafening roar, the heavens and earth trembled. Qingli Fairy's soul was forced back by the powerful impact, and the Nine-Colored Divine Dragon Stele was also bounced back, with fine cracks appearing on its surface.
Seeing this, Rong Jiaojiao's eyes flashed with a cold light: "Ziling, follow me to break the demon!"
Purple lightning danced wildly around Zi Ling, carrying her straight toward the demonic shadow.
Rong Jiaojiao pushed the Void Mirror forward, and thousands of golden rays shot out from the mirror, colliding with the giant axe in the demon's hand.
In an instant, light shone everywhere and sparks flew.
At this moment, the great formation below also unleashed even greater power. Yueying fully activated the Flood Dragon Pearl, and the moonlight, like the Milky Way flowing backward, merged with the spiritual power transmitted by the cultivators in the formation, transforming into a dazzling chain of light that coiled around the demonic shadow, attempting to bind it.
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