Chapter 163: Chapter 121: Dominating the Southern Region, The Supreme of the Era_2

"These Flying Swords, even surpassing top quality magical treasures in quality, where did he get so many divine weapons?!"

Soon enough, cultivators noticed something unusual about the swords swirling around, their expressions filled with shock.

Top-quality magical treasures, even Divine Transformation Realm cultivators, typically only have one or two at their side. Even the Tai Xu Family with its ample resources would not provide such a wealth of treasured swords to a junior disciple, let alone a full set of them.

As time went on, Chu Zheng suddenly sensed something amiss, the repair speed of the formation's core had started to slow down.

This was inextricably linked to the environment of heaven and earth here—the spiritual energy was too sparse, to the point that it was impacting the operation of the formation's core.

He immediately took out a large number of Spirit Stones, stacking them beside him. The repair speed of the formation's core underwent a dramatic change, restoring his full strength in an instant.

From a distance, some cultivators had sensed something wrong and were rapidly approaching the sword formation, only to be continuously swept into it.

Some cultivators were extremely cautious, standing at a distance and trying to break the sword formation from the periphery, invoking magical treasures to unleash powerful strikes of Aura against the formation.

These techniques and Divine Skills naturally became Death Sentences, landing upon the cultivators caught within the sword formation.

Within the formation, chaos unfolded, with countless cries erupting:

"Tai Xu Sword Energy!"

"Flying Blade Technique!"

"What kind of formation is this?! How does it possess our sect's secret techniques?!"

"Where is the formation's eye?!"

Many cultivators, caught inside the Minor Five Elements Sword Formation, spun around. Within the time it took to drink a cup of tea, over a hundred Soul Condensing cultivators perished within the formation.

"Chu Zheng, you're doomed today!"

An elder from Tai Xu Holy Land, having reached the Perfection of the Soul Condensing Realm, bellowed in rage, eyes flashing with murderous intent, without hesitation swallowing a Spirit Pill.

Chu Zheng, seated in the Central Palace, watched the numerous cultivators circling him and suddenly sensed an anomaly—within the sword formation, a surge of Yuan Qi was expanding rapidly.

Before long, he found the source, observing the Divine Infant in the midst of transformation at the brow of that Tai Xu elder, his expression remained utterly calm.

In a split second, he directed ten Heavenly Aura Swords from within the formation and then triggered the Space Condensing Art.

The Tai Xu elder, at a critical point in his ascension, suddenly stiffened. Above him, the heavenly sword loomed, instantly tearing his flesh apart.

With his body destroyed, the half-transformed Divine Infant was revealed beneath the open sky. Before it could react, thunder crackling across the horizon violently struck it down.

Boom——

The half-transformed Divine Infant was turned to ash in the blink of an eye, its soul scattered and dissipated.

The transformation of a Divine Infant is perilous indeed; any interference could spell doom.

Not everyone can undertake the transition to a Divine Infant. The process itself carries significant risk. Attempting a breakthrough in the midst of battle further diminishes the chances of success.

Chu Zheng, having boldly announced his presence, had made all the necessary preparations. He had anticipated such scenarios well in advance.

In Chu Zheng's eyes, the movement of all Yuan Qi followed discernible patterns; he would not allow these cultivators the time to break through during a fight. Any fluctuations in the Yuan Qi within a cultivator's body would be detected by him at once.

Moreover, Chu Zheng wielded Thunder Methods, against which the Divine Infant also had considerable vulnerability to their devastating power.

Now, he was far beyond his previous capabilities and possessed many means to interrupt a cultivator's ascension.

Once caught within the Minor Five Elements Sword Formation, even Divine Infant cultivators unfamiliar with formations were doomed to be ground down to death by him.

This battle, from its very inception, was a one-sided slaughter, with Chu Zheng firmly positioned on unconquerable grounds.

As the number of dead cultivators soared, many of the remaining ones began to sense the danger, retreating from the Immortal Martial Battlefield. After counting their numbers, their souls still trembled.

In just the blink of an eye upon entering the Immortal Martial Battlefield, the number of fallen Soul Condensing cultivators had surpassed two hundred.

For a standard Superior Immortal Sect, the number of Soul Condensing cultivators usually did not exceed one hundred. In effect, Chu Zheng single-handedly decimated the core strength of two large sects.

What's more, the majority of the Soul Condensing cultivators who came to the Immortal Martial Battlefield were above mid-stage, with many at the late stage or even perfection.

Even for Holy Lands, this was a severe blow.

Not until there was not a single survivor left within the sword formation did Chu Zheng glance at the Hidden Dragon List again.

His ranking had not changed much; apparently, relying on the sword formation did not account for one's personal cultivation strength in the eyes of the Heavenly Dao—it was considered leveraging an external object.

Among these dead cultivators, there were only two geniuses listed on the Hidden Dragon List, which didn't add much to Chu Zheng's Heavenly Fate, but his Qi-refining technique was noticeably faster.

The feeling of exclusively enjoying Heavenly Fate was truly wonderful.

For Chu Zheng, a more significant change was that this battle had eradicated most of his Tribulation Qi.

Before reaching Golden Core, even before Refine Spirit, his cultivation journey would be smooth sailing, with no bottlenecks to speak of under the bias of Heavenly Fate.

At this moment, he was nearing perfection in the Jade Bone Mid-Stage, and it wouldn't take more than a few days to break through.

This confirmed his previous thought that actively experiencing tribulations was far easier than passively undergoing them.

Instead of facing uncontrollable tribulations like Ling Qi did before, it was better to actively seek them and take control of the situation.

The existence of the repair panel was clearly beyond the scrutiny of heaven and earth.

Without the repair panel, this battle would have been extremely perilous for Chu Zheng. He would have only been able to kill a few before he would have had to start fleeing and continue living on the run.

After a while, Chu Zheng put away the Hidden Dragon List, dissolved the Minor Five Elements Sword Formation, and began to clear the battlefield.

Within an area of less than a thousand zhang, corpses and scattered white bones were everywhere, blood pooled into hollows, emitting a strong stench of blood.

Chu Zheng walked slowly across the battlefield, having picked up a few storage bags when his brows slowly furrowed.

There were no cultivation techniques or records in these elders' storage bags, a clear sign that the various Holy Lands had prepared in advance to prevent more techniques from leaking out.

When Chu Zheng picked up a Jade Wall from a pool of blood, his fingertips paused abruptly.

[Shadow Retention Wall (Third Order): Middle Quality Magical Treasure, inject mana, and it can retain the image seen before the eyes and transmit it across boundless distances.]

The purpose was easy to understand, but Chu Zheng had never seen one before, and couldn't help feeling a bit curious as he picked it up and played with it for a moment.

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"What a terrifying sword array. A cultivator at the perfection of the Soul Condensing Realm lasted only long enough to drink a cup of tea before falling."

"No wonder Chu Zheng is so confident! With this sword array in hand, and the Divine Infants in hiding, who can harm him?"

"With a cultivation at the Mid Entry Dao Realm, how could he possibly maintain such a large array for so long? There must be a problem here!"

In the various Holy Lands, the cultivators who were paying attention to this battle were all astounded.

They had seen everything that these cultivators had experienced after entering the Immortal Martial Battlefield, including what they had witnessed after falling into the formation.

Their reactions were surprisingly unanimous, full of disbelief, and aside from Chu Zheng, they were more astonished by the power of the sword array.

There were too many issues here; Chu Zheng's cultivation should not have been able to support the sword array for so long, grinding away more than two hundred Soul Condensing cultivators.

It even included a half-step Divine Infant who had broken through during battle.

Unlike the reactions of many cultivators, several Holy Masters had slightly darkened expressions, showing no trace of anger but only a sense of powerlessness.

From their position, they had a clearer understanding of Chu Zheng's talent.

The rise of Chu Zheng was a foregone conclusion.

The only consolation for them was that the latter part of the Immortal Ascension Method was still in the hands of the powerful beings in the various Holy Lands and the Tongxuan Secret Realm, so it wasn't completely exposed.

Now, a bigger problem lay before them: if they could not kill Chu Zheng, it meant that no power in the Southern Region could contain him anymore.

This was undoubtedly a terrifying signal.

In the entire Southern Region, the current Chu Zheng was now the foremost among his peers!

"Interesting," before a light curtain, Ji Yuyan's eyes flickered as he murmured to himself:

"The Five Elements Sword Formation of the Taoist School..."