Breaking the Formation

"Let's go to the next place."

Gu Changge did not linger. Taking the two of them, he stepped forward once again.

Space and time shifted, and they instantly vanished from the sky above the decaying ancient star.

In the time that followed, Gu Changge followed the coordinates and ley lines obtained from the Supreme Being's memories, leading Little Black and Little White through various remote and even desolate corners of the Xuanhuang Great World.

They arrived at silent stellar remains suspended deep within the sea of stars, discovering a formation extracting void energy inside a star fragment comparable to a continent.

They dove into the lowest depths of the Nine Nether Abyss, uprooting an evil formation that converted deathly aura under the cover of endless demonic and malignant energy.

They even visited the long-extinguished, freezing core of a solar star, crushing an ancient formation disk in its deepest part that greedily absorbed the star's last residual heat.

The locations of these formation nodes were incredibly tricky. They were all hidden in deathly, absolute lands that ordinary people could hardly detect or even wish to approach, echoing each other from afar.

They formed an invisible and vicious giant web covering the entire Xuanhuang Great World, continuously stealing nutrients from the world's capillaries and converging them toward some unknown destination.

Gu Changge struck like lightning, precise and efficient.

No matter how hidden the formations were or how closely they integrated with the local environment, they had nowhere to hide before his gaze that saw through myriad laws and his absolute power.

As the nodes were uprooted one by one, Little Black and Little White clearly felt that the originally ubiquitous, subtle yet continuous sense of origin loss in the entire Xuanhuang Great World was gradually weakening. Even the spiritual energy of heaven and earth seemed to become more agile and active.

Finally, after clearing all known secondary nodes, Gu Changge stopped in his tracks.

He looked up, his gaze seeming to pierce through the endless void, looking toward the absolute edge and the most desolate end of the world.

"The source is right there."

As his voice fell, he took Little Black and Little White on their final, and also farthest, spatial leap.

The scene before their eyes suddenly changed!

They stopped before a stretch of absolute nothingness.

This was the edge of the Xuanhuang Great World!

Further out was the cold, deathly silent, and law-incomplete chaotic barrier.

Ordinary cultivators simply could not reach this place. Even a Great Emperor would not easily set foot in this desolate land where even time and space were nearly frozen.

And right here, at the weakest point where the chaotic barrier and the laws of the Xuanhuang Great World intertwined, a formation so massive it was unimaginable clung tightly to the world barrier like a giant, semi-transparent, dark golden spider web!

The formation slowly rotated. Countless impossibly complex immortal dao runes flickered, emitting a devouring power that made one's soul tremble.

It was like a giant straw inserted directly into the blood vessels of the Xuanhuang Great World, greedily and continuously extracting the purest and most core world origin!

Compared to it, all the formations broken previously were nothing more than tiny branches!

This was the true core set up by the mastermind behind the scenes!

"Just as I thought."

Gu Changge stared at this giant formation, his eyes calm and unruffled, showing not a hint of surprise.

Hearing this, Little Black and Little White were shocked in their hearts.

From their master's tone, it seemed he had already seen through the mysteries of this formation long ago?

A few months ago, Gu Changge had traveled here with the Great Emperor of Annihilation.

At that time, he had noticed the complexity of this formation. It was intertwined too deeply with the world barrier, and pulling one hair would move the whole body, so he did not act rashly.

Later, through several deductions, he had completely seen through the operation mechanism, energy nodes, and even the karma hidden behind this formation.

Gu Changge stood with his hands behind his back, his robes fluttering gently in the void.

His gaze gradually sharpened like a sword, and a faint Dao aura began to circulate around his body.

"Since we are here, let's completely resolve this hidden danger."

He muttered softly to himself, his tone calm but filled with resolution.

"It is time to uproot this tumor that has lain dormant for eternities. I would like to see exactly what kind of sacred being dared to set up such an evil formation to steal the origin in the Xuanhuang Great World."

At this moment, deep within his eyes, it seemed as if an eternal glacier had suddenly cracked.

Since ascending to the absolute peak of this world, it had been too long since he encountered anything worthy of his serious attention.

And this mastermind who had plotted for eternities finally piqued a bit of his interest.

Gu Changge stared at the massive and complex formation on the world barrier, his gaze blazing like a torch, having already dissected it layer by layer.

This was not a single formation, but a composite grand formation formed by the interlocking and tight integration of multiple grand formations, such as a core formation for stealing the origin, a killing formation for alert and defense, and an illusion formation for concealing auras!

The design was extremely exquisite and sinister.

Once someone attempted to forcefully break the core formation eye from the inside, they would inevitably trigger the alert first, which would then detonate a terrifying killing formation containing power comparable to the full-force attack of a peak Great Emperor!

Not to mention, at the core of the formation, there were five puppets exuding icy imperial might standing like stone statues, clearly the guardian force of the formation.

"With such strict defenses and hidden killing intent, they were obviously afraid of someone destroying it from the inside."

Gu Changge muttered indifferently, "It seems that the previous battle traces and the shattered imperial weapons were related to a great battle with this."

This tight arrangement was enough to make any Great Emperor realm expert shrink back at the sight of it, or die with everlasting regret on the spot, which also explained why this formation could survive for eternities.

However, a faint smile of seeing through everything appeared on the corner of Gu Changge's mouth.

"Unfortunately, although the formation setter's calculations were shrewd, they could not calculate that the one coming today would be me."

The moment he made his move, a grand and icy will, as if alarmed from beyond the endlessly distant chaos, pierced through the world barrier and swept across this place!

That will carried a hint of disturbed anger and condescending indifference.

Immediately after, a murmur full of disdain, as if crossing the eternal starry sky, directly penetrated the grand formation and came in:

"Hmph... another ignorant bug seeking its own doom!"

This was clearly a backup plan left by the formation setter. Once the grand formation was touched, it would arouse their vigilance.

The Great Emperors who participated in the tragic battle before had probably also experienced this scene.

Gu Changge did not even bat an eyelid, completely ignoring that will and murmur from the outside. Why bother with the noise of a leaping clown?

His ten fingers fluttered like butterflies, tracing out profoundly unpredictable trajectories. The Great Dao runes flowing from his fingertips shone brightly, as if weaving the most fundamental order between heaven and earth.

These runes did not forcefully impact; instead, as if possessing life, they accurately penetrated into every subtle structure of the composite grand formation, finding gaps to enter and aiming straight for the core.

They cleverly bypassed all the trigger nodes of the alert and killing formations, silently touching the very root energy hub of the entire grand formation!

"Break."

A single word was softly spat out, and the law followed his word, containing an unquestionable power of laws.

The terrifying killing formation, which was heavily guarded and drawn but not fired, had its runes suddenly dim just as they lit up. The condensed destructive energy was like having the firewood removed from under the cauldron, instantly collapsing and vanishing into nothingness.

At the same time, the fierce red light in the eyes of the five standing imperial might puppets only flashed halfway before completely extinguishing.