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【”Chen Yi!!! GAH——”】

【The Formless had arrived.】

【It seemed to sense danger, sprinting at full speed from Xiliang, its flight so fast that spatial cracks trailed behind it wherever it passed.】

【As far as your eyes could see, you could already spot the nearest beam of light.】

【”Damn it!!”】

【You were in the middle of setting up the formation—any disturbance would be fatal.】

【Once interrupted, you’d have to start all over.】

【The problem was, the power of the seven Martial Gods couldn’t be reused!】

【”Da Chun! Nine Crows! Pot! Old Wan! Hold them off!!”】

【You had no choice but to toss out all the treasures on you in a desperate attempt to stop the Formless.】【But the moment you remembered that the Formless could mimic and rebound any form of attack, your head throbbed with frustration.】

【Blocking it was useless; not blocking it was just as bad!】

【At the critical moment!】

【A golden light illuminated the heavens, rolling rainbow radiance bathing the world.】

【A towering statue of the Female Emperor’s Golden Body manifestation rose from the earth, its height immeasurable, clouds swirling around its waist.】

【The Female Emperor let out a low shout, like a resonant bell striking the cosmos, heaven and earth resonating, Zen tones echoing in waves.】

【She reached out lightly, a single palm blotting out the sun and clouds, bearing down on the charging Formless!】

【”Lingyue!”】

【The aura Li Lingyue radiated at this moment was unmistakably that of a Martial God!】

【She had emerged from seclusion!】

【She had succeeded!】

【She had come to help you at the first possible moment!】

【But!】

【She might not know the Formless’s traits—she had attacked it directly. If that strike landed, the consequences would be dire!】

【You could no longer stop it.】

【The giant golden hand slammed down onto the Formless.】

【The Formless simply spread its arms wide to take the hit.】

【”I am immortal! The stronger your attack, the stronger I become!!! Hahaha!!!”】

【The Formless was engulfed by an endless tide of golden power.】

【Then, it burst out from that golden torrent.】

【”Chen Yi! I’m going to kill you with your wife’s technique!!! Hahaha!!”】

【An equally enormous Golden Body manifestation appeared, only this time taking the form of the Formless’s current iron-armored Dragon-Man shape.】

【The massive manifestation reached out an enormous hand toward you, descending like a crushing sky.】

【You wanted to dodge, but then you heard Li Lingyue’s voice.】

【”No need to evade.”】

【No need to evade?】

【Fine, I trust you!】

【”BOOM!!”】

【You were also submerged in golden power.】

【But you felt no discomfort whatsoever.】

【On the contrary, the injuries from the earlier battle, the drained True Qi and stamina—all were restored within a few breaths!】

【Li Lingyue descended from the sky, clad in grand crimson imperial robes, exuding an air of majesty.】

【The Formless looked at its own palm, then at you, who were completely unharmed.】

【Then it understood, roaring at Li Lingyue in fury.】

【”You tricked me!!”】

【Li Lingyue let out a scornful laugh, then turned to speak to you.】

【”I’ll buy you some time.”】

【”The same trick will probably be hard to pull off twice. This thing simply cannot be attacked.”】

【”I won’t attack it. I’ll treat it like my subjects and followers—I’ll love it.”】

【Your lips twitched.】

【Was the Faith Dao this unreasonable?】

【Defeating the villain with love?】

【Keep in mind, the Formless wasn’t the type to just sit back and not retaliate just because you didn’t attack it.】

【As long as you harbored any hostility, even if your actions seemed kind, they would be twisted into malice and thrown back at you.】

【Li Lingyue’s previous move had clearly proven she possessed genuine, ”heartfelt” goodwill.】

【Was this what it meant when ”God loves the world”?】

【From then on, you continued to wholeheartedly receive the power fed back by the formation.】

【Meanwhile, Li Lingyue tangled with the Formless.】

【But the way they fought was utterly ridiculous.】

【”My most faithful follower, what unfulfilled wish do you have? Speak it to your Emperor!”】

【The Formless actually wanted to ignore Li Lingyue and only wanted to stop you.】

【But its underlying code had conflicted.】

【The Formless, by its very nature, would unconditionally reflect whatever stimuli it received.】

【When Li Lingyue questioned it with the mindset of a Faith Dao true master, it instantly became holy as well.】

【”A hen crowing at dawn! A mere woman dares to proclaim herself Emperor? I am the true master of the world! I am the one true god! You false deity, vanish at once!!”】

【Li Lingyue struck again.】

【”I wish for unity under heaven, for the people to live in peace, for an end to suffering and strife in this world, for humanity to thrive, and for the martial way to flourish!”】

【The bizarre power of faith from the Faith Dao was transmitted through Li Lingyue’s hands.】

【Stimulated, the Formless began to make wishes too.】

【”I wish to become an immortal!! A true immortal!! Unbound by heaven and earth!! Free to do whatever I want!! Free to kill whoever I want!! Hahaha!!”】

【You watched this war without smoke and were utterly impressed by Li Lingyue.】

【The Formless’s unconditional reflection of stimuli only worked once.】

【The same trick couldn’t hard-control it anymore.】

【Before Li Lingyue ran out of ideas, the seven streams of power from across the world finally converged.】

【”RUMBLE!!”】

【A column of seven-colored light shot straight into the sky from your body, expanding outward in all directions, growing ever larger.】

【Seeing this, the Formless burst into laughter.】

【”Perfect! I’m taking this move of yours!!”】

【It actively charged forward to take the hit, attempting to seize the Seven Luminaries Immortal Array!】

【Li Lingyue’s Golden Body manifestation appeared once more. This time, she didn’t use unorthodox tricks to entangle it. Instead, she gathered all her strength, amassing the power of faith from the Five Regions, and struck with all her might!】

【Striking the Formless like this was useless—it would be mimicked and countered.】

【But it could buy you the most precious time to fight back.】

【”Get out of my way! I don’t want your weak power!!”】

【The Formless overpowered Li Lingyue, knocking her from the sky and driving her straight into the earth’s crust.】

【That brief delay was all you needed to finish gathering the power.】

【The seven-colored stream, which had been expanding outward, rapidly contracted and coalesced, all of it converging into your body.】

【”Give me that power!!”】

【The Formless pounced, just inches away from you.】

【”Whoosh!”】

【You vanished!】

【The Formless lunged at empty air.】

【”Where is he?! Come out!! Come out now!!”】

【Before your eyes, you could clearly see the furious Formless.】

【But at the same time, you could also see Xiliang and the Central Plains being battered by floods, the ruins of the Three Great Holy Lands, the sunken islands of the Chaotic Crystal Sea, and the Starry Domains still under reconstruction…】

【You realized that you were both within the human world and yet not fully a part of it.】

【You could perceive everything in the human world at will.】

【You could reach any location in the human world at will.】

【You could control any material and energy in the human world at will.】

【But at the same time, your lifespan was draining away frantically. Within a few breaths, your hair had already begun to turn white.】

【This was power that demanded a lifetime to bear.】

【No matter. You could take out a loan.】

【The ”Life Loan” activates!】

【”This ends now…”】