Chapter 1373: A Contingency Plan

Seeing the Demon Lord use spatial law to freeze the void, the Reincarnation Palace Master's eyes relaxed slightly. His ten fingers swiftly rotated before him as he continued forming hand seals.

As more and more gray lightning emerged out of thin air and surged into the gray lightning gate, the gate grew increasingly dazzling, overshadowing everything around it, as if only this gate remained between heaven and earth.

At the center of the gate, dense thunder serpents and electric threads gathered and intersected, and under the control of an invisible force, they rotated in a certain direction, forming a vortex.

Within the vortex, countless chaotic streams of light flickered and rapidly formed a pitch-black spatial passage.

Gu Huo Jin remained expressionless. He simply raised a hand and lightly flicked his sleeve.

His eyes suddenly blazed with golden light, and on the exposed skin of his hands, neck, and head, strange, obscure patterns abruptly appeared, connecting with the patterns on his robe. Like dense blood vessels, their surfaces flickered with an unsteady golden light that circulated without cease.

Strangely, these bizarre patterns also appeared on the wheelchair he sat in, linking with the patterns on his body.

Each time the golden light flickered, a ring of golden light emerged from his body surface, spreading rapidly in all directions from his seated posture, fading as it expanded.

In an instant, hundreds of thousands of golden rings spread out. From a distance, it looked as if countless golden phantom images of Gu Huo Jin were flying out.

These golden lights contained an extremely vast power of time law, but it was completely different from the time law Gu Huo Jin had previously used, appearing extremely violent.

These golden lights continuously merged with the surrounding silver light, causing the nearly thousand-mile space to become a blend of gold and silver, with the two colors surging in turns, dazzling to the eye.

The space frozen by the silver light, under the erosion of the endless golden light, trembled violently, then finally could not withstand it and collapsed abruptly, stirring up waves of spatial storms.

The shattered void, like a crushed crystal palace, turned into countless silver shards, swept up by waves of spatial storms and flying in all directions.

The Demon Lord was not surprised that the spatial freeze was broken. He raised his hand and patted the void, and a wave of spatial law spread out.

The power of the spatial storm from the explosion instantly increased tenfold, carrying countless shattered silver lights and interspersed with spatial fractures, converging into a vast spatial turbulence that engulfed the golden fist shadow and Gu Huo Jin.

This spatial turbulence, amplified by the Demon Lord's spatial law, was filled with formidable spatial force. The golden fist shadow was immediately submerged and then burst apart with a 'puff'.

Caught off guard, Gu Huo Jin was also pushed back some distance.

But the golden light on his body surged, and he quickly stabilized himself, without a single scratch.

At this moment, the Reincarnation Palace Master had finished his spell. He shook his hands and shouted loudly.

'Open!'

The light gate composed of countless gray lightning bolts was dazzling to the point of blindness. The vortex had already filled the entire door. But as the word 'open' fell, the gray light suddenly vanished, and everything inside the gate became clearly visible.

It was a gray world: a white sky, gray clouds stretching for thousands of miles, black earth and mountains. Everything within sight was composed of only black and white, giving an extremely desolate and oppressive feeling.

On this black earth and mountains stood countless gray figures, extending to the horizon—each one a Gray Realm cultivator.

Their numbers were so vast that they could rival the armies of the Demon Domain or the Barbarian Wilderness Domain.

In terms of cultivation, these Gray Realm people were also extraordinary, clearly the elite. Among them were some Corpse-Severing Gray Immortals, all with Da Luo level strength.

On the Heavenly Court side, many Da Luo cultivators looked at these Corpse-Severing Gray Immortals and their expressions changed drastically.

The rolling gray clouds were filled with Gray Realm primordial energy, which collided with the local spiritual energy, producing countless thunderous sounds.

Spiritual energy and Gray Realm primordial energy were completely opposite. As soon as they met, the spiritual energy near Yao Chi rapidly thinned.

The Heavenly Court cultivators and the armies of the Demon Domain and Barbarian Wilderness Domain, who were fiercely fighting, all slowed down considerably.

'Gray Immortals!' Everyone present was well-traveled and immediately recognized the origin of the Gray Immortals, exclaiming in shock.

A gray light flashed within the gate, and three figures emitting astonishingly powerful auras shot out from the gate, revealing their true forms.

The first was a middle-aged man with a pale face and sharp features, but with an indifferent expression—it was Yin Chengquan.

Of the other two, one was tall and completely pitch-black, like a black vajra, seemingly from the Black Rope Domain.

The other was wrapped in a gray cloak, his face unseen. From under the cloak extended two long arms covered in brown wrinkled skin, like a corpse long soaked in water. His whole body emitted a cold, eerie aura that made people extremely uncomfortable.

The auras of these two were not inferior to Yin Chengquan's; they were clearly also Dao Ancestors.

As soon as the three appeared, one of them raised a hand and pointed at the Heavenly Court cultivators.

Boom!

Countless Grey Realm cultivators surged forward, turning into a gray torrent that blocked the frenzied killers, and they clashed together.

The Grey Realm's primordial energy specifically restrained the spiritual energy of Heaven and Earth. Although the Heavenly Court cultivators were of higher cultivation than those Grey Realm beings, their offensive immediately stalled.

At the front of the Grey Realm army were dozens of Corpse-Slaying Grey Immortals, who entangled dozens of Great Luo existences among the Heavenly Court cultivators.

A considerable portion of these Grey Immortals had been severed by these Heavenly Court Great Luo themselves. Both sides knew each other well, and even though the Heavenly Court Great Luo had greatly increased in strength due to the Dao God Seals, they were still held up by the Grey Immortals.

With the leading Great Luo existences entangled, the unstoppable offensive of the Heavenly Court cultivators came to a halt.

The surrounding Demon Domain army and the Barbarian Wilderness forces immediately reorganized their troops and charged at the Heavenly Court cultivators, once again surrounding them.

Seeing the situation stabilize again, the Demon Lord, Chi Rong, and others breathed a sigh of relief.

The Reincarnation Palace Master remained calm as ever, unmoved by the situation, his eyes fixed solely on Gu Huojin.

Li Yuanjiu, who had been standing still with eyes closed, suddenly opened his eyes. A golden light emitted from his body, suppressing the nine-colored light on his surface somewhat.

Taking the opportunity, he opened his mouth and spat out a mass of five-colored light. It was a small round bottle, radiating gold, red, blue, green, and yellow—identical to the small bottle that Jiao San and others had taken from the Nine Essence Temple that day.

As soon as the five-colored small bottle left Li Yuanjiu's mouth, it shone brightly, and a stream of five-colored light sprayed from its mouth, enveloping Li Yuanjiu's body.

Within the five-colored light were the laws of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth. They did not conflict with each other but, like the Dao God Seal, harmonized and showed a tendency to merge into one.

The small bottle spun rapidly, and with a whoosh, a powerful suction force emanated from within.

The nine-colored light on Li Yuanjiu's body actually left him one after another and entered the small bottle.

His complexion eased, and the golden light on his body brightened again, like countless golden steel needles, forcing the nine-colored light off his body. Even more nine-colored light flew out and was sucked into the bottle.

In just a few breaths, with a soft pop, the nine-colored imprint on Li Yuanjiu's brow shattered, and all the nine-colored light on his body shot out, entering the five-colored small bottle.

Gu Huojin was slightly moved at this sight.

At that moment, with a swish, three gray figures flickered. Yin Chengquan and his two companions appeared out of thin air near the Reincarnation Palace Master, and together with him and the Demon Lord, they once again surrounded Gu Huojin.

Li Yuanjiu's eyes moved, and he immediately formed a hand seal, pointing at Chi Rong.

The five-colored small bottle above his head shot out and landed above Chi Rong.

Now that Li Yuanjiu had recovered his divine abilities, the power of the bottle was greatly increased when he activated it.

The five-colored small bottle immediately expanded several times. After shaking slightly downward, countless five-colored runes emerged from its mouth, and then a stream of five-colored light, twice as large as before, shot out, enveloping Chi Rong.

The Dao God Seal on Chi Rong also began to detach, and after a few breaths, the seal on him shattered with a bang.

The two figures flickered and also surrounded Gu Huojin.

Seven Dao Ancestors joined forces, and an aura capable of destroying heaven and earth enveloped Gu Huojin.

"Daoist Yin, Daoist Luo, and this... should be the always solitary Daoist Shehun of the Grey Realm, right? I am truly impressed that you managed to win over all three of them." Gu Huojin's gaze swept over Yin Chengquan and the other two, then fell back on the Reincarnation Palace Master, clapping and laughing heartily.

"Knowing your scheme, anyone who isn't a fool would understand what to do. If you want to blame someone, blame your own greed for trying to plot against the entire world," the Reincarnation Palace Master said calmly.

His voice was not loud, but it carried far.

Chen Ruyan, who was fighting the four Demon Domain Dao Ancestors, a strange light flickered in her beautiful eyes. Her slender fingers waved.

Five waves of blue light shot from her fingertips, rapidly expanding into five towering waves that flooded the entire sky, surging toward the seductive woman and the giant beast formed by the plump woman in white.

The purple-black flowers around the seductive woman contained corrosive poison and were extremely troublesome, but they needed to be close to be effective. Against the towering waves, they were of little use. Upon contact, they were immediately bent and swayed by the rolling waves, like water plants.

The woman's face was ashen. She waved her right hand in the air, and a purple-black long blade covered with demonic patterns appeared in her hand. She slashed it at the towering waves.

A purple-black blade light, ten thousand zhang long, shot out and struck the monstrous waves.

The nine eyes on the lion-headed beast formed by the plump woman in white opened simultaneously. Nine black light pillars shot out, converging into a thick black beam entwined with black lightning, emitting a terrifying sizzling sound, also striking the monstrous waves.

Amid a series of rumbling sounds, two huge gaps were torn in the towering waves. The blade light and black light rapidly approached Chen Ruyan.