Sword Emperor

"Daoist brother, we are now surrounded by a group of powerful enemies. The following days won't be as peaceful as now. At that time, I will have to trouble you to take care of me."    

"You naturally don't have to worry about this. Since I've already made a promise, then I definitely won't go against it."    

Sun Bing nodded with a smile on his face. His tone was full of determination.    

Immediately after that, the two of them rushed towards the other palaces without any hesitation. In just a few steps, they arrived in front of a magnificent palace. When they raised their heads, they could see three majestic words - Vermillion Bird Palace.    

This was the most important Heavenly Palace in the middle twelve Heavens apart from the Moon Palace. In the ancient Heavenly City, it was the residence of the Divine Beast Vermilion Bird. It was said that not only did it contain the inheritance of the Vermilion Bird, it also contained other precious treasures.    

However, even though this Heavenly Palace contained many treasures, the surrounding defenses were also incomparably dense. In addition, this place was located at the center of the 12 Middle Heavens, and it gathered the mighty force of the heaven and earth. The defensive force of this place was even stronger than the Moon Palace.    

However, because half of the Heavenly Palace in the Twelve Middle Heavens had already been refined by Sun Bing, a flaw had finally appeared in the defense of the Vermilion Bird Palace.    

Since that was the case, Sun Bing and the others naturally wouldn't let go of such a rare opportunity. After taking a deep breath, the two of them slowly walked towards the main gate of the Vermilion Bird Palace.    

However, just as they raised their feet, the remaining sixteen unrefined palaces in the middle of the Twelve Layered Heavens simultaneously shone with a brilliant light. One obscure Rules of Grand Dao after another was instilled into the Vermilion Bird Palace from all directions.    

The spirit patterns that were originally hidden in the spatial interlayer had completely manifested at this moment. They gathered the power of the sixteen Heavenly Palace Treasure Palaces and forcefully blocked Sun Bing and the Feather Spirit God.    

Upon seeing this scene, yu Lingshen's heart was filled with fury. All the power in his body was channeled into the jade token in his hand. A thick Ultimate Dao pressuring swiftly burst out. The formation patterns that had originally manifested had even dimmed considerably at this moment.    

"Chirp!"    

However, at this moment, a crisp chirp could be heard. When she raised her head, she could see it. There seemed to be a divine bird flying above the Vermilion Bird Palace, easily blocking Yu Hu's aura. The originally dim formation patterns once again released a brilliant light.    

"What?! How is this possible?"    

Seeing this, yu Lingshen was extremely shocked. It was hard to imagine that the Jade Emperor's treasure, which had previously been invincible, was now completely useless.    

However, after a brief moment of shock, yu Lingshen immediately came back to his senses. He looked towards Sun Bing with a look of anticipation and said softly,    

"Brother Sun, it's all up to you now. I wonder if you can break this formation?"    

"If this formation is perfect, no matter how high my attainment in the formation is, I won't be able to break it unless I have absolute power. But now, hmph hmph! "    

A disdainful sneer flashed across Sun Bing's eyes when he heard this. After that, he circulated the energy in his body. Numerous obscure Holy Dao rushed forward and formed the image of the Taichi Eight Trigrams in front of him.    

Taking this opportunity, Sun Bing immediately formed a seal with his hand and forcefully condensed the energy of the Taichi Eight Trigrams into his eyes. When he looked forward once more, he could see the numerous formation patterns and all kinds of Meaning of Dao hidden in the middle of the spatial zone.    

Looking around, the surface of the entire Vermilion Bird Palace was filled with all kinds of dense patterns. Even Sun Bing felt dizzy when he saw them.    

However, if one observed carefully, one would find that half of the veined patterns had yet to recover. It was obvious that these were the sixteen Treasure Palaces that Sun Bing had refined, and they were also the flaws of the Vermilion Bird Palace.    

Since he already knew the rough layout of this place, Sun Bing immediately sat cross-legged on the spot. His hands formed a series of hand seals, and his mind was filled with countless thoughts as he continuously deduced the heaven and earth with his own body.    

At the same time, the Feather Spirit God who was standing beside him was extremely anxious. Because of the urgency of the situation, if they were delayed for too long, the other cultivators would also come to this place.    

However, no matter how anxious he was, he could only force himself to calm down. He kept pacing back and forth, quietly waiting for Sun Bing's result.    

After a while, Sun Bing's eyes slowly opened. He kept forming seals with his hands and immediately struck out. One after another, profound seals were formed. The obscure energy of the heaven and earth kept converging and finally condensed into incomparably profound words of Dao.    

Dry, kun, zhen, xun and Kan. Dry, li, gen, dui.    

The eight obscure Dao characters continuously spread out in all directions. Then, they surrounded the Vermilion Bird Palace and formed an incomparably enormous Eight Diagrams Shadow. The many patterns that were originally hidden in the space interlayer could not help but completely revive under the Eight Diagrams Shadow.    

"Fellow Daoist, use rootless water to attack the Li position."    

"Rootless water?"    

When he suddenly heard Sun Bing's words, yu Lingshen couldn't help but be stunned. Fortunately, his reaction speed was quite fast. In the next moment, he recovered his senses and waved his hand at the same time.    

"The Heavenly River Water is definitely among the best in countless eras. This water is definitely on par with rootless water."    

As he spoke, a few drops of Heavenly River Water flew out from the Feather Spirit God's hand. When they landed in the Li position, the drops of water turned into a massive river that poured down heavily.    

When the original spirit pattern was attacked, it immediately burst out with a brilliant light. Furthermore, it was even blazing with flames.    

However, all of this was nothing in front of that shocking wave. In the next moment, it was completely extinguished.    

At this point, the first node had collapsed successfully.    

The projection of the divine bird that was soaring above the Vermilion Bird Palace had also become much dimmer at this moment.    

However, this was only the beginning. After a while, Sun Bing continued.    

"The five elements of earth give birth to metal. Aim at the dry and exchange positions. Use the earth attribute divine ability."    

"Alright!"    

Before Sun Bing could finish his words, feather Spirit God had already started to move. Along with a dull sound, two nodes appeared one after another. The light was faintly discernible, but it was completely extinguished in the end.    

Because three nodes had collapsed, the flaws in the formation became more and more, and Sun Bing became more relaxed.    

In less than an hour, all the remaining nodes were successfully broken by the two of them.    

In the end, one could only see that the many formation patterns were barely maintained for a moment before they finally dimmed completely. The divine bird shadow that was soaring above the Vermilion Bird Palace also disappeared without a trace.    

At this point, the defense of the Vermilion Bird Palace's first stage was successfully broken.