The River Diagram Mirror, for some unknown reason, seemed completely unaffected by the Cross Halo’s sealing, and it was the only protective means the Fifth Prince could activate at that moment.

The azure Divine Light of the River Diagram, carrying a grand aura of the Profound Sect, descended from the sky, enshrouding the Fifth and Seventh Princes who were trapped by the Cross Halo. Hundreds, even thousands, of azure Celebratory Clouds coalesced out of the brilliance, flickering on and off like lantern shadows.

The giant dragon form of the Fifth Prince shriveled at a visibly rapid pace, as if its flesh and blood were being devoured by the Celebratory Clouds, a vague expression of pain on its face, as if a great price had been paid, it roared angrily,

"Dragon Saint Manifestation, Ancestral Cloud Protection!"

In an instant, those previously flickering phantom cloud shadows suddenly solidified!

These Celebratory Clouds were summoned using the Divine Light of the River Diagram as the source. The power had a world of difference from that of the River Diagram Divine Light, giving an impression of being indestructible by any technique.

They were not ordinary Celebratory Clouds!

But a trace of the ancestral Saint Cloud left by the predecessors of the Dragon-Horse Clan, within the River Diagram Mirror!

Under the protection of the Ancestral Cloud, the two giant dragons originally trapped by Ning Fan were completely unswayed by the Sealing the Heavens technique, regaining their mobility. The moment they recovered their mobility, the Seventh Prince Longjia roared furiously, channeling its rage into a strike, launching its gigantic tail like a stone-shattering the sky, smashing towards Ning Fan.

The strike came too suddenly! No one had foreseen that the two giant dragons, immobilized by the Cross Halo, would suddenly regain their movement ability!

Caught unprepared, Ning Fan only had time to release some body-protecting golden light to shield himself, yet was swept directly by the dragon tail, sent flying back thousands of feet before regaining his balance. Though uninjured, he was shaken by the strong force, making his blood surge, secretly alarmed by the strength of the Seventh Prince’s physical form.

"I’m sorry, Fifth Brother! It’s all because of the incompetence of the Seventh Brother that caused you to sacrifice thirty million years of cultivation to summon the ancestral cloud for protection. Now that the ancestral cloud has been summoned, there’s no reason to escape anymore! We might as well rely on the power of the ancestral cloud to kill these Eastern Heaven scum!" The Seventh Prince said with murderous intent.

"Very well! We won’t run anymore! I shall use the essence of these Eastern Heaven ants to make up for the lost cultivation!" The Fifth Prince said hatefully.

How could one not hate!

In order to save his life from Ning Fan’s hands, he had expended thirty million years of cultivation to summon the Ancestral Cloud for protection. Thirty million days and nights of hard cultivation, turning into water in a single moment, who wouldn’t be heartbroken! This kind of hatred was even stronger than learning Ning Fan had captured Long Qie, burning like a fierce fire in the heart!

Repugnant brat!

Repugnant brat!

You won’t let this old man escape, huh? Very well, now this old man will not escape, and I shall make you pay the price!

Seal!

From thousands of feet away, Ning Fan raised his finger to use the Sealing the Heavens technique, intending to once again immobilize the two dragons, but this time, as the Sealing the Heavens technique struck them, it was easily blocked by the protective ancestral cloud surrounding the dragons, rendering it ineffective.

Ning Fan felt a deep heaviness in his heart. Since he had refined the Sealing the Heavens technique, this was the first time he encountered someone in the second step of cultivation who could completely ignore it, unable to even immobilize them for an instant. These ancestral clouds were truly formidable!

True Monarch Lei Xian, who recognized Ning Fan’s Sealing the Heavens technique, was astonished to see this famous technique of an Eastern Heaven Ancestral Emperor be rendered ineffective. Who wouldn’t be shocked?

"Madam, lend me a hand!"

"Yes!"

With the coordination of Jade Flower Immortal Fairy, True Monarch Lei Xian unleashed his full powers, unleashing hundreds, even thousands of thunderstorms towards the Fifth and Seventh Princes. The grandeur was not much weaker than a full-force attack of a Seventh-Calamity Immortal Emperor.

The Seventh Prince, relying on the Ancestral Cloud Protection, swept his dragon tail, effortlessly shattering the myriad thunderstorms without a scratch. In truth, though his indestructible body was formidable, it couldn’t repel an attack of the same level without injury. The reason he could do so now was entirely because of the protection of the Ancestral Cloud, which alone blocked over ninety percent of the thunderstorm’s power.

"Such powerful Celebratory Clouds!" No wonder these demon dragons call it the Ancestral Cloud!

True Monarch Lei Xian’s expression changed, and before he could make another move, the Seventh Prince’s dragon tail suddenly struck, hastily deflecting it, but he was still swept away, vomiting blood in retreat, utterly disheveled.

Even Jade Flower Immortal Fairy took a bad hit, similarly swept away by the Seventh Prince’s dragon tail, her arm shattering in retreat.

The arm shattered, yet no flesh or blood splattered, breaking into countless jade pieces instead, quite bizarre.

The Seventh Prince was initially taken aback, then sneered disdainfully, "So this woman is not alive, but a puppet made of Heavenly Dao white jade, no wonder she is so weak. What a pity, what a pity, seems killing this woman yields no delicious flesh and blood to consume."

Upon hearing this, True Monarch Lei Xian’s expression turned completely gloomy, as if someone had exposed his greatest secret.

While speaking, the Seventh Prince once more swept his tail towards Emperor Jizao, causing Emperor Jizao’s expression to change greatly.

Everyone could see that the Seventh Prince Longjia’s physical form was incredibly formidable; how could Emperor Jizao dare meet this strike head-on? He spat out five-colored auspicious qi, combining with the grand power of Heaven and Earth, conjuring thousands of layers of five-colored formation patterns, intending to block the strike. Yet the five-colored formation patterns, for some unknown reason, were weakened by the protective ancestral cloud of the Seventh Prince, easily swept away by the dragon tail.

Thereafter, the dragon tail directly struck Emperor Jizao, making him vomit blood in retreat, bewildered and uncertain.

His once invincible five-colored formation patterns were weakened by the other party’s Celebratory Clouds... What kind of cloud was that, too strange! Ancestral Cloud, Ancestral Cloud, the cloud of ancestors... The ancestors of the Dragon-Horse Clan left such a divine power for their descendants!

The Seventh Prince, having injured three emperors consecutively, felt a surge of pride, coldly laughing, "Fifth Brother! Leave these three garbage to me, you go seek revenge on that little brat with the surname Ning!"

"Alright!"

Fifth Prince Longchi’s eyes were blood-red, disdainful of wasting any words. At this moment, he only wanted to vent his furious anger on Ning Fan, to tear Ning Fan into pieces!

As his giant dragon body rolled in the clouds, it transformed into a beast giant with a dragon’s horn and horse face, as hideous as an ugly ghost. Even the profound sect aura of the Ancestral Cloud that tightly protected his body couldn’t dispel his fierce and vicious aura.

This beast giant form was exactly the eternal true body the Fifth Prince had painstakingly cultivated for years!

Originally, due to losing thirty million years of cultivation, his aura had dropped significantly, and he was no longer a master among the ancient Seven Tribulations. Now revealing the eternal true body, he regained some of the invincible aura of the Seven Tribulations.

The giant body’s hand of the Fifth Prince swept, and hundreds of thousands of blue beams hurled toward Ning Fan, all transformed from the Divine Light of the River Diagram.

Ning Fan activated his divine skill, transforming the body-protecting golden light into a sky full of golden mist, easily blocking the Fifth Prince’s divine light attack.

With another raise of his hand, the Sun Moon Stars Stele suddenly descended from the sky, striking the back of the Fifth Prince, causing him to stagger, nearly falling but not severely injured, merely coughing a bit of blood.

The dual stele strike, comparable to an innate mid-grade treasure, was mostly mitigated by the body-protecting Ancestral Cloud around the Fifth Prince, resulting in only minor injuries.

Ning Fan’s expression remained unchanged, but his heart was quite shocked, amazed at the defense of this Ancestral Cloud. Immune to Body Locking, able to mitigate damage, what an incredible Ancestral Cloud!

Unbeknownst to him, the Fifth Prince was even more surprised. His beast giant form was inherently highly defensive, coupled with the Ancestral Cloud protection, even a Eight Tribulations Celestial Emperor found it hard to inflict damage. Ning Fan’s Sun Moon Stars Stele was unexpectedly powerful to slightly break through ... Is this child really just an Eternal Immortal Venerable!

"Taiyix Divine Art!"

The Fifth Prince’s massive mouth opened, spewing innate dragon fire, which transformed into Nine Dragons soaring into the sky. The Nine Dragons fused into one, forming a Nine Dragons Divine Fire Cover, engulfing Ning Fan.

The nine fiery dragons burned fiercely, even the strong body-protecting golden light of Ning Fan was burned open a gap; reciting the Sixty-Four Trigrams Fire-Avoidance Art was unable to disperse the dragon flames.

It’s not that the Sixty-Four Trigrams Fire-Avoidance Art is weak, but the Taiyix Divine Art of the Fifth Prince inherently incorporated the essence of the Fire Avoidance Art, reversing its use, making this fire unavoidable and indomitable with extreme penetration, hard to defend! 𝚏𝕣𝐞𝗲𝐰𝕖𝐛𝐧𝕠𝕧𝚎𝚕.𝐜𝚘𝗺

Thus, even though Ning Fan had mastered the Fire Avoidance Art, he couldn’t defend against the Nine Dragons Divine Fire’s power.

"Unexpected that the Fire Avoidance Art can be used this way, to greatly enhance the flame’s power..." Ning Fan seemed to have realized something, but knew that now was not the time to ponder.

Engulfed by the Nine Dragons Divine Fire Cover, despite Ning Fan’s strong capabilities, he felt a slight sense of crisis.

Even an ordinary Sixth Calamity Dragon-Horse Immortal Emperor had a power level above that of Eastern Celestial Emperors of the same rank. As for the Fifth Prince Longchi in front, although his cultivation was not as high as Emperor Cang and others, his strength was similar. Moreover, with Ancestral Cloud protection and astounding defense, Ning Fan couldn’t underestimate this wretched dragon...

He must go all out!

Boom!

Amidst the blazing golden light, the Nine Dragons Divine Fire Cover was suddenly shattered, revealing a hundred-zhang giant clad in golden armor and holding a shield, emerging magnificently amidst the fragments of divine fire.

It was none other than Ning Fan’s eternal true body!

Now, Ning Fan had lost the strongest defense of the God-Extinguishing Shield. What replaced it was even stronger—the eternal true body’s defense!

Only by activating the eternal true body, is Ning Fan in the strongest form. How formidable his eternal true body is, originally only Emperor Chonghe among the Eastern Heavenly Emperors knew. But after today, it will be known to all the world.

"Hmm? This is the child’s eternal true body? To remain unharmed within the Nine Dragons Divine Fire Cover!" The Fifth Prince’s expression changed, urging the River Diagram Mirror again, countless divine light swept from the mirror transforming into a sky full of divine swords, slashing toward Ning Fan.

Those divine swords each were sharp beyond match, comparable to the Twelve Nirvana Flying Swords, hundreds and thousands attacking simultaneously could heavily injure a typical Sixth Calamity Immortal Emperor at a glance.

But when thousands of divine swords struck Ning Fan’s giant body, they couldn’t even leave a scratch... This scene left numerous Eastern Celestial Cultivators watching from afar utterly dumbfounded.

"Profound Mechanism Torrential Rain!"

"Heavenly Horse Thirteen Seals!"

"Wind-Fire Divine Thunder Curse!"

"Primordial Heavenly Immortal Finger!"

"Grand-Grade Dragon Draws Water!"

One divine skill after another was unleashed by the Fifth Prince, brilliantly tearing the sky but incapable of even slightly breaking Ning Fan’s eternal true body’s defense.

Can’t injure!

Impossible to injure!

No matter what method the Fifth Prince used, he couldn’t harm Ning Fan even slightly! This eternal true body’s defense was ridiculously powerful!

Shh!

Ning Fan suddenly took a step forward, vanished where he stood, almost simultaneously, the golden flame giant closed in on the giant body of the Fifth Prince, enveloping him again within the thousand-zhang range of the Cross Halo.

Within the halo range, hundreds and thousands of divine skills emerged passively, concentrating on the Fifth Prince, terrifying him into immediately escaping the halo range, causing those focused attacks to ultimately miss.

Ning Fan kept pursuing, repeatedly closing in, trying to unleash a barrage of Divine Skills; the Fifth Prince fled again and again, constantly escaping the range of the halo, rendering the barrage futile.

In an instant, Ning Fan, who had activated his Eternal True Body, had already engaged in dozens of rounds of pursuit with the Fifth Prince.

In the relentless chase, Ning Fan could never truly get close to the Fifth Prince. The Heaven Sealing Art was ineffective against the Fifth Prince, who had Ancestral Cloud Protection, making it extremely difficult to turn him into a convenient target for Divine Skills.

Occasionally, he relied on the might of the Sun Moon Stars Stele to force the Fifth Prince to cough up blood, yet it only inflicted minor injuries. The opponent’s Ancestral Cloud defense was so strong that it required a far more powerful attack to significantly break the defense and cause serious harm...

A stronger attack is needed...

Setting aside the cross halo’s Divine Skill barrage, among all his methods, the only single technique more powerful than the Sun Moon Stars Stele seemed to be the Ancient Demon Mountain-Shattering Strike...

"Damn it, damn it, damn it! How can a mere Eternal Immortal Venerable be so formidable! During dozens of rounds, I consecutively used more than ten Dragon-Horse Forbidden Arts, yet none could break this child’s Eternal True Body defense! His defense is actually stronger than my Ancestral Cloud Protection!"

"The ancestral cloud summoned by sacrificing my thirty million years of Taoist practice is no match for this child’s mere Eternal True Body... How is this possible? How can there be such a heaven-defying Eternal True Body in the world!"

Boom!

The Sun Moon Stars Stele struck again, smashing the Fifth Prince into a retreat, with his complexion gradually showing signs of defeat.

Can’t win! Still can’t win!

Even after summoning the Ancestral Cloud Protection, still... can’t beat Ning Fan!

He had almost exhausted all his knowledge yet couldn’t even scratch Ning Fan’s Eternal True Body...

Even facing the elder brother with Nine Tribulations cultivation, Longchi had never suffered so much. Now, facing Ning Fan, whose true self is fully manifested and defense heaven-defying, he truly felt helpless.

But fortunately, although he couldn’t beat Ning Fan, Ning Fan couldn’t seriously injure him either.

It’s just so, the opponent was just that as well!

Though you have heaven-defying true self defense, I too have Ancestral Cloud Protection! I can’t injure you; can you seriously injure me?

Thinking this, the Fifth Prince felt a bit better internally, ready to devise some sneaky tricks to try to harm Ning Fan without breaking the defense, when he noticed Ning Fan’s true self paused in mid-air, no longer pursuing him.

At this moment, Ning Fan’s true self dispersed the golden flame giant shield from his left hand, freeing both fists. Under the encirclement of the cross halo ink seal, Ning Fan’s body displayed interwoven black gleam and golden light, commanding like an ancient demon god.

Even the ever-suppressing Sun Moon Stars Stele was put away by Ning Fan.

"Hmm? This child has freed both fists; what is he trying to do? Why doesn’t he pursue me anymore? And this child even put away that formidable ancient stele magical treasure. Could it be he seeks to use tricks to harm me upon realizing the Ancestral Cloud defense is hard to break..."

The Fifth Prince was vigilant, when suddenly Ning Fan, across several thousand zhang distance, released both fists, delivering two punches towards him across the sky.

In the illusion of mountain collapse, two fist glows permeated with endless Demonic Qi ruptured the realm, twisting space, directly landing heavily on the Fifth Prince’s beast giant form.

Fortunately, the Fifth Prince had Ancestral Cloud Protection, such long-distance Ancient Demon Mountain-Shattering Strike, its power was weaker due to missing direct body contact, insufficient to break defenses, causing much less damage than the Sun Moon Stars Stele.

"Oh? This child put away his magical treasure, intending to engage me in remote physical fist fighting? Such arrogance! To think such forceful fist glows could harm me, foolish wishful thinking!" The Fifth Prince showed disdain, blocking Ning Fan’s fist glow, then retaliated with a series of attacks against Ning Fan.

Ning Fan ignored the Fifth Prince’s attacks; his defense remained impervious. He only needed to focus on swinging his fists...

Four punches, six punches, eight punches...

Forty punches, sixty punches, eighty punches...

At first, the Fifth Prince blocked Ning Fan’s fist glows effortlessly, but gradually, facing the Ancient Demon Mountain-Shattering Strike, he began to struggle.

Ning Fan’s punches followed one after another, each stronger than the last, like wind and water, with ceaseless momentum.

A hundred punches in an instant, fists like torrential rain!

After three moments, the Fifth Prince could no longer withstand the fist glows without moving, starting to retreat slightly upon each hit.

After five moments, it was no longer just a few steps retreat at the hit of fist glow; each strike sent him flying!

The fist glows became increasingly fierce, beginning to exceed his Ancestral Cloud defense and inflict damage!

The damage intensified, bringing the Fifth Prince a sense of crisis; at the eight hundredth punch, he could be sent spewing blood wildly, organs shifting!

This was eight hundred Ancient Demon Mountain-Shattering Strikes, finally changing the Fifth Prince’s expression dramatically!

Back then, when Ning Fan had yet not fully reached Eternal cultivation through four systems, he could rely on eight hundred Ancient Demon Mountain-Shattering Strikes to instant-kill True Person Bailu. Now, Ning Fan’s cultivation had significantly advanced; these eight hundred Ancient Demon Mountain-Shattering Strikes were several times stronger than before!

But eight hundred was far from Ning Fan’s limit. Beyond eight hundred, Ning Fan had also comprehended three thousand Ancient Demon Mountain-Shattering Strikes...

After eight hundred punches, Ning Fan’s fist light suddenly intensified, as if the entire Ancient Demon Mountain-Shattering Strike had ascended to another level!

Ning Fan’s punching speed became even faster, capable of delivering two hundred punches in a single breath!

Instead, the intent of the punch grew increasingly pure, leaving only the Ancient Demon Annihilation Dao to dominate, controlling the punch with Dao, and the punch was Dao upon being struck!

Eight hundred punches, nine hundred punches, one thousand punches...

One thousand five hundred, two thousand, three thousand punches!

Back then, under the Netherworld Divine Tree, every attempt by Ning Fan to perform the Three Thousand Ancient Demon Breaks Mountain Strike resulted in his physical body collapsing due to backlash, but now, that is no longer the case.

His level of cultivation is far higher than it was back then!

In the past, even though he had the God-Extinguishing Shield for protection, there was a separation between man and shield; now, man and shield have long since become one!

Though the three thousand consecutive strikes still had backlash, under the healing miracle of the Cross Halo, it was bearable!

The River Diagram Mirror was shattered by Ning Fan!

The protective Ancestral Cloud of the Fifth Prince was similarly shattered one by one!

Ning Fan completed the three thousand punches in just twenty breaths!

Twenty breaths earlier, the Fifth Prince was still scorning Ning Fan for counterattacking him with flesh and fists; twenty breaths later, he was already pale with fright from the Ancient Demon Mountain-Shattering Strike.

Ning Fan, having reached three thousand consecutive strikes, was nothing short of a god of slaughter! One punch, and half of the Fifth Prince’s giant body was reduced to nothingness by Ning Fan. With another punch, his entire physical body was completely annihilated, only his True Spirit remained, struggling bitterly under Ning Fan’s storm of fist light!

To cultivate a True Spirit is indeed remarkable, Ning Fan’s current three thousand consecutive strikes shattered even the Ancestral Cloud defense, yet still could not break the Fifth Prince’s True Spirit.

Though it cannot be killed, the Fifth Prince’s True Spirit was inevitably severely damaged by Ning Fan, barely alive, like a fallen leaf in the wind, utterly terrified.

"Seventh Brother, save me, save me!" In despair, the Fifth Prince cried out for help from the Seventh Prince, but where would the Seventh Prince dare to rescue!

Twenty breaths earlier, the Seventh Prince was proud of himself for single-handedly crushing three East Heaven Immortal Emperors.

But after those twenty breaths, the Seventh Prince was terrified by Ning Fan, who seemed like a demon god, and lost all fighting spirit, fleeing for his life!

Is this still a human!

Destroying Innate Treasures, destroying Ancestral Clouds, destroying the Eternal True Body of the Fifth Brother... what kind of boxing technique is this, absolutely unheard of, even he who prides himself on his indestructible body dared not contest with Ning Fan’s iron fist!

But he couldn’t escape!

Ning Fan reached out with his left hand, grabbing the barely alive True Spirit of the Fifth Prince; with his right fist, he struck fiercely with the force of three thousand consecutive blows, one punch instantly battered the fleeing Seventh Prince, skin torn and flesh lacerated!

The second punch, half his body collapsed!

The third punch, the Seventh Prince’s entire body was gone without a trace, only the heavily damaged True Spirit remained, fluttering in the vortex of Ning Fan’s fist light!

Three punches, just three punches!

The Seventh Prince Longjia, renowned for his indestructible body on the Eleventh Waterway, even protected by Ancestral Cloud, endured only three punches from Ning Fan before being defeated!

Ning Fan extended his large hand, capturing the True Spirit of the Seventh Prince in his right hand, without giving the two dragons a chance to plead or curse, he directly sealed the two dragons’ True Spirit and imprisoned it within the Xuan Yin Treasure.

Thus, none of the five dragons that attacked today escaped, all captured by Ning Fan.

The entire Wide Ancestry Pass was utterly silent, everyone’s jaws dropped in astonishment, including True Monarch Lei Xian and other Immortal Emperors...

Ning Fan released his Eternal True Body, ignoring True Monarch Lei Xian and others. He appeared extremely exhausted, yet looked with interest at a thread of cloud light in his palm...

It was a wisp of cloud light he extracted when breaking through the protective Ancestral Cloud of the Fifth and Seventh Princes, the essence of their protective Ancestral Cloud.

Within this wisp of cloud light, there contained an extremely vast Saint’s Will, resisting Ning Fan’s capture...

...

While Ning Fan captured the five dragons, within Taiyuan Crossing, various Great Emperors were embroiled in endless disputes over Ning Fan’s capture of Long Qie.

"Hmph! The Alliance Hierarch is too biased! Just because you have some ties with that Ning Fan, you dispatched three Immortal Emperors to rescue Ning Fan, isn’t that a bit too self-interested!"

"Strict punishment, must strictly punish! This Ning Fan acted without orders, daring to engage in combat with the Eleven Paths’ Different Race Immortal Emperors on his own, causing them to dispatch numerous Immortal Emperors to the waters, disrupting our Eleven Paths situation! If this child is not punished, I will not be satisfied!"

A number of Immortal Emperors actually demanded strict punishment for Ning Fan, solely because Ning Fan had breached the heavens on the Eleven Paths...