[The Great Dark Heaven King grins savagely and once again points the mouth of the human-bone bowl at you, causing your whole body to stiffen, unable to move.]

[At this moment, the White Elephant Demon wants to come to your aid, but it staggers a few steps, misses its hammer strike against the monster, and instead stumbles and falls to the ground itself. Clearly, it has not yet recovered from the aftereffects of the soundwave.]

[A gigantic steel fork pierces straight through your fleshly body and through your soul!]

[You have suffered a soul attack!]

[Soul strength -1]

[Current remaining soul strength: 4/7]

[A huge crescent blade hacks downward, cutting across your body and tearing apart your soul!]

[You have suffered a soul attack!]

[Soul strength -1]

[Current remaining soul strength: 3/7]

[Seeing you struck again and again by the gigantic monster, the White Elephant Demon’s face turns pale as paper. It hurriedly scrambles to its feet, leaps high, roars in fury, and with all the strength in its body finally smashes one hammer into the monster’s chest.]

[All of its violent power erupts. The force of this hammer is comparable to cleaving open heaven itself, directly blasting it flying backward!]

[Its body shatters upon falling, turning into endless black qi…]

[The White Elephant Demon seizes the opportunity to help you up and hastily asks, Junior Brother, can you still hold on?]

[You finally manage to catch a breath again, silently thinking how dangerous that was. You immediately take out three lotus seeds and swallow them, restoring your own soul strength to 6/7.]

[Now you have only your final three lotus seeds left. Yet the illusion has only just reached the fourth layer. After a brief moment of thought, you pass two lotus seeds to the White Elephant Demon, leaving only one for yourself.]

[You say to the White Elephant Demon, This is the last of the stock. Use them sparingly…]

[Before the White Elephant Demon can respond, the black qi in the distance gathers again, reforming into a completely unharmed Great Dark Heaven King.]

[The black qi surrounding the human-skin drum in its hand dissipates back to its initial state, as though it must gather anew before it can use that sonic soul attack again…]

[You already understand the methods and divine arts of this monster. As long as you kill it before the black qi fully gathers upon the human-skin drum, it must gather the black qi all over again before it can use that sonic soul attack once more.]

[The White Elephant Demon takes the lotus seeds, nods to you in thanks, then throws itself forward again, fiercely battling the monster once more…]

Countless characters flashed through Lin Xun’s eyes as Analysis Authority activated.

He sighed and said, “Let’s hope the answer given by Analysis isn’t wrong. Otherwise the result of this wager is probably going to be grim…”

“No wonder it’s the hidden region of Chapter Nine on Hell Difficulty. Just a single Demon-Execution Hall inside the dojo has already left me in such a sorry state.”

According to the information revealed by the White Elephant Demon, the illusion had not yet begun operating at full power during the first four layers. Its purpose was to torment the people trapped in the formation. Only in the final two layers would the formation truly go all out and unveil its real killing move.

And it was only when the formation truly operated at full power that Lin Xun would be able to use his trump card to break the situation!

[…]

[…]

[The White Elephant Demon lets out a roar and once again smashes the monster into a cloud of black qi. It is so tired that its chest rises and falls violently, drenched in sweat from head to toe, its clothes almost soaked through.]

[At this point it has already blasted the monster to death more than ten times, and of the two lotus seeds you gave it, only the last one remains. Its face is pale as it endures the pain in its soul, yet it is reluctant to use up that last lotus seed.]

[The Great Dark Heaven King scatters into black qi, yet this time the qi does not immediately gather back together. Instead, it spreads farther and farther apart…]

[Seeing this, the White Elephant Demon brightens and says, Junior Brother, this bastard is finally done for! Next comes, next comes…]

[Mother of mine, next comes the fifth layer of illusion…]

[Halfway through speaking, the White Elephant Demon’s face falls. They had already struggled so hard just to survive the fourth layer of illusion. Once they entered the fifth layer, when the Evil-Execution Grand Formation displayed its true power, what were the two of them supposed to do?] 𝓯𝓻𝒆𝙚𝒘𝓮𝙗𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝒍.𝙘𝓸𝙢

[As the Great Dark Heaven King disperses into scattered black qi, the illusion of Avici Hell within the grand formation also begins to shift faintly.]

[The boiling oil cauldrons, crimson lava, and red-hot iron pillars all vanish completely. In their place appear one immense, drifting Bodhisattva image after another.]

[These Bodhisattva images are dim and illusory, continually shifting and relocating, surrounding the grand formation in a ring while looking down coldly upon the two of you struggling within it…]

[You and the White Elephant Demon are both very familiar with the Bodhisattva images surrounding the formation. They are precisely that Great Dark Endless Delusion Bodhisattva!]

[The White Elephant Demon, while recovering its Dharma power, subconsciously wants to kneel in worship. Yet when it thinks of the fifth layer of illusion that must be faced next, and of the fact that it does not have long left to live anyway, it sighs and ignores the Bodhisattva images, continuing instead to recover its Dharma power with its eyes closed.]

[At this moment, you do not look at what the scattered black qi will become, but instead fix your gaze on the many drifting Bodhisattva images, while countless characters flash through your pupils…]

[The endless black qi transforms into one hundred and eight Demonic Path Asuras, and again into one hundred and eight Demonic Path Great Dark Heavens. These monsters are larger and more solid than before, and the weapons in their hands are sharper and more bloodthirsty!]

[Seeing this, the White Elephant Demon’s face changes drastically. Of the previous four layers of illusion, it had heard some details from those disciples who had once been punished within, so it knew the general situation.]

[But as for the final two layers of illusion… there had never been a single example of anyone who experienced the final two layers and came out alive, so it had no idea what those layers were like.]

[Now, seeing these two kinds of monsters that could harm the fleshly body and wear away the soul appear at the same time, their strength even more terrifying than before, there is nothing it can say besides silently lamenting, My life is finished.]

[Facing more than two hundred monsters at once, even if it had another nine lotus seeds in its pocket, that still would not be enough.]

[And if the fifth layer of illusion means facing both kinds of monsters simultaneously, then in the sixth layer would that not mean battling both the Great Asura King and the Great Dark Heaven King at the same time?]

[Even if you and it had a hundred lives, it would not be enough to die through it all!]

[The White Elephant Demon’s face turns ashen, unsure whether it should continue struggling uselessly.]

[Just as it is hesitating whether to give up completely, it hears you shout loudly, Senior Brother, if you still want to live, then help hold them off for you for a moment!]

[Don’t forget that wager. As long as you can hold them back for a short while, I naturally have my own method!]

[The moment Junior Brother’s words fall, the half-human, half-dragon out-of-body avatar appears accordingly, taking the lead in guarding Junior Brother’s surroundings.]

[Meanwhile, Junior Brother stares blankly at the Bodhisattva images surrounding the formation, his eyes seeming to flash with all kinds of strange light…]

[The White Elephant Demon is stunned. Its heart is full of mixed thoughts, but in the end it chooses to trust you!]

[It roars, swallows the last lotus seed, and stations itself at your side, helping you resist the tide-like assault of the monsters…]

Lin Xun took a deep breath and unveiled his trump card.

He pressed the option to use the Soul Secret Beginning of the Holy Spirit.

[You used Soul Secret, Beginning of the Holy Spirit!]

[You currently possess three Authorities. Please choose which Authority power you wish to enhance!]

He did not choose to enhance Chaos Authority, but instead chose to continue enhancing Analysis Authority.

[You chose to enhance Analysis Authority!]

[You have temporarily consumed 4 points of soul strength limit as firewood to elevate your control over your Authority power!]

[Current remaining soul strength: 2/3 (7)]

[Your control over Soul Authority has been greatly increased!]

[You activate Analysis Authority!]

[An extremely powerful burst of Authority power erupts at once. Heaven and earth are plunged into utter darkness, and behind you appears the shadow of an incomparably gigantic eye!]

[The giant eye fills all the space behind you, covering every single thing inside the formation!]

[The more than two hundred Extreme Evil monsters all stop moving at once, no longer attacking the heavily wounded White Elephant Demon who had been barely holding on. Instead, they stare blankly at the giant eye phantom behind you, their faces filled with terror that pierces into the marrow of their bones!]

[When the entire gaze of the giant eye falls upon the Bodhisattva images outside the formation, that cold gaze devoid of all emotion seems to split, slice, and grind all things into tiny particles, understanding every particle completely and thoroughly.]

[That giant eye seems to spread out all of the Bodhisattva’s memories, all of her experiences, into one long painted scroll, repeatedly watching it frame by frame without overlooking a single detail.]

[Everything the Great Dark Endless Delusion Bodhisattva has experienced from the time of her birth until now, every person she has ever known, everything she remembers or does not remember, is all completely understood by the giant eye…]

[Countless characters flash through your eyes. With your elevated and magnified Analysis Authority, you extract a single segment from that endless torrent of information, and immediately understand the method you need to break the formation!]

[You leap into the air, rising high!]

[Your two fingers curl like hooks, passing over the vague, illusory Bodhisattva image, and then… you viciously dig downward into empty space!]

[You feel your two fingers touch something real, and pluck out a pair of round, spherical objects…]

[The endless Avici Hell illusion around you is interrupted at once and vanishes in an instant.]

[You and the White Elephant Demon find yourselves standing in a silent great hall. Before you stands the eyeless divine image of the Great Dark Endless Delusion Bodhisattva!]

[Looking at the divine image that has lost both its eyes, you spread open your palm, where two eyeballs streaked with blood lie quietly.]

[The White Elephant Demon stands there blankly in a daze. Only after a good while does it finally mutter… You broke the formation just like that? You really escaped death just like that?]

[You smile confidently and say, Senior Brother, has the saying ‘man can conquer heaven’ that I spoke of now come true or not?]

[After a long silence, it says to you in admiration, Junior Brother, in all its life, it has never admired anyone.]

[Even after being taken in by the Bodhisattva as a disciple, it has only ever felt fear and reverence toward the Bodhisattva, never genuine admiration.]

[But now, you… honestly speaking, now you are the first person it has ever truly admired!]

[It admits defeat in the wager!]