A spike of earth broke from a ruptured in the ground, hitting Hamar directly in the chest. Luckily he had reinforced his entire body with aura and instead of piercing he was pushed back, flying into the air.
As he was in the air he saw a thousand more spikes blocking his way out, "Ho-Hu Li, I'm using it!" He sent out a warning to Hou through the crystal artifact.
Hou's sensed what he was doing with their bond and tacitly allowed it. Hamar used Hou's laws and activated a technique which would consume a lot of laws but ultimately neatly save him.
He circulated space laws and brought in the image of a dragon into his mind, he was using the imitation space dragon domain move.
Instantly a huge separate dimension created from space laws overrun the battlefield and within that dimension Hamar moved out of the way of the spikes, but that was not all.
"I'm going in for the kill"
He changed direction and turned to the direction the monster was and started charging his sword with aura. As he let out aura the space domain started to flicker.
In the outside world flashed of aura followed his direction after he disappeared. Bright blue almost lightning energy lighting up the world.
Then he landed behind the monster, still in his desperate dimension, but as he grew his aura the domain shattered.
He summoned up as much aura as he could and thrusted directly into the face of the monstrosity. But at that moment that Hamar was thrusting forward time seemed to slow.
The monster shimmered and it used the QI it had absorbed and transformed once again. Xiao Ye watched on from far away and when it started to transform she smiled, "This'll surely get that guy to come..."
Then she sat down and her body went limp. She opened her eyes and felt her thousand arms, and spider legs. Her body made from earth, compacted sand.
She saw the bright energy in front of her, Hamar's aura. She felt it's strength but she also saw it's weakness.
The thousand arms held a barrier of sand forward, slowly wording the aura blast. Hamar pushed forward but the monster didn't even budge.
Xiao Ye, inside the monsters body, created a cocoon as she transformed it. A huge silky web erupted and she began melting, melting into a mixture that would reform into something much stronger.
As the cocoon formed, from below huge amounts of earth laws entered, causing a ruptured on the earth. Molten rock spat out as the ground broke.
Hamar took the chance while it was metamorphosising to exit it's close range and go back.
"My attack didn't work! It's too strong!"
Lan Qiang weakly gave an update, "Though it's just me and Jin creating the formation we've nearly done. It should weaken it a little..."
Hou saw it all from above and he shouted down, "Does anybody know what happened?! It absorbed my QI and transformed and now it's transforming again?!"
Jin struggled to talk while creating the formation, it was a water based earth counter formation very much away from her specialty, "More importantly where is everyone?"
"Where's Dad, Master Sheng? And where's Tianmo, or Xiao Ye!? Or even just any sect people, why aren't they here already?!"
The sound was transmitted through the air by the magic artifacts Hou created by still it was intercepted by Xiao Ye as her new body was being formed within the cocoon.
"While you've grown stronger, you all have, you can't beat this. And no one's coming to help, only the sect leader can break the barrier I've placed. And Tianmo...haha, Tianmo..."
She started to speak to herself as her body almost finished creating. Ok the outside, the Tier 1 group were frantically communicating trying to finish the formation and then figuring out what they need to do.
"I've already tried contacting everyone I can! I'm not getting any response!"
Instantly everyone grimaced, Hamar was the first to say something, "There must be some sort of barrier trapping us...we must endure! If we wait long enough somebody will surely notice and I'm sure even if the barrier can stop Master Sheng..."
Hou finished off his thought, "Surely it can't stop an elder or even the Sect Leader..."
Everyone let out a breath, "Endure."
Hou analysed the scenario and using his high intuition he figured that if they went at the same pace the formation won't be done by the time the cocoon breaks.
Hou bit his lip and clenched his fist. Then he let go and cracked his neck," Everyone...listen to me. If we continue doing this we won't finish in time and we surely can't win."
Jin smiled, "But you have a solution?"
Hou's body shivered, "I have a gamble."
"Then let's do it." A unanimous answer gave Hou the confidence he needed.
"Let's hope I can get some compensation if we survive this..." He took a deep breath and in the air he closed his eyes.
He took the crystal out of his ear and crushed it, reabsorbing the little amount of mana left.
"Yue...Araxis. we need to go full gear." From within his mind, his consciousness, his very being he felt the response.
Hou began first by splitting himself into many parts, creating a temporary insanity as his mind was split into different purposes.
Yue controlled the Celestial Law Amplifying Physique and let it go, not caring to maintain his figure.
His hair which was disguised to hide his identity started to change colour. The ends turned pink, showing off the signature colour that everyone recognised.
"Hou Zhigong!? The direct disciple of Nine Clouds Purple Miasma?!" Lan Qiang felt his heart tighten.
But that was just the start, Hou's body continued to change, it grew. The Celestial Law Amplifying Physique grew larger and larger, slowly it removed Hou's humanity.
The pink hair dissolved and turned into pure galactic colours.
His form became larger than even the monster before it compressed itself. The cocoon where it lay now the size of Hou's fist.
Then not only did his body change, he released his quasi-Nascent Soul with full releasing, he had create this mana circles in his soul.
The laws in the quasi-Nascent Soul were intertwined with it's being and did not clash with the mana. The two circle mage used more mana and finished of creating a third then fourth then fifth circle.
Araxis spoke, "This might be a problem later on, creating temporary phantom circles give strength but...you might be crippled in getting here really later. Let's hope your luck is good."
Hou dismissed him, "This is what I need to do"
Then Hou continued, his quasi-Nascent Soul became physical, the mana and soul matter merging. It became a semi solid soul form, showing the merging of all his identities.
Both young and old, strong and weak, small but large. He was a paradoxical entity but that wasn't the end, just as the cocoon was opening he moved.
Huge magic circles formed on his quasi-Nascent Soul's chest, "MERGE!"
The soul and body merged, Hou entered the storm of his Celestial Law Amplifying Physique and became a final form he had been the rising for the last few years.
It was purely theoretical but now it was real, the combined power of all his accumulations. His Spirit Stone Celestial Law Amplifying Physique, his magic circles, his quasi-Nascent Soul...it all combined in a dangerous, unstable form.
The creation was held together with the attractive force of its parts, by the inept phantom circles, by the pure willpower to live. He might not be able to reform himself afterwards, but that was not important to Hou.