After leaving the cave, Tang Jie didn’t fly away, instead flying around the Soaring Immortal Mountains and installing caches of materials in certain areas—he was setting up a formation in the Soaring Immortal Mountains!
In truth, there were many cultivators tasked with guarding Jin Tianya in the Soaring Immortal Mountains, but Tang Jie was so strong that they had no hope of detecting him.
Under the eyes of all these people, Tang Jie easily set up his formation.
After doing this, Tang Jie found a place to hide and began to patiently wait.
He waited for three days and three nights.
After these three days, a rumbling came from the cave. Jin Tianya had finally recovered his cultivation enough and was preparing to come out.
As the formation was designed around him, the moment he left the cave, the entire formation was triggered.
When this Immortal-sealing formation was fully activated, even an Immortal would find it hard to resist, and it served as the last defense of the human cultivators. Unfortunately, this formation had existed for several thousand years, and time had worn away at its power. Moreover, Tang Jie had damaged part of the formation when he destroyed the chains, and he had also stripped it of the Blueheart Flame’s support. Finally, Jin Tianya had spent several thousand years in the cave and had familiarized himself with every detail of the formation that he could, so the formation was unable to hold him down.
A quaking came from the depths of the earth, growing more and more intense until even the Soaring Immortal Mountains began to sway.
They flew into the air and began to cast spell arts to strengthen the formation.
They weren’t strangers to this kind of situation. Jin Tianya had attempted to store up energy and break out more than once, and the repair mission that Tao Tiande had joined in had been because of his last struggle.
They all thought this situation was no different.
But they quickly realized that they were wrong, for the shaking was more intense than ever before. Their spell arts utterly failed to suppress the surging energy underground, and they could feel the quaking growing worse and worse.
“What… what’s going on?” a cultivator asked in shock.
In reply came the quaking of the Soaring Immortal Mountains.
As the mountains swayed, light burst out from various points across the range. This was energy erupting from the formation eyes of the formation in unison.
Beams of light pierced through the air, triggering a majestic wave of spiritual energy that had all the cultivators fleeing in shock.
Only Tang Jie was smiling, furtively firing off several blasts of energy at the pillars and activating his Celestial Eye so that he could calculate the operations of this formation. Ȓ𐌽օ₿Ёș
The smarter cultivators in the air had already begun to flee, while the slower ones were still futilely attempting to prevent the formation from falling. In that energy shockwave, all their defensive barriers were obliterated, and their bodies melted away in the blast.
Even those who flew away weren’t completely safe. The shockwave sent giant stones flying into the air, wrapped in destructive energy. One cultivator was struck by a boulder, and in a flash of light, his barrier shattered, and the boulder smashed him into a pancake.
There were also smaller stones, filling the air like locusts. While these stones weren’t as terrifying as the boulders, they were as powerful as art relics, able to easily pierce through barriers and bodies alike, and they soon had many cultivators dead or injured.
But this wasn’t even the most terrifying thing.
In the center of the Soaring Immortal Mountains, energy surged from the top of a mountain like a volcanic eruption, forming an intense pillar that stabbed into the sky. A powerful pressure wave emanated from it, instantly covering the surrounding area and forcing everyone to descend.
“This is…” An experienced cultivator could sense the horror that was about to appear and cried out.
Many more didn’t even have time to feel anything, the immense pressure instantly killing them.
A rain of blood fell over the world as cultivators fell from the sky. Meanwhile, the center of the mountain cracked upon, and Jin Tianya flew out.
He had finally broken free of the formation’s suppression.
“Hahahaha, I’m free! I’m finally free!” Jin Tianya roared.
As he roared, Tang Jie waved his hand, upon which countless gleams of light appeared in the air. This was the debris from the ruptured mountain, all coming together to weave into an enchanting cloudscape.
Tang Jie pointed downward, and a giant stone flew out from the bowels of the earth: the stone platform that Jin Tianya had been sleeping on.
As a substance that could hold a True Immortal, it had to be something extraordinary, then it had been Jin Tianya’s bed and tempered by the Blueheart Demon Flame for 3,800 years, making it even more incredible. As it flew up, it shrank in size and then flew into the cloudscape.
“Stop!” Tang Jie shouted, upon which the cloudscape froze. And then it began to shrink.
By now, it was plain to Jin Tianya what Tang Jie was up to.
He was borrowing his power to refine the Immortal-sealing formation!
This was already an incredible formation, and while it had weakened and lost value over time, there was no denying that it was still an Immortal-level formation.
Even if it was dismantled for parts, this formation would still be quite valuable.
Tang Jie had made himself a pretty penny from recycling formations in the past, and Jin Tianya was impoverished after his many years of imprisonment, so the moment he broke free, he hoped to gain back some wealth from this formation.
He hadn’t expected Tang Jie to be so lowly as to use him to take the entire thing.
Taking the entire formation was much more difficult than dismantling it. After all, this meant preserving its original strength, and in normal circumstances, Tang Jie wouldn’t have been able to do it. After all, this was an Immortal formation.
But Jin Tianya’s presence made everything different.
In the process of breaking out of the formation, Jin Tianya was essentially taking on all of the burden of taking the formation on himself, allowing Tang Jie to sit back and relax, only needing to take the formation when the work was done.
And he had really pulled it off.
Through the formation that Tang Jie had laid down earlier, the intact formation was fixed in the air, and then it was shrunk down and collapsed, with the stone serving as the center.
Jin Tianya frantically said, “That’s mine!”
He reached out for the formation.
This was a crucial juncture in the formation’s compression process, and if it were seized now, it would shatter, making all of Tang Jie’s effort pointless. But Jin Tianya no longer cared.
Tang Jie naturally wouldn’t let him ruin his plan. “Sir, you’re not being very grateful.”
He snapped his finger, sending out a blast of wind that pushed away Jin Tianya’s hand, upon which he shouted, “Condense!”
The formation’s compression process accelerated.
“Don’t even think about it!” Jin Tianya punched at Tang Jie without regard for the consequences.
Tang Jie waved his hand, summoning the Myriad Yin Yang Furnace, which unleashed a divine ray of light that stopped Jin Tianya’s punch.
Through countless refinements and the investment of innumerable treasures, the furnace had long ago reached the level of an ultimate-grade divine treasure of immense power. The only thing separating it from the status of Dao armament was a Dao Will, but it was much more powerful than many Dao armaments.
With Jin Tianya’s punch blocked by the Myriad Yin Yang Furnace, Tang Jie took out another item: the intelligent stone embryo he had found in the Spirit Mountains shortly after he had become an Immortal.
It spent every day next to the Genesis Stone Slab, soaking in the power of creation and growing more intelligent and more flexible in usage. It could be used to forge tools, make talismans, or lay down formations. Tang Jie was unwilling to refine this intelligent stone with such limitless potential into a mindless treasure, so he had kept it until now.
Today, he had finally found an opportunity for this intelligent stone embryo.
The stone embryo sensed Tang Jie’s intentions and happily flew toward the stone slab in the core of the formation.
In a flash, the stone embryo disappeared, and then the stone slab began to change forms, first transforming into a stone stele. Tang Jie shook his head. “No good!”
The stone stele took the form of a throne.
Tang Jie laughed. “This shape is pretty good!”
As he spoke, the formation began to disappear into the throne in a cascade of lights. When all had subsided, that majestic Immortal formation was gone.
In its place was a throne in the sky covered in all kinds of strange carvings, each one actually a component of the formation. In this way, it became part of the throne’s powers, allowing it to unfold into an Immortal-sealing formation.
But Tang Jie still didn’t think this was enough.
The formation was weakened from age, and then it had been further worn away through the damage done by Tang Jie and Jin Tianya. Thus, the formation could only suppress those below Immortal Platform now.
But Tang Jie didn’t need this formation if it could only deal with Violet Palace cultivators.
Thus, Tang Jie called the throne to his side and then summoned the Infinite Palace.
He placed the throne in the central hall of the Infinite Palace. “Rise! Suppress! Seal! Press! Combine! Ascend! Merge!”
With seven uses of Law Speaking, Tang Jie harnessed the Dao of Truth to the limit, seeking to fix the law of the cosmos.
This was a higher manifestation of Law Speaking. As Tang Jie entered deeper and deeper into a Dao, he also gained more understanding of what it meant to control a Dao. This had allowed him to achieve breakthroughs in each of the Twelve Great Daos, and Truth was no exception.
At this moment, the Infinite Palace became a small world created through his own energy, and in this small world, his Law Speaking set the rules of this place.
All the formations within the Infinite Palace began to merge together into a brand-new formation. Originally, the Infinite Palace defended against external forces and attacked those within, with the Stellar Net Astral Demon Formation serving as the primary offensive force. But as all these formations began to merge together with the Immortal-sealing formation, they began to ascend to an even higher level of power.
Finally, he also threw in the Eight Gates Banners, which brought the Infinite Palace to an even higher level. With this, Tang Jie’s Five Elements Dao Art suddenly leaped to the front, once more becoming Tang Jie’s most powerful Dao Art.