Chapter 250: Chapter 169: Heavenly Sword_2
Translator: 549690339
The formation’s shape shifted and stabilized in an instant, churning vigorously.
Li Longpeng and Chen Fenghua’s pupils contracted, their expressions changed, and before they could react, thunder and fire moved together, attacking from above and below.
Its power and momentum were even greater than before!
“Good!!!”
Outside the formation, on a distant mountaintop, a young man watching the battlefield couldn’t help but exclaim in his mind.
The young man was astonished and couldn’t help asking, “Good what?”
“This person’s mastery of array formations has reached the fourth tier of the Phase Realm!”
“Look at the changes in the formation, smooth as flowing clouds and water, seamlessly natural. Even with three Prohibition Breaking Talismans forcefully striking, they couldn’t make him reveal the slightest gap or flaw.”
“You can see the subtlety of his control over the formation, his strong command has reached an extraordinary level, just a step away from the fifth tier Formation Master…”
“No, no, not a step away. He must not have access to a fifth-tier mana point, otherwise he would already be a fifth-tier Formation Master.”
“Although the Prohibition Breaking Talismans counter formations, this counteraction is relative. Only talismans of equivalent level and sufficient quantity can break all formations.”
“Just three lowly Prohibition Breaking Talismans trying to break his formation?”
“Naively laughable!”
“Unless there is a fourth-tier Prohibition Breaking Talisman, or ten third-tier ones targeting the nodes, otherwise it’s foolish to think they pose a threat to the grand array he presides over.”
“This person, no, this young friend, as long as he does not fall midway, will surely become the Grandmaster of the Array Path in the future!”
In his mind, a string of words barely hid his admiration, which resonated loudly in the young man’s ears.
In the cleverest of ways, it becomes more profound!
In the midst of Purple Cloud Mountain, the formation shifted.
Three talismans attempted to break the prohibition, having no effect whatsoever.
Though it is said that Prohibition Breaking Talismans counter formations, such a counter is always relative.
The talismans have their power, and the formations have their subtleties.
A grand array’s interconnected frameworks, how could there not be backup strength?
If one node is broken, one foundation is destroyed, it essentially does not affect the overall situation.
As long as the Formation Master adjusts from within, altering and repairing the formation, the grand array can continue to be maintained.
To break the formation, the quality and quantity of the Prohibition Breaking Talismans must be enough to overwhelm, not allowing the speed of the array’s changes and repairs to keep up with the talismans’ destructive force.
Obviously, mere three Prohibition Breaking Talismans, regardless of their quality or quantity, could not suppress the Heaven Extinguishing and Earth Annihilation Formation presided by Xu Yang.
So…
“Boom!”
The thunder and fire attacked incessantly, pounding Li Longpeng into a pitiable state, his Big Dipper Formation scarred and on the brink of collapse.
On the other side, Chen Fenghua fared even worse, with one magical treasure already blasted apart and a second one brought out as a substitute, now desperately swallowing Spirit Pills, struggling to hold on with the power of the pills.
As for the others…
There were no others left!
If even these two Supreme Elders in the late Golden Core stage were struggling to hold on, how could any other Golden Cores possibly withstand?
They had already turned to ash and dust, their bodies dead and their paths extinguished.
Except for…
“Senior Brother save me!!!”
In a life-or-death crisis, Li Longpeng could no longer care about his pride and immediately cried out to Jing Yue for help.
And in the next instant after his cry for help.
“Go!!!”
Jing Yue’s gaze intensified, finally discerning the critical point of the formation, he launched a beam of Spirit Light.
“Boom!!!”
The Spirit Light surged like a dragon, with yin and yang energies, black and white fish chasing each other, concealing within it the Seven Stars of the Big Dipper, like a divine sword with hidden edge.
A fourth-tier Prohibition Breaking Talisman, bestowed by the main of Tianshu Sect!
When it did not emerge, it was quiet; when it did, it shocked the heavens.
The talisman surged like a dragon, breaking the prohibition, roaring into the void.
Suddenly, the earth shook, the thunder and fire dissipated, and beneath Purple Cloud Mountain, the ground split open, creating a deep abyss rift, reaching from the bottom up to the mountain’s peak.
The Earth Dragon overturned!
The Spirit Vein shattered!
Most formations need to harness the power of heaven and earth.
What is the power of heaven and earth? It’s intuitively the Spirit Veins of heaven and earth.
The Heavenly Spirit is qi, and the Earth Spirit is veins.
The former is rare, exceedingly difficult to find, thus most formations can only rely on Earth Veins as their foundation.
This fourth-tier Prohibition Breaking Talisman, targeting the Earth Spirit and destroying the Earth Vein, was truly like pulling out the bottom log that makes the pot boil.
Pulling out the bottom log, the effect is naturally remarkable.
The Earth Dragon overturned, and Purple Cloud Mountain crumbled.
A chasm, a trench, rushing from the foot to the peak of the mountain, split this mountain of thousands of feet high right in the middle.
This demonstrated the power of a fourth-tier Prohibition Breaking Talisman, truly the work of a Formation Grandmaster.
“A fourth-tier Prohibition Breaking Talisman!”
“Tianshu Sect truly spares no expense, bestowing such a thing.”
Outside the battlefield, upon seeing this spectacle, the observing young man also sighed in his mind.
“That old fellow Jing Yue is quite ruthless; gambling with the lives of his Golden Core disciples, he refused to use the fourth-tier Prohibition Breaking Talisman until he found the core of the formation and targeted the Purple Cloud’s Earth Vein.”
“Now that the Earth Vein is broken, pulling out the bottom log, not only will this formation be undeniably destroyed, but if that person had any tricks in reserve, they would be obliterated as well, with no chance of reversal.”
“What a pity, what a pity…”
Sighs echoed through the young man’s mind.
Looking again at the battlefield, it had reached an extreme point.
“Die!”
With a strategy akin to pulling the carpet from underneath, the Termination Array collapsed, and Purple Cloud Mountain burst apart, with the Taoist man soaring into the sky.
Jing Yue with a treasure umbrella over his head, flew towards the site, his tremendous mana surging forth with a palm strike that caused the winds and clouds to lose their luster.
His Nascent Soul cultivation was fully displayed in its formidable might.
However…
The Taoist man soared high into the heavens, rendering his strike fruitless and forcing him to return.
“Where do you think you’re going!”
Seeing his opponent fly away toward the heavens after paying a hefty price to break the formation, Jing Yue couldn’t possibly let him escape and instantly transformed into a long rainbow, chasing after him with urgent Escape Light.
But unexpectedly…
No sooner had the long rainbow ascended into the high skies than the winds and clouds began to change.
“Boom!”
Above the sky, below the ninth heaven, amidst the vast sea of clouds, a sword streaked across the sky.
What kind of sword was that?
The Heaven Extinguishing Sword!
With heaven, earth, and man in disarray, who could decipher the mysteries of the profound?
The Heaven Extinguishing Array embodies the Three Talents; it manifests the numbers of the pre-heaven and conceals the chaos of the primordial. It requires the erection of Three Flags within the array, arranged in accordance with the forces of heaven, earth, and man. Together they merge into one, transforming into thunder, and even an Immortal Body would be turned to ash and dust.
Xu Yang did not have the Three Flags in hand.
Though without the flags, he did have a sword.
Formation skills, five distinctive characteristics.
All methods form an array, a Grandmaster of the generation.
As natural as the sky, as easy as directing one’s arm.
Furthermore, with the inclusion of the final Three Talents Sword Array, it had long surpassed form and convention; the Three Talents Flags could be completely substituted by the Three Talents Sword.
The Three Talents Sword was also the Xuanyuan Jue!
Therefore…
A sword illuminated the sky, and the sound of Heaven Extinguishing roared like thunder.
A resplendent sword light swallowed the heavens and annihilated the earth.
Heaven Extinguishing Array!
Xuanyuan Sword!
The Thunder Series Sword Jue fused with the Array Path, the final killing move was revealed!
“!!!!!”
Below the sword light, in the presence of heavenly might, Jing Yue’s face turned deathly pale, too stricken with shock and panic to speak.
At this moment, there was no time for distraction.
In the next instant, the Heavenly Sword descended, a life-ending slash.
“Boom!”
With a thunderous roar, all ten directions trembled, and a hundred miles around were in ceaseless tumult.
Spirit Light surged, raging and sweeping through, as ripples in the void billowed outwards.
A figure flipped over and emerged, retreating several steps in the air before mustering all his strength to stomp down.
“Bang!!!”
With one step into the void, steadying his frame, Jing Yue’s face was ashen, blood dripping from the corner of his mouth. With gritted teeth nearly crushed to pieces, he let out a sound filled with shock, anger, sadness, and unwillingness.
“Heavenly Single Sword!!!”
“Ah!!!”
With a roar and a wail, the thunder within him burst forth, instantly shattering his body.
“Boom!!!”
With a massive explosion, his Nascent Soul body burst apart, and sword Qi of thunder surged outward in all directions. The surrounding mountains and peaks were affected; amid the rumble, they crumbled, and several peaks were flattened in an instant, riddled with scars.
Amid the terrifying aftermath, a spirit light flew out.
Within the spirit light, there was again an umbrella, the Magical Treasure of Jing Yue.
The umbrella was now closed, tattered and torn, and within the remnants of the umbrella fabric, one could vaguely make out an infantile form.
The Nascent Soul of the cultivator!
Though his fleshly body was destroyed, the Nascent Soul was not dead, taking refuge in the Magical Treasure, as it desperately fled.
Just then, a massive hand descended from the sky, carrying the might of the winds and clouds, reaching straight for the treasure umbrella.
It was Xu Yang.
Knowing the repercussions of letting the tiger return to the mountain, he naturally would not allow his opponent to escape.
Alas, his current cultivation was far too weak; the Heavenly Sword could only be wielded once, and the subsequent attacks were without power.
Even so, capturing a Nascent Soul that had lost its physical body was not a difficult task.
Unless…
“Buzz!”
The treasure umbrella spun, Tianshu beckoned, the Formation aligned with the Big Dipper, and in an instant, it turned to light and vanished into the void, rendering any interception futile.
In the blink of an eye, the long rainbow disappeared into the void.
Above the vast sky, the Taoist man, alone, stood with his hands behind his back on the clouds, his gaze stretching far into the horizon, then he suddenly smiled.
“Tianshu of the Big Dipper, truly remarkable!”