Chapter 276: Chapter 68: The Great Array is Broken, Liuli Emerges from Retreat
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Luo Yan was pushed into Daozang Pavilion, where he saw that the surrounding bookshelves had already been pushed into the corner, and the various books and jade slips that had been on them were gone, evidently packed away in advance.
At the end of the room, several elders were leading their disciples to line up and enter the formation. Every ten breaths or so, two people could be teleported away.
The Master of Xuandu stood beside the teleportation formation, watching the formation expressionlessly.
“Luo Yan is here!” Tian Zhang called out loudly.
“Let him come over!” the Master of Xuandu said in a deep voice.
So, under the watchful eyes of the many queued elders and disciples, Tian Zhang pulled Luo Yan straight up to the front of the teleportation formation.
“Stand firm once you get inside,” the Master of Xuandu instructed.
Luo Yan obediently took his position inside the teleportation formation, looking around at the queued cultivators with confusion.
Then, the brilliance of the teleportation formation engulfed him.
In an instant of the world spinning, Luo Yan opened his eyes again, only to find himself standing in the square in front of the East Sea Pavilion.
Surrounding him were the powerful elders from Yuqing View, along with their Golden Core True Persons and Foundation Establishment disciples.
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Everyone was gathered around the teleportation formation, clutching Flying Sword magical treasures, ready for battle… When they saw Luo Yan had teleported in, they quickly signaled him to hurry out.
Luo Yan quickly took large strides, stepping out of the teleportation formation, only to see everyone still staring unblinkingly at the teleportation formation as if they were fearful a Demon Path Cultivator would suddenly emerge from it.
The teleportation formation could only send two people at a time; how could the Demon Path Cultivators be so foolish as to just waltz right in and get surrounded and attacked?
Seeing that no one was paying attention to him, Luo Yan quietly slipped to the front of the Pavilion, trying to push the door open, but found it was tightly locked, as if some invisible force had sealed it shut.
While disappointed, this was within his expectations.
Merely being forced to flee the sect probably wasn’t enough for the Pavilion’s Prohibition to deem the “Clarify Cult doctrine extinct.”
Otherwise, if people knew such a mechanism existed, they would invite other sects to attack Yuqing View every now and then, taking the opportunity to flee to the Pavilion to farm for magical treasures… Wouldn’t that be wonderful?
Luo Yan looked back towards the center of the square, only to see cultivators teleporting in from the formation every ten breaths or so.
Sometimes it was a Nascent Soul Elder, sometimes a Golden Core True Person, sometimes a Foundation Establishment disciple. However, as time passed, the expressions on the faces of the arriving cultivators become increasingly panic-stricken, signaling that the grand formation on the other side was not going to hold much longer.
Finally, the teleportation formation suddenly flickered a few times, then went completely dark.
Obviously, it had been cut off from the other side.
This made Luo Yan quite regretful, for his eldest senior brother and third senior sister had not been teleported over.
Every ten breaths, every two people—this efficiency was just too low. If it were up to Luo Yan to design it, he could probably find seven or eight points of optimization, increasing the transportation efficiency by at least threefold.
Ultimately, Yuqing View had been at peace for too long, so as soon as the Tai Yi Escaping Armor Yin Yang Great Formation was breached, they were almost immediately laid bare in their awkwardness and struggle.
Seeing that the teleportation formation had completely shutdown, the faces of the crowd changed dramatically, and no one could not guess that the Penglai Protective Sect Array had been breached.
“Do not panic!” an elder shouted boldly, “With the Wan Xiang Immortal guarding, even if we are overpowered, it won’t lead to a massive fall of our fellow sect members!”
“Exactly!” the other elders echoed, “Three Pure Orthodox Sect, branches from the same root, Kunlun and Shushan will not sit by and watch our Penglai dao lineage be extinguished!”
Everyone chimed in one after another, quickly stabilizing the collective emotions of the Golden Core True Persons and Foundation Establishment disciples.
As for how much truth was in those words, that was known to no one.
And so, the crowd dispersed quickly, gathering in small groups to converse.
Only Luo Yan sat alone on the stone steps at the entrance of the Pavilion, as the Heavenly Craft Workshop lineage had only him present, lost in his own thoughts.
Above Penglai Immortal Island.
With the Tai Yi Escaping Armor Yin Yang Great Formation forced open, the Demon Cult Cultivators dove in like wolves into a flock of sheep, directly storming into the Yuqing View below.
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Many Penglai Cultivators fled in all directions, like monkeys scattering when the tree they climbed on falls, with some being pursued and killed by pursuing Demon Path Cultivators and others using secret techniques or treasures to instantaneously travel thousands of miles, disappearing without a trace in a moment’s notice—leaving their pursuers far behind, unable to catch up…. There were numerous such cases, too many to count.
The seated Immortal of the Heavenly Demon Path had already departed after a standoff with the Wan Xiang Immortal of Yuqing View, and now there was no one left to stop the destruction of Yuqing View.
Hu Li, a Nascent Soul Elder from the Eastern Emperor Path, stood in the air with a lazy posture, watching the fires below the pavilion with a light that flickered dim and bright in his eyes.
Lei Caiyan suddenly appeared behind him, as if materializing out of thin air.
“Oh, isn’t this our great hero from the Six Paths?” Hu Li said with a chuckling laugh.
Lei Caiyan did not reply, only frowning slightly as she gazed at the pavilion below on the brink of destruction.
“I hear that you handed out the magical treasures you got from Yuqing View to the juniors as if you were handing out New Year’s money?” Hu Li continued to tease, “Is that your idea of giving out holiday bonuses?”
“With this battle, Penglai is gravely wounded, never again to rise.” Lei Caiyan said indifferently, “Kunlun and Shushan will surely be terror-stricken, as if facing a formidable enemy.”
“The world is about to be thrown into chaos,” Hu Li added in the tone of a storyteller, speaking leisurely.
“No,” Lei Caiyan disagreed, “the Three Pure Ones combined are stronger than the Six Paths. Now that Penglai has declined, the balance between them has instead become more even. In the aftermath, both sides are likely to maintain a state of contention without breakdown.”
Hu Li also put away his joking smile and narrowed his eyes:
“Is this what the Hell Path wants, hmm? Contention without breakdown?”
“Such contention will intensify internal competition among the sects, restoring the combativeness that was once dull,” Lei Caiyan turned away, “This world has been too peaceful for too long, so much so that everyone has nearly forgotten how to struggle.”
“But even in this stagnant world, it must belong to the Human Race!”
After saying this, her figure suddenly disappeared from sight.
Hu Li watched her disappear from her original spot, and the corners of his mouth gradually stretched into an exaggerated, inhuman smile:
“Is this a warning to me, or to those old geezers?”
“The world of the Human Race… haha, did Pangu dictate when splitting heaven and earth that the Divine Land Continent must carry the ‘Human’ name?”
“Nothing but a group of pawns hiding behind the scenes. If they want to turn the tide, let them struggle all they want.”
In Yangzhou, Kuocang Mountain.
Elder Shi Ding felt that something was amiss since Luo Yan had been gone for too long and there had been no news at all.
He seriously considered the possibility of Luo Yan’s “betrayal” but soon cast the thought out of his mind.
As long as he was dedicated to his cultivation, it would mean he was loyal to his lineage, and the entire Heavenly Craft Workshop would be his.
That was the Heavenly Craft Workshop of Yuqing View, the most wealthy and capable of generating income!
Even if there were traitors from other sects, faced with such vast cultivation resources, they should come crawling back to the righteous path!
Hmm, there must have been some sort of mishap, like being held up by an unexpected event on the way…
Just when Elder Shi Ding was feeling annoyed, Shi Liuli suddenly “walked” out from the stone wall.
The many characters on the stone wall twisted into an opening, like a large mouth spitting out Shi Liuli, then closed back to its original form.
“Dad!” Shi Liuli had just steadied her vision when she saw Elder Shi Ding staring in astonishment. Filled with joy, she rushed into his embrace like a swallow returning to its nest.
“It’s fine as long as you’re safe, it’s fine as long as you’re safe,” Elder Shi Ding first patted her back gently, then, he noticed the differences in his daughter.
Her eyes were still bright, but now they carried an added weight of depth and restraint.
A ribbon wrapped around her arms, and upon closer inspection, it was made of countless sparkling star sands, shining brilliantly.
And behind her floated an Immortal Sword, with a strange luster that was unlike ordinary iron.
Had his daughter… looted an Immortal Sect treasure house?