“So much noise, what kind of behavior is this!”
On the high platform, the silent Mo Chen finally spoke.
His voice wasn’t loud, but it instantly suppressed all the noise in the hall.
The elders stopped arguing and respectfully turned their gazes toward Mo Chen.
Mo Chen’s gaze fell calmly on Yan Huo, his eyes full of appreciation, and he slowly said:
“Yan Huo, your formation can attract the laws of heaven and earth. Your talent is indeed extraordinary. Now that all the elders intend to take you as a disciple, you may choose one yourself.”
The choice was now placed in Yan Huo’s hands.
Suddenly, Yan Huo felt immense pressure.
Facing so many elders and important figures casting eager gazes at him, how could a country boy like him have seen such a situation?
He was stunned for a moment and completely at a loss.
‘Master, tell me… who should I choose?’
Jia Lao paused and replied: ‘I’m not clear about their details either. Ask them what types of formations they are good at and what resources they can provide first.’
Yan Huo nodded, steadied himself, then bowed to the elders on the high platform and said, “Reporting to the Sect Master and elders, this disciple… is dull and doesn’t know how to choose. Could the elders please first state the areas and directions they are good at…”
After this was said, the elders raised their eyebrows.
“This kid is clever!”
“Yes, since we are all similar, we have to see who is willing to invest more!”
Another elder said, glanced at the other, and spoke first: “Kid, I am Xuan Zhen, head of the Law Enforcement Hall, and I excel in various defensive and trapping formations. If you are willing to learn, I will teach you everything I have!”
“Old man Xuan Zhen, what use are your defensive traps?”
Another elder immediately shouted.
“Kid, I am good at integrating formations into magical tools, doubling their power. This technique earns a lot of spirit stones, and formation masters need spirit stones for cultivation and advancement.”
“Hmph, what are tool formations compared to my killing formations!”
A slightly thin elder snorted.
“I excel in various lethal formations. Any formation I set up leaves no chance of survival!”
The elders spoke one after another.
Meanwhile, the anomalies and fluctuations brought by the laws of heaven and earth also attracted elders who were handling other sect affairs or had already taken enough disciples.
In the Qiankun Sect, even two ancestor-level figures, Long Tianxia and Dao Yi, were attracted by the fluctuations.
They quietly appeared in the hall, their gazes falling on Yan Huo with great interest.
Just as the hall was buzzing with the question of who Yan Huo would choose,
Outside the Shanmen of the Qiankun Sect, a figure wrapped in a special spiritual power fluctuation appeared silently.
[Divine Ability – Fool the Heavens Across the Sea!]
A special divine ability used to conceal one’s form.
Only powerful masters above the Mahayana Realm who possess their own laws could sense his presence while he used this divine ability.
And the visitor was none other than Chen Yuyang!
The timing he was waiting for had come!
At this moment, almost all the high-ranking members of the Qiankun Sect had gathered in the hall, and those who hadn’t were closely monitoring the situation inside.
It could be said that the defensive strength of the Qiankun Sect had relaxed at this moment.
Those elders were introducing themselves one by one, and with Yan Huo’s selection, the process was taking quite some time.
Now was the time for him to set up his formation!
Holding his breath and concentrating, Chen Yuyang restrained his aura to the extreme and quickly shuttled between the peaks near the Qiankun Sect’s mountain gate.
His target was the mountain-protecting formation surrounding the main hall, consisting of eight pillars of similar shape and height, designed based on the principles of the Eight Trigrams.
This is the place… With a slightly cold gaze, Chen Yuyang swept his eyes over the eight standing formation bases of the mountain-protecting formation.
Last time, when he came to investigate matters regarding his master, Chen Yuyang had noticed this mountain-protecting formation.
It was then that he sensed he might become an enemy of the Qiankun Sect and began thinking about how to deal with them.
Having directly usable terrain could greatly shorten the time and cost of setting up his formation.
Even better, he could use parts of the Qiankun Sect’s own formation to achieve twice the result with half the effort.
Without further hesitation, Chen Yuyang’s hands quickly formed seals, and in his Sumeru mind sea, hundreds of golden formation flags appeared.
These formation flags were the foundation he had prepared over the past six months, inscribed with the reverse-Eight Trigram formation runes he designed.
Now, he only needed to place them at the corresponding nodes to construct a circuit.
This was the simplest and most optimized arrangement he had derived.
Without any pause, Chen Yuyang’s figure quickly moved among the eight peaks, and the formation flags in his hand were rapidly distributed in specific directions.
The formation began to be constructed rapidly.
And soon, as the last formation flag was inserted into the ground and Chen Yuyang’s spiritual power was activated, streaks of golden light emerged between the flags.
The golden lights intertwined and connected, quickly forming a complex golden circuit.
Chen Yuyang’s movements were fast and steady without any mistakes, because he had rehearsed every detail of this formation in his mind at least a hundred times.
In just about two and a half ke (roughly 30 minutes), Chen Yuyang had completely set up the formation.
Looking at the reverse-Eight Trigram formation hidden among the mountain-protecting formation between the eight peaks, which had its own concealment effect, he curled his lips in a cold smile.
The whole process went even smoother than he expected, so much so that he didn’t even have a chance to use the tricks he had prepared to distract or escape.
At this moment, inside the main hall.
The elders had just finished introducing themselves, and now they were all staring intently at Yan Huo, awaiting his choice.
Yan Huo frowned and couldn’t help asking again in his mind:
‘Master, who do you think is more suitable for me?’
Jia Lao’s voice also sounded hesitant.
‘Hmm, even I find it hard to decide for the moment. Although all paths of formations lead to the same destination, in the early stage, it mainly depends on what specific direction you, boy, want to develop.’
Just as Yan Huo and Jia Lao were communicating and hesitating,
suddenly, Yan Huo felt an extremely faint but somewhat strange fluctuation.
“Hmm?”
Yan Huo frowned slightly, a trace of confusion flashing in his eyes.
At almost the same time, Mo Chen and the elders in the hall also stopped their arguing, with expressions of shock and uncertainty on their faces.
They too had sensed the sudden unusual fluctuation, but it was somewhat subtle, making it impossible to determine its source and nature.
Rumble– Just as everyone was puzzled, the entire hall and even the ground beneath them began to shake violently.
“An earthquake?”
Mo Chen’s expression changed, and he was shocked.
His first reaction was to circulate his spiritual power and fly out to check the situation.
However, as soon as Mo Chen circulated his spiritual power, a piercing pain instantly spread from all over his body, as if countless tiny flames were burning and exploding in his meridians.
“Pfft–” Mo Chen suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood, his face turning as pale as paper.
His eyes widened in disbelief: “It’s an enemy attack!”
Although he still didn’t know who launched the attack or what strange method was used, such a change meant the visitor was definitely hostile!
But who?
And what kind of technique was this, that even he, at the Nascent Fusion Eighth Level, was powerless to resist!
Hearing Mo Chen’s shout, the elders in the hall were greatly alarmed and instinctively began to circulate their spiritual power, ready to guard and counterattack.
However, the next moment, the same excruciating pain erupted within them.
“What’s going on? My spiritual power… it’s actually flowing in reverse!”
“What the hell is this method! My meridians… aaaaaaah!”
The Qiankun Sect elders were terrified and tried to forcibly stop their techniques and cut off the flow of spiritual power, but once the out-of-control spiritual power was ignited, it was no longer under their control, rampaging through their bodies and constantly burning their meridians and dantian.
Yan Huo was stunned by the scene before him.
His body instinctively wanted to circulate spiritual power to protect itself, but just as he was about to mobilize it, Jia Lao’s anxious voice rang in his mind:
“Kid, don’t use your power! Do not circulate your spiritual power!”
Yan Huo was jolted.
Although he was full of doubts, he dared not neglect and forcibly suppressed the spiritual power he was about to circulate.
The tremors on the ground became more violent.
The spiritual power in the air completely lost its peace, becoming violent and scorching.
Just standing there, Yan Huo felt a needle-like sting on his exposed skin, as the spiritual power was invisibly eroding and damaging his body.
“Kid, something is wrong! Big trouble! Listen to me, don’t use any power, leave the Qiankun Sect immediately as fast as you can!”
Jia Lao’s voice carried unprecedented solemnity and urgency.
Yan Huo was stunned.
He turned his gaze to the Qiankun Sect elders in pain, and couldn’t help hesitating.
“But they are now…”
“Never mind them! Kid, you can’t save others now. Taking care of your own life is the most important! It will be too late if you wait any longer!”
Jia Lao interrupted him anxiously.
Upon hearing this, Yan Huo came to his senses.
At a life-and-death moment, he couldn’t hesitate.
He was only at the Foundation Establishment stage and couldn’t help at all.
Yan Huo no longer hesitated.
He nodded firmly, turned around, and dashed out of the hall.
Seeing Yan Huo flee, the other young cultivators who were also participating in the master selection realized the danger.
Those who had been hesitating now didn’t care and rushed out of the hall one after another.