Chapter 887: Chapter 887: Innate Grand Array
The Ji Family’s city protective shield had already been activated, yet those golden lightning bolts directly pierced through the defense shield, seemingly ignoring it and striking down.
Ji Jiuying gritted her teeth and flung out a green turtle shell, which expanded in the wind, morphing into an enormous shield that blocked the sky over the city.
Countless golden lightning bolts crashed onto the turtle shell shield, causing the shield to flicker with light as lightning continuously danced within it, visibly creating numerous cracks.
"Form the formation... Innate Eight Trigram Matrix..." Ji Jiuying knew her Celestial Destiny Secret Treasure wouldn’t hold for long, and shouted loudly.
The Ji Family members followed orders, quickly passing the command along.
In no time, everyone in the Ji Family automatically formed formations with those around them, connecting each person, with primordial energy permeating the entire city.
People who could come here were at least Seventh Awakening powerhouses; there was hardly anyone mediocre, and their reactions were exceptionally quick.
As the great formation was completed, Ji Jiuying’s shield reached its limit and shattered with a bang.
The lightning that had been confined by the turtle shell shield accumulated to an enormous degree, spilling down like a sea from the heavens, cascading down like golden magma.
Chen Guan was visiting Ji Liuying’s home as a guest; his Heavenly Demon Disintegration Technique had already seen progress. This visit to the Ji Family Great Cave Heaven was mainly for a secret skill found only at Evil God Mountain, while also coincidentally visiting Ji Liuying.
Although the Heavenly Demon Disintegration Technique had been achieved, it still had some discrepancies with the skills Chen Guan needed and required reconstruction to be truly applied in combat.
Naturally, reconstruction required a secret skill. After researching for quite some time, Chen Guan had identified several secret skills; the Ji Family was convenient to visit, so he came here, unexpectedly encountering such an event.
Only after hearing Ji Liuying’s explanation did Chen Guan learn about Ji Fenglie’s story.
After all, it was quite a long time ago, and only those old relics were aware of such a person.
"Such powerful lightning! Such strong secret treasure!" Just as Chen Guan was marveling, the lightning had already descended.
However, the bolts crashed onto the Ji Family members’ formation, disappearing like water under the spring sun.
The Ji Family’s formation surprisingly had a very strong restraining effect against this golden lightning.
Golden lightning continuously bombarded downwards, constantly being dissolved, unable to serve any significant purpose.
"What is this Composite Skill?" Chen Guan asked Ji Liuying with curiosity.
Ji Liuying replied, "This is our Ji Family’s Innate Eight Trigram Matrix, a group composite skill that requires practitioners of Innate Divine Skill and Innate Eight Techniques to deploy. Two people can form a formation, while two hundred million can also form a formation."
Chen Guan had learned Innate Eight Techniques, though he hadn’t cultivated Innate Divine Skill. As Ji Liuying explained, he quickly grasped the roots of this composite skill.
The Innate Eight Techniques through different combinations and modifications can respond to various situations, thus the derived Innate Eight Trigram Matrix holds the same characteristics.
No matter how strong the lightning from the Infinite Calamity Clock is, the formation can convert it into corresponding traits to restrain it, making it difficult to exert its intended impact.
With such a formation guarding the Ji Family, regardless of how strong Ji Fenglie is, it’s unlikely he could harm the Ji Family.
However, Ji Fenglie is also a member of the Ji Family, so he naturally knew them; hence, if he hadn’t prepared to break the Innate Eight Trigram Matrix, he wouldn’t come easily.
Chen Guan thought that the Ji Family’s situation might not be too optimistic and decided to first observe how Ji Fenglie intends to break the Innate Eight Trigram Matrix composed by numerous Ji Family Great Cave Heaven powerhouses.
"For so many years, you are still relying on the things left by Ji Changsheng to get by, disappointing indeed." Ji Fenglie said sinisterly.
"Noble in purpose despite humble means; a single method can break ten thousand techniques, and this is enough to counter you." Ji Jiuying replied coldly, "If you have sensibility, in consideration of your father’s relationship, retreat now, and you might be spared."
"Haha... To make me retreat... you’ll have to first withstand me..." During his laughter, Ji Fenglie reached out and struck the golden clock that blossomed with lightning.
Buzz!
The golden clock emitted a thunderous sound, causing people’s eardrums and heads to hum incessantly, leaving many with blank minds, unable to think, clutching their ears and heads as they fell to the ground.
In an instant, many members of the Ji Family fell, and the power of the formation noticeably weakened.
Ji Fenglie continued without pause, holding the golden clock with one hand, repeatedly striking with the other.
The thunderous sound grew more intense with each strike, making people’s souls tremble, spiritual senses chaotic; those with lower cultivation were directly turned into idiots.
The Innate Grand Formation could resist various attribute attacks, but against such soul-piercing bombardments, it couldn’t completely defend.
Watching the Ji Family members suffer, the Grand Formation weakened increasingly.
Chen Guan deployed Heroic Spirit Unsheathed to protect his soul, remaining unafraid of the golden clock’s soul-shaking power.
Ji Liuying struggled desperately to resist the piercing sound of the golden clock disturbing her spiritual sense, seeming quite overwhelmed.
The power of spiritual sense is one of the most challenging to cultivate. Typically, as a cultivator’s level and awakening count increase, the intensity of spiritual sense also grows.
Ninth Awakening cultivators, even without cultivating techniques to enhance spiritual sense, would have relatively strong spiritual senses.
However, this passive strengthening is far inferior to actively cultivating spiritual sense.
Yet methods to cultivate spiritual sense are rare, Chen Guan only knows Heroic Spirit Unsheathed learned from Bai Xiuyan, and beyond this has no other soul skills.
Most people have difficulty accessing spiritual sense methods, making it hard to resist soul attacks, relying solely on their spiritual sense to endure.
Ji Jiuying and other Ninth Awakening Peak powerhouses could withstand the golden clock’s sonic soul attack, but those lower-level Ji Family members, along with other cultivators in Ji Family City, struggled to resist such attacks, clutching their heads and rolling on the ground with blood seeping from ears, mouths, and noses.
"Thunder Heaven!" Ji Jiuying roared, her voice echoing far and wide.
The Ji Family’s powerhouses responded, instantly transforming the Innate Eight Trigram Matrix, from which lightning surged, intertwining with the golden lightning descending from the sky, even spreading upwards toward Ji Fenglie.
The power of the Innate Formation composed by numerous powerhouses was undoubtedly substantial.
Ji Fenglie was strong, yet incapable of opposing such power, but he did not retreat; instead, he tossed the golden clock in his hand directly toward the lightning.
As it spun downwards, the golden clock expanded, seemingly absorbing all the lightning generated by the Innate Formation into itself.
The golden clock’s light grew increasingly brilliant, golden lightning burst forth even more intensely, causing thunderous rumbles, the Innate Formation unexpectedly unable to completely dissolve the stream of lightning.
The golden liquid lightning gathered like rainwater on a glass cover, accumulating ever more.
"I’ve long said you old relics should be swept into the dustbin of history; this era is no longer suitable for you; bury yourselves with those old ruins." Ji Fenglie’s voice grew increasingly arrogant.
Chen Guan gazed in surprise at the golden clock continuously devouring external energy and releasing golden lightning.
It was clear that the golden clock itself wouldn’t inherently possess such potent power, being merely a Secret Treasure, its primordial energy limited, unable to unleash such strong and lasting energy.
The current power existed because Chen Guan theorized the golden clock was merely a switch or gate.
It merely connected to a realm of lightning or such, opening the gate to unleash the lightning stored within.
Just like Luo Yuanfei’s talent "Dark Fairytale World," he merely opened a passage.
