Chapter 436 - Breaking the Formation
Translator: Cinder Translations
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Song Wen quickly tidied up his cave and left, heading towards Fang City.
With less than a month left until the Spellcraft Gathering, the city had become crowded with cultivators, nearly to the point of shoulder-to-shoulder contact. Most of these cultivators had come to participate in the conference.
Some hoped to break through their limits by observing or engaging in duels, while a few others were there to earn spirit stones. The influx of cultivators from across Fangzhudao made it an excellent opportunity for business.
Song Wen wandered the streets, searching for ways to quickly make spirit stones. However, after half a day of wandering, he found that he wasn't as clever as the other cultivators. The profitable avenues had already been monopolized, either seized by other cultivators or firmly controlled by the Xing family.
That night, Song Wen visited the Dark Star Black Market and bought 150 Dragon Pattern Grass, enough to help a Sacred Gu advance. For the next few days, he spent his time feeding the Sacred Gu while keeping an eye on the Spellcraft Gathering and occasionally investigating the movements at the Zhenbao Peak.
Song Wen noticed that the Treasure Conference was not held as scheduled. On the tenth day of the month, the illusion formation around Zhenbao Peak was sealed tight, with no cultivators entering or exiting.
Outside the southern city of Fang, the Xing family had cleared an area of several dozen miles to use as the competition grounds for the Spellcraft Gathering. With ten days left until the event, the Xing family had sent people to register participants and check the cultivation levels of those intending to compete to ensure no one falsely reported their cultivation to mix into a lower-level competition.
Upon seeing this, Song Wen understood. The Xing family was searching for cultivators with soul source bodies.
From that point on, Song Wen no longer returned to his cave. He found a secluded beast cave on a mountain twenty miles away from Zhenbao Peak to hide in.
He released five Sacred Gu and one Shadow Gu. The Shadow Gu, a third-tier Gu, was given a new name by Song Wen. These six Gu insects concealed themselves around Zhenbao Peak, allowing Song Wen to monitor anyone entering or exiting the peak.
Seven days later, during the Yin hour (3-5AM), two figures appeared in the nearby forest, rapidly approaching Zhenbao Peak. One of them had already fainted, captured by the other — Gan Hong.
Gan Hong had stealthily reached the foot of Zhenbao Peak, then leapt up into the air, flying to the mid-mountain where he entered the illusion formation.
A quarter-hour later, another cultivator was brought to Zhenbao Peak. That night, Zhenbao Peak was lively with nine cultivators brought to the location.
Hidden in his beast cave, Song Wen deduced that Xing Li Ren had gathered the nine cultivators with soul source bodies in the Qi Refining stage and would soon begin refining the Heavenly Spirit Pill.
To ensure the liveliness of both the human flesh and souls, Xing Li Ren had waited until he had the right candidates before acting decisively.
"Xing Li Ren should start refining the pill tonight!" Song Wen thought to himself.
This meant that the Heavenly Spirit Pill would be ready in eighteen days. Whether or not Song Wen could seize it would depend on that day.
TL/N: I know that I have been writing Heavenly Spirit Pill for the last few Chapters. But according to my deduction it should be Saintly Spirit Pill that should require those 9 cultivators with soul source bodies. But the translation is actually Heavenly Spirit Pill so, Let's keep reading and see if that's correct.
He thought he was the only one eyeing the pill. But to his surprise, after the furnace was opened, three cultivators arrived quietly on the sixteenth day, lurking on a nearby mountain. These three were cloaked in black robes, wearing masks of a sheep, horse, and cow, and their auras were so restrained they were almost undetectable.
These three appeared just as the pill was about to be completed. Clearly, they had more accurate intelligence.
Two days passed quietly.
At the Yin hour (3-5AM), the three black-clad figures arrived above Zhenbao Peak.
The one with the bull's head took out four formation flags.
Each flag was about a foot in size, with intricate, difficult-to-understand formation symbols drawn on them.
The bull-headed person threw the four flags into the air.
The flags slowly descended and hovered in the air, positioned around the summit of Zhenbao Peak.
The bull-headed person made swift hand gestures, activating the formation.
The four small flags emitted brilliant light, intertwining to form a massive formation that suspended above the peak.
"Break!"
The bull-headed person growled.
The formation burst with blinding light, resembling a giant pillar of light that shot straight down to the illusion formation below.
The three-tiered illusion formation on Zhenbao Peak was engulfed by the pillar of light and shattered with a thunderous sound.
The thick fog that had covered the summit quickly dissipated, revealing the entire peak.
Breaking a formation with a formation!
It seemed that the bull-headed person had expended considerable energy. He consumed several pills and then stepped back, standing behind the sheep-headed person.
On the platform where the Treasure Conference was supposed to take place on the peak, eleven figures appeared.
Xing Li Ren glared at the three figures in the sky, shouting loudly.
"Who dares to act recklessly in my Xing family's territory?"
From beneath the sheep-headed mask came a voice tinged with mockery.
"Xing Li Ren, you no longer represent the Xing family."
As the words were spoken, a longsword appeared in front of the sheep-headed person.
With a flick of his fingers, the sword shot out like a meteor, heading straight for Xing Li Ren.
Xing Li Ren's expression immediately hardened.
At the moment the attack was made, he could clearly sense that the cultivator's strength was above his own, a peak Golden Core cultivator.
But Xing Li Ren was no ordinary person.
As the direct descendant of the Xing family's ancestor, a regular peak Golden Core cultivator might not necessarily have the upper hand against him.
Suddenly, a palm-sized ice mirror appeared in front of Xing Li Ren.
The ice mirror instantly expanded, growing to a size of ten feet.
The mirror was crystal clear, emitting a deep blue light that looked like a block of dark ice, causing the surrounding temperature to drop sharply. Tiny ice crystals began to form in the air.
The longsword was now mere inches away. Without hesitation, Xing Li Ren channeled his spiritual energy into the ice mirror.
As his energy surged into it, the mirror radiated dazzling blue light.
Ice spikes, each about a foot long, shot out from the mirror, aimed at the incoming sword.
"Clang, clang, clang..."
A series of sharp, crisp sounds echoed.
Each ice spike shattered, but the momentum of the longsword began to weaken.
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The sheep-headed person sneered derisively, "Hmph! A Cold Light Mirror? Let me see how many blows this mirror can withstand!"
As she spoke, her internal energy surged like a flood, and the sword's power exploded, emitting countless sword Qi that formed a fierce sword Qi storm.
The ice spikes that had tried to block the flying sword were utterly destroyed by the storm, reduced to dust, unable to stop the sword any longer.
The flying sword charged forward, heading straight for Xing Li Ren.
(End of the Chapter)
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