Chapter 676: Forbidden Formation
"You do? Didn’t you say that you don’t recognise the incomplete formation?" Jiang Yue asked, and Ao Tian nodded before speaking.
"I don’t recognise the formation, but I know the pattern. It’s the arrangement of the world transforming formation." He said.
"I have never heard of the world-transforming formation." Jiang Yue said and subconsciously frowned.
"Everything makes sense." Xiaolan said, and everyone turned to look at her.
"What makes sense?" Yang Xu asked.
"The world-transforming formation is at the top of the list of forbidden formations. It’s not strange that the way of heaven does not allow its formation map to linger in people’s minds." Xiaolan said, and Ao Tian nodded in agreement.
"Xiaolan is right. Our world’s way of heaven won’t allow anyone to study this formation." He said, but Yu Nianzhen frowned.
"Yet someone has." He said, and the others fell silent.
A moment later, Yu Nianzhen turned to Ao Tian with a solemn face.
"What is the world transforming formation?" He asked.
"I may not know its formation map, but I know everything else." Ao Tian said and quickly continued.
"The world-transforming formation has the three shells: the outer shell, middle shell, and inner shell."
"The outer shell comprises one hundred and eight small formations, the middle shell has twelve formations, and the inner shell has one formation. If I am not mistaken, the incomplete formations that you have discovered are part of the outer shell."
"What does the world-transforming formation do?" Yang Xu asked in an uneasy voice.
"It transforms the world core." Ao Tian said, frowned, and continued.
"What does that mean?" Jiang Yue asked, but Ao Tian didn’t answer right away.
Instead, he fell into thought and didn’t speak until forty breaths later.
"The spiritual aura in the Foreign Devils’ world is violent and unsuitable for human cultivators. If the Foreign Devils successfully activate the world-transforming formation, the spiritual aura in our Cangxing world will be transformed and become unsuitable for human cultivators. Eventually, our human race will be annihilated."
"This..." Jiang Yue gasped with a horrified face.
"The world-transforming formation is difficult to arrange and activate. However, it can’t be stopped once it’s activated." Ao Tian warned, and the others couldn’t help but be surprised.
"The formation can’t be broken?" Jiang Yue asked.
After all, he was a formation master, and it was a little difficult to accept that there was an array that couldn’t be broken.
"It can’t." Ao Tian said and sighed.
"This means that we have to destroy it before it’s activated. Fortunately, we discovered it on time." Yang Xu said, feeling relieved.
"Ao Tian, what do you know about the incomplete formations?" Yu Nianzhen asked.
"I previously didn’t know that the incomplete formations were part of the world-transforming formation, but now that I know, I can guess the incomplete part." Ao Tian said, and the others couldn’t help but be excited.
"What is it?" Xiaolan urged.
"The incomplete part should be the life essence stone." Ao Tian said, but his words didn’t make sense to the others.
"Life essence stone? What is it?" Yang Xu asked.
"I may not know the details of the world-transforming formation, but I know that it requires life essence stones." Ao Tian started and soon continued.
"A life essence stone is condensed from the life force of living things. From what I know, each of the small formations in the outer shell requires a life stone condensed from one million and eighty million living things."
"As for the formations in the middle shell, they require life essence stones condensed from one hundred and eight million living things, while the inner formation requires one billion and eighty million living things."
Jiang Yue, Yu Nianzhen, Yang Xu and Xiaolan were shocked when they heard this.
"More than two billion living things." Yu Nianzhen muttered, and Ao Tian nodded.
"This is one of the reasons that the world-transforming formation is a forbidden array." He said.
"We have uncovered more than fifty incomplete formations so far, and none have a life essence stone." Jiang Yue said, his eyes narrowed into slits.
"The Foreign Devils will probably wait until they have arranged all the formations before using the life essence stones." Ao Tian said.
"We have been keeping a close eye on the Cangxing world and haven’t heard of any mass murders." Yu Nianzhen observed, and Ao Tian shook his head before speaking.
"Fortunately, the world-transforming formation is very particular." He said, and Jiang Yue raised an eyebrow.
"What do you mean?" He asked.
"The Foreign Devils want to transform our Cangxing world into their own world. As a result, the life essence stones will have to be condensed from their own people."
"This..., why make such a sacrifice?" Jiang Yue asked.
"Maybe the Foreign Devils’ world is exhausted, and resources have become too scarce to support the population." Yang Xu speculated.
"Why do the Foreign Devils have the map of the world transforming formation?" Yu Nianzhen suddenly asked.
After all, Ao Tian had just said that the way of heaven did not allow cultivators to have this knowledge.
"I also think it’s strange." Jiang Yue said.
"Could there be a conspiracy?" Xiaolan speculated, and everyone fell into deep thought.
"Who is so powerful that they can circumvent the will of heaven?" She continued.
"Hua Hua." Yu Nianzhen suddenly spoke, and Jiang Yue gasped.
"You may be right." He nodded.
After all, Hua Hua had long targeted the Cangxing world, and her interference had almost led to the destruction of the world.
"Master, is there any news about the border guard tokens? Have you figured out how the Foreign Devils are changing them?" Yu Nianzhen asked, looking at Yang Xu.
However, the man shook his head with a look of frustration.
"We have killed many wanted criminals and have even recaptured a territory. Unfortunately, we still haven’t found out anything about the tokens." He said.
After that, Ao Tian grabbed a map of the Cangxing world and marked one hundred and eight places on it.
"These are the likely locations of the incomplete formations in the outer shell." He said.
