Volume 1: Questioning the Past Chapter 74: Heavenly Sword Net Demon Slaying Formation
Build the foundation in the mountain.
After hammering iron non-stop for twenty days, Gu Xiaoxing was almost insane. The axe in his hand was now riddled with holes. Even a top-grade magic weapon could not withstand such long-term and high-intensity chopping, not to mention a human with flesh and blood.
Gu Xiaoxing was swinging his axe almost instinctively. When he chopped off a huge piece of metal, the metal fell along the long passage without Gu Xiaoxing even glancing at it. However, after the metal fell off, the little bit of light that appeared in the crack made him unable to look away...
At this moment, Gu Xiaoxing went crazy and swung the axe in his hand even more desperately. There was a violent bombardment in the metal passage. When he split the metal wall with one axe, a large amount of foundation-building spiritual liquid gushed out like a fountain. At this moment, he felt like he was in heaven. Happiness came so suddenly that he even doubted whether he was dreaming.
He immediately drank it down in big gulps, and put all of the Foundation Building Spirit Liquid that flowed out into his storage bag without leaving a drop. By the time no more Foundation Building Spirit Liquid flowed out of the metal wall breaking hole, the number of Foundation Building Spirit Liquid in his storage bag was more than 70,000 drops, probably more than 170,000 drops.
The light from the crack in the metal wall reflected on Gu Xiaoxing's face, and he showed a happy smile...
When Gu Xiaoxing climbed out of the gap in the metal wall, he came to a sparkling hole. This hole was much larger than the round hole below. There was not just one pool here, but nine large pools. He was standing in the middle of a pool at the moment.
Except for the pool where Gu Xiaoxing was, the other eight large pools were actually full of foundation-building spiritual liquid. He couldn't help but wonder again whether he was dreaming.
Looking up, there are nine bulging stone bags on the top of the cave. There is a small hole on the tip of each stone bag, corresponding to the pool below. It seems that the foundation-building spiritual liquid flows out from that small hole.
Gu Xiaoxing was surprised and had no idea what the structure inside the Foundation Building Mountain was like. But no matter what, he decided to complete the construction of the Dao Fetus first. He immediately sat down cross-legged and began to absorb the Foundation Building Spirit Liquid.
In the Niwan Palace, as more and more innate pure energy poured in, the Yudao Placenta became visibly intact, until the hundredth strand of innate pure energy was integrated, and the entire Niwan Palace shook. The Yudao Placenta was no longer defective, and exuded a natural charm in its perfection, while the soul-eating insects above it were undergoing an indescribable transformation.
As long as the transformation is completed, it will be the time when the cocoon emerges as a disc!
Building the foundation of the Dao fetus is not just as simple as building a strong Dao foundation in the body like building a spiritual foundation or an immortal foundation. In addition, it is more reflected in the cultivation of the Dao. As the saying goes, the Dao is born after a hundred days of nurturing the fetus, and the Dao is completed after a hundred days of building the foundation. The cultivation of the Dao is to give birth to a magical power during the hundred days of foundation building. This is a unique Taoist magical power that belongs to oneself, and it is a great fortune!
However, Gu Xiaoxing is still not clear about this. He just wants to know why the Yudao Placenta does not absorb all of that strand of innate pure energy, but leaves behind just one or two strands?
Are you full?
Gu Xiaoxing was so conflicted. He felt sad if he let something he had obtained with so much hardship disappear like this. Suddenly, he had an idea and guided the remaining one or two strands of innate pure energy that the Yudao placenta had "eaten" to float towards the palace of smoke in the Dantian in his chest...
In the small wasteland outside the Foundation Building Mountain, there was a turbulent situation today. All the well-known sects and forces in the small wasteland seemed to have made an appointment on this day. Each of them sent a team of people to surround the Soul Devouring Sect's sphere of influence. Among them, the three major sects in the small wasteland were the leaders.
In addition to the three major sects who all sent out elders in the late Jindan stage to take charge, the rest of the forces also sent out elders in the middle Jindan stage. At one point, there were no less than ten Jindan stage elders here. They would obviously not give up without getting an explanation for this trip.
But for some reason, Qiao Yanran, who threatened to come in person, did not come. The one who came on behalf of Yunxiao Sect was another elder in the late Jindan stage. This elder was not as good-tempered as Qiao Yanran. He seemed to be full of gunpowder and wanted to kill the Spirit Devouring Sect immediately.
"Aren't they all here yet?" she asked impatiently. If she hadn't known that the Soul-Devouring Sect not only had a sect leader who had reached the perfect stage of Jindan, but also had a magical treasure to protect the sect, making it very difficult to deal with, she would have gone up to kill them herself long ago.
The old man from the Sword Controlling Sect advised, “Don’t worry, Fellow Daoist Miao. It is rumored that the Soul Devouring Sect’s guardian spiritual treasure is extremely extraordinary and is suspected to have the strength of an early Nascent Soul stage. Even if everyone is present, we still need to plan carefully. I have a formation here that requires sixteen Jindan to attack at the same time, which can suppress the early Nascent Soul stage. This way, we can be sure that nothing will go wrong…”
While they were still making plans here, the Soul Devouring Sect was also preparing to face a powerful enemy, and the sect protection formation was ready to be activated at any time. However, Master Bai knew that facing more than a dozen Jindan cultivators, the sect protection formation would not be able to hold out for long. What made him even more desperate was that the sect leader... had disappeared!
When Master Bai learned the news, he could see the whole story. Now there were only two Jindan masters in the entire Soul-Devouring Sect. He had also asked for the sect's protective magic treasure, but got no response. At this moment, he felt physically and mentally exhausted. In a short period of time, his originally jet-black hair had turned a little white.
In the sect's mountain where the five elders originally practiced, Lu Linger was sitting cross-legged. Her aura had changed greatly, and she had actually completed the foundation-building, the immortal foundation!
Not only that, in these short ten days and nights, the little girl had inexplicably grown taller. If she looked like a little girl of about ten years old before, now she has become a girl who looks about twelve years old, but the smile on her face is gone.
"Ling'er Ling'er, don't just practice, come here, master has stewed a pot of perfect beauty-enhancing silverfish soup for you. I guarantee that you will become a plump beauty after eating it..." The stove treated itself as a pot and stewed a big fish raised in the spirit pond in it. At this moment, it was swaying in front of Lu Ling'er, and the fragrance filled the entire cave.
If it were any other time , Lu Linger would have laughed heartily, praised her master as the best in the world, and then feasted on the delicious food. But at this moment, she looked at the Sanyang Spirit Refining Furnace with tears in her eyes. Suddenly, she hugged the furnace and started crying, feeling distressed and aggrieved. She felt that she was the happiest person in the world, but also the most unfortunate person.
The Fifth Elder trembled slightly and wanted to reach out to comfort Ling'er, but he was just a pill furnace now, so where could he get his hands from...
At this moment, the entire Soul Devouring Sect fell into an inexplicable silence, which was depressing because no one could predict what would happen next. It was very likely that if things went wrong, the Soul Devouring Sect would be wiped out.
But within the Soul-Devouring Sect, there is a place with a completely different atmosphere. It is on the top of the sect’s mountain, inside the palace. The coffin no longer has the cold sound it had before, and now there is only excitement.
"Alright, alright...it's almost done, Master. We are just a little bit away. As long as we can successfully erase the connection between Ran Daoxiang and that brat...we can finally leave this godforsaken place!"
Guan Gu was so excited that he was almost incoherent, but no one in the entire Soul-Devouring Sect could hear his words.
Outside the sphere of influence of Foundation Building Mountain, there was a group of sixteen Jindan masters gathered together, each of them holding a small red flag in their hands.
“My fellow Daoists, this is the Heavenly Sword Net Demon Slaying Formation, which was obtained by my Sword Controlling Sect’s ancestor in the Nine Regions. With the sixteen of us at the Jindan stage, combined with this formation, it is no problem to suppress the early Nascent Soul stage. The Soul Devouring Sect is not orthodox to begin with, and if you don’t give us a satisfactory explanation today, then I will use this Demon Slaying Formation... to exorcise demons and defend the Dao!”
At this moment, fierce looks flashed in the eyes of these Jindan cultivators. At this point, it was no longer just a matter of asking for an explanation. Even if a sect had a poor foundation, it must have many treasures that would make people excited. Even Jindan cultivators were not immune to these treasures. Obviously, at this moment, several of these Jindan cultivators had already begun to be tempted!
"Fellow Daoists, let's take action!"
The old man from the Sword Controlling Sect spoke again, and with a command, all the Jindan cultivators fled far away, and almost instantly surrounded the Soul Devouring Sect. Even though the Soul Devouring Sect's sphere of influence was two thousand miles in radius centered on the sect's mountain, this distance was nothing for a Jindan cultivator, and they could reach the point in no time.
The next moment, sixteen small flags fell to the ground at the same time, and sixteen red light beams shot up into the sky, interweaving with each other to form scarlet sword intent, and finally formed an impenetrable sword net, which actually blocked the entire two thousand mile area where the Soul Devouring Sect was located.
Even those powerful Jindan masters who were forming the formation at this moment were shocked. It was worthy of being a formation that was said to be able to kill Yuanying with a Jindan formation. It was indeed extraordinary!
When this sky-covering sword net appeared, it was like a dark cloud covering the sky, or like a giant sword hanging in the air, able to chop off the heads of the Soul-Devouring Sect members at any time.
Master Bai's face turned pale. He had thought that he could struggle a bit with the help of the sect protection formation, but facing such a mighty sword formation, he knew that any struggle would be in vain.
The second elder, Nan He, was also standing beside Master Bai. He looked up at the sky and his expression did not look very good. Now that the sect leader had defected and disappeared, they were the only two old guys who had reached the Jindan stage. All they could do was to live and die with the sect.
The entire Soul Devouring Sect was shrouded in fear at this moment...
In comparison, the sixteen Jindan masters were extremely excited at the moment. With such a large formation in hand, their confidence was boosted immediately. They were going to do as agreed, to show their power first, suppress the enemy, and then negotiate. So, without saying anything, they controlled the sword net covering an area of two thousand miles and crushed downwards!
The only thing the Soul Devouring Sect could do was to activate the sect protection formation, but facing an attack that had already reached the Nascent Soul stage, even with the sect protection formation in place, it was enough to cause heavy damage to the entire Soul Devouring Sect.
However, at this moment, something strange happened. In the palace on top of the mountain of the Soul Devouring Sect, a shrill scream that could shock the heavens and the earth and make the gods and ghosts weep was heard...
