Sovereign to Immortality

Chapter 285 – Breaking the Array

“Who is it, come out!” Liu Zhifei was the first to step out, and shouted towards the stone wall.

Heaven-Shaken Sect and the rest all took out their treasures to guard themselves, but only Yang Junshan’s face flashed with a strange color, he was familiar with this voice!

As expected, six cultivators had turned around from behind the stone wall, and the one who led them was the Yan Qinxi who had interacted with Yang Junshan several times before, and the two people behind him were also familiar faces. One was Fang Xuansheng, the other one was Zhang Sunxing, and in addition, there was a Martial Realm Cultivator.

“People of the Tan Xi Sect!” Liu Zhifei frowned, and looked at them: “What are you all doing here, aren’t you afraid that others will encircle and annihilate you all?”

Yan Qinxi chuckled as she walked forward and said: “Brother Liu, you must be joking, this time we got the top spot, but including you yourself, who do you think will be the first to attack us?”

Liu Zhifei laughed out loud and said, “Perhaps no one in this cave will dare to disrupt the balance, but what about after exiting the cave? Don’t forget, this Sunset Ridge is the territory of our Heaven-Shaken Sect, and around us, the Sirius Gate and the people of the Opening Spirit School are also eyeing it covetously.

The faces of the people from the Tan Xi Sect all became ugly. Yan Qinxi snorted and said: “I don’t need you to worry about that, Brother Liu. Let’s discuss how we should cooperate to explore the invisible formation in the stone forest!”

Without waiting for Liu Zhifei to speak, Senior Brother Zhou who was at the side sneered: “When did we agree to cooperate with you?”

Yan Qinxi smiled but did not say anything. Fang Xuansheng, who was at the side, let out a light cough and said: “Aside from our loyal uncle, the Perfection of the cultivator who had passed the Cold Wind Great Formation have all entered the stone forest, and you guys also have an array master. The situation is very clear now, the two of us are in the same boat, and we can go further inside the Great Formation and reap even more benefits from it.

They were very clear on the strength of the old man who was addressed as “Uncle Zhong”. From the looks of his age, he had already lost the possibility of advancing to the realms of life, but his strength was truly frightening.

Yang Junshan stood out and said: “We meet again, Tan Xi Sect!”

Fang Xuansheng cupped his hands and laughed: “We haven’t seen each other for a few days, Brother Yang is now a baleful qi cultivator, I am so envious of you!”

Yang Junshan did not pay attention to the shocked gazes of Liu Zhifei and the others, and laughed: “I dare not, you all took away my two array flags on the field, I believe it was for this cave right?”

Fang Xuansheng nodded his head and laughed: “That’s right, but in the end, we still did not expect that the formation inside the cave would be so troublesome. If we knew earlier, we would have invited Taoist Yang here at the field back then.”

Yang Junshan laughed, then suddenly asked: “I am curious, since you have a cultivator at the Great Circle of the martial arts realm, why are all the others rushing into the stone forest, and your senior has yet to enter the stone forest?”

The conversation earlier had always been led by the people from the Tan Xi Sect, and the people from the Heaven-Shaken Sect didn’t seem to have much of a reason to refute. However, Yang Junshan’s words caused the entire situation to turn around.

It was true that the opponent had a fifth stage Perfection of the cultivator, but other than this, Zhang Sunxing, Yan Qinxi, Fang Xuansheng and another disciple of the Tan Xi Sect, all four of them had second stage cultivation. It was considered lucky that they were able to pass through the Cold Wind Formation with the protection of two late stage martial arts realm cultivators.

Although the Tan Xi Sect was on his own because Yan Zhong did not have too much confidence, in Yang Junshan’s opinion, it was because once the martial arts realm Perfection of the cultivator entered the stone forest, it would be hard for the rest of them to even protect themselves.

However, if the two families chose to cooperate, even though Yang Junshan would not bring everyone into the array, the remaining people still had enough power to protect themselves.

In the end, the two sides agreed that the number of cultivators who would enter the array would be seven. Other than Yang Junshan who was an array master, the other side of Heaven-Shaken Sect consisted of Liu Zhifei, Zhou Beseng and Zhang Yueming; the other side was comprised of Yan Zhong, Yan Qinxi and Zhang Sunxing.

“Him? Why him? ” Liu Zhifei frowned as he looked at Zhang Sunxing. Two of the three people from Tan Xi Sect were even useless with their second level martial arts realm, which was already enough to make Liu Zhifei feel dissatisfied. And as one of the remnants of Jinyu County, Liu Zhifei was even more displeased with Zhang Sunxing’s identity.

Yan Qinxi laughed: Brother Liu, I’m afraid you don’t know why my Tan Xi Sect would be the first to discover this cave?

Liu Zhifei glanced at Zhang Sunxing, and said: “You’re saying it’s because of him? Does he know something? ”

Yan Qinxi glanced at Zhang Sunxing, and said: “Brother Zhangsun, everything will be up to you!”

Zhang Sunxing smiled and nodded. Then, he turned to Yang Junshan and said, “The deeper into the cave, the less I know about this Five Elements formation. The only thing I know about this formation is that it uses the five elements source of light as its foundation!”

Everyone looked at Yang Junshan, only to see his face filled with shock. Liu Zhifei immediately asked: What, Xiao Yang, is there something wrong?

Yang Junshan blinked his eyes, and said: “Five Elements Source Spirit is something that only the Adept Realm Cultivator can create, but I clearly checked it just now, the Great Array in the stone forest is a Spirit Ranking Array, wouldn’t that be too much of a waste?”

said: “Brother Yang, could it be that this formation has some sort of secret, could it be that this ireasure grade formation that has been hidden?”

Zhou Bicheng let out an “ah” sound and said, “Then doesn’t that mean that the person who broke into the formation earlier is in danger?”

Yang Junshan muttered to himself: “That may not be the case, but it could be possible that the person who laid the array intentionally lowered the grade of the array, and used a high level array foundation to set up a low level array formation, which could allow the array formation to continue operating for a longer period of time. If that’s the case, with an understanding of the array formation’s foundation, if the timing is right, then we might as well try to break it!”

The six of them entered the stone forest under the gaze of the people, and very quickly, a rainbow colored barrier of light rose up before them. Only by passing through this barrier could they truly enter the Five Elements Great Array.

Seeing this barrier, Yang Junshan smiled and said, “Looks like Brother Zhangsun’s words are not empty talk. The foundation of this formation is most likely the Five Elements Source Spirit!”

The cultivator’s cultivation advanced to the fifth level of martial arts realm, the dantian stored the essence of origin force, forming the essence of origin force, preparing to advance into the realms of life, transforming the essence into the astral energy, thus the cultivator advanced to the fifth level of martial arts realm already possessed some of the’s characteristic of condensing the True Divine, which was releasing the essence!

To release Profound Qi would be to open the rainbow colored light screen, and enter the Five Elements Great Array. This was also why although the strength of the cultivator did not depend on the level of his cultivation, only the fifth stage of Perfection of the cultivator could enter the formation.

However, when the Perfection of the cultivator condensed his own Profound Spirit Qi to break through the rainbow barrier and recovered his own strength, in that instant, he could only give himself a chance to charge in. For a direct disciple like Xiong Xiying, who was strong enough to bring along a person, it would already be considered good.

Yan Zhong glanced at Yang Junshan, and said indifferently: “Are you ready?”

Yang Junshan only laughed, and then he saw that Yan Zhong’s entire being’s Qi had suddenly risen, strands of Qi leaked out from his body, and from afar, he looked like he was starting to become unstable.

This heart palpitating aura continued to rise until it was three feet above his head. A silver stream of air, like an upside-down river, rushed up ten feet before gradually fading away into nothingness.

This was the gathering of one’s essence and energy!

In his previous life, Yang Junshan had also barely reached this realm, but it had taken him a hundred years of effort, and the essence energy he had condensed was one level lower than Yan Zhong’s. The essence energy smoke pillar above his head was already exhausted after it had reached ten meters.

At this time, Yan Zhong channeled the essence above his head, and the essence energy rushed straight into the rainbow barrier in front of him. This screen of light was instantly like boiling water that was being poured on top of it, and it quickly melted.

“Now is the time. Quickly make your move!”

While Yan Zhong was speaking, he grabbed onto Yan Qinxi and pulled him through the tunnel opened up by the light screen. In that instant, the opened tunnel quickly closed, only a foot long.

However, Yang Junshan was already prepared, the magnetic light swept out, and the tunnel that was about to close immediately froze, then, like a butterfly, his hands formed dozens of seals, and after each seal was formed, it was a symbol that was completely formed from his own spirit energy, landing at the edge of the tunnel.

After completing dozens of hand seals, the originally closed light tunnel expanded by another half a foot. Yang Junshan said in a low voice: “Let’s go, I won’t be able to hold on for long!”

Without saying a word, Liu Zhifei grabbed hold of the startled Zhang Sunxing, and the two of them went into the tunnel together. Soon after, Zhou Biancheng and Zhang Yueming also went in, and the cave entrance once again slowly shrunk to the size of a foot.

At some point in time, a copper mirror appeared in Yang Junshan’s hands, and he took aim at the cave entrance, causing the passage to close slowly once again. Yang Junshan’s originally sturdy body was now emitting creaking sounds, and like a boneless snake, he entered the passage.