ninety thousand miles

Chapter 700: Defending the Formation
"Xuanming establishes the foundation and calms the sea."

The old palace master chanted softly, his hands clasped inward into a circle, his ten fingers flashing, orange runes spreading from under his feet, countless images rising from the runes, intertwining and entwining.

In an instant, a huge, complex and mysterious formation spread out on the sea, with billions of runes flowing in it, rotating and changing, and the pressure actually imprisoned the originally turbulent sea water.

The spiritual energy in the spiritual veins on the seabed also stopped gathering upwards.

……

"How amazing." Gong Er said with emotion.

"It's the Five Elements Mysterious Pivot Sea-Suppressing Array." Yao Shuang whispered the name of the array.

Pang San looked at the figure of the old palace master, full of awe: "I don't know when we can reach such a realm."

"That day will come." Gong Er said firmly.

Lao Xiaokai lowered his head, not knowing what he was thinking.

At this time, there were only two of them and two monsters left on the island. The other cultivators were standing in the formation, following the old palace master's instructions and casting various spells.

……

The divine bird chirped again.

The head of the Cangming Hall on the Tianji seat twisted his left hand, and hundreds of glazed pure fires shot up into the sky, resonating, interweaving, and merging with the formation, and flew straight to the divine bird in the sky.
The divine bird flapped its wings and headed towards the fire.

Several meteors exploded in the sky.

Sect Leader Chu, who was sitting on the Yuheng seat, roared, took out a long sword, followed the flames, and slashed at the divine bird.

The flames, the long swords, and the divine bird stirred up countless lights and shadows in the air, and it was unclear who would win.

The clouds spread out and became thicker.

The divine bird was in a stalemate with the formation.

……

"Why don't others take action?" Gong Er asked.

Yao Shuang explained: "The time is not right yet."

"Can we shoot the bird down?" Gong Er asked with a wild idea, "The bird is the secret realm, so if we shoot the bird down, the secret realm will be broken. Now that Hall Master Cang Ming and Sect Leader Chu have fought the bird to a draw, if the old palace master and others take action again, they may be able to defeat the bird."

"No." Yao Shuang rejected him. "Your cultivation is too low. You can't understand the mystery of their fight at all."

Gong Er opened his mouth and lowered his head.

Pang San spoke calmly and asked, "Senior Sister Yao, can you explain it to us?"

Yao Shuang realized that she had made a mistake, so she said, "The divine bird has been on the defensive the whole time. Apart from the necessary counterattacks, it has not made any other moves. In other words, its strength has not been revealed at all. We have not yet fully demonstrated our strength. We have only used formations to separate the spirit vein from the divine bird, forcing it to attack first."

"Why do we force the divine bird to take action first?" asked the third person.

"Because we need to lure it into the formation." Yao Shuang patiently explained, "Luoxia Secret Realm is the legacy left by Immortal Yingfeng in the world. If we fight head-on, it's not to say that we have no chance of winning, but we will definitely have to pay a terrible price. There are hundreds of cultivators on this island, and the number is not small, but they all come from different sects, and they have never worked together to resist the enemy. If we don't rely on the formation to lead us, there will be flaws everywhere when we fight. So we must let the divine bird enter the formation, so that under the guidance of the Four Gods Palace, it will be possible to concentrate our strength and fight the divine bird."

"I understand. Thank you, Senior Sister Yao." Gong Er said. "Nothing." Yao Shuang paused and said, "The secret realm turned into a divine bird. It must be Junior Brother Wen and the others who did something in there that caused it."

"It's so dangerous outside, it must be even more dangerous for them inside." Pang San said.

"Yes, but changes are definitely better than no changes." Yao Shuang looked at the separated sea water and deduced again, "The first time the secret realm changed was after they entered. Billions of golden dots that distorted time and space floated out of the secret realm and went deep into the seabed. This time it transformed into a divine bird, trying to extract the spiritual power of the seabed spiritual vein. At its speed, it will take only about three days to drain the spiritual power in the spiritual vein. Therefore, what it wants to do must consume a lot of spiritual power. It has been on the defensive all the time, and it may be to save spiritual power. So... it must break the formation, that is to say, as long as we hold steady, it will definitely enter the formation."

"But..." Yao Shuang hesitated and didn't say anything else.

"However, not all cultivators in the formation can be trusted." Lao Xiaokai suddenly spoke up, continuing what Yao Shuang said.

"What do you mean?" Gong Er asked.

“Chi Lin is among them.” Lao Xiaokai raised his head and looked at the divine bird shining brightly in the thunder and fire, and said, “It is observing us, perhaps also looking for Chi Lin.”

"You'd better find him out quickly." Gong Er said.

Lao Xiaokai sneered and said, "I look for people by observing, smelling, asking and feeling. There are only a few monks here who have spoken to me. How can I find them? The situation cannot keep up with the changes. We should just stay here and not cause them any trouble. That will be a meritorious service." He looked at Yao Shuang, "Right, Monk Yao?"

Yao Shuang nodded and said, "Yes. Senior Jiang asked me to stay here so that I can look after you. It's also because my injuries haven't healed yet. If I force myself to enter the formation, I will only become a burden."

Gong Er was a little unwilling and said, "Doctor Lao, if you look again, you might find it. If the formation is broken, you won't get any benefit, right?"

Clouds descended from the sky.

The dim light and shadows on the ground were swaying.

Lao Xiaokai said, "I have tried my best. I really didn't find anything wrong. But I found that this time, the monks on the island did not leave."

Yao Shuang said: "This matter concerns the life and death of Xuanmen and all living beings in the world. No one will leave."

"Really?" Lao Xiaokai said with a hint of sarcasm in his tone.

Yao Shuang looked at Lao Xiaokai and asked, "Do you have a prejudice against Xuanmen?"

"Yeah." Lao Xiaokai admitted.

"Why?" you have to ask.

Lao Xiaokai looked at the hundreds of monks standing in the formation on the sea and said, "Because in my opinion, today's crisis can be avoided."

"What do you mean?" Yao Shuang asked.

"Because of the Frost Leaf Sect." Lao Xiaokai answered, "The Frost Leaf Sect case happened 24 years ago. If there had been knowledgeable people in the Xuan Sect who thoroughly investigated the matter of the Frost Leaf Sect during these 24 years, instead of hastily closing the case and forgetting about it after killing a bunch of innocent people, perhaps there wouldn't be the crisis today..."

"No, I was wrong. It was because of my brother Li who ran around that we have the current situation. Otherwise, the entire Xuanmen might be gone and no one would know the reason."

……

Jiang Mei, holding the Abyssal Fire Mirror, stood on the Tianxuan seat. After the clouds descended, he recognized it and immediately sent a message to the old palace master: "It is the Taisu domain, the clouds are corrosive."

"Forge the veins with black gold, rise." The old palace master lifted his palm upwards, and a black gold column of light appeared in the center of the formation, continuously extending upward and downward, passing through the clouds and sea water, supporting the heaven and earth.

(End of this chapter)