Mortal: I became invincible after becoming sworn brothers with Han Li.

Chapter 195 The Vast Water Wave Array

—After months of flying, Li Yunfan and his two companions finally arrived in Yanggu Kingdom.

This country is located at the easternmost edge of the Nine Kingdoms Alliance, bordering the Boundless Sea and the Demonic Chariot Kingdom.

Its area is of medium size among the Nine Kingdoms Alliance. Because it is a bit far from the Mulan Grassland, only a portion of its sects and forces were dispatched to Tiantian City to fight against the Mulan people. The rest were mostly used to guard against the demonic path.

Furthermore, two or three Nascent Soul cultivators were stationed there to prevent the demonic forces from harboring their ambitions and launching an attack on them while the Mulan Grassland and the Nine Kingdoms Alliance were fighting.

Deep within a mountain range in Yanggu Kingdom, Li Yunfan stood at the foot of a desolate mountain, his face full of doubt.

Standing beside him, Zhang Teng looked at the barren mountain devoid of any spirit and asked in bewilderment.

"Fellow Daoist Qin, is this the secret place you mentioned?"

"Indeed, this mountain is the entrance to that secret realm! The reason it lacks spiritual energy is because the person who built the secret realm used an array to completely drain the mountain of its spiritual energy!"

Upon hearing his words, Li Yunfan and Zhang Teng's expressions changed, and they gasped in shock.

Using an array to drain spiritual energy is truly unbelievable!

"Could the person who built that secret place be a Nascent Soul cultivator?" Zhang Teng asked, somewhat shocked.

Qin Wanfeng chuckled and shook his head, saying, "I don't know about that."

"Fellow Daoist Qin, I don't see any trace of formations concealing this mountain. I wonder where that secret place is?" Li Yunfan suddenly asked.

"It's deep inside this desolate mountain!" Qin Wanfeng said, pointing to the desolate mountain.

He then took out three mid-level "Earth Escape Talismans" and handed two of them to Li Yunfan and Zhang Teng.

"We use this talisman to sneak into the mountains, so that we can avoid being discovered by other passersby."

After saying that, he slapped the talisman on his body, and his whole body was immediately enveloped in a layer of yellowish spiritual light. Then he turned around and disappeared into the rocks.

Li Yunfan and his companion exchanged a glance, then attached earth-遁符 (earth-遁符 is a type of talisman) to their bodies and followed closely behind Qin Wanfeng.

Deep underground in the mountain, on the wall of a natural cave, three beams of yellow light suddenly emerged.

The light dissipated, revealing the figures of Li Yunfan and his two companions.

The cave is not very large, only a few dozen feet in size, but in the center there is a simple and ancient three-story pavilion.

Outside the pavilion, a blue light shield enveloped it, with spiritual light flowing around it like ripples on water, clearly not an ordinary formation.

Excitement gleamed in Qin Wanfeng's eyes. After calling out "Let's go," he flew towards the formation.

Upon arriving in front of the formation, Li Yunfan released his divine sense, intending to investigate it.

But as soon as his divine sense touched the light screen, it was directly repelled by the formation.

Li Yunfan was startled. He glanced at Zhang Teng and saw that he also looked surprised. So he withdrew his divine sense and waited for Qin Wanfeng's explanation.

Sure enough, after noticing their expressions, Qin Wanfeng spoke up.

"Fellow Daoists, according to the records I found in the ancient texts, this formation is called the Myriad Acres Water Wave Formation," a water-attribute formation with extremely strong defensive capabilities, which even Nascent Soul cultivators cannot easily break!

Zhang Teng's expression changed slightly: "Even a Nascent Soul cultivator can't break it? How can the three of us possibly break the formation?"

Qin Wanfeng chuckled and explained again.

"Fellow Daoist Zhang, our goal this time is not to break the formation, but rather to use the Three Spirits Blazing Flame Formation" to create a breach in it!

"A gap?" Li Yunfan's expression shifted slightly as he pondered to himself.

"Although this formation is perpetually regenerating, it is ultimately uncontrolled and operates autonomously solely based on the spiritual energy it initially absorbed. By using the formation composed of the three spiritual fires to continuously deplete most of its power, we can create an opening, allowing us to pass through the formation and enter!"

After Qin Wanfeng finished speaking, he glanced at the two of them and then spoke again.

"I believe you two have already grasped the basics of setting up the Three Spirits Blazing Flame Formation. Let's begin setting it up!"

Upon hearing this, Li Yunfan and Zhang Teng moved and stood on either side of Qin Wanfeng, forming a triangular formation.

Then the three of them each took out a red array flag, threw it upwards, and simultaneously cast a spell.

The flag flashed red light, instantly growing to three feet in size, flew behind the three people, and planted itself in the ground.

Then, the three of them simultaneously formed hand seals and released their spiritual fire.

Li Yunfan naturally used the Purple Nether Heart Flame, while Qin Wanfeng released a ball of brown flame, and Zhang Teng's spiritual fire was entirely golden.

Then, the three of them changed their hand seals, and three balls of spiritual fire flew into the air.

At this moment, the array flags behind them also emitted a "humming" sound, and then shot out three red beams of light, which accurately struck their respective spirit fires.

After being struck by the beam of light, the three balls of spirit fire slowly emitted wisps of flame.

Upon seeing this, Li Yunfan immediately released his divine sense to control the lines of flame, and began to outline array patterns in mid-air.

The same applies to the other two!

Under the control of the three, a complete circular array pattern composed of three different colored flames appeared in the air.

Seeing the array pattern take shape, Qin Wanfeng immediately shouted.

"The formation diagram is complete. Begin breaking the formation!"

The three of them changed their hand seals again, and the flame array diagram roared as it crashed into the blue light screen!

As if sensing danger, the entire light screen shone brightly with blue light, and the water ripples on it surged toward the location of the flame array.

Upon seeing this, the three of them shouted loudly, and their spiritual power surged wildly towards the array flags behind them.

The three battle flags flashed red, and three thick red beams of light shot out, converging above the three people's heads.

Immediately afterwards, the thick beam of light that had converged into a single beam slammed directly into the fire array!

With the support of the light pillar, the three flames in the array intensified and began to continuously impact the blue array light screen!

Even with the help of the formation and the combined strength of the three, the vast water formation could still be easily blocked.

"Fellow Daoists, hold on! This formation is strong, but without someone to lead it, it shouldn't last long!" Qin Wanfeng shouted.

Upon hearing this, both Li Yunfan and Zhang Teng cursed inwardly.

Especially Li Yunfan, whose cultivation level was the lowest among those present. Not to mention how long he could last, if he consumed too much spiritual energy here, he wouldn't even have much strength left to resist if he encountered any sudden accident!

However, the formation was already complete. If it were forcibly removed, not only would it suffer a backlash from the formation, but it would also offend the other two.

A mid-stage cultivator and a late-stage cultivator—this kind of lineup is not something he can easily deal with!

They could only secretly pray that the formation would be broken soon.

Three days later, the three of them were already sitting cross-legged, each holding a mid-grade spirit stone. They were absorbing the spiritual energy within the stones while controlling the flame array to continuously attack the blue light barrier.

There is no spiritual energy here, so they can only use pills and spirit stones to replenish their spiritual power.

"Fellow Daoists, please hold on a little longer. I can sense that the power of this formation has diminished considerably. At most, it will break through one of its layers in two or three days."

"A gap!" Qin Wanfeng said in a deep voice.