From the Valkyrie to the Endless

135. Chapter 135 Spiritual Array (needs revision, see it tomorrow morning!)

135.

2023-08-01

Originally, Shen Qing was still hesitating whether to accept Hong Shushan's suggestion and take over Haoyin City.

Now these two letters of challenge have completely changed her plans.

The tree wants to be still but the wind does not stop. Since we are in the Southern Region, it is a fool's dream to expect to stay out of this storm.

In this war of gods, even if she doesn't want to fight, someone will force her to fight.

After closing his eyes and thinking for a long time, Shen Qing stood up and returned to Haoyin City to meet Hong Shushan.

This time, she was asking for some help, not only because of the two fourth-level incense gods, but also because of the enemies she might encounter in the future, so she had to make some preparations.

Hong Shushan was surprised that Shen Qing was suddenly willing to take over Haoyin City, but he did not ask any more questions. He just handed the token to open the protective spiritual formation of the city lord's mansion warehouse to Shen Qing.

Since it is a Jiaocheng, Hong Shushan will naturally not leave an empty city. He will hand over all the resources in the city to Shen Qing without a penny less.

He could have taken all these resources away for himself, and no one would have pursued the matter, but now he has kept them all.

Most of the treasures in the City Lord's Mansion are stored in spirit stone deposits, as well as a small number of spiritual medicines and some classics. As for some edible things, they have already been distributed to the people in the city.

For Shen Qing, the most useful of these things is the part of classics, which records quite a lot of methods of arranging spiritual formations. Many of them are the secrets of the Central Dynasty, written by the masters of formations who have mastered the art of formation or even the realm of formation transformation.

These spirit formations are also Shen Qing's biggest purpose for coming to Haoyin City. She is now a spirit formation master. Since she has powerful means that can be used in battles, Shen Qing naturally has no reason to abandon them.

After handing over the treasury, Hong Shushan was about to hand over the detailed accounts in the city, as well as some mines and the hub of the city defense formation to Shen Qing, but Shen Qing was already in a hurry to leave.

The two letters of challenge only gave her one day to prepare, and they would take action soon, when the moon reached the zenith, that would be the time for them to take action.

Seeing this, Hong Shushan had no choice but to wait until Shen Qing finished the things at hand.

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After leaving Haoyin City, Shen Qing did not rush back to Snake Village, but turned into a wasteland. This was the place where the two gods had come together to fight.

There are many signs of demonic activities in the nearby wasteland. The two gods set the battlefield here, and perhaps secretly called other helpers to control the situation.

After all, with the precedent of the previous god, it is normal for the two gods to collude with demons and ghosts.

Setting up a spirit formation is a very energy-consuming task. Most ordinary spirit formation masters have to spend a lot of time preparing in advance, but Shen Qing does not have so many concerns.

Her soul cultivation has long surpassed her own cultivation level, and the burden on the spiritual level has been reduced a lot. As for the loss of true energy, it is not a problem for Shen Qing.

With the sundial, she can return to her peak at any time.

A large formation that would take several days or even half a month to set up, but with Shen Qing working without stopping, in just one night, an invisible large formation had covered the entire wasteland.

After arranging the spiritual formation, Shen Qing stayed directly in this wilderness, sat cross-legged in the center of the formation, deduced the sundial, and began to try to compress the true energy in his body.

Not only this magic formation, but in order to prevent those two people from having any backup plans, Shen Qing must also be extremely careful. A stronger cultivation level will be a solid enough backing.

This was not the first time that Shen Qing had entered Gangsha, and she was already familiar with it. After practicing for more than ten years, the true energy in her body had completed the process of transformation into Gangqi. Her cultivation level had risen rapidly, and she had entered the Gangsha realm.

After completing the breakthrough in cultivation, Shen Qing sat quietly in the center of the spirit formation, waiting for the dawn to come.

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The night flies by.

At dawn, a figure appeared at the end of the sky. He was dressed as a military general, with a tall and majestic figure, wearing a visor and holding a halberd. He sat on a one-horned strange horse. Most of his hair was snow-white, with flying red mane, and his scales were like a python, with an extraordinary aura.

This deity was not in a hurry to approach Shen Qing, but waited in the distance. After a cup of tea, another figure came from the sky.

He was a tall man in a silver robe, with golden light flashing in his eyes, like two magic lamps. His powerful aura could be clearly felt within a hundred miles.

Every move these two gods made possessed immense power and awe-inspiring aura that was far beyond the capabilities of ordinary Gangsha realm cultivators to resist.

"She has achieved a breakthrough?"

Seeing the fluctuations of the aura emanating from Shen Qing, the two gods looked at each other, both of them somewhat surprised and suspicious.

"No matter how strong our fighting power is, can't we defeat her?"

The general clenched the reins in his hand and said in a cold and hard tone:

"Even if we can't kill her and drive her away, we can accept all of her followers. No matter what the result is, it will be a benefit to us."

After hearing this, the gods who came later said no more and walked straight towards Shen Qing. Before they arrived, the sarcastic words from their mouths had already come.

"I thought you would ask Hong Shushan to help, but I didn't expect you to come here alone. Interesting."

"Do you want to fight or make peace today?"

From the surface, Shen Qing is alone, and even if his cultivation has broken through, he is obviously outnumbered when facing two gods.

"Just you two?"

Looking at the two gods in front of him, Shen Qing concentrated for a moment, and after confirming that there was no other abnormal aura around, he felt a little relieved.

It seems that today's battle will be much simpler than she imagined.

As soon as Shen Qing finished speaking, before the two gods had time to respond, a spiritual light that shot up into the sky appeared above the wasteland. Eye-catching spiritual patterns tore through the earth and emerged in the void, a blood-red color.

This is a killing formation, a masterpiece of a spiritual formation master who has mastered the formation realm. It is called "Blood Rain". With Shen Qing's current cultivation level, it is like using a butcher knife to kill a chicken to set up a killing array to ambush and kill a fourth-level god.

"She is a spiritual formation master?!"

The sudden change was beyond the expectations of the two gods. The moment they saw the spiritual pattern light up, their hearts skipped a beat.

The information they received did not include the fact that Shen Qing was proficient in spiritual formations.

For a moment, they wanted to retreat, but in fact they knew very well that it would be extremely difficult to escape once they were trapped in the formation.

Shen Qing's cultivation is not weaker than theirs now, and with this spiritual formation, killing them is not a difficult task.

In war, the loss of information often means death.

Shen Qing stepped into the air and sat on the top of the sky, holding his sword across his knees. He looked down at the two gods in the formation with a calm expression.

From the moment they stepped into the formation, the fate of these two gods was already determined.

The spiritual patterns squirmed in the void, constantly interweaving, and in an instant, they turned into densely packed cow-hair needles, falling from the sky like heavy rain, turning the void into a sieve.

"kill!"

The armored general shouted loudly, urged the strange horse under his crotch, and soared into the sky. The incense and prayer power wrapped around his body began to burn, and in the red rain of blood, they bloomed brilliantly and fought to the death.

However, the blood rain formed by the interwoven spiritual patterns was extremely sharp, and the barrier formed by the power of incense and vows, along with the magic weapons and armor worn on the body, were all pierced by the tiny needles as thin as ox hairs.

The moment the small needle entered the god's body, it began to expand rapidly.

boom!

With a resounding bang, the warhorse and the general exploded together, turning into a rain of light all over the sky. Soon the rain of light gathered again and condensed into a divine body. Compared with before, the figure was much thinner and an afterimage appeared.

He had long lost his flesh and blood body and had become a half-soul body. This was also the state of most gods today. After all, gods with physical bodies were a minority.

The god in a golden robe at the side was not in much better condition. His body was torn apart by the spiritual patterns, and the overflowing incense and wish power was swept away by the spiritual formation. He lost contact and left no trace.

The incense and wish power that were swept away by the spiritual patterns naturally fell into Shen Qing's hands, and she transferred all of them into the sundial, transforming them into energy to nourish the soul.

The strength of her soul seemed to have reached a certain limit. She even vaguely saw a door. Behind the door was the hidden consciousness.

Ordinary cultivators are far from being able to deal with incense gods as easily as Shen Qing. The most difficult thing to deal with is the incense power. These incense powers cannot be absorbed by any living creature except those who are also incense gods. Shen Qing is an exception.

"December!"

After the god in the golden robe condensed his divine body once again, he could not hold back any longer and called out Shen Qing's name, saying earnestly: "The two of us are no match for you. Please spare us a way to live. We can serve you as the Lord God, and all the believers, including the incense and vows, can be given to you!"

"If you kill us now, you will also accumulate karma for killing gods. It will be a good thing for both you and me to stop here."

This is not a lie. The gods of incense carry the hopes and aspirations of too many living beings. Killing a god will have a great impact on one's invisible fortune and even lifespan.

He could tell at a glance that Shen Qing was still in physical form, not a soul formed by the power of incense and vows, and that his life span had not yet ended.

I'm sure you would never want to shorten your lifespan.

He sorted out the pros and cons and wanted to make Shen Qing change his mind, but from beginning to end, Shen Qing's expression did not change much.

"Killing God?"

Shen Qing slowly closed his eyes and said calmly: "It's just a dog slaughter."

"December!"

A roar was heard again from the magic circle, but in the blink of an eye, the figure inside was submerged in the rain of blood.

boom!

As the bodies of the gods were torn apart again and again, the power of incense and vows dissipated in large quantities, and the two gods eventually disappeared.

Shen Qing didn't spend much effort in this battle. If a fifth-level being attacked, Shen Qing would definitely not be able to stop it, but if it was just a fourth-level being, no matter how many came, they would not be able to pose a threat.

If it were an ordinary spiritual formation master, it would take at least several days to wipe out these two gods, not to mention the time spent setting up the formation.

To living beings, the power of incense and vows is extremely poisonous. There is no other way except to waste time to destroy it.

But Shen Qing did not have this worry as he held the sundial in his hand. He could directly absorb the power of incense and use it for his own benefit.

The huge amount of impurities in the incense and vows have been completely purified by the sundial, and all the emotional fluctuations contained in them have also been intercepted by the sundial.

For her, these incense sticks are the best tonic for nourishing the soul.

Now, apart from his own cultivation, Shen Qing can only rely on the power of the spirit array and the sundial.

No matter in which era, the status of the spiritual array master is quite extraordinary. It is not difficult for a spiritual array master to rely on the array and manipulate the spiritual patterns of heaven and earth to resist a powerful enemy who is one major realm higher than himself.

Of course, as the level of cultivation increases, this gap will gradually narrow and gradually become equal.

Shen Qing is a spiritual formation master. Since she has the means to kill the enemy, she will naturally not waste it. She is not stubborn enough to engage in close combat.

After carefully cleaning the battlefield and completely eliminating all traces of the spiritual formation, Shen Qing turned around and returned to Haoyin City.

When she returned to the City Lord's Mansion, Hong Shushan was waiting for her. He had secretly received a lot of news and knew that some gods were secretly preparing to take action.

However, he had no intention of helping. If Shen Qing had an accident, it would be enough to prove that she was unable to take over Haoyin City, and he would continue to stay here.

Seeing Shen Qing return safely, Hong Shushan also breathed a sigh of relief.

He did not ask Shen Qing whether he had encountered any situation in the past two days, but turned around and introduced to Shen Qing the current distribution of the gods' forces in the Southern Region.