C66 Grand Sealing Formation
Ever since Lu Qingfeng killed the three men from the Dark Mountain Sect, there were no more ripples on the road up the mountain. It was already evening, and the sun was already setting. Lu Qingfeng had arrived at the huge plaza on the main peak of Qing Hu Island.
Just as he stood at the edge of the plaza, Lu Qingfeng's spiritual sense, which far surpassed the same level, rapidly spread outwards. It scanned the entire plaza in an attempt to find his fellow disciples as quickly as possible.
Soon, he discovered that the disciples of the Clear Cloud Sword Sect were all gathered at the northwest corner of the square. Among them were the disciples of the Great Elder, Huang Ping, Peng Chong, and Liang Berlin, the disciples of the Second Elder, Zeng Yongtai, Wang Yang, Cheng Zhi, and the disciples of the Eighth Elder, Fang Yuan.
Including Lu Qingfeng, there were a total of twenty-one people. Among them, Lu Qingfeng knew and witnessed the death of three of the Ninth Elder's disciples, and estimated that six of the remaining disciples had also died.
His Spiritual Sense continued to scan the surroundings and found that there were fourteen people in the Wushan Sect, eleven in the Hengshan Sect, twelve in the Sea God Sect, eighteen in the Heavenly Passage Sect, sixteen in the Hua Chen Sword Sect, seventeen in the Setting Sun Sword Sect, and twelve in the Flying Heaven Sect.
When the eight sects first came in, they had a total of thirty people from each sect, totaling two hundred and forty people. Now, there were only a hundred and twenty-nine people left, and a hundred and eleven people had died in the ruins. It could be seen that when cultivators trained and obtained great opportunities, it would also be accompanied by great risks.
Lu Qingfeng was quite far away from everyone. He was just sitting cross-legged in a very remote corner of the plaza, recovering his true essence. He held a crystal in each hand and quickly absorbed the pure heaven and earth energy contained within it.
His Spiritual Sense had been keeping an eye on the safety of the other disciples of his sect. As soon as he noticed any movement in the wind or grass, he would quickly go to rescue them.
The disciples of the other sects were also meditating and cultivating. They were all trying to recover to their peak states as soon as possible. No one knew if other sects would suddenly attack them the next day.
The disciples of the eight great sects had arrived at the plaza almost at the same time. No one wanted to fight right now. As a result, the whole night was very peaceful.
On the second day, Lu Qingfeng opened his eyes and looked above his head. From where Lu Qingfeng was, he could tell that Qing Hu Island's great sealing formation was at least a hundred miles away from the ground.
At this moment, a hazy starlight constantly flickered within the grand sealing formation. As the sky gradually brightened, a giant red ball of light slowly rose from the east side of the grand sealing formation. It made one feel as if this was a real sun.
As the ball of light continued to rise, its color began to fade until it became a ball of white light. Outside of the sealing array was blue seawater and within the array were floating white clouds.
Within the formation, the only thing that made it different from the outside was that there were no changes in the four seasons, no natural phenomena such as snow, lightning, or thunder.
Within a circumference of ten thousand li, the island was filled with dense heaven and earth origin energy. It was not difficult to imagine that there was an extremely large origin energy spirit vein here, otherwise, it wouldn't be enough to maintain such a large sealing formation for eight thousand years.
Lu Qingfeng scanned the disciples of the various sects with his divine sense and found that they were all looking up at the mysterious sealing array above their heads, just like Lu Qingfeng. No wonder all the disciples of the various sects were acting this way.
What Lu Qingfeng and the others didn't know was that this grand formation was constructed by a Divine Lord level elder of Qing Hu Island millions of years ago. As an existence on a level higher than True Gods, this grand sealing formation was simply an easy thing to construct.
In Lu Qingfeng's eyes, the true realm cultivators were like gods. Just like the Greencloud Sword Sect's Sect Leader Leng Xuehan, Great Elder Guo Tianshan, and his own Master Xu Rujun, they were all existences that could destroy a Mystic realm cultivator like him with a wave of their hand.
Every time he thought of this, Lu Qingfeng would feel a sense of urgency. He couldn't control his own destiny, and this feeling was truly unpleasant. On the other hand, he couldn't be too hasty in his cultivation or his cultivation would become unstable if he advanced too quickly.
After a night of cultivation, he used nearly a hundred crystals. His primeval essence had been restored to its peak state. It had been almost a year and a half since he had broken through to the Mid Mysterious Reality Realm.
Even though he was still some distance away from breaking through to the late stage of the Mysterious Reality Stage, he felt that the true energy within his body had become much denser than before. Lu Qingfeng knew that he was different from others.
The amount of crystals required to cultivate could be said to be terrifying. He had speculated earlier that wanting to break through from his current cultivation level to the immortal realms without spending more than a million crystals was simply wishful thinking.
After a while, the sky brightened up. The disciples of various sects stood up one by one and walked towards the disciples who were on good terms with their sects. Here, they must unite all forces that could unite them, in order to ensure their own lives.
In the Nan Rong Empire, because the three great sword sects practiced the same path of the sword, they had a close relationship since ancient times.
The Sea God Island was a lonely place outside of the sea, so they rarely visited other sects. The Dark Mountain Sect and the Hengshan Sect were sworn enemies. When the disciples of the two sects met, there was practically no chance of them leaving without fighting.
Such a result caused the enmity between the two sects to grow even deeper. Some people had predicted that if the disciples of this generation were to control two different sects in the future, there was a high chance that a great battle would break out between the two sects.
The Heaven's Wonderland was also a neutral sect. The sect lived in a minor dimension of a blessed land, and its disciples rarely came out to visit.
Like this, the three great sword faction combined became the largest power in this plaza. Adding them all together, there were at least fifty-four people. Those who wanted to snatch the disciples of the three great sects no longer had the chance.
Although there was still more than a month before the end of the trial, Qing Hu Island had to borrow the strength of the four Teleportation Arrays to the north, south, east and west.
Even if there was a simple map, it was not very accurate. If one was caught in some unknown array, one would have to stay here alone for a hundred years.
Therefore, gathering people in advance to look for a teleportation circle was the best way. While they were going down the mountain to look for a teleportation circle, they could also look for the undiscovered spiritual herb garden.
The three great sword sects decided to descend from the west and use the teleportation formation to leave this place. The Flying Heaven Gate chose to descend from the north, preparing to use the north teleportation circle to leave this place.
Sea God Island and the Heavenly Passage Sect chose to descend from the south. The remaining two hostile sects, the Dark Mountain Sect and the Hengshan Sect, could only choose to go down the mountain from the east.
As for the fight between the disciples of the two sects on their way down the mountain, it wasn't something the eight great sects were going to consider.
The eight sects each chose a direction to descend the mountain and began to move. Soon, the huge square was empty.
On the way down the mountain, the disciples of the three great sects teamed up again and found a few small spiritual medicine gardens. Each sect also had their own harvest of close to a thousand spiritual herbs.
On the way down the mountain, Lu Qingfeng carefully checked the storage rings of the disciples he had killed. At the other exit of the riverbed treasury, he had obtained twenty-five storage rings. On the way to the main peak of Qing Hu Island, he had killed three disciples of the Dark Mountain Sect and obtained four storage rings.
Within these storage rings, there were a total of over 34,000 spirit herbs. Lu Qingfeng took out another 4000 spirit herbs and put them together with the previous 4000. He decided to give these 8000 spirit herbs to the sect.
When he first started learning alchemy, he would need a large amount of spiritual herbs to squander. He had to store as many cheap herbs as possible, even if it was to hand over the finished products to the sect, it would be a contribution to the sect.
Huang Ping, Peng Chong, and the others had just finished tidying up their belongings when Huang Ping said: "Senior Martial Brother Lu, in the first month or so, were you alone?"
Lu Qingfeng had a look of regret on his face as he sighed and said, "Ai, don't mention it. I just arrived here from the Sunshine City's transfer array, and I ended up trapped in a formation for half a month. I finally got out of it after so much difficulty, but I was in such a hurry to get to the main peak of Qing Hu Island."
Lu Qingfeng would never tell anyone what he had obtained from Qing Hu Island. Otherwise, it would cause a huge commotion. In other words, even if Lu Qingfeng wanted to say it, he wouldn't dare.
At this time, Peng Chong said, "Senior Martial Brother Lu, how many Pearl Spirit Grass have you harvested this time?"
"About eight thousand," Lu Qingfeng lightly said. "On the way to the main peak, I was intercepted by three people. I didn't expect that in the end, they would be killed by me. The spoils of war I obtained from killing these three people are also included here."
Lu Qingfeng's answer drew the attention of the majority of the crowd. Looking at their expressions, Lu Qingfeng felt very strange. Thus, he asked, "What's wrong with all of you? Why are you looking at me like that?"
LiangBerlin said: "Senior Martial Brother Lu, you don't know that each of us only harvested 3000 stalks of spirit grass and you alone harvested so many spirit grasses. Do you think we wouldn't look at you like this?"
The group of fifty-four arrived at the foot of the mountain within ten days of chatting and laughing. It took so many people over ten days of searching before they found a cave on the mountain.
The cave was a stone hall that was a hundred meters long, wide, and tall. In the center of the hall, there was a twenty-meter wide teleportation array.
It looked like a clock, inlaid with an induction crystal at 12, 3, 6, 9.
These four points' locations corresponded to the north, south, east, and west directions. The other three transfer arrays were similar.
If Lu Qingfeng and the others were to teleport right now, the three points of the other three Teleportation Formations would shine. This meant that there were people teleporting to the west, and the people from the other three Teleportation Formations had to wait until the three points of teleportation finished before they could teleport.
There were a thousand and eight grooves in the middle of the transfer array, but there were no reaction stones at all. Everyone quickly stepped onto the transfer array and filled it with crystals. The transfer array immediately lit up and covered everyone.
Around the black hall transmission array in the center of Sunshine City, the eight great sects' Elders were quietly waiting. As soon as the Elders arrived, a massive pillar of light shot into the sky from the edge of the transmission array.
Not long after, another pillar of light lit up. This time, twenty people walked down from the teleportation circle. They were disciples of the Flying Heaven Sect. Then the pillar of light lit up for the third time. This time, it was thirty people, disciples of the Sea God Island and the Heavenly Passage Sect.
Everyone waited in the hall for more than two hours before the teleportation formation lit up again. When the light dispersed, everyone looked towards the teleportation formation and couldn't help but gape in shock.
