Chapter 116

Cloud Net Mountain is located in the northern part of the Song Kingdom, close to the Xichui Barrier Wuqi Mountains.

Cloud Net Mountain has a total of forty-two peaks, and the Song Kingdom's second river, the Min River, flows through them.

It is indeed a place of outstanding spiritual beauty, an excellent blessed land where mountains and waters combine!

When Wang Ping and his companions arrived, many Foundation Establishment cultivators had already occupied each peak.

Wang Ping gazed into the distance; thirty of the forty-two peaks were already occupied by Foundation Establishment cultivators!

"Heh! This battle won't be easy to fight!" Ouyang Hua looked at the distant crowds on Cloud Net Mountain and chuckled.

Tie Lanshan laughed and shook his head, saying: "It's not that hard either; I just roughly looked, the spirit energy outbreak may come earlier than expected, about two months from now!"

Wang Ping looked ahead calmly and said: "Strike first to be strong, strike later to suffer! While few mid- and late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivators have arrived yet, we will first seize the ten peaks at the core of the second-tier spirit veins, set up a great formation, and take advantage of the terrain! Master Liaoru, can you confirm the locations of those ten peaks?"

Master Liaoru's eyes faintly glowed; after a full quarter hour, he sent a mental message:

"We've roughly located the area; at worst we can narrow it down to eight peaks!"

Tie Lanshan nodded and said: "Eight peaks are enough; the three-tier grand formation Heavenly Thunder Earthly Fire is ready, but limited by my formation skill, I can currently cover only over five hundred li! Eight peaks happen to be just about right!"

Everyone nodded; seizing the central peaks was their established plan.

Since that's the case, there's nothing more to say; several people shot up into the sky without concealment, flying straight toward one of the eight peaks marked out by Master Liaoru!

Many Foundation Establishment cultivators witnessed this scene, feeling shocked and uncertain; that group looked aggressive, clearly with ill intent.

Not only Master Liaoru could discern the existence of the central peaks; when Wang Ping and his group reached one of those peaks, two Foundation Establishment cultivators were already there, and many cultivators were also flying toward the nearby six peaks.

"Fellow cultivators! I am Taolin; these peaks have already been taken by our Heavenly Wolf Sect; please go elsewhere!"

A mid-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator flew over from a nearby peak and shouted loudly from afar.

Tie Lanshan showed no panic, saying: "Is that so? I heard that three days ago this place was occupied by the Broken Origin Seven Heroes; how did it change hands?"

As Tie Lanshan's words fell, that Taolin had already landed here; hearing Tie Lanshan's words, Taolin's face turned cold and he spoke in an unfriendly tone:

"What? Are you looking for trouble?"

Wang Ping shook his head; they were pressed for time, and after occupying this peak they still needed to set up the formation as quickly as possible, so they couldn't afford any delay!

He stepped forward directly; a hazy azure sword light appeared in his hand. Now, when he again executes the Azure Origin Sword Technique, he can directly condense it within his body, control it at will, and fully unleash its power without revealing the traits of the Azure Light Sword Technique!

"No more talk; take my sword!"

Having said that, the Azure Gleam Sword in his hand flew out and thrust straight toward Taolin!

Taolin's expression changed; a high-grade treasure!

He immediately dared not be careless; azure spiritual light rose all over his body!

He threw out a shield-shaped four-pattern defensive treasure, while the azure ring he held in his hand was tossed out; its patterns showed it was clearly a five-pattern treasure.

"Dragon-binding Technique! Bind!"

Taolin let out a great shout; the azure ring instantly transformed into an azure flood dragon! With a whoosh, it lunged to entangle Wang Ping!

This is Taolin's signature technique, a high-grade Dragon-binding Technique; that five-grade treasure dragon-binding ring was forged specifically to match his Dragon-binding Technique.

Taolin has absolute confidence in his Dragon-binding Technique; it binds the azure wood qi within a cultivator's body!

By combining technique with treasure, the intense wood qi of the unleashed Dragon-binding Technique can instantly suppress the opponent's internal wood qi, causing their five elements to fall out of balance and suffer severe injury in a single breath!

However, as a Foundation Establishment cultivator who came up from Qi Refining, most have many tricks; even with near-certain confidence, Taolin still produced five supreme-grade implements, all wood-attribute swords.

This is extremely rare; if he combines his powerful cultivation method Heartwood Nonappearance with a formation, it rivals a fourth-grade treasure, and in sharpness it even surpasses an ordinary fifth-grade treasure.

He normally rarely uses this move, but today, for some reason, feeling uneasy, he unleashed the Limitless Azure Wood Sword!

Wang Ping thrust his sword forward, seeing the opponent first throw out a shield, then an azure ring, which then transformed into an azure flood dragon lunging at him,

Wang Ping's face remained calm; the opponent was clearly buying time, showing great confidence in that azure ring.

Too bad!

Crack! The four-pattern shield treasure couldn't even last a breath before being pierced by the Azure Gleam Sword, splitting in half; its spiritual light quickly faded and it fell to the ground.

Taolin showed a hint of heartache, but deep in his eyes a flash of fear appeared; nevertheless, he could no longer entertain other thoughts, hastily summoning the Limitless Azure Wood Sword; under the influx of his vast spiritual power, the sword suddenly burst with dazzling azure light, and then they spun together, forming a sword wheel!

Whoosh!

At this moment, the Azure Gleam Sword thrust forward.

Crack!

Still less than a breath later, the Limitless Azure Wood Sword dissipated; the supreme-grade implements were merely brushed by the sword qi of the seven-pattern Azure Gleam Sword and turned directly into fragments!

How could this be? Taolin was shocked pale; his two methods together couldn't even withstand a single breath!

He shouted!

At the critical moment, his advantage as a mid-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator showed: a large amount of spiritual power surged into his protective spiritual light, turning the originally thin layer of azure light instantly into a half-meter-thick solid light sphere!

The other Foundation Establishment cultivators watching felt envy; such dense spiritual power!

Taolin's move relied entirely on his formidable cultivation to brute-force block; he was still waiting for his dragon-binding ring to take effect—that would be his moment to turn the tables from desperation.

Such a thick spiritual shield must have absorbed at least four hundred drops of spiritual power!

Even if the Azure Gleam Sword were sharp, it couldn't pierce the shield instantly; only after half a breath did it break through the half-meter-thick spiritual barrier, thrusting into Taolin's chest.

However, at that point the Azure Gleam Sword was no longer enough to kill Taolin, only able to severely wound him.

Taolin staggered backward, his companions catching him just in time, but his gaze fixed resentfully on Wang Ping, wanting to know why his dragon-binding ring had failed.

But when his gaze met Wang Ping's, he spat out a mouthful of blood and fainted outright.

Opposite them, Wang Ping played with the dragon-binding ring in his hand, taking great interest in this treasure; it could actually cooperate with techniques to bind a cultivator's internal wood qi, whereas Taolin's Dragon-binding Technique was overly crude and his handling of the ring also problematic.

If he were to use Qingdi Changsheng Gong to control the Binding Dragon Ring, whether in power or in the finesse of control, it would far surpass that Tao Lin.

When the battle ended, all the observing cultivators fell silent; Tao Lin, a mid-Foundation Establishment cultivator who possessed at least four hundred drops of spiritual liquid, had exhausted all his methods, yet could not withstand that young cultivator's single sword strike, which was truly chilling.

Tao Lin fell unconscious; the remaining six cultivators of the so-called Heavenly Wolf Sect exchanged a glance and silently withdrew from these several mountain peaks.

The cultivators around, seeing this, also remained silent; over the past few days, such mountain peak ownership changes have already happened several times, and no one knows how many days this wave of cultivators can hold out.

Among the remaining cultivators, there are also those with keen eyesight who can see the differences in several of those mountain peaks, but lacking the strength, they have the self-awareness to stay out of those peaks.

After Wang Ping and the others entered the mountain peaks, they never rested; each filled the mountain with the formation tools that Tie Lanshan had refined and held in their hands.

The Heaven Thunder Earth Fire Great Formation has nine main formation eyes; Wang Ping filled three here, Tie Lanshan filled two there! Master Liaoru and the others each guarded one formation eye.

Setting up a three-tier formation is not simply a matter of laying out formation tools; the many details involved left even Wang Ping and the others, who were Foundation Establishment cultivators, exhausted enough to be suffocating.

Seven days later, the cultivators of Cloud Net Mountain suddenly discovered that white mist had risen from the eight mountain peaks.

Instantly, all the cultivators understood that the eight mountain peaks had been laid with the Keliou Great Formation by that wave of six cultivators.

They are determined to defend this place to the death!

The Foundation Establishment cultivators of Cloud Net Mountain all had this thought arise in their hearts.