Chapter 30: Senior Butian Peak Master

In his previous life, Lu Yang had painstakingly studied array formations; the great formation he finally inscribed onto the Blood Sun Sword Pellet was a sword formation named the "Blood-Washing Heavenly River Sword Formation Diagram."

The formation was divided into the Three Powers and Nine Palaces, using the long river of sword qi unleashed by the Blood Sun Sword Pellet as its main force and the Heavenly Demon Blood-Transforming Divine Light as its auxiliary; Lu Yang had also specially designed three hundred and sixty formation eyes, and according to his design, as long as three hundred and sixty cultivators could be found to take control of them, the formation's power could be brought to its utmost limit.

Regarding this point, he had already thought it through.

Once he retrieved his Innate One Qi Myriad Souls Banner from Liu Xin, he would have the banner spirit take control of the formation eyes; this would not only save effort and be convenient but also allow him to carry it with him at all times.

However, for now, he could only manage the formation personally.

"Activate!" Lu Yang formed a hand seal and recited a technique; the Blood Sun Sword Pellet hummed, and within the formation, a heavenly river surged from south to north, covering the firmament, its edges invisible to the eye.

At this moment, Lu Yuanchun, Zhao Xuhe, and all the others had fallen into this heavenly river; the surging waters meant that endless sword qi slashed down every second, and several cultivators with slightly weaker cultivation bases only managed to let out a miserable cry before turning into a splash of blood within the heavenly river.

Seeing this, Lu Yuanchun's expression changed dramatically.

"This is impossible! Although Master previously mentioned that this person knows array formations, I never gave him time to set one up; why have we still fallen into a formation?"

Naturally, Lu Yuanchun could not understand.

Because the Blood Sun Sword Pellet was no ordinary magic treasure, but an array treasure; a so-called array treasure uses the formation itself as the treasure, where a mere thought completes the array, requiring no setup at all!

And now, having fallen into the formation, the situation had already exceeded Lu Yuanchun's expectations.

After all, array formations borrow the wonders of heaven and earth and harness the power of heaven and earth; they are hailed as invincible within the same realm. Although he prided himself on his formidable strength, falling into a formation had stripped him of his confidence.

Could it be that today he would truly capsize in a shallow gutter?

Thinking this, Lu Yuanchun's expression grew increasingly ugly, losing his earlier air of certainty; even Zhao Xuhe beside him began to feel uneasy:

"Senior Brother, this formation..."

"Junior Brother, be careful; today's affairs likely hold unexpected variables." While whispering instructions, Lu Yuanchun simultaneously sacrificed the Golden Light Treasure Mirror into the air to protect himself.

At this moment, Lu Yuanchun still harbored a hope for luck; in his view, Lu Yang was merely an ordinary disciple who had stumbled upon some fortune. Although he knew quite a few things, he had ultimately joined the sect for only a short time; even if he understood array formations, how much could he truly master? As for the formation before them, perhaps it was a legacy left by some predecessor?

However, the very next second, Lu Yang shattered his illusions.

Seeing Lu Yang's expression turn cold, with a mere shift of thought he pointed a finger, and the originally clear heavenly river of sword qi immediately rippled with a piercing scarlet hue.

The Heavenly Demon Blood-Transforming Divine Light!

Although this divine ability possessed tremendous power, hailed as "a graze causes injury, a touch brings death," this also implied that it could only display its might upon hitting its target.

If it failed to strike, it would achieve nothing.

However, within the "Blood-Washing Heavenly River Sword Formation Diagram," Lu Yang had resolved this flaw; as long as one remained inside the formation, it was equivalent to being soaked in the divine light!

In other words, once unleashed, it was guaranteed to hit!

In an instant, Lu Yuanchun felt the earth shake and the mountains tremble; the remaining junior brothers screamed one after another, then instantly turned into mere human skins!

"Not good!"

Lu Yuanchun's face instantly changed drastically; gritting his teeth, he altered the hand seals in his hand, and the spiritual energy of the Golden Light Treasure Mirror above his head immediately became chaotic and violent.

Lu Yang understood what was happening with just a single glance.

"Self-detonating a magic treasure? Naive!"

The Golden Light Treasure Mirror was clearly a superior-grade magic treasure; if Lu Yuanchun detonated it, he indeed had a chance to tear through the formation diagram and carve out a path to survival.

However, that premise relied on Lu Yang not understanding array formations.

Ordinary formations, even when managed by someone, could only operate according to fixed rules; they were dead formations. However, with an array master presiding over them, the situation was entirely different.

Because a qualified array master could temporarily adjust the formation based on changes in the battle situation; thus, a dead formation became a living one, and its power naturally could not be compared to the former, let alone the fact that the "Blood-Washing Heavenly River Sword Formation Diagram" was personally created by Lu Yang, making it as responsive as his own limbs.

Therefore, at the exact moment Lu Yuanchun detonated his magic treasure, Lu Yang moved.

With one hand calculating through finger gestures and the other manipulating the formation patterns, he instantly dispersed the explosive force, originally concentrated on a single point, throughout the entire formation.

Once the explosion was dispersed, its power diminished several-fold.

The formation, which would have been broken, remained perfectly intact; seizing the gap created by the shattering of the Golden Light Treasure Mirror, it instantly engulfed both Lu Yuanchun and Zhao Xuhe.

Zhao Xuhe did not even have time to scream before instantly turning into a dried corpse.

"Impossible! This thief is actually an array master!?"

Lu Yuanchun's face turned deathly pale; he felt the flesh and blood of his entire body pouring out like a breached dike, and it seemed he was about to follow Zhao Xuhe's footsteps to an untimely death.

"Blood-Transforming Divine Light..."

With life and death hanging in the balance, intense fear quickly extinguished his rage; though Lu Yuanchun's eyes nearly split from fury, he was helpless, and finally, as if accepting his fate, he lowered his head.

"Boom!"

The next second, a jade pendant at Lu Yuanchun's waist quietly shattered, then burst forth with infinite brilliant light, actually breaking through Lu Yang's great formation in an instant!

Seeing this, Lu Yang's pupils contracted; he raised his head to gaze at the sky.

Where his sight fell, the brilliant light traced outlines, forming above his head, ten thousand feet high in the firmament, a huge face that was serene, solemn, and awe-inspiring without showing anger!

That face displayed not a shred of emotion; its pair of eyes were as bright as the sun and moon. Even though Lu Yang only made eye contact for an instant, tears streamed from his eyes due to the pain, and the true qi in his entire body was inexplicably weakened by seventy or eighty percent, nearly causing him to lose control of his escaping light and fall from the sky.

The face looked down, its voice like thunder rolling out of the mountains:

"Presumptuous!"

The voice was not loud, yet it seemed to hold the decree of heaven itself, making Lu Yang an existence hated by both heaven and earth; even the surrounding spiritual energy fled from him as if avoiding a plague.

The invisible gaze actually pressed upon Lu Yang's body with a weight comparable to Mount Taishan.

The surrounding ground even cracked inch by inch because of it.

Such a scene naturally alarmed the entire Senior Butian Peak.

In an instant, countless disciples in seclusion across Senior Butian Peak were startled awake; they walked out of their cave dwellings, gazing at the huge face in the sky with expressions of terror.

"Greetings, Peak Master!"

"Greetings, Peak Master!"

Some senior disciples of Senior Butian Peak recognized the face's features; feeling their scalps go numb, they immediately knelt prostrate on the ground, kowtowing continuously in salute.

The Senior Butian Peak Master!

Lu Yang finally learned the identity of the mysterious master behind Zhao Xuhe: the Senior Butian Peak Master, a Foundation Establishment True Person who governed one of the four inner peaks of the Chusheng Sect!

"Rumble!"

As the voice faded, the formation diagram that Lu Yang had painstakingly refined in his previous life immediately began to crumble; large sections of the formation patterns even exploded on the spot.

Witnessing this scene, Lu Yang could not help but reveal a trace of helplessness.

The gap between Qi Refining and Foundation Establishment completely exceeded his imagination; his twenty years of painstaking effort actually could not withstand two words from a Foundation Establishment True Person!

A mere light rebuke could reach such an extent?

(End of Chapter)