Chapter 440

After entering the hall, Song Qingming immediately felt that his spiritual sense was being affected. The spiritual sense he had projected only a few feet away began to have difficulty spreading, and he immediately realized that there seemed to be a restriction here that isolated the spiritual sense of cultivators.

Standing in the hall, Song Qingming looked around carefully and discovered that on the twenty-odd golden copper pillars standing around the hall, multicolored golden light was flashing from time to time. The rhythm of these golden lights was very regular, as if they had been specially arranged by an expert.

Each copper pillar had a very powerful, separate restriction, and after all the copper pillars were connected together, they turned into a separate formation.

After witnessing these exquisitely arranged restriction formations, Song Qingming's attention was quickly drawn, and he could not help but click his tongue in wonder.

"Fellow Daoist Song, the 'Jin Guang Five-Thunder' formation in this hall was personally arranged by a Golden Core senior of our sect. Refining some special magic treasures or carving runes here can utilize the five-colored golden thunder in the formation to temper the runes, achieving twice the result with half the effort." Seeing that Song Qingming was curious about this great formation, the man surnamed Hu to the side hurriedly introduced it.

When they were outside the hall earlier, the man surnamed Hu saw that the last formation master Bai Yunhua had invited was Song Qingming, and his face was initially full of surprise. Having dealt with Song Qingming for a few days, he truly had not seen that Song Qingming was also a second-tier formation master.

After the Foundation Establishment Pill transaction a few days ago, the man surnamed Hu's attitude toward Song Qingming had undergone a earth-shaking change, and as soon as he walked into the hall, he took the initiative to strike up a conversation with Song Qingming.

Hearing the other party still explaining the 'Jin Guang Five-Thunder Formation' in the hall to him incessantly, Song Qingming quickly understood that this man surnamed Hu was also a person obsessed with the Dao of formations, and his formation level seemed to be even higher than Song Qingming's.

After preparing properly, Bai Yunhua, standing in the middle, moved his right hand slightly and took out a very ancient set of formations from his storage bag.

This set of formations looked very old, with at least several thousand years of history. There were already many damaged places on the formation flags, most of the runes on the surface had become dim and lusterless, and a large piece was missing from the center of the formation disk.

Although Bai Yunhua could barely use his magic power to activate this set of formations, the spiritual power fluctuations it released were already full of loopholes. The power of this formation now was likely not even as good as an ordinary second-tier low-grade formation on the market.

"Fellow Daoists, to repair this formation, we must first restore the runes carved on it. Next, Senior Sister Chen and I will be responsible for the runes on the formation disk, and the formation flags will be left to Brother Hu, Junior Brother Xiao, and Fellow Daoist Song."

Since parting at Black Stone Valley, Song Qingming had not seen Bai Yunhua for more than twenty years. Bai Yunhua, who was at the fourth layer of Foundation Establishment back then, now had his cultivation steadily improved to the sixth layer of Foundation Establishment.

However, compared to his cultivation, Bai Yunhua's formation level was even better. He had now become one of the few second-tier top-grade formation masters within the Xiaoyao Sect and was the one with the highest formation level among the five people present.

Besides Bai Yunhua, the formation level of the woman surnamed Chen at the peak of Foundation Establishment, although slightly lower than Bai Yunhua's, was also a second-tier mid-grade formation master who had advanced many years ago. Her formation skills were actually not far from breaking through to a second-tier top-grade formation master.

The remaining formation levels of Song Qingming and the man surnamed Hu were not much different; both were second-tier mid-grade formation masters who had just advanced not long ago. Only the man surnamed Xiao with the lowest cultivation had slightly worse formation skills, being only a second-tier low-grade formation master.

Under Bai Yunhua's careful arrangement, everyone began to take over their respective tasks. However, because this set of formations refined by an ancient senior was indeed very rare, Song Qingming and the others had never seen some of the rune styles, so everyone could only consult each other and study them slowly together.

For formations refined by such ancient cultivators, many runes had changed their appearance significantly after thousands of years of evolution and refinement by numerous cultivators, evolving into a new type of rune that could only be seen in their original form in some ancient cultivation classics that had been passed down.

Just restoring the runes carved on the formation took nearly a month, and this was only because of the assistance of the 'Jin Guang Five-Thunder Formation,' which saved everyone a lot of effort.

When carving and restoring these runes, Song Qingming always felt that the appearance of some runes on them was somewhat familiar, as if he had seen these rune styles in those classics, but for a moment, he couldn't quite recall them.

Next, it was time to start repairing the damaged parts of this set of formations. This step was more cumbersome than the previous rune carving, requiring everyone present to cooperate with each other to proceed slowly. This was also the reason why Bai Yunhua had insisted on finding five people with higher formation levels to help.

Song Qingming and the other two took turns activating the formation continuously. Bai Yunhua and the woman surnamed Chen, who had higher formation levels, spent nearly two months completely repairing all the damaged parts.

After completing this most important step, the power of this ancient formation instantly increased several times, and it was basically considered to have been successfully repaired by more than half. Next, everyone spent nearly another month patching up some of the loopholes in the formation, which was when they finally completely finished Bai Yunhua's commission.

A few months later, the five people who repaired the formation held the formation flags and practiced again. After the repairs by everyone during this period, the power of this set of ancient formations had now increased by several times, having already recovered to the level of a second-tier top-grade formation.

Seeing that there were no obvious flaws on the surface of the formation, Bai Yunhua nodded with a smile, slowly put the whole set of formations into his storage bag, and cupped his hands to thank everyone.

"This formation could be successfully repaired thanks to the efforts of all you brothers during this period. You have worked hard, fellow daoists. This spiritual tea is something I have cherished for many years; it will be just right for you to relieve your fatigue after returning."

After taking the spiritual tea Bai Yunhua gave them, everyone also smiled and returned the courtesy one after another.

Everyone was invited here to help for various reasons this time, not to earn spirit stones. Like Song Qingming and the man surnamed Hu agreeing to help, it was actually to repay Bai Yunhua's previous favor.

Just as Bai Yunhua was leading everyone out of the hall, a sound of ancient bells suddenly rang out in a place on Mount Guyang, causing everyone who had just walked out of the hall to reveal looks of surprise.

Just when everyone did not know what had happened in the sect, golden spiritual light lit up around Mount Guyang one after another. Soon, these spiritual lights gathered in the high sky to form a huge light shield, covering the entire mountain gate of the Xiaoyao Sect within it.

Not long after, as several sound transmission talismans flew over one after another in the air, the few people standing in place bid farewell and left one after another, leaving only Song Qingming and Bai Yunhua behind.

Song Qingming, who still did not know what had happened, could only cup his hands and ask Bai Yunhua to the side, "Fellow Daoist Bai, I wonder what happened on the mountain? Could you tell me a little bit about it?"

Bai Yunhua replied with a calm expression, "My sincere apologies, Fellow Daoist Song. I only know that it seems to be the bell ringing from Tianyang Peak; I don't know what happened yet. Seeing the sect activate the mountain-protecting formation so quickly, it is possible that another senior brother is breaking through to the Golden Core stage?"

"To actually run into a fellow daoist breaking through to the Golden Core stage, that is truly a coincidence. I wonder if it is feasible for me to leave Mount Guyang now?"

Bai Yunhua shook his head gently at Song Qingming and said, "I am not very clear about this either. However, Fellow Daoist, do not worry. In the past, even if someone was breaking through to the Golden Core stage, the mountain would be sealed for at most about a month; it will not delay you for long."

After bidding farewell to Bai Yunhua, Song Qingming, who was temporarily unable to leave Mount Guyang, could only return to Song Xinyu's cave dwelling first.

He had originally thought that he could finish this matter in three months, but now it had been delayed for more than a month, and just when he wanted to leave, he ran into the Xiaoyao Sect sealing the mountain and imposing martial law. Song Qingming felt somewhat depressed in his heart.

This time, the Xiaoyao Sect suddenly opened the mountain-protecting formation and began to seal the mountain and impose martial law, which seemed somewhat abnormal. Even Song Xinyu, who was already a Foundation Establishment cultivator, went out to inquire but could not find out exactly what had happened or which senior brother was breaking through to the Golden Core stage.

What made Song Qingming strange was that the time for this mountain sealing and martial law was not as long as Bai Yunhua had said. Only four days had passed before the Xiaoyao Sect removed the mountain-protecting formation, and Song Qingming was able to leave Mount Guyang.

During these few days, Song Qingming, who was on Mount Guyang, had not seen the heaven and earth anomalies that only appear when breaking through to the Golden Core stage. The entire Mount Guyang had returned to its normal state, which truly made him somewhat puzzled, unable to guess what had happened in the Xiaoyao Sect during these few days.

After leaving Mount Guyang, Song Qingming headed north all the way and soon successfully left Guyang County.

A few days later, shortly after Song Qingming entered the territory of Qinghe County, while flying on his sword in mid-air, he suddenly heard a burst of intense fighting sounds coming from a forest below.

Seeing this, Song Qingming stopped his flying sword not far ahead, jumped down from mid-air, and walked alone toward the place where the fighting was happening.

In the cultivation world, except for some markets or towns guarded by high-tier cultivators where fighting between cultivators is strictly prohibited, in such wild places, various cultivator battles can appear anytime and anywhere.

Whether it is a high-tier cultivator or a low-tier cultivator, as long as you go out and move around, you cannot avoid having disputes and conflicts with other cultivators for various reasons, and naturally, sometimes you need to use strength to solve problems.

Even if you act low-key and do not want to fight with other cultivators, sometimes if you are not careful, you will still be targeted by those treacherous rogue cultivators, making it difficult to stay out of trouble and forcing you to accept such a fate.

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