Chapter 605: Double Formation, Four-Elephant Power (Combined Chapter)

Five days later, deep in the Floating Yunshan Range in the northwest of the State of Yue.

A purple light flew over and landed on a desolate high mountain, turning into a purple flying carriage about two zhang long.

He Mengxin, wearing a green Daoist robe, jumped off the flying carriage first. After scanning the surroundings and seeing that there was nothing unusual on the mountain wall in front, she put down the worry on her face.

Following closely, Song Qingming and Song Qingyu, who were wearing black hats, also jumped down and came to He Mengxin's side.

"Sister He, is the predecessor's cave dwelling you found located here?"

He Mengxin pointed to a steep and smooth mountain wall not far away and said to Song Qingyu on the side: "That's right! The location of the cave dwelling is below that mountain wall. Looking at the situation, it should be at least a thousand years old.

The concealment formation outside the cave dwelling is also extremely cleverly arranged. If Senior Sister Xia hadn't had a high cultivation base and just happened to be proficient in the Dao of formations, it would have been extremely difficult for me alone to discover the clues."

Following the direction He Mengxin pointed, Song Qingming looked from afar and also faintly felt that there seemed to be some traces of formation concealment above that mountain wall.

"Building a cave dwelling in such a place and not being found for a thousand years, it can be seen that this person is indeed somewhat powerful. After we go over, Qingyu, you don't go in first, wait until we are ready inside before saying anything!"

"Hmm! Seventh Brother, don't worry, I know how to protect myself and won't add trouble to you all." Hearing Song Qingming's careful exhortation, Song Qingyu hurriedly nodded with a smile and agreed.

A few days ago, when He Mengxin and the other proposed to bring Song Qingyu along, Song Qingming, although worried in his heart, still took the initiative to ask Song Qingyu's opinion.

After all, He Mengxin and the other had named Song Qingyu, and did not accept other strange cultivators to go together. If Song Qingming refused directly without asking, I am afraid that the two sides would have estrangement again.

Moreover, whether this matter can be done also concerns Qingyu's personal path, so Song Qingming could not force her to make a decision, so he still took He Mengxin to ask Song Qingyu's thoughts.

After knowing He Mengxin's intention, Song Qingyu did not hesitate too much and soon agreed to this matter, followed the group all the way here.

To avoid being recognized by others when encountering them, Song Qingming and Song Qingyu also tried their best to wear hats along the way to cover their true faces.

Fortunately, the group's journey was relatively smooth. When they went around from the north of the Floating Yunshan Range, they only encountered a few low-tier flying monsters harassing them, and did not encounter high-tier monster kings or other Jin Dan cultivators head-on.

The three of them just said two sentences, and Xia Mo, who was wearing white clothes and a veil in the air, also landed lightly, and then waved her hand to put away the purple flying carriage above their heads.

Seeing the flying carriage in Xia Mo's hand that had turned into the size of a palm, Song Qingming's face also revealed a look of envy.

This purple flying carriage is not only exquisite in appearance but also a very rare third-tier top-quality flying magic treasure in the cultivation world, and its flying speed is far beyond the "Phantom Boat" on Song Qingming's body.

The group took this flying boat in Xia Mo's hand and traveled ten thousand miles in just three days to reach this place. If it were the Phantom Boat on Song Qingming's body, I am afraid it would still be on the way, and it would take at least one or two more days.

After putting the flying boat into the storage magic treasure, Xia Mo greeted the group and took the lead, turning into a ray of escape light and flying toward the mountain wall in front.

Song Qingming and the three saw this and immediately followed behind her. In a moment, the group arrived in front of the mountain wall they had seen before.

After approaching the mountain wall, Song Qingming also clearly felt that there was a very pure heaven and earth spiritual energy constantly leaking out from the mountain wall.

Seeing the scene of constant spiritual energy leakage, Song Qingming also guessed that it should be the result of the large formation inside the cave dwelling having been damaged by He Mengxin and the other.

Even if He Mengxin and the other had restored the concealment formation outside when they left, they could not stop the leakage of spiritual energy here.

The location of this cave dwelling is not particularly remote. If the leakage of spiritual energy in the cave dwelling cannot be stopped, as the concentration of spiritual energy in the surroundings becomes higher and higher, even if no human cultivators find this place, it will attract those high-tier monster kings.

It is estimated that in at most one or two months, the secret here will not be kept, which is no wonder He Mengxin and the other were so anxious to find themselves to come here for help.

"There is such rich spiritual energy here, it seems that there should be a high-level earth vein under this mountain." After feeling the spiritual energy around, Song Qingming said softly.

He Mengxin smiled and replied: "Fellow Daoist Song is right. The formation here can operate for a thousand years without much weakening, and there must be the spiritual energy support of a third-tier earth vein below.

The owner of the cave dwelling also spent a lot of thought, using a large formation to completely cover the spiritual energy below, coupled with this third-tier concealment formation outside, which allowed this place to be unknown to outsiders for so many years.

To tell you the truth, if it weren't for the sudden appearance of the seven-colored ray of light here that day and being seen by someone, we would not have had this opportunity to find this place so easily."

"Hehe! Fellow Daoist He is right. The two fellow Daoists can have this opportunity outside, which is indeed enviable. It seems that I should also travel outside when I have the opportunity in the future, maybe I can also have the opportunity to encounter such good luck." Song Qingming nodded slightly and sighed with envy.

"Qingyu, keep this spiritual talisman well. If you encounter anyone or high-tier monsters approaching here, you don't need to be nervous, just crush this talisman and we will know immediately."

Xia Mo raised her jade hand, and a white spiritual talisman with a somewhat special appearance appeared in her hand, which she handed to Song Qingyu.

"Thank you, Senior Xia!" After Song Qingyu took the spiritual talisman and put it away carefully, she bowed slightly to Xia Mo, then stepped on her flying sword and flew directly to the top of the mountain.

After Song Qingyu left, Xia Mo's spiritual light moved, and she threw a golden circular formation disk into the air.

As Xia Mo cast spells and made several gestures, the golden formation disk in the air immediately emitted a dazzling golden light, and then shot out five rays of spiritual light, which shone directly on the mountain wall in front of the group.

Seeing this set of Xia Mo's familiar formation-breaking techniques, Song Qingming's face also revealed a look of unexpected surprise.

This woman not only has extraordinary strength and a high cultivation base, but is also a third-tier formation master whose formation level is no less than his own, which is no wonder she was able to discover the abnormality here in the vicinity at that time.

To tell the truth, although he had seen Xia Mo several times and dealt with her several times, Xia Mo, who was always covering her face with a veil, always gave Song Qingming a feeling of being unpredictable.

In several meetings, the magic treasures and spiritual objects that Xia Mo took out casually were basically very rare third-tier top-quality spiritual objects in the cultivation world, and the magical powers and cultivation methods she performed were also extraordinary, far from what Song Qingming had seen before.

Although Song Qingming had dealt with the two several times and knew that she and He Mengxin were from a Nascent Soul sect in the East Sea cultivation world, Xia Mo's cultivation base had just broken through to the seventh layer of Jin Dan and had just entered the late stage of Jin Dan not long ago.

A seventh-layer Jin Dan cultivator can possess so many precious magic treasures and spiritual objects, which is indeed somewhat unimaginable.

Even if it were Sect Master Yao Ganshu of the Xiaoyao Sect, his family wealth might not necessarily be as rich as this woman in front of him, which truly surprised and envied Song Qingming, and also made him more curious about Xia Mo's identity.

Just as Song Qingming was pondering, under Xia Mo's control, the formation disk above the three people's heads suddenly shone brightly.

The five rays of spiritual light shining on the mountain wall also quickly gathered in one place, and slowly opened a somewhat pitch-black circular hole from the middle of the mountain wall.

Seeing that Xia Mo had opened the concealment formation outside, Song Qingming and He Mengxin looked at each other, then immediately entered the mountain wall through the gap of the formation that had been opened.

Just after landing, Song Qingming scanned the surroundings and immediately discovered a formation eye that was operating from a corner of the cave.

Song Qingming stepped forward, looked at that formation eye carefully, and with a wave of his sleeve, five formation flags of different colors flew out quickly and landed on the open space around the formation eye.

Immediately after, Song Qingming shot a ray of magic power from both hands, instantly activating the five formation flags arranged on the ground, and then the formation flags intertwined and shot out several rays of spiritual light, firmly locking the spiritual energy constantly emanating from the formation eye in front of Song Qingming.

As the spiritual energy emanating from the formation eye became thinner and thinner, the spiritual energy on the concealment formation outside also became weaker and weaker, and could no longer completely cover the cave entrance.

Xia Mo outside saw this, immediately put away the formation disk in her hand, and forcibly passed through the formation whose power was already less than one-tenth, and entered the cave.

Just after entering the cave, Xia Mo raised her jade hand lightly, and a blue jade box flew into Song Qingming's hand, which was the jade box containing the True Water of Emerald Jade that she had taken out in front of Song Qingming before.

"Fellow Daoist Song, since we have arrived here, this object will be handed to you first. I hope that when we break the formation later, you can help and put in more effort."

After taking the jade box sent by Xia Mo and opening it to look at the spiritual object inside, Song Qingming put it away with a satisfied expression, and bowed to Xia Mo beside him:

"The two fairies don't need to worry. Since I have already promised you, I will definitely not break my promise. Moreover, I have already taken the risk to come here, and I don't want to miss this opportunity in front of me."

Xia Mo nodded slightly, scanned the formation eye that had just been locked by Song Qingming's formation flags, and continued to say to Song Qingming:

"Fellow Daoist Song, let's break the large formation outside first to cover this place, lest we attract those low-tier monsters to enter this place by mistake when we break the formation later, and disturb us."

Song Qingming was slightly stunned when he heard this, and also felt it made sense, so he immediately cast a spell to put away the formation flags on the side and restarted the large formation at the entrance.

This cave is about one zhang high and five or six feet wide, which is enough for two people to walk side by side.

The three of them walked along the cave entrance for dozens of zhang, and the road in front began to appear as a slope going down. After walking for another cup of tea, a dazzling white light shield finally appeared in front.

Seeing that white light shield from afar, Song Qingming immediately felt the powerful spiritual power fluctuations coming from nearby. Looking at the situation, the one in front should be the third-tier top-quality formation that Xia Mo and the other mentioned before.

After walking to a position four or five zhang away from the white light shield, Xia Mo stopped first, then turned and said to Song Qingming who was walking behind:

"Fellow Daoist Song, this is the large formation we need to break. This formation was tried once by the two of us last time, and only less than one-tenth of the formation runes were destroyed before we suffered the automatic backlash attack of the large formation.

Besides borrowing the four-elephant formation to forcibly destroy the formation eyes inside, I haven't thought of a better way yet. You are also a person proficient in formations, why don't you look at the situation first to see if there is a better way to break the formation."

Seeing that the other party seemed to want to see his formation level, Song Qingming did not be polite, nodded slightly, and immediately stepped forward to start studying the formation carefully.

After looking seriously for about a stick of incense, Song Qingming sighed slightly with an unpleasant expression, turned around, bowed to Xia Mo on the side, and said:

"If I didn't see it wrong, although this formation is third-tier top-quality, it should only be a defensive formation and will not have a very strong attack power.

The reason why the two fellow Daoists were attacked by the formation backlash when breaking the formation before, I estimate that it should be because there is another hidden attack-type third-tier formation behind this formation.

These two large formations should have been connected together by the formation-setting person, fused into a double formation. As long as someone tries to forcibly break the large formation outside, it will trigger the other large formation inside at any time to automatically attack the person breaking the formation.

Being able to have such a clever calculation, it must be specially done by the owner of the cave dwelling. It seems that this person's formation level should not be low, at least it is definitely stronger than mine."

Hearing Song Qingming's analysis, Xia Mo, whose face was covered by a veil, also revealed a look of unexpected surprise. After pondering for a moment, she continued to ask softly:

"Since Fellow Daoist Song can see the clues behind this formation, does the fellow Daoist have a better way to break the formation?"

Seeing that He Mengxin and Xia Mo were both staring at him seriously, Song Qingming shook his head with a somewhat awkward expression:

"With my formation level, I can only barely see these clues. There is no other better way to break it. The four-elephant formation-breaking method proposed by Fellow Daoist Xia, although it requires more effort, is indeed the best way for us to break the formation at the moment.

However, when we forcibly break the formation later, I am afraid we will still be attacked by the large formation inside. It is best to make some countermeasures in advance, lest someone be injured because of this."

After Xia Mo pondered for a moment, she nodded slightly: "Fellow Daoist's reminder is right. However, there is no need to worry about this matter. Although we failed to break the formation last time, we have already tested that the grade of the attack formation inside is not high, and it should only be a third-tier low-quality large formation.

I have a set of three-talent formations in my hand, which can concentrate the spiritual power of the three people to defend against the enemy in a critical moment. When we break the formation later, each of you three holds a formation flag, and looking after each other should not be a big problem."

Seeing Xia Mo's tone so confident, I think the three-talent formation she mentioned is at least a third-tier or higher formation. Song Qingming saw this and didn't say anything more, nodded silently, and began to help her prepare for the formation-breaking matters.

After dealing with the other party several times, Song Qingming had long seen Xia Mo's family wealth, and he was not surprised that she could take out a high-tier formation immediately.

Song Qingming and Xia Mo are both third-tier formation masters, plus He Mengxin's assistance from the side, it took less than a day for the three to prepare all the formation-breaking matters.

Afterward, Song Qingming went out once more, brought Song Qingyu in, and explained the four-elephant formation-breaking method used by Xia Mo to her properly.

This four-elephant formation-breaking method is also a common means for formation masters in the cultivation world.

Different from the "rune-stealing formation-breaking method" that Song Qingming used before, the four-elephant formation-breaking method, although the preparation is somewhat cumbersome and requires a lot of time.

But the power used to break the formation is directly much more powerful than the "rune-stealing formation-breaking method." As long as you gather at least four people who meet the cultivation requirements to break the formation, the chance of breaking this third-tier top-quality large formation is still very large.

However, using this method to break the formation requires constant adjustment and control of the four-elephant power in the formation. In addition to having sufficient cultivation base, the person breaking the formation must also have some basic understanding of the Dao of formations.

The higher the overall formation level of the person breaking the formation, the greater the power of the "four-elephant formation-breaking method."

Although the formation levels of He Mengxin and Song Qingyu are not high, with Song Qingming and Xia Mo, two third-tier formation masters, it is enough to make up for this defect.

Song Qingyu and the other only need to understand the steps of breaking the formation in advance, and in the process of breaking the formation later, actively cooperate with Song Qingming and Xia Mo who are responsible for presiding over the formation breaking.

Besides Song Qingyu, in fact, Song Qingming also has a Jin Dan battle power on his body, which is the corpse puppet Jin Feng who has been following him.

However, the corpse puppet is a puppet that has no self-consciousness and will only instinctively follow the instructions given by its master, and cannot flexibly control complex formations like the "four-elephant formation-breaking method."

Precisely because of this, even if Jin Feng has the cultivation base of the early stage of Jin Dan, when he arrives here, he can only stand at the cave exit and guard and warn for the few people when they break the formation.

After arranging everything, Xia Mo raised her jade hand and threw three formation flags to the three people of Song Qingming, and then took out a golden pill and handed it to Song Qingyu on the side.

"This pill is a pill refined by my Hundred Flowers Palace with a unique secret method. After a ninth-layer Foundation Establishment cultivator takes it, within an hour, they can possess spiritual power no less than a first-layer Jin Dan cultivator.

However, you must remember that this cannot help you use the magical powers that only Jin Dan cultivators have. When breaking the formation later, if you encounter danger, you should still use the three-talent formation flags in your hand to deal with it, and do not rashly use your own spiritual power to confront it.

Otherwise, such a huge spiritual power in the Jin Dan realm is definitely difficult for the flesh of a Foundation Establishment cultivator to bear. Once the spiritual power is improperly controlled, it may hurt your flesh and meridians. You must remember this point."

"Thank you, Senior, for the reminder, the junior has already known!" Hearing Xia Mo's careful exhortation, Song Qingyu nodded seriously and agreed, then reached out and took the golden pill in Xia Mo's hand with a solemn expression.

After Song Qingyu sat in place and took the pill, but after a moment, she had refined the pill in her body, and soon the spiritual power on her body began to rise slowly.

Until half an hour later, the spiritual power on Song Qingyu's body had basically reached the first layer of Jin Dan, and then it slowly stabilized.

"How is it, Qingyu, is there any discomfort?" Seeing that Song Qingyu had put away her spiritual power and stood up, Song Qingming immediately stepped forward and asked.

Seeing that Song Qingming was somewhat uneasy, He Mengxin on the side hurriedly explained:

"Fellow Daoist Song, don't worry, after taking this pill, there will only be a period of weakness after the spiritual power is exhausted, and there are no other side effects."

Song Qingyu heard this and nodded slightly to Song Qingming, indicating that she had no abnormality, which made Song Qingming feel relieved.

"Fellow Daoist Song, since everything is ready, let's start preparing to break the formation!"

Xia Mo scanned Song Qingyu, and seeing that the spiritual power on her body already met the requirements for driving the four-elephant formation, she immediately stood at a position where several formation flags were inserted in front.

Song Qingming and the three saw this, and soon separated their figures to reach the positions they had scheduled in advance, and adjusted their state.

Xia Mo, standing at the position of the Azure Dragon formation eye, urged the spiritual power on her body, raised her jade hand, and soon a huge spiritual power depicting many runes gathered from the formation flags beside her.

This group of spiritual power flickered a few times above Xia Mo's head, and soon turned into an Azure Dragon phantom covered with runes.

"Fellow Daoists, it's your turn!"

As soon as Xia Mo finished speaking, Song Qingming, He Mengxin, and Song Qingyu also followed suit and cast spells. Soon, they summoned the White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, and Black Tortoise phantoms one after another.

After these three phantoms flew a few times in the air, they each shot a ray of spiritual power into the Azure Dragon phantom controlled by Xia Mo, making the spiritual light on its body shine brightly, and the phantom turned into by spiritual power also became more solid.

Next, the Azure Dragon phantom controlled by Xia Mo turned its head and rushed directly toward the third-tier top-quality large formation not far away, and a dazzling white light soon lit up where it touched.

This spiritual power-formed Azure Dragon phantom attacked the large formation violently, and soon tore off many runes floating on the large formation, making the power of this large formation decrease instantly.

However, after this attack, the spiritual light on the Azure Dragon also weakened a bit. In less than a cup of tea, the spiritual light on it became somewhat thin.

Seeing the attack power of the Azure Dragon weaken, the third-tier top-quality large formation that had just suffered significant damage, the spiritual light on it operated rapidly, and also began to slowly repair the lost runes.

"Fellow Daoist Xia, it's my turn!"

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