Chapter 170 (1/2)

All the known spiritual formations in the world, no matter how low or high the level was, no matter how big or small the force was, wouldn’t explode as long as the arrangement was successful.

That was a common sense

However, special cases did exist. Any defective spiritual formation would explode.

The force of self-explosion was very terrible!

When ordinary spiritual tattooists refined a spiritual formation, they would be extra careful and even take many rigorous measures to prevent self-explosion of spiritual formations.

And the higher the level of the spiritual formation was, the more terrible the force of self-explosion was. In the history of Ziyao Empire, such an accident that a spiritual tattooist unfortunately got himself killed because of the self-explosion of the spiritual formation happened more than once.

The “Small Purgatory Spiritual Formation of Five Elements” refined by Lin Xun was very unique.

It was a successful defective spiritual formation.

Why was it a defective formation? Because almost all of Lin Xun’s spiritual materials and spiritual inks for this formation had their drawbacks.

Lin didn’t have other choices. He collected these spiritual materials and spiritual inks from dead enemies. They were various, useful or useless, and could even fill a basket. If someone wanted to use them to make a spiritual tattoo formation, it was not hard to imagine how difficult it was for him or her.

Even for some spiritual tattooists, it was impossible to believe who could make a spiritual tattoo formation with some defective spiritual materials, just because every spiritual tattoo formation had different spiritual tattoos, which required specific spiritual materials and spiritual inks; not any kind of spiritual materials or spiritual inks could be used to refine a spiritual formation.

For example, the “Small Purgatory Spiritual Formation of Five Elements” required more than one hundred and thirty kinds of spiritual materials, and the needed spiritual ink was made by dozens of varieties of spiritual materials.

Under such circumstances, it was not hard to imagine how amazing it was that Lin Xun used some spiritual materials with various defects to make this formation.

And, the most incredible thing was that he made it!

It was really a miracle. At least, the other spiritual tattooists in the world would be flabbergasted, if they knew it.

But, for Lin Xun, he felt it was very normal. Because he had seen Master Lu did it before. It was the success of refining a spiritual formation for the first time that really surprised Lin Xun.

However, although Lin Xun succeeded, this “Small Purgatory Spiritual Formation of Five Elements” was indeed defective. Its power was limited, and the core of the formation base was lacking in the key source of spiritual energy to support the running of the whole formation.

This defect was noticed by Shriying at first time.

But what Shriying did not know was that there was another fatal flaw in the spiritual formation. The fatal flaw was that the structures of this formation were extremely unstable because of the defective spiritual materials used to refine it. When one of the structures was damaged, a chain reaction would occur, causing a terrible self-explosion!

Lin Xun took advantage of all this.

Shriying trapped in the spiritual formation had been buying time, trying to wait for the exhaustion of the spiritual formation’s energy to get out of the plight.

In fact, Lin Xun had been also buying time, waiting for the force of the spiritual formation to fade away; thus he could use a kind of strong force to strike at the last minute and destroy the structure of the spiritual formation, which would trigger the self-explosion of this formation.

Lin Xun succeeded in the end. He performed the “Reaching for the Stars” at the last minute when the energy of spiritual formation ran out, not to kill Shriying, but to make the spiritual formation explode!

In this contest of stratagems, Shriying lost finally and was overwhelmed by the force of the explosive spiritual formation.

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Boom~

The force of the explosive spiritual formation was extremely horrible, creating air billows and spiritual light like a tsunami which flooded the whole area.

The rocks turned into fine power, the trees were reduced to ashes, the ground was broken with many startling cracks, and the air billows rose like mushroom clouds into the sky.

Lin Xun stood afar, glancing at the center of the explosion. Heretofore, he did not hear any scream, which was somehow unusual.

Was Shriying killed at that moment of explosion? However, it was extremely unlikely to happen to a master-hand like Shriying.

Whizzing!

A black light burst out of the fire, like a flash of lightning, tore the air apart, and came up to Lin.

Fast!

Incredibly fast!

If Lin Xun just relaxed completely, he would not dodge that attack.

However, even though not being a little slack, when the attack suddenly came, Lin Xun still failed to make adequate defense.

The attack was too fast and too sudden!

With a boom, Lin Xun barely had time to defend himself with the saber in front of his body, and then the terrible force crashed against him.

At that moment, Lin’s both arms shook, the bones almost broke, and the whole body uncontrolledly flew backwards, and then he fell more than 33 meters away.

The sharp pain made his face pale, and he coughed a mouthful of blood.

The force of that attack was so terrifying that Lin Xun could not help changing his facial expression and a little worry came to his mind.

Till this moment he could see clearly that the dark light was a strange thumb-sized pitch-black beast tooth, whose surface was glossy, like the purest obsidian, with formidable lustre.

Looking up at the place where the spiritual formation exploded, Lin Xun saw a figure staggering out of the flame.