Chapter 654 – Deducing the Formation (2/2)
However, Li Qingshan was still stumped. I don’t understand this at all! As a result, he continued to urge the spirit turtle. The profound glyphs on the spirit turtle’s shell began moving again.
Li Qingshan became rather dazed. He would nod at times and murmur to himself, “Oh, like this… I get it now…”
A while later, he opened his eyes again, and a smile was already stretching across his face. He advanced forward confidently, making his way towards the depths of the maze. He would move to the left, move to the right, advance, and retreat at times, without the slightest hesitation at all. However, he steadily approached the centre of the maze, without taking a single unnecessary detour.
The centre of the maze suddenly entered a flurry of confusion and alarm. “Oh no, he’s getting closer!” “Don’t panic. He’s probably just roaming around blindly in the maze. He won’t be able to reach here through luck alone.” “No, he’s approaching us very quickly, basically making a beeline for us. He’s already seen through this formation. We have to change our position quickly!”
Everyone scattered like birds and beasts. Before long, Li Qingshan arrived there and smiled. “They sure do flee fast!”
During that moment earlier, he used the power of the spirit turtle to deduce the operation patterns of the entire formation, clearing away all obstacles. This was something unbelievable to regular cultivators, but it was nothing difficult to the spirit turtle that could even stand among the ranks of gods.
From the moment it was born, the spirit turtle possessed the form of the supernatural, rounded at the top like heaven, flat at the bottom like the earth. Its back rose and fell like hills, layered with profound inscriptions of all kinds of colour that were constantly at work. It knew when to advance and retreat, and it foretold the good and the ill with utmost confidence.
Spirit turtles would never learn things like formations or divination. All formations and divination were later inventions and creations. Instead, it only studied and learned from nature. The existence of the spirit turtle itself conformed with nature. It was born with knowledge.
This was also thanks to the Great Banyan Tree King’s Fruit of Wisdom. Although it could not allow a person’s cultivation to advance at once and make them wise, it unconsciously influenced everything, giving Li Qingshan a deeper comprehension of the powers of the spirit turtle.
At the centre of the maze was a small clearing. There was an extremely-large strange rock that towered in the centre, coated in light that flowed like water.
Li Qingshan understood that the strange rock was the central crucial point of the formation. As long as he destroyed it, the formation would be completely deactivated, and it would turn into a regular forest of stone.
Destroying such a large and tough rock clearly was not an easy feat, but why did he have to destroy it?
Li Qingshan placed his hand on the strange rock and sent in his soul sense. The strange rock shone brightly, producing a power that contended against him, but he suppressed it very soon. He forcefully claimed control over the maze. The entire maze began to operate.
The three Foundation Establishment cultivators fled through the maze swiftly, refusing to remain for even a moment longer. As for the Qi Practitioners, the three of them had left them all behind. If they could buy some time, then it would be fantastic.
They understood the maze extremely well. As they advanced and retreated along the way, they did not hesitate at all. They calculated that if they took a few more steps, they would arrive at the entrance of the maze, but when they made their way around a strange rock, they all paled in fright.
Before they knew it, they had returned to the centre of the maze again, and their nightmare currently stood there with a sword in hand, his lips curling into a vicious smile.
He swung his sword!