Chapter 16: The World of Yin and Yang (1/2)

Nine golden dragons emerged, light gleaming off burnished scales and scaled claws. They exactly fit the image of the mythical dragons of Earth. Each was more than five kilometers long, but their bodies shrunk as they dove, simultaneously slamming into the giant willow.

Old Willow yelled in terror, but he was unable to stop the dragons from quickly shredding him to pieces. A faint scroll of painting emerged beside Yuying, protecting Lu Yun and Wanfeng from the debris.

“Is he dead?” Lu Yun collapsed to the ground, utterly drained. Even lifting a finger felt like too tall an order.

“The willow tree spirit is dead, master.” Yuying stowed away the Panorama of Clarity and helped Lu Yun up. It would be a while yet before he could stand on his own two feet.

“I had no idea that formations were this powerful. A feng shui layout pales in comparison,” Lu Yun sighed dejectedly. Were the feng shui layouts of Earth different from the formations of this world after all?

In his eyes, the Enneawyrm Provenance Formation was essentially the Enneawyrm Coffinbearers layout, but feng shui on Earth didn’t possess such unbelievable power. The entire city had slightly shuddered when the nine dragons hit the ground. If the manor hadn’t been part of the formation, it would be a pile of rubble right now.

Wait, that’s not true! Realization suddenly struck him. Formations and feng shui are two sides of the same coin. Formations are the yang side, and feng shui the yin. To utilize the full potential of a formation, imbuing it with the qi of heaven and earth is necessary. However, there’s no such qi on Earth. That’s why layouts there can only demonstrate the feng shui side of things, but not the power of a formation.

Anything related to feng shui had disappeared from the world of immortals, while formations contained absolutely no power on Earth.

Thanks to absorbing Yuying’s experience after obtaining her as an envoy, the now widely-read Lu Yun had quickly deduced the rules of the world here. That was also how he’d activated the Enneawyrm Provenance Formation.

With the Enneawyrm Coffinbearers becoming his personal combat art, he realized that he could control the city formation like he could the combat art.

It’s a shame that Yuying is a pill master. Her experience mostly has to do with pill refining, and she barely knows anything at all about formations. Lu Yun sighed inwardly. It looks like I should study formations as well over the next few months, apart from cultivating.

Formations of the immortal world were utterly fascinating to him.

“You should stop worrying, Wanfeng. Go to bed and sleep until your body’s had enough.” Lu Yun patted Wanfeng’s head when he saw how despondent she looked.

“Milord,” Wanfeng bit her lip, “if milord desires this servant’s spiritual root, it is yours whenever you wish.” She had reverted back to her old address for Lu Yun.

“Silly girl, why would I want your spiritual root?” Lu Yun laughed and added with a smile, “I found an Aurum Openia Pill in the tomb and already took it. I’m a cultivator now. Allow me to introduce you to this lady here. She’s the Pill Fairy Yuying you were talking about, but you have to keep her identity a secret!”

Wanfeng’s eyes widened and she gaped at Yuying in disbelief. Though Yuying looked familiar, so many things had happened since Wanfeng’s awakening that she hadn’t had the time to think. This inhumanly beautiful fairy is Yuying?!

“But, isn’t she dead?” The maid had yet to pick her jaw up from the floor.

“She wasn’t dead, just severely injured. She’d been recovering in the ancient tomb.” Lu Yun wasn’t sure how he should explain it, so he came up with a casual lie.

“Ah, I see!” A big smile tugged at Wanfeng’s lips, then she sagged and fainted again.

Yuying caught her and sighed softly. “Master, the matriarch—”