Chapter 253: Departing with City and Land (1/2)

A unique power encircled the Blood Sea and isolated it from the outside world, which in turn isolated the Dao Flowers. However, the flowers didn’t bloom immediately even after Qing Han and the others stepped ashore.

The spark of hope had resurrected it and repaired the path of cultivation it contained, but civilization’s irrigation was required for the flower to bloom properly. In other words, it needed to absorb the different walks of life of this era.

“Where do we go now?” Lu Qingshuang asked timidly, approaching Lu Yun. “Back to Xiankan, or to Dusk Province?”

She, too, was terrified by her clansman. Although she and her companions weren’t hurt, they weren’t able to wrap their minds around what had just happened. Had they really survived three shots from a weapon of war?

Perhaps the monsters in the Blood Sea really have turned us into their puppets and we’ve become their vanguard. The returning group had naturally heard what the fleeing immortals had yelped when making their getaways.

“We’re in no hurry.” Lu Yun stowed his fortress ship and approached the enormous weapon on top of the city wall.

Roughly three hundred meters in height, it was clear and translucent, like a cannon made of crystal. On the other end of the weapon was the deactivated great formation of the nameless city, clearly the source of its power. These weapons were capable of great destruction, and only the nine heavenly courts could activate them with special methods and formations. No other clans or factions were capable of owning, or using, such a treasure.

The last time Lu Yun had been ambushed, the Qing Clan and Exalted Immortal Sect had banded together with the Feng Clan, Jin Clan, House Donglin, and other major factions to set up two great formations that could potentially even kill dao immortals. Even then, they hadn’t used any weapons of war, nor did they have the right to get their hands on one. Moreover, it was simply too much work. A grand formation would have to be set up to accommodate the treasure.

Dusk used to have such a weapon, set up in the seaside stronghold by the North Sea. However, it’d been torn down five thousand years ago, dismantled by the heavenly court and discarded as scrap in the ocean. Later, City Lord Fei Nie had established a great formation to prevent the North Sea monster spirits from invading.

Since the heavenly courts were the only ones who could use these weapons, layer upon layer of bureaucracy had to be waded through before one could be set up, and they could only be placed in strategically significant locations.

Given that their might was sufficient enough to threaten arcane dao immortals, they were on par with the nuclear weapons of Earth. Without the means to control the treasure, Lu Yun couldn’t use it, even though it was right within his reach. [1] If he misused it, the resulting explosion could raze everything within five hundred kilometers to the ground.

“You, you aren’t thinking of taking it, are you?” The others tensed when they saw the way Lu Yun was considering the treasure. It couldn’t be moved after it was laid down, or it would self-destruct.

“I do want to take it with me, but it’s tied to the underground vein here… aha!” A closer inspection of the city and mountain ranges in the area had imparted further insight as to the situation here.

The treasure and great formation in the city were linked to the vein underground and had become one with the local terrain, allowing the weapon to tap into the power of heaven and earth.

No wonder it was so powerful!

In other words, the treasure didn’t just rely on its inherent might, but also the endless supply of power from the land. It simply compressed the land’s power to the limit of the world’s physical laws, then released it.

“It’s no surprise that even Huangqing doesn’t know the secrets of this weapon,” muttered Lu Yun. “She’s a refiner, but she doesn’t know formations!”

Weapons of war incorporated the peak of both formation and equipment dao. Very few in the world were skilled in both fields. Almost no one could master both, but the inventor of these weapons just so happened to be such a talent.

“...set up formations!” Lu Yun’s face lit up with an enthusiastic light. He would set up formations to move both the city and the vein beneath it! He needed a formation that reached twenty-five hundred kilometers in radius!