Chapter 256: Tiger Roars and Dragon Howls (1/2)
The Great Formation of Heavenly Fiends was the greatest killing formation Feinie could unleash at the moment. In order for her to deploy even stronger formations from the Formation Orb, she would have to improve her cultivation level.
Bam!
The crimson figure summoned by the formation surged in power and pierced into the ten thousand formations overhead. However, it only broke through the first formation before being crushed by the second.
The power of the combined formations was simply too great, far different from the ten thousand released by the Formation Orb. It created formations from light that could be retracted and shifted at will. Imbued with the strength of formations, but none of their weight, it was a method similar to the peak formation dao technique that set up formations without foundations.
On the other hand, the formations trapping Lu Yun and the others were anchored in the air with formation stones and disks, and their overlapping strength made each formation unbearably heavy. It wasn’t so much a sign of the Feng Clan’s power, as it was the foundation that the Nephrite Court had built up.
The combined formations were weaker than the Qing Clan’s Arcane Goldenlight Formation and the Exalted Immortal Sect’s Diabolic Formation of Soul Refinement, but only slightly. If the ten thousand formations had been used in the ambush last time, Lu Yun wouldn’t have been able to break them all, even with his stored pill tribulation.
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“Again!” Feinie’s body flickered with gold as she tapped into the core power of a golden immortal. One instance of the Great Formation of Heavenly Fiends broke, then another, and another….
Enormous shadowy fiends were continuously summoned and leapt into the air to tear at the weighty formations. More than a thousand were broken in roughly a dozen breaths, but that was still only a drop of water in the vast ocean.
The remaining nine thousand slammed down and instantaneously flattened Feinie’s defensive formations. Everyone on the fortress ship felt a great weight crushing their chests.
“Open!” she screamed. She’d given up on breaking the formations and was instead channeling all of her power into the Formation Orb, unleashing five thousand defensive formations that barely shielded them from the great pressure.
Rumble!
The killing formations activated and surged, combining the terrifying power of nine thousand as one in that instant. Feinie’s five thousand could withstand a blow from a weapon of war, but they broke under the nine thousand’s combined power.
Blood seeped out the corner of her mouth.
“What should we do?!” Mo Qitian blanched. “There’s at least a million heavenly soldiers at the ready. The Nephrite court’s sparing no effort to kill you!”
Lu Yun’s face shifted unsteadily. He’d known there would be traps, but this ambush had still exceeded his expectations. Ten thousand formations! The set up was enough to kill an arcane dao immortal! The court wasn’t leaving him a sliver of hope and wanted to make his death a foregone conclusion, like a lion pouncing on a rabbit.
“Shit, I’m just a cultivator. Is all this really necessary?” Lu Yun gnashed his teeth. He hadn’t heard from Yuchi Hanxing and the Black Tortoise in all this time, so the Sword Lake was obviously under siege as well. The Dusk Phalanx and divine beast must be fighting to keep themselves alive.
The power of a heavenly court was too great, and a foundation accumulated over eighty thousand years wasn’t something a mere faction could rival. Even the Black Tortoise would have to bow down in submission in front of such a great entity.
Suddenly, a dragon’s howl and a tiger’s roar pierced through the sky, followed by the emergence of the two beasts.
“Protect us with formations, golden immortal girl!” said the dragon.
“Understood!” Feinie perked up and hurriedly channeled the Formation Orb to give them cover.