Chapter 286: Return to Origins (2/2)
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Jiangchen Wushang sprawled bonelessly like a puddle of mud on an uninhabited island in the inner sea. His meridians, flesh, and blood were paste, and his bones stuck out of his skin.
“Why save me?” he asked with an impassive expression, staring at the Jin scion near him.
“You’ve already lost the Cauldron of Invincible Constitution, and I didn’t want you to lose the Bag of Corpse Refinement as well.” Jin Heyi shoved a grey pill that reeked of decaying corpses into his mouth.
“You almost disrupted my plans when you refined Donglin Buo! Don’t you know I’d just formed an alliance with Donglin Shaohui?” Hatred flashed through Jiangchen Wushan’s face—plainly, he was forgetting that it’d been Jin Heyi who’d saved him.
“Donglin Shaohui? He’s just spineless junk.” Jin Heyi shook his head. “You’ll become trash by association if you work with him.”
Jiangchen Wushang didn’t respond, his chest heaving.
“Lu Yun is mine.” A particularly devilish look overtook Jin Heyi’s expression as his eyes turned the ghastly pale of a zombie’s . They settled unblinkingly on Jiangchen Wushang. “If you make another move against them, I’ll suck your blood and spirit dry.”
“The Zombifying Method!” Jiangchen Wushang shrieked with terror when he noticed Jin Heyi’s eyes. “You’ve practiced a zombie method with your own body! Are you out of your mind?!”
“Who said we can’t practice the method on ourselves?” Jin Heyi schooled his expression and his eyes turned back to normal. An orb shimmering with crimson light appeared in his hand—Diexi’s origin sphere. “It’s a shame that the zombie king escaped…. But no worries, I’ll find it sooner or later with the sphere. Then I’ll perfect the method and reach immortality with the dao of zombies.”
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It was the opening day of the Myriad Returns Market.
From within the city shot a beam of white formation light that criss-crossed over and over again to form a giant formation in the air, enveloping all the floating inner island. Tall buildings formed within the light and gradually turned physical, forming an enormous city. That was the real Myriad Returns City, all of the floating island itself!
The market was held every ten years because that was when the formation light activated, turning the island into a grand city.
“That’s the Great Formation of Myriad Returns... Return to Origins!” Shock flashed through Lu Yun’s face from his position in the Deaf Prince’s carriage, and he looked up at the hazy white island. “Return to Origins is the greatest perfection of formation dao! It’s a realm that we hear of only in stories!”
The ultimate peak of comprehension for formation masters was to set up formations without foundation, but the great perfection of formation dao was to Return to Origins.
Formations drew their power from heaven and earth. The perfect state of formation dao returned formations to their origins, becoming one with heaven and earth, which then corresponded to the heavenly influence of feng shui layouts.
Moreover, those who mastered the technique could distill ten thousand formations into one, and vice versa. It allowed the formation master to truly manipulate formations at will. If Feinie could fully refine the Formation Orb and master all of the formations within, she’d be able reach those heights. Right now, however, she could tap into only a thousandth of the formations in the orb. There was still a very long way to go.
Lu Yun had thought it was merely something that existed in theory. No human had ever attained those levels of accomplishment. Now however, he was faced with the proof of its existence—the Great Formation of Myriad Returns. The city before him was a standalone world created by the formation.
“Not just that.” The little fox stared at the island and shrieked, “It’s also the peak of illusions—Simulated Reality! All these used to just be illusions, but now they’ve been refined into reality and come into existence!”