Chapter 360: Deterring with Military Might (1/2)
“Thirty-six hundred and fifty feng shui layouts born out of the grand influence over the world—the highest possible feng shui rank!” Lu Yun’s brows bunched slightly together.
If there were 3,650 feng shui layouts here, that meant that the Blithe Entrapment Formation itself was a combination of the same number of formations. Every single one of the formations was rooted to a formation disk, and each of them were individual pieces of a complete grand formation.
That was what had given rise to the feng shui layouts here. Formations and layouts were two sides of the same coin, but feng shui layouts were more complicated.
Still, there was no feng shui layout in the world that Lu Yun couldn’t deal with. He was the greatest commandant ever to be found in his sect—not only in terms of his ability in raiding tombs, but also his talent in the dao of feng shui. In fact, he’d exceeded even the sect forefather with his knowledge of feng shui.
Although Lu Yun couldn’t destroy the powerful feng shui layouts, he could identify their weaknesses and escape.
“There.” In a thousandth of a second, he saw a tiny crack within the layers of layouts. “Let’s go!”
Hum.
The Ingress Path transformed into a ray of white light and disappeared. When it reemerged, they’d already reached a clearing outside the Blithe Entrapment Formation. The sinister chill of the formation was suddenly replaced by waves of intense heat.
“We’re really out!” Xiangliu Ting blurted out, his eyes wide.
“Silence!” snapped Lu Yun. “Recover your inner energy at once.”
He warily scanned their surroundings. A chaotic fight was in full swing here as immortals from various factions were fighting each other to the death.
Under the canopy of the Fire Parasol Tree, three tremendous figures clashed with great ferocity in the air. It was Beigong Xuan, the Witherdew celestial emperor, and an elite from House Donglin!
The three were uniformly eight-fruit arcane dao immortals, which made them almost unrivalled in the world of immortals. While the immortals below fought just as hard, they still fell short compared to the three in the sky. Even so, they hadn’t given up yet.
This was the legendary Fire Parasol Tree!
Both a connate-grade treasure and a connate spirit root, it could only be described as a connate supreme treasure. Something like this inspired the worst kind of greed in everyone, compelling them to vie for it with no concern for their lives.
The Witherdew celestial emperor had even gone to the lengths of using his formation scroll to set up a Blithe Entrapment Formation, so as to stop later powerhouses from entering the competition over the tree.
Cultivation and strength alone weren’t enough to claim a supreme connate-grade treasure like the Fire Parasol Tree; luck and fate played even more important roles. Whoever acquired the treasure was fated to own it, which was why even the presence of three supreme elites wasn’t enough to deter the immortals from risking their lives for the tree.
Unlike the Fusang Purewood, which had connate flames sprouting from its branches as leaves, the Fire Parasol Tree was a three-hundred-meter-tall tree with lush, green leaves. Brimming with great vitality, the tree itself was enveloped in a bright yellow flame. Symbiotically dependent with each other, flame and tree combined to form a single entity.
Neither could survive without the other.
……
The sudden arrival of Lu Yun and the others made the immortals’ blood boil, and many pivoted straight to charging at their new competition for the treasure.
“Situ,” commanded Lu Yun.
Without missing a beat, Situ Zong aimed the cannon on his back at the incoming immortals.
Bam!
A pillar of white light spewed out of the cannon and disintegrated more than a hundred immortals with a single hit.
“A weapon of war!!” someone screamed and fled in the opposite direction. Rarely did anyone see a weapon of war in action, but the immortals here were no stranger to its power.
“Lu Yun!!” Beigong Xuan growled in fury from the sky above. Black sword energy flared from his body and slashed viciously at Lu Yun.
Bam!
The elite of House Donglin and the Witherdew celestial emperor trembled, knocked back by Beigong Xuan’s sudden outburst.
They both came to a halt with unspoken agreement; they’d all heard about Lu Yun and his feats. The celestial emperor looked down darkly. The Blithe Entrapment Formation was one of his major’s greatest weapons, yet Lu Yun showing up here meant he’d broken out of it.
……
Tremendous sword energy pierced through air and touched the top of Lu Yun’s head in an instant. Beigong Xuan’s full power could threaten heaven and earth!
Bam!
Bam!
Bam!
……
Seventeen beams of light shot out from around Lu Yun, meeting the powerful sword slash head-on.
Bam!
Crack crack crack!