Chapter 498: Down The Precipice (1/2)

Chapter 498: Down The Precipice

At that moment, Lin Feng obviously didn’t know what was happening within the Imperial Palace.

At the Yun Hai Sect, within the former territory of the Holy Courtyard, there were seven places where silhouettes were flickering and moving. They seemed like they were destroying the buildings. On the ground, there was a thick Qi which filled the air.

Mister Chi and Mister Huo were standing at one of those seven places, they were looking at the flickering silhouettes. Mister Chi smiled and said: “Huo, old fellow, what does Lin Feng plan on doing? What kind of formation? Why is everybody so agitated?”

“The great formations are the illusion of the seven stars, the eight trigrams prison, and the nine palaces gathering… Therefore, Lin Feng must be using these seven locations to form the illusion of the seven stars, I think he wants to create an illusion formation around the sect.” Replied Mister Huo.

Formations which required less than five components were not that difficult, it became more difficult as the number of components in a formation increased, but they were also more powerful. The seven stars, the eight trigrams, the nine palaces were legendary, those deadly formations and illusions used vast amounts of pure Qi to enhance their power. These formations were unimaginable, in the end they could even form pure Qi palaces.

Of course, this was only a rumour, nothing more. It wasn’t an absolute truth. At the same time, it was true that extremely powerful formations could use pure Qi to enhance the formations power, like the nine palaces formation which could be used to imprison and kill people. However, the most important thing was always the foundation of a formation.

Besides, the extremely powerful formations were not limited to the seven stars, eight trigrams and nine palaces, some even more complex formations consisted of creating multiple formations as the components of a larger formation. The seven stars, eight trigrams and nine palaces were just the commonly known legendary formations and illusions, but they still had incredible power.

Besides, combining several formations together would cause the power of the formations to become even more terrifying. Of course, acquiring the knowledge required to create those types of formations was extremely difficult, and then the degree of creating them was otherworldly.

In the Continent of the Nine Clouds, people would rarely provoke an extremely strong formation master, they were able to create a formation to easily kill an army of millions in a flash, leaving only destruction in their wake.

Those days, even though Lin Feng was able to create formations, he was far from being close to a formation master, he was just trying to understand how they worked and found out that he was able to learn them with astonishing speed.

With the help of the thirty-six women who were quite proficient with creating formations and spells, there was already a thick mist and fog around the Yun Hi Sect, the entire area was surrounded by an illusionary mist.

“Formations are incredibly mysterious, they are not any inferior to alchemy.” Sighed Mister Huo while looking at the mist constantly rising into the air. Skills and techniques belonged to cultivation, pills belonged to alchemy, while spells and formations also belonged to their own fields of expertise. It was an incredibly mysterious and profound field. Outsiders would never understand how it worked.

“That’s obvious. The Continent of the Nine Clouds is so vast and boundless that we don’t even know how big its size is. We have never been outside of Xue Yue, so we are considered short-sighted. We have read books written by extremely powerful alchemists, but those people never stopped in their cultivation. Monstrously strong alchemists are worshiped and revered by the people, people would prostrate themselves before such illustrious and eminent people. Extremely strong formation masters can create unimaginable destruction and deserve the peoples’ reverence. Of course, no matter if we’re talking about alchemy or formations, they are all based on personal cultivation, that’s the basic principle.” Said Mister Chi while sighing, expressing his own opinion.

Mister Huo had a deep and meaningful expression in his eyes and nodded: “Those who don’t work hard, whether it be cultivation, formations or alchemy, they will never succeed. Besides, they could be killed at any time by stronger cultivators. A person’s cultivation is the basic foundation of strength in the world.”

“You old men are in a good mood I see.” Someone interrupted them at that moment while laughing. It came from behind the two old men. They were surprised, they turned around and saw Lin Feng who was laughing from behind them. They were shocked and then smiled wryly.

“Lin Feng, you are already strong enough to kill us at any time.” Said Mister Huo while shaking his head.

Lin Feng walked towards them while blocking his ears, he just acted as if he hadn’t heard anything. If Lin Feng had wanted to kill them, they would be dead already. Lin Feng’s cultivation was incredible and they could see the small changes in him, for example Lin Feng’s Qi wasn’t leaking out from his body and when he walked, he didn’t emit a single sound.

“It’s just that you weren’t paying attention…” Said Lin Feng denying that the two old men had any weaknesses. He then said: “A moment ago, you were talking about the Continent of the Nine Clouds, that it was founded on personal cultivation. I definitely agree with you. Only when you are strong, can you reach the heavens and annihilate everything in your way. However, since everybody knows that cultivation is the key to everything, why do so many people practice alchemy, formations and other unorthodox skills?”

“Lin Feng…. You have to understand that not everybody is as gifted as you in cultivation. Many people, when they practice cultivation, find themselves stuck at a bottleneck and can’t break through to the next layer… And practicing cultivation fanatically like a madman doesn’t always lead to success either. If their temperament or their power of understanding is not sufficient, then they can’t improve their cultivation to the next level. Then their cultivation level reaches a limit which can’t progress anymore. Maybe if you practice a few unorthodox things in the future, then you will come to understand their benefits, at some point, you may reach your limit and be unable to break through with your cultivation.”