Chapter 428: Space Lock (1/2)

Hei Gou looked at Xue Wei puzzledly, but he did not say anything. Instead, he gathered Qi within his palm and struck it directly into the barrier.

A boom resounded in the surrounding area, and the barrier shook drastically. While it did not dissipate, the glimmer of the barrier was much less than before and much easier to see through. Clearly, the attack had caused severe damage, and Hei Gou had not even used a martial art skill, all he did was gather Qi in his palm and strike it.

Frowning, Xue Wei looked at the formation, and Hei Gou tried attacking with one more palm attack. The formation instantly shattered, and the stones and ores used turned dull as the energy within had been used up trying to maintain the formation.

Xue Wei sighed as he felt the pain in his heart for wasting so many precious materials, but he began creating the same formation again.

”Try now,” he said, and this time the formation lasted four strikes from Hei Gou before it collapsed.

Like this, Xue Wei and Hei Gou spent the entire day creating and destroying formations. As time went on, Xue Wei became increasingly proficient in creating them, and soon it took Hei Gou a lot of effort to destroy them.

In the end, he was actually unable to destroy the formation even when using his innate skills that had the most power.

But even so, Xue Wei called out Bai Tianyi, Lin Xiao, and Luoluo, and had them attacking the formation as well.

It was not before early in the following morning that he was able to create a formation barrier that he was satisfied with.

While they had been creating and destroying the formations, many had observed them with shock and complete disbelief. Everyone knew that formations were incredibly hard to understand and create, not to mention they were costly due to the ores and essence stones needed. Still, Xue Wei had destroyed so many valuable ores time and time again.

It looked like he had no care about the price he paid. While it seemed careless to everyone who was present, Xue Wei and his friends knew the pain that Xue Wei was feeling from using up all those precious materials.

But he was also aware that to improve his performance in the art of formations, he needed to invest some materials.

Fortunately, he had found an essence stone vein back in the Thunder Twilight Zone, and he had managed to get many top-grade essence stones.

These essence stones were initially planned to be used as cultivation resources, but there were so many that even if they were going to use a handful a day while cultivating, they would not run out for thousands of years.

As such, it did not matter if they used up half of them on testing formations. These formations could help them protect them; they were also able to make illusion formations, and even formations that could attack their enemies.