686 Battling Mie Liezi Again! (1/2)
The array formation set up by the Dao Palace cultivators stretched across Mercury's black skies like a spiderweb. It looked like the honeycombs of a beehive. Wang Baole and Feng Qiuran both looked like mere ants next to the vast web. However, such ant-like creatures had just unleashed an incredible power that had shaken the heavens and earth.
The skies and the land rumbled as the Stellar Nascent Soul inside Wang Baole opened its eyes. The planet seemed to tremble, then it released a sudden light that boosted Wang Baole's power. A tear appeared in the Dao Palace array formation with his slash. It expanded, spreading across the skies like a gaping mouth!
Rumblings louder than thunder crashed all around them. Wang Baole, brimming with power, charged out of the tear. He was followed by Feng Qiuran, whose pupils had contracted in shock. The power that Wang Baole had just displayed sent her reeling back despite her being prepared for it!
What's the cause behind such a transformation? Her breathing quickened. She couldn't understand it at all. Wang Baole had displayed incredible, unbelievable power after appearing on Mercury.
She knew this wasn't the time to think about it too deeply, though. She immediately caught up with Wang Baole and slipped out from the tear in the array formation. They were going to leave Mercury and head for space.
Wang Baole pulled out his voice transmission ring then and sent a voice transmission to Li Xingwen.
\”Old man, your Baole is back! I brought your wife with me as well!\”
Alarm flashed across Wang Baole's face as soon as he said that. A similar expression appeared on Feng Qiuran's face. Below them, in the spiderweb-like array formation, space was distorting itself. Loud thunderous booms erupted all around it, and the array formation seemed to blur.
In the next moment, it was transformed entirely. An enormous face appeared in the center of the array formation. It spanned a hundred thousand feet and had a dazed expression and lost eyes that stared at Wang Baole and Feng Qiuran.
Its aura could overpower a Nascent Soul realm cultivator. This was the power of a Soul Conduit realm cultivator!
\”Mie Liezi!\” Wang Baole's face darkened, and a myriad of emotions flickered in Feng Qiuran's eyes. Mie Liezi's face burst out of the array formation with unexpected speed. The illusory, enormous face lunged at Wang Baole and Feng Qiuran.
The size of the face might not be as vast as the great land beneath them, but it was still as big as a really large island. And it was fast, very fast. It was going to hit them at any time. Wang Baole's eyes glimmered, and he sucked in a deep breath.
Mercury shuddered as he took that breath. It was as if he had sucked in some strange power with that single breath. His Stellar Nascent Soul loosened its limbs and unleashed its full power. Starlight flooded its body and overflowed. At that moment, Wang Baole seemed to have transformed into a star.
\”Get out of my way!\” he roared. He raised his armored right hand, his cultivation flowing into his Divine Armament arm. Augmented by the power of a planet, it smashed its fist into the huge face!
The punch shook the heavens and earth. It seemed to have the force of a star behind it, whose starlight was now infused into Wang Baole. It was as if a planet had hurdled onto the expressionless face of Mie Liezi and crashed into it.
Deafening booms rumbled across Mercury, and Mie Liezi's illusory face started to shatter. The cracks started from the spot that Wang Baole's fist had landed on. They spread and finally split the face into parts with a loud crack. Then, they exploded. A figure was flung outwards thousands of feet away. It was expressionless and breathing quickly. It was Mie Liezi. Wang Baole's punch showed that he was a real threat.
Wang Baole wasn't doing that well. His cultivation was only at the mid-stage Nascent Soul realm. Even boosted by his Thearch Armor and a planet, it still couldn't compete with a true cultivator at the Soul Conduit realm. He grunted. He might not be spitting blood out of his mouth, and his organs might not be churning at the moment, but nevertheless, he had still been driven back by the shock waves from the collision.
Feng Qiuran was about to seize the chance to attack while both of them were driven apart. It was then that Mie Liezi narrowed his eyes and shouted suddenly.
\”Dao Palace cultivators, to your positions. Form an array formation to welcome the return of Elder Qiuran!\”
Lightning laced the skies instantly as every Dao Palace cultivator on the planet unleashed their full cultivation.
Mercury's array formation had a thousand focal points, each of them guarded by a hundred cultivators. There were a hundred thousand cultivators currently guarding and running the array formation, and their power surged into the array formation with Mie Liezi's orders. The planetary array formation flared with a blinding light, and countless dandelion-like lights appeared, gathering together and transforming into a glowing man that towered a thousand feet!
It seemed to be the materialized form of the array formation. One could even call it the materialization of the combined consciousness of a hundred thousand Dao Palace cultivators. It stretched its arms out and lifted its head, roaring and immediately charging at Feng Qiuran, who was trying to get near Mie Liezi!