67 Chapter 1224: Releasing Vicious (1/2)
After reading through the content of the book, Zhang Xuan exhaled deeply.
He pondered for a moment before heading to a corner of the room to sit down cross-legged.
Some time later, his clone came over and asked in bewilderment, ”What are you doing?”
Zhang Xuan turned around and replied with a pale face, ”Whenever I have a question that I can't find an answer to, I like to sit in a corner of the room to mull over the secrets of the universe and the meaning of life.”
”Mull over the secrets of the universe? Meaning of life?” Zhang Xuan's clone was bewildered.
When did the main body gain such an ability?
Why was he unaware of it?
Even though he had no idea what the main body was up to, he felt that the main body had a reason for doing what he was doing. Thus, he decided not to interfere in the latter's business. ”I'll just take a look around. Feel free to continue what you are doing.”
Leaving those words behind, he turned around and left.
Around two hours later, Zhang Xuan exhaled deeply before getting to his feet once more.
At this moment, his eyes were reddened, and he seemed to be drained of energy. His feet wobbled unstably on the ground, and he nearly fell over.
Upon seeing this sight, his clone quickly rushed forward to support him.
”I'm fine.” Zhang Xuan waved his hand as he quickly drove his Heaven's Path zhenqi three circulations around his body—the weakness and exhaustion he felt were finally alleviated.
Noting that Zhang Xuan had recovered from his weakened state, his clone quickly sent him a telepathic message. ”I have just checked the entire area, and other than the black box and the altar, there are not any mechanisms in the area at all. If my deduction is correct, I think we are already at the bottommost layer of the island.”
In the two hours that Zhang Xuan had spent contemplating the meaning of life, he had already gone over every nook and cranny of the underground chamber.
With the impartation from the main body, his comprehension of formations and mechanisms had already reached the level of 7-star pinnacle. Given that, if he still could not find anything amiss after a thorough check, the chances were that there were no mechanisms in the room.
”I see.” Zhang Xuan nodded.
”What do we do now?” Zhang Xuan's clone frowned. ”Should we just destroy the Celestial Designer Lock and hope that it will kill Vicious?”
Zhang Xuan's clone had a feeling that his main body knew something, just that the latter was unwilling to speak of it.
Zhang Xuan shook his head. ”That won't do. There might be other conditions to activating the attack of the altar other than distance. If we make a rash move, we will risk triggering the altar. If so, we might very well end up as nourishment for Vicious!”
”Then…”
”It'll be safer for us to destroy the altar first. Once we destroy the altar, we will be able to do whatever we want with the box,” Zhang Xuan replied.
”Sounds reasonable.” Zhang Xuan's clone nodded.
Thus, the both of them walked closer to the altar to take a closer look at it.
The inscriptions on the altar were even more intricate than those on the altar in his storage ring. There was no way for Zhang Xuan to accurately discern the effects of the formation inscribed onto it.
Flicking his wrist, Zhang Xuan took out a spiritless Saint low-tier sword he had obtained from the Qiu Wu Palace and tossed it over.
Sou sou sou sou!
In the blink of an eye, the Saint low-tier sword was torn into pieces by the onslaught of sword qi from the altar.
Seeing the sight, the mouth of Zhang Xuan's clone twitched.
His physical body was capable of regenerating back to its original form even when it was being sliced into pieces, but his soul still was not strong enough yet. Judging by the might of the sword qi, his soul could very well dissipate if it was subjected to such an assault.
On the other hand, Zhang Xuan closed his eyes shortly after the altar came into action. A moment later, he opened his eyes once more and retrieved a bunch of formation flags from his storage ring.
”What are you planning to do with these formation flags?” Zhang Xuan's clone asked in bewilderment.
Shouldn't they have been thinking of a way to break the altar?
Why would he suddenly whip out a couple of formation flags?
”The formation inscribed onto the altar is extremely profound, at least reaching the level of grade-8. A forceful attempt to break the formation could cause it to blow up instead, which would be extremely dangerous. Thus, I intend to deal with the formation by setting another one up myself!” Zhang Xuan explained.
”Deal with the formation by setting another one up yourself?” Zhang Xuan's clone pondered for a moment before nodding in realization.
In essence, what Zhang Xuan intended to do was to use a new formation to interfere with the functions of the altar's formation and destroy its internal structure.
As simple as it sounded theoretically, it was no easy feat to pull off.
In the first place, it was already difficult to construct a formation on top of another one, and a mistake in doing so could potentially result in severe backlash from the existing formation. On top of that, in order to successfully neutralize the altar's formation, Zhang Xuan had to construct a formation that possessed might on par with it. The difficulty in doing so was truly unimaginable.
However, Zhang Xuan's clone knew that his main body would only make a move when the latter was confident of success, so he decided not to say too much about the matter. Instead, he took a few steps back and returned back into the passageway, ready to flee if a mishap occurred.
On the other hand, Zhang Xuan took a deep breath before leaping into the air. Then, he suddenly flicked his wrist.
Wuwuwuwuwu!
More than a hundred formation flags shot out from his palm, falling accurately into their respective positions.
Boom!
The next moment, the massive formation began whirring into action.
”It's a Starlight Convergence Formation…” Zhang Xuan's clone recognized the activated formation in an instant.
It was neither a Slaughter Formation nor an Illusory Formation but… a Spirit Gathering Formation!
A half grade-8 formation, it tapped into the lingering Power of Stars in the world in order to gather spiritual energy.
To use such a formation to break the altar…
”It's indeed a good idea.”
While Zhang Xuan's clone snubbed the main body for being so much weaker than him, he had to admit that he was really impressed by the latter at this moment.
The formation inscribed on the altar was extremely powerful, possibly even a grade-8 formation, and given the current strength of the main body, it would be difficult for him to set up a formation sufficiently powerful to interfere with and destroy it. However, a Spirit Gathering Formation would be a different story.