32: Breaking the Formation Clown

The entire rocky beach fell into a deathly silence.

Those Prodigies who had previously harbored jealousy and disdain for Su Lin now all turned pale, lowered their heads, and didn't even dare to breathe, fearing that they would be next.

They finally understood that the seemingly unremarkable Nascent Soul Cultivator was not someone they could provoke.

His two disciple, any one of them, possessed terrifying strength capable of easily crushing everyone present!

Amidst this oppressive silence, the entrance to the Fallen Immortal Ravine, that massive Chaos vortex, let out an even more violent roar!

"Om!"

The grey-black miasma churned wildly, and thebrokenstones of the entire rocky beach were pulled off the ground, as if the end of the world had arrived.

"The Restriction at the entrance... has completely weakened! Now's the time!"

Someone shouted, instantly breaking the stalemate.

The greed for unknown Opportunity temporarily overcame the fear of Su Lin and his two disciple.

"Hmph! A mere dead Formation without anyone presiding over it, what can it do to me!"

A burly young man, carrying a broadsword like a door panel, with an overwhelmingly domineering aura, stepped forward. He was Lei Ao, the Young Lord of the Mad Blade Sect.

His Physical Body glowed with a bronze luster, clearly indicating successful Body Refining.

"Watch me cleave this turtle shell with one strike!"

Lei Ao roared, his Late Nascent Soul Stage Spiritual Qi erupting without reservation. He raised his broadsword high, "Mad Thunder Blade Art!"

A hundred-zhang-long purple Dragon thunder blade light, carrying the momentum to split mountains and rivers, fiercely struck towards the Chaos vortex! The power of this strike made many surrounding Cultivators change their expressions.

However, Su Lin merely raised his eyelids slightly, a barely perceptible, amused curve forming at the corner of his mouth, as if watching a good show.

Mu Qingxue and Luo Ximei, beside him, exchanged a glance.

"Senior Sister, this Restriction..."

Mu Qingxue transmitted her voice, a hint of awe in her cold tone.

"Its Spiritual Qi circulation is perfectly integrated, without any flaws, as if it forms its own Heaven and Earth.

If I were to unleash my full true cultivation, it would probably take several days to find even a hint of an opening."

"More than that," Luo Ximei's peach blossom eyes sparkled continuously, "Didn't you notice? This Restriction is alive.

These fools' attacks are merely feeding it. Revered Master was truly mischievous back then... I love it."

Just as they expected, the thunder Dragon blade light, powerful enough to cleave mountains and seas, was completely swallowed by the deep darkness the moment it touched the Chaos vortex, without even a ripple!

"What?!" Lei Ao's sinister grin completely froze.

The next moment, an extremely condensed, pitch-black spatial blade shot out from the center of the vortex, moving too fast for the naked eye to catch!

Lei Ao was greatly alarmed and hastily raised his broadsword to block.

With a loud "clang," he spat out a large mouthful of fresh blood, his body flying backward, smashing a large pit into the ground. The broadsword in his hand was covered in cracks, and he looked utterly disheveled.

Lei Ao's miserable defeat plunged the scene into a momentary dead silence, but it was quickly broken by a cold sneer.

"Idiot, brute force is useless!"

From the crowd, a woman with a refined temperament, dressed in a Seven-Star Daoist robe and holding several Formation Flags, slowly walked out.

Her appearance was beautiful, but her expression carried an air of intellectual superiority. She was Lin Long, the True Disciple of Seven Stars Pavilion, renowned among the younger generation of Qingzhou for her Dao of Formation.

She didn't even glance at Lei Ao, who was in the deep pit, his fate unknown. She merely cast a disdainful look at the frightened Cultivators and said indifferently, "How can such an ancient Restriction be understood by you barbaric Cultivators who only know how to fight and kill? Watch carefully, the Dao of Formation lies in finding its life gate and breaking its Formation eye!"

These words made many Cultivators present feel a bit embarrassed, but seeing her identity as a Seven Stars Pavilion disciple and her confidence, no one dared to refute her for a while.

Lin Long's jade-like finger flicked lightly, and dozens of shimmering Formation Flags flew out like dancing butterflies, landing with extreme precision at various positions around the Chaos vortex.

These positions were not chosen randomly but conformed to the principles of the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches, and the circulation of the Seven Stars. As the flags landed, they instantly outlined a miniature star map, drawing in the surrounding Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi.

"It's the Seven Stars Pavilion's [Seven Stars Spirit Probing Formation]! It's said this Formation can see through all illusions and point directly to the Origin!" someone exclaimed.

A hint of arrogance appeared on Lin Long's face. She formed hand seals, sat cross-legged, and her Divine Sense, like an invisible spiritual snake, cautiously extended towards the Chaos vortex, guided by the star map.

"Found it!"

After only a few breaths, Lin Long suddenly opened her eyes, her face filled with ecstasy. In her Divine Sense probing, the originally chaotic interior of the vortex had indeed revealed a clear network of FormationVeins, composed of countless Spiritual Qi nodes. The Spiritual Qi flow at one of these nodes was noticeably gentler than elsewhere—precisely the theoretical "life gate"!

"So that's how it is, tough on the outside, soft on the inside, with Chaos as its appearance, but a different universe within! As long as this life gate is broken, the Restriction will naturally unravel!"

She no longer hesitated, urging all her Spiritual Qi and pouring it into the "Seven Stars Spirit Probing Formation," converging it into an extremely condensed starlight, which shot directly towards that "life gate"!

However, just as that starlight was about to touch the "life gate," Luo Ximei, beside Su Lin, couldn't help but cover her mouth and chuckle softly.

"Seventh Junior Sister, look at her, doesn't she look like a moth flying into a honey trap?"

A hint of understanding also flickered in Mu Qingxue's cold eyes. She nodded slightly and transmitted her voice, "Revered Master's Dao of Formation has long transcended the scope of mere Formations, forming its own Dao Domain.

Within the Dao Domain, the rules are set by Revered Master.

Her attempt to use fixed Formation theories to break a Formation that is constantly evolving, and even possesses consciousness, is like climbing a tree to catch a fish.

The life gate she saw was merely a bait set by Revered Master back then."

Luo Ximei's charming eyes curved into crescent moons: "Revered Master must have been very bored back then to set up such an interesting toy to prank later generations. These self-proclaimed Geniuses, in his eyes, are probably no different from clowns."

Su Lin listened to his two disciple' "live commentary," the smile in his eyes growing deeper, while he thought, "Was I that mischievous back then? It seems... I really was."

Just as the two women were conversing, a sudden change occurred on the field!

The moment Lin Long's confident starlight pierced the life gate, that originally gentle node suddenly contracted, transforming into a black hole that swallowed everything!

And the surrounding, previously obscure death gates, at the same time, erupted with brilliant light, transforming into deadly killing Formations!

Life and death reversed in an instant!

"Oh no! It's a trap!" Lin Long was terrified to the extreme, wanting to retract her Divine Sense, but it was too late.

A chaotic force, a hundred times more immense than when she extended it, surged back fiercely along the connection of her Divine Sense!

"Pfft—!"

Lin Long was struck as if by lightning, violently spitting out a mouthful of heart's blood. Her delicate body trembled violently, and her face instantly turned ashen. The dozens of Formation Flags she had set up all exploded with "bang bang bang" sounds.