16: The power of the void formation

The mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind it.

Just as Shi Jing and Lei Ao were cleaning up the battlefield, having killed twenty-four Transformation Sea Realm Disciples of the Three Great Cloud Sects to seal off the news, they didn't know that their own demise was not far off.

While they were cleaning the battlefield, Long Aotian was silently carving a Level Five Void Annihilation Array in the Void Realm within a ten-li radius around them, using his Divine Sense.

Long Aotian could complete a Level Five Void Formation spanning a hundred li in just half a day. With experience in setting up large Formations, and the Formation being more than ten times smaller, his carving speed was naturally swift.

In less than a quarter of an hour, a Level Five Void Annihilation Array spanning seven li was completed.

For this, Long Aotian even felt that his speed in carving Void Formations was too slow and not yet proficient enough.

In battle, at critical moments, enemies wouldn't give him so much time to set up a Formation.

His Formation setting speed still needed improvement.

At least...

He needed to practice until he could set up a Void Formation spanning ten li within a minute or even half a minute, and a Void Formation spanning one li within two breaths.

One breath is three to five seconds, so two breaths is less than ten seconds.

Setting up a Void Formation spanning one li within ten seconds.

This speed, if it were for ordinary Formations, would almost be considered forming a Formation with a wave of the hand.

If it were for Void Formations, it would be as if the Formation was complete the moment his Divine Sense appeared.

In the flick of a finger, a Formation forms with a single thought!

Such rapid Formation setting speed is crucial for Formations to be effective in combat and emergency situations.

It has to be said, Long Aotian's demands on himself in the Dao of Formations were quite high... Although Long Aotian inwardly complained about his slow Formation setting speed, Shi Jing and Lei Ao's speed in cleaning the battlefield didn't seem to be very fast either. As they cleaned up, they chatted about what was in the storage rings of those Sect Disciples, leisurely and happily dividing the spoils.

Little did they know, the spoils would change hands before they even had a chance to warm up.

Having set up the Void Annihilation Array, and to avoid any complications, Long Aotian's Divine Sense stirred, and with a single thought, he activated the Formation.

In an instant!

A terrifying aura of Killing Intent enveloped the seven-li radius of heaven and earth.

Shi Jing and Lei Ao, who were preparing to return to their Family to report the situation here after dividing the spoils, instantly felt a terrifying crisis Attack upon them.

"Not good!"

They paled in shock.

However, before they could even figure out what was happening, the Formation's strangulation wind blades, condensed from Divine Sense and coming from all directions, quickly engulfed them.

"Damn it, it's a Formation!"

"How could there be a Formation here?"

"What a terrifying Formation, ah!! Damn it, I'm injured, Lei Ao, quickly find the Formation core and break the Formation!"

Within the Void Annihilation Array, facing the continuous killing attacks from all directions, Shi Jing couldn't hold on for even half a minute before suffering serious injuries.

This showed the terror of the Void Annihilation Array.

Inside the Treasure Pagoda, Long Aotian still hadn't withdrawn his Divine Sense, coldly observing everything.

"Hmph, trying to find the Formation core, trying to break the Formation? That's simply wishful thinking, utterly absurd!"

Long Aotian couldn't help but let out a cold snort, not at all worried that Shi Jing and Lei Ao could break the Void Formation.

This was a Void Formation, hidden in the Void Realm, integrated with heaven and earth, an invisible and intangible Void Formation.

Want to break the Formation?

Too naive!

Even if an ordinary Formation King came, if he didn't understand Void Formations, he would be helpless.

The only way Shi Jing and Lei Ao could break the Formation was to rely on their high Cultivation and break it with force, directly destroying it with thunderous power.

But obviously, they couldn't destroy it!

Although they were Golden Core Realm powerhouses, Long Aotian had set up a Level Five Void Annihilation Array.

A Level Five Void Annihilation Array could trap and kill a Nascent Soul Realm Old Monster, and even an Out-of-Body Realm powerhouse could be trapped.

They were only at the Late Stage Golden Core Realm Cultivation. A Formation that could even kill a Nascent Soul Realm Old Monster, their struggles were futile.

In less than two breaths, the inside of the Formation returned to calm, and Shi Jing and Lei Ao's screams could no longer be heard.

"Not bad!"

Long Aotian was quite satisfied with this speed of killing enemies.

Lei Ao and Shi Jing, after all, were Genius Cultivator Disciples of the Five Great Cultivation Families of the Imperial City, and they had many treasures on them, such as life-saving Talismans, but no matter how many treasures they had, they ultimately could not escape death.

If they were ordinary Loose Cultivators, they would probably be dealt with within a single breath.

After eliminating the two, Long Aotian leisurely emerged from the Treasure Pagoda World to collect his spoils of war.

"More than twenty storage rings, hehe, in the Long Family, these are resources that only Elder-level figures or Family Disciples who have broken through to the Golden Core Realm would be allocated.

Among them, Lei Ao's and Shi Jing's storage rings even reached a two-li radius, at least twice the size of the Long Family Head's storage ring, which was less than a one-li radius.

These storage rings alone are no small fortune."

Long Aotian muttered to himself happily while classifying the spoils of war.

"All the Spirit Medicine herbs picked in Immortal Severing Mountain, except for Wang An's, are back in my hands.

This wave was not a loss!

There are over 3.8 million Low-Grade Spirit Stones, over 200,000 Mid-Grade Spirit Stones, no High-Grade Spirit Stones, and no Top-Grade Spirit Stones. There are over fifty Magical Artifacts, all suitable for Transformation Sea Realm and Golden Core Realm.

In addition, there are over two hundred Sea Heart Medicinal Pills, a Fourth-Grade Medicinal Pill used by Transformation Sea Realm Cultivators to accelerate Cultivation.

There are over one hundred Purple Gold Medicinal Pills, a Fifth-Grade Medicinal Pill used by Golden Core Realm Cultivators to accelerate Cultivation.

There are twelve Sea King Medicinal Pills for Breakthrough from Spiritual Vein Realm to Transformation Sea Realm.

There are twenty-seven Gathering Sea Medicinal Pills for Breakthrough from Transformation Sea Realm to Golden Core Realm.

There are even five Purple Nascent Medicinal Pills for Breakthrough from Golden Core Realm to Nascent Soul Realm.

And various other miscellaneous Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth-Grade healing Medicinal Pills, life-saving Talismans, etc."

After clearing the spoils of war, Long Aotian also gasped.

The saying that 'killing people and setting fires brings wealth' was indeed true. These Sect Cultivator Disciples and Great Family Cultivator Disciples were all incredibly rich. Robbing them once basically provided many Cultivation resources.

Many Cultivators, for the sake of Cultivation resources, often engaged in such acts of killing and plundering.

Resources came quickly, so they didn't want to work hard.

"The Transformation Sea Realm Family Cultivator Disciples of the Long Family probably don't even have more than five thousand Low-Grade Spirit Stones. Compared to these Sect Cultivator Disciples, each of whom has at least one hundred thousand Low-Grade Spirit Stones, they are simply too poor to look at.

The rise of the Long Family still has a long way to go."

Long Aotian thought to himself, then returned to the stone cave hall, continuing to enter seclusion in the third-layer spatial world of the Treasure Pagoda.

As for going home?

He wanted to go back, but he had to set up a protective Formation here to ensure its safety first.

Furthermore, having killed Shi Jing and Lei Ao, he was also worried that the Lei Family and Shi Family, two of the Five Great Cultivation Families of the Imperial City, would find this place.

He wanted to continue Cultivating here for another half a year, and wait and see.

If the Lei Family and Shi Family truly courted death by provoking him, he would definitely make these two Cultivation Families regret it with no place to turn for regret...