65: The key to breaking the deadlock

From the moment the Dragon appeared, Yang Kai had a bad premonition and began to search for a way to break the situation in his mind. The grand Formation that Yang Kai guided everyone to set up was based on the Flowing Cloud Sect's mountain-protecting Formation. As long as one cultivated a few widely spread Cultivation Techniques within the Flowing Cloud Sect, they could enter the Formation and become a Formation eye, saving a lot of time in setting up and calibrating the Formation.

Everyone here was an Outer Sect Disciple of the Flowing Cloud Sect, and they all cultivated the Cultivation Techniques taught to Outer Sect Disciples of the Flowing Cloud Sect. With everyone sharing the same origin, the grand Formation was easily established.

“The Flowing Cloud Sect’s mountain-protecting grand Formation?!!! Good! I led people to attack the Flowing Cloud Sect back then and personally destroyed this Formation. Today, you set up such an incomplete grand Formation, dragging a group of ants to contend against a Core Formation Stage Yao Beast? To contend against me? Delusional!!! This is good too. It would be troublesome to kill so many people one by one. Once this grand Formation breaks, these ants will be instantly killed by the Formation's backlash. That taste, tsk tsk tsk...” The Formation Spirit, transformed into a Golden Dragon, saw the Dragon trapped in the Formation but showed no panic, instead speaking with disdain.

“If this grand Formation is truly so useless, why bother with verbal attacks? Just break it directly. Saying so much, are you trying to intimidate these low-level Disciples and make the grand Formation collapse from within?” Yang Kai's Divine Sense was currently under high load. Fortunately, the Heaven And Earth Treasure that enhanced Divine Sense he had taken before still had a large amount of medicinal power hidden in Yang Kai's Sea of Consciousness. Now, under such high pressure, a large amount of medicinal power continuously emerged, nourishing Yang Kai's Sea of Consciousness, and his Divine Sense also received a great replenishment.

Yang Kai, whose pressure had just eased, keenly sensed that many people within the grand Formation were affected by the Formation Spirit's words. With a thousand people and a thousand thoughts, if this continued, the grand Formation would surely disintegrate. Thus, Yang Kai spoke to defuse the Formation Spirit's verbal assault, and then continuously permeated the grand Formation with his Divine Sense, increasing his control over the grand Formation.

“You sharp-tongued brat, I’ve tolerated you for too long! If it weren’t for you jumping around here, I would have achieved my wish long ago! Since you want to die, I’ll grant your wish!” Perhaps it was because his little scheme was exposed by Yang Kai, the Formation Spirit became enraged out of shame. Under his command, the Dragon let out a long roar. At this moment, the distant Yao Core swiftly smashed towards the grand Formation, and the Dragon also began to constantly attack the grand Formation from within, intending to break through the grand Formation in one go with a coordinated attack.

“Alright, Zhao Hongyu, Zhong Leshan, how are you two recovering? Can you still make a move?” At this moment, a look of joy appeared on Yang Kai's face. As his control over this grand Formation reached a certain level, Yang Kai finally activated the true power of this grand Formation.

“No problem, just tell us what to do!” Zhong Leshan nodded without speaking. Zhao Hongyu, beside him, stretched his limbs and said with certainty.

“This grand Formation connects the life and cultivation of nearly a thousand Disciples. I can now extract their cultivation and empower the two of you. You must quickly familiarize yourselves with this power, then split into two groups to block the Yao Core and the Dragon, protect the grand Formation, and buy me time.” As Yang Kai spoke, he manipulated the Divine Sense attached to Zhao Hongyu and the other, guiding a large amount of pure energy into their bodies.

“Ah! So refreshing!” Zhao Hongyu couldn't help but groan in comfort. His physical foundation was no less than Yang Kai's, and the power he could bear was also extremely vast. He felt the surging power in his hands and looked at the Dragon within the Formation with an unfriendly gaze.

Zhong Leshan, however, frowned deeply. Clearly, this power was too much of a burden for him. He couldn't even bear three-tenths of the energy Zhao Hongyu could, and he was already struggling, his body trembling slightly.

“Go!” This power will continuously flow into your bodies. The profound mysteries within it will require you to adapt and slowly comprehend them as you go.” Yang Kai tried his best to support the slightly swaying grand Formation, urging them on.

Zhao Hongyu and the other nodded at Yang Kai and stood up to leave. Zhao Hongyu's footsteps gradually quickened, and finally, he leaped high, smashing fiercely towards the Dragon!

“You beast! Taste this!” Zhao Hongyu pushed his Cultivation Technique to the extreme, and his muscular body reappeared. With the grand Formation's empowerment, his attack power increased several times. For a time, he actually fought the Dragon to a standstill.

Zhong Leshan, on the other hand, stood at the very front of the grand Formation, in front of Yang Kai. A treasured sword slowly appeared in his hand, and a mysterious Dao Concept flowed on the sword. Yang Kai, behind him, split a trace of his mind to observe the battle. Having already experienced the Concept, he immediately recognized that what was continuously brewing on Zhong Leshan's sword was a Sword Technique imbued with Concept.

Unlike his own clever approach, Zhong Leshan had truly comprehended a complete Concept, and his Sword Technique had reached the Great Master realm. Yang Kai quietly pondered, discovering that the Concepts of the two were indeed very different. Compared to Yang Kai's Moonfall Concept, Zhong Leshan's Concept was not confined to a certain form; it seemed to possess a Soul, changing endlessly and difficult to guard against.

“Clang!!!”

Zhong Leshan swung his sword, and a tenth of the energy within the grand Formation was instantly drawn out of thin air. Yang Kai quickly stabilized the grand Formation, continuing to extract more Disciples' cultivation power, transforming it into pure energy, and injecting it into Zhong Leshan's body.

“A Sword Cultivator's full-power attack is truly terrifying.” Yang Kai looked at Zhong Leshan with some astonishment. If Body Refining had a higher lower limit, then Sword Cultivators had a higher upper limit. Even if Zhao Hongyu used all his means, he could only double his attack power based on his own strength, while Zhong Leshan's Concept could unleash ten or even a hundred times his own strength. That single sword strike just now, which landed heavily on the Yao Core, actually caused a crack in the sturdy Yao Core!

“Idiot! What an idiot! What kind of trash Yao Beasts did you, old Flowing Cloud, design? It's already at Core Formation Stage and hasn't even awakened its Bloodline Power, let alone knowing a single Demonic Technique or innate Divine Ability. Is this even considered a Yao Beast?” The Formation Spirit, who was watching the show from the side, instantly flew into a rage at this sight. However, due to the restrictions of the rules here, he couldn't directly intervene and could only curse continuously from the side.

“Alright, that’s enough!” With Zhao Hongyu and Zhong Leshan protecting the grand Formation, Yang Kai was able to calmly increase his mastery of the grand Formation. If before, he had enabled the extraction of Cultivators' cultivation from the Formation eyes and selectively injected it into certain Formation eye Disciples, reaching fifty percent control, now, after Yang Kai continuously used his Divine Sense to permeate the grand Formation, his mastery of this grand Formation was almost ninety percent!

“No! You brat, you don’t intend to kill the Dragon with this grand Formation, do you? You must know something? How is this possible? I erased all traces of this place long ago. How could you Disciples, who just entered not long ago, know the secrets here? I won’t let you succeed, never!!!” The Formation Spirit saw Yang Kai's increasing mastery of the grand Formation and suddenly thought of a possibility, which immediately sent him into a frenzy. His body contracted, and a golden light shot out from his mouth, actually penetrating the Yao Core and entering it.

After doing all this, the Formation Spirit's aura immediately withered, and even his figure became transparent. But the Formation Spirit didn't care; instead, he muttered incoherently, “Die, all of you die!!!”