Chapter 89: Difficult Formation Ban

As the formation unfolded, Gu Xiuyun seemed to be trapped in a wasteland.

The earth cracked, flames rose, and clusters of sparks passed around him, flying like sharp arrows, leaving behind a sharp sound of breaking through the air.

Gu Xiuyun was doing two things at once, staring at the formation diagram and urging the black armor of the spirit turtle to deduce the changes in it. At the same time, the spiritual power around him was diffused and fluctuated, turning into a series of light curtains to resist the remaining power of the flames.

Gu Xiuyun had not practiced the secret art of spiritual armor. With his physical body alone, he could not resist the fire in the formation. This was a spiritual flame. Even if a monster beast that was good at body refining was touched by the sparks, it would burn a large piece of skin and flesh, let alone a human cultivator?

The human race mainly cultivates the spiritual veins, while the monster beasts mainly cultivate the physical body. When they were in the cleansing veins realm, the difference between the two races was not big, and the physical bodies were quite tough.

After entering the opening vein realm, as the cultivation became deeper and deeper, the difference between their physical bodies became larger and larger.

The third level demon beast of Kaimai Realm can knock down a small mountain with its flesh body alone. Its strength is as high as one million jin, while the flesh body of human beings is less than 30,000 jin.

Even demon beasts cannot resist the burning of Lihuo, let alone human beings?

Human cultivators are not good at physical combat.

Gu Xiuyun's body is like the wind, constantly changing in the formation. Almost every breath has to travel several feet, and there are always flames flying around him. Flame arrows streak through the void, leaving rainbow lights.

"The Lihuo Burning Origin Formation has two means of attack, one is the flame arrows, and the other is the heat wave that permeates the formation. The flame arrows are extremely lethal, but there are very few of them. It's just that the speed is extremely fast, so it looks like it is all over the void. With my deduction method, it is not difficult to avoid the flame arrows. The real threat is the terrifying heat in the formation."

Gu Xiuyun walked calmly in the formation, and almost every step was in the safest position.

With the array diagram in front of him, every step of the Lihuo Array was already in his mind, and even how many steps he had to take next to pass through the Lihuo Array, Gu Xiuyun also knew clearly.

Gu Xiuyun understood that the Lihuo Array was no longer a threat to him, but even so, he still had to spend 30% of his spiritual power to resist the ubiquitous high temperature heat wave.

"If I can master a defensive secret method, why should I spend 30% of my spiritual power to resist the high temperature? It's a pity that the Wuhen Sect's secret techniques can only be taught by the masters of each peak except the Secret Method Hall. I can't learn it even if I want to." Gu Xiuyun shook his head and sighed.

For human cultivators, 90% of their combat power lies in the immortal secrets and spiritual weapons. Without relying on these two, they can't even exert 10% of their strength with spiritual power alone.

After all, humans are not like monsters. Monsters have strong bodies, and their brute force combined with magical powers can have the power to overturn rivers and seas. It doesn't make much difference to them whether they have secrets or not.

After a long time, the Lihuo Formation returned to calm, and Gu Xiuyun stepped out of the Formation Forbidden Platform and climbed to the third level.

The third level was a Gengjin Formation.

The formation was full of sword beams, and the silver sword light fell like drizzle, and there was almost no gap to hide.

"As expected, the difficulty of the third level has increased a lot. If this Gengjin Formation is used to the extreme, it is enough to kill the first-level demon beast of the open meridian." Gu Xiuyun's heart sank slightly, "According to this situation, the more I go back, the more difficult the formation will be. If I don't use the immortal secret method, I'm afraid I will stop at the first ten levels."

After entering three formation forbidden platforms in succession, Gu Xiuyun has calculated the power of the formation behind. He understands that he underestimated the formation forbidden mountain.

Originally thought that with the help of the heavenly secret deduction, the first twenty levels would not be a problem, but only the second level caused his spiritual power to be depleted by 30%, and the Gengjin Formation on the third level made Gu Xiuyun embarrassed, and he didn't even have time to rest.

It can be seen that the formation on the formation forbidden mountain is not simple.

In fact, it is true. Which of those Wuhen Sect disciples has not been immersed in the art of formation for decades? Even if they have poor talents, after decades of hard practice, their understanding of formations is far better than Gu Xiuyun. In addition, he has reached the Kaimai realm and has passed more than ten layers of formation restrictions.

Gu Xiuyun has only practiced formations for ten days, how can he compare with the decades of comprehension of Wuhen Sect disciples.

The reason why he can easily pass through the Wutu Formation and Lihuo Formation is not that Gu Xiuyun is talented in the art of formation, but that he used the means of heavenly secrets to deduce the formation diagram and understood the changes in the formation in advance. This is cheating and cannot be considered as an understanding of the art of formation.

If he stops deducing the heavenly secrets, Gu Xiuyun's realm in the art of formation may not be as good as Fu Lan.

Even with the deduction of heavenly secrets, the difficulty of the formations behind is too high, and Gu Xiuyun must rely on the secret method of the immortal way to successfully pass through.

It is absolutely impossible to do it with spiritual power alone.

"Do I have to admit defeat?" Gu Xiuyun's heart sank slightly.

He had deduced that even if he used his skills to the extreme, he could only stop at the tenth floor. Beyond that, there was no hope without using the secrets of the immortal way.

However, the several secrets he practiced were not passed down in the Wuhen Sect. Once used, they would attract the attention of the Wuhen Sect's high-level officials.

Those secrets of the immortal way were not his six deductions.

The six deductions had no roots or sources. Even if others asked about it, Gu Xiuyun could say that they were secret books he got accidentally.

The Dust Escape and Light Refining Finger were both passed down from the Weak Water Sect, and there were traces to follow. It was too suspicious for a Wuhen Sect disciple to practice the secrets of the Weak Water Sect without using the secrets of his own sect.

"Looking at the current situation, there is no hope of breaking into the fourteenth floor before the first sermon at the beginning of the month," Gu Xiuyun said calmly, "Since that's the case, we have to think of a way to delay time."

Time passed.

Soon, the Gengjin Formation was also broken through, and Gu Xiuyun stepped onto the fourth floor.

And Taoist Mingfang stood on the fifteenth forbidden platform and did not move forward. He had tried to break through the sixteenth level, but he could not even last half an incense stick of time. It can be seen that the gap is quite large.

Taoist Mingfang knew very well that this was because he had only cultivated one intermediate secret technique to perfection. If he could master three intermediate methods at the same time and cultivate them all to perfection, it would not be impossible to break through the first twenty levels.

"Humph, even if there are only fifteen levels, it is enough to win the spirit bag," Taoist Mingfang smiled as he looked at Gu Xiuyun who walked slowly into the fourth forbidden platform. "The first ten levels are so slow, which shows that this person has a lot of cultivation, and his attainments in secret techniques are far inferior to mine."

Gu Xiuyun and Taoist Mingfang were not in a hurry, but the disciples below were waiting anxiously.

Gu Xiuyun's speed of breaking through the formation was extremely slow. It took half an hour to pass through one level. At this rate, even if he waited until dark, he would not be able to break through the forbidden mountain.

Two hours later, most of the disciples who were watching around had left, and only a few people were still watching.

"Brother Mingji, have we been waiting here all the time?" asked the fellow disciple behind Taoist Mingji. "The homework assigned by the master has not been done today!"

"Wait another hour." Taoist Mingji frowned slightly. It was indeed not worth wasting time here just to vent his anger.

But this matter was caused by Taoist Mingji. If even he left, Junior Brother Mingfang would be embarrassed.

Several fellow disciples looked at each other helplessly, sat cross-legged, and closed their eyes to practice.

Another hour passed, and Gu Xiuyun finally broke through the fifth-level forbidden platform. He stumbled out of the platform and was about to continue climbing, but heard a cold shout from below.

"Stop!"

Gu Xiuyun turned his head and saw that it was Taoist Mingji.

"Brother, what advice do you have?" Gu Xiuyun asked.

"It's not a matter of advice, I just want to persuade you to admit defeat. This matter is also a battle of wills. You have already lost, so why struggle?" Taoist Mingji said coldly.

"Oh, the defeat is certain?" Gu Xiuyun smiled lightly, "I think the two sides are evenly matched, and the winner is not yet determined, so how can I admit defeat?"

"We all have things to do, we can't just wait here and watch you slowly break through the formation!" Mingji Taoist's fellow disciples shouted, "Besides, tomorrow is the beginning of the month, and the mountain masters of each peak will give lectures, and we have to rush back to listen to them."

"Anyway, I will never admit defeat, why don't you persuade that Taoist to admit defeat, let me win the bet, and then let it go." Gu Xiuyun smiled.

Mingji Taoist looked to the other side.

"Brother Mingji, the spirit bag is very precious, I can't give it up." Mingfang Taoist shook his head.

If it was an ordinary treasure, it would be fine to admit defeat, but the spirit bag is extremely rare. If you miss it, you don't know when you will get it next time.

Looking at the two sides who were unwilling to give in, Mingji Taoist frowned, and even felt a little regretful in his heart. If he had known this, why would he bother Gu Xiuyun for a moment of anger?

He knew that Gu Xiuyun was not the disciple who secretly scolded him for being a hindsighter, but he could not admit it because of his face.

"Since Brother Mingfang is unwilling to admit defeat, why not let me continue to fight. However, the further I go, the more powerful the formation will be, and the longer it will take me. In addition to healing and recovering spiritual power, it will take about four or five days." Gu Xiuyun said with a smile.