Chapter 603: Double Formation, Power of the Four Symbols (Combined Chapter)
Five days later, deep in the Fuyun Mountains in the northwest of Yue State.
A purple light flew over and landed on a deserted mountain, transforming into a purple flying car about two meters long.
He Mengxin, wearing a green Taoist robe, jumped off the flying car first. After a glance around, he saw that there was nothing unusual on the mountain wall in front of him, and then he put down the worry on his face.
Song Qingming and Song Qingyu, wearing a black hat, also jumped down and came to He Mengxin's side.
"Sister He, is the senior's cave you found here?"
He Mengxin pointed to a steep and smooth mountain wall not far away, and said to Song Qingyu beside her: "Yes! The cave is located below that mountain wall. It should be at least a thousand years old.
The hidden formation outside the cave is also very cleverly arranged. If it weren't for Senior Sister Xia's high cultivation and her mastery of formations, it would be difficult for me to find the clues alone."
Following the direction pointed by He Mengxin, Song Qingming looked from a distance and vaguely felt that there seemed to be some traces of formations covering the top of the mountain wall.
"Building a cave in such a place, and still not being found for thousands of years, it shows that this person is really powerful. After we go there, Qingyu, don't go in yet, wait until we are ready inside!"
"Well! Brother Qi, don't worry, I know how to protect myself, and I won't cause trouble for you all." Hearing Song Qingming's careful instructions, Song Qingyu hurriedly nodded with a smile.
A few days ago, when He Mengxin and the others proposed to take Song Qingyu with them, although Song Qingming was a little worried, he still took the initiative to ask Song Qingyu's opinion.
After all, He Mengxin and the others had already named and only wanted to take Song Qingyu with them, and would not accept other unfamiliar cultivators to go with them. If Song Qingming refused without asking, I am afraid that both sides would have a grudge again.
Besides, whether this matter can be accomplished, after all, it is related to Qingyu's personal path, and Song Qingming can't force her to make the decision, so he took He Mengxin to ask Song Qingyu's opinion.
After knowing He Mengxin's intention, Song Qingyu did not hesitate too much, and soon agreed to it, and followed the others all the way here.
In order to avoid being recognized by others when they met, Song Qingming and Song Qingyu tried their best to wear hats along the way to cover their true appearance.
Fortunately, the journey of the few people was relatively smooth. When they went around the Floating Cloud Mountains, they only encountered a few low-level flying monsters harassing them, and did not face the high-level monster king and other Jindan cultivators.
Just as the three of them said a few words, Xia Mo, who was dressed in white and had a veil on her face, also landed lightly in the air, and then waved her hand to put away the purple flying car above the heads of the few people.
Seeing the flying car in Xia Mo's hand that had turned into the size of a palm, Song Qingming's face also showed a bit of envy.
This purple flying car not only looks very exquisite, but also is a very rare third-level upper-grade flying magic weapon in the world of cultivation, and its flying speed is far higher than the "Phantom Boat" on Song Qingming.
Several people rode on Xia Mo's flying car, and in just three days they traveled thousands of miles to this place. If it was Song Qingming's phantom boat, they would probably still be halfway there, and it would take at least one or two more days.
After putting the flying boat in her hand into the storage magic weapon, Xia Mo said hello to everyone, and then turned into a beam of light and flew to the mountain wall in front.
Seeing this, Song Qingming and the other two immediately followed her, and they arrived in front of the mountain wall they had seen before in a moment.
After approaching the mountain wall, Song Qingming also clearly felt that there was a very pure spiritual energy of heaven and earth constantly coming out of the mountain wall.
Seeing the scene of the spiritual energy constantly leaking out, Song Qingming also guessed that it should be the result of the large formation in the cave that had been destroyed by He Mengxin and the others.
Even if He Mengxin and the others had restored the hidden formation outside when they left, they could not stop the spiritual energy from leaking out here.
The place where this cave is located is not particularly remote and deep. If the spiritual energy in the cave cannot be prevented from leaking out, as the concentration of spiritual energy around it becomes higher and higher, even if no human cultivators find this place, it will attract those high-level demon kings.
It is estimated that the secret here will not be kept for at most one or two months. No wonder He Mengxin and the others are so anxious to find me here to help.
"There is such a rich spiritual energy here. It seems that there should be a high-level ground vein under this mountain." After feeling the surrounding spiritual energy, Song Qingming couldn't help but speak softly.
He Mengxin immediately smiled and replied, "Fellow Daoist Song is right. The formation here has been in operation for a thousand years and its power has not weakened much. There must be a third-level spiritual energy supporting it.
The owner of the cave also spent a lot of effort to use the formation to completely cover up the spiritual energy below. In addition, the third-level concealment formation outside has made it possible for this place to remain unknown to outsiders for so many years.
To be honest, if it weren't for the sudden appearance of the rosy clouds that day and someone happened to see it, I'm afraid we wouldn't have had such an opportunity to find this place so easily."
"Haha! Daoist He is right. It is indeed enviable that the two Daoists have such an opportunity. It seems that I will have the opportunity to travel abroad in the future. Maybe I will have the opportunity to encounter such good luck." Song Qingming nodded slightly and sighed with envy.
"Qingyu, keep this talisman. If you meet someone or a high-level monster approaching here, you don't need to be nervous. Just crush this talisman and we will know immediately."
Xia Mo raised her jade hand, and a white talisman with a special look immediately appeared in her hand. She handed it to Song Qingyu.
"Thank you, Senior Xia!" After Song Qingyu took the talisman and carefully put it away, he bowed slightly to Xia Mo, and then flew directly to the top of the mountain on the flying sword.
After Song Qingyu left, Xia Mo's hand moved with a flash of light, and immediately a golden circular array plate appeared in his hand. He threw it directly into the air with a flick of his hand.
As Xia Mo cast a few hand gestures, the golden array in the air immediately emitted a dazzling golden light, and then five spiritual lights shot out from it and shone directly on the mountain wall in front of the people.
Seeing Xia Mo's familiar set of array-breaking techniques, Song Qingming's face also showed a little surprise.
This woman is not only powerful and advanced, but also a third-level array master whose array level is not inferior to his own. No wonder she was able to find the abnormality of this place at that time.
To be honest, although he had met Xia Mo several times and had dealt with her several times, Xia Mo, whose face was often covered by a veil, always gave Song Qingming the feeling that she was a little unpredictable.
During the several meetings, the magic weapons and spiritual objects Xia Mo casually took out were basically very rare third-level upper-grade spiritual objects in the world of immortal cultivation, and the magical skills she displayed were also excellent, far from those Jindan cultivators that Song Qingming had seen before.
Although Song Qingming had dealt with the two several times and knew that she and He Mengxin were both from a Yuanying sect in the East China Sea Xiuxian world, Xia Mo's cultivation had just broken through the seventh level of Jindan and entered the late Jindan stage not long ago.
It was indeed hard to imagine that a seventh-level Jindan cultivator could have so many precious magic weapons and spiritual objects.
Even Yao Qianshu, the head of Xiaoyao Sect, might not be as wealthy as the woman in front of him. This really surprised and envied Song Qingming, and he also became a little curious about Xia Mo's identity.
While Song Qingming was still thinking in his heart, under Xia Mo's spell control, the array above the three people's heads suddenly became bright.
The five spiritual lights shining on the mountain wall soon gathered together, and a dark circular hole slowly opened from the middle of the mountain wall.
Seeing that Xia Mo had opened the hidden magic array outside, Song Qingming and He Mengxin looked at each other, and immediately passed through the gap in the array and entered the mountain wall.
As soon as he landed, Song Qingming glanced around and immediately found a running array eye from a corner of the cave where he was.
Song Qingming stepped forward, took a closer look at the array eye, and flicked his sleeves, and five array flags of different colors flew out quickly and landed on the open space around the array eye.
Then, Song Qingming shot out a stream of magic power with both hands, instantly activating the five array flags arranged on the ground, and then several spiritual lights intertwined on the array flags, firmly locking the spiritual energy that was constantly emanating from the array eye in front of Song Qingming.
As the spiritual energy emanating from the array eye became thinner and thinner, the spiritual energy on the hidden magic array outside also became weaker and weaker, and could no longer completely cover the cave entrance.
Seeing this, Xia Mo outside immediately put away the array disk in her hand, and directly forced through the array whose power was only one tenth of what it was, and entered the cave.
As soon as she entered the cave, Xia Mo raised her jade hand slightly, and a blue jade box flew into Song Qingming's hand. It was the jade box containing the Jade True Water that she had taken out in front of Song Qingming before.
"Fellow Daoist Song, since we are already here, I will give this item to you first. I hope you can help me when we break the formation together later."
After taking the jade box sent by Xia Mo, opening it and taking a look at the spiritual object inside, Song Qingming put it away with a satisfied look on his face, and bowed to Xia Mo and the other person beside him and said:
"Don't worry, fairies. Since I have promised you, I will definitely not break my promise. Besides, I have already risked my life to come here, and I don't want to miss this opportunity."
Xia Mo nodded slightly, glanced at the formation eye that Song Qingming had just locked with the formation flag, and continued to speak to Song Qingming:
"Fellow Daoist Song, let's open the formation outside to cover this place first, so as not to make too much noise when breaking the formation later, attracting those low-level monsters to mistakenly enter this place and disturb us."
After Song Qingming was slightly stunned when he heard this, he also felt that it made sense, so he immediately cast a spell to put away the formation flag beside him and restarted the formation at the door.
This cave is about ten feet high and five or six feet wide, which is enough for two people to walk side by side.
The three of them walked along the cave entrance. After walking for dozens of feet, the road ahead began to slope down. After walking for about a cup of tea, a dazzling white light shield finally appeared in front of them.
Seeing the white light shield from afar, Song Qingming immediately felt the powerful spiritual power fluctuations coming from nearby. Judging from the situation, the one in front should be the third-level upper-grade magic array that Xia Mo and the others had mentioned before.
After walking to a distance of four or five feet from the white light shield, Xia Mo stopped first, then turned to Song Qingming who was walking behind and said:
"Fellow Daoist Song, this is the big array we need to break. The last time we tried this array, we only destroyed less than 10% of the array runes, and we suffered the automatic backlash attack of the big array.
In addition to borrowing the Four Symbols Magic Array and forcibly destroying the array eye inside, I haven't thought of a better way yet. Daoist fellow is also a person who is proficient in arrays. Why don't you take a look at the situation first to see if there is a better way to break the array."
Seeing that the other party seemed to want to see his array level, Song Qingming did not speak politely. After a slight nod, he immediately stepped forward and began to study the array in detail.
After carefully watching for about an incense stick of time, Song Qingming sighed slightly with a look of displeasure on his face, turned around and bowed to Xia Mo beside him and said:
"If I am not mistaken, although this formation is of the third-grade upper grade, it should be just a defensive formation and will not have too strong attack power.
The reason why the two Taoist friends were attacked by the backlash of the formation when they broke the formation before, I guess it should be that there is a hidden third-grade offensive formation behind this formation.
These two formations should be connected together by someone who set up the formation, and merged into a double formation. As long as someone tries If you forcefully break the formation outside, another formation inside will be triggered at any time, automatically attacking the person who breaks the formation.
Such a clever calculation must have been made by the owner of the cave. It seems that this person's formation setting level should not be low, at least much better than mine. "
After hearing Song Qingming's analysis, Xia Mo's face covered by the veil also showed a little surprise. After thinking for a moment, she asked softly:
"Since Fellow Daoist Song can see the clues behind this formation, does Fellow Daoist have a better way to break the formation?"
Seeing that He Mengxin and Xia Mo were both serious and anxious, Staring at himself, Song Qingming shook his head with a slightly embarrassed look and said:
"With my level of formation, I can only barely see these clues. There is no other better way to break it. Although the Four Symbols Breaking Formation method proposed by Daoist Xia requires more effort, it is indeed the best way for us to break the formation at the moment.
However, when we forcefully break the formation next, I am afraid that we will still be attacked by the big formation inside. It is better to make some countermeasures in advance to avoid anyone getting hurt."
After thinking for a while, Xia Mo nodded slightly and said: "Daoyou reminded me, but this matter is beyond Don't worry. Although we failed to break the formation last time, we have already found out that the attack formation inside is not of high grade. It should be just a third-level lower-grade formation.
I still have a set of three-talent formation in my hand. In critical moments, I can concentrate the magic power of three people to fight the enemy together. When breaking the formation later, each of you three will hold a formation flag. It shouldn't be a big problem to take care of each other. "
Seeing Xia Mo's tone so confident, Song Qingming didn't say anything more. He nodded silently and began to help her prepare for breaking the formation.
After dealing with the other party several times, Song Qingming had already seen Xia Mo's wealth in his heart. He was not surprised that she could immediately come up with a set of high-level formations.
Song Qingming and Xia Mo are both third-level formation masters. With the help of He Mengxin, it took less than a day for the three of them to prepare all the matters for breaking the formation.
Afterwards, Song Qingming went out again, brought Song Qingyu in, and explained to her the Four Symbols Breaking Array Method used by Xia Mo.
This Four Symbols Breaking Array Method is also a common method used by array masters in the world of immortal cultivation.
Unlike the "Rune Stealing Breaking Array Method" that Song Qingming had used before, the Four Symbols Breaking Array Method is somewhat cumbersome to prepare in the early stage and takes a lot of time.
But the power used to break the array is much more direct and powerful than the "Rune Stealing Breaking Array Method". As long as at least four people who meet the requirements of the cultivation level are gathered, the chance of breaking the third-level upper-grade array in front of them is still very high.
However, when using this method to break the array, it is necessary to constantly adjust and control the power of the four symbols in the array. In addition to having sufficient cultivation, the person who breaks the array must also have some basic understanding of the way of the array.
The higher the overall array level of the person who breaks the array, the greater the power of the "Four Symbols Breaking Array Method" will be.
Although He Mengxin and Song Qingyu's formation skills are not high, the presence of Song Qingming and Xia Mo, two third-level formation masters, is enough to make up for this shortcoming.
Song Qingyu and the others only need to understand the steps of breaking the formation in advance, and in the following process of breaking the formation, they just need to actively cooperate with Song Qingming and Xia Mo who are responsible for breaking the formation.
In addition to Song Qingyu, Song Qingming actually has another Jindan combat power, that is, the corpse puppet Jinfeng who has been following him.
However, the corpse puppet is a puppet without self-awareness. It can only obey the orders given by its master instinctively, and cannot flexibly control more complex formations such as the "Four Symbols Breaking Formation Method".
Because of this, even if Jin Feng has the cultivation of the early stage of the Golden Core, he can only stand at the exit of the cave and guard the others when they break the formation.
After arranging everything, Xia Mo threw out three formation flags and put them in the hands of Song Qingming and the other two, and then took out a golden pill and gave it to Song Qingyu on the side.
"This pill is made by the unique secret method of my Baihua Palace. After taking it, a ninth-level foundation cultivator can have the same mana as a first-level Jindan cultivator within an hour.
But you have to remember that this cannot help you use the magical powers that only Jindan cultivators have. When you break the formation later, if you encounter danger, you still have to use the Three Talents Formation Flag in your hand to deal with it, and don't rashly use your own mana to fight it.
Otherwise, the huge mana of the Jindan realm will definitely be difficult for your body as a foundation cultivator to bear. Once the mana is not properly controlled, it may hurt your physical meridians. You must remember this."
"Thank you for your reminder, senior. I already know it!" After hearing Xia Mo's careful instructions, Song Qingyu nodded seriously and responded, and then reached out to take the golden pill in Xia Mo's hand with a cautious face.
After Song Qingyu sat there and took the pill, it took only a moment. She had already refined the pill in her body, and soon her mana began to slowly increase.
It was not until half an hour later that Song Qingyu's mana had almost reached the first level of the Golden Core Realm, and then it slowly stabilized.
"How is it, is Qingyu feeling unwell?" Seeing that Song Qingyu had put away his mana and stood up, Song Qingming immediately stepped forward and asked.
Seeing that Song Qingming was a little worried, He Mengxin on the side hurriedly explained:
"Don't worry, Brother Song, after taking this pill, you will only feel weak for a period of time after the mana is exhausted, and there are no other side effects."
Song Qingyu also nodded slightly to Song Qingming after hearing this, indicating that there was nothing wrong with him, which made Song Qingming feel relieved.
"Brother Song, since we are ready, let's start preparing to break the formation!"
After Xia Mo glanced at Song Qingyu, he saw that the mana on his body had met the requirements for driving the Four Symbols Formation, and immediately stood in front of a position with several formation flags.
Seeing this, Song Qingming and the other two quickly separated and came to the positions they had reserved in advance to adjust their status.
Xia Mo, standing at the center of the Azure Dragon Formation, activated her magic power and raised her jade hand. A huge spiritual power depicting many runes quickly gathered in the formation flag beside her.
After this spiritual power flashed a few times above Xia Mo's head, it quickly turned into a virtual shadow of an Azure Dragon covered with runes.
"Fellow Daoists, it's your turn!"
As soon as Xia Mo finished speaking, Song Qingming, He Mengxin, and Song Qingyu followed suit and cast spells in their hands. Soon, the three phantoms of White Tiger, Vermillion Bird, and Black Tortoise were summoned one after another.
After the three phantoms flew in the air for several circles, a spiritual power shot out from their bodies and entered the Azure Dragon phantom controlled by Xia Mo, making its spiritual light flourish, and the phantom transformed by the spiritual power became more solid.
Next, the Azure Dragon phantom controlled by Xia Mo turned its head and pounced on the third-level upper-grade magic formation not far away. A dazzling white light soon lit up where it touched.
After the spiritual power transformed the Azure Dragon phantom launched a fierce attack on the battle, it soon tore off many runes floating on the formation, instantly reducing the power of the formation.
However, after this attack, the spiritual light on the Azure Dragon also weakened a little. In less than a cup of tea, the spiritual light on it became a little thin.
Seeing that the Azure Dragon's attack power weakened, the spiritual light on the third-level upper-grade formation that had just been damaged began to run quickly, and slowly began to self-repair the lost runes.
"Fellow Daoist Xia, it's my turn!"
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