Xuantian Immortal Cultivation Record

The interrogation of Chi Wenxue yielded almost nothing.

Although this person was a rogue cultivator and had been forced to join the Thousand Swords Sect, his willpower was extremely firm. No matter how Yu Tianwan tempted him with benefits or reasoned with him, he remained impervious and uttered not a word.

Later, when the Biqing Suanni Beast released its illusion, this person only succumbed for about ten breaths before regaining his senses.

When Ling Cong was questioned, he turned out to be a chatterbox. Yu Tianwan asked one question, and he would answer with a hundred, but none of them were useful. In desperation, they had to resort to illusions again.

This time, Yu Lingcong was not as good as Chi Wenxue. He remained muddled in the illusion for more than half a day before breaking free. However, Yu Tianwan had asked everything he wanted to know.

There were still three Core Formation cultivators in Huanjian Mountain.

One was naturally Ge Yang, who was in the late stage of Core Formation.

Another was also a late-stage Core Formation cultivator, a rogue cultivator recruited by the Thousand Swords Sect named Zhou Lai.

The last one was a mid-stage Core Formation cultivator named Zhuang Weilou, who was a member of the Thousand Swords Sect.

As the forward camp of the Thousand Swords Sect's invasion of the Xuantian Sect, Huanjian Mountain naturally had formations for protection.

However, Yu Lingcong possessed a jade token that allowed passage in and out of the great formation.

Originally, Ke Hui also had one, but this person was ruthless and destroyed it before taking action.

As the command center, the foundation of Huanjian Mountain lay in the sound transmission formations built to communicate with various strongholds, receiving information from the outside and issuing orders.

As long as these sound transmission formations were destroyed immediately, the dozen or so main strongholds scattered across millions of miles would become a pile of loose sand, making them easy to eliminate.

If the Thousand Swords Sect wanted to start over, not to mention recruiting a group of Core Formation cultivators, just rebuilding these sound transmission formations would be a major undertaking.

The four of them didn't delay. Riding their flying swords, they traveled through the night and arrived at a hill less than a hundred miles from Huanjian Mountain on the evening of the second day.

Huanjian Mountain had nothing to do with swords. It was a majestic mountain range composed of seventeen thousand-foot-high peaks.

On the highest peak, there was a deep pool with cold water suitable for washing swords, so Ge Yang called it Huanjian Mountain and built palaces and pavilions here.

Zhang Yuanjing put Ape Thirteen and the Biqing Suanni Beast into his spirit beast pouch and set off alone, traveling along the ground. When he reached the foot of Huanjian Mountain, he used earth遁術 (Earth Evasion Technique) to quickly travel fifty zhang deep underground.

According to Yu Lingcong, the area covered by the Huanjian Mountain formation was a hundred miles in radius, mainly the highest peak and some surrounding areas.

This formation had two gates. One was in the west, the main passage for Huanjian Mountain cultivators to enter and exit the formation, guarded by cultivators who required a showing of an iron token to pass.

The other was in the east, an escape gate. It was unguarded, but only those carrying jade tokens could use it.

Zhang Yuanjing went around to the east of Huanjian Mountain and found the formation gate that Yu Lingcong had mentioned.

The spiritual energy fluctuations here were only slightly abnormal, and it would be difficult to detect if one wasn't intentionally looking for it.

He slowly approached the surface, observed with his divine sense, and found no signs of cultivators nearby. He quickly came out of the ground and slipped into the gate.

He felt like he was riding the clouds and mist, and in an instant, he landed in a mountain hinterland with rich spiritual energy and beautiful scenery.

He didn't have time to make any observations and immediately burrowed into the ground,遁術 (escaping) straight to a depth of more than one hundred and sixty zhang.

At the moment he entered the formation, in a pavilion with red walls and black tiles at the top of the mountain, a middle-aged Taoist with eyebrows like flying swords and eyes like lightning suddenly opened his eyes.

A fierce light flashed in his eyes, and then he carefully searched the ground again. After a few breaths, he shook his head and muttered to himself in confusion, "Could it be that something happened to Yu Lingcong and the others? Why did I have a hallucination?"

He pondered for a moment and sent out a sound transmission. Soon, a Foundation Establishment cultivator in black clothes came and bowed respectfully, "Elder, according to your instructions, this disciple has already sent a message to Elder Yu and Elder Ke using the sound transmission formation."

The middle-aged Taoist asked sternly, "Did you make it clear that they must return before noon tomorrow?"

The Foundation Establishment cultivator quickly said, "This disciple said it, said it to both elders!"

Zhang Yuanjing hid one hundred and sixty zhang deep underground for half an hour before rising to a depth of about one hundred zhang and slowly probing his divine sense to the surface.

In Huanjian Mountain, the palaces and pavilions were all on the western slope of the mountain, and only forests, grass, flowers, and rocks were on the east side.

Zhang Yuanjing followed the side of the mountain and 遁術 (escaped) to the west. Immediately, a clamor came over him.

There were no fewer than a hundred cultivators here, and the vast majority were Foundation Establishment cultivators. There were no more than twenty Qi Refining cultivators.

Most of these Foundation Establishment cultivators were in a hurry, either going to a hall near the top of the mountain or遁術 (escaping) down the mountain.

Near the foot of the mountain, there was a deep pool, which was where the western gate of the great formation was located.

Zhang Yuanjing spent a quarter of an hour exploring the geography of the mountain and figuring out where the sound transmission formations were located.

In Huanjian Mountain, there were three places to build formations: two on the mountainside and one near the deep pool at the foot of the mountain.

In each of the three formation-building locations, there were about five sound transmission formations, concentrating a large number of formation devices. Therefore, when arranging the Huanjian Mountain guarding formation, Ge Yang connected this formation with the three formation-building locations, turning them into the three formation eyes of the guarding formation.

If they encountered foreign enemies, they could use the spirit stones from the three formation-building locations as supplements. If the spiritual power in the three formation-building locations was insufficient, they could also draw from the mountain protection formation.

Zhang Yuanjing's primary mission was to bury the Broken Army Formation, which Yu Tianwan and Liu Yuanqing had prepared in advance, beneath the three formation-building locations, using formation to break formation, and level the three formation-building locations in one fell swoop.

Once these three places, as the formation eyes of the mountain guarding formation, were broken, the entire great formation would weaken. At that time, Liu Yuanqing, Yu Tianwan, and Fire Crow Taoist outside could take advantage of the situation to break through the gate and enter the formation.

The Broken Army Formation was not complicated. The difficulty lay in how to arrange it without being noticed.

The three formation-building locations were slightly far apart. Two were on the mountainside, relatively close to the red-walled and black-tiled pavilion on the top of the mountain.

Yu Lingcong had explained that the pavilion was Ge Yang's residence.

The other was at the foot of the mountain, but close to the residence of another late-stage Core Formation cultivator, Zhou Lai. Arranging formations under the noses of these two was, of course, very dangerous.

Zhang Yuanjing went to the deep pool at the foot of the mountain first. Zhou Lai's residence was in a hall five miles above the deep pool. The place where the sound transmission formations were concentrated was not far behind the hall.

He stopped sixty zhang deep underground, not acting rashly. He only used his divine sense to monitor the movements of the western gate of the formation.

After about half an hour, a loud "boom" suddenly came from outside the formation, and the entire formation trembled.

Huanjian Mountain was immediately in chaos. Dozens of Foundation Establishment cultivators formed a team and quickly went to the foot of the mountain.

From the hall above the deep pool, a burly man with a black and shiny beard rushed out.

This man was eight chi tall, with black and shiny hair, and his eyes were like bulging gray-white beads, very terrifying.

He raised his divine sense and looked outside, only to see three Core Formation cultivators, each controlling magical treasures, fiercely attacking the formation gate.