Yin Corpse Formation
“Blast! We can’t beat these corpses,” stated Zhou Jinglin, casting a worried glance Greater Heaven Caster Lu’s way.
Greater Heaven Caster Lu ignored Zhou Jinglin and engaged the yin corpses. Greater Heaven Caster Lu evoked formations onto his hands and threw them into their allies. Each of his arm swings sounded as if he was parting air. When he splattered them, their limbs rained down to the ground. He was fierce, but he was outnumbered. Thankfully, they weren’t as technical as they were during their lifetime. As if they reverted to primal instincts, they tried to bite instead of striking or grappling.
Zhou Jinglin summoned talismans around him and connected them using a spiritual energy string. He fired barrages of swords from the talismans. In regards to his apprentice, the fellow’s sense of superiority couldn’t save him; all he did was quiver in his boots.
Mu Yu refrained from fighting to stay in character. To his dismay, he noticed the yin corpses the two professionals slew piecing their bodies back together and returning to the battlefield! Hence, he prompted, “Greater Heaven Caster Lu, the yin corpses cannot be killed. They have regenerated.”
Greater Heaven Caster Lu hurriedly cast a formation and descended back to the ground with Mu Yu. He kicked an approaching hand and cast another blue eight trigrams formation underneath. “Feng Mu, don’t leave this barrier, or you might get caught in the crossfire of my technique.”
Greater Heaven Caster Lu’s barrier for Mu Yu prevented the yin corpses from getting close to Mu Yu. Nevertheless, a Spirit Severing Realm yin corpse or anything above could’ve knocked it apart with a single blow. On a positive note, they were more interested in Greater Heaven Caster Lu than Mu Yu.
“Lightning Snakes Swift Strikes!”
Greater Heaven Caster Lu levitated two blue Greater Heaven Stage formation foundations and transformed the blue formation in his hands into lightning. The sound of a thousand chirping birds accompanied the blue lightning dispersing. By the time they were seen again, the lightning snakes had wrapped themselves around the yin corpses’ necks. In one fell swoop, the devoured the heads on the corpses! The corpses were set alight and immobilised for good. Once a lightning snake finished a target, it moved on to the next target. Alas, new yin corpses would crawl out of the ground. It spelt bad news for Greater Heaven Caster Lu as he couldn’t handle drawn-out battles.
Mu Yu didn’t just want to be a sitting duck waiting for his judgement. Therefore, he analysed the formation to find a way to counteract it. Given that it was a chaotic formation, it had to have a flaw that couldn’t be controlled somewhere. The question was, “Where?”
There were three means of defusing formations. The first option was to ruin it using brute strength. Most of the time, it didn’t fare well. The other methods were to sabotage the formation core or foundation.
Peeking Formation should work, realised Mu Yu, remembering a relatively advanced Heaven Stage formation.
Peeking Formation was commonly utilised to locate formation cores. The limitation was the caster. Unless the caster understood the logic of the formation, they wouldn’t be able to uncover it. Of course, formations far too advanced would’ve also been beyond Peeking Formation’s search capabilities.
Mu Yu took out a formation foundation he had to cast the green formation underfoot. Next, he cast out the formation patterns as if they were tentacles to begin the scouting mission for the spiritual line to back race the formation core. Unfortunately, the caster already had a mechanism in place to prevent anyone with Mu Yu’s idea. Though the disguised spiritual line would’ve been hard for him to find, Xiaoshuai could work around it.
“Xiaoshuai, where’s the formation foundation for the Yin Corpse Formation?”
“Can I have the formation foundation after I find it?” asked Xiaoshuai, eyes sparkling.
“Yes, yes.”
“Yeah!” Xiaoshuai jumped onto Mu Yu’s shoulder and discharged his spiritual qi generously into the air. As he waved and twirled his arms, he effused, “There are over ten thousand formation foundations. Each one of them is also a Greater Heaven Stage calibre! Woo!”
“Over ten thousand?! I guess that’s why he’s a fiend king. Where are they, hey?” Mu Yu asked with a sly mug.
“Let’s see… There are 1364 located five hundred metres underground. There are 3672 located twenty metres deeper. There are 5000 six hundred metres deep…”
“Oh, five hundr-, who’s genius?! Some people must have too much spare time on their hands.”
“Tell Punctured Sword to morph into a tree branch root to dig for us.”
“I can’t. Greater Heaven Caster Lu and Zhou Jinglin are here.”
“What…? Does that mean no formation foundations?” grouched Xiaoshuai.
“Try using your brain for something besides eating,” berated the dragon vine.
“Eating formation foundations is the priority.”
The ground began to quake violently. Something blew up the yin corpses that Greater Heaven Caster Lu zapped, reducing them to black dust. Once the black particles reached the sky, the other yin corpses absorbed it. Thus, Mu Yu finally identified where the problem with the formation stemmed from.
The yin corpses that absorbed the black were immune to Greater Heaven Caster Lu’s lightning strikes. For whatever reason, they began to tear into each other. For every bite they took out of their comrades, they would grow stronger. As a result, the strong grew even stronger! “Out of the frying pan and into the fire” was the perfect description to use there for more yin corpses were emerging from the soil.
Normally, yin corpses from a Yin Corpse Formation didn’t devour each other. Nonetheless, a spiritual line was defunct.
Greater Heaven Caster Lu and Zhou Jinglin exchanged eye contact. For once, they were in consensus. Their chances of survival were slim, at best.
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