The Power of Nature
A tan group of fishermen by the shore of the ocean eastward of Moyun Mountain were grabbing their gear to go out and catch their sustenance on another sunny and windy day.
“Ol’ Zhang, where are you going to today?”
“Near Ladlefield Island. How about you, Ol’ Liang?” Ol’ Zhang replied, counting his fish nets.
“Mountainrock Island to catch some sea turtles for my wife to replenish her energy after giving birth to my son!”
“Let’s go together since we’re heading the same direction.”
Ol’ Zhang untied the ropes and propelled himself off the rocks with his paddle. As he peered into the distance, his bright smile switched out for a ghastly pale face.
“Ol’ Zhang, they aren’t souls, are they?” Ol’ Liang asked, pointing to eight bizarre silhouettes.
Ol’ Zhang cast his eyes on the leader, who resembled a black apparition and replied, “The black smoke coming from them gives me the creeps.”
“Let’s get out of here.”
As the two started paddling away, over a dozen dark silhouettes flitted across overhead, shrouding them in an ominous air, sending chills down their spines. The two paddled away for dear life.
Gui Han descended on a rock and offered his knees. “Your subject reporting in, Your Lordship.”
“Where are the others?” asked the black apparition.
Keeping his head down, Gui Han reported, “Th-they are all dead.”
The apparition churned out energy, stalling the waves in place. Everyone around dropped to their knees. Gui Han dropped to the ground, unable to even breathe properly.
“Explain yourself.”
“Tr-True God’s disciple, Mu Yu…”
“He’s a mere Spirit Severing Realm cultivator; you can’t even stop him as a Body Synthesis Realm cultivator?”
“Y-your subject begs your pardon.”
Suddenly, Gui Han grunted as he floated into the air, face and eyes turning red. Black qi rays penetrated his eyes, replaying everything he had seen in the prior days.
“Gui Xiuluo died. The ten-thousand-years old dragon vine was taken. The sun killed Chi Yue. You want me to spare you?” questioned His Lordship, voice devoid of emotion. “If we weren’t strapped for manpower, I’d kill you right now.”
His Lordship released his invisible hold on Gui Han’s neck. Gui Han returned to his knees and kissed the floor with his forehead.
A man asked, “Your Lordship, what shall we do now? With Chi Yue gone, does that not m-”
“We don’t need to concern ourselves with Chi Yue. Gui Ximing, go find nine newborns. We need to replace Gui Xiuluo.”
“As you command.”
Gui Ximing quickly took off.
His Lordship scanned those with Gui Han and, all of a sudden, pulled Gui Hongyu over. “True God’s disciple sure has a lot of tricks up his sleeve.”
***
In spite of Feng Haochen’s formation’s complexity, some of the lines bore a strong resemblance to simple formations. All they had to do was get a general grasp.
“You can compare this part to Mirror Formation’s design,” informed Xiaoshuai, showing his knowledge of Profound Formations.
The version of Mirror Formation recorded in Profound Formations was a Greater Heaven Stage version, turning the boundaries into moving points unlike the stationery version at Ku Mu Valley. To date, nobody ever escaped the advanced version.
Mu Yu split the aperture into thirty-six formations, all of which were detailed in “Profound Formations”. After thorough analysis, he changed the different places. After a long day, he worked out the formation lines and spiritual energy lines around.
Given the potency of the formation, drawing the lines using spiritual energy took a toll on Mu Yu as it cost him half of his spiritual energy. By the same token, there had to be an unimaginable number of formation foundations used or one ridiculous one used.
Mu Yu, floored and breathing heavily, pleaded, “Xiaoshuai, give me a hand. I don’t have Shifu’s insane cultivation when he cast it. I can’t handle it alone.”
“How do you expect to have enough spiritual energy when the formation foundation is natural energy?”
“Why didn’t you wait till I was completely empty before telling me?!”
To go above and beyond as a Greater Heaven Stage formation caster, formation casters could learn to use nature’s energy as formation foundations after exhausting their foundations. Unless Mu Yu was born with a knack for it, he could never have figured out how to do it by himself. Learning to do so would remove the stipulation that he had to guard fixed formations when using Primordial Yin Yang as a formation’s foundation.
“Idiot, the formation uses natural energy in the vicinity to sustain itself. You’re supposed to track the formation’s flow of spiritual energy and replace it with natural energy so that you don’t waste your own spiritual energy.”
“Can I even control natural energy?”
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