He returned inside the Black Tower, starting to carve on the Purple Patterned Gold.
‘Small Heavenly Origin Spirit Snake Formation needs seven formation’s eyes. In reality, if I can carve 180 basic fourth tier water-type formation’s eyes, I can set up all fourth tier water-type formations.
However, formations are truly boundless. If I wanted to set up all formations, how much formation’s eye would be needed? The cost of the materials alone would make a Heaven Tier elite go broke!
I only grasped Small Heavenly Origin Spirit Snake Formation. If I obtain more formations in the future, I’ll think about the cost of the materials then. Moreover, there might be formation eyes passed down from the ancient times, and I only need to refine them to set the formation up.’
He focused all his attention and began to carve formation patterns on Purple Patterned Gold. Inside the Black Tower, he didn’t need to worry about the lack of strength, unable to carve formation patterns on fifth tier rare gold. This was a huge advantage, virtually decreasing the amount of possible errors.
Every formation pattern was very complex. Ling Han wasn’t fast, but his hands were quite stable, without the slightest pause or delay. After one hour, the first formation eye was completed.
One he stopped, he instantly felt like his brain was emptied; this was due to expending too much power of the divine sense.
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Chapter 405: Attracting Hatred Again
Translator: Reverie_ Editor: Kurisu
Ling Han no longer made formation eyes; carving formation patterns consumed a surprising amount of soul power; even if he was now at the late stage of Spiritual Ocean Tier, he still felt there wasn’t enough soul power to use.
He exited the Black Tower, strolling and continuing to search for the whereabouts of the Heavenly Luck Stone. He waited until his mental spirit recovered fully, and then continued to make the second formation’s eye.
In this way, he spent a whole another seven days to create all seven formation’s eyes, and his cultivation also reached peak stage of sixth layer Spiritual Ocean Tier; maybe tonight—or tomorrow—he would be able to break through.
Originally, formation’s eyes needed to be refined by divine sense, branding one’s own consciousness in order to use it. However, the seven formation’s eyes were originally carved by Ling Han, leaving his will behind during the creation process, so he didn’t need to go out of his way to refine it again.
He waved his right hand and pa, pa, pa, pa, seven formation’s eyes appeared one after another around him as seven virtual images also appeared in his consciousness, corresponding to each one of them—even the formation patterns were exactly alike.
Weng , inside his consciousness, the formation patterns on every formation’s eyes began to light up. Each of the one hundred and five formation patterns send out one hundred and four light beams, linking the other formation patterns together and forming a miraculous veined pattern.
Hong , around him, seven of the real formation’s eyes were also immediately activated. Like in his consciousness, the formation patterns lit up, linking together and forming a formation.
The power of heaven and earth collected, swiftly solidifying into a spirit snake that was snow-white all over and emitting a shockingly imposing prescence.
In an instant, this spirit snake was fully formed; it was over thirty meters long, coiling around in the sky above the formation like a divine dragon.
With Ling Han’s thought, this spirit snake also began to operate perfectly at his command, just as he pleased.
All of this was because he had a Small Heavenly Origin Spirit Snake Formation in his consciousness that communicated with the seven formation’s eyes. Once the power of his divine sense was exhausted, this formation would either disappear on its own or the spirit snake would get out of control.
Fortunately, while branding formation patterns expended a great deal of divine sense, the expenditure of maintaining a formation was much smaller. Based on Ling Han’s estimates, he was completely capable of operating it for one entire day.
“Go!” Ling Han lightly shouted and the snake spirit instantly rose up like a flood dragon, ramming everything in its path, shattering large trees and rocks from time to time and at other times wrapping him up and forming a defense.
Exploring for half an hour, Ling Han knew the effects and limitations of this formation inside out.
The spirit snake could attack and defend like a beast pet, advancing to harm enemies or retreating to guard. However, there was a condition that it couldn’t leave for more than thirty meters from the formation. This was a shortcoming, but it could also be solved easily simply by moving the formation as one moved.
So, this flaw wasn’t fatal.
The natural enemy of formations was the environment. Small Heavenly Origin Spirit Snake Formation was a water-type formation, so the Spirit Qi it drew was also of the water element. When at a place with thinner water Spirit Qi, the power of the formation would decrease greatly; at a place where all Spirit Qi was thin, changing to other formations would also have no use at all.
Why did formations have to borrow the power of heaven and earth? Without the power of heaven and earth to borrow, it’d definitely be ruined.
“Try one last move,” Ling Han shouted loudly and said, “Spirit snake enter!” Xiu , the thirty meter long spirit snake merged into his chest, disappearing, but Ling Han’s presence immediately grew drastically, reaching the level of the ninth layer of the Spiritual Ocean Tier.
‘Formation spirit entering the body can increase battle prowess; and the higher one’s normal battle prowess, the greater the extent of the increase. For instance, in case of someone who has one star battle prowess, if the battle prowess of the formation is ten stars, then one would have ten stars battle prowess. However, in case of someone who has ten stars battle prowess, merging with a ten stars formation will lead to the two overlapping, so having twelve stars or thirteen stars battle prowess would be pretty decent.
This is the same as Spirit Tools, people with low battle prowess that use it would be like sending coal in the snow, but it was superfluous for people with strong battle prowess; the effects are completely different.
Now, with formations, how many stars can my battle prowess reach?’
Ling Han scratched his head; it really was hard to measure, because he never even reached twenty stars battle prowess even while overdosing on pills in his previous lifetime. He really was unclear on how to evaluate battle prowess above this.
“Whatever, all I need to know is that I’m strong enough.”
Ling Han stored the seven Purple Patterned Gold rods. The higher grade the materials used for formation’s eyes not only could withstand the rampant power of heaven and earth, but also could fend against others destroying the formation using brute force or weapons; otherwise, if the formation’s eye was destroyed, the formation would also be broken.
He walked around randomly, thinking that although there weren’t any gains temporarily, with two more months, he would advance into the ninth layer of the Spiritual Ocean Tier. He could at least retrieve Crimson Red Chilling Ice Grass, which was the main purpose of his trip; no matter the black stone or the Heavenly Luck Stone, those were just flowers added to embroidery.
After walking a while, he heard light footsteps from behind. Very soon, two people walked out from the forest one after the other. The one in front was a girl in full white clothes and concealed by a white veil, but obviously pretty and nearing perfection.
Zhu Xuan Er!
Behind her was a youngster, but it wasn’t Yao Hui Yue… if Yao Hui Yue truly appeared here, with his haughtiness, he would definitely walk alongside Zhu Xuan Er—he couldn’t possibly follow behind someone.
It was Luo Da.
“Lady Zhu,” Ling Han greeted.
Zhu Xuan Er’s knit her willowy brows slightly. She knew Ling Han also came for Crimson Red Chilling Ice Grass and this made her extremely displeased, but
the spirit medicines in the world didn’t have a label to show who owned them. Would she chase Ling Han away then? Moreover, she hadn’t the right.
Therefore, she only bowed to greet Ling Han, and then walked off showily.
Luo Da stared coldly at Ling Han as he had never seen Zhu Xuan Er treat a man so modestly, making him burn with jealousy and wanting to kill someone right away.
He met Zhu Xuan Er by coincidence and immediately followed by the goddess’s side, but Zhu Xuan Er couldn’t find Crimson Red Chilling Ice grass all this time. She was in an extremely foul mood, and had no mood to talk nonsense with him, making him that he received a cold treatment.
First, Zhu Xuan Er was as noble as a goddess, and second, her strength was way above his. Even if he tried to fight, he wouldn’t beat her.
Nonetheless, Zhu Xuan Er treated him coldly, but bowed to pay resect towards a youngster. Once comparing the two, how could he not be infuriated?
Zhu Xuan Er disappeared quickly, and Luo Da followed, but in a short while, Ling Han heard footsteps from behind. He turned to look and saw Luo Da was quickly chasing after him.
“Boy, stop!” Luo Da shouted loudly.
Ling Han didn’t stop moving, pretending not to hear.
Xiu , Luo Da leapt out and landed in front of Ling Han, blocking his path, and said furiously, “You deaf, didn’t you hear me?”
“Oh, so you were calling me, I’d thought it was a dog. Don’t you say, you really look alike!” Ling Han said smilingly.
Luo Da was temporarily startled, but soon became furious; this youngster dared to mock him? He said threateningly, “Are you tired of living?”
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“Good dogs don’t block the road, get lost!” Ling Han waved his hands.
“Ha! Ha!” Luo Da laughed grimly, the youngsters nowadays were the epitome of the ‘ignorant knows not fear’. Facing he who was a Spiritual Pedestal Tier elite and on the prodigy roll, Ling Han still dared to be so arrogant.
He snorted and said, “I won’t argue with you for now. Say, how do you know Fairy Zhu?”
After all was said, he was still bothered by Zhu Xuan Er’s attitude towards Ling Han… exactly what was the relationship between the two that Zhu Xuan Er would be respectful to Ling Han?
“Oh, you’re talking about Xuan Er.” Ling Han laughed mischievously and began to spout nonsense, “She’s a daughter-in-law to be in my family, of course she has to pay respect when seeing me. My Zhu Xuan Er really knows her three obediences and four virtues.”
Luo Da was stunned by his nonsense, then came back to his senses and said, “Lies!” Zhu Xuan Er was a proud disciple of the Half Moon Sect, and couldn’t possibly be some family’s daughter-in-law to be.
“Tsk, tsk, tsk, you even found that out, such high intelligence!” Ling Han intentionally complemented.
Luo D’s faced turned dark; this youngster dared to trick him like a monkey? Fire erupting from his eyes, he said, “If you still don’t explain honestly, don’t blame me for being merciless!” He unleashed his Spiritual Pedestal Tier presence, which came rolling at Ling Han.
For a genius like him, a month’s time was enough to change a lot. He completely stabilized his tier and pushed his cultivation to late stage of the first layer of the Spiritual Pedestal Tier—three times the strength of when he battled Shen Zhong Cheng.
He possessed unlimited improvement space, but no matter how much the ninth layer Spiritual Ocean Tier warriors solidify their tiers, there was always a limit. The closer to that limit, the harder it was to improve, so in the same amount of time, his strength improvement definitely surpassed Shen Zhong Cheng.
Battling Shen Zhong Cheng again, he had complete confidence in winning.
Ling Han intentionally hugged his own shoulders and said, “Don’t scare me, I’m easily frightened.”
“Haha, you certainly should be shocked, because you’re facing Luo Da of the prodigy roll!!!” Luo Da said proudly, content with Ling Han’s fear.
Ling Han continued, “When I’m frightened, I go insane and like to punch people. Not sure how many people have been beaten and knelt on the ground, calling me grandpa. You’re not thinking of calling me grandpa, right?”
The corner of Luo Da’s mouth twitched. He only felt that the youngster before him was truly caustic as he said balefully, “Your bad-mouthing is simply seeking your own death!”
“Hey, hey, hey, you’re scaring me again!” Ling Han said smilingly.
“I’m not scaring you, I’m really going to hit you!” Luo Da attacked, reaching out with his left hand. As martial intent circulated, hong , brilliance burst forth as if he came stepping on divine red clouds with a formidable presence.
Ling Han smiled slightly and formed a fist with his right hand. As Luo Da was about to seize him, he abruptly threw out a punch.
Peng!
With a heavy sound, the two both fell several steps back.
Ling Han was shocked and said, “I underestimated you a little, you’re actually able to force me backwards! Sigh, one can’t be too proud, this needs to be changed!”
‘Sh!t!’
Luo Da was both shocked and furious—those words were for him to say! He was a Spiritual Pedestal Tier warrior and should have battle prowess completely suppressing Ling Han with his Spiritual Ocean Tier, but in this exchange, while he didn’t use full strength or arts, it was still an attack of a Spiritual Pedestal Tier.
The key was that Ling Han hadn’t even reached the ninth layer of the Spiritual Ocean Tier, yet had such shocking battle prowess. He was almost like a second Shen Zhong Cheng, a true monster!
On this term’s prodigy roll, this youngster was definitely a dark horse that was going to shine!
Thinking so, Luo Da’s murderous character instantly emboldened—the prodigy roll didn’t need another freak to contend with him.
“Harboging killing intent towards me?” Ling Han shook his head and said, “Well, originally, we had no grudges nor grievances and I would drop it after beating you up. But you’ve shown killing intent towards me, so I have no choice to kill you. That’s called not getting taken advantage of.”
“Kill me?” Luo Da sneered, even Shen Zhong Cheng definitely wouldn’t rival him now, not to mention Ling Han wasn’t even at the ninth layer of the Spiritual Ocean Tier. He brandished his sword, looking quite out of sorts as a brawny man like him held two short swords in hand.
Ling Han casually waved and xiu , a twig landed in his hand. He said smilingly, “I’ll kill you with this twig!”
Luo Da was furious. Shen Zhong Cheng refused to draw his sword against him, and now Ling Han said he would use a twig to kill him—they were looking down on him completely.
“With strength comes the confidence!” Ling Han laughed loudly, initiating the attack. With one “sword” strike, xiu, xiu, xiu, seven flashes of Sword Qi broke out.
“Seven flashes of Sword Qi!” Luo Da cried out, revealing an astounded expression.
He only cultivated six flashes of Sword Qi!
“Die!” Luo Da waved the dual swords. Threads of white silk intertwined, forming into something like a spider web. This was the mystical art he cultivated that could turn Sword Qi into a fish net; once it retracted, its terrifying lethality would be explosively revealed.
He had one less ray of Sword Qi, but he had a large tier’s advantage and a Spirit Tool in hand, enough to make up for it.
Pu, pu, pu , Ling Han’s Sword Qi struck the “fish net,” instantly tearing open a hole, but at the cost of the former disappearing—they were even.
However, Luo Da’s expression was getting worse and worse. He clearly had a large tier’s advantage and Spirit Qi that was activated by a Spirit Tool, but even so, the quality of their Sword Qi turned out to be the same.
One had to know that the quality of Sword Qi was decided by three points: one’s own power, comprehension of the way of the sword, and the medium which the Sword Qi was unleashed from.
He had an absolute advantage in p
ower and medium, yet it was still a draw; it was clear just how great of a difference there was between their comprehension of the way of the sword.
“So?” Ling Han said smilingly, raising his branch and slicing towards Luo Da. Under the instillment of Origin Power, the twig was also as solid as a metal sword.
“Arrogance and conceit only brings one’s own destruction.” Luo Da sneered, waving his sword as infinite threads intertwined seeking to trap Ling Han inside it.
Ling Han had no intention of being entangled. His expression turned stern and he exercised the Mysterious Three Thousand.
Luo Da instantly felt a chill all over his body. The presence Ling Han emitted reminded him of Yao Hui Yue! When Yao Hui Yue simply raised a finger, sword intent reached the heavens, easily annihilating two ninth layer Spiritual Pedestal Tier elites.
Two completely different people, but the presence they emitted was shockingly similar, making his legs go soft.
Hong , 276 flashed of sword light rippled, shooting towards Luo Da.
Luo Da clenched his teeth. Shua, shua, shua, he waved his sword as he retreated, weaving a tight knit web of Sword Qi in front of him.
Pu, pu, pu, pu, sword light stormed over and this large web instantly shattered. His weaving speed was far from comparable to the sword light’s destructiveness; although ten flashes of sword light were lost, there were still over two hundred that struck at him.
Luo Da roared, blocking with all his strength.
Sword light gushed over. Luo Da was covered with wounds, but he saved himself.
After all, a twig set off these sword lights; not only did it not reach the amount of 800, the lethality of it was weakened by a lot as well. Additionally, Luo Da was a Spiritual Pedestal Tier elite after all, possessing elite battle prowess. So, he scored a narrow escape in the end.
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Chapter 407: Battling Ding Yuan Xin
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