Li Chengjie screwed up his courage, his hands forming seals at flying speed, layers of finger-shadows overlapping, every seal landing precisely on a node of the formation patterns.
But this Sixth-order formation seemed like a Living Thing.
When he broke one line, the formation patterns gave birth to another on their own;
When he sealed one spot, the formation mended another by itself;
When he tried to Drew Upon the Formation Eye, the Formation Eye directly unleashed lightning punishment instead. Purple-gold formation lightning descended from the sky, striking down in front of him and blasting Cracks across the ground.
Half an hour passed.
An hour passed.
Li Chengjie's robes had already been soaked through with sweat, the veins at his temples bulging faintly. His divine sense had been exhausted to the limit, and even his fingertips were trembling slightly.
Gao Chen and the other two watched Trembling with Fear, yet they could not help in the slightest.
This formation could not be broken by smashing it with brute force.
What it locked down was "law"; what it sealed was "dao." All cultivation methods, spells, and Divine Abilities inside Myriad Laws Tower would be suppressed by the formation, stripped away.
Seeing that his attempts to break the formation had no effect at all, Li Chengjie did not lose heart. This counted as broadening his horizons, at least.
Li Chengjie closed both eyes and no longer used spiritual power. Instead, he used the Profound Light Mirror, sending his divine sense to Probe Into the formation.
His divine sense rippled like a bright mirror.
In that instant—
That wall of light, silent for ten thousand years, suddenly trembled slightly.
It was as if an existence that had slumbered through the ages had suddenly "recognized" the source of his divine sense.
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