Setting the Formation, Wanting to Slaughter

Before the Book Spirit could react, Ling Tianwei made the first move. He grabbed the Book Spirit and slammed it straight into the Spirit Light Wheel.

Very soon, the vast spiritual power that reached the heavens and understood the earth, filtered through Ling Tianwei, came surging in like a tide.

"You know formations, right?"

Ling Tianwei asked, looking at the Book Spirit.

Seeing Ling Tianwei's terrifying appearance, the Book Spirit felt as though the violet light in his eyes could see through everything about it. It seemed that lies were useless before Ling Tianwei, and the Book Spirit instinctively answered.

"I do."

"Then get in there! Help me take control of this magic treasure. Remember, don't let anyone escape."

Ling Tianwei nodded directly at that, pointing down at Panshan City below.

As soon as he finished speaking, the Book Spirit was utterly bewildered. It had no idea what Ling Tianwei wanted it to do. Besides, it was merely the Book Spirit of an immortal art manual—could it just enter a magic treasure whenever it pleased?

The moment a question arose in the Book Spirit's mind, Ling Tianwei raised his hand and pressed down toward it. The Book Spirit felt as if everything it possessed had been stripped away. Then, under Ling Tianwei's manipulation, it was as though it had entered an entirely different world.

It arrived in a new world layered with hundreds, perhaps thousands, of formations. At that moment, the Book Spirit felt that with a mere thought, it could mobilize the formations within—and there seemed to be an endless stream of power supporting it.

Through that sensation, the Book Spirit immediately determined that this power came from Ling Tianwei.

Only then did it realize that Ling Tianwei had reached Foundation Establishment Late Stage and possessed five kinds of Dao intent. Most terrifying of all, he seemed to have entered a state of unity between man and heaven, using the power of his fleshly body to commune with heaven and earth and pour that power into this magic treasure.

"Master, Master, what are you trying to do?"

Seeing how greatly Ling Tianwei had changed, the Book Spirit's heart trembled. It had a bad feeling about this.

"What else could I be doing? Do you see below? What grievous sins! And countless Evil Demons besides. As a disciple of a great righteous sect, the Lingxu Sacred Land, how could I stand by with folded arms?"

"Everything I have cultivated came from the Lingxu Sacred Land and its Righteous Law. How could I stand by with folded arms?"

"So, I intend to wipe them out completely. I'm only afraid they'll run while I'm fighting, so you need to keep watch. If even one escapes, I'll settle the score with you."

Ling Tianwei laid out his plan with an expression of utter righteousness, his words brimming with confidence, as though taking down a city alone and suppressing it completely were the most natural thing in the world.

Of course, if one ignored the roiling aura of Evil Resentment behind Ling Tianwei and that dense Killing Intent when he said these words, one might indeed feel that this was how the righteous path ought to be.

But what righteous cultivator would think of slaughtering an entire city alone, even if most of the cultivators inside were demonic cultivators, Evil Cultivators, and Evil Demons?

"Ah!"

The Book Spirit was dumbfounded. If it had a physical body, it would probably have pointed at itself.

"You mean me? You want me to keep everyone in the city below from escaping?"

The Book Spirit sensed Ling Tianwei's Foundation Establishment Late Stage aura, then sensed the auras within Panshan City below—dozens of Golden Cores and two or three Nascent Souls.

Could this possibly work? This was courting death!

Without giving the Book Spirit a chance to question him, under the guidance of Ling Tianwei's power, the formations within the magic treasure housing the Book Spirit began to operate.

Ling Tianwei's Vengeful Curse pierced directly through heaven and earth, returning him to that prior state where he used himself as a bridge between heaven and earth, a unity of man and heaven.

The dense Resentment Force and spiritual qi of heaven and earth continuously poured into the Spirit Light Wheel under the effect of Ling Tianwei's Fission Qi Gathering Method.

The Book Spirit also understood Ling Tianwei's intention. It immediately set the formation in motion, and a streak of golden light burst forth into the world.

Beside Panshan City, boundless Resentment Force boiled. A massive formation filled with Evil Resentment descended, blotting out the sky and covering the entire Panshan City.

From the arrival of the black clouds to the sudden formation, Ling Tianwei completed the entire setup in only a few minutes.

Sensing the Book Spirit busily operating the formation within the Spirit Light Wheel, Ling Tianwei nodded in satisfaction and tossed it into the sky.

"The Book Spirit is much more useful than the system."

Ling Tianwei did not forget to take a jab at the system.

Mocked for no reason, the system declared itself powerless to fight back.

At this moment, Qin Yueying had long since walked out of the main hall in Panshan City. She looked at the grand formation covering the entire city and at the sky, which had completely turned blackish-purple.

"Could it be the Heavenly Demon Cult? Are they planning to make a move against the Blood Nightmare Sect?"

This was Qin Yueying's first thought. Some time ago, Hun Yuan, the deputy cult master of the Heavenly Demon Cult, had gone mad and destroyed two Blood Nightmare Sect strongholds. Had the Blood Nightmare Sect Master not intervened to drive him back, who knew how far the matter would have escalated?

And now, with this sudden formation, that terrifying evil aura, and Resentment Force surging like the descent of a great demon, this was naturally Qin Yueying's first thought.

When Qin Yueying extended her divine sense to probe, her entire body stiffened as she stared into the air.

"No, this is..."

At that moment, she had already recognized Ling Tianwei, and Qin Yueying's face filled with confusion.

Through the information shared by Evil Demon Tong Gensheng, Qin Yueying knew of Ling Tianwei's situation. He cultivated a cultivation method even more unorthodox than those Evil Cultivators, and his cultivation had only been at Foundation Establishment Middle Stage.

Yet now, this fellow had already reached the late stage, and he possessed such a powerful formation as well as such dense Resentment Force.

At that moment, Qin Yueying seemed to understand why those few of her kind who had been killed earlier had said that this fellow looked even more evil than they were.

Now that she saw him, it truly was so.

"I was just thinking of coming to find you. Who would have thought you'd deliver yourself right to my door?"

Qin Yueying broke into a grin. Her beautiful face bloomed like peach blossoms, her alluring eyes enough to snare the soul.

Just as Qin Yueying was about to make her move, something seemed to occur to her, and her body stiffened.

"Something's not right. Even if he has the combat strength of the Nascent Soul Middle Stage, he's alone right now. He dared to set up a formation in Panshan City so openly—and it's a trapping formation at that. What is this guy planning?!"

"Could it be that he has some backup plan and is waiting for me to walk into the pit?"

"Surely this guy isn't thinking of taking on an entire city by himself?!"

"I absolutely can't be like those two of my kind. I have to be cautious."

Qin Yueying thought truthfully.

"Trying to bait me? You're still too green for that."

At that moment, Qin Yueying was thrilled by her own cleverness.

Using the identity of the body she had possessed, Qin Yueying directly ordered the other two Blood Nightmare Sect elders stationed here with her to act.

At that moment, the enormous formation emerged, throwing the entirety of Panshan City into chaos.

To the cultivators in Panshan City, this massive formation and the Resentment Force that blotted out the sky and sun presented an apocalyptic scene, as though some great demon had descended.

Quite a few people had already begun fleeing toward the outskirts of Panshan City, but when they neared its edge, they discovered that they could not get out.

Dense Evil Resentment Force enveloped everything, layer upon layer, and the formation had practically trapped the entire Panshan City within it.

Most strangely, some people versed in formations discovered that the formation covering all of Panshan City seemed somewhat different from anything they knew.

The entire formation appeared to consist of layers of formations stacked atop one another, interlocking link by link, bizarrely superimposed in a peculiar configuration that gave off the feeling that it would be extremely difficult to unravel.

This utterly unfamiliar formation seemed as though it had taken another path altogether—a completely new method of arranging formations.

"What exactly is going on?"

"Who is making a move against the Blood Nightmare Sect?"

"Could it be the Heavenly Demon Cult? Not long ago, the Heavenly Demon Cult's vice cult master attacked quite a few Blood Nightmare Sect strongholds. The news spread like wildfire."

"I heard that the Blood Nightmare Sect ruined one of the Heavenly Demon Cult's schemes."

Those with well-connected sources had already begun making the connection.

Unfortunately, no matter how they speculated, they could never imagine that someone could be so brazen, with such an abnormal way of thinking, as to directly plan on taking down an entire city alone.

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