Illusion within Illusion, Formation Dao Quasi-Grandmaster

Grandmasters are rare even among Saint King powerhouses; most Supremes only reach the Grandmaster level in their Great Dao attainments.

Throughout history, the number of people who have reached the Grandmaster realm within the Saint King realm does not exceed ten, and Chu Tiange is among them.

Lin Tian and Zhou Qiongtian continuously broke through formations, both wanting to obtain this inheritance.

However, it was clear that Lin Tian's progress was significantly faster than Zhou Qiongtian's, a fact Zhou Qiongtian was unaware of.

At this moment, Zhou Qiongtian was in the Divine Path Sect's mission hall accepting a task. The mission required him to set up a formation for a first-rank force.

As disciples of the Divine Path Sect, they needed to venture out for training. While disciples of other forces would go out to slay demons and monsters, Divine Path Sect disciples were tasked with setting up formations for other forces.

Soon, Zhou Qiongtian reached the target force. The person in charge of that force personally welcomed Zhou Qiongtian with great enthusiasm.

Zhou Qiongtian was a direct disciple of the Divine Path Sect's Sect Master, a top sacred land. The head of a first-rank force was merely at the Feather Ascension Realm, so such an attitude was normal.

Zhou Qiongtian waved his hand, quickly finished setting up the formation, and prepared to return to the Divine Path Sect.

However, on his way back to the Divine Path Sect, Zhou Qiongtian encountered cultivators sent by other forces to assassinate him. These cultivators concealed their figures, exuding a murderous aura.

These cultivators were all at the Cycle Realm or above, and one of them was even at the Feather Ascension Early Stage.

"Who are you, and what business do you have with me?" Zhou Qiongtian remained calm, a smile on his lips as he spoke slowly.

"Heh heh, Chu Tiange, you're still smiling when death is upon you. Blame yourself for offending someone you shouldn't have. Die!"

Several cultivators attacked Zhou Qiongtian. Their attacks carried sharp killing intent, clearly intending to kill him.

Although these cultivators, including the one at the Feather Ascension Early Stage, were nothing in Zhou Qiongtian's eyes – he had a hundred ways to kill them – Zhou Qiongtian suddenly didn't want to do so.

He casually fled in a direction, and when the cultivators got close, he would suddenly strike to repel them before accelerating his escape again.

With Zhou Qiongtian's apparent cultivation at the Cycle Early Stage, fighting these cultivators would almost certainly result in his death.

The pursuing cultivators looked dumbfounded: "This Chu Tiange is only at the Cycle Early Stage, slippery like a loach, impossible to catch."

"As expected of a prodigy from the Divine Path Sect. A normal Cycle Early Stage cultivator would have died long ago being chased like this. This Chu Tiange is still lively and kicking."

Soon, Zhou Qiongtian was forced to a cliff.

"Hahaha, Chu Tiange, cornered! You have no more paths to escape. You will surely die today!" Several cultivators attacked Zhou Qiongtian, their eyes filled with sharp killing intent.

Just then, Zhou Qiongtian suddenly burst into laughter: "Haven't you heard? Heaven never closes all doors. As long as I want to go, the path is beneath my feet."

With that, Zhou Qiongtian turned and leaped into the cliff. The cultivators chasing him were stunned. They looked at each other, unsure of what to do.

"Boss, what now?" the others looked at the cultivator at the Feather Ascension Early Stage.

"Hmph! From this height, jumping down means Chu Tiange is surely dead. We'll go back and tell the employer that Chu Tiange is dead," the Feather Ascension Early Stage cultivator said slowly, gazing at the bottomless cliff.

However, they did not know that Zhou Qiongtian was not dead. He was hanging from a tree growing on the rock face deep within the cliff. As for why there was a tree on the rock face, he had no idea.

Just moments ago, when Zhou Qiongtian was being chased by those cultivators, his instincts told him to flee. When he was forced to the edge of the cliff, his intuition told him to jump.

So he jumped. Although this cliff seemed to possess a mysterious power that prohibited flight, Zhou Qiongtian had many life-saving artifacts and would not die from a mere cliff jump.

Zhou Qiongtian soon saw the bottom of the cliff, where a grand formation lay. Zhou Qiongtian was now a Formation Grandmaster and understood formations well, but he couldn't comprehend this grand formation.

Zhou Qiongtian could tell that this formation was a multi-layered formation composed of hundreds of smaller and larger formations, including illusion, transformation, flight prohibition, spirit gathering, concealment, storage, and more.

Zhou Qiongtian descended from the large tree and stepped onto the formation. Suddenly, the numerous formations within the grand formation lit up. Zhou Qiongtian's heart sank, and the scenery before his eyes changed drastically.

There were countless cultivators around him, shouting and cheering excitedly, calling out two names.

"Luo Tianzheng!"

"Zhou Huanyue!"

Memories flooded Zhou Qiongtian's mind like a tide. He was Zhou Huanyue?

"This is an illusion within an illusion? Are they nesting dolls?" Zhou Qiongtian's mouth twitched slightly. He had fallen into Chu Tiange's illusion array, and within that illusion, he had been drawn into Zhou Huanyue's illusion array. Was he really this unlucky? This was truly absurd.

Wait, this illusion technique felt so familiar?

Holy crap! Could Chu Tiange's illusion array have been inspired by Zhou Huanyue's? This was highly possible. Could this be Chu Tiange's place of fortune?

In the illusion, Zhou Qiongtian played Zhou Huanyue and competed in formations with Luo Tianzheng. Zhou Qiongtian's current formation attainment was Grandmaster level, and he won easily.

Afterward, he experienced various hardships and opportunities, and eventually, Zhou Huanyue became a Supreme expert, with his formation attainments reaching Quasi-Supreme Grandmaster!

Within this illusion, Zhou Qiongtian's formation attainments also improved rapidly. Zhou Qiongtian obtained Zhou Huanyue's inheritance, and his formation attainments surprisingly reached the Quasi-Grandmaster level.

[Ding! Congratulations to the host for snatching the opportunity of Lin Tian, the Child of Destiny. Destiny Points +.]

Through Zhou Huanyue's illusion, Zhou Qiongtian also had a general idea of how to get through Chu Tiange's illusion array.

Zhou Qiongtian didn't know what to say. His cultivation in the Strength Dao was only at the Master realm, and his Lightning Dao was at the Quasi-Grandmaster realm, but his Formation Dao had reached Quasi-Grandmaster. Should he switch to cultivating formations?

Zhou Qiongtian seriously considered it, finding it very tempting. However, he ultimately decided against it.

With an Emperor father at home who had cultivated both Strength Dao and Lightning Dao to the origin, reaching the Supreme Grandmaster level, cultivating Strength Dao and Lightning Dao was undoubtedly better.

However, this was all assuming his father hadn't died. Of course, Zhou Qiongtian wasn't cursing Zhou Kuang to die.

Zhou Qiongtian received Zhou Huanyue's inheritance and gained control of this formation. With the help of this formation, Zhou Qiongtian rapidly reviewed Zhou Huanyue's inheritance.

Little did he know that at this time in the Divine Path Sect, his master, the Divine Path Sect Master, was going mad. Upon learning that Zhou Qiongtian was being chased and forced to jump off a cliff, the Sect Master was furious and enraged.

He wished he could crush the physical bodies and burn the souls of those cultivators who chased Zhou Qiongtian and the forces behind them!