Grandmasters were rare as phoenix feathers and qilin horns even among Saint King experts. Most Supremes could only reach the Grandmaster level in their Dao comprehension.
Looking across all ages, fewer than ten people had reached the Grandmaster realm while in the Saint King Realm, and Chu Tiange was among them.
Lin Tian and Zhou Qiongtian continuously broke through formations, both seeking to obtain this inheritance.
However, Lin Tian's progress was clearly much faster than Zhou Qiongtian's, though Zhou Qiongtian did not know this.
At this moment, Zhou Qiongtian was accepting a mission in the mission hall of the Divine Path Sect. The mission required him to set up a formation for a first-rank faction.
Disciples of the Divine Path Sect had to go out and gain experience. Disciples from other factions went out to slay demons and eliminate devils, while Divine Path Sect disciples went out to set up formations for other factions.
Very soon, Zhou Qiongtian arrived at the target faction. The person in power there personally came to receive him and was exceedingly warm and welcoming.
Zhou Qiongtian was the direct disciple of the Divine Path Sect Master, the master of a top holy land, while the person in power of this first-rank faction was merely in the Feather Ascension Realm. Such an attitude was perfectly normal.
Zhou Qiongtian waved his hand and swiftly completed the formation, preparing to return to the Divine Path Sect.
However, on his way back to the Divine Path Sect, Zhou Qiongtian encountered cultivators sent by another faction to assassinate him. They concealed their figures, their killing intent boiling over.
These cultivators were all above the Cycle Realm, and one of them was even a cultivator at the early Feather Ascension Realm.
"Who might you be, and what business do you have with me?" Zhou Qiongtian remained calm in the face of danger, a smile lingering on his lips as he spoke slowly.
"Heh heh, Chu Tiange, you're at death's door and still smiling. If you want someone to blame, blame yourself for offending someone you should never have offended. Die!"
Several cultivators charged at Zhou Qiongtian, their attacks carrying sharp killing intent. They clearly truly intended to kill him.
Although these cultivators, including that early Feather Ascension Realm cultivator, were nothing in Zhou Qiongtian's eyes, and he had a hundred ways to kill them, Zhou Qiongtian suddenly did not want to do so.
He casually picked a direction and fled. Whenever those cultivators were about to catch up to him, he suddenly struck and forced them back, then accelerated away again.
With Zhou Qiongtian's outward cultivation at the Cycle Early Stage, fighting these cultivators was practically certain death.
The cultivators chasing Zhou Qiongtian looked as though they had eaten shit. "This Chu Tiange is only at the Cycle Early Stage, yet he's like a loach—slippery as oil, impossible to catch."
"As expected of a Divine Path Sect prodigy. An ordinary Cycle Early Stage cultivator would have died long ago under such pursuit, but this Chu Tiange is still bouncing around full of life."
Before long, Zhou Qiongtian was forced to the edge of a cliff.
"Ha ha ha, Chu Tiange, forced into a dead end now, aren't you? You have nowhere left to run. Today, you will undoubtedly die!" Several cultivators charged toward Zhou Qiongtian, their eyes brimming with fierce killing intent.
At that moment, Zhou Qiongtian suddenly laughed loudly. "Have you not heard that Heaven never bars every road? So long as I wish to leave, the road lies beneath my feet."
With that, Zhou Qiongtian actually turned around and leapt into the abyss. The cultivators pursuing him were dumbfounded. They looked at one another, face to face, not knowing what to do.
"Boss, what do we do?" The others looked toward the early Feather Ascension Realm cultivator.
"Hmph! From such a height, Chu Tiange will certainly die if he jumps down. We'll return and tell the employer that Chu Tiange is dead." The early Feather Ascension Realm cultivator looked at the bottomless cliff and spoke slowly.
Yet they did not know that Zhou Qiongtian had not died. He was hanging from a tree growing out of the cliff wall deep within the abyss. As for why there was a tree growing from the cliff wall, even he did not know.
Just now, while Zhou Qiongtian had been chased by those cultivators, his instincts had told him to flee. When he was forced to the cliff's edge, his instincts had told him to jump.
So he jumped. Although the cliff seemed to possess some mysterious power that forbade flight, Zhou Qiongtian had no shortage of life-saving treasures. He would never die just from jumping off a mere cliff.
Zhou Qiongtian soon saw the bottom of the cliff. There was actually a great formation there. Zhou Qiongtian was already a Formation Dao master and understood formations quite well, yet he could not comprehend this great formation.
Zhou Qiongtian could tell that this was a multilayered formation, composed of several hundred formations both large and small. It included illusion, transformation, flight restriction, spirit gathering, concealment, storage, and more.
Zhou Qiongtian descended from the tree and stepped onto the formation. Suddenly, the many formations within it lit up, and Zhou Qiongtian's heart sank as the scenery before his eyes abruptly changed.
Countless cultivators surrounded him, shouting and excitedly calling out two names.
"Luo Tianzheng!"
"Zhou Huanyue!"
Memories surged into Zhou Qiongtian's mind like a tidal wave. He was Zhou Huanyue?
"Is this Illusion within Illusion? Are we nesting dolls here?" Zhou Qiongtian's mouth twitched slightly. He had fallen into Chu Tiange's illusion formation, and within that illusion formation, he had been swept into Zhou Huanyue's illusion formation. Was he really this unlucky? What the hell.
Wait, why did the technique behind this illusion formation feel so familiar?
Holy shit! Could Chu Tiange's illusion formation have drawn inspiration from Zhou Huanyue's illusion formation? That was very possible. Could this be Chu Tiange's place of fortune?
Within the illusion, Zhou Qiongtian played the role of Zhou Huanyue and competed with Luo Tianzheng in Formation Dao. Zhou Qiongtian's current Formation Dao attainment was at the Grandmaster level, so he won with ease.
Afterward, he experienced all kinds of hardships and fortuitous encounters. In the end, Zhou Huanyue became a Supreme expert, and his Formation Dao attainment even reached the Quasi-Supreme Grandmaster level!
Within this illusion, Zhou Qiongtian's Formation Dao attainment also rose at a breakneck pace. Zhou Qiongtian obtained Zhou Huanyue's inheritance, and his Formation Dao attainment actually reached the level of a Quasi-Grandmaster.
Ding! Congratulations, Host, for seizing the opportunity of the Child of Destiny Lin Tian. Destiny Points +.
Through Zhou Huanyue's illusion, Zhou Qiongtian also roughly understood how to pass through the illusion Chu Tiange had set up.
Zhou Qiongtian did not know what to say. His Strength Dao was only at the master level, and his Lightning Dao was only at the Quasi-Grandmaster level, yet his Formation Dao had already reached the Quasi-Grandmaster level. Should he switch to cultivating Formation Dao?
Zhou Qiongtian thought about it seriously and found it highly tempting, but in the end, he decided against it.
His family had an emperor father who had cultivated both Strength Dao and Lightning Dao to their origins and reached the Supreme Grandmaster level. Cultivating Strength Dao and Lightning Dao was undoubtedly the better choice.
Of course, that was on the premise that his father was not dead. Naturally, Zhou Qiongtian was not cursing Zhou Kuang to die.
After obtaining Zhou Huanyue's inheritance, Zhou Qiongtian gained control over this formation. With its aid, he 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 nearly driven mad. Upon learning that Zhou Qiongtian had been pursued and forced to jump off a cliff, the sect master's hair stood on end in fury, his anger blazing to the heavens.
He wished he could crush the fleshly bodies of those cultivators who had pursued Zhou Qiongtian, along with the faction behind them, then use their Divine Souls as lamps to light the heavens!
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