Ingenious as Ghostly Axes and Divine Craftsmanship! Seizing the Fortune of Heaven and Earth!

Ingenious as Ghostly Axes and Divine Craftsmanship! Seizing the Fortune of Heaven and Earth!

He saw that right where the bluestone had pressed down, an apricot-yellow small flag the size of a palm was thrust into the ground.

On the flag's surface, like ghost-drawn talismans, countless lines crisscrossed and interwove, forming an incomparably obscure and complex formation diagram.

"Found it!"

Chen Zhixing's eyes lit up.

What he needed to do now was find one of the nodes among the formation patterns carved onto the surface of this formation flag, alter that node, and walk out of the Sky Covering Grand Formation.

"Young Master, leave it to me."

"I once followed the Sword God across the land and saw quite a few formations. Though I never deliberately delved deeply into them, I'd say I have some experience."

Qing Zhi's confident voice rang out.

She had followed Chen Zhixing for several days now, and she also wanted to prove her own worth.

"Good."

Chen Zhixing nodded casually, then turned his gaze toward the formation patterns.

And within the Void Space inside the Divine Sword Qingzhi, Sword Spirit Qing Zhi immediately began studying those formation patterns carefully.

In her mind, she could not help recalling how the Sword God had once explained formations.

"The path of formations is made up of three parts: formation flags, formation patterns, and formation diagrams."

"If one wishes to set up a formation, one must first find a vessel to serve as the formation flag, then draw formation patterns upon the flag, connecting node after node to form a formation diagram."

"Finally, pour in spiritual energy and activate it."

Sword Spirit Qing Zhi murmured to herself, her gaze constantly roving over the formation diagram.

"The Great Dao is fifty; Heaven evolves forty-nine."

"The one that escapes is a single thread of survival."

"In this world, Heaven never seals off every road for man. No matter what it is, there will always be a sliver of flaw."

"Formations are naturally the same."

"Only, where is the one that escaped in this formation?"

Time slowly passed.

Sword Spirit Qing Zhi stared at the formation diagram carved full of dense, packed formation patterns, and the more she looked, the more dazzled her eyes became, until one head felt like two.

It was as if she were staring at a heavenly book.

"Young Master, um, give me a little more time. I'll definitely be able to unravel it. Trust me."

Sword Spirit Qing Zhi spoke a little awkwardly, but before she could finish her sentence—

"Eh???"

Out of the corner of her eye, she suddenly noticed it.

Chen Zhixing, who had originally been casually looking at the formation flag, suddenly bent down and reached toward one of the formation-pattern nodes on the flag.

"Young Master, don't mess around! That'll make the formation sense an intruder and immediately rebound!"

Sword Spirit Qing Zhi was instantly frantic.

Before her words had even fallen—

A faint glow surged up at Chen Zhixing's fingertip, and it had already tapped onto that formation-pattern node.

Crack.

In an instant, the entire formation pattern began to move.

The void before Chen Zhixing actually started to twist and warp.

An invisible door slowly opened from within the void, forming a passage that led outside the Sky Covering Grand Formation.

"It's done."

Chen Zhixing stood up and muttered to himself with some relief, "Good thing I read a few books on formation basics when I was little."

".???"

Sword Spirit Qing Zhi's mouth opened wide enough to stuff an egg inside, her expression completely vacant.

It was done?

It was done just like that?? She looked at Chen Zhixing with an expression as if she had seen a ghost. A formation laid down by a grandmaster of the formation path had been so easily found at its gate of life? Merely because he had read a few books on formation basics when he was little?

It was simply absurd!!

"What's wrong?" Chen Zhixing noticed Sword Spirit Qing Zhi's odd reaction and asked in confusion.

".Nothing. I want some peace and quiet."

Sword Spirit Qing Zhi fell silent somewhat weakly.

I... I really am useless!

She could not help weeping rivers in her heart, feeling for the first time that she, the grand Longevity Sword Spirit, had so little presence.

"Let's go."

Chen Zhixing laughed, not thinking too much of it. He stepped forward and left the Sky Covering Grand Formation.

After Chen Zhixing left, that invisible door slowly merged back together.

As if nothing had ever happened.

At the same time.

Eastern Xuan Region, the far north.

Heaven Mountain.

Snow drifted here all year round, the land locked in ice and bitter cold.

As far as the eye could see, there were only pale glaciers towering into the sky, too high even for birds to cross.

This place, together with the Frozen Soil Plateau, was known as one of the Forbidden Grounds of the Eastern Xuan Region.

The reason the Frozen Soil Plateau was called a Forbidden Ground was because Snow Women lived there.

And the reason Heaven Mountain was called a Forbidden Ground was because... this was the location of one of the three great Immortal Dao Lineages, the Heavenly Saint Palace!

The Heavenly Saint Palace had three palaces, nine towers, and the Seventy-Two Halls.

At this moment, among the Seventy-Two Halls, inside Huixin Hall where Elder Huixin resided.

Huixin Hall, usually peaceful, was rather lively today.

"You—you're saying that someone only looked at this Heaven Burning Art once and found a way to perfect it?"

An old woman with a head full of silver frost, a hunched figure, dressed in tatters and utterly careless about her appearance, was staring at Mo Qingyue with a face full of suspicion.

She asked herself that her own research into the path of arts and techniques, while not the strongest, was absolutely among the very top ranks of the present age.

It was not as though there was no one in this world who could perfect this technique of hers.

But someone who could perfect the Heaven Burning Art after looking at it only once.

She... truly did not believe it!

"That's right. He even opened up a new path and made some improvements to this art."

Mo Qingyue, the Saintess who had recovered her original peerless appearance, said with a faint smile.

"Hmph. Casually tampering with my technique is just drawing legs on a snake!"

Elder Huixin gave a cold snort.

"Your Highness, take out the Guidance Chart. I'd like to see just what holy being this is, and exactly what perfection and improvements were made," Elder Huixin said, extending her hand in disapproval.

Mo Qingyue shook her head and smiled. "No hurry. Let me say this first—does our previous agreement still count? If I truly found someone who perfected the Heaven Burning Art, you promised me one request."

"It counts, it counts. You little girl, all those schemes you think up every day are used on this old woman." Elder Huixin sounded helpless.

Mo Qingyue smiled at that.

Then she flipped her right hand, and the divine ability Guidance Chart that Chen Zhixing had drawn for her appeared in her palm.

Elder Huixin casually took the divine ability Guidance Chart and lowered her head to look, unconcerned.

"This Guidance Chart is drawn... like it came from a rotten brush basket, ugly and sloppy."

With just one glance, Elder Huixin's brows furrowed deeply.

The entire Guidance Chart had been drawn extremely casually and sloppily, without the slightest trace of the neatness and order hers had.

If Mo Qingyue had not spoken so solemnly, she would have tossed it straight away.

Immediately after.

Elder Huixin forced herself to be patient and looked on.

As she looked and looked, the contempt on Elder Huixin's face gradually faded.

Her expression turned serious.

"Elder Huixin, how is it?" Mo Qingyue asked with a smile at the corner of her lips.

"It does... indeed have a little something, but not much. Mm... I'll speak later. Let this old woman finish reading first."

Elder Huixin replied, extremely unwilling to admit it, and continued studying it seriously.

As she looked and looked, the seriousness on her face turned into a trace of gravity, and even her breathing grew heavy.

Then, as she kept looking and looking, the gravity on her face transformed into a trace of obsession. Her eyes gradually widened, bright light surging within them.

A moment later.

She seemed to have become utterly lost in this Guidance Chart, as if she had forgotten the outside world. Her hands kept trembling, and from time to time, a few cries of amazement slipped from her mouth.

"There really is a problem with the Shao Shang Acupoint?"

"Eh? If the Shao Shang Acupoint is changed to the Qi Chong Acupoint, it can actually be done like this?"

"Never would have thought it. Truly never would have thought it!"

"Th-this, this, this node substitution... isn't it a little too bold?"

"Combining the Guidance Charts for Extreme Yin and Extreme Yang into one? Turning them into a divine ability?"

"Hiss—swapping the Taiyi Acupoint for the Lingxu Acupoint? Right! Why didn't I think of that?"

"Th-this, this is simply brilliant!"

"This works too? I... I truly can't understand it!"

"Marvelous, marvelous, marvelous—truly indescribably marvelous!"

"My heavens, how did they think of directly replacing the Yang Chi Acupoint with the Qing Leng Yuan Acupoint?"

A full hour passed.

Elder Huixin could be seen sometimes frowning in deep thought, sometimes slapping the table and crying out in praise, and sometimes sucking in a breath of cold air, her face filled with shock.

When Mo Qingyue saw this, even she could not help feeling a little uncertain.

At last, Elder Huixin finished reading the Guidance Chart and abruptly raised her head to look at Mo Qingyue.

At some unknown point, her eyes had become streaked with blood, and her face was flushed with uncontrollable excitement! "Y-Your Highness, this is a work of... supernatural craftsmanship! A creation that seizes the fortune of heaven and earth!!!"

Elder Huixin's face was intoxicated, as though she had obtained a priceless treasure, and her voice carried shock she could not suppress.