Twin Guns Merge

"What's going on?"

The others felt nothing, but Bajie and the rest, who were fishing in the Cold Pool atop the mountain, suddenly sensed a crushing pressure descending from the sky.

Above the thick clouds, flickers of fire could be seen.

It seemed that the great formation within the Eight-Trigram Furnace had begun to operate.

"Did Master do that?" Ao Yulie shot out of the Cold Pool, his medium-sized dragon body returning to human form.

"Most likely." Bajie looked up at the sky. "Is Master breaking through the formation? Did he think those pills weren't enough to eat and decide to tear down someone else's nest directly?"

"...Surely not." Ao Yulie wiped the sweat from his forehead.

It felt as though the temperature was beginning to rise.

"Good, good."

After a while, there were no further disturbances—no spinning heavens and shifting earth, collapsing mountains and splitting ground, or heavenly fire descending.

Bajie guessed that Tang Luo had merely triggered the Six-Ding Divine Fire and had no intention of actually breaking out of the Eight-Trigram Furnace.

"He only triggered the Six-Ding Divine Fire. He doesn't mean to destroy the formation and furnace before leaving," Bajie said.

Given Tang Luo's "familiarity" with formations, breaking a formation meant destroying it.

And destroying the great formation within the Eight-Trigram Furnace basically meant destroying the furnace itself.

There was no real difference between the two.

"Then Master is..." Ao Yulie asked in confusion. "What is he trying to do?"

Bajie thought for a moment, then suddenly slapped his hand. "Didn't Master temper his body with heavenly lightning last time? He probably wants to take it a step further now."

It was not that he thought there were not enough pills. He thought the heavenly lightning was not fierce enough.

So he went straight for the