Lu Qing did not know what level his formation mastery had reached, but relying purely on his cultivation of formations to make it through the fourth step and near the fifth was exceedingly difficult.
Even his usually calm and composed face carried an extra trace of killing intent.
The first three killing formations and one restriction formation—when formations confronted and collided, it was the casters' minds and spiritual power that clashed against one another.
Perhaps to Elder Liu, these formations had merely been set down on a whim, but Lu Qing had indeed drawn considerable practical experience in formations from them.
Compared to cultivators of the same realm, he had far too little combat experience. His formation experience had always come from his own exploration. Yet people were alive; the instant a cultivator lost focus, an enemy would seize that opening. Lu Qing naturally did not wish to sink into slaughter and bloodshed, but neither had he ever feared killing or battle.
The grand formation rolled on without end. Lu Qing took the fifth step.
A sense of pressure from heaven and earth bore down madly upon his mind and body.
"Heaven-Severing Formation!"
Lu Qing's heart tightened.
It severed others from their spiritual power, severed others from their divine abilities and methods. Within it, trying to break the formation core through a collision of formations was impossible.
Moreover, the formation core was plainly hanging before Lu Qing's eyes.
Heaven and earth were crowned by a full moon. That round moon was the formation core Lu Qing needed to shatter.
Although every aspect of his strength was suppressed by the Heaven-and-Earth Severing Formation, this had to be resolved swiftly. Otherwise, once he lost the initiative, what followed would become extremely troublesome.
"The Heaven-and-Earth Severing Formation... There are still two formations afterward."