Rumble!!!
The earth trembled!
Across a million miles, formation patterns buried long before suddenly lit up!
A vast formation encompassing heaven and earth thundered into being!
"What?"
"A formation!"
"When did this junior set up a formation?"
"No! The grade of this formation... something feels wrong!"
The nine Saint Emperors blanched, discovering to their horror that they were trapped inside an exquisitely intricate killing formation!
As it turned out...
From the very beginning.
Chen Musen had been secretly laying a formation!
Using his Shrinking Earth into Inches movement technique, he had appeared to be fleeing in desperation, when he was actually maneuvering into position!
Every seemingly panicked dodge had been precisely calculated!
Every step had planted a formation pattern at exactly the right spot!
"The seven-aperture exquisite heart..."
"Is this what makes the seven-aperture exquisite heart so terrifying?"
"This junior was plotting against us and laying a formation even while hanging by a thread between life and death?"
"He... he treated us all as pieces on his chessboard!"
One Saint Emperor sucked in a cold breath, his eyes filled with horror!
"Heh."
Chen Musen stood atop the formation's nexus, his face pale and his aura disordered, yet his smile remained as gentle and polished as jade.
"Seniors, as I said before."
"Why get angry?"
"Wouldn't it be better if we sat down and talked things through?"
"You!"
The sinister young man trembled with rage. "Chen Musen, you treacherous little wretch!"
"If you have the guts, fight us fair and square!"
"What kind of hero skulks around and hides?"
"Fair and square?"
Chen Musen raised an eyebrow, as though he had heard the most ridiculous joke in the world.
"My friend, so many of you powerful cultivators have surrounded a lone Saint Realm cultivator to kill him, and you have the