Formation Momentum

The group returned to the martial arts field.

Sunlight spilled across the bluestone ground, bright and clear.

Holding an ancient sword case, Xie Jinghan turned to the eight youths behind him. "You've all obtained new swords. Practice your sword moves separately and get used to them."

Xie Ku and the other seven spread out with their swords and devoted themselves to practice.

At the center of the field, Xie Jinghan stood with a solemn expression. He circulated his Innate True Qi, and the sword case hovered before him in midair.

With a slight gesture of his fingers, Innate True Qi flowed out from his body and urged the sword case from afar.

His heart followed his will.

He formed a sword seal.

Clang—!

The first longsword shot into the air, suspended overhead in the Celestial Pivot position, its tip slanting toward the heavens as it gathered power without releasing it.

The second longsword shot into the air and took the Celestial Rotation position.

The seventh longsword shot into the air and took the Shaking Light position.

In the span of a few breaths, seven longswords flew out one after another, arranging themselves above the martial arts field according to the positions of the Big Dipper.

After days and nights of contemplation, Xie Jinghan had cultivated the "Seven-Star Sword Art" to perfection.

When the "Seven-Star Sword Art" reached perfection, the panel unlocked the "Seven-Star Big Dipper Sword Formation."

[Seven-Star Sword Art: 100'0000/100'000 (Perfection)]

[Seven-Star Big Dipper Sword Formation: 1'000/10'000'000 (Comprehending)]

This formation broke free of the constraints of sword moves. It required no cooperation from multiple people and could be deployed by a single person. However, it needed seven swords as formation eyes to bear the power of the stars.

Xie Jinghan strongly suspected that the "Seven-Star Sword Art" had been formed by streamlining and dismantling the "Seven-Star Big Dipper Sword Formation."

The seven swords were in position!

The next moment, Xie Jinghan sharply formed a sword seal, and the seven longswords trembled with an arcane ripple.

Fine strands of starlight drifted down from the void, converging and flowing along the sword blades.

The seven swords resonated and vibrated together, linking with one another to form an invisible, vast formation momentum.

Above the entire martial arts field, countless tiny star-like sword energies crisscrossed, floating and circulating.

Seven-Star Big Dipper Sword Qi!

Its chill was piercing, its pressure wave after wave, enough to make one's soul tremble.

The eight youths who had been practicing their swords all froze in place. Their eight eyes widened round as they stared fixedly at the Seven-Star Big Dipper Sword Formation overhead.

The sight before them had long surpassed their understanding of ordinary sword moves.

Standing beneath the formation, Xie Jinghan looked at the imposing Seven-Star Big Dipper Sword Formation, and a smile rose at the corner of his lips.

"So this is the power of the Seven-Star Big Dipper Sword Formation?!"

"This is formation momentum?!"

"Momentum?!"

"No wonder the outside world says formation masters are all powerful!"

"So as long as one masters formations, one can come into contact with power on the level of 'momentum'?!"

"Borrowing the power of heaven, earth, and the stars to condense a killing formation momentum!"

"But formations really are hard to learn. Just look at the proficiency of the Seven-Star Big Dipper Sword Formation on the panel—there are so many zeros."

With this, Xie Jinghan finally had complete confidence in leaving Xie Residence and heading to the banks of the Han River to comprehend Thunder Intent.

The journey to the Han River was imperative.

During these days, he had vaguely caught traces of an exceedingly faint probing presence several times. It lurked in the shadows and was extraordinarily skilled at hiding.

Whenever he used the Ten-Thousand-Mile Tracking Art, that presence silently vanished, as if it had never existed. No trace could be found, and its source could not be investigated.

He had remained vigilant in his heart and did not dare relax.

Just as Xie Jinghan activated the Seven-Star Big Dipper Sword Formation, high above the nine heavens, at the utmost heights of the sea of clouds.

An elderly man with white hair and a white beard sat quietly atop the clouds. His murky eyes suddenly opened as he gazed down from afar at the lands of Great Gan below.

The old man calculated the secrets of heaven with his fingertips and murmured in a low voice, "The Big Dipper has appeared in the world. The great current is inevitable. The age of great contention is truly about to arrive!"