Episode 138

  In the land of thick fog, it is also a dangerous situation at this time. As I stepped deeper, the scenery changed greatly, and all I saw were earthy hills and green grass, just like the scene outside the Wan Jue Spring. I felt as if I was on the grassland. However, my body was surrounded by ten or more giant wolves, which howled and refused to retreat. Although I stood at the top of a steep slope, my whole body was covered in blood, and my clothes were almost torn apart. I hunched over, panting heavily. In front of me, within a few dozen meters, there were tens of giant wolves lying dead on the ground. In the distance, on the high hills, hundreds of giant wolves were still rushing towards me.

  "Good heavens! If it weren't for my sturdy physique and unyielding body, I would have already become a soul in the afterlife! However, this place is clearly an illusionary array, yet the giant wolf's ferocity and attack are all too real! Even if the corpses of fierce beasts on the ground can be illusory, my own blood cannot be faked! Furthermore, this giant wolf attacked proactively and with great skill, which is not something that an illusionary array can produce! Could it be......"

  Insufficient gazed at the distant dust and smoke, a giant wolf pack was approaching. Before he could finish his thoughts, the ferocious beasts surrounding him began to howl and charge. Insufficient had no choice but to counterattack. Relying on his robust physique, he charged forward without hesitation towards a large black wolf that was nearly half again as big as the others. The wolf's massive jaws were slightly open, revealing sharp teeth that glinted with a cold light, its eyes cold and unfeeling. Seeing its prey move, the beast suddenly sprang up and launched itself at Insufficient. Although he felt a slight fear in his heart, this life-or-death moment made him unexpectedly calm and composed, his senses alert and acute. In his mind's eye, the speed and direction of the beasts' attacks were slow and prolonged, as if time and space had slowed down to a gradual stop. The wolf attacking from the front, although ferocious in appearance, was actually less dangerous than the wolves on either side that were poised to strike. Insufficient's heart was clear and calm, carefully judging the gaps in the wolves' attacks, calculating their speed. Seeing the lead wolf jump up and control the high ground, the other wolves closed in from both sides, blocking off all avenues of retreat, while hundreds or thousands of ferocious wolves and beasts in the distance formed a layered defense, leaving almost no room for escape.

  "This ferocious beast seems to have been fighting with cultivators for a long time and has actually set up a formation to surround them! How can such an intelligent ferocious beast appear in this desolate land that has not had any contact with the outside world for so long? Could it be that this desolate land has actually been influenced by the formation and the outside world? Is it possible that the ferocious beasts here are actually being controlled by the formation and brought from the outside, only to be trapped and unable to escape? Only thinking of it in this way can we understand this strange phenomenon! In that case, the power of the formation here is truly unprecedented! Or perhaps this formation has spatial abilities and can throw people into the desolate land outside? No, no, no... How could there be such a powerful cultivator in this world?! Even if it were a celestial family, the ability of the formation would have to be extremely high to achieve this, and it would still be considered a great master of formations! But where in this world would there be such an extraordinary person?!"

  Insufficiently thinking, he made the spirits of the gods descend to dust, shrouding this place in a radius of hundreds of miles. He gathered all the fine dust within a hundred miles into his eyes, secretly calculating the weaknesses of the ferocious beasts from afar. In the perfect attacking formation of the beast group, he found a thread of emptiness. It was an opportunity that could not be missed! Insufficient suddenly shot out from under the head wolf's feet, his body like a swift flying swallow with its wings folded, falling tens of meters away. Several wolves at that place saw him coming and attacked together, barking loudly. Insufficient quickly flipped over on the spot, like a lazy donkey rolling over, narrowly avoiding them as they passed by. At that time, his whole body was covered in dust and blood, looking disheveled. Afterwards, Insufficient got up and rushed to shoot again towards the slanting path. It was all according to the path he had calculated beforehand, not daring to make a single mistake. After rushing through tens of miles, the giant wolf gradually fell behind him, but it did not give up the chase, still barking loudly as it flew forward without stopping.

  "This is terrible! In this situation, I'm afraid we won't be able to run more than 30 or 50 miles before exhausting our strength."

  Insufficient, self-abdominal criticism, urgent in the middle of nowhere can give birth to wisdom! It was at this time that the heaven and earth suddenly became chaotic, and then a loud mountain responded. Insufficient startled stopped, turned around and looked back at the giant sound. But saw those thousands of giant wolves all crawling on the ground, it was still the head wolf with a large body. And in this original field, the green grass was lush, the high and low mountains were undulating as before, but where was there any explosive earthquake?

  "Could it be that the Nine Palaces Great Array of a certain family has been broken? Alas! The cultivation of Little Yuanman is indeed impressive! I think my Nine Palaces Great Array, although limited by the crudeness of the materials and the method, its power does not reach even three-tenths of the original array, yet its exquisite aspects are already beyond what ordinary cultivators can aspire to."

  Sighing with regret, he repeated:

  "In that case, I'd rather flee into the depths of this desolate land and reason with you again. Would you have me stick out my neck to be executed?"

  Insufficient to glance at the group of wolves crawling on the ground, turned around and escaped again. This time they didn't chase after him! More than ten days later, he was standing on a mountain ridge, his face full of exhaustion. He had been searching for the location of the array core on this plain for over half a month, but to no avail. Two of the five cultivators had already entered the array and were closing in. If he couldn't break through the array, he would surely be killed!

  Insufficient and helpless, after a rest of three days, his spirit had recovered as before, and he continued to use the method to search. This time, his spiritual power was sufficient, but if it was insufficient, he would be careful to operate it, carefully searching for places that had not been searched in front. There were several suspicious places, but they were all in a dangerous area. His spirit could explore danger or might know, but once damaged, it would endanger the life and death of his body!

  "Must one take risks to break through the formation? How detestable! This must be a large formation set up by the evil disciples of the ancient sect, where it's easy to get in but hard to get out, and danger lurks everywhere! Forget it! Forget it! Seeing that both factions are entering the formation to attack, with our family's abilities, we'll either die horizontally or vertically. It's better to take a risk and venture into the desperate land to explore, perhaps there's still a chance of survival."

  Thinking so, I decided to go to the nearest suspicious place. Using my light body technique, I flew over and arrived at a desolate land in half a day. The surrounding area was densely forested, but this particular spot was about 100 square meters with no grass growing on it. The ground was covered with goose egg-shaped stones, forming an extremely mysterious pattern, but upon closer inspection, it wasn't very clear after all.

  "This must be the ancient giant's stone array!"

  Insufficient brow tightly wrinkled, raised eyes to gaze again, only to see in the middle of it a platform, about ten feet high and large, built with a complete giant stone. The stone above is carved with strange symbols, which are not enough and also not recognized by many.

  "This place is eerie, don't enter lightly!"

  After a moment's thought, he picked up a stone and threw it into the desolate land. The stone initially flew as usual, but when it was about to hit the ground, it suddenly shattered and turned into dust.

  "Oh no! Its power is indeed formidable, if we rashly enter, we will surely become dead men!"

  At this moment, he suddenly felt something and turned his head to look back. In front of him was still the vast wilderness, with no cultivators in sight. However, he clearly sensed that those two people had already left this place not far away.

  "We must find a way to stop those two from approaching this place!"

  Insufficient to ponder, set up an ambush nearby and lay out a maze array outside this hundred-zhang desolate land. This kind of array is quite powerful, but its setup is simple and extremely fast. Insufficient will take the object from the recognizing spirit's hand and quickly set it up. The recognizing spirit rises from the cloud head to spy on the two great cultivators' tracks.

  "Having suffered for countless eons in the depths of the abyss, his spirit was strongly suppressed, causing all his spirits to be unable to escape from his body for several feet, this is a certain precursor!"

  Insufficient on this side, the array is not yet complete, but the other has already emerged from the top of the high ridge. After all, the great repair's ability, although recognizing the divine and being restricted, its strong eyesight is also something that ordinary people and small repairs cannot reach.

  "Old Kong, that puppet Feng Cheng is here!"

  Xie Zhang shouted loudly, his words filled with joy that could hardly be contained.

  "Where?"

  On a small path below a high ridge, Kong Lao was also searching carefully and suddenly stopped in his tracks. He asked with surprise and excitement...

  "In the woods at the foot of the slope."

  "Don't startle the snake in the grass! Elder Xie, there are two small paths here, we'll each take one and wind our way up, attacking from both front and back. We can try another way out of the formation later!"

  "Good!"

  Gao Gang rushed down from the high platform, his eyes shining with a fierce light, as he tightly controlled the puppet in the forest. He had already sensed the situation around him and was anxious in his heart. The objects in his hand flew out rapidly, and the formation by his side gradually took shape. Just at this moment, a black shadow appeared on his left, flying towards him like an arrow. Gao Gang was not greatly surprised, but he knew that if he let go of his hands, he would have to face the killing blow from the two small, round, and full-bodied cultivators! He didn't dare to hesitate, and with a swift movement, he ignored everything else, his hands moving rapidly as the formation gradually closed in. The black shadow finally caught up to him, and Gao Gang's body was hit, flying into the air as a stream of blood shot out wildly. However, in the last moment before he was hit, the final base array material in Gao Gang's hand also fell to the ground, landing accurately. As the two cultivators flew towards him with their eyes wide open, the figure that had flown up and sprayed blood gradually disappeared from view. In front of them was a dense forest, with faint mist swirling around the trees like silk ribbons. The desolate land where Feng Cheng had been was nowhere to be seen!

  "Old Master Kong, what kind of formation is this?"

  Xie Zhang smiled wryly and said.

  "This is just an ordinary maze formation, its power is not great. With the two of us, it's not difficult to break through, it will only take a little time."

  "It broke so quickly that the puppet formation was heavily hit by Old Man Kong, and for a moment, its power to act was completely lost, making it difficult to set up another formation to block us. If we delay slightly, I'm afraid they will set up another formation in a linked ring, then we will have no success!"

  Xie Zhanglao said hastily.

  "What's the meaning of ' Linked Rings'? Ha! That method is long outdated! Nowadays, people set up arrays, also called linked rings, but they're just a few arrays hooked together. Where can it be said to be truly linked? I once heard my ancestors say that true linked rings are based on an extremely powerful array as the foundation, with multiple arrays hooked together in a ring shape. The power is so great that it has the ability to seize the mysteries of heaven and earth, cut through the wonders of yin and yang, dawn and dusk, and hook together the power of the laws of heaven and earth. Although it can't destroy the heavens or extinguish the earth, its power is already unimaginable!"

  "Old Master Kong's insight is unparalleled!"

  The old man's eyes showed an increasingly respectful gaze.