Chapter 241
A bronze mace instantly materialized in Elian’s grasp, facing the abruptly rising barrier, he swung the mace with all his might, unleashing a heavy, mountain-crushing shockwave that slammed directly into it.
The rising brilliance instantly shattered to the ground.
"Petty tricks!" Elian smirked disdainfully.
The formation’s strength was decent, likely enough to trap a Sixth Heaven Deity, but what a pity, he was at the Eighth Heaven.
"Elder Elian, something seems off, this formation looks exactly like the one we just set up, I sensed that our formation stones shattered!" Suddenly, an Alpha-Class Guard spoke up.
Elian was speechless.
Wait, are you kidding me? If it was our own formation, why were you guys so terrified?
"But Elder Elian, our formation isn’t supposed to act like this, it shouldn’t be trapping us!" the Alpha-Class Guard said with a face full of confusion.
"Did something go wrong with the formation?" Elian finally realized the crux of the issue.
"I’m not sure... Ah!" Just as the Alpha-Class Guard shook his head, a streak of sword qi slashing out from who knows where instantly severed one of his arms.
Subsequently, countless streaks of sword qi materialized out of thin air within the formation, hacking violently toward Elian and his men.
What is going on?! Elian slammed his bronze mace into the ground.
A massive, bronze-colored spiritual bell instantly manifested, covering the entire group, protecting them from the relentless barrage.
"Heal your wounds quickly! There is something bizarre going on here!" Elian locked his brows tightly.
The sword qi hammered against the bronze bell, creating a deafening clatter.
Not far away, the Demon cultivator was also forced to circulate his energy to defend himself, although the sword qi felt like a mere tickle to him, being endlessly tickled was incredibly infuriating.
Houda clenched his fist and fiercely punched the ground.
The sky full of sword qi instantly vanished without a trace.
He snorted coldly, this Adam actually has some tricks up his sleeve.
It really is an ambush, this formation was more than capable of trapping and killing Sixth Heaven Deities, fortunately, the Commander was wise enough to send me.
But before he could dwell on it, the sky-filling sword qi surged anew, slashing down even more ferociously, more than twice as strong as before.
However, to him, it was just a slightly larger ant, still completely useless.
Meanwhile, Elian and the others had just let out a sigh of relief, thinking the sword qi had stopped, only for it to suddenly roar back with greater ferocity.
Even so, dealing with it remained relatively easy.
Outside the formation, Adam happily watched the performance.
This was a grand formation he had poured all his blood, sweat, and tears into arranging.
To ensure absolute lethality, he hadn’t slacked off during these past few days.
Whenever he had free time, he read the formation-related texts left behind by the Book Saint, and he had benefited immensely.
He even comprehended the Heavenly Dao’s Number One Killing Formation, the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation.
However, he didn’t possess the Four Immortal-Slaying Swords, nor did he have the Immortal-Slaying Formation Map, therefore, he could only use the Yellow Emperor’s Sword as the formation core to set up a significantly weakened version.
Although vastly inferior to the original, beneath the Saint realm, it was still an absolute meat grinder.
Furthermore, he had set up numerous smaller sword formations beforehand to drain their stamina and disorient them.
Once the true Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation was activated, it would catch them completely off guard.
Elian’s group slowly advanced toward the cave while fending off the relentless sword qi.
None of them were particularly skilled in formations, but they knew the simplest way to break a formation was either to find and destroy the core or to eliminate the person who set it up.
That bastard Adam is still hiding inside the cave, he definitely didn’t expect we would send such powerful experts to capture him.
The moment they stepped into the cave, the sword qi inside instantly grew overwhelmingly ferocious.
The bronze spiritual bell began to tremble, struggling to withstand the dense, suffocating barrage.
"How troublesome!" Elian fiercely swung the bronze mace, sending a wave of bronze light slashing forward, it split open the bell and cleaved through the incoming tide of sword qi.
A temporary safe path opened through the center.
"Now is the time!" Elian roared.
The Alpha-Class Guards immediately charged deep into the cave, Elian followed closely behind, these streaks of sword qi were nothing to him, but they were still somewhat problematic for the Alpha-Class Guards.
After they had charged a considerable distance, a man also slowly walked into the cave, countless streaks of sword qi rained down upon his half-naked upper body.
They left behind nothing but faint white marks, they couldn’t hurt him in the slightest.
The man had a massive scar across his forehead, and the corner of his eye was twitching wildly. "So annoying!"
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Outside the formation.
Seeing that everyone had finally entered the cave, Adam nodded in immense satisfaction.
Sometimes, being too blindly confident in your own strength is not a good thing.
Inside the cave, he had left a very special surprise for them.
In a person’s life, the hardest enemy to defeat is themselves.
Let’s see how well these people fare when forced to fight their own reflections.
The formation he had set up inside the cave could replicate anyone who entered it, instantly creating an identical, mirrored existence for them to fight, although the clones could only be maintained for ten minutes, that was more than enough.
Inside the cave.
Elian stared at the completely empty limestone cavern.
The muscles on his face twitched uncontrollably.
There was nothing inside but a crude wooden table holding two glowing formation discs, which were continually emitting the auras of Adam and Cecilia.
Formations can actually be used like this?! A simultaneous thought surfaced in all their minds.
It couldn’t be helped, ever since the Primordial Era, spiritual energy had been continuously depleting and resources had grown increasingly barren.
Paths like formations, artifact refining, and alchemy, disciplines that required a colossal amount of resources and spiritual energy to support, had long since fallen into deep decline!
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