Super Soldier in the City

That’s right, Li Yifei ’grabbed’ forward, because he suddenly transformed into an arm, a human arm, that arm was full of power, extending out from the bird’s body, extremely disharmonious, clasping the protrusion of a stone, causing the bird’s body to abruptly stop and instantly collide with the Golden Eagle swooping from behind.

With a loud bang, the sharp claws of the Golden Eagle clutched Li Yifei’s arm, but the eagle beak didn’t manage to peck at him because another large hand had already grabbed the eagle’s neck, fiercely squeezing it. The Golden Eagle didn’t even have time to scream before it was crushed back by Li Yifei, his left arm erupting with strength, instantly slamming the eagle into the nearby rock. With another dull thud, the eagle’s head cracked, its neck was snapped by Li Yifei, and its strong claws naturally couldn’t continue to grasp Li Yifei.

He thus took down the seemingly unstoppable Golden Eagle.

Li Yifei wasn’t taking risks, instead, he suddenly gained such an insight, hence he succeeded. Everything restored, Li Yifei arrived at the sixth floating stone platform. This time, as Li Yifei stepped into it, he found himself in a fiery environment, so hot that even he couldn’t bear it. Li Yifei wanted to use the previous method again to break the formation head-on, but things didn’t go as planned. As he stepped into the sea of flames surrounding him, he immediately felt his clothes catch fire, and he hurriedly retreated, slapping out the flames on his body.

"Is it real?" Li Yifei was slightly surprised. The surrounding leaping flames were real; not only did they ignite his clothes, but reaching out his hand he also felt the burning pain.

Indeed, the previous two formations were real too, only he broke through them. This formation’s flames were also real, yet what Li Yifei cared about wasn’t that the fire trapped him. He suddenly froze, thinking that since this formation is called the Tian Yan Formation, it probably has many variations, not just forty-nine formations, and as long as he breaks through them sequentially, he should be able to get out.

This formation... damn it, it can change, expanding or intensifying with his movements, becoming sharper, making blindly charging forward seem unwise.

Thinking this, Li Yifei grinned slightly, becoming serious.

This formation, being Xu Shu’s hallmark, indeed wasn’t easily breakable, so he absolutely couldn’t be careless. Thinking of this, Li Yifei began to circulate his True Qi, elevating his state to the strongest. It was also his first time going all out after dual cultivation; what the ultimate effect would be, even Li Yifei himself didn’t know.

Outside, Yang Shuo lowered his head to check his watch, finding that half an hour had already passed. He couldn’t help but worryingly pull Xu Shu, asking, "Brother Xu, is Mr. Li going to be alright? It’s been half an hour, and there’s still no movement inside."

In Yang Shuo’s eyes, nothing was in that field; Li Yifei seemed to have vanished into thin air. Yet, as the one who set up the formation, Xu Shu couldn’t see, but he could vaguely sense some things; mainly because his cultivation wasn’t sufficient, otherwise he could manipulate the formation, instead of just watching like now.

Xu Shu shook his head at his words, explaining, "There’s nothing wrong yet, otherwise the formation would stop functioning. This Tian Yan Formation is the strongest I could arrange; I don’t even know if Mr. Li can break it, anything could happen, phew, of course, maybe nothing will happen at all!"

"How about stopping the formation, Brother Xu? Mr. Li’s status is too important. If something really happens, we can’t take responsibility!" Yang Shuo advised, continuing, "Mr. Li being able to pardon us is already very rare, if..."

"I know, but this formation... once it starts, it can’t be stopped, unless Mr. Li breaks through it, or the formation’s effect fades away, which would take two to three days. Don’t worry, let’s wait a little longer, maybe Mr. Li can easily break through," Xu Shu reassured while internally thinking this Tian Yan Formation is indeed a Great Formation, its transformations are countless, and couldn’t be easily broken, even if it’s a miniaturized version, its incomplete form was powerful enough.

After Li Yifei went in, he probably wouldn’t be able to break it, right? Xu Shu had no confidence inside. If Li Yifei could break out, that would make him unimaginably strong.

"Please, nothing happen, Mr. Li, you were a bit too reckless..." Yang Shuo prayed.

Inside the formation, Li Yifei began to smile; he had accumulated power, but didn’t expect to reach such a level, his first time fully rotating True Qi after dual cultivation, activating his body’s potential, deploying his full ability.

Suddenly, he had a feeling, that this so-called Tian Yan Formation couldn’t trap him at all. In the face of absolute power, such a formation was like a ridiculous little cage.

It’s akin to scenes often seen in movies, where someone hides in a small room thinking they’re safe; but just as they breathe a sigh of relief, a fist punches through the wall next to them. In the same sense, after accumulation, Li Yifei suddenly had this insight that such a formation couldn’t hinder him. Li Yifei could break it, though it wouldn’t be easy, it wouldn’t be as troublesome as before.

Facing the raging flames around him, Li Yifei just took a light breath, clenched his right hand into a fist, drawing his arm back to gather force, and then launched a palm strike. A gale swept through, instantly clearing the flames before him, and Li Yifei stepped forward like crossing a Natural Moat, walking straight out of the passage.

Reaching the seventh stone platform, this time Li Yifei didn’t even pause; he didn’t look at what kind of formation or world the stone platform represented, merely throwing a punch.

A sonic boom seemed to occur out of thin air, Li Yifei’s punch smashed the formation represented by the seventh stone platform, yes, smashed it completely, the entire stone platform bursting and scattering.

Outside, Xu Shu’s eyebrow twitched. Though limited by his cultivation he couldn’t control the formation, but since he arranged it, he still had some insight. He sensed the formation had just encountered immense power at that moment. He was astonished at how substantial Li Yifei’s cultivation had become, producing such terrifying might.

This astonishment persisted, for as Xu Shu’s initial shock hadn’t yet faded, Li Yifei delivered another punch. He was like a terrifying bomb; everything shattered where he passed. Those stone platforms which couldn’t be stomped open before, were now easily broken by Li Yifei, simply breaking through one after another.

In a blink, Li Yifei had reached the sixteenth stone platform. He hadn’t cared at all until now; with each step forward, an attack followed, rapidly breaking through to the sixteenth platform.

Li Yifei knew, if he wasn’t mistaken, the Tian Yan Formation encompassed forty-nine individual formations, with these formations intermingling to form countless other formations, an astronomical number indeed. However, it didn’t mean Xu Shu’s Tian Yan Formation arrangement had so many variations or power, but one thing was clear: Breaking one would lead to the destruction of others, cracking one stone platform’s formation, reducing the number of formations inside the Tian Yan Formation, possibly by countless numbers.

Breaking through sixteen stone platforms meant the Tian Yan Formation instantly lost many formations.

The sixteenth platform was equally not too much trouble for Li Yifei. This time he executed a sweeping kick, sending splinters of the platform’s representative formation flying, as if swept by a typhoon, left in ruin. Li Yifei stepped onto the seventeenth platform, this time not hastily attacking. Such continuous attacks were also exhausting to him. Moreover, aggressively breaking formations this way was satisfying but felt somewhat unaccomplished.

Furthermore, the seventeenth platform showed some changes. Li Yifei barely stood for five seconds before he sensed a sharp spiritual force lock onto him, making him alert, but unable to identify its source or how it locked onto him.

After a few seconds, Li Yifei shook his head, still a bit surprised. These formations were truly versatile, he hadn’t expected even spiritual attack formations were present. Considering the fact that Xu Shu set this up in just half an hour, causing him some trouble, actually meant his strength was already quite commendable.

If an ordinary person faced such spiritual assault within the formation, they’d likely suffer excruciating headaches, wishing for death over life. However, for Li Yifei, his cultivation and spiritual power were exceptionally high, this level of spiritual attack was like a tickle, not very powerful indeed.

As spiritual energy was also a form of power, Li Yifei shook his head, exhuming his aura, causing the formation to collapse with a roar, moving to the eighteenth platform.

Upon reaching this platform, Li Yifei suddenly sensed he was not far from breaking the entire Tian Yan Formation, yes, indeed not far. Li Yifei had already found the Life Gate, entering through it and planning to exit through it, despite the countless transformations within this Great Formation. Finding the Life Gate again proved he was indeed near the exit.

Li Yifei realized that finding the Life Gate easily wasn’t due to his skill in cracking formations or talent therein, rather... his sheer force. Using absolute power to break the formation followed the strategy that One Man’s Strength Subdues Ten. Some might view this as a brute approach, but... formations represent power, as does individual martial prowess. As long as they are forms of strength, no matter what, they work. Li Yifei felt no embarrassment, not after having assessed Xu Shu’s ability.