When Zhao Gongming left, Lan Xiaobu’s heart was a little sad, but he knew that leaving the Mo Xuan Immortal Realm would be better for Zhao Gongming. With Zhao Gongming’s cultivation strength, the only way to get closer was to leave this realm.
But don’t wait for his opponents strength are skyrocketing, old Zhao is still in the same place, that time old Zhao is not revenge, but to be harvested again.
As Lan Xiaobu was thinking about whether he still wanted to rob the Moon Mirror Immortal Court’s Immortal Court King after Old Zhao had left, the edge of his divine mind watched a grey shadow swarming from the sky.
Nightmare Demon Tide, this was definitely a Nightmare Demon Tide. Compared to the Nightmare Demons of the Zero Weakness Immortal Region, the Nightmare Demons here were clearly even more disciplined. This sudden unleashing was clearly coming with a plan.
At the same time, a large army of cultivators appeared at the same cultivator camp in the Moxian Immortal Domain. In addition to the cultivator army, scattered cultivators and sects from all sides also sent out teams of cultivators at the same time at this moment.
Lan Xiaobu saw that the Rising Star Immortal Court’s cultivator army had likewise come out, and the one leading the way was not Gu Yue, but an early Immortal Emperor. It looked like not all the Immortal Emperors of the Ascended Star Immortal Court had gone, it was just that the only early Immortal Emperor didn’t dare to speak up when Gu Yue and Thistle Leng were fighting.
The cultivator army and the Nightmare Demon clashed together like a scorching hot sun clashing with a chilly icy cold. There was no blood splattering magnificence, nor was there the thrilling collision of divine abilities. There was only a kind of misery, at least from Lan Xiaobu’s point of view.
After a cultivator was killed, his essence, blood and soul were all absorbed by the Nightmare Demon and turned into a corpse. And after the Nightmare Demon was killed, only the inner core was taken away, and the rest all collapsed between heaven and earth.
Watching the large swathes of cultivators fall, Lan Xiaobu sucked in a breath of cold air as he sighed in his heart. Whether it was the Immortal Realm or the mundane world, being able to live a stable life, even in the midst of strife, was because there were people holding back all the horrors that were about to happen.
While the number of cultivators kept decreasing, the number of nightmare demons kept increasing. If it wasn’t for the Grade 8 Trapping and Strangling Immortal Formations and the Strangling Immortal Formations, and the fact that there were some strong people and formation masters guarding these Grade 8 Trapping and Strangling Immortal Formations, I’m afraid that this place would have long since lost its defence.
The situation at the Moxian Ancient Battlefield was not poor, but was beyond poor. If it continued like this, I’m afraid that it wouldn’t be long before the Undying Nightmare Demons would completely rush out of the ancient battlefield, instead of a few sparsely scattered ones.
An eighth level Immortal Formation Master continuously threw out formation flags while two Immortal Emperors protected him on the side.
This battle lasted for a full day before these Nightmare Demons retreated once again. What puzzled Lan Xiaobu was that the Nightmare Demons did not lose out in the battle, but retreated on their own accord.
Lan Xiaobu was not in the mood to look for Sang Buxia to ask for favours again, and he decided to set up a superb Grade 9 Strangulation Immortal Formation and Trapping Immortal Formation here. When the next time the Nightmare Demon came to attack, this great formation would be unleashed to exterminate the Nightmare Demon cleanly in one go.
If an eighth level Immortal Formation couldn’t stop the Nightmare Demon, a ninth level Immortal Formation could definitely do so. This was because a ninth level Immortal Formation could only wait for even the topmost Nightmare Demon to die without the need for an Immortal Emperor to guard the Formation Master.
The simultaneous appearance of Nightmare Demons in the Mo Xuan Immortal Domain and the Zero Weakness Immortal Domain, or such a large-scale Nightmare Demon attack, was definitely not a coincidence. It was just that his current strength was still too low to look into the source of this matter.
The Nightmare Demons retreated, and the army of cultivators retreated behind the defensive Immortal Formation.
As Lan Xiaobu was about to take out the formation flag, he saw that eighth level Immortal Formation Zun come out alone, holding the formation flag as he repaired the formation that had long been in tatters.
“Dan Master Lan, you haven’t left yet?”Seeing Lan Xiaobu walking over, this Immortal Formation Zun hurriedly stopped his work and made an Immortal Head salute to Lan Xiaobu.
“Just now, in the middle of watching the battle, may I ask what is your name, fellow Daoist?”Lan Xiaobu asked politely after returning the salute.
The man hurriedly said, “My name is Wu Gui, and I’m now considered to be the only rank 8 Immortal Formation Zun in the Mo Xuan Immortal Domain, I guess, before we had another Immortal Formation Zun in the Mo Xuan Immortal Domain. During the Nightmare Demon War, the other one was caught up in the Nightmare Demon Tide and never came out again.”
Only then did Lan Xiaobu understand, no wonder Wu Gui had two Immortal Emperors protecting him when he was controlling the eighth level Trapped Killing Immortal Formation, feelings that this kind of thing happened once.
Seeing Lan Xiaobu nodding, Wu Gui hurriedly said again, “Master Lan Dan, I have an unkind request ……”
Even if the other party hadn’t said any ungrateful request yet, Lan Xiaobu knew what Wu Gui meant, he nodded and said, “My master isn’t here, but I can barely set up a grade 9 Trapping and Killing Immortal Formation. If Fellow Daoist Wu doesn’t mind, I hope you can help me out.”
“Ah ……” Wu Gui was stunned, Lan Xiaobu is a ninth level immortal formation emperor? In just a moment, he came to his senses, apart from Lan Xiaobu’s claim that his master was really absent, there was also the possibility that that master of Lan Xiaobu’s was simply a fictitious thing, and was in fact Lan Xiaobu himself.
This news must not be leaked out, once it was leaked out, Lan Xiaobu was afraid that he would no longer have a place to stand.
“I’m willing, I’m very willing, it should be me, Wu Gui, thanking you.”Wu Gui hurriedly said.
“Good, then now I’ll talk about my plan. I intend to set up two rank nine immortal formations, the first one is a rank nine Trapping and Killing Immortal Formation, this one has to be large, I hope to trap all the Nightmare Demons in it at once. Then I will set up another ninth level strangulation immortal formation, as long as the nightmare devils that are trapped, none of them will ever escape again.
Previously, those Nightmare Demons should have been slowly growing themselves with the help of human cultivators, so they didn’t break through the Ancient Battlefield all at once. But after I came, their plan died, I’m going to make these Nightmare Demons who think they’re smart pretend to be stupid …….”
Hearing Lan Xiaobu spell out his plan, Wu Gui was stunned. This kind of grand formation, if he, Wu Gui, were to set it up, he wouldn’t be able to set it up for more than a year.
However, he immediately said, “Dan Master Lan, I’ll listen to you in everything, I’ll do whatever you say. As for the materials, I’ll go prepare them right away.”
Lan Xiaobu waved his hand, “I still have plenty of materials.”
After the fusion of the Five Universe Immortal Realms, there were materials all over the place, and at least one tenth of those materials had been scavenged by Lan Xiaobu, who naturally had a lot of materials on him.
“Good, then when do we start?”Wu Gui was clear that this was not the time to be polite, the sooner we start, the better.
“We’ll start now, right, do you know where that teleportation array that the Nightmare Demon came out of is located?”Lan Xiaobu asked.
Wu Gui grabbed out an orientation jade slip and handed it to Lan Xiaobu, “It’s marked on this jade slip, but you can’t go to that place. As long as someone goes there, the Nightmare Demon will start a large-scale battle, and anyone who goes near the portal of the teleportation array will be dead.”
Lan Xiaobu gave a word of thanks and took the jade slip. The teleportation formation gate was something he had to go over and take a look at, and there was one such Nightmare Demon teleportation formation gate in the Zero Weakness Immortal Domain. Before, he didn’t know much about void formation patterns, so he couldn’t check out that teleportation formation gate, but now that he was already able to set up a rank six immortal formation using void formation patterns, he was no longer as ignorant about void teleportation formation gates as he was before.
Seeing Lan Xiaobu take out the grade 5 Immortal Flame Constant Flame to refine the formation flag, Wu Gui sighed in his heart, this Lan Xiaobu in front of him was at least an Immortal Dan King, and if he could really set up a grade 9 Immortal Formation, it would still be a grade 9 Immortal Formation Emperor. Plus the fact that he could kill Thistle Leng meant that he was another Immortal Exalt. On top of that, he had also obtained treasures such as the Pill Dictionary and the True Spirit World, so his future development potential was immeasurable ah.
When Lan Xiaobu refined a formation flag with a flow of dao rhythms, Wu Gui was sure that Lan Xiaobu wasn’t talking nonsense, this was definitely a grade 9 Immortal Formation Emperor.
Wu Gui followed behind Lan Xiaobu, and under Lan Xiaobu’s command, each array followed the position of the array flag as Lan Xiaobu dropped it.
In just one day’s time, at least one-third of the grand array had been set up.
According to Wu Gui, the great battles in the ancient battlefield were all waged by the Nightmare Demons now, as the Nightmare Demons took the initiative, and the general frequency of waging them was three to five days.
With this frequency of launching encroachments, although everyone did not say it in their mouths, in their hearts, they were clear about what the Nightmare Demon was doing.
Every three to five days, the Nightmare Demon would frantically suck some of the cultivator’s essence blood and soul, plus the various hostile emotions on the battlefield.
Initially, the cultivators of the Moxian Ancient Battlefield had the upper hand, but as the Nightmare Demon absorbed the blood and souls of the human cultivators and grew, the cultivators gradually fell to the disadvantage. If Lan Xiaobu didn’t intervene to help, I’m afraid that it would only take half a year at the most for the Nightmare Demon of the Moxuan Distant Ancient Battlefield to blow away all the cultivators here and then sweep through the entire Moxuan Immortal Region.
By that time, not to mention the people in the Moxuan Immortal Region, even the demonic beasts were afraid that there wouldn’t be a single one left.
Looking at the speed at which Lan Xiaobu was arranging the formation flags, Wu Gui knew that this rank 8 Immortal Formation Zun of his was feared to be at most a rank 7 Immortal Formation King in Lan Xiaobu’s eyes, perhaps not even an Immortal Formation King.
Some of the places he didn’t understand, Wu Gui couldn’t help but exit to ask, he knew that this knowledge was priceless to any formation master. But Wu Gui really loved formations too much, so one couldn’t control his mentality of tracing the roots of the questions he didn’t understand.
To Wu Gui’s surprise and admiration, Lan Xiaobu didn’t hide anything at all, as long as he enquired, Lan Xiaobu would give a clear answer. To Wu Gui, these few days of arranging formations with Lan Xiaobu were the most improved days in his formation dao career. He was certain that after this time, he would go back and just close his eyes for a period of time, and he would advance to a ninth level Immortal Formation Emperor.
At this moment, Wu Gui was even more certain that Lan Xiaobu didn’t need his help at all to set up this kind of Immortal Formation, and that by asking him to help, he was only passing on his formation techniques.
On the fourth day, when the Nightmare Demon once again transformed into a large swathe of grey and swept in, Lan Xiaobu had already gathered the grand formation.
“Master Lan Dan, thank you so much, if it wasn’t for you, Mo Xuan Immortal Domain would be finished ……,” Wu Gui was a little incoherent with excitement when Lan Xiaobu handed over a control formation flag in his hands.
Lan Xiaobu smiled and said, “You also said Moxuan Immortal Domain, I am also surviving in Moxuan Immortal Domain. I won’t participate in this battle, you followed me in setting up these two great formations, and you’ll know how to do it in the future when you need to maintain them. The only shortcoming is that there are just two top grade immortal spirit veins implanted down here. If you go back and talk to those Immortal Court Kings, it should still be out of the question for them to come up with some Immortal Spirit Veins.”
These two Immortal Spirit Veins Lan Xiaobu had contributed one, and Wu Gui had taken out one.
Although Lan Xiaobu still had some Immortal Spirit Veins on him, he was going to use them himself. Moreover, he believed that as long as it was for the Immortal Spirit Source for the Ninth Level Trapped Killing Immortal Formation, those Immortal Court Kings would still be able to carry it.
At this moment, the communication beads on Wu Gui’s wrist were constantly flashing, he knew that he had to go back, if he was missing as an eighth level Immortal Formation Zun, it would be even more hopeless to deal with the Nightmare Demon.
