After the thunderous roar, an old man in a royal blue brocade robe suddenly appeared in front of everyone. He sighed and said, "It has been a long time since Fubuki Island has been so lively."
There are two ancestors in the Tribulation Crossing Stage on Fubuki Island. One has long been in seclusion, and the other is the current island owner, Qian Zhenzi.
It is said that most of the formations in the Thousand Formations Tower were created by him, and he is undoubtedly the number one person in the art of formations today.
As soon as this person appeared, everyone below straightened their postures and bowed, greeting him in unison: "Greetings, Senior Qian Zhenzi!"
Qian Zhenzi slowly looked at everyone, then nodded: "Do you know why this sword fight is so strict?"
His eyes fell on Qian Lishen, who quickly straightened his flowery clothes that had just been messed up by Jiang Si, bowed and answered: "Because the ambitions of the demon cultivators have rekindled, our generation of cultivators need to restrain the complacency of the past few hundred years and temper ourselves to resist the demon cultivators!"
Qian Zhenzi nodded and said, "That's right. Don't treat this sword fight as a joke. You must treat it as a life-and-death battle and be careful! I say again, this sword fight only considers victory or defeat, not life or death! If there are any cowards, just withdraw now!"
This last sound implied the cultivation level of a strong person in the Tribulation Crossing Stage. It was like a huge bell hitting the top of a head, and the sound echoed far away. Everyone unconsciously lowered their heads a little more.
Some small sects couldn't help but hesitate after hearing such words, and some of them took a step back and left silently on the spot.
However, no one from the three major sects and the four major families retreated. Even the timid ones had to stand firm. If they retreated, it would not be them who would be humiliated, but the entire sect and family! Not only would the entire sect become a laughing stock in the cultivation world, but they would also have no place to stand after they returned!
The Xie family arrived late and did not see the competition between Jiang Si and Qian Lishen.
Xie Xun patted Xie Mi'an on the shoulder and said in a low voice, "I have called all of Xie Shi and his group to participate in the sword-fighting competition this time. They will help you reach the top alone. If there are any obstacles, they will be resolved in the tower. Don't worry."
There were protective magic weapons in the Thousand Arrays Tower that could still be used. With the protective jade, Xie Xun was not worried that anything might happen to his brother.
However, Xie Mi'an looked increasingly pale and haggard in the past two days. No matter what Xie Xun said, he looked absent-minded and worried. As his brother, it was inevitable that he was worried.
However, after being asked several times, Xie Mi'an was hesitant to speak and never told what had happened.
"Mi'an, did you have a conflict with Luo Yin?"
As Xie Xun said this, he was about to go look for Liu Luoyin, but was surprised to find that Liu Luoyin was nowhere to be seen.
"That's strange, where did Luo Yin go?"
Xie Mi'an lowered his eyes. He was too embarrassed to say that he was frightened by Wen Yun that day. He was also afraid that his brother would find out and kill her directly, thus not being able to resolve his inner demons. When he heard that Liu Luoyin had left, he simply blamed all his abnormal behavior on her to prevent Xie Xun from becoming suspicious and questioning him further.
"Luo left the Xie family team because she had no interest in me and was afraid of causing misunderstandings."
"I don't care about you?" Xie Xun frowned and cursed, "Ridiculous! She knows the agreement between our two families. You are a young talent, how can you not be worthy of her? She actually looks down on you!"
Xie Xun was extremely angry: "Even if her father has the opportunity to advance to the Tribulation Crossing Stage now, it was my Xie family who spent a hundred years of hard work to find it for him. How could the Qingliu Sword Sect be so ungrateful!"
Xie Mi'an forced a smile: "It's my incompetence that has disappointed my brother."
Seeing his brother so desolate, Xie Xun felt distressed: "You are fine. It is the girl from the Liu family who is blind. After the sword discussion is over, I will go to Qingliu Sword Sect to seek justice from Liu Zhengxu."
On the other side, Liu Luoyin, who had innocently taken the blame for Xie Mi'an, was standing in the corner of the crowd.
It was not convenient for her to continue following the Xie family now, and she originally wanted to return to her fellow disciples, but she saw Wen Yun at first sight.
Wen Yun was actually standing in an inconspicuous corner, but as she just stood there quietly, many talented people from famous families came towards her.
Jiang Si, the most famous young man of this generation, walked over with a smile in his eyes and whispered something to Wen Yun. Qian Lishen, the young ancestor of the Qian family, was also staring at Wen Yun intentionally or unintentionally. Even Wu Chen, the Buddhist disciple of Tianyin Temple, politely saluted Wen Yun.
The corner where Wen Yun was standing inexplicably became the center of the venue, and those talented people from famous families seemed like foils beside her.
Liu Luoyin stared at the scene in a daze. In fact, she had always looked down on Wen Yun. He was just a mortal with no cultivation. He entered the inner gate by luck and was nothing.
It was not until he lost to Wen Yun in the sword-fighting competition that Liu Luoyin gradually changed his mind.
And she herself... No one cares about her now. Liu Luoyin just secretly looked towards the Xie family. Xie Mi'an didn't look for her, but was inseparable from Leng Yanyan.
Thinking of this, her nose felt sore and she almost cried.
"Hey, Senior Sister Liu?"
When Zhu Erchong was about to enter the Thousand Array Tower, he found Liu Luoyin and asked curiously, "Senior Sister Liu, why did you come back so suddenly? And why are your eyes so red?"
The others also looked over. They were all from the same school. Although they were not close, they should always look after each other when they were out.
Liu Luo turned her face away in embarrassment. Facing their concern, she couldn't say a word. She only felt that her current situation was pitiful and shameful.
At this moment, Wen Yun came over and threw a handkerchief into Liu Luoyin's arms. He said in a light tone, "There are too many flowers on Chuixue Island, and the wind on the island is strong. Maybe you were blinded by the wind?"
Liu Luoyin clutched the handkerchief, staring at Wen Yun's cold face, and didn't come back to her senses for a long time.
She...she actually rescued herself
Wen Yun actually didn't dislike Liu Luoyin. Apart from his arrogant personality, he was actually a swordsman with an upright character.
And that day she heard in the courtyard how Liu Luoyin slapped Xie Mi'an in the face. As the saying goes, the enemy of my enemy is... Forget it, we can't be friends.
She didn't even look at Liu Luoyin, but walked ahead holding her own firewood sword, and said in a clear voice: "Senior brothers and sisters, see you at the top of the tower."
After he finished speaking, Wen Yun had already followed the crowd into the Thousand Array Tower, and his elegant and beautiful figure in moon-white clothes disappeared from everyone's sight.
The Thousand Array Tower is extremely large, even comparable to a mountain.
The moment Wen Yun stepped into the tower, the sound and vision were completely cut off, and he seemed to have entered an empty place of nothingness. Only the Sword Fighting Association token in his hand lit up slightly, and finally stopped at the number "seventy-seven".
Fubuki Island did not explain the rules, only saying that after entering the tower, one has to keep breaking through the formation and moving up. Wen Yun now stared at this number and frowned.
"What does this mean?"
"The Thousand Formation Tower has ten floors from easy to difficult. Each floor has a thousand formations. Those who enter the tower will be randomly assigned to one of the formations." Ye Shubai suddenly appeared beside her: "You have drawn the 77th formation on the first floor."
Wen Yun glanced at him and said with a smile, "Then we are really destined to be together. We are even grouped together."
Ye Shubai said indifferently without any interest: "I was drawn in by your spiritual power."
He was branded with a contract by Wen Yun's powerful mental power. Unless Wen Yun died, if he stayed away from her, he would be regarded as a defector and would be retaliated by the contract.
Wen Yun smiled and said, "It's all the same. I see that you know so much, so why don't you break the formation below."
As Wen Yun spoke, he stepped into the spirit formation numbered seventy-seven.
The moment he stepped in, an icy air spread instantly, and what suddenly appeared in front of Wen Yun was a vast snow-capped peak towering into the clouds, and below was a thick layer of snow half a person's height.
Wen Yun's face, which had no spiritual power to protect her, was suddenly frozen pale, without a trace of blood.
Ye Shubai quickly took out a winter coat from her mustard seed bag and wrapped her in it.
Wen Yun trembled as he hugged the cedar wood wand and cast a fire-based warming magic on himself, finally pulling himself back from the brink of freezing to death.
"As expected, this is the spiritual formation set up by the ancestors of Fubuki Island. The first level is an advanced formation..."
While Wen Yun was studying the current situation, he also cast a warming spell on Ye Shubai: "You should also be careful, don't get frozen and withered."
Ye Shubai didn't refuse. He frowned slightly and looked around: "Is this a snowy mountain?"
"No, we should still be in the Thousand Array Tower." Wen Yun rubbed his frozen hands, squatted down, pinched a snowball and weighed it in his palm: "Or is it that switching time and space is a very common thing in the world of cultivation?"
Ye Shubai was slightly startled, then shook his head: "Never heard of it."
Wen Yun pursed his lips. As expected, whether in the magic world or the world of cultivation, the art of time and space is a forbidden power that only gods can control, so this is definitely not a real snow mountain.
"But this is not an illusion... The snow is real." Wen Yun stood up with the snowball in his hand, raised his hand and touched Ye Shubai's cold face with it as if nothing had happened: "Ice, right? Ice, that's right."
Ye Shubai pressed her hand helplessly: "Stop playing around."
I met a conservative person, and we couldn't have a snowball fight even though we finally saw the snow.
Wen Yun felt quite regretful and had to turn his attention to this spiritual formation.
She didn't plan to waste too much time on the first formation. It was indeed possible to use the magic formation to crack the spiritual formation and then deduce the center of the formation like she did when she entered the island before. However, if the center of the formation changed on its own like last time, she and Ye Shubai might not be able to catch up this time, delaying progress.
She drew on the snow with her wand for a while, and her frown gradually relaxed.
"It was a mutated water-type spiritual jade, combined with countless cultivators whose spiritual power was water-attributed, that created this snow mountain formation. The snow mountain we saw was half real and half fake."
Ye Shubai looked down at Wen Yun who was talking to herself. Once it came to her professional field, she could put aside all external influences and overcome all difficulties with great concentration.
"Let's play a rough game."
Wen Yun raised his pale little face, held high the cedarwood sword in his hand, narrowed his eyes slightly and muttered: "It's just right to see if I have advanced to a high-level magician now."
An obscure dragon language spell uttered from her mouth, and the fire magic elements between heaven and earth began to gather and surge madly. The originally cold snow ground gradually began to warm up. Ye Shubai looked up and suddenly saw countless lights flashing in the sky.
After a long spell of magic chanting, the firewood burst into a dazzling light, and Wen Yun opened and closed his lips, reciting the name of the advanced spell -
"Fire rained down from the sky."
The longer the magic is chanted, the more powerful it is.
The moment the last syllable fell, it was like a meteor hitting the ground. Countless fireballs smashed down from the gloomy sky, and the picture of the whole world began to become distorted and blurred.
The heat gradually replaced the severe cold.
Outside the Thousand Array Tower, the old monsters who came with their descendants sat silently, watching the words carved on a huge piece of spiritual jade.
In order to keep the formations in the Thousand Formations Tower secret, no footage can be transmitted. However, it is still possible to get a glimpse of which disciple has entered which formation.
Xie Xun had the lowest cultivation level among them and sat at the very bottom. Above him were the patriarchs of the other three families: the Yu family, the Wan family, and the Jiang family. Above them were the ancestors of Chuixue Island and Tianyin Temple who were in the tribulation period.
Qian Zhenzi sat side by side with Master Pu Du and said casually, "I don't see Qingliu Sword Sect sending some elders to guide these younger generations."
Having said that, his eyes fell on the most well-informed patriarch of the Wan family.
The latter smiled knowingly and said, "It is said that Elder Dongfang of the Qingliu Sword Sect suddenly went into seclusion, and there seems to be some misunderstanding between Elder Ouyang and Sect Leader Liu..."
The head of the Jiang family frowned and said, "Liu Zhengxu is about to break through the Spiritualization Realm and strive for the Tribulation Realm. Dongfang suddenly went into seclusion here. Could it be that he gave the white jade to Liu Zhengxu because he thought that his life was coming to an end?"
When Bai Yu said this, they all looked a little uncomfortable.
Qian Zhenzi smiled and waved his hand: "Let's talk about these things later. It's better to see the progress of the younger generations in breaking the formation."
He brushed his hand over the spirit jade and nodded, and several names and formations appeared before everyone's eyes.
"As expected of Jiang Si, he managed to cut through the fourth spiritual formation. Daoist Jiang, please remember to repay me the spiritual jade I used to repair the formation on Chuixue Island."
Sure enough, the "four" after Jiang Si's name had dimmed a bit, indicating that some of the spiritual power had been consumed after the spiritual formation was forcibly broken.
The Jiang family patriarch laughed loudly: "Give it back, give it back! Ah Si is always rude, how can he understand how to break the formation? I'm afraid he will chop all the way up!"
Everyone smiled and praised him a few times, then turned their attention to the next one.
"Huh? How come five of the Xie family's disciples are in the 250th formation?"
Xie Xun secretly felt relieved. The Xie family was good at medicine and drugs. In order to help Xie Mi'an break the formation, he ordered Xie Shi and others to take the mother-child Gu early on, so that it could sense and interact with Xie Mi'an.
Xie Shiba is best at formations, so it should not be difficult for him to break the formation for Xie Mi'an.
But he still pretended to be surprised: "We ended up in the same team? Maybe it's just luck?"
Sure enough, after a while, Xie Mi'an and his team successfully broke the formation.
"As expected of Young Master Xie, he is really amazing."
At this moment, a number on the spirit jade suddenly went out, standing out in the bright light.
Qian Zhenzi's white eyebrows twitched, and there was a hint of surprise on his face: "Huh? Someone actually broke my seventy-seventh formation? Or completely broke it?"
Others may not know, but Qian Zhenzi himself knows clearly that there are several formations in the first layer that are extremely expensive, the key points of the formations are extremely hidden, and it is extremely difficult to break the formations.
The seventy-seventh formation is one of them.
The others laughed and said, "It must be that kid Qian Lishen. Fellow Daoist Qian, look at your precious grandson. He has used up all the spiritual jade in your spiritual formation."
No, not that brat Qian Lishen.
Qian Zhenzi frowned and stared at the two words "Wen Yun". He suddenly remembered that it was this person who broke his grandson's spirit-absorbing formation a few days ago, making Qian Lishen so angry that he didn't eat for two days.
This is a good seedling for the art of formation.
Qian Zhenzi couldn't help but think of accepting a disciple.
However, the next moment, a scene that made him heartbroken occurred.
The number seventy-seven disappeared from the list. This did not only mean that the spirit jade had been exhausted, but also...
This spiritual formation was completely destroyed by Wen Yun.