Chapter 27: Formations

A powerful shockwave swept out, pushing the cultivators further away as the twenty-four formation flags started to spin. Their speed was so great that it was impossible to clearly see any of the flags anymore as they turned into yellow blurs.

Under the gaze of everyone, a gigantic yellow magic circle appeared from the spinning flags. It rose several tens of meters into the air before expanding, quickly covering the entire airspace above the mountain.

After the magic circle appeared, twenty-four huge pillars of yellow light shot down from different points in the magic circle. They dug into the ground like firm foundations, surrounding the sole mountain behind the five mountain peaks.

Quickly after that, nets of yellow light started weaving across the open spaces between each pillar, quickly sealing off the whole mountain.

Now, the mountain looked like it was trapped in a cage of yellow light, with the spinning flags acting like a ceiling. The entire process had taken not more than ten seconds.

Gu Chen didn’t instruct Feng Shuran to act yet; both of them just stood there and watched. Gu Chen’s confidence was naturally in his force field; it was impossible that these Core Formation Realm cultivators would be able to break it even with the help of a formation.

As for Feng Shuran, she had faith entirely in her master. As long as he didn’t order her to make a move yet, she wouldn’t lift a finger.

If not, she naturally wouldn’t have allowed these people to complete their formation.

The cultivators also found this strange; they had expected Feng Shuran to attack while the red-haired woman was setting up the formation. Some of them were even prepared to buy her time by burning their magical treasures.

But Feng Shuran didn’t move and just watched them. Was she that confident that they couldn’t do anything to her?

"Hmph! Power Sure makes one blind with confidence!" Someone snorted while looking at Feng Shuran and Gu Chen.

The mountain had been sealed off without any chance of escaping.

Although this trap formation was only at the Earth grade, it would take some time for a Nascent Soul Realm cultivator to break through it.

Besides, they weren’t done yet!

The red-haired woman flew forward again as a formation plate appeared above her right hand. They were also inside the yellow trap formation, but the space between them and the force field was enough for movement.

"Fellow cultivators, I’ll be needing your help with this one." She called out as she tossed the formation plate into the air, her words directed at the other Core Formation Realm cultivators.

This formation plate had a Heavenly-grade suppressing formation stored inside and required a lot of qi to activate. Naturally, she wasn’t going to burn herself out just to activate it.

As the formation plate flew higher, the red-haired woman did several hand gestures as qi rose from her body.

"Haa!" She let out a sound and pointed her right palm at the formation plate after completing the hand gestures.

A stream of qi shot out from her palm and struck the formation plate.

Upon making contact with the qi, the formation plate stopped rising and released a loud metal sound as if someone had struck a giant bell. The space around the metal plate rippled as it began to expand.

Seeing this, the other Core Formation Realm cultivators looked at each other before flying forward.

They made the same hand gestures as the red-haired woman before sending waves of qi towards the formation plate.

Dong!

It sounded like a loud bell was struck in the soul of everyone present. Their bodies trembled, and it felt like their spirits were being thrown around.

For a moment, some of the weaker cultivators present dropped a few levels in the air.

"Don’t stop!" The red-haired woman shouted as she kept feeding qi to the formation plate that kept growing larger.

Swoosh!!!

The other Core Formation Realm cultivators didn’t speak and kept sending waves of qi towards the formation plate.

In front of the courtyard. Feng Shuran stared at the formation plate that was now larger than a building with narrowed eyes.

That sound from it just now had affected her as well. Although it wasn’t as much as the effect it had on the weaker cultivators, it made the qi in her body unstable.

She glanced at Gu Chen through the corner of her eyes. Her Master was staring at the formation plate with a very calm face; his expression hadn’t changed since he stepped out of the courtyard.

Seeing this, a small smile formed on Feng Shuran’s face as her confidence grew even stronger.

So what if the formation could affect her? Her Master was right beside her; nothing could happen!

Meanwhile, Gu Chen was staring at the formation plate while in thought. He knew about this kind of formation, a formation that could weaken its target.

Although the one Gu Chen had seen before was way stronger, this one was merely at the Heavenly-grade. Still, Gu Chen was thinking of a way to get it without causing damage to the formation plate.

This formation didn’t only work on cultivators; it could weaken anything it was used on. This included the strikes from the lightning tribulation!

’If Feng Shuran should attempt breaking through to the Spirit Transformation Realm one day, this formation plate will be of great help.’ Gu Chen thought to himself.

A formation plate like this would definitely cost a good amount of spirit stones, which he wasn’t confident of being able to afford for a while.

Even if he could, it was best to seize this one that was in front of him.

By now, the formation plate had expanded into the size of a small hill and had stopped growing, floating in place above the spinning flags.

Several magic circles appeared on its body and lit up with dazzling red light that extended out like layered glass.

The other cultivators stopped feeding qi to it while the red-haired woman started making hand gestures again.

She did over ten hand gestures in less than three seconds as her eyes flashed with a red brilliance.

"Suppress!"

She said in a deep tone while pointing two fingers at the two figures standing on the mountain.

Following her will, the formation plate shifted. The extended magic circles turned and pointed at Feng Shuran and Gu Chen.

Dong!

Another metal sound thundered through the air as the suppressing formation activated.

Standing beside Gu Chen, Feng Shuran’s expression suddenly shifted slightly.

She felt her soul trembling and her strength declining rapidly.

She was still at the Nascent Soul Realm, but she could feel that her current abilities wouldn’t exceed those of a newly advanced Core Formation Realm cultivator!

With her unstable soul, if she tried to forcefully use her abilities under this suppression, her dantian would collapse!

Beside her, Gu Chen stood there without any reaction. He couldn’t feel the effect of the suppression that Feng Shuran was under since he didn’t have any cultivation, but he knew what was happening to her.

"Are you afraid?" He asked without looking at her.

Feng Shuran glanced at him and saw him staring at the sky; his expression was the same as before. He looked like the suppression had no effect on him.

Of course, it was only a Heavenly-grade formation; this was nothing to her master!

"I’m not afraid," Feng Shuran answered as her expression became relaxed, no longer caring about her strength dropping.

"Good," Gu Chen nodded and didn’t say anything else.

In the air. The several cultivators who were looking at the Invisible killer all had strange expressions.

Despite trapping her and suppressing her cultivation, the villainess still looked calm. Why was she so confident?

"Strange, she still isn’t making any move yet."

"Could she have a magical treasure that we don’t know about?" Someone spoke out.

They all knew about the Immortal-grade needle that the Invisible Killer had claimed, but that was just a day ago; she couldn’t have refined it yet and would not be able to use it well.

Aside from the needle, there were still her popular silver threads, but with her cultivation currently suppressed, they were certain that they could handle the threads.

"Could it be the barrier around this mountain?" Another person asked.

The first elder of the Rising Wave sect had reported about a barrier around the mountain; could it be why the Invisible Killer was confident?

"Hmph, so what if there’s a barrier?" A middle-aged man with sharp eyes drifted forward with a long sword in his right hand.

He was the sect master of one of the big sects in Oghara and was also a Core Formation Realm cultivator.

Waves of qi rushed out of his body as he splashed his sword across the air and performed a martial technique.

"Thousand Slaughter Stars!" the man shouted as he stabbed forward with his sword.

Shng!!!

Hundreds of sword shadows appeared behind the man, and sword cries filled the air.