Chapter 1053: Variables (Part 1)

“Hmph!”

With a cold snort, a handsome young man flew out from a place concealed by the formation.

This person exuded an incomparably majestic spiritual aura. He was the Celestial Feather Sect Master, Spirit Feather Master, a No Phase State Grandmaster. Though he appeared youthful, it was due to his remarkable cultivation talent; time had not left its mark on him before he broke through to the next realm, reaching a true state of “agelessness” after building the Divine Bridge, rather than changing his appearance with the No Phase State’s “indefinite form.”

Spirit Feather Master, with deep and insightful eyes, glanced at Shen Mo and the others.

Feng Yu and Li Miaoshou were in extreme panic, wanting to kowtow and beg for mercy, but their soul bodies were immobilized by Long Zesheng’s spell, making it impossible to even lower their bodies.

Shen Mo, at this moment, was also unable to move. A foreign power had woven a tight web inside and out of his Dao Body, preventing him from mobilizing True Yuan Mana. However, as he made his move, he already knew he couldn’t hide any longer and was prepared to abandon this “incarnation.”

He was more concerned whether Spirit Feather Master, with his strength, could stop the increasingly rampant formation collapses.

Previously, while repairing the Thunder Attracting Sword, he had secretly studied the entire Thunder Creation Array and generally understood its properties. Once the summoned thunder exceeded its capacity, the array core could easily explode, releasing the accumulated thunder power within. Thus, he altered the spiritual mark of the Dao Sword to retain a trace of thunder power for storage…

The final result was as he expected. The entire Thunder Creation Array was like a pile of dry wood, and the seven Dao Swords he tampered with became sparks igniting the woodpile, unstoppable once triggered like a Wildland Fire.

Using barely detectable spiritual marks to detonate the Dao Swords, then using the Dao Swords to detonate the entire big array, the Thunder Creation Array had now transformed into a thunder ocean with a rampant tendency, starting to destroy other formation prohibitions. According to Shen Mo’s estimation, with Spirit Feather Master at early-stage No Phase State cultivation, he probably couldn’t turn the tide and could at least destroy more than half of the formations and shake the Creation Immortal Coffin suspended in mid-air.

With the situation critical, Spirit Feather Master swept his gaze over the three, then closed his eyes without casting any spell or forming any seals.

In the next instant, the brilliant celestial light within the Creation Immortal Coffin completely vanished, accompanied by a strange murmuring sound. The voice was indistinct, neither male nor female, yet extremely faint, but to everyone present, it was extraordinarily clear, even drowning out the rolling thunder.

Meanwhile, several light feathers flew out from the Immortal Coffin.

One flew into the mountain formation, supporting the gold and jade peaks falling towards the Immortal Coffin; one flew into the thunder ocean, swallowing the raging thunder like a whale; one transformed into strands of celestial light encompassing all directions, protecting other formations swaying in the storm…

A crisis enough to destroy the entire Creation Hall was dispelled so effortlessly!

Shen Mo furrowed his brow slightly. This was evidently not Spirit Feather Master’s own power; it seemed he had already begun to grasp the immortal body within the Creation Immortal Coffin.

However, he had achieved his intended goal. This disturbance not only destroyed the entire Thunder Creation Array but also ruined half of the mountain formation; and whether it was the thousands of Thunder Attracting Swords or the countless gold and jade peaks, the Celestial Feather Sect had painstakingly accumulated them over thousands of years, and even if the sect mobilized all resources of the Feather Realm, they couldn’t rebuild these two formations within one or two centuries.

With the crisis resolved, the scorched Long Zesheng landed before Spirit Feather Master, bowing deeply and pleading, “This disciple was negligent, failing to detect the demon infiltrators within our sect, causing such a catastrophe. I await the patriarch’s punishment.”

“Your responsibility will be discussed later, rise first!”

Though Spirit Feather Master had a grim expression, he had no intention to punish Long Zesheng severely. After all, even with his real body stationed here, he hadn’t detected the oddity on “Yang Ai,” so he naturally couldn’t blame the lesser cultivators.

Afterwards, his gaze once again fell on Shen Mo, Feng Yu, and Li Miaoshou.

From the initial occurrence of anomalies in the Thunder Creation Array’s seven Thunder Attracting Swords and the subsequent reactions of the three, Spirit Feather Master had identified the mastermind as the “Elder Yang” before him, but for prudence, he was prepared to perform a Soul Search on the three.

Spirit Feather Master’s eyes glowed with a deep green light, and a vast soul power, in a profound form, surged out, penetrating into the foreheads’ Mind Sea of the three.

“As expected. You are not a disciple of the Celestial Feather Sect. Who are you, and why do you seek to ruin my sect’s eternal plans?”

The Soul Search on Feng and Li revealed nothing unusual; they were unaware of what had occurred just now.

However, when casting the Soul Searching Spell on “Yang Ai,” Spirit Feather Master discovered that Elder Yang’s soul was guarded by an extremely solid magical restraint, difficult even for him to break easily. Of course, under the overpowering cultivation strength, he could forcefully breach the soul defense, but doing so would likely trigger the prohibition, causing “Yang Ai’s” soul to instantly vanish into nothingness.

“Who I am and my purpose are trivial,” Shen Mo stated with exceptional calmness, “Now that the two critical formations are broken, they can no longer create a True Immortal. I would like to ask Fellow Daoist Spirit Feather, how do you intend to handle this situation?”

Upon hearing this, Spirit Feather Master’s face showed no rage, instead smirking with ridicule, “Let you demon head be informed, the immortal body within the coffin had already been fully formed four hundred years ago, and the accumulation was merely for foundation. So what if you destroyed a few formations? These years, this poor Daoist has not decided to transfer his soul into the immortal body, and now with the formations destroyed, this opportunity just aids this poor Daoist in taking this crucial step!”

After speaking, Spirit Feather Master paid Shen Mo no more attention, personally implanting various prohibitions into his soul body, preparing to search his soul after becoming a True Immortal.

He then summoned back all Divine Bridge Realm Immortal Masters from the sect to the Creation Hall, including the Class VII Forgemaster inspecting the earth pulse jade pillar in the underground, to have them witness the sect’s painstakingly built “Dao fruit” over five thousand years and the birth of the first native True Immortal in the Feather Realm!

Feng Yu and Li Miaoshou were both sent out of the Creation Hall, but Spirit Feather Master left Shen Mo there, seemingly wanting to use this opportunity to thoroughly undermine his Path Heart.

Once the sect’s Divine Bridge cultivators were assembled, Spirit Feather Master stood beside the Creation Immortal Coffin, casting his gaze over everyone. Since the upheaval of heaven and earth, all the fear, worry, unwillingness, and helplessness within him had been indescribable to others, and now, with this step taken, he could finally disperse the clouds to see the sun and moon again!

His gaze lingered on Shen Mo for a moment, then he nodded slightly to the sect disciples, transforming into a spirit light and flying into the Creation Immortal Coffin.

In an instant, celestial light bloomed, the sound of the Dao filled the ears, and waves of strange Dao rhyme rippled through the heavens and earth.