Time rewound to just a moment ago.
“Make a big commotion?” Amiao asked in confusion, “How do we do that, meow?”
“Good question,” Tang Xin spread his hands, “I don’t know either.”
“……”
“If it’s just about making a big commotion,” Zhou Yu thought for a moment, “I do have an idea…”
For a Foundation Building cultivator, causing a “big commotion” is actually a very challenging task.
The battles of Foundation Building cultivators mainly rely on the power within their own dantian. Whether it’s martial arts techniques or secret spells, they all depend on the dantian as the source of power.
The power in the dantian is limited, which restricts the upper limit of a Foundation Building cultivator’s strength. The techniques they use can’t create an unlimited amount of commotion.
Only when one reaches the Golden Core stage, where the dantian undergoes a substantial transformation, does this situation improve, allowing them to slightly borrow the energy that floats between heaven and earth.
As for Nascent Soul cultivators, they can already roam the heavens and earth, mobilizing spiritual energy. With a mere gesture, they can naturally give the impression of the sky collapsing and the earth shattering.
But there is one exception.
And that is formations.
Formations, driven primarily by the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, are not constrained by the cultivator’s dantian. As long as they can be set up and provided with the necessary energy, they can exert power far beyond one’s realm.
Creating a commotion is certainly no problem.
Among the people present, only Zhou Yu knew how to set up formations.
“But my cultivation level is too low. To create the kind of commotion we need, I’ll need a medium…”
She pondered.
“What kind of medium?” Tang Xin asked.
“A spiritual object, and it must be a high-grade spiritual object. Using it as the core of the formation, I can set up a ‘simulated aura’ formation,” she explained. “This formation is not difficult and has no offensive power. It’s generally used to test the determination of those who are new to the cultivation world.”
A high-grade spiritual item?
The few people looked at each other.
“The only thing that meets the requirements,” Tang Xin took out her staff, “is the Soul Devouring Banner…”
“…and the Nine Provinces Sealing Manual.”
Lian Xin also took out the demonic artifact bound by chains.
Among the four of them, they couldn’t come up with a single righteous item…
But given the current situation, using a demonic artifact as a medium seemed better.
And the Nine Provinces Sealing Manual was much higher in grade than the Soul Devouring Banner, so it was definitely the better choice as a medium.
“A demonic artifact…”
Zhou Yu pursed her lips.
“I’ve never used something like this as a medium before, so I don’t know what will happen…”
“Be bold and try,” Tang Xin gave her a thumbs up, “The worst-case scenario is that we just run away!”
With that said, one of the Seven Stars also dispelled her worries. The mark on her forehead appeared, and she began forming hand seals, quickly moving around the clearing.
After a while, crisscrossing lights and complex patterns appeared on the ground, making people feel a bit dizzy just looking at them.
“Is this supposed to be not difficult…”
As expected, the protagonist’s power is somewhat extraordinary.
“I slightly modified the array’s settings,” Zhou Yu took a breath, “The simulated aura will keep strengthening until the array self-destructs, so we won’t have to stay here the whole time.”
With the array ready, Lian Xin took a deep breath, stepped forward, and placed the Nine Provinces Sealing Manual in the designated spot.
At first, nothing happened.
Suddenly.
From the manual, a pitch-black beam of light shot into the sky, opening a blood-red door in the heavens, creating an incredibly terrifying scene.
On the ground, the wind howled, making it impossible for the girls to keep their eyes open.
“You said,” Tang Xin shouted, “this is just simulated aura? Are you sure?”
This looks like it summoned something really serious!
“It’s really a simple formation,” Zhou Yu also had a baffled expression, “those high-level summoning formations, with my current level, there’s no way I could set them up…”
“Isn’t this an unexpectedly good result, meow?”
With such a big commotion already made, the next step was to take advantage of the nearby cultivators’ confusion and find a way to leave quickly.
[Options generating…]
[Option 1: Use the formation to shout in the air, “I’m back…”]
[Success rate 100%, reward: Charisma +1.]
[Option 2: Use the formation to shout in the air, “I want the sky to no longer cover my eyes, I want the earth to no longer bury my heart…”]
[Success rate 100%, reward: Chuunibyou +1.]
[Option 3: Use the formation to shout in the air, “Three circles to the left, three circles to the right, twist your neck…”]
[Success rate 100%, reward: Cuteness +1.]
“……”
Option two is too chuunibyou, and option three is too silly… Although I’m tempted by the Cuteness +1 reward, I’ll go with option one.
Tang Xin stepped onto a lotus platform and ascended into the air.
In the formation, a black beam of light shone on her, blurring her figure while linking with her through a strange wave.
It comes with an amplification effect, no need to shout…
“I,”
Tang Xin spoke in a deliberately low voice.
“I’m back…”
[Charisma +1]
With that, she landed back on the ground.
Lian Xin retrieved the “Nine Provinces Sealing Manual,” and the formation continued to operate, its aura growing increasingly oppressive.
“It shouldn’t be long before the elders come to investigate,” Tang Xin said. “We need to leave before they arrive!”
The terrifying aura and the mysterious figure that appeared under the blood-red gate left all the cultivators responsible for the search frozen in place.
Who would dare to continue investigating at this moment? The information from the elders was clearly wrong. This wasn’t a minor cultivator; it was obviously a major figure in the demonic path!
Their lives were at stake, so they immediately retreated!
Outside the mountains, the sudden appearance of the “demonic phenomenon” caused utter chaos. Some people were retreating, while others were rushing in, creating significant gaps in the previously tight defensive formation.
The elders stationed at the camp were the first to arrive at the scene.
However, aside from a patch of scorched marks, nothing was left behind.
“What a powerful demonic aura!”
One elder exclaimed in shock.
The lingering aura here exuded an evil force she had never felt before. Even the powerful demonic cultivators encountered during demon-slaying operations paled in comparison.
What kind of person could have stayed here to cause such an impact?
“That person seemed to come out of the blood-red gate. We couldn’t see clearly what they looked like, but they just said to us, ‘I’m back’…”
A disciple described.
“I’m back?”
The elders of the righteous sects pondered deeply.
What does that mean? Returned? Returned where? And from where did it return? What does this even mean?
“Wait,” someone suddenly had a look of realization, “Could it be that the rumor is true…”
“Are you saying,” others also caught on, “When the Yin and Yang are in chaos, my demonic blood will stain the Nine Provinces… When the Nine Provinces face the disaster of Yin and Yang chaos, they will return?”
