Chapter 1466: The Hidden Classic

And this matter was not known to many people; it was only personally revealed by the old Sect Master when he passed down this formation set back then. However, even the old Sect Master himself did not know the specific use of that Void-Breaking Formation.

After hearing Tang Feng’s question, Grandmaster Lan at this moment only spoke a single sentence softly.

“I have only recently come to a realization. I suspect it’s the formation foundation and the laws!”

After she said this, Tang Feng, who had been calm, suddenly had a brilliant light erupt in his starry eyes. He too was a Formation Grandmaster, and a decent one at that. Although Grandmaster Lan’s words were extremely simple, he immediately understood her meaning, and suddenly Tang Feng had a feeling of sudden enlightenment, his perspective broadening in an instant.

It was like piercing a thin veil of paper, but before, he couldn’t even find where the window was.

No matter the style, all formations were constructed from a formation foundation and different laws. Take a teleportation formation, for example. The foundation of most teleportation formations is in the shape of the Eight Trigrams. As for why? It is because it secretly conforms to a principle of the Great Dao related to the laws of space. If you were to simply change the shape and use the exact same raw materials for refining, the established teleportation formation would be unable to teleport anything. Of course, the shape of a teleportation formation is not necessarily the Eight Trigrams, but it would certainly require another kind of foundation to support its operation, and that foundation would also have to secretly conform to the Great Dao of spatial laws.

And the foundation of this Void-Breaking Formation was a very strange one. Grandmaster Lan had deduced that it was actually constructed from the long, winding alley.

After hearing this, while Tang Feng understood, his deeper comprehension was that the reason this Void-Breaking Formation possessed the power the old Sect Master spoke of was likely due to this peculiar formation foundation. This long and winding foundation could even be seen as a process of accumulating power from beginning to end, and the locations where those Soul Spirits appeared could all be a part of the foundation’s power accumulation.

When Tang Feng looked at Grandmaster Lan again, a look of admiration immediately appeared in his eyes. This person was truly a rare genius of her generation. She had managed to research such an obscure and difficult formation to this extent.

Grandmaster Lan, however, had a calm expression, her gaze turning back to the young man inside the formation who was still fighting a desperate battle with the Soul Spirits. Her ability to have such an insight in these three years was all thanks to this young man. He could still sense danger in a certain direction even after reaching the bottom of the long alley she had researched.

At the bottom of the long alley that Grandmaster Lan had researched, when Li Yan reached it, he might subconsciously assume a defensive posture towards a certain direction. But in reality, no more Soul Spirits would appear there, because it was already the bottom of the alley. At first, Grandmaster Lan thought Li Yan’s senses had made a mistake, as it was only an innate sensitivity after all. But as Grandmaster Lan persisted, relying on the test results to continue deciphering the ancient classic, she was horrified to discover that the direction Li Yan was defending against was actually where the subsequent long alley would extend.

This made her suspect several times whether Li Yan had seen this formation before! But in later tests, Li Yan’s judgments would also be consecutively wrong, which made her uncertain again. But Grandmaster Lan still felt that the innate sensitivity should be useful. Li Yan’s sense of direction might be wrong, but it could indicate one thing: this long alley formation had not yet reached its true end. So she followed this speculation, even referring to the direction of danger Li Yan sensed at the bottom of the alley, to study the ancient classic.

Subsequently, to Grandmaster Lan’s surprise, when she stopped considering all other factors and only considered that the next part was the construction of the long alley, the speed of deciphering actually began to increase. On several occasions when deciphering sentences, she had based her thinking on the direction of danger Li Yan sensed, and had actually succeeded.

Although Grandmaster Lan was looking at the formation, her voice came out again, but the question was out of the blue.

“By the way, the other matter, how many people have you found in the three halls?”

Tang Feng knew that Grandmaster Lan had the matter of the formation in hand, so he naturally couldn’t keep urging her. Hearing her ask about this matter, Tang Feng immediately replied.

“After our investigations over these years, we can confirm that there are problems with three Void Refining elders. The rest are twelve Spirit Transformation cultivators and thirty-four Nascent Soul cultivators!” Tang Feng replied quickly.

“Is it those three?”

Grandmaster Lan asked again. She was clearly only asking about the Void Refining cultivators Tang Feng mentioned. To her, cultivators below the Void Refining realm could be disregarded.

“Yes! They should also be in collusion with five sects and two cultivation families. Within these seven forces, there are Void Refining cultivators, and some forces even have two Void Refining cultivators. But this is only what we have found. However, just these Void Refining cultivators are already enough to pose a sufficient threat to us. Although the remaining elders in our sect outnumber them, I see that several of them have likely been contacted by them and are already wavering and cannot be used. Otherwise, if they were to turn against us in battle, we would only suffer losses and be defeated even faster.”

Tang Feng spoke quickly. At the same time, he extended a finger and quickly drew some characters in the void. Grandmaster Lan turned her head and stared at Tang Feng’s gesture. Soon, Tang Feng retracted his hand.

In the “True Earth Domain,” voice transmission was impossible, but they didn’t want to speak it aloud, nor did they want to leave any trace. Of course, this was the safest way. This place had been personally modified by Grandmaster Lan, and others couldn’t possibly sneak in. Since they were only communicating by writing between the two of them, it was truly difficult for others to know.

After seeing the names Tang Feng wrote, Grandmaster Lan’s purple eyes narrowed slightly. No wonder Tang Feng was becoming more and more anxious. These people had actually started to collude.

“You’ve been investigating for so long, can you now judge whether they will make a move?”

Grandmaster Lan’s voice grew deeper.

“They haven’t settled their interests among themselves, but according to Elder Ling and the others’ estimates, it probably won’t be more than three hundred years. Although we haven’t revealed the specific situation of the two Supreme Elders, this has been dragged on for too long. They have already become suspicious and are constantly probing.”

“Three hundred years? That’s not too far off from my guess. But this is just a guessed time. You must be vigilant at all times and not overlook any subtle detail!”

As Grandmaster Lan said this, a chilling killing intent appeared in her eyes. But it was only for a moment before it returned to normal. But in just that instant, Tang Feng felt his scalp suddenly go numb, and his soul seemed to be on the verge of being frozen solid in that split second.

“Alright, you can go back now! You still need to be careful when you investigate. If anyone finds out your true identity, they will definitely deal with you in secret!”

Although Grandmaster Lan waved her hand, she did not forget to give a word of caution.

“Hehehe… I will be careful!”

A smile appeared on Tang Feng’s face. Then, he immediately turned and walked towards another side room. A moment later, a light flashed in that side room, and then everything returned to normal. And the next moment, Tang Feng had already appeared in another place, which was the cultivation chamber in his own residence!

It turned out that this assessment area at the sect gate had been modified by Grandmaster Lan not just in the long alley formation, but the entire interior had undergone major changes. The entire sect knew that the artifact refining-obsessed Grandmaster Lan was testing her formation set, which had been placed here for a long time. No one dared to say anything about Grandmaster Lan requisitioning this place, nor would they suspect anything. She was just a mad artifact refining fanatic.

When Li Yan finally extinguished the three Soul Spirits, he walked out of the formation. After he came out, he saw Grandmaster Lan staring intently at a certain spot in the formation in front of her, frowning in thought. So, Li Yan walked to one side, sat down cross-legged, took out a few pills and swallowed them, and then directly began to circulate his cultivation method. He knew that at this time, Grandmaster Lan was pondering what she had just seen, and it would usually take some time before she would ask him some questions. He would, of course, use this time to cultivate and recover his cultivation.

For the past three years, Li Yan had been staying here, either breaking through the trials, recovering his cultivation, or discussing his senses during the trials with Grandmaster Lan… Since he had just exchanged for Mu Guyue from her, Li Yan naturally had to appear more diligent.

In these three years, there had also been a few incidents that made Li Yan’s heart tremble with fear. Fortunately, he had reacted in time and made some remedies. But it had already aroused some of Grandmaster Lan’s suspicion, which made Li Yan feel uneasy every day for a period of time…

When Li Yan first entered the sect assessment, he had only rushed out one hundred and seventy feet. Later, when he came here again, Grandmaster Lan told him to try his best to break through as much distance as possible from beginning to end. She also told him that the entire latter half of the formation had been replaced with Nascent Soul realm Soul Spirits, and there would be no Spirit Transformation realm or higher Soul Spirits, so he didn’t need to worry.

Li Yan was also thinking to himself that when he was in the Initial-stage Nascent Soul realm, he had broken through one hundred and seventy feet. Now that he was at the Late-stage Nascent Soul realm, his performance should be much stronger than before. So the first time, he broke through to two hundred and sixty feet, which in Li Yan’s opinion, was barely passable. After all, during the entire trial, a cultivator’s soul power was constantly being consumed, and it should become more difficult to advance later on. And the number of Soul Spirits in the latter part would also increase.

Perhaps due to the preciousness of Nascent Soul realm Soul Spirits, although it wasn’t like in the underground long alley of the Hellsoul Clan where Soul Spirits of the final level even appeared in droves, the number here would also gradually increase.

At the beginning, Li Yan’s trial tests were quite normal. Every time he came out, Grandmaster Lan would ask him about his feelings. Li Yan would, of course, take his feelings from this time, combine them with his previous experiences, and pick and choose what to say. He knew what Grandmaster Lan wanted, and he couldn’t appear to be useless after the test. Although Li Yan had never liked to show his trump cards in front of others, now that he wanted to take the opportunity to get closer to Grandmaster Lan, he naturally couldn’t let himself seem to have little value.

Sure enough, Grandmaster Lan also showed a rather satisfied expression with some of his performances. As the testing continued, almost every time Grandmaster Lan talked with Li Yan, she would make some adjustments to the formation. And after a few trials, when Li Yan was taking pills and circulating the “Saintly Soul Transformation” cultivation method to recover, he had an unexpected surprise.

He was surprised to find that after consuming soul power so quickly and in such large amounts, when he cultivated this method again, his connection to the “Soul Residence Star” in the unseen world had become a bit clearer.