Chapter 188: The Array of Divine Punishment

After the formation was set, the only sound I heard was the howling wind… and when the fine snowflakes hit my face… I heard the sound of almost orderly dismounting.

Then, everyone let go of the reins in their hands, and everyone drove the horses around them hard… The battle was about to begin. If these horses could return to the Snow Mountain clan, then they would go back… If not, it would be good to let them go free.

I turned my horse around and saw hundreds of galloping horses scattering and galloping… Under the hooves, the light snow danced… In the midst of this violence… everyone scattered… the people of the Xiangzi clan began to take out their magic weapons and set up the formation… everyone in each formation began to stand in their own position consciously…

This great formation is the ultimate formation of the Snow Mountain lineage. It has a majestic name and is the formation of heavenly punishment… I don’t know much about it, and the old headmaster also kept it a secret. He only said that since this formation has attracted true heavenly punishment… it is originally against heaven to drive people and attract heavenly punishment, and sacrifices are needed when necessary… and the eye of this great formation will be presided over by the old headmaster and Jenny.

Heavenly punishment requires a sacrifice? The wind whistled and blew my white cloak… The sound of the wind seemed to be weeping faintly, saddened by the tragedy that was about to come… I knew that at the critical moment, these righteous elders would not hesitate to make the sacrifice. It was hard to guess what kind of power the heavenly punishment formation had, and why so many righteous elders were needed to set up the formation together.

I can’t describe the emotions I felt… In silence, I dismounted and stroked the neck of the horse I was riding… Finally, I raised my whip and struck it down hard. The horse cried out in pain, reared up, and finally galloped off in pursuit of its companion, following it to the far end of the vast grasslands.

I opened the strap of the cloak around my neck… The thin white cloak was whipped by the wind and floated into the distant sky…

Looking at the flying cloak, my eyes fell on the people in front of me… The formation of the heavenly punishment requires a lot of preparation. In addition to the necessary effort to set up the formation by the Xiangzi meridian, each person corresponding to a position in the formation needs to hold a magic weapon corresponding to the formation provided by the Xue Mountain meridian, and then when entering the formation, they begin to perform a spell that can be called a secret technique.

This spell has no power if used alone, and its only function is to cause the formation to resonate… Then the body is connected to the formation, and the formation is completely activated.

It can be said that this spell is a spell that goes with the formation… it is the pre-spell that drives the entire formation… and after this spell is complete, the formation will be completely activated, but this is not the end. When the formation is used, it changes infinitely, and everyone has a unique set of steps that match the different operating powers of the formation.

It is so complicated that it is unheard of. Even in the world I originally came from, there are not many formations that have matching spells. Some of them are all truly top-level formations, and some are even legendary formations.

Seeing the Xueshan Yimai come up with such a set of spells, I was once again amazed at the mysterious world in which I now live. Isn’t this a world where cultivation has withered? How come it feels like so many secrets are hidden?

The old headmaster stood beside me and told me to start preparing early. In addition to the Xiangzi-style formation, the activation spell that precedes it is also a long and complicated spell that requires a long time to cast… According to the time calculation, from the beginning to the end, the time left for everyone to finish the spell is just enough.

This is also unheard of. There is a saying that the only thing that cannot be broken is speed. This saying is also applicable to cultivators. During a battle, whoever has a higher talent, for example, a strong spiritual awareness, and the faster the communication, the faster the spell can be cast, meaning that whoever has the advantage.

Even if the spell takes several hours to cast, it can be considered useless if it is not powerful enough…

I had some concerns in my heart, and asked the old master next to me, “Is there really enough time?”

The old master looked meaningfully into the distance and said, “Since you have decided to use this heavenly punishment formation, you must have made adequate preparations… Faced with Yang Sheng’s unpredictable combat effectiveness, I can’t think of a better way. I can only use the advantages of this formation to balance the lack of combat effectiveness on both sides.”

At this time, in the midst of the snow and wind, Jenny also walked over to me and the old master. I don’t know when she took out her little flask, walked over to us, unscrewed it and took a sip, and said to me, “Chengyi, you shouldn’t have any doubts about this. At this time, the only thing that can reverse the trend is this heavenly punishment formation. The top-level formations that the sects have come up with are all earth-shattering… But there are very few people in the world who can set up a formation, and the conditions for setting up a formation are extremely demanding… The only formation we currently have is the Heavenly Punishment Formation. To say that its requirements are harsh is an understatement. It requires 490 true masters with more than 100 years of experience! No single martial art school could possibly accomplish this… even if they combined the power of several martial art schools, it would still be impossible.

While talking, Jenny took another sip of wine from the jug, and then blew a white breath into the air like a mischievous little girl… Then she watched the white breath dissipate in the air with interest.

It seems that we are the only three people who are not busy in the entire battlefield.

After all, most people are busy setting up their formations… and a group led by Master Hui and another monk are surrounding a furious-looking Vajra and setting up their formation… and over there, Granny Lingqing is leading a group of people with witchcraft and I don’t know what they’re busy with… I see Granny Lingqing handing out some things.

On the other side, Chen Shifu, who is also Chen Chengyi, is leading people from the medical lineage to inspect various medicines and magical artifacts.

The few practitioners of the two branches of fortune-telling that followed were the most mysterious… They were also setting up their own formations… In the midst of the snowstorm, they even took out a half-meter-tall bronze lamp, but I don’t know what they were doing.

Strictly speaking, there are still other bystanders in this battlefield, such as the disciples of the Old Li school and Chen Chengyi’s friends… but they are following their respective masters, so they don’t look so idle.

Even Lu Shan, with Tao Bai, was stopped by an elder of the Snow Mountain sect, who kept asking him questions.

The old master looked deeply into the busy battlefield, and said slowly, “I hope I’ll be in time…”

I naturally thought he was talking about the heavenly punishment formation… Over there, I saw a familiar face of Chen Chengyi, Xiao Bei, who was also one of the people who set up the formation. At the moment, he waved his hand and shouted, “The 396th formation is complete. The person holding the formation returns to his position.”

At his shout, an elderly cultivator who looked very strong, holding a seal of the formation, strode towards the formation position… Together with the first few people who entered the formation, they began to chant the obscure and incomprehensible mantra. Even with my background, I couldn’t hear it clearly for a while. What exactly was this mantra?

What I didn’t notice was that not far away… the huge wrathful-eyed Vajra statue had already been erected… Master Hui and another monk, along with a group of monks, were burning incense and chanting sutras…

The snow is falling harder… At this moment, a man wearing a white robe and a simple mask appeared out of nowhere… He didn’t say a word, but silently walked up to me and stood still.

In this heated battlefield setting, my mood was already a bit depressed… Whether it was the initial meeting or the current battlefield, no one ever told me what to do… They just told me that I was a variable in this battle, and there was no additional information… It made me feel like a bystander.

At this moment, a strange person suddenly appeared, and it felt like he was protecting me. I suddenly felt a certain anger in my heart.

My character has always been indifferent, and I don’t care about such trivial matters. In my original opinion… I just need to do my best as long as I’m needed. I don’t know if it was influenced by the atmosphere of the battlefield or by Chen Cheng’s personality.

I finally couldn’t hold my temper anymore, and I looked at the old headmaster and asked in a low voice, “Who is this?”

“This is someone who is very important to you.” The old master replied with a sentence that was like nonsense that didn’t answer the question.

“Old Master, what exactly am I supposed to do in this battle? Am I just a spiritual leader? I’ve asked myself this question until now, but I still don’t have the aura of a leader. It’s even more impossible to command a battle! I don’t have that talent… Up until now, are you still hiding things from me?” My tone involuntarily became emotional.

“It’s not to hide it from you, but to hide it from the other side. This is what your master told you, and this is also my opinion… It is safer to keep some things to yourself. Once you say them, the other side may find out… You have to wait, and when the time comes, the battle you face may be more fierce than anyone else’s. This is the will of heaven… the will of heaven. Who made your life inherit your master’s life? You have to inherit his responsibility, at least to bring him here!” The old master said softly.

What does that mean? I don’t understand… It’s just that the sound of the wind continues to reverberate in my ears, and the snowflakes are getting bigger and bigger, almost blinding my eyes.