Chapter 1296 Guarding the Border and a "Small" Mountain
As the three ancestors from the Blue Sea Empire remained trapped inside the formation, the three Demon Lord Realm demonic cultivators quickly flew off in the direction of the Onyx Empire before splitting up and disappearing in different directions. Intent on carrying out the task that had been given to them by the demon king, as they understood only death would await them if they refused to do so.
Crack-!
BANG!
And like this a few hours quickly flew by without much happening before the three ancestors of the Blue Sea Empire finally managed to break through the formation that had trapped them, as all three of them used their full strength to attack the Blood Lotus Demon King that had been patiently waiting for them-
BOOOM-!
Soon resulting in the devasting shockwave that Elder Dust Fairy had seen, as the four began to fight with each other. Destroying anything in their path.
Unfortunately for the ancestors of the Blue Sea Empire, they couldn't kill the demon king in front of them, while the Demon Lord Realm demonic cultivators that they had originally planned to kill had long since disappeared. Ne/w novel chapters are published at novelhall.com
In the end, as the battle dragged on and several powerful auras appeared from the deeper parts of the Frozen Wasteland, the three could only reluctantly turn around and leave the Frozen Wasteland without accomplishing anything other than killing a bunch of weaker demonic cultivators that could easily be replaced.
"Hmph! Don't think you will get another chance to leave this wasteland again in the future!"
Feeling unsatisfied with this kind of situation, the ancestor that had originally gone to kill the demonic cultivators behind the death of his grandson decided to not fully leave the place, as he directly placed himself at the border between the Onyx Empire and the Frozen Wasteland. Intending to stay behind and kill any demonic cultivator that appeared to calm down his killing intent.
Of course, considering that this wasn't inside the Frozen Wasteland itself, the other two ancestors didn't say anything and just quietly left to inform the other ancestors about what had happened so they could figure out what the demonic cultivators were planning.
More importantly, they also had to figure out how the situation was like with the other empires around them and if they had taken any losses among their Celestial Immortal Realm cultivators. After all, it was clear that the demonic cultivators were planning something big.
A terrifying comprehension speed, but ultimately not what he planned on using his time on at the moment, as his goal for now was to complete a celestial trial and get his hands on the scroll containing information on the Dao Domain Lord Realm.
After having done that, he could always return to comprehend the ancient formation for a few months and reach the Large Success Realm in the Dao of Formations.
The main reason for his confidence in being able to return and comprehend the formation in the future came from the fact that the ancient formation guarding the small mountain wasn't hostile in any way nor would it be trapping him upon entering it.
Instead, he had managed to learn that the sole purpose of the formation was to protect the small mountain from any attacks that might damage it... And only if he tried to damage the small mountain would the ancient formation guarding it activate and possibly trap him in the process.
As long as he didn't do any of this and just peacefully entered the formation and made his way to the fourth celestial gate, everything would be fine.
The only problem was that the ancient guardian formation seemed to view even the slightest movement of spiritual qi as damaging the natural environment of the small mountain. Essentially meaning that he would be forced to seal his cultivation base before entering the range of the formation.
Even though doing this wouldn't affect the strange of his physical body and he would still be able to almost instantaneously undo the seal if he encountered any dangerous situation inside, it also meant that he would be limited to walking normally up the small mountain without using any strength above what a normal mortal could do.
Though it might not be that much of a problem to climb up the mountain in this kind of manner, the small mountain was only small in terms of cultivators. For a normal mortal, the small mountain was already like a giant piercing through the sky. Standing over ten thousand meters tall.
Even if there was a path to follow, it would still take a few days to reach the summit where the fourth celestial gate was located...
"Haaa... Nothing to do about it if I want to reach the fourth celestial gate without having to try and force my way through the formation." Muttering this to himself as he looked up at the now towering mountain and the summit that now loomed far above him, Xuan Hao spent the next few minutes sealing off his own cultivation base.
Making sure that no spiritual qi leaked out from his body before he stepped on to the long path leading up the mountain towards summit where the cave with the fourth celestial gate inside of it was located.
At the very least, although the formation seemed to react to his dao domain. Preventing him from flying up, it didn't react to his divine sense. Allowing him to fully explore the mountain and continue comprehending the ancient formation as he slowly made his way towards the summit.
In the process, he noticed that his comprehension speed of the Dao of Formation did increase by a bit after entering the formation, but it had nothing to do with the mountain, but more so the fact that he could now personally feel the formation with his own body.