Chapter 1042: Breaking the Formation

In a clearing beside the tower, Lei Yuce and Wen Zhong stood side by side, quietly watching the scene before them.

"Fellow Daoist Lei, how confident are you in this method of yours?" Wen Zhong's lips moved slightly as he transmitted his voice.

"Even if it's not ninety-nine percent, sixty or seventy percent is still there. Besides, for the sake of obtaining the Time Lamp, even if there's only a ten percent chance, I'll give it a try. Isn't that what you're thinking, Fellow Daoist Wen?" Lei Yuce's eyes flashed with a sharp glint as he replied via voice transmission.

"According to rumors, the Time Lamp is an immortal artifact refined by the Tai Sui Immortal Venerable with a lifetime of effort. I wonder what kind of treasure it truly is." A look of anticipation also appeared on Wen Zhong's face.

"That said, Vice Sect Leader Lei, your admiration for Su Quanxi is your own affair, but the Time Lamp concerns the future development of our Tongtian Sword Sect. Don't let personal feelings delay the important matters." Wen Zhong then looked at Lei Yuce and spoke slowly, as if with hidden meaning.

"Rest assured, since I am the Vice Sect Leader, I naturally understand what needs to be done." Lei Yuce frowned slightly, then said solemnly.

"That's good." Wen Zhong's expression relaxed.

With nearly a hundred people working busily, the ground array patterns were carved quickly. In less than half a day, two enormous arrays, one black and one white, had been inscribed before the gray giant tower.

The two arrays coordinated with each other, presenting a yin-yang double fish configuration.

"This is..." Han Li, mingling among the crowd, looked at the array before him. His eyes flickered, and he immediately contacted Ti Hun and the Flame Essence Boy through his spiritual sense.

After a few breaths, a mixed aura of scorching heat and yin cold emanated from his body.

"Everyone, this is the twin formation designed by the Alliance Leader to break the tower's restrictions. Each formation requires fifty fellow daoists to enter and activate it. Next, I will select the list. Those called out, step forward." Wen Zhong flew into the air and announced loudly.

At this moment, about a thousand cultivators had gathered before the tower. Upon hearing this, there was a stir, but no one dared to say anything; they only silently prayed not to be chosen.

Anyone could see the terror of the restrictions outside the tower. To break them would certainly be no small danger.

Seeing the expressions of the crowd, Wen Zhong knew exactly what they were thinking. He sneered inwardly and immediately began calling out names directly.

"You, you, you..."

Each time he called out a person, a white light shot from his hand and landed on that person, lingering without dispersing.

In less than a moment, a hundred cultivators from the alliance were selected. Although reluctant, these people still stepped forward.

The hundred people who were singled out had varying levels of cultivation, ranging from Taiyi to Golden Immortal, and even some at the True Immortal stage.

However, these individuals shared one characteristic: they all cultivated either pure yang or pure yin techniques, split evenly between the two.

"It really is the Yin-Yang Twin Birth Formation..." Han Li's eyes flickered slightly as he murmured to himself.

On an ordinary day, to obtain treasures, taking some risks to activate the formation would not have been a problem.

But now, with someone secretly watching him, he absolutely could not enter the formation. So he used a secret technique to transfer portions of the vital energy from the Weeping Soul and the Essence Fire Child into his own body, fabricating a mixed aura.

Although Han Li had traveled with Yu Kuohai and the others for several days, he had not clearly revealed his cultivation technique. Now, with his aura slightly altered, it did not arouse their suspicion.

On the other side of the crowd, the Lan siblings both cultivated yin-cold attribute techniques. Although they used secret arts to conceal their true cultivation levels, their auras could not be drastically changed, so they were also selected among the fifty yin-attribute cultivators.

Perhaps to avoid unnecessary complications, the two had no choice but to obediently follow orders.

"What bad luck..." Lan Yan sat at a node within the black formation and couldn't help but complain via voice transmission.

"It's just activating a formation. Endure it a little, but be careful not to reveal your true cultivation," Lan Yuanzi replied via voice transmission.

"I know, brother, rest assured. A formation of this level is nothing," Lan Yan nodded in assurance.

"May I ask Senior Wen, are there any dangers in activating the Twin Birth Formation to break the禁制?" At that moment, a middle-aged man in a black robe beside Lan Yan asked nervously.

"Exploring a treasure vault secret realm—how could there be no danger? If you are so afraid of risk, why did you come in the first place?" Wen Zhong glanced at the man and said indifferently.

The middle-aged man in black robes flushed red, quickly lowered his head, and dared not say another word.

"You don't need to worry too much. Breaking the禁制 outside the tower this time is a matter of using formations to counter formations. Although there are some dangers, barring accidents, they should not be great. Moreover, all who participate in breaking the禁制 will be rewarded by the alliance afterward; you won't be working for nothing," Wen Zhong looked at the others and spoke reassuringly in a raised voice.

Hearing this, the people in the formation looked slightly relieved.

"Let's begin!" Lei Yuce, who was floating above the two formations, said indifferently.

The two formations on the ground immediately began to operate, each emitting bright black and white light.

Everyone in the formations felt a weight upon them, enveloped by a powerful禁制 force, unable to move. At the same time, the formations beneath them emitted a devouring force, rapidly absorbing the immortal spiritual power from their bodies.

Everyone in the formation felt a chill in their hearts, but soon discovered that aside from their immortal spiritual power being devoured, there were no other abnormalities, so they calmed down a bit.

Lei Yuce carefully examined the operation of the two formations on the ground, and seeing that everything was going smoothly, he nodded slightly, then brought his hands together and then separated them upward, guiding.

The black and white formations each lit up, and then, amid harsh whistling sounds, over a hundred arm-thick black and white light bands flew out from the two formations, all rushing toward the stone gate entrance of the gray giant tower.

The lightning prohibition on the stone gate seemed to sense the threat, suddenly brightening, and thick gray-black lightning bolts emerged, each radiating strands of law power, striking the black and white light bands.

The black and white light bands, as if made of paper, were instantly torn apart and scattered.

"Such formidable yin thunder!" Han Li murmured from among the crowd on the periphery, his pupils contracting.

The law power emitted by this yin thunder was completely opposite to the lightning law born within his Azure Bamboo Cloudswarm Swords.

The lightning law within the Azure Bamboo Cloudswarm Swords inherited the characteristics of the Evil-Repelling Divine Thunder, being upright and yang; these black lightning bolts were completely opposite, emitting a strong yin-sha aura.

If he had the chance, he would like to study these yin thunders.

Lei Yuce, however, showed no reaction, as if he had anticipated this. He muttered incantations and rapidly formed hand seals.

The black and white formations on the ground blazed with light, becoming more than ten times brighter, forming a hundred thousand-zhang-tall black and white light pillars.

A surging aura of yin and yang emanated from the two massive light pillars.

Lei Yuce made a hand seal and guided, and a black and a white banner flew out from his body, hovering above his head.

The white banner was embroidered with a sun pattern, and the black banner with a moon pattern; both banners emitted astonishing spiritual power fluctuations and law power fluctuations, clearly immortal artifacts of quite high quality.

He raised his hands, and the black and white banners spun in the air.

Influenced by the black and white banners, the black and white light pillars also intertwined with each other and began to spin, faster and faster, forming a massive black and white whirlwind.

Above the whirlwind, brilliant black and white light shimmered, and bursts of powerful law fluctuations erupted.

"Go!" Lei Yuce formed hand seals and then pushed outward.

The black and white whirlwind immediately pressed forward, sweeping over the base of the gray giant tower, spinning rapidly.

Rumble!

The gray-black lightning around the gray giant tower flared up again, even more intense than before; countless gray-black lightning bolts materialized, striking into the black and white whirlwind, producing sounds like metal sheets scraping.

Especially above the stone gate, gray-black lightning bolts like flood dragons burst forth, extremely terrifying, shattering the void wherever they passed.

But the black and white whirlwind was not as fragile as the previous black and white light bands; not only was it not torn apart, but as it spun rapidly, it drew those gray-black lightning bolts into itself.

The gray-black lightning bolts were like fish caught in a net, unable to break free no matter how they struggled.

Seeing this, the cultivators on the side burst into cheers.

The black and white formations suddenly unleashed their power, and the immortal spiritual power within those in the formations gushed out like a tidal wave; moreover, streams of yin-sha lightning power were transmitted through the air, and everyone in the formations showed expressions of pain.

Lan Yan frowned deeply, feeling streams of yin-sha lightning power transmitted into her body through the air, like countless insects gnawing at her entire qi channels, truly agonizing.

However, her cultivation was profound, and she could still endure, though inwardly she was complaining bitterly.

Among the crowd on the periphery, Han Li looked at the hundred cultivators within the formation, a glint of light flashing in his eyes, and his spiritual sense quietly spread out.

Although it was not good to suspect his companions who were struggling to control the formation, the opportunity was rare; if the person tracking him was currently in the formation, now was the best time to investigate.

In midair, Lei Yuce rapidly formed hand seals, and the black and white whirlwind spun quickly, slowly rising upward.

The lightning bolts drawn into it were also carried upward, and the lightning patterns on the tower surface that had been swept by the whirlwind dimmed, no longer emitting gray-black lightning, as if the yin thunder power on them had been taken away as well.

After a short half-ke, the black and white whirlwind rose about ten zhang and then stopped.

Though it was only a short half-ke, it felt endless to the hundred people in the ground formation; some with shallow cultivation had their internal yuan power drained, turning over and falling to the ground, bleeding from seven orifices.

But at this moment, most people around were struggling to endure, too busy to care about the life or death of those beside them; as for those on the periphery, their expressions varied, many secretly glad they were not chosen for the formation, but more people stared fixedly at the gray giant tower.

As more and more gray-black lightning bolts emerged from the prohibition above the gray giant tower and angrily struck the black and white whirlwind, it seemed that the attempt to forcibly break the prohibition had thoroughly enraged it.

Although the black and white whirlwind still spun quickly, blocking all the lightning bolts that struck down, it was noticeably slower than before.

Below the whirlwind, the stone gate of the giant tower also emerged, with no trace of gray-black lightning on it, leaving only a thin layer of translucent light screen still covering the stone gate.

This translucent light screen was very similar to the transparent prohibition at the entrance of the secret realm, and appeared even thicker.