Chapter 1063: Zhang Xuan's Confession

Beaten so badly, Jiang Yuan knew who the culprit was and gritted his teeth in frustration. Without any hesitation, he charged at Feng Xun.

Although everyone was in danger, if he swallowed this anger, as a dignified war master, he would lose his fighting spirit—how could he still fight?

“Master Zhang, Master Wu… save me…”

Jiang Yuan had broken through and reached the Primordial Spirit realm, so Feng Xun was naturally no match for him. After being pummeled, he could no longer hold back and urgently called for help.

Master Wu, Zhang Xuan, and the others turned around, their backs to the scene, pretending not to hear.

“This formation is indeed very difficult to solve!”

“Yes, if only there were a way…”

“The weather is quite nice today!”

“The sky is clear, the breeze is gentle…”

Save you? Are you kidding? You were so happy beating others just now; let someone vent a little! Otherwise, wouldn’t that be too unfair to this Jiang Yuan?

After a while of beating, Jiang Yuan finally calmed down.

By then, Feng Xun’s head was swollen like a perm, indescribably miserable.

Seeing him like this, Zhang Xuan’s eyes lit up, and he suddenly thought of something: “Right, why didn’t I think of that… Since we can’t break the formation, we can have the Red Leaf King break it for us…”

“Break it for us?” Everyone was stunned.

“Exactly…” Zhang Xuan smiled lightly, flipped his wrist, and a pile of formation flags appeared in his palm.

The seventh-grade formation flags that President Han and the others had taken out last time were still not used up.

“Go!”

A formation diagram emerged in his mind. With a low shout, the formation flags flew straight out.

He now possessed the ability of a七星巅峰 formation master. Although his strength was insufficient to set up a七星巅峰 formation, setting up an ordinary seventh-grade formation was still easy.

The formation flags landed, spun around, and he stomped his foot heavily.

Buzz!

The formation activated, and instantly a white mist enveloped everyone.

“Master Zhang means… we hide in the formation and lure the Red Leaf King here?”

President Han’s eyes lit up.

Previously, they were trapped in the formation, with the enemy hidden and them exposed, making it easy to be passive and attacked. Now, shrouded in a七星 maze formation, the other side couldn’t see them, successfully concealing themselves. Even if the Red Leaf King wanted to do something, it wouldn’t be so easy.

They had successfully turned unfavorable conditions into favorable ones.

However, this seemed simple and without any technical difficulty, but as a七星巅峰 formation master, he knew the difficulty involved.

Setting up a formation within a formation required a thorough understanding of the surrounding formation, even knowing many of its changes. Otherwise, when the opponent’s formation changed and the surrounding aura shifted, your formation would collapse on its own, revealing your position.

For anyone else, even if they thought of it, they couldn’t do it. Only that freak Master Zhang could accomplish it.

“Yes…” Zhang Xuan nodded.

Hearing his confirmation, everyone understood and their eyes lit up. Only Feng Xun stood aside, utterly confused: Seeing me beaten so badly, he thought of this…

What does this formation have to do with me being beaten? How did you think of that? What kind of brain circuit is that?

“With this formation isolating us, no one needs to worry about being attacked anymore. Everyone adjust themselves first and recover their strength…”

Zhang Xuan instructed.

Since entering this heavenly palace, they had been under constant attack, already physically and mentally exhausted.

“Yes…” Everyone nodded, each taking out pills and spirit stones to recover stamina, sitting cross-legged to cultivate.

Seeing that there was no immediate danger, Zhang Xuan also breathed a sigh of relief. Just as he was about to verify a certain idea, he caught a whiff of fragrance. Luo Ruoxi came to his side, looking at him with a complex gaze: “Thank you!”

“You’re welcome!”

Knowing she was thanking him for what had just happened, Zhang Xuan smiled.

She was not originally the Heavenly Leaf King; she was just being objective.

“Thank you for trusting me…”

Shaking her head, the girl seemed to recall something, a trace of loneliness on her face, but it quickly vanished. She extended her hand: “If you really want to break the formation, I might be able to help you.”

“Oh? Do you know what this formation is?” Zhang Xuan’s eyes lit up.

“I don’t know, but this formation is layered, one small formation after another, endless. If you try to force your way through, you’ll fall into an infinite loop, never able to escape… unless you jump out of the formation!”

Luo Ruoxi said.

“Jump out of the formation? How do you jump out?” Zhang Xuan smiled bitterly.

He also understood this principle. If he could jump out, he would have found a way long ago. Unfortunately, the library could only see the flaws of one small formation, not the overall situation, so he couldn’t know the direction and trend of the entire grand formation.

"We've already broken through several courtyards in a row, each one hundreds of meters in diameter... Calculating by position, even if we can't escape the Heavenly Palace, we should have reached the edge by now... But in fact, even if we break through dozens more courtyards, we still won't get out. Don't you find it strange?"

Luo Ruoxi said.

"This... do you mean that this formation likely contains the secret of space?" Zhang Xuan's pupils contracted.

According to distance calculations, being able to go out but unable to leave—there's only one possibility... a space formation!

"Right, why didn't I think of that? Qiuwu Gusheng himself was skilled in space, which is why he could set up such a powerful seal... Besides, we encountered a formation space as soon as we arrived... I should have easily thought of it..."

Before the other could answer, Zhang Xuan slapped his forehead, suddenly enlightened.

They had fallen into a formation space as soon as they arrived. Under normal circumstances, after entering this formation, they should have quickly thought in terms of space... How had they overlooked it!

"A single word awakens the dreamer. Thank you, Ruoxi. I love you to death..."

Filled with excitement, Zhang Xuan jumped up, kissed the girl on the cheek, and laughed heartily.

"You..."

Not expecting him to do this, caught off guard, Luo Ruoxi had no time to dodge. Her beautiful eyes widened, and her pretty face flushed pink.

This guy seemed honest, but how... how...

"I'm ignoring you..."

Turning around, she walked into the formation, found a spot, and sat down cross-legged. Only then did she feel her face burning hot.

"I..."

In a moment of excitement, he had lost control and made an excessive move. Seeing the girl turn and leave, Zhang Xuan finally came to his senses, somewhat ashamed, but touching his lips... so fragrant.

"Will she never talk to me again?"

In both his past and present life, he had been a single dog without a love affair. Suddenly experiencing this, he immediately felt flustered, completely different from his usual commanding demeanor.

But he also knew this was not the time to dwell on such matters. After calming his mind for a while, he regained composure, turned his wrist, and the Thousand Ant Queen Bee appeared before him.

He knew nothing about space formations, but the Thousand Ant Queen Bee was born with such abilities. Perhaps it could find a way out and lead them to escape.

He explained the current situation to the queen bee.

The queen bee nodded, lay down on the ground, and sniffed.

The Thousand Ant Queen Bee was only born with the ability to arrange space, an instinct, but it did not understand the so-called laws of space.

This was like bees building nests—perfect regular hexagonal nests that architects could not achieve... It could not be said that bees were masters of civil engineering and structural mechanics, right!

After sniffing the ground for a while, the Thousand Ant Queen Bee stood up.

"Master, this is a folded space. I can lead you to find a way out..."

"Great..."

Seeing that it could indeed find the way, Zhang Xuan's eyes lit up. He quickly turned around to inform Master Wu and the others.

This time, he used telepathy.

Soon, everyone gathered.

Although the rest time was short, they were all battle-hardened and had mostly recovered their strength.

"Everyone follow the queen bee, don't fall behind..."

After giving instructions, Zhang Xuan came to Luo Ruoxi. Seeing that the girl did not seem angry, he breathed a sigh of relief: "Let's follow too!"

Saying this, he took hold of the girl's hand.

"You..."

She struggled a little, but found he held tighter. The girl couldn't help frowning.

Give him an inch and he takes a mile, getting more and more out of line, right?

Just as she was about to pull back and teach him a lesson, the young man's voice slowly sounded.

"At the Phantom Feather Mountain Range, when I first saw you, quiet and serene, standing before the waterfall, blending into the surroundings like an ink painting, I knew my life had a goal!"

"Seeing you besieged by many spirit beasts, I couldn't help but intervene. Later, in the cave, when my soul was backlashed, you saved me. When I woke up, you had already left... I didn't know your name, nor who you were. I thought I would never see you again, feeling lost as if I had lost the most important treasure of my life."

"Later, at the Master Teacher Academy, I saw you again. I was so excited I could explode. I decided I must ask your name and know who you are..."

Recalling his past with this girl, Zhang Xuan's face broke into a sweet smile.

Since his rebirth, he had met many women—some graceful, some gentle, some domineering, some delicate, some with special feelings for him... But for some reason, only this one gave him a feeling of heartthrob and longing.

So, he didn't want to miss out!

"We went to the Sealing Saint Platform together. Although I saw Kong Shi's will there and got the books he personally wrote... what made me happiest was being able to be with you all along the way. Every day after training, I could see you sitting not far from me, so quiet, so serene like a painting, chatting with me, studying the flaws and merits of techniques together... To be honest, I wished that time could stop forever, just like that before my eyes..."

"Do you know how happy I was when you said you wanted to come to the ruins together? Everyone said it was extremely dangerous here, with no return, but I felt that as long as I could be with you, no danger was worth regretting..."

"Only now do I know my heart. I truly want to be with you, forever, even if I die, I won't regret it!"

Looking at the girl, Zhang Xuan's eyes showed firm determination.

"Ruoxi, please allow me to hold your hand like this and walk slowly with you, okay?"