Chapter 701
While Wu Qi was in charge of laying down the formation to trap and kill the Sovereign, Yu Qingcheng's disciples were giving out instructions to alter the formation's arrangement without letting him know . Was Yu Qingcheng behind this? Did he want to ruin the formation so that Wu Qi would fail the mission?
How could Yu Qingcheng be so stupid? But, if it weren't for him, why would his disciples do such a thing in the valley?
King Yang Qiu had assigned Wu Qi the task of setting up the formation, which was tantamount to putting him in charge of the most important part of the mission . Such trust was precious . But, in Yu Qingcheng's eyes, it was equivalent to a mistrust of the Yu Academy . So, it was hard to say if he would do anything strange to sabotage Wu Qi . After all, he had been working very hard for King Yang Qiu's father for a long time, and Wu Qi was just a new recruit .
From outside the valley all the way to the Supreme Tower, Wu Qi made a careful inspection .
In the crafting rooms at the bottom of the Supreme Tower, eight hundred craftsmen transferred from the army by King Yang Qiu were using the underground flame to forge formation discs and banners . They were all expert craftsmen of magical instruments . With just a glance at the diagrams provided by Wu Qi, the formation discs and banners required for the setting up of the formation were perfectly forged by them, without the slightest defects .
Wu Qi studied these craftsmen with his divine sense . They were all working very hard, and none of them had any unusual expression .
Soldiers who kept streaming in and out of the Supreme Tower also looked normal . They lined up to enter the crafting rooms, then carried the formation discs and banners which emitted faint energy fluctuations in the quantities specified in the instructions, and brought them to the soldiers who were laying out the formation in the valley .
Wu Qi watched the soldiers transporting the formation discs and banners with his divine sense . They were dutifully carrying out their tasks, and he saw no one manipulating the instruments .
As for the soldiers who were installing the formation discs and banners, they were also very attentive in carrying out the task . After all, the military law of the Great Yu was very strict . If they made any mistakes in the installing of the instruments, and if King Yang Qiu held them accountable, not only would they be punished, but even the members of their clans would be implicated .
Apart from the white-clothed disciples of Yu Qingcheng who wandered around, pointing fingers at the arrangements of the formation from time to time, there seemed to be nothing unusual about the rest of the people in the valley .
'Yu Qingcheng, you'd better not sabotage my place, or I'm sure Yan Dan will be tempted to catch up with you!' With a bright gleam flickering in his eyes, Wu Qi clenched his palms into fists as he glanced coldly at the Yu Academy's disciples whom Yu Qingcheng had sent here ostensibly to help him share the workload; who knew what their true purpose was .
Time went by day after day . It was not something that could be accomplished in a day or two to lay out a formation that could be used to trap and kill a mighty immortal like the Sovereign, who held a significant power in the Heaven and whose cultivation base had stepped into the realm of Primordial Immortals . According to Wu Qi's estimation, it would take more than two months to get all the formation discs and banners in place, and get the whole formation up and running, even if everything went very well . And, if the Sovereign got here before the formation was ready, their plan would fall apart .
So, Wu Qi himself joined the work of setting up the formation . Because he was familiar with all the details of the Myriad Poisons Formation, the most important parts were set up by him; due to his guidance, the formation had almost taken its complete shape in just half a month . A heavy murderous air towered into the sky from within the valley, but it was intercepted by some invisible barrier and could only swirl back and forth in the valley .
Within the same half a month, however, rumors had begun to spread among the soldiers that the formation was nothing but a sham, and that it had no power at all . Several times through his divine sense, Wu Qi heard the soldiers whispering at work that the formation could only trap and kill average Heaven Immortals, but had no effect on the Gold Immortals, let alone trapping and killing the Sovereign .
Some said that Wu Qi was just an uneducated barbarian who was lucky enough to find some diagrams of the formation, but in fact, did not even know the basics of the formation . They claimed that the power of this Myriad Poisons Formation was formidable, but because Wu Qi had modified it, it was now worthless .
Others whispered that Wu Qi had only been lucky to break the formation when he was serving in Bo Yunting's army, and in fact, all the credit belonged to Bo Yunting . If it were not for Bo Yunting's brilliance and power, how could they have broken that formation? Some even swore that he had evidence that Bo Yunting had been made a marquis for the credit . "His Majesty is a wise man, and he certainly would not make a marquis at will . The fact that Bo Yunting has been made a marquis proves that the formation was indeed broken by him!"
To reassure the soldiers that Wu Qi really had nothing to do with breaking that formation, some people described to them what a great man Bo Yunting's father, Bo Zhongfu, was . They mentioned that he was one of the Human Emperor's confidants, and that Bo clan had produced people with vast knowledge for generations . Because the members of the Bo clan also had a deep understanding of the immortal formations, Bo Yunting was able to easily crack that formation .
Since the members of the Bo clan had such profound attainments in the field of immortal formations, it must have been Bo Yunting who cracked that formation, and had nothing to do with Wu Qi . Therefore, the soldiers were secretly discussing whether King Yang Qiu's plan to ambush the Sovereign would fail if the formation did not work as Wu Qi had claimed .
The soldiers did not really concern about the failure of killing the Sovereign, if truth be told . However, they were worried that should the formation fail, their lives would be at risk! They knew perfectly well of the ferociousness of the immortals, and they understood how lethal those immortal swords and immortal thunders could be! King Yang Qiu, Wu Qi, and those military officers were high-ranking members of the army, and if the formation did fail, they would certainly be able to escape . But, what about the soldiers? At the end of the day, weren't they the soldiers who suffered?
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