Chapter 781: 781
An immortal tune rang out from within the great hall as soon as Wu Qi and Feng Hou were sent out of it . A moment later, a resplendent chariot rose into the sky, pulled by six flood dragons and attended by a host of men consisting thousands of ancient immortals and tens of thousands of deities, soaring ever higher as splendid rays and clouds came spilling out of it . Sitting in the chariot with a grim face, Xuanyuan had changed into his outfit of the emperor . A vast pressure gushed out from all over him, making no one could lay eyes on him . The entire Xuanyuan Peak trembled to his terrible aura .
A ring of golden light hung behind the back of the Yellow Emperor's head, radiating a bright light that shone as far as tens of thousands of miles like a sun . Half of the sky was engulfed by the plumes of roiling purple mist that came pouring out of it . It was a magnificent sight that could not be described with words .
When the chariot was about hundreds of miles from the ground, fleets of chariots wreathed in purple clouds zoomed up from all directions, forming into four teams that flanked it from all four sides . Each of the teams consisted a hundred thousand chariots, and in each of the chariot there were two drivers, a deity captain, twelve deities, and thirty-six soldiers . It was a mighty army with over twenty million fearsome soldiers .
Wu Qi sucked in a breath . He could hardly relate the old man he had just met, the one who was clad in a linen cloth and wore a pair of boots woven of weeds, to this man he was looking at right now . 'Attended by tens of millions of deities and illuminated the sky with the golden light of virtue . . . this is how the Sacred Emperor of the human race should look like,' he thought . He had seen what it was looked like when the Sovereign of the Myriad Immortal Alliance and those Buddhas of the Buddhism League made their appearances—auspicious light and glorious clouds blotted the sky for hundreds of miles, but those could not compare to what he was witnessing now .
The fleet of chariots soared high up into the sky . Wu Qi could see through his keen eyes that all the various natural hazards in the high altitude melted away as the chariots made their way through them . Everything vanished, no matter it was the astral wind, the thunderclouds, the dark ices, or the deadly beams . Wherever the golden light shone, the layers of natural hazards that locked down the sky of Pangu Continent dissolved like how the snow melted away when someone poured hot water on it, and the natural energy turned as calm as a mill pond .
As he was staring at the departing fleet in a daze, Wu Qi felt a pull at his pant . He turned around, only to see Feng Hou glared up at him . "Wake up, lad! His Majesty is only traveling light this time," the little old man said with a grin . "This is nothing comparing to the army who followed him in those years when he was fighting our foes . I bet you will have your soul scared out of your body if you ever have the chance to see all the hundreds of millions of deities charging hot at his heels . "
He jumped up and kicked Wu Qi in the shins . "Hurry up now, I need to teach you the Fiend Slaying Sword Formation," he said, shaking his head and stroking his long, white beard, "and after that I will have a drink with my old immortal friends . Aye, since His Majesty has gone looking for Empress Wa, I can take this opportunity to rest a little . Hey, do you have quick wits? It's going to take a long, long time for you to learn the formation if you are stupid . "
Wu Qi was not stupid, of course . His innate Chaotic Divine Soul was equal in essence to that of a Primordial expert, except that it was not as strong . All the same, his divine sense was much stronger than any peak-level Gold Immortals, as he had devoured many evil spirit and soul fragments . Therefore, he had quick wits, and basically everything he saw was immediately understood by him .
But not the Fiend Slaying Sword Formation . As the formation the Yellow Emperor had used to slay the people of Chiyou in ancient times, it was full of endless mysteries, and more complicated than the so-called celestial formation, which was constructed with the power of tens of thousands of the stars in the universe at the most . This formation used not only the power of the stars, but also took into consideration the changes of all the natural energies in the surroundings, the utilization of terrains, underground energy veins, and many other factors .
It was not a fixed sword formation . The more elements one used to construct it, the more powerful it would be . If one could merge the various Great Daos of the universe with it, the formation would have the mighty power to break the chaos and destroy one entire realm .
In other words, if you fused it with the power of the stars, it could unleash sword energies powerful enough to crush a planet; if you fused it with the energies of the earth, water, fire, and wind, it could produce the true forms of the Four Sacred Beasts using the power of the Four Quadrants; if you fused it with the law of time and space, you could shatter the void at will, if you fused it with underground energy veins and terrains, you could change the landscape as you please .
In addition to these Natural Heavenly Daos, humans, deities, immortals, ghosts, and other living beings could be used as part of the sword formation, giving it all kinds of strange powers .
And the foundation of such a massive and complicate sword formation was the 108 Kunwu Swords . To be able to evolve virtually all the Great Daos of the universe with only the swords, this formation was far more complex than Wu Qi had anticipated . Under Feng Hou's teaching, even with his powerful divine sense, it had taken him seven days and seven nights to memorize just the fundamental diagrams of the formation .
He could only memorize them, and was unable to conduct any further study . A sea of profound knowledge filled his divine soul . He felt as if he were a fat man who had devoured too much food, with a dark veil fluttering before his eyes and beads of sweat breaking out all over his body . His divine soul was so congested that he almost forget his own name . It was a frightful formation that could not be constructed smoothly before reaching the realm of the Primordial, an all-inclusive formation that combined virtually all the essences of formations in the world .
By comparison, the essences of formation Wu Qi learned from the Scroll of Stealing was the tree roots, while the Fiend Slaying Sword Formation was a great tree that grew from the roots, a tree that encompassed almost all the variations of formation . As long as he could fully master it, no formation constructed by any of the almighty experts of the present time could be a challenge to him anymore .
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