Chapter 2657: Chapter 2660: Believe It or Not, I’ll Crush You
The mountaintop quieted down, everyone was looking at Jiang Chen.
Some frowned, some pondered, some were envious, some whispered among themselves.
Ming Xuanren glanced at Zuo Qiqi, who’d been rendered speechless by Jiang Chen, a mocking smile curling at the corner of his mouth. Then he spoke loudly, "The grand Formations Competition now begins. All participants, enter the Stele. Anyone who has not entered within two hours will be regarded as having forfeited. Anyone who dares deliberately obstruct others from entering the Stele will have their qualification revoked. Anyone who dares take the chance to commit murder—kill on the spot!"
Whoosh whoosh whoosh!
As soon as Ming Xuanren’s voice fell, figures shot toward the gigantic Stele. Each time one person entered, a tiny square appeared on the Stele, with the number ’1’ inside.
"Let’s go, we’ll see who gets higher!"
Su Qingluan called out to Jiang Chen, her figure flashing as she lunged toward the Stele. Jiang Chen smiled faintly and leaped after her, and Su Qingpeng, Su Lieyang, and Mu Linqing all followed in succession.
Some people from Formations clans watched Jiang Chen enter the Stele, an odd look flashing in their eyes.
Chen Qinglin and Zuo Lincheng exchanged a glance, a deep meaning flickering in both their eyes.
...
In a boundless white space, Jiang Chen looked around with a faint expectation.
So this is inside the Myriad Array Chart? I can feel a rich Formation Dao aura all around. With a time limit of a week, I wonder how far I can go?
The first round of the Formations Competition has a time limit of a week. If there wasn’t a time limit, there’d probably be people who just stayed inside and refused to come out—this is a great place to cultivate Formations after all!
Buzz!
A wave of Formation Dao Fluctuation appeared, Jiang Chen suddenly felt his vision blur, and when he reappeared, figures had appeared all around him.
"Big Brother Jiang Chen, why did you come out?"
Lei Ling’er stared at Jiang Chen in surprise.
"Disciple, you failed?"
Hu Yiqiu glared at Jiang Chen, his face looking unpleasant.
"Mr Jiang, how are you out so fast..."
"Jiang Chen, you..."
"Hahaha! Jiang Chen, you came out too. So you’re nothing special either!"
A chorus of questioning, scolding, and gloating rang out.
Jiang Chen glanced around, then smiled faintly.
He had once again appeared on the summit of Array Peak, yet Su Qingluan and the others were nowhere to be seen.
"An Illusion Array? It’s a bit too low level. It didn’t even fuse in my inner thoughts. With an Illusion Array like this, who could it possibly fool?"
Shaking his head with a soft chuckle, Jiang Chen looked around, then extended his right hand; a Spiritual Seal appeared in his palm.
"Go!"
Whoosh!
The Spiritual Seal shot out, landing right on Ming Xuanren’s forehead ahead.
"Jiang Chen, how dare you, you actually launched a sneak atta—"
Ming Xuanren flew into a rage, glaring viciously at Jiang Chen.
"Break."
Jiang Chen spat out a single word indifferently.
Crash!
The Spiritual Seal flickered, and the surrounding scene instantly shattered. Jiang Chen once more returned to a boundless white void.
Buzz!
His Divine Sense spread out. Jiang Chen mobilized all of his Divine Sense, carefully probing everything around him.
Dots of light and strands of threads appeared in Jiang Chen’s mind.
This was the cultivation method for the Myriad Array Chart that Su Qingluan had told him: every time you pass a level, you can capture the surrounding Formation Dao Fluctuations. These fluctuations are each a Formation. After you break through the first level, Formation insights and Formations comparable to the Divine Infant Realm Early Stage will manifest, for those who passed to comprehend.
"Wow, that’s fast!"
"That should be the area where Chen Qianyu of the Chen Family is, right?"
"He’s already at the fourth level this fast?"
"Truly a Formation genius!"
At this moment, exclamations of astonishment sounded one after another atop Array Peak.
Although the giant Stele only showed numbers, everyone here was a cultivator. When each participating Array Master entered the Stele, everyone could sense which new square appeared on the Stele. That way, as long as it was someone they knew or someone they were paying attention to, they could tell which square corresponded to whom.
And these squares would only display a name once the person in that region passed the eighth level. This also meant such people might well be able to advance.
"Why is Big Brother Jiang Chen stuck at the first level?"
Lei Ling’er glanced at the giant Stele. Only the square representing Jiang Chen still showed ’1’. All the others had changed; the highest was the square in Chen Qianyu’s area, already at ’4’. It had been less than ten breaths since they entered the Myriad Array Chart. To break three Formations in a row in that time was already extremely fast—this meant Chen Qianyu was basically breaking arrays at a glance.
"He’s probably comprehending the Formation Dao insights presented after breaking through the first level."
Su Chengfeng spoke softly.
"Hmph! Comprehending Formation Dao insights at the first level already—how inexperienced can you get?"
A mocking voice came from the side.
Lei Ling’er turned to look. The speaker was a fourteen- or fifteen-year-old youth from the Zuo Clan.
"What’s it to you? Is the Myriad Array Chart your clan’s?"
Lei Ling’er shot back loudly.
"Y-you dare talk to me like that?"
The youth’s face changed, and he glared angrily at Lei Ling’er.
"You little brat, believe it or not, I’ll crush you to death?" fɾēewebnσveℓ.com
Lei Ling’er’s eyes turned cold, and a chilling aura burst out from within her.
"Impudence!"
An elder of the Zuo Clan beside the youth barked, a Piao Miao aura rising from his body.
Buzz!
At the same time, Jin Ming gave the elder a cold glance.
Boom!
A muffled explosion of energy sounded, and the space between the Su Family and the Zuo Clan rippled.
"A mere Semi-Saint dares to act so arrogant. Believe it or not, I’ll crush you to death?"
Jin Ming echoed Lei Ling’er’s words right back at him.
"Enough!"
A low shout rang out. Ming Xuanren glanced at the people of both sides, then said coolly, "Whoever makes a move again, I’ll randomly kick out one representative of their family from the competition. If there’s no one left from that family participating—kill!"
The Zuo Clan elder cast Ming Xuanren a look and made no further move.
Jin Ming and the others, however, frowned.
"What are these guys playing at? What’s the point of such childish antics?"
Hu Yiqiu gave the Zuo Clan’s people a look, confusion flickering in his eyes.
"This City Lord Ming is strange too. When Ling’er released her aura just now, he actually didn’t stop her."
Jin Ang transmitted his voice.
"For such a major event as the Formations Competition, they only have these Unity Realm Stage and Void Refinement Realm City Guard Army posted here to keep order?"
Jin Ming also sent a voice transmission, voicing his doubt.
Everyone turned to look at Su Chengfeng.
"There’s no need to find it strange. The Formations Competition is inside the Myriad Array Chart, all three rounds are. There’s no fear of anyone causing trouble in there, so you don’t need particularly strong guards. As for why the City Guard Army here are only Unity Realm Stage and Void Refinement Realm..."
Su Chengfeng sent a voice transmission with a helpless look on his face. "Have you all perhaps seen too many experts over at the Alchemy Dao competition? Elixirs are something even the strongest experts need, so they’ll come watch when they see some good seedlings compete. But formations... strong experts basically don’t think much of them, other than valuing them a bit more on the battlefield. So fewer experts come. Having Unity Realm Stage cultivators as guards is already pretty good."
Since when did Unity Realm Stage stop counting as experts?
Su Chengfeng silently griped in his heart.