Chapter 298: Seven Luminaries Immortal Array, Activate! |
From this day on, the Ten Thousand Souls Banner learned a new trick called "physical reformation."
When metaphysical methods can't solve a problem, always trust physics!
Metaphysics actually has its own science.
Moss and Broken Star had been sealed for so long, the Ten Thousand Souls Banner had intermittently tried to refine them, which had already eaten away a good portion of their soul power.
And then you walloped them mercilessly just now.
Plus, since you can temporarily be considered a Martial God, using Martial God cultivation to mobilize the Ten Thousand Souls Banner naturally strengthens its effect.
"Greetings, Master!"
After being reformed, Moss and Broken Star knelt before you on the spot.
Tiger Tiangong, who was busy summoning the gathered demons nearby, was stunned into silence.
You could be the Dragon-Men's Heaven Venerable!
You took two Dragon-Man corpses out of the Cauldron Realm.
These were two Dragon-Saint corpses you had carefully selected during your clashes with the Dragon-Man army.
Dragon-Men can freely exchange bodies among their kin only if the recipient's body is still alive.
Corpses do not qualify.
But you soaked the corpses in the Star Source.
According to Old Shen's theoretical research, that would work.
Moss and Broken Star tried it, and indeed their souls could take residence!
From then on, as long as these two used the Super Soul Combat Art to enter Dragon-God state, they could serve as formation cores.
However, not here.
The Seven Luminaries refer to the sun, moon, metal, wood, water, fire, and earth.
Each of the seven formation cores connects to one luminary, allowing the array-layer to call upon the world's primordial forces!
Simply put, if the array succeeds, the array caster becomes this world!
If you liken the world to a computer, the Seven Luminaries Immortal Array is the peripherals — the keyboard, mouse, speakers, microphone, and other external devices.
With peripherals, you can operate the computer, instead of just staring blankly at the world's power.
The seven people who serve as formation cores must occupy specific positions.
Exactly where?
You don't know.
Who knows?
Founding Ancestor Shen knows.
He studied the art for thirty thousand years; he did not spend all that time locked away making things up, he also wandered the world looking for inspiration and ancient fragments of knowledge.
In that process, he discovered seven unique places in the world where a cultivator standing within can more easily access a particular luminary attribute.
Remember we said earlier that the Spiritual Energy of the Three Energies before the Martial King stage, and the True Qi after Martial King, have Five Element attributes?
You are a fire-element True Qi.
The spirit crystals in this world also have Five Element attributes.
If you cultivate at a fire luminary point, it becomes easier for you.
Founding Ancestor Shen summarized the Seven Luminary points thousands of years ago. When you took Shen Qingshan to the Starry Domains to find him and revealed the Seven Luminaries Immortal Array, he told you where the points lay.
The Formless began destroying things from Xiliang, floods ravaging the land.
Strange blood-colored mists oozed from the Formless, endless and all-encompassing, shrouding the earth.
The world fell into a blood-tinged gloom; sunlight could not penetrate, the Essence of Heaven and Earth was decaying.
Living beings wailed everywhere.
The apocalypse had arrived!
While waiting for the Seven Luminaries to take their places, you worked tirelessly to save people in the worst-hit areas.
You rescued as many as you could.
You witnessed the responsibility of martial artists.
They resisted the floods, dispersed the blood mists, or fell beneath the Formless's overwhelming power.
The human world coalition army had just finished fighting the Dragon-Man legions and hadn't had time to return home, yet they had to plunge into another war.
Warriors were sacrificing themselves.
Civilians fell in pools of blood.
Homesteads were submerged by floodwaters.
The splendid rivers and mountains were cloaked in despair's crimson.
You waited, and waited...
The solar luminary point was in the Star Force Mystic Realm, and Shen Qingshan was in position!
The lunar luminary point was on Bright Light Star, and the Dragon-God was in position!
The metal luminary point was at the Great Wastes' Hundred Death Mountains, and Great Demon was in position!
The wood luminary point was in the Southern Borderlands' Holy Forest Valley, and Moss Earth Venerable was in position!
The water luminary point was in the Chaotic Crystal Sea, and Broken Star Earth Venerable was in position!
The fire luminary point was on Cangqiong Ridge, and the Phoenix God was in position!
The earth luminary point was in the Great Qian capital city, and Li Wentian was in position!
"Seven Luminaries in place! Invoke the world's method! Activate the array!"
You were now located at the very center of the continent.
Beneath your feet lay an immense network of array patterns that followed the paths of mountains and rivers as if naturally formed.
Every so often it crossed an underground vein of spirit crystals.
The array would autonomously seize the world's Essence from those veins.
The grand array activated beneath you, extending in all directions, even to the sky and beneath the earth.
All these preparations had been made before the Dragon-Men formally began their assault, when you, as the Saint of the Holy Lands, marshaled resources from all sides to complete them.
Today they finally served their purpose.
The scale of the Seven Luminaries Immortal Array was more outrageous than the One-Line-Sky; in effect, the entire human world became part of the array!
Seven god-class combatants standing at their designated points — as the array's power reached them, all their strength was drawn away at this moment.
Great Qian capital city.
Li Wentian looked at Li Chengqian collapsed at his feet, smiling.
"Indeed worthy of my descendant! Where is the Minister of Clan Affairs?"
"I am present!"
"Bestow a name on Li Chengqian, Li Chengqian is now Li Chengqian!"
Then all of Li Wentian's power transformed into a brown beam of force, flying toward your location.
Li Wentian himself again became a grotesque mass of flesh.
This time the flesh-ball rapidly decayed, shattering like dead leaves.
Nearby members of the Li Imperial Clan and the entire court wept aloud.
At the first cry, the Ancestor Dragon vanished from then on.
At the second cry, the former emperor Li Chengqian passed away.
Hundred Death Mountains.
Great Demon felt the Seven Luminaries Immortal Array's force.
He knew the power he had arduously preserved would be taken.
"My good disciple, do you really trust your master so much? Heh..."
Great Demon raised his hand, intending to resist the array and refuse to contribute his power.
When the array's force swept over him, his hand withdrew.
"Hua Wuyan!! Either keep your word and vanish from now on!! Or betray it and be controlled by the heart-devouring demon!!
Hahaha! Brilliant plan! Brilliant plan!! Truly worthy of my disciple!!
Curse heaven! Cut the other shore! The merit is done! The path fails!!
I hate!!!!"
Great Demon transformed into a golden beam of force and shot toward your position.
Starry Domains, Star Force Mystic Realm.
Founding Ancestor Shen muttered to himself.
"Shen Qingshan, from now on, everything in the Starry Domains is yours."
"Ancestor, you..."
"Chen Yi's array will take all my power. I will not be utterly annihilated, but I can no longer coexist with you. Leave my soul trapped within this Star Force Mystic Realm; let me keep company with my rows of bookshelves."
"Ancestor!"
A dazzling red light burst from Shen Qingshan's body, blinding like the sun, and it too shot toward your location.
Dragon-God, Phoenix God, Moss, Broken Star.
The seven Martial God-level combatants at the Seven Luminary points had all of their power extracted.
Seven beams of different-colored light, guided by the Immortal Array's force, converged from all corners of the world toward you!
This was not a mere seven-plus-one situation; once the power gathered successfully, you would seize dominion over this patch of reality!
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