Tian Yuan War Chronicles: The Path of Artifacts to Ascension – Chapter 56

Ch 56: You Forced My Hand

Lord Hua Kong stood high in the sky, looking at the Heaven-Confining Earth-Locking Grand Array below with its greatly diminished spiritual power, and felt a surge of anxiety in his heart.

The white-clad woman also continued her mental attacks like a madwoman, not allowing Lord Hua Kong to approach, while relying on brute force to try to break through Lord Hua Kong’s trap formation.

Lord Hua Kong, looking at the scene below, had already made up his mind. He knew he had no choice. If he let this woman escape, he would surely be punished by the sect.

The punishment was not important, but now he alone carried the honor and disgrace of nearly a thousand people in the Hua Family and a large number of allies. If he suffered a little drizzle, the people below would suffer a rainstorm.

Pulling one hair moves the whole body; he couldn’t afford to be soft-hearted.

He formed a hand seal, and a Space-Time Swamp immediately covered the female cultivator in the formation. The female cultivator’s attacks immediately slowed down, but her cultivation was, after all, much higher, and the effect of the Space-Time Swamp was greatly reduced.

Lord Hua Kong immediately lowered his altitude, enduring the mental attacks, and took out the poisons he had found through various channels over the years, ground them all into powder, and used Space Teleportation to move them all into the Space-Time Swamp.

The female cultivator indeed stopped and began to vomit blood. Lord Hua Kong thought he had a chance, and was about to approach, when the female cultivator suddenly screamed again, and the mental attack followed. The treasure pearl on her body suddenly shattered, and all the mental power attacked Lord Hua Kong.

“Ah~~! You forced me to do this!” Lord Hua Kong’s eyes immediately bled, and he was on the verge of collapse. He gritted his teeth and persevered, taking out all the red Fish Water Pills from his Storage Bracelet, using Space Teleportation to forcefully shove them into her mouth, and then passed out.

“Ah~~ah~~my head! My head!” Not knowing how long he had been unconscious, Lord Hua Kong woke up with a splitting headache.

The sky was already completely dark, all seven suns had set, and he was lying in a large pit next to the Heaven-Confining Earth-Locking Grand Array. His Flying Boat had lost control but was still floating in the air.

“The Grand Array!” Lord Hua Kong, not caring about his headache, quickly jumped up. The Grand Array was already on its last breath, and the spiritual power that was gushing out had greatly diminished.

Lord Hua Kong couldn’t care less and quickly went to check his trap formation. The woman was indeed trapped in the formation, lying quietly, with no breath at all.

Lord Hua Kong knew the power of this woman and did not dare to be careless, and shot out all the talismans that sealed spiritual power.

Only then did he use a new Spirit Beast Ring to take her in, and then used the formation in the Spirit Beast Ring to seal her. But he didn’t know if it was safe, and could only wait until he got back to deal with it. Now there was a bigger problem.

Lord Hua Kong, enduring his head that was about to split open, quickly took out the Heaven-Confining Earth-Locking Grand Array Array Diagram that he had accidentally discovered in the Merit Law Hall.

In the Seven Yang World, this array was one of the sect’s highest secrets, but in order to win people’s hearts in the Eight Yang World, the sect opened up a large number of Cultivation Methods, Formations, Talismans, Pill Recipes, and Secret News, so he was able to obtain this Array Diagram.

Originally, he wanted to study it when he had time, but Lord Hua Kong had to cram at the last minute and went into battle to repair the formation.

Lord Hua Kong studied the Array Diagram all night and found that although this formation was exquisite, the difficulty was not very high. With his many years of experience in carving and deducing formations, repairing it should not be a problem.

But the most important thing right now was to block the place where the spiritual power was leaking, otherwise the Grand Array would be ruined even if it was repaired.

Lord Hua Kong did not dare to stop and kept busy until the first sun rose, finally blocking the spiritual power leakage of the entire Grand Array. Only then did he breathe a sigh of relief.

Lord Hua Kong glanced at the two people sealed in his Spirit Beast Ring. As expected, they were high-level cultivators. The dilapidated Old Woman was still full of vitality and did not look like she was going to die at all.

But the white-clad woman was still breathless. Her face was pale, and her pointed chin and red lips, paired with her black hair and white clothes, made her look like a female ghost.

But Lord Hua Kong did not have the energy to pay attention to the two of them at the moment, and withdrew his attention to continue studying the Array Diagram.

Lord Hua Kong was really grateful that he had a bit of a hoarding habit, and carried a large number of spiritual materials related to formations with him. After basically figuring out the carving method of the formation, Lord Hua Kong began to repair the formation.

After getting familiar with it, Lord Hua Kong found that this formation was actually not that great. Its sophistication was far inferior to any formation on the Flying Boat.

Basically, it took the route of brute force, but in the end, it still failed to seal that inhuman and ghostly woman.

Thinking of the inhuman and ghostly, Lord Hua Kong thought of the small village left in the formation and quickly scanned it with his Divine Sense, and it was actually not far from this breach.

What was shocking was that those people were all killed, even the children were not spared, and all of them were drained of blood and Essence Spirit, each of them looking like dried corpses that had been dead for many years.

But the chickens, ducks, geese, dogs, and pigs that were still wandering in the village, and the daily necessities that had not been stained with dust, all showed that these people were still alive not long ago.

These people did not know how many generations they had guarded them, but they got such a result!

Lord Hua Kong hated it in his heart, but he did not dare to stop his hands. After consuming most of the spiritual materials on his body, he finally blocked the gap.

Looking at the Grand Array that was operating normally again, Lord Hua Kong breathed a long sigh of relief and quickly went to replace all the Spirit Stones in the various formation eyes.

The entire Grand Array was then completely renewed. Lord Hua Kong checked again for the spiritual materials on the formation that were slightly damaged due to the spiritual power leakage and replaced them all.

Now he was finally not afraid of being noticed by others. He also cleaned up the battlefield before leisurely rushing back, while trying to recover his attacked mental power.

He had been delayed on the Heaven-Confining Earth-Locking Grand Array for many days, so he was naturally worried about others asking questions, so he thought of many excuses along the way, but no one asked at all.

Later, Lord Hua Kong indirectly asked Yang Yuzhuo, and Yang Yuzhuo told him the reason.

It turned out that everyone thought that replacing the Spirit Stones in the formation eyes of this Grand Array was a very complicated matter, so they let Lord Hua Kong, a professional, go. Since Lord Hua Kong had only returned after so long, then it must have taken so long.

I interrupt! It’s really a matter of self-disturbance! Of course, this is a story for later.

Lord Hua Kong’s spiritual materials and formations were almost exhausted, and he suddenly felt a lack of security.

While purchasing some from the Seven Yang World, he also asked his own merchant team to quickly rush back to the Eight Yang World to purchase a large amount of spiritual materials, mental attack protection Magical Artifacts, trap formations, mental soul Cultivation Methods, mental soul defense formations, and formations and talismans for sealing spiritual power.

He even secretly and stealthily included the spiritual materials for the Fish Water Pill in the purchase.

He took the time to make a high-level cage that could defend against mental attacks and threw the two people in the Spirit Beast Ring into it.

It was just that Lord Hua Kong thought that the two people would wake up soon, but they did not wake up even after all this was done. He did not know whether it was because the talismans that sealed spiritual power had worked, or what was going on.

Since they didn’t wake up, Lord Hua Kong wouldn’t wake them up to ask why.

From then on, Lord Hua Kong had a few more things to do: mental Cultivation Methods and formations, and the refining of Essence Spirit Pills and Fish Water Pills.

Fortunately, there was a Pill Furnace for Fish Water Pills in the items of the cultivator he had found before, otherwise he would not have known how to make it.

He never understood why the white-clad woman had lost all her breath after being hit with those Fish Water Pills, so he spent more than ten years studying the Pill Recipe and refining method, and finally produced a furnace of Fish Water Pills when the thirty-year period was about to end.

He first caught a pair of wild beasts behind the Small Courtyard and tried it out. After swallowing the elixir, both the male and female beasts became very “eager”. It was indeed the “Fish Water Pill”.

After confirming that this pill would only affect that aspect of people, Lord Hua Kong let Yan Xiner take one. This woman’s temperament changed drastically, becoming very bold and proactive. The medicinal effect lasted for five days.

Afterwards, Yan Xiner, who was usually very docile and low-key, rarely got angry once. Lord Hua Kong coaxed her for a while before the two reconciled.

“Goodness! She ate all those bottles. There were more than a hundred pills!” That female ghost also had worldly desires! Lord Hua Kong really felt a little cruel when he thought about it afterwards.

But Lord Hua Kong could not let her escape from the Grand Array, no matter where she came from, no one in the Tian Yuan Sect could deal with her at present.

Originally, after nearly three Jiazi years of gaining a firm foothold in the Eight Yang World, three elders in the Tian Yuan Sect had broken through to the Transformation Stage.

It was just that if this woman was allowed to escape and recover, although the spiritual power in the Seven Yang World was weak, as an Ancient Great Power of the Seven Yang Sect, who knew what methods she would have.

If she had some Great Power friends in this world, such as in the Great Wilderness or in the East Sea, then who could withstand it.

Since she would not stay in the Grand Array properly, Lord Hua Kong could only take the risk to take her down.

It was just that Lord Hua Kong had another question: why would the Old Woman agree to be trapped by the formation that day?

What Lord Hua Kong did not know was that the Old Woman had been paying attention to the changes on the continent all these years. She knew that the Tian Yuan Sect did not have the ability to imprison the two of them.

So she deliberately proposed to use the Grand Array to seal off this area, on the condition that the Tian Yuan Sect would spend a lot of money to purchase some Spiritual Medicines from the East Sea.

The Tian Yuan Sect’s high-level officials, who were originally far behind the Old Woman in strength, were naively tricked into buying the Spiritual Medicines that the white-clad woman needed under the Old Woman’s half-coercive and half-deceptive routine, and built the Grand Array.

This woman had an accident when she was out experiencing three thousand years ago and was poisoned by a Ghost Cultivator’s specially made poison. In order to solve this poison, which was unsolvable at the time, she had to use the formation to slowly wear away the Ghost Poison on her body by sleeping for thousands of years.

Finally, she was about to wake up in the past few years, but because of her long-term illness, the poison was cured but the person could not wake up. The Old Woman had to put her in the Spiritual Vein to nurture her for more than a hundred years, and finally woke up with the blessing of the East Sea Spiritual Medicines provided by the Tian Yuan Sect.

The two of them were still weak at this time, so they deliberately chose to break out of the formation when the formation’s spiritual power was about to be exhausted, but they did not expect to encounter Lord Hua Kong.

Lord Hua Kong used inexplicable weapons, which stunned the two of them. Thinking that Lord Hua Kong had methods they did not understand, they turned around and wanted to escape.

The woman had been sleeping for many years, and her spiritual power and Cultivation Methods had been greatly damaged. Her temperament had also changed because of the poison. She sucked dry the people who had guarded her for generations in one breath.

Unexpectedly, Lord Hua Kong did not talk about martial ethics and took advantage of people’s illness to kill them. Not only was he a rare Void Spiritual Root cultivator, but his methods were also despicable. Traps, formations, poisons, and harmonious medicines were used to the extreme.

The woman was originally confident that she could defeat Lord Hua Kong, so she did not have much defense and only focused on mental attacks. She did not expect Lord Hua Kong to directly use Space Power to push a large handful of inexplicable medicines into the woman’s abdomen.

As soon as the medicinal power dissolved, the woman’s Qi and blood rushed to her head, and she lost control of herself. That strong, primitive thought was uncontrollable. The woman was both shocked and angry and wanted to suppress it.

Unexpectedly, the remaining Ghost Poison in her body rose again at this time, attacking her mind and soul. The woman realized that Lord Hua Kong had fainted, so she withdrew her mind and concentrated on resisting the Ghost Poison.

This remaining Ghost Poison was no longer a threat and only needed to be simply cleared, but the inexplicable thoughts surged wildly, constantly disturbing her mind.

For a time, the Ghost Poison actually gained the upper hand, putting her in a state of suspended animation, but her Divine Sense could sense the surrounding environment.

Originally, she thought that it would be fine after a while, but those wild thoughts continued to strengthen, making it impossible for her to clear the Ghost Poison.

In the end, Lord Hua Kong woke up before her. Seeing her lying in the formation with no breath, after a series of operations to seal spiritual power, all the power in her body was sealed.

The only remaining bit of Ghost Poison began to erode her soul. She was shocked and took the initiative to close her Divine Sense and soul, really falling into suspended animation.

In this way, Yunmiao Fairy, the once famous genius of the Seven Yang Sect, the dream of all male cultivators on the entire continent, and the most likely to ascend to become an Immortal, became the female ghost in Lord Hua Kong’s mouth!