Chapter 278: More Than Just Mountains of Blades and Seas of Fire!

After the six people walked out, they didn’t see Old Master Guo and the other four. They casually asked, “Which of the young formation masters’ formations are the four elders currently evaluating?”

The formations they were evaluating were all set up by relatively outstanding young formation masters. It was normal for them to be slower than the six of them, but they should be almost done by now! One of the judging formation masters thought this and said, “They should be out soon! They’re probably still in the formation set up by the young formation master who placed twentieth in the first round.”

People around them replied, “No, the four elders are still in Princess Xingnong’s formation.”

“That’s right, in Princess Xingnong’s formation, the one who placed first! They haven’t come out yet.”

The six were stunned. Guo Ting, Old Master Guo’s younger brother, asked, “Did they go back in?”

Feng Yan: “They probably couldn’t decide on a score, so to give a better score, they went back in to break through the formation again!”

This situation was also common. If two participants’ formations were similar in difficulty and the four judges gave the same score, they would usually break through the formations again to see whose details were better.

Everyone: “No!”

“Since they entered Princess Xingnong’s formation, the four elders haven’t come out!”

“They haven’t come out since they went in! They haven’t even scored the other nineteen formations! Could they be trapped inside the formation?”

“If they weren’t the most skilled formation masters from the four kingdoms, I would suspect they were trapped! The formation must be quite difficult, and they need more time to figure out how to score it!”

The six said in unison, “Old Master Guo and the others haven’t come out yet? How is that possible?”

Someone replied, “They really haven’t! But it’s been an entire afternoon, they should be out soon!”

“An hour ago, I thought the same thing!”

“Half an hour ago, I thought the same thing!”

“Yeah, a quarter of an hour ago, I thought the same thing. Now I don’t dare to think anymore!”

The six judging formation masters: “. . .”

The six looked at each other, all extremely curious. Someone suggested, “Why don’t we go in and take a look?”

The other five immediately nodded, “Okay!”

Thus, six more people experienced a trial by fire and water.

Even as the sky darkened, the ten judges had not emerged.

Many people waited anxiously, even worriedly.

Prince Shengping said, “Your Majesty, why don’t you send someone in to see what’s going on?”

He was hungry!

He had been basking in the sun all day, hungry and tired.

The Jin Kingdom Emperor: “What else could be going on? They’re all trapped in the formation and can’t get out! I wanted to send someone to check, but that would just mean more people trapped inside.”

Prince Shengping: “. . .”

Although he also suspected the formation had trapped the ten formation masters!

He couldn’t believe this was truly the reason.

After all, Old Master Guo was in there!

“Then why don’t you ask Xingnong to come out and lead them out?”

The Jin Kingdom Emperor shook his head, “I sent someone to ask just now. Xingnong is asleep. We’ll wait until she wakes up!”

Prince Shengping: “. . .”

At this moment, Chu Tiankuo spoke, “Your Majesty, please allow me to enter the formation and take a look.”

The Jin Kingdom Emperor glanced at Chu Tiankuo. He didn’t want to disturb his daughter’s sleep, so he nodded, “Alright!”

Then Chu Tiankuo entered the formation.

After entering the formation, Chu Tiankuo first encountered the six judging formation masters who had entered later in the forest.

The six formation masters had been trapped here for more than half an hour. They sensed someone breaking through the formation and thought it was Xingnong coming to lead them out. When they saw Chu Tiankuo, their hearts sank.

A formation master from Jin Kingdom said, “Crown Prince Chu, are you here to check on the situation? I didn’t expect Princess Xingnong’s formation to be so powerful. We’ve been trapped here. You should have brought Princess Xingnong with you.”

Although he had heard that Chu Tiankuo’s talent for formations was remarkable, he hadn’t studied them for many years, so he didn’t believe Chu Tiankuo could lead them out.

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Now, he was trapped here just like them, and who knew how long it would take until Princess Xingnong woke up!

Chu Tiankuo said calmly, “Princess Xingnong is exhausted and asleep. I’ve come to lead you out.”

Hearing this, they asked, “Crown Prince, do you know this formation that Princess Xingnong set up?”

Chu Tiankuo looked around, “No, isn’t it just setting up the formation eye and then building the formation based on that? How would I know?”

The Jin Kingdom formation master said, “But the formation eye Old Master Guo set up was an earth element formation eye. This is clearly a wood element formation, and it has illusions. That chicken is misleading! Every time it flies out, we lose our original direction!”

“Exactly! Several times we were close to finding the exit, and then that chicken would fly out. We would instinctively dodge, and then, we’d be completely disoriented again!”

The six spoke one after another.

Chu Tiankuo looked at the old hen one of them was holding, “So after you caught the chicken, did you find the exit without it bothering you?”

The six: “. . .”

Chu Tiankuo looked around and said, “Masters, follow me closely.”

Then he lifted his foot and walked in a certain direction.

The six hurriedly followed!

Then Chu Tiankuo led them through seas of fire, across ice mountains, and through deserts, finally arriving at a mountain of blades where they encountered the four elders.

Blades were sticking out everywhere on the mountain of blades. But if you reached out to pull one of the blades, you would find it was just a small stone.

This was another formation that included illusions.

The formation eye set up by Old Master Guo was originally capable of incorporating illusions, so Xingnong modified it and turned it into a formation primarily based on illusions.

Although it was an illusion, the illusion gave a very real feeling.

Like the mountain of blades, although the blades wouldn’t move, you would get hurt if you touched them while passing through. This was the power of the formation. It used a real sword as the foundation and then cleverly used the formation to create the illusion of countless swords.

Therefore, the four elders, who had broken through several formations, were now in a sorry state.

When Old Master Tang saw Chu Tiankuo, he was almost moved to tears, “My dear disciple, you’re finally here! Where’s my precious disciple?”

He almost thought he was going to die here!

The formation his precious disciple created was too much!

Mountains of blades, seas of fire!

“She’s asleep. I’m here to take you out.”

The group: “……”

Asleep?

It made sense. Setting up such a monstrous formation must have been tiring!

Also, if it wasn’t for Princess Xingnong, would the Crown Prince be able to lead them out of this formation?

Chu Tiankuo looked around and said, “Elders, let’s go!”

Old Master Tang hurriedly followed.

The six formation masters also hurriedly followed!

Chu Tiankuo had already led them through the sea of fire, the ice mountain, and the desert. Now they trusted him completely!

Seeing this, the other three elders also followed.

It was dark now. Although they could get out if given a few more hours, they didn’t want to go through it anymore!

They were tired and hungry!

Chu Tiankuo quickly led the ten judging formation masters out.

All ten of them were in a disheveled state, especially the four elders, who were practically going crazy!

Everyone was astonished to see them like this!

What on earth had they gone through?

Prince Shengping asked curiously, “What happened to you all? What kind of formation did Princess Xingnong set up? Why do you all look like you’ve gone through mountains of blades and seas of fire?”

The ten: It was more than just mountains of blades and seas of fire!