Chapter 174 Wood Spirit Formation and Water Spirit Formation (2)
Although she had just fallen into the lake, Luo Xuanyi looked at the green lotus covering the lake surface, but it seemed as far away as the clouds.
From here, I can't see the fake stars in the sky. When the formation changes, the flag will be revealed, even being detected by my soul power. This should be a vulnerable point, so it dragged me into the lake?
Luo Xuanyi pondered indifferently. As a Gui Cultivator, she wasn't afraid of the lake water soaking through. She had long since sensed Lian Qing's low realm. If Luo Xuanyi hadn't wanted to learn from Lian Qing's attacks how a Formation Cultivator should react to an enemy, she would have been confident enough to kill Lian Qing outright.
Relax your body and don't resist.
Luo Xuanyi could sense something strange about the lake water. The water, soaking into her body, rippled slightly, and she felt as if the water had weakened her vision, smell, hearing, and even her sense of touch. She felt increasingly thin, as if being assimilated by the lake water, gradually losing her senses...
A black shadow as agile as a swimming fish attacked silently from the side. Luo Xuanyi stretched out her hand and wanted to use a slight death energy to push the black shadow away, but she found that she had even lost the feeling of the surging death energy in her body. At that moment, she was unable to stop the black shadow from coming towards her.
It was the root of some plant. It had no source, and seemed to be a chain that suddenly condensed and expanded from the water, directly piercing Luo Xuanyi's palm and then binding Luo Xuanyi's whole body.
Lian Qing hid in the darkness, her eyes closed. The formation was a continuation of her self. She stayed in a safe place, judging everything rationally.
The Wood Spirit Formation and the Water Spirit Formation are merely two basic spiritual root formations. The unmodified Wood Spirit Formation mobilizes the spiritual energy of wood-related creatures within the universe, fostering vitality, while the unmodified Water Spirit Formation uses water to harmonize and balance the exploding spiritual energy. Simply put, without a modified formation, it's practically useless.
Changing formations sounds simple, but every formation is, after all, a tangible Dao. Where there is a Dao, there are rules. No one knows how far beyond the rules will change the formation or directly cause the Dao to collapse. Therefore, among formation practitioners, those who are good at changing formations are a minority.
However, Lian Qing, who was unable to access a higher level of formation, gained recognition from the disciples within the sect by using various variations of the two spiritual formations.
Depriving perception with water is Lian Qing's original variation of the formation based on the aquatic spirit formation. She just slightly modified the borrowing of fake starlight. The powerful balancing aura gives water the power of assimilation, calmly weakening the senses to the greatest extent before the enemy, bringing disadvantages to the enemy.
On top of that, after Luo Xuanyi was hit, she changed the formation into a wood living spirit formation, giving birth to the plants in the lake as servants.
Although she didn't know why Luo Xuanyi underestimated her opponent, Lian Qing would never let this opportunity slip away. She strengthened her focus on the starlight and made further adjustments to her formation.
The roots that bound her body seemed to begin to sprout new rhizomes, attempting to penetrate deeply into Luo Xuanyi's body to draw strength. This almost barbaric growth erupted with a powerful and vital energy. Luo Xuanyi tried to draw life from it, but a mysterious force locked it within the roots.
He tried to disassemble his body, but was stopped by the violent fluctuations of the lake water that had entered his body, and was unsuccessful.
Therefore, the formation was blessed by the Tao, and even something as simple as water and plants wouldn't be easily destroyed. Luo Xuanyi had learned something new.
However, this environment reminded her of the bronze tripod used for initiation, making her feel uncomfortable. Luo Xuanyi finally became a little more serious. She closed her eyes and began to mobilize the dead energy in her body.
It was useless. Lian Qing sensed her attempt. The aquatic spirit array in the water had already penetrated deeply into Luo Xuanyi's body. Luo Xuanyi should be unable to mobilize the power in her body at this moment.
Before she could finish her words, she suddenly felt a fluctuation in the spiritual formation!
Under her perception, the lake water and roots were forcibly discharged, and the lake water seemed to explode into a wave with Luo Xuanyi as the center, radiating to the entire Dangyun Lake!
Luo Xuanyi did not take out the formation flag, but stretched out her hand and lightly waved the surface of the lake. The entire lake water and the lotus leaves were separated into two sky curtains. Luo Xuanyi walked out from the bottom of the water on the waves and stretched.
Luo Xuanyi's current realm was still at the Red Ghost Realm, and the abundance of her deathly aura was beyond Lian Qing's imagination. If Luo Xuanyi hadn't relaxed completely and accepted Lian Qing's formation, even Lian Qing, still at the Foundation Establishment stage, wouldn't have been able to change the deathly aura surging on Luo Xuanyi's surface.
"So the Dao in the water disturbed my senses, and it's actually based on destroying my Dao. So, if the strength of my Gui Dao is the same, the Formation Dao can also destroy it? This is something that even the Demon Dao and the Killing Dao cannot do. It is indeed the Formation Dao that can destroy the Heavenly Dao in my heart."
Luo Xuanyi sincerely praised the formation. Another thing that moved her was that if she couldn't see the formation flag, she wouldn't be able to sense whether Lian Qing had set up the formation or changed it, and she wouldn't even know if she was caught in the formation.
Water poured down from mid-air, instantly shattering a gaping hole in the lake's surface, once carpeted with lotus blossoms and petals. A torrential downpour of water pierced Luo Xuanyi. Lian Qing shifted his formation once more, and the seemingly useless water droplets landed in the air just a foot away from Luo Xuanyi, only to be deflected by the death energy she had already released. This was exactly what Lian Qing had predicted.
Changing the formation means looking for every opportunity to take advantage of and adapting calmly and rationally to the changes of the enemy.
Being unable to invade and destroy Luo Xuanyi's own Taoism means that your Taoism is weaker than the other party's. In this case, you don't need to be obsessed with destroying the Taoism, but instead restrict Luo Xuanyi's attacks.
The deflected water droplets split again and struck Luo Xuanyi, only to be deflected again, and again. Luo Xuanyi suddenly felt as if the spiritual energy between heaven and earth had been cut off.
Yet, there was no barrier to stop her. Luo Xuanyi's interest piqued. She waved her death energy and launched it in any direction. Unhindered, the death energy could extend wherever it wished. However, Luo Xuanyi soon discovered that while her death energy could extend freely, it couldn't reach everything.
It seemed as if everything in the world suddenly became spiritual. The deathly energy hit the lotus leaf, and when it was about to tear it apart, the lotus leaf gently dodged.
No, it wasn't the lotus leaf that dodged, but Luo Xuanyi herself bounced the lotus leaf away.
Analyzing the situation was exactly what Luo Xuanyi loved. She quickly discovered that the problem was that she had ignored the water droplets that kept hitting her.
The water droplets were controlled by Lian Qing's water spirit formation, which was an aggressive Taoist method, but Luo Xuanyi's cunning method was more advanced, so Luo Xuanyi's death energy would repel the water droplets when they hit her.
Lian Qing observed and took advantage of this to change his formation again. He continuously hit the water mist that had split into mist and enveloped Luo Xuanyi's death energy, sticking tightly to it. So when Luo Xuanyi didn't pay attention, her death energy was in a state of constantly resisting the water mist, so even if it touched other things, it would involuntarily push them away, causing Luo Xuanyi to be unable to hit anything.
Excellent formation. Luo Xuanyi didn't know that this was Lian Qing's modification of the basic formation. She sincerely admired Lian Qing's ability to change the formation on the spot, but couldn't help but feel it was a pity.
Lian Qing didn't have the power to deliver a fatal blow. If she were strong enough, she could use the formation to weaken Luo Xuanyi while waiting for the right moment to strike and kill her. This would make Luo Xuanyi feel very difficult. After all, the formations were so varied that Luo Xuanyi couldn't always react instantly. Given the same level, even a moment's pause could lead to a different outcome.
Unfortunately, the difference in level was too great. Being able to cross the realm between life and death and reverse the situation was itself a nearly impossible thing.
Suddenly withdrawing all dead energy, Luo Xuanyi channeled the original will-o'-the-wisp fire with a simple exhalation. The entire lake surface began to burn a dark blue. The Taoist magic in the mist was completely unable to resist. The eight fake stars dimmed. The lake water was completely unable to extinguish the dark blue will-o'-the-wisp fire, and it began to visibly descend.
Luo Xuanyi had almost fully grasped Lian Qing's fighting style; all she needed to do was search his soul. Having completely put aside her spectator mentality, Luo Xuanyi didn't intend to waste any more time and finally took out the main flag and grasped it. Addendum: I'm stuck. This is the first time I've sat in front of the computer for two hours without being able to write a single word. For a while now, I might have to change to one update per day, with occasional two updates.
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