The Moon Descending over the Star Sea and the Heavenly Pillar is an ominous sign.
Yan Huanyue followed the immortal through the Hanging Star Palace shrouded in thin smoke.
After passing through a cluster of scattered celestial palaces, crossing three celestial rivers and mountains, and drifting in the clouds for about half an hour, they arrived at a sea of blue water and silver waves that stretched as far as the eye could see.
After drifting on the sea for a long time, we finally saw a fairy mountain in the distance, shrouded in purple clouds, with colorful immortals riding dragons and phoenixes galloping across the sea from all directions.
As one approaches, the golden and jade-like splendor of the immortal mountain shines brightly, and ethereal music drifts in. Closer still, one can see stone platforms and jade trees beside the clear springs and flowing water in the mountains.
On the high platform, a long banquet was held for miles.
Countless celestial attendants and spirit officials were preparing, and as they looked eastward, a distant group of figures could be seen approaching from the clouds.
Yan Huanyue mingled into the crowd, carrying a wine pot. She secretly added a calming pill to the pot and then quietly poured the wine from table to table.
After a while, the sect members and demons were led to the stone platform by the immortals, and the guide led them to their seats.
Yan Huanyue couldn't get too close, lest she be recognized, so she stood at the outermost edge of the immortals' quarters, holding a cup of wine, watching Pei Hanzhou and the others enter the banquet with normal expressions.
At this moment, she couldn't tell whether the sect leader and others had also been bewitched by this evil realm, so she could only stay here and observe the situation.
She looked out at the desolate sky and sea beyond the mountains, where purple and pink mists adorned the porcelain-blue sky, creating a scene of perfect peace.
Now it seems that this evil formation is infinitely vast. She has traveled through the Cloud Palace Immortal Sea for an unknown amount of time, and she simply does not know where the core of the formation is. If it is hidden in this boundless sky or vast sea, how can she find it?
Just as she was thinking, a tabby cat suddenly appeared out of nowhere, grabbed her skirt, quickly climbed onto her shoulder, and with a "smack," knocked off the golden flower ornament from her temple.
Fearing that others would notice, Yan Huanyue quickly lowered her head, picked up the tabby cat, and secretly cast a calming spell.
The cat leaped out of her hand like an eel and disappeared in a few moments.
Yan Huanyue felt that the cat looked familiar, but tabby cats all look pretty much the same.
As she slowly rose and looked into the distance, she saw a woman near the head of the table looking at her from afar.
The Demon Lord Weaves Fluff.
Now, it's unclear whether these powerful beings from both the human and demon races have been bewitched by the evil realm. If she appears too flustered because of Zhixu's gaze, she might be seen through.
Yan Huanyue held the wine pot in one hand, and with the other hand slightly extended from her colorful sleeve, she summoned the golden flower ornament that had fallen to the ground.
She slowly and deliberately tucked the flower ornament into her hair, standing solemnly in place.
Zhixu looked at her for a while, then looked away and waited with the others for the Jade Emperor to ascend the throne.
Before long, a delicate fragrance filled the air, ethereal music filled the air, and petals filled the sky.
Where the sea meets the sky, a dragon and phoenix chariot, drawn by colorful clouds, gallops towards the heavens, accompanied by a hundred celestial messengers in feathered robes, a hundred celestial messengers in colorful robes, and a hundred celestial lords and goddesses from various departments.
All the heavenly beings and their messengers shone with countless rays of light.
The divine light shone so brightly, and the splendor overflowed, that Yan Huanyue was momentarily mesmerized, truly believing that she was seeing immortals soaring through the heavens.
Dragons and phoenixes soared in the sky, and immortals accompanied the Jade Emperor as he descended the cloud steps. A celestial messenger called out the names of the immortals. The Jade Emperor was surrounded by a soft radiance, but his appearance was not clearly visible.
Yan Huanyue listened quietly and patiently as the names of the immortals were chanted one by one. Taking advantage of the initial chaos of the ceremony, she stealthily crept among the immortals toward the head of the table.
Before she had gone halfway, she suddenly lost her footing and fell into a sea of clouds, where she could no longer see the sacred mountain.
They've been discovered...
She quickly made a hand seal to steady herself and rushed forward without regard for anything else.
A wave of oppressive force swept over me from behind; it was that familiar net.
She made a hand seal and unleashed several gusts of wind from her blades to kill the person attacking from behind.
Yun Ruoqing dodged several gusts of wind from the blades, and a sword aura struck directly at her back.
Yan Huanyue raised her sword and blocked behind her, using the momentum of the sword energy to leap into the sea of clouds, and then traveled several miles.
In a fleeting glance, I caught a glimpse of the starry palace I had seen on my way here.
Stars...
The immortal said that each of these hanging palaces is inhabited by an immortal lord. However, when the names were called at the banquet on the immortal mountain at sea, the star lord was not mentioned. It is because the star lord was not qualified to be invited to go.
"It's clearly a good thing, why make yourself look like a jinx? Do you really think you can defy the heavens with this? You'd be dreaming if you did."
In a flash, Yan Huanyue remembered Yun Ruofan's words.
He defied the Heavenly Dao in his dream, and now he is in Yun Xuanchen's grand dream of the Heavenly Dao.
She felt as if she had grasped something.
Could it be that these star-shaped palaces are the evil formation, and the Heavenly Pillar Star is the core of the formation?
She couldn't be sure if Yun Ruofan wanted to use her to kill her father, but she couldn't hold on for long on her own. Even if she died, why not give it a try?
She finally found a direction to strive for, and then she rushed towards the Starry Sea Palace with all her might.
However, he dared not reveal his true intentions. Instead, he acted as if he was being chased by Yun Ruoqing and was fleeing everywhere, gradually heading towards the Star Sea to save his life.
Strangely, if Yun Ruoqing wanted to capture her, she could simply change her location to confuse her. However, ever since she saw the faint light of the Starry Sea Palace and tried to go there, the incident of her being instantly transported to another place never happened again.
It seems that it wasn't that Yun Ruoqing didn't want to, but that he couldn't.
Even if this Starry Sea Palace is not the formation itself, it is definitely the flaw in this evil formation.
As Yun Ruoqing watched her flee in panic towards the Star Sea from afar, he couldn't help but feel anxious. In an instant, he released the Blood Sword, and hundreds of streaks of blood light rushed towards her.
Yan Huanyue released her innate spiritual energy and her deathly aura, striving to rush towards the sea of stars.
When the blood sword was only a step away from her, she suddenly leaped into the air, her colorful clothes fluttering in the wind, gracefully hovering above a suspended palace.
She held a slender, straight horizontal sword in her hand, turned her head in the wind, and her black hair fluttered.
Yun Ruoqing landed not far behind her, and hundreds of blood shadows returned to her body.
None of his retainers dared to set foot within the territory of the Suspended Palace.
Yun Ruoqing gripped the blood-stained sword, staring at her coldly, and gritted her teeth, saying, "You're courting death."
Yan Huanyue made a hand seal with one hand and smiled coldly, "Why did you stop here? Are you afraid of breaking something? Young Master Yun, then please come and kill me."
After saying that, he leaped into a suspended palace that shimmered with light and resembled a sea of sand.
Different schools of divination use stars differently, and even their compasses differ.
The Sixty-Four Hexagrams Compass, which is essential for the Tianyan School, is no different from the Zodiac Four Beasts Compass, the Seventy-Two Mountain Direction Compass, the Great Compass, etc., and the stars, celestial phenomena, and terrestrial phenomena used are also different.
The Nine Stars of the Big Dipper are an essential method for arranging Qimen Dunjia charts. In the Qimen Dunjia compass that Xuanzhi often plays with, the ring between the eight symbols of the Divine Plate and the eight gates of the Human Plate is the Nine Stars of the Heaven Plate.
Among them, Tianzhu Star, also known as "Po Jun" or "Yao Guang", is extremely inauspicious. It governs autumn, belongs to the metal element, corresponds to the Dui trigram in the west, and is fond of killing and war. It is associated with fear, strangeness, destruction, and ruin.
If the Heavenly Pillar Star is indeed the core of the formation, then it is undeniable that the Nine Stars are the most crucial initial formation.
It might not be possible to break through; it depends on whether she has the fate to do so.
If Yun Ruofan wanted her to break the formation, he wouldn't have pointed her to a dead end.
What else did he do at that time...?
Oh, right...
Yun Ruofan tapped the back of her retainer's neck with her bamboo flute.
Tianzhu Star can also represent the cervical spine.
Could it be that Yun Xuanchen's Achilles' heel is in the back of his neck?
Yan Huanyue broke out in a cold sweat in shock.
Yun Ruoqing chased her around the sea of stars, not daring to use his full strength to kill her, for fear of damaging any of the suspended palaces. This also shows that he was completely unaware that the key to the evil realm formation was the nine stars.
As a fellow son, how did Yun Ruofan find out?
Was it Yun Xuanchen's differential treatment, or was there a scheming person among his sons?
Yan Huanyue hid under a suspended palace. She had just looked at some star positions. Although there seemed to be no mistakes, she could clearly see one error: the handle of the Big Dipper was pointing south.
When the handle of the Big Dipper points south, the whole world is in summer.
This is a constellation of stars and constellations based on the celestial phenomena of the summer season.
If the Heavenly Pillar is the main element, the arrangement of autumn celestial phenomena is the first choice. If the person arranging the formation is more capable, they may even take risks and use some winter celestial phenomena to attract the killing energy of winter.
A feint?
Yan Huanyue looked up and saw a vast expanse of stars.
No, she saw that the starlight no longer obscured her vision, which meant the formation was located here.
These hanging palaces should include both real and fake ones; some are evil formations, while others are just illusions placed here.
The true formation may only use a portion of the stars, dispersing them within these suspended palaces using distances unknown to others. In fact, the true formation may only use a few suspended palaces.
Yan Huanyue was not very proficient in the Qimen Dunjia method. Looking at the starry sky palace that was as dusty as could be, she suddenly got stuck at the last step. She thought about the countless possible arrangements and suddenly felt a headache.
Yun Xuanchen was truly skilled in this art, able to conceal a star of one size within a star of another size without any discrepancy.
He's so amazing that you just want to rip his head off and see what's inside.
If Xuanzhi were here, there might still be a slight chance of discovering the true location of the formation.
Yan Huanyue regretted that when he sat at the table every day looking at his array diagrams and star charts, she had been able to leave him and meditate and cultivate alone.
Why didn't she sit next to him and ask him all sorts of questions, pouring all the information out of his head into her own hands?
How could Yun Xuanchen's evil formation so easily strike her weak point?
There are still too many weaknesses!
Yan Huanyue gritted her teeth.
Things that are right in front of us every day are not given much attention. We have a superficial understanding of them but not a clear grasp of their underlying principles. When it comes time to use them, we are completely helpless.
But even the sun and moon have their darkness, and heaven and earth have their regrets; she alone could not learn all the mysteries of the world.
The world's difficulties won't specifically target the ones she's best at solving. Now that a major crisis is looming, she has to do her best, no matter how difficult it may be!
The dumbest, but also the quickest, way right now is to kill the Star Official.
If the star officials are as easy to kill as the celestial messengers, then it means that this suspended palace is fake.
If that star official is difficult to kill, and it is true that the Star Palace is real, then she might be attacked by a star official of unknown cultivation level, and Yun Ruoqing would also come after her and kill her as well.
She must kill three True Star Officials as soon as possible, and then, based on the distance, quickly determine the positions of all the True Star Charts and pinpoint the true array stars used by Yun Xuanchen.
What we can speculate now is that in the arrangement of the fake star chart, the "Heavenly Pillar" which serves as the fake array eye is very likely to be the real array star, but in the true dimensions of the evil array, the suspended palace at the "Heavenly Pillar" position is not the real Heavenly Pillar star position.
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The author notes: The two star positions, one real and one false, in the article are actually achieved by using different scales.
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