Shi Xuan walked over, looked in the direction he was pointing, and exclaimed in surprise, "The Nine Provinces Chaotic Soul Array?"
“Looking at this record,” Lu Shenzhi said solemnly, “isn’t it very similar to the soul-swapping formation we encountered before?”
Shi Xuan took the manuscript and examined it carefully. It contained some information about the Nine Provinces Chaotic Soul Array.
[The souls of the Nine Provinces are in chaos, Yin and Yang exchange souls for life.]
This is a formation that can wreak havoc on the entire continent. The one who sets up the formation must select ninety-nine visible eyes and forty-nine hidden eyes on the chosen continent according to the layout of the star map. In these selected "formation eyes", the creatures will be rendered "neither human nor beast".
The phrase "neither human nor beast" can refer to any interchange of body parts, such as a human body with a beast's head, a beast's body with human legs, or a beast's body with a human soul or a human body with a beast's soul.
This coincides perfectly with the case of human-animal soul swapping they had encountered before.
Once all the key points of the formation are completed, three thousand people will need to be sacrificed as a catalyst to stir up the resentment of heaven and earth, causing the world to turn upside down and yin and yang to reverse. At that time, the entire continent will be plunged into an abyss of no return, the upheavals will cause rivers to flow backward, mountains to shake, plagues to rage, and the entire continent will be destroyed.
In such a world of suffering and destruction, evil spirits will proliferate wildly, and ghost cultivators will flourish. As a reward from the demons to those who set up the formation, they can place the corpses or body parts of the deceased in the formation, waiting for the demons to resurrect.
Shi Xuan and Lu Shenzhi exchanged a glance, and everything matched up!
So the [Newborn] organization plans to resurrect their savior in this way?! This is utterly appalling! Sacrificing the entire continent to bring back one person, and who knows if that person will be a human or a ghost. A savior? This is a world-destroying demon!
The last part of this notebook contains a story about the Chaotic Soul Array of the Nine Provinces.
It is said that eight hundred years ago, someone successfully used the Nine Provinces Chaotic Soul Formation, which nearly led to the destruction of the entire Qian Yuan Realm. At the critical moment, someone stepped forward, single-handedly broke into the formation, killed the person who set it up, and saved the Qian Yuan Realm from certain death, leaving them with a sliver of hope.
I see!
Shi Xuan put down the note and said to Lu Shenzhi, "I once asked my master why the history passed down in our Qian Yuan Western Region all begins eight hundred years ago. My master said it was because there was a great calamity eight hundred years ago that almost caused the entire Qian Yuan Region to cease to exist."
"Is this the Nine Provinces Chaotic Soul Array?"
Shi Xuan nodded and said, "That should be the case. But why not simply record in history that such a catastrophe once occurred, so that future generations can learn from it? Or let the person who saved the people be remembered in history?"
All records were deleted, a seemingly intentional act that is perplexing. There was nothing wrong with saying anything, so why is there no news left? This is highly unusual.
Lu Shenzhi said, "In short, let's first find out the details of the matter, so that we can take precautions."
We cannot allow the events of eight hundred years ago to repeat themselves. This world-destroying formation must not be created by the [New Life] organization. All cultivators in the Qian Yuan Realm must work together to stop this catastrophe!
Shi Xuan said with a solemn expression, "Senior Brother, do you remember the two soul-nourishing wooden tablets we saw before, which had the numbers 26 and 28 on them?"
Lu Shenzhi nodded: "They should be two of the forty-nine hidden eyes." One of them is in an underground passage, and the other is in a secret realm. They are both normally invisible.
“The signs for the dark and the signs for the light should be different, and we have probably only seen the dark ones,” Shi Xuan pondered. “I wonder how far the light signs have progressed.”
"Now all the major sects have begun to pay attention to the whereabouts of this [new] organization, so their progress is probably not going to be too fast. Let's inform our master and sect leader after we leave the secret realm. All six sects need to place this matter in the highest priority."
Shi Xuan has already mastered all the formations below the sixth rank, and has also read through all the others, memorizing them for later digestion.
She finally set up the fusion array required by the stone slab within the illusion—a directional teleportation array with a spirit-gathering array. The power of this array lies in the fact that, as long as there is sufficient time between teleportations, it can be used at will without consuming spirit stones.
Seeing that she had successfully integrated the formation but the words "connect to the pass" were not displayed, Shi Banban immediately threw her out.
It seemed like only a blink of an eye before Shi Xuan was ejected from the illusion.
The scene changed; she was no longer in the enclosed little house, but back where she had been blown away. There, four puppets stood there blankly, seemingly unaware of where they came from or where they were going.
Shi Xuan put the puppet into Silver Frost and was about to explore other places when she felt a repulsive force pulling at her body.
It was only then that she suddenly realized that only Foundation Establishment stage cultivators were allowed to enter the Azure Dragon Secret Realm, and since she had already formed her core in the illusion, she had no way to conceal her cultivation level when she came out. Naturally, the secret realm could not tolerate her.
Shi Xuan didn't struggle much and was moved out of the secret realm by the power of the secret realm.
As soon as she stepped out of the secret realm, it was as if the heavenly tribulation clouds had been prepared for her, gathering in an instant and forming a thick layer above Shi Xuan's head, so heavy that it seemed as if it would fall down at any moment.
Lightning flashed faintly within the tribulation clouds, and the oppressive aura was far greater than that of the fourth senior brother when he formed his core.
Shi Xuan quickly flew towards the valley beside him, still in the mood to joke with Lu Shenzhi: "Senior Brother, look, doesn't this tribulation cloud look like it's been waiting too long and is angry?"
Lu Shenzhi glanced at the dark clouds above Shi Xuan's head; they resembled accumulating anger. He shook his head helplessly and suggested, "You can set up a lightning-attracting array."
The lightning-attracting array is a commonly used formation for array cultivators undergoing tribulation. It can direct the lightning tribulation towards the body, reducing the possibility of heavenly lightning striking the person directly.
"Let's forget it," Shi Xuan laughed. "This tribulation is already so unpleasant. If I try anything more, it might not be able to forgive me."
As she spoke, she had already arrived in the valley. At that moment, the first bolt of heavenly lightning had been brewing and struck her directly.
The taste was so sour and tangy that it made her grimace.
All things began to work spontaneously. This power of lightning was rare, especially since she already possessed a lightning spiritual root. Back then, even with only a Qi Refining body, she dared to withstand her fourth senior brother's Golden Core Heavenly Lightning; how much more so now?
Before Shi Xuan could even catch her breath, the second bolt of lightning struck down. The lightning, as thick as a wrist, pierced directly from the top of her head to the bottom of her feet. Some of the lightning that all living things couldn't absorb landed directly on Shi Xuan, making her already curly long hair even more disheveled.
Shi Xuan was finally ready at this moment. He sat cross-legged on the ground, took out his defensive magic weapon to prepare, but did not use it.
The lightning struck swiftly and fiercely, giving Shi Xuan no time to recover before the third bolt followed closely behind the second.
After being struck by three bolts of heavenly lightning, Shi Xuan was in pain all over, but his spiritual power surged, and even his previously faint lightning spiritual root seemed to have grown considerably. The feeling could be summed up in one sentence: a bittersweet experience.
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