I Have A Cultivation World Chapter 2369 - 1070: Two Divinity Transformation Masters
Previously on I Have A Cultivation World...
As the Heaven and Earth Xuanji Instrument whirled to its maximum speed, a pure beam of spiritual light burst upward from the earth, thrusting like a lance through the heavens directly into the golden orb at the Xuanji Instrument's core.
Next, a thunderous hum echoed across the skies, letting every cultivator in Dongling Immortal City sense the quivering of the Spirit Vein beneath their feet.
Thanks to his skills as a Fifth Rank Formation Master, Chen Mobai spotted an unseen array expanding from the Heaven and Earth Xuanji Instrument as its heart, wrapping around East Spirit Mountain while reaching out to remote peaks, Spirit Veins, and the natural spiritual energy farther away.
The Dao Morale Sect's Heaven and Earth Xuanji Array stands as this mighty tool. With the Supreme Treasure on hand, it commands nearby Spirit Veins to shape arrays in whatever spot desired.
In that instant, Chen Mobai even noticed his own courtyard formation getting pulled in, since every bit of Spirit Vein Qi now bowed to the Heaven and Earth Xuanji Instrument's command.
With the array now fired up, the golden sphere in the Xuanji Instrument's middle started pouring out blinding radiance. Its path, brimming with countless shifts and shades, picked up even more frantic speed. Streaks of light fired from the Xuanji Instrument, tracing a hidden web overhead that stretched thousands of miles to trap Shetuoling.
Glimmers of spiritual light danced in Chen Mobai's gaze, as he endlessly cross-checked the fabled array from the Eastern Continent Holy Lands against his Immortal Gate insights.
The Heaven and Earth Xuanji Array's might hinges on whoever holds the magic artifact. Dustless True Monarch, being a God-Transcending cultivator, could usually summon just the top Rank-5 strength.
Yet should a Nascent Soul Cultivator step in, it might climb to Rank-6.
Still, for tackling Shetuoling, Rank-5 force proves more than sufficient.
While Chen Mobai observed, the light web from the Xuanji Instrument glowed ever brighter. Via his Realm of Response Earth Spirit, he felt the ground churning with fierce power just then, as the massive formation clamped down on Shetuoling.
As those rays grew stronger still, the Rank-5 Spirit Vein across all of East Spirit Mountain shook with wild fury. Chen Mobai picked up on its gut-level fightback, for after Dustless True Monarch's kickoff, the Heaven and Earth Xuanji Array nonstop siphoned the Spirit Vein’s essence to carry out the far-off lockdown.
Yet the Dao Morale Sect had planted matching Array Plates and Array Flags deep in East Spirit Mountain's Spirit Veins ages back, even pushing them up to Rank-5 just for this very day, leaving no room for defiance.
Before long, Chen Mobai realized that the Spirit Vein, once raised to Rank-5, had slipped down to Rank-4 amid the Xuanji Instrument's ravenous pull, like a bottomless void devouring it.
Right then, the Heaven and Earth Xuanji Array looked to have wrapped up its work. Even from his spot far off, Chen Mobai caught a massive rumble booming from the horizon, as though the full ruins quaked in that heartbeat.
Roar!
No mere trick of the mind, this. With the world itself shuddering, a massive bellow morphed into a horrifying sonic blast, surging from the distance right at East Spirit Mountain.
Chen Mobai detected a blazing rush barreling in at breakneck pace.
Without doubt, it came from the Rank-5 Golden Flame Manticore.
As he mulled over Dustless True Monarch's next move, two overwhelming auras flared to life in Dongling Immortal City.
One figure soared on a flying elixir, face steady and aura otherworldly, none other than Dustless True Monarch, the same one Chen Mobai had crossed paths with before.
The second bore a square jaw, outsized ears, sturdy build, lengthy arms, sported gold and silver bands on his wrists, hair pinned under a crown, arrayed in silver garments and mist-woven boots, projecting sheer dominance.
Though Chen Mobai had yet to encounter him, the East Continent held just two such Righteous Deity Transformation powerhouses. He could only be Da Kong True Monarch of Taixu MiaoMiao Palace.
A far cry from the aged seller of The Taixu Four Volumes at last time's Beidou Conference.
Who was that old man, really?
Some kind of defector from Taixu MiaoMiao Palace?
Or maybe...
Chen Mobai recalled the hidden truths Yuan Zhen and Zhang Pankong had revealed, and in a flash, a wild, unbelievable notion sparked in his thoughts.
He shrank from dwelling on it more.
And right then, the Golden Flame Manticore—storming ahead in a fiery rampage toward East Spirit Mountain—abruptly braked and wheeled back to its hideout.
It had obviously picked up on the two Righteous Deity Transformation cultivators nearby and had no taste for facing them both alone.
"I will join Senior Brother Da Kong in hunting down the beast. The remaining trivial pioneering tasks are up to you."
Dustless True Monarch's steady tone rang sharp and true in the ears of Dongling Immortal City's every cultivator.
His words barely landed when the silver ring on Da Kong True Monarch's right hand blazed with light, shrouding the pair and whisking them away in an instant.
Chen Mobai made out the Void Evasion Technique at play.
What's more, performed at a deep mastery that let it shift people across space.
With the two Deity Transformation True Monarchs gone from Dongling Immortal City, quiet blanketed the area. Folks knew the Dao Morale Sect's push was coming, but the sheer abruptness threw them for a loop.
By Chen Mobai and the rest's reckoning, the Three Great Sacred Lands' forces ought to creep forward toward Shetuoling, then righteous cultivators mop up and nab the Demon Kings loyal to the Golden Flame Manticore, before the pair of Deity Transformation True Monarchs charged in to seal the win at Shetuoling.
But no, it launched right into the peak power showdown.
No telling when Da Kong True Monarch had snuck in so silently, utterly unmarked.