Yin'er guard me
Yes sect master, she abruptly 'manifested' behind him due to extreme speed
With that he order the sacrifice of which one thousand Qi initiate at the ...level were slautered to power up his auxiliary formation
'This is a formation that is meant to capture the summon, guard and transport its user to another location'
'This formation is what I am depending onto get I want and bolt, leaving the orthodoxy to punch cotton' he thought
Then he made a hand gesture and activated the grand formation
The grand formation created a piercingly bright light at all its nodes, what was strange about this is that it all converged some ten li above his head and then pierced an extreme point of reality of which it blasted a hole through so many realms in a bid to do as intended which is, to summon the fated one. there was something akin to an infinite darkness in which light could not reach in its middle.
Knowing that the summoned will be coming through soon, he made his next move.
"Activate!" ordered Yu Ren
The protective formation flared a bright purplish light and rose from the ground with Yu Ren to capture what fell from the singularity in the sky , he immediately produced some talisman of which he made a simple array to contain the body, midway when he was almost done he sensed danger.
Shatter! crash! boom!, he did not have much leeway to turn, he simply delivered a palm strike which contains a lot strength, this is the only thing he could do on a very short notice, the incoming attack struck at reduced power though, even that was too much for the man who was caught off guard
Yu Ren was shocked when the attack struck, he knew who had launched it judging by the aura the attack was bearing, he did what he could do to block it, even so, he just lost an arm doing so and the formation he was placing on his prize was incomplete.
" Song Zi Chen!" he hollered, rage and pain warping his visage
'I will not be given a chance to complete this huh, ' he thought indignantly.
' Very well then, time for LIFE-DEATH DECEPTION plan it is then,'
Yin'er saw the whole thing unfolded, barely saw it though,
'It was like one moment master was on the verge of completing the esoteric plan of his and a flash of light, a boom of thunder he lost an arm, just like that?' she was puzzled
Fwoom!, the master appeared in a blur and handed to her something of importance, told her to extract herself and her martial siblings from the place find a safe place to keep the body and wait for the awakening.
"For your master will not show up in his old 'mortal shell'" he said while gesturing to himself
"But will present himself by awakening with this mortal shell I give to you". he said while gesturing to the other body and vanished, only to see that the 'master' talking to her was a phantom clone, her master in truth with the three senior sect elders was confronting a placid looking sword wielding young man mid air.
She looked at the body she was given and voodoo doll thing surrounded by talismans arranged in specific places on the body she was given, and saw an elder surreptitiously leaving the young man's side in search for... something then it dawned on her that it was her team who are the main gecko in the plan and the master and sect elders were to be the tail in this plan.
She, her brothers and sisters ran off to the distance in different direction confusing their would be assailant(s), while activating MOTHER-CHILD ACCORDANCE RESONANCE TALISMANIC TECHNIQUE which is a group technique to keep contact mentally in a five thousand li radius.
During her escape, suddenly she sensed that she was been pursued, never would she had known how the elder pursuing her knew that she was the one with the body, anyways she was not fazed, she made a bold decision, she threw the body towards Liang yun and went forth to confront the attacking elder.
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Liang Yun received a message from his big sis, unfortunately the 'package' he was supposed to catch has sailed over his head but he could still see it ahead 'I should be able to catch up to it before the orthodoxy's disciples' he thought, then he brought out a fast speed talisman, a reinforcement talisman, and a that boosts output of qi to form a minor talismanic formation that made him break the sound barrier.
Yu Ren glared at Song Zi Chen," a sneak attack from you a 'righteous cultivator' how despicable" he growled both in derision and in pain
"All is fair in war as far as victory is assured" Song Zi Chen answered, he was secretly shocked that Yu Ren survived that blow head on and survived.
Yes. They were both at the noble stage and their realms are both kings the difference still between an early and late king is not what could be bridged by some formation no matter how intricate it is, even though he put a truly significant portion of his qi into the attack with only loosing an arm and he sensed that Yu Ren is weaker than him he still took him seriously for Yu Ren has proven himself a worthy foe to be cautious of.
"All the orthodoxy know is sophistry and backstabbing" Yu Ren mocked secretly buying time for his sect senior elders to come aid him, not knowing who will be traitorous among them he decided that he might just dispose of them all and fill that place with his disciples later but that will wait after this battle..., if they survive.
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Song Zi Chen was also stalling for the elder that he deployed has not brought good news to him about the capture of the girl he sensed making off with the otherworldly summon whatever it is demanded to b destroyed and girl captured virgin or not will be turned into a cultivation furnace to harvest her cultivation.
This will add to his own momentum of which his cultivation speed moves all thanks to the JOYOUS UNION SECT that procured a special method to attune the cultivation cauldron to one's self and reconcile the resulting instability if dual cultivation is practiced.
Seeing that the elder will not be forthcoming he decided to start his scheme denouncing "Yu Ren! by summoning an otherworldly demon into JIA YUAN and by sacrificing the lives of countless people of JIA YUAN, you have offended man and the heavens with your deeds!" he denounced
"And you and by extension the rest of your sect have been considered guilty of the crimes so therefore, I Song Zi Chen hereby stand as an arbiter to deliver justice upon you on behalf of the heavens!" and with that done he ordered an attack to his forces down below and he with his team of sect elders engaged Yu Ren and his elders.
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Senior elder Lan Nuo Fu is having no fun at all, he was the one that was in charge of gathering information over Yu Ren and whatever other concerns about him 'how exactly was that damnable Yu Ren able to disappear from my radar so thoroughly that he was able to train this monstrosity of a hidden disciple able to contest with me a LORD level cultivator as a mere Sacred soul without me knowing' he thought furiously.
Even though he barely stepped into that stage as an early lord he should have been able to swat the girl like a fly, what makes him more dismayed is the way the young master treats the people who fails to meet his expectations friends and enemies alike.
Yes, he has the weakest among the lords that came to battle but why he was brought here is to be able to perform special duties during battle given that he knew more about the enemy well ,not like the young master himself but at least he knew more about Yu Ren than any other elder present he ought to be able to strike his weakness consistently making him falter, while the others slowly overpowers him in direct battle.
but now a problem smashes into him in form of a 'little girl' who is not even forty years old yet but able to skip realm to fight him what surprising she was almost on par with him with punches and kicks that threatens to shatter bones and a movement speed akin to a relativistic meteor.
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HOW IT ALL STARTED
"During my scanning of the region I discovered quite an interesting girl a girl of which has so much potential that she could be useful as my newest cultivation furnace" Song Zi Chen jested using voice transmission among his underlings.
"Young master, might you have developed interest in that young lass" Lan Nuo Fu asked
"Yes and, go get that girl for me," he ordered
"Yes, young master" the senior elder answered and left
So he went to pursue the young lass wanting to make a short work of her and then suddenly a loud bang was heard, the sky quaked and the ground shook then the bag flashed with what might thought as a treasure light a bag which she threw to the horizon.
Lan Nuo Fu was shaken by the blast causing a minor destabilization in the unity of his body and soul, he almost plummeted from the skies of which he levitates, through the corner of his eyes he saw an item of which he guessed to have being the 'otherworldly summon' and maybe one of the precious treasure of Yu Ren's, he was a bit curious about the 'thing' though
He sensed a group of disciples milling about the perimeter using his primal sense projected a Qi phantom towards the location "You, you and you there, go retrieve that object for me" he ordered and pointed to the object currently sailing midair to the horizon.
"Yes elder" the disciples below answered, he handed some high grade talismans to them to aid them in battle and some other special situation seeing that the object have already travelled far.
That settled he then continued his pursuit knowing that the girl cannot outrun him, but suddenly light flashed from below, the girl vanished he merely registered a blur incoming and a foot materialized in front of him, he sneered and just simply protected his torso by reinforcing it with qi wanting to capture her in a swift move.
One moment the elder was midair pursuing what should have been an easy target another moment he was violently 'nestled' within a mountain.
Elder Lan was shocked, while Yu Ren's sect disciples has been known for hitting like a battering ram regardless of gender or physique this here is a whole new level. he did not have much time to ponder when his sense flared warning him of incoming danger.
He hastily created an aegis to shield him, which almost immediately shattered with a foot stomping through he managed to dodge the foot this time but not the explosion and shrapnel that came after which he was sent flying he went high enough to see the caldera left behind by the girl's technique.
He was bleeding both blood and Qi, blood because he was injured Qi because he is too busy reinforcing and shielding himself from the girl's attack, the body of a Noble Spirit Lord is basically different from those below its stage for both body and soul is one and one has access to a true domain to lord over allowing you to enforce certain rules in your domain.
However Lan Nuo Fu is a shoddy lord with what could be barely called a domain kinda like a pseudo-Lord but this still should have made him far more powerful than a mere Spirit Refining Sacred Soul Individual yet he has his ass handed to him by what should have been a 'junior?'
Yin'er checked her Qi and found that her Qi is running dangerously low, she knew that as the strongest disciple of her master and she is only able to barely match the elder pursuing her , she gets caught and her life will be worse than death. thus she triggered BLOOD RETRIBUTION SECRET TECHNIQUE to bolster her LUNAR JADE RABBIT KICKING TECHNIQUE with all the power of her aspects and the pseudo-rule that she comprehended that of speed and of might and went after the elder at with all she's worth, with the power almost rivaling a Lord for just that moment.
Despair gripped the heart of elder Lan, when the moment he just got his bearings midair a voluminous and feral aura billowed from down below him he put down his plan of attack and favored an absolute defense strategy trusting that the girl will run out of Qi before him, of which the lass reached above him and stomped.
Yin'er knew that this secret technique used will burn her vital and spirit Qi in one supernova making it possible that she is able to remove the elder from the equation , 'one less trouble for master the easier it becomes' she thought 'so one less elder it is then'.
Elder lan received another kick from Yin'er this time from overhead which sent him plummeting towards the earth Yin'er gathered her Qi to form a small platform which she could kick off from oriented herself headfirst to the ground and kicked, bolting towards the ground at absurd speed.
Elder Lan smacked into the valley, forming a crater in it. his spine shattered even for a lord it was just too much to take at once, he sent a distress signal of which there was a delay due to the fact that they are still engaging Yu Ren.
Yin'er landed foot first in what she had dubbed the LUNAR JADE SKY STOMP first time using it successfully though crashed through the impromptu barrier that the elder had made smashing trough his chest and obliterating him and widening the crater.
There she stood huffing and puffing, the fight took more out of her than she thought, in the middle of a battle that seems to span the horizon that could be dangerous, she was about to go and recuperate- shunk!, the sound of tearing flesh, surprisingly she also not just fell the sound but felt the tremor in her body, she was injured, severely at that.