The demon cultivator hovering above the fog formation was named Wei Wuya, at the mid-Golden Elixir stage. He was proficient in formations, almost at the grandmaster level, making him a high-level formation master.
The war between the Righteous Path and the Path of Demons in the Arctic Continent's cultivation world had been raging for a year, with both sides suffering losses. Wei Wuya had come to the Guo family's Heavenly Abode with the intent to capture Elder Guo from the Spirit Creek Sect's Alchemy Peak, aiming to reduce the number of high-level alchemists in the Righteous Path Alliance.
In such large-scale battles between cultivators, the contest was not only about the combat power of the higher-ups but also about the cultivation resources of both sides. Elixirs were undoubtedly the most crucial cultivation resources. When cultivators were injured, they needed high-level elixirs to recover quickly. To swiftly restore the mystic power consumed in battle, high-level elixirs were also necessary. Even for daily cultivation practice, cultivators required elixirs to aid their progress.
The importance of elixirs to immortal cultivators was akin to the necessity of daily meals for ordinary people. Without them, it was impossible to continue. Capturing or killing the high-level alchemists of the Righteous Path Alliance in the Arctic Continent's cultivation world would severely deplete their supply of high-level elixirs.
In a battle between two equally matched cultivators, if one lacked elixirs to restore mystic power while the other had them, the outcome was likely that the one without elixirs would be killed.
On the surface, the demon cultivators had only established sects in the Arctic Continent's cultivation world in recent years. In reality, they had been secretly infiltrating for centuries. Every Golden Elixir-level cultivation force in the Arctic Continent's cultivation world had many hidden demon cultivators, disciples secretly practicing demonic arts. Among them were not only those with no significant background but excellent spiritual roots, but also many direct descendants of Golden Elixir-level families, all secretly nurtured by demon cultivators.
Some Golden Elixir Ancestors within these forces were even cultivated by demon cultivators with resources and techniques centuries ago. The demon cultivators' hidden agents had long infiltrated every major Golden Elixir-level cultivation force.
Finding out how many high-level alchemists the Righteous Path Alliance had and where they practiced alchemy was a simple task. The high-level alchemists of the Righteous Path Alliance were generally protected by Golden Elixir stage experts. Capturing or killing them was extremely difficult.
The high-level alchemist in the Guo family's Heavenly Abode of the Spirit Creek Sect refused to let his Foundation Establishment stage wives and concubines go to the battlefield, defying the sect's orders. He set up a high-level formation at the entrance to the Heavenly Abode, allowing only the Righteous Path Alliance to use it for alchemy, a fact that the demon cultivator alliance had discovered.
Without the protection of numerous Golden Elixir cultivators, relying solely on a high-level defensive formation to protect a high-level alchemist was, in the eyes of the demon cultivation alliance's higher-ups, like a ripe fruit ready to be picked.
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To enter a place guarded by a formation light screen, one could either use brute force to break it or employ a formation master to infiltrate it using formation techniques. Using brute force, even with a dozen Golden Elixir stage cultivators working together, breaking a high-level defensive formation light screen would take ten days to half a month. By then, the Righteous Path Alliance would have sent Golden Elixir stage cultivators to assist.
The most discreet and reliable method was to send a high-level formation master to infiltrate the formation light screen. Unfortunately, there was an agreement between the human cultivation alliances of the Righteous and Demonic Paths in the Arctic Continent's cultivation world: no Elemental Infant stage demon cultivators or grandmaster-level formation masters were allowed to intervene, or the Righteous Path would have been destroyed long ago.
For a grandmaster-level formation master, breaking a high-level defensive formation of a Golden Elixir-level force was a simple task. Wei Wuya, with one foot in the grandmaster-level formation master realm, was at the pinnacle among high-level formation masters. At this moment, he flew into the fog formation below on a black cloud.
"A mere fog formation, trying to block my sight."
Wei Wuya took out a palm-sized blood-red formation flag, infusing it with mystic power. In an instant, the blood-red flag expanded into a three-meter-long formation flag. As he waved it, streams of blood-red mystic light shot out, forming a transparent blood-red light screen above him. This light screen had no defensive capability but could repel the dense white fog fifty meters away.
As the blood-red light screen expanded, the fog-free area grew larger. Eventually, within a five-hundred-meter radius around Wei Wuya, there was no trace of fog, and his vision and divine sense were exceptionally clear. He could perceive every blade of grass and tree within five hundred meters, even sensing the activities of ants in an anthill on the ground.
Wei Wuya shrank the blood-red formation flag back to palm size, tucked it into his sleeve pocket, and proceeded deeper into the fog formation. As he moved, the blood-red light screen moved with him, and the fog-free area followed.
The fog formation spanned thirty miles in circumference. Wei Wuya searched within it for over half an hour before finding the entrance to the Guo family's Heavenly Abode. The entrance was shrouded by a high-level defensive formation light screen.
Wei Wuya tapped his storage bag, and one hundred and eight black formation flags, each about a foot long, flew out. He cast one Daoist art after another, causing the black flags to attach themselves to the defensive formation light screen one by one.
Moments later, the one hundred and eight black formation flags formed a Taiji-less Nine Palace Eight Trigrams diagram on the formation light screen.
"Open for me!"
Wei Wuya cast the final Daoist art, and the one hundred and eight black formation flags released a surge of black energy, transforming into black threads that connected with each other. In the next instant, the black formation flags began to melt into the formation light screen, like red-hot iron bars on ice, accompanied by a sizzling corrosive sound.
Meanwhile, in a large shared room within the Guo family palace of the Heavenly Abode, Guo Feilong, who was engaged in a life gene continuation research project with Liu Feiyu, Shangguan Mingyue, and Yuwen Yanhong, suddenly paused his work, his gaze shifting towards the entrance of the small world.
"A formation master is stealthily attempting to break the formation."
Guo Feilong had set up an alarm system on the defensive formation light screen to alert him of any attempts to breach it. He frowned slightly, then said to Liu Feiyu and his seven wives and concubines, "An uninvited guest is coming. I'll go check it out. Wait for me here."
Guo Feilong donned a robe, hung his storage bag and spiritual beast bag at his waist, and left the room. In the courtyard, he tapped his spiritual beast bag, releasing a mid-Foundation Establishment stage flying spiritual beast. Guo Feilong mounted the beast and flew towards the entrance of the Guo family's Heavenly Abode.
Moments later, he arrived at the entrance, entering the passage. At that moment, Wei Wuya, the mid-Golden Elixir stage demon cultivator, had just opened a gap in the defensive formation light screen and darted into the passage.
In the next instant, the two unexpectedly locked eyes.
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