Chapter 4828: One Hall, One Divine Road
Broken stones and palaces floated in the void in a strange arrangement.
Endless fragments hung in disarray, and countless ruined halls rose and sank among them.
It was as if there had once been an incomparably glorious complex of palaces here that had since shattered, leaving behind only rubble and remnants.
At first glance, that was all there was to see.
But anyone deeply accomplished in the Dao of formations, upon looking more carefully, would notice the mystery within.
These broken stones and ruined halls actually formed a grand array.
This great formation kept its aura tightly hidden and radiated an ancient feeling, having existed for untold years.
From the outside, nothing could be discerned; only by stepping into it could one glimpse its true form.
The array stretched across the path forward.
Here, there was no choice anyone who wished to continue onward had to enter it.
Standing upon the purple qi, Lin Moyu gazed from afar at this array of shattered stone and ruined halls.
"This formation is not natural," he said to himself.
"It was deliberately crafted by someone, using rubble and ruined halls as runes to form an array.
"Whoever did this has truly superb methods."
Lin Moyu could tell that only someone who had reached the end of the Formation Dao could lay down such an array.
The broken stones were connected to each other, forming runes in which void and substance, Yin and Yang, were fused.
Those runes were nested within one another, making the formation extremely complex.
"Within sight alone, there are a total of sixty three runes.
"If there is no mistake, this grand array should be composed of ninety nine runes in all one rune per layer, for a total of ninety nine layers."
These void real, Yin Yang runes represented the culmination of all runes.
A single rune could form an entire array.
From the broken stones and halls that he could see, Lin Moyu had already identified sixty three runes.
Deeper in, there were still fragments beyond his line of sight.
From what he saw, he inferred that there must be ninety nine runes in total.
Each rune formed its own formation, and the formations were layered and interlocked, reaching a grand total of nine thousand nine hundred layers.
In other words, if he wanted to pass through this sea of rubble and remnants, he would have to break ninety nine great arrays.
Here, all his spells and treasures were sealed and suppressed.
The only thing he could use was the Dao of formations.
That was likely the will of the supreme Master use formation to break formation.
Lin Moyu studied it for a moment, then flew into the array.
The silent rubble and remnants roared into motion.
Broken stones and shattered halls assembled into an illusory rune, activating the formation and forming an independent space.
His vision shifted.
A magnificent divine hall appeared before his eyes.
Its exterior resembled the God Servant Hall, but it was far more luxurious and exquisite.
Compared to this hall, the God Servant Hall was like a firefly next to the moon.
Lin Moyu had a feeling: the God Servant Hall was merely the dwelling place of servants, while this great hall was truly the residence of their Master.
He took a step forward, and the scene changed again.
Behind the divine hall, in the void, a divine road appeared.
It climbed upward, piercing the clouds and the void.
At the far end of that divine road, he could faintly see another great hall.
One hall linked to another.
Lin Moyu understood: the formation had ninety nine layers, and there were ninety nine such halls.
One hall, one divine road.
He would have to pass each hall and its divine road, one after another, until he reached the end.
The Dao of formations was mysterious, ever changing, and unpredictable.
But once its essence was understood, all formations were interconnected and everything became clear.
In Lin Moyu's eyes, these ninety nine halls and their divine roads were merely troublesome, not insurmountable.
If he had not reached the end of the Formation Dao beforehand, he would not even be able to pass the first hall.
Now, however, traversing all ninety nine halls would not be a problem.
He walked toward the first divine hall.
When he was still ten thousand meters away, a streak of rosy light suddenly surged from the hall.
The rosy light turned into an arrow and shot toward him.
Lin Moyu's soul sounded a warning, and he instantly retreated a hundred thousand meters.
The light arrow exploded where he had just stood.
The void shook, and a terrifying force swept through the space.
A hundred thousand meters was not enough Lin Moyu retreated even farther.
"You have entered the array.
"There is nowhere to逃!"
A deep voice rang out as countless arrows burst from the rosy light.
The strength behind those arrows surpassed even the Purple Gold Emperor of old, exceeding the power of annihilation itself and seeming to go beyond the peak limits of a Primal Chaos apex powerhouse.
Lin Moyu continued to fall back.
Fortunately, this space was vast, and he still had room to retreat.
The rosy light turned into clouds that chased him relentlessly, and their numbers kept growing the arrows were becoming more numerous and dense.
"This will not work.
"At this rate, sooner or later I will be shot down."
"In this place, all spells and talents are suppressed.
"If I die, that will be true death."
"There is no blocking these arrows; a single hit means certain death."
His mind raced.
Normal methods were useless.
To block the arrows, there was only one path left
Formations.
A spark flashed through his thoughts.
He was inside an array, so only formations could stop those arrows.
As he retreated, he pointed forward and runes flew out, forming a grand defensive array in front of him.
The arrows slammed into the shield.
The array rumbled and immediately began to collapse.
"So strong!"
With Lin Moyu's current mastery of formations, his array could not even last half a breath under that barrage.
Those arrows truly exceeded the level of a Primal Chaos apex powerhouse.
Exactly how strong they were was beyond his imagination.
"No, a formation made of pure runes is not enough."
Standing at the end of the Formation Dao, he could form an array by thought alone.
A simple rune array was already enough to handle any Primal Chaos apex powerhouse.
Yet facing this greater power, it was clearly not quite sufficient.
If only the Primal Chaos Jade Formation Disc were still usable.
With such a supreme treasure as the formation base, the power of his arrays could be increased severalfold, and perhaps they could withstand the onslaught.
But here in this place, the Primal Chaos Jade Formation Disc was suppressed and could not be used as a base.
"A formation base…"
Lin Moyu looked up at the floating rubble.
Scattered stones hung throughout the void, some as large as a head and some as small as a fist.
They looked like ordinary stones, nothing special.
But Lin Moyu could see that their material was unusual and of an extremely high grade.
"Use them as the formation base."
With a thought, he sent out more runes, forming multiple defensive arrays to hold back the arrows and buy time.
He shot into the air and forcibly took several fist sized stones.
A rune dropped into one of them from the center of his palm.
The stone fused with the rune and rapidly became smooth and pliant, reshaping itself in response to his will.
"It works."
Splitting his mind, Lin Moyu continued using rune arrays to block the light arrows on one side while refining the stones into major formation bases on the other.
In just a few seconds, he had prepared enough material.
Several runes flew out and, with the rubble as the foundation, a great formation boomed into existence.
With the stones as its base, the formation's strength increased several times over.
Under the rain of arrows, it held up a safe zone for Lin Moyu.
He did not know what those stones were, but they seemed stronger than any ordinary origin level treasure.
Their effect was only a little weaker than that of the Primal Chaos Jade Formation Disc.
"Good.
"The defense is stable.
"Next comes the counterattack."
At last, he could look carefully at whoever was attacking him.
Through the rosy light, past the arrows, and beyond the clouds, Lin Moyu saw a cluster of soul flame.
"There is someone here."
His brows knit sharply.
There was actually someone in this place.
The soul flame could not lie, and he could not be mistaken.
There truly was someone here, stopping him from advancing.
"No other Primal Chaos apex powerhouse has ever come in here.
"When I opened the door, the ancient aura made it clear that it had never been opened before."
"In that case, this fellow must be the one the hall spirit mentioned.
"The hall spirit and this person both do not want me to succeed in taking the next step."
"His power surpasses that of a Primal Chaos apex powerhouse, but he is restricted here as well.
"In this place, all other paths are suppressed; only the Formation Dao can be used.
"The rosy arrows he is firing are also formations."
"In that case, I will also use formations to annihilate you."