ragginovel Chapter 80 Heavenly Gang Brings Evil
Chapter 80 Heavenly Gang Brings Evil
The crimson cauldron landed steadily in the center of the stone hall, its body adorned with interwoven and flowing Yin-Yang Dao patterns, emanating a faint, warm aura.
Xuan Yao opened his mouth and spat out a wisp of magic power, igniting the innate true fire beneath the cauldron. Then, with a flick of his sleeve, thirty-six streams of black and gold light flew out again, slowly circling above the cauldron.
Thirty-six small flags fluttered in the wind, their black and gold gleaming light flickering and faintly accompanied by a low hum like metal clashing.
Reforging this treasure is far more difficult than recasting the Flying Gold Sword.
It should be known that these thirty-six evil flags all come from the same source, and their energy is intertwined, forming a complete Heavenly Gang Evil Array.
If you're only practicing one of the strokes, it's not too difficult.
However, these thirty-six evil flags are essentially one entity. If there is any deviation, it will cause the internal restrictions to conflict with each other, and the entire formation will disintegrate in an instant, turning into countless pieces of broken iron.
Xuan Yao could only calm down and, with painstaking effort, slowly refine it using the Jade Purity Artifact Technique he had learned from the Daoist discussions at Yaochi.
This process of refinement lasted for a full three thousand years.
During this time, the thirty-six evil flags vibrated violently several times within the cauldron, emitting a great deal of black and gold evil light.
On several occasions, the acquired restrictions inside the several flags clashed with each other, and several tiny cracks appeared on the flagpoles, which looked like they were about to collapse completely.
Sweat beaded on Xuan Yao's forehead, but he dared not use his powerful late-stage Golden Immortal magic to suppress him forcefully.
In the critical moment, Xuan Yao had a sudden thought. He simply dispersed the magic power that had been forcibly suppressing the evil energy, and instead released part of the restriction, allowing the violent evil energy in the flag to flow and dissipate naturally along the veins of the Qinghei Mountain.
He used the power of water, fire, wind, and thunder that had already formed in the mountains to disperse and channel this overwhelming evil energy, using the power of heaven and earth to share the pressure in the cauldron.
This move proved remarkably effective.
The malevolent energy entered the earth's veins, and the tremors within the cauldron immediately subsided considerably.
After thousands of years of tempering by true fire and nourishment by the earth's veins, Xuan Yao finally managed to painstakingly re-carve three brand-new acquired restrictions inside each of the evil flags, thanks to his more profound understanding of array formations.
A series of clear, ringing sounds, like the tinkling of jade pendants, echoed in the secret chamber.
The acquired restrictions on the thirty-six Zhou Tian Sha Banners all crossed the twenty-eighth barrier, up from the previous twenty-five.
Although it is still quite far from being a top-grade acquired spiritual treasure containing thirty-six restrictions, it has already surpassed its previous low-level status.
More importantly, these three new restrictions are not for simple fighting and violence, but correspond to the three changes of drawing in qi, dispelling evil, and revitalizing life.
This gave Zhou Tianshaqi the first real opportunity to participate in the biochemical cycle of the Qingheishan Daoist Temple.
Xuan Yao withdrew his magical power, gazing at the slightly undulating black-gold banner in the void, and murmured to himself:
"Things refined later in life, though not as naturally capable of suppressing destiny as innate spiritual treasures, can grow along with my own weaponry, array formation, and cultivation level precisely because they are refined later in life."
"If one day I can refine it to the level of a postnatal supreme treasure, and even let it bear the power of a region, its power may not be inferior to that of an ordinary top-level innate spiritual treasure."
Since the restrictions on the Demon Banner had been upgraded, Xuan Yao was not in a hurry to test its killing power.
He pushed open the stone door and walked out of the secret chamber. Following the instructions given by the Mystic Maiden, he began to redeploy his troops at various leyline nodes in the Green Black Mountain.
In the past, when he set up formations, he would often hide the evil flags deep in the void to seal the mountain gate, conceal the secrets of heaven, or forcibly suppress the conflict between cold and heat.
Although formations are extremely powerful, they are ultimately rigid, favoring only three uses: suppression, locking, and killing.
What Xuan Yao needs to do now is to ensure that these thirty-six evil flags are no longer just a heavy object pressing down on the top of Qinghei Mountain, but become an invisible hub for the flow of spiritual energy throughout the entire dojo.
His figure flickered, and flags landed in various places in the mountains.
He placed six of the evil flags around the inner mountain fire phoenix tree, guiding the excessive innate fire virtue energy to no longer surge outwards, but instead to flow slowly into the mountain's yang veins along the great formation.
Then, the six poles were buried between the branches of the peach tree and the cold pool's water veins, allowing the pure essence of Ren water to slowly flow along the yin veins of the mountain, nourishing the vegetation on the outer mountain.
Then, the four evil flags were used to fix the Xuan Yin Wind and Thunder Water Eye, so that the raging thunder spirit would no longer run rampant on its own, but would instead echo the wind and thunder escape formation that Lingxiao had tempered on the cloud cliff.
Furthermore, the eight evil flags were used to surround the outer perimeter of the Western Region of Yan Yuan, allowing the yin and yang energy emitted by the innate ancestral tree of water and fire to flow smoothly into the main vein of Qinghei Mountain, rather than allowing the Western Region to become a separate country.
As for the remaining twelve evil flags, they are respectively stationed at key passes such as the Enlightenment Tea Tree, Jade Dew Blessed Mushroom, Mountain Gate Formation, Spirit Medicine Garden, and Wind and Thunder Outer Pool.
In this way, the thirty-six evil flags became like thirty-six acupoints for cultivation, transforming the entire vast Qinghei Mountain into a huge, invisible Dao body.
On the day the great formation was first completed, energy from all directions surged into the Shaqi channel at the same time, causing chaos in the spiritual energy of Qinghei Mountain.
The innate fire energy of the Fire Phoenix Tree is too strong, the essence of the Water element of the Peach Blossom Branch is too pure, and the thunderous energy spewed out by the Wind and Thunder Water Eye is too fierce.
Several forces were simultaneously drawn by the great formation, creating an extremely violent backflow of water and fire in the area outside the mountains.
At that time, the old Xuan Shui dragon was hiding at the bottom of the Feng Lei Pool, diligently dredging the water veins.
Amidst the turmoil of the great formation, a torrent of Xuan Yin Thunder and Taiyi Fire Qi crashed down upon its body.
"Oh! My lord, have mercy!"
"This little demon has been working diligently lately, without slacking off in the slightest. Please don't use your magical fire to burn this little demon again!"
The old dragon was pressed down by the force and howled in agony at the bottom of the pool. Its body twisted wildly, thinking that its master had found some new excuse to deliberately torment it. Its cries were extremely miserable.
Xuan Yao sat atop the highest peak of Qinghei Mountain, his face remaining completely calm in the face of such strange and conflicting phenomena.
This time, he did not use his Golden Immortal power to suppress it directly as he usually did.
He closed his eyes, and the Yin-Yang Water and Fire Guardian Generals in his sea of consciousness spontaneously opened their Dharma Eyes, transforming into his observational incarnations, quietly observing the flow and undulation of spiritual energy throughout the entire mountain and river.
He allowed those conflicting ideas to collide in the mountains, thereby revealing all the imperfections in the array nodes.
Whenever the earth's energy was about to collapse and go berserk, Xuan Yao would calmly flick his fingers, subtly adjusting the position and depth of several evil flags from a distance.
He is like a master chess player playing against the heavens and the earth.
Let the excessive heat of the fire sycamore tree warm and nourish the cold, damp pool.
Let the clear light of the Ren water in the branch of the peach blossom nourish the dryness of the fire vein.
Another wisp of Xuan Yin Wind and Thunder power was separated to cleanse the stagnant earth energy remaining in the Western Regions of Yan Yuan due to migration.
Finally, he drew upon the gentle and auspicious energy of the Jade Dew Blessing, transforming it into wisps of spiritual rain that seeped into the deepest gaps in all the array's textures.
This meticulous treatment lasted for three hundred years.
One morning three hundred years later.
The deafening thunder and the sounds of water and fire clashing in the Qinghei Mountain suddenly fell completely silent in an instant.
A magnificent celestial array diagram, faintly visible, appeared high above Qinghei Mountain.
The thirty-six Zhou Tian Sha Banners, rooted in various parts of the mountain, no longer emitted the same single, violent black-gold evil light as before.
Instead, each element merges with the local ley lines, giving rise to the extremely mysterious and wondrous changes of the four seasons.
Some of the flags were a vibrant green, radiating the vitality of spring rain nourishing all things.
Some of the banners were fiery red, radiating the intense heat of summer fire.
Some of the banners are as white as frost, containing the sharp edge of Geng metal, as cold and deadly as autumn metal.
Some of the flags were a deep, dark blue, imbued with a profound stillness, like the hidden depths of winter water.
Water, fire, wind, and thunder flowed endlessly through the mountains, yet no longer clashed with them. Instead, the spiritual energy of the entire temple became many times more concentrated than before.
Xuan Yao stood atop the towering mountain, his robes fluttering, gazing at this ever-flowing immortal mountain, when a profound realization suddenly arose in his heart.
"So, the so-called Great Dao of Formations should be about transforming oneself into a vast world."
"Cultivators create chaos within their bodies and condense the five elements, becoming an irresistible force of heaven and earth themselves."
"By nurturing this Zhou Tian Sha Banner with the Qinghei Mountain, I am actually laying the most solid external foundation for my future path to Taiyi."
"If I can gather the five elements in my chest in the future, and coordinate with the thirty-six banners in the outside world, this evil banner can become the strongest bridge for the flow of my inner and outer worlds."
As soon as this thought arose, the Heavenly Gang Array suspended in the void trembled violently. Within its original killing energy, a trace of inexhaustible creative energy finally emerged.
This set of superior acquired spiritual treasures has also completely shed its previous single fierceness today.
It transformed into the perfect prototype of the Heavenly Gang Life-Destroying Formation.