In an instant, the yellow-robed Daoist was left with only a small piece of floating ice, three feet square, to support his body as he continued to drift.
Faced with the attack that could move mountains and overturn seas, the yellow-robed Daoist merely lifted his eyelids before closing his eyes again.
And just then, a magnificent voice suddenly came from the sky.
"True Lord Qianchong, doesn't your Five Elements Sect possess the ability to borrow the power of the five elements of heaven and earth? Why aren't you using it? Let's see how long you can last in this land devoid of the five elements. Why don't you give up resisting? I can give you a quick death. What do you think?"
If Li Yan were here, he would recognize at a glance that the yellow-robed Daoist sitting cross-legged on the floating ice was the same person who had saved his life, his appearance identical to that wisp of divine will—True Lord Qianchong!
However, at this moment, True Lord Qianchong looked somewhat haggard, with a very weary appearance.
Hearing the voice, True Lord Qianchong did not open his eyes, but a faint voice came from his mouth.
"If you want to trap me to death, you'll need the skill to do so. Hasn't your 'Yin-Yang Chaos Sect,' since its founding, always wanted to suppress us?
Hehehe... come to think of it, it seems that in generation after generation, we have already slain six of your Tribulation Transcendence Grand Elders! They are dead as dead can be. Tsk, tsk, tsk... that was a true annihilation of body and spirit! Hehehe..."
As True Lord Qianchong spoke, he finally lifted his eyelids slightly, casting a sidelong glance at a certain spot in the sky, his eyes filled with mockery.
"Hmph! Qianchong, if you can escape this time, I'll take your surname. The Five Immortal Sects are already withering. This time, I will first sever the inheritance of your Ji Earth Immortal Sect, then settle the score with the other four!"
The magnificent voice was filled with boundless hatred, continuing to echo in the sky, shaking the sea of ice and causing large chunks of solid ice to crash into each other, as if the heavens were overturning and the seas were churning.
"Take my surname? This old Daoist doesn't want such a cowardly grandson. And sever my inheritance? Like a fart!
The cultivation method my sect practices is also a true rule of the operation of heaven and earth. Your sect's so-called chaos only divides into yin and yang, considering the five elements a minor path. It's too extreme.
The debate between our two Daoist arts has gone on for too long, and your sect's ancestor was too extreme, obsessed with this path, wanting to be the sole supreme one, which led to his untimely death. You filial sons and idle grandsons still refuse to repent. How ridiculous..."
Before True Lord Qianchong's faint words were finished, he was immediately interrupted by the grand voice.
"Shut up! The first-generation ancestor of my sect was killed by your sect's treachery. Otherwise, the Great Dao of Yin and Yang would have long permeated the entire cultivation world, not just one of the current Daoist traditions.
If this enmity is not avenged, my ancestor will not be able to rest in peace. Generation after generation of death? That's because my sect's Daoist tradition became incomplete after the first-generation ancestor was plotted against by you all, not because we couldn't defeat you!"
True Lord Qianchong said no more. He had mistakenly entered the opponent's formation. Here, the five elements were completely cut off, and he could not borrow a single trace of the power of heaven and earth.
Everything was being resisted by his own powerful cultivation. If it weren't for a storage-type magical treasure he had that was even more powerful than the "Earthen Patch," containing a massive amount of resources, his magical power would have long been exhausted.
However, the medicinal pills he had were now nearly eighty percent used up, and the time he could hold on was limited. So he had to control his magical power to within a small area around himself.
'This formation probably has three formation eyes. One is behind me, in an ice cave at the foot of an ice mountain only three hundred zhang tall, forty thousand li from here;
The second is on a coral reef thirty thousand li below the sea, in the area where I am now;
The last one is in the nest of the "Cloud Sea Worms," eleven thousand li to my left, and in the deepest part of the nest at that. The five elements are cut off here, and these "Cloud Sea Worms" are abnormally sensitive to the fluctuations of heaven and earth.
Three places, and I only have one chance to strike. If I fail, the clues I've painstakingly found over the years will be hidden by them again...'
True Lord Qianchong closed his eyes and thought continuously.
For a long, long time, although he had been trapped here, apart from fighting the opponent in the formation a few times at the beginning, where the person would flee using the formation as soon as things looked bad, he had not been idle.
Instead, while drifting with the icebergs and seawater, he had been constantly searching for the formation eyes of this great formation. He had finally identified three places, but these three possible locations for the formation eyes were far apart and in different directions.
Although with True Lord Qianchong's ability, he could fly there in a few breaths and strike in an instant.
But if he chose to attack the wrong place, once the opponent knew he might have found the location of the formation eye, they might risk a temporary flaw in the great formation to immediately re-transform this place. Then all his previous efforts would be wasted.
Of course, if the opponent re-transformed the great formation, it would also be True Lord Qianchong's opportunity to break through. However, the opponent might not re-transform it within his expected time.
Perhaps he would firmly protect his own formation eye, and then, while he was distracted by other matters or had relaxed, suddenly re-transform the great formation, leaving him no time to find the flaw brought by the re-transformation.
This great formation might only look like a hundred or a thousand zhang from the outside, but to True Lord Qianchong, who was inside it, it felt boundless. This was the great divine ability of a formation grandmaster at the Body Integration stage or above.
They could use the power of heaven and earth to evolve a vast space, and even set the other end of the formation in another secret realm space.
Perhaps the moment he stepped into the great formation, he had already been teleported to another space.
The three places he had identified could not be reached simultaneously. This was the main reason why True Lord Qianchong dared not make a move...
...
In a magnificent great hall, a man with a build as sturdy as a small mountain stood with his hands behind his back. He stood before a stone wall, his mountain-like body giving off an extremely oppressive feeling.
His long purple hair cascaded down to his waist, and a long, crimson cloak hung from his back, its long hem trailing on the ground behind him. On his square face, his thick brows were currently knitted tightly together.
The stone wall in front of him was huge and as smooth as a mirror. And at a certain distance before him, a scene was being projected.
It was a sea of ice. On a piece of floating ice, a yellow-robed Daoist sat with his eyes closed, ignoring the voice coming from the sky.
"Truly a turtle shell. A great divine ability of the ultimate earth attribute, hmm? Let's see how long you can hold on. Your medicinal pills are probably running out, right? Then I'll just wear you down for another hundred, a thousand years!"
The mountain-like man stared at the screen, a cold, murderous intent flickering in his eyes, as he muttered to himself.
"Traps corresponding to all five elements have been set for you all. How come only you came in? What about the others? The Five Elements Sect, a group of thieves who stole the Great Dao, hmph..."
...
North Ice Continent, in the night of "Passing Dragon Ridge," a tall, elderly man in a gray long gown was walking slowly on the mountain path.
"Damn it, I shouldn't have believed those rumors back then. I've been searching year after year. Bullshit that there are many people with cultivation aptitude here, bullshit that there are five-element spirit roots. There are even fewer cultivators than on the Desolate Moon Continent.
Not only did it almost get me killed in that dangerous area with the weird red lightning tribulation, but it also wasted a lot of my time. If I find out who spread that rumor, I'll tear them to shreds...
Sigh, I don't know if that kid Li Yan is still alive. I hope this isn't a case of losing the chicken while trying to steal the rice. That would be a huge loss!"
Dong Fuyi cursed under his breath. He had finally managed to walk out of the dangerous area with the weird red lightning tribulation and had searched for so many years on this North Ice Continent.
To his extreme frustration, the conditions here were too harsh, not at all like what the rumors had said. There were cultivators, but fewer than on the Desolate Moon Continent.
Although he realized the information was wrong, since he was already here, he had to search thoroughly. But year after year, his footprints had covered the North Ice Continent several times over, yet he hadn't found a single suitable person.
He really wanted to curse at the sky.
"Not even a hair! A hair... you know!"
He had already decided to return to the Desolate Moon Continent in a few days. In his heart, he was still praying that the kid wasn't dead. If he was, he would really vomit three liters of blood.
The reason he hadn't left yet was that the night before last, in a mountain pavilion, he had met two people drinking under the moon. From these two, he had heard a piece of news.
One of them said that the day before, he had seen one person using four different attribute cultivation methods to fight four people alone, beating them until three were dead and one was injured, before leaving.
If it were just that, it would be one thing. According to that person, he was just passing by. From a distance, with just a sweep of his Divine Sense, the battle had quickly ended.
That person had probably noticed his presence and had glanced in his direction. Although there was no killing intent in that glance, it made this Late-stage Nascent Soul Great Cultivator's Nascent Soul tremble.
He was terrified at the time, but for some reason, that person flew away immediately and didn't cause him any trouble.
Afterward, when he recalled that person's moves, he was shocked and puzzled.
He could clearly feel that the person's attacks were aimed at each person's weakness, using four different attribute cultivation methods, and each one's aura was extremely powerful.
Logically speaking, the current experts were all proficient in one or two attribute cultivation methods. To be proficient in four cultivation method attributes at the same time was extremely rare.
After hearing this, Dong Fuyi's mind was filled with many thoughts. He strode forward and walked up to them. Under the terrified gazes of the two, he unceremoniously knocked out both Nascent Soul Great Cultivators.
Then he began to search their souls one by one and finally got some information.
The person they were talking about was a young man in white. And in one of their impressions, a blurry image was left, which should have been from a fleeting sweep of Divine Sense.
There was also the brief scene of the attack, which led Dong Fuyi to judge that the young man in white's cultivation might be that of a Spirit Transformation stage cultivator, his attacks ruthless and decisive.
"It's indeed four different attribute arts, not interfering with each other, but each one is perfectly executed. He might have reached the Late-stage Spirit Transformation!"
This was Dong Fuyi's judgment after seeing the memory. Immediately, more speculations surfaced in his mind.
One was that the other party had multiple spirit roots, but for a multi-spirit root cultivator to cultivate to this level, he must have had a heaven-defying opportunity.
Another speculation made even Dong Fuyi's disposition waver. So, he had to find the other party no matter what.
Afterward, Dong Fuyi went to the place where the white-robed youth had fought. Although several days had passed, with his cultivation, after using some time-related laws, he still found some of the aura left behind by the other party.
This kind of divine ability, which should not have appeared in this realm, had appeared in the lower realm, and it had not aroused the repulsion of the power of heaven and earth. This was a grasp of the power of the five elements that had reached an incredible level.
He had skillfully avoided the detection of the rules of heaven and earth. If this scene were seen by cultivators from the Immortal Spirit Realm, they would only find it incredible.
After that, Dong Fuyi followed the trail all the way to "Passing Dragon Ridge."
"A Spirit Transformation stage cultivator not looking for an ascension node, nor cultivating in seclusion at home, but still wandering outside!"
A smile appeared on Dong Fuyi's lips on the mountain path, because he had already discovered the person he was looking for in a mountain cave.
Although there was a formation concealing it, it couldn't hide from him at all. It was clearly a temporary cave residence, so this was not the white-robed youth's lair.
Immediately, Dong Fuyi walked unhurriedly along the mountain path. Soon after, he appeared before a cliff face.
This was a dead end, with only some yellowed vines hanging down from the top of the mountain. Dong Fuyi stood before the cliff, not moving a muscle, as if speaking to the empty surroundings.
"How about it? Come out and meet me!"
Then, he stood in the night. But after more than ten breaths, apart from the cold night wind blowing, shaking the bare branches in the distance and making "woo, woo" sounds, there was no other movement.
The smile on Dong Fuyi's face grew wider.
"Hehehe... quite patient, aren't you!"
As he spoke, he had already raised a hand and extended a finger, aiming at a spot on the stone wall. But he did not act immediately, like an archer who could attack at any time, just aiming like that.
At this moment, the stone wall in front of him rippled slightly, and a white-robed person appeared before the cliff. This was a handsome young man, and he was looking at Dong Fuyi with an unfriendly expression.
The white-robed youth was very wary of the gray-robed old man who had suddenly arrived. He had seen this old man on the mountain path earlier, but while he was observing, that person had walked all the way to the cliff face, clearly knowing he was here.
"Which sect's Spirit Transformation cultivator is he, to be so proficient in formations!"
The white-robed youth's first reaction was that he had killed several Nascent Soul cultivators here and might have been targeted by a Spirit Transformation cultivator from the North Ice Continent, or perhaps the ancestor of their sect.
He didn't think the gray-robed old man's cultivation could be much higher. In this realm, Spirit Transformation cultivators were the pinnacle.
And all cultivators above the Nascent Soul stage had to suppress their cultivation in the lower realm. So although he couldn't see Dong Fuyi's cultivation, he felt he had basically guessed the other's realm.
He might have concealed his aura due to his cultivation method or a treasure he carried. Such methods were commonplace after the Nascent Soul stage.
However, he didn't know what kind of divine ability the gray-robed old man had cultivated to be able to see through the formation he had set up. At first, he thought the other party was just suspicious of this place and was deliberately trying to trick him.
When the white-robed youth saw the other party's finger aiming at him, he knew he had really been seen through.
But the white-robed youth was not afraid. His formation skills were inferior to the other's, but he was very confident in his combat power. In this realm, he was already an existence that could easily slay Spirit Transformation cultivators.
He had encountered many things more strange and dangerous than this on his journey.
"What is the meaning of this, Your Excellency?"
The handsome face of the white-robed youth was impassive.
"Nothing much, just want to see your strength!"
Dong Fuyi said nonchalantly.